skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, Bitcoin's stability increases all the time and it will continue attracting more risk averse investments. Institutions are also more strategic in their investments, which will increase but also stabilize the price even further. That's basically the story why it's attractive for speculators right now. It might be 'get rich quick scheme' but also becoming a stable store of value.
Linked FTA an interesting piece by Rob Rhinehart: https://www.robrhinehart.com/why-i-am-voting-for-kanye-west/
>When you come to the end of the 90's and the beginning of the 2000's you have movies like Fight Club and Matrix denounce technology as the destroyer of the society or humanity.

No, the late 70s-80s gave us Terminator, Alien, The Day After, War Games, RoboCop, Cyberpunk, and on and on. There was definitely a palpable distrust and fear of technology even back then. Under the shadow of the bomb, you had people coming to terms with more and more of their world being run by big mainframes in far-away office buildings, whose arcane workings you could maybe get a glimpse of through text on a abyssal screen. I actually wrote a short essay exploring this and the notion that people haven't actually become any more comfortable with technology as it really is, only the increasingly friendly interfaces we interact with. I'd post it, but a few months after I wrote it, I realized that the file had become corrupt and that the first weekly back up of it had come a couple days after when that corruption was likely to have happened.
I use Epiphany Workflow on a MacBook Pro. It's easy to extract notes and review both the notes and the source paper later.
The "anti-science" crowds are all about trust. They aren't anti-science per se. Education as it is currently done won't really help much because it is not focused on what are actually persuasive arguments to these people.
The fundamental problem is that "science" in practice means trusting in scientific institutions.
To tackle anti-science you need to make the argument for why trust in universities and other scientific institutions is justified.

I don't understand how such big heads cannot understand such a simply basic human situation, and instead they produce videos talking about the scientific method, as if Mr. average Joe is going to go download some papers and datasets and spend thousands of hours reproducing the results.

It's a bit like free software. Why use it? Do you personally go through every source code of every application you use or do you just trust in the community? Now what if I spread a conspiracy theory that actually some big maintainer is injecting malware and other free software developers are in cahoots with him? You might think such a conspiracy theory is ridiculous but others might find it compelling.
It's a purported utility, but it doesn't really explain the valuation.
Maybe, but I guess the key question is whether facebook has standing and a duty to make that decision on behalf of their users' privacy, or if it should be left up to the user. Whether or not we trust facebook is relevant to that argument. If we don't buy that this is necessary for facebook to intervene and defend user privacy, the only conclusion I can come with is that they are making this decision because of a threat to their business. And I can't see much of a difference between "we should let the users share their information with Facebook for a better experience on the platform" with "we should let users share their information with NYU to power publically available research in ad targeting"
I'm sure there are a lot of companies with more money than sense that would buy any brand that would make them appeal to the Youtube audience.

Like when Yahoo bought tumblr. A baffling move, and now tumblr's dead. But at least somebody bought it (and not for cheap).
i would have wished them death, but since this being my traceable identity, i dont.
Most do for sure. I'd say 95% of the people I introduced to crypto feel this way. However, the same people who were into BTC back in the early 2010s are the same people who see the fed print 22% of all USD bills in 2020 alone as something very concerning. BTC is not my only investment against hyper inflation but its for sure always been in my portfolio.
I suppose it is solid-state. Makes me think there's an alternate universe out there where steampunk reigned supreme and records like this are the path that tech went down when the computer age hit.
MBP, sorry.
NanoPi R2S https://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&...

New version in the works based on the same RK3399 chip as the Tinkerboard from the article.

NanoPi R4S https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/11/12/nanopi-r4s-headless-...
Dolly Parton's donation was somewhere between Seed funding and Round A, so to speak, at a critical moment, and thus very worth calling out. From the article:

"Parton’s $1 million donation went a long way toward funding the “critical” early stages of research and testing. Her money helped us develop the test that we used to first show that the Moderna vaccine was giving people a good immune response that might protect them,” [team leader] Denison said.

“Her work made it possible to expedite the science behind the testing,” Abumrad [inventor], 76, said on Tuesday night. “Without a doubt in my mind, her funding made the research toward the vaccine go 10 times faster than it would be without it.”

See also the actual research report in the New England Journal of Medicine, "An mRNA Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 — Preliminary Report" where the credits are, in total, "Supported by the NIAID, National Institutes of Health (NIH)...; by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, NIH...; and by the Dolly Parton COVID-19 Research Fund... Funding for the manufacture of mRNA-1273 phase 1 material was provided by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI)."

So, it may have billions of dollars behind it now, but without her donation at a critical moment, it may not have gotten to that stage for a much longer time, if at all.
Yep, MBP, sorry.
Top Libraries Every React Developer Should Know About
As someone who's been involved with the project from day one, I'm genuinely interested in what other suggestion you have for making a living while wrinting OS software. There's a lot of discussions around sustainable open source, and I wonder what's so wrong about asking people that find the project supportable enough to become a GH sponsor (I myself am one, since leaving the company around Matestack as a co-founder due to mental health issues), asking companies that profit from it for a tiny compensation and offering premium add-ons & consulting (like, e.g., the people behind Sidekick, Trailblazer or Laravel do). Tough ask when tons of OSS is free & high quality, but then again not everybody has the luxury of either already being famous and/or being employed at $bigcorp to write OSS for a living (and we as a community perhaps should embrace different paths?!).
Looking forward to a constructive discussion if you find the time :)

Also, there's a lot of "I think the DSL ends up a hinderance" in this threat from people that (perhaps) haven't tried it and judge from the looks. Maybe that's just the tough HN crowd, but every single person we've actually had using it was pretty happy to with it once they were fully onboarded :)
People’s words and actions can shape your brain
Markopolos complained about Madoff for around nine years and other people may have seen the signs earlier. There is a great deal of ruin in Tether.
Typical Forbes Tech Council drivel. Alarmist, tunnel vision, contrived. I'm surprised it didn't start with "Apple has a serious problem with the M1."

Nothing written here is surprising.

The M1 models have been out for just over a week. No one expected all apps to work perfectly on a completely new architecture, but the fact that Rosetta 2 works SO well is extraordinary. As it is, MS Office is already native in the beta channel. So is Chrome and Firefox. Many popular apps were released native on day one. Microsoft has released a native OpenJDK 16 port. This is a remarkable level of adoption after just one week.

Lack of USB ports? How is that different from the existing models they replace, which, I might add, have far worse batter performance? These are not replacements for the top-tier pro machines. This was intentional. Apple intended these machines to be the foundation upon which the entire line is built, and to give developers the motivation to port their apps. And they are. Quickly.

I just setup a new Air for the chairman of the board at my company. He keeps texting me, raving about the thing. The best Mac he's ever owned (and he's owned nearly every Macbook there ever was).
There are opinions about technology stacks and code style, and there are opinions about whether Black people deserve to be alive. We can disagree about code style.
Why do you need atomics on a single core device?
Heck, when I was growing up, just being a nerd was enough to catch flak. I was once literally called a "poindexter" by a shirtless yokel while travelling by train though the Midwest!

Granted, there's always been an undercurrent of counter-culture in America. The Puritans had their witches. But by the 50's at least it was all buttoned up tight, and then exploded in the 60's and 70's, recoiled in the 80's, then everybody took a decade off in the 90's, and somehow in the 00's and 10's we all lost our fwcking minds.

The thing about mainstream American culture is that it pretty much had been under the thumb of mass media and religion. That's why the whole "fake news" attack is so devastating: our news has been fake. I read Noam Chomsky at an impressionable age and I recall the realization that we (in the USA) were living in what I called a "media blackout". Anything "they" didn't want you to know was simply omitted. It worked so much better than the Russian system.

But only until the Internet hit...
Even Faster Bash Startup
An overlooked feature of opensnitch is that the packet filter can run on a gateway (say, OpenWRT) and the GUI on any station. That’s something I’m missing with little snitch.
#ifdef _DEBUG
#define __REVIEW_ME / ## /
#else
#define __REVIEW_ME $review_me$
#endif

When reworking a large amount of code, this can be used to tag places that may need another pass or a review. The debug version will build fine, but the release won't until all review tags are removed.

This also allows adding free form comments if needed:

foo += 13; __REVIEW_ME -- why 13 ?!
Back in the late 90's I worked as a programmer. There was a minibus that took us from the train station to headquarters. One guy on the minibus said: you know what the best language to program in is? It's the one you want you program in.

It's like the advice someone gave about whether to choose Python or Ruby. He said: toss a coin, and then choose the language that you wished that the coin had landed on.

An interesting YouTube vid I saw some time ago was by Jerry Sussman: "We do not know how to compute".
Network effect?
Bots Grade Your Kids’ Schoolwork–and They’re Often Wrong
"The intention"

Stated intention. Unless you can read minds.
Show HN: Text Me That
They also have email hosting for $ 2 per account per month. Do you know what's the difference? What's the advantage if you can have unlimited e-mail accounts with web hosting?
Old but Gold: Kasparov on AI, AlphaZero and DeepBlue
As optimistic I am about crypto, I think this type of modelling (BTC at 300k in a year) is taking the price action around previous Bitcoin cycles and naively extrapolating it into the future. I think in reality there are many holders who would sell way before that, and not many buyers at levels approaching anything like that.

If Bitcoin replaced gold completely as a store of value, and had gold’s marketcap - maybe. I don’t think we’ll get there that soon. Also, so far Bitcoin has acted more like a risk asset than a store of value, like mentioned in the article. Central bank action continues to be in favour of the “sound money” story of Bitcoin, but it wouldn’t surprise me if Bitcoin also dives with the next stock market correction.

Dalio has some legit concerns, I think we can bypass the points about bitcoin as everyday currency because that's clearly not going to happen for a while. But regulation of Bitcoin could certainly happen if it becomes large enough a parallel financial system. I hope it won’t be regulated negatively but wouldn’t rule it out.

I also think Dalio is open to having his mind changed, it’s his style to get different perspectives. Bridgewater missed COVID pretty bad, I don’t think he wants to be seen as the old guy who missed Bitcoin if it turns out even more successful.
Biggest difference I think is that Hasura doesn't use RLS for security. It has it's own privileges/roles implementation. Postgraphile kinda works in postgresql, hasura works with postgresql.
Which vulnerabilities?
Dig a little deeper into the LOTR backstory. It was not so much a conflict between men but between supernatural forces, angels. It is a biblical metaphor, a story of higher powers settling bets by sending agents to earth to promote various agendas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizards_(Middle-earth)
> Chiding a static type checker as a dynamic language based on the sophistication of its type system reads like a cynical joke to me.

And that's not what I said. Stop trying to pick up a fight with me or something by misrepresenting what I've said just for the sake of hearing yourself taking, it reflects bad on you, especially you doubling down.

I only talked about the fact that there is a limit to the degree of complexity Typescript types until it itselfs turns into a javascript interpreter. your answers have absolutely nothing to do with that matter.
So do you think a news outlet quoting a person in an article should have to pay to contain the quote?
there can be paid alternatives taught by actual harvard professors but the genius of khan academy is that its the very best in education, anywhere in the world at a staggering cost of zero. no paid offering can beat that
Not all devices have DNA authentication on wake yet, some people still use those old "desktop" computers with browsers logged in to their online accounts via cookies, which anyone could use if found unlocked.
Yes!

The promise of prosperity sounds like a long con these days.
Science was the gateway for prosperity and hope and now it seems only to deliver bad news.

Here is what the tech and science crowd is projecting these days:

You are no longer the center of the universe, you are infinitesimal and unimportant.

Everything you do is destroying life in someway.

There is no meaning; everything you believe was wrong and misguided.

The world is capricious and your personal security can change at any moment no matter how hard you work. Adapt or die.

Most of humanity is too dumb to understand how great this is!

Who wants to hear that?

The average Joe has lost all faith, so in order to cope they drop all pretense of rational behavior and go with what feels good at the moment.
If you're running one of the recent Debian-based distros for these boards software compatibility isn't a big issue. Each SoC has its own funky firmware + GPU blobs needed for bootstrapping, they almost all use the same ARM64 ABI and can run a huge number of OSS binary and source packages.
Tether supply is more than reasonable if you compare it to USDC and take into account that USDT is more widely used in exchanges than USDC.

USDT going bust was a nice story. Many of the big exchanges now support USDC, and so people could easily switch if they thought Tether was not solid.
Happy to see many comments about Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. Start here: http://ultraviolent4.com/guide.html - Play or spectate a game here: https://crawl.develz.org/play.htm

Mine are of course DCSS, Cataclysm: DDA, FTL, DoomRL.

If we're including roguelites: Risk of Rain 2, Slay the Spire, Dead Cells, Enter the Gungeon, Binding of Isaac.

Not a fan of: Caves of Qud, Spelunky, Nethack.
Do you sit at a desk or table? My main problem with reading on my Macbook is ergonomics, I think. I am getting old though ... or middle aged at least.
most of this only applies to social media companies. there are business models, even in tech, that simply don't revolve around user-generated content. but yeah, if you host mass UGC and have moderation, you can't really escape the political implications.

> How do you deal with employees expressing their opinions at work?

have a policy that work comms are only for discussion of work-related topics. keeping politics outside the permanent record is probably beneficial for everyone, and people are usually less nasty in person anyway. you'll probably end up with only a handful of employees who routinely start arguments over non work-related topics. after a couple warnings, it's time to "separate" them from the company.

> There are right and left-wing plans (birth control etc).

this is currently not an issue for the company. per ACA, employers are required to cover birth control in their health plans.

> The holidays are comming. Do your employees say "merry christmas" or "happy holidays"?

I really don't believe many people care about this. I work with people of every major faith, and it has literally never been an issue. if you want to be extra neutral, you can get rid of company holidays and just give everyone a little extra PTO. this way the company doesn't have to play the delicate game of deciding which faith's holidays to recognize.

tl;dr: I don't think any of this stuff is terribly hard to sidestep. many tech companies choose not to; I suspect they feel they benefit from playing the game.
Guitar Center files for bankruptcy
I don't see it. For example I just loaded one of the top posts now ( https://imgur.com/a/qTUuPOq ), and I can scroll through the whole thread, without any click.
> What's important is at this level the signer is not actually the person, it's the service.

Interesting. Does this mean that if a scammer uses docsign to phish me into a mortgage transaction, and I lose my house, then docusign is on the hook financially?

Put another way: Are they legally required to sign on behalf of both (purported) parties of the contract in the case of a dispute? What if 99% of signatures are through them, and the last step is a fraudulent notary?
It's tiring having a finger waved at you for blocking advertisements. When we all know that our data of who we are and our actions is just as valuable as the ads we are forced to watch.

The Internet has become an ad machine that throws a tantrum if anyone dares to block advertising or tracking (of yourself).

YouTube was meant for sharing videos but now "influencers", many channel owners, and YouTube itself balk at any attempt to block ads. The actual content of videos is now secondary to the ads which were heavily ramped-up recently with mid-roll ads. YouTube should create 100% advertisement videos and see how popular that is.
Why can’t that insight be done offline?
What will networking be like from SW POV?
Looks like they store the ads in a public DB

https://adobserver.org/ad-database/
well now I feel dumb for pointing out that a journal with the term quarterly in the title is published 4x a year lol - here's the link https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/

another thing to add - if you want back issues of magazines you can usually get them pretty cheap at https://www.abebooks.com
Function typedefs to untangle function pointers.

This is from APUE, 3rd Edition.

void (*signal(int signo, void (*func)(int)))(int);

vs

typedef void Sigfunc(int);
Sigfunc *signal(int, Sigfunc *);
I like Research*EU.

It's free, made by the EU and every month I find some really good articles that worth reading.

I'll leave a link to this month's issue in case you're interested.

https://op.europa.eu/o/opportal-service/download-handler?ide...
Do the newspapers have to pay to quote their sources?

So why should Google have to pay to quote a newspaper?

The inherent nature of news is that you're always re-selling someone else's story.
- Jauntropper: Mission Thunderbolt, and the sequel Mission Firestorm

- Pixel Dungeon

- NetHack

- Moria

- Rogue

- Games made for the annual 7DRL challenge
consumer goods with builtin wifi like switchable lightbulbs, remote-controlled extension cords, etc are often esp32 plus a relais on the IO pins.
I have been leaning this way, even before my iPad got broken. I will definitely take a closer look now.
I'm always learning. I truly thought that the term was probably centuries old and had something to do with family legacy, old rules being followed to keep tradition, etc. You live, you learn.

I often hear people use the phrase "call a spade a spade", thinking it's saying "if a card shows a spade, call it as a spade (when showing the hand)", but I've heard for a long time that phrase is also racist. Not growing up around anyone who ever used that phrase, I would have had no idea.

Makes me wonder how many other phrases out there in every day use don't have a happy meaning, even though at first glance they might seem innocuous.
'Ubuntu Web Remix' distro offers Firefox-based Chrome OS alternative
I remember my old Atari 400 loaded programs using the 410 cassette recorder. I do wonder how much a record could hold compared to a cassette, and given just wear, which would last longer?

Also, didn't some magazine from the era ship a plastic record for some system? I vaguely remember it, but I could just be imagining things. It was actually square with the 45 size record printed in it.
> A subset of designated initializers is supported in C++20.

Took them only 21 years... And this standard being so recent, most projects won't have that for years to come.
desktop monitor, 2 pages side-by-side
YouTube is now an ad engine interspersed with some videos between the ads.
I never understood this one. I mean obviously a kind compiler should warn you against using

while true { }

and

while i < 5 { i—-; }

but in general, I don’t find distinction between “this infinite loop terminates” (e.g. an event loop) and “this code obviously terminates but not in the lifetime of this universe” (e.g. computing Ackermann(5)) to be that useful.
0:16:40 For those who haven't seen it before, there's a Computerphile video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVxeuwlvf8w (related video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvwNKpDUkiE) about the hacking of the typesetting machine, a Mergenthaler Linotron 202.

0:24:31 The photo must be the one at https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/picture.html (probably the webpage, on Dennis Ritchie's old website, that made it famous recently).
I've made some experiments that you can check out here:

http://www.clungu.com/Distilling_a_Random_Forest_with_a_sing...
HTML Parsing Libraries in C#: AngleSharp or HtmlAgilityPack
Have you checked out the Atom Pi? It's an X86 Atom processor, it has a bunch of drawbacks, like no power connector (you have to use the back of board 40pin header), but they are usually around $35.
>Lol, old thinkers who are towing the party line

OT: isn't the expression "toeing the party line"?
no. they dont even try. i heard recently that byjus had "done a promotion" at a relative kids' school last year and the only reason they didnt go for it is because his father is not exactly weathly.

the same bs. asking children over the top questions then showing them pretty animations and promising the stars.

this whitehat is another level of disgusting.

i have relatives who i have been slowly teaching scratch, arduino, even a 3 year old who does gcompris and they can now use a computer. will that give them a job? absolutely not. will it help them get a tiny bit interested in computers? yes most definitely.
> Another nice feature is background audio continues to play when youre out of the app

It used to do that free.
The "smart" home market. ESP chips are heavily used there.
There are ESP32 variants with a dual-core Xtensa processor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP32).