skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a reference point, a supermarket here stopped selling Mars Inc. products altogether because of the absurd prices. For a couple months all the M&Ms, bounties, maltesers, and god knows what else all got substituted by store brand on the shelves. These were not quite as good as the brand-name ones, but it turns out that at a quarter the price people are willing to put up with that.

It's now some time later and Mars products have returned to the shelves, at roughly half the price they were before.

> If you put these warnings on the products won't customers buy less of them

Yes and that's the point. It's a tactic to pressure the manufacturer. Carrefour sells plenty of other things to keep them afloat for a long while.
No boulder's shape is arbitrary either. Everything has its form for some reason.

Something like a field of basalt columns sits the junction. They look like a living thing carved them, but that isn't what causes them.
Go there and find out!

We don't know, we can only make informed guesses about the structure of our universe.
Am I the only one that is a little turned off by how everything nice on Earth needs to be monetized to death? It's not like Youtube isn't profitable already.
These seem even older than that. These are what the ranges looked like when I joined in 2008...
Show HN: I ported my background task queue to TypeScript
Hello there,

One year ago I posted[0] on HN[1] a replacement for Celery, a background task queue for Python.

WakaQ has been running in production[2] for over a year, and it's performed flawlessly. I've even been able to reduce the amount of worker machines needed, saving compute costs, even though the number of tasks executed has increased over time[3].

Now I'm starting a new Next.js project using TypeScript, tRPC, Prisma, hosted on DigitalOcean App Platform and I needed to execute code in the background without Python. So, I've ported WakaQ into TypeScript. I just got it working today so it probably has room for improvement, but it's working in production!

Let me know what you think after checking out the repo[4].

[0] https://wakatime.com/blog/56-building-a-background-task-queu...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32730038

[2] https://wakatime.com

[3] https://twitter.com/alanhamlett/status/1694460497276305427

[4] https://github.com/wakatime/wakaq-ts
> An additional criteria for a Busy Beaver-like Turing machine is that there is a "halt" state, which can be seen in the article's table for state C reading input 0.

Technically, that's "halt" _transition_. There's supposed to be an implied Halt state - but it's straight up easier to treat halting as smth like "invalid instruction" hardware exception.

> The line that says "A(a,b,c) = 0^\inf 12^a 11^b <A 11^c 0^\inf" is describing the input tape state

While yes, it can be an input - instead it is mostly treated as "intermediate" state of the tape. TM is quite low level, so various abstractions are welcome. If you can prove that input you're interested in (empty tape) gets to your abstraction and stays there - stuff gets simpler.

> but I don't quite understand what the "<A" is.

One of very useful abstractions without much cost is to keep track of direction head was travelling in. 1) instead of "head is on this cell and state kept outside" it allows inline notation, while visually pointing to the cell the head is on 2) it's mostly explained as representation of TM with 2 stacks which is easy to implement and run 3) direction is already encoded in the transitions "1LC == <C 1"

That allows nice rewrite rules like "B> 1 -> 1 B>" that simplify manual playthrough, and it works nice with intuition - e.g. B> keeps going right all the way until it encounters 0, like a ship with a pointy nose through the water.

And, well, additional state helps a lot of the time.
If you have a VR headset, it's definitely worth it to try Space Engine, which models the entire universe (it has known stars/galaxies catalogued and procedurally generates the rest), and one of my favorite things to do in that game is travel to a star that's in a good vantage point to see a galaxy from just the right angle, and which also has planets (the procedural generation gives the majority of stars planets), land on a planet, and look at the night sky view of the galaxy from the planet's surface. I should try this from the Small Megellanic Cloud some time.
For contrast, in the UK we typically don't use buyer brokers at all. Normally the seller pays about 1% to their agent.
Discord still a hotbed of malware activity – Now APTs join the fun
Home Insurance Is So High in This Florida Town, Residents Are Leaving
While I support all efforts at increasing information transparency, I disagree that prices need to be the same. It is possible that humans are sufficiently different in the quality of the labor they are selling that a buyer might price them differently.

For example, I am willing to pay a higher price for someone has 10 years of experience and is less likely to make mistakes or other desirable qualifies more than someone who has 0 years of experience, even though they are doing the same work.
In NL we apparently almost had a major incident at Petten.

https://www.trouw.nl/nieuws/bijna-meltdown-kernreactor-pette...

And that's the one that is public, there is at least one more that is still under wraps and possibly more than that. Nuclear is only as safe as the people running it and that is a major issue even before you bring in economics. You can't treat safety as a cost in installations like these and inevitably that's what happens. What I also find disingenuous is that in calculating the cost of electricity production from nuclear power capex required for the eventual dismantling isn't taken into account at all, and those costs are inevitably massive.
No?

This is such a random comment I don't know how to respond to besides a "No?"
In this case, op explicitly compiled javascript for use in web browsers, so in my opinion reaching for gzip is not so strange. There is no browser support yet except behind feature flags in Chrome, and in curl, but that's not a browser. Also, zstd was explicitly designed to compress as good as deflate but much faster. You can also use zstd to compress 'better' but that costs some CPU time again but that is mostly a different use case
You tend to lose a bit of your sense of smell right after you smoke. But no the stench is no different than vaping or regular smoking. Now I will say I live in a less populous area of Canada, but have been to Toronto/Montreal frequently, and haven't noticed it unless someone is actively vaping on the subway.
In Oakland at 51st and Broadway there was 1/2 a city block that was empty. For almost 40 years (probably more, it was derelict when I got there in in 1980). A few years ago someone built a 5 story apt building on the land.

It always seemed crazy to me that nothing was done on that very valuable corner for so long.

There are other examples.
* Assuming you were 100% correct, that means it's a rate problem. Assume it takes time X for bacteria to evolve resistance and it takes time Y for us to develop each new antibiotic. As of now, X << Y, but Y is falling. Once Y < X we are developing new antibiotics faster than resistance is evolving, it's basically a solved problem.

* Fitness is not a 1-D line. Every time a bacteria evolves resistance, it pays a cost for doing so (in lab experiments it's pretty easy to generate resistance by adding antibiotics, and the resistance factors disappear very quickly once the antibiotic is removed, suggesting a fitness cost). So even while they're getting harder to treat they're also getting less robust in general.
Man does not live by bread alone. If you want to make technology and the standard of living a god, that might be rational, just as communism may be an earlier rational attempt in the same vein. But I believe these ideas are naive. The central idea seems to be “eliminate enough of man’s animal suffering and cater to his animal wants and you’ll have paradise” but I think these schemes undervalue the human need for freedom, love, self discovery, and meaning.
I think you might be underestimating just how bad parts of Detroit are.
What You Need to Earn to Own a Home in 50 American Cities
The majority of ghost gun crime arrests and charges that I’ve seen in various local and nationwide news articles are still polymer80 frames and 80% ar-type lowers, vs. printed frames. I’d estimate only about 10% or less involved printing but is creeping up with p80 taking heat and printing becoming more ubiquitous.
Everyone at the same level is not the same. At most companies people can expect to be in level for a few years.
They return the favor with a chiller work-life balance and Washington State's lower taxes (obv not applicable to the large campus in Sunnyvale/Santa Clara)
Ask HN: How to secure your passkeys to survive lost / stolen devices?
Cellphones and USB keys can get lost / stolen. What's your recommendation on how to handle Passkeys to avoid losing control of your digital life if any / all of your devices get lost?
> At least in Finnish, I think you will hear the "written standard"

I wouldn't expect that to be the case at all, except for a small amount of intellectual, pedantic people. The vast majority of Finns reading kirjakieli aloud are going to subject it to many of the puhekieli sound changes. And of course, like with many other languages, if they speak a regional dialect with significant phonetic changes, they will apply those sounds instead of what is represented in writing.

> The alternative, more common explanation is that there are two different registers of the language…

Yes, exactly. The languages I gave as examples above, are typical examples of diglossia.
There is a good chance that with present day technology we could satisfy all of our energy needs using HVDC transmission lines. The main problem is that these are going to be easy infrastructure to attack in case of war or through terrorism.
with that i agree, the video was just a funny video and not meant to be taken as a documentary.
Ericsson/Vonage: counting the cost of a poor call
So, don't? Nobody is forcing you to do anything. Just don't watch or don't pay premium. Jeez, since when does the world owe you anything?
/me not a shrink

The advice I ws given (by a pro) was that if you're thinking of therapy, you need to check out the therapist's credentials. In which tradition(s) were they trained? Are they in therapy themselves? (A therapist with active clients should be in therapy)

I don't think I'd consider group therapy on a dude-ranch run by a cowboy and a "life coach".
Draft G7 Guiding Principles for Organizations Developing Advanced AI Systems
> Nobody runs major sites on bare metal Unix anymore

Netflix runs a lot of their infra on precisely that, achieving 400 Gbit/s of TLS traffic per box in the process.

https://papers.freebsd.org/2021/eurobsdcon/gallatin-netflix-...
Cesar & Nunez (October) is basically just a summary of Liu et al (May).
Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast just had an episode on cannabis, "NY's Cannabis Rollout Could Destroy a Legal Entrepreneur":

> When New York legalized recreational cannabis for adults, it didn't just want to fling the gates wide open for anyone to take part. Instead it specifically aimed to help out and give priority to individuals who were previously harmed by the war on drugs. However, more than two years after the law was signed, there are just a handful of legal, licensed shops. Meanwhile, there are thousands of un-licensed shops that proliferate across New York City. At the same time, red tape and legal challenges have hampered the efforts of those going down the legal, regulated path. On this episode, we speak with two entrepreneurs who are trying to go down the regulated path: Coss Marte and Alfredo Angueira of Conbud. They've spent over a million dollars getting ready to launch their dispensary in Manhattan's Lower East Side, but have been unable to actually open it on schedule due to various last minute glitches and legal challenges. We discuss what they've encountered in their efforts, and what it's been costing them to go down the legal path.

* https://omny.fm/shows/odd-lots/nys-cannabis-rollout-could-de...

One observation: when cannabis was completely illegal, there was 'enforcement' against all the small time sellers, now that is is legal but needs to be licensed, there is absolutely enforcement against the unlicensed shops.

You would think it would in the government's interest to go after the illegal shops as the legal ones would collect more tax revenue. But no.
Everyone has a different definition of what AGI means and no one realizes it or specifies.

The people who have a worldview that aligns with strong artificial intelligence often want to call whatever AGI, depending on their definition, but are afraid to do so because they will be ridiculed by the "non-believers".

The opposite worldview sometimes just moves the goalposts as soon as some capability is unlocked.
It's fair to characterize life as a process that locally decreases entropy. Non-living processes tend to increase entropy. Even if you have a rock that looks exactly like a human being, say one of Phidias' statues, it will decay until it looks like every other rock given enough time and exposure to the elements. It rarely goes the other way around, the wind does not sculpt David out of marble.

It's probably not a sufficient criterion for life, but it's at least necessary to avoid granting life to a wildfire or some other process most would not consider living.
But you're not just paying for the bandwidth. You're paying for the bandwidth that used by others who use ad blockers too.

It's a prisoners dilemma. The honest ones (who pay for YouTube premium) lost the most.
Or WTF happened in 1971:

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
I think you're right on the money, with a single exception: there is a value to engineering managers being trained in professional management skills.

Honestly, most of the dysfunction I see in orgs is as a result of "senior" (read: tenured, not skilled) engineers being put in charge of teams/work without having the competencies needed to be successful.
Oddly, the original phrase is "Form follows function", although it was in the context of (human) architecture - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_follows_function

There is a school of though that says that evolution acts on forms that arise through natural processes. One of the ideas Philip Ball is interested in is how the forms created through natural processes (say, a cloud) differs from those formed partly by evolution (say, a tree).

He has a series of three short books on this - "Nature's Patterns, a Tapestry in Three Parts": "Shapes", "Flow", "Branches".
Well, there’s a lot of criticisms of the “guns, germs, and steel” hypothesis. Many of the sources used feel like it’s an oversimplification, which you seem to simplify even further.

Society is complex and deserves some more nuance than you give it. A might is right ideology misses an awful lot in terms of what humans value.
Study from Fukushima shows even low dose of radiation may contribute to diabetes
As others mentioned the titles have changed so the same people are now DevOps, Infrastructure Engineer, Cloud Engineer, SRE, etc...

Sure the work has evolved too but a lot of the fundamentals are still the same and you still massively benefit from having that background context and history.

There are a lot of fresh "bootcamp cloud engineers" who know the buzzwords and know which buttons to click on AWS but they don't have the depth of knowledge to safely navigate on their own.

They can give you a 30 minute spiel about why you must move to serverless ASAP but ask them what 777 permission is and they have no idea.

Not that being a beginner is any issue at all if you are self-aware but some of them are lost in YAML and buzzwords and have no idea about their gaps in knowledge and experience.
Why should they earn the same? They’re not the same person.
Yikes. That’s not exactly a great look.
So, I have a program that does getaddrinfo(3) and nothing more, and this program setup a socket, listen(2) to it, create another socket and connect with it to the first one ?

This looks insane and not what strace(1) tells me

Could you give me more details ?
I provide answers for a few tags. Most of the moderation acts on those tags are made by people whose names I've seen time and time again on answers and comments. I see a bad question in my feed, click to close it, and see 'closed by the votes of' and the names are names I know.

There have been exceptions, e.g. we asked a site moderator to wipe someone's bas64-encoded password from a question. The user probably changed password, but we got a site moderator to wipe it thoroughly without waiting for that. I know those site moderators do a ton of work, but the power trip behaviour you see as questioner is done by answerers like me.

The site moderators do things like cleaning up vandalism or spam, when someone uses a script to add outgoing links to a thousand pages.
>>> The Swedish telecoms-equipment maker has written $2.9bn off the value of the US cloud based telecom group it bought at the end of 2021. Writing off almost half the value of a deal less than two years after its announcement is an embarrassment for chief executive Börje Ekholm.

It was a $6bn deal.

How is it possible to misvalue so badly ?

Or am I missing something here (for example, tax credit)
Your argument that gaming is getting worse and more popular is absurd on it’s face.
Show HN: Django-cypress: Django integration with Cypress
I was terrible at handwriting (especially cursive) as a kid, absolutely hated it, and my teachers compensated by having me do more work on the computer. Fantastic outcome.

No fusty article in the Economist could convince me that cursive handwriting is a skill worth saving. When it came to taking notes in college, I realized I was lousy at taking notes by hand, that I’d pay more attention to the lecturer and wind up with few notes. When I took a laptop, I realized I could basically take dictation while still paying attention to what was said.

Doodling programs out on a notebook does work better for me than doing similar on an iPad, however.
Sure, impossible to prove, but a terrible example to bring up for the other position as well.
Whats the alternative to YouTube then? I get it, some people really don't like ads and especially do not like Google's data collection tactics. Whats the alternative then, in the YouTube model they need to pay the creator, pay for the associated costs of running the site and pay themselves. Lets not even go down the road that they already make so much money that they could play less ads or do xyz, I don't think that is a constructive argument.

I learned of an alternative recently, Nebula. One issue there is discovery, I consume a bit of youtube and had never heard of it before. The only reason I noticed it was Strange Parts mentioned it in his last episode and that he posted a new video there that will not show up on youtube for a bit. The first problem is discovery. YouTube is really great for content creators as they can get discovered with the massive amount of viewership.

The second problem is how much it pays. I tried to get a better idea of Nebula's model but this recent thread with the founder really did not answer the question for me. Felt like a redirection then just getting down into the economics of it. I would be curious what the actual per viewer income is between the two. We can immediately assume though that YouTube is paying more in total. They have the network with all the viewers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Nebula/comments/16qeup8/does_nebula...

At the end of the day I would happily use something else but imo there really is nothing else that exactly serves the purpose. The majority of content creators are on YouTube in some form with only a very minority that have totally left it and done their own thing.
Kali Linux Dockerized with the support of systemd
Kali Linux in Docker + Ubuntu 20.04 in Docker for Bug Bounty, Penetration Testing, Security Research, Computer Forensics and Reverse Engineering. Kali Linux inside with Docker with or without support with systemd, repository also contains Proof of Concept with kind (Kubernetes in Docker) to test Kali Linux with enabled systemd in K8s cluster
I think the point here is that it was not known whether all 3,3 halting problems are reducible to trivial Collatz-like problems. Unless someone is able to observe that sligicko's is actually trivial, then this provides a counterexample.
Maybe fair to say that the most we can say is that one form of unfreadom was replaced by another form of unfreadom. Along the lines of - is "freedom to starve" a freedom, how much freedom, and is a +ve or a -ve freedom? I think this is a ongoing and long discussion with not a final straightforward answer. In philosophy that is. It maybe that the technology provides an answer by creating new reality at some point.
What a nightmare that would be! (unironically)

Thank God we are far from reaching that point.
Using `xz -9 -e` results in pretty reasonable compression, in comparison:

19648 dommy-2.0.js
28092 dommy-2.0.weird.js.xz
115023 lodash-4.17.15.js
138808 lodash-4.17.15.weird.js.xz
7114 modernizr-custom.js
11148 modernizr-custom.weird.js.xz
That applies to any kind of work currently also..
It’s tempting to apply Kantian idealism as an explanation for the evident lack of morphological difference between living and non-living entities. However, if it were true—if the perceived physical entity were more of a simplified apparent manifestation/map of the underlying living entity, and there were nothing special in it that was the “cause”—then presumably we would never be able to create life (or sentience, for that matter) artificially, merely by arranging physical particles in a certain pattern. Have we been able to do that, as opposed to growing more life from already living things?
Not the parent but,
the reference to "Brent" in this context likely comes from the book "The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT. In the book, Brent is a key IT employee who is knowledgeable and skilled, but he becomes a bottleneck because everyone relies on him to fix problems. Due to his deep knowledge and expertise, many tasks and critical issues can only be resolved by him. This reliance on Brent causes delays and inefficiencies in the organization's IT operations. The term "Brent" in the tech and DevOps community has come to symbolize a single point of failure within a team or organization.
That's the stench of continuous public cannabis use, which even as a cannabis user, I don't like. Unless you are smoking in your house, the stench does not last.
> You can observe something like this in macroscale with lemon pips in tonic water.

Why, that's interesting, I have never observed this. Do you think having previously added gin to the tonic water solution may have had something to do?
I'm not sure they know how to measure traffic correctly. When I saw a post from Planet Money I opened my podcast app
> Are we seriously saying that if someone can no longer afford tax on a land they already own because the rich need to get richer, you should sell?

devil's advocate: No, not because of the rich but because of the poor. Buying a house decades ago was very possible on an average single person's salary. Nowadays, even upper income range couples have large troubles financing a house. So the situation is that you have lots of old people living in houses that they could never, ever afford at today's prices. The claim (no comment on whether it is correct or not) is that this causes massive distortion and that this proposal would fix it (doubt it, but that is the discussion).

> What the f*.

That is not helpful for a discussion. There is a problem stated and a (probably bad) proposal to address it. Instead of just saying "f*", address the problem and make a different proposal.
Leetcode being asked in an interview is a marker of an incompetent organization.