skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The class-action wants a declaration that FTX assets traceable to customers are not the company's property

Good luck with that.

Did anyone read the customer service agreement before placing their assets into the loving care of FTX?

Of course not, they were too busy getting rich quick. Anyway, this is just like placing assets into a licensed and regulated broker account --- right?

My guess is that their customer service agreement gave FTX full rights to use the assests in any way *they* wanted --- effectively as if they "owned" them.

End result: A lot of fools and their money are now parted.
I finally read Lord of the Rings this year, in my mid-thirties. Enjoyed it a lot. Recommend it if you haven't read it.
That is easily solved by configuring other programs to use vi keybindings by default. Shells including bash and zsh can be configured to run in a vi-compatible mode, and so can many other programs - there are even chrome and firefox extensions to enable vi keybindings.

Nevertheless, for some reason no one seems to have created a Linux distribution with pure vi input conventions...
a better calculator is surely this: https://www.abrathatfits.org/calculator.php

is the product of a community (with the same name) on reddit
The use case of playing a game outside the house. I find that even the switch lite to be far too big for this, but at least it fits in a bag a bit better. The Sony Vita was probably the perfect form factor in my opinion.

Obviously those things can't play modern PC titles on low to medium settings, but that doesn't feel particularly necessary to me.
> that not having children (in the west) is a great way to reduce emissions.

Why in the west? The west is already doing their (our) part by not having enough children to replace the current people here.

The 'rest of the world' has too many children, in some places even too many to literally just feed. Why deal with the areas where couples have <2, even <1.5 children on average and not with areas where the numbers are 5 or even more?

Also, doesn't that mean that we should also stop immigration? Moving someone from a poor country to a rich(er) one means more emissions since they tend to consume more due to more money than in their originating country.
Thoughtless is subjective. Maybe these are like the climate activists destroying art.
> thought I'd read that post-infection immunity lasted around 10 months?

Isn’t that strain specific? I know unvaccinated folks who had back-to-back cross-strain infections inside a few months.
Gnarly queries aside what this highlights for me is the verbosity and readability of SQL code. Making me have to lookup queries being used as modules or as libraries makes things more complicated added to that all the idiosyncrasies of the templating language as well
Every country in Europe has vat on groceries: https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/telecommu....

There’s no vat in the US, there’s state tax, and yes, some states charge state tax on groceries: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/04/15/as-food-prices-soar-some....

No clue how in the era of having an answer by the fingertips would one ask such questions online.
I’d like all these to be legit/legal - it’d be sweet if we could sponsor others’ LFL, in essence, be able to lookup a pirate location, then license it for those who cannot. I had no idea our lfl needed to be legitimized, but I could see how it makes sense to offer some sort of understanding around where these things are, creating guidelines, ethics around them etc.

We are contemplating adding a solar panel to our lfl to allow passerby’s to charge up their phone for a bit, but that is proving difficult to plan for loitering, safety, etc.
Denver has had a rash of folks taking all the books, wrecking the units this year, but it’s calmed down a bit now that it’s winter. I think the more we get used to seeing and lfl in the wild, the more it becomes something folks expect - maybe switching the colors, adding a something seasonal, might be a way to make them always feel new and exciting. Gloves, masks, snacks, batteries. Stuff that doesn’t matter so much to the operator of lfl, can be life-changing for a passerby. I always feel a dilemma there though, I’m littering the library with lesser materials and potentially taking away from the overall goals to just have books out there.
Funny timing that this particular topic made it to HN. From the recently-released Season 4 of The Dragon Prince, this is one of the reasons Claudia is so infatuated with Terry, an Earthblood elf.
Building animated react-native gauge/progress on top of skia engine
I remember paying almost $5k for a 133 MHz Desktop computer back in 1995 - came with with Windows 95 which was just released. It was used almost exclusively for office stuff - and was woefully outdated just a couple of years later. At which point the new computer we bought "only" cost around $2k - $2.5k.
They sure didn't control for sleep and food quality...
We did recursion in maybe like 7th week or so I guess. It was later on, but I think it really hit with second year compiler course.
I'd honestly be equally surprised if it was groin-size based underwear optimizer for males.
I think a lot of technical people care more than a rat’s tail what they earn. But I agree, it seems like a of HNers say they aren’t interested in any more money than to just barely physically survive. I mean, they say that, I don’t know. I haven’t many of these types in person. It is amusing, though.
So you think unlimited H1B workers should be allowed to immigrate because the work can be done remotely anyway?
The Hitchhacker’s Guide to iPhone Lightning and JTAG Hacking [video]
> There probably were queer Vikings

To state that there were zero instances of homosexuality in ancient Scandinavia is to go too far. How would one know?

But one might also ask:

- Why would one care?

- What difference would it make?
Unlike some of the negative comments seen, I'd like to extend my gratitude to the developers for this work!

I've recently decided to review my backup scheme, and have been looking at btrfs.

Anyone out there doing a btrfs+borg combo? What is your scheme?

I've found this as an example, but it's quite a bit more intense than what I need...
https://mutschler.dev/stuff/backup/
> Does Tesla also qualify for the new tax incentives taking effect in 2023?

No. It should have. But Musk went MAGA at a stupid time.
I've been thinking about this a bit since I saw your reply. I'm not sure how to respond to this and I'm not sure references I would give would be satisfactory to you.

What kind of reading and references are you looking for? Can you give some examples of reading or other resources you've found enlightening on other subjects?
That is needlessly lumping all "deniers" into one category. Some deny any evidence of any warming. Others admit there may be warming but there is nothing we can do about it. Still, others admit it is warming but it is not severe and our focus should be on mitigation strategies.
I think its pretty good for its "genre" but its only natural that this mode of delivering information is not to everybody's taste.
I'm a huge fan of SublimeText the editor, but not a huge fan of SublimeText the company behind it. The balancing act they did was sell licenses that are good for an entire major version (eg SublimeText 2, 3, etc.) that never expire. I'm comfortable enough to pay $50 for a good IDE major version even though I dislike the company's development direction (eg, I'm probably not going to buy SublimeText 4 because of the plugin chaos).

EDIT: "Sublime Text license keys are no longer tied to a single major version, instead they are now valid for all updates within 3 years of purchase" - looks like I'm a pirate then.
> Pricing shifts can shift that quickly to AMD being the preferred option for use cases, just like AMD was as the inferior but cheap CPU ca. 2015, and as Intel is in that space now.

No. They can't. It's hard for me to take your comment seriously when you're:

- Painting the Intel to AMD shift as quick

- Painting it as a pricing thing when it took AMD moving mountains from Bulldozer to Zen

- Painting 20% as a huge fraction when the discussion is about "colluding to drive prices up", as if the 80% needs the 20% to define prices...

> Computing demand is incredibly elastic based on market conditions. For every game-changing application of parallel computing, there's a bitcoin mining rig in a place with subsidized electricity. Price hikes kill many applications at the margin, reducing the demand that needs to be met at higher prices.

This is a long form way of saying: You can't raise prices to infinity because people don't have infinite checkbooks. Ok?

That has literally no bearing on their ability to hike prices substantially unless you're under the impression that AMD being so far behind doesn't increase their margin. If you're not aware the biggest killer of margin in modern times has consistently been... competition: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/01/13/margin/

NVIDIA isn't a mom and pop shop throwing darts at a price board, they'll ruthlessly optimize their prices taking in mind that their main competition holds a "huge" 20% at what's shaping up to be a pivotal moment for gpgpu...

> 3. There are well-funded new entrants to various segments of parallel computing at all times, and juggernauts in adjacent spaces will move in if encumbants leave huge spaces. Intel were the only serious CPUs, then the only serious laptop CPUs, and now they're competitive bjt bargain parts. Remember when Apple didn't make their own chips? And in another space, Qualcomm are going to lose their flagship reputation to Mediatek soon if they don't stop turning out trash Android SoCs in the next generation or two.

This again, is a very long statement... with no bearing on anything anyone actually said.

Did you forget the sibling comment?

> Is there really a player other than Nvidia? AMD has <20% market share. Nvidia doesn’t really have a competitor for standalone cards, especially in GPGPU.

This isn't about "AMD is dead", this is about "NVIDIA does not need to collude with AMD to massively hike prices right now". That's not even something anyone should have to tell you, it's so painfully self-evident that I'd question how familiar with the space anyone trying to say otherwise actually is...
If we are all "equal", then each one of us is allocated some amount of emissions that we may produce. Bringing children to the world reduces the slice of other people, and assumes that the kids will have a good enough life without too much suffering.

Many children have been born to families that had the wealth to provide for the children, but ultimately hurt them in the process or caused needless suffering.
I was explicitly talking about the "UI" part.

Even the interaction with your HDD through its serial interface ended up on, no big surprise, your display.

I don't question TUIs as such!

I question how we implement them.

The whole "terminal emulator dance" is imho strictly unnecessary.

You could also talk to your HDD through its line interface by, for example, some proper RPC mechanism. (With the help of some adequate client software, which could be a CLI application, but also a GUI tool). The HDD doesn't have to provide a framebuffer based user interface, of course. Your client does.

Someone else pointed even already to something baking my assumption that getting rid of all the layers of emulation of more than ancient hardware would be not only possible but is even desirable:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34158846
I think you and the parent are both correct. If we are “screwed” (I.e no action will prevent runaway warming) then any response to prevent warming is pointless. However you are correct that being “screwed” or not is a false binary (we don’t know if warming is reversible but it is likely we can make a positive change and avoid runaway).
€18 per hour versus ~€1,500 per day.
Did not read that many books this year but this two books makes my list:

1)The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_Tasting_Tea
This book is about the history of Statistics which is weaved through the some remarkable personal stories behind the history of Statistics. If you have ever used statistics, some of the words will sound familiar and will help to understand the history behind it.

2)The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Song-of-the-Cell/...
I am still reading this book but I have read his previous book, "The Emperor of All Maladies" so knew his style. Again I enjoy historical perspective and this one tells about how we thought of the cell. It almost reads like textbook but is much interesting read than textbook. Brought some of the memories from my cell biology class. Always fascinating on how we take some things for granted such as blood transfusion came along in first place. He also narrates some his personal experience in between to make it even more readable.

In short, I love tech and biology sparkled with history.
It looks like a plagiarized article that they ran through a para-phrasing tool.
Wow! Immediately downvoted, on the topic of books?!? I wonder which one triggered such a negative reaction.
2022 was a year full of change for me and I am not looking for change but more of a complement to my life as it is currently.

In the process of reading:

Parable of a Sower’s Daughter by Octavia Butler

Read this year:

The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson

Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

Sea of Tranquillity by Emily St. John Mandel

Children of Dune by Frank Herbert

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
You have to be sure to plug it in the correct orientation for that
What about a security camera?
Nice reminds me of Linq, which looks like they acknowledge as one of their inspirations. SQL relational servers should really move more toward this kind of language.

I always thought just building a pure .Net DB server using its types and language model would be very productive rather than translating to SQL, like PRQL or Entity Framework.
not exactly supercomputer, but:

http://www.doynefarmer.com/roulette

and

https://www.engadget.com/2013-09-18-edward-thorp-father-of-w...
Have you not seen energy prices lately? I feel like when we discuss energy transition we get into a no-true Scotsman argument.
We call these "Guilt Alleviation Stations" where you go to get rid of your books. We have always believed that books must be treated with respect, yet nowadays, there is less and less reason to keep massive numbers of books. Yet there is no market value to most books and indeed, few opportunities to give them to charity. So, exactly what you need is a place you can come to drop off your books and then run away before anyone stops you :-)
My car does this. It doesn’t call 911, it calls a service. And I pay something like $20/year for it (along with other features).

Apple is wrongly exploiting a public service rather than paying (and charging for) a proxy.
I’ve used BuyNothing many times in my city. I’ve mostly used it to give things away, but have scored some great camping gear too. It’s been a very positive experience compared to listing free items on Facebook or Craigslist. People on BuyNothing have been responsible and grateful.
Besides vorta (which offers a lot of options) there is also pika backup (which might be simpler by offering less options).
Also I imagine they loosen over the day and you probably don't know what fits well till you've worn it for a day.

If bras are anything like shoes.
See also related: The Hitchhacker’s Guide to iPhone Lightning and JTAG Hacking [1] on DEF CON 30

[1]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8p3Oi4DL0eI
I don't have anything to say other then it's disgusting how people add the term "denier" on to subjects that aren't clear cut and settled like they believe they are, while also using an obvious illusion to the most horrible human event of the last century. (holocaust denier)
Ask HN: Should even small scripts have documentation?
I have recently joined the biggest FinTech of my country as a Lead SRE. We have 80+ SREs in our team. Company is 6 years old. Been 3 weeks, and as I am going through the setup, infra and workflows, I am coming across lot of legacy perl scripts. (I personally hate perl since 1. people really do similar things in different ways and 2. I don't want to learn or even comprehend all the ways).

The point of this post is, that these scripts, some of them written more than 3 years back and still running even on modern infra (since they do their job well), have no documentation. To understand how they are working, I have to spend lot of time reading them and co-relating them with other scripts where many scripts work in tandem to accomplish a major task.

Now note, some of these scripts are just 100 lines. But very cryptic 100 lines. Which made me think that when they were written by my (former/current) peers who are good in perl, it was all Okay for them, but since these scripts have survived and don't know how long will they survive, should there be a documentation for each of them? Like explaining what they do and give a high level overview of how they do it? Or would it be too much?

This question doesn't just apply to perl scripts, but to any script a SysAdmin/SRE/DevOps/Dev may write, no matter how small or trivial. What would be the best thing to do here? It may sound a bit of spoon-feeding for the future generation, even to senior folks who join later and who are expected to do things hardway (may be?) but will save time and help build a good understanding of systems and workflows quite fast.

If there is someone who does that, or an org where this culture is practiced, please tell me about it. If someone is against it, please share your views too. Please share all the best practices as I intend to implement that in my org.

NOTE: In coming few months I will be writing a small but major system which will replace a few of these scripts with new code but will retain some of the same functionality. I do intend to write comments in each function block and also a few README files along with architecture overview and diagrams. But want to know to what extend should I go to make my work kinda future-proof.
> original christians (at the time of Paul) were at odds in practically anything, including the idea that Jesus came in flesh (you will find this being condemned in the new testament itself).

What are you saying is being condemned in the NT, exactly?

> Paul (who never knew a real Jesus, as he confess by the way).

Where does Paul confess that he never knew a real Jesus?
Global weather has been impacted to such extents (resulting in multiple massive famines) that there's even a term for that - volcanic winter.
In retrospect, there's no way that USB-C was worth it! Let's look at what it added over B…

- Reversible: Useless gimmick that nobody asked for

- DisplayPort alt mode: Useful in theory, but no phones support it in practice

- Symmetric: Host-side USB-C never ended up being mainstream anyway (and AB ports already existed anyway)

- USB3: micro-B already had the "3.0 appendage", if anything turning it internal made it easier for manufacturers to silently revert to USB2

- Power Delivery: Qualcomm QuickCharge already existed and could have been standardized without a new connector
The convention on modern *nix is readline/libedit bindings in a shell. These default to emacs-like keybindings that nano ignores. It seems that we have a much stronger case for emacs with the menu enabled than for nano.
It surely stems from the racist past of the southern states. It's easy to keep "uppity" people (mostly black people, but also low class white people and other minorities) in check when you can arrest them and prevent them from exercising their rights because of laws they have no clue exist.
That's because this piece is more propaganda than science. I'm not denying anything, but anyone serious about science should not be persuaded by pieces like this.
As anyone who has worked in ML knows, this feature will require some tuning. Tuning that Apple will do. I’m not sure this minor issue warrants rounding up the firing squad to execute the teams that built it.
This seems a frequent enough issue, that searching "centos can't type colon" in my language yield bunch of SEO blogspams recommending `Shift+11` and `Shift+ZZ`. But neither of which worked in my case; I think Shift+1 was bugged and the file wasn't writable.
One of my favorite history books, as well as it's sequel 1493.
My take is that Heinlein was trying to write literature, not documentation. So a colorful exaggeration makes sense.
Those are not directly related (although in some way they are).

Lack of education, contraceptives and social nets means that women in congo will have more children on average. If you get them all that and a stable pension after (so they won't need kids to keep them alive when old) the numbers of kids will fall.

On the other hand, in the "rich" western countries, no matter how high the income number is (compared to congo), that doesn't mean that a young couple can actually afford a home large enough to have a kid or two (or more), childcare and all the other kid-related costs.
Yeah but they aren't designed for chaotic purposes like the Joker from Batman. They are designed to make these companies more money.

I'm surprised you only took months. It's taken me years and I'm still battling it. I even wrote a book on this struggle last year given it was such a prominent addiction in my teens and early 20s. I'm 30 now.
For my n=1, the j and k were the easy ones. It is h and l (especially the L) that never got wired right.

I learned Colemak about ten years ago but only got into vim in the past three years. Does anyone use vim with eMacs bindings?
I just visited a Getaway [0] and read the founders’ book “How to Get Away”. It is about how to balance technology in our lives, not necessarily remove it, but how to not forget how to be human, in a sense. Interesting read.

In a similar vein, I’m reading Walden now after having been to Walden Pond, seeing Thoreau’s cabin spot, and wondering if I could do the same, maybe to a lesser extreme.

Also interested in reading Before the Coffee Gets Cold.

[0] https://getaway.house/
Right?

If you're wearing a properly-fitted bra, surely you can calculate your bra size by just asking the person who fitted it what size it is.
I was going to write a reply to the same comment then I saw yours and you said it better than I could.

In my experience, the best way to understand how women experience the world is just as you said: spend time with them, talk to them, and - most importantly - listen to them. I think many men could benefit from having more female friends (and I mean truly friends, not secretly trying to get in their pants).

I've learned so much about how differently women experience the world just from befriending many women over the years. It's really opened my eyes to how differently women might experience the same situation. It's amazing how different society treats women and it can be totally invisible to men unless you're willing to look for it. I think it's made me a better husband and father as well.
i believe its not widely available yet tho. would love to try it.
*allusion
Wouldn’t it be HNEI to be in the same position? But good catch.