skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the strange luck to have known Richard Hart before he became a crypto huckster. In the year or so leading up to his transition from random spammer nobody to wealthy scamming random nobody, he was pretty aggressively critical and cynical about all things cryptocurrency, especially about the abject gullibility and willful ignorance of the people who sign on to all of the ideological nonsense about the blockchain and decentralization, and people who take all of the obviously manipulated metrics about market cap, volume and activity at face value. He could have been your very standard hn cryptocritic, going by his stated positions.

I'm not sure exactly what happened to him in the year or so between when I last encountered him in certain telegram channels, but I get the sense that his reaction to the shit show of cryptocurrency was rather than settling for being another Cassandra with a lot to say and no money to say it about the dangers of the crypto Ponzi scene, he went full Mirror Universe and decided to simply take advantage of the people who he had contempt for, as openly and boldly and shamelessly and transparently as he possibly could. This way he wouldn't have to feel as guilty about fooling them. Like a Stephen Colbert or Sacha Baron Cohen but with more meanness and less talent, and without any remorse for bilking the naive minnows snagged in the bycatch of his cryptobro trawling net.
Forgive my ignorance, but I’ve never been clear on the distinction between “psychologically addictive” and “physiologically addictive”. Surely anything that produces a measurable dependency and withdrawal is just addictive?

This distinction seems rooted in mind-body dualism, further driving my skepticism.
Psilocybin is able to instantly turn off an addiction, and it is not addictive itself.

https://time.com/6167638/psilocybin-addiction-therapeutic-br...

Psilocybin Could be a Therapeutic Breakthrough For Addiction

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9947277/

All four clinical trials indicated a beneficial effect of psilocybin-assisted therapy on SUD symptoms

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27441452/

All 15 participants ... At 12-month follow-up, 10 participants (67%) were confirmed as smoking abstinent. At long-term follow-up, nine participants (60%) were confirmed as smoking abstinent.

At 12-month follow-up 13 participants (86.7%) rated their psilocybin experiences among the five most personally meaningful and spiritually significant experiences of their lives.
Just because most of the windows are smashed, doesn’t mean it’s okay to smash a few more.

Even if it were offset by other marine environment investment. Hell, create a trust and drop a 10th of the recover cost in each time so that when recovery is cheaper in the future, it could be funded by all the compounded money.
Very much in agreement. Cannabis as a medicine means needing other cannabinoids other than THC. The minors all contribute in ways that we're just now really starting to study for a better understanding of the why.
> Now we have companies like John Deere that use computers to lock out their own customers from fixing their own tractors. We have car companies charging to unlock heated seats and extra acceleration. Printers that lie to you about how much ink they have left, and brick themselves if you try to use cheaper unofficial ink. Etc.

Exactly! I believe this issue is becoming a very political one because some companies even lock people out of developer tools with a paywall. And when we are forbidding people from learning that they are being suppressed, very bad things happen.

I learnt programming by rooting my phone and then installing a compiler. Android 12 almost killed it alongwith Termux. Are you telling me that if I was born today, I'll simply give up? (Edit: To answer this quesiton myself, No. Today's kids are probably installing customized apk/ipa instead of rooting. Frida is also interesting. But if history repeats itself, even these tools will be banned (self signing dev packages, and using ptrace as a modding tool). And that affects more than just kids..)

Honestly companies have too much control through DRM and copyright. The public needs a way to fight back. If the laws were to be changed, I hope that companies are not immune from lawsuits through TOS, and I hope to see a few class-action lawsuits causing a company to lose some of its copyrights to the public domain.
Plus I'm pretty sure agriculture is the worst offender of water waste in a drought, not toilets
Mechanical determinism is actually somewhat orthogonal to free will - a quantum process, for example, is inherently unpredictable, but I don't think that randomness of choices automatically implies free will.
I like the term "defect" it's more accurate than "bug."
Why aren't there more space ships like voyager 2, going outside the solar system but still providing some signal?

It's got to be possible to launch some in space now and have them go faster than voyager 2, so that the outside can be explored faster?
A Tesla driver charged their EV in a small town and made it to the front page
GNU Octave is surprisingly good. I had old MATLAB work from university that I wanted to revisit for teaching purposes, and was surprised by the lockout imposed by the pricing model of MathWorks[1] (120 € for an individual license, 260 € for teaching)

1: https://nl.mathworks.com/pricing-licensing.html?prodcode=ML&...
Really wish these actually were the size of tapes. Would love to keep one i my boombox for charging the phone that plays the music. i guess it fits in a tape case, but those were always horrible.
Do they have a good reason not to get high? Alcohol is different because it’s much less healthy, more expensive, and causes hangovers. I can’t think of any side effects of non-smoked cannabis that last beyond the evening except for the stuff that matters in 30 years
Its not like nobody has ever investigated the magnetic properties of uranium. You could just look it up.
Looking at the CSS on the blog, there's some "@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark)" directives that change certain colors when dark mode is enabled - but at the same time, links are made white unconditionally.

Probably the author has dark mode enabled and hasn't tested their website in light mode.

In the past, and I.
> Things go over my head. My working memory is so much smaller. I get lost in code all the time. I forget what I'm working on.

I have the same symptons but I don't smoke weed. Maybe I'm just bored of the work required.
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For comparison: I pay 6.269¢ per kWh for energy costs.
For comparison I pay 6 cents per kWh in Quebec (and that’s Canadian money).
It's also completely untrue that the norm outside of software engineering, I think this perception comes because we only think of the big engineering projects like NASA or building projects, and forget how broad engineering is and can be. I worked for a company that mainly did electrical engineering, and there was plenty of happy-path work that just assumed the error cases would happen rarely or be handled somewhere else. It was also quite difficult to get good change control working, and automated testing was painful and irregular. (In fairness, automated testing was also a lot harder, but we could have worked harder on it and caught a lot more issues early on.)

My impression from friends working in other engineering disciplines is that software engineering works similarly to other fields: the more risk to human lives is involved, the more testing, redundancy, etc is involved.
Are multi stage bullets a thing?
Abruptly stopping after prolonged heavy use can wreak havoc on the person's sleep patterns.

Seems like a notable withdrawal symptom of you ask me.
I created my own basic PHP/markdown "blog": https://github.com/Cristy94/markdown-blog
In my experience, the web has bifurcated between "web applications" (owned by React) and content sites (owned by Jamstack).

One dilemma I've faced is when you find yourself in the middle of those two areas and might want to develop an MVP in Jamstack to later add more web-appy features. Jamstack always left me feeling like it was sufficient for my current use case, but with much more complexity I was always one errant feature request away from running into something I couldn't do and having to rewrite everything.

Furthermore, just doing simple things can require significant creativity on how to achieve that. It's fun, because the end result is something that's significantly more performant than anything you could squeeze out of React. I happily use Jamstack for my blog (FCP of 0.8s, Lighthouse score of 100!), but would feel reckless suggesting it for any professional work that I do outside of company blogs or something.
I'd like to see that page, because there's no quick book on the hotel I was referencing, but there are 9 distinct rates for the specific room type on specific dates, plus another button which allows for AAA rates, AARP rates, Travel agent rates, Senior rates, Government rates, plus corporate, group or promo codes.

The point is, price discrimination and obfuscation is an integral part of hotel revenue maximization strategy. The premise that they guarantee a "best rate" is a largely empty one.
Look for federally legal hemp derived delta 9 products. They usually max out at 5 or 10mg per serving
Neopets’ classic Flash games, dead for years, are back
From the picture that looks like a pretty large hole... any chance that execrates the melting process by increasing the surface area? Or is it insignificant just curious if someone has thought about or done any calculations...
Ah! Great question! Let's talk roots.

Trees have different kinds of roots, such as lateral roots and tap roots. What they do depends upon the species, their growth patterns, and how those patterns adapt to their native environment.

Many trees will send out some lateral roots, and depending upon the species, they can be invasive. In the Sonoron, the mesquite is very aggressive about both lateral roots (far exceeding the drip line of the trees) and deep tap root (some mesquites have been discovered with tap roogs going 250 ft in the ground). They also have the added advantage of being a nitrogen fixer.

Fig roots are invasive, though primarily lateral, shallow roots. Jujube (and all buckthornes) are invasive, sending roots that can then grow and pop up as a whole other tree! Mulberries, particularly the Pakistan varieties, also have vigorous, water-seeking roots.

Bamboo are not trees. They are grasses, and grow like grasses with rhizomes. Once established, at around year 5, you would have a running bamboo grove pop up out of nowhere (because they can grow 1 foot a day until they reach their maximum height).

As far as basins, a basin is any depression in the landscape where rainwater can pool. It can be shallow, or deep. Many of the greenways here in Phoenix are large basins that can collect and help absorb our monsoon rains.

What you are talking about with girdling happens with hardwood trees, and not with "basins". When planting a bareroot hardwood tree, you should not plant it in a way so that the root crown goes too much below the ground level. The roots need to be unravelled so that they can grow outward instead of forced back on its self. For hardwoods, they can and do strangle themselves if their roots are allowed to girdle. Contrast that to a fig, whose roots will go whichever way and it will be fine.

Knowing that, you can still create a basin for such trees. You would dig the basin as a ring much further away from the hardwood, possibly as a shallow basin.
How does that get them subscription estimates?
Congratulations!

And let me just state the obvious: it appears that you are good with words. And the ability to clearly communicate complex topics in writing is a lot less common than you might think. My pet theory is that that's why working remotely didn't turn out well for so many people.
> They don't push real content "down the internet" they push it down the google rankings.

From experience, many people can truly not tell the difference.
Without getting into a discussion on what is the correct definition of "edge", I think the article offers 2 solutions to this problem: you have an internet app and you need to provide your users with low-latency reads while maintaining uniqueness constraint and read-your-writes consistency.

The article favours dealing with latency during writes while making some assumptions,
- most internet apps are read-heavy (reasonable, but what if it's not the case for you?)
- you do not need sharding, all regions have all the data (what if you have a ton of data that is growing quickly? what if you have durations where some data is heavily contended for?)
- the primary replica used for writes is highly available (how do you automate handling of the primary replica failure or primary replica getting partitioned?)

Another approach to consider would be Amazon Dynamo style databases (Cassandra, Riak etc.) which can help when the above assumptions are not met,
- Dynamo was designed to be always-writable and suitable for heavy writes and reads as well (e.g. the paper mentions teams using it for catalog data with R=1 and W=N)
- data is partitioned/sharded using a variant of consistent hashing, which helps with large data volumes and limiting the impact of hot spots as well
- failure detection and leader election help automate handling the partitions for which a failed node was holding a primary replica
That would be better than the physics equivalent of cold fusion (which seemed promising at first, but turns out to not exist - at least so far). Only time will tell, though if it really is, but so difficult to replicate that we need a few hundred years it may as well never exist for purposes of our lifetime.
Sure, but what is this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32047663
You can and will die if you quit cold turkey from certain drugs. That is the difference.
Agreed, it's sofa change for an institution. But I remember cost being a big obstacle when I first wanted to learn serious programming around 1990, so I feel like free programming languages are better.
> all of the glaciers were predicted to have melted 3 years ago

I don't think any mainstream models predicted that? Which model was that?

Also remember that our actions are influenced by models. "If current trends persist, then in 20 years [...]" may very well be true, but if we take action based on those predictions (e.g. change the trend) then the outcome will be different.

You can see this clearly in population levels of things like elephants[1] or whales[2]: people who were predicting the extinction of whales and elephants weren't wrong.

[1]: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/african-elephants

[2]: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/General-estimated-popula...
C-64 BASIC V2 has all of the same important fundamentals that other BASICs of that era had. What mainly set it aside was the lack of dedicated graphical functions. What was available on the other home computers was on one hand too slow (or too limited) to be useful for pretty much any type of game development - forcing those platforms, too, to "cheat" by interacting with the hardware by POKEing around - but on the other hand fun and educational to explore graphics programming with. The exception would be the very capable BASIC of the Sharp MZ-700 which was of an entirely different class. For the C-64 there were plenty of third-party options.
You can avoid that with some programming/setup and money: https://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/keyless-ssl/
Chinese zoo denies its sun bears are humans dressed in costumes
> vendor lock-in

How is it vendor lock-in when I can easily move my JS app to Render.com, AWS s3, Cloudflare, etc?
That is new in itself. When have VC's ever not jumped on the hype wagon? The lemmings squad has FOMO for blood.
Are folks typically using HNSW for vector search these days? I thought maybe ScaNN has proven to be better? Especially since it's available in FAISS [2].

[1] https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/07/announcing-scann-efficient...
[2] https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss/wiki/Fast-accumula...
I've been doing web development since 1997, but posts like these let me know how far out of the loop I have become. I have no idea what Jamstack, Netlify, Headless CMS, etc. even are. I'm still in the: here is a webpage (html, css, js) that makes an ajax/fetch call to a webservice that SQL queries a Postgres database and returns the results as a JSON string.
About two years ago, I was interviewing for my first job at a startup. It was still a small company (I was about the 75th employee), and part of my interview loop included the CEO.

I asked him if he was a fan of the show Silicon Valley, and how accurate it was. He said he loved the show, and said that it's generally a pretty accurate depiction of SV startup culture, though obviously with some things exaggerated for comedic effect.

These days, I'm not sure how much exaggeration is still there. Life imitates fiction.
Just to make sure no one misunderstands (not saying you did, just that this is easy to misread):

The 4 cent/kWh figure is the additional cost it would have to charge, over the life of the plant, to make up for the budget overage, and would go on top of whatever ratepayers would have to pay for its "regular" energy output.

Further pedantry: you'd have to factor in time value, so that kind of understates it, as the entity that built it would have had to borrow that much more to finish, and pay back with interest.
huh lol ... Well she obviously has the time to tweet a lot of sh*t while being much faster than any other team on earth. She alone from the USSR must still be the primary (progressive) power worldwide ... who knows ...
A neighbor wanted to seed a hill, but some other folks had done it, but they got the wrong mix.

So he checked a lot of places until he found a guy who knew all the native species and hydroseeded his hill. Basically water shot up onto the hill, mixed with seeds and more. stuff just took hold and it worked out.
> It's a classic fear vs freedom dichotomy

Thats a false dichotomy. Many kinds of freedom actually result in less freedom. A society where you are free to sell youself into slavery is less free. A society where 10 year olds are free to work in the coal mines is less free. A society where you are free to ignore legitinate court orders is less free because people will turn to vigilante justice instead.
When someone says a technology completely changed society, I think of the hypothetical singularity that Kurzweil and company predict, where it's basically impossible for us to predict what the future looks like after. But when you look back at the world before the rise of the web and then smartphones, it's just taking preexisting technologies and making them available in more mobile formats. TV, radio, satellite and computers existed before then (1968 mother of all demos had word processing, hypertext, networking, online video). And some people did more or less foresee what we've done online since.

We still burn fossil fuels to a large extent, still drive but not fly cars, still live on Earth not in space, still die of the same causes, etc.

I watch a long cargo train that looks like it's form the 80s go by and wonder how much the internet changed cargo hauling. I'm sure with the logistics the internet made things a lot more efficient, but the actual hauling is not much different. It's not like we teleport things around now. You can order online instead of out of a catalog, but brick stores remain. You can read digital books, but still plenty of printed materials, bookstores, libraries.
The difference is I'm not out touting using a VPS as "The next generation of web development" and having payola articles written that if you don't use a VPS then your career is going to get left behind.
I actually run my own instance in order to keep a random lemmy from disappearing out from underneath me, although the way that infosec.pub is run makes me more confident about its staying power (I'm on infosec.exchange which is their Mastodon instance, too)

Since you asked, these are the major players I'm subscribed to:

!android@lemdro.id
!aws@feddit.nl
!aws@lemmy.ml
!aws@lemmy.nerdcore.social
!aws@lemmy.run
!cloudsecurity@infosec.pub
!cybersecurity@infosec.pub
!foss@beehaw.org
!infosec@infosec.pub
!lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca
!programming@beehaw.org
!programming@programming.dev
!rustlang@lemmyrs.org
!science@beehaw.org
!securitynews@infosec.pub
!selfhosted@lemmy.world
!syncforlemmy@lemmy.world
!sysadmin@lemmy.world
!technology@beehaw.org
!technology@lemmy.ml
!technology@lemmy.world

One will notice the regrettable duplication in that list, and it's (AFAIK) a massive unsolved problem in the Fediverse. My mental model is that Lemmy is exactly like signing up to mailing lists but where one can also upvote and downvote posts (err, some instances don't allow downvotes, so there's that). That means that folks who want the most coverage for their submission will post it to every one of the duplicated mailing lists, which results in their own message-id along with their own threaded replies and upvote/downvote scores. Some folks have proposed using the link-url and subject for deduplicating them, but I believe it's just a proposal from the client side and the servers will do no such thing (although running your own instance hypothetically would allow for such customization)

There's also https://kbin.pub which is its own ActivityPub implementation and behaves a little different from Lemmy, I'm sure with good and bad parts. IIRC there's some federation drama between Kbin and some Lemmy instances, and (AFAIK) Kbin does not have any mobile apps whereas there are currently several which speak the Lemmy API. I'd credit it with "first mover effect" more than one being objectively better than the other

I do hope Lemmy catches on and siphons users off of Reddit because the rug-pull from Reddit was a trust-breaking middle finger, IMHO. I wished the same thing for Mastodon, too, but I think the inertia is just too strong with X
Setting up a VPS - yeah, sooooo easy.

I struggle with even Digital Ocean and just want my site to freaking run.

Downvote me all you want, but I'd rather ship features than fuddle with infrastructure.
> Why aren't there more space ships like voyager 2, going outside the solar system but still providing some signal?

Because that part is a side benefit not worth launching for, and the main motivation (grand tour of the outer planets) for the Voyagers relied on a once-in-175-years alignment of the planets.

But maybe we’ll have nice probes ready to launch in the 2150s next time the alignment happens.
I really like this discussion because it's a rare example of things being discussed in real terms, where the financial considerations are secondary; actual power over real resources being wielded by the wealthy.
I doubt it. Observability products, for better or for worse, are really good NRR machines. Everyone has a budget for these tools and as they add more services and data, that budget typically goes up. It's smart money if you're in the "slash and squeeze" business like PE firms are.
> since AWS doesn't have a remote serial console thing

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/03/introduci...
Zooming in works on my iPad.
I mean, they didn’t know they’d get caught…
I clicked on their federated timeline and the first thing I saw was a post from someone named "horsefucker thicc".