skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i argue that in the US, the private sectors actually lead the country and not the govrt. every 4 yrs we can have a new administration and the new administration can cancel the previous administration's orders. what we are seeing is the private sectors leading the way and a lot of time influence the govrt.

Tesla have effectively changed people's mind about the electrical car and move the auto industry and even govrt. to "green energy". you can also see it in the covid19 vaccine development. the private sectors step in to develop the vaccine and the govrt. remove a lot of barriers to speed up the process.

>Look at China's Belt and Road initiative, it's a 40 year, ambitious plan. Do we even have any serious 10 year plans? 5 year? And why not?

that required a authoritarian govrt and a president for life like Xi. Xi break the CCP's norm on the term limit and consolidated more powers onto himself than even Mao. that's kind of govrt that you needs in order to push for 40 years or even 10 year plans.
It would be nice to get my workday done in a dream. Then I could wake up and do whatever I wanted in actual reality. However, if communication can be worked out, I guess the opposite would be true as well.
Agree 100%, but even PoE doesn't really capture what was for me the best part of d2 (hardcore + the chance to go hostile at any point), they did announce some cut-throat leagues in the beginning but I don't think anything has happened with that ...
Who chooses what you wear?
> the resistance will be overcome eventually

Like 50-60 years in this case :-(
I also moved away from Chrome around that time
Bitcoin is like the digital gold whereas Ethereum is like the oil. It enables all the smart contracts, particularly DeFi.

Since these smart contracts need gas fees paid in Ethereum, you'd want to have Ethereum prices be stable and ideally lower.

There's also constant inflation whereas Bitcoin will be limited to 21M cap with an estimated 3-4M Bitcoin permanently lost.

And of course, Bitcoin benefits from first mover advantage, network effects, security, more decentralization, etc.
My Eink tablet does ~15 fps in monochrome operation.
It can very much scroll, though you are right, one would typically use page up/down functionality. But you'd not really have to wait.
> My main bug bear is my HP Z27 DisplayPort monitor disappears when it goes to sleep. Have to unplug/replug the cable to get it to come back.

I have some weird monitor issues on mine too, same thing, when it wakes up it loses a monitor.
Again, why are you basing your understanding of the world on the ideas of enlightenment hacks like Pinker, who can't get past 18th century understanding? It must be truly sad to only be able to see the world in such a grim and pessimistic way.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/13/john-gray-stev...
Recently I bought an used laptop from 2013 for 160€ and updated the RAM to 16GB. It would have been perfect, except it was a thin laptop with a U-suffix CPU. I did not know U used to mean it is much slower than M :(

Now I am stuck. Not bad enough to replace it immediately, but not good enough to work efficiently
Ah, the spelling was wrong. Thanks, I'm going to keep my eye out for Thomassons in my area.
1. Read reviews and documentation. Most brokers ask if it isn’t part of the signup process.
2. “No, on us stock exchanges”. Shorts (or anyone overextended ) will receive a house or margin call. These calls are to ensure contractual obligations on the market are met. The SEC requires brokers to make and report these incidents. Brokers are liable if they do not. Worst case: broker forces sales in overextended account, buys short shares and returns them to you.
2a. Finra protects assets in the case of broker insolvency, (avanza goes bankrupt). Your assets would be insured by the us govt.
2b. The SEC/nyse/others is suppose to make sure markets have trust, otherwise people won’t use the exchange.
First, "human nature" is a logical fallacy straight away: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy

Second, in many existing societies outside of the US school bullying is extremely uncommon.
I agree, the UK is on a fast track to a judiciary corrupted by useless politicians like Johnson. But I have a little more faith than you in the system as it stands currently. There is even a chance of saving it with a little more push back against the behaviour of Johnson and his fellow Conservative party members.
They understandably don't like that.

They're fine with it. If you run a newspaper, the humiliating thing is to have a competitor point out your errors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correction_(newspaper)
As an aside to all the necessary and important conversation about societal infrastructure investment, I think back to something I noticed when I was a teenager spending a lot of time in my basement on my computer as I'm sure a lot of us did.

One thing I noticed was that although it wasn't heated very well, it was cool in the summer and relatively warm in the winter. I wonder if we'll see any renewed interest in earth-sheltered homes after this whole episode. There are of course challenges with them (mortgaging restrictions, dealing with moisture over time), but you get a lot of mileage out of it. It's not just high lifetime energy savings, it's also insurance against freezing to death in these kinds of situations.
> People of clear mind, should have any right to choose their treatment of choice. So informing them on the best options, yes! Telling them of the mechanism of fraudsters who prey on peoples hopes, yes! But in the end maybe not forbidding them if they choose - for whatever reason - less standard methods.

In theory, I agree with you. People should be clearly told "there is evidence that X works, and there is no evidence that Y works, however you are free to try Y at your own risk". And then they would make their choice.

But I am afraid that it wouldn't work so well in practice. First, there is the problem of who is this authoritative voice that tells people "X works, Y does not". Is it government? (Will it not become subject of political fighting? Like, depending on who wins the election, evolution either exists or does not exist, masks either help or do not help against COVID, etc.) Or is it some professional organization of experts? Then the fraudsters will make their own alternative organizations, that for a layman will look exactly the same. -- At the end, the layman has no idea whom to trust.

Second, the fraudster talking to you can be more persuasive than a website you read, simply because they can adapt their argument to your knowledge. Even if the website says "X works, Y does not", the fraudster can explain like "by 'Y does not work' they actually refer to Y1, but what I am selling is Y2 which is not the same thing", and there will be no one there to say "actually, Y refers to both Y1 and Y2" or "Y2 is just Y1 under a new name". For a layman it is difficult to evaluate when two things are or are not the same.

So at the end, either fraud is legal, or illegal. "Legal, but you have been warned, so use your best judgment" does not work for people with average intelligence and average expertise.
They are regulated related by their local authorities US,EU etc... Each country has their own retail protection law, as far as I remember the amount changes from 100k$ up to 800k$. So if I am correct it is not based on transaction but the value of your account.
I think the fact the commenter here said he would work for Garriott again in a heartbeat, shows the incredible damage that mergers and acquisitions do to businesses.

I am a finance guy, and I think we need to find a way to rework the system to reduce or end a lot of finances excesses. Especially VC pressures, mergers and acquisitions that remove founders, and other issues like that.
Metallica's BlizzCon Performance Ruined by Twitch
If you’re using N+1 servers that have multiple users, then you definitely want some kind of centralized user management. It doesn’t matter how you connect to the server (ssh, etc). Those won’t solve the problem of keeping user account information in sync between the servers. You still need some way to keep account information (username, password, public keys) consistent between the servers.

That’s what the GP post was comparing to.

I use LDAP to manage access to multiple servers and it’s more work to setup than /etc/passwd, but much easier to keep things in sync.
These remind me of "General Aladeen" replacing both the words "positive" and "negative" by "Aladeen"[0]. The scene shows a physician asking a patient:

Physician: "Do you want the Aladeen news or the Aladeen news?"

Patient: "Aladeen"

Physician: "You are HIV Aladeen"

There are some words being removed because they are perceived as insulting or disrespectful, and that perception appears to stem from the fact these words refer to a "negative" property. Say, "moron", "idiot", "stupid", "dumb" as opposed to "smart", "sharp", "shrewd", "brilliant", etc.

That these words may be hurtful is not the argument. Wouldn't removing words that have antonyms destabilize language by creating a "linguistic void"?

Some words refer to an "absence" of something or the opposite of something. "Darkness", "cold", "unstable", "evil". This either creates a sort of "spectrum" of which they are the ends, or a dichotomy with mutual exclusion. These can be deemed as disrespectful as well. Would the language become impractical when amputated from words invented to communicate "lack of something" or opposition to something.

For example, if somehow the word "cold" became perceived as disrespectful, how would you describe an entity with that property? Not hot?

There are insults that carry their own weight, like racist or homophobic slurs, for example. They don't need or have an opposite/antonym. I was on a forum and someone, knowing where I am from, has used the expression "sand n-word". Now, the moderators deemed that as insulting.

Now, given that this "insult" was addressed to me and it's a composed insult, could I use the n-word to report it? One could say it is "tautologically insulting", and that the "sand" part is redundant. However, it is composed. Similar to a "sea lion" or "desert rose": without the words "sea" or "desert", we're not talking about the same thing.

One also could argue it is insulting because it is insulting, in a circular reasoning way.

However, there are insults that derive their "insult power" from their opposition to something desirable or positive.

Are there linguists here who could chime in? This is intriguing. Are there concepts that address "language stability" or "practicality"?

- [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYJ2w82WifU
Don’t know why you’re getting down voted for stating 2 facts.

Don’t shoot the messenger.
I cant remember the name, but there was a GNU replacement for flash, I believe one of the rules to contributing was that you had not ever even used Adobe Flash before.

Back around 2007 I used it for a while, it mostly worked okay but always came across things it wouldn't work with and went crawling back.
For development - I was waiting for a dba to sort access to the new prod server, and needed to check that the current app build was minimally working correctly talking to an ms sql instance. It might be interesting to run in CI as well.

Running any rdbms in production in docker isn't a great idea. But for dev and test it can be great.

For my use case, we deploy mostly to traditional setup (dedicated sql server) - but I could also see it useful for prototyping deployment to mssql in azure cloud.
Cockpit is super cool. I've been using it for personal stuff for years now, especially since it's trivial to enable and use.

I even use it in production for monitoring small sites/apps. The graphs for CPU/Mem/Network/Disk are really great, and I can leave them open in a tab on my browser. I run one fairly popular blog that as a web machine and a db machine, and it's great for that.

That said I don't use it for "serious production" where I have more than a couple of machines simply because at that scale I prefer cattle to pets and I prefer aggregation.

I also find myself strongly preferring SSH and the CLI, likely because I'm very familiar with all that and have been doing that for decades.

I've never heard of security issues with Cockpit, but I do firewall it off from everyone but my own IP (or a few others if they are involved). It's pretty easy to do:

# Get your IP address from home or work: curl -s 'https://api.ipify.org'
MY_IP=<ip>

firewall-cmd --zone-public --permanent --remove-service=cockpit
firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent \
--add-rich-rule="rule family=\"ipv4\" source address=\"${MY_IP}\" port protocol=\"tcp\" port=\"9090\" accept"
firewall-cmd --reload

Here's a gist of it: https://gist.github.com/FreedomBen/0aabe5493ba02d1c9bb33fea2...
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This is exactly what we do at MNX Solutions. We are a team of Linux engineers, and provide 24x7 monitoring and response to outages for your cloud based infrastructure.

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Even if we're not a good fit, I'd be happy to chat with anyone about ways to improve their site reliability. It's something we're good at, and love to talk about!
This language clearly avoids some of the run-time errors that can occur with C, but I would like to learn a little more about the remainder. For example, if you make an out-of-bounds assignment to an array, the array is grown to accommodate it (for +ve offset only, I assume) - but what about out-of-bounds retrieval?
I don’t understand why anyone on HN cares what the editorial page of the WSJ has to say about, well, anything. It’s a largely partisan and stubbornly fact-free source of poorly considered right-wing ideology. This whole article is essentially trying to carry water for ERCOT and Texas’s Republican government.

You can bet that if Texas was run by Democrats the article would take a literally opposite position. Everyone knows this. Why are we pretending here, on HN, otherwise? As in, why are we pretending that a columnist for a highly partisan op-Ed section has anything substantive to say about energy policy or climate change?
The magic of D2 was battlenet with all its glitches that made the game develop in its own weird way (the soj-based economy that developed because a hack was possible for a time, being the prime example).
Couple cents with current prices. Ada is reasonably low and nano is feeless but the network is supported by rainbow farts and unicorns so I wouldn't trust it much.
Live long enough and you get it. It's just how people work. Seeing it happen is the evidence.

You don't need a study to prove gravity or magnetism.
That's not the traditional way of developing apps though, especially not now when cross platform app development is easier than native development on either platform
It’s not clear to me what the paper thinks bullying is. Clearly the bullying depicted in the simpsons is not what’s considered here. Among friends or a friend network, I n the spectrum where does bullying begin and social manipulation end? It would have been nice to have some examples.
Schnorr signatures make bitcoin coinjoin transactions as efficient as Monero.

Monero on the other hand might have problems with scaling because off-chain infrastructure like Lightning does not exist yet.
Modvion – Laminate, modular wooden wind turbines
i broke it:
https://imgur.com/8e6AKMK
Mapping the derelict lines of the Bay Area
Nuclear plants are enormously expensive to build and maintain. Having them idle would be economic suicide for the operators.
Maintenance. European countries seem much more bothered about maintaining things than America ... perhaps because US culture focusses more on new and making money with new rather than maintaining the existing.

When I travel to the US I am always astounded at the level of disrepair, things just look broken and dilapidated, not everything but just enough that it feels like I'm in a "poor" country, which it is clearly not.

Miami is the worst level of richness and poverty next to each other I've seen, New York looks like it is falling apart and San Fransisco clearly has no social services for the homeless at all. I've loved my time visiting America but there is a vibe of wear and tear that I don't feel in other developed nations.
Twitter sued for libel by repairman of Hunter Biden’s alleged laptop
How is it not ethical? They're stopping people from losing money buying something that is overpriced.
> Simula was about actor-oriented programming anyways, hence the name.

Nothing about the name "Simula" suggests actors.

> The unique differentiator for C++ was the STL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B#History isn't very clear, but it seems to suggest that templates weren't added to C++ until 1990 or later. The STL came around 1993, eleven years after the development of C++ started, not even counting its previous life as C with Classes. Surely in those eleven years people found other differentiators that kept up interest?
One primary thing that stands out as actual humanity are behaviors which are almost never dominant in any other beings, and which further the progress of true civilization.

Which is of course supposed to be civil if nothing else.

Anything less is realistically a lack of human nature, often still remaining along a not-completely-civilized continuum.

So _human nature_ should never be used as an excuse for uncivil behavior, and further progress can best be made by recognizing _lack of human nature_ as the problem instead.

This should be obvious to behaviorists but once you go there you've got to figure lots of them would need more _common sense_, except there still remains some prevalence to _common lack of sense_ . . .
Hybrid iOS apps with Turbo – Part 1: The Turbo framework
I really like this idea! I first got into type theory as a result of an answer by Carl Mummert to a question I asked on Math StackExchange[1]. I even wrote a blog post about it a year later[2].

Ever since then, I have considered type theory to be my favorite version of the foundations of math. I have often played around in theoretical foundations theory to discover as many connections as possible between foundations of math and computer science. That being said, I think the perspectives offered by set theory and category theory are extremely valuable, and that these three approaches compliment each other, and sometimes one is better than another for a specific purpose.

This is the first time I had really seen the possibility to reformulate computer science to bring it closer to mathematics. How exciting!

[1] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1519330/is-it-possi...

[2] https://medium.com/@calhoun137/a-programmers-way-of-thinking...
Not really no. In fact consulting companies struggle with agile and story points because virtually no client wants to pay for a number of story points. They will pay for 'man hours' though.

As for the pressure to deliver more. That is not new either. Before Story points and velocity they would pressure teams and individuals into estimating lower. "come on that can't take 100 man hours to do. The other team is doing something very similar and thhey say they can do it in 50".

That is actually worse if you ask me that story points which are not absolute time units and instead relative sizes. So if one team says the story has 8 SP and another says 5 SP but one team's velocity is 16 while the other team has a velocity of 10 then both teams are saying it takes half the sprint.

And the above is exactly what you are saying about bad agile coaches and people finding ways to abuse Agile (which they will probably do with any methodoly you invent even if you do make it less bad than what came before). Case in point about Story points actually being better than man hour estimates. But people still try to abuse them. Now the good part about it is with story points, if you as the Scrum Master fail to convince upper management that no you can't increase velocity into infinity you can simple increase your estimates and your velocity magically goes up. But nobody can come in and say anything against it as long as you still actually deliver because you didn't increase an absolute estimate in hours. You just suddenly have a velocity of 16 like the other team instead of 10 but you still delivered the same actual output.
> I am positive that not 'everyone' is using Jira in the wrong way, just that many-many companies use it and many companies have broken culture or processes (or they have the right processes for the company, but that's not enjoyable for the employeees, that can also be the case).

I've worked in 6 or 7 companies that used Jira across a variety of different industries, and Jira was terrible in all of them; one of them was a previously excellent company that made a switch to using Jira, and that distinctly coincided with the company becoming worse to work with in many ways.

> Again, Java or Javascript are also a good example: I am relatively sure that crappy Java code is much more common than crappy Clojure or Haskell code. Does it mean Haskell is 'better' than Java

All else being equal, yes. You can make an argument that Haskell etc. attract better programmers because they're hard to learn, but it's hard to make a corresponding argument about Jira; how much time and effort does it take to not use something?

> We don't have anything even resembling to this in our company, and we use Jira. Again: Jira is a relatively good tool for storing information that's related to a certain piece of work.

Well, a) I'm pretty sure that's not how most companies use it, and b) I don't think it's very well suited to that either. Its IDs are the worst of both worlds (not a simple number but not actually informative either) and its search function is awful, so it's vastly inferior to using a wiki (a real one, not Confluence).

> Yeah, performance is not great but it's getting better nowadays. There are faster tools out there, but we considered integrations to be more important (YMMV ofc.).

Most places I've worked disabled most integrations due to performance problems, so I may be missing some of your experiences, but I don't understand what and how you're integrating if you're only using it as a store of information.
It definitely plays a role in driving overall sentiment though. And indirectly plays a role in people taking more risks. There's a view that the economy won't collapse because central banks will just keep printing money... and it's probably correct because there's no real alternative right now unless you want civil unrest because that's what you'll get once you shut down the economy and then turn off the money taps simultaneously.

But at some point, in order for fiat currency to retain any sort of reliable buying power, there does need to be a rug pull of some sort. Doing it while so many are out of work and so many industries are effectively shut down by government regulation would be extremely dangerous (for the government of the day).
I built https://www.JQBX.fm for this purpose. Not an exact clone but it’s my take on the “social listening” problem.
A lot of those voters don't want redistributed wealth. They want a job to earn a living and the self respect that comes with it.
I think this would be detrimental. Dreaming is, more or less, your brain's GC cycle, so it's not a path you want to put arbitrary "computation" on.
You'd wake up exhausted.
Have you ever thought that's what you're doing? When you wake up and go about your day, you've plugged into the Earth simulation after a day's work. Then you go to sleep and wake up in the base reality and go to work.

I don't really believe that mind you, but it's fun to think about.