skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally thing it's incredibly pointless, but when I was a kid I also thought collecting baseball cards was incredibly pointless. (Granted, baseball cards didn't cost $2M back then.)

People believe doing things like that gives them a piece of history. Some do it because they think it will become more valuable and fetch a higher price later.

I don't get it, but I don't begrudge people spending their money on whatever they want. Given that Dorsey is already rich, I'd hope that he'd donate the proceeds to charity, which would at least make all this worthwhile and productive.
Congrats on shipping this, this looks really cool. Reminds me of n8n.io. What is the reasoning behind writing the flow editor from scratch versus utilising an existing library such as Rete.js? Also, if you need some ideas on the visual programming side of things, feel free to drop me an email, I used to work in this space.
What a bizarre blog post. Almost reads like satire. What should one take away from this?
We were young. The world was new. We had a marshaling bug. It’s no great mystery.
You’d think there would be a business opportunity for advocacy consulting, but I think the total lack of regulatory consequences for ruining people’s livelihoods renders that moot. FAANG can just ignore advocacy that isn’t backed by regulatory teeth.

I think if FAANG didn’t already control so much of our communications you might see such advocacy groups, but as it is...

Do you want to be the face of a campaign that will piss off FAANG?
You can leave it at filtering, really.

Is there anyone alive and writing today that anyone, seriously, ranks among the pan-century greats?

I think it takes time to realise anyway, they're old or dead by the time it's clear how great they are (or were).

There's no point naming them, but of the three ~contemporary authors I thought of, two are dead and one I came to realise only really had the one hit I was aware of.
Wow looks super promising. Definitely worths a try.

Thanks for sharing!
Not the way it works, at all.

Treasury bonds are issued and put on the bond market. When purchased, those funds are the "money printer go brrrr". It's not so much printing money, just getting deeper into debt. Call it what it is, so it can be approached properly. Calling a tiger a duck isn't going to save you from getting mauled to death.
This one seems to be missing: https://projectnessie.org/
> You don't have closet communists, just a lot of very greedy, amoral, and easy to exploit power holders.

Lol you’ve just described capitalists.
I just happened to read a new article on "Moon Of Alabama". Then I realize there must be some debate on HN. I'm not disappointed

Here's what lead me to come back to HN:

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/03/is-china-hacking-rando...
The idea that raw blockchains would ever be a scalable payment network for the world's population was always a completely absurd idea.

In fact, it's so absurd that it was literally the first public comment Satoshi received. https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/cryptography/th...

> We very, very much need such a system, but the way I understand your proposal, it does not seem to scale to the required size.

As a simple example, suppose every one of the 7 billion people on the planet make only 1 transaction per day. With a basic transaction size of ~250 bytes, this would require a blocksize of ~12GB per 10 minute block. (check my math)

"But storage is cheap!" I hear some say. Even if you could dismiss the cost of storing an aggregating ~600TB/year, that's not the real bottleneck. Bandwidth and processing power are. You have to broadcast that 12GB block to the entire global bitcoin network as fast as possible to beat other miners to the award. Then all the world's full nodes have to do the work of processing that 12GB of data to validate it. All within an average 10 minute window.

And this is all based on the absurdly conservative assumption that every person only makes 1 transaction per day. It's not even considering the use case that billions of machines might want to transact with each other billions of times a day. Or that you might want to build micropayment systems for metering. e.g. http://andyschroder.com/DistributedCharge/ or https://twitter.com/JackMallers/status/1346869624789463040

And even if you could solve all these problems, it doesn't get around the fact that blockchains as a payment system are a really shitty experience compared to existing solutions. You have to wait an unknown amount of time for your transaction to make it into a block before you're safe from a double spend. That time is 10 minutes on average, but in reality, it could be anywhere from a few seconds to over an hour because mining a valid block is a random search that averages out to 10 minutes based on an ever changing balance of real world hash power and mining difficulty value.

The only way blockchains were ever going to be interesting at scale is as a rock solid, incorruptible settlement layer. Decentralized layer two networks like Lightning are exciting because they have the potential to create a trustless payment network that directly settles to the blockchain. Even more exciting is that lightning can span separate blockchains and sidechains, e.g. BTC<->LTC, BTC<->USDT (and future CBDCs?), or BTC<->lBTC/rBTC. And they can actually scale to an arbitrary number of transactions that don't need to all get recorded forever in the base chain immutable ledger.
First, is a tweet even a thing you can own, legally? You can own the copyright and you can enter into a contract where you promise not to delete it, but a tweet is ultimately something that is displayed and processed by, and exists at the pleasure of Twitter; they're not a party to your NFT shenanigans and therefore not bound to any of it.

As for the hypothetical contract not to delete it yourself, you'd probably have a good argument that there was no clear meeting of the minds - without an explicit description of what the author intended to be bound to by selling a NFT you'll have a hard time getting the courts to enforce anything about it.
What about water flouridation? Stealing our essence or no?
Wow, only one comment on here and it's exactly how I feel, but articulated better than I would've.

In a theoretical sense I can see how they'd be valuable - limited supply and high demand and all that - but in practice it just seems like the prices of some of these early ones are too bonkers for it to be sustainable.
But this scenario is neither a refusal or complete failure (debatable). But again, the terms of service are more important than the price factor.

The big G say they can kick you off whenever/wherever.

That it's free in price is just another way to give the "customer" (really just user) less power.
People have been doing stuff like this for a long time - trading cards, the kid who was selling pixels on a web page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage), astronauts were taking items in their personal kits with the intent to resell them later for high value etc.

I suppose that we'll see things like these get more weaponised as people look for easy ways to make money. I'm not interested in participating.
> Yeah, I think you're under estimating the interconnectedness of the supply chain there. Would definitely make the pandemic disruption look small.

Pandemic disruption is small. A disruption on this scale was nothing unheard of historically. Infectious diseases were taking millions of lives in the developed world before the advent of antibiotics, and to lesser extend until the bio-technological revolution of seventies.

What was unheard of was world's biggest power being rendered utterly impotent, and in complete stupor by such minor events.

I see a country like US being otherwise fully capable of dealing with a crisis on this scale easily.

> And you're assuming China won't retaliate. I wouldn't like to be a US national in China when that happened.

Of course they will! You will be cutting into personal coffers of their highest elites. It will be a very personal challenge to them. Having them eat watery gruel like lowly peasants will infuriate them.

That's exactly the POINT. You see a bad guy, you challenge him to beat him. You don't beat a bad guy by avoiding him.
> "column mode" cut and paste

Emacs (of course) has rectangles.
Does that person even have that amount of money? From looking at his timeline it seems unlikely.
After a bunch of searching I found a test URL. https://testsafebrowsing.appspot.com/s/malware.html via my Chrome script I get a 500. And when ignoring it in chrome manually it returns a 200 so the web url works.

This is totally an edge case I didn't even think of until I read that blog. Super happy that my monitoring approach picks up on it.

For others wanting to do the same I'm using chromedp. It does take up way more resources tho. I worked out I can do 90 per minute per 8-core 16gb server.

[1] https://github.com/chromedp/chromedp
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This ambiguity in sans serif fonts has actually been pretty annoying. Especially since GitHub doesn't let you choose your font on readmes and stuff.
> A particle is a nice, regular ripple in a field, one that can travel smoothly and effortlessly through space, like a clear tone of a bell moving through the air. A “virtual particle”, generally, is a disturbance in a field that will never be found on its own, but instead is something that is caused by the presence of other particles, often of other fields.

Are gluons virtual particles then? And all the other heavier, unstable particles? What distinguishes them from the other disturbances?
But that's a self-defeating attitude. If you are going to defensively assume that websites are broken in this way, the only logical conclusion is to limit your generated passwords to something ridiculously conservative, like six characters.

In my opinion, it is more reasonable to assume that most websites will behave correctly with even longer passwords, and solve the odd misbehaving ones on a case by case basis.
> Then what is the purpose of leading a good life? In my mind, morality is precisely in order to stabilise society.

The way I see it morality is an intrinsic human ability. This is not to say that all people are moral, but that all people, if they develop in a normal, stable environment, will naturally develop a certain morality that is actually not that different from one person to another. In this view morality doesn't really need to be taught and enforced by authority. Leading a good life is therefore the natural thing that people do.

> we fail to acknowledge how much we lost in our transition to secularity

I tend to agree, although for me what was lost with secularization is not so much morality, but important social institutions that fostered collaboration, charity, mutual understanding. Even when it's not lost, religion can be deeply perverted by the modern capitalist society - something like prosperity theology is an abomination to me.

> compared to what came before Christianity was pretty great

I recommend The Darkening Age[1] for a sense of just how destructive early Christianity was.

> I do see nerd-culture (or tech-culture or whatever) as being broadly very dismissive of the value of religion, and generally having no understanding of it either

Here I also tend to agree, particularly when the dismissal of religion is tied in with scientism and perhaps even classism.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Darkening_Age
Dolt and git are closer to synonymous rather than analogous.
> I'm so glad the download-entire-wikipedia function continues to exist. That will help counter the "lost the entire library problem" from the city of Alexandria. To be fair, Wikipedia only has summaries, not the detailed material, but it's still important.

Personally, I think Wikipedia's quality is too poor for that. Plus, it's digital, so when our civilization is at risk of "[losing] the entire library" it probably would have already lost the ability to maintain the computer systems to access Wikipedia dumps.
> WordStar keystroke diamond

reminds me of Alias software (Maya but maybe others) use or layout as ergonomics.

They used QWER and ZXCV as main rapid keybindings for the most used operations (pick, translate, rotate, scale). You didn't have to invest more than 20 seconds to remember that.

A lot of knowledge of this kind is probably locked in old forgotten ware.
I mean, it's a great question: why would an advisor neglect a student when all is OK?

Pretty complex, and I don't think I can even do the full issue justice, but from my observations it comes down to:

1. Egos - some advisors get their nose out of joint when students start to surpass them in knowledge or ability on a certain topic (this hasn't been my issue, but I've witnessed it).

2. Boredom with a project - YUP - my advisor regularly gets 'bored' by a project because it isn't producing the data he wanted (he likes to create stories instead of seeing what story the data tells) or because it isn't moving fast enough for his desires.

3. Personality clashes/issues with management - this has been an enormous issue for most of the students in my lab, save for a couple of male students over the past two decades. When issues are brought to my advisor's attention, he will say the right things, apologize, and then amend his behaviour by wholly ignoring and avoiding the student for weeks or months on end. This is to the tune of cancelling in-person meetings, invalidating their opinions during lab meetings, avoiding them when they approach his office, etc. etc.

4. Cheap labour - students in their upper years, particularly those who are productive and successful - are great work horses. Why would you want to let go of a cheap and productive employee just when they start to churn out lots of great data for you? Casually ignoring or constantly expecting more before they can defend is a slimy way of using a student to generate more data (and therefore more revenue) for your lab.

I can't comment on comp sci situations, but in life sciences, particularly those requiring wet lab bench work, point #4 is a _very_ common issue in PhD years 5+.
Kiwix offers downloadable material (including the full Wikipedia), in a format specifically designed for offline browsing.

https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content

Their Wikipedia bundle wasn't being updated for a while and had fallen out of date, but that seems to have been fixed now.
That's exactly what we've seen. I don't know how Citus exactly stores data, but we found difference of 30x between gzipped Parquet and "generic Oracle table".

There's a huge difference whether your analytical query is scanning full 30 GB or 1 GB (or maybe even half that or less if you need to scan just some columns).
> It was only three pounds or so, but three pounds feels like a ton to a limb that typically carries no weight, and the heft of the prosthetic hand pulled hard on the socket and made me sweat. In order to open and close, myoelectric hands require that you flex your muscles where sensors inside of the socket can detect your movement.

I wonder how much of the problem is because those muscles are underdeveloped.
Fair enough, although as someone who uses a 60 character long home wifi password - and have had to type it out manually more than once in the past - I think it's still worth it, because such cases are rare. :)
Just like everything else in the crypto space, it is both.

This stuff isn't going to die out completely and the exact way that people interact with it is going to develop over the next years.

On the other hand it is very possible that current prices are a mania although there is certainly some possibility, that in the long term, current prices will prove to be good buys.
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When we isolate fundamental particles, carefully orchestrated experiments may show predictable distributions of outcomes.

On atom and molecular level, chemistry also provides distributions of predictability and even more outcome certainty.

This follows the general pattern of interesting chaotic systems, and the side-effects of "chaotic attractors". We find areas of stability, where big numbers tend to converge to stable and predictable values/surfaces. We also find chaos and unpredictability between the stable surfaces in outcomes. Without full information, we can approximate using ML, though how they generalize and explain could also be an iterative ML task.

The 3-body problem means that even on macro scale we run into problems calculating some orbits (ie. asteroids). It's just that over time, most chaotic orbits tend to stabilize, so we don't run into this too much. With full information, everything can be calculated theoretically. So it is both the fundamental problem of the differential calculus itself, though inaccurate information compounds the fundamental.

Virtual particles sound like constructs bridging some of the gaps, though still unsolved on most 3+ body problems. Maybe it is correct to assume they "work" for stable/semi-stable areas of simple models, but break down in between states of chaotic systems?

I sense that we search for simple foundational relationships and understandable constants. However, the problem itself seems intractable using reductionism, the more you seek to encompass the whole across scales.

Ie. given two random real numbers between 1.0 and 10.0, human beings expect to find integers. We seek to construct perfection, while blinded to the environment sustaining us.

The expectation is not totally unwarranted, if you look at the distribution of 2+ random numbers.
I’ve been into this idea for a while and even created a side project to help read the classics instead of social media, or HN (you can check my profile if interested)

The books I absolutely hated being forced to read in school have been much more enjoyable as an adult.
Japan's tsunami survivors call lost loves on the phone of the wind
Based on my reading of the "12 million dollars stuffed shark"¹, this has the same mechanics as the market of a piece of contemporary art (I'd go as far as considering that this is, essentially, an art piece).

In such markets, pieces are status, which has nothing really to do with matter (in a physical sense). Specifically:

- status is sold; Jack Dorsey is famous, and his first tweet is strongly symbolic;

- status is acquired/purchased; the buyer has the money for the purchase, and he'll fits the item likely in a sort of private collection.

The status interpretation can make more intuitive the nature of the transaction/item, dispelling the insanity interpretation.

It needs to be considered also that this can be very conventional speculation; in this sense, it would appear intuitively "not insane", like financial instruments (of course, in another sense, they are fundamentally insane :)).

¹=https://www.amazon.com/Million-Stuffed-Shark-Economics-Conte...
Hm, I distinctly remember using specifically your GSIs mid 2019 (and would love to return to them) on Mi Max 3.

In early 2020 XDA thread [1] I was suggested to use phh-securise to reenable SELinux, which suggests that it was not enabled by default at least back then. Never got to try phh-securise, since the encryption part of the response was not definitive.

[1] https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/guide-nitrogen-10-10-phh-...
The Physical Archive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive#Physical_medi...
yeah, this is either a bitcoin like scenario that the initial boom is happening or we are a bunch of idiots that we thought this was a good idea. At this point I have no idea. The amount of money going around is eye opening
I'm a believer in audiobooks as a great way to experience the classics, you don't get derailed when there's a lengthy genealogy or dedication to a long dead patron. It's true to the original experience of the works too since there was much more recitation and reading aloud when copies were scarce.

So many are free on librivox (or from a library): https://librivox.org/

PS no audiobook version could redeen Paradise Lost for me either, it was my peast favorite reading in high school. To paraphrase, better to be ignorant in hell than well read in heaven if you have to trudge through Milton to get there.
Several different compression algorithms would do very well for this. E.g dict compression for low cardinality wide columns. I'd recommend familiarizing yourself with a handful of different encodings for columnar data stores before you give up on the idea.
This service only provides 30 minutes of ”turbo time” per day, and it is required to play any of the heavier games.

Also, how is this legal?

Edit: The version of GTA they have includes the PARADIGM intro video. It is a scene release. Not legit. Very warez.
There really are perturbations in the field yes, so I suppose my question is to what extent they have an independent existence outside the wave functions of the particles.
Oh, french court room I helped last summer does indeed use WordPerfect 12 .. it might very well be due to this sort of arguments.
Kids?

Don't you know the very bad ROI they have??

(unless you count in cuteness)
Maybe not in a vacuum but when the author is giddy with excitement at confirming what he "already knew going into this"... it raises questions and detracts from the subject.

I'm far from woke but this is pretty littered with dog whistles and paranoid exaggerations. And, more to the point, it's no more rigorous than DiAngelo's work.

This is a bad scene and a bad source.
I would just like to point out this terminology used:

"forced to allow"

vs.

"prevented from denying"

Think about that difference.
This is starting to happen to YouTube ads. Anyone with money just pays for the monthly subscription and sees no ads.
Yeah, but Reddit often devolves. This has been a more productive learning experience, at least for me...
I found a documentary

https://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/pl...
This is a different take, but I have always been a huge fan of Damian Conway's Lingua::Romana::Perligata, a thought experiment in writing Perl in Latin.

Just a taste from the documentation: "To simplify the mind-numbingly complex rules of declension and conjugation that govern inflexions in Latin, Perligata treats all user-defined scalar and array variables as neuter nouns of the second declension -- singular for scalars, plural for arrays."
I vaguely remember reading about an esoteric programming language that was based on Klingon. IIRC, it was a functional language. (-:

But I do not speak or read or write Klingon, so I never looked at it, and I do not remember the name, either. It did make me chuckle, though.
SMR drives are not "fast" for writes. They run at slightly less than the same speed as non-SMR drives do for sequential writes (opening zones has a cost). They are unpredictable and often slow for everything else. SMR drives are somewhat like the first generation of SSD controllers: they lots of glass jaws that nobody ever expects when garbage collection begins to kick in.
It's much more than footnotes. Courts have a lot of very picky formatting requirements, plus lawyers care a lot about presentation. Reveal codes is the thing about WordPerfect that lawyers love the most, because it gives you fine grained control over that stuff on a character/word level without having to pray to the Word Styles god.
Is the effectiveness of Facebook ads dwindling?
People tend to take their parents for granted, but this web page is a good reminder that there are a finite number of visits left.
Back when my parents were alive, sometimes when they would call me I did not have the time to speak with them. I did visit them regularly (more so after I got married and had kids), but I wish that I had made more time for them.
I love the WordStar key combos, and still have some relevant muscle memory. Back in the day I learned them at about the same time as using Turbo Pascal 3 - which used a few of the same ones.
You got a bulk rate on wedding cake?

https://xkcd.com/605/