skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"That's helping people" doesn't really say anything. It's extremely vague. Moreover, it's clear that not everyone helped since abject poverty and hunger are a thing, regardless of where you live.

You might be conflating "helping people" with "convenience" whereas what you truly want to say that "market economy" has made products/services "affordable". But, that's, again, not an inclusive statement. Markets only offer access to goods/services to the extent that actors are able to afford them. And clearly not everyone can afford to buy enough sustenance on a daily basis to not go hungry.

The same is true for being able to afford to attain equitable prices as a seller. If you can't bring enough leverage to the table, you will have to accept price levels as they are determined by bigger players who dominate market supply. It might mean that you get out priced, and that your business proposition - no matter how good the idea was - simply won't generate revenue because someone else can provide the same thing for less then peanuts.

Both cryptocurrency and food are the epitomes of that.

Massive amounts of food are being produced to the extent that there's massive amounts of waste across the entire supply chain. None of that happens out of charitable or altruistic intentions. It's not even produced for your personal convenience as a customer.

Flooding markets with massive amounts of supply is a strategy aimed to drive the prices down to a point where competitors have to call it quits. The aim/risk is to generate a razor thin margin which is still worth the investment. At the scale of global markets, that's still billions of dollars worth in profits.

The same is true for cryptocurrency. The price on cryptomarkets isn't determined by the many hands who hold fractions, it's determined by those who have invested the largest amounts of leverage. And they will use that to influence the prices if the incentive for scalping profit and/or acquiring/controlling a larger share of a scarce/finite resource becomes too enticing.

"Market economy" only helps certain groups in certain circumstances. It's definitely not an equitable way of "helping people". On the contrary.
"People hate command lines - not only do they LOOK scary, they give weird unhelpful error messages and… you have to type everything. Ugh."

Well, people hate graphical interfaces - not only do they LOOK scary, they give weird unhelpful error messages and… you have to click everything with a tiny pointer like you are fishing in muddy waters. Ugh.
Plenty of small businesses in London are still cash only. My local hairdresser for example.
Protocol for a U.S. Nuclear Strike
> For example, most of the volume in USDT is faked by the exchanges.

I agree this volume cannot be trusted. Much like the asian volume in 2017 turned out to be mostly fake. I find it hard to believe that Binance got so big so fast.
I wish there was an easier way to add additional photos quickly. From what I understand the only way is search for the app in settings, open the "Photos" permission and click on "Edit Selected Photos". Is there an easier way I missed? I guess I can't expect a simple click from within the app itself while selecting photos, as it's not aware it's seeing a limited selection.
Keeping a pile of shit system working.
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For me it was outdated browsers, i switched from Ubuntu just for Chromium and was shocked when i saw the version available, not just Chromium but also Firefox, they backport fixes but don't release new version to stable channel. Not really comfortable using Unstable/Testing channels which my have newer version.

It's also hard to download first time you want to install, coming from Ubuntu there is just one x64 .iso and one big "download" button that auto select the right file. In Debian i had to google which file to download from CDs and DVDs version just for x64.

And there is the install UI, it give you a 2006 vibe.

This small things are easy to fix but still there for some reason, probably because they focus on core and more important stuff, but this are great things to have for new users.
- My Vivaldi interface is responsive, YMMV. I just opened my History Panel, checked that several thousands of entries were present, then searched for various characters, then navigated in several tabs. Everything was instant.

- Vivaldi Android has its own ad-blocking system. IIRC, it can load external lists. Though it has less features than uBlock Origin, it's enough for me.

I prefer the desktop Vivaldi to other web browsers because of its features:

- Vertical tab list

- Mouse gestures (click-right-left to go back, down-up to duplicate a tab...)

- Sane download manager (compared to Firefox)

- The features above are native. No need for shady extensions (or clean extension that could become shady on a future upgrade).

- More customization than most browsers (not counting the undocumented config of FF)
Not B vitamins, but folic acid (just one of them).

Folic acid is required for stable DNA, something that cancer doesn't need at all (it needs mutations for plasticity).

Its also needed for DNA production, but many more cells need it, those that have short lifespan - cells lining the stomach for example, sperm cells, some immune cells etc.
Every test you have between “fake” and “real” candidates for a program introduces waste and reduced participation by “real” people.

See: every single means tested program in America like disability benefits or SNAP. Hell, my state is throwing out vaccines right now because of this.
I can recommend Electron or Flutter, but I can't do a web search and read docs for the author every time he doesn't know what $PATH means or similar.
This is absolutely true in my case as well - on the desktop/laptop. I use Fedora fwiw also so Windows/macOS slowing down over time isn't applicable in my case.

That said, it is definitely not true in the case of server hardware.

I have a home lab with a few R620s that have 2014 era Xeons in them, and while there are a lot of parallel cores, single core performance is abysmal compared to newer in-class hardware. For CPU-bound single-threaded tasks, I actually spin up a Linode and use that, rather than my on-prem hardware.

I would also note, I have only Intel. I'm going to build an AMD rig here within the next few months though because I've had numerous people tell me that it's noticeably better.
Bundling is dead. You just need to compile your favorite editor into asm.js and run it in your browser.

Or why not your terminal :)
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
A corrupt enough country would not be able to protect people as Spain does.

Public services are paid with public money, if there is no money there are no services and as far as I know there is still public health and education and equal opportunitieas for (almost) everybody.

A lot of corruption there anyway.
Cherish it!
Here comes the classic HN middle-brow dismissal :)

TodoMVC is meant to be a minimalist demo, not a battle-hardened app.

We switched from React to Reflex 7 months ago. We have fewer bugs than we did with React, and we ship things about 3 times faster.

5/5 of us strongly prefer Reflex over React. Including one of us who was a big React aficionado beforehand.

Just wanted to put that out there for anyone considering Reflex, a bug in TodoMVC is not a harbinger of a bad framework.
We have district heating from the Temelin NPP for part of Central Bohemia here in Czech Republic:

https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:20085809

Similar setup is planned also for the Dukovany NPP but not yet built.

Modern efficient district heating (hot water pipes with thick insulation instead of the old steam based systems) is quite popular around here and thermal power plants or waste incinerators are often run in co-generation mode where they produce both electricity and district heating.
Are you people working on a bulk data export anytime soon? It's not a feature you use right away, but it's what allows confidence to sink your time in a platform.
I think Godot has only recently become mature enough to be remotely comparable with unity etc.

From the Godot download page:

"Godot is currently not code-signed for macOS. See the last section of this page for instructions on allowing Godot to run anyway. Alternatively, you can install Godot from Steam to work around this." So what does that leave, Windows and Linux on x86-64?

Isn't this the kind unjustified hoops that Jonathan is criticizing, that people criticize Apple for not making it viable for a clearly legitimate OSS project to have to deal with? It definitely isn't something that would make me confident recommending a middle school game programming class to depend on working one semester to the next.
That and the terrible video quality is what makes me not prolong prime after some free time we got few months ago with some other product. It's like watching 480p Youtube on a 4k tv most of the time. Netflix or Youtube have zero issues like that...
AI-Powered Text from This Program Could Fool the Government
Technically these only for heating reactors are sound business case. From the investor, regulator, customer perspective there are many problems that are not startup solvable.

1. End-of-life and maintenance guarantees. Transferring nuclear waste and processing them is not cheap. You need to put capital aside to pay for these. Startup going bust and leaving customers to handle with the rest is not an option.

2. Regulations and safety. Just like standard nuclear, you need government subvention (not direct money transfer, but a law that puts upper cap to damages).

You can solve these with scale. If you build 1000s of standardized units of small heating reactors, special waste management and transportation solutions for just this type becomes economical. If they sell only 500, lifetime cost can be astronomical.
When I look at this image [0] it seems to me that muslim countries (which tend to fast once a year, I guess?) and poor countries have fewer cases of cancer.

But at least with the poor countries I'm not sure if it's because people die of other reasons before they even could get cancer.

[0] https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-a0728f7c2418f32922558b...
They have the option to not be displayed in google search listings then. Google follows robots.txt.
I don't understand the last part of the talk, how does simplification going to save our knowledge? Do you really need to simplify things? What about a training wheel environment where everyone builds their system from the ground up?
Steamlink, however, does work on ARM. :)
> Despite their fascination with their subject, the authors of this splendid and intriguing work have forgone the temptations of pseudonymity, each writing under her and his own name.

Can someone explain this to me? Why would the writer of a work of history be tempted to write under a pseudonym?
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Aims to Fly People on New Shepard by April
`C-a a` is so ingrained after years of first screen and then tmux use that I have to consciously not type it when using Emacs outside a multiplexer.
How long does it take to drive across your state? Hours?

That doesn't sound like a valid excuse.
Two Up-and-Coming Companies Collaborate to Make Battery-Less IoT Sustainable
Maybe for some people the consequences of lockdowns are more severe than for you. Aren't you all about feeling with people's predicaments?

Also I don't agree with the (common) argument that nobody should be allowed to complain about anything, because there is always somebody who has it worse, somewhere in the world.

Like with solving "first world problems" - yes, it seems frivolous to worry about getting an even better iPhone, while people are starving somewhere else. On the other hand, those people, if they can solve their immediate problems, would perhaps also enjoy having nice iPhones. So it is not inherently bad to worry about the existence of nice iPhones.

Or put differently, it can not be the only purpose of life to help people who have it worse. I mean somebody could adopt that as their philosophy, sure. But it requires people who need help, therefore it can not be a universal philosophy. If suddenly you run out of people who need help, you have lost your purpose in life again.
I see different market share on statcounter[1], but both in their data and the one you provided, iOS usage has grown these past years

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile/worldw...
Ads on Prime on kids content is especially frustrating.

My biggest goal with kids is to help them with their focus and limit exposure to "infinity pools" of content. It's not that I have a problem with the content of the ads, it's that they train kids' brains to want to switch quickly between content the moment a show has a lull.

It creates that FOMO that they might not be watching the most exciting show right now because the ad always makes the other show look way better.

Youtube is of course the epitome of this issue, although disabling the mini-player on kids content helps a little.
I think you and the others in this thread disagree on the actual problem, and as long as that is the case this will just be a debate of people talking past each other.

The problem you see is: something prevents some people from contributing enough to society to afford housing.

The problem others see is: some people do not have housing.

I am with the second group. In an era of unparalleled abundance, is it so crazy to provide for everyone’s basic needs without expecting anything in return? What is even the point of “society”, and our contributions to it, if not to make life better for everyone?
> A lifetime of free food and housing etc and the removal of any obligation to contribute to society forever?

I don't understand this point you made? Are you saying that if someone was receiving food and housing they would no longer be obligated to contribute to society? I think that would make them more obligated to contribute, seeing as they are getting food and housing out of the deal.
> There is a relatively new theory saying that malignant, metastatic cancer cells behave like single cell organisms, and that cancer basically represents an unwanted return to our genetic roots

It's not close to even 'relatively' being new. I was giving cancer talks that made mention of it back when I worked in cancer bio, just about 16 years ago now. I didn't come up with it, and it wasn't new then. I used it in talks to laymen, to give a very abstract idea of how cancer worked. But it fell into the category of "lies we tell children," because it was only true in the most abstract way, and utterly incorrect once you dug into any details.

The reason cancer bio people dislike it is because it's only true at the 10,000-foot, highly abstracted level. When you start digging into the granular level, its testable predictions rank between 'falsified' and 'irrelevant'. It doesn't produce any alternative lines for thinking about treatment, causality, etc. Especially given that the progress of a single cancer tends to be all about their interaction with the multicellular milieu - e.g., developing immune evasion, which isn't at all an "atavistic" trait, although it's one of the core hextad that defines malignant development. (On the contrary, it comes built-in for normal cells - they're now developing a novel immune evasion, to hide their newly altered antigens from the immune system).

e.g., "Cannot help but switch to previous single-celled metabolism" doesn't follow in any meaningful way from the thesis of atavistic traits. In fact, it doesn't predict at all the relationship between tumor size, distance from vascular supply, and anaerobic metabolism. "Cells without controlled growth will outgrow their vascular supply, requiring a transition to anerobic metabolism" does, however, and predicted the relationships we see. It's not "cannot help but engage with less efficient metabolism", it's "transition to relying on the only metabolism afforded to a highly-dysregulated cell that is not responsive to environmental signals that normally trigger or withhold growth." Normal unicellular organisms are responsive to those signals.

Yeah, I don't hate it - it's a cute metaphor. It's a nice way of thinking of cancer at the 10K-foot level. It's just also wrong at any closer level of inspection than that, which is why people whose job is to be elbow-deep in all of the nitty-gritty details of cancer can't help but look at it and go "please stop wasting my time."
CPUs have been progressing faster in the last few years, mainly because of AMD's Ryzen line. In laptops, 4 cores are now standard, and if you can gen one of the AMD 4000U CPUs, 8 cores with good single-threaded performance are relatively cheap. Same thing on desktop, you can get 20%+ more performance by upgrading the CPU.

Sure, it's not the same as 486 vs Pentium, but the Ivy Bridge-era CPUs that were used for such a long time are now equivalent to low-end CPUs, it's no longer universally better to get an old i7 vs a new i5. That said, if you're happy, there's no reason to upgrade.
If rich countries and private charities were serious about foreign aid, they'd consider helping fund things like this.
Yeah, there isn't really any science to back it up.

> and the original genes might carry on within our DNA until today

Luckily we don't need to resort to "might". Since the advent of genome sequencing we can just go ahead and take a look!

E.g. yeast (your standard single-celled organism) posesses ~6000 genes of which ~23% (= 1380 genes) are similar in function to those of humans. Of those genes most of them have been severely mutated, on average sharing 32% sequence similarity, which is a world of difference in terms of protein functionality.

The few highly preserved genes that remain are core parts of all eucaryotic life (ribosomes, proteins for amino acid metabolism, etc.) and are some of the most studied genes (regarding cancer and in general).

Suggesting that there are some genes hiding in there and have been overlooked due to narrow-mindedness of the whole life science community is a bit naive.
Sadly I don't think this is only American. Details vary from country to country but this is what I've seen in all countries I have lived in (all in Europe).

What I don't fully understand is how prevalence of homelessness doesn't seem to correlate much with the general wealth of the society, at least in generally speaking 'rich' countries - say G20. Sure, wealth is a relative concept, but 'warm place to sleep and a bowl of soup' is a pretty absolute yardstick, one which many people sadly don't make.
I have tmux running in a ssh session on a VPS.

In the first window, I have IRC, in the second a Twitter client, and in the following whatever random stuff I'm hacking on at the moment.

This means I can keep online from wherever I have an ssh session. Very convenient!
I made a tool to take my Kindle highlights and import them into a SQLite database wrapped in a Datasette website.

https://github.com/rphillips/datasette-kindle-highlights
> t's actually not the best channel

Could you tell us which channel works the best for you?
Hey, I used to have that same itch too! Curabase looks almost identical to the app I was building as a side project back in 2017. Column-based bookmarks, easy to categorize and reorganize, though I was using Material UI back then and was consumer focused.

Never launched... it became another unfinished project. I eventually realized that I don't really need to store that many bookmarks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycotts_of_Chinese_products
Can I humbly make an observation?

I agree the two events are not equivalent. Nevertheless, I think the bar has to be set higher before deciding a person is not worth talking to.

"I am not going to pretend you are engaging in civilized discussion."

Are you sure you know this? I don't know who GreenHeuristics is, perhaps his comment is in good faith, perhaps not, I don't know. But his comment wasn't a mad rant, how ever much anyone may dislike it.
I think the currently popular cli, the old unix-based one, is esoteric, annoying, and still useful.

I think it could be a lot less of the two former and a lot more of the latter. But it will not be, because people are unwilling to even admit it has any flaws.
Those are literal rock stars, people who's fame and proficiency at one very narrow thing has given them the clout to hire and work with people who do all the things they don't know how to do or don't want to know. They're the exceptions which prove the rule.

If you want to be a professional musician who works with other people rather than just doing their own thing, you need to know sheet music, especially within certain sub-domains like orchestral settings.

(To be fair, as someone who is on the periphery of the music business, the above is a simplification. I'm not trying to imply that the "rock stars" get to skate by, often they're working harder than everyone else to be/remain successful. But they are still exceptional in many respects. Your average person trying to make a living as a musician absolutely needs to know sheet music or at least it's simpler cousin, the lead sheet, to be taken seriously.)
you are also going to want to think about the permeability of your walls

If I understand things correctly, this was missing a bit from the whole (otherwise very good) explanation in the article: it constantly mentions 'walls' and each time I can't help but think that the difference between a solid concrete 30cm thick wall and a 10cm plasterboard plus some thermal insulation makes a difference in how it reflects lower frequencies. To the point that in the latter case there might be not much reflection at all and you actually have to start to measure from the wall (or whatever) in the next room?
Interesting read and also the reaction from authorities in DRC is interesting - they changed the records with IANA. Probably good course of action because OP could hold them hostage and they shouldn't risk relying on his written confirmation in such a important matter.

Good decision making on the DRC in the end. Well Done.
No disagreement, but not sure the link, since
willing to die =/= willing to kill
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> It is caused by people developing mental health issues that make retaining employment extremely difficult.

Sadly, there are many other reasons, too. I met a family of immigrants. I learned through their eight-year old son his parents lost their jobs, couldn't find legal employment, did not speak english. As they were at a shelter, I imagine they were decent candidates to be picked up by ICE.

Nonetheless, I agree with your post. This is a solvable problem but it is only solvable at the housing level.
Yes you grokked my point quite well. I wrote a long rant about how I've never had access to Amiga hardware, but I think I owe your pithiness some pithiness in return.
About "long-term side effects"[0]:

"For most people, Covid-19 is a brief and mild disease but some are left struggling with symptoms including lasting fatigue, persistent pain and breathlessness for months.

The condition known as "long Covid" is having a debilitating effect on people's lives, and stories of being left exhausted after even a short walk are now common.

So far, the focus has been on saving lives during the pandemic, but there is now a growing recognition that people are facing long-term consequences of a Covid infection.

Yet even basic questions - such as why people get long Covid or whether everyone will fully recover - are riddled with uncertainty."

0. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54296223
What makes you assume I learned something I didn't already know? As I said, I know there are people who have it worse than me.

And as I also said, and you confirmed, it makes sense if you have somebody in your circles who has such a condition.

Apart from that - my question was, why do you complain, or get annoyed?