skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All and all, frequent flyer points are a massive business for airlines. According to some valuations, these programs are worth just as much as the airline itself.

This alternative currency that's been around long before cryptocurrency... is more significant / interesting than your cat printing money.
There was a FoI request on the list of .bbc domains last year. As of Feb 2022, they ran

alpha.bbc, labs.bbc, nic.bbc, taster.bbc, the.bbc, to.bbc. nic.bbc is the only one that resolves, I'd asusme the rest are for internal R&D projects and QA links.

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/820849/response/19688...
Most roads in the US don't have a minimum speed. The ones that do are expressways where it's already not legal for bicycles or low displacement motorcycles to be.

That being said, as a cyclist and ebike rider myself, I stay off roads where the speed limit is higher than 35mph.
Does this end up being similar to say an haproxy doing domain based load balancing to an ipv6 endpoint(s)? I assume you have loads of customers on any single ipv4 IP ingress right?
How is it ironic? Their Mastodon instance is private and basically read-only, not social media.

I don't think this is the thread best suited for excreting your obvious pent-up anger
> Now the rest of the world will suffer the consequences, one of which may be that the devs of native libs will simply abandon the work, or that those libs will become too difficult to use for the casual or starting programmer, completely defeating the purpose.

Or get the benefits, so casual or starting programmers won't be wondering why their python program refuses to go above 100% CPU, or have to deal with the bullshit of multiprocessing.

> I'm fine with two builds, but not a single non-GIL build.

The "no-GIL" build has GIL machinery included, it just runs with the GIL disabled by default. You can force it on (https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/#pythongil-environment-vari...), and it will automatically enable itself when loading a non-no-gil library (https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/#py-mod-gil-slot).
> pursuing majors with no reasonable impact on their earnings, which is the overwhelming majority of people

The data don't bear this out. Over a career, people with college degrees earn more than those without. Until and unless this changes, people are making the right choice going to college.

Caveats: it does need to be more widely communicated that getting into a college that costs $50k/year is a luxury good that not everyone will be able to afford. And the corollary: we need to resume amply funding our public institutions.
We might be on a hype train, but ChatGPT is already much more useful than bitcoin ever was.
Intuition and observation - are the cornerstones of the scientific process. While i do believe we don't have shortage of either, it's when the two meet do we have real breakthroughs. We posit theories and new ways of thinking by observation from other places. Often times, that's why scientists tend to have varied interests.
The lobbying by traditional energy industry is ridiculous now, the Times were running a scaremongering article yesterday about how China could cause standstill on UK roads by selling us electric cars with remotely activated dead switches that they could supposedly activate at any time. It then went on to say that China dominated the lithium market and Britain was too far behind so we should be looking to hydrogen cars instead. Presumably the oil companies would produce this hydrogen and slot it into the existing petrol station infrastructure. To me it's a blatant attempt to keep people hooked on their products, thus maintaining power over everyone and extracting profits, basically maintaining business as usual. They can't do that if people own solar panels and generate their own energy or if renewable energy becomes so cheap to produce that it only costs pennies. I can't wait until we hit the tipping point and these selfish, greedy companies get put in their place.

The ridiculous article:

https://archive.li/3uPLo
> I remember when bricking something meant it was totally unrecoverable.

Precisely. 'Bricking' something means it is unrecoverable and is irreversible.

No idea at what point in time the definition was changed to mean 'temporarily not working'.
Digging into the odd history of Blade Runner’s title (2017)
"Lo barato sale caro" which translates to the "the cheap becomes expensive". If you see something that is cheaper then everything else, just assume they're cutting corners in places that matter. It will be interesting to see how many millions of dollars they use to keep the executive team in place during the bankruptcy despite the fact it's their decisions that lead to failure. I also wonder how much student debt we could have cancelled for 700M, it would have been a better investment.
Home ownership rates for those under 30 at least have fallen considerably in many Western countries (certainly in Australia). And yes urbanisation has increased but not that dramatically. What hasn't really happened though is any significant new cities forming, meaning more and more competition for being located in desirable areas of existing cities, which is surely one of the bigger drivers of decreased affordability.
Yeah, this is my only real complaint with this. Internally their IPv6 support is pretty garbage, which is kind of fine since your internals shouldn't be exposed externally anyways, so it's in theory possible to have an internal IPv4 network that exposes traffic over IPv6 to the public using something like a load balancer.

Load balancers are already somewhat expensive- the base cost for each load balancer is already $16.43 a month before bandwidth. Three IP addresses, 12 cents per day each, over 30 days is another $10.80 a month. In other words load balancers just had their base price increase by 65%.
You _can_, for practical purposes, sue just about anyone for just about anything. Of course, you have a better chance of success if your lawsuit in some way makes sense, but Obviously Nonsense Lawsuits are a thing.
:) Yeah, I use my own internal markdown to generate really nice html (with fast latex-derived images for equations) and then full-on latex. (tool is
https://github.com/parrt/bookish)

I prefer reading on the web unless I'm offline. The latex its super handy for printing a nice document.
If there is no rule about posting the same product every few days/weeks from the same person who is also the owner of the product, there should be one. @dang
> usually

HN is nth standard deviation sensitive. There is always market for some.

> additional lighting discounts any power savings

Not necessarily. Lighting today can cost fractions of watts, and on the other hands EPD can be energy costly - it depends on how many cell updates you are causing. So, the matter is probably less with energy consumption, and more about getting a better effect based on user and environment.

> This product is not for in-field use

Sure, it does not seem specific. But it can have its places. Be it some production site - maybe a quarry near the tropics -, be it personal - maybe you want to do some work in your garden...
The electrical union that taught me all my fundamental understanding of electrons was created back in the day because the fatality rate among electricians at that time was 1/2 lol.. For every two electricians working to electrify America, one of them wouldn’t make it home to their families.

Ironically, the guy who created the IBEW, Henry Miller, was himself killed on the job after making contact with a live wire and falling off the pole and hitting his head.

In the early days of electricity, the workers had no understanding of the thing they were working with, and they certainly weren’t given proper tools.

The voltage tester of the day was licking the wire to see if it was live. A method thought to save people after electrocution back then was to stick your fingers in their rear to give them a sudden jolt lol.
Well, here I am replying to you on a social media platform (HN) to contribute to a discussion. So yes, social media does serve a purpose. It connects people and allows us to have discussions.

The problem you mention is a huge one with modern social media, and I think that it is exacerbated by the perverse incentives of engagement (ad) driven monetization. But there are healthier ways to use social media, and shifting data ownership away from a centralized oligopoly to a federated, decentralized model is a step in the right direction
This is misleading because it only covers message digest hashing, presenting that as being the definition of hashing "what hashing is".

The other important hashing is the reduction of an object of any kind (including, but not limited to texts) being used as a key, to a numeric code (usually fitting into a single machine word) to be used as an index for fast look up in a "hash table" data structure.

This is related to testing whether two things are the same, but the security aspect isn't important. More important is the aspect that the hash code is exploited as an integer in order to jump to the right bucket or starting point in the hash table.

Hash tables can be on disk, not only in memory.
Regulations intended for large corporations are constantly killing small businesses ...

If you actually ran a small business, you would understand that small businesses are exempted from many of these regulations.

For example, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 doesn't apply until your business has more than 15 employees. Insider trick --- start multiple small companies to avoid many of these sort of regulations.

health care costs will cut your take home by 1/3.

If this is true, you really aren't very successful. Also, health care costs are a deductible business expense.
61% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck even as inflation cools
All of the 10 richest people in the US, with the exception of Warren Buffett (and even that I wouldn't really call an exception, more on that below), built real businesses with real products that are used by millions of people and companies. I think wealth inequality is a major problem of our time but I despise this painting everything with a (factually incorrect) bad brush.

Re: Buffett is the only "pure investor" in the top 10, but even then Berkshire Hathaway is pretty famous for having a portfolio of some of the best managed companies in the business. It's not like Buffet is a day trader.
There's an answer beyond nebulous desires for "accountability":

Stop federal guarantees of loans, and allow loans to be discharged in bankruptcy. Make loans a risk and they won't give $200k to a sociology major with no prospects because they know they won't see a return.
Relevant Wendover video: https://youtu.be/ggUduBmvQ_4
I didn't know about that.
"World's best" style prompts usually perform worse because the LLM thinks you're asking it to act as a fictional character, then draws from other fictional characters to craft its responses.
My experience of learning Unix from the installation process back in 2001 or was kind of the reverse. I installed Red Hat on an old machine and it the desktop GUI worked out of the box. That wasn't really what I was going for, so I installed FreeBSD instead and I had to configure X11 and everything else manually, and I learned a lot.

Totally agree that once up and running, FreeBSD is extremely reliable. Linux can be reliable, but it depends a lot of the distribution, and what you're doing with it.
yes, but then players would use their cash to bring it back to a reasonable number. That's why there are temporary blips on the site but markets which have at least 40-50 traders tend to stay where the whale consensus still is.

I admit it's a weakness, but even play money markets generally do tend to track real-money ones where they exist. People on the site mostly take their profits seriously.
> Not something anyone reading this is going to replicate!

They were L7/L6 ML researchers/eng at FAANG, I'd bet there are quite a few people like that lurking here.
Loads of things can be used as inefficient weapons, for example we could be worried about rouge states developing methods of dropping dead cows from zeppelins.
I've found packaging for Alpine has been similarly easy. There is a review process in the sense that you file an MR instead of committing directly, but my experience has been really quick and easy. Also, not everyone with commit access does this, but psykose would also fix minor issues like indentation without requesting changes and doing the whole back and forth. I really appreciated it and noticed the changes for next time.

The community and main repositories have some stability guarantees but that doesn't stop you from orphaning the package.
I guess the difference is "old media" is held more accountable than "new media" when they lie.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230731154319/https://socialist...
It's nice to see an organization like the BBC willing to experiment with alternative ideas. For those unaware, they also put their news web site on the onion network.

https://www.bbcnewsd73hkzno2ini43t4gblxvycyac5aw4gnv7t2rccij...
I push telemetry to Amazon CloudWatch (my infrastructure is on AWS) and then setup alarms accordingly. If I'm concerned about a service failing or becoming unresponsive, it's easy to create an alarm based on the existence or non-existence of data.
What's crazy about the Slotin incident is that it occurred in 1946, months after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. This wasn't some unavoidable "race to beat the Nazis to the bomb" accident, it was just tragic sloppiness.
Ice core scientists in East Greenland reach bedrock
Yes, but running a Snowflake doesn't expose your IP to the website being visited, and therefore you're safe from abuse complaints/prosecution, unlike the people who run the exit nodes.
Is this a genuine question?

You posted "Show HN: BoxyHQ – An open-source alternative to Auth0" 4 days ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36882656

I see you run "The first-ever commercial open source marketplace" and already asked about open source alternatives to 3 other products recently. On your own website there are many results for Firebase and Authy.
You can easily compete if you have a pension liability from workers no longer there by making provision for it at the time that the liability is created.
>Why are industries dominated by large unprofitable companies?

The logic is quite simple: by undercutting your competition, you aim to quickly drive others out of business and secure a monopoly. Once in such a position, making a profit becomes much easier.
which of these is 'operating in a cloak of darkness':

- NASA informs the public immediately, and then makes the details available later after they've had time to compile the news and information into a format useful for the public

- NASA waits to inform the public until said report is finished

or perhaps you're after option c:

- NASA's network drives are open to the www in read-only mode, because, you know, 'open by default' entails realtime information (even though he doesn't actually care 99.9999% of the time. yet, someone should deliver this functionality, without it costing the taxpayer extra).

NASA routinely makes a LOT of data open to the public. Like, you can get very detailed JWST data directly from NASA. Probably far more detailed than you'd ever care to, because NASA does care about exactly your concern.

Actually, many agencies publish very detailed data if you care to look.
Sure but

1. that's your choice and you have the flexibility to do that

2. you don't have 4 ice cube trays as a fixed feature of the freezer plus a separate ice bucket, half the space of which is a quick release system for the cubes from the trays
> you’re going to need to read every byte anyway!

But you might not need to read them at your current location, though that consideration might be overkill for the level this article is aimed at.

For instance reading a full remote file to compare it to a local one byte-for-byte will be slower than

sha256sum some.file; ssh user@host sha256sum some.file

or

cmp <(sha256sum some.file) <(ssh user@host sha256sum some.file)

unless the file is very small (in which case a simple download by HTTP(S) or read via network filesystem may be faster than negotiating a SSH connection and running the remote hash command). In either case accessing a pre-computed hash of the remote content will likely be faster than both options, assuming a stored hash exists and you are looking to verify your local copy.
Union pensions are typically paid into by companies, but the pension is maintained by the union. Teamsters, IBEWs, etc pensions operate in this manner. You won't work for the same company your entire career, but you're likely to remain in the same field for it.

Pensions work just the same as 401ks, but better when properly funded and governed, because your average worker is unsophisticated as it relates to investing. 401ks were a scam foisted on the public as pension replacements, with corporations instead juicing shareholder returns with what was previously pension contributions. If you're a high earner without any life events that would cause you to liquidate your 401k (extended job loss, medical event), congrats! You have won the lottery.

You can require pension operators to be fiduciaries and act in the best interest of their members, with penalties if they don't (this exists today, current state). If individuals fuck up their retirement (or could not save enough because of their lifetime wage trajectory), oh well, you're going to die in poverty because the socioeconomic system pulled a fast one on you.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/retirement/great-401-k-expe...

https://www.economicpolicyresearch.org/images/docs/research/...

https://www.gao.gov/financial-security-older-americans

https://web.archive.org/web/20201026175751/https://www.gao.g...

https://www.empower.com/the-currency/life/average-401k-balan... (direct your attention to median balances; assuming 4% withdrawal rate, the high water median 401k balance translates to $185/month in retirement income)

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2023/03/01/fiduciary-duties-...
A long time ago I mentioned this story to my dad, an engineer of the mechanical kind. He said, in his simple way, why was the system built that way? Why not lift the core up rather than drop the reflector down? If anything goes wrong, the default is it stops.

I know it’s silly but I think of what he said often. So many times the solution to a problem at work is to bring in more tech, another stack, more complexity while in his world it was “what can we take out of this loop so there’s less to go wrong?”

I wonder what he’d think of modern engine power trains and all their gubbins.
Ironically, the only tokens with any actual utility have stable prices - stablecoins.
Over time, investors have become less invested in the companies they invest into. It's a cultural thing, it seems.
It's trained on my data which is perfectly suited to my problem, which my competitors don't have.
Not free of cost, free of additional cost if you were already using a NAT Gateway before they added NAT64 capability.
This thread is one of those cases where you read something and realize you've been completely missing something. I don't monitor these as much as I should

Servers/services? Definitely - take your pick. Timers/jobs, particularly those on my system? Nothing!

With the right directives laid out ('Wants/Requires/Before/After'), they can be pretty robust/easily forgotten.

I've been lucky in this regard; I check 'systemctl list-timers' just to be sure - but they always run
Please forgive me for digging this up every other year, but I think this is such a wonderful tongue in cheek resource for a wonderfully weird topic.

Also, be warned that book pages 33 and 34 may be NSFW in some regions on this planet ;)
It's crazy how many crypto natives were warning "hexicans" about hex and pointing out the most obvious indicator that it's a scam, namely Richard Heart defrauding them, yet most of his fanboys were not even willing to listen or evaluate the evidence with an open mind.
My takes:

The UK has a ridiculously assymetric economy. You either move to London or fight for scraps anywhere else.

This ties with the housing problem. Education is a debatable investiment, because highly qualified work presumes moving to London.

There is no serious infrastructure investment. There are virtually no specialised companies in big projects, so everything is cut up in small pieces and commissioned to out-of-depth small contractors that see big projects as a "once in a lifetime" opportunity. The process is not streamlined, it can't cope with efficient big infrastructure work.

Even small infrastructure work is not being done, like saving classrooms from literally crumbling (https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/may/14/england-cr...).

Countryside and suburban people live in a dream-like state induced by the incredibly propagandist media (especially tabloids) where people happily believe that we "once owned the US and Canada" and repeat "5th-6th largest economy" while having tea with the vicar is enough to keep Britain's "achievements".

Childcare is preposterously expensive, education likewise. Housing famously so.

I could go on for a bit.
I run the Prometheus node_exporter on my servers. That has a systemd collector for the state of services.

That reports the state of all systemd services to a central Prometheus and alertmanager cluster, which has various alert rules.
Dramatically low basically equals the single color refresh rate multiplied by the number of base colors used to form color images.
They can help people put up to 65535 services on a single IP address rather than taking up a /16 of routable space through port numbers alone. Double that if you add UDP, and triple that if you can find that many services that can use SCTP.

You still need at least one IP address, but for services using hundreds of individual hosts the cost shouldn't rise too much this way.
New Relic agrees to go private in $6.5B all-cash deal
Yeah, but that does require a fair bit of additional infrastructure, running overhead wires and having it connected to the power grid. Makes sense in populated areas, but for mining trains in Australia, potentially 1000s of kms from the nearest city? This seems like a reasonable alternative
> What do these prediction markets produce?

Vigorish.
At Alooma (https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/company/alooma) we've been running all our integrations with data sources using PyPy.
Main motivation was indeed performance gains.

FWIW, since I've seen it mentioned, we've also been using psycopg2cffi to access Postgres sources.

The product now lives (at least partially) as Datastream on GCP (https://cloud.google.com/datastream/docs/overview).
I'm not sure though if it's still running on PyPy.

I could try and connect with the folks still working on it, if you're interested.
ZScaler is worse on a practical level. I have to disable IPv6 system-wide else I can't access internal services (it only routes IPv4). The crazy thing is that they call out VPNs for being archaic, but force users to use an even more archaic technology.
Thanks Shon! Got one a bit earlier while they were still there -- really excited for this :)
See r/k selection theory on https://www.anonymousconservative.com ; the "it's a conspiracy, sweety" mentality is pure R psychology
The original assertion is ambiguous - we can't determine if the GP meant that their cat operates a printing press that outputs currency, or that the cat itself outputs currency.

Honestly, I'd be pretty interested either way.