skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand what the tsconfig has to do with understanding the source? Maybe when using different path resolving or different tsconfigs to compile test files vs. production files?

Many toolings make it so you don't even need to worry about the tsconfig anymore (though in reality it is very helpful to understand it).
> The current major difference between markdown-based and db-based apps is block references. Over time, the difference will become significant as knowledge bases grow in size.

That should be true, but so far it is Roam with the biggest problems with performance, from 30+ seconds of loading each time you load/refresh tab to constant lags in normal usage for some users :)

I personally like the most this mixed approach of Logseq - app internally uses DataScript, but data is ultimately stored in plain files.
Thanks for sharing your podcast! Just subscribed.

To add yet another data point, we use Clickhouse as well for centralized logging for the SaaS version of our open source product, and can't imagine what we would have done without it.
> Elastic is more than elasticsearch...

Grafana Labs sponsored FOSS projects are probably adequate replacement for the Elasticsearch? https://grafana.com/oss/

> ...clickhouse is better compared as a self-hosted alternative to Aurora and other cloud-native scalable SQL databases

Aurora would be likely be less better at this than RedShift or Snowflake.
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Same, I wish there was a BitWarden to Safari sync or something
You're shifting the goalposts something crazy. I'd like to point out the original poster talked about refinement in the output of the models, not the models themselves. However, having said that, the heliocentric model is still a refinement (and further refinements, which came later) of the geocentric model. We didn't jump right from geocentrism to Kepler's three laws of planetary motion. The Copernican model still had heavenly spheres as a concept: a concept we don't use today. What you're thinking of as heliocentrism is a refinement of previous heliocentrism which itself was a refinement of geocentrism.
Meaning, why bother not just rotting in prison? Or, why stay in school when it will make no difference anyway? When you and I were kids, one hourly wage was enough raise a family on, and two (often enough the kid's) to send them to college. Now that is impossible. They graduate today with a lifetime of debt.

The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, both per capita and in absolute numbers (even counting, e.g., Chinese concentration camps). Cities have quotas now, where they are obliged to send a specific number to prison each year to maintain their contract. The prisons and police forces cost much more to operate than would be needed to lift every American out of poverty.

When you and I were young, no city police force had a billion dollar budget. Crime rates plummeted about 18 years after we stopped poisoning everyone with lead, so there is much less legitimate work for the police. They keep busy, though.
The prefix for ssh command looks good for commandline. However, is there a way to hide with some settings in .ssh/config so one can have normal-looking "ssh host" cmdline without special prefixes?
> If left to its own devices the market rate would be driven down towards zero.

How do you figure?
There is also no meaningful contribution for the work. Imagine if there was a blockchain crypto attached to folding@home it would work that has value.
Why do you see it as a flaw? Constantly shedding false beliefs equates to constant improvement.

We all want to get closer to the truth; science is one technique for doing so, and since there's no direct line to God, it's the most efficient one. It has the best corrective feedback loops.
> It's sort of the perfect expression of consumerism

On the other hand, the finite supply/deflationary aspect of it is also the perfect antithesis of consumerism, in that it favors hoarding (spending less) instead of spending your paycheck as you get it.
I agree with you completely. I'm a mid level right now and I can get 4x more work done than my junior can, and my senior can do 2x more work than me in a day.
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> (1 btc is always 1/21 million of the monetary base)

Why is that good? Why should I, if I have 1 bitcoin, always have ownership of a fixed proportion of the entire societal monetary base?

This seems like a great deal for someone who has a bitcoin, and a terrible situation for new workers and the economy as a whole. If the economy expands, your fixed proportion of the monetary base sees you profit off the backs of others for nothing more than sitting on currency. Not investing, not even speculating, just sitting on it.
How does this work? I was under the impression that when I clicked a link in a webpage it just opened that link as if I'd typed it into my URL bar. How does jwz know were I'm clicking from?
I address your concern from #1 in "2. Flexible schema - but strict when you need it" section - take a look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZkKsfr8n3M&feature=emb_titl...

Regarding #2: Clickhouse scalability is not simple, but I think Elasticsearch scalability is not that simple, too, they just have it out of the box, while in Clickhouse you have to use Zookeeper for it. I agree that for 200 nodes ES may be a better choice, especially for full text search. For 5 nodes of 10 TB logs data I would choose Clickhouse.

#3 is totally true. I mention it in "Cons" section - Kibana and ecosystem may be a deal breaker for a lot of people.

#4. Clickhouse in 2021 has a pretty good support in all major languages. And it can talk HTTP, too.
I am a heavy AutoCAD user. I can type commands faster than today's AutoCAD can grab them. Sometimes it garbles them and executes an alphabetically adjacent command...
> So many gold nuggets. Thank you!

You're welcome! I'd forgotten most of this and so it was really fascinating reading over it again just now, especially in light of all that SpaceX has been doing over the past 3.5 years.
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And that's another language I've been avoiding learning ;)
what stores don't accept plastic?

I've only had a few recently as a way to recoup some of the increased pandemic costs, and they do venmo/zelle. which might be outside of the apps' TOS but not really my problem.
Yes you can replace "binary" with "bitcoin", if you absolutely don't understand the joke, at all.
First off, thank you for making fair criticisms. Unfortunately some of your information is old.

You don’t need a bitcoin backed token, lightning does it.

Transaction rates are not artificially kept low. In fact most the vast majority of the time bitcoin has excess capacity.

Privacy- this is a legitimate concern but it is improving, slowly. Taoroot and Lightning are both privacy improvements.

So your daily transactions aren't meant for bitcoin. A distributed ledger that replicates all data globally for eternity is not an appropriate method for recording coffee purchases. Though I have done it. Bitcoin makes sense for settlement, and lightning is appropriate for coffee.

That said, I regularly clear bitcoin transactions for $1 or less in fees, and it is cheaper then every other form of payment in the world. You may think a SWIFT transaction is “free”, but its merely the cost is hidden. And don’t forget the inflation tax, that is a global wealth tax on any money held in an inflating currency. So compared to that, $1 to send $100 is cheap.

Online Only- I don’t think there is a solution to this criticism, but not sure what the issue is.

Lightning allows speed without double spend problems. Personally when moving large (for me) amounts of money I font mind waiting an hour for the confirmations. I certainly won’t trust a payment without them.

But bitcoin is voluntary, it doesn't have to be perfect in every regard.
That sounds like it would have the app store problem. If you are successful, you are a monopoly target. If you miss an attack, you are to blame. If you don't approve fast enough, you are blocking.
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Not a spreadsheet, no, (it is more of a freeform worksheet) but SMath Studio is a breeze to work on with units.

It has complete support for units of measurement and comes with most built-in. It can also decompose derived units into simpler forms if it finds a match.

It is free but not open-source.
> the first black slaves were brought over by the ethnic group we now call Latinx.

No, they weren't. Latinx (or the equivalent combination of Latino/Latina) is not synonymous with Hispanic, and more to the point, even if it was, the slavers were (by modern American terms) racially White ethnic Hispanics, so it wouldn't change the White/Black racial dynamic.
Electron 12 released with Wayland support
Version 12 of Electron has just been released with initial Wayland support. I've been waiting for this for a long time now, so I'm pretty excited about this.

This means that now the three major GUI toolkits for Linux (GTK, Qt and now Electron) support Wayland natively.

Hopefully the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) will follow suit soon [1] which should make it possible for Steam and Spotify to run natively on Wayland too (as soon as they upgrade, of course).

[1] - https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/issues/2804/ozone-wayland-x11-support
Quanta is free, and virtually all of their articles read like this.
Rant about COVID and the death of (popular/political) science is linked in my bio. You will probably either hate it or love it.
Both of those examples (holding money in savings account, holding paper PMs) are ultimately about liquidity, I don't see how bitcoin relates.
From the article:

> they [the central banks] can expand the money supply to keep the system propped up.

They have to expand money supply to keep the value of the currencies stable as long as most money is not spent. The economy depends not on the supply of money but on the stability of the money.

By which force do central banks have to keep increasing the money supply once people start spending? There is no reason to do so and thus no reason for fiat currencies to collapse.

It's more likely that they increase interest rates when people start spending again, and thus reduce supply and as a consequence, keep the value of money stable.
Nokia X worked pretty good without google. Shame it was killed along with Nokia itself.
But we discovered over time, starting with Machiavelli

This is why no sensible person wants scientists running things.
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I am not an expert with laws, but weren't the COVID relevant emergency laws created explicitly to prevent contract termination due to non payment? Claiming that your contract overrules laws specifically written to prevent these clauses from taking effect seems a bit optimistic.
On top of what jtsummerssaid, users with enough karma can 'vouch' for dead comments and get them revived. I've no idea what the threshold is, but I can vouch for those comments if I wanted, you've got to click through to the direct comment page to do it (click the time of the comment, it's a link).

I suspect another user has done exactly that for the comment that was suddenly visible, someone vouched for it.

On the other hand, I wouldn't say that users comments are great, bit conspiracy sounding, insults another user, I wouldn't vouch for him.
Agreed. But some people have an attitude of Strongly Typed == Needlessly Verbose. Probably because most developers have only experienced Strong Typing via Java.
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For Whom the Bell Curve Tolls [pdf]
No, that was random non sense from Frogwares. The court explicitly disagreed on this point in October (two months after the article you are posting). They seem to have a terrible lawyer.

The appeal court threw away the Force Majeur argument because both actors demonstrably kept b'their activity going as usual and it would have been an argument in favor of Nacon anyway. Force Majeur would have justified them not fulfilling their part as a distributor but they demonstrably did.

The court stated that the termination of the contract wasn't legal because Frogwares had no basis to terminate it. Frogwares alleges that Nacon didn't pay them all they were due. Nacon disagrees and states that they correctly paid royalties minus the costs of distribution per the contract. Frogwares did ask to see proofs of these costs and gave Bacon a month to produce them. They then used Nacon's failure to do so as reason to terminate. However, as stated by the court, that was never what was planned in the contract. While Frogwares has a right to audit Nacon (which they didn't properly use), Nacon is under no obligation to send them arbitrary documents.

Note that it remains entirely possible that Nacon is actually underpaying Frogwares. It's just they went at it in an utterly stupid way.
News about Amazon doesn't belong on HN?
Liberals (like the NYT) have done a great job co-opting the actual left and using it to push their pro-corporate agenda. I feel like the right wingers fall right into their plans when they fail to delineate between neo-liberals (a different kind of right wing ideology) and actual leftists. I also think neo-liberal's superficial and opportunistic use of identity politics and intersectionalism has worsened racism in this country. When ABC and The Gap are purporting to be for social justice, people's alarm bells are going to go off, for good reason, and they're going to reject everything associated with what they're hearing.

This pro-corporate faux-humanitarian movement turned a lot of people hard right.

So many of our philosophies and social movements are tied to the industrial revolution, cold war, early 20th century... We need something new.

For me, I've retained my libertarian focus on individual liberty but also layered in more humanitarian thinking. Racism is real. History does matter and we're not all on a level playing field in 2021. But I'll be damned if I'm going to let global corporations and rich liberal arts kids launder real racial injustice through their black square BOGO sales, attacks on technology that empowers individuals and classist articles and employment tactics.
That guy is now working at Boeing, wow. Such a cultural difference. Hope he completely transforms Boeing's software division.
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spreadsheets barely have distinction between strings and numbers. Units would be another level! I hope that at some point something like a strongly typed jupyter notebook tailored specifically for table inputs would arise and replace some current usages of spreadsheets in office/consumer space.
If the marketing copy was different, none of the backlash would've happened I think.
a huge part of this article is about clubhouse & social networks means for virality, about how they can expand. taking contacts & pushing to them is the kind of main model that Clubhouse is doing.

> I get the argument around banning contact exports; unsurprisingly, there are calls that Apple do exactly that in the wake of Clubhouse’s rise (never mind the fact that contacts have been accessible — and thus have been accessed! — in this way for years). What people making these calls — and these laws — need to be more honest about, though, is that they killing competition.

what seems awkward, missing, to me is that all these virality systems are push model. each would be social network has to bootstrap, and it does it by making new users push a bunch of invites out to their friends.

where is the pull model? where can I go see my friend Cable's activity, see what networks he is most social on these days? Instagram posts to Twitter are mentioned in the article, but that's such a special purpose form, such a one off, made in part possible by the very general share-whatever nature of twitter.

some standards for social network users to be able too interlink & declare their other networks would be great, as a start. second, I want some activity monitor to be standardized, so I can get a quick heads-up cross network view of where I should be looking at my associates.

we lack the means to ambientlu explore each other socially, and social networking lacks a pull model of networking: we have to explicitly rendezvous on each network, owing to the lack of cross-network systems. re inter- the internet please, & let's standardize some good base level cross-social systems.
Lol I stand corrected :)
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The value of every currency is expressed in other currencies. How else would you do it? Are you saying there is nothing in existence which can really be considered "money" except maybe the US dollar?
Yep, do you guys have a writeup on this?
Altinity actually mention Contentsquare case in their video, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=2479&v=pZkKsfr8n3M&feature=y...
> However, software development is an ever-changing field.

I don't buy this, or at best it's only very superficially true.

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol is the same as it ever was. Computer science is all fundamentally the same. The languages, paradigms, editors, and operating systems we all use are decades old.

> Python, what is it? No {} and, it’s optional to use ;? Using indentation is a must??

I think this somewhat proves my point.
> “Science as inquiry” education, at its best, teaches students an ideal set of methods for improving scientific knowledge. It suggests that our current scientific knowledge has grown, over the past four centuries since the scientific revolution (when modern science is widely held to have come about), in this ideal way. Even if that were true, there is an implicit dependence on students trusting that what they are taught in the classroom has been discovered and justified in this ideal way.

Very much agree with the author that the social aspect of the industry of science should be taught more.
But it's exactly thanks to "'science as inquiry' education" that so many embrace mainstream climate change theories. Many genuinely think there's some undeniable evidence and logic making "climate scientists" believe in cataclysmic runaway warming.

The truth is, we don't even have good temperature measurements. Most "climate scientists" have no expertise in measuring temperatures. They're not that interested in improving temp monitoring tech. They're not embracing satellite temperature monitoring which is superior in almost every way to traditional surface stations. Instead, they tend to ignore it or focus on its (few) flaws. Why? Because satellite data shows no net warming since 1998 which contradicts many mainstream theories. The guy who pioneered satellite temp monitoring happens to be a major skeptic.

GISS, the most widely used temperature dataset is based on simple old-school surface stations. Not that many of them, in fact. It's so bad that they're known to publish errors so blatant that they have been spotted (by "deniers") by checking against local weather websites.

One has to understand negative results are inherently uninteresting to scientists and the broader public. It's not that rouge scientist conspire to dominate a field. When you conclude there's nothing going on or that there are fundamental epistemic limitations to studying a given field, you have much less of an incentive to participate. If you still do, your work is bound to be "against" [what's out there], rather than "for" something. Hard to make a career out of being a hater. Or to even enjoy it.
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> Another instance of him asserting pedantic reasoning against a hard emotional opinion.

This is the crux of the issue! It's not about racism at all. It's about there being no nuance or context, to the point where someone gets offended and that offense is lauded as the highest level of experience: offense beats reason and logic. It doesn't matter if you are right, because you offended somebody.

> Material he knows well is making people uncomfortable, but believes he is not at all accountable for.

Yes, because he was hired to teach teenagers things. Not to make them comfortable. And teaching is about expanding minds, not just regurgiating facts. Expansion is uncomfortable. We find comfort in the familiar. A great teacher will seldom make people feel comfortable.

None of your "red flags" seem that red flag to me. Does he seem hard headed to me? Yes. But I believe in this case, he has a very good reason to be.

How much more power are we going to give offended teenagers?
Counterpoint: I have used Kakoune for a year now, immediately following sixteen years of heavy vim use. I find Kakoune far more intuitive than vim, because the feature set composes so well. Within the first few weeks I understood the command set well enough to combine features to solve editing problems I would have had to look up solutions to if using vim.

Regarding the worry of visual distraction of selections slowing down editing, I found the opposite to be the case as I became more fluent with Kakoune. Motions modify the selection, and it is quite common for the selection to serendipitously contain what I want to modify. Constantly visible selection(s) lead me to implicitly take advantage of motion and use fewer keystrokes.

Regarding multiple selections outside the visible window, you are right that there's no visual feedback for those selections, which is a degraded experience compared to when all selections are visible. But that's no worse than the experience of a global search/replace in vim. You are arguing that in an edge case, Kakoune is no better than vim, which doesn't seem like a meaningful detraction.
See also: Semantic web. RDF, OWL, https://solidproject.org/TR/protocol . It's the original intent of Tim-Berners Lee, the man who invented the web.
I'm saying perpetual availability wasn't what what people had in mind for P2P.
Likely killed by a spam filter. See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10638699

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10473918
pretty much same, esp the gratitude and the c
Or a programming language? Or a Python module?
If you have to rely on restrictively typed languages to produce maintainable code, I think that’s a different topic.

Typescript isn’t perfect by any means but it does a good job keeping code based easier to work with in a larger team. Much better than vanilla JavaScript
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Malaysia Airlines suffers data security 'incident' spanning nine years
I said very clearly at the start that Bitcoin alone will not bring peace. It's one piece of the puzzle to get us off our current government. People are going to die either way, I'm just done using my money to pay for bombs to kill people that have nothing to do with me.
Not real time. I MITM all my connections in squid and log all requests, so at very least I can look back at my daily logs and see if anything sticks out. Most of the time I am just looking at HIT/MISS ratios but I do sometimes find odd requests that usually turn out to be some embeded link in a page. What I won't see is any POST data contents unless I already have the dev console open.