skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Switching to DDG? It’s 95% as good.

I would say for personal stuff (ie, non-programming) it is. For programming, I continually have to switch back to google. DDG is way worse for me. Maybe it's just me, but the types of things I search for just don't work on DDG and I've wasted way too much of my time looking for answers using DDG, only to find them quickly with Google. It totally frustrates me, because I would much rather use DDG.
I mean, yeah, NFTs are a massive speculative gamble and probably a poor one ATM, the space is too oversaturated. That doesn't make speculation in general a bad idea.

His advice of "don't speculate with free stimulus money even if you can afford it, spend it on consumer goods instead" is still bad advice.

Young people are the ones who can afford to speculate without it hurting them too much. They have an entire lifetime to make lost money back, and if they win on their speculative play, an entire lifetime to compound it.
Have you ever seen the photos from Expo 1937 in Paris? Or read about it?

The organizers put the USSR and Nazi Germany directly across from each other... talk about "unifying vision" ...

https://www.messynessychic.com/2016/09/21/when-paris-invited...
So it stands to reason that if the vaccine were effective, after the vaccine blitzkrieg that's going on now, the vulnerable should be ok.
> What's the metaphorical software equivalent of "mRNA instability"

“This shitty app doesn’t work. Uninstall.”

That’s about it here.
7zip. God winrar was annoying.
Actually with k3s it’s pretty dang simple!
>I am not sure if that is the case. Netgate seems to have used their old crappy sponsored work for their Pfsense.

Their sponsored work was based off of the Linux and OpenBSD code that Jason and others wrote. And even if it didn't utilize that code, you literally can't write a wireguard client without building on Jason's work.
Most business logic neural nets simply train into what could've been an or-gate
Ah, you might have guessed I lean decidedly libertarian on the topic :^). I'm certainly with some things (esp pollution, or destruction of other's property), but I have precisely no interest in catering to someone's 'property values' or aesthetics. I'm usually ok with reasonable stuff like adhering to city codes, but I would never by a detached home with an HOA.
I used to love Firebug, but couldn't help but notice it getting more and more sluggish over the years, with no apparent cause for it. Does anyone know what happened?
I wish there was a service I could simply pay for using, enough so that the operator wouldn't have to use invasive advertising where I could connect with other people who would want my services or vice-versa. Why such a simple thing seems to be not possible? Everyone looks to be only motivated by $$$ and turning potential customers into product.
I also don't understand why should I value a network where the main selling point is zero-cost ad-free. If people on there don't want to pay for something that brings them value, are they going to want to pay me for my services?
This is so contradictory. What's the goal here?
Why can't coroutines take full advantage of Loom's green threads on JVM and do other stuff on Native/JS/whatever?

I generally agree that being multiplatform is a lofty goal. And as much as I like Kotlin, it clearly inherits some of Java's (IMO) deficiencies. I'm not sure why I'd want those deficiencies exported to my native code when I could use lots of other nice languages.
I'd rather not be injected with bits of mRNA that encode random bits of proteins, thanks. The deltoid is "medically interesting" enough to produce Covid spike proteins.
Defi is just Ethereum. it is not an alternative to the existing system.
Same here. I miss when I could inspect network headers from the console without having to go over to the Network tab. Updating HTML in realtime without committing to an edit was also really handy since I wouldn't lose the context that I was just editing in.
If they were the executor of the estate or heir, then it is their property for liquidation or their own use.
The US already has established air travel. And mass transit via trains is not a technological problem, it is a political and a marketing problem. Hyperloop has the potential to solve the political and marketing problems.
This will only stop when people in the government will be actually punished for the suffering they've caused. Which is mostly never.
Labor theory of value lmao. Amazon workers are richer because they've been given an opportunity they otherwise wouldn't have. If they could have a better job they'd take it.
Or use a private search engine.
They say that the `deposit` call is placed in `other`s mailbox. As long as the mailbox is preserved between restarts, then there is no danger of the money disappearing. The money will temporarily be unavailable - that is, in neither account's balance. But the money is still somewhere, in the mailbox.
Happy with the number of comments on this release.

HN is a funny place.One day you are convinced no smart person on HN is still writing Java and the next day you see droves discussing about a java release.
The most invasive apps: which apps are sharing your personal data?
Taking down Parler was certainly not justified, but I agree it was one step down the slippery slope that normalizes this kind of brazen gatekeeping on essential public utilities like app stores. Facebook played a much larger role in the planning of the riot at the capitol riots (https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/02/07/shery...) and they faced no consequences, presumably because they share the same political culture as Google and Apple.

It's also a gross overreaction to shut down Parler because the vast majority of people using Parler or supporting Trump did not participate in the riot. Tens of thousands were in DC that day for various rallies and protests, and thousands stayed outside the barricades at the capitol. A few hundred went past them as protesters (rioters?), but committed no additional crimes beyond trespassing, which is the same as past incidents at the capitol like the riots at Brett Kavanaugh hearings (https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/405500-212-protesters-to...). Ultimately only 10 were associated with the Oath Keepers (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/29/us/oath-keepe...).

And on the balance, Parler had 20 million users (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parler) and Trump had north of 70 million supporters. It's not justifiable to stop all those people from having a voice. How was it at all justifiable for AOC to demand Parler be shutdown, for tech companies to immediately fall in line by banning the app, and for other companies to also participate in a seemingly coordinated deplatforming effort? It's also chilling to consider that a sitting legislator can call for the shutdown of the speech of private citizens - that amounts to the government coercing bans of speech from private organizations, and is a first amendment violation.

Either way, here we are, in a world where people depend on their mobile phones as utilities, but are serviced by companies that are not regulated as public utilities. They need to either stop being gatekeepers, and act neutrally, or they need to be regulated to enforce that requirement. After all, they are effectively immune to competition.
> My layman’s summary of it is that the way genes express themselves is dependent on the surrounding environment so DNA alone doesn’t define how a single cell or larger organism will develop.

Epigenetics is the study of how the environment affects gene expression (i.e. turning genes 'on' or 'off'), and it's a relatively new field.

https://www.cdc.gov/genomics/disease/epigenetics.htm

So yes, that's a level of additional complexity, and we're now also learning more about how our microbiome and virome affects our biology as well, which I'm sure will lead to even further complexity...

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_virome
I don't. We have chrome dev tools and firefox dev tools which are both literally the same thing as firebug but with a decade of refinement. There are so many great aspects to those tools that firebug didn't have back then because it was the first version basically.
This only applies to Blender. No other 3D software that I know of requires numpad hotkeys. I've been using Maya/Houdini/zBrush for years, never touched the numpad, that feels too awkward. If numpad keybindings in these apps do exist - I never knew about them, never needed to, never will.

(because left hand is on the keyboard, and right hand is on the mouse or stylus, and putting down the mouse to reach for a numpad is just weird.)

Doing it with the laptop would be even worse, I imagine.
We already have mass human unemployment. What's the average daily wage?
It's not that low because everyone is gainfully employed.
Yes and no. I do agree that probably nobody's going to build another Eiffel tower or Crystal Palace any time soon,but we need spaces to explore science, innovation,and simply have for people to do something more interesting than just mindlessly walking through shopping malls.
Fairs and expos inspire. I still remember going to a tech expo as a teenager and seeing all these latest gadgets and thinking: I want to be part of it! Now imagine going to one of these in the middle of last century and seeing rockets, nuclear car prototypes and things like that. You almost instantly want to sign up or at least show it to your kids.
Docker attempts to do all of these things. It may not do them well but it provides a framework/opinion on how this should all be managed:

1. binary + configs (PWD, files, ENV): baked into the image's Dockerfile

2. Secrets: passed in via env vars at runtime

3. Service discovery: docker-compose exposes container name as a hostname and provides a DNS record for this available
in all netns that are connected to the same network.

4. data storage folders: Volumes https://docs.docker.com/storage/volumes/#share-data-among-ma...

5. Health checking: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/#healthchec...

6. binary placement: https://www.docker.com/blog/multi-arch-build-and-images-the-...

7. networking configs: https://docs.docker.com/network/

8. log management: to file or to syslog over TCP (super easy to ship to ELK) https://docs.docker.com/config/containers/logging/configure/

9. fault-tolerant rollbacks: if you tag images correctly and you are upgrading from v1 -> v2 you can just replace the tag with :v1 to rollback to the correct version which will also be cached on the machine. If your registry is down you can still rollback.

10. Process isolation: this is exactly what docker is. Process isolation implemented in the kernel (sometimes).
Ironically, Salon learned nothing from their own feature and its own discussion forum "TableTalk" was only narrowly saved by third parties (especially the Internet Archive) when they dumped it some years later.

Unfortunately, too late to save the quite brilliant International Issues section, which had been arrogantly deleted without notice years before presumably because it was deemed "foreign" as well as being a cost-sink.

It housed some of the most brilliant discussions I've ever read online, now mostly lost forever afaik.

Strangely, Salon's own incompetence and lack of concern for guardianship is completely missing from the article.

https://archive.org/details/archiveteam-tabletalk-panic
Not to nit apart the title, but it seemed a bit strange to me. "Reverse wealth transfer" seems to imply wealth transfer has directionality.
I am a full-time freelancer (cloud arc not dev). I started cold turkey last April when my firm lost tons of gigs. I started on market places and through that built relationships with other firms that didn't have a cloud architect and they have come back to me with additional work. I have also landed gigs through contacts. Once I got the ball moving it has been mostly non-stop. The taxes and insurance aren't as bad as you might think. The back end work of invoices, taxes, expenses, contracts, so on can all be managed in one app so it isn't a nightmare. It's nice to be able to spot concerning projects and turn them down as opposed to being forced into a project you know is going to be a nightmare. I bill @ 110/hr with no problem. It has also let me spend time giving away my services to some non-profits and startups. I don't think it's right for everyone but I enjoy it.
Yeah, locked my primary account and the admin account. There was no option to use any recovery options that I could see.

And today I get an email saying my accounts are now enabled?

The computers are definitely in control.

Glad I was forced to move away at this point, locking accounts is one thing, but bouncing emails not cool.
> any price over $0 is a dealbreaker.

The user pays for Google in the end, just not consensually. It's a closed loop. All the money ultimately comes from the users. Product or politics, all advertisers are expecting to get some return.

Unfortunately it's in human nature to not want to pay. Search needs to be a utility that we all fund to make it the best tool for society.
MDN (Mozilla Developer Network) was a complete game changer.
That's an amazing inference.

IIRC, The Occupy Movement heavily influenced BLM.

David Graeber talks about the origins of Occupy in The Democracy Project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Democracy_Project

Sure Anarchists like Graeber are adjacent to Socialists, Marxists, and other groups. But Anarchists are for participatory democracy, against government. The left-wing version of libertarians. So Anarchists oppose Socialists, Communists, and Liberals (today's Democrats & Republicans) equally.

I couldn't say if Occupy or BLM are Marxist, Socialist, or whatever. Or since everyone uses their own definitions, what that could possibly mean. Things get nutty when people try to use 100 year old terms to talk about contemporary stuff.

It's on my to do list to find similar write-ups about BLM. Please share if you found any.
> these numbers are minuscule, on the order of people killed by vending machines and bath tubs. So they are dangerous in the sense that bathtubs are dangerous

Comparing the numbers equates the degree of the danger, not the kind. They are dangerous in a very different sense, that of intent: Bathtubs do not chant slogans calling for anyone's death, while carrying out an armed attack.
You should be able to split the object store into 2 systems: 1 metadata (think rdbms/nosql/etc) and a blob-data service, keeping large files, think 10KB+. Both systems should be able to be more efficient than the current method.

Example: you can add erasure coding to the blob-data service for better efficiency. You can add fancy indexing to your metadata store. etc etc.

But somebody has to create it, that's the issue.
Does the platform give an opportunity for a group of people to "cancel" someone out of spite?
In practice, very few of these actually benefit from copyright. Most do work-for-hire, which is effectively a negation or renounce to one’s IP rights; and opensource is effectively a way to do the same. The ones who can actually extract direct benefit from IP are “ the 1%”, so to speak.
When I saw the $1.9 trillion stimulus pass I took that as a good signal to add to some existing crypto positions.

I stick to index futures and options on those futures myself but a friend of mine is deep into trading crypto. After a few drinks we were at his place just last Sunday and he was showing me charts and what not explaining his methodology for trading. It was absolutely alien to me considering the things I commonly trade.

Even funnier to me than How The Expert Does It was the fact that it's been working for some time. That very night he correctly called the big down move we just saw and correctly (so far) picked up where the fall back support would be. As always the situation is in progress...

The funny thing is that I'd be laughing my ass off at such cargo cult voodoo if he hadn't made so much money.
There are no GC pauses issues practically now and for years. Language startup is also not all that much issue.
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Here's a post containing two medium posts and additional explanation on backbone of the platform. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26480748
Zocdoc. It is SO easy to find good doctors now compared to what you used to have to do.
That's the goal. Infinite jest.
What is the point of caring about few animals that are used every year in movie productions, when hundreds of millions suffer in factory farming?
Right you are, and the land tax is specifically designed to destroy the speculative activity that causes it to increase forever.
> Everyone thought that as new countries got richer, they would follow in the steps of western values (democracy, free markets, etc.).

This is the key idea that has failed: the idea that prosperity equals or leads to social liberalism and human rights, or that the two are interdependent.

This idea appears to be wrong, having been disproven by China.

Totalitarianism and prosperity can co-exist just fine. Totalitarianism and capitalism can even co-exist to a degree, with the totalitarian tendency to kneecap the extremely wealthy being outweighed by the totalitarian ability to forcibly suppress workers' rights movements and pushes for higher wages. Totalitarians can also backstop the economy, stepping in in the event of a crash and forcing number to go up by edict. That benefits the investor class at the expense of the working class by effectively writing down wages and inflating assets.

This means utilitarian arguments for freedom and human rights fail. That's a big deal and undermines at least a half century of libertarian and neoliberal talking points. It means human rights must be argued for on purely spiritual, moral/ethical, or hedonic grounds, not utilitarian grounds.

I think the collapse of this key idea is as much a driver of the global push-back against globalism as working class economic concerns and cultural xenophobia, if not more. Human beings are philosophical beings and coherent narratives and ideas matter to us. When China showed that you could have totalitarianism and prosperity, the bottom fell out of the argument for the whole project.
> Unfortunately, this all started to change after the U.S. put a man on the moon. While this was certainly a "giant leap for mankind," we lacked an understanding of what our next step would be.

Is there supporting evidence of these assertions? There are some interesting ideas in here, but I’m not seeing anything to back them up.
It warmed my heart to see Paint Shop Pro mentioned. I always found this a much more approachable general-purpose editor than Photoshop.

These days I tend to use GIMP for pixel editing, personally, which works well enough.
Also your AV gear. One of the factories of a premium DSP supplier burned down, and now no-one can get DSPs for their home theatres.
> The chance that ETH gets a 500% return from now until the end of the year is about 50%, in my opinion.

If I were a betting man, I would be willing to wager any amount you named that you are wrong. (Seriously, any amount up to my maximum ability to raise. If it were more than I were comfortable losing, I'd buy ETH for about 1/3 the dollar amount of the bet, and make money no matter what happened.)
Seems irrelevant. Of course police see women as less threatening. Most police are men. Though I'm sure Black women are killed by police at higher rates than white women.

Seems like just trying to redirect the narrative. Kind of like when you bring up the studies where identical resumes were sent out half with white sounding names and half with Black sounding names and the white sounding names get way more callbacks.

The response is usually something like, that probably has more to do with class/wealth, not race. As if the two are not strongly linked.
From what I understand, Piper is not a fork of Perforce, but instead a completely different system with the same interface. You know, built on top of a BigTable or Spanner cluster instead of whatever Perforce uses.

The Mercurial extensions are then an alternative client for Piper.
> We're still in a fucking pandemic!

You are not allowed to leave the house?
While it takes some work I have successfully run Swift code on the usual suspects (iOS/Mac) as well as Windows, Android and Linux.

If you ditch Foundation and rely on C libs you are able to use it pretty much anywhere.
One of the chief purposes of a land tax is to destroy the speculative activity which drives land prices up forever and ever.
What do you miss from Firebug that's missing from the built-in tools in any major browser?
I also had WM phones at the time of the iPhone release. Most WM users at the time, myself included, were power-users who criticized the iPhone for a lack of features and never actually bought one. I couldn't install my network scanning app, connect to exchange, or even copy/paste with the iPhone, so what was the point?

Turns out I was entirely wrong: Apple wasn't positioning this phone for IT/business professionals for corporate use. They were building a consumer product. The feature set they were prioritizing was entirely counter-intuitive from my perspective. The features that I thought were gimmicks at the time ended up being the features that made it successful: natural multi-touch input, a (then) gigantic screen, and a bare-bones UI/UX. It had nothing that I wanted or needed, but it had everything that they needed to open up the market to millions of people who weren't using HTC bricks on their Verizon corporate plan that their IT admin configured for them.

Just search "windows mobile" on YouTube and look back at the awful (but feature filled!) experiences we used to think was awesome. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXDgsZvSTP8
There was arguably a worse period than non-existence, which was when it existed but didn't work very well.
One bad thing about leaving your car outside all the time vs a garage although is increased wear on the body and the overall life of the car.
I've never used a more stable, feature-filled, and affordable DAW than Reaper. Making music with it is a lot of fun
They can get big. Like 400-1000 LBS. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogzilla

They are vicious.

Also they are tuff. They have about 1” of skull. They also have platted shoulders. This means that many handgun calibers do little to them. Well placed shots in the eye or ear will take them about. Otherwise you need a high powered round like a .454 or .3030.

This means most creatures can’t take them on. We’ve also removed some that could like wolves.

They reproduce rapidly. Even with wolves, their numbers grow because most alpha predators don’t want to fuck around with them for fun, only for food. Once the pack is satiated, the piggies move on.

Boar are from Spain. They would let the pigs go while exploring. Come back a year later and you have a stocked larder. Hunt pig to get meat back on the menu.
You are in my blacklist.
Hyperloop may solve political and marketing problems, but doesn’t solve the “cheap, safe, and fast transport problem” in any ways. That’s a completely impractical concept.
Isn't Satoshi a trillionaire?
I made my account(s) off invite codes and have "just my last name" at gmail dot com as an address... it's one of my most prized possessions, to this day!
It’s the monorail of the future!
Robots building houses on cheap land due to mass work form home would make housing much cheaper. Robot doctors make healthcare much cheaper. Robot teachers make childcare/education much cheaper. Robot farmers + GMO make food much cheaper.
The rr debugger [1]. I desperately missed it after switching to a mac laptop -- to the point that I now have an older linux system which exists primarily to run rr.

(I've heard that Pernosco [2] - partly built on rr, AFAIK - is even more revolutionary, but haven't yet tried it myself)

[1] https://rr-project.org/
[2] https://pernos.co/