skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the mind extended to other parts of the body, I'd expect there to be tons of evidence for it, but there seems to be none.

Like, with the brain we know that the mind is deeply linked to it because it's just very obvious. Brain damage heavily impacts cognition, people lose memories, their personalities change, they lose the capacity to feel certain things or certain concepts - we even have some idea of damaging what area causes what.

Compare this with people losing limbs or sensory organs. Someone who loses their sight, doesn't lose their visual memory, their ability to visualize things, spatial concepts, etc. If these organs were actually part of the mind I would have at least expected some part of it to be lost.

So unless evidence for the contrary comes to light, it only seems reasonable to me to assume that no or at the very least minimal real processing occurs outside of the brain.
That's the difference between sociopaths and clueless, I think
Even worse, it supports easy capital flight by allowing miners to exchange Yuan for BTC and then dollars, euros, etc.
Why are they forced to use letsencrypt? Cloud flare gives me free SSL and I imagine AWS or GCE would also
Perhaps moving can be enforced using Blockchain principles?
The private market is exactly who should be funding higher education. Federal government funding has resulted in significant inflation of costs and poor quality of administration and instructors. Education that does not meet the market should fail and be replaced.
I hope we see more Bitcoin mining bans elsewhere. I definitely like digital currencies, but mined currencies need to go.
The main airport in my country switched their digital signage to LCD screens with fancy animations.

And now they periodically show full screen ads instead of arrival / departure information.

It makes me miss the big red letter panel from the early 2000s.
This argument is a compelling case for JetBrains and I hope it proves out.

> They cannot lose interest or make self-destructive decisions because the IDEs are their core revenue stream.

But this can be said about Microsoft as well. IDEs are not the core of their revenue stream, but they're near the core, because "developers, developers, developers, developers" is still true. They're a software company, they make operating systems, a cloud platform, and hardware. They need to provide developer tooling. If IDEs aren't their core revenue, they're certainly near the core. If Microsoft hasn't been making money on IDEs lately, they have in the past, they see other people are, and they're certainly going to try and get back to that if they can.
Oh interesting. I don’t know many religious people. I grew up in the USSR.
Drone strikes that kill far more civilians than intended targets are pretty cut-and-dry unethical, IMO.

I'm not necessarily ethically opposed to assassination. But better to let 1000 terrorists and murderers live than to kill one innocent person. Assassinations should be done with pistols and poison, not explosives.
Hbcus routinely admit non black students
I don't ask for everything to be dispayed in public, but there's too much information. One of the projects falls inside one of my market expertises, but they just copypasted their APP store pitch.

IDK, it's not very appealing.
The more things change the more they stay the same
Everything you say is good and true. Unfortunately, the trust has been broken, and now everyone loses. The onus is on the people doing the “good” tracking to prove that they’re deserving. “This is why we can’t have nice things.”

Or, more realistically, the tracking will move to the browser, and since the dominant force in online advertising is also the dominant force in the browser market, they’ll continue to dig their most and track us all.
In my experience the reason stems from the fact that the interaction with security typically manifests itself in the form of an inquisition/audit where a series of 'what ifs' and increasingly implausible corner cases (without solutions, time or budget) get dropped in the engineers lap to 'make work'.

Security leaves the meeting with mission accomplished, Engineers leave the meeting with pile of new work and less time to do it.
American Financial Lives “In Ruin,” CFPB Nominee Says
Flutter is far more worrying IMO. The Web at least is somewhat standardized and definitely going to last long. There's also nothing intrinsically too slow about it, JS runtimes can definitely be made fast and render engines tend to improve over time, it's also likely we will move on from Electron and it's bloat-packed delivery method. Everything is easily inspect-able as shipped.

Compared to that Flutter programs are a huge black-box, completely unportable as delivered not just across platforms but also between accessibility mechanisms it seems. While practically sharing none of the advantages of traditional native toolkits. Responsiveness is dismal, web/desktop targets are basically a PoC, the language and toolkit are so large it's extremely unlikely people will bother maintaining it when Google deprecates it, even if it's 100 times more popular than now. It's just disheartening how people are still keen on developing things far too likely to end in a platform graveyard.
> It's still under debate and I'm personally in the camp that errors should not have a payload, so I would avoid assuming that it's definitely the preferable choice.

How can you argue that not having access to string index where the JSON was unparseable is better than having access to it? I read through issues/2647, and I read through the "existing pattern", and it just seems obvious to me that containing the error information in the error is better than trying to hack it through side channels.

If A -> B, and B returns an error through a side channel, then A can use it and "what's so bad about that?"

But this doesn't seem to scale very well.

If A is refactored to use an intermediate function X, then it just doesn't work. A -> X -> C would mean that...

X cannot use Zig's normal error handling syntax to automatically propagate this error that A is better equipped to handle, unless we're going to further stipulate that A must pass this Diagnostics struct into X which then must pass it into B.

If we now assume that X calls into two fallible functions, B and C, and each of them provide their own diagnostics structs, then X will have to take in two "out" arguments that provide the diagnostics, and every single caller of X will have to provide those two values.

You see how this goes. It just doesn't seem scalable.

Why not take the current design to its logical conclusion of simply having every function return a Boolean indicating whether it succeeded or not, and then require the caller to look into some "out" argument to determine what the error was? Obviously, that would be extremely annoying.

A tagged error union containing the diagnostic error values is just a minor evolution of the current design that brings huge wins for language ergonomics.

For errors that don't need to carry a value, there is no additional cost: they compile and work exactly as they do today.

For errors that carry a value, the size of the error struct is only the size of the largest error value (plus the tag, of course), not the product of all possible error values, so the global error set will never grow to be enormous unless you have some very weird error type. In which case, you can solve this problem by fixing that error type.

So, I'm not deeply versed in Zig, but I have personally argued in favor of Zig's async design, which seems exceptionally interesting. I had not realized until now how limiting the error system implementation was, but I had superficially appreciated how much less verbose it was than Rust's where you tend to hand write these error enums, or use a bunch of code gen. However, errors benefit tremendously from having the ability to supply payloads.

No one is required to act on the payloads within the errors, but no one is able to if they don't exist.
Qt is going commercial only. GTK+ feels kinda old when working on it and GTK team likes to break compatibility. Flutter is also quite bad often, dependency hell on big projects is so much hotter than anything I've ever seen on npm. Flutter is smooth, maturing fast, developing in Dart is simply pleasant.
Ask HN: How do I write a resume as a high school student + freelance developer?
I am a student in high school who was always interested in software. I do a lot of open source work in Rust, ReactJS, and Ruby on the side. I am very active in online platforms (github, hackernews, stackoverflow, my blog), but have never revealed my age. I recently got into freelance software development and have only worked with one client. A potential client asked me for a resume. How do I write a resume without having graduating high school and having worked with only one client?
Yeah.... no. Companies want you to think and act like digital "products" are like physical products. Yet in the real world we don't get clothes or cars for "free" just beceause of advertising. "Monetizing" the web will just mean you'll pay for ads. I do however wish there was a micropayments system on the internet that wasn't directly linked to a bank or company. GNU Taler or Monero are the only things that really come close.
Machine vision for low-cost remote control of mosquitoes by power laser
Shout out to webhook.com! This project was just ahead of its time, but I built dozens of sites using it as a Wordpress alternative and it was awesome.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8093324
sea-bag for cars?
Then your employer sees the shitshow, fears the resonance and things become more intimate than just cancelling the show. Saying “oh, it’s only true between you and the govt” effectively revokes the claimed right in a society. As a result, only those can speak freely who agree with a vocal majoriry. But that just seems like an obvious default, not a progressive achievement. Or is that wrong?
Slightly OT but the significant thing about "Don't be Evil" is that Google had already taken the fundamental choices that were evil. The slogan itself is blatantly self-conscious - an acknowledgement of the insane power that would inevitably accumulate as a result of the business model they were pioneering.
I think they're going to phase out Visual Studio. They like VSCode because it's an Electron app that runs on any platform and even in the browser. Microsoft isn't just a Windows company anymore, and VSCode is their future editor.
BrendanEich has some ideas on the "trust but verify" aspects of this. Plausible is 100% open source with no proprietary parts but we'd love to work with Brave (and Firefox/EasyList/uBlock Origin) to provide proof to get verified and unblocked by them. It would be a very effective way to get many more sites/businesses to remove GA
> Most users have enough RAM unless they're running on some absurdly low 4GB< device, which is just nowhere near as common these days.

Citation needed. My experience with people outside the tech bubble is that they don’t know what RAM is, and will not consider it when purchasing a computer. Most of these people now also live primarily on a phone or tablet too, because their computers are too slow.
No the point of the article is they didn't hold them in the same esteem as Harvard and Stanford. Which seems...fine?
sys_64738 is referring to Commodore running a tradein program for $100 off a C64 with any computer or videogame console. People purchased the Timex Sinclair for $45 solely to trade in (https://dfarq.homeip.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/timex-co... supposedly, Commodore used them as doorstops.
As a fellow former card collector, I can emphasize although I don't think the result will be as extreme as you've laid out. It all comes to supply and demand. If Taylor Swift could create 1,000 NFT prints for $10 each for each of her songs, they would be sold immediately.
This means that we get less innovation, though.
Since you're backed by ad money, you can undercut the subscription price of your competitors. Maybe it makes up the difference, maybe it works better and you force the competition to switch to ads or go out of business.

Maybe it fails, but it's certainly not guaranteed.
We may soon have city-spanning 900 MHz mesh networks
Opportunity costs hugely outweigh the present value of money in this case. Especially given current risk-free rates.
What were you missing? I have an idea about a service with: domain + Jekyll + CD pipeline in my backlog for a long time now.
Well now I feel justified in stopping my financial contributors to Mozilla and moving over to Brave. If anyone at Mozilla is reading this, these sorts of moves will end in disaster for you.

Massive shame.
This implies an amount of language-understanding from the revision control system I'd rather avoid, especially when I unfortunately spend so much of my life writing mixed source-in-source-in-source monstrosities these days.
First, the distinction made between persuasive and evasive bullshitting strikes me as vacuous. Evasion is a species of persuasion so it's not two types, but rather a contains relation. On to bullshit then.

Harry Frankfurt wrote an entertaining little book on the subject[1]. To boil it down, the liar is concerned with the truth, but makes it serve his ends by hiding it. On the other hand the bullshitter is concerned with persuasion and gives no particular consideration to the truth value of his claims, so long as they persuade. As such well-crafted bullshit is designed to sound plausible and elicit the sensation of truth.

For example, someone running a pump and dump scheme with a stock is liable to be bullshitting. The reasons he gives for buying may well be true, but he doesn't care either way so long as the rubes drive his shares up.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/385.On_Bullshit
NFTs are nonsense and just as much a pyramid scheme as everything else crypto. People will get left holding the bag at the top just like with CryptoKitties. I have several hand painted reproductions of famous paintings (impressionist). I get just as much enjoyment looking at them on my wall as I have at the museums looking at the real ones. I don't need to have $100M. I'm glad that content creators are getting paid now but remember that most "artists" end up penniless and their art is only highly valued posthumously.
Wouldn’t this be complicated by the gut-brain axis?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gut–brain_axis
Pumping Up an Antenna from a Stream of Sea Water (2017)
And yet rents remain sky high in those same cities, despite the pandemic shuttering workplaces and slowing local economies, because lots of people still really want to live in them. There is a point at which you have to realize/admit that your ideological narrative, and the interests who popularize it, are wrong.
"And Hafnium's victim list appears more limited to small- and medium-sized organizations, whereas the SolarWinds hit large US government agencies."

//Why a state-sponsored hacker group did this?
The anglo-american repackaging of stoicism is precisely this: just a variation on hustle porn and blaming the individual. The same goes for mindfulness. Both of these industries (yes, they are industries) have been eagerly embraced by the private sector since they make fixing the mood of workers both a quantifiable goal and one where their own responsibility is no longer taken into consideration.

In We by Zamyatin and Brave New World, the non-medicated elements of society eventually rebel against the new order. In our case, the scope of medication is already starting to show its limits so I don't think we will get to the scenario you describe. This sort of life is just too inherently unsatisfying to be masked by meds, not to mention that workers now can directly see just how poor they are compared to their masters and just how much surplus the masters capture.
Site seems to be down. Is it still supported?
A few years age I made a similar coroutine system for my tiny JavaScript game framework Bubble: https://github.com/jbluepolarbear/Bumble

BumbleCoroutines - it makes writing games fun.

Here’s a game I made that uses Bumble and it’s coroutine system:
https://github.com/jbluepolarbear/Bumble-Asteroids
Snaps are shit.
DIN rail is very popular. I even manufacture a niche product in a DIN rail case because most of the users will be placing it in a control cabinet with similar components.

The main savings are in labor costs avoided drilling mounting holes and ease of replacement. The standard sizes also make it easy to fit various components in a limited space.
Could be. Maybe they learnt from Ubuntu Mobile, where they wanted app developers to write QT apps, instead of having support for e.g. apk files (the payoff for the time invested in writing a separate app for Ubuntu phones was never going to be there, unfortunately).

I think it's a positive that they're moving to a more common platform that is easier for developers to produce a build for. Good luck to them.
Frankly, I want less commercial content. I want to read and watch stuff put out by hobbyists, people who are excited by what they're doing, who would do it without compensation anyway.

I see very little upside to professionalisation of sports, sex, writing, even reporting. Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Some things are just better when done by amateurs or done instead of watched.

Journalism is best (worst) example. We are being deceived by dilettantes with slick production values and almost universally an agenda or served straight-up propaganda. I'd rather delve into less polished material from people who actually know things because they have a deep drive towards understanding them.
This seems like an overly dismissive response to individualistic health fads like wellness. Clearly mental health is a widespread issue in this society and merits a widespread push for availability and affordability, and exacerbates problems lower on Maslow’s hierarchy. And besides, if the U.S. was a country that already had the wherewithal for top-down solutions at the scale of guaranteeing widespread access to affordable therapy, it would already be a country so much more advanced and friendlier to communal solutions than the one at present; one could imagine such a country has also made progress on other material concerns such as labor conditions and anomie resulting from the capitalist grind.
Crypto in general poses a problem for lots of governments. You want to avoid their control, they want to control you. They have manpower and violence, you have, at best, a network of willful individuals.

So either this is a tide that changes the whole world, or it's going to be harshly confronted. Doesn't matter that Tesla buys n bitcoins, or Microstrategy or whatever.

And I do have money on crypto. Not on bitcoin, not a lot, but that would against my interests too.
> In any case, if you use an ad blocker, which you absolutely should, the ads don't impact you.

If everyone used an adblocker it would definitely impact you. So while I agree with the vibe and block for convenience along with security, it's an uneasy feeling knowing that such benefits for me only exist because many others aren't taking advantage of content creators like this.
NBA Top Shot runs their own very liquid marketplace (when it is, cough, up). It is 100+ times more liquid than selling physical cards on Ebay.

Yeah, if you buy some random crypto art, you may be stuck with it just like in real life.
In all seriousness how similar (or different) is this to Ted Nelson's Xanadu franchises?

The discussion around this post confuses me. Because in practice it doesn't sound that bad, but the comments seem to be against it. A person pays a subscription to "consume content" [1] and the author is paid for it. But why do I need a wallet? What is this ledger business all about? What's the meta tag for? In reality how is this even better than Patreon or "Buy me a Coffee" or GitHub Sponsors. I'm beginning to understand the other comments now.

As far as advertisements go, what's stopping people from just selling ad space themselves? Why do I need Google? You sell cast iron skillets, I'm a food blogger. You want some ad space. Email me and send me a check.

[1] i.e. to read, watch and listen to things on the internet. "consuming content" sounds so impersonal, if that's the best word to describe it.
The biggest threat in your case is the PM2.5

In Beijing, the difference before and after the air purifier was enormous in my own experience.
Python is not a strongly typed language and renaming variables in such a language is a minefield. I've used PyCharm and WebStorm and never felt comfortable using their variable rename facilities for Python and Javascript. If they do it better than rope then that's good, but you need to write those languages in a very specific if you want IDE renamings to succeed. IMO, that rope fails silently might be viewed as more of a feature than a bug :). Anyway, I'm sure it will be improved.
Is it really boring that you have to learn 20 different features to do 20 different things? There is a certain economy at play with feature sets that the author brings up that has nothing to do with "boring" or not; having to learn a ton of different things and always feeling like there's probably some tailor-made thing you should be using for exactly your problem is not boring, it's just less productive when working.
If non-fungibility is just a constraint of current technology protocols, and these protocols could be extended in time to allow exchange of larger swathes of tokens of different degrees of dissimilarity then the only things stopping this at the moment would seem to be demand - is that right? I.e. if Joe owned a uniquely verifiable, exchangeable and trackable piece of code, and so did Mary, then both of these codes could be pooled on the same market no matter how they differed within the constraints allowed by the protocols for verification, exchange and tracking?
1 Million for $36: https://pirsch.io/ and you can click on any path to filter the statistics.
We “attach” a conspiracy when big events happen
To prevent the rubbish containing a pool of water in it.
None in this approach.

The approach that reduces ads is to have the user bid for and win the ad slots. There are important details about running this auction fairly and cost effectively for users (Vickrey mechanics etc) but the only way to enforce user intent to control their own attention and reduce ad noise is to have the user pay towards that purpose.
CEO/co-founder of Nordigen here. We plug in to the same Open APIs as Truelayer, but we don't charge for access to banking data. We only charge for value-adding data services (e.g. Transaction Categorisation, Credit Insights) that help developers get more value from banking data.
Someone is hacking the hackers
The sleep example was a bad idea, I only complicated things with it. In fact, my claim is that there is that the continuous nature of consciousness is an illusion in general. Just because I remember when I started writing this comment doesn't mean I am the same thing that started writing it. From one moment to another, everything is different, or at least there are no clear boundaries. Am I the same thing as the feritilzed egg? Present-me and past-me are just as related as copy1 and copy2 with a hypothetical perfect copy machine.

And even if 'whatever makes up experience is baked into the physical', that doesn't give a path to a time-stable identity. In fact, it makes that even less plausible, as it implies that every atom leaving your body, every cell that dies, and certainly something like losing a hand or getting a transplant, fundamentally changes your psyche at the physical level.
Why winter exercise can be especially hard on the lungs
I would vote in the EU elections for almost any parliamentary group that makes this a priority. This is a perfect example of an issue where union-level decision making is required to curb a destructive activity.
And, that's assuming you got positive value on the remaining 1/4. Which is not always a given. In case of news publishing, quite often that 1/4 has negative information value, in the sense that after reading it, your beliefs will be wronger than they were before.