skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have not already looked into it, the Long Term Stock Exchange (LTSE) is trying to buck this trend and cater to patient capital.
We are currently on AWS and GCP, with plans to expand to Azure later this year. Private clouds have not come up much in discussions so far, but we are open to it. How do you foresee a solution that works with private clouds to look like?
“Through a Glass Darkly” in Asterisk Magazine
>it's that he is more often wrong than right.

I hear this a lot, but I really haven't been able to find much...is there an "errata" of where he is wrong on specific things that are material events in history?
Yeah tapeworms, pinworms all super healthy and tasty.
People have been saying this for years. Why do Canadian techies stay in canada? Tough immigration to US keeping them trapped? Seems like that's been the drumbeat of the central US tech scene for years and its resulted in all the engineering grads from those schools trying to flock to the coasts, and there basically being not much of a tech industry at all in the wake.
Well the triple U (not sure why they use that) and the spelling of the letters is simple enough to check for that I guess.

From what I can gather this says something like:

To U4701 Sync message, Lubeck base, From commander 4th U-boat fleet, go with U4702 U4703 to Flender Shipyard Lubeck, more to follow

It's less gibberish than it looks like at first. They really shot themselves in the foot by not having numbers on the enigma system, this would have really made messages much shorter because they had to write them all out.

There's so much specific jargon in there that would make it really easy to detect a correct message IMO. Just make a simple list of very common words and tally up.

Indeed frequency analysis wouldn't work though but it's still pretty possible IMO.
UMass Amherst is a known center of heterodox economic thinking, her views do not reflect the mainstream at all. The problem with price controls is not that the government enforcing them is 'reactionary.'
Yes. That’s exactly what Cloud 66 is.
Me, I’d much rather revive wisp (https://github.com/wisp-lang/wisp), but the author does have quite a few points — Google Closure is the main reason why I stopped using CLJS…
> Only way to compete should be to make either a better, or a cheaper product.

I think this is a core part of the anti-competitive problem, though. Economies of scale mean that a company with a 50% market share is going to make the cheaper good, all else equal.

We would effectively need to increase competition at the cost of increasing efficiency to make that work (e.g. by banning mergers of larger players).
Presumably you'd track the rate of misdialed calls compared to real emergency calls, not the absolute number.
ChatGPT is going to revolutionize the stock market
SICP definitely promotes both. The latter could be done without ever writing eval, which is the climax of the book.
This. If anything, insider experience tends to dull willingness to enforce because "it's how everyone does it". As a regulator, the public in a real way depends on you to be the lever that looks at how everyone does it, and be willing to say "not good enough"
I moved away from NextDNS due to how slowly it picked up DNS changes, it would take hours for changes to propagate - and there wasn't any way to force it to update without manually creating DNS entries. I installed PiHole on one of my servers and Tailscale makes it available on all my devices - I couldn't be happier.
Really appreciate the write up. Just wanted to share, while unimportant…I still thought I would share, some grammatical errors near the top of the page

> reveals that that the Apple iPhone version is also location data to remote servers.

I’m guessing there should only be 1 “that” and there’s a missing “sending” between “also” and “location data”
Powdered turmeric can be bright yellow, if the roots are boiled before drying and grinding, or dark/dirty yellow if not boiled since natural color of turmeric is dirty yellow.

Costco/Kirkland powered turmeric[0] is one of the rare ones that is dirty yellow, so we generally get that in the hope that it is lead free.

[0] https://www.costco.com/kirkland-signature-ground-turmeric,-1...
I'd like to plug [tig](https://github.com/jonas/tig) for those who don't use emacs. I see lazygit recommended here too, but I've been using tig for years now and love it's simplicity.
Modern TLS/SSL on 16-bit Windows
When Nix "realises" a derivation, it realises the entire dependency tree (here, "realises" means either building or fetching, depending on whether a dependency is already in the Nix store). For every single derivation (dependency) in the tree, Nix first calculates what the store path for that dependency would be and then uses that to determine if it's already stored in the Nix store. So it would look at, say, a glibc dependency in a derivation and determine that the Nix store path would be /nix/store/7kn2mkg0g49lfflkdip7i39q3zsck4pc-glibc. If that's already in the Nix store then it doesn't need to build that. And it applies this logic throughout the entire dependency tree. In some cases, the entire dependency tree has already been built and written to the Nix store, in which Nix knows that it doesn't have to build anything. So Nix's caching logic doesn't apply only to the "first steps" of a Nix build (or realisation, to be more specific); it applies to all steps.
Personally from my Samsung phone - it had enabled gestures by default. This allowed you to tap the screen a few times and it would present you with the lock screen which has the emergency call button. From personal experience - the phone will wake up and go into this menu if you sweat and have the phone in your pocket.
> Unless I own the company or have equity >10%, it never made sense why anyone would.

This is key. I worked for a small company for 8 years, and in the end I realized that the owners still wanted me to be just a cog, and I would never be anything except a cog in their (small) machine. That's when I quit and started my own company.

The gap between employees and owners is massive and almost always insuperable.
I can tell that most of you don't live in Oregon.

When I had a gas car up until two years ago, and I mostly got gas at CostCo. I did live in Virginia for three years. And I would say getting gas at CostCo in Oregon was 80% of the time faster than waiting for Virginians to pump their own gas at CostCo.

I'd rather not pump my own gas, and will miss the service. As will most people I know here.
The Beautiful Simplicity of National Park Brochures [video]
NASA opposes lithium mining at satellite calibration site
How can I even sleep knowing Ohio exists?
The California grid operator has a really cool website that shows realtime-ish graphs of supply and demand[1] and even daily battery reports[2]. One big takeaway is that the total battery capacity is kinda wimpy when you compare it to how much fossil fuel the state burns over the day.

The way net metering worked in the past is that people with solar could offload their access generation to power companies and make storage or resale the utility's responsibility. Then 2.0 was a sorta-time of use implementation, and now we're up to Net Metering 3.0 and I haven't bothered to look into how that works. However people I know who have looked into Tesla powerwalls haven't found them to be economical for individual homeowners.

[1]: https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html

[2]: http://www.caiso.com/Documents/DailyEnergyStorageReportJun22...
EAS – Ethereum Attestation Service
Well this is about the kind of thing I'd expect from Ohio....
I doubt this is true if you factor in the positive effects of medical care, safer living conditions, sanitation, etc. that are available in modern developed countries.
I'm not that person, but presumably it's that someone has purchased real estate in a geographically relevant location and constructed property on it/between it and the exchange which gives them an insurmountable latency advantage in HFT, and they are characterising the raking in of cash from that latency advantage as rent seeking.
Check out https://zero-to-nix.com/concepts/closures and https://zero-to-nix.com/concepts/realisation, which I think add more color to this (and also is largely authored by biggestlou here.)
>> The Northwest Grocery Association, an advocate for retail and food suppliers, claims that jobs won’t be lost because half of gas pumps are already closed due to understaffing.

Not sure why they needed to say anthung, but the logic here is comically wrong.
> Dethroning SQL much harder, though. It'll take decades.

Maybe not decades. I personally love EdgeDB (https://www.edgedb.com/) as an SQL replacement.
Well, "news" is defined by the upvotes on HN ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Attorney sues Microsoft for $1.75M over email access issues
But make it 30%+ instead of 10.
Is the same true for Azure Pipelines? Given Actions forked from Pipelines I'd imagine it would be straightforward.
You can edit your reservation, which means you can book two weeks, then change it so you only use the last three days of July 3,4,5 (for example). This means that by the time reservations open for July 3, all the spots are taken.
After spending all afternoon playing with this. I have two inputs.

1] A lot of the heavy lifting is done client side, which is excellent; I have a super fast processor! But, watching the CPU utilization, it seems to spike the CPU for a few milliseconds, then waits for a second or two and, spikes the CPU again, then repeats. I suspect there may be some significant performance improvements to be had on client recomputes.

2] While it is doing recomputes, it would be great to get a progress bar or, at least, a message saying, "This will take a long time, be patient." It took me multiple attempts to determine that the service was indeed working, just that my client was taking its sweet time recomputing.
Used to work, in the early naughts, for a company that had a laser uplink in seattle from their office building to the westin. I sat in the office with the uplink for awhile, pointed out the window with a big gimble, you could watch it adjust for building sway.

Uplink went to shit in heavy fog though...
> due to there being almost no enforcement

It turns out investigation and enforcement is disproportionately doled out to large corporations. Companies like Alphabet and Meta have multiple teams to make sure they are handling data correctly and yet there could still be things that fall through the cracks.

This regulatory attention on large companies is advantageous to startups though; until a startup gets big nobody really cares about its data handling compliance.
i totally agree with this, and if you haven't read "For Your Own Good" and "The Drama of the Gifted Child" by Alice Miller you would likely enjoy them.
Governments have a cynical knack of identifying every possible cause of inflation, no matter how tenuous, except the obvious one - government policy.

Governments will blame businesses, consumers, employees, foreigners and bad weather. The only option ruled out is all the money printing going on and a good decade of regulators encouraging that and high-risk financial behaviour.

If inflation is high, it is a bad time to listen to governments.
Study after study fail to disprove the hypothesis that gut microbiome diversity is a strong correlate with longevity.

Here's a meta study for you:

Here we introduce the MicrobiomeHD database, which includes 28 published case–control gut microbiome studies spanning ten diseases. We perform a cross-disease meta-analysis of these studies using standardized methods. We find consistent patterns characterizing disease-associated microbiome changes.

What more do people want? Why is this something people fight?

[1]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01973-8
Sadly certificate pinning is becoming pretty common in my experience. Most of the "big apps" do it. That means that even if you trust your own CA you still can't MITM the traffic. On iOS you need to jailbreak a device to override cert pinning.

Funny how mechanisms that increase security also remove some of the freedom and visibility we have into our own deviecs.
Why was there a character limit? I always thought the only limit was the slow transmission speed of morse messages.
Well, if the majority of accidental calls originate from the top n (n>0) manufactures it would be the most effective to address them. That's kinda how regulation works in many cases, see, e.g., privacy and safety enforcement in general.
That sounds more disgusting, not less.

The mouth is for clean stuff. The bum is for dirty stuff.
Thanks! Part of my motivation to documenting this is to raise awareness and also provide encouragement for others to start looking at what their devices/apps in their home are doing.

The amount of location data the device maker is collecting is significant - perhaps they are monetizing it? If so, would you consider this malicious (if not disclosed to the end user this was happening)?

The AMap SDK the app uses collects much more location data - here I feel they are likely using it to improve the accuracy of their location service/mapping software. I don't consider this malicious, unless this behavior is not disclosed to users and developers. Their site is in Chinese [1], would anyone read through their fine print to verify?

[1] https://lbs.amap.com/api/lightweight-android-sdk/download
This is my recollection as well. I was at a big Solaris shop when I cared enough about DBs to dig in this deep, but there were many, many discussions with the ops folks about whether this bypass was a good thing, and in the end the performance metrics were judged 'better', for values of better I don't accurately recall.
If it’s connected assume it is spying on you as much as it possibly can.
Plan 9: Expanding Your Grid (2013)
UK Government is a right-wing government right? Their goal is to help big business not the employees. Isn't that the definition of right-wing?

Telling workers to accept lower pay makes about as much sense as asking companies to accept lower profits. Yes you can ask but they will not obey.
Big Oil interests are in increasing customer demand, while socializing the costs of uncertified, untrained, and unlicensed UST operators posing as self-service customers. Dangerous substances require training.
> This occurs, the researchers believe, because the weaker bonds are randomly distributed as junctions between otherwise strong strands throughout the material, instead of being part of the ultimate strands themselves. When this material is stretched to the breaking point, any cracks propagating through the material try to avoid the stronger bonds and go through the weaker bonds instead. This means the crack has to break more bonds than it would if all of the bonds were the same strength.

> “Even though those bonds are weaker, more of them end up needing to be broken, because the crack takes a path through the weakest bonds, which ends up being a longer path,” Johnson says.

I believe it is similar. Braess's Paradox, Antifragility, Crystalline vs Plastic materials and smooth response profiles to stressors can all be related.

The weaker material here is a sacrificial substance that spreads the load over a larger amount of material. Extremely strong substances that are not also plastic fail catastrophically, counter intuitively strong things can increase the local force and cause cracks to propagate through a material. Everything fails via crack propagation.

If you over optimize your system, you do so by removing the portions that potentially make it resilient to stressors. Strength in one dimension is often at the detriment to strength and resilience in others.
Ask HN: How to deal with a client who refuses to pay an invoice in full
I know without full context it may be hard to give a good response but I’ll try my best to explain the situation in detail.

I started a new contract with a small startup in February. We got off to a great start — communication was solid, collaboration was great and as a team there were no problems. I was always paid in full each month, and I was never notified that my performance was not up to par with expectations.

That is until recently when I was notified that the hours I invoiced for the month of May did not align with the output the company was receiving in return. On top of this, the company said that they couldn’t afford to pay me at my rate so they decided to part ways. At this point I felt pretty solid about my experience there; I had some disagreements with what they had to say but all was well since I have another job offer lined up.

I sent over my final invoice and thought we were moving forward, but the CEO reached out to me claiming that since my hours were greatly misaligned with the amount of work they received, they would only consider paying 50-70% percent of the final invoice. They are also of the opinion that the work I did was “completely unusable.” There’s no clause in our contract that highlights disputes, so I’m wondering what the best course of action is here.

I have proof that about 75% of the code I wrote was approved and subsequently merged into their Github repository. It is true that the last two PRs I submitted were unmerged. The first was merged but reverted after, then the second was never merged. Is it valid for them to claim they don’t have to pay me for my time on these features, since they were in fact never used?

It’s also super frustrating from my end because I know for a fact I was super dedicated towards what we were building, and in no way was I dragging my feet with the time spent on certain features. If anything since I was the one pioneering the codebase from scratch they should reimburse me for the time I spent thinking and troubleshooting the logic of their application. If it helps to strengthen my case this is stated in the contract, “The Client is of the opinion that the Contractor has the necessary qualifications, experience and abilities to provide services to the Client.”
All true, but also pretty bold of a cleaner to cut the power to silence an alarm in a laboratory...
You mean like the one where a bunch of stewardesses got cancer from exactly this (due to planes sucking fumes into the HVAC system at the gate), then won a huge class action lawsuit?

The airlines stopped pumping exhaust into passenger compartments for a few years, but then everyone forgot about the whole thing. Now you get that good-old-fashioned jet-fuel eye sting again until you wash your face after the end of the flight.

On the bright side, I don't think there's been many studies showing the old results on studies of stewardesses transfer to today's flight attendants.
They are actually making a very powerful point. A regulator is expected to at some point operate from an "external to industry" perspective. Much like a test framework or testing harness must exist out_of_band of the system under test.

A regulator that regularly pulls exclusively from industry insiders should raise eyebrows. Now whether the SEC actually pulls the majority of hires from industry insiders, that's another question I can't readily answer. Don't have those figures.
My understanding is it's because of lack of house in the places with highest demand. The article gives the following example:

"The economist Paul Cheshire notes that between 1980 and 2018 the declining industrial areas of Burnley and Doncaster built 56,340 houses while adding 22,796 new residents. By comparison, the high-wage university towns of Cambridge and Oxford built just 29,340 houses for a combined population growth of 95,079"
I think that's exactly what I said.
It's a great way to verify the machine knows nothing.
It's not mentioned in the article but the language is such that state employees are limited to 8 hours of working from home. Coffee shops, a neighbor's house, restaurants, all fine.
Clone their products so cheaply that you can undercut them on price and still make money.

Of course that requires said person to also resist the temptation of data harvesting. Which few seem to be able to.
The developed world has one great example of functional housing policy: Japan.

A single policy that allows for unique neighborhoods, affordable houses, supports small businesses, and enables walkable cities.

Just.... do what we know already works.

For anyone not familiar, here is a primer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfm2xCKOCNk
Sounds like your WISP isn't investing in the new generation of massive MIMO radios made by companies like Cambium.
'xoa actually explained what I meant better than I could: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36480081

If you take IPFS for what it was designed to be - one big, distributed, content-addressable file system, then each individual IPFS gateway is effectively a server that serves that entire file system.

Whether or not this is abuse of DMCA, I can't tell, though I feel it indeed is. It does make sense from practical point of view, though. From the point of view of the rights owners, IPFS by itself is, at the moment, too small and too nerdy to be of significance - however, gateways are projecting IPFS into the Internet inhabited by general population, and in doing that, they look like servers serving content. They're good targets because they're how most people would access copyrighted material stored in IPFS.
OK, so state employees would be hard-limited to 8h/week... But why does that policy need to be codified into state law across all possible state employees and agencies, and not just a policy decided by different agencies or offices or managers?

I can't help but feel there's some hidden agenda by whichever anonymous Ohio legislators introduced the provision into the bill.

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Found another article [0], which says:

> Senate President Matt Huffman (R-Lima) said the suggestion to force state workers to return to their offices came from a member of the Ohio House. Huffman didn't identify that member. The provision was not part of the House version of the budget.

> [...] Huffman said 10 years ago, when he was in the House, if he had an issue with someone at the Ohio Department of Education, he could walk over to their office and talk to them about it. He said that's not the case anymore. There are times when issues cannot be resolved with a phone call, Huffman also said.

Sounds almost as if the legislators don't like teleconferencing, and miss their ability to go throw their weight around in person at the capitol.

[0] https://www.statenews.org/government-politics/2023-06-20/sta...
> Mary Beard had some seemingly credible criticisms or just updates to Gibbon

I had a look at her back when I was reading, but also just now revisited some articles comparing them, and I couldn't find anything substantial that didn't boil down to a dislike of his style, or disagreement over approach.

I really would like to update any incorrect facts that I might have picked up when reading Gibbon, so something concrete would be much appreciated!

I'm not too worried about having picked up his conclusions, since I've come to my own based on the description of events and supplementing with a fair amount of other treatments (mostly "The Learning Company" stuff, for better or for worse)
This is a, for lack of better terminology, a disgustingly bourgeoise view.

You must step outside yourself if you want to CURIOUSLY interrogate history.
The most amazing type of house, and one I'd like to live in, is the Heliodome, which apparently is heated by the sun even in winter while staying cool enough in summer: https://www.heliodome.com/ .
I'm not sure... want to open a ticket? :)
This looks like fraud by Amap and negligence by Google (and Apple). The 100k users have cause for a class action. However the upfront cost of such a thing is prohibitive.

There is also the possibility that this is a national security issue. Exfiltrating location data to China for 100k Americans, probably including government and military employees, violates the law. But again, it's all about the cost. Also ambivalence (as others have pointed out).