skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many people buy a brand new machine and the first thing they do is wipe it and re-install?

Well, everyone who would sell their machine could go through that process. And if this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26204426) is correct then I would not call it an 'edge' case.

Besides It's a safety feature. You need it to work when nothing else works. It should be extremely reliable. And if it's not then the only 'reliable' feature of the Mac you have is DFU mode and booting from another Mac.

I don't personally know anyone who does that.

I personally don't know anyone who dealt with failing computers who doesn't do that. Besides you need partitions for multi boot configuration.
This is indeed something of an issue, the duality of Prosody. Should it be a complete solution or a platform for you to build on? Being one when people expect the other leads to disappointed users, and being both is a lot of work for the small dev team.
Hopefully Snikket will improve this by attracting those who want the complete solution.
Your post ironically captures exactly why we're where we're at - the result of simple divide-and-conquer tactics used by the ruling elite to distract from what's really wrong and to crush any dissent. Both sides take gobs of money from the same centers of power that have strip mined the US and degraded American quality of life: Wall Street, the military industrial complex, and a completely out of control intelligence apparatus. Democrat vs Republican is a matter of picking your flavor of decline.

But hey, at least the drone strikes under this administration will be done by transgender pilots - truly progress!
The other possibility is that it will be widely used in the future as a store of value or for some other purposes. Might be rational to put at least some percentage of your net worth into it. People need and want something like that to exist where they have complete control over their assets without any worries about government or institutions.
Academic journal editor allegedly steals paper for himself
Of course, one usually leads to the other.
Cool! Is there some write-up on how did using hotwire turn out? I personally don't think it's a very good concept, but I'm curious what people who actually use it have to say
When spot rates were low, they were laughing and tell you how smart they are and how the know the market.

Now they'll be queuing up to tell us all how they were defrauded and no one told them
http://www.little-lang.org/why.html is pretty interesting

>We (BitKeeper folks) did our GUI interfaces in Tcl/Tk years ago because it meant we could have one gui person and get the same gui tools on Windows, Mac, Unix, and Linux.

>While some of us could switch from C to Tcl easily, our pointy-haired boss could not, he's mostly C and would lose about a half a day to get back into Tcl.

>Success was realized when one of our engineers, who is not a Little fan, fixed a bug in a patch that flew by in email without realizing it was Little instead of C
This article doesn't really cover anything that the hacker news audience won't already be familiar with. What is notable, however, is that Duckduckgo has seen a pretty strong surge in usage recently [0], moreso than similar surges in the past.

[0] https://ddg.gg/traffic
The website never opens for me and I have no idea why. I have tried turning off my VPN, switching servers.
That’s a cool demo (starts at 4:24). I assume these NPCs don’t actually know anything about the game, so there actually isn’t a “City Hall Street Location” in the game, and you can’t actually pay 10 coins and get a sweet hot dog. What would it take to hook this up to the reality of the gameplay?
As a European living in the US, I think Europeans have much more in common than they think. The differences between countries seem big until you're looking at them from a distance. I'd even argue that the UK has more in common with 'the continent' than with the US.
Can We Break the 2nm Barrier in Silicon Fabrication?
> One example is Icebreaker Ultralight socks.

The website says they're actually 38% polyamide and 2% elastane. I think they're 'wool mix' socks rather than wool socks.
Yeah I'm using Agora for my project, as for real time update I find updating a state in firebase on one end and adding a listener on the other end to be "realtime" enough. So i'm trying to figure out what I'm missing, and the PubNub website is not very elucidating.
I think computer science benefits from the relatively low cost and widespread availability of hardware and software tools. You don't necessarily need huge financial backing to explore a new idea in many areas. Of course there are exceptions (super computing, quantum computing, etc), but the barrier to entry for curious beginners seems much lower than other scientific fields.
I’ve always wondered how the economics of DDG work out, considering they’re basically a proxy for Bing with a bunch of other scraped/API-based data sources they layer on top. Are they paying Bing per query? How can that net out positively?

I suppose at their volume they’ve negotiated great API rates, but their own ads can’t possibly bring in enough revenue to cover the expenses of the API calls…
> It seems unlikely that there will be any profound insights from category theory on how to write code

I strongly disagree with this. To me it does not seem "unlikely", quite the opposite. The reason I feel so strongly about this is that computer science is a subset of pure mathematics, its the part that deals with algorithms and computation. There are many questions in computer science which cannot be answered without an appeal to pure math (e.g., what is the best possible compression algorithm)

All of computer science began as a result of the work of Hilbert on the foundations of logic[1]. This is what led to Turing's paper on Turing Machines. Since that time, mathematicians have done a lot of exciting work on foundations.

Category theory has completely transformed the way we think about abstract mathematical objects; and type theory is very exciting in that it brings mathematics closer to a programming language which is compiled in the human brain and is done with pen and paper.

It's seems to me very likely that in the future, code writing standards will change and get better, and will not remain the same. Towards that end, it makes sense that improvements will come from a better understanding of foundations, since that is where it all started.

Curious for your thoughts?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_second_problem#:~:....
> It sounds as if Nano is still vulnerable to a 51% attack.

Every cryptocurrency is vulnerable to a 51% attack including Bitcoin.
Intention does matter to be fair. It's murder versus manslaughter.
Has anyone drawn the Titanic iceberg yet?
The server seems to have died, and admittedly not a well known source. But this was the translated link I found.

The results are discussed in Swedish for example here:

https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/coronaviruset/efter-vag-tva...

https://cornucopia.cornubot.se/2021/02/forskare-sverige-hade...
Where does everyone get their books from? From what I could tell, all books you can buy commercially come with proprietary (Amazon) or Adobe (everyone else) DRM, making them impossible to read on koreader. It seems like you always have to buy into someone's ecosystem, or am I missins something?
If you buy microstrategy because you want to be exposed to bitcoin then you will be overpaying by a lot.
Is it accurate thought? I mean the icebergs are 3d and are thicker in the middle. If the shape is 2d the tips have more mass then they should.
I'm pretty sure this guy has no idea what he's talking about. Every airport in the US in a city with a subway (or equivalent) has a station at the airport. Off the top of my head ATL, ORD, JFK, SLC, OAK all do.

And the point of the plane trains is to move people between different terminals. I have less international airport experience but the only way they don't have them is if they use buses instead.
Nuclear isn't something you can just turn on and off like gas
You don't need guerilla farmers to end up in a situation like that. MUC, the Munich airport, has two rather shitty metro lines connecting it to Munich. These lines aren't even direct ones, instead they have stops at every tree and milk bottle.

Once they had a test with an ICE train stopping at the MUC metro train station. Worked like a charm.

Well, but politicians wanted the Transrapid, so no conventional train connection was done. Direct metro connections, which would already be fast enough for most purposes, usually vet shut down by disputes between the city of Munich, the counties of Erding and Freising, various political parties and DB (the German train company).
As much as people like to complain about Bitcoin's energy usage, it makes a 51% attack prohibitively expensive and if you were to invest all that money, you'd want to make money with it rather than cause a short term disruption to the network.
A Ryzen Powered Handheld Gaming PC
Curious on performance benchmarks. For me, I'm comparing this to wren:

https://wren.io/
How to Destroy the Earth (2006)
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Everyone is constantly saying it is a bubble and will pop soon. So sentiment is exactly the opposite.
I avoid google (even as a backup) because they've replaced displayed URLs with bizarre breadcrumb things. I can't fathom why even a single person at google thought that was a good idea, but no doubt I'm wrong.

I'm sure it was a fun project team to be on though. The "Replace Slashes with Angle Brackets Initiative"
Actually it’s possible for people to have opinions on matters where they are not a published author or academic.

Also “little mice noisily speculating about the state of the world” is a pretty good summary of a lot of academia.
This IS both sides.

Both sides try to undermine when the other side is in power even when those actions hurt America overall. It's like cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Thinking that your "team" is the good guys and the other are the bad guys is exactly why politicians get away with this. There is nuance in the world.
Gabe Weinberg has previously stated on hacker news that DDG was profitable at about 4M queries a day (it is now over 100M).

The economics are that you charge more for ads than you pay for API calls. That's all there is to it, really.
Bingo. The overall problem is that technology is eliminating meaningful jobs while central bank policy consolidates the wealth upwards (trickle up economics). The blue tribe is focused on the lack of distributed output from traditional production, while the red tribe is lamenting the lack of distributed input required by traditional production. The red tribe doesn't have much of a plan besides looking wistfully towards the past and blaming foreigners for taking away jobs. The blue tribe doesn't have much of a plan besides gifting ever-more after it has been collected centrally. Meanwhile what we really need is a distributed economy that gives autonomous individuals self determination while recognizing that total labor demand is continuing to drop. I fear we won't see the return of this until a currency crisis, as it seems nothing is going to make the Fed change course at this point.
Kinesis has a tenting kit that goes from 20 to 90 degrees in 10 degree steps.

Again separate purchase which would need to be taken into account, but given my experience with their other products, it still sounds like a superset of the Goldtouch in many ways, I'm guessing it has a wider community for mods etc as well.
What do you think it is when some superior at work tries to mock in jest or get disproportionate agressive at mistakes? Its an undertone to reinforce social heirarchies. If you call bullshit on it, it may stop or worsen. Its all power play. Bullying is just part of a spectrum. When someone gives a dirty look to a rude waiter it is not much different than being abusive to someone cause you see a decent route where you get away with the bad behavior.

This is why you have anonymous trolls but polite and civil strangers.
It is unfortunate we do not strive to make "work" as enjoyable and as addictive as some games, while also allowing employees to share significantly in the wealth they help generate. It feels like many video games show us how much potential is hidden away inside people.
is your contention that he is lying about the existance airport-only rail lines? Or that he is lying about the PFC subsidy restriction?
Everything else being equal, having more boxes leads to more failures. If each server fails on average every 10 years, then with ten servers you expect on average one failure every year.
Rakuten’s self-driving delivery robot hits the streets of Yokosuka
so this is a c-like-interface for tcl/tk libraries? I was thinking it's a c-style lua script alternative so I can use it on embedded boards.
Think you learned your lesson? I am the same, and I won't touch addictive games anymore - it takes far too much effort to get unaddicted. Not to mention all that time lost where I would have had more _real_ enjoyment, and enriched my life - reading books, going outside, watching good TV shows and movies, single player games, etc.
No, according to the law it's an arbitrary decision by the Treasurer. No mention of monopoly.
Yes, the net output of the US political system is somewhat garbage. But there are specific sources of that garbage in recent years.
Facebook, WhatsApp Pay, Libra/Diem, CBDC news: Diem live in March?
It really depends on your airport design. Schiphol and Brandenburg both have a single centralized departure / arrival hall, with a train station right underneath it.

Using public transport is by far the fastest and most convenient way to get to or from the airport.

A lot of other airports simply aren't designed for convenience, but that doesn't mean that it isn't possible with a different design.
The highest estimate for number of natural languages I've seen is about 7,000 living. But I think you'd have to have a very, very restrictive definition of programming language for it to be lower than that.
> generalise the beautiful relationship between cut-elimination and beta-reduction in type theory, to cut-elimination and parallel composition + hiding

How would you generalize the correspondence between cut-elimination and beta-reduction to cut-elimination and parallel composition, and what is meant by hiding here? I would be curious to know of relevant work in the area.
Something I always thought might be useful: I want to select a region of the code, and undo that, while keeping everything else unchanged.
Not just people attributing bad motives, but the US government too: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/tag/visa/
Is it impossible to operate a mini-cab business more efficiently than Uber to a similar standard? I suspect it's pretty hard NOT to.
Could the eye signals be random, couldn’t they?
So, they think they are owed a job but others are not owed Healthcare or basic dignitt
Does hn shadow ban? I saw 1 comment count but none in the thread.
How do they get or approximate an infection count?
Mmmmmm 3D printed houses.

I would slury the earth on site and extrude clay, also thinking about a foam extruder that could print cacuoons for the unhoused with an embedded solar panel.

Good to see progress in standard construction.
Nope. Hurricane Harvey. September 19. 2019 - Houston and a good part of the southeastern part of TX was underwater.

Increasing volatility of climate may make a good portion of Texas vulerable to that type of thing. Everyone would have to move to Northen Texas.
If you are a central bank that can print money out of thin air you can use that money to buy the majority of the mining capacity and make bitcoin useless with a 51% attack. People that want to destroy bitcoin have no interest in making money "with it". They invest that money to destroy it.
What? This is your opinion and certainly not any objective truth.

It does have a decent UI, but far from a "masterclass". Completely dark-pattern ridden to have people lose money more often than they can turn a profit.
Check out OptionStrat, for example, for a far better interface for understanding options.

Robinhood:

- No user-facing distinction between ITM and OTM options.

- Confusing to know whether you are buying or selling, since UI doesn't always update to reflect a new choice.

- IV and greeks hidden from buying interface. Need to click on bid-ask spread to see them.

- No way to know what the impact of said statistics are on options price development. Designed to have new investors lose many on FDs.

- No way to discover good options deals without clicking 1k times back and forth.

- Unlike shares, no way to follow options price development until you actually buy them (except for day's % change).

- Surprising pricing rules. Market price listed at 0.28? Cool, but you can't actually buy it for 0.28, since for this particular offering only 0.25 or 0.30 are allowed.

- Bought an option? Cool. How do you actually turn a profit after buying? How do you exercise it? No way to know until you actually buy it. No directions to "documentation" from the actual UI.

It's a masterclass in making fish accessible to sharks, not derivatives trading accessible to morons.
Sure, it's just when I've got exclamation mark screen, apple didn't tell me that I have another boot option. Instead it told me to get access to another Mac with possible 'healthy' supply of COVID. If that is not 'hidden' then what it is? How would you describe it?
You’re assuming the parent is arguing in bad faith which seems kinda pointless on the internet because only they know what’s in their head.

I had the same reaction as the parent but I was also mercilessly bullied in middle and high school. It’s no different than any other form of abuse in that you have no choice but to understand the social dynamic so that you can protect yourself.

I didn’t get bullied solely because I was nerdy, I got bullied because I was a nerdy kid who was trying to make friends.

I didn’t get bullied solely because I was queer, I got bullied because I was queer and tried to not be ashamed of it.

As soon as I accepted that my only permissible friends were the other misfits and queers then the bullying (mostly) stopped. It only started up again if as a group we started having too much fun in public because that started to threaten the popular kids’ position in school. If people saw us enjoying ourselves they might want to join us or shudder be like us. And that would make us… popular. Can’t have that.
>San Francisco, SFO: BART stops at the airport terminals (although it does a funny Y setup to get in there).

I'd call SFO a train to a train. There's one BART station (which as you say is sort of a spur off the main line--which is why it didn't originally exist as part of the BART system). I'm not sure if you can walk to the BART station from any terminal but in my experience you take the AirTrain. There's probably a similar pattern at a fair number of major airports where you technically can walk to the transit station but, in practice, you may not want to.
It took a year, but Gwyneth Paltrow figured out how to exploit the pandemic
Thank you, I didn't know of this project, that sounds really interesting :)
TCL had some bad features that kind of killed it. For example, "upvar" was a really bad idea. Bad features tend to kill languages over time. Everyone used to use Perl in the late 90s. It had too many bad features though, and nobody wanted to maintain those programs.
For non-dilutive financing, look at Pipe. I can wholeheartedly vouch for these guys.

https://pipe.com/
I couldn't read the article because it's behind a paywall.
Terado, Toredo, Terredo, Tedero, Toledo, Tereo, Taredo... it gets misspelt a lot for some reason. (Yes, I've seen all of those in the wild.)

Not that there's any Teredo going on in the article...
How is free speech a moral value? Speaking your mind, honesty, bravery are moral values:-)
> "Equality of outcome" is a popular straw man for many who take the highly incredulous position that equality of opportunity exists today.

I think this is itself a straw man, because it ascribes onto any criticism of “equality of outcome” approaches to problem-solving the underlying conception that “equality of opportunity” already exists in the most perfect form. The most good-faith argument against the current rhetoric around racial issues is the following: we have neither equality of outcomes nor equality of opportunities, but the solutions we’re uncompromisingly implementing are the wrong ones because they focus on attaining equality of outcomes rather than attaining equality of opportunities. That’s the steel-man, engage with that.

> Simply ending the use of rhetorical racism would do little to remove structural racism that gives rise to the inequality of opportunity that persists.

You’ll find that a lot of people agree that there exists structural racism (the extent is debatable). Where the disagreement lies is on what the solutions should be. Leaving aside whether this stuff is correct on the merits, when hyper-activists amplify a “my way or the highway” approach to solving these problems, they aren’t just drawing attention to the problems, they’re prescribing a particular solution.

Taking several steps back, we’ve found ourselves to be litigating yet again whether it was MLK or Malcolm X that had the right idea about how to combat the very real evils of racism. The point that I’m making is that the political side that’s allegedly the most devoted to rooting out racism has taken ironically the most racialized and segregationist approach to solving those problems — an approach that MLK steadfastly opposed. MLK is a part of the aforementioned American pantheon precisely because his rhetoric was the one that was not only effective, but also had the broadest support. We need more MLK’s today, but unfortunately we have too many Malcolm X’s.
Ra sounds similar to "Mother of Learning", another rationalist-adjacent work of fiction about a universe with logical, well structured magic, and a student who gets trapped in a groundhog day scenario: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/21220/mother-of-learning

Its an excellent story, but very long. I'm not sure if it's longer than Homestuck, but the length is comparable.
Yes, assembly is available. For the current group buy, you can find details for the assembly service here: https://www.slicemk.com/products/ergodox-wireless-assembly

For the planned low end version, assembly will just be installing switches/keycaps (no soldering). A similar assembly service will be available for people who just want to receive a complete keyboard.
Duck Duck Go uses "more results", instead of proper pagination.

I won't use any website that has such poor judgement in website design.
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Why my date formatters test fails on CI?