skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides, BTC isn't really decentralized anyway, the million-dollar-VC-backed miners basically control that ecosystem

yeah that's what i said.

SSBT, for example, has no consensus, so everything is subjective[1] (which makes it almost impossible to do anything useful with).

i disagree, there are a huge number of (fun) applications that don't need global (or strong) consensus.

You lost. No one cares about decentralization. Google won. Amazon won. Facebook won.

the war isn't over yet fam. i'm just trying to reclaim my homeland. don't forget that the reconquista took 700 years. if i can make something fun for myself that removes my dependency on centralized computer systems, i'll be happy. its a big universe, i don't have to kill the beast to build a nice rural community in the countryside. i just have to break its grip on myself and mine.

you should like, read the post tho. i'm actually arguing against blockchains and dhts because they don't scale well and require expensive internet infrastructure to operate.
There was something about the SR-71 Blackbird that really captured the feeling of the time. Whenever I drive the 215 past March AFB and see the one they have on display, it reminds me of the age of movies like Firefox and War Games.
“Similar to research in language: To recognise the universal mechanisms of processing language we also cannot limit our research to German."

As an American living in Germany who taught English between IT jobs, I’ve come to describe spoken English as playing jazz, and German as performing classical music. Sure, you can put some personal touches on spoken German, and new expressions do crop up, but there’s a lot more latitude for improvisation in English, and the catchy improvisations are more likely to be picked up by other English users and become part of the language.

I thought this was my bias as a native speaker of English and very academic learner of German, but my German colleagues agree with the comparison.
The interesting thing is the article makes no mention of the increase in SWATTING incidents that is currently on the rise. The recent case where cops killed an unarmed man because of an in-game bet between two players is a prime example of when this type of behavior gets out of control and ends badly for an innocent man.

It would be far too simplistic to say violent video games are causing gamer's to lose their cool and SWAT one another, but it's probably something worth looking into since they are on the rise in several communities and most of the prime suspects have been gamers.
I just moved to a new town and was thinking it would be great to do something like this. I was inspired by the guys I posted in the earlier article.

Curious about startup costs/financing.
I don't think you're being fair to the community here. It's true that such comments exist, and so do many other kinds. Many users share personal experiences. Many express vulnerability. Self-doubt, questions, and comments expanding on others' ideas are highly represented here, and we value them tremendously.

I puzzled for years over why people would say things like "90%+ of all comments" that are so obviously (to me) untrue. But now I think I know why: those kinds of comments stand out more. It is as if they burn a deeper impression into the brain of the reader, usually a more painful one, so one comes to feel like they're "90%+" even when they are not. This perceptual loop is hard to break out of, so I've begun to see it as part of the moderator's job to inject new information when people post like this, in the hope of opening the loop back up. It's important for the community to see the good in itself and not just the bad. Otherwise why bother to take care of it?

HN has problems with disrespect, incivility, aggression, but one must evaluate this from multiple sides. Every large, public, anonymous place on the internet has this problem, usually worse than HN does. The problem is systemic, but that doesn't make it hopeless, it just makes improvement slow.

Every HN reader I've met has a love-hate relationship with the site. There's something deep in that, and a lot to say about it, but here's one that gets back to the topic of this thread. In my opinion, the aggressive dynamics of open internet argumentation relate to the gender dynamics of what tends to make women feel more or less welcome in a place. An atmosphere of hostility—or anything above a certain toxic baseline—causes many people to want nothing to do with a place or to feel deep ambivalence about it. I have that reaction myself, and my sense is that women tend to have it more than men do. This is what came to my mind when Cadran wrote that she started Leap because she doesn't feel welcome in "shouting matches".
What I gave there is an absolutely standard assessment of the situation from the point of view of population genetics. Of course intelligence "is genetic" in some sense: that's why dogs and cucumbers are less intelligent than humans for most definitions of "intelligent". The question is about the phenotypic significance of current intraspecific genetic variation.
> Not all the children are above average.

They don't have to be. Only the majority, and I have a hard time believing that the majority of software engineers and leaders are of average capability or worse. I'm open to data to the contrary, however.

> You can cut this cake a different way, too... race. White people are overrepresented (or non-whites are underrepresented) in IT, and in high-status jobs.

Not sure what your point is here. Are you implying that because there are racial disparities as well, then both gender and racial disparities must have a common cause? That's obviously fallacious, but I don't know what else to make of this.

> Right now, women are significantly underrepresented as CEOs and senators. But a century ago, there were no women CEOs or senators. Are women less genetically inclined to their "proper" path as homemakers now than they were a century ago?

No. I made no claims about the cause of disparities a century ago.

> At a certain point, I start cutting the cake with Occam's Razor.

Good. Then let's hold off on the elaborate conspiracy theories until we can invalidate the simpler explanations, eh?
If you're a young male then insurance alone can approach $300 a month in some areas.

You're also omitting parking, which is a very significant cost in some areas. $150+ a month.

Sure, the numbers don't work for you but surely you can understand not everyone is identical to you.
Saxaphone is 'reviled' in classical music because its tone is very crunchy and uneven compared to most of the other instruments of the band. I think in tone it is pretty similar to the bassoon, but even a chunky, honky instrument like the bassoon is very smooth compared to sax. Bassoon 'sings'[1], saxaphone 'yells'[2]. Given that, sax has very little place in a classical setting because it doesn't have that bell-tone or sine-wave sound that most other classical instruments try to achieve.

[1] https://youtu.be/cKBrnjxlKgU?t=34

[2] https://youtu.be/pGaUlferotY?t=59
It's not someone. It could be large part of the market.
There is a bit of a tension here. For a missile alert, every second faster the alert goes out, there are lives saved. Having an "are you sure?" request for confirmation is probably a bad tradeoff.

A better idea might be an "Oops, belay that!" next to it so it can be cancelled just as quickly.
It amuses me to no end to see that the west has now reached a point of peace, abundance, and prosperity for people to start to ponder these twisted bizarre questions. It sounds so sheltered and out of touch.
Is Google doing something to fix that?
I'm leading 22 AGs and filing suit to protect net neutrality today
Jazz can definitely be learned at a distance. Some of the all-time greats of the genre grew up thousands of miles from the traditional heartlands of jazz. Off the top of my head I'd name George Shearing, Michel Petrucciani, Hiromi Uehara, Barbara Dennerlein, Allan Holdsworth and Martin Taylor, but there are countless others.

Jazz is just really, really hard. Good improvisation is incredibly demanding on both a mechanical and cognitive level. A jazz pianist needs the physical dexterity and skill of a classical pianist, but they also need to think like an arranger in real-time.
i'm being hugged to death! maybe i should add come caching to my nginx config
I almost wrote a similar comment, but I figured I would be downvoted. I realize it sounds cynical, but why should this effort be made for PHP? I loved PHP back in the year 2000, and at that time it had advantages that no other language had, but those days are long gone. There are many better languages now. I wrote about this in my essay "PHP is obsolete" and there was a fairly good conversation about that essay on Hacker News:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9598309
This was my first thought too, because I've heard they've been working on deployment systems to get groundpounders to an AO very quickly, for example one of the rumored applications of the x37b being for HALO insertion.

Galus, what do you base your claim on that a hypersonic config can't go "slow enough"?
Gotcha. I use a macbook pro for work and it makes it really hard to get used to the washed out colors and lower resolution screen of a lot of PC's and the macbook air, not to mention the touchpad.

I'll drop in to the Apple store and give it another shot.
It's not illegal for a business not to accept bills and coins, true; but there are potential adverse consequences on ability to collect debts and otherwise available nonpayment penalties (interest, etc.) if you reject a legal tender offer for valid debt.

Lots of businesses (e.g., typical retail) deal primary with payment in advance of providing goods and services and don't mainly deal with debt, so this isn't a concern. Legal tender is (as the text on paper US currency lays out fairly explicitly) an issue that comes into play with settlement of debt.
> Wait until these kids start families of their own

Maybe they won't. I've talked about this with my wife, and I think we both concluded that cost of living played a subconscious role in my wife deciding not to have kids.

There were other reasons, but that certainly soured the prospect. If I was to poll my coworkers (many of us older with no kids), I'm guessing they'd cite that as a contributing factor.
Don't want Windows near my mails / contacts / cal anyway.

Windows serves three purposes for me:

1) Launch browser

2) Launch VLC

3) Launch Steam
Agreed -- a motivating example in the Readme would really help people totally new to this concept grasp the how/why of the project.
If it’s only a kilometre why not walk? That’s 15 minutes for the average person.
>the best solution isn't to try to slow down the cars but rather to make mixed-use urban areas the default so that walking and biking become the norm.

hopefully you're not suggesting that cars should be travelling 50km/hr in mixed-use urban areas? Because "slowing down the cars" is a synonym for mixed-use area. That's the same thing, if you continue with car-only roads there's no need to slow down the cars.
You are already welcome to create a man-only forum.
No, but playing jazz or classical for years makes your brain adapt and respond better when playing what it's used to.
Passwords are not fundamentally broken.

IT departments that apply arbitrary constraints to passwords are fundamentally broken. Users that do not use password management, which allows easily creating unique, strong passwords for everything, are using a fundamentally broken workflow.
he says he thinks the words mean the same thing to the authorities -- which they do not; that would be crazy.
Yeah, I would just leave that site. But if you implement that feature using known simple and stable, tech, you wont really have that problem.

> Remember: incentives. The goal of a web developer is to make sites people use.

The goal should be to empower users. Anyone can make a site that people "use"
> Is it really that unbelievable that bitcoin breaks certain economic rules and that some economic theory might have to be rethought?

Yes. Particularly when the basis of this rethinking is “there are so many people involved, how could it possibly crash.”
Not "everywhere". Just a few countries. China, US, EU would probably suffice.
Check out this video, it addresses that, also it's an amazing video, skilled presentation etc: https://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml

(tldw: the answer is no, like the other commenter said, if the D/A converter is working properly)
Perhaps, but with ride sharing you're less likely to make more stops, preferring to get to your destination in one continuous trip.

And if you ditch your car in favour of ride sharing, then you're likely to make less trips overall. You'll think twice before driving somewhere you could otherwise walk, more so than if you owned a car. And you're less likely to make impulse trips that can be avoided (to get a chocolate bar you're craving or something else pointless).

At least, I'd imagine that's the case - as there is the additional time of hailing a ride with one of these services and a more measurable cost to it.
The Paradox of Protecting Students
I lost interest after 'that is a fatal mistake'.

Fatal mistake? Really? An unrecoverable failure?

So, none of the software I've written in the last decade worked, despite all evidence to the contrary?

Right.
> But these kinds of mistakes happens ALL THE TIME with "enterprise applications."

Such misteackes in the cockpit of an airliner are deadly, which is why a great deal of effort is expended to prevent such mistakes. Unfortunately,

1. bad UI design is usually only obvious in hindsight

2. doing good UI design is expensive, and not always worth the effort

Of course, I face the same sorts of issues in designing a programming language (D), so this topic is of continuing interest for me.
Unsurprisingly your reply has nothing to do with your original speculation that LN can’t work because of TSP.
This is a great point that I don't see a lot of people making. The US government would love nothing more than having a USDCoin that allows them to see exactly how money flows from person to person and institution to institution, as well as having a way to revoke your coins at will.

The draconian implications of this technology, like many others, concern me greatly. Thanks for providing this perspective.
Guide seems like a great fit for people trying to be on the ISP side of projects like Althea Mesh http://altheamesh.com/use-cases/wisp
CSCC lists 10 steps to ensure security for cloud computing
I'm against it when it's students 50 years ago or the government today. What if they had "won"? We'd have the same problems and evils -- only the leaders would be different.
When you have many languages to contend with and limited space images attempting to illustrate a concept are still more useful than words. The EU is such a place. That sign means 'woonerf' to me in NL, in Germany it would be read as 'Wohngebiet' and so on.

The idea is that this is an area where people live, and where cars, playing children and pedestrians can be expected to mix. To drivers this is a strong indication that they need to take great care when maneuvering because just about anything can happen. Typically the sign is accompanied by an explicit speed limit of 10 or 15 km/hour, or, alternatively it is encoded in the local bylaws but that doesn't really help for visiting traffic.

The whole idea behind traffic signs is not that you can decode them if you have never seen them before (though that is a nice benefit if you can have it) but that given some basic rules and a small booklet of those signs you can learn them by heart and the basic rules will help you to distinguish in case you forgot a sign or weren't sure.

As such this one is pretty clear, all the elements on it are also present on other traffic signs and the blue rectangle tells the rest of the story. As a driver I have no problem understanding this sign in isolation without looking up its definition, the sign is also common enough around here that you can understand what it means by the context within which it is placed.
zip up their stroller?
I've been hosting my own emails for 8 years and haven't had any problems.

If you host something "awfully similar to Facebook" you can't communicate with Facebook users. If you host your own emails, you can still communicate with Gmail users. Surely you weren't intending that retort as a serious argument?
The GNOME accounts panel allows the addition of arbitrary CalDAV, CardDAV, IMAP, SMTP accounts.

Also worth pointing out that iOS and macOS also do, too.
Great! Are you working on making it exist?
OP:
>I've been using my Passport (card) and that was convenient, however I lost my wallet recently
That's not really accurate. According to your link, Disney copyrights have been extended twice.

The first was with the Copyright Act of 1976. The main purposes of the 1976 Act were to update US copyright law to better conform to the Universal Copyright Convention and to prepare for the US to later join the Berne Convention; to update it to take into account new technology developed since the 1909 Act such as television, movies, radio, and sound recordings; and to codify various doctrines from case law include fair use.

The copyright extension in the 1976 Act was a side effect of changing terms to match those of Berne countries.

As far as I've been able to tell, the 1976 Act had very little opposition. Disney almost certainly was in favor of it, but I've found no evidence that they had any particular influence in drafting it or getting it passed, or even spent any lobbying money on it. There was no need for them to do so.

Disney did lobby for the 1998 extension (as did most major content creators), which extended US copyright terms to match those of Europe.

I don't know how Disney successfully lobbying once (as part of a large group) for a copyright extension turned into the internet myth that they have constantly been getting copyright extensions.
You're in a tough spot because where you live forces you to have a car. Nothing wrong with that.

But not having a car is virtuous! It takes an incredible toll on our world to enable cars. Mining is the most polluting industry of all time, followed closely by oil extraction and then refining. Then you gotta burn all that oil to actually drive the car.
Why do we have a button pushing clerk involved in this process at all?
Would you want to walk in below freezing weather?
But overall performance of the two are not equivalent.
The article looks good but I don't see why that should take away from the OP.

The OP makes excellent points concerning the relative independence of design and code in the context of the "extreme programming" paradigm having become very common if not dominant.
Ok, if the system is an isolated system, not accessible via the open internet, but perh via VPN, is the sticker a big issue, if they have decent physical security (i.e. cleaning crew cannot get in there).
One reason to think the physics would be interesting: it isn't every day that we can arrange macroscopic systems in ways where their small-scale behavior gets amplified enough for us to measure. Arranging a blowup in the Navier-Stokes equations would be a way to study atomic-scale physics on human scales - and, likewise, arranging a blowup (if one exists) in the QCD quark-gluon plasma equations would allow us to get unexpectedly sensitive measurements of particle-scale physics.
> Is it really that unbelievable that bitcoin breaks certain economic rules and that some economic theory might have to be rethought?

Yes, yes it is. It's incredibly remarkable that bitcoin could rewrite our economic theories so completely. It offers nothing novel in any way economically.
In the US, Chicago, Philadelphia and possibly Baltimore.

In other countries, many many more cities.
For people who have been socialized to put agreeableness and pleasing people above all else, a community where it's the norm to bluntly challenge others is painfully stacked against you. It almost immediately makes you feel out of place. It can, indeed, feel like people are shouting at one another. When else would the conversation be full of nothing but clear challenge? Why is everyone an asshole?

It happens that the two styles are often categorized as female (agreeableness and pleasing others) and male (bluntly challenging). And indeed, in American society, men and women are in the broadest of terms socialized in those ways.

Personally, I wouldn't trade this norm for the world. I'm much too familiar with the Dale Carnegie crap of wrapping every point in senseless complements and false uncertainty to want to waste more energy on it than required. My own or anyone else's. I recognize that this preference leaves some people feeling uncomfortable. But that's my preference, and I am keenly aware that others may prefer differently approaches.

(EDIT: But read dang's comments instead. They're better than this.)
Throwaway for this. I'm virtually there, although not quite: I will inherit ~$1M cash, arguably within the next 1-3 years.

I never thought too much about it and did what I thought would interest me anyway; I thought I had to get a sense of what a modern capitalist society really is. I ended up starting a somewhat successful career in CS (I’m in my late 20s), did the 9-5 thing for a few years… but I got to the point where I simply don’t care much anymore. Call it a quiet burn out if you want. Sure, coding can be fun, but I don’t see how “becoming a better programmer” will eventually make me happy. It will at best keep me busy - and most likely won't make me contribute with anything too positive for the world at large.

I’m not ruling out the fact that I’ll keep writing code in my life for one reason or another; I’m simply not interested in having a career anymore. I feel incredibly lucky to have a safety net that will allow me to decide how to best spend the rest of my life. I also feel the responsibility to do something truly positive with it, and not just for me.
the only thing that lenovo did worth wile of their anniversary machine was use the keyboard with a cult like following form the x20's machines
I don't use email on my iphone. It's because I receive 400+ emails a day, mostly spam. I need a "delete all" button, as deleting them one at a time is untenable.

But there isn't a "delete all" button, presumably because people would use it and complain that they wiped out all their email.

The end result, however, is the iphone email is completely unusable for me.
Why settle for promoting support for open protocols and standards when you have the power to pick winners and losers in the market?
I have to wonder whether cause-and-effect have been reversed with respect to the female college findings. If my college experience is any indication, large numbers of women go to college specifically to find mates (or at least prioritize mate-finding over career prep), a phenomenon which would largely not exist at a women's-only college, and thereby skew the numbers in the way we observe.
Usually people say the opposite, logic in db does not scale, though i don't know what scale are they talking about when modern databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL), on a single decent box can handle 1M+ TPS (and that is before using replicas to scale reads).

As to your comment, nothing is black and white, but if the logic operates strictly on the data (not interfacing with 3rd party systems), having it in the db imo is better/less complex.
Thank you for having PHP as a microservice. I'm so annoyed that so many big providers overlook it. It baffles me that you would build out a service or sdk and not support the most ubiquitous (by far) language on the web.

The only thing I can think of is that many silicon valley types are in an echo chamber of the next biggest and greatest thing that they overlook it. Or they think that anyone creating projects in PHP must be beneath them.