skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Anne Rice especially has the vampires being overwhelmed by the new world.

I think the point Rice makes in the books I have read is that the vampires are not equally overwhelmed. The Vampire Lestat is about capital-P Progress even more explicitly than Dracula. The protagonist, Lestat, is influenced by the Age of Reason he is born into. He witnesses the end of the old ways in the French Revolution. All of it prepares him for the future. This is in contrast to the younger Louis and the older Armand, who hang on to the past.

The introduction to that book is memorable for being an over-the-top paean to its time. Lestat is not overwhelmed; he loves the 1980s.

Quote:

> As I roamed the streets of New Orleans in 1984 this is what I beheld:

> The dark dreary industrial world that I'd gone to sleep on had burnt itself out finally, and the old bourgeois prudery and conformity had lost their hold on the American mind.

> People were adventurous and erotic again the way they'd been in the old days, before the great middle-class revolutions of the late 1700s. They even looked the way they had in those times.
The men didn't wear the Sam Spade uniform of shirt, tie, gray suit, and gray hat any longer. Once again, they costumed themselves in velvet and silk and brilliant colors if they felt like it. They did not have to clip their hair like Roman soldiers anymore; they wore it any length they desired.
And the women-ah, the women were glorious, naked in the spring warmth as they'd been under the Egyptian pharaohs, in skimpy short skirts and tunic like dresses, or wearing men's pants and shirts skintight over their curvaceous bodies if they pleased. They painted, and decked themselves out in gold and silver, even to walk to the grocery store. Or they went fresh scrubbed and without ornament-it didn't matter. They curled their hair like Marie Antoinette or cut it off or let it blow free.

> For the first time in history, perhaps, they were as strong and as interesting as men.

> And these were the common people of America. Not just the rich who've always achieved a certain androgyny, a certain joie de vivre that the middle-class revolutionaries called decadence in the past.

> The old aristocratic sensuality now belonged to everybody. It was wed to the promises of the middle-class revolution, and all people had a right to love and to luxury and to graceful things.
Freya Holmér is fantastic. Discovered her a while ago while doing some basic gamedev.
Can you read that much content?
No, it's an example of Netlify's default policy. Getting special treatment from the CEO because you managed to get on the front page of HN is not default policy.
It’s a biological plasma cannon
"produces sounds that exceed 140 decibels" is a nonsense statement. They probably meant dBSPL.
Bugs and mistakes happen, even with traditional banks:

https://www.thinkadvisor.com/2023/10/10/wells-fargo-customer...
Not autistic or anything but I got motion sick from Sora generated videos. So much that I don't want to look at most pf them again, at least on Sora page in original quality.

I could see things getting blurry and some blending. The very last video on the page has teeth issue. Expressions were as good as an actor for me and lip movement looked just perfect.
I only knew that I had one in my tank because I would hear the loud "crack" at night. Luckily it was the shrimp making the noise, not the glass breaking.

Months later when I drained the tank to move into a new house, and removed all the live rock I found it dead at the bottom. Amazing that such a tiny thing can make so much noise.
> I leave the meeting disconcerted and still unclear about what exactly is happening with his land in Waimea.

Benoiff doesn't look good here, but the reporter is acting like it's all mysterious and cagey when Benoiff seems to be pretty transparent. He likes living in Hawaii. He bought a mansion and estate for himself. He bought up all of the land around it so he didn't have to share. And I guess he felt pretty embarrassed about it so he bought up a bunch of properties so he can donate them to pad his philanthropist resume. Doesn't seem like a big mystery.
Full 27min uncut video here. https://youtu.be/BWxl921rMgM?si=q50ewZw4ARRU-hG0
I've noticed a lot of people, even ones making $200k+ in salary, are really bad when it comes to making decisions that involve any amount of money.

E.g. I've been in meetings with multiple developers who, if you add up everyone's salary, is well over $1 million/year, debating for way too much time on whether it's worth it to buy a $500/month service to help automate some aspect of devops.

Maybe this wasn't the case for your specific anecdote, but in the scenario I'm describing I got the feeling that a lot of people think about business purchases in the context of their own personal finances rather than in the context of the business's finances. Leading people to be extremely cautious with things like a $10k purchase that would be "expensive" if purchased as an individual and "cheap" if purchased as a company.

In those cases, getting an exec to come in and pull the trigger can help. The exec is used to looking at big picture budgets/strategy, which IC's aren't. (Although I'm sure someone here can come up with another anecdote proving that wrong)
Google trends has Bitcoin searches at 4x where it was 24 hours ago.
I’m guessing it started as a hobby for this guy then became a shady business when he realized there are a bunch of easy marks out there in an underserved market.
As someone that falls on the "deliberate" thinking side of the spectrum, I found that it helps to ask questions in the moment rather than proffer ideas. When presented new information, I try to understand the following:

1. How can I tell if this information is true ie what else would need to be true if this is correct?

2. If this is true, what are the implications of this new data ie what has changed in our plans?

3. Given these implications, what do I need to do different?

I find that questions around these help me (and the rest of the audience) better understand the issue very quickly and help me get up to speed quickly.
Yes, an undercover cop (or anyone) putting a gun to your head is not entrapment, it's duress.
Ha. Nice!
I was half expecting Alt+Ctrl+Shift+Winkey+G to open Github... no such luck. However:

- Alt+Ctrl+Shift+Winkey opens up the Microsoft 365 app

- Alt+Ctrl+Shift+Winkey+O opens Outlook

- Alt+Ctrl+Shift+Winkey+W opens Word

- Alt+Ctrl+Shift+Winkey+X opens Excel

- Alt+Ctrl+Shift+Winkey+P opens PowerPoint

- Alt+Ctrl+Shift+Winkey+T opens Teams
> will only be used in times of no peace

It is indeed a deadly weapon system. But it is used every second during peacetime too. Every second it is fielded it maintains a situation where the preferable choice of action is to not attack the one fielding it. In other words it is keeping the peace.
They said the same about FTX.
So I kind of know what you're getting at - and it's true that "everyone votes on everything" isn't feasible if that's all that you do. Here's one way it could work:

- everyone gets one vote on all the things

- all the things are complicated, so in order to streamline things, you can grant voting power to someone else. Let's call this a representative in this context. (I know this sounds a lot like what we have right now, but bear with me)

- anyone is able to choose their representative at any time. Representation is immediately revocable and unconstrained by parties, primaries, timing, or other concerns. You need only be a citizen and consent to being a rep to be a rep.

- representatives are paid based on the number of people they represent, let's say a dollar a head. This could scale by some factor in relation to how local a rep we're talking about.

- you can keep up with the voting of your chosen rep on the Democracy App (tm).

- If a vote is on something you particularly care about / have deep knowledge of, you can take the vote back and use it directly just for that vote, keeping your rep for all the other boring stuff

- When your rep casts a vote, there is a grace period (let's say a week for chuckles) wherein you can choose to revoke that vote and recast it, and additionally choose a new rep if the vote cast is particularly egregious to you.

This is a trivial system to set up from a technical standpoint, and it accomplishes the most important thing our current system does not - it forces representatives to care about the concerns of the people they nominally represent. It gets past superdelegates, party politics, special interest groups, and campaign finance breezily and ensures a government that's actually by and for the people.
For a vehicle which has multiple owners it's easy - it's the average usage over all owners which will matter.

My first comment was about emissions over a fixed amount of time. You could instead assume all vehicles lasted for a fixed number of miles instead of a fixed amount of time. If you do that (and you assume the vehicle lasts say 100k miles) then I suspect the EV would always be the greenest over its life. However, since we know that both the age of a car as well as it's mileage influence how usable it is I think my main point still stands. There's a range of levels of greenness which will depend on how you use and maintain your car.
> Wireless bandwidth keeps going up. Wireless is already >1Gbps inside a building. What if instead of spending $5000 per house, you could use tightbeam wireless or highly cellular network with >1Gbps bandwidth? You may have spent billions on a network that it would take decades to amortize and have it be made worthless by wireless last mile delivery.

I'd presume you'd not cut the existing wired customers over to wireless. So it's not like the $5000 spent is lost, it's just that you can do new customers for cheaper (if you expect a lot of growth in an area).

Overbuilds is a weird one. They can make sense if it's a brand new community as you can get a BUNCH of homes done for cheap and can pretty much immediately turn on internet when someone moves in.
Good explanation. When I was working at a semiconductor manufacturer, our thresholds were like 0 - 0.2V to 0.8 - 1.0V. Additionally, if you look at QLC SSDs, their longevity is hugely degraded. Analog computing is non-trivial, to say the least.
That makes no sense. Exchanges make their money when people trade. Sell offs are by nature high volume days.

To boot internet play money is on a rip up 8 percent in 24 hour to near ath.
Easy to do while the bank is still full of VC money. When investors start to demand profits they will quickly start to act like any other bank/loan shark.
That boils down to less than 35/day. I'd call that entirely reasonable.
Under modulo math, -1, 9 and 19, for example, are all the same element of the modulo 10 congruence. 9 is called the "least positive residue", which is sometimes important.
I don't agree, I think Klarna is awesome.

Klarna BNPL is like a CC, good for those who can handle it. It doubles your credit period (so you get 30 days Klarna + 30 days Credit Card) for free, leading to higher returns if you believe you can handle credit profitably.

Not only that, but it's also quicker to pay with than CC (No 3DSecure) and you get all your ordered items in a usable list. Way more secure than giving my credit card information freely away to random webshops too. If you don't want BNPL you can pay right away through Klarna anyway, it's like Paypal in that regard.

They don't seem predatory at all to me TBH, if they were, they wouldn't have autopay and send you so many notifications if you don't have that enabled. They don't even charge me anything for semi-late payment of a few days late.
the issue has been fixed
> I can't say the same for a certain class of white, know-it-all college kid

It's rich privledged kids, man. Not white kids. Just like crime is not colored kids, it's poor kids.
This called "affine transformation" in linear algebra language. (Linear algebra is stretches and rotations. Affine (affinity?) adds translations)

https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~dhouse/courses/401/not...

In 2 dimensions:

Rotation = multiplying by an imaginary unit.

Stretches = multiplying by a real number

Translation = adding a complex number.

In higher dimensions, the analogy to complex numbers breaks down.
To be fair, Python's `/` creates floats, and this article is about a second operator `//`.
Curious what the goal of this comment is?
It sounds ridiculous as well but neither are women. It's an interesting question to ask why we would see baseline gender differences in the implementation of these concepts. My back of napkin guess is a combination of women being socialized from a young age toward being accommodating to others and similar behaviors while men are less so, combined with the issues of consent and boundaries being a HUGE topic of conversation within women's spheres and again not so much for men. The latter seems to be shifting which may have an effect on the former in time but it's slow and there is significant pushback.
InfluxDB tried to do this with InfluxQL but abandoned it, and are now back to SQL. The biggest problem I had with it when I tried it, was that is was simply too slow, queries were on average 6x slower than their SQL equivalents. I think a language like this is just too hard to optimize well.
Perhaps people should get off these me-too-coin casinos and just self-custody their bitcoin if they are serious about saving.
most emoji are banned, as are nonstandard space symbols like thin space and some other things. emoticons (things like :-) and XD) are allowed. generally alphabetic characters and digits are allowed, and some other things, but i think unknown unicode is forbidden by default. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23440551 has some investigation and results which are probably still accurate

i do most of my algebraic formulas with the compose key and a custom compose map mostly written by mark shoulson https://github.com/kragen/xcompose

for the above, after a false start picking random unicode characters, i realized that maybe i shouldn't use a modern language because someone who actually uses the language might feel like i was calling them an extraterrestrial, so i switched to googling archaic scripts. i pasted part of the old permic table from wikipedia

>>> s = '''𐍐‎ 𐍑‎ 𐍒‎ 𐍓‎ 𐍔‎ 𐍕‎ 𐍖‎ 𐍗‎ 𐍘‎ 𐍙‎ 𐍚‎ 𐍛‎ 𐍜‎ 𐍝‎ 𐍞‎ 𐍟‎
... U+1036x 𐍠‎ 𐍡‎ 𐍢‎ 𐍣‎ 𐍤‎ 𐍥‎ 𐍦‎ 𐍧‎ 𐍨‎ 𐍩‎ 𐍪‎ 𐍫‎ 𐍬‎ 𐍭‎ 𐍮‎ 𐍯‎
... U+1037x 𐍰‎ 𐍱‎ 𐍲‎ 𐍳‎ 𐍴‎ 𐍵‎'''
>>> print(''.join(c for c in s if ord(c) >= 0x10350))
𐍐𐍑𐍒𐍓𐍔𐍕𐍖𐍗𐍘𐍙𐍚𐍛𐍜𐍝𐍞𐍟𐍠𐍡𐍢𐍣𐍤𐍥𐍦𐍧𐍨𐍩𐍪𐍫𐍬𐍭𐍮𐍯𐍰𐍱𐍲𐍳𐍴𐍵
>>> len(''.join(c for c in s if ord(c) >= 0x10350))
38
>>> permic = (''.join(c for c in s if ord(c) >= 0x10350))
>>> ''.join(random.choice(permic) for i in range(5))
'𐍨𐍓𐍰𐍚𐍠'

and then i tried out the hieroglyphs range

>>> print(''.join(chr(i) for i in range(0x13000, 0x14000)))
𓀀𓀁𓀂𓀃𓀄𓀅𓀆𓀇𓀈𓀉𓀊𓀋𓀌𓀍𓀎𓀏𓀐𓀑𓀒𓀓𓀔𓀕𓀖𓀗𓀘𓀙𓀚𓀛𓀜𓀝𓀞𓀟𓀠𓀡𓀢𓀣𓀤𓀥𓀦𓀧𓀨𓀩𓀪𓀫𓀬𓀭...
𓿦𓿧𓿨𓿩𓿪𓿫𓿬𓿭𓿮𓿯𓿰𓿱𓿲𓿳𓿴𓿵𓿶𓿷𓿸𓿹𓿺𓿻𓿼𓿽𓿾𓿿

but realized that most of them were unassigned, at least in my font and probably in the current unicode standard (in case someone discovers a new hieroglyph), so i just did this

>>> hiero = (''.join(chr(i) for i in range(0x13000, 0x13100)))
>>> ''.join(random.choice(hiero) for i in range(4))
'𓃾𓂃𓂌𓀩'

you can do all this in python in termux on your phone too (you'll probably have to install it from f-droid) but it's a bit clumsier

it's funny how this conversation has swung from the extreme of universal constants of the universe to the opposite extreme of completely arbitrary and historically contingent things like which ideograms (themselves completely arbitrary) are prevented from being posted by implementation bugs in hacker news
That overlap is the "death by snu-snu" zone and honestly most of those small men would be more than happy for those women to be physical with them
What's the reason to go for this over PRQL?
AFAIK cities was never the target Starlink market as those are supposed to have cheaper and/or faster options either over copper or fiber.

Starlink works well in my rural middle of nowhere and has no competition.
But the critical difference here is that no weapon was involved. Pretty hard to hunt with no weapon.
I mean Fred Meyer and Safeway are currently owned by the separate companies trying to merge, and that’s a fact. So we should prevent them from merging
Don't use coinbase, but this seems like the sort of thing they'd stick a warning about in a flash message on the account page itself. "We've recieved reports of our page incorrectly reporting account balances. Please standby for more info..." Maybe there's some useful procedure in place preventing them from doing that quickly? Seems like something most sites with authentication would have? I usually build it into my front-ends... it doesn't have to look good (if you're running a reliable site, anyway,) it just has to be visible.
Compelling evidence is making the price go up so keep talking about satoshi or take my advice and buy whatever is in the red and cheep right now because if this digital money stuff is legit than we are all wealthy
While that's true now, I think the incentives were still a good idea, because nothing is cheap when it's being manufactured at low volume. Somebody had to stump up the cash to build the battery factories, and the tax breaks helped get that process started.
I'm so ready to buy a Framework once it has:

* Touchscreen plus pen

* Tent Mode

* ThinkPad/Dell Pointer Stick in the middle of the keyboard

Until then, my X1 Yoga (Arch) is my favorite!

Would LOVE to get a Framework though, but can't handle a UX regression hit to my workflow and productivity.

I'm hopeful that there will be 3rd party options for these features soon!!!
You are being obtuse to the fact that this missile's primary and explicit purpose was to be a compelling and credible strategic deterrent. The entire point of building it is was so that it would never need to be used. This is not a contradiction. Strategic deterrence is an effective way of keeping the peace as has been demonstrated throughout history.

The name "peacekeeper" is a formal acknowledgement of its purpose in the military arsenal. It has no other role.
I don't know but this is their response to the Microsoft's announcement.

https://twitter.com/WinRAR_RARLAB/status/1663493174642323457
Open sourcing it?

Paid version is hosted?
Subscription services like Netflix, not emails.
neither is he
Climbing a mountain to meet an old man
does not look like that
> If you find yourself having trouble focusing on a task or you’re procrastinating about something, stop working on it immediately. This is your subconscious telling you something is wrong.

Absolutely, and it's one of the benefits of having years of experience writing software. Sometimes my instincts tell me something is off, even if I can't yet identify exactly what it is. Coming back to the problem later with a fresh perspective can do wonders.
Most serious JS engineers I've spoken to regard Theo/t3.gg as a social media celebrity. His priority is creating a brand and selling products, not really giving valuable advice. If you watch enough of his videos and look at this Twitter, this becomes evident quickly.

So yeah, no one should take him seriously.
Yeah this video is just cheesy strawman arguments. Make a claim that's not true then argue passionately about why it's a bad idea.

Like droning on about scaffolding without acknowledging that it's just get you going training tool that you're expected to grow out of almost immediately.

Or bemoaning that Rails is "framework" and so you're forced to use all of it. It's just reasonable defaults you can opt out of really easily.
e.g. swap out ActiveRecord for Sequel or replace ActionController with GrapeAPI.
Don't like backend rendering? Just remove it. You can pick only the bits of Rails you want via Railties.

Even going on about how you're forced to put business logic in models is pretty silly. It's right there in the Rails Guides how to keep models only for data access and move business logic into business logic into pure service classes. Don't like that? Use modules or engines or Trailblazer or any number of alternatives.
'Sell Apple'
What is the mechanism by which orbiting bodies exchange energy?
I used this to calculate answers for calculus worksheets in LaTeX format in grad school.
Yeah companies have been like "gee times are tough" when discussing raises in past years to deal with inflation. And now it's cooling off some they point to that as reason for no big raises as well.
It's a weird move by the FTC.

Kroger-Albertsons together would have less than half the marketshare of Walmart. It's closer to a third if you include Sam's Club. In practice it would be even less than this, because they're planning to spin off a quarter of the stores.

The decision to set the precedent that union shops can't buy each other is also odd. If non-union stores are allowed to expand but union chains are not, that is invariably setting grocery store unions on a path to shrink even further.
Well, bitforex is offline since february 23th after a 57 millions withdrawal.. So coinbase going down wouldn't be that suprising : https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/02/26/bitforex-websit...
> To justify its current valuation, everyone everywhere needs to spend $800 a year on Apple products, says UBS
I agree with that. Unfortunately we just kind of forget how much morality is actually learnt. Once it becomes a social norm we act like it's innate.
This is some serious Deep tech [1] technology, not your average fully remote SAAS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_tech
I'm pretty covered, am I going to die?
Hey thanks for pointing out this angle. I think it’s compatible with the idea that mastery of a thing is purchased at the cost of a shocking number of invested hours. This seems counter intuitive (hence the shock) and so people would rather believe in some mysterious innate talent that they can’t explain, rather than believe in innate motivation that enables one to invest the necessary hours.
Benchmarking Grafbase vs. Apollo vs. Cosmo vs. Mesh
What strategies did you use? Other than quitting social media, blocking crawlers and enforcing an "email-wall" is what I just started to do with my personal website. I feel that it's hard to stay on top of "pretty please" robots.txt requests, especially with new, undeclared ones. I prefer word-of-mouth diffusion of links, skipping the algorithmic promotion game altogether. I decided that I won't ever rely on my online writings, recordings, or photography as main income again (I did that once: it worked, but it felt gradually poisoned by the need to build engagement.) But it feels weird that we got to the point where I have to shield a blog from bulimic information machines that pollute valuable knowledge, and I wonder what the right strategy is.
https://burbank.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=29&clip_...
I never understood Coinbase but then I am also a dummy when it comes to crypto in general and never understood it. But coinbase, isn't it a centralized service that sort of defeats the purpose of crypto/bitcoin which is supposed to be decentralized ?
AWS doesn't have to check that for every request. They only have to eat the cost if you go over and use more before they shut you down. And the shut down should be in a way that they switch data to read only and give you a day to react before they delete.

They might even offer this as an insurance, so you pay a little more but can be sure you stay in budget.
The amount of friends I have with non-trivial amounts of bitcoin they are unable to access anymore due to “self custody” says this isn’t always the best idea either.

I don’t know what a good idea is when it comes to storing your bitcoin. But if you’re gonna go with one of the major players, at this time, Coinbase seems relatively safest.
> If you can guarantee that you won't be accessing outside of an array before entering a critical section

That is a huge IF though.

People getting those things wrong either initially or a refactor invalidating this invariant is a huge source of bugs.
You're in a country with no worker protection for that to be scary? And if you are, do you boss really care? Honestly I've read some scary stories about that in the US, but I often read it as FUD.