skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah I should have been more specific. He said ~"youre wrong", then some hours later, after Musk had prompted him for a real argument, he made an attempt at a constructive response. By "up front", I mean on tweet 1.

His argument wasn't even that great (because there is no good argument, and that's why one wouldn't take the bait if they actually like their job), and by then I'm afraid the axe had already been sharpened.
TLDR: .io owned by bad people. .io bad.
Only if you don't use Apple user-hostile garbage.
Did you support putting Tokelau on the map with a free .tk domain?

The trivia folks have a lot of .fud to memorize nowadays

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_d...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domai...

.bs has nothing to do with the bahamas either (a pun well before the ftx shenanigans)
Just in case people don't know about C. This is a short piece of code where an array is returned from a function.

typedef struct {int v[4];} Vec;
Vec get_vec(void){return Vec {3,2,1,0};}

Edit: alas, I've been writing too much C++. The following is correct C.

typedef struct {int v[4];} Vec;
Vec get_vec(void){Vec v={{3,2,1,0}}; return v;}
I am sorry, I appreciate the history lesson, but this was at best nonsense.
Sure that works for SpaceX and Tesla, but for Twitter? Maybe I'm out of touch with the average software engineer but there's a lot of FAANG and FAANG-adjacent employers that have more compelling products to work on.
PayPal restricted my account for a very stupid reason 10 years ago, so I kept 1 penny in there until a couple of weeks ago. I finally closed it a few weeks ago, which had to be done through customer support due to the account value being lower than the transfer minimums. I hope I cost them a lot more than the value of the account.
Post it on arXiv
Being able to dispute online, for one. AFAIK no CC I hold offers a web-based dispute portal.
some tech industry things use .ly (libya) but it puts you at risk of having your domain cancelled because it violates some Libyan morality law. Ultimately the nameservers for it are controlled by the Liyban government. There is also the problem since 2011 of who is actually in control of the Libyan government, and its stability as a going concern.
They should be paying me if I deposit my money with them. This is nuts.
Gosh, I wonder where you guys live..

The AC unit pulls the humidity down as it cools (actually it _has_ to remove the moisture first). Which means that _all_ the excess humidity/condensate goes down the AC drain from the evaporator which will be 20-40F (more or less, depending on system/etc, it might be more) cooler than the inlet. If you live say in the southern US and have ever had to use aux cooling in a datacenter you will be shocked at how much you have to empty the condensate collectors. Even on fairly small units you can fill up 55 gallon trash cans in a couple hours.

AKA even if its way overspeced you won't get a relative humidity > 100% which is what is required for everything in the room to start condensing.

So, if the outlet is really cold, and the humidity/room temp is high you can actually get a small amount of visible condensation as the cold air blows into a hot humid room, but I've never see that stuff manage to get more than a foot or two before it turns back into vapor. Basically a tiny cloud. Which would be how you _might_ get some condensate on something.. If your blowing the cold air against something (or its discharging up through a raised floor vent into a machine cabinet) and the humidity is high in the room it might be possible, but this is why you either mix the room/ac air first, or you seal the cold isle/machine cabinet/floor to avoid cold->hot leaks. If the AC is flowing from the cool/dry side through the machine the machine even if its not heating the air much will just raise the temp, not the humidity. Which lowers the RH in the room.

Also, the condensate on a machine room window, will be on the _outside_ where its warmer/wetter because the window is _cooler_ than the outside ambient.

Also, unless there is a huge air leak in the room, the machines will act like a heater, and the room will tend to have a fairly low relative humidity. AKA the AC will pull out the moisture for a given temp, and the machines/walls raise the temp of that air, so you have air with low relative humidity.

So, the only way the room starts to condense is if a bunch of external warm+humid air is added to a room, but that can happen independent of how much over/under cooling is happening. Running a perfectly setup room at say 70F, and throwing a the doors open to 100F 95% RH air and replacing the air faster than everything in the room can warm up will condense.
It would've been good if the article brought up the real consequences of buying an .io domain, outside of pure optics for those who are in the know. Supporting ethos, I guess?
A readable summary of the authors' issues with the .io TLD:

1. The TLD is a ccTLD for the BIOT [1], the creation of which was questionable under international law to say the least. It also serves solely as a military base, so the author perceives it as linked to both colonialism and militarism.

2. There isn't a clear link between the UK (the owner of the BIOT colony) and the former or current operators of the .io TLD. Normally there is a license agreement between the government and the company that administers its ccTLD, but apparently the UK government could not find any records of ever having granted the company permission to take control of this ccTLD. It's worth noting that the UK government does make use of an .io domain for the island's colonial administration [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Indian_Ocean_Territory
[2] https://biot.gov.io
he seems to have a lot of antagonistic partisan talking points https://www.brainyquote.com/search_results?q=thomas+sowell
wow, thanks a lot for this! i'll look into it later - i didn't know that you could specify character width with the max-width param. neat!
Time is running out for the leap second
The actionable advice here is if you're loading a trailer, you want weight / center of gravity as close to the front / cab as possible. If loading, y'know, 40,000 lbs for a tractor trailer and you're loading it with pallets, alternate the pallet rows as far to the left and right as possible, switching direction every row. This prevents tipping and also does a favor to the person who has to unload it at the destination as it prevents weird slippages of pallet orientation and crunching. Poorly loaded trailers can definitely kill the trucker and other drivers. The oscillation severity really depends on the spread between the greatest and least weight of the items going into the trailer.
Ask HN: Family Immigrating to US Mid-School Year. What Should Students Do?
Hello,

I'll likely be moving to the US with my family next year. We had hoped to do it over the summer, but the current timeline makes that unlikely. Do U.S. public school systems accommodate midyear entrance in any way? I realize they are all different by county, but is that a thing anywhere?

If not, what would you recommend doing? Would private instruction be worth it, or just take a year vacation and enter a year late?

Edit:
Realize it sounded like I'm the student, but I'm one of the parents.
I've never had to submit such information for my paypal account and I use it to this day.
I've personally never had any problems with PayPal, but they've been putting in some pretty questionable policies of late (or at least ones that have been noticed.) Like the fine for misinformation? I don't see how that was an honest mistake, then they sort of replace it with fines for "intolerance" instead. Now this. I know they have a history of freezing people's funds and just flat out taking their money as well. I never store money there but do have a card attached for easy checkout.
> What are people going to do about it?

Bring the anti-trust sledgehammer on them?
$10 is too much to charge for this. If it was $1, that would be a lot more tolerable.
Is that a bet for no overt invasion?

Is TSMC ASML's largest EUV customer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hrvR_iTz_I

What's the chain of knowledge of buy's?

1. BERK principal(s).. (SES?)

1.5. Tier 1 comm interceptors

2. Whoever #1 contacts... someone with a seat on the exchange(?)

3. Order on the exchange (who can see this? it the buyer listed?)

4. ... (2-3 more steps?)

n. Reuters front
.sh domains represent another British overseas territory and are also administered by the Internet Computer Bureau
> Astronauts flock

How many Astronauts are there? How many Astronauts make a flock?
As far as I can tell, they are only available if you have the direct link. They don’t show up in the thread or on his profile.
They all exist in a common reality. We're going somewhere no matter what we believe right?
Wasn't it built separately and acquired by PayPal?
When you're $1000 in debt, it's your problem. When you're $1M in debt it's the bank's problem.
Cool idea, although the pricing seems pretty steep to me. Knowing the internet, similar services will likely be available for free or at least cheaper soon.

Also, this should probably be a Show HN instead.
Honestly I really enjoyed this blog post and found the author's tone fun and lively.
You live in a society.
Moderna doesn't have volume of antigen at all, the dose is of mRNA contained in liquid nano particles.

Moderna did reduce its dose for the booster, but its original dose was also 3x that of Pfizer.
People have short memories. They don't even remember 2008.
Moreover, it's not even always true that you know less and less the longer you are removed from the original change which left in the hack, rendering you less able. Sometimes you come back to it better informed and thankful that you didn't try to do it the "better" way that seemed obvious at the time.
Keep reading:

> If an account no longer has a positive balance after being charged this fee and remains inactive for another 60 days, this account may be closed after the 60 days have passed.

So, I guess they are going to autodelete my account (which has always held a zero balance)?

Good riddance.
This link https://www.paypal.com/re/smarthelp/article/what-is-the-inac...

worked for me until I logged in (EU), now it returns "he page you're looking for is no longer available.". I just checked in another fresh browser and I can read it fine.

Looks like it magically stops existing as soon as you log in from EU.

>Note: Personal accounts registered in Germany/Austria/Italy/Greece/Hungary/Poland are excluded from the inactivity fee assessment for 2022.

yep, excluded and apparently its secret! WTF does "for 2022" mean here? Are they planning to hide it until they can finally charge me?
Well, hey, at least we know it’ll be another fun part of Matt Levine’s next post.
Hm, I am on CONUS and I’ve visited bestbuy.com a lot recently. The bug is not happening to me. Probably because I’m on iOS 15.6 and the bug happens starting with iOS 15.7, according to your Macrumors reference.

Probably I should upgrade even more slowly in the future…
GP doesn't want the account to be open, they've requested to close it and paypal has refused to close it because they demand information needed for an open account in order to, presumably, reactivate the account with all relevant identifying documents submitted for the moments it must take in order to close it, because they've developed a technical process that requires accounts be open and in good standing in order to be closed. Which given this situation is a ridiculous design decision unless you are interested in maintaining these data after the account should close.
.sh considered harmful because St. Helena was administered by the East India Company ◕ω◕

Σ (ﾟДﾟ;）
Technically kinda clever in a stupid way. Seems in character.
Social media is cancer, what fix you expect.
Nobody associates ".io" with "(British) Indian Ocean (Territory)". People associate it with "Input/Output", which is why it's so popular with tech websites.

Did you know that .com used to be run by the United States DoD, an organization that regularly commits atrocities that make what happened on Diego Garcia look tame by comparison? And that literally the entire Internet is a byproduct of US military research? And that simply paying taxes in the UK funds the same institutions that are responsible for the forced relocation of the Chagossians?
.com, .net, .org are the least bad options

>but I can see domain names becoming the next battlefront as we continue moving down the levels.

they already are. check out the daily stormer's wikipedia article.

the next battlefront is tier 1 ISP-level censorship
Who else is having a hard time thinking the worst of this guy? I seriously want to think he was not a fraud. But the more I learn about ftx, the more I realize they strayed far from their mission of world philanthropy.
Sure, of course. It mirrors the fault lines in the real world. The most obvious is language; non-English speakers are hugely disadvantaged. The native language of coding, code documentation, tooling and lots of other content is US English.

Next, there's the question of access to the first world. Increasingly, '2nd tier' countries are siloed in search engines and sales sites and kept away from first world wealth. Consider the idea of if you wanted to buy an authentic Egyptian rug, from Egypt. Maybe try it now; go to Google and have a go. Your first issue is that you won't get Egyptian results; Google (and Bing and friends) have siloed you into your geographic area and only vend results relevant to you. So you change your search settings to search in Egypt and you'll still find that it's almost useless and you're getting results local to you. A real pain.

On top of this, the so-called "unbanked" masses from less privileged countries struggle hugely with access to ubiquitous payment systems like PayPal, and are subject to rough handling, next to no customer service and very overbearing terms if they do qualify.

I truly do not envy people trying to run an honest business through this gauntlet.
Excuse you? Rome wasnt built in a day, but you are "blowns it's big chance" posting after 1 week? And... it's numbers have "exploded".

I think it's far too many months early to tell.
What's the order of events here? Between "I can say this is wrong", this "what have you done?" exchange, and "he's fired"?
Before the breakup long-distance calls cost about $1-2 a minute ($3-5 today). After the breakup, they dropped to a few cents a minute. That's one effect of decentralization everyone (alive then) understood. Totally revolutionized telephone-usage.

Obviously some aspects can be more efficiently centralized. What matters is who controls the centralized part(s). E.g. There are still a few things to be re-learned from Usenet and Fido.
Great, you can point to some that haven't been hacked, exploited or just plain collapsed yet.

You said "day traders on FTX are learning first hand the value of DeFi", but DeFi is just as much of a shitshow as the rest and has had just as many collapses.
Isn’t there an ongoing scandal involving the top ranks of EU leadership regarding the Pfizer vaccine contracts and how they were procured? It seems like you don’t have to look too far in the West outside the US to find somewhere you can spend a little cash on an “influencer” to get ahead. And luckily, it’s even less people than you’d have to bribe in America plus there’s no real way for the people to get rid of someone they never voted in, even though all of Europe can smell Ursula’s corporate stink.

And according to other posters in this thread, it seems like the Pfizer vaccine is the vaccine recommended broadly over the Moderna vaccine in Europe. Coincidence, I’m sure.
I suspect the better programs probably developed better troubleshooting skills in their grads, or simply attracted smarter people to a more challenging program who had innate troubleshooting skills. By troubleshooting I also mean that problem solving/creative engineering/inventive capability.

To me this is the skillset that seems to be the biggest difference between 2022 and 25+ years ago. I see developers today that if the requirements are not spelled out down to the crossed t or dotted i—-or an engineering plan is not drawn out in incredible detail, they are simply not productive. It’s almost robotic.
I'm slightly reminded of the "$400 for Dreambooth" post on the Stable Diffusion subreddit: https://i.redd.it/byu74ix1itz91.png

Cheaper services will no doubt pop up next week
The Belgian City That Built a Metro Line and Never Opened It
> saying that it can’t be a proxy war because even though Ukraine is being significantly supplied by western allies (and Russia itself), it is Russia that is actually fighting.

This doesn't make much sense - I think every definition of a proxy war has included things like the Vietnam war, the Soviet/Afgan war etc:

> That encouraged the American practice of arming insurgent forces, such as the funneling of supplies to the mujahideen during the Soviet–Afghan War. Other examples of proxy war are the Korean War, the Vietnam War[1]

To be clear, proxy wars are ones where at least one party is a proxy for another power. By this definition yes, the Ukraine conflict could be viewed as a Western/Russian proxy war (not US, since significant arms for Ukraine are also coming from other Western powers).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_war
thank you! :3

.io domains = bad is something that has come up over and over again in my tech circles. i thought it'd be nice to have a sort of poetic & fun overview about why people feel the way they do. i had fun writing it too!
This is really nice! I made a super complex one a long time ago in undergrad Actionscript 3 / Flash... good times. Can't even run that anymore.

I miss AS3. Even 10 years later Javascript barely scratches what AS3 could do.
It and many of these comments are ads.
And, conversely, optimizing platforms for advertising cripples them for the users. And there's a lot more users, so if this is an either-or, it's clear where the balance ought to be.
Curious about the community's thoughts on it
It may be overshoot, if the AC is so powerful that when it’s triggered to turn on, it’s tuned to cool WAY too much.
So they can serve you more ads that they get paid for directly.
Everyone involved was acting voluntarily. No one's forcing people to work at Amazon, nor to buy from Amazon. We all set up these rules of the game, and he played and won.

Don't get me wrong, I think he's an ass. He took Captain Kirk to space, but then dissed him on the ground to pour champagne on the desert. Also I really miss used book stores.

But as a businessman I don't see how he doesn't deserve what he has, he's earned it, eh?

I very much do put the blame on "the consumer", they are the ones who keep giving Bezos money!
As ridiculous as that article was, the deletion is worse. Decentralized write-only communication that "cannot" be deleted is foundational to establishing trust in the crypto space (at least as it was originally envisoned). How does one claim to empower change for the good by backing projects in this space, and yet try and make something vanish if it shows them in a bad light? If anything, this should go right at the top of an anti-portfolio as a counter-balance when business cycles are inevitably looping back into insanity territory.

https://web.archive.org/web/20221027181005/https://www.sequo... (linking it here because this deserves to be preserved as a cautionary tale in our collective memory)
Is there evidence of other cases where there was no such adaptive behaviour in other human groups? I study adaptation to shocks in modern societies and I am ashamed to admit we have no clue why it does not work.
Erm yes you are correct, this is the line of business they’re in and they should have had better controls for valuing their assets.

Typically there’s a 3rd party fund administrator whose core responsibilities include calculating the value (NAV) of the fund.

Sometimes funds have Level 2 or Level 3 assets, which may require management effort to value and may not have real-time pricing available.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/level2_assets.asp

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/level3_assets.asp
`npm:` fits the form of a URL/URI in the most basic syntax sense (`protocol:resourceviathatprotocol`, just as `http:` indicates a protocol). `npm` is not currently an IANA registered protocol [1], but it easily could be. There's nothing it would currently conflict with. Also, URLs with unregistered protocols are relatively common on the web today as URLs anyway. A lot of applications use unregistered protocols like `twitter:` or other `myappname:` for deep linking into mobile apps and PWAs. In most cases the user's operating system's registry of protocols wins over IANA's more generalized registry of protocols.

[1] https://www.iana.org/protocols#index_N
You laugh because you're an ignorant. Read about BTC algorithmic issuance.
This is a copy cat of https://avatarai.me/ and https://www.profilepicture.ai/ which launched first and published their approach and revenue. Both are wrappers around https://www.astria.ai/ afaik.
Thx, will publish it there soon and post it here of course... can not post it there, need an endorsment for the math section. This is my endorsment code: 9C8E9J
Good observation. I should not need to be familiar with regulations in /your/ country either. The quote you outlined:

>> Paypal demanded, out of the blue copies of drivers licenses, passports, bank statements etc that they have no right to, claiming they needed them to comply with law.

Is a statement of fact. Make your accusation plainly about it if you choose to do so or maybe apologise for insinuating it?
The ISPs are already at it. Kiwi Farms has had issues with ISPs in the middle of routes deliberately disrupting traffic.

It’s a pretty disturbing state of affairs where legal websites are being disrupted by the most core layers of the internet. This is basically the problem net neutrality aimed to prevent.
I'm one of them. Paypal kept preferring my bank account as the means of payment, -even- when not set as the default behavior. I forgot the reason now, but in short default only means default for some things.

I don't know if they've fixed that in the years since, but I've not linked a bank account since.
One of the best minds of that epoch that worked on the problem was Leonid Kantorovich ([1]). From wikipedia:

"He is regarded as the founder of linear programming. He was the winner of the Stalin Prize in 1949 and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1975."

In that respect, any book about linear programming is a good start. The problem with the approach used back in the time was a slow feedback loop (5-10 years) and inability to adjust to externalities, including technology changes. That should be possible to improve with our modern tech, but I am not aware of any good contemporary books about it - if someone knows one, I would appreciate a reference myself.

Edit: from the CIA file on Kantorovich ([2]):

"In addition to his mathematical research, Kantorovich has been directly involved in developing improved designs for high-speed digital computers, an activity apparently motivated by the Soviet Union's need for improved computers in solving large economic planning problems"
"

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Kantorovich

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Kantorovich#/media/File...
Very cool. I read you built this as you are learning music theory as an adult. As someone who also hopes to learn myself later in life, I just wanted to say thanks. All the examples / tools you have built are great!
I'm not sure. In some rural areas in Oregon I seem to still get 3G (on Verizon). Unless my Android device is mislabeling 2.5G.
In my view this outlook is excuse for not-addressing-inadequacy is 15% something coders do and 85% something the org imposes. The top down "we'll ignore that for now and deal with it latter" is huge. 80% of the time it's never returned to. To the corps credit, a third of those times it just doesnt matter.