skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I say this as a NixOS developer-- realistically the audience for a system like NixOS is fairly technical by design. It will likely never receive the kind of polish that would ever satisfy anyone in your family, or possibly even a technical person like yourself! I dislike that, but it's the truth.

Maybe the other developers disagree, but there are already plenty of Linux distributions that try extremely hard to be friendly and gentle, and remove needless technicalities -- and they even make it simple for developers! They could satisfy you or someone else! The developers put a lot of work into them, and that's really fantastic. But we'll probably never beat them at this; our design is a big enough departure from the traditional that it's very difficult to make it transparent. We're better off playing to our own strengths, IMO, rather than trying to polish off every single rough edge for ever user, to do something Linux distros with 10x the users and money, already offer, but better.

It's pretty understandable a lot of people would not like this trade off. I, personally, think NixOS is personally the best Linux distribution there is, of course -- but it's understandable why people would not like it, or these design choices. At all. I don't think I waste as much time as you might expect learning about Linux, but I do spend time doing things you probably wouldn't ever enjoy (like fixing upstream packages...)

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All of this said, we really should have a graphical installer. I'd love one. :) I'm just saying even if we fixed that, it's probably going to be the least of your issues in the long run, more or less... The installer is the tip of the iceberg.
Why an AI Ought to Put on a Coat
I must have missed this video then. I'll have another look.

edit: found the video (I find myself skipping the teaser quite often these days). They show recordings, not animations. This may seem like splitting hairs, but it's not. An animated rig of some kind can be adjusted through parameters that are entered by an animator to create or alter the movement. This is also the basis for technology like animation blending and inverse kinematics which (in a nutshell) are some of the techniques that make movement in current games so plausible. If this is just a static stream of volumes that is played back like a flipbook, then no easy adjustments are possible.
Impressed a girl once who's friend had a Mac Classic with important files that needed to be removed. The only removable storage option was a broken floppy drive. It did have a network card, but couldn't find any way to move files to my modern mac, linux, or windows machines over the network.

It did have an ancient version of Netscape, so I tried to upload the files, but the browser was just too old to handle Dropbox, Google Drive, or any other service I could think of. An obvious solution, then, would be an upload service built for ancient browsers.

So, in about 5 minutes flat I made a sinatra app that used the simplest HTML upload form possible and dumped uploaded files to a folder on my desktop machine.

Maybe there was an easier solution I missed, but she found mine quite impressive.
Life is obviously about collecting positive externalities. ;)
I don't think that aspect of centralized banking infrastructure has "very good UX" either. I could imagine something like PGP where the key management around hardware wallets and an interface like https://etherscan.io/ was serious UX improvement, but wasn't broadly disseminated knowledge yet.
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Prior to the publication of Satoshi's paper we did not have a solution to this problem

what was the problem that this solved, exactly?
The cost to produce quality content is quite high. Even if you are "only" putting together a screencast, the cost of learning that content, planning how to teach it, editing it, and inevitable retakes can all easily stretch to 20x the length of a video. I'd call that estimate fairly optimistic, to be honest, it can go much higher.

To use an example I'm familiar with: Code School courses took about 6 or so hours to complete (including challenges), but take 4-6 months of effort by an average of 4 people at any given time to create. We tried many times to tighten that timeline up, but being too aggressive inevitably resulted in a course we weren't 100% happy with.

Pricing isn't as obvious as it seems, as well. We raised our prices from 25/mo to 29/mo ages ago, which was a large net positive for the company from a revenue standpoint. We ran pricing tests a few times, as well, and anything below 29/mo performed much worse overall (we didn't get enough extra signups at a lower cost to break even). Sales & free weekends have a big impact, though.

As I've watched the space coalesce it seems like the very successful companies will be the ones that create some kind of "degree" (accreditation doesn't matter, only how much the community trusts them) for individuals, or companies that chase down enterprises for continuing education dollars. Or both. Both tend to charge a premium over that 290/yr price point, which you need to in order to be wildly successful due to the massive churn in the education space.

All that to say, from my perspective, $290 a year is very reasonable, and is probably the right price point.

Source: was the CTO of Code School
Yes. Nuts contain much fat and thus much energy per weight and volume.
"Instead of relying on trust or regulation, in the blockchain world, individuals are on-purpose responsible for their own security precautions. And if the software they use is malicious or buggy, they should have read the software more carefully."

This is also one of the aspects of "the blockchain" that I struggle with. I don't think normal people want this or should be expected to do this effectively. And once you outsource the security (which most everyone will because it's the rational choice, e.g. Coinbase is better at protecting your crypto than you are, John Q Public.) you're no longer in a "trustless" state. The "trustless" pipe-dream (in the consumer use case) all sort of unravels from there for me.
You could instead figure out how to incorporate dark leafy greens into your diet a few times a week. They are basically multivitamins in plant form.

Have you ever had blanched & sauteed fresh spinach? Blanch for three minutes with a little salt, squeeze out water, saute gently at 4-6 on the dial in a little butter. Really good.
> if you're hanging on to the past you'll always lose in the end

"In the end" isn't necessarily interesting. In the end, we're all dead anyway :)
The "owner of the fish" is mankind in common, of course. Generally, the owner's interest is defended by the government of a given territory. But the government is not always the best steward of the long term sustainability of the land or its resources. This is for the same reason as before: it is very easy to measure short term success, but difficult to measure long term success. And even when you can predict long term success, many people will argue that you shouldn't take it into account.
"History proves bottoms-up accountability delivers much better outcomes than top-down oversight."

Oh I'm not so sure about that. At least for results people can see within a short amount of time, a strong, competent authoritarian government can deliver results much faster and people like that. Democracies are messy and difficult. I'm not saying this because I am pro-authoritarianism but rather as an admonishment against the notion that democracy will somehow win as if it is a law of nature and things will just flow that way ("end of history" stuff and all that). Democracy requires work and faith that it is better in the long run. Authoritarianism arises when people lose faith and patience and the demagogue promises quick results through the application of unbridled power. If we want democracy, we have to be vigilant and participate and have a good dose of patience. It requires more from the individuals than authoritarianism.
How often do you iterate through the edit-build-test cycle? If you're not able to do it in under a minute, you may want to invest some attention to your development processes. At a slightly higher level, CI integration should be building your product from scratch at the same rate that commits come in for projects in the 1-5 devs, and you can do a lot of building in 5 minutes. With continuous deployment you get the "clients living in the building at the time" part of the metaphor. I don't have anything like that myself, but it's certainly a thing. Cities would look a lot different if things were this changeable in the real world.
It does make sense.

I buy Bitcoin at $1000 in March. I trade my Bitcoin for Ripple in December when Bitcoin is worth $20000 and Ripple is worth $3. I have $19000 in gains because that is a taxable event. Fast forward to April and my $20000 of Ripple is now $3500 and I owe about $9000 in capital gains taxes.

Even if I sold everything I can't cover what I owe because the losses on Ripple are in the next tax year and not offsetting. This is obviously a worst case scenario but you can see how this could get you in trouble
My understanding is that most Communistic regimes were explicitly Atheist. I'm not a historian so I may not have my facts completely correct, but my understanding is that:
The Soviet Union more or less outlawed religion.
China is officially Atheistic but tolerates certain recognized religions. My understanding is that they outlaw/suppress certain things they view as "superstition" (such as supernatural and moral aspects of Qigong) in a way that would be considered questionable in the west.

On a more positive side, I wonder if there are any of the Scandinavian countries that could be considered to more or less implement Humanism. I say that because it seems like Humanism fills a lot of the same roles for Atheists (moral system, providing hope, providing meaning etc.) that religion does for theists.
> it means he has a realized gain of ~$333,000. Where did that money go?

Generally, the way this works is this:

1. You realize your gain in 2017 by exchanging for, say, ETH, at BTC $19k.

2. BTC falls to $7k, and ETH falls in accordance due to arbitrage desks.

3. You owe taxes on the 2017 gain. You could liquidate your much smaller ETH position in 2018, but you could only deduct $10k per year for 10 years on the large(r than 100k) loss you took.

My guess for how the OP has no assets left to pay the $50k liability is that they rode BTC down to $7k on margin. Buffett has a few things to say on the topic of leverage vs volatile assets.
Is this supposed to be an unreasonable opinion? I run all the 'bad' trails in my city because it's nice to be alone.

Just because something is a net gain doesn't mean some people don't lose.
The reddit thread (of largely tesla drivers) seems to have concluded that the resolution is “stay alert especially when updates get pushed.”

To me it doesn’t capture the gravity of the situation.
Yes.

What's interesting is that although in both this story and the Cain & Abel story farming wins out, the value judgements are different. In this Sumerian myth, grain is to be revered; whereas Cain (the farmer) is reviled.

Perhaps that reflects that these two cultures experienced the same struggle from different sides.
Subaru's system is simply fantastic and you can tell they thought a lot about the "human condition" (human weaknesses) while designing it.

Lame keep assist is very subtle, I describe it like wind blowing on the side of the car. You can trivially over-power it and it will beep if you exit the lane (without blinker on) with or without lane keep assist active.

The whole package of safety features is wonderful and impressive for something starting at around $22K.
Ursula Le Guin was the daughter of anthropologists Alfred L. Kroeber and Theodora Kroeber. Her parents are best known for documenting the life of Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe. Kroaber Hall on the UC Berkeley campus was named after Ursula's parents.

I believe this is why Ursula Le Guin is able to write empathetic descriptions of disparate cultures. Science fiction was a medium for her explorations.
I'm not following?

Being unable to use a banknote (e.g. a 2008 Zimbabwe 1 Trillion Dollars Banknote) doesn't make it any less Fiat - no commodity has appeared; it makes it low-quality fiat money.
You should find a doctor who doesn't take insurance. Out of pocket will be higher, but you can file for reimbursement yourself to offset some of the charges, and the doctor shouldn't have a problem offering a test.
I’m from Austin and have met many tech people who want to move there. They’ll get a rude awakening when they actually look for jobs- it’s slim pickings and the satellite offices there for major tech companies often work on pretty boring products.
You guys, Microsoft just acquires the already built project and our happy dev get his mansion.
“If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion. It has long been known that one horse can run faster than another — but which one? Differences are crucial.” R.A. Heinlein
Grew up with these movies. Sad day. Moulded my childhood
Impressively (given the rest of the company), Comcast DNS is on twitter [1] and is fairly responsive/tech savvy and unrestrained. It feels like someone in the department got one over on management - "look, if you get in our way things break real fast. Trust we know what we're doing and you won't get calls about state.gov being blackholed".

1. https://twitter.com/ComcastDNS
The Importance of Time Value of Money for Startups
Taking a Look at the ECMA-335 Standard for .NET
The NYT article itself provided good context: the Bible is available at church bookstores but no longer online. They even give an estimate of how many copies have been printed.
In Trust we trust!
VRML was once a thing...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML
>This guy doesn’t live in a country where the institutions people rely on have routinely screwed people.

True, but his argument is that the actual fix (that would work) is to fix such dysfunctional countries so they are functional, rather than downgrading everywhere to a Somalia level of trust with blockchain as the techno solution.
My heretical theory of dark matter is that is just a byproduct of black holes gravitational effects. Probably something about so much mass punching such a deep curve in spacetime creates a widespread effect. Of course this is just a baseless theory, but it seems more reasonable to consider the possibilities of a realm which we know that we know almost nothing about, than inventing new particles or physics to fit the data. Again, not an educated theory.
I'm not protecting the status quo. I just want breathable air. Cryptocurrencies are an environmental disaster. We should go out of our way to destroy them.
Short-term CGT in the US is around the 40-50% mark, something like that. Our hero bought 8 BTC for $7,200, or so goes their story, then sold it for $120,000-worth of altcoins, making a taxable gain of $113,800. 45% of that taxable gain = ~$50,000.
That's an awesome channel. I always subscribe via RSS to channels I like but something about that type of page, with the user name in the URL instead of the channel id, make it really hard to find the feed url. It's not even in the page source like regular channels (looking at page source even caused a 500 in Firefox). I almost gave up but I finally managed to find it [1] if anyone else wants it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC2q1cmW...
Primitive reflexes shepherd us into this world, and out
Oh, like the scene in Westworld..! That makes sense, thanks
TL;DR version:

1) Put existing system into maintenance mode (as much as possible).

a) Write lots of tests

2) Build new system, copying verbatim (as much as possible). Resist temptation to improve.

3) Move functionality and/or adventurous customers over slowly.

a) Fix bugs
b) Repeat

4) Far in the future, move conservative customers over and retire the old system.

[This assumes your product is mature enough and not in active development, and can survive a dearth of new features for many months. If not, look into microservices and possibly move functionality over that way.]
Not an obituary, note this

(I was very sad before clicking in)
And in the US a lot of places have managed to sneak in government funding of religious schools using vouchers.
I hope he credited us!
Time is a flat circle. I remember being obsessed with VRML in 1997 and specifically there was a site called CyberTown which you could chat in a 3d world.
I was lucky enough to get a job with one of the "old tech" Austin companies (being IBM, Dell, National Instruments, ...) and I'm really enjoying it. We have a couple of main tech offices here, like HomeAway. But yeah, the rest is satellite offices.
Have you and your friend never heard of Chinese new year? China already has its own very popular calendar that predates the Gregorian.
there's literally a link in the comment. Show some effort please..
There may already be life on other planets. Whether or not it's simple is a short-sighted human judgement.

Look at the big picture. We risk denying these planets the ability to evolve in isolation. That is a decision that cannot be reversed. Do we really want to do that? Maybe so, but it ought to be a conversation. Great measures have been taken to reduce the risk of contaminating other planets with Earth based lifeforms. Then, this belligerent guy comes along and disregards all that.
Don't spoil their fun. They've been riding that false analogy to the bank for over a year now.
I dubbed this property "cognizant failure"

I like that term. When I was involved in the medical instrumentation field, we had a similar concern: it was possible for an instrument to produce a measurement, e.g., the concentration of HIV in blood serum, that was completely incorrect, but plausible since it's within the expected clinical range. This is the worst-case scenario: a result that is wrong, but looks OK. This could lead to the patient receiving the wrong treatment or no treatment at all.

As much as possible, we had to be able to detect when we produced an incorrect measurement.

This meant that all the steps during the analyte's processing were monitored. If one of those steps went out of its expected range we could use that knowledge to inform the final result. So the clinician would get a test report that basically says, "here's the HIV level, but the incubation temperature went slightly out of range when I was processing it, so use caution interpreting it."

Like most software, the "happy path" was easy. The bulk of the work we did on those instruments was oriented towards the goal of detecting when something went wrong and either recovering in a clinically safe manner or refusing to continue.

With all the research into safety-critical systems over decades, it's hard to see how Tesla could not be aware of the standard practices.
“Move fast and break humans.”
San Francisco, and many other places in the US, have been far more taken over by tourists than Austin. As someone who was born in the SF I can remember how important it was to the local economy in the 80's before tech moved into the city. Tourism changed SF before the tech boom did. My parents, also from SF, (well mom was born in Oakland, but dad was born in SF) talked about how what was charming about the city had changed, before many people reading this were born.

It's always changing! If you feel a place is no longer charming, guess what? Some other place is becoming charming.
I think the solution for the problem of fake news is going to be very difficult. People have a tendency of believing whatever they read in Facebook or a random google search or a random WhatsApp message, and that is going to be difficult to counter.

Traditionally the source of information could be monitored at least in well run countries. However, when anyone can make his/her views visible to the whole world and make emphatic claims with false logic, it is going to be hard to prevent people from believing them.

A lot of threads I saw on the Myanmar issue say Facebook should have done more. Maybe Facebook could change its algorithms to not show people aggressive stuff. Maybe they can have an option to report stuff. But what about people spreading propaganda in an exponential way, with only very few people reporting. How on earth any messaging platform will deal with that.

I think we are looking at a very painful compromise some where down the line.
Apple isn't open. Their stuff has tended to not work on Linux.
I've always mechanically written '#!/bin/bash' as my shebang for bash script, while I normally use '#!/usr/bin/env python' for python scripts. In retrospect, that sounds obviously incoherent.

I would like to know if there is some common practice/standard around using '/usr/bin/env' in shebangs.

Could you please elaborate more?
They define releasing at market cadence as being capable of releasing at will, so that you can release at any time that the market conditions make it desirable to release.

That is in no way in conflict with CI and automated testing. In fact, it would be very difficult to achieve without them.
Or they are just bad at predicting it
How did the public get wind of it if it was an internal research project?
It’s very interesting as a matter of pure technology. I’m just not sure it’s that useful as a banking system.
Spend! I've encountered use cases where Heroku billing can be 5x what similar usage on AWS would cost. The difference between a $1000/mo AWS bill and a $5000/mo Heroku bill is justifiable when you're a small company that can't afford a dedicated DBA/Ops role, but it can break your margins when it grows to $25000/mo on Heroku vs. $5000/mo on AWS.
"Fake news" is an awkward word choice by the President but I think I understand who he is targeting. There is a trend among major news organizations to do reporting with an agenda in mind. Whereas traditional reporting was "this happened and then this happened...", the agenda-driven reporting reads like "this happened because so-and-so is trying to <insert politicized opinion>". Sometimes these pieces push the facts to the very bottom of the story. Sometimes they exclude them entirely. I place the blame on editors with agendas driving the reporting process.

This happens on both the left and right. Fox News, Washington Post, L.A. Times--they are all frequent offenders. I'm just so sick of it. Any sophisticated reader can spot this biased reporting quickly but other readers can't and are sucked in. I wish there was a strong just-the-facts movement/resurgence in reporting. I'm basically down to the Wall Street Journal in my daily reading selections.
Fiat in the case of currency involves more than "someone says so". It generally means that a government makes a law or a regulation that says the money is legal tender, and also that the value of the currency is derived solely from that law and is not "backed" by any physical goods.

No government or other monetary authority has said that cryptocurrencies are legal tender in their country, or has required that anything to be paid in cryptocurrencies. In fact, many governments say it is a commodity.
With git it's usually possible to set your config file to enable a given feature by default, unless you override it with a flag.

The `--color-moved` one for example can be toggled on with `git config --global diff.colorMoved default`.
That's a transparent no-true-Scotsman. If it violates the argument just redefine the terms.
Hunting for dark matter in the smallest galaxies in the Universe
This philosophy, though admirable in support of personal liberty, ignores that a commons exists.
VRML ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML
Fantastic! If you're up for it, I'd love to demo and discuss over screen share. If you'd be interested let me know via email, it's antonio at querystorm dot com.
I don't think you can assert that S&D is the only factor, certainly labor law has an effect on the bargaining positions