skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Many people have became rich this way.

Some people have made money through speculating on cryptocurrencies or tokens. A similar, if not larger, number of people have also lost money this way. More importantly, the "success" of these traders has nothing to do with the underlying technology -- they could have been similarly successful in trading any other financial instrument.

> Many people use cryptocurrencies actively.

Like who? And for what? Mainstream merchants have generally been moving away from accepting cryptocurrencies, often due to price volatility or long transaction times. Some people still use cryptocurrencies to make illegal transactions online, but certainly not "many people", and in any case I'm not sure that's a success...
In the museum on Nantuckut there is a display devoted to the USS Essex, a whaling ship (it is the ship that the whale rams, I think). One incindent that made an impression on me was a sailor, who was driven insane by boredom, and sabotaged the ship, just for something to happen.

I understand space to be unbelivably boring.
Interesting, I was thinking that there are whole 'bullshit industry' such as the fashion industry,but in fact it's not really the same thing: the fashion industry is useful for clothes makers to convince clients to buy new clothes that they don't need..
Unacknowledged on Netflix
Not exactly. TESS monitors bright objects. It uses actually quite small telescopes (only 10cm aperture or so), but the it has 4 such telescopes and uses very wide fields of view to monitor a large number of stars continuously. To see KBOs/TNOs requires more light gathering power.
I used to really like google sketchup for drawing and planing remodeling projects ..and I've been looking for an alternative for a while.

Funny thing - I've also been using FreeCAD for a while for 3d printing and didn't even know about / understand the BIM features (I just didn't spend much time digging around in all the features).

Thankfully I recently discovered the BIM features on youtube - and find them very cool even if slightly more difficult to use than sketchup.

(edit) FWIW : Yorik van Havre's youtube channel demos the BIM features quite nicely.https://www.youtube.com/user/yorikvanhavre/videos
It's insane, why not give ground on relatively unimportant wedge issues to fix real problems like inequality, climate change, etc...
Could you clarify "I feel like intelligence being genetically linked is obviously the case everywhere except when it comes to race"?

By "race" I assume you mean primarily skin color, and secondarily some facial features or hair types, yes?

There are a huge number of phenotypes besides skin color: hair color, eye color, blood types, cleft chin, cheek dimples, Hitchhiker's thumb, tongue rolling, Morton's toe, and many more.

It seems like most of them are not genetically linked to intelligence, so I don't know what you mean by "linked ... everywhere".

Could you also clarify what you mean by "race"? Most definitions are not really connected to genetics, which is why it usually doesn't make sense that there should be a genetic link. Eg, the archaic "one drop rule" race definition in the US clearly doesn't make genetic sense - see also the so-called "Pocahontas Clause" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_Integrity_Act_of_1924#T... to show how politics affects that type of racial definition.

(Some people also distinguish between, say, the Irish, Anglo-Saxon, and German races, but then use "black" for anyone with black skin, which seems really absurd since the genetic diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa is higher than in Europe; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genetic_clustering .)

You write "The only way to prove its environment is to disprove the genetic component". There is clearly a genetic component, because there are genetic diseases which result in low intelligence.

We don't need to show that there is no genetic component. We need only show that the the non-environmental effect is low enough that it does not make a useful predictor when correlated with race. Do you think that is impossible?
Whatever happened to chatbots?
2016 was the "year of the chatbot". Three years later, how are chatbots doing?
what can i use this for?
I would advice you to read Software Craftsman by Sandro Mancuso. In one of the chapters he explains that enjoyment of life is really essential.

We live in times where "rat race" is so prevalent we forget to take a step back and think about "what is really important".
Elementary OS has done well in this regard, I think. They’ve avoided most trends, and have focused on refining their UI. I wish they’d get more funding and traction.
How long would it take to add a compile step to your build process?

couple days or a week? seems like its minimal effort and helps keep companies and their employees honest. probably need to make sure your covered on the contract side too.
With new cars it's pretty easy to get past most all of the problem. Don't negotiate in person. Do everything over email, and have them send over the bill of sale and other paperwork in advance. Take it with you and pick up the car.

With used cars it's a lot more hassle because you're not going to want to commit to that without more extensive, time consuming research and inspection.
Of course not. If you're developing software, you want to spend the time on improving your offering, not porting to the latest, greatest fad. Every minute I, as a software developer, have to spend on porting my application to a new version of the platform is a minute I'm not improving my application. It's churn, it's waste, it's fire-and-motion: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/
> higher per capita number of unicorns in Sweden than in many other places, including US
You can only come to that conclusion by diluting what a "unicorn" means.
Taking a quick look around, the average concentration of platinum group metals in ore seems to be ~1-15g/T, so if his calculations and findings check out, at 6.7g/T this is better than a number of commercially mined deposits...
> News at 11.

It's film at 11.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_at_11
I would reverse those. The hyper adversarial nature of our political environment is shaped by our electoral systems; specifically plurality voting, partisan primaries, and gerrymandered single member districts. Fixing those three things will go a long way towards restoring sanity to our politics.
definitely a fascinating insight, thank you.

it is worth thinking more deeply about how insurance mediates justice.

Having personally been in an accident a while back, I feel a sense of justice from the person who struck my car, at least with respect to the finding of their fault via police investigation. I wonder how that changes if there were no driver responsible.

My sense of justice in this case arises from my belief that the other driver has confronted their mistake to a sufficient degree that it will improve their behavior to the standard I approve.

I believe with a corporation's software having caused damage, I would have little confidence that the damage they had inflicted would confront the corporation in such a way that it would improve its behavior. (Obvious anecdata from an emotionally-biased POV, but still worth it just to practice thinking about it!)
This doesn't impede the Streisand Effect taking place right now though, which is the real story here. Not sure how many views the video had prior to the takedown but now it's at ~1.2 million and is probably to going to be at 3x that by the end of the week.
there's no evidence that immigrants are more intolerant than the general public. most domestic terrorism against minorities is committed by people who are not (recent, obv if you go back far enough white people are immigrants too...) immigrants. and in my anecdotal experience as a trans person, i have never been harassed by someone who immigrated here, just by white-bread WASPy nazi types. I'm sure it happens, but so does tripping into the garbage disposal and losing a finger, it's really not common. And when it does happen, conservatives hype it up in their anti-immigration rhetoric even as they use their actual structural power to strip away my and other queer people's rights! Like Trump talking a big game about how much he wants to "protect LGBTs" from immigrants (implying immigrants can't be queer...) while under his administration documentation changes for trans people are getting harder to get, LGBT people were removed from the 2020 census... don't get me started.
I guess soon we'll be able to retire the old Slashdot rule:

> In the USA Copyright lengths are very simple. Anything older than Mickey Mouse is public domain and everything else is still copyrighted.

(via https://m.slashdot.org/thread/28736323)
My grandpa had a similar contraption; a "puzzle jug" -- he'd fill it with wine, drink some, and pass it around to his guests -- who would often tip the jug and spill. Amusingly, potheads are more likely to succeed than the general population, because it's just a carburetor.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzle_jug
> Meta/Alt

Meta and Alt are two separate modifiers, so if you get a JIS Japanese layout keyboard (QWERTY with extra modifiers), you can have Alt as a separate modifier, at least in X11, which has enough mod bits (mod1 through mod5) to cover everything. Handy for quick input of APL, Greek, etc. Unicode characters.
There are pros and cons of JWT but if you are OK with it, it is not complex if you use a library. JWT purists want everything on the token (no database) but if you are OK with using a database, just store the token and delete it to revoke. When authenticating, add a database query (it's not that bad) in addition to the verification of the token
Streisand avalanche.
Makes you wish negative reputation could propagate through social networks.
There is a lot of diy spirit in single board computers. The other day I helped a local tv station utilize a raspberry pi 3 as a video stream mirror. The $35 dollar computer can replace a dedicated machine marketed for this purpose costing $900 dollars. It only took about 12 lines of bash to make it work.
Calmly asking for your money back never works, in my experience, the other party are crooks preying on the naive and helpless, and they know they are crooks. Asking for a serviceable address and then sending the demand letter has always worked, it establishes that you are not naive and helpless. What the other side absolutely wants to avoid is a public paper trail, they'll go to great lenghths to say away from the legal system, to continue to rip off the next poor sod.
I've been using it it for a while for simple part design and 3d printing projects - am definitely a novice.

I found this youtube video to be a great primer (and wished I had it a few years ago): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eWlU2Ddl6I
A practical guide for thinking and writing more functional JavaScript
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Heh, written in Delphi I think.

My earliest PC consulting was cleaning up sub7 infections caused by antivirus packages deleting the main executable.

Sub7 associated the .exe format in windows with it's main executable, so if you removed the "infection" you had a really interesting time loading up windows afterwards, explorer.exe and all the others were looking for sub7.exe to load themselves =)
> - Rust comes with a default unit test framework but it pretty bare bones. I havent seen examples of test fixture, setup/teardown support and loading test configs etc.

There is an eRFC for better integration of custom test frameworks.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2318
That is just capitalism, Marx wrote about this a long, long time ago. Lenin came along with a solution to this a century ago however that revolution resulted in a different type of centralisation with the 'workers of the world' not uniting into the cooperatives that could have prevented the surpluses of capitalism ending up in the hands of the few. Instead there was dubious central planning with party officials calling the shots rather than these mythical worker heroes. Socialism and communism was an existential threat to international finance capital nonetheless, hence the Cold War.

The cryptocurrency boom was greed driven with the fig leaf of 'smash the Fed and fiat currency'. The people that got into it were not that smart, a case of 'fools rush in'. Nowhere in the cryptocurrency discussion was there any appreciation of the history of capitalism, which requires considerable study to get any meaningful knowledge of. If you are studying graphs of alt-coin fluctuations all day and gambling on these things then you aren't going to take time to read all the required texts (or even the 'white papers' on how these silly coins are supposed to work).

There are ways to address the evils of capitalism, for instance we haven't heard of the 'Tobin Tax' in a long, long time and discussion of how much capital banks should have in reserve hasn't happened even though the crash of 2008 revealed problems in that area.

Despite everyone working so hard for this money stuff we, as a society, are remarkably unconcerned with figuring out how it all works and how we can build a currency system that works for everyone with liquidity to make money work for us instead of us working for money.

I would be very interested in further reading on how the economy of Israel works, if you have any links then do share. I am detecting more antisemitism going on in the world at the moment with the polarised views that have not served us well historically. People muttering about international finance being a Jewish conspiracy tend to have no idea about Jewish history or how we got here. Hence I would quite like to know more about the story of the rich getting richer in modern day Israel.
I love the Casablanca style “what, we have illegal immigrants here” put-on.

The situation is a joke. The meat industry broke the unions and shipped out jobs to nowhere decades ago, empowered by federal and state policy. You really need to have your eyes closed to not know that if you’re a state representative!
Not really. Such lawsuits aren't really a thing.
Technically that only states that employers /think/ they provide value not that they actually do it. It may fit inside their expense margins but that doesn't mean it is valueable only that it is viable from /something/ in it. This is an important distinction - the higher level up means not seeing all of the details and they have their own biases.

To give a deliberately absurd example a rich madman made $5 million per year from his vinyard and winery for personal and spend $1 million on running the place to the highest quality, $0.5 million buying piles of bananas and $2 million on mercenaries paid to beat the piles of bananas with baseball bats so they don't plan a rebellion he would still make $1.5 million a year profit could make $4 million a year profit if he didn't spend so much money on repressing fruit.

Silly example aside it is possible for both employee and employer to be both right or both wrong. An employee might notice low level waste that could be avoided by not repairing defects, and the employer knows that the cost of labor to fix it is more expensive than materials for a new one. Even if the one strategy is right both have a point.

Or in the reverse both employee and employer could think that the new fangled automobile won't be able to compete with horses because of vast fields of grass for free on the plains and even hay being cheaper than gasoline.
Since I can't view the article can someone tell me what Amazon is doing in the title?
Agree it took decades for TCP. We might still be a long time away for blockchain and associated technologies (ipfs, zkp, etc.) going mainstream

The privacy use case in blockchain has trade-offs and is not a panacea. There are some situations where the centralized efficiency outweighs the risks
No real difference IMHO, JWT just introduces some "standards" for some interoperability. Session cookies could be anything
Center Pivot Irrigation
Designing Tiny Motors Right into the Robot’s Circuit Board
OT question: why does a car with financing cost less (summing up all the monthly payments) than a car paid cash?
Any thoughts on which to start with?
I mean this in the most genuine way. What is a "Elon Musk sympathiser"?
If this interests you, check out https://www.pathery.com/, a long standing project where the goal is to use a limited number of blocks to make the longest path possible.
Snarkiness does not help.

Right now publishers make zero from me because I have a couple layers of ad blockers. If I'm willing to pay X for some number of ad-free articles, which does not have to be unlimited, then publishers would be making X dollars more.
> history doesn't favor distributed power

In that case, why do we have ~200 nations instead of a single world government? Clearly, sovereignty matters to groups of people.

"Sovereignty of money does not matter to LARGE groups of people" - might be a more defensible argument.
I agree about the need for an Idioms Cookbook or something to show different practices. We have one for how libraries can help you solve problems but not code patterns..
Imagine that people said that about Brothers Grimm and other pre-20th century works -- we wouldn't have most of the Disney films we do.
Sure it is true - the "business cases" for blockchain are all rubbish.

But it is not for the reasons listed; there are no parallels to airlines or gold mining and so on.

Decentralization for cryptocurrency is about making them resistant to legislation: With properly decentralized cc you can pay your druglord, terrorist, launder money, gamble, insider trade, hype pump and dump a scam ... and the government can't shut it down or prove that you own any.

That is the killer use case. And the only one.
Depends if it was accompanied by insults and derision (bad) or patience and understanding that it is a learning opportunity and mistakes need to be rectified (note I didn't say paid for)
If you scroll down through the comments, by now someone would have posted an outline.com link that allows you to get around the paywall. That should get you to the article!
I know it's trendy to hate on C but most security bugs are not memory access related errors. Most are logic errors which any language is susceptible to.
I’m not a biologist, but I didn’t think DNA and genetics were completely different.

People only listen to him because he won a Nobel prize? You say this as though winning a Nobel prize is no big deal. I was under the impression that it was a big deal.

Based on his merits as a scientist — backed up by previously mentioned Nobel prize — I think his propositions should at least be considered. If he is wrong, then whatever data he is citing should be easily enough falsified.

Again I say this as a layman, but if the guy is wrong, use the data to show that he is wrong. That’s how science works. Rejecting his position because it makes you uncomfortable is not far off book burning.
Yup. That's why I don't pay for HBO, so I totally get it. If they want to make it $2, at least they'd get something from me. Until then, there's always Putlocker. Their loss, really.
One possibly explanation for these results which would be less interesting that their suggested conclusion: bigger items with smaller margins are better than smaller icons with larger margins.

The difference on the icon results were particularly large and convincing, and if you look at their example icon stimuli, clearly the flat icons are simpler (as expected) and presented with more margins (perhaps also as expected in flat design), but that also means to get the same number of icons on screen, the icons were smaller.

I think it's at least worth considering whether that might explain a large part of the difference.

Another limitation is that tiny and non-diverse sample size, and the fact that it's a few years old. They had just 20 students, almost all male, Russian university-student-aged - it's just not a huge or diverse sample; and the experiment was run in 2014; people have a few more years of flat design expectations under their belts now.

Looks pretty decent, those results, but I still think it's a little early to draw solid conclusions based on this alone.
Unfortunately it's a misunderstanding of alchemy and it's role in the development of modern science that causes these knee-jerk negative responses to what is in fact a useful and non-pejorative comparison. I suppose next time I'll make my case in more detail.
I'm typing, not yelling.

I think it's pretty obvious that they were talking about the "manifest destiny" genocide of native people, considering that "freeing up" that land was considered pivotal to "completing america's destiny". though i guess they could have been talking about the genocide of african enslaved people through forced labor. or the genocide of people in the Philippines during the Spanish American war, which birthed the American empire. lots of genocide to choose from, actually, so i guess your confusion is understandable.
Ever book a flight through Google? Common Lisp touches that.
if only left didn't have enough people calling 'em communists. I'm all for rolling back copyright extensions waaay back, but politically this will draw a giant target on your forehead, and aiming assist powered by Disney's billions.

From other hand, deep frustration with such situation leads to the populism we see around us.
I use FreeCAD whenever possible.
It's a very capable cad, despite the limitations.

My main complaint is that history management in FreeCAD is poor, and the ability to assemble parts is very, very limited currently.

That is: create a sketch, extrude, and fillet 2 edges at random. FreeCAD seem to use some incredibly naive edge enumeration technique, which breaks instantly as soon as you add/remove edges from the underlying sketch. This makes design revisions almost impossible currently, which is the primary reason you use a parametric cad for.

OpenCascade in itself is not as bad as people make it to be. It's a bit buggy, but not drastically more so than fusion 360. In fact, you learn to work around most geometric kernel issues in any parametric cad with time. All of them have bugs and corner cases. OCC itself has never been a limitation for most of my designs.

FreeCAD combined with CadQuery is immensely more powerful than most commercial offerings I've tried. I dream of being able to interleave CadQuery and FreeCAD sketches at any point in history to prototype!
Very curious about how you foresee "developing countries to use cryptocurrencies as a competitive advantage to catch up financially" working if the cryptocurrencies are unusable in larger economies.
Of every platform I've used, macOS makes this the toughest.

I appreciate that I have to put in work to add features, fix bugs, and support new OS functionality. But Macintosh is the only one I use where a new OS release means a method call that worked fine with a default param value for the past 8 years causes an instant crash with the latest major OS (with no indication of any change in the documentation or release notes). I'm not even at the point where I can support the latest macOS functionality, because I'm still working around the previous round of deprecations. There are big sections I simply have to rewrite because the old way is going away, and the new way has a completely different structure.

It's also the only system where I basically need to upgrade my (OS, IDE, compiler, language) tuple all at once -- which means this is all tied to the hardware, too. Never before have I had to do a firmware upgrade in order to use the latest syntax in a programming language. My graphics card won't be powerful enough to run the next version of the compiler, even though the software generally gets more efficient with every release. Zany.

It really does seem strange when a new CPU architecture is the least significant change I've ever had to deal with as a developer.