skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is that yearly cost figure derived? I can't imagine it is repairs, gas, tolls, registration and maintenance alone.
the same part of the moon (the far side) always faces away from the earth as you say, and at any time, at least part of the moon is in shadow, which would be a "moving dark side"
AllegroGraph. Written in Common Lisp.
The kind of infrastructure that can verify one can easily verify the other, check one and people will demand you check both, when really you'd rather check neither and keep making lots of money.
it's not farming, it's mining
Tell HN: Be careful enabling Cloudflare features
I've been a cloudflare user and advocate for many years. I even hold a small amount of NET stock. A few months ago I enabled their web3 offering which gives you an ethereum gateway and added it as a backup to an other gateway I had set up for a small site of mine which gets around 1000 unique visitors a day. It has been running in the free tier for awhile and I thought everything was fine.

Then I got an invoice for $400, I immediately removed cloudflare eth gateway from my site and thought I had unsubscribed from the web3 service on cloudflare's site. The next month I got another $490 invoice (~49 million requests) and saw that it was still enabled on the site so I completely deleted and removed it as best I could from their UI. Additionally their website dashboard UI has zero visibility into where the traffic comes from, how much there is or what the bill will be until you get an invoice.

This is the entirety of the information you get in the invoice (1):

> Ethereum Gateway Queries (First 500,000 requests are included
> 01/17/2023 - 02/16/2023 48,788,614 $0.00 $490.00

I sent a support email asking if they would consider a refund as the traffic was very likely not from my site visitors, one feature other ethereum gateway service providers offer that cloudflare does not is the ability to add a domain whitelist or even API key authentication. Cloudflare just lets you set up a domain name that they happily accept any requests to. I should have assumed someone would have abused it but unfortunately I did not. However without any data provided it would be entirely possible for cloudflare themselves to have a bug that mistakingly hits my set up domain and inflates the bill. At the least I would like to be able to see where the requests came from, on what dates, and other information.

The support ticket was open for 12 days unanswered, I sent a follow up reply and the next day the ticket was closed with this message:

> Cloudflare only issues refunds in very specific situations, such as fault in service. As this is not the case, we will not be able to attend your request.

I accept that I'm liable for the charges and have no recourse, but I wanted to share this as a warning to others and also to hopefully reach some cloudflare employees or leadership about the need for better visibility into paid features usage. Being able to set up access rules for the service and having user set limits would also be very helpful. With this service in particular there is zero way to prevent someone from abusing it as all the customer can do is point DNS to cloudflare's managed server.

1. https://i.imgur.com/DFrQEoO.png
> you increase the time window, showing a net loss is less and less possible

The solution is flow weighting [1]. Fewer dollars went into Bitcoin when it was small than when it was big. (By definition.) So you weight the larger flows more heavily.

There is arbitrariness around choosing the delineations. But the basic idea is comparisons across totally-different fund-flow regimes are meaningless for purposes of explaining the present state of the world.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/weightedaverage.asp
They're not doing it to "protect" europeans, they're simply hoping the eu marketplace is big enough that they can make US companies change their software in ways that would violate (at least) the 1st and 4th amendments if the government demanding it were in Washington.
Seriously, that statement you quoted is trivially false. It's well known in math that not all functions are invertible. By simple mapping, it's clear that causality is a non-invertible function.
This is super fun!
Thanks. I appreciate you taking the time to answer anyway!
Perhaps lawmakers who pass laws that don’t pass constitutional muster should face criminal penalties. Might force them to think about their stupidity a bit more beforehand.

Or maybe not. Win-win, either way.
Show HN: Chrome extension to show podcasts that belong to a website
yup that is why buying inverse funds is a bad idea

they decay exponentially

if you want to bet against Cramer, short the 1x funds or buy puts
I'm sure Scott can find a way to test that
This is an odd rant.

Medicare Advantage is simple - instead of getting regular Medicare (Part A,B and D) through the government (though Part D is always private), you elect for your Medicare dollars to be used as premiums for a private Medicare Advantage Plan that offers similar coverage.

Thats it.

It’s nice because it offers options. For some people with chronic conditions a MA plan might offer better coverage than regular Medicare for your treatment in exchange for less coverage in another area.

And it’s entirely the patient’s choice.

Don't like Medicare Advantage? Good, don't choose it.
Thanks for the excellent article; I really appreciate the style and depth of the writing.

It reminds me that every time I need these ideas, the next place I get stuck is trying to find those small agencies and affordable experts.

It takes zero seconds to realize that if the online marketing and SEO ecosystem was water, it would be supersaturated with lead and mercury. It's incredibly hard to find good help. I'm pretty much at the point where I wouldn't work with someone who didn't come via referral.
In this case, take the modem chip itself. Most off-the-shelf USB/Mini-PCIe/etc modem cards use the same underlying chips, so you can just move the chip over which would contain both the eSIM as well as the original IMEI.
> Transactions are inherently useless in a web service, for example, because you can’t open the transaction on the client

(1) There is no reason you couldn’t, in a stateful, connected web app (or a stateful web service) open backend DB transactions controlled by activity on the client. You probably don’t want to, because, “ew, stateful”, and would prefer to use compensation strategies to deal with business transactions that span beyond a database transactions, but you could.

(2) The conclusion “transactions are inherently useless in a web service” does not follow from the premise “you can’t open the transaction on the client”. They are just two completely unrelated things that you’ve glued together with “because”. I write web services. The backends very often need a consistent view of state and to be able to assure that a sequence of mutating operations against the DB are applied all or nothing; transactions do both of those things. The fact that transactions are opened from the backend doesn’t make them useless.

> the part of the system where the vast majority of consistency issues happen (the client <-> server communication) will always be outside the transaction boundary.

“Consistency issues” in the ACID sense do not (cannot, in fact, since “consistency” is a property of database state) happen anywhere other than inside the database. Client <-> server communications have all kinds of issues, but ACID;s C is not one of them.

> ACID fanboys love to talk about how all the big name internet companies are built on RDBMSes

Nah, actually, as an “ACID fanboy”, I’ll say that most big name internet companies were not built on ACID systems, and that if you are running a big internet company you have a much greater than usual chance of (1) having a case with a tradeoff that really does call for a non-ACID system, (2) having to invent revolutionary new technology if it turns out you actually do need an ACID system, because OTS RDBMS’s don’t scale the way you need.

But for everyone else, you probably aren’t Google.

> If MongoDB had come first and SQL/ACID RDBMSes had come after,

While they weren’t MongoDB, specifically, non-relational, non-ACID, key-value stores where the “value” could be arbitrary data did exist before RDBMS’s. OTOH, users of MongoDB and other similar NoSQL system have often discovered that, oh yeah, they do want the things RDBMS’s provide, which is why the pendulum swung somewhat back in the RDBMS direction after peak NoSQL hype.

NoSQL has its place, too, but the relational model and ACID guarantees actually do solve real problems.
Yes, this.

The only time I'm OK with being in a manager role is in my own company. Working for someone else, you couldn't pay me enough to do that job. That's because I'm a dev to the core, that's where my interest and skills are. Being a manager is a different beast entirely and, while I can do it, I find it very unpleasant.
I agree. For all the bellyaching about US real estate prices (and I realize they have gone up a lot) it still one of the more affordable countries for a local resident to buy their own home.

https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/gmaps_rankings.js...
Sounds like a wild ride. I wish you all the best for the future. Have you considered woodworking? :)
> dops he have personal stake in his advice?

In its performance? No. In the number of eyeballs it attracts? Absolutely. It would make no sense to jeopardise the latter in pursuit of the first.
That probably includes capital/depreciation? But I agree it seems high
Python’s pandas. Or Apache Arrow (more data structure, but with some calc capabilities). Granted, they’re not spreadsheets per se. Rather, they’re dataframe-centric programming.
Depreciation of value would be the most significant cost. Financing costs might also factor into.
Did you think about having the saleswoman continue to visit that one customer on contract? Pay a few thousand for the day, land the sale, then back to the MBA.
Dupe 334pts, 150comments [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34990229]
Yes, who cares. You apparently. But mostly from an identity politics perspective stomping on Python developers.

Yet you know nothing about the specific particular context in which people would use Python Multiprocessing. And I bet that although not ideal from a purity standpoint PM is likely to be “good enough” for a lot of use-cases.

You seem so bitter and feel superior about those Python developers yet, here you are complaining like a bitter old person adding nothing of value to the discussion. I really feel sorry for you that you are like that.
It is not a health care system, it's a sick and dying payment plan system. They definitely don't want you to die because then you stop paying into the system. But they don't care about quality of life, they want to pay out as little as possible.
Posting a second time within 48 hours about the same service by the same account.

I feel there should be a stronger block on this sort of thing.
It's a net economic loss for consumers as a class, sure. That doesn't mean it's a loss for each individual consumer.

I'm not against lowering CC fees. But the idea that they're just rent seeking is very silly.
Unfortunately though the lifespan of modern products isn’t very long either, so there’s not much value in investing in old time engineers to build products that could last forever. Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands, etc.
Bare effort mondays? Quiet quitting?

It seems like Gen-Z has come up with terms that describe basic human behaviour, and the media is running with it as some shocking new phenomena. Half assing it at your job is not a new thing.
I'm going to get so much shit for this, but I looked up this philosopher and considering her philosophy was thinking 2000 years ago she would have been the tribe's shaman, respected and feared but ostracized and dressed for the part. Two thousands years later, she is a professor of "philosophy" at John Hopkins University.

and p.s. before you get the urge to bang on that arrow consider this: under this philosophy we could easily support annual virgin sacrifices as a necessity to appease some unseen 'agency' in the natural world.
I have a _decterm.ttf that is larger (237400 bytes) and newer (Mar 29 2019) than the one at dafont.com, but do not remember where I got it from.
I can comment directly on this as I work in the backup sector. First hand knowledge, yada yada yada.

Dell EMC DataDomains do have good ingest performance, you can typically throw hundreds of streams at them and they'll greedily gulp it down.

And it is true that they are dog slow at restoring data. The reason? They are deduplicating appliances, you have to rehydrate the data, and this can take a very long time depending on the number of blocks needed that constitute the backup. Some blocks may be shared between hundreds if not thousands of backups. Dell isn't one to talk about their downsides much.

They are best used not as _primary_ storage, but secondary (think 3-2-1 backup rule). You should have some fast nearline storage available for recent backups that require really low RTO (recovery time objective).

Depending on the application used for backup, it may not have had native Postgresql WAL processing. This and may have had to be image based which slows down the process and requires some additional scripting.
Haven't used NeoStore, but Aurora Droid works well for me.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.adroid/
Just looking at reducing CO2 emissions, 0.94 lb CO2e per dollar spent is a terrible return. That money applied to more efficient CO2 reduction options could return 100-1000x better.
Streaming with ads is worse; invariably they cut to the ad 2-3 seconds early, then when you get back it's the last two seconds and then the next segment.

I know ad minutes per hour have increased, because older shows have to be slimmed to air. Sometimes that's fiddling with the credits, sometimes on stations that care less, it's dropping minutes of content; I tried to watch an episode of The Munsters on some sub-channel, and they cut to commercial over the punchline of a joke... which ended up just being omited. Thanks a lot.
Yes. Dating - especially in SFBay - is painful. On multiple first dates I got asked about my TTC.

Imho the key is to be persistent. To go on more dates even though the last dozens dates were rather disappointing. Good luck everyone!
Part 2 link at the bottom starts getting more specific: https://interviewing.io/guides/system-design-interview/part-...

I like some parts of part 1 too, like this paraphrased quote from a senior FB engineer “I’ve learned more about distributed systems reading the internal interview wiki at FB than anything I ever actually built myself… the actual systems at scale are designed by platform teams and most engineers don’t have to think about the impact of dumping a billion messages on a queue, because the infra team will handle it”.

Goes to show what a ridiculous game we’re all forced to play in tech.
I cut myself. I'm a bit "spectrumish." It makes me a great programmer, but fairly awkward, physically.

I had an employee (software engineer) that was a serious woodworker. Did nice stuff.
Last month I tipped the garage (80%) who sold me a slip yoke for my 61. The cost was a small fraction of the market price, far below what I expected to pay. I really want this business to prosper.
> RCS (the open protocol which is the best analog to iMessage)

It's so "open" and so "best" that Android doesn't even provide a public API for third party clients to use it. It's just yet another pseudo-open thingy that in practice is only open to a handful of mobile oligopolies, and all other developers are locked out of it just like they're locked out of iMessage. Google replacing the actually-open SMS with vendor-locked RCS is a major reason why Signal is dropping support for SMS. Much good that fake openness is doing, smh.
Seems comparable to, like, "flicking people in the ear pisses them off very reliably".
Thanks for the WEF spam! Any more great tips?
I've heard that you can write a cheque yourself on a piece of paper. I coudnt find much online about it except for this https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-20....
Id go with a postal order to be safe, but could be fun to try a DIY cheque!
> GPT does not reason. GPT pretends to reason. It often is glaringly wrong.

Being wrong is compatible with two hypotheses: 1. GPT does not reason and so correct answers are coincidence and happen no more than chance, 2. GPT reasons badly, which means it should still do better than chance.

We have ample evidence that GPT does better than chance, therefore GPT does reason, it just makes plenty of mistakes.
This doesn't really seem like an abuse of contractors.

The therapists on better help: choose their own hours, can choose not to work with certain clients, can choose what type of therapy to use, etc.

This seems like a pretty textbook example of what an independent contractor should be.

> and be "independent" the same way as "independent" "contractors".

Employees can be some level of independent, but usually the level of control is the defining feature of employee vs contractor.
It could be including depreciation, loan interest, and insurance.
I don't disagree to be clear, I'm just saying treating it differently than a gas pipe isn't totally crazy. A punctured refrigerant line will empty in a few minutes, and it's next to a compressor that'll likely generate a spark when it kicks on. Even if it just means we need to use thicker line, lets do it.
US healthcare spend is 2.5x South Korea’s GDP. It’s an entirely different beast to administer. There’s no magic wand.

The reality is that healthcare is hyperinflationary everywhere, and the US is farther along the curve than any other country.
Ford Hires 550 Former Argo.ai Engineers, Creates Latitude.ai
Something so basic such as finding a partner has been reduced to the same mechanic we use to order food or pick out clothing. We treat each another like commodities because the channels for communication are controlled by companies trying to monetize human interaction. Pay a little more and see the “stand outs” in your search radius. Dating apps are an awful new phase for our world.
I used to be on good terms with a technical writer from a company I worked for some time ago. He later became one of the very few people who were let go as a result of a merger. Also, from what I can tell, technical writer isn't a cushy job, not anywhere near even entry-level programming jobs. Also, it's usually at companies with existing and large user-base, relatively large companies... there's not a lot of jobs on the market.

I mean, I have a feeling that if a company asked a technical writer to learn LaTeX, they would probably do it, even on their own time. It's a tough market, and learning LaTeX enough to produce something isn't a huge effort (also, there are a bunch of tools that prepare the boilerplate code for documents). But I can see how sales people might not have been impressed by such prospects.
For financial institutions this is a nonstarter. The data needs to stay local for pci compliance
Plenty of people with perfect knowledge and perfect analysis have gone bankrupt waiting for the market to act rationally.
My source is bankrate.com (top google search hit) which doesn't provide an exact line item breakdown. Here are some parameters they consider:

- Average Insurance ~ $1,771 per year

- Average Car Monthly Loan ~ $700 per month

- Average repair costs ~ $1,425

- Depreciation of initial investment. (google search returns an average new car - cost to be ~$50,000 USD in 2022)

- Gas

- Registration
I am Working from Home Since 2016.

Whenever I feel like I need more social connection or that I am lacking social interaction I go to next Walmart when it is on sale.

Magically my needs for more interaction are finished and I am ready to enjoy the comfort of my ultra spresso machine.

Tl Dr -> Go to "special sales" event in a big supermarket or stay in traffic jam for 2 hours.
I've written SDKs that were still in use, 25 years later, on highly modern equipment (digicam SDK -originally designed for film scanners).

The biggest extracurricular project that I did, was first released in early 2009, and is still picking up traction, this very day...

Depends on what you want. Some stuff should not be designed for the long haul, but some, definitely should.
I think that we have seen that in the real world, not every website is going to support your particular workflow.

So you can be practical, and apply the very simple workaround, or you can continue to tell the void how wrong those people are.

Personally I think that your expectations put unreasonable burdens on websites which may not be run by large businesses with big budgets. Niche forums and blogs run by regular people as a labor of love shouldn't be expected to have to devote a lot of resources to be accepted on the web.
Maybe. But this process can take decades. Even longer than your entire career in some cases.
I’ll tell you precisely what it says about me:

I put in 60 hour weeks at my current job, except for a month before I change jobs, where I put in an additional 2 hours/night to prep for interviews, because that’s what will benefit me for every other company.

I care about my career and my family, so I don’t have the luxury of spending it on passion projects outside of work. I’d rather spend the precious little time I have left on my real hobbies and family/friends.

It doesn’t communicate that I’m a bad engineer. On the contrary it communicates that I give my all at work.
It shouldn't need to download the whole repo index for a mobile app store. It's a flawed assumption to begin with.
This should give you some idea: https://youtu.be/r07Gg92YjOI
The Age of the Silicon Valley ‘Moonshot’ Is Over
> You're definitely in the minority when it comes to the Western world.

This is certainly true, and it's because of conscious decisions I've made to avoid debt and fixed recurring expenses.

I wasn't trying to say that my situation is the norm, I was using myself as an example to demonstrate that "There's very few things left that we "own outright"" isn't accurate, or at least isn't because there are no other options.

A house is an obvious exception, because they're too expensive for almost anyone to buy outright.
From the article: "Musk said the pickup would start below $40,000, but tellingly those prices have now been removed from the website."

Why does this seem to be just part of the pattern? It's not that different than the dealership model -- just played at a much higher level. One could also draw comparisons to the old 'vaporware' marketing technique...
The web is not a bad tool.
> my TTC

?
I suspect the person you're responding to was just throwing that out carotid dissection as an example; the general risk factor with BJJ is vessel wall injury (which dissection is a subset of). Blood clots from vessel trauma in peripheral parts of the body can migrate to cause thrombosis elsewhere.

Chokes are a big cause of vessel trauma, but hard takedowns, pressure passes, accidental strikes from spazzy white-belts, etc. all count too. Anything that can cause major bruising, really.

To be clear, I'm not trying to argue that anyone should avoid BJJ due to cardiovascular risk, and the sport is probably a large net benefit to cardiovascular health on the whole - but it can certainly be a proximate cause of a stroke if you get unlucky.
Still worth it assuming you use it for music too. Let's hope they grandfather some of us in, I've been with them since Google Music