skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Interestingly that is kind of what people have started saying.

I would be surprised if >10% of the US would prefer to pay Amazon more so that others could be treated better.

Amazon is doing exactly what companies in a capitalist society are geared to do.
Scripted image manipulation: I wrote a script that builds seamless background images out of sets of smaller images, kind of like contact sheets. This started for a comic book themed web site so that the background image could be a collage of comic covers with a special theme ( Christmas, celebration of a comic artist, ...etc. ) I am still cultivating the script so that it'll be friendly enough for public use. I'll place it on Github when that happens.

Little Languages: I like to tinker with my own compilers / interpreters. I had read an article recently about someone building an example Linux shell and I wanted to try a couple of ideas where I thought I'd take a different approach than the author. I ended up building a very, very tiny BASIC interpreter in C. My proof that the interpreter was "good enough" was whether or not I could write a script in the dialect of BASIC to display the lyrics to the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas."

https://github.com/jimlawless/lazybasic
Agree that 480i is terrible in general, but maybe fine for car TV.
Good luck to you. This is a great comment.

> See it as a kind of philosophy embedded in a story (mythology)

This is tricky. You are sort of making an acknowledgement of the power of Christianity to shape culture without requiring a firm belief in its supernatural truth claims. I just don't think you can recover the one without the other. The fruits of a Christian culture were grown over many generations by people who knew that God is real and present in their lives. I for one find it quite difficult to sacrifice for a mere symbol or just a good long term cultural outcome.

> Now is there a ’God’ up there, I don’t know?

Why are you skeptical? As an atheist (or in between atheist) who can present such a clear eyed and charitable view of Christian communities, where do your current doubts stem from?
Postgres and Oracle has TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE. MSSQL has DateTimeOffset.
A SUPER common pattern with restaurants is someone moves in and develops a location, tries to make it work for a year or so, then tanks. Then a slightly more savvy restaurateur leases the location along with the previous tenants buildout for far less, makes minimal renovations, and then makes it a success.
That's not a loss leader, and in fact depending on the jurisdiction might actually be illegal[0]. Loss leaders are intended to be actually sold.

A loss leader might be Costco hot dogs or cheap razor handle for which replacement cartridges are the true profit centre

[0]: https://portal.ct.gov/DCP/Common-Elements/Consumer-Facts-and... https://consumered.georgia.gov/ask-ed/2015-09-08/do-stores-h... http://www.ossh.com/firearms/caag.state.ca.us/consumers/gene...
Whenever someone claims that it took a long time for the internet to find its killer app, I point them to this[1] 1993 ATT ad campaign, where they predict everything from Netflix, IoT, to wearables.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2EgfkhC1eo
Of course it is. Political and moral alignments are parts of demographics.

She-Hulk definitely appeals (or tries to) to more politically/socially progressive individuals.
-- newsweek spoke to a sheep expert who says they're bored and pissed off --

https://www.newsweek.com/mystery-sheep-circle-china-12-days-...
Recent Windows don't support playing DVD
Considering that they are estranged.. I doubt he ever cared that much about them.
Me too. They’re a charming and intuitive language feature, even if I don’t rely on them much professionally.

One CSS color name that always comes to mind is “rebeccapurple”. I seem to recall reading debates against introducing this at the time, but (10?) years later it’s still the first one I think about.
High taxes, transportation cost, and, (for explaining why Californian wine in California is more expensive than French wine in France), economies of scale and subsidies in France.
This reads like parody at this point.
Nothing against you, I just think it's important to present a different set of assumptions since, as you noted, the general audience of HN tends to see things through specific lens.

When we all just give for discounted that there is only one valid point of view, we lose all the benefits of the discussion and just play reinforcement.
Hackers show porn on Brisbane billboard for three minutes
My absolute favourite wine in the world is less than AU$30 a bottle - every vintage is spectacular. The winemaker wants ordinary people to drink his wines, so this is the price he sets. They are accordingly very difficult to buy - cellar door opens for just 2 weekends a year and supply is very limited. I’d back virtually anyone who likes this style to genuinely enjoy it, without knowing anything about its provenance.

I’ve tasted wines 10x or 20x the price, and they really are no better. They likely cost exactly the same to make, but their price is impacted by demand.

In general, I think most people can tell a $10 bottle from a $30 bottle. I suspect very very few could reliably pick a $300 bottle from a $30 bottle.
It happens. I can relate.
The reason to use UUIDs as primary keys is to allow creating records including primary keys outside of the database before posting them, especially in distributed systems.

UUIDs are sortable, but don’t give you creation-order sorting (of course, its abusing bigint PKs to rely on them for that, too.) If you want creation-order sorting, storing a creation timestamp and sorting on that works, and I’ve never had a db that had a business requirement for creation order sorting and didn’t also have one for actual creation time.
I tasted some sparkling wines that to me were way better than Dom Perignon. And Pino Noir (forgot particular brand) I get for 20 Canadian pesos again tasted to me way better that some wine I bought for $120 to check why the fuck does it cost so much.

So yes I am pretty sure that some wine is objectively better than sulfuric acid but the rest is just a matter of individual taste. It does not matter that the tester can distinguish between 2 buttles of the same wine and tell the year it's been produced.
I searched a couple minutes and couldn't see a list of supported platforms. Should I assume that since it's HTML based it would work on all of them, including iOS and Android?
I would hope the design doesn't lead to that effect, because it's not like Twitter where there's a blue tick mark that means "verified" v.s. "non verified".

Instead, there is an area on your profile page with links, and the links themselves that are verified are shown in with a tick - which should indicate "this user is verified as being linked to this website", not "this user is a verified user".

I'd be interested in research that shows that the Mastodon approach confuses people. My hunch is that it doesn't, but it's just a hunch.
Black is down an entire queen (plus two pawns) of material and resigned.
I've been. opening and closing short positions. I can totally see them going to low 30s
Also most well-designed systems only use the UUID as the representation format and use raw bits in performance-critical parts.
Phrase it as a question? “Have you seen the front page of HN yet? No? More layoffs.” Make it come across as wtf-ish vs unsolicited sharing. Make it so they have an opportunity to phrase the narrative by making it into a question, which also leads to a discussion vs. an announcement.
Obligatory "this has nothing to do with zlib".
It was very smoky and tasted like whiskey. It was probably straw colored, it was dim yellow lighting in there.
I don't use TW, but my default now is open-color[0] which is used in open-props[1]

[0] https://yeun.github.io/open-color/

[1] https://open-props.style/
What do you find bloated about it?

I've been exploring options for using python in various IDEs, and I'm generally not very happy.

The Arduino IDE seems passable for its own flavour of C++, but it's not great with Circuit Python boards. The discovery and integration with those boards seems non-existent, but maybe I'm missing something.

Mu Editor is extremely slow when the serial bus is highly active, and its features are severely limited. As an IDE it's seemingly missing any bells and whistles.

I'm looking forward to trying the VS Code Circuit Python extension, but unfortunately on my first run it didn't work at all. Hopefully with a bit of debugging it'll be clear to see why.
The Cuckoo's egg is certainly a candidate for a reboot - a factual one, not with Hollywood 'based on a true story BS'. There's enough material for a decent Netflix movie I would have thought.
Open Source Intelligence (Osint) Tools and Resources
They've been working on SLS/Orion for much longer than 10 years. They're just we tad bit behind schedule
Right, that's bait and switch. A loss leader would be you selling milk at a loss in order to get people into the store and then get them to buy the high margin cookies as well.
> It has become a game of who can come up with the better extractive scheme. Who can work the money printer and the government. A negative-sum game akin to musical chairs or squid game.

This perfectly characterizes my concern with Elon Musk - he cosplays as a fighter for the proletariat while clearly pursuing goals that aren't guaranteed to help the average person in any time span. "Maybe eventually it will be good for everyone", but with no clear plans to get there or safeguards in place to guide the system.
Yubikey in a lockbox?
I think its safe to say that cryptocoin volume for the near future is dead.

Coinbase makes its profits / revenue off of trades, akin to how ETrade used to offer $7 per trade, Coinbase skims a touch of money per trade to enable BTC and USD exchanges.

The fewer people exchanging BTC / ETH / USD / (etc. etc.), the less money Coinbase makes. And vice versa, the more people doing this activity, the more money Coinbase makes.
Steve Jobs appointed him as his successor. Presumably Jobs was training him to take over for a while.
Don't hold your breath. I expect more high profile bankruptcies, strict regulation and the rise of self custody. It's an inevitable and critical phase to go through in order to move forward.
When you need to get a sorted list or perhaps a range?

When do you need primary keys?
Im really very curious as to how they’re going to thread the needle here. This is ultimately the question right? Will Elon Musk find a way to magically thread the moderation needle in a way that inspires generations to come, or does it just become the Elon Musk social networks.

I won’t say his approach doesn’t make sense (in a very high risk kind of way). Take away all the rules then start fresh. He’s taking a hard line on CP which is great but already the impersonation issue is very nuanced. Do you let the rules be flexible I.e. let people impersonate in any way they choose, or do you tighten down trying to come up with a specific rule for every scenario. It seems like he’s leaning towards B — having a “parody” badge.

But part of protest and freedom of speech is being able to bend some uncritical rules. If he takes away the bending of the rules, people will probably go to a platform that lets them express themselves more fluidly.

But it also seems like he’s creating a safe space for the most extreme voices of the right. Trump, Andrew Tate, Jordan Peterson. I could totally see people paying a subscription fee for that crowd, and that crowd may be more amenable to rules as long as they see the rules as only limiting the “other side”
Defeating the black and the white car is probably my greatest video game achievement (though that's not saying much0. Probably wouldn't have been possible without the twisty controller.
The movie Somm was one of the funniest unintentional comedies I’ve ever seen. Just fake it til you make it, apparently. If you fail, simply keep retesting. Drink what you like. :)
Somewhat related -- I just read a headline about sheep in China that have been walking in a circle for 12 days.

https://nypost.com/2022/11/17/sheep-filmed-walking-in-circle...
Luckily France doesn't have to pay $1 million an acre like a Napa winery.
Hm, what if you modified a CSAM video to evade detection (adversarial ML etc), then injected it onto the target's machine with this fun bug, then when the target's computer automatically creates a thumbnail for the video the thumbnail would be automatically flagged.
Bloody sheep!
Huh, I was really confused at first because the screenshot was the first thing I looked at and thought that it looks exactly like mizu, which I found and used the first time last week. What a coincidence!
Any time I get what looks like a UUID from a service not under my control and I can't guarantee will always be a UUID.
csdb.dk and lemon64.com
Thank you. While my overall opinion has not changed (legal immigration is preferable), I appreciate your factual corrections (e.g. no I-9 for 1099). And I am sorry you had that interaction with CBP. Then you can relate to the cruelty of that system better than me. I too have been treated arbitrarily and incorrectly, but it has only resulted in delays and paperwork. Nothing like that.

Immigration Nation was very hard for me to watch back then, in the context of the time at which it was released.
> private copyright regime, one which has been tremendously expanded ... The classic way to pay for public goods is through a tax

The current copyright regime that extends information monopolies to creators was created by government and extended to its current absurd lengths of 120 years due to extensive lobbying from companies like Disney. These monopolies do not "promote the progress of science and useful arts", as the U.S. Constitution requires in enabling Congress to grant copyright monopolies, but rather serve to line the pockets of those who inherit the works of others and prevent information from being used and distributed freely.

A tax adds a patch to the existing bad policy. What is really needed is a shortening of the lifetime of copyrights back to something reasonable. The first U.S. copyright law lasted for 14 years, with an option to extend for another 14 years if the author was still alive. Let's just simplify it and say copyright lasts for 28 years. 28 years is plenty of time for the authors to recoup their investment, and after that lets information be free for others to build on, as has happened since the dawn of time, up until the advent of these regressive copyright durations.
AFAIK UUIDs as pks in databases is extremely standard. I would suggest the biggest downside is debugging where writing id = 5 is much easier than id = 'xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx'.
They can be subpeonad for every woman who has downloaded an abortion app?

They have a list of people who are gay/Democrat/Republican/whatever and that list can be stolen?

You are trusting your medical info to an analytics team? One that probably doesn't have the best controls? That probably bulk shares their data across departments like marketing?

I mean, if you don't care, send me your medical records, I'm sure I can make some money off of them.
Yeah it’s like the difference between competition bbq and craft bbq. Competition stuff is packed with flavor since the judge will get 1 bite. Craft bbq is all about eating well and is balanced.
`winget upgrade tailscale.tailscale` works too.
It costs $79.
The classic cartoon for this:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/05/80/42/058042c06780bbc0fa3a...
that doesn't really make sense though. how would you know the range to sort by? presumably you'd use the criterion directly to sort.

a better reason and justification to not use UUIDs is that they take up needless space if you're space constrained. they also have worse performance
No checkmate: Black resigned (it's normally called "resigning", not "surrendering"). When you're up as much material as White is, it's very straightforward to win.

No matter what Black does, White can force (at least) equal trades, simplifying down to an endgame where White has a queen and Black has nothing, at which point checkmating is easy.

Any 1000-rated player could win this position against Stockfish, IMO.
Like the first guy?

What you have to know about gaming collectors is they are all insane. Some more than others. In this story you have at least 3 people with some problems. Greed, allure of exclusivity, compulsive hoarding, scamming, predatory speculation, its all there.
Hardware is incredibly expensive, and Amazon is selling most of it below what it costs to make it.

But yes, more than $1B a year seems high.
This is exactly what is happening to me, they charged me 4 times in a row..
Does anyone have experience with KSUID (K-Sortable Unique IDentifier) ? Interested in cons.
And what are the hyphens good for? And what is the reason for their irregular placement?
You shouldn't have to "know a guy".

If I upload photos on, say, icloud.com, it'll turn up on my devices days later.

In 2022, that shouldn't be categorised as merely slow when it is basically broken.

This is a well-known issue with thousands and thousands of posts on various forums, with the usual answers of "Have you tried turning it off and on again?".

The photo sync functionality is probably the most broken part of the Apple ecosystem that I've encountered, and this security issue just proves my suspicions.
It's great for levelling the playing field of finance. In traditional finance only the most capitalised players are able to do small arbitrage opportunities, and many firms make billions of dollars this way. In DeFi anyone can take advantage of them using flash loans.
I would personally put many things such as coffee and beer there - I've grown in cultures that have and consume them a LOT, but I'm 45 and still hate the taste of both. Acquired taste one way or another, and I never bothered acquiring it.

(Interestingly enough though, two of my buddies also never had a taste for them, until in their late 20s they literally decided to "get into it". Boggles my mind if you're not caffeine addicted in your impressionable teens, why you'd actively TRY to develop the taste in your adulthood... But they did, With entirely predictable results :)
Basics of Concrete Barriers (2000)
I hate to be snarky, but I've almost considered Algolia for search on side projects a couple of times, and every time gone back to the HN search to see if it had improved.

It hadn't, so I've yet to use it (and just always spin up an ElasticSearch instance instead)

It's very possibly an unfair critique (by me) because I don't know what data modeling tools are available to HN admins (via Algolia) and I can certainly appreciate by the terrible search results if nothing else that HN gets a lot of duplicated content that does not match my data creation patterns, but while it's often that I'll go to the search to find the discussion for a topic I remember seeing within the past week but is clearly no longer on the home page, I can count on zero hands the number of times I've found it through the search.
I think a lot of it is simply that there's a sizable chunk of the market that doesn't own Blu-ray player and doesn't see any point investing in one when the quality of DVDs are acceptable to them.

The jump from VHS to DVD was big with a lot of benefits beyond just quality. But the jump from DVD to Blu-ray was far more marginal so a lot of people didn't bother.

While those people probably would be buying Blu-rays if they had a player at home, they're probably not going to spend $100 replacing their DVD player with a Blu-ray player. And if you have a DVD player in your living room and a couple more in your bedrooms you'll have to replace several DVD players.
That's was my draw to this ecosystem as well. It seems a lot more feasible to maintain a sort of "fleet" of boards running recent code this way.

I'm sure there are grown up ways of accomplishing this properly, but this was the lowest barrier to entry for me being able to maintain small embedded programs without having to physically plug into them.
Everytime I used uuids before I always ended up with terrible index performance
Yah, thanks there is some good stuff there.

For those that do the techo/trance/electronica.

Check out di.fm. A couple decades ago !!!! I wrote a large fraction of one startup's code base listening to them and groove salad on soma.fm. Then when they died during the .com bust, I flipped over to another and repeated the process at a place that survived selling said product for another 20 or so years. Caffine and vocal trance calmed the head down enough to sit in that flow state for 8+ hours a day for weeks on end and just hammer it out.
I don't see how a check digit minimizes the chance of collision. (Here, I'm assuming that a check digit is calculated from the other digits. What am I thinking about incorrectly?)
This is all true, but much of the variation can be controlled with modern techniques and careful monitoring. Not magic, science. Again, this has a cost, so it is not that it has no value, but it does not justify a 400% - 1000% markup.
Or if they did, the "auditor" was a firm no one had ever heard of?
Interesting, the missing SVGStyleElement.sheet must be a Safari bug not captured by MDN’s compatibility chart? Your workaround of finding the sheet in document.styleSheets is clever and seems to work.
Part of that comes from having to pay tax on the barrel every year while it ages.
Interesting that it’s $6 there, when it can apparently be sold profitably for $1 elsewhere:

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_price_rankings...
May as well say "that's why software isn't useful" which obviously isn't true.

Most contracts end in the happy case 99% of the time, it seems very worthwhile to automate that happy case and fall back to the traditional legal system in the failure case where either party isn't happy with the outcome.
Relevant “Bill Gates vs Excel dates” story from 1992 [1]:

> “I don’t know, you guys,” Bill said, “Is anyone really looking into all the details of how to do this? Like, all those date and time functions. Excel has so many date and time functions. Is Basic going to have the same functions? Will they all work the same way?”

> “Yes,” I said, “except for January and February, 1900.”

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
It's not building the myth but explaining the clear difference.

I'm not as conscientious or as laser focused as Elon Musk so my chances of getting there are lower.
It's broken in at least one way: If I search for all my comments, across all time, I only get comments from 8 years ago and greater.
Tom Brady, Steph Curry Endorsements of FTX Probed by Texas Regulator
> I consider the NFO files a legitimate form of art

I still install DAMN NFO Viewer on my main PC just so I can appreciate some of the .nfo files I still have.
A way to measure and limit (and eventually suspend/unsuspend) the bandwidth of any service, ingress or container etc would be great to have in K8.
My dad tells the story of how he went to a shop to pick up some wine when they were being economical, and was in the "value" section. A wino of the classic type approached and pointed out the (I believe it was) Franzia.

"That's the good stuff," he said, then added confidentially: "...doesn't give you the shakes."

My dad bought the box and many more over the years. Never got the shakes. Quality is relative!
> Another good reason not to add jargon

The use of “certiorari” for legal review is literally older than English, so complaining about its continued use as adding jargon is misplaced.