skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignoring that those orgs will probably have high ranks if you asked a random sample of people about trust, what's the actual difference between them and anyone else?

As long as you are using tls and avoiding packet injection there's little difference. I'm sure plenty of governments own exit nodes themselves. Good on them for contributing to the network.
Do you only print on the inside of the ring? Seems like most of the time you can't see the print, because you wear the ring most odd the time.
Researchers Rewind the Clock to Calculate Age and Site of Supernova Blast
The author sounds like he wants to just be a web Designer. In which case he can work inside his browser, using tools such as WebFlow.
It looks like this is being reported here as well: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
Real estate inflation is the real driver behind practical inflation all over the world though.

Real estate bubble -> High deposits for house purchases -> High rents -> Effective inflation

Most governments don't include real estate (or even rent payments) in their inflation calculations to keep it artificially low.
nope, every decent OS has system call library you can write like:

bl _Open ; whatever syscall name you have

and the linker or the OS dynamic linker will get you the proper system call code, with the numbers.

BTW even in our small threos.io os we use dynamic linked system calls.
Like what? Please be specific or we can't have a meaningful discussion.

I use Bash a fair amount and I don't consider it overly complicated as a shell. There are some rough edges in Unix, like handling spaces in directories, and I'm no fan of Bash as a scripting language, but I wouldn't say the basic model of the Unix command-line interface is overly complicated.
Why not just change the protocol based on what features people want. Latency vs quality. (WebRTC/ SRTP vs HLS) based on the host (A toggle in the UI).
> just like it's hard to become a good musician if you shy away from sheet music

A bunch of world famous artists would disagree with you there.

https://www.themusicstudio.ca/blog/2017/11/909/
Wow, I thought I saw dumb stuff but this is next level dumbness (no offense intended). I can't even express how dumb this is with words. Where is the world going ffs
It breaks my heart, especially for those who become severely chronically ill with diseases like ME/CFS in their teenage years, with little to no indication things will ever get better. Imagine that, maybe spending your next 50-60 years housebound, or even worse: bed bound. Add to that the sheer scale of how ignorant or severely misguided many people are about chronic illness (even doctors, ESPECIALLY doctors!), which imposes such stigma, guilt, and shame on these sufferers.
Agreed. There are so many annoyances like how you can’t use the standard shortcuts to copy and paste or how pasting text can insert a newline and run the command.

If we rebuilt the command line today it would be massively better
Is this your experience or your assumption?

I was personally very excited when they announced the touchbar but having lived with it for 5 years now, I hate it. And I do a lot of media work, mostly in Ableton Live but also Adobe Lightroom and others.

I just bought a new Macbook Air and I was very happy that the feature of not having the bar was cheaper as it was something I would have gladly paid money for.
'Like the roaring '20s,' but not for everyone: History and life after Covid-19
Developing iOS apps isn't the be-all, end-all of programming. iOS itself is a consumption platform. It's garbage if you want to actually do anything (and so is Android), because the input bandwidth is severely limited. You don't need a command line on your phone, because there's hardly much you can do with it anyway.

But sit in front of a device with a keyboard - one that's meant for creative use - and suddenly, the command line shines as a force multiplier.
If you do not want to learn it then you do not want to learn programming.

That is simply not true. I have plenty of colleagues that do everything in Visual Studio and never touch the command line and they produce solution to hard problems that are absolutely useful and well written.
Five tips for you to feel more inclined to study
yes, that should have been obvious. if you ever used them, you know they do not scale beyond the basics.

just try to imagine the language as the OS. if it were good enough, there would be no need to have different languages, and one would not have the horrible level of fragmentation and harmful shared state that characterizes today's dev environment. most people have become blind to this fact.

then there is the problem of selection bias: the majority of developers in this business have tolerated an insane level of abuse. most are proud of their abilities, even if they can be characterized as "they know how to wade through layers upon layers of shit". it is often hard to have a discussion about this, because they take this as personal criticism.

the situation we live can be described as a paradox: the Unix culture is at the same time both a pinnacle of OS design (from days gone by) and a steaming pile of shit with so many bad practices abound it is no use highlighting one (with the command-line just being a visible part).

just pointing out the obvious.
My wife has chronic cancer* and one day when talking to the doctor at the hospice after a period of grueling treatment she talked about only having so many "spoons" in a day. The doctor liked the analogy as it was a fun way at looking at a real issue.

I'm pleased I now know where it comes from! This analogy helped us both come to terms with managing her lower energy levels.

* I use the term chronic cancer as she has Stage 4 cancer. The term terminal cancer to describe her cancer has been so incredibly unhelpful, its taken me years to frame where we as a family fit into it and how we can live. Essentially, the term has caused more fear than was warranted at the time. So until she needs end of life care, I won't call it terminal even though that is the expected outcome. That maybe 6 months from now or 6 years from now.
Some people like special treatment. Is there anyone on your team wiling to act as a buffer to soak in the bile? Have them be the point of contact and have them say whatever will appease this person’s ego, e.g ‘Yeah, you are 100% right, you know if you want my opinion I think this stuff should be done, I will try to go to bat for you’ and just have this person regularly communicate and provide special treatment to this ego (an account manager). Have all contact go through this person and see if they can wrangle the ego on the other side to find reasonable compromises.

Money is money, this client didn’t take their money away, right? That’s the only thing that matters. De-escalate the situation and have a nanny comfort the idiot parting with his money - play it smarter, silo off communication from the the rest of the team and have it go through the nanny (and pay the nanny a bonus later for managing the situation). If the current point of contact is not working, have them become the bad cop, and throw in a good cop temporarily. Have bad cop always deliver the obvious requirements, have good cop deliver their special requests. In fact, reset the relationship with the good cop and just have him/her straight up appeal to the client ‘we believe this project can be handled better’.

But don’t send away the money if it’s not walking away on it’s own.
> Googling for "cup size" didn't clarify anything either.

Is that because most results are in regards to bras?
Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login
I remember I was using Google login to login to my Dropbox and in the last year or so Dropbox started asking me to access my contacts in Google. I would always deny access and still manage to successfully login. Yesterday I tried the same but with no luck. I contacted Dropbox support and this is their reply:

> I'm afraid that is not possible at the time. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Interesting that they chose this route when users are getting more and more privacy-aware.
OK... now I'm in the appropriate chat room at Cloudflare where it's being debugged.
But why didn't they revive the 2018 version of the Intel MBP that didn't have the TouchBar? It would have fit perfectly as it was also a two-port model. Maybe it has to do with the keyboard being broken in the 2018 model, but (to this layman) it sounds easier to fix that than to add support for the TouchBar on Apple Silicon for a single (!) temporary hardware model.

Now they have to keep that TouchBar code around in AppKit even after they inevitably drop Intel support. Extremely curious decision.
Getting a 404 error.
To highlight the difference: there is a difference between forcing, compelling people to allow incitement of violence on all platforms vs. the government allowing free speech on private platforms that want to allow it; if I don't want you being racist in my house, you're going to find yourself outside of my house; this is akin to private platforms online - you wouldn't want to be forced to have a racist in your home whenever they want to be there, would you?
> Requiring a novice to learn arcana of a 30 year old Unix system before they can learn to program is purely extraneous.

The thing is, that's the system they are using. Node.js is a programming runtime for that system. Node.js has a GUI installer that sets everything up correctly, it's just not an IDE.

Jetbrains has an IDE, WebStorm, that probably works just as well as the Java one. It can automatically download Node.js for you, so the same experience as for Java is available there as well.
Article seems mostly accurate but there's a mistake in understanding about the Whale Alert tweets

> What’s more, the supposed USD inputs (e.g., 401,431,056 USD in the top left transaction) are giving perfectly round Tether outputs (e.g., 400,000,000 USDT in the same transaction) in every block — regardless of the prevailing exchange rate or anything else.

Whale Alert uses exchange rates to convert currencies in the post. The "USD inputs" are simply the USDT that was minted converted using a USD/USDT exchange price (I'm not sure which one)

Whale Alert has also hard-coded USD/USDC to 1:1, which is why the coinbase pro minting Tweets match exactly
People are not buying BTC to get out of USDT, they're buying other stablecoins and tokens pegged to real world assets. The last week has seen a surge in the price of those tokens compared to USDT. I've made good money arbitraging the bouts of panic.
It actually is. All properties are owned by Banks until loans get paid off. You pay for loans with rent. You are just a middleman between two groups of suckers.
It's similar to server apps. They should either have empty queue or max out a resource (CPU, disk bandwidth, network bandwidth).
We are due a cryptocurrency correction.

The question is, how low will Bitcoin go on Tether collapse? $20k? $10k?

Or will things get even crazier with $100k bitcoin crashing to $60k?
Looks cool to me. I like the more flexible tiers, not sure why others are suggesting slimming them down.

I assume "unlocking" the backend and getting the source code gets you something in Go then, but I didn't see more information about exactly what you get with that option. What frameworks, technologies, etc. Is the API described in Swagger/OpenAPI? What DB? If I use staticbackend, but then I want to write my own backend, can I export my user DB without paying the $10,000? Does the $10,000 even include the User DB!?
That's very impressive! Do you have a webpage with more details, including the number/type of transducers you used etc.
But then why add the TouchBar to the MBP and not the MacBook Air instead? I actually think that the TouchBar would be more popular if it was a consumer thing instead of a "Pro" differentiator.

I can't be the only professional who ordered a cheaper M1 MacBook Air specifically because I want to avoid the TouchBar. If the pricing specialist is playing 4D chess then I don't get it.
Carpet based localisation!

I need a location tracking system for my office robot. Our carpet happens to have a pseudo random grid pattern of four colors. I'm creating a map of this pattern, then at runtime I fuse odometry with carpet colour (detected via camera) in a particle filter to determine and track robot location.

Initial results are looking good :)

Some links :

How I detect carpet colour: https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/tim-fan/carpet_color_cla...

The particle filter: https://github.com/tim-fan/carpet_localisation

ROS package with gazebo simulation : https://github.com/tim-fan/carpet_localisation_ros

Current state of my carpet map (about 1/4 of the full office): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tim-fan/carpet_localisatio...
It's not completely useless for programming: for example, I use the button to stop an app in the debugger pretty often.
OTOH if you happen to live in a house with a decent sized garden it's really nice to get chickens. You will treat them with cooking waste (and cereals and ground seashell) and they give you deep orange eggs. Chances are you can save to-be-killed chicken for free, some local farmer gave us a dozen (they're not productive enough for exploitation but still can have a healthy life). IMO the important thing (as always) is DIY: understand how it's done, do it right. The degeneracy of industry for a big part a byproduct of insane scale.
Seeing so much political topics, and especially bad news most of the time makes us feeling bad and pessimistic about many things that are objectively not so important.

A big part of the people working for influencial companies (GAFAM) are most certainly members of this community.

So this made me wonder: would it be possible that we have a collective responsibility or influence over those companies through those people? Would making the debates and trends here more interesting, sane and positive have a positive influence on those?

Edit: I just noticed that it was from 2016
In other news commercial rents are going up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD0fpvDQs88
Villarejo is nowadays nothing more than a bluffer. Chances are he paid for this piece.
I use either a two-finger tap, or ctrl+tap for a right-click. Feels way better.
10ms by light is 1862.824 miles away (which is approximately the distance from Los Angeles to Chicago).

I honestly just don't think you are truly appreciating that light is almost a million times faster than sound.
It could also come from having spent thousands of hours dealing with issues created by this type of person.

There's nothing wrong with being new to coding, not knowing things, and making mistakes - it's how we learn - but when you start your article with list of things that you couldn't be bothered to do a web search for, proudly proclaiming your ignorance and unwillingness to learn and expecting me to do your thinking for you, I don't have much interest in being nice and/or trying to teach you stuff.
> ” you can hold a bitcoin future going short for the next year less than a coffee per / $1k”

Genuinely curious about how could I do that. I am not that much into cryptocurrencies, so I appreciate if you have the time and will to be specific in the operationals. I do have a (currently empty) account at Kraken, if that helps.

How can I short BTC?
I've tried multiple times. Basically, you get an absolutely bloated interface (or should I say OS-replacement?), containing a word processor and minigames. All things work, but none of them work good.

Also, absolutely no tracking protection by default, I've found nothing about how their sync protocol works (is it e2ee?), so I take their argument of "vivaldy is better for your privacy than Chrome" with a grain of salt.
> governance and law.

from the very few I know, I didn't see governance and law in blockchain projects. What I perceived is a never ending shared network of operations that can basically replace companies.
> Why on Earth would $100 billion worth of Tether rushing for a conversion into anything else drag _down_ the price of BTC?

If USDT:USD collapses, BTC:USDT will naturally go up, but it's also quite likely that BTC:USD (whether direct or indirect) will go down, to the extent it has been inflated by artificially inflated USDT:USD.
The fact that it even plays Tomb Raider at 24FPS is mind boggling with integrated graphics
Thanks for looking :)
This is great!

I think it’d also be useful if there’s a way to render stacks of cash (paper money and possibly coins) to show how much money you’re spending represented visually.
> good testers explore the space of possible inputs in a much more 'creative' way.

My point is that the extent of testing should depend on the actual product; eliminating all bugs is not the primary goal of every team.

Some companies might decide on other goals and prioritize e.g.: just paying users (giving them better support to resolve issues), or acquiring new users, or something else.
You should have a look at q/kdb. Once you get comfortable with the language, you can write some very complex code very quickly - part of the reason is the compactness of the language, but also due to the functional, loop-free style which uses the right primitives.
How do you short Tether?
Even professionals who don't learn to touch-type should at least use an external screen if they use a computer all day, at which point they'll likely use an external keyboard without a TouchBar again.
And I think you are underestimating the speed of light ;P. The round-trip latency (twice my distance) from my apartment in Santa Barbara to servers I have in Nevada and Northern California is 20ms, making me the equivalent of like 11ft away from those places by sound. If I were communicating within San Francisco or Los Angeles I should trivially be able to hit 3ms round trip times.
None of that is relevant. iOS is a fully-fledged OS, with at least as much complexity as anything else you'd be programming for.

Yet, to program for it, you don't need to use the command line. You just never need to touch it. It is possible to make a fully productive programming environment where the command line is not necessary, if you just put the effort in to do it like Apple has.
Look, I don't care about which editor you use: want to use vim? Fine, use it. Prefer Emacs? Looks good. You really like nano? Perfect! But for god sake don't expect that someone will ever take you seriously if you say you are experienced and don't know how to use a cli. How can you even work with computers not knowing what $PATH (yes, this exists on windows too fyi) is? This is just dumb. I'd also add: stop using javascript, don't, just don't (or, better, use vanilla-js).
Why is Reichstag better comparison? It was not started by Nazi although they used the fire for their advantage.

> The Nazis didn't really do much to get rid of democratic institutions and civil liberties until after they were in power.

I think that is what "focus on trying to use the democratic process to abolish the democratic process" is meant to mean.

Although Nazi did engage in quite a lot of elections related violence and suppression before they were in power. Intimidating or attacking people who came to vote, trying to discourage unfavorable demographic by harassment on streets near voting places, spreading rumors about marked ballots and subsequent retaliation of you vote wrong.
That will only work if you run it in a docker container managed by kubernetes. Luckily you'll be able to configure it through an Electron app.
As I always say: "Who cares if it's simple as long as it's easy, besides hardware is powerful and we have lots of memory and disk space!"
I made a tool that converts recipes from different volumes and weights to Grams, perhaps it would be useful here:
https://charlesworth.github.io/recipe-slicer/
I second this. Google was such a huge step ahead of the yahoo and altavista's of the day that using it just one time was typically enough to convert the user. A real breath of fresh air.
The main issue with speaker placement in a typical home recording studio is standing waves, and in this case placing speakers against the wall is going to amplify the problem, and no room EQ can fix it.

Generally, you want your speakers to be a half wave length away from the wall for the first order standing wave in your space. This is so the wave output by the speaker will cancel with the wave resonating between your walls, which will help the issue quite a bit (though it's not perfect either).

With something like the Klipschorn you're basically giving up on solving this issue with speaker placement and will have to resort to room modifications to ameliorate it. That said, you get a lot of benefits from the khorn also : )
I know how dynamic linkers work and am not arguing against using the libc interface in general. I'm saying that this program intentionally doesn't use those interfaces.
And environmental variables, too. You can see the same pattern:

process :: function
path :: namespacing
command line argument :: function argument
environmental variable :: dynamically bound variable

(Ok, that last concept may be alien for non-Lisp people.)
Well, here's an example: You can develop a fully featured, world-class iOS app, and distribute it, without even touching a command line. Nothing in the process would get easier by touching a command line. You just don't need it. There is a fully-featured environment that provides all the tooling you need without it.
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US adds Xiaomi to list of alleged Chinese military companies
https://github.com/milgra/macmediakeyforwarder
> But it's not clear to me that pumping being taken away would be a bigger change than people trying to get out of USDT and buying BTC

People trying to get out of USDT into BTC because the USDT:USD parity assumption collapses will boost BTC:USDT prices, but probably not enough to avoid dropping BTC:USD, because it would be less than the USDT:USD drop, is the idea.
It's possible that they will remove the Touch Bar because the main screen will get a touch support. The Touch Bar API could then be migrated to a specific region on the main screen, without app devs having to do any extra migration work.
Agreed, and because a lot of the existing tech underneath has simply been agreed upon as "good enough".
That's why you actually don't want deep bass in your speakers if you have tight constraints.

It is better to have less deep bass (you can add more of it if you want) than have deep bass that is very distorted.

Also, as I have added later after you posted, you can play with objects around your speakers to have the reflection broken and arrive at different time, effectively reducing its impact on the main wave. But as you pointed out that will only work for waves up to some length depending how large objects we are talking about.
The arguments of those against automation are that it eliminates jobs and consolidates wealth to the owners of the automation facilities, completely eliminating the contribution of laid off workers who go on to work menial jobs else where.

How this "spoons" analogy a good argument against that?
The real USDT/USD market is not the Kraken one (or similar ones), but the implied synthetic market creating by arbing BTC/USDT and BTC/USD.

Companies like Alameda trade billions arbing this synthetic USDT/USD market close to peg:

https://twitter.com/AlamedaTrabucco/status/13487730276395622...