skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say while that's true, it's a reaction the 'liberals' essentially having won. Biden one, one of the most right-wing of Democrats, instead of Bernie. Most of the 'left' seems very deflated, based on articles and podcasts I've listened to. They've all but given up.

That said, I'm interested to know more about why you're sad about this. As in, the current liberal reality is so removed from anything leftists want or care about, and it seems so impossible to achieve any of the 'leftist' goals, that abandonment is more something to accept and be depressed about, rather than something that is actively pursued.

Personally I don't know how to feel about all this. In part, it's just different being a leftie in a European social democracy. But also I feel a lot can be achieved even in a climate that in general seems to stacked against leftist goals. It's understandable to be dejected that Bernie lost, or whatever, but something like, say, fighting for worker rights at Amazon can be a worthy battle to engage in.
VSCode won't kill IDEA, but it is a huge warning for Jetbrains

They better invest A LOT MORE into solving slow startup and performance issues that are plaguing their IDEs since the beginning

Time to ditch Java on the desktop, or invest in a native AOT compiler / or use GraalVM
I believe Urbit (https://urbit.org/) is a credible alternative project with significant traction that people who are interested in this might also find valuable to try out.
The point is that any idea you could come up with in 5 minutes has probably been done to death by researchers who actually focus on the topic so no, you're not contributing anything.

But it's beside the point because HN isn't there to add anything to actual research, nor is it going to. It's for people to discuss random interesting Internet things, it's for entertainment. But there does seem to be a nerd contingent that can't accept that it's entertainment and have to believe its some kind of intellectual pursuit.
If crypto has not came out as mainstream for everyday transaction s in this scenario doubt will ever happen
Yeah foundations maybe or as another poster said it was still viable and likely enviable.
This is what floored me when he wrote that essay. For years, a16z has been poring millions into pointless crypto related companies. And they just keep doing it. Yet Andreessen has the audacity to tell us all to build while he chases the decades most trivial investments and asset classes.
The water analogy works because circuits are linear systems. Pretty much all linear systems can be modeled that way, if you're willing to contort things the right way.
For classical layout, Scribus is fine. For more advanced stuff, Inkscape is really good at geometry and Krita really good at hand-drawing.

If you're familiar with web technology, headless firefox/chromium can export to PDF, following @print and @page rules. There's a bunch of new(er) CSS properties for print usecases. i don't have anything to show yet but i've been delighted trying it out
Moral: If anything can be used against you, the adversary who will use it against you can get it and use it against you.
Additionally in the Venezuelan case, their ability to borrow money is also hampered by sanctions.
Perhaps so. I don't know the details. I was operating under the assumption that the parent comment was correct in its accusation that there was no self-hosting option.
I don't think this is good advice at all and reeks of survivorship bias. I used to live my life like this, very intentionally. I married a woman on our first date. I moved across the country for love. I spent much of my early 20s traveling and writing, dirt poor basically rubber tramping it like I was Neal Cassady, getting by on charm and storytelling. I joined the Army during wartime for an essentially similar reason to why Oliver Stone did, and yeah, it clearly worked out for him but what about all his platoon-mates who were killed or permanently damaged?

Granted, interesting stories don't have to be inherently dangerous or self-destructive, but unfortunately dangerous and self-destructive does actually make for great stories. I can probably tell better stories than this guy, but I'm kind of lucky to be alive. A whole lot of people I was friends with back in the day are dead, in jail, homeless, junkies, and that doesn't work out so well once you hit your 40s and recovery gets more and more impossible.

The best advice I can give young people is do something sufficiently interesting that you don't go crazy and throw away your life someday when you have a midlife crisis, but seriously study up on how compound interest works and do the things, no how matter how boring they are, that are going to take care of you when you're 70.
Bad geography and licensing mean am and vhf and uhf radio are so dead on the east coast it is not worth listening on your scanner so no one is listening.
Has nothing to do with being dictator. If you can't borrow money you have to print it.
The internet also fundamentally changed how people perceive of their data being accessible. When I was trying to give advice to someone after their Chromebook bit the dust (from being dropped too many times), doing things like using a thumbdrive to maintain portable copies of the local data on the device... It was met with a can of worms of further questions starting with:

a) what's a thumbdrive?

and

b) what's local data?

Each answer resulted in even more questions. Why isn't it in the cloud? What do you mean I'd have to copy it again? I can run out of room?

I could understand needing to get across to some people that not all data ends up synced (eg, saved memes are not necessarily automatically backed up to Drive)... but reaching a point to where people could be completely unaware of USB storage media actually shook me to my core.

People now expect it all to just "be there" after they log in.
There's a coldness in technology.

Employing a complex machine is a merely intellectual process, all else mediated by the machine. Like having sex by remote control.

Otoh, a physical craft is a conversation in multiple dimensions. Thought being just one small component.

Given that coldness and limitation, you can understand why some artists would eschew technology.
AI sets new QWOP World Record (47.34) using Reinforcement Learning
Will these sessions be recorded? For the cases where someone is unable to attend or wants to refer back to a prior discussion?
how come Lunatic supports both wasmtime and wasmer? Why those two runtimes and why not some other one like wasm3?

I'm not for or against any of them. I'm just wondering what criteria there was in choosing those two rather than any others, since I only have a cursory overview of the different WASM runtimes.
I had the same experience, used Visual Studio for C++, and years after C#, and Eclipse for Java projects. When JetBrains came along it really shined.

I tried VS Code a couple of years ago for a few months for some scripting languages, it really is not bad, however JB IDEs are better for Java, Python, Ruby,.. even for frontend development - support for Angular and React is great.

I bought the "all products pack" for individuals - it something like 15 bucks per month - for me it would be silly not to use it.
The current empires are always eternal, unlike their many predecessors, that is, till their inevitable demise.
Yeah, I agree with you, I also sometimes feel that some comments get unfairly flagged and then trying to argue your opinion to be futile.

But I also think that not every place on the internet is for everyone. I for one feel that the Twitter atmosphere is not comfortable, but I can imagine how other people do think so. So I try to stay away from Twitter.

Not all places invite all groups of people on the planet. I like to discuss with different-minded people, people who think different from me, so I like to talk with people against sexualisation, against drugs, people who are generally more conservative than me, to understand their perspectives. But it's really hard to do that on Twitter, as those people don't feel comfortable there, and that's fine to me. I'll find them where they are comfortable, and then I either adjust myself to the community I'm joining, or I find a different place.

Different and divergent communities on the internet is a good thing, it gives us multiple different ideas at the same time.
Utah anti-porn bill passes the state Legislature
So even showing the infohash would be illegal? That's all you really need.
You're downvoted, but I think this is a fair point. If I were in a banana republic, I'd rather have bitcoin than my government's fiat. I'd rather have silver / gold than either, though, or at least some combination of all the above.
This has been my experience with JS as well. No difference between Webstorm or IDEA with a few minutes spent on configuration.
> stop printing money when the cost of printing the money is higher than the value printed on the notes

yes, but it doesn't cost 1M bolivars to print a 1M bolivar note. you just stop printing the 10 bolivar notes.
Why didn't the author ask Bill about what they found? The story had no end.
Wow! That is a lot of info. Thanks for taking the time!
-5 points. I forget, it is forbidden here to point out when imperialism causes suffering.

Yes it is more politically correct to blame socialism than it is to blame America’s sanctions on Venezuelan oil.

So much for free market capitalism?
Its not as straightforward, but I would never would have thought making my own apps / SaaS to make a living (instead of working for an employer) if I didn't lurk at HN previously.

By lurking at HN, I stumbled across patio11, tptacek, amyhoy, pieter levels, and several other small indie devs sharing their experience, and encouragement.

My apps/ SaaS income are still laughable compared to my salary, but I think it will grow as time goes.
You know how people always say "it isn't rocket science?" Well, this is rocket science.
For a layperson, Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's laws suffice.

You don't need curl and divergence to figure out whether you can turn on your microwave and coffee maker at the same time without tripping the circuit breaker.
The Philosophy, Principles, and Practice of Kalman Filter Since Ancient Times
None of what you listed (talking to colleagues about work challenges, not doing your subordinates work for them) constitute abuse. If this is the attitude you bring to the table, then no, you will not have a better experience in industry.
Gold as insurance, if money becomes paper, gold will give you some breathing space..
Not that common, prevalence varies by industry - but most of the time you are reporting to a middle manager. Middle managers have the basic job of keeping their team happy and achieving some goals/quotas on a defined schedule. As long as you are contributing to the latter your supervisors job is to keep you happy.

Micro managers etc tend to get pushed out of tech jobs fast.
> grub is older than even EFI

Is EFI considered old now? Man, I haven't even started using it.
On the first glance the “this question is silly” seems snarky and stackoverflow/HNesque but I agree with you. This is one of the few posts that deserves this reply.
You had an iMac Pro. Filtering fan noise is trivial with that kind of processing power.
Not many classes of people other than a dictator are able to print fiat currency unilaterally though
>thanks in large part to the productivity of JS + Web renderer

Oh heavens no. I can't think of a single program written with "web technologies" that is in the same league of complexity as proper desktop applications. And IDEA is already enough of a resource hog; let's not make things worse!
Whenever someone mistypes their hyphenated name with an =, say on their phone.
Comparing an IDE with an source code editor
To be fair, electricity is unreliable there.
People said the same thing in the 60s
Probably reddit, lobsters, newsgroups, mailing lists, Matrix, IRC, etc. Like any good CTO type.
Proposed law could force ISPs to stop hiding true size of monthly bills
Maybe better to check unscented Kalman filter instead, because the extended one is a mathematical horror.
The opposite. Just like with the canon of literature, seeing that many films allows you to unlock some delicious references made by later filmmakers to earlier ones. For example, every Truffaut film shot after 1964 contains at least one homage to a shot in a Hitchcock film, so watching Truffaut after you have seen all of Hitchcock only makes Truffaut’s films more enjoyable.
Is that so? Like which? Generally, I wouldn't be in favour of suddenly significantly cutting people's benefits without some compensation or other either. Luckily, I don't think that happens a lot.

For example, whereas we need to raise the retirement age, we don't suddenly increase it with a couple of years. It is raised slowly in increments, and less for people who are closer to the retirement age and thus have had less time to plan for it.
then there's plenty of ways to phrase what you said without insinuation and hubris. or perhaps use a less-fraught example.
Would you say what drives you to write so much on those sites ?
Foreign real estate in places you like going to.
> a growing number of dollar transactions, kick-started by rolling power outages that prevented credit and debit card purchases and fostered the use of cash
The point is exactly, it is somewhat easier exactly in that one case when you have a single state _foobar_ somewhere and work with it all the time. In almost all other cases the second case is actually simpler.

I don't know R and I don't really want to know it. For me, it doesn't seem to bring anything extra to the table that I couldn't do in Clojure or ClojureScript much more consistently and simply. If in my project, I have a number of transformation functions for my state, passing it around isn't a huge deal as it is just a nested map usually. It forces you to be very consistent and helps you as the project grows. Also, most of the functions are easily transferable between projects even when the state would have a very different structure.

Of course the whole thing is a complicated topic and in some cases you want mutability and local state e.g. because the performance is a bit better. Usually, that involves a few simple transformations.
You're probably right, but the Android market has it's marketplace pressures just like PC, and while I don't know the margins, I imagine Apple is making good margins on Macs.

It seems there IS a market for high end androids, but not for PCs, which really is an indictment of mainly Windows but also desktop Linux.
Water analogy works well even with non-linear components like diodes (think one-way valve) and transistors (think valve controlled by water pressure from separate tube).
I work on a large rails codebase as well but within a docker container doing emulation because ARM. How does RubyMine perform then? Last time I tried it felt sluggish.
> Forgive me for being blunt but I am not looking for "10-sec fame". I mean one day you got traffic 100K on the website. Good. But just for one day.

I was lucky to once get my 10-sec-fame on HN. I don't know how much traffic it represented because my site does not have any analytics. However what I I do is very niche and there is not many places on the internet where people will show interest in my work. HN is one of these, I got some high quality comments which I personally think is a tangible benefit.
A new type of supply-chain attack with serious consequences is flourishing
"what are the people like in this city?"
"what are the people like in the city you come from?"
I have both too. The M1 is fast, no doubt, but throw a big compilation project at it and it’s smoked by the iMac Pro. Parallelism trumps the M1’s smaller number of cores.
This has nothing to do with Texans and everything to do with the failed policies of Chavez and Maduro.
Python has dynamic types but stronger typing, e.g. Can't do `a + b` if `a` is a string and `b` is a number.
Irrelevant. In a "passphrase", the "symbols" are entire words, instead of single-byte ASCII characters. So "ResearchWannabeProbablyMagmaDeltaCondoneWannabeImpurityScrabbleAbidep" consists of 10 symbols chosen from a list of 7776 symbols. As opposed to "!Z['$-t]8:" which is 10 characters from a list of only 96. Since the entropy of a password (and thus resistance to brute-froce and dictionary attacks) is $log_{2}(Symbols_in_list^{Length_of_password_in_symbols})$, the passphrase has 129 bits of entropy and the password only has 65 bits.

There's no concern about dictionary attacks, since there are too many "words" of multiple "symbols". The symbols just happen to be composed of sequences of ASCII characters, instead of single characters. The analog for regular passwords would be a dictionary consisting only of single letters/numbers/symbols.
+1 on Affinity Publisher.

But I started with their (excellent) vector app (Design) and followed with Affinity Photo. So I'm sort of an Affinity fan now.
No, this is the whole "confusing the wave and the medium" problem. Drift velocity (the technical name for "how fast are electrons moving through this wire") has effectively nothing at all to do with the propagation of electrical properties through a circuit.

If electrical properties propagated at the drift velocity, there'd be an appreciable delay when you flipped your light switch.
Four jobs.
With javascript turned off, there was no paywall.
You can't eat gold, can't burn it for heat, nor drink it, nor smoke it. I've always wondered in a global Weimar-type scenario what gold would do for you? It will probably help in 5-10 years as things calm down but it's going to be a bumpy ride for a while and shiny pieces of metal aren't going to keep you alive. Why would anyone trade gold for food when their family is hungry, too?
Generally this kind of inflation happens when a country has extensive debts that must be repaid in a foreign currency. When a country owes debts that must be repaid in its own currency, printing more money reduces the debt and makes it easier to repay. But when the debt is in a foreign currency, printing more money makes it harder to repay, leading to a vicious cycle. That’s what’s going on here. Same as in Weimar Germany. Except we are making the problem much, much worse through sanctions which harm a lot of vulnerable people, including many children.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/markets.businessinsider.com/amp...
As you can probably tolerate reads being a bit slow for logs, S3 is a good option. It's cheap, trivial to operate and you can query it easily with Athena.
I said

> The imac pro is still super quiet for recordings. But the air is fanless

I have no issue with the imac pro! Just to say the M1 does win on both counts.
PHYS is a physical gold etf run by Sprott (who I trust). Is it also worth holding actual physical gold on premises? Seems like a hassle, and if I can convert PHYS to / from USD, is it worth it?

If we're in a wold where the exchanges are all down, or Canada seizes Sprott's gold, then I'm not sure that having physical gold is going to make my life significantly better.
Every nation with it's own currency and a central bank can print money.
Other banks can even create money from thin air through lending. How much depends on the equity quote.
I couldn't agree more. It was brutal on my work MacBook. The Ryzen with 32GB RAM is heaven.
>I'd sure like to see a version that doesn't support dual-booting Windows.

This seems like exactly what Microsoft would want to inhibit flexibility.

I think it's still more elegant for GRUB to be a _universal_ boot loader as originally intended.

Also worth waiting for SYSLINUX to allow all this nonsense to be overcome.
Not exactly “defense”, but we saw something similar happening in the resent Armenia-Azerbaijan war. After they finally reached a ceasefire and many ethnic Armenians were forced to abandon their homes in the Nagorno-Karabakh region as a part of the peace deal. Many former residents burned their houses before they left. The reason they gave in interviews was they would rather see their house burned then to fathom the idea that their “enemies” would move into them.
In addition to operational difficulties, there's a bootstrap problem. You can't pay with with a currency you don't have any of.
I mean you're right, but no matter how many examples you provide, the progressives think there different and history doesn't apply to them.
Think of it this way:

As a VC, he bets on what makes money in the current system.

As a citizen, he calls for a change to a better system.
I'm skeptical of crypto but the strongest case certainly seems to be for funding illegal activities and capital flight.

If you had to flee your country gold/silver will be far more trouble than BTC.
The US can't do economic sanctions against itself like it did to Venezuela.
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>How many native English speakers speak fluent Russian? Less than a few hundred in the entire world

I think this is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever read on HN, if not anywhere on the Internet. There are a few hundred native English speakers who are ethnically Russian/Ukrainian who speak fluent Russian in any one small neighborhood in a mid-sized city in the US, and there are dozens of such neighborhoods in the US, and the US is only 5% of the world's population. I personally know about 50 people who meet this description, I was at a Greek Orthodox christening with them last year! Not to mention that you can hire non-native English speakers who can read Russian, not to mention the new world of translation apps
You got your sentence wrong. You receive the message BEFORE you see the person through the telescope typing the message, i.e. it takes 2.5 seconds for light to reach us from the moon, you would get the message 2.5 seconds before you see the person typing it assuming the FTL messaging system was instantaneous.