skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microservices are simply... services. The term is stupid, but of course you get used to anything if you say it few thousand times.

I remember how long I wrote "cloud" in quotes when a decade back or so decided that a remote API from a datacenter should be called a "cloud" for some effin unknowable reason. But I got used to it.

Whether Twitter's architecture is good or not is unknowable to us. Microservice overload is an anti-pattern, not something to encourage. But in context it can make sense.
That depends on various factors,
such as how many users one can attract with their small/medium websites, what kind of content is provided by your website, and so on.
If for example the content on your website is compatible with an ad-network such as Google Adsense or Amazon Partnernet and you have like 500 users a day, you may earn enough money to pay the server/domain cost of a simple project.

At around 3-5k users a day things start to get interesting.
Uber, AirBnb, Door dash etc. have added tremendous value to my life and society in general. That’s not a Ponzi scheme. At worst you could call it a social wealth redistribution program of sorts.
Where was that cool site I saw yesterday? Click...nope....click...nope....click...nope...click...that's it.

Webrings were like the 8-track tape of the internet.
Why is wanting Open Source to have a single, well-defined meaning a bad thing? If you let everyone who uses words make up their own meanings, isn't https://xkcd.com/1860/ where you end up?
Free employee lunches at Twitter HQ costs more than $400 per meal
It's gone from 14.5 operations per minute to 24.9 operations per minute so a 70% speedup.
I have an old OnePlus and it's managed to last like 7 years. Sadly every other developer has abandoned it. Hope this project can bring it back from the dead!
This is a 300 word post. It's barely a tweet. The idea it could have a preliminary thesis, let alone a central one, stretches credulity.
What does Tether have to do with Binance? Are you thinking Bitfinex?
Looks like Eric didn't give a shit and probably wanted to get fired, might as well go out with a bang in that case.

Anyone that openly slaps down that asshole Musk is doing a public service, in my book. I hope more employees exit like this.
When it must be so expensive its not even "call us", but "Schedule a Consultation".

You fit in with their schedule, not the other way around?
You are wrong. In a ponzi people are often encouraged to reinvest their gains. You only take the money of new investors to pay out early investors if really necessary (that is to maintain the illusion that the money is still there) otherwise you use the money for something else or yourself.

exactly how crypto works.
A long long time ago Rust was a GC language.
> where did the money go?

Isn't it obvious? It was paid to customers and others that took the money or equivalent dollar amount in assets off the exchange. Either to a bank, another exchange, on-chain self-custody, political donations, salaries, stadium naming rights, Sam's "make it all back" scheme, etc.

Matt is smart, so maybe he knows, and the question is rhetorical.
Sure, but it's super annoying when you write something in markdown knowing that being lazy with the proportional/monospace mix will noticeably harm understandability. Particularly when you suspect that readers will be close to failing to understand, doubly so when you suspect that this reader might be a future self. Is it worth the time writing? Only if I get the monospace right. Dead keys can make that writing situation a weirdly subtle kind of hell.

So annoying in fact that I've just spent the last two hours with Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (yeah, I'm still a Windows person) shifting the dead key version to hide behind alt-gr.

Then I used it to mitigate some oddities on the dynabook keyboard (pipe and smaller/greater than weirdly moved to where the windows connect menu button usually resides) and continued duplicating some of the usual alt-gr suspects at locations inspired by their US KB position. Right now I'm an inappropriately happy person, let's see how I'll think about it in the future (getting too used to something non-standard cab be a terrible cost).
If I didn't already have a NanoVNA and a similarly sized RF Spectrum Analyzer, this would be an interesting tool.

I'm still learning how to use the full power of my NanoVNA, but the ability to measure component parameters, antennas, etc. between 100 Khz and 300+ Mhz is really nifty.
Why bother with expensive research when the HN comment section has it all figured out? The vaccines don't cause myocarditis, and if they do then it's not as bad as what COVID causes, and if it is well COVID also causes it anyways so who cares, and if it doesn't then at least the vaccines stop transmission, and if they don't then at least they save your life, and if they don't then at least we believe The Science!

Just a waste of money. The Science is settled.
I thought it was convenient how people's response to that class immediately showed me who shouldn't be allowed to run, start or control anything. "This class is bullshit and stupid" no, you are a selfish asshole who refuses to spend even half an hour a week understanding the history of the industry and the mistakes we made and how your work will have an impact on people so refuse to let that be a negative impact.
I had the Motorola V70 (the one that "PIVOTED") and I loved it! https://twitter.com/GerryMcBride/status/1591909798488178688

It was my 2nd to last pre-smartphone era phone, the last being the RAZR.

I get that the swiveling piece was unique but I wouldn't put it in the same "bananas" categories as some of the other ones
> Italy['s] Data Protection Agency issued a rebuke to two municipalities experimenting with the technologies: «The moratorium arises from the need to regulate eligibility requirements, conditions and guarantees relating to facial recognition, in compliance with the principle of proportionality»

> The agency was reacting to measures taken in the southern Italian city of Lecce, where authorities said they would begin using a technology based on facial recognition [...] The privacy watchdog also targeted the Tuscan city of Arezzo, where local police were due to be equipped with infrared super glasses that can recognise car number plates
KiwiFarms was back within days, if anything the KiwiFarms saga showed that it is still true.
if you give away $10 then your net worth at that moment goes down...it may easily recover that price, but if you count it like that then you can surely count that the money you donated would have been worth more too
Lots of people building real businesses do shady things on the way up. John Hempton wrote up a great example of this about a failed short play against Steve Madden Shoes[0]. Steve Madden may have been a fibber, but he made shoes people wanted to buy. The value of the shoes was larger than the fakery.

But when you are selling financial services, this kind of fakery almost always blows up because the accounting is the product. And if the accounts are fake, the thing is fake. Fake accounts always leave a hole that can only grow with each cycle of fraud. Dan Davies wrote a great book titled "Lying for Money" on the whole sorry process[1]. Galbraith called it the "bezzle".

[0] - http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2011/05/steve-madden-count...
[1] - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38605195-lying-for-money
Custom domain support?
There are small towns on small highways spotted all around me - and some are well known in the area to be "speed trappy" and others are known to be "Wild West" - and the speed limit through all are the same 35 mph or whatever, but only one group really has noticeable slowdowns.
That still sounds like a world designed primarily for cars. It's hard for me to picture it honestly but it doesn't sound pleasant to move through as a person.
We knew this 18 months ago when Israel first released their results after vaccinating 7 million of their people. But talking about it on Facebook or Youtube got you yeeted.
It works like a charm, just :wow:
I can imagine speed being a real problem in production?
There's nothing wrong with networking, but if we're all agreeing that networking is important to having a job search that doesn't involve hundreds of applications, then let's just be honest about that. In particular let's make sure people who don't have that network and who do have to job search know what they need to do to get where they need to be.
It is. The next two longest also start around there: US6 in Boston and I90 which starts at the tip of Cape Cod.
I think you should overthink your aggravation and classification of the want for language compatibility and ease of business as an "insult"

The process of founding a company doesn't have to be as difficult as it is, and the more people can take part in it, the better it is for Germany!
It seems that being EA adjacent is not a good proxy for competence nor trustworthiness. No one could have predicted this. /s

I wonder what portion of bag holders in this round were part of the cohort that hasn't seen a crypto winter yet.
How would Will MacAskill have enough sway to get SBF in Jane Street? Also, why would that matter? I have absolutely no reason to believe SBF couldn't pass their interviews.
> .. if it’s sitting on an exchange (noun) then it’s not BTC.

I'm sorry but you lost me here. If I stall my BTC's in a wallet on an exchange, they remain BTC's?

Also I have a feeling that you're not getting my point. It is the selling/buying of BTC's for USD at the BTC exchanges that determines the official BTC/USD rate.
Sure you can also exchange them for something else (if the exchange lets you), but this will not affect the BTC/USD rate.

So if on an your exchange you're unable to withdraw your BTC's, you can't sell them, which means you're unable to affect the BTC/USD rate: I.E. BTC price will not go down.
Thought the same. Dude should've just FOIA'd for the measured speeds before and after.
You're trying to place blame on drivers of certain types of vehicles, and make a distinction between the behavior of those drivers and the "rest of us", putting them in an "other" category. This is misguided and ineffective.

Even people who drive small cars do so in a way that they believe to be safe. Even people who drove before "modern SUVs" existed did so in a way they believed to be safe. Drivers of SUVs are not the ones risking the lives of others, while the "rest of us" are being safe and responsible.

When car accidents are as common and tragic as they are, the fault isn't with individual drivers. Drivers try to drive safely, and generally do their best under the circumstances. They're just regular people, like all of us. The fault is with the system: road design, vehicle design, incentives (city design, etc), and education.
>> So many ponzi schemes on top of ponzi schemes...

Isn't this what happened with Quadriga exchange?

The regulator said Thursday that Vancouver-based Quadriga's late founder Gerald Cotten committed fraud by opening accounts under aliases and crediting himself with fictitious currency and crypto asset balances, which he traded with unsuspecting clients.

On Thursday, the OSC attributed about $115 million of the $169 million clients lost to Cotten's "fraudulent" trading.

Another $28 million was lost when Cotten used client assets on three external crypto asset trading platforms without authorization or disclosure.

The OSC said he also misappropriated millions in client assets to fund his "lavish" lifestyle and because he was in sole control of the company ever since 2016, he "ran the business as he saw fit, with no proper system of internal oversight or controls or proper books and records."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/osc-quadriga-gerald-cotten-...
> if we're all agreeing that networking is important to having a job search that doesn't involve hundreds of applications, then let's just be honest about that

I think we already were? That's exactly what I said. Who do you think isn't being honest?
This would create a web enormously hostile to social interaction. No website would be able to host user-generated content. The only ways to communicate would be to read someone's website or send them an email. It's such a destructive proposal that I'm honestly kind of amazed by it.
Them as in higher-ups or did they mean it won't affect their low level workers?
I'm not sure where the lack of empathy is above. I have/wrote about empathy for people whose doctors gave them advice that when followed will turn out, in retrospect, to be wrong. Maybe that will be mine; maybe that will be the others.
Virginia? If not, we do too. I think it's 80mph OR posted limit+20. Either way is an automatic reckless driving ticket (which can be criminal, with arrest and impounded car).
They are on the last page, with 0 volume. But the volume 2 days ago puts them at about 150th largest exchange. Practically an unknown and unused one.
Circumstances change - super super glad I got my booster.

When I got it, I was a healthy, fit person without any of the comorbidities that go along with COVID.

Last week I had a mountain biking accident and broke half my ribs and punctured a lung. Then I got COVID in hospital. Fortunately it was quite mild, and even that was a bit of a nightmare as coughing was hell and I had quite low blood oxygen.

Given the risks of a booster are so low (though non-zero) and the risk that your health can change before you manage to contract COVID, it seems like the smart proposition to me to get the booster.
> "...which is going to potentially change your mean response time quite a bit."

My experience is that the changing mean response time isn't nearly as bad as the changing standard deviation.

The really big problems tend to arise when you have unsuspected or under-appreciated positive feedback loops - whether in the software, or in associated physical systems and human behaviors. Or resonance effects. Those situations are where good dampening gets really important.
I'm normally pretty sympathetic to all those positions you disagree with.

I think that the state regulation, control, bailouts, and corruption are holding us back.

You can have the state pick winners and bail out idiot investors when they lose their shirt. I would rather make individuals and companies responsible for their own good or bad bets.

For me, part of that means letting people place their bets with minimal state intervention and guarantees about the bet.
Do you? Don't you in fact want the auditors to find the most fraud per hour worked?

For the last fifty years, the prevailing ideology in the US has been a straightforward system of bureaucracy is horrible compared to some chaotic, production optimizing startup. But if you compare now and fifty years ago, today's "running the government like a business" has produce a sea of corrupt inefficiency. For that reason, I think it's perfectly not to fixate on dubious metrics like "most fraud (found) per hour worked". Regulators should be neither low paid nor super high paid. They should be honest, even idealistic, people working to keep society honest rather than "entrepreneurs" looking for some kind of "score".

The problem the US has now is that for example IRS audits go after the poor because the rich have too annoying lawyers. This is the absolute worst.

Of course, this is a product of the bizarrely complex tax code and the legality of a whole variety of shady maneuvers. I'm not optimistic about this going away but if it goes away, it would require the state simplifying the tax code and outlawing the whole fabric of hidden financial maneuvers. Until something like that happens, you're not going to win the arms race. And in this situation, "incentivizing" the agents just means they'll figure out a way to go after a certain middle type - rich enough to have some money but too poor to defend it.

Like I said, we've wound ourselves into a government of competitive proxy reaching pseudo-economies, we "Goodharted ourselves to death"[1]. But naturally people want to add one more spring to this clockwork nightmare.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
A new kind of cell division
Regarding gold/silver backing - yes, if they let you actually do that redemption or exchange. Something that has historically been suspended or banned multiple times. Including by FDR in 1933, and Nixon when the US exited the gold standard entirely.

[https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-takes-united...]

Like Tether, if you can’t actually redeem it for what it’s nominally backed by, is it really backed by it?
Six keys, with a distracting lack of visual feedback on half of them...
Cheaper if you’re not on a European salary, maybe
Keyboard vs. mouse: Which is Faster?
Way cheaper than a social media giant.
Making that scheme work wouldn't be the hard part. The hard part is staying out of prison.

I am not convinced this is true, but I see that the possibility is there, and it wouldn't even be the largest stock market scam that came to light.
Uber sells rides at a loss. Or at least they did so.
Nobody cares about non aligned countries, let it go, it's just pedantry.
Simple, yet incredibly useful. Thank you.
So why are the companies in the article researching the risks if according to you there clearly are no risks? Do you know better than the manufacturers?
I had a Samsung Alias for a while, which was a genuinely cool phone. It could flip open either vertically (in the normal RAZR style) or it could be flipped open horizontally.

The keypad had e-ink displays in each key, and if you had it open vertically, it would display a number pad for dialing. If it was open horizontally, you got a full keyboard instead.

I could text faster than all my friends.

I also had a Motorola Hint, which was a neat little device - smaller than your average phone at the time, and almost square. You could slide out a little keyboard.

Keyboard phones were neat. Bring em back I say!
Yes, I'm vary familiar with the history. The law was written and implemented poorly. It didn't have any enforcement mechanism for reimbursing or resettling residents of cleared slums. It was apparent immediately that it was going to funnel federal funds to segregation.
Is it wrong that I want the crypto and NFT and GME and other insane bullshit to continue just so we are blessed with more of Matt Levine!s writing? Damn that guy is talented.

So HN please go invent more multi-billion-dollar insanity that is too crazy to even be called a scam, because the world needs more of this great writing.
It's more complicated than you imagine it is. Basically you need to know both: whether the current locale is a French locale, and also whether original text was written in a French locale.

The former is easy enough, but also very annoying to multilingual people since one might run in a Spanish locale but occasionally write in French. So that's not a solution.

The latter is... hard to do, because while Unicode has language tags that you can embed in documents, those are deprecated and they were never well supported, and so there's no way to mark-up text as being in one language or another, and a document-wide setting wouldn't be enough nor sufficiently generic and standard and portable.

The best solution here is to relax the French typographic rule (since it isn't needed anymore). But that would take time to filter through to French speakers (writers, and readers) so that they learn to not put that pesky space before punctuation, but also so that they don't complain when it's missing.

Or... you know, this business of emoji pickers could be something you could turn off. Nahhh, that would never fly! (/s)
Watch the definition of "fighting crime" expand rapidly.
Google version: Where was that cool site I saw yesterday? Click... nope. Guess it's gone.
> Alas, I’m typing this in an iPhone because I don’t know of another viable option for now.

If you want to support the fight for freedom and free yourself from both Google and Apple, consider a GNU/Linux phone, Librem 5 or Pinephone.
I wasn’t sure about that and it’s certainly not without precedent that different parts of the same company might do something like that.
Not necessarily, endemic might mean that it matters, but those who are especially at risk are taking more precautions.

E.g. I see lots of young not wearing masks to protect themselves, and I see more older people protecting themselves with masks. Seems like a reasonable balance.
I mean, I wasn't trying to write a term paper.
I'm surprising myself by saying this, but emoji are pretty useful in certain contexts.

Certainly more useful than the requirement to put a space before a colon, non breaking or not.
I'm not really concerned about this too much. There are millions of software developers in the U.S., the tens of thousands getting laid off from FAANG are a drop in the bucket. Many of them will be absorbed into other upmarket positions that I wouldn't get hired into anyway.
It can be fixed even more easily by using normal elevator buttons.
Question from the last time this came up: have they added let/letrec into the language yet? The last time I it looked like they had not.
Again with this nonsense?

The percentage of trans people is highly unlikely to increase

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33568480#33576777
Someone posted delta chat[0] on here a while back. Basically chat that is email. Or maybe email that is chat. It struck me as a clever idea at the time and got me thinking whether you could make a social network entirely out of email. Sounds bonkers and probably is but you know, gotta think, right?

[0] https://delta.chat/en/
FYI, Historically, it has been really common to debase currency by diluting or reducing the precious metal content of coins.

[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_coin_debasement]
Sorry. I thought the site was so simple that a bit of Google Translate would be enough, but I understand.

Seems I cannot edit anymore. What should I do?

In the meantime, the "english version": https://publi-codes.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&...
> - Does not require consenting to copilot training on your code

What's to stop Microsoft from training it on code outside of Github?
The penny stock phenomenon comes from the Bitcoin fantasy of it becoming a currency. Cryptos are not currencies and I don’t think they will ever be. Ethereum is just liquidity for a decentralized VM, and whether that idea will work out or not is decades away from being clear.

Basically it’s programmable money.
The one that really jams me (and others) up is that signal propagation and transaction lifetimes line up badly. Caches, being cheap imitations of ACID 'compliant' databases, which themselves cheat all day every day to make pretty numbers, almost never have read repeatable semantics, so if your code splits responsibility for fetching a piece of data you have one of the problems I complained about at/near the top level: Half of a decision can be made with one version of a piece of data and the other half with another, resulting in undefined behavior. In a system that asserts that A = !B you can have an interaction that did some of the activities for A and some of the ones for B (because we read A and A' and assumed they were identical).
I saw lots of people criticizing PG's essay, but I really liked it. Free will and agency are interesting philosophical topics to wonder, even if they don't hold much practical value.
Facebook $90M privacy settlement approved over antitrust lawyers' objection
Nutanix's website gives absolutely 0 real information about what they do. There's some fluff about apps, cloud, and transformation - are they a body shop? AWS competitor?
If you liked William Zinsser's "On Writing Well", give Joseph M. William's "Style: Toward Clarity and Grace" a read.
How much of everything can be explained by the brain's bias to ignore the base rate fallacy.