skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? What could you have against Red Hat? Even when I worked for a direct competitor, I had nothing to hate at Red Hat!
Gold: If you don't have the physical gold in your IMMEDIATE possession, you don't own gold.
Or you could just say screw it, and use RFC4193, and then all you need to ever worry about is prefix remapping at a few key touch points. Particularly if you don't care about external routing in the first place.
Because they're popular...

They're fluff. Somewhat easy to write and generally find an audience in both the users and the wannabes.

They will write articles about how to use Vi/Vim long after I'm dead :-)

They're one of the social discussions that hackers have, just like football fans discuss about Pele vs Maradona (or these days Messi vs Cristiano Ronaldo), boxing fans argue about Muhammad Ali vs Mike Tyson, etc.
> So checkmate in any one timeline counts?

Yes. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24065059 )

> You couldn’t do all timelines.

How do you reckon that? I mean, it makes sense on an intuitive level; however, since now we're not talking about Conor Petersen's 5D chess, but the vast space of possible multiverse time travel chess variants, it's not obvious how one could prove this to be impossible in a somewhat rigorous way. For example, what if time-lines end when a king is mated (or wioll fore-when haven been mote [0]), but you only lose when you can't make a valid move in any time-line?

[0] http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~param/quotes/guide.html
This is his official account. There is a persistent rumour that he had another, pseudonymous one.
> - the raptor engine. This was developed behind closed doors and is sort of finished. We won't see much of it, but it is the most advanced rocket engine ever made and I'm not aware of any upcoming engine that can compete with it.

I believe the Raptor is the first actually working full flow staged combustion engine. It is sort of a holy-grail of engine for liquid rockets. Tim Dodd has a lot more info on it here:

https://everydayastronaut.com/raptor-engine/

However please call it what it really is. It isn't a belly flop so much as it is a skydiver maneuver. Just like how a skydiver splays out their arms and legs to maintain stability and slow down a bit, starship will do the same. Also like a skydiver, it will upright itself before landing as a belly flop would almost guarantee a RUD.
I'm not convinced to be honest. Even with tiny heaps like 32MB JVM processes with practically nothing but a hello world micronaut project consume up to 200MB of RAM. There is more to this than just the dumb GC which always predictably hits the configured maximum or if there is no maximum it will just gobble up your most of your system. I once saw an instance of tomcat allocate 30GB to itself on a staging system with at most one user at a time simply because the machine had 128GB RAM. 30GB for nothing. I personally dislike the JVM. However I have no problem with Java or any JVM derived languages but it simply doesn't matter how much you hyper optimize your code if the underlying VM is junk.
Very happy to see this, Lua has a bunch of great properties (small footprint, speedy JIT, simple datastructures). It's great for quickly hacking together some script functionality, and it (already) handles enormous scale in enterprise applications (e.g. Cloudflare).

I maintain the Haxe Lua target, and have a good understanding of how Lua relates to other languages (at least through a "Haxe" lens).

I think the main things I get hung up on is the 1-indexing scheme, and the lack of true "null" fields on tables (Lua treats these as missing). This makes Lua tricky to integrate with other languages, especially if they serialize/de-serialize data. You essentially have to pick a work-around, and unless you know what you're doing (and what you're doing 5 years from now), you're going to feel a lot of pain.

I realize changing these things would make Lua less "Lua", but virtually every other language Haxe supports has straightforward support for these behaviors. It's really the only two nits that have marred an otherwise pleasant experience working with Lua.
Hmm, I think I see what you're saying, but in my opinion the way that one bifurcates the timeline is by traveling back and forth in time, which is already counted, and moving back and forth among bifurcated dimensions is already counted as well, so there's not extra dimension there.

For instance, if you have a stick you can push back and forth in a groove and count that as one dimension, if you push hard enough against an obstacle the stick might break and rotate out into the plane, but that's still only two degrees of freedom.
>basically stealing TikTok for example

'Stealing' it for 30 Billion? Give me a break... TikTok is not the hill to die on...
They're not even expensive to buy. I picked one up for a few hundred dollars for hiking. I believe it's good for 10 years, until the battery needs replacing.

I don't even do particularly intense hikes, usually not even overnight, but I read a few stories and realised how easy it is to end up in a situation where you need one. You just have to slip over and land badly, that's all it takes.

Or maybe it won't be me, but someone else on the trail who needs help.
Yep, just remember the controversy when Firefox included Pocket naively. Some people loved it, others hated it.
Related since this is an example of things that can be done with Vega.

From what I can tell, the main article is about being able to generate Vega from Scala.

Altair is an python package for generating Vega using Python. Their documentation also has an excellent examples gallery, if you're looking to see what an be done with Vega and similar packages.
One solution for this, at least for search, would be to use something like https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search
ok, I don't see people lugging around a bunch of gold coins in their purses in the future. It doesn't make sense.

edit:
I actually agree 100% on "You seem to be under the impression that only 'better' things exist. That is wrong."

Worse things will also exist, but won't be adopted by the majority.
> 3d chess is another popular variant: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional_chess

I was crazy enough as a high-schooler to actually build (with the help of my father) a 3D chess "board". It was mostly plywood, with eight 8x8 boards stacked vertically. I had previously gotten a "3D" chess board which was just three 8x8 boards. They weren't making Star Trek tri-dimensional chess sets back then.

With the 8x8x8 3D board, movement rules for 2D chess have a "natural" expansion to 3D, with only a few corner cases. White player's non-pawn pieces start out on the bottom board, with the pawns on the next board up.

In practice, it was hard to visualize how the game was going in general. We were constantly standing up and crouching to see. Only one of my friends wanted to play, and he only lasted about half a game. :-(

With the failure to interest my friends, I had intended to write my own chess program to play it. I had started out with the 2D version, and was then intending to expand it later. The original was written in BASIC... and that did not go too well.
Forty Days and Forty Nights
* about:config
* search: browser.urlbar.trimURLs
* Double click to toggle to false.. and non-https protocol is now displayed

Source: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/881261
Increased captchas, sometimes sites will also break for non-obvious reasons (usually because you need to flip the setting that enables canvas data reading to the left of the URL bar), your time zone will be set to UTC on every website that you visit.

There are a few ways of looking at the captchas; the optimistic lens is to look at it as a response to people who say that it's impossible to meaningfully reduce fingerprinting. If that was true, Google wouldn't be so mad at me for flipping this setting on.

But it does make some browsing more annoying, especially if you're not technically savy enough to realize what's going on when something unexpected happens. I think it's the right decision for them to have it off by default (at least for right now).
I wasn't trying to make an exhaustive comparison, but each individual contributes inertia to the market regardless of the total size of the market (see 1 below)

The MySpace argument often calls to the transient spirit of social media: one day it's hot, the other it's not. I recall Digg's death too after a controversial redesign. The issue with this argument is that:

1. Numbers not only increase inertia, but social products increase it too. If my friends aren't using a social platform neither am I, usually.

2. Facebook has such a rich culture of A/B testing that they'll never release controversial changes without a deeper understanding of the impact of those changes on engagement. They won't shoot themselves in the foot like Digg did with current leadership.

3. Facebook has a really successful history of acquisitions and its leadership is very aware of social media trends. It catches those trends early.

As a consequence of (1), I'd argue that Facebook has a tremendous moat in comparison to its peers: it has a large amount of users who are more likely to stay put. While Facebook also moves slowly as a consequence of (2) often enough, it can move really quickly on producing novel products.

Facebook certainly will face challenges in the future, but they're likely to be a lot different at this stage.
> The counter-counter-argument is that if you don't decouple the "doing of the scientific research" from "influencing human choices", you might compromise the endeavor of scientific research altogether.

I don't disagree with you. Put more concretely, I think we need a blend of:

1. Allowing scientific concensus to influence the choices we make today. We should act on our current best knowledge of the world.

2. Allowing politics and our understanding of what humans need today to influence the way we allocate scientific resources. Critical problems and promising solutions should be given some priority because they have the greatest chance of improving people's lives.

3. Funding "pure" scientific research where we have no idea if it will pan out or not. 2 is biased because we don't have a perfect understanding of what research will pan out. Without some random resource allocation we will only hill-climb to the nearest local maxima of things we know are improvements. Sprinkling some fraction of our resources outside of obvious priorities allows paradigm shifts and serendipity, which are vital for progress on longer timescales.

I think a lot of science nerds, especially here, focus on 3, and I agree that it's important and undervalued. But I think it's highly inefficient to only do that. Smart resource allocation does give greater weight to areas with greater probability of success, and to areas that provide the most benefit.
> IG is being used less and less because it's turned into the Home Shopping Network

I'm not so sure about this. 80% of my communication happens through Instagram DMs, and I haven't heard a single complaint about advertisements, or Instagram at all.

Rather, I see friends browsing content on TikTok (rather than on IG), then re-sharing it through DMs. They browse on TikTok because its For You Page curation makes finding interesting and entertaining content easier than on any other platform I've seen.
I logged in purely to say those are pretty ridiculous interview questions. At least the second question is ridiculous. Idk why people think riddles are a good evaluation for the actual job.
I moved from Vim to Emacs and definitely prefer it as a minimalist editor. That said, I usually end up working w/ VS Code or Intellij
> in applied maths ... all functions are continuous

I guess that's related to the fact that all computable functions from real numbers to real numbers are continuous. It seems reasonable that the laws of physics should be computable to a large extent otherwise we'd have been able to build a hypercomputer by now.
My sense is that lots of divided people (mainly fringe) have basically been silenced for years. Twitter has made it possible for those people to have a voice and more problematic made it super easy for malicious actors to mimic those people's ideas to make the situation worse than it really is.

My (probably unpopular) opinion is that they simply shouldn't have a voice. Twitter is bad for society period.
I find this argument interesting. I want to focus on the anxiety portion.

Is there proof that people are more anxious today than in the past? Is there proof that religious morals and expectations didn't have a negative impact on folks' anxiety levels in the past? What about religion means individuals would be less anxious, and how do you prove that?
For what it's worth: I really don't care to tell people what editor to use. But I do think that everyone should think about spending some time with vimtutor. Not because it will turn you into a 10x developer, or because vim has the best keybindings ever, or anything like that. I've never bought it. But I do believe that it is very likely to make your life easier, even if you don't actually use vim.

Let me explain: I've been an emacs person for decades now. I was never super committed to it, though. In practice, I'll use whatever editor has the best plugin for the language I'm working in. Which means that, for the longest time, I had to try and keep track of 4 or 5 different sets of editor keyboard commands. Which is too damn much for one brain, so I found that, over time, I stopped being as efficient in any editor as I was in emacs 25 years ago.

So why vim? Because every editor worth its salt has an option to use vim keybindings. So you don't have to learn 4, 5, 6 different sets of editor commands. You can learn one, and learn it well.
Why, yes, I would find antipiracy telemetry intrusive, and I would avoid it at almost all cost.

First: the "telemetry" will necessarily opaque, and I won't know what's being returned to the "antipirates".

Second: the "telemetry" will be using network connections that I pay for, and will almost certainly be a pig because the "antipirate" will have no motivation to be careful.

Third: the "telemetry" will have bugs, bugs that will mysteriously take down some of my network connections or hardware.

I will personally avoid all such rubbish attempts to make me bear more than my share of the costs, and further, like installing ad blockers, I will do what I can to thwart such "telemetry" on networks I control.

I relinquish my time.
Note that I think this blocking is done not by detecting a site doing it, but instead by using block lists: Firefox has a list of sites where third-party resources, including JS that would do canvas fingerprinting, will be blocked.

As I understand it, this is different from the various "resistFingerprinting" ("RFP") settings in about:config, which will work on every site (and are notorious for breaking things). Ditto CanvasBlocker, which AFAIK runs on every site.

I got this info from one of the links in the informative post you cited: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2020/01/07/firefox-72-fing...
If a financial bubble lasts 5000 years, is it still a bubble?
I agree with all those criticisms to some extent, but without some alternative I don't find the argument very useful, and I certainly don't find the original commenter's approach useful.

It's like listing the many many examples of plane crashes due to pilot error. That's not controversial. I don't think many people claim that individual pilots act without flaw, or that the entire system of pilot training and qualification is without flaw. But surely the proposal should not be to take comfort as more and more people "doubt the entire notion of an airplane piloting establishment that the population should 'trust' to make decisions without oversight."
Vitamin K2 does help bones absorb calcium, but it will not prevent the blood calcium level from rising if you are really taking more Vitamin D than you need. This is simply wishful thinking.
As one that was part of this industry for several decades I can say there was never a bias against female artists. Traditionally there were very few. The first appointment only shop in the US was female owned.
isn't talking about 100K/coin in 2017-2020 is as unrealistic as talking about 10K/coin in 2013-2015?
I’m confused why would this happen?

> The IPv6 enterprise argument is 'You might one day have to renumber some devices because some other enterprise might have set up overlapping addresses, therefore you definitely have to renumber everything now, and oh, every time the ISP decides they don't like you, because private addresses are icky'. Obviously that's a hard sell.

If you’re an enterprise you would just get your own IPv6 block assignment. It’s not like they’re expensive or hard to get hold of.

Companies already buy and manage domains, this is no different. Using a domain you don’t own is just plain stupid, same applies to IPv6 ranges.
The only way for your gold assets to increase in value is to convince other people they need to own gold. Usually, this is done with fear mongering.
Ask HN: What should I know about equity financing?
Hey there! For a past year I was working on a hobby project, something to scratch my own (professional) itch. Recently, someone offered to invest quite a bit of money in my project in exchange for stock. And while it gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling in my belly, its not something that ever crossed my mind - the whole thing is just something to make my life easier. Its _very_ niche (applicable to archaeology only), and design to solve my particular problems - heh, I don't even consider it production ready.

So here is my question: how does equity financing work in a real world? Say I go and register a company tomorrow - here it will cost me a €100 to register LTD. It is my understanding that equity is based on what the company is worth at the moment of investment? But if I only invested €100? The offer I got was a six figure one - and as much as it make me excited, it makes me afraid of the consequences of taking considerable amount of money from a random person (for the record, I did verify identity of the interested party).

Any advice is appreciated!
Microsoft Introduces Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes, Donates It to CNCF
One potential area for the future is "augmented writing" where writers aren't as we think of today but more editors who feed in prompts and possibly rearrange and tweak to get better results than just their meat brains could come up with. There would be a diversity of styles and approaches of course.

Imagine say some trying to maintaining training sets per individual character and finding that they would not only provide better lines but choose different actions.
Well - you may have overlapping RFC 4193, but if your network engineers have done their job well, you are randomly choosing from a big honking FD/8 address space, and the odds of a collision are statistically very unlikely.
A JVM with default settings will happily allocate more memory without attempting to even run a single GC cycle until it hits the configured heap size. Once it hits the limit it will try to run the GC.
Massive domes to act as greenhouses, melting a couple miles of ice cover. Fossils and untapped resources. Antarctica could be a lot of fun to colonize.
For anyone who has been inspired to try vi/vim:

To exit vi or vim, press Esc then type ":q" (without quotes) and hit enter.

If it warns you about not saving, try ":wq" to save and quit or ":q!" to quit without saving.

If this is in the article video I apologize, but I did check and it's not in the article text.
Is it me, or does it rather instead look like they arranged tree branches + leaves to make the word, not dug in sand?

And on another note, when you see things from an island scale, you can see that even at the size they drew those letters, it might've been missed. The world is big...
If you ever come across a jiggle-and-click gadget, let me know. Some of the computer activity trackers I've seen lately require the user to click every so often, so plain jigglers are no longer effective.
I've been trying to figure out where I should place a shelter belt on my property, as I've heard that the wind will rise up over the belt and then "dump" downwards. I don't want to position the belt so that the wind dumps on my house. I think it's essentially a fluid dynamics problem (I say this as decidedly not an engineer).

I've only looked half-heartedly, but found nothing that can help me.
I'm been an Emacs+Evil user for many years, but I would like to switch to Vim-- mainly because I use Windows 10 most of the time now and Emacs can have some input latency. But I'm old now and can't really imagine life without my init.el.
You're right, I was confused. This is like deciphering Dark on netflix.
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> God being an important concept to many people for the foreseeable future

Just like those tribes in the Amazon, they will exist, but most of humanity will fork off that, it's already happening. Like someone else in this thread said: "You seem to be under the impression that only 'better' things exist. That is wrong." -> I agree with this 100%, old things will continue to exist, but they will be left behind.
Why there’s so little left of the early internet (2019)
When you feel pointless - find simple problems you already know how to fix, that you can solve with skills you already have. Github issue trackers are a good place to find them. Just pick projects you feel are doing something good.

here are two lists to find projects -
https://github.com/humanetech-community/awesome-humane-tech

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/

Don't go chasing the hardest ones, until you have reduced that feeling of pointlessness and have built back up some confidence.
Err, didn't you just compare MySpace and Facebook by looking at their MAU?

The questions for continued relevance is if Facebook-the-company can continue to iterate Facebook-the-product, or if its codebase has grown too unwieldy, and the company's culture gone toxic, making it harder to add a feature to Facebook, compared to creating a new company, writing a bunch of code, buying content and acquiring users. Given the rise of Instagram(Acquired), Snapchat (IPOd), WhatsApp(Acquired), TikTok, it's not clear Facebook-the-company is able to innovate. It's not clear that they have to, either, given older Internet brands like Yahoo! are still around and making money.

The comparison I'd make is to email. There are reasons email will never die (along with reasons why email can't innovate), and I think some of those reasons also apply to Facebook by this point. There's just some percentage of people that won't ever move, so while, eg, IRC is no longer in its heyday, it's still alive and kicking.
> "can I help you"

Walmart? Are you sure? They are not known for being helpful, let alone solicitous.

Ironically, the only grocery chain that I can think of where employees actively ask if they can help is Trader Joe's. I can't help but giggle at the fact that they're German-owned, even if this part of the culture came from the American founder.
Most folks in Michigan over the age of fifty remember that station in its glory days. The last time I remember being there was when I was in college in the seventies.

Someone once described it as Detroit's Eiffel Tower. Can you imagine the Eiffel tower abandoned and rusting for fifty years? I had a chance to visit after Ford bought it and I refused. I want to return when it's finished.

Corktown is the oldest neighborhood in Detroit and it was probably the only safe one throughout its decline. The idea of a bunch of young tech employees living and working in Corktown, being able to bicycle or walk to work will be epic.

Mr. Ford has it right it will allow the company to compete for the best of the best. GM just bought a SF company to compete. Ford has elevated it to an entirely new level.
I've read that on HN before, and tried it a few months ago. It didn't work. At least not with an Apple Magic Mouse and my wife's desk clock.