skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Armstrong belongs to a generation of evangelists who view digital currencies, and the blockchain technology on which they’re based, as tools that will make investing, borrowing, and saving money faster, cheaper, and more egalitarian.

My main question about cryptocurrencies has always been the "faster, cheaper" thing. Last I heard it was pretty expensive to do a bitcoin transaction, and slow. The quote thrown around:

>The networks that Visa and Mastercard use process, in aggregate, “more than 5,000 transactions per second with capacity to process volumes multiple times that number. Bitcoin in contrast takes 10 minutes to clear and settle a single transaction vs. Ethereum that takes 15 seconds.”

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-bitcoin-wont-displace-...

I wonder what someone as heavily invested as Armstrong would say to that?
Indecline Volume 1: It's Worse Than You Think
https://youtu.be/imbA7eExNhE
(^^^ Totally NSFW!)

This is a ridiculous film, made by the guy who put out Bum Fights volumes 1 and 2 (but not 3 -- he sold the rights and another guy put out volume 3 using some of Ryan McPherson's old footage as well as new footage where the new film makers literally assaulted unsuspecting homeless people while dressed like Steve Irwin). In Bum Fights, McPherson paid homeless people to fight each other and do dangerous stunts. This isn't the case with Indecline. Indecline shows the film makers vandalizing property (think graffiti), and it shows other people doing stupid shit (a guy breaking into cars, a guy stabbing another guy through the chest, etc.), but the film makers don't seem to be paying other people to endanger themselves this time around, just filming it. This is a horribly depressing film. Expect to see a lot of human misery. Expect to question the motivations of the film makers. Expect to question the half-expressed political opinions of the film makers.

Since this film was made they've put out some other, shorter, less cringey, more banky pieces. Probably most well known is The Emperor Has No Balls (they made news for leaving these statues in some major cities without prior announcement): https://youtu.be/f7TeTzOgkMs

I prefer this large scale graffiti they did on a US military weapons testing site: https://youtu.be/HJWFHoyW-3g

McPherson also made the news for shipping human body parts (including an adult heart and an infant head) to the US from Thailand. He said he bought them at a local market, and was sending them to a friend "as a prank." They were later traced back to a hospital.
To clarify, are you saying that a youtube flag risks the gmail account with the same username OR that a youtube flag risks all gmail accounts that I control?
Timely for me, as I have been noodling over the last few months about whether to keep my personal site. Fwiw since hosting has been mentioned I'll give a shoutout to rochen.com. They've been hosting my site on a vps for years, good pricing and awesome service.
Your line of thought is interesting, that cell phones (should not) be regulated despite their use as detonation mechanism.

If I think along those lines, the drone attacks are using drones as the delivery mechanism for the explosives, and whatever they are using for detonation mechanism is not interesting here.
The explosives are regulated. So should the delivery mechanism be regulated? I think yes-- other delivery mechanisms for explosives to a target are guns, cannons, rockets... all regulated.
Ugh.

Zubrin's 'The Case For Mars' (which on reading, it's obvious SpaceX have based a lot of their strategy on) is categorically against going back to the Moon and using it as a 'stepping stone'.

Zubrin's 'Mars Direct' architecture shows quite plainly that it is possible using current technology readiness levels and funding to send a significant scientific mission to Mars directly, without the need for huge orbital infrastructure or Moon Bases.

I had a similar feeling when SpaceX announced their #DearMoon project. I truly hope the Moon doesn't distract them from their true goal: the timely establishment of a permanent human presence on Mars.

We've been to the Moon. We don't need to go back. We need to aim higher.
Not to presume to know her mental state, but it strikes me as probable that she says "I don't want to go on" because she feels it's expected of her as a widow, even if it's not an accurate expression of her true mental state.
To be fair he was asking for exciting and meaningful ways to make it better.

> And they probably want to reserve usage of their domain for email so you know it's a staff member you're dealing with, which is why google gives away gmail.com addresses, not google.com addresses.

These inboxes would be for your custom domain that you registered, not @cloudflare.com for everyone. I used that for his because it sounds like he works there.

Yours would be x13@whateverdomainyouregistered.com.
How a town in Pakistan became the center of the global soccer ball industry
Wow this looks really neat. BEAM seems like it would be a good place to start for distributed systems, but there's been too much of a "you have to roll your own" for a lot of the various problems that a distributed system needs to do.

A quick (15 minutes) read over the documentation makes it look fairly well thought out and usable for mortals, which is considerably more than I had hoped for.
When newspapers kill print and go online-only, most readers will disappear
It is economic to move massive stuff about in open space, which is what you need for an economy to attract people. The gravity well is a huge cost. You can make a profit by sending down the gravity well but going back up tends to be a huge expense.
Hint: most of them are not contracting because they particularly like the contractor's life. They're contracting because they can be paid more. I think in London the reality is that, if your company is using a new and hot tech stack (say Spark or Kubernetes), then the contractor's rate IS the market salary, as most people how know this stuff are doing contracts. You can find them as full-timers with regular FT salary (60-90k GBP ?) too, but that's more of an exception and a lucky catch I guess. Also, once they figure out how easy it is for them to make more doing the same work, they might leave anyway.
What did you use to develop it?
Logo was created by Seymour Papert. He formed his own company in 1980, called Logo Computer Systems Inc., and they produced versions of Logo for various home computers in the early 80s, including the Apple II.

http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/what_is_logo/history...

Apparently they're still around: http://www.microworlds.com/company/profile.html

The version I used in 1983 was for the Coleco Adam computer, which uses the same video and sound chips as the TI99/4A. This version of Logo supported 32 sprites, 16 color graphics, 4 channel sound, and had a built-in sprite editor.

The language itself was quite slow, but it was very easy to come up with all sorts of interesting animations using the 32 sprites. You give a sprite a speed and direction and off it goes. It was a lot of fun and I spent many hours with it as a kid.
It was removed. See https://www.businessinsider.com/google-just-effectively-kill... for example.

Maybe it's showing it to crawlers/browsers that can't do javascript?
You can (relatively) easily simulate Earth level (or close) gravity. Low gravity causes health problems for adults that spend significant time in it. I'm not sure what would happen to children growing up in it, but it could be far worse.
Show HN: Mined for Change – In-Browser Crypto Mining for Effective Altruism
Impressive but with a specialized coprocessor it's not unexpected. It's a bit of a gamble for Apple though, as other ARM SoC's are probably able to bridge the gap in raw single-core and multi-core performance in a year. The whole ML thing is a bit fuzzy for a lot of people even for programmers like me that are still wondering how their regular applications are going to benefit from all this silicon.
For many, it completely depends on time spent at work and effort spent at work. I've been on both sides. If you spend a lot of time and effort at work (not a bad thing), your desire is diminished outside of work. However if you don't have to spend a bunch of time/effort at work, there is time/effort available. Granted, even that relies on whether you enjoy it over other things, but you shouldn't be shocked.
YC Application Peer Review Mechanism
How is Wright a hobbyist tool though? All the Wright tools I have purchased have been as much or more than Snap-On, they are mainly targeting the industrial market (with pricing to match).

Plus, Gearwrench is not american made, it is Taiwanese. Good tools, but your statement is factually incorrect.
I'm not confusing it. We weren't talking about API stability at all. The issue isn't Swift's API stability.

This is all about ABI - can binaries compiled with one version of the compiler interoperate with binaries compiled with a different version.

API stability is easy - C++ has an extremely stable API. Swift is pretty stable apparently.
Been their customer since about 2007-8 or so, had 1 problem I reported once and they fixed it immediately.

Only scummy thing I have seen them involved with is cloudatcost which I heard they bankrolled.
> Look at the number of owners of super and mega yachts, and tell me how they are frugal...

I mentioned frugality only to hint that these folks must have non-economic motives for working. I claim that the motive is signaling. And the megayacht owners - what else might they do with their Veblen goods than signal their status? Does Paul Allen need 50 bathrooms on Octopus (just guessing here, not sure about the exact number) to address his physiological needs?

> Look at billionaries like the Koch brothers, or the DeVos family..

In my opinion signaling is a manifestation of a deeper motivational mechanism that I call the modeling instinct. Basically we have instinct to build perfect world model in our brains and one of the way we test its quality is by creating goods and services. The difference between the Koch brothers and - say - Buffet is that they test different aspects of the world models - that part, which is interesting for them the most. We all carry unique, but incomplete and distorted world representations and therefore tend to test our model-building effort in various domains. Signaling plays however an important role - it is a measure of how successful is our modeling effort.

> I don't know what you refer to when you say "one billion people ... a trillion USD/year in value

There is actually a research done in this field. See for example Salamon, L.M., Sokolowski, S.W., Haddock, M., 2011. Measuring the Economic Value of Volunteer Work Globally - Concepts, Estimates, and a Roadmap to the Future (2011). Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics 82, 217–252. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8292.2011.00437.x

In personal communication one of the authors confirmed that also FOSS development has been included in the estimates.

> Re Carnegy.

Let's not focus on frugality. hopefully what I write above elucidates this point sufficiently.

> Re hunters - gatherers.

The takeaway from this should be the fact, that a stable human society can exist that is economically equal, if it maintains potentially unequal "merit" signaling. This by the way nicely fits to the idea of how a just society should look like according to Rawls.

> How does "economic transparency"...

The HG economic system fell apart once people lost ability to see what material goods their neighbors acquired - simply put. This transparency must be restored in order to build economically equal society. I believe technology will play central role in re-instituting a HG-like economic system. The loss of privacy in social networks, the (wiki)leaks of confidential information, the cameras in our cities - that is a part of the pendulum swing toward a more transparent society - which is a prerequisite to a more fair world.

Maybe I should conclude the main point of what I am trying to communicate here - people can be completely happy (and economically productive) even if they are economically equal, if their ability to signal their naturally unequal abilities is unrestricted.

Thank you for the comments.
Depends on what quality you want, the price you want, what you intend to do, and if you care about the country of origin. Best to buy tools for projects, otherwise you will enter an expensive hobby of collecting tools.

For power tools - Ryobi is fine for home use; the new Harbor Freight power tools have ok reviews. Dewalt and Milwaukee are better IMHO. Dewalt is assembling some of their power tools in the U.S. now. I have Ryobi, Dewalt, Ingersol Rand and Milwaukee cordless tools and battery systems. I personally prefer the Dewalt.

For hand tools, I have Snap-on, SK, Klein, Sunnex, Engineer, Craftsman, ChannelLock and some miscellaneous hand tools from other manufacturers. It really depends on what you want to do. I personally prefer tools made in U.S.A., Japan, and Taiwan in that order. But that is simply a personal preference.

Finally, keep in mind that no one company manufacturers all of their tools. A lot of tools are just rebranded and might be the same exact tool at considerably different prices.
It can be both. The more precise, the more poetry there is.
Framed in terms of "the logic of political survival," a more useful characterization would be, "technology X will reduce the size of the coalition of people necessary to achieve power, and the size of the group who must be rewarded to maintaintain it."

Based on that, you could run most smaller countries with a resource revenue stream to pay police to make examples, and Google data to find them.

Sounds horrific, but we may live at the edge of some very dark times.

I have a bunch of notes for an article pitch about how AI/ML tech could easily create resource cursed economies and governance (akin to Jeffery Sachs description), but don't want to wade into writing again yet.
Even better: you can let your image server check the accepted formats in the request header and send webp content transparently instead of jpg. Then you don't have to change your markup at all.

Browser's don't really care about file extensions.

https://github.com/uhop/grunt-tight-sprite/wiki/Recipe:-serv...
Qualcomm sees a long-term partner in Apple despite disputes
From the top comment:

>This is exactly what Apple has been going through in the last year, exacting a level of polish that is on par if not above what they released last year, but still leaving nagging doubts in the hearts of the faithful. The one thing that would silence critics and quell fears would be that something twice as revolutionary as the original iPhone be straight up imagined, developed, and hoisted by the post-Jobs Apple--just to claim par.

I guess they decided to stop trying. My 2017 MBP is hands-down the worst computing device I've ever owned. It has nothing to do with my perception of Steve Jobs because I didn't start using Apple laptops until 2014. Performance seems barely better than my 2013, the super-awkward keyboard is just as bad as everyone says it is, and I started having hardware issues after just a few months.

I loved Jiro Dreams of Sushi. It was very interesting, but I agree there's a dark side to that level of perfectionism. His non-relative employee had to wash dishes for years before they would even let him try to make sushi, and then he gets to spend several more years making the same kind of sushi. Being told that he sucks at his job the entire time.

I can believe that Jiro makes really good sushi. I can't believe that all of the stupid, obsessive little things he does makes a significant difference in the quality. If you perform an objective analysis of his restaurant operation, instead of buying into the philosophy that he's some kind of sushi wizard, he's just a guy thats good at a making sushi but is also a toxic asshole with zero leadership ability.

Don't get me wrong, many of the things he does in an attempt to master his craft are admirable. However, in some cases he's an extremist to the detriment of himself and everyone else in his life. You don't have to be a psycho to be the best at something.
Weird. Looks like archive.is is blocked in Greece. (my ISP is Cosmote)
I've heard horror stories of accounts ending up implicitly linked (as in when account X gets banned, accounts Y and Z do as well because Google has determined that they are all controlled by the same person).

To be fair, in all the stories I've heard, Google was correct about the linkage, but it means that one person using 3 accounts gets less benefit from not linking them than one might think.
In case you're looking for something Postgres syntax compatible, and find cgo acceptable: https://github.com/lfittl/pg_query_go

(this uses the actual Postgres parser wrapped into a library)
The level of enforced organizational dysfunction described there is genuinely astonishing.

Competition has its place in a business, and that place is almost always exclusively sales. Trying to impose it upon other parts of an organization rarely ends well.
pgFormatter formats

SELECT 1, 2

as

SELECT
1,
2

which is one of the core complaints the article addresses.
Used to do business with Sears years ago and visited the Hoffman Estates headquarters. I'll never forget the impression of truly massive bureaucracy that the place conveyed. I'll also never forget how they dismantled their whole catalog operation just a couple of years before internet shopping took off.
People have been doing this for years on Google's platform and the behaviors still haven't changed (I have a lot of hands-on experience with $100k+ annual ad spend budgets that are atrocious), so I disagree. People set it and forget it (mainly to ad ops agencies who charge 10%), because they don't know any different as long as sales keep coming in.
You mean, not a 100% guaranteed one.

It's pretty simple, actually. The body cannot live (thrive) without the mind.
Umm... that page would have been way better with simple images/animations instead of animating some laggy canvas2d crap based kn my scroll position. Had they not try their page on mobile? It’s horrible.
I use it in production at work. Wasn't my choice. I should have pushed harder for Bulma. Not only is the HTML just a hair length's away from `style` tags, but if I'm writing the same set of classes on more than 3 elements I compose a component.

Then I also have to write our own classes for modals, cards, toasts, lists, media objects, drop down menus, side menus, breadcrumbs, buttons, forms, their labels, images and their captions, and get the right mix of responsive utility classes as well so they all play nice together.

I'd rather just pick a framework that lets me customize the corner radii, padding, margins, and be done with it.
So in Python, imperative style is often more idiomatic than code that uses lambda expressions.

While in some functional languages (Haskell) and array programming languages (J), tacit or point-free style is often more idiomatic than lambda expressions (or equivalent).

There's something funny about that.
Chile unveils Patagonian Route of Parks hiking trail
The US military actually used concrete 'blockships' to create an artificial harbor for use in D-day. Doesn't need to be aircrete to float if correct shape!

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/d-days-concrete-flee...
Where are you going to recreate your google docs?
I was really hoping to see some follow-up from this amazing Reddit post from 2017:https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/5m90gv/im_17_2...

The poster inherited about $100,000 and their parent, controlling the money, invested it in SHLD in March 2015 (circa $40/share). I've always wondered whether that person managed to get the money out (in 2017 at $8/share) or whether it's still there now (at $1/share).
All the Googlers whose salaries are paid by the product appreciate it too.
I use a similar design for my website, it has been like this for like 10 years now. I still tweak some php 5 code, and things just works on some free hosting.

The problem with the web is how permissive it is, so it gets bloated, and since online advertising, this trend is still going.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law

> is a computing adage which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

What bothers me is how the web is making it impossible to run on modest smartphone, or how it's burning your battery into oblivion.

There might be solutions to this, like basically pre-parsing HTML and sending the parse tree, or re-factoring HTML and css rules into something more lean, or just rebuilding a new document format from scratch that is readable by humans, like markdown as a syntax, and rendering it directly without HTML.

We're often reminded about Knuth's "95% of the time", but HTML is really a crying example of a bad designed document format, which turned into a black hole of computing complexity since JS has access to the DOM.

Frankly web development disgusts me, and I avoid it as a career path as much as I can. We rely on web browsers and search engines way too much.
Snap-on, Knipex, Milwaukee, Bosch
Kudos, Fabien! Your site has been endlessly informative on my own graphics programming journey. I think you can include a donate button and maybe raise some funds toward a new laptop or nvidia turing gpu ;)

One site I use multiple times a day that I think has decent information architecture is FinViz: The Stock Screener. High resolution quotes, charts and heatmaps. Updated on intervals of a few seconds. With lots of aggregated news and blog links.

This cryptocurrency performance page is a great example. cryptowat.ch and many other tools run high cpu loads. With an emphasis on saturating the information space with real time depth of book, exchange arbitrage, analytics, etc. When all you really desire is a quick snapshot of relative price action.

https://finviz.com/crypto_performance.ashx
Apple doesn't use ARM SoCs. They have their own designs from the PA Semi team and are really just using the ARM instruction set at this point. This is one of the reasons there is such a big performance gap between the top android phones vs the top iPhones.
Pond algae swim polygonal paths to avoid strong light
We can't just turn every single locality into a Manhattan. Nice areas with sparse, bigger houses should be able to elect to stay that way.

The "sprawl" everyone complains about in SF is (from the last article I saw) a bunch of super tiny square houses with tiny lawns packed into a giant grid. Honestly seems like an alright compromise to me between huge apartment buildings and big lawns for a city-like area, compromised too far in the direction of density even.

I honestly don't see the big deal about some areas like SF being able to exist where you can live in a city and actually have a nice-ish single family house in commute distance of your city-job, even if it prices some people out. It's one city in a country of 300 million.
It really isn't. I'd say in some cases it's the opposite.

At my job, we have a mid-size React app where more or less every element has one CSS class with all the styling in it. There used to be more of a framework of reusable styles, but it doesn't get used much any more because it's out of date with what our designers want now. We should fix it, but there's no time because we have to pile on more features to fix later. You know the drill, I'm sure.

But basically, for more or less every HTML tag, there's a custom blob of CSS that's only applied once. This is inline styles, we've just moved them to a different set of files.