skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok I’m not going to argue anymore but let me point out some things since it sounds like you’re getting a distorted picture of what’s going on here.

Everyone is free to travel anywhere in the country and even outside to places welcoming people. Schools are opening back up pretty quickly. Restaurants are doing in person again despite all common sense. Amusement centers are either already open or on the path to open, most are not even hurting that bad and some are flourishing (look at Disney’s stock price, what pandemic?). The only people really hurting the most are bars.

And I really hate to say it but if someone is going to kill themselves over these “lockdowns” they’re already mentally ill and still would be without the pandemic. That’s another discussion around the poor state of mental health globally.

The only thing destroying so many lives are families deciding to host massive parties and watching all of their relatives die from covid over a month.

I guarantee unless your friends own a bar, they’re not hurting as much as they might lead on to believe.
Ask HN: Hotel/resorts/chains specialized in WFH?
It's been one year and we're going crazy. But I sit in front of PC all day long, and so I have a standing desk at home (and in the office, normally). I'd love to work from a hotel, ideally in the Caribbean or Central America, but the hotels all have teeny tiny desks, if they have desks at all, and classic wooden chairs not made for an 8-9 hour sit.

Are there any ergonomic or at least friendly-to-WFH hotels out there that anyone knows about?

As usual it's impossible to Google without Google sending me to unrelated sponsored results.
Yes absolutely, fingerprinting an individual is easy and avoiding that as a user is hard.

Social media sites (Facebook products) might drive ads based on fingerprinting but they aren't re-linking social graphs this way. Sticking with the reliability of shared phone numbers and emails (and people friending/inviting the same people and having the same name theyve seen before)
Kubernetes powered PaaS that runs in your own cloud
I see them aligning with the locals and saying perhaps you should move out if you protest too much.
I suppose they recognize a specific algorithm. They already do special-casing for a number of game titles, and have been for a long time. Not a problem to match one more pattern, I assume.
Of course some people get caught. (Though some of what I'm describing wouldn't be considered illegal under Canadian law in the first place. You can just buy property with BTC here if you have BTC.) Still, it's a huge problem:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cullen-commi...

https://globalnews.ca/news/7593419/bc-casinos-too-dangerous-...
these practices evolved for a reason, and we'd do well to remember them. for every security update that's made harder through static linking, the flip side is not sharing global "state" and breaking. Python has virtual envs for exactly this; DLL hell was a real problem.

having the choice would be good though; maybe random CLI tools can be statically linked and have a slower security update cycle, which would be a bad idea for internet-facing stuff.
Yeah, the developers made the algorithm racist by incorporating racist texts in the training phase. Shit in shit out...
Potable water, flushable toilet, heat insulated pipes.
I'm all for nuclear power too, as long as it's nowhere near me.
I did read it. What you are quoting has nothing to do with the definition of a walled garden on that page.

Notably for some reason you chose not to include the part where they also say about Mac OS:

Demand-side use (end-user): open

Supply-side user (application developer): open

It is not a walled garden in any way that they define a walled garden.

Here is the definition from the page you link:
“A closed platform, walled garden, or closed ecosystem[1][2] is a software system wherein the carrier or service provider has control over applications, content, and media, and restricts convenient access to non-approved applicants or content. This is in contrast to an open platform, wherein consumers generally have unrestricted access to applications and content.“

It doesn’t apply to Mac OS.

Restricting installation of the operating system itself on other hardware just isn’t part of the definition.

No matter how much you selectively copy and paste from a Wikipedia page, it will not say what you claim it is saying.

Trying to say any restriction of use means a walled garden is akin to saying any software that isn’t completely free is a walled garden.

That just isn’t what the term means.
It needs to support Office 365 or some sort of connector.
I know we've discussed on HN before whether the elegance of the negative fragment extends to practice, but something about Lean is that it doesn't have LEM as an axiom. It's a theorem following from (a version of) the axiom of choice, the existence of quotient types, proof irrelevance (proofs of the same theorem are equal), and proposition extensionality (logically equivalent propositions are equal). Lean doesn't let you construct things that materially depend on LEM however -- you can only use it to prove that already constructed things have desired properties.
Anecdote - to me it is.

I know what life is like with the existing feature of getting thousands of stolen dollars back by relying on the banking (and/or legal) system. I won't willingly adopt a system without it.
It’s not too long

It's very long. I even remember commenting on how long it is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15149611

every section is to the point

Is it? It wasn't my impression

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15147431
Jason Calacanis on Elon Musk (From Lex Fridman #161)
Yes I remember reading it long time ago. Any update since then?
> In this version Belloq's head explodes at the end...I thought that footage was lost to time!?

They preserved it for future generations on the BluRay. What version is there where Belloq's head does not explode at the end?
That doesn't mean it will last long in an environment with a lot of salt water, does it?
It depends what your argument is.

If you are arguing that bitcoin is a bad currency because of high transfer fees, very few merchants accept it and that very few people are actually buying things with it in any meaningful way, then that's wrong because it's an asset.

If you are arguing that as an asset it is purely speculative and has no fundamentals and zero return other than appreciation, then that's wrong because it's a store of value.

If you are arguing that as a store of value it's actually highly volatile and has experienced multiple serious crashes, then that's wrong because it's actually a currency.

This is the primary tactic Bitcoin seems to use to deploy to combat any criticism - if someone critiques its ability to do one thing you claim it's something else..
What negative effects are those?
You picked a small fragment of the OP's argument and turned it into a strawman. For example, you dropped the whole "making an informed assessment of the risks" part, which is pretty important to the whole message.

You bring up "your freedom to swing your fist, etc." - how does this apply to lockdown measures that were proven to be ineffective, such as cleaning surfaces[0]? We've poured a lot of money and people's time into cleaning surfaces even while knowing early on that this is a very minor source of transmission. These resources could have been invested in proven measures, such as getting more people more N95 masks.

The way I understand OP's argument is that it's against how heavy-handed and inflexible these lockdown measures have been, limiting individuals effectiveness in dealing with the pandemic. Turning surface cleaning into security theater is one example. Another is the initial official messaging that people should not wear masks because they are not proven to be effective against COVID[1].

These restrictions made it harder to respond to the pandemic in an effective way. People wearing masks early in the pandemic or those choosing not to drown themselves in disinfectant did not, in fact, "pollute the air you breathe."

If we are to face similar disasters in the future, we have to be honest about these things so we can act better next time.

[0]: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00251-4
[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-doesnt-regret-advising...
31 questions. Many questions focussed on planning projects and time spend on that, switching between projects. Unclear who the author ("we") is, what they plan to do with the email address. Apparently you can win a book on time management.
Yes. We've lost the tall grass prairie to corn. But there are still vast portions of short and mixed-grass prairie in the southern great plains on land that was never suitable for crop production. The Texas and Oklahoma panhandle region, for instance. The only thing you can grow there is cows. These places are critical migratory habitat for grassland bird populations moving from Canada to the tropics. And even some endemic shorebirds like long-billed curlew. These same landscapes are also where most of the new wind energy development is landing. And new development is happening very quickly. Too quickly to monitor what it means for wildlife populations that are used to flat, open plains with only cattle to contend with.

If we arent careful, we'll lose the shortgrass prairie to energy development just like we lost the tallgrass prairie to corn.
> with the cost of stored renewable energy.

Which is how much? We don't have a good way to store energy right now.
I'm not sure that having the girl facing the same direction would be interpreted as "being on the same side". It would be more like she was going to get unknowingly gored by the heartless beast of the market behind her.
This is cute, but rasterizing 50M pixels per second is child's play on a modern processor. I'm pretty sure we can raytrace 50M Ray's per second on a modern 8 core CPU with a scene of moderate complexity.
Aah yes, paying a $25 transaction fee to buy a $5 loaf of bread at the grocery store with bitcoin. Perfect.
100% agree. The problem of knowing too much.

I recently joined a great team that has lots of different services that do things.

Some people explain to you how things using names of things you don't know about, they don't realize that telling me and then we get "info from dragon" means nothing to me.
It is clear that you don't believe in Bitcoin ("Bitcoin solves a problem for almost nobody") and thus want to use this energy angle to take it down. Good luck. But if you are more open minded read this thread and educate yourself: https://twitter.com/yassineARK/status/1360343382556483587?s=...

Also, have fun staying po...
Last Saturday and yesterday were the qualifying rounds for the top board of the first Diplomacy invitational championship. I don't play myself but if you have some familiarity with the rules the commentary is interesting.

https://diplobn.com/dbn-invitational-2021-rules/
I'm not really convinced GitHub scoring is realistic or even really representative of much. Kubernetes has tons of stars, yet how many stars do all the packages that Kubernetes consumes have? The ingredients and the arrangement of the parts are often more important than the whole; yet look who is rewarded.

HN scores, to me, stop mattering past about 500, maybe 1000. By then you should know the guidelines, how to conduct some proper discourse, and should have dropped baggage from previous websites like Twitter or Reddit.
Turn your long text posts into a carousel post with just 1-click
Fan of Puff, puff, pass?
I wouldn't be so sure about cobstruction costs either. Reactors are being built elsewhere in the world all the time, and I doubt foreign finance guys are less smart or safety codes are less strict
Here is an example: after inputing positive integers a, b and c, output all natural numbers n for which a^n + b^n = c^n.

My algorithm:
If a + b == c then output 1.
If a^2 + b^2 == c^2 then output 2.
Stop.

This algorithm is correct, because Fermat's last theorem holds. Now, try to come up with a simpler algorithm than that, and one that in addition has a constructive proof.
I understand that the author isn't satisfied with their pay. But that doesn't mean that they are in fact paid badly. By any measure other than the author's feelings, they are paid pretty well.
This interpretation is similar to an old Buddhist teaching. When you’re one with the world you’re sharing others’ joy and disowning your “personal” sufferings.
That sounds ready made for a monkey's paw situation with intelligence agency intervention. Sort of like this joke of mine which probably isn't original despite thinking it up myself. "Sure everyone says they want world peace but when you take steps towards it suddently you're 'illegally proliferating nuclear weaponry and launch capability to rogue nations'!".
Not possible with most devices. I wanted something similar, no result. Seemed like a hardware restriction that phone calls go to either the speaker or Bluetooth.
I said it was harder, not impossible.

The end game all depends on the abilities of the proprietors to launder the proceeds. But that’s the rub in all criminal operations and why money launderers are paid so handsomely.
I totally see your point of view regarding the price. What price would you say is right?

> I’m either on the move, or in front of a computer, so I don’t see if there’s a good fit for this device in my life

It's possible that the device isn't for you then, I agree.
"Coca cola confirms training employees to be less white supremacist" fixed it.

I notice msm and journalists like leaving off the last word (supremacist) for the sake of outrage. This is a 500+ year problem that negatively affected most of the planet, we can't decontextualize.
We should call this newly invented and wholly original concept a "container". The software gets "contained". It just might work. /s
Of course nobody uses Bitcoin as money today.

My question was purely hypothetical, in the case Bitcoin ever becomes a more attractive store-of-value or reserve asset than gold (maybe because its easier to transfer, store and verify ownership than gold) which I admit is a very big if.
Getting a 404 after adding the script tag to my page, just to confirm this is the expected behaviour for now?
Since you're announcing it at an heavy traffic like HN it is quite likely there are already 200 companies in ShenZhen reading your post and and planning to sell it for one tenth of what you're asking.
I am always impressed at how effectively Facebook has convinced nearly everyone on both sides of the US partisan divide that Facebook is using censorship to attempt to crush their own side.
I run postgresql in the backend.
Right now most of the apps logic is written directly as postgres functions.

After experimenting with datalog and mongo I settled with postgres. It's flexible enough for most situations.
TheY can sell metadata from private chats (maybe like a profile) to said businesses...
Show HN: A contact form that prunes spam
Hello HN, I made an online contact form prevents people from saying everything is important. It's also a way to cut down on spam.

Check it out at https://powreach.com. It's powered by LTC.

I also made the opposite of an online contact form. You can put down a deposit, basically in escrow, and send a link to someone to redeem it. For example, you can ask someone to give you feedback on a side project and you can pay them, without knowing their payment info. The recipient attaches their payment info when they receive the link.

This is all built on top of https://repowcha.com. I see rePOWCHA as a big missing block in the Internet, with multiple uses cases that remain to be discovered.

Let me know what you think.
I speculated 9 months ago this was going to happen, still consider it reasonable to think that any disruption to such tightly operated industry will ignite some butterfly effect here and there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23016139
> But there’s a reason that when writing conditionals, we don’t put one symbol in the expression on their own line

I won't disagree with you. However when you zoom out and
crunch the numbers, you'll find that although there are
infinite expressions to put in conditionals, in practice an absolutely
minuscule amount of those patterns are actually used.

Context free grammars are not free.

Better ways are coming.
Yea, for sure, that's something I'd like to have as well!
Pretty much this. Especially true when Microsoft or Google aren't even trying to compete.
Visualizing Electromagnetic Interference Using an SDR and Machine Vision (2019)
It’s also possible to run it yourself, as I point out elsewhere in the thread (complete with the Lua script to run the code).

To summarize:

git clone https://git.sr.ht/~samiam/MaraDNS
cd MaraDNS/deadwood-github/tools/coLunacyDNS
make
sudo cp coLunacyDNS /usr/local/bin

And the script to do the name-to-IP conversion is one of the examples included in the docs:

https://github.com/samboy/MaraDNS/blob/master/deadwood-githu...
How exactly can they do this without screwing up a bunch of other classes of use cases?
Do you have per-student spending figures for those schools you're comparing? The schools in the cities I'm familiar with, federal supplemental funding actually makes it so the poorer areas are able to spend more per student than the wealthier areas, and the poorer area schools still perform way worse.

IMO money plays some role, but it's not directly the property taxes that matter.
They also have the benefit of being able to flood and sink reactors in the ocean to prevent meltdowns. Which is why im an advocate for off-shore nuclear power, either floating, or even better, completely underwater. Of course that increases costs, but it would make nuclear almost completely safe even in the worst case scenarios.
I really like this idea, but I agree with others that the bezels look a bit too large (do you need them to hide the components?) and the price seems relatively high.

I also thought that the calendar looked a bit grey/dull in the image you show. Is this just about the lighting or is the display not very high-contrast?
You say that as if having an industry based around a speculative asset that is more volatile than OTM stock options sucking up a third of your countries energy resources is actually an advantage in some way.
total power requirement of the united states / amount of average power including weather and TOD produced by a square meter of land + amount of land to store necessary batteries = a corner notched out of nevada. not multiple states. i dont think you need a phd to see this, and elon musk also agrees with this and i think he is knowledgeable enough about solar and batteries. plus, there are lots of efficiency gains still in the pipes that will reduce our power consumption. when all houses are properly insulated, heated with a heat pump, have efficient appliances, thermal loops and have solar on their roofs then all of this becomes even more feasible. and thats not even including wind, hydro or thermal.
You mean if it stopped being illegal there wouldn't be people who start producing their own peyote? I find that hard to believe.
Do you have any evidence to back up your claim?

The US government provides 27% of things in the US (budget vs GDP), about the same as South Korea and Switzerland, more than Ireland (23%), less than New Zealand (32%), UK (33%), Spain (34%), but not by an extreme amount.
Ted Nelson’s response to wired is an interesting read: http://web.archive.org/web/20001101230424/http://www2.educ.k...
As luck would have it, that’s probably not going to affect most people, because people who write an “IP address” in an MX record probably also didn’t put the terminating period at the end. Therefore, the MX record to “1.2.3.4” resolves to the local name “1.2.3.4.example.com” and not a domain in the hypothetical “.4” TLD.
Would you rather have the attack surface that opens up from static linking or from undefined behavior consequent to breaking changes in your dependencies?
Conscientiousness is one of the traits, but it is not the only trait important in the process of life planning in my view.
I started to think about this topic after re-reading PG's The Anatomy of Determination essay and Sam Altman's Productivity article.
http://www.paulgraham.com/determination.html?viewfullsite=1
https://blog.samaltman.com/productivity
I think the initial ramp of karma up to whatever the threshold is to allow downvotes is helpful. I'm not sure it has much actual utility past that.
Any idea how it works in EU / UK?

This whole thing just seems wrong.
Automatically updating the thumbnail of a YouTube video
Here is a relatively recent HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24666968
I think that there is a good reason to keep those projects in the main distribution: it makes them more robust and prevents the build systems and bootstrapping process from becoming a massive pile of technical debt.

For example, in order to get clojure 10 running on Gentoo I had to go dig through the git history to figure out where spec-alpha and core-specs-alpha and clojure itself did not form a circular dependency in maven. Because clojure was not being packaged in a variety of ways, they now are at risk of making maven central a hard dependency, which makes the whole project less robust.
These terms were from NAB, for reference see https://www.nab.com.au/business/loans-and-finance/business-l...
It's a risk calculation: do I want to risk being vulnerable to 0days, or do I want to risk my application not running for any user because a dependency changed its headers/api?

As software engineers we want to be in control of as much as possible when running our application, to make it as deterministic as possible. For that we select versions of our dependencies, build it, and then test it, and if our tests pass, we release it.

If we would let the OS determine the dependency versions, without testing, what guarantees can we give that our code will work? Do you write tests for future, unknown changes in libraries? Do you write tests with Random, because that's the kind of unpredictability you're introducing?
Right there with you. At the time it was the saddest thing I'd ever seen. It's stuck with me all these years.
No, it doesn’t. Occam’s razor literally says if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck.

Tether has admitted to being fractionally backed. They are unaudited and the directors are ghosts.

Who the hell would deposit with that type of an organization? Most people would rather just transact in fiat and for those who must have stable coins, every other stablecoin is an order of magnitude safer.
Thank you for the feedback.

You're right, the display is smaller than I'd like... for sure.

I'll also see what can be done on a black-and white display with regards to the stark contrast.

> Other display modes? "Today", "Clock/Calendar", "Now and Next"?

Yes, that's do-able, I "just" have to code it.

> How do you control it?

In the App. I should make that clearer on the website for sure.
training data will always reflect the culture which generated it