skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The study is paywalled, but since it seems to based on surveys I’ll link to an article about why research based on surveys are often bullshit:

https://carcinisation.com/2020/12/11/survey-chicken/
I used to hate it until I worked on a team that preferred it. Now I find more than a handful of lines without alignment hard to read. I’m not saying everyone would change their mind, but I suspect a lot of style preferences are more rooted in familiarity than we necessarily realize.
Without regulation, there is no incentive to innovate in this case. As long as Bitcoin goes up, investors don’t care what powers it.
Unfortunately this is true. The two-party system is removing all nuance from arguments, forces everything into one of two boxes and it's dividing the country. The number one issue to solve is election reform. We desperately need an election system that's not extremely prone to the spoiler effect. If we don't get this, politics will only become more of a shit show or worse we might see more violence. It's encouraging to see that places like Fargo and Saint Louis have success in adopting STAR voting.
The internet and the IP protocol is kinda incompatible with mesh networks.

A city-spanning mesh network which connected to the internet at peoples home broadband connections couldn't reasonably function. Someone who was downloading a file over the mesh wouldn't be able to have their data use any connection to the internet - they would have to keep using the same gateway from the mesh to the internet, because if they switched gateways their IP would change and existing connections would fail.

It's the same reason switching from WiFi to Mobile data and back causes a reconnect in video calls.
No, we didn't. Unity was cancelled when we downsized in 2017 (4 years ago). It wasn't due to any vocal minority at all. We just refocused our energy.
An argument of Elephant in the Brain (https://www.elephantinthebrain.com/) is that a key component of bullshitting others (paraphrasing, somewhat) is that you must also bullshit yourself, in order to be convincing.
>> Human ancestors who preferred the taste of cooked meat over raw meat began to enjoy an evolutionary advantage over others. “In general, flavour rewards us for eating the things we’ve needed to eat in the past,” said Dunn.

>> In particular, people who evolved a preference for complex aromas are likely to have developed an evolutionary advantage, because the smell of cooked meat, for example, is much more complex than that of raw meat. “Meat goes from having tens of aromas to having hundreds of different aroma compounds,” said Dunn.

I've made this point in recent conversations on HN about the ethics of eating meat. A criticism of eating meat is that an animal's life is more important than enjoying the taste of the animal's meat.

The point though is that humans indeed eat meat because we like its taste, but we like its taste because we need the nutrients in meat. Our enjoyment of meat is not incidental and it's not a moral flaw. It's also not something we can switch off on demand. It's how our bodies work.

It's the same with sexual pleasure. If we didn't enjoy sex there would have to be another mechanism to convince us to have it all the time, so that we can make more of each other. And if there wasn't such a mechanism, then there wouldn't be many of us left.
Work-Life Balance Has to Include Friendship
I work at a non-profit, and, anecdotally, I think it is more complicated as there might be 3 areas of funding concentration:

1. Areas that are overfunded because restricted donations tend to concentrate there.

2. Areas that leadership want to fund, and would direct unrestricted donations to.

3. Areas that neither restricted donations nor leadership want to fund and thus tend to be chronically underfunded (e.g. payroll and staffing in certain departments)

I think thoughtful restricted donations have a place then, but a key is understanding of the industry and transparency in operations
I’m skeptical about NFTs too but trying to keep an open mind, because at the end of the day, while you or I personally don’t need the 100M to enjoy the impressionist art, you can’t ignore the fact that someone out there is in fact willing to pay that for the original. And that’s kind of the same weird authenticity bragging rights situation.
> Margolis said that gasoline’s physical composition—it sinks to the bottom of bodies of water, unlike oil, which stays slick on top

This doesn’t match my experience where water contamination in pure gasoline very quickly settles to the bottom of a test jar and where gasoline spilled while boat fueling clearly floats on water.

Gasoline is around 6 lbs/gallon and water a bit over 8 lbs/gallon. I don’t see how gasoline could sink given those wide disparities in density.
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Because you still need to depend on the monetisation providers and they are subject to the same KYC laws. If it gains traction then PayPal will magically come up with their own monetisation provider and eat the rest. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
This is part one of a series by Tim Hunkin.

He is known for his late '80s UK TV series The Secret Life of Machines and the Novelty Arcade, a new London arcade of satirical home-made machines.

The Secret Life of Components series intro (3min)
https://youtu.be/6JAgXz6xO0s

https://timhunkin.com/a241_component-videos.htm
https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=1879

Today we solved the Ship of Theseus, and yesterday I solved that one with the tree in the forest that makes a sound so I feel like we can finish solving philosophy by the end of the week.
Good job! although it would be really useful if you reduce the computational load and then simply analyse the last10 tweets. Itwould be more useful.
i just use Nix for this! define the constants in Nix, and generate the programming language files with simple Nix string programming.
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How much would it have to know? I’d expect a `significant_leading_whitespace=true` config would probably do the job?
Long range isn't a necessity for mesh networks.

Regular wifi would be fine - the vast majority of the world's population lives within 100 yards of another person.

Shorter links actually increases spectrum utilization.

The issue is that wifi never managed to make a decent mesh networking standard. No router you buy today acts as an open mesh node for anyone to mesh with.
The data that was harvested was leaked to other “dark web” locations. The gangster move to take out your hacker competitors is to “out” these hackers on something more social like a github dump or to pastebin.
The Scandinavian countries have de facto minimum wages because the unions have actual power there.
> Unless you want that automatic update tool on your server, which I find a bit sketchy.

Where else would you put it? You could put an ACME client somewhere else but it still needs to connect to place the updated certs.
That has not been my observation, whether it was a review for a product or when I needed help with a plumbing issue.
If words express hate is a matter of context not just words.
Yeah, 30k for a side project is a lot of money if literally the only thing on the site is two screenshots.

I’d even call it laughable.
Why do people pay extra for signed books? A signed copy is literally identical to a non-signed copy aside from the signature ink.
Woooah hang on. Don’t blame the left for the problems of copyright. As a Marxist, I am on board 100% with you that copyright as an idea should be removed from our daily lives. Copyright has no place in leftist ideology, so I have no idea how you are making the connection. As I’ve stated many times we live in a capitalist society, and it’s under the rules of capitalism, at the desire of capitalists, that copyright exists. Capitalism absolutely comes into the picture because capitalism is the system under which all of this is happening. We don’t live in a socialist system so how are you blaming leftist ideology?

And I’m not trying to move any goalposts. In several conversations here I’ve been assured that the actual problem is not the discontinuation of these specific books, but the larger picture wherein under some slippery slope argument the general ideas could be eventually banned outright. But apologies if this is not your position and you take issue with the ability of these companies to control their own IP. I would agree with you there.

But at the same time I also recognize that copyright is built into our Constitution and it’s not going anywhere anytime soon. So under that framework, I don’t see anything wrong with what Dr. Seuss Enterprises did. Copyright gives them freedom over the creative works they own. The freedom to distribute and the freedom not to distribute. Without the freedom to not distribute works, the decision to publish any works becomes risky for the author, because it cannot be undone, ever. This is going to have the necessary effect of reducing the number of ideas that are expressed, as riskier ideas cannot be retracted by their authors. After all, this is the general idea behind the concept of copyright and underpins the entire marketplace of ideas.

I have no doubt that if copyright were abolished, others would pick up the unpublished works and attempt to distribute them. But this comes at a cost of time and money. What if they don’t sell enough copies to recoup the effort, and they go out of business, thereby halting publication? What if seeing this failure, no one else takes up the mantle of publishing these books? We are in the exact same situation. Would you say they are banned? Of course not, they have just failed financially, which is what happens all the time to books, and what happened in this case.

Dr. Seuss Enterprises surmised that the continued publication of these books would hurt them financially. As your link indicates, they publish a number of very popular books, but notably none of the books in your link are being discontinued. We already know the ideas aren’t very popular because they don’t sell well as it is. If they were popular, they would be on your list.

Anyway, tldr; don’t blame leftist ideology for the perceived failure of a system of, by, and for capitalists.
I’m looking forwards to being able to wear a mask (forever?) without being looked at sideways no matter where I am. Even a bank, etc. I used to catch a ton of sickness from the subway, I’m sure this will cut it down. Exercising and keeping my lungs warm is yet another plus.
What do you mean by EUT?

A reference to the paper or textbook that you learnt it from, for example, would suffice.

Even better if you can point to the specific place where there is something mathematically incorrect and/or an implicit assumption of individuals interacting with copies of themselves in parallel universes.
In my experience all true bullshitters drink their own brew. What came first the self or external delusion?
> Rust took a lot of inspiration from the functional programming world (it has some heavy OCaml inspiration), which albeit very powerful and expressive, also come with a conceptual burden.

> Rust is also in the unique position, being low level as well as functional, which means it will always be alien no matter what programming background you have.

Having worked with Haskell and generally being very comfortable with functional programming (whether or not I'm happy about the astronomical complexity of Haskell as a language with extensions is another story) and also having a lower-level background I can tell you that the offerings of Rust as a "functional" language (this is generally so ill-defined that you can call basically anything functional) are extremely slim and that I'd never choose it for any of that.

Tagged unions and `match` expressions might make for a functional language to a lot of people but these things are orthogonal to functional programming. They're nice to have, but to harken back to the original topic; Zig has tagged unions and can `switch` on them to unpack payloads just fine.

Like I said, I think FP is ill-defined but even with that in mind it's a stretch to say that Rust is functional.

Most people, I would hope, would agree that function composition is more an inherent feature of FP and honestly I've never seen a particularly compelling argument for Rust having a reasonably useful solution to that. Stitching together methods is one step, but it only gets you so far and isn't as generally useful as what most ML-descendants would give you.
Firefighting gel
Most of those, such as Denmark, Norway and Sweden, have very strong unions which essentially guarantee a minimum wage for everyone without legislation.

Denmark has a $16 per hour average minimum wage and Finland and Sweden has a collective bargaining rule, even if you are not a union member and it is illegal to do anything anti-union.

The person you responded to talked about minimum salaries which those places absolutely do have, even if they don't have a minimum wage.
As someone oscillating between loser and clueless, I appreciate the reference..
See the article
For a personal blog? Its free.
Ask HN: Relocating from London to Silicon Valley for a higher salary at 35?
35 years old DevOps Engineer in London specialized in Cloud tech - Azure & GCP, earning around £160k before tax with contracting - that's $130k after tax converted to dollars. For this amount of money I'm working my back off and putting in many hours, no job security, so I might as well move to Silicon Valley or New York to maximize my earnings. I own a flat in London and I'm married, no kids.

Just recently started researching the Silicon Valley culture and I'm worried about two things -

1). Landing a job as a newcomer that will pay me more money than London adjusted to the COL. +30% more "profit" would be worth the hassle. Am I shooting too high?

2). Would I have any issues getting such an amount at 35? Maybe 20-somethings are percieved as more productive in the Valley?

I don't have a work visa and my plan is working my way towards the O-1.

3). My guess is that through H-1B I wouldn't be able to achieve my desired rate due to international competition - is this accurate?

With L-1 I'd have to go permie in the UK first, meaning accepting a significant pay cut.

I'm a UK citizen. Any insights about moving from UK/London to Silicon Valley appreciated.
Uncivil Liberty
Except it is different in a way. Owning a physical autograph is different from owning a picture of one; the physical autograph can't be reproduced and has value due to its uniqueness and to its physical existence.

It would instead be like owning a unique piece of paper with a unique number on it, which somehow corresponded to a picture of the autograph. Now the autograph portion is identical between you and anyone else (neither of you has a physical autograph); the only differentiator is your piece of paper. Where is the value?
The article mentioned the Gates foundation which has terrible records in education initiatives:

- The big failure in small schools initiative: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/09/th...

- The big failure in teacher evaluation initiative: https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-melinda-gates-foundatio...

- The big failure in Common Core initiative:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/06/...

Now it is funding anti-racist math: https://equitablemath.org/
I agree that much of the value of cryptocurrency comes from regulators making transacting online difficult. BTC emerged after the demise of LibertyReserve and eGold.

However, if you are claiming there's no incentive to create more efficient cryptocurrencies, I disagree. Energy efficient, faster and cheaper options exist.

Nanocurrency would be the prime example.
Wow, what a beast. The displacement to weight ratio is incredible, unfortunately it doesn't seem to produce a whole lot of power for all that weight, though since it is a diesel the torque is probably quite impressive (even though it is for aircraft, where engines typically are fairly low torque). Add a supercharger or a turbo assuming the pistons can stand it and this could very well still be a competitive engine. What a nice design. Thank you once again.
Could this be added to another browser as an extension?
The US Navy has figured out a way to create the slime in a lab - https://newatlas.com/hagfish-slime-us-navy/47544/

They’re hoping to use it for shark repellent and ballistic defense.
I just found Nicepage[1] and creating a template with it for my brother for portfolio, articles and other creative work.

[1]: https://nicepage.com/Editor/Siteboard/
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I don't disagree with what you've said, but your Note is wrong.

PG in the article specifically uses a University donation as an example.
Show HN: Plot a stock against a redditors' post's sentiment over time
Ever wanted to build a financial profile for strangers online who post long posts on some obscure stocks you know nothing about? This is a quick visualiser for just that.
The buyer gets to own not the tweet but a "digital certificate of the tweet" which is the actual NFT thing. So what they buy is a certificate although I'm not sure what it certifies.
Many universities are non-profits.
There's the Multipath TCP protocol for use cases like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipath_TCP

For example, Apple already uses it when you ask Siri a question on an iOS device. Hopefully this standard gains more usage.
This highlights an issue that the article doesn't touch: how to choose trustworthy donation targets?

It implies you should not to trust places with your money if you don't trust them to allocate it, which is correct, but how to know who to trust?

I generally stick near-exclusively to GiveWell as a result.

https://www.givewell.org/

Each year they use a small fixed percentage of donations to research the most human benefit per dollar spent, and then use the remainder on that one single thing, maximizing the positive impact per dollar. The only thing the donor needs to know is that they have it handled. Any money you give them will go 100% to the thing they have determined is maximum impact that year. (One year recently it was mosquito netting, to prevent malaria, if I recall correctly.)

This might sound like an ad but I'm not affiliated in any way, just a happy donor who is glad they exist.
Nim has garbage collection, Zig you must manage memory on your own. Each side has pros and cons.
It's confusing because the drawing omits a pulley attached to shaft "a". Shaft "b" is hollow, shaft "a" turns inside shaft "b". As drawn, shaft "b" will rotate and turn bevel gear "B". If the belt were moved to the [undrawn] pulley on shaft "a", bevel gear "A" will rotate, causing "C" to turn in the opposite direction. The topmost pulley presumably slides left or right to engage the different bottom pulleys.
Honestly. If the client doesn't want to hire a minor, it's probably for
a good reason. You should really be focusing on college applications anyway,
Peter Thiel's exhortations notwithstanding.
No, not really. I would still have gone with the taxi if it was 15% more. I just would have known about it and come prepared, rather than being deceived.
Same applies to my experience biking. I’m new to any kind of cycling, and coming off approx 1 yr of not exercising regularly (previously in moderately unfit shape). Got a hybrid fixed gear in Sep & the mask enabled multi-hour rides even once the temp dropped below to daily high of low 40s °F in Nov. I’m pleasantly surprised to report that my season hasn’t had to stop for the winter at all! I credit the mask.
> converted and compiled as GTK3 apps

What do you mean by that? Isn't one of the goals of Flutter that it gives you pixel-perfect controls, and renders everything itself?
Interestingly, its still their money, and still their choice where to use it.
Exactly. There was a netflix series a few years back called Maniac where characters could choose to listen to in-person sales pitches if they're unable to afford bus fare, for example. Such a scheme would not work because if you're too poor to avoid bus fare then you're too poor to be likely to purchase an advertised product. Analogously & conversely, if you're willing to loosen your purse strings for paid content then you're also likely to have disposable income to pay for advertised products. This is why Facebook will never offer a paid ad-free service; it would remove all the actually valuable advertising targets from their pool of users.
this is stupid and you're stupid.
Once again I disagree.. these "some people" need to be the majority(of anyone participating in these currencies) for this mining to stay profitable.. Of course i may be mistaken about that part of the reasoning, but I'm fairly confident about it. Please let me know if you think it is an unfair assumption.
Abuse of Notation
An interesting future application for computer vision, but until both hardware and software increase in speed and precision by several orders of magnitude, this is not feasible.
Current neural object detection just isn't there yet.
Not to mention the dangers of shooting a powerful 1W laser out in the open...
I didn't see it back when I was doing Qt, but writing a Qt app for every platform is hard. In theory you can have Qt apps on Android, iOs, Linux, etfc but in all fairness, it is just too much of a hassle. Big headache with toolchains, dependencies, it is just not worth it nowadays.

"Write once, run everywhere" was a nice motto for Qt and I even bought it for a while but yet again does not work in practice. Flutter, on the other hand, actually works. Sure it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of OS integrations, but it is getting there. I hate the language itself, but I can't deny that it works beautifully.

If you think about it, the Qt way of doing things was quite novel back in the days and had allot of promise, but I feel that the main thing that held it back was C++ (still no official package manager and no cool CLI tools in 2021!!). I am sad that I left Qt behind since it was an amazingly modern platform when I used it, but I am glad I don't do C++ anymore.
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Thanks - super valuable feedback. A fully self-service onboarding is on the way. I get the frustration of having to wait, we're working on that.
>I get just as much enjoyment looking at them on my wall as I have at the museums looking at the real ones.

I'm sorry, but I simply don't. Not trying to be contrarian, but reproductions bring me a very different joy and appreciation than provable originals. I agree some things in crypto are scams, but NFTs, in my opinion, have a really important function in some domains.