skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you find the ramblings of Alex Johnes or Goebbels also "intellectually stimulating"? Don't get me wrong: I'm an avid listener if Intelligence Squared and find engaging with diverse opinions lovely but Molyneux doesn't fall into the camp of "intellectual thinkers" and his ideology is far outside of what any reasonable person could find intellectually enticing. He is also just plain stupid and fails to offer any good arguments, which might provide value.

He basically just rants on for hours without end, committing logical errors, providing disingenuous arguments, and ranting without sources on the way. For instance, he styles himself to be a philosopher but does not engage with the scholarly literature at all while copying arguments by famous philosophers (like Locke) without any credit.
bitcoin maxi position is not that block size can never increase. rather, block size increase is a last resort.

so far block size increase has not been necessary. if hyperbitcoinization occurs and there is a bottleneck with lightning, block size increase is ok.

with lightning factories this may never be necessary.

if it is, it is.
> there just aren't any [senior] candidates around

I think that statement is almost certainly false.

Offer better pay, conditions and interesting work that has career prospects for the people when they leave, and make it known you are doing this, and I think you will have plenty of interested, good candidates.

(Unless you make crappy games infested with 15s gameplay alternating with 30s brain-polluting ads, and that's for the people who paid for the "ad-free" feature. I jest not - I just turned down a recruiter for a games company looking for someone in a senior role, after I researched the company and the first few reviews I looked at showed the games fit the above description. I copied the reviews over to the recruiter and said this this is why I could not imagine myself working there in a salaried role.)
The way I see it the buyer and the bank made a bet on the value of the house and the buyer's ability to pay. Sometimes bets don't pan out. We're trained to be emotional about it, but the bank certainly isn't. To them it's "just business" when they foreclose on a struggling family. Similarly, it should be "just business" if you bail on bad debt.
Nothing about everything being statically linked into a big binary blob with very little connection to sources? It's my main problem with containers in general.
I think that's actually the result!

I read @glofish's proposal as suggesting that bacterial excretions(?) indiscriminately dissolve the rock.

The paper (linked above) does try to address this in a few ways. Iron, the putative energy source, is specifically concentrated on the surface of the inoculated samples--but other metals aren't. The bacteria are also mostly found on the mineral edges. They discuss this near Figure 5/6 and in the supplement.
Good point. If seasonal effects are strong enough, though, it might still recur in periodic spikes.
Phishing Websites Using Recaptcha to Thwart Detection – Between the Hacks
This person, like many, makes the error of commodity pricing for labor. They charges less, the more the client buys. That's how corn is bought. Don't sell your time like corn.

This kind of thinking/pricing has been inculcated by so much free-market idealism, and of course on some level human labor can be thought of as a commodity, but that's neo-evil.
Notion's speed really counts against it for me also. I'd find it so frustrating if my day-to-day revolved around it.
It's not a choice between Manhattan and the back of beyond though. Even many larger cities have exurb or even rural areas within about an hour drive where property prices, depending on the town, can be fairly affordable even if the downtown is not.

It's hard to say how many people who migrated to truly urban living take this as a sign that they should at least move out to the suburbs (where their job is anyway in many cases).

I do think that, for jobs that can be done remotely, a lot of companies are going to move away from everyone needing to be in the office all the time--though I suspect very few will go entirely remote.
Are these worlds created in-game or using an external editor?
Is a WhatsApp-like exit really billions of times more probable than bringing a new drug to market? I am somewhat doubtful..
Couldn't agree more.

As a pilot run - tried migrating small amount of knowledge base from Evernote to Notion but it just feels too overwhelming. Upending existing information architecture (with umpteen possibilities re: templates) quickly gets exhausting.

This is when I realized, I need an opinionated tool. Gave up and went back to Evernote.
When I was in elementary school in the 80s, someone in our district retrofit a school bus with two rows of computers running along the sides. The bus would travel to each school in the district once a month or so. We would all walk out to the parking lot, board the bus, and use Logo. It was probably the first exposure to a computer most of the kids in my class had, and I have never forgotten it.
Battles(Band) – open-source Remix Project
I did not realize it was that easy to see the comments. That answers that question. Thanks for that link.
Commit squashing is a scourge. I sometimes go the other way; rewrite my history as a set of independent refactors.
Evil, huh?
Dependent Type Systems as Macros
Yeah, I'm confused as well. I just tried Calc on win10 for the first time in weeks or months and it opened before I could count 2 seconds. This is from a SSD where it won't have been in cache.
One of the devs here.

For those interested in reading more, I'd recommend the more up to date https://safenetwork.tech for a brief overview. And [the Safe Network Primer](https://primer.safenetwork.org/) for a much more in-depth overview

The forum (https://safenetforum.org/) is a great community that will happily answer any questions.

There is a test network available of the current iteration. But it's worth noting this is all still alpha level, and not finalised.

You can see more detail on the "baby-fleming" test net here: https://safenetforum.org/t/baby-fleming-public-shared-sectio... .

And the CLI implementation for any other curious folk: https://github.com/maidsafe/safe-api/tree/master/safe-cli
good questions! I don't know the answers either.
A project is either solvent or it isn't

If you read the link, the point is the project is able to pretend it is still solvent when it isn't anymore.
>The only difference between the Web of old and the modern Web is that the wild Web sometimes is harder do find due to the instrumentality of the Google search engine, for good and bad.

For a brief period of time, every human with an internet connection had access to a significant portion of the sum total of previously-preserved human knowledge. Web 2.5 has pushed us backwards. After several years now of being unable to easily find relevant results using Google, DDG, etc., I had the crushing realization that, near 30 and for the first time in my life, less truly useful information was available to me, to the average person, than had been before.

This should scare people. Powers that are obfuscating both their rationale and the mechanics of their means are making a play for our collective knowledge base.
Isn't this the reason that non-technical founders are a thing?
The pandemic has exposed antifragility
it's handy for config, sure. but it has several downsides. very opaque compared to a config file.. keys can't have comments. the average user has no idea what a "dword" is. some registry paths are obscenely long. you can accidentally break one program or windows trying to edit another's settings. and i'm not sure currently, but a big problem in the past was uninstallers didn't remove registry keys reliably.

personally, i think XDG_CONFIG_HOME + a robust config file framework with a standardized format (yaml/toml, whatever) would work as well. being able to specify a schema could be extremely useful, too, to prevent borked configs. as you've said, we've seen a lot of tools/OS's go this direction. and it doesn't have to be perfect, the 80% case would be a huge improvement.

i'm also sure the registry made a lot of sense at the time. it was probably way quicker than reading and parsing files. we didn't care so much about sandboxing/isolation and backing up. people probably had less application installed.
Yeah, that's the horror of it: they don't want your work output, they want your time.

- - - -

edit to add:

I worked at Google as a TVC for a couple of years and somewhere in there I became convinced that (at least part of) what was going on was that they were sequestering talent. Hiring people and parking them in idle tasks to keep them from becoming competitors.

It's probably not true, but it was slightly more reassuring than believing that they were just that wasteful.

(I.e. our five-years-and-counting project and team of dozens could have been replaced by about three people and finished in a year. But nobody wanted to hear that. In other words, the situations was "works as intended".)
There's a StrangeLoop talk about teaching programming by Felienne Hermans (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1ib43q3uXQ) that claims that all fields have an "exploration vs instruction" debate on how to teach their field, but this debate is apparently absent from the field of programming for the most part, wherein the "mess around and figure it out" exploration style of LOGO and Papert ("every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery") is the predominant unquestioned wisdom. Felienne wants more pedagogy fights. It's a worthwhile talk. I love LOGO and I think our generation of programmers are very sympathetic Papert's philosophy due to most of us being self-taught to some degree (you can see the fond nostalgia already on display in the comments here), but Felienne made me think about it more critically.
Yes, my point was that your other comment was not a sufficient explanation for steady/rising prices.
Sometimes yes, other times you just want to eat. But even if you look for nice place, itis different.

Date, familly dinner, celebration and similar all take time. You are comfortable being there for two hours. With lunch, you want be shorted then that.
Don’t forget prolonged lockdowns as a new drawback.
The arrogance in this comment astounds me. It's almost never appropriate to assume that people don't have the right to make decisions for themselves, even if you think those decisions harm them. People have different values and weigh their own decisions against their own values, not yours.
"I don't think "Compact fluorescents" belongs in that list."

20 to 30 years of terrible light aesthetics and here's hoping you never dropped or broke one since, oops, there's toxic waste (mercury) in your house.

CF bulbs are just the worst technological diversion I have seen taken in my lifetime and I feel bad for everyone that had to interact with them.
So. Many. Buzzwords.

Can someone do an ELI5 of what this is, what this does, what problems it solves, how a non-developer is affected by it, and what it lets a developer do that they couldn't do before?

I'm sure I'd be interested in this, but at the moment I can't find a safe, secure foothold in the torrent of buzzwords.

Thx.
For Billion Indians, Government’s Voluntary Contact Tracing App May Be Mandatory
Original title was too long. It was:

For A Billion Indians, The Government’s Voluntary Contact Tracing App Might Actually Be Mandatory
Anywhere I've lived in Wisconsin is free* residential, contractual for business. Basically what PhantomGremlin said, minus the mafia. I'd always assumed it was this way everywhere in the U.S.

Whereabouts do you live, and what is the situation there with residential waste and recycling?

* Of course, this is (presumably) funded by city taxes, so "free" means "I don't see the cost explicitly".
> At the end of the day, selling well means that you are helping the customer actually understand their problem, and the path to evaluate a solution.

Lipstick on a pig in 99% of cases.

I've been a CEO, CDO, a consultant, a middle manager and an IC. Well functioning high output teams (in any sector of business) almost never need a new tool/service to provide value. On the flip side, poorly functioning teams are constantly chasing new tools and processes as fixes to their broken organizations. So the vast majority of sales are convincing broken organizations to buy organizational nudges.

The single place where I am consistently happy to spend money is on things that our organization cannot internally build that we need to scale immediately. In the long run though, I want to eliminate as many outside dependencies as possible, so my goal is to either absorb you or build processes and systems that replace your service.
Congrats on making the leap! Do you find that your pipeline is busy enough are are you still looking to grow it?
Full-Duplex Wireless Remains a Promise and a Challenge
I like notion because it's pretty simple and works on all my devices. The only other app like that is Gmail. Google suite is awful on mobile, otherwise it would probably be sufficient for my needs.
And to add to your points, we also know if the hypothesis is true, it would be a type of blow to China’s image that the CCP just can’t have.

We’ll never know because no one will be allowed to investigate it:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1197516

The WHO is probably on the same list as organizations waiting to get a chance to investigate the Uyghur camps.

Wild stuff.
What about the second time?
When interpreting this, please also consider the warning [1] by Tedros Adhanom et al. in a letter in The Lancet:

"[I]t is very important to adhere to WHO's recommendation that the BCG vaccine is used for COVID-19 only in randomised controlled trials. (...) [T]he BCG vaccine is already in short supply, and indiscriminate use could jeopardise the supply needed to protect children against tuberculosis in high-risk areas."

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Similar policy:

https://www.debian.org/security/faq#contrib

However most packages in Debian are in main. AFAIK contrib is for FLOSS packages that somehow depend on packages that are not FLOSS.
This is a working link: https://madebyneversink.com/

There is no certificate for "www" for whatever reason.
> We created this software on a request from healthcare staff

If this is some small town hospital in Srilanka, the choice is between an unaffordable certified solution and not having any monitoring. If Medical software didn’t bleed them dry, they wouldn’t go this route.

> disruption should happen slowly, carefully, and safely

Disruption always happens this way - same way Uber broke existing laws. Yes, few people will die. But this isn’t surprising when the alternative is even worse.
You’re right. There is no way this would be deployed in a UK hospital as it stands. It might be some of the most dangerous ideas encapsulated in code I’ve ever seen. I disagree with standards like DCB0129, but they’re there for a reason. This would not pass.
The “Verticalization” of Zoom
FWIW I tried Windows as a desktop two weeks ago, and gave up on it precisely _because_ the implementation of window snapping and positioning was so bad. I have a very wide monitor and need a way of splitting the screen into thirds, which Windows seems to lack.
I took plenty of math classes in high school and college over two decades ago. I look at the average Trig problem and I didn’t know where to start helping my son. I ended up FaceTiming my mom who is a retired high school math teacher. I also have an aunt - a retired high school science teacher - I could call. But how many people have those resources at their beckon call?
I use a commercial OS, so there's a company out there where some well-paid professional decides which updates need to be pushed out ASAP and which ones can wait until next patch Tuesday.

I'm not sure if that person / team can ever be replaced by modifications to a version numbering scheme.
I ran Debian for maybe 15-20 years before switching to Ubuntu. The first few weeks are rough. But once you get it configured up the way you like, it keeps on ticking for a decade with no announced changes or surprises. You front-load a lot of the work, but then productivity stays high.

Those 15-20 years, it was the same Debian install. Everything else in the computer changed, but Debian kept on ticking.

There was a while Debian was behind on supporting things like laptop power management and graphics cards, when I switched to Ubuntu. For a while, it was a more polished, user-friendly up-to-date Debian. That was nice.

Now that Ubuntu re-invents the wheel each new release (and quite often, replacing a spoked, pneumatic-tired wheel with a square piece of wood), and hardware support is a little more standardized, I think it's time to switch back. It feels more like a tech gizmo, designed for Ubuntu developers, than an end-user OS.
In my opinion, the perfect programming language would have RTL evaluation like APLs but RPN is a superior input method. If I had some kind of IDE that allowed me to "build" APL expressions (and dfns) using RPN as I built algebraic expressions using my HP calculator, I would be a happy man.

Forth LTR feels good with small expressions (and many times, that's all you need), but as soon as you have something complex, stack shuffling makes difficult to keep a mental picture of what the program is doing. I have the same problem with complex tacit expressions, I need to "translate" it. But dfns (or k funcs) are trivial to read.
a lot of people are going to die of irony
I'm not sure... someone else can probably give a better answer on this! Medicine, weather prediction, logistics and driving aids are a few possibilities that come to mind, but I don't know if those are actual ones.

Even if there were no benefits, I think the quote in question was pointless without noting this. But what the quote actually refers to is a "worldview where advances in software and A.I. are the keys to figuring out almost any issue" — I would say it's safe to say that software has had some positive impact in the world.
Do downvoted/flagged comments not show up in the results? I was curious after this comment and went through several pages for this user. I didn't find anything other than a lot of insightful posts
CHP arrests protesters in Sacramento who defy shelter-in-place order
With much higher longevity thanks to medicine, people have many more years of life. But I imagine a potent virus could absolutely lay waste to this segment of the population we're accustomed to thinking of as healthy.
> .. and it is hardly unreasonable to accommodate them.

I think he meant you can't totally disable snap auto-updating.
I did mean escaped. There’s plenty of labs that were studying SARS, so it’s not impossible. I agree that we should look at only the facts, but political groups on all sides are twisting them for own convenience, so you have to be skeptical of motivations right now.
It doesn't matter much where it originated now, the lab or the market. US tax payers should not fund such research. China tried to cover up the incident and has failed to stop the virus escape to other countries. They should be held accountable for this. The US is one of the few countries in the position to issue punitive measures. Others may follow. I am going to refrain from buying goods from the PRC after this.
How is the weather up there? Bad weather on earth has grounded or crashed more than a few zeppelins and blimps. On Venus, going to the ground wouldn't be an option.
Reverse-engineering the audio chip in the Nintendo Game Boy Color
PHP/Wordpress developer salaries are low by developer standards, but compare favourably with jobs in general (median income).

So PHP/Wordpress developer is still a great job from that point of view.
I agree with you and have upvoted your comments, however, I'll also note that we distinguish between different disciplines in software engineering. "Real-time" has a very spceific definition in embedded systems and OSes, but this is clearly high-level application more tied to business logic than, say, rocket control systems.

I think both uses of the term are acceptable in their different contexts. (But yes I also agree "streaming" is a very good term.)
Son is an extreme outlier- remember he lost $70 billion during the dot com bust, and SoftBank lost 99% of its market cap, and in the subsequent decade was able to gain it back.

I'm talking about the average Silicon Valley VC firm.
It also works just by opening it normality Firefox (or Firefox Preview, but not Firefox Focus/Klar, which use the built in webview).
Do less Italians get the mmr? That would be interesting to look at the hard hit places.
Sure there is market uncertainty, but that changes qualification criteria not the willingness to lend. I wonder if this announcement has more to do with the PPP fiasco in the banking world. I applied for an SBA loan the day before the PPP was released and my bank said basically "sorry, we're doing nothing but PPP for the next 5 weeks".
Pricing Your Product
Didn't they lose a pretty significant suit because their salespeople were denying mortgages or significantly adjusting their offered terms to black people based on their race?

I'm not convinced that their strategy is necessarily sound and unbiased or representative of the knowledge base they command.

EDIT: My apologies, I was mistaken. They settled for $175 million. You can remove your downvotes now.

https://www.startribune.com/wells-fargo-pays-175-million-in-...

https://consumerist.com/5283290/affidavits-on-how-wells-farg...
Deck.GL has some similar examples. I think the reason this makes sense is that geo data viz had to pioneer huge datasets - which are less common in other fields.
I always give this advice to juniors and stakeholders. If you bullshit an engineer they can smell it from a mile away and they'll never respect your opinion again. If you tell them you don't know, you'll get an hour of expert level education on a subject for free.
I am excited mostly about AR. _If_ we can solve the hardware, it promises to be one of the most useful and astounding technologies ever promised.
I thought the convention was to separate local variables with three spaces like this:

function CharCount(ch, line, n)
> Imo, the kind thing is not to denigrate anyone, including people that can not possibly be useful.

Exactly.

In fact, I have always found it advantageous to treat people "far down the ladder" with respect and kindness.

This has always worked out well for me. These people know everything.
Accumulation Theory of History
Agree that Notion should consider adding a "simple" table that isn't the full-blown database.
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“The Advantages of a Dragon.”
> the choice is between an unaffordable certified solution and not having any monitoring.

No, this isn't _necessarily_ the choice. Without a "false sense of security" that an imperfect monitoring system might instil, you have nurses and doctors actually doing rounds and checking their patients.

> Disruption always happens this way - same way Uber broke existing laws. Yes, few people will die. But this isn’t new when the alternative is even worse.

This is an absolutely horrible viewpoint to have. People dying because of "disruption" so a few companies can make a few more dollars is _never_ acceptable.
Refinancing isn't the answer, because the borrowers will need to make up the difference between the old value and new value in cash. That's what makes this such a strong incentive, where it's worth it to leave a property unrented for a long time. If there's no refinancing, there's no reevaluation and no big lump of cash to be produced - everything just continues on as it did before.