skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not reading, but there's a great podcast called "Stoicism on Fire"[0] that I found to be enlightening.

0: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stoicism-on-fire/id136...
For what its worth getting scammed in video game is a lot better than getting scammed IRL, while you learn the same lesson.
> turn of events look very capricious to say the very least.

In so many places that's the only way when hotshot businessman's tactics get investigated. Otherwise they wine and dine with top politicians and their brokers. So regulators can't touch them.
Where do you get the 3/300B numbers? Didn't see them from the article. If true, that would be an insane amount of leverage.
YouTube, it is your fault! It is too painful to watch such videos and knowing that the fix is possible. Efforts like YouTube-BB (https://research.google.com/youtube-bb/explore.html) clearly shows, that you have the capacity to process and annotate large quantities of videos manually. So hire annotators and manually check every video. Then stop the full channel.
Exactly. The book can't trademark the name in general use, but it's still crappy hygiene to reuse the exact name. This has to be taken as deliberately drafting the wake of the book, which I cannot respect. Nor can the authors feign ignorance. They decided to do this.
Lately as I’ve been getting (more) frustrated with Bamboo and spending time noodling with kubernetes and JAMStack. I keep flirting with the notion that there’s a new generation of CI tool out there waiting to be discovered, one that steals a bit of brain- and problem-space from all three.

One that could more easily be set up by individuals, making it amendable to open source, possibly with some small degree of federation.
>Stoicism flourished in environments where people had to cope with severe disempowerment

This makes sense in the context of some of Sherman’s books. Her book “The Stoic Warrior” is aimed specifically at modern military members. I suspect it’s useful precisely because they are often in situations where they have limited control.
I am using an old version of erlang, so typer infers the following types:

-spec count([any()],_) -> any().
-spec count([any(),...]) -> any().

If I unexport count/2, it infers

-spec count([any(),...]) -> non_neg_integer().
-spec count([any()],non_neg_integer()) -> non_neg_integer().
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On their site it says the battery life is only 5 hours…
Pick up garbage and used syringes.
> Is it possible to build a carbon-neutral SaaS app, given all the dependencies we have on SaaS providers these days?

Yes, with carbon offsets: https://www.treehugger.com/best-carbon-offset-programs-50764...

WIRED "green report card" for the big cloud providers: https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-google-microsoft-green-cl...

Amazon's 2025 goal for 100% renewable: https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/environment/the-cloud...
Life in the USA can be seriously depressing. There is a constant awareness of just how unequal everyone's opportunities were. There is a lot of visible poverty and crime. I have personally watched people eat bits of food out of the gutter in San Francisco. There's also a lot of animosity between the haves and the have-nots. Daily conversation with strangers can be a minefield. Does this person not have access to health care? Do they have hundreds of thousands in school or medical debt? Do they expect to ever be able to retire? Does their job even allow them any paid vacation? Is a comfortable and well-paid job hopelessly out of reach for them? Have they experienced racial discrimination in school or work?

For many, many people, the psychic pain of all this inequality is too much and they retreat into bubbles of people very similar to themselves. Communities, schools, workplaces, and social networks can be shockingly segregated by race and class and people constantly get more unable to relate to the lives of others.

A little extra money is worthless in comparison to all that. Please enjoy the egalitarian society that we will never know.
My experience at the store/ when ordering drinks has been that I'd get the replies more often than not in Finnish and had to switch to English myself when it was something that I didn't understand. Key is to get the pronunciation right - which is far easier as a German.

And yes, younger people know English well and will usually switch to English if you're struggling - unless they think that their English is too bad (which it usually isn't).

Alcohol is very expensive though!
Just a thought, the downvotes may be because your comment read like you wanted someone to read you the first google search result. ;) I could be way off though.
Coldstream Guards must get through a bit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldstream_Guards
Cloudflare was a blessing for us. It's an incredible service for the price.

Business tier (we needed custom certs) + advanced ssl is like $220/month and you get a WAF, a world class cdn, and DDOS protection.
interesting... I would like to convert my old Nissan Micra, but the legislation on Spain it's so problematic that actually I can't do. I hope that we copy from France on this...
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having to pay out over 500 Million Dollars says otherwise.
If he was anything like the ones that sit in their car in my neighborhood, he probably also kept the car running. I wouldn’t call the cops, but I’ve pecked on a few windows asking them to turn it off. (Plus, I’d be genuinely shocked if a Redmond, WA cop actually showed up for something that didn’t involve blood or gunshots.)
It's probable and possible, obviously governments will want to control cryptoassets. But this point has been discussed before.

The trade of "illegal" assets goes on and will continue to go on to the end of time, whether that's marijuana or prostitution services. The spectrum of legality will vary in different parts of the world. Like many contrabands, there won't be enough resources to enforce prohibition of it, the population may not see the point of its illegality (as there is not an obvious social cost), and eventually the tides turn.
Lol. Maybe he can elucidate his views on racial justice, I am sure it will be quite enlightening.
Are you launching in Malaysia as well?
>Your phone started using it years ago.

But I hate my phone.
It's difficult to weigh the difference between two extreme bads, so I understand how you could come to that conclusion. However "don't say anything on this list of things not to say" is an order that could at least by choice be complied with. Imagine yourself in Europe and also in Central America. Would you rather live under the fear of heresy laws or under the fear of human sacrifice? In the former case you could choose between complying with the unjust ruler or standing up to them, in the latter, you just die.
HRTF is now quite common with VR games since it's guaranteed that you'll be using headphones. I've had to implement it for a couple of titles and the result is quite nice as the audio positioning matches your head movement.
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Sooooo hcaptcha is way more aggressive. Like when it first went into cloudflare it made browsing the web miserable.

They've since seemed to put a lot of work into it. To the point where I don't notice it anymore.

They're iterating, and that's what I want to see.
I think the motivation / folks willingness to believe something less than believable totally is part of how folks get scammed.
We give up on automated program analysis far too easily - even for "Turing complete" languages.

To be truly Turing complete requires infinite memory. That clearly doesn't hold for any current programming language.

Mathematical proofs are only applicable where their assumptions are valid. So why would we believe that the where memory isn't infinite (everywhere in practice) that Turing's halting analysis is applicable?

Sure, automated program analysis might not be easy, but that doesn't mean we should just give up. Indeed I have a simple algorithm (although relatively inefficient) to solve the halting problem where memory size is fixed and finite: enumerate every state until either a state is repeated or the program halts. This completes in O(2^N) time where N is the size of the memory.

But I'm sure someone clever will come up with a more efficient algorithm than that. I already have several ideas that this margin is too small to contain.

For me the tricky bits are where a loop terminates if and only if Goldbach's conjecture is true (or similar) - but perhaps a compiler could require an "unsafe" block for such code (in the vein of Rust).
The real question people are asking is why now? Didn't the regulators have enough time to assess the irregularities earlier? A $30 billion IPO plan couldn't have been made public without the regulators giving at least some in-principle approval, and I'm sure Jack Ma knows how to navigate the bureaucracy/politics in China before he would make such plans public. I don't understand Chinese politics much but this just reeks of vendetta.

>After the 2008 financial crisis, Basel III includes regulations on "shadow banks" like Ant in addition to traditional banks. Is it possible for a bank that has only assets of 3B lends out 300B? But, Ant already did. They created an Asset-Backed Security (ABS) via a process called securitization. It is unprecedented that a financial institution with such big financial leverage and a large amount loan going unregulated.

If that's the case, why were they being allowed to continue as a privately-owned lender for so long?
Thanks! I'm a big fan of html.energy.

Also, I'm planning on picking up the tours again soon, so if you, or anyone else, has some suggestions for folks it'd be cool to see, let me know!
Very true. I can think of much worse things.
>Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who don't like this new "stream textures as it becomes required" instead of loading screens

But we're talking get rid of loading screens, what you described would only occur in the first few seconds of the game. It's hardly immersion breaking. If we're talking about the general problem of pop-ins (ie. during normal gameplay), loading screens aren't better either, as you would see jarring loading screens as you move through the game world.
I was thinking of launching a kickstarter campaign to bootstrap a city-wide mesh network in my city. The idea would be to have a text-based communication network that works in emergencies, is censorship-resistant and encrypted. I could collect money for X nodes to cover the whole city by approaching cafes, bars, libraries or universities and asking them to contribute by setting up a node for them. If successful, maybe other cities would follow the example and the citizens of each would bootstrap their own networks.
Awesome, thanks for the numbers! I feel great reading what was your approach here. Thanks!
This is what I try to explain when it comes to "why are you paying so much for Apple". Because when you buy a cheap Android phone from Xuoiamiaeoi or whatever, you get some custom crippled OS in god knows what ways in close to 0 long-term support from them.
HP Instant Ink is “ink as a service”
Thanks for the pointer! I'm looking for something to replace a 5th gen nano, which I could slip into any pocket and not worry about. (My 7th-gen touch screen broke in my trouser pocket after a month or two by rolling on the floor playing with my preschoolers.) That G9 Power doesn't svelte or durable enough.
If only they'd listened to you!
Show HN: Watch me make a Roam Research Clone in 90 Minutes
There's a huge difference between free and non-free. You probably miss that it's not about price but freedom: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-impor...
A few major urban areas with high cost of ownership and good alternative options aside, a car is a self-compounding step out of poverty to most poor people and their problem with them is one of cost.

To tell these people that cars are their problem is tone deaf at best. They have a million bigger problems.
It may be 10% reserved to prolong SSD lifespan. Especially if they are using QLC memory (or as we should marketing-call it - 4-level MLC). Another idea - fully populated SSD drive is slow, because when it has a lot of free space it can emulate SLC mode by using some space behind the scenes, freeing it when needed. Samsung calls this Turbo Write technology.
It’s not about the time, it’s about the risk of not using the right flags, trusting the build environment, having a process, etc etc. Every time you have to hand-craft anything, from a security perspective, you’re more likely to put a foot wrong in ways that might reveal as disastrous months or years down the line. This is particularly true for such a basic building block as SSH.

For example, in any decent Linux distro you’d want to replace the package, not a single executable. So at a minimum it would be openssh-clients, which is a pretty important package to potentially get wrong.
What about Instagram?

Acquired at 10mn users, not really used by anyone except SF hipsters.

Now a massive juggernaut and the same size (in MAU) as Facebook was when they acquired it.
I am questioning the claim that we need to build more affordable housing by going high density.
As funny as that incident was it really seemed like the FBI using its "not exactly entrapment" playbook that it perfected in the aughts against disaffected muslim teen shut-ins. Now the Philly police catching armed Q-anon fans coming to Philly from out of state is a different matter and the example I would more readily cite: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/06/philadelphi...
Dim your monitor: save the world
>why use VPNs/proxies if you have nothing to hide

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50150981
Execution “for fun” seems inappropriate here, doesn’t it? The comparison to medieval European justice also seems a little apples and oranges. Maybe a comparison to the Inquisition and/or the burning of supposed witches - both religious in nature, both horrendous, both seemingly an attempt to unify societies under a common belief?
There's a few like that, Golem and Gridcoin are the two that immediately come to mind for me. Gridcoin uses the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC).
Their justice system had some amount of accuracy. Human sacrifice has no accuracy. If a distinction of degree is a distinction without a difference, then I propose that I give you 0% of my possessions in exchange for 10% of yours. ;)
If I can kindly suggest, pick the charity and put “all proceeds will go to ___” on the page. It might save you some headaches later. Best of luck!
It might not save the planet, but I sure do prefer a website
that doesn't need five seconds to load.

I don't feel like I'm asking that much but for some reason
websites insist on using HD videos as site background,
autoplaying livestreams, newsletter popups and more.

No need to argue about saving the climate - not using Netflix or
YouTube would indeed make a much larger difference - but just do
it for our sanity. I swear the only reason I'm not clinically
insane yet is because browsers have tabs which let me load
websites in the background. And that's with an internet
connection that, while not the fastest, is far beyond anything
certain remote regions have access to.

How about we keep sites lightweight so more people around the
world have access to information and education, in turn
improving more than just the climate.
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An unusually unfavourable article, even by the standards of semiaccurate.com.
Can this new processor family be interpreted as something less terrible than "palpable desperation" and effectively giving up on the 10nm process? For example, prices might be aggressively low.
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In addition to the many great answers here: consider putting on performances, whether you organize them or perform. Make art, and leave it in unexpected places. Sell some homemade food outside your house once in a while. Add a little surprise and delight into people's lives. It's contagious. And everyone needs joy, entertainment, and even some good-weirdness in their lives; it's not just for those with disposable income and spare time.
I can't help but agree. I used to somewhat immune to that kind of pandering until I got a dog myself and now I simply cannot watch some of the ads/news/videos that deal with various animal rescues.

I absolutely get how some people's first reaction is to take the easy way and reach for a wallet. After all, the need is there and there seem to be people who seem to be helping. It does help that I don't have that much money to spare so when I donate, it is usually time and not money.

Frankly, I was trying to convince wife to create a dog sanctuary for a while.

Still, while there is special place in hell for some of animal abusers, the middlemen and scammers have their own little ring in there too.
What I hate about this is that collecting money to fund your embezzlement boat is a lesser evil than building a wall through the desert.
You can deprecate something while still letting people add it back into their PPA manually. If you absolutely need an deprecated tool, no one's going to stop you: it's linux. Heck, just com,pile it from source and be on your merry unsupporteed way.
Good morning HN!

Pasha, creator of Less (https://less-dev.com) here. Less is a tool to rapidly build databases and data-driven APIs.

I made a (very partial) clone of Roam Research to demo Less. The final result is here: https://supernotes.net

Phew, videos take way more time than I thought :)
The "global lower middle class" is screwed in that sense, I know it because I belong to it. If you are from a rich country or have elite qualifications, the world is your oyster. If you are at the other spectrum and come from an impoverished, war-torn country you could get asylum if you play your cards well. It's an incredibly shitty situation of course, but there is some chance. If you are from a poor, but mostly peaceful country and you have skills but not Ivy League/SV brand-recognition level, you are pretty much "screwed".
No, I'm talking about https://data.pa.gov/Government-Efficiency-Citizen-Engagement... .

You can download 446mb of clearly bad data.
The trailing slash behavior totally makes sense. It only took me a couple of times for me to learn it.

Unfortunately, it took only one more time for it to be forgotten, then another few times to be re-learned, then forgotten again, then half-remembered the wrong way, then....

I pretty much have it down now, though. The secret to my success: remembering that the differing behavior applies to the source side only. Trying to work out the matrix of possibilities between source, source/, dest, and dest/ is where I usually got lost, until I finally got it through my head that the destination syntax is irrelevant.

Now it makes sense: "foo/bar/" is the directory named "bar"; "foo/bar" is the directory entry within foo/ named "bar". Copying a directory puts its contents on the destination side. Copying a named thing, whether the name refers to a file or directory, puts that name on the destination side.
Multiple people here are disagreeing and saying no, if everyone does what they can it does make a difference.

I think a better perspective is this: the impact per time unit of clean code is vanishingly tiny.

If you actually care about the environment, then it's orders of magnitude more effective to write "dirty" code, and then use the free time it gives you to do things that actually make a difference: volunteering, lobbying, raising awareness, writing to representatives, working and donating the $ to environmental groups, etc.

The question isn't about whether something is a net positive or not, it never has been. The question is, is it the biggest positive you can achieve with your limited time/resources.

Which is where the author is right -- focusing on clean code (unless you're Netflix-scale) is a massive time and energy suck away from action that can make a much larger difference.
Beyond my skill and interest - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24978977 .
The article appears to be behind a paywall but in general while I love the idea of vertical farming, assuming this involves hydroponics, it seems much more pragmatic to simply use large warehouses/greenhouses on the edge of the population center.
Your description of the more sensationalist types of stories sound similar to the content that The Dodo publishes. It makes me wonder just how complicit they might be in this form of terrorism.
Was very short-form but the mobile app Secret had a fair amount
> The real question people are asking is why now?

These why now questions unfortunately never have satisfactory answers. Too early: there is no scam/govt is stifling innovation, in the middle: not enough proof, late: why regulators were sleeping till now.
I'd be happy to suggest what I've found useful! However, the philosophy is expansive and old, so there are too many possible recommendations - it depends on what you're trying to accomplish. A broad survey of its principles? A straight-forward introduction? Modern attempts at reform?
Yes, xidel. The author hangs out here.
If you’re by chance in Rockford, move to an old house in Midtown, Broadway or the northwest side and fix it up. The city is intent on gentrifying downtown and near east side, but the big reductions in violent and sexual crime are happening from individuals and small non-profits pouring love and attention into other areas.

This is actually similar to the police department’s strategy with the resident officer program—-they’re choosing similar areas and quality of homes.
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It's interesting that the author doesn't take the high road and mention things like this, Bitcoin mining, streaming video games (not entirely sure if the carbon footprint of that is bigger than downloading and executing a game locally tbh) as more effective ways to reduce emissions.
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Sorry I don't have an English source but translation https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http...
Yes there will be inflation but it won't be unbounded and it won't be even everywhere. Cities will see increases faster because of higher demand, people on BI will have to move away from them. As long as BI is not locally CoL adjusted (Pinning to a National or State CoL value would be ok) supply and demand will adjust to the inflation.
Or allow a selection of charities as people will have different areas of interest.

Definitely put a note up, though. My first thought when seeing this was a vivid image of someone laughing all the way to the bank.
Maybe try Facebook or Reddit.
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Spend time with your neighbors and local businesses. That goes a long way. Learn more about what works well in the city, and what doesn't. Consider serving in a volunteer capacity with various organizations like local neighborhood councils or schools. Most importantly, if you can devote time, money, or both to local schools, you will make the biggest impact there.

Have kids? Send your kids to the local public school. That is an enormous difference maker. Don't push for dumb things (e.g. Latin), but be an effective advocate for students whose parents might be unable to get involved, and contribute time and energy to improving resources across the board.
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I wrote https://github.com/kalekseev/django-extra-checks that do exactly this using builtin django checks framework, it has a couple of drawbacks though:
1) Django checks doesn't provide a good way to disable checks for some lines.
2) Parsing AST is quite slow and django check runs on every dev server reload.
The more I do this, the more I come to believe that boundaries, no matter how you do them, are the million dollar question.