skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It took me a moment to get it too. I think they’re saying that the internet wasn’t a waterfall-style design. It wasn’t a one-off big thing, it was a huge collection of small projects where most of them have since died because the trade-offs didn’t work. Agile is way more work than waterfall.
Let's say there is 60 Billion total Tether, but only $30 Billion backing it.

As soon as people realize the issue, they will trade USDT for USD. Tether will defend the peg, spending $30 Billion to hold it's value at 1 USDT for $1.

Thirty Billion later, the overall situation is 30 Billion USDT remaining, but the bank vaults are empty nothing left over to defend the peg.

At this point, USDT snaps to $0 very quickly.
Your average gas stove isn’t going to get any hotter. I’ve played with them at my in-laws including the very high btu ones and my induction beats it on heat and efficiency any day.
International wire transfers take from 1 to 5 working days to complete. Sometimes more when the receiving bank requires additional documentation or refuses the transfer. They also cost a lot more (~50$ per transfer) and sometimes require a physical visit to a bank branch.
All death is "fractional" if you make a fraction out of it. For example, dividing the number of people that died making the Empire State Building by the total number of workers. It seems subjective which fractions matter and which don't. It seems to be based on how much the responsibility can be laundered.
The exploit title says “public key” but the details say “private key”, which is it?
There's a difference between funding research and funding development and manufacturing. No company would develop and manufacture a drug if they wouldn't make profit of it, no matter how much related research was or wasn't done using public funding.
I joined a big tech co and dove in to a huge unwieldy code base that had gone through the process you described above. I did a lot of reading of the code, and soon became the only one that understood it and could make big architectural changes.

But.. that is a dead-end job. There is no career path being the maintainer of a large legacy code-base. It was pretty good if you wanted to rest-and-vest, I could do whatever I wanted. But there were no great features, no demo's, no selling of the work. Even small changes were painful.

Moved to a different team where everything is new and building from scratch and suddenly opportunities open up.
Everyone acts like all these wonders arise from private innovation. They discount the decades of public investment that brought us to the point that a company could develop a specific mRNA vaccine. From the public roads and public education to the trillions spent over the past 50 years to bring computer and bio technologies to their current point, it’s public investment that makes it all possible.

Our capitalist system works by private investors capturing most of the value of public investment. The dreaded Chomsky points out that the US socializes the risk and privatizes the profit.

But, here I am, talking trash about pirates in a barroom on the Barbary Coast! Let me stop before I lose a limb…
I like to rag on WordPress as the next man but I do have to ask - why haven't you done any better?

If it's so easy, raise a few million bucks and outdo everyone. Surely?

Maybe your product is the next Stripe, where everyone currently in the market is so woefully inadequate that one company can come and clean up despite having mild expectations upon start-up. Or maybe, just maybe, you are missing the point, in regards to what they provide the current market and how they pivot towards the next!

(Obviously, I don't mean to call out anyone in particular, but Wordpress has a significant-enough marketshare that this defence is to-be-expected).
It's easy to overlook for those who program mostly on higher level systems. There was a recent HN thread that I think pointed to this article on what happens before main() in C programs:

https://embeddedartistry.com/blog/2019/04/08/a-general-overv...

On microcontrollers, there are often some preliminaries that are programmed into nonvolatile settings of the hardware, such as the type of clock oscillator. On a microprocessor like the Z80, your circuit was supposed to ensure that things like the clock oscillator and power supplies were stable before releasing the RESET pin.
I remember someone did this and found a Corvette in the sprites that was never used. Mark Hamill in Corvette Summer. A joke.
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this is something from my high school days which were way before 2000. these guys didn't just think it up on their own. they were just two rival college teams that gets talked about in news. podunk high schools don't see coverage outside their local paper. it's a traditional folklore type of texas high school rivalry tale. if you've ever been in a marching band in texas, i'm sure you've heard this tale about some school from somewhere did this. did they really or is it a story passed down as part of the messing with freshmen tradition?

right up there with OSU Cowboys building a new stadium and the brick work was contracted out to someone that was an OU fan. legend has it that the brick was laid in such a manner that the variances of brick patterns could be seen the OU logo in the OSU stadium. urban legend or not, it's what passes as great rivalry stories
Land is owned almost everywhere in the US. The point is if regulations on density are relaxed then denser housing will be built. You don’t need to take anybody’s land. Invisible hand of the market and all that.
> numerous communities that practically sit on top of the border

A recent HN thread:

The US-Canada border cuts through the Haskell Free Library and Opera House

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34138863
I think it captures the style of a person who posts about their 200 IQ well.
As much as I'd love to bash on Tesla for this, this is 100% the fault of the drivers behind not keeping enough distance or being distracted. Heck, even a simple distance-keeping cruise-control would have prevented this.

The dad of a friend of mine once drove a rental car on the German Autobahn. He was used to driving stick shift but the rental had automatic. So he accidentally stepped on the brake (because his brain was still expecting the clutch) while in the left lane, causing the driver behind to crash into him. The driver behind him was declared 100% at fault for the accident.
I must admit, for most of my career I've been a "quiet bullshitter". I start with the best intentions but quickly get into situations that are far too difficult for me so I spend a lot of time covering up my problems with work for fear of being fired. ADHD plays a big part too. So I go to the meetings, I talk the talk at the job interviews and then fiddle with my computer getting nothing done all day. I've gone 6 months or more without shipping a line of production code. My code is generally quite bad and I don't know how to fix it, and now I'm in a more senior position it's too difficult to ask for help for extremely basic programming tasks.

My advice: many "quiet bullshitters" want to do better, but lack the tools, support and ability to do so. They're not trying to take everyone for a ride, but they feel backed into a corner with no way out and they can't ask for help without great personal risk (either real or perceived).
I think people are underestimating the problems that a blanket Tether ban from North American markets would cause. You think a Tether ban would cause people to switch to USDC? Ok, but that means some Tether needs to vanish and some USDC needs to be created. How does that happen? Ideally, it goes from Tether -> USD -> USDC... and there lies the problem. We don't know if there is enough USD in Tether's coffer to redeem all the withdrawals. And if there is not, or even if there is a doubt about it, then it becomes a game where the last person to withdraw loses. How would that look for crypto in general? How would people react to USDC if they or someone they know just got burned by another stablecoin last week?
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The other stablecoins are unaffected though…
Yes, you can jump straight to the one incident that caused more victims than an average mass shooting. Do you know any others? Why is that incident already 6 years ago? They seem to be few and far between... globally.

Because causing a high victim count with a vehicle attack is not impossible but hard. Which was my point, had you bothered to read my comment properly.
Somehow, I doubt a bunch of incredibly motivated pharmaceutical researchers are going to be turned out into the streets, and stop doing research because a bunch of yield farmers don't have an instant IWIN moneyprinter anymore.
I also wonder what asthma rates were over time. For example, as gas use declined over decades, did asthma rates also?
Taylor Swift reused an all-around decent sounding genre that wasn't overdone in the 2010s, with some changes for modern times. It's not the nostalgia that sells it. The majority of actual 1980s pop music would probably rarely be replayed today, just some hits survive.

You might find the biggest divide asking gen Z vs millennials what they think about the movie reboots. A few of those are done well and have their own merits, but most rely totally on the nostalgia factor.
No, there isn't.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/07/29/stubborn-n...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/publisher-or-platform-...

https://www.techdirt.com/2020/10/20/section-230-basics-there...

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/it-doesnt-matter-if-tw...

https://www.cato.org/blog/newspapers-are-spreading-section-2...

Even TechDirt manages to get this right, but the myth that tech companies exist on the knife's edge of being converted under the law into publishers is stubborn.
Tesla restarts its Autopilot safety reports, claims improvements
The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Peak Experiences
Have any of you had a peak experience? What was it like and did it change you?
JS-free archive link:

https://archive.today/LnXLu
I don't, and I don't suggest people do. Opsec on who controls your servers is compromised in a million other ways if you're a legit business, and even if it's important to hide, there's other low-hanging fruit.

That said, if I had any servers I controlled with other online identities, setting up keys for those identities would be sane, and if I valued privacy over convenience it's not that hard of a tradeoff. But I set up my new machines by typing in my github username to authorize all the pubkeys in there, and for the most part update my old machines the same way - curl -O https://github.com/gauntletwizard.keys ; vimdiff .ssh/authorized_keys gauntletwizard.keys
Exercising helps with neuroplasticity, think of exercise as investing in your future cognitive self. Adequate butrition and full nights of sleep will all help you rule out these areas that affect us more cognitively as we age. Good luck!
Through there are use cases (e.g. some ad-hoc special purpose corner case tooling) which:

- do not need or do concurrent anything

- do not need any form of transactions

- do only need some simple key value(blob) store

- are as ad-hoc scripts written in e.g. bash, making it just easier to access the file system for this

Sure most use cases do not fit this and should not use the file system.
> outline every anticipated step along the way, all the tiny minutiae that you foresee yourself encountering and how you'll deal with it

waterfall by any other name smells just as bad.

I think the reason is that senior management has no trust in the developers, which is the ultimate cause of the need to have waterfall. Each reporting level wants to show concrete evidence that those under them are "doing their best", rather than to have trust that they are.

Of course, it is understandable that people want concrete "evidence". But waterfall is the result, and you end up with big-bang designs, RFCs that are out of date because a change in circumstances necessitate a change that is not documented in an RFC.

It is a management problem, not a software development problem, imho.
USPS seemed fine before the last administration's Postmaster General took power and started systemic obstruction. I had cheap and easy priority mail access for whatever I needed and it went anywhere in the US within about 3 days. First Class Letters almost always arrived in the stated window. There were improvements to visibility with a daily email announcing what would be arriving for the day. Since DeJoy took over, I rarely use USPS for personal package sending because I cannot trust that the packages will arrive in the stated time period. I pay roughly 1.5x to 2x with USPS Priority costs for other services, but I don't worry that my mail will simply disappear into the void.
It's soda, not a basic human right. Don't buy it, buy the competitor/offbrand, soda stream, whatever.
In my experience, I’ve received answers to these questions working with a physical therapist. I’ve sustained several injuries partly due to muscle imbalance (that led to poor walking mechanics due to glute imbalance). So we try to correct that imbalance with strengthening exercises that target the glutes.
This is not about paying for protection. Canada can build a nuclear arsenal in a heartbeat. This is the cheap way to defend yourself against aggressors.

This is about being part of NATO. The more nations that we have with similar values, the better.
Is it me or the article seems incomplete? It kinda finishes for me after:

> The following are the memory ranges you get with a 2-to-4 converter on an
8-bit address bus:

And that's it. It looks truncated, or incomplete :thinking:
Excess deaths in all age groups
when was the last time the USPS didn't have to pre-fund their pension
> Still not enough power for cooking food really hot.

The highest-power burner I could find on a residential gas stove is 25,000 BTU:

* https://capital-cooking.com/products/culinarian-series/

* https://www.bluestarcooking.com/news/all/much-cooking-power-...

This corresponds to 7.33 kW:

* https://www.pickhvac.com/calculator/btu-to-kw/

There are several induction cooktops available with elements in that range:

* https://blog.yaleappliance.com/best-36-inch-induction-cookto...

Further, the heat of the gas spills out around the cooking vessel and fills the entire kitchen (which you really have to vent properly to be safe), whereas with induction only the metal of the cooking vessel (and its contents) are heating, not the entire room.
Yes. Wayland is a display protocol, not a general-purpose IPC. Hence it must contain access control interfaces for buffers.

Only the compositor has access to the composited image therefore is the only program able to make screenshots and full screen sharing. Furthermore, efficient sharing of single application windows is only possible with direct memory access to the buffer which also is something the compositor does/has. The Display protocol is the only sensible place to negotiate access to GPU resources.
If you're starting out with training, the general recommendation is to do big compound exercises (if you're powerlifting things like barbell squat, barbell deadlift, barbell bench press; if you're doing calisthenics things like push-ups, bodyweight squats, etc.). Once you're able to go through the motions of those, it's possible to identify which part of the exercise you're not doing so hot at, e.g. if you were doing bench press and you find that your shoulder gives out sooner than your chest, you would want to employ some shoulder exercises to help out.
Vendor lock in cloud fad is going to end badly. Kubernetes outside FAANG has potential to get bad.
HoloKit relaunched, $129 AR Headset accessory for iPhone
HoloKit, originally a Google Cardboard-like AR device for the iPhone, has been relaunched as a more premium $150 iPhone accessory. Unfortunately no SDK available anymore (for now at least).

Looks interesting. Has anyone here tried it?
Yarg owned left-pad.
The true reason for the divorce was her lack of respect for him.

The unpunctuality was just an outward sign.
I really like some of the accessibility and usability features here, like having a "copy" button right next to the exercise!

I'm confused why it's called a "wiki" though, I didn't see how to contribute? Was that just a funsies name? Wiki to me means something that's editable by the community.

I'm also not quite sure the audience here, because it seems to indicate "find exercise by muscle group" to be the way to use the site, but that's not really... useful... to people that don't know proper form for some of these basic exercises. If I view the site like this: https://musclewiki.com/directory then it makes sense, like, ok, I set up a training regime for myself, or I'm looking at the one set up for me by my trainer, and I forgot cues and good form for a given exercise, lemme just look it up real quick in this really light weight, functional website. Boom, GIF, cues as bullet points, done. That is a great use case.

What I'm worried about is a noob will come here, hit "biceps," then have a workout day of five kinds of curls. Which I guess to many is obvious why this is bad but just in case: broad strokes, if you're lifting, especially as a noob, it's better for your health, strength, and long term safety to be doing workouts that work your entire system, rather than "targeted" exercises only, such as curls. A good noob exercise plan is some combination of barbell squats, deadlifts, bench press, rows, and overhead press, or for bodyweight, pushups, dips, pullups, and squats.
I really liked Duelyst back in the day, and it taught me something unexpected.

One day there was an update and the game forgot my credentials. I hadn't saved them anywhere (being naive at the time) so I never played the game again even though I was fond of it.

When you write an app, treat saved credentials very, very carefully. Losing them may mean you lose a customer.
> I was baffled by this as well for 15+ years until just last year I had a key insight: most developers don’t like to read. In fact, most people don’t like to read. Most people are intrinsically lazy and since growing your skills involves hard work, they don’t do it unless pushed to do so, either by life circumstance or necessity.

I knew a developer who said of such people “they spent six months in the lab to avoid two weeks in the library.”
The vaccines are worth some multiple of the new price. Like it would be a good idea for the government to keep buying them for everybody, it would be a good deal.

And of course, it's at least possible that their costs to keep vaccines available are higher when people aren't really getting them (US booster uptake is pretty middling, even among older people that get even more benefit out of them).
I somehow don't see it as anything more than AI that learned on dataset of unknown quality/origin, making shit up, while users pretending that because computer did it it couldn't be wrong.
Rackspace hosted Techcrunch after we we loved to death on the old host and every single person there that we interacted with what not just competent, but went out of their way to make sure we were live and thriving.

During one weekend the staff there split our wp instance between a separate web and db host + varnish without us even noticing because of increased traffic

The additional hosting cost (which they waived for us in exchange for a sponsorship slot) were more than worth it when you consider what consulting costs were/are. I realize this might be a biased experience because of the high profile of TC - but i referred many people there during that time and only had awesome ++ feedback which was similar to our own experience

I knew something was up when a lot of those smart people who were on the email chains suddenly responded with mailbox not found because they had left.

It made sense then that the model of having competent people managing servers for small-medium businesses doesn't really work since those same people can earn much more while you're only ever going to get ~hundreds to single digit thousands from customers for that level of service. The economics of hosting + what is consulting, and to clients who pay bills on credit cards, just doesn't add up

It made even more sense now after reading this article and knowing that the techs were pushed out by MBA's and finance people.
Recommending a 3ft thunderbolt 4 cable for charging my phone in bed isn't ideal.

Length and thickness/flexibility of cable are also very important although the latter is harder to quantify.
Farmer in Iowa is setting them to rich folks in New York for $90 per half ounce.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/kyle-muns...

That's better than kale farmers calling their crop a superfood.
I’ve been playing with webcomponents for a month or two and really love them. I do wish that IntelliJ would play nice with the formatting of them though.

Question: when and or if they gain in adoption, could you see them replacing react? If not, what’s the use-cases that you believe they wouldn’t work for?
Yes, and we know that mask use increases CO2 concentrations, especially for people with lower tidal volume (children) and in already moderately high classrooms...

People aren't interested in the truth or alternative solutions. The people in power are interested in forcing their truth and solution on others, because of course we all think we know best. There is of course a policy/philosophical component beyond basic scientific data.

Edit: why disagree?
In Their consumer card line
They did a great job distributing rapid tests. Easy website and everything.
This is pretty old. There's quite a lot that happens before instructions start on modern CPUs.

Just one small example: CPUs have many small SRAM arrays for micro-architecture features like branch predictors. Some of these need to be initialized after reset by a state machine that takes many cycles.

I have even heard of a large chip that pushes initialization vectors through the scan chains so that all flops begin in an initial state, without requiring a reset network.
In so far as it was tried. The assault rifle ban had some positive impact, its revocation certainly made school shootings more deadly.

There is a long history of gun control in the US actually. The 2nd amendment originally was only meant for well regulated militias to carry simple rifles. Not for disgruntled white males to dismember school children.
If you want some salient imagery, take a look at the first image on the Wikipedia page for "Subsidence":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidence
Tether could be worth $0.50 if the company said "We lost half the money and need to reset the peg". They would have to then redeem all the outstanding Tether, as no one will trust them. Therefore, this is unlikely to happen, as it will end the company.
I love this idea! I do think the method of picking results needs a bit of tweaking. I tried the most basic case, charging a laptop with a C-to-C cable, and it suggested two Thunderbolt cables and a 5 Gbps cable, all of which are overkill (and less than ideal given their length limitations).
Damn, sure hope the government doesn't consider a ban on shooting yourself in the foot next.
> wonder if the game would have seen more success if it was programmed using a commercially available engine, or even manually using C / C++

i don't see how a technology choice can influence commercial success tbh. It's not like there's performance issues that are fixable in C/C++, nor is there platform issues for porting (like for consoles, which is hard to a javascript stack to achieve).

The main reasons for commercial failure is due to game design, marketing and product/audience fit.
requirements.txt doesn't support putting your python version in it