skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of these scams are bad for cryptocurrency, its best days will be some time after they all collapse (if that ever happens, maybe they'll just make new scams forever.)
Non-stop complaining. Totally kills optimism and energy of an entire team. Complaining is contagious too, so it's not long before 1 chronic complainer infects the team.

I don't mean focused retrospectives, which is time set aside to constructively address things worth complaining about.
Figuring out that one of the services i was maintaining needed http connection pooling for calls to an external service to get within acceptable levels of performance. Spent a fair bit of time and effort to reach the conclusion and should have probably known to use it from the start, with it being a best practice followed in some other services already. Still, the whole process of finding/fixing the bottleneck left me very pleased.
Skeumorphism in automotive design
I see. Well you could have been more explicit in your original message, I don't think it was obvious at all that you were talking about updates.

Rails does the right thing here in my opinion. Anything that happens between calling `.save` and it returning should be in the safe envelop of a transaction. It can't know that you're only going to emit a single UPDATE query in that transaction, plus the framework user expects any exception between calling save and it returning to roll back. There are outs if you need them. I've worked on a few reasonably high traffic and complex rails applications and I don't recall a time when the time between the last query and the commit caused an issue. Yes times when the transaction itself had got too large and that commit was taking awhile. That said, there were more of these types of locking issues in the project I worked on 10 years ago with MySQL and repeatable read isolation level than with PG since then which defaults to read committed.
Which usually works against a consumer when dealing with businesses. But, in the case of used cars, there are definitely cases where a seller knows that some major system of their car is basically being held together by duct tape--which gets them a good purchase price and may well screw the ultimate buyer of the vehicle.
You will need a title to the car if you ever want to get rid of it, it’s even needed at a junk yard.

You won’t get a title without making the payments…
I feel like if I were a Binance investor and they came to me and said “Hey so everything is fine, just look at these three numbers I asked Mazars to write down. Also there are a ton of caveats but you get the idea,” I would immediately 100% panic. How does this reassure anyone?
OpenAI: Explore what's possible with some example applications
I added a diy 50W LED that shines on the white ceiling of my office room. The diffuse bounced light feels closer to sunlight. It’s wonderful for those darker days.

Make sure to get a high-CRI led, that’s what really makes the difference in my opinion. Cheap leds will have a narrow frequency band, high CRI is what makes the reflected light feel more real.

I use a cpu heatsink with silent fan to keep the led cool.

[0] https://aliexpress.com/item/4000393264115.html (48W warm white)
I see this research says white font on dark background is beneficial for myopia.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-28904-x
Could you please tell us more about your bulbs?

Like you, I found a huge improvement in mood if I use light cues to help convince my body that I live in an eternal late spring. So far I've used Hue bulbs, as I love their color temperature range and the ease of programming. (For me it helps that a plausible day-night cycle just happens in my house.) But I've wondered if daylight-like lumens would be even better. And Hue is cost-prohibitive for that level of light.
It feels weird seeing boondoggles like the Senate Launch System actually deliver. On the one hand it’s exciting because we’re actually really possibly maybe finally going back to the moon. On the other hand, it is at the price of, minimum, $1,000,000,000/launch. A successful launch doesn’t actually change the reality that it was and still is largely politically viable only as a jobs/pork program.

I wonder if people felt this way about Apollo? In hindsight it feels worthwhile. But the big difference between Artemis and Apollo is that Artemis is coming after Commercial Crew/SpaceX has proven a different business/engineering model.

I’ve been waiting for this since I was in the fifth grade, so I should be happy. But then, I was promised a path to Mars with boots on the Moon two years ago.
"Reduce the scope of your PR" a reviewer comments on a PR for a project that hasnt meaningfully addressed its technical debt in years.
KMPG would do it, they vouched for Wirecard. For years.
To add to that, how is it a meeting of the minds of the contract cannot be altered by one of the parties?

If it is a EULA, a rental contract on an iPad, or an employment contract delivered through DocuSign then I can't strike or amend any clauses I disagree with.
Draw.io can get by, but for sequence diagrams, there's little better than WebSequenceDiagrams.com or in a pinch, LucidCharts.
> It's clear that one is a mirror image of the other with minor Photoshop edits.

You're wrong. I'd agree that minor photoshop edits would be a different story, but this is a painting. Oil on wood.
Reminds of the time when I was handed a 12 page NDA to sign for a six month consulting contract. I did my best to explain, in a nice and non-confrontational manner, just how difficult it was to even begin to consider such a beast. I would have to spend a thousand dollars with an attorney to have something like that deciphered and even more to reply to it with edits, etc.

That's what TOS feel like today. Even if you did read them, you probably need an attorney to fully comprehend what you are accepting. The agreement was created by one or more attorneys, sometimes a highly paid law-firm. The asymmetry in legal knowledge between reader and author is massive.

Perhaps the metric should be that an agreement should not require an attorney for interpretation by, say, the average high school graduate.

Hey, maybe that's a way to improve our system of education! Can you imagine what an agreement would look like if that was the metric?
Like I said, I'm well aware that I'm not getting the absolute best price at Carmax; that's part of the premise. What I am getting is a month to drive the car and swap it for any other car, or a refund. That's hugely valuable.
Instead of a low-effort comment implying that a high-effort summary with zero rebuttals has been conjured out of nothing, please ask any question, about any sentence, for which you cannot find a source on the first page of Algolia/Google after entering the sentence as a query. They have been discussed many times here on HN and there are excellent references in those earlier threads. Alternately, ask the nearest optician or ophthalmologist.
I want to know what happened to the promised "Peace Dividend". Military spending was supposed to go way down, not just down, and civilians were supposed to reap the benefits... Instead Industrialists took up the Globalization mantra and forgot the little guys (the guys and gals working in factories) and happily told them it would mean lower cost of living --conveniently leaving out that they would also earn much less, if they even got to keep their jobs.

Ross Perot and Bernie Sanders warned people, but they were made fun of and now Bernie has sold out and pretends.
In the link you provide it says this about Unix time:

In Unix time, every day contains exactly 86400 seconds but leap seconds are accounted for.

It then provides an example for when the Unix time went from 915148800 to 915148800 after 1 atomic second on 1998-12-31T23:59:60.00

So it's incorrect to say that Unix time does not include leap seconds.
I just asked it to provide a specific example of a security breach caused by a Java serialization flaw and it just made something up, i.e. it found some random security breach (unrelated to anything Java) and found some other random Java serialization bug and claimed that breach was due to that bug. A few minutes on Google revealed they were completely unrelated. Ouch.
> The other one is that rich people don't think about money, which is bullshit. It's all they think about, even if they don't show it.

Nonsense; almost the defining characteristic of being rich is that you don't need to think about money; if you need some it's there.
You see this with airlines.

People keep complaining about how flying has become so much more unpleasant.

But other than a small minority, the customers almost always pick lower prices over any improvements in service.

And the same is probably true for buying a used car. Folks may talk about how the experience is poor, but at the end of the day price is what will drive their purchase. So whoever gives the lowest price, which often translates to a worse experience, will succeed in the marketplace.
Sure, but that's why metaphysics and epistemology aren't considered sciences.

You wall off the non-falsifiable stuff in a box labeled "not science" and focus on the stuff that is falsifiable.
Sorry, I meant GDP/hour-of-labor.
Just add a captcha
One issue with that is that you could approach poor people and get hundreds of thousands of real ids for very little. And because language models are so good, it would take ages to root them all out if it's even possible.
Better link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/12/4/120
The GPT detector requires a significant amount of text for accuracy. Works well on student essays, not so much on short comments.
My last team was like this. So painful
Twitter Account Tracking Elon Musk’s Private Jet Gets Shadow Banned
> Warming the planet by a few degrees centigrade should be thought of as massively increasing energy into the weather system.

But it doesn't, not "massively". "Warming" here means increasing air temperatures, but the atmosphere is tiny considered as a heat sink.

> This will necessitate a period of dramatic “turbulence” (wild local swings) while a new equilibrium is established. This will potentially cause massive disruption in the world order.

Alarmists might claim this, but there isn't any evidence for it. A far more likely source of disruption in the world order is alarmist claims themselves.

> making areas like Siberia more habitable in terms of temperature isn’t exactly helpful if it doesn’t have soil conducive to growing food or for enough infrastructure to house large numbers of people.

People already manage to grow things in Siberia (and in some colder parts of Canada) despite the temperature. That will only improve as the region warms.

As for infrastructure, that's what adaptation is for: as more people want to move there, you build the infrastructure. Just like we do now in other areas that people want to move to. This has been going on for as long as humans have moved around the planet.

> What may not continue is how we currently live.

"How we currently live" has already changed massively in the past century or two. Of course it will continue to change, and of course people should be aware of that and should be planning accordingly. But there is no need for alarmism about it.
This issue is an unending source of discussion. The thing is, you cannot eliminate wingtip or wake vortices by putting a finite barrier at the wing tip, no matter how large. This is because [begin hand-waving approximation] for a wing to produce lift, it is necessary for the airflow passing in close proximity to the wing to be deflected downwards (no acceleration, no force.) This unavoidably creates a region of shear at the boundary between this wake and the surrounding air mass, leading it to 'roll up' into two counter-rotating vortices (as this is a hand-waving approximation, I won't mention the circulation around the transverse axis of the wing...)

We can't banish them, but you can do things to reduce them, the simplest of which is to move the tips further apart (i.e. lengthen the wings.) Everything about airplane design is a compromise, however.
Causing others to lose face publicly. For example, calling out team members for a bug they introduced, when you could ask them about it privately.

Another one - refusing to do any testing or CI because they think it will slow down the team.
Its also used for electricity at least on the graphs I have seen. Maybe I mixed up total electricity production or energy consumption.

Even so, not using any LNG for electricity and replacing coal is just if not more valuable.

And of course the reluctance to electrify heating for houses is linked to the bad overall energy policy.
Can you still get 20-30 obvious bot replies if you post about recovering the keys to your crypto wallet? Or asking for help with an essay school assignment?
Good point! I didn't really think that bit through.
I don't know if I like that or hate it. Having the simplicity that everything is equal is great. What about pet clauses, garage access, and such? Seems like those would need to be respected.
> The VC subsidies convinced a significant portion of people to upend their lifestyles and attempt to make money in an ecosystem where prices were artificially juiced by VC money.

People didn't seriously upend their lives to drive for Uber until they retire. The people who were hurt by Uber were people who bought taxi medallions and suddenly found themselves competing with unlicensed taxis.

But on that point, as much as it sucks for them, their monopoly status meant the service was overpriced and didn't innovate. Uber might have been underpriced when it was subsidized, but it's still cheaper than taxis and makes rid hailing easier. Don't forget that even after the reality of things set in, Uber is still a $50B company. There's a real business there.
Yes.
But then we must also realize that science is to have a very narrow band in society.

To quote from Mike Alder's Newton's Flaming Laser Sword

> It must also be said that, although one might much admire a genuine Newtonian philosopher if such could found, it would be unwise to invite one to a dinner party. Unwilling to discuss anything unless he understood it to a depth that most people never attain on anything, he would be a notably poor conversationalist. We can safely say that he would have no opinions on religion or politics, and his views on sex would tend either to the very theoretical or to the decidedly empirical, thus more or less ruling out discussion on anything of general interest. Not even Newton was a complete Newtonian, and it may be doubted if life generally offers the luxury of not having an opinion on anything that cannot be reduced to predicate calculus plus certified observation statements. While the Newtonian insistence on ensuring that any statement is testable by observation (or has logical consequences which are so testable) undoubtedly cuts out the crap, it also seems to cut out almost everything else as well.
Because this places the burden on users to sort it out. And you're ignoring a third category of comments: bad ones that are glib enough to garner upvotes.
How could ChatGPT generate your perspective for you?
If I would be running Medium, I would be really worried. The platform already has the worst discovery. Now this will be even worse as content velocity will quickly increase.
Note again that I'm not a spokesperson, merely a developer, so this is my own personal opinion:

In college one of the most transformative assignments I was given was actually a term paper where I was required to study what were then considered the three major sociological models for society (as I recall, so forgive me as it's been quite some time): structural-functional, social-conflict, and symbolic-interaction. In studying each of those sociological models, the one that resonated the most with me was that of symbolic-interaction.

The core idea behind the symbolic-interaction model, as I recall, being that society is a result of the everyday interactions between people just like you and me. With that in mind, I continue to believe that there are often key individuals within any given group of people, whether that is a corporation, government, or otherwise, that can drive significant, positive change throughout that group and that can have a profound effect outside that group as well.

I'd like to encourage folks to stop and consider for a moment that there are more than 1.4 billion monthly active devices running Windows 10 or 11. Obviously not all of those devices run any specific version of Windows, but that should provide some useful perspective. As a result, I'm always looking at the data, checking for patterns, and trying to identify both positive and unexpected trends. Cases like this are another opportunity for growth and to help others, and I'm happy to do so when I can.
> it's not obvious that federated social networking can reliably deliver that

Why not? It's federated, not isolated. If enough people are available to achieve the network effects you're after, what would you lack?
(Content discovery solutions are already being created for people who want to play with them)

> It seems like there's an audience for a tool that leverages the Twitter API to scrape your following/follower data into a convenient format and perhaps automate the business of finding and reconnecting with those people on another platform.

https://twitodon.com/ for mastodon already exists

> If 'science twitter' decamps to 'science.social' it could quickly find itself effectively cut off from its public

Why? What's different from frontend social, infosec exchange, etc.? In the general population is mastodon, I can't imagine science twitter being called out as woke.
How do you detect it?
His data might have been wrong but 20GW of nuclear extra nuclear would still be incredibly useful.

Let alone simply building more of it and solving the problem.

Because its of course easy to say that 50% is coming from X but this is bought with under capacity in the rest. If you have a long time period where you have low wind and solar utilization you need backup that you can ramp up.
Am I misremembering or.. didn't republicans with full control of congress do the tax breaks while increasing spending and later, in partnership with dems after losing congress, expanding social programs like Obamacare to be more universal (free pandemic-related care)?

Biden's eventual infrastructure bill also was smaller in scope than Trump's proposed one that wanted $2 trillion instead of $1 trillion.
Personal choice, 41% battery reduction, and a distrust that any of the studies were on 8-12 hour reading sessions.
For me it happend when I asked to write a function using BigQuery, it wrote a function that made a lot of sense but was wrong, because the command didn't exist in BigQuery. When I replay that the function didn't work, it told me, something like this: You right the function that I used it was only working on beta mode, now you have to use the following.... And again it was wrong.
I made a little research and never was such a beta commandm..
And then I got that it just makes up things that it don't know, but says it with authority.
I haven't used Mastodon and so the impression I get is that it doesn't have an easy way to look up other accounts or discovery of accounts on other instances.

How does user account discovery work? How do you think it could be made better?
UTC can never be set as a constant offset from TAI, it will eventually cease to be useful and that can never happen.
How in the world is Coinbase losing THAT much money? Isn't the product mature and fully-featured already?
That example is also super geographically narrow. In a lot of Europe it'd just be normal to ride a bike to work, no matter what the social or economic status of the person. In Australia where I am people would assume you're really into cycling as a sport, or really care about the environment (thankfully infrastructure is improving so eventually hopefully it gets to the more 'just normal' level). I don't think anybody would assume somebody who cycles to work is 'poor' here in any job though!
Standard TOS contract anyone can use, and any variations need individual sign off and consent per point.

Sites would then need to decide how many variations to enact, knowing full well every extra one reduces signups.
The worldviews of the originators of HN and YC are probably built on cheap debt. Airbnb may have revenue, but I would say its their stock sales to speculators, also burgeoned by cheap debt, that resulted in these VCs thinking they are smarter than everyone else. Now that they are smarter than everyone else, their purpose in life is to tell people what they should do, how they should live, like the puritans of old. Get frustrated by other smart people who didn’t get their self-assurance from God or Market given prosperity. Thats a worldview ain’t it.
It's fine to challenge other users in a thoughtful way where you think they're wrong. "Your ass is showing bro" is not that.

We ban accounts that degenerate to that level, so please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
On the surface I like this idea, but this makes it harder for participants from poorer countries from, well, participating. For some countries this is more than a week of the average wage!
The European Union has this for a few years now for electronic communications service providers, and it works well!

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/faqs/contract-summa...
Ask HN: How to get started with serious programming as a math liker?
I like math and can read and do elementary proofs. If required I can learn more of math because that interests me.

I want to become a hacker kind of programmer. By hacker I mean someone who can build stuff. Not always the perfect and best possible stuff, but, stuff that works good enough. By that I don't imply that I lean towards messy programming sphagetti style over good readable and modifiable code.

One advice I hear all the time is get to building stuff. But before building I need to know the bare minimum, otherwise there will be huge gaps and misconceptions in my mental space.

So my questions are:

1. From where do I learn the bare minimum? MOOCs, books, etc? Any suggestions?

2. I believe in building tiny projects. Lots of them to gain confidence so that I can take over bigger ones later. What type of things can I build? Is there a list? Again, suggestions.

I wonder in awe how people go like - "I need to accomplish this job. Let me think about it. Ok so now let me code up a small tool that does the job for me".

How to achieve this level, where the ideas don't get bottlenecked due to my inability to think what can be achieved using a programming language and how to achieve that?
> Worldviews typically include..

For people who are their own favorite subject, maybe. For everyone else it is an internal model of the way the world works, which allows you to make sense of things. So when you are interested in the way the world actually works, not how you feel it should work, economics is very important.
Crunchyroll and Funimation, two anime streaming and localization services. Think Netflix for anime.

I like Korean webtoons (Tower of God most recently) but… eh. There’s nothing like Berserk or One Piece but for webtoons. Not yet. Ganbatte, Korea!
About the time I used Google Drive as a CMS for a web app
I mean more in the context of modern European infrastructure policy.

Literally Germany made the choice to replace nuclear rather then coal. That was literally their choice.

Do you know about all the bad effects of burning coal at large scale?

> And I don't believe for minute that Russia somehow would not have invaded if Germany had more nuclear.

That is not an argument I made.
That's the time to get in the trenches and fight for the Internet to be weird again. I believe there is great value in the edges. I love Lunchclub for exactly that purpose. It creates a really intimate 1:! with someone who might not be in your network.
Less velocity = Less Noise