skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to have a paper subscription to it 16 years ago, so most of my memories are from then.

See if you can find links to the audio-visual cds/dvds too.

I am working a lot for the next 2 days but I’ll try and reply, check back in 3-4 days.
I applaud the drive and vision to experiment with a fundamentally different operating system paradigm. But even if your persistent storage is RAM, I don't see why you wouldn't still want a filesystem. Filesystems arose as a method of organizing data. However fast your access time, you still want that. Maybe you could have some kind of database backed tagging system instead of a directory hierarchy, but the benefits and drawbacks of such a system should apply to an SSD or even HDD as much as to something in RAM. This goes for user data (eg. photos, documents) as well the organization of the operating system.

Anyway, I'm curious to see what what this project comes up with. I suspect it will be something that looks and functions a lot like a filesystem, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
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“Don’t attribute to greed.”
You’re not my dad, you can’t tell me what to do
Details:

> Blocks size in blockchain is limited to 1MB. Miners can mine blocks up to the 1MB fixed limit, but any block larger than 1MB is invalid. This limit cannot be modified without a hard fork.

https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/Block_size_limit_controversy
Good point, the intent of my comment is that it accelerates and magnifies the rate the rich get richer.

There are many things that don’t do that, and even reduce the amount that rich get richer.
If you are looking for a great app to help avoid these types of holes in your calendar I highly recommend MeetWell (https://www.meetwell.app). It can monitor and report on the health of your calendar to help avoid these types of issues.
Why would one market a device to non-experts as a Dropbox alternative, a NAS to backup for all your computers, and a Bittorrent client, when it ships with a 32GB SD card?
I do think changing the BTC supply limit would affect the BTC/USD price because it would reduce trust in the protocol. The pump and dump you described was a large part of bitcoins initial run in 2017, but I personally see much less of that happening now. BTC has much less hype than it did in 2017. In 2017, people were discussing it replacing the USD, overthrowing 'the system' and leading to a golden age of financial equality. Discussion these days mostly centers around the 4 points I listed above. I think overall discussion much more mature now than it was.

I personally think BTC is useful, especially in times like these, mainly because it has no intrinsic value. People are scared of inflation. Interest rates are low. The market is extremely overvalued, trading at massive P/E ratios. Nobody really wants to be holding cash, stocks or bonds. So what do people do with their money when there is no alternative?

Disclaimer: I own $1500 or so in BTC.
It doesn't answer the question. Like what am I supposed to do? Spend it? Where? I can't buy a coffee with it.

The first article linked claims it has "better monetary properties than anything else in history" but then seems to misunderstand the most fundamental property - acceptability. This is actually "Do other people accept it as payment" rather than "could people theoretically accept it as payment". Fingernails do not pass this test, because even though people could accept them as payment, they don't. I can't pay for my coffee with Bitcoin without needing a secondary level of trade with some intermediate party to turn it into dollars/pounds, so I would say acceptability is in fact poor.

Like are you arguing that it is a currency, or some sort of 'store of value'? Do we at least agree that Bitcoin is a bad currency? If so what is bitcoin supposed to be?

I have never found anyone able to clearly explain the value proposition of bitcoin without eventually it just boiling down to "well the value is going up so I'm hodling"
Everyday, twice day, 13.5 years and counting.
People with more can stake more. Over time stakes will get bigger and bigger.
The OP mentioned they used a Bitcoin ATM. No bank account needed.
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I would title it "Growth opportunities I look forward to exploring", and then yes, absolutely.
I agree.

One "strong-manning" observation: it seems to me that a digital currency could really facilitate international trade. As I understand it, bitcoin may not be technically suited for general transactional use (I may be wrong) but in general this could be very useful, to avoid the bureaucracy and charges of changing currency multiple times.
Computers are just a tool, they're great at processing lots of data very fast. That makes certain types of tasks a good fit for them. None of the things you mentioned were necessarily better before computers, they simply used other methods to do the selection. But that doesn't mean those methods were better.

> I'm beginning to think computers were the biggest mistake humans ever made. We need regulation and fast against this sort of thing, to make the hiring process fair and accessible to everyone.

It was never fair and accessible to everyone (for those companies that would employ algorithm based resume screening). Just that instead of whatever other arbitrary mechanism they had used until now to filter out candidates they now use "AI".

It's good to be trying to find better solutions to these problems, but don't rile up against computers because computers might be part of the solution.
Show HN: Zeneca – Share and discuss your favorite books with the world
Hey HN!

The backstory of Zeneca

What would you do if you had 10 million dollars? I told my cofounder Joe, that the the most important difference in my life would be building a large personal library.

He thought, well, he can't get me a real library, but what about a virtual one instead?

That got us excited. We looked around, and found existing solutions were a bit meh. Most people share their books in plaintext. What if there was a space where you could showcase your books and be proud?

Zeneca's goal is to do just that and more. All of us spend a lot of time on social networks. What if we spent more of that time being social about books? We hope Zeneca is a canvas for you to share books and connect with others.

Right now, here’s what you can do:

You can share books and get a cool handle, like this:

www.zeneca.io/joe
www.zeneca.io/stopa

You can share favorite quotes and send hearts (see video in home page)

And, the more books you add, the more like-minded readers you discover.

Fun fact: we built Zeneca in clojure front and back.

We’re really excited about this and would love to hear your feedback. And of course, we would love to see your library :) -- Feel free to share a link in the comments.
Do you know if they have public pricing available? Or are you using negotiated rates? If so, we're looking to add support for custom price books in the future.
It's much less practical of a goal in some places. High taxes for example, make it harder to save as much.
I second this, you can blame society or figure out why you keep picking bad partners. Here’s a hint - there are warning signs that a partner is not going to be good relationship material. One may not be a deal-breaker but there’s a stacking effect. Some of these warning signs: child of abusive parents; child of alcoholic parents; mental disease struggles; alcoholism; drug dependency; anger issues; constantly yelling; habit of lying (whether in telling casual stories about themselves or making statements to others); alternate value system; bad financial management skills; severe identity questions.

There are enough fish in the sea that you do not need to take these characteristics into a marriage.

Find someone that shares your values, your vision of the future and ideally has a similar background to your own - unless you’re the one with the warning signs and are trying to “marry up”.

I don’t mean to diminish the importance of love, attraction, and personality compatibility, but for marriage it’s all that and a bag of chips.

Can you beat the odds? Sure. The point is the aforementioned attributes will make your life much, much harder than it already will be.
> On the other hand, I loathed management. Even as a team lead, meetings made me literally sick to my stomach,

I don't know that you should use this criteria as the sole deal breaker. Managers should be shielding teams from unproductive meetings and pushing for productivity (action items) from the meetings that happen - holding their peers to a degree of standards.

Now, if you hate 1:1, org planning, and successful meetings, that's another thing.
As someone in a similar spot with a GMail account I've been using since they were invite-only, I've started using Google Takeout to back up an archive of all my data from Google's services a few times a year.

It's not perfect, and I'm thinking more and more about moving to a paid service, but this at least gives me some peace of mind that if one day I run afoul of Google's AI bouncers, I won't lose a decade of info overnight.
> The hardest part for me has been getting used to working on code that lots of other people had worked on.

This is probably the single most significant differentiator between skills academic CS or programming courses and real world development.
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You're correct, 25 days ago.
I remember someone had a post here a couple years back:

- They bought google wireless.
- Their charge was declined, whatever the reason, they wanted to correct that. Or possibly an accidental dispute.
- Google disabled their account because of non-payment
- Google's customer support couldn't help because they weren't a paying customer.
- They literally couldn't do ANYTHING because google was ignoring every step of the way.
- Their account was blocked from making any payments and couldn't contact someone until they made a payment.
- Eventually their phone was disabled, and they lost the phone number because... no payment!

And once the phone number was released / re-used there was nothing they could do.

Same thing if Google was to ban my gmail today, I'd lose SO MUCH and worse is my photos, all my logins, etc. Their "loss" on me could be devastating to my life and not even a blip on their radar.
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I’ve been surprised at the places I’ve found Bitcoin ATM’s. I recall walking into a little gas station on the outskirts of a relatively small/unknown city in a somewhat run down area. To my surprise they had a Bitcoin ATM in the corner.
Probably due to the very poor and misleading article title, which frames the situation as a "demotion", something that happens to us, not something that we decide to do.

The article has a good message, but the title is absolute click-bait. Many people might come across the title, and although not interested in reading it, walk away with the idea that following dreams leads to negative consequences. I hope the author changes it.
This is absolutely false. Electricity is not at all easy (=> very hard) to store or transport, and every day megawatts go to literal waste - which is where Bitcoin miners step in. Stories about Europe making more electricity for Bitcoin miners are lies, there are few private geothermal powerplants built for that purpose and that's it. Bitcoin mining is not some goldmine (or opium farm), it takes very careful planning for electricity costs, careful contracts and careful operation; it's absolutely impossible to profitably mine Bitcoin using ordinary (industrial) electricity from the grid, very unlike opium farming.

> Would the world be better of without bitcoin? Holy shit yes.

Don't speak for others. I never want to go back to world without Bitcoin. Sure, come up with something better, but no world would not be better off without it. Millions of people have better life thanks to it.
Further to that, the fans care deeply if the owner/manager/players make efforts to become part of the fabric of the area, otherwise they won't care about them to any great degree (even if a player is world-class and delivers success, without integrating, they'll still be seen as mercenary). Fans, very much the same regardless of level: support is an identity very much tied to a specific place, and a tourist can't really fully participate in that.
All pandemics end eventually, but it depends right? It depends on hospital capacity and how infectious and lethal the variants are and if the vaccines work and how fast the spread is. Not to mention super spreader events.

Covid wild-type was/is bad enough to crush global hospital systems so that's really a big issue. It will take years to train more doctors and nurses to run covid wards if that's something we decide to do.

Also things won't go back to normal because our hyper-globalization and world wide travel has definitely increased the risk of pandemics. So we have to think of the next unknown one, use technology to prepare as well as implement risk reduction processes. Covid testing for international travel will probably never go away.
“William Wordsworth was said to have walked 180,000 miles in his lifetime. Charles Dickens captured the ecstasy of near-madness and insomnia in the essay “Night Walks” and once said, “The sum of the whole is this: Walk and be happy; Walk and be healthy.” Robert Louis Stevenson wrote of “the great fellowship of the Open Road” and the “brief but priceless meetings which only trampers know.” Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche said, “Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.” More recently, writers who knew the benefits of striking out excoriated the apathetic public, over and over again, for its laziness. “Of course, people still walk,” wrote a journalist in Saturday Night magazine in 1912. “That is, they shuffle along on their own pins from the door to the street car or taxi-cab…. But real walking … is as extinct as the dodo.” “They say they haven’t time to walk—and wait fifteen minutes for a bus to carry them an eighth of a mile,” wrote Edmund Lester Pearson in 1925. “They pretend that they are rushed, very busy, very energetic; the fact is, they are lazy. A few quaint persons—boys chiefly—ride bicycles.”

- Ben Montgomery, Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail

This was one of the best books I've read in 2019 while attempting a thruhike of the Pacific Crest trail consumed by doubt, fear, excitement, anticipation, boredom, peace and stories of others wondering the trail.
I've never used Multics myself, but from what I understand it was also based on the idea of mapping files in memory. When I first heard this, I thought the idea was pretty neat, but then the person I was speaking to remarked that it wasn't all that great in practice. I'm not really sure why, but I'm curious.
It's a crazy situation. There should be regulation requiring reasonable dispute processes.
I feel like I have so many problems with this. Like, look, I have some huge projects in Adobe Illustrator and they are quite deliberately spread out among a ton of files because anything over a certain size is just asking for working on it to become super-slow, and for some obscure edge case to completely trash the file.

I'm skimming the PDF of his slides and I'm just seeing a long list of quirky environments that have continued to be dead-ends. Maybe he talks about how this would actually work with huge power tools if I watch the talk, maybe he grapples with issues like "programs crash" and "iterative backups are good". Maybe he even deals with things like "files are a metaphor based in the physical world and perhaps the reason we keep on coming back to them is because they provide a good way to say that this particular piece of information is over here". I dunno, I'm not seeing suggestions of anything that makes me want to invest the time in listening to the talk.

I wish him the best of luck, maybe he will be the one to finally find a way out of the world of files to something so clearly better that it's worth dealing with the raw edges of it only being a few years old vs a modern GUI atop a filesystem, but I sure ain't gonna hold my breath.
I sold because it's an open tab in my life I don't care about anymore. I don't like having open tabs I forget about everywhere.
In many places you can't buy significant amounts of Bitcoin easily without following KYC / ID steps. The regulations aren't going to get any looser going forward, they will tighten.
This incident seems pretty damning of Stadia in particular. What partner in their right mind would work with Stadia when that work can be arbitrarily canned for no reason and with no reasonable recourse (of course, I feel similarly about western game developers publishing in China given their review board and capricious past actions like banning Animal Crossing there because of players voicing support for Hong Kong in-game, yet major western developers continue to court China, so what do I know)?

There also seems to be some interesting correlation of megacorps being terrible at games, between Google doing their utmost to shoot Stadia in every foot it has, and Amazon execs having no idea how to produce games people actually want to play.
Unsurprising level of arrogance from Google. They are a monopoly.

I am currently reading through Google’s SRE book and there’s a similar arrogance to it.
It should be read as “here’s a bunch of practices that we can get away with because we are a monopoly & our end users are mostly non-paying/our real users are companies running ads”.

So many practices in that book would get me and my entire team fired it’s hilarious.

There US government has changed our treatment of monopolies over the last 60 years such that we allow those that lower costs, so most of our current tech behemoths are able to continue... they are “free”.
Property might be the wrong word here. I suspect that you do have a contract of sorts with any company with whom you have a free account. The consideration is sharing your data in exchange for the account.
It sounds like you would be interested in DAOs in the cryptocurrency space. Governance tokens are issued out and you can use them to vote on proposals.
yes exactly. You just log into messenger and FB is still disabled.
You’re measuring everything in dollars. But there are already economies that exist outside the realm of dollars. And who says the future belongs to the US dollar? In fact, historical reserve currency cycles strongly suggest otherwise, not to mention the untested waters of current monetary policies, a failing GDP, and waning political gravitas...
Like nitrogen explains as well, it's just too much, even if you concentrate on what you are actually usually working on/in, depending on what your field is.

I.e. if you are working on anything that is currently a 'web app' of some sort, then depending on what company you were at, you would either be using one framework or another. So you might write in the "I know technology X" column things like "jQuery, React", because your last job used JQuery, then they grew up and switched to React. In the "I don't know technology Y" column, you write things like "BackboneJS, AngularJS" etc. (the actual lists would be much longer, this is just to take an example). You're still current if you use either Angular or React it just happens that you (or someone at your company) didn't choose one but the other. And then there's the myriad of other frameworks that come and go or that a particular niche of companies might prefer. If you're a web app FE or full stack guy you can still pick any of these up easily enough, so it makes sense to list them for the "pattern matching HR drones" (or computers :)) to get the interview.
At the beginning of the pandemic I picked up a laptop stand for my treadmill. I find its much easier to get 2-3 miles of walking in per day when I am deep in thought on a tough problem, or even just while "sitting" in meetings over Teams. Surprisingly my noise cancelling headphones don't pick up any background noise from walking 2.5mph and nobody is the wiser on calls.
What do people without smartphones do?
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hmm, no. While compile-time type check[0] for SQL queries changes your whole experience of how you do SQL, at the end of the day creating an webapp in rust is not as easy or mature as any of the other languages more suited for the task. If you want to learn, then its fine. But if you are newish to rust and want to do your next CRUD app at work in rust, I don't think its going to a good experience.

[0]: https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx
It's hard for some people but, isn't this a field of expertise with decades of development? Aren't there thousands of people who have years of experience managing exactly such a process?

The problem isn't that it's hard, but that it's a cost center instead of a profit center.
Rust is already in Debian's repository. The trademarks haven't been an issue at all.
> Despite having round anuses like other mammals, wombats do not produce round pellets, tubular coils or messy piles.
Their About page suggests that it's just that the data will be deleted.
How could something like that get through their approval process?
Serious and funny - to me - are not mutually exclusive. The idea of wombats stacking their poop is very funny, but if I was a biologist, that would make me want to investigate the matter even more.

During my Zivildienst (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zivildienst), I had lots of contact with all kinds of things leaving the human digestive tract. You get used to it surprisingly quickly, as long as you have and endless supply of rubber gloves and disinfectant. OTOH, the revulsion feces inspire in most humans serves a purpose, evolution-wise, so finding a middle ground would be rather difficult.
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I mean you could certainly do it in Rust. I am not sure I would recommend it though. The dev time for rust will naturally be slower because the developer will have to take more into consideration.

Additionally while the community is growing rapidly you wont find the same depth of ecosystem that you have with Java. Client libraries will be half baked and still be a work in progress a lot of the time.

If the business stuff is not performance or time sensitive it would probably be better to use something like Java/Go/Python, maybe elixir, that will have good turn around time with reasonable performance.

A good litmus test for the moment is probably "Would I write this in C++ five years ago?" if yes Rust might be a good option today with a few caveats, like GUI or GPU programming still being in their relative infancy in Rust.
honestly a bit far fetched, my model tries to unify and build on scientific research without trying to make big claims about things we have not formalized yet. I think information is encoded into consistencies (we can and or cannot observe).
I regularly export my Gmail emails every year.

Gmail makes it fairly simple to do. I highly recommend it.
Not only that I'm also somewhat shocked by the combination of their claim that they do work in 10pm to 1 am (which is bad enough on its own) and their meeting planned at 5:30 on friday. Clearly that's not a healthy combination (which perhaps sparked this blog post).

I'm also somewhat curious when they even eat, some of their schedules require them to lunch before noon (in some case even 11am) or after 4pm, and it doesn't look like they start their day early.

Also what kind of cruel genius plans a daily meeting from 17:30 to 18:00?

Of course with 6 meetings per day you're not going to get much work done no matter how you plan your day, but you can at least try to do it in a way that's vaguely sustainable.