skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I likewise do not approve of the Feds expanding their powers arbitrarily by declaring the punishment for whatever they wouldn’t otherwise be allowed to enforce “a tax”. Calling the insurance mandate constitutional because the punishment was a “tax” was abusing the intent of the law.
There is already a local media cache. My comment doesn't suggest that each follower requests stuff from the home server, but each instance.

The instances cache pretty aggressively, but you still have a thundering herd when a popular person boosts a message.
Cryptocurrency proponents have taken on an almost religious stance, I'll give you that.

Then again fanatical users speaks to good product design somewhere
Wirth himself moving on to Oberon suggests that while Modula/Modula-2 were not quite there yet

Well...that depends on your perspective, and Wirth had a particular one. Wirth was an academic, and mostly confined his real interests to academic topics rather than 'real world' programming concerns (not to say he was unaware of them). In particular, his interest in compilers resulted in languages that are generally straightforward to write decent compilers for, rather than appeal to every programmer PLT wishlist. That gets you things like "I/O is an exercise left to the student". So, yes, Wirth moved on from languages when he felt there was something more interesting to explore. Oberon has been described as an exercise in how much syntax can be take out of a programming language, for example (at risk of dramatic over-simplification), because that sort of minimalism became a research interest to Wirth.

On the other hand, I personally think the existence of so many useful variant/extended Pascals and Modulas (and decedents like Ada & VHDL) means that lots of people thought they were good 'bones' that just needed to be fleshed out to move from academic to commercial use. That's not uncommon from stuff that starts out in universities. YMMV.
I didn't see any reference to an external security audit on your website, so have you done one and if not are you planning to? All serious products in this space publish these third-party audits and sometimes certifications.

See the page for Vault: https://www.hashicorp.com/vault-compliance

Or 1Password: https://support.1password.com/security-assessments/

As the comment from jbotz mentioned, exposing secrets in environment variables seems like a major issue and it would be one of the first points covered in such an audit.
Yes this is it. There are good reason for a lot of the 'codes' we have and it costs money to make sure things are cool. That said, I suggest as always there are 'bureaucracy' problems in our governments and processes that are severely limiting to progress. We need to figure out how to streamline and make efficiencies in a lot of these systems if we want to have a future.
If you're into historical biographies, I highly recommend The Last Lion by McMasters on Churchill. Really puts things into perspective about how close Germany came to owning Europe.

It's really 3 books, 5000+ pages, not a quick read but worth the effort.
When I find myself nervous about a meeting, I go back to this book and outline the steps it suggests, not just the gist of it, but I walk through the steps. It's like having a colleague who wants to help you be a better person.
Been getting into sci-fi novels recently.
Favorite has been stuff by Adrian Taichovsky [1]. A lot of it is premised on "what if animals were (engineered) smarter". His novels usually explore how cognition / language / culture would evolve over millenia for different species.

(minor spoilers)
For example, one story describes bees that form a hivemind. Another describes how language would work with only colors. Another describes how society would evolve if knowledge was genetically inherited.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Tchaikovsky
I think both of you might be right, as my impression of the stereotype is more that the tech dude is “into” stoicism, but falls short in practice.
I've not seen it but there's a mini-series adaptation

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7205264/
Here's another way of framing this headline: "A company that provides critical services has lobbyists - just like pharma, hospital networks, national defense, and food and agriculture."
“ Taking cover behind a fence down the street, Officer Daniel Sanchez yelled “drop the gun.” He began firing before he finished the sentence, body camera video shows, hitting Mr. Moonesinghe four times, according to a preliminary autopsy ordered by his family. The Travis County Medical Examiner’s report hasn’t been released.”

This one paragraph is an incredibly succinct encapsulation of what’s wrong with our police in the U.S. these days. Either this officer already knew he was going to shoot before he opened his mouth, and the order he shouted was entirely pro forma, or he had so little control over himself that he accidentally pulled the trigger before he finished the order.
Someone tries to sell a Pixel Tablet prototype, posts pictures
I'm having the same experience. And what I love, is that he proposes solutions that work, without sugarcoating things.

One of the biggest learnings from this book so far, is that a certain level of anxiety is inevitable. Especially when you're doing work that is meaningful to you.

Being able to accept that anxiety and still continue is what makes all the difference.
And it was over Twitter of all things. This is the history of 19th century banking repeating itself as a giant farce
I think at the end of the day it's whoever creates the best product - right now, I only see Apple with the resources and ambition to tackle something like this but Meta already has a huge head start.

I would like to compare it to AWS' lead in cloud due to their head start but this is obviously a much larger gamble.
I was a big Sampras fan, curious on details of your exception. I don’t follow off the court/field drama so was he a huge jerk or something?
The Bone Clocks is fantastic - probably my #1 go-to when someone asks me for a book recommendation.
Yeah, I think the above comment is also underselling the strength of pre-teen children, or greatly overestimating the weight of arms, armor, and the strength needed to do things with horses. Children have worked on farms around horses ever since horses were domesticated. A sword or breastplate only weighs a few pounds, a knight could easily employ a pre-teen child to polish his armor, oil his sword, wax his boots, make his breakfast, or any number of other chores a knight doesn't want to bother with personally.
Stolen Focus, by Johann Hari
This is the second most awful lie in which he has used his family as a meatshield.
What he needs is professional help.
Seems like California wants to move in a more walkable street direction.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-01/jaywalki...
I wonder if it will support installing Graphene OS.
I see. Some of the integrations, such as K8s would offload the downtime to k8s itself so then it wouldn't be much of a problem (other than alerting if the secret sync is broken).

How do I stay up to date on developments for the AWS/GCP integration?
Therapist, excercise (3+ weekly), eat better (protein+veggies are the base of this) and quit alcohol.
I did all of these in my late 30s and in my 40s and I feel younger.
When changes you can make alone are not enough, therapy (and possibly meds) should do the trick.
best of luck, and a strangers hug
It did for me. I just did "follow all" again. You sure some extension isn't interfering?
Spores will survive boiling, that's why autoclaves (pressure cookers) are used in medical research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoclave.

But spores are in a state of dormancy, so if you never stop boiling the broth, then spores never grow into anything. The most dangerous thing would probably be to boil the broth in stops in starts
And that’s fine.

For my needs, I can’t think of anything my Linux desktop does that my Mac cannot.

Why is it so hard, to the point of being mystifying, to understand that others have a different opinion?
A lot of the journalism is being done by coindesk on this topic. Coindesk is owned by the same company who owns Gemini, a rival exchange. So it is indeed poetic
Favorite Technical: The Pragmatic Programmer. This is something that I should have read much earlier.

Favorite Fiction: Pale Fire. Just pure astonishment. Left me speechless with how he made the language sing.

Also great (in no particular order):

- The Sewing Girl's Tale (non-fiction)

- The Odyssey (poem)

- Tropic of Cancer (novel)

- Tenth of December (short story collection).

- Endurance (non-fiction)

- The Billion Dollar Spy (non-fiction)

- Agent Sonya (non-fiction)

- Agent Running in the Field (novel)

- Little Dorrit (novel)

To be honest, I love most of the stuff I read this year. Only a handful of books I didn't like enough to read through.
That could well happen, a bit like the difference between say 'gmail' and your own private mail server. The big trick will then be to stop it from becoming siloed again.
For the most part, it’s the same way in Portland except that instead of anger and hostility it’s utter apathy.
Cylindrical? How about air? I'm confused how these things could be 'habitat'
How to make liquid crystal display at your home
It was way too short, but also just long enough.
That is very small though, for a "breakthrough". That's my issue.

We already knew that laser ignited fusion worked (that it triggers fusion). And we still don't know it can produce more energy than it consumes overall (one of the big questions for this sort of fusion).

Really, we have gone from being 0.5% efficient to 1% efficient (I believe).

One way to describe that is doubling the output. And that is technically true. But it's quite misleading as it will have no actual impact in the real world.

Add to that that this was quite predictable. And that we will need at least 3 very big breakthroughs before this is viable (much more efficient lasers, a continuous method and either replacement of the fuel or a very easy supply of deuterium). I just don't see this as a big deal.

That's why I called it a milestone. It's progress. But it isn't huge, unexpected, change-in-the-real-world progress.
New instances will be (are being) created. Supply will fill demand.
First of all it's not a tech stock, it's a biotech.
You could keep incrementing from the current value until the population count matches again, but in the worst case - probably from 2^62 to 2^63 with a single set bit or wrapping around from 2^63 to 2^0 - that would still take pretty much 2^64 steps.
FOSDEM 2023 – Railways and Open Transport devroom
In the video they’re trying to transition to 1/s from 1/10s, and targeting 10/s in a future generation.

Always hard to tell from publicity shots, but it looked like their existing capacitor bank was around the size of a shipping container. That probably goes up with the frequency though. I’m not sure you can do single or dual banks when aiming to fire every hundred milliseconds. Plus I think you need somewhere to send the produced power for dumping into the power grid.

But they’re already trying to produce their own capacitors to deal with that level of cycles per hour. I could see these guys spinning out a couple of companies that supply other designs or even industries. Especially if the money runs out.
Check this out:
https://old.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/zm60vn/google_h...

We reached out to OP even though we were very sure that their IP geolocation is definitely correct with us. They checkmarked everything and then some. OP told us that we are providing accurate data.

But does Google care about that? Not really. Now they kinda have to use that android phone Google Maps trick and hope that it fixes their problem somehow.
0 and 1 have been supported for a while. See the "linkstatic" feature.
No I mention housing supply because it is an issue that cuts orthogonally across the popular left-right dimension.

Japan is very capitalist but builds lots of housing because landowners can build up with little zoning restrictions.

The USSR was very communist and they also built a lot of housing because the government just went in and did it.

But the USA and Europe seem to easily get stuck in NIMBY traps where nothing gets built, and then when prices go up due to lack of supply people will reach for solutions like rent control, which almost 100% of economists will tell you is bad for longterm housing supply because it discourages new construction.

I've heard Stockholm's rent control is especially stupid because while the landlord is forced to rent to the primary tenant at a low, below market rate, that primary tenant can turn around and sublet their entire unit at a much higher, market rate to a secondary tenant. So the primary lease is basically a capital asset with perpetual returns. The unit ends up renting for market rate anyway to the secondary tenant, while the primary tenant collects free money.
I'd say marketing is where people who want to get rich doing little work go to fail.

Back when I was in college I was the publicity director for the college radio station which had a reputation for putting on poorly attended paper. I made at least 10 poster designs and hit the (small) campus with at least 500 photocopies. After doing this a few times a year for a year we had big crowds showing up every time.

If I'd tried to farm this work out to somebody else they would probably make 1 poster design and put up 15 posters and figure that was enough work and it just isn't.

Any kind of marketing is like that, it takes a lot more effort than most people think is reasonable, but it can very much pay off.
These operations simply return the carry flag, they are supposed to map directly to the hardware which normally doesn't raise exceptions for integer overflow.

Also they can be useful to implement bigints.
> I guess I have a fairly cynical take on this. I think this just exposes that AI is fundamentally going to undermine the value of education in certain fields. The fact some tests can be "cheated" by AI really just suggests that some skills have little to no value in our future AI-prevalent world.

If you think about it, most of the stuff you learn at school (beyond reading and writing) has not much value apart from certifying that you are not stupid and compliant to do stupid tasks.
I think it's more that people lack the skill and time to reapply such coatings and there are no commercial services that do so.
>largest individual shareholder.

FTFY.

The rest of your comment neither refutes my point nor reinforces the earlier comment that Tesla was nothing but a name, brand and prototype: Chairmen oversee board meetings, not gnarly technical challenges on the production floors.
No doubt once he became CEO (after the roadster was shipping) he became more involved in the day to day.
My boss got married and had 2 kids at 49/50 years old. It's really not too late for anything.
Vapourware harvesting exists, but tends to have less substantial content. This looks like a startup that doesn't feel ready to open their wares.

Still, you're not alone in disliking this kind of post. "Request access" is a bad basis for a solid HN thread*, because users expect to be able to actually try out the product, and need more information about what it is and how it works in order for the comments to be substantive.

When this product reaches that state, then would be a good time to discuss it on HN.

* When YC startups want to launch on HN, I tell them they need to be past this stage.
If memory serves, plenty of people were denied refunds.
There’s a lot of human systems that would be great if not for the humans!
Of course letting everyone print their own money is a farce and doesn't actually generate any value for society.

In that sense Binance is guilty here with their BNB token, having also set the example for FTX' FTT token.
Before refrigeration people were a lot less picky about what was considered spoiled food. One of my grandmothers would never look at the dates, but just trusted her eyes, nose and tongue as to whether something was fit for consumption or not, regardless of how much it was past the 'best before' date.
Well, I'm surprised this hasn't happened earlier -- the entire proposed functionality of FileCoin and Storj can now be implemented and deployed at scale quite easily using Holochain. In fact, large portions of this functionality has already been deployed, as part of the Holochain's Devhub https://github.com/holochain/devhub-dnas and its associated GUI https://github.com/holochain/devhub-gui

With the widespread push toward a more decentralized replacement for Twitter, etc., my personal belief is that soon people will discover that 98% of Twitter can also built and deployed, at scale, using Holochain.

I wonder what effect that will have on the pricing of various project's coins.
No, you have this backwards. Acting like a grownup means taking responsibility for your own actions and not expecting the government, or any institution, to magically make sure nothing bad ever happens to you. Paying for services like firefighting is fine; but being forced to pay for things because some government bureaucrat decrees it is not.

And acting like a grownup also means letting people take the consequences of their decisions. According to other posters in this thread, the family in question repeatedly refused to pay a fair price for firefighting coverage, and the fire was started by a family member. That means the consequences are on them.
Haha. You're easily shocked. I was replying to an interesting comment talking about how they interact with their child. And I was curious about what they do in a situation that they hadn't included in their comment.

There are a lot of great replies to my question. I'm happy I asked it.
From a legal perspective do Crypto transfers over 10k have to be reported too?
My gut feeling is that it's hard to build these devices in ways that are affordable, profitable, untethered, and realistic. I think that hating Facebook and disrespecting Zuck is driven just as much by the popularity of the pastime (hating) as by anything real.

Credit to Zuckerberg for staying the course. I think that other products will soon come out from other companies over the next year or two that because extremely popular, and AR/VR WILL go mainstream, and practically no one will ever admit that he was right about it being a good overall direction to go in. And if they don't end up making a lot of money from these things it won't prove that it wasn't the right direction. It's hard to pull off and there is going to be a lot of competition.
I think in the Quest you can see Zuckerberg trying to create Meta's iPhone. Most of Apple's profit comes from selling hardware for more than it costs to make it. Sure there are other phones but most people would prefer an iphone, for various reasons. Branding is not the least of which.

I see the quest pro as a similar product to the iphone pro. Technically better, but almost as much of a status symbol to ramp up profits long term as much as anything.

I suspect we'll see those two lanes continue to be developed with fairly fast releases on a similar schedule to iphones - with Mark's dream being that one day Meta will be the new Apple complete with the walled garden app store.
Remember how pessimistic they were about Reddit? And some other successful startups? Someone made a full list of the predictions that were completely off once... No idea how to find that but it's out there.
PNG and JPEG are still well within the realm of what an average dev can understand, at least with some nice videos on youtube that give visual examples and make the math less opaque.
Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society - by Eric A. Posner and Eric Glen Weyl

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691177502/ra...

The book recommends radical changes to how we deal with private property, voting, immigration, large stock investors, AI stuff, and more. It felt like an honest overview of various economic policies across the past (pointing out how radical many changes were) and a set of reasonable proposals for how to improve our currently-broken system.
> "scale-dependent capabilities" implies inference from elements.

Don't confuse the post-hoc explanation with an a priori inference. We can post-hoc explain water's emergent liquidity property using modern quantum theories, but that doesn't mean we could have inferred it if given Schrodinger's equation and the atomic structure of hydrogen and oxygen.

"Scale-dependent capability" is a post-hoc explanation that of course looks obvious in hindsight, just like liquidity and pressure looks obvious in hindsight once you understand electromagnetism and atomic theory.
Puffed rice in green tea (genmaicha) is excellent after a meal.
Times Quantum Physics Blew Our Minds in 2022
Maybe what danbruc commented [0] may be of interest for you.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34055831
Similarly, I refuse to believe that anyone might doubt that some people actually write code like this.
Nope, that was just my assumption, given how Elon usually handles these things. Sad to hear that.
This approach is perfectly compatible with modelling state in the database. The problem this addresses is the data flow, which is a completely separate problem from managing the state itself.
> The first aspect is that I, as paying user

I haven’t met a single person who pays for Windows. In 2022 it’s effectively a free OS. That’s why there’s advertising/upselling.
It's never absolute in either direction, and I don't understand the persistent desire to frame it as such. Local dev on some level will always be a fallback, or in hardware dev cases a priority, because local devices will always exist. Cloud dev will always be a priority because cloud-based services are what most end users rely on now, on some level, whether they know it or not.
After hurricanes, frequently giant rafts of detritus can travel across the ocean. These sometimes have all sorts of life on them. It is conceivable that would include all of those creatures?
Gene Wolfe.

The whole Solar Cycle (The Book of the New Sun, Urth of The New Sun, The Book of The Long Sun, The Book of The Short Sun), Fifth Head of Cerberus, Peace, There Are Doors, The Sorcerer's House ... .

Wolfe is a genius.

Before that I also finished Malazan.
Ask HN: What is the best podcast you listened to in 2022?
I started to listen to podcasts during my daily workouts and I quite enjoy the experience!
Some of my favorites are Lex Fridman Podcast [0] and Darknet Diaries [1].

Any other suggestions?

(Asked the same question 2 weeks ago but didn’t get any traction. Sorry if it’s against the rules to send again)

[0] - https://lexfridman.com/podcast/

[1] - https://darknetdiaries.com/
Because of the steep learning curve and troubleshooting associated with it, I've become more hesitant in recommending Emacs. However for the curious, the video Getting Started in Org Mode [1] which is a great demonstration on Emacs and Org Mode's potential as an organizational tool. Anyone still curious and would like to smooth out the learning curve, I'd recommend using an emacs starter kit such as Doom Emacs [2] which has a lot of OOB functionality without having to immediately learn Elisp.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzA2YODtgK4

[2] https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs
Colorists Guide to DaVinci Resolve
I'm cringing at this bigly.
My understanding, picked up as a kid sometime in the late 90s/early 2000s, was that ice makes injuries feel better while impeding healing. So it's a trade-off you had to make for yourself.

Reading stuff like this now kinda feels like we lost a bunch of knowledge in the past two decades.