skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep I was mistaken. It seems the article you cited may have been the origin story.

What I read, (and it changed in my head over time obviously to the point of perpetuating an urban legend) was from the military times in 2016 - which cites anecdotes that House Armed Services Cmte. Chairman, Mac Thornberry received firsthand [0].

Thanks for correcting me on this.

[0] - https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2016/03/30/...
If you draw all of the system out you'll see it's no longer tangible and that's why FDIC allows for 99 years to make good on that promise. I think the math works out that inflation alone in a system that survives 99 years can recoup any system that collects an average of 30% recirculation
Thanks and done: https://github.com/mozilla-services/screenshots/issues/4220
Don't really see a point in all the gifs. Would be much easier to see the difference if you just showed two separate images of good/bad examples.
It depends very much where we as developers come from.

My CS degree had quite a few sections of electronic lectures.

In fact, one way I always looked at function composition in FP languages was to think of them as digital circuit modules.
Use another app. I've just moved from the built-in Music app to Ecoute and it is so, so much simpler.
This makes me sad about missed potential. I've taken the ski train from Central London to the French Alps - was great. With high speed rail it should be possible to get a 8hr overnight train from Chicago (or Dallas & Houston) to Winter Park CO. I'm guessing it'll never happen

https://www.eurostar.com/uk-en/train/france/ski-train
Yes, to escape the mess made by the federal reserve people will run to FedCoin! Doubtful.

Also, bitcoin is very stable.
I don't get the notion that some sites don't "need" HTTPS. The threat model it protects against isn't only sensitive information being intercepted, it's also man-in-the-middle attacks that actually change what's delivered. Maybe a hobbyist website only has text and images sitting on its server, but the visitor might receive malware — and that can happen to literally any site served over HTTP.
I don't think the OS will apply the operations in a different order. I believe the fsync acts analogously to a memory barrier with regards to reordering. It may be the case that the disk will still apply the operations in a different order though.
There will always be buyers. The properties of bitcoin appeal to a great many people.
Thank you, glad to hear that!
There's no way to export or download the page right now. I didn't expect that to be a requested feature to be honest. Maybe in the future, we'll see.
My mom has started several businesses (short attention span!) and so I've tried Unbounce, Squarespace, GoDaddy pages, various WordPress hosts (HostGator and BlueHost and others)...

This one looks like it's going for the Squarespace/Wix market.

I think what matters the most in that space is getting out of the box with a very nice looking template - Squarespace excels there! (heck, their current landing page says "Make it beautiful"). And they have a nice logo creator.

This one doesn't seem to have that much design in it. On the plus side, it does say "No signup to try out" (that's a huge plus, hope spammers don't abuse it) and "simplest", which is what I expect your target audience to like.

Edit: on the builder, I think you should emphasize starter templates more.
MDN no longer stands for "Mozilla Developer Network", it's now "MDN: Web Docs" https://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/future-mdn-focus-web-doc...
You can just demag it
> Delivering a package to a local retailer is customer-paid shipping, just in effort/gas/wear-and-tear, not simple cash.

Potentially. In the case of Home Depot, I usually take my returns when I need to go anyway to shop there. Kills two birds with one stone.

Speaking of which, I've got 3 bags of stuff to return. Hope they take it back! Not stuff I've used (like I wasn't sure what size window latch I needed, so I bought 4 different sizes, checked them on the window without opening the package, and have to return the other 3)

This kind of stuff is such a boon with kids. I don't have time for 3 trips to Home Depot in one day. But I do over the course of 3-4 weeks.
I tried to switch to Spotify but came back to Apple Music after 1 day of using it.

I really liked the Spotify UI and their album list makes sense. But it does not offer any significantly different feature than made me chose it over Siri integration with Apple Music. Siri is frustrating at times but I can’t imagine not using it when I am in my car.
He mentions rail guns (aka "hypothetical extremely dangerous future weapon") as well as paraphrased a very popular argument against owning AR-15s (aka the most popular rifle in the US): it is not popularly used for hunting in it's particular manifestation (not the particular attributes of the gun... but merely is aesthetics).

... and therefore much like the future weapon which lacks a very obvious practical use case, beyond sport shooting/fun, then expecting it not to get banned .

If the OP didn't intend to communicate such a position then he chose a very poor way of stating it.
Yeah, one way I like to think about is if you could trade your current life for being a billionaire 100, 200, etc years ago, would you?
> Technically I would like websockets on these platforms

FWIW that's something I'm working on. It's tricky because it's not actually in the Service Workers standard. Currently, we support WebSocket pass-through (so if you do something like rewrite a request and return the response, and it happens to be a WebSocket handshake, it will "just work"), but haven't yet added support for terminating a WebSocket directly in a Worker (either as client or server).
Back in the day I used to look at the Top 10 list on what.cd, download torrents of interesting music, add them to my seedbox, wait for them to finish, download the files from the seedbox, import into iTunes, fix up the tags and artwork if needed, then finally sync to my phone. Then I'd have to do all that again for my girlfriend and the terrible music she liked.

Now I just have to hit one download button in Music on my phone. I have unlimited access to--as far as it matters to me--basically the entire iTunes libary. My wife does too, and she can play it through the Sonos system at the house. It's great and well worth the $15/month and various UI glitches.
> unless my consciousness somehow jumps to the clone

You don't have conciousness when you sleep (at least during some parts of it). Your conciousness disappears every night for several hours and is recreated every morning. Why is it not a problem, but when there is 2 of you - it suddenly becomes a problem?

If you were sleeping while someone made a clone - would that make it OK? If no - why?

There's no evidence of anything external that has to "jump".
Maybe more like dataflow or flow-based programming. Let them play with those a while. Then, make the black boxes FSM's with serious constraints about size or execution time. They'll start getting the idea. Messing with a synchronous or time-oriented language might help, too, in terms of a metaphor for clocks.
10 upvotes in 4 minutes is unlikely.

If you're asking people to upvote this submission, that's against HN rules and that doesn't work.

EDIT: Since this submission got unpenalized (and this comment now obsolete), the Discord page the article links to (http://discordapp.com/open-source) may be a better source.
@Karunamon: I'm not sure why, but I have no reply link under your latest post, so I'm posting as close to it as I can.

I don't think its controversial at all to say that both Facebook and Reddit are brainwashing people. Not to say that the companies themselves are doing the brainwashing, just that they are effective platforms for anyone to do it on. Do you really not know anyone who literally lives on one of the two sites? They are both highly addictive echo chamber services that people willingly return to, hoping that the next page load will contain their unicorn story that confirms everything they want to be true. Its the dopamine cycle of what makes social media interesting in the first place. These are two of the four most visited sites in America. I can't control for peoples previous experiences, or say that Reddit or Facebook are the exclusive causal factors, but I think that just the fact that they are excellent at getting users to self select for interesting content, at the expense of content that may challenge their opinions, is enough to count these services as brainwashing platforms. People are figuratively screaming to the void "I want to be entertained!!!" Trump answered the call. The repeated dopamine cycle of discovering outrageous content, and then eventually petering out to boredom, is the stress. Once you are sufficiently stressed out, you are far more susceptible to believing that the media is lying, and the FBI is biased, the intelligence community and government at large is filled with evil actors with their own agenda. I mean, how interesting would that all be, right?

Another point to consider is that I don't necessarily think any one organization has caused all of this to happen. Internet addiction has obviously existed nearly as long as the internet. My theory is that Facebook and Reddit effectively teed up millions of people for someone else to come along, and capture their minds.

As I've said throughout this thread, I'm not suggesting a minority report situation, or that circumstantial evidence should depose a president, or that censorship is the answer to any of this. What I'm more lamenting is that the charlatans are winning, and their methods are nearly impervious to defense in a modern democracy. As best I can tell, all I can do is try to convince people of what I think is at play, and hope that it resonates.
This analysis (or treatment of it) seems pretty superficial. I was curious about the conclusions... but they were pretty dissatisfying. The question is an important one, though.
It's not like people suffering from celiac's disease and eating gluten fail to thrive in our society. They still reproduce and raise families, most people do. How is evolution going to improve that situation?
Even as a Christian, I think the idea of a human being more than the dust they're made of is only wishful thinking. If consciousness is not sourced from the brain, then why is memory so dependent on the brain?
If your chequing / savings bank uses the CBDC like they do currently with CB issued fiat, you may not have a choice.

If the central bank regulates that they must use it for bank to bank non-forex transfers, you may have even less of a choice.

Think of the CBDC as a replacement for the current fiat transfer mechanisms and less of a bitcoin decentralisation project.

On the other side, a CB backed currency does have it's advantages. Stability and security being the biggest (perceived).
Fanout (https://fanout.io) is useful for handling raw WebSockets from a FaaS backend.

Getting it to work with Cloudflare Workers is a little more involved since our Node libraries don't run in their Service Worker environment, but if you implement the negotiations manually it does work.
And beer helps one get back to sleep at the end of it all.
Cool, feel free to get in touch if you need any help.
What mobile OS is that?
That is very strange. Verilog and SystemVerilog totally dominates VHDL across the globe in terms of market share. Including Europe. Esp if you are designing ASICs, but also for FPGAs.

If you are desinging ASICs and use VHDL you will quite likely end up having mixed language RTL design. And after synthesis the netlist will be in Verilog. So any co-simulation between RTL and netlist must support both languages. Which costs extra in licenses.

Other reasons for choosing Verilog is that the tool developers (being mainly in the US) knows Verilog best. If you look at the adaption rate of new language features, Verilog (SystemVerilog) gets much more attention.

VHDL is for some reason considered a good school language. I don't see the point of it. It's a bit like teaching the ISO stack. The industry has chosen another stack, the pedagogical value if ISO vs TCP/IP is slim to none. The same can (imho) be said for VHDL.
That's compelling -- I catch myself starting to ask Alexa to play a song while driving at least three times a week.
Good work, Amjad. Fun to see this project evolving.
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) [1] is not the "world's central bank." It isn't even a central bank. It has no monopoly on any monetary base and does not act as a lender of last resort [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_for_International_Settlem...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_bank
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I agree. Empathy in main stream media seems very scarce to me nowadays.
We don’t have a stable CB backed currency today though. The USD loses, at best, 2% of its value a year. That’s not stable.
It does break the guidelines and it does create drama.

Dang is Dan Gackle. His handle is his first name and last initial, a fairly common format of member name used by such prominent members as Sam Altman (sama) and Jacques Mattheij (jacquesm). He does have a sense of humor about how his user name also works as a mild faux swear word or exclamation, but it isn't the primary reason he chose that handle.

I'm sorry you aren't happy about stuff being flagged or whatever, but this is not a good way to try to accomplish anything on this site. The mods do a good job and are generally pretty respected and the rules exist for a reason.
It's not just that.

Look, let's say a Tesla, oh, just as a random example, careens directly into a clearly visible truck because its cameras can't distinguish white trucks from bright sunny skies, killing "my daughter Susie." In this hypothetical, this is a truly autonomous Tesla, and overall, these truly autonomous Teslas are less crash-prone than the human average.

As Susie's dad, my argument is that this accident was caused by Tesla. Yes, Tesla may have also saved some other people, under different circumstances, circumstances which are harder for humans to deal with and easier for cars to deal with. So what? That doesn't change the fact that Susie was killed by their product misbehaving in a way that a basically competent human driver wouldn't have. It's not like Tesla previously saved Susie's life, and at least she got to live longer than she would have in the counterfactual -- it's not like all the Susies out there in the world are all essentially doomed to die in auto accidents today.

If Susie went to a doctor with a mild infection and he gave her an inappropriate drug and it killed her, you had better believe that I would sue the shit out of him and also want him prosecuted, even if in the year before that he saved 37 other kids' lives from other illnesses.
Yeah, sorry if I wasn't clear. I meant that the CI build servers do have a consistent version installed. But it is pretty hard to control what devs install on their laptops, and it is a little hard to write TF code without running `terraform plan` to test it, so a lot of devs may end up with TF installed. If they run `terraform apply` (and have access to write state) it could mess up the state file version.

Of course that is solved by using `terraform { required_version = "= x.x.x" }`, but that plays into my point about having tons of state files, not being able to use variables, editing tons of files, and updating tons of states.
Maybe if cities had building codes that resulted in more privacy within residences (isolation from outside disturbance; usually better insulation and an actual ventilation /design/; often lacking or incorrectly implemented.) as well a an overall urban plan that encouraged 'organic' development of commerce within planned and interconnected human-scale areas (with transport and cars/etc on a different level entirely) there'd be a place for warm communities within cities that the rural residents would feel welcome within.
>>Counterintuitively, developing a working Y-Coin network may actually decrease YCN’s value, because it would increase YCN’s usage. This is because, in order to access network utility, Y-Coin users need to spend their YCN. This, in turn, increases YCN’s token velocity, which puts negative pressure on YCN’s price.

This is clearly wrong. Value comes from demand for the currency, which increases when there are non-speculative sources of demand, like having an amount of that currency on hand for use in payments.
> I'd like to see a proof of concept that your brain IS indeed the seat of your consciousness.

The concept of "multiple realizability" says that a brain/consciousness/mental state can arise from non-biological matter, like digital computers.

Modern proponents of this view do not view the brain as a seat of consciousness. To them, the view of a singular consciousness that houses in the brain like a theatre, is like a Descartesian illusion. Consciousness is distributed and all parts of "you" and your environment contribute.

As for "out there": I am always a bit worried when archeologists unearth some treasures with our current state of technology. Likely, in a 100 years they will have much better methods to research and preserve unearthed treasure, and so we may be spoiling their more effective methods by digging it up and putting it on display. What if, after the 8th great AI hype, another YC company claims it has found successful methods to upload your consciousness, which is 100% fatal to your preserved brain in the process? You'll be stuck in the MVP FORTRAN digital world of uploaded consciousnesses.

Or maybe they take our current infatuation with AGI to mean permission to create a huge ensemble of preserved brains, filling an entire room like did our 1960s computers, because it turned out that consciousness is only transferable to biological "organisms", and the only way to superhuman intelligence is to combine 20 human intelligences. The AI hype bubble will become a literal fulfilling prophecy.

I personally would either jail these consciousnesses (honor their will, but put them in a boring digital world with Archive.org access to the internet) or put them on display, much like we do with preserved Egyptian Pharaoh's. I'd call it Earth, and make Trump a president.
I assure you, whatever you think is the worst case scenario has already happened with your email.
Writing become better by writing. So when you start writing, your writing is shit, but no one cares anyway. When you keep writing, you get better and there is more text out there so it increases the chances that someone will care. When you wrote enough, your writing is significantly better, increasing even more the chances someone will care.

It is a virtuous cycle that starts with writing shitty things :)

To end with a shameless plug, I am writing a newsletter about writing. Maybe it is useful for you: https://writingfordevelopers.substack.com/
Social Ties in Academia: A Friend Is a Treasure
Spotify has a great recommendation algorithm, not as good as that from last.fm but it works very well for me.
Realistically speaking, you are talking about two different use cases here.

A long distance train benefits from very high top speeds, because it spends a lot of time at those top speeds. Conversely, increasing the high speed of a subway train is subject to the law of diminishing returns, since the train has to comfortably accelerate and decelerate within the span of half a mile. With subways, the main concern is that every single train operates in pretty much the exact same manner WRT acceleration, deceleration, and speed, since the headways on subways can be measured in minutes, or even seconds.
I'm not sure I would either and I'm the CEO. I love Emacs. I'll work to convince myself to use it as my primary IDE and if I did maybe then others would. For now, I'll use it for launching microservices, quick experiments, prototyping, side-projects etc.

However, fun thing to share is that a lot of kids get started programming on Repl.it and continue to use it as their IDE.
Eye tracking in focus
Absolutely agree with "STOP building things and START TALKING TO CUSTOMERS."
Yes but it could also be the threat of their money being worth less or that they won't have access to their money tomorrow.
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You're mixing beliefs with tactics/behavior. The behavior you described is "toxic" no matter what your beliefs are. I agree that the lack of repercussions and social feedback online lead to an increase in people acting like this and it is a problem for pretty much all public forums. However, it is neither constructive, nor is it truthful, in my opinion, to attach this behavior to a single group, side, or set of beliefs. All you'll end up doing is driving moderates of said group further to the extremes. You can call out ideas you think are bad and you can call out behavior you think is bad, but "other-ing" an entire group based on the worst actions at the fringes of their membership just isn't going to change any minds. It only widens the divide.

Edit: The exception, of course, is if the behavior that is at issue is actually encouraged by a foundational belief of the group.
A raft of flaws in AMD chips makes bad hacks much, much worse
APNG's palette mode is much worse than GIF, and RGBA mode has 3-4 times more data to compress. Deflate is better than LZW, but not that much better, so APNG can only offer either worse quality or worse file size.

Lots of large GIFs used today were converted from H.264 (YouTube, etc.), so the crap quality of H.264 -> GIF -> H.264 is entirely the fault of GIF.
hm, I tend to disagree. You might underestimate how much energy is spent on overcoming drag, and how strong the earth acceleration g is: One always needs to overcome it, and overcoming it just a bit more for a while is enough for a climb, basically.

If we take the performance section for the Cessna 172 N, for example, we see that it burns 8.4 gallons per hour at a (speedy) 75% power cruise. It takes 10 minutes to climb up to 6000 ft, and burns 1.9 gallons. In cruise, it would burn 1.4 gallons in that time. So, the climb requires about a third more.

So, given that PEVA (personal electric VTOL aircraft) would likely cruise at fairly low altitudes, and the climbing constitute only a small part of a flight, say a quarter, the total extra fuel consumption would be a fairly minor increase on top of the quoted numbers.

Note also that cars tend to accelerate and brake much more than aircraft tend to climb and descent.
Spotify’s offline mode in the app is already quite crappy. I get so frustrated everytime I get the “you are not connected to the internet” (or similar) message. Well, if the app can detect that, why does it not automatically fallback into offline mode? That’s exactly what I want, eg when I’m sitting on a plane with no reception. I don’t get it
There is nothing super exited in there, it's just running a game server on Kubernetes which probably a lot of companies already do. The interesting part is the scheduling / healthcheck ( done by integrating the SDK into your engine )
Being responsible for yourself doesn't mean you don't delegate. It means you have to stay on top of who your delegate is. FDIC means you simply tax others when you screw up. The insurance premium has no relationship with your risk profile.

Responding to below:

>>Successfully rescuing a bank from a run is not only a benefit to society as a whole but often makes a small net profit.

This is the free lunch fallacy used to justify involuntary income redistribution. If it were indeed profitable on average, the market would do the bailing out.

Bailing out the irresponsible prevents the evolutionary process of weeding out reckless and incompetent business models and behavioural patterns from working, while unfairly burdening those who are competent in their management of capital, which inhibits the expansion of their influence.
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