skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are roughly 10^23 stars in the observable universe. We really have no idea how likely intelligent life is to evolve. It could be 1/10^10 per star, in which case intelligent life would be a fairly typical thing (dozens in the milky way), or it could be just 1/10^100, in which case we could be the only ones. Unlikelihoods can compound very quickly.
Nova Review: Panic’s Code Editor Demonstrates Why Mac-Like Design Matters
Pretty sure that's only for individuals.
Fun fact: about 20 years ago, LaTeX developers were lamenting the stagnation of LaTeX and LaTeX being surpassed on a technical level by its new competitor (in the TeX world), ConTeXt.

Since then LaTeX has basically kept on stagnating in the name of backwards compatibility, while ConTeXt keeps on progressing; it already broke backwards compatibility several times (it's latest implementation is called LMTX).

But the inertia is so powerful that nobody except TeX geeks even knows what ConTeXt is. How does that happen?

Sidenote: it's not just about ConTeXt, even LuaTeX, the latest (but not new anymore) implementation of TeX in general, is being ignored by scientific publishers.

Meanwhile, ConTeXt is mostly used for demanding typesetting of books.

And, BTW, using ConTeXt (or LuaTeX) doesn't even necessarily mean writing TeX anymore, it's possible to drive the engines through the Lua C API, or with XML, etc.

ConTeXt links:

https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page

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

Mailing list: https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Applies in the UK, though, we got our case law system from them.
Naive? People on the opposite side of the argument have been wrong consistently for decades. The last time they were right was the Great Depression, almost 100 years ago. I think policy makers like the Federal Reserve have learned a lot since then.
Pretty much none of those have the key ownership feature that is the most significant aspect of the master/slave relationship.

Most of the relationships in that list would be more accurately described as lead/follower (followers copy or join in with the actions of a leader), boss/worker (workers work on tasks given them by a boss).
> And of course there is no mechanism for regular updates either.

Not true. There is both syspatch(8) to apply binary updates and sysupgrade(8) to upgrade to the next release or snapshot. And there are regular packages available for -stable and -current.

> New users should be running either -stable or -release. That being said, many people do run -current on production systems to help catch bugs and test new features.

Is the full quote from the page you linked. I won't reply to you further as it's clear from other replies here you have an agenda.
I'm not sure that is correct in this case.

It appears Netspend was interacting with their own customer in the context of one of it's own processes. They weren't doing so as a TPV working on behalf of the banking institution that the customer would be using Netspend to transfer money from/to.

-Example-
Netspend: Thanks for signing up for Netspend. We need to verifying your real. Please go to netspend.com/validate and provide y.

If Netspend was asking or directing the customer to provide information on, or interact with the banking institutions own properties then yes, I can see how you'd be correct.

-Example-
Netspend: You've indicated you use Example Bank. In order for us to link to your EB account please go to example.com/myaccount and do x, y, and z.
I just watched "Kingdom of the White Wolf" on Disney+ which has exactly that situation. The white wolves of Ellesmere island hunt musk oxen; there isn't much else there except snow hares. At one point after not managing to take down a musk ox for a while they do hunt the snow hares and manage to get one... which serves to cement their pack bonds, but the calories gained were probably less than what the spent on that hunt.

Great mini-series, recommended.
The problem with that is we never graduate to the real problems.

People who are after a quick, delusional dopamine hit from changing harmless terminology will just go after sillier and sillier stuff instead.

It's not "too small", it's irrelevant and selfish.
The reinvention is called ConTeXt.
Have a watch at the classic "The Glass-Bottom Boat" from 1966 - it has a decent view of what they expected would be near-future automation, much of which we're just now seeing as cost-effective.
The big problem with that question is that when you understand something, it becomes simple(r) in your mind, and no longer complex.

But objectively, that might be something that thousands of other people class as complex, very complex or even extremely complex..
If you recruit from best universities and you decide to recruit from some universities because they have more people of a specific race, that is a racial based decision and it makes it racist. Including based on race is as racist as excluding based on race.
It's not difficult to learn at a base level. The real difficulty in learning LaTeX is becoming comfortable with handing the keys over when it comes to presentation — WYSIWYG grabs people easily, and, once taken in, it is tremendously difficult to break them of their urge to fiddle with things. In many ways it is good that it takes some doing to do more than the basics — nice output for basic documents is almost a guarantee.
Western lunacy will truly never fail to amaze me
A lot of this comes from Galenson's research, as mentioned early in the article. He was the thesis advisor for a friend of mine, and seems like an interesting thinker. He wrote a book on this topic: https://www.davidgalenson.com/v1/index.html
Last time I checked, Audacity Portable had a better UI than the regular version, so you might want to try that.
I enjoyed your story too. Good on you for going for it! At the very least, you tried!
"JavaScript = bad" is a very popular opinion on HN and that library allows to draw charts without JavaScript.
Replying to my own comment because an edit felt like cheating...

The entire crypto market goes to infinity or zero. I don't readily know which is more likely; only that I'm betting on infinity.
Thank you. I like your idea of support. Let me try summarizing it with bullet points:

* Maintain a healthy ratio between the knowns and the unknowns.

* Allow time and space to explore, experiment, and especially err -- to build up experience.
> Yes, there are many of these people, but my argument is that actions like this empower bad faith actors.

My POV is that bad actors should never be a consideration - they are never going to be helpful whether you "empower" them or not. They should be removed from the equation entirely.

> We fundamentally disagree that use of the word "master" in a technical context is racist or a denial of human dignity.

I never claimed naming a default branch "master" is racist - changing it is petty and performative, and doesn't change anything overall. That said, the people who get outraged over this, claiming "PC culture has gone mad" or "'Wokism' is destroying the world" raise a red flag for me, and I immediately suspect them of being culture warriors. I didn't see the same levels of indignation when the kilobyte and megabyte were redefined from 1024 to 1000, but technically the changes are similar (minor annoyance that might break your code/build, but can be fixed with a search-and-replace).

> I don't see how our children grow up in a better world if we abandon all hope of reasoning with our fellow citizens.

Oh, I think reasoning with our fellow citizens is a wonderful thing, but it should not be a prerequisite for a subset of the citizenry to obtain what ought to be inalienable rights - it shouldn't be a negotiation. At times, well-meaning criticism from moderates/the squishy center - who are not as invested - can slow down the movement: I think MLK's "Letter from Birmingham"[1] addresses this more eloquently than I can. Additionally, other movements who are (or feel) oppressed are not relegated to starting from a point of appealing to fellow-citizens: not the Pro-life, or the Pro-choice, or the Pro-2A contingents do this. Why is there a difference?

1. https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham....
Facebook increases penalties for rule-breaking groups and their members
I think you're the one messing with reality here.

Bitcoin needs to be stable before it can be used widespread for transactions.

Visa doing this increases its adoption, increased adoption, even if used in this way will stabilise the currency.

That is huge. It's just a required stepping stone.
Their fundraising banners are obnoxious and A/B tested to death, worded such that it seems they are so cash-strapped that they will shut down tomorrow if you don't donate. In reality they raising a LOT more money than necessary to operate servers.
Three tools that I think are less widely known compared to how useful they are: jq, progress, and pv.

`pv` (pipe view) is rather simple but I use it for viewing a lot and sometimes rate-limiting transfers. Usage is simple: `curl huge-file | pv | some-operation` will show you the progress (okay, curl already does... but pv works for any pipe input, and pv can work in line mode with -l so you can see how many lines (records, presumably) it processed).

`progress` is even simpler! Just type progress in a random terminal while, in another, you are running an operation like cp, gzip, etc.

$ progress
[10123] bzip2 /tmp/test
32.5% (127.0 MiB / 390.6 MiB)

Use -m to monitor instead of doing a one-shot. This will also allow it to calculate the remaining time (for anything running at more than a few kilobytes per second).

I also love progress just because it's such a hack. It hooks into the process and monitors file operations. Simple but effective. Somehow it works super well because it manages to ignore everything irrelevant and only shows you the file handle you care about (you can give it hints if necessary, I've used that maybe once in ten years).

`jq` takes JSON data and either pretty-prints (default) or operates on it:

$ echo '{"whoami": "root"}' | jq
{
"whoami": "root"
}
# imagine colored output above

$ echo '{"whoami": "root"}' | jq .whoami
"root"

$ echo '{"users": [{"name": "abc", ...}, ...]}' | jq '.users[].name'
# prints the name of all users in this array

$ curl localhost/api/v1/users | jq '.users[] | "\(.name) \(.age)"' | sort -n -k 2 | tail -1 && echo "is our oldest user!"
We can nitpick this all we want - because in your VSCode screenshot I do not see where I can add a new file, or rename my open file, or create a project structure, etc.

In your Eclipse screenshot, it seems pretty obvious you can click-drag the window to be larger.

So, what is it we're arguing about then, if we both agree a default UI layout isn't indicative of a good or bad IDE?

I'd wager if you spent a few hours in Eclipse you'd feel comfortable navigating your project too. AKA, invest the time and learn the tool you will be using.
There are so many people commenting here about Bitcoin holders who don't even have Bitcoin.

As a person living primary on Bitcoin, I would love what VISA is doing, the volatility is not a problem for me, lightning wallets would be perfect, but I don't want to do taxation for thousands of small payments with different Bitcoin prices (especially as I'm not from US, where there is specialized software for it), so I lend USD against my Bitcoin tax-free and use that money to buy stuff. My behaviour would change if Bitcoin could be used for buying things directly tax-free (just like with any other currency).
Thank you so much. The way we've been solving the problem so far is listening to what users want and making changes they ask for (if those changes are in the direction we want it going). I think there is no easy way to do this - it's just talking to tons of users and having a clear internal vision of where we are going with it. We see a big opportunity and have a vision of what it looks like so we're just trying to optimize for that and balance feedback.
Positive move but will any real progress be made here? I doubt it.

FB groups have become a haven for loonies over the past couple years and this will only continue.
> Liberalism didn't change because people are using the term incorrectly and don't understand how to use it properly.

Well...

Actually it has changed. Classical Liberalism[1] is primarily an economic belief system that advocates small, non-interventionist government. It evolved into Right-libertarianism in the 20th and 21st century.

"In the late 19th century, classical liberalism developed into neo-classical liberalism, which argued for government to be as small as possible to allow the exercise of individual freedom. In its most extreme form, neo-classical liberalism advocated social Darwinism. Right-libertarianism is a modern form of neo-classical liberalism."

This odd positioning is most visible in Australia, where the conservative party is called "The Liberal party" after the mid-20th century view on this.

This is a long way from any modern understanding of Liberalism particularly within the US:

"Social liberalism, also known as left liberalism in Germany, modern liberalism in the United States[4] and new liberalism in the United Kingdom, is a political philosophy and variety of liberalism that endorses a regulated market economy and the expansion of civil and political rights....

In the United States, the term social liberalism may sometimes refer to progressive stances on sociocultural issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage as opposed to social conservatism."[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_liberalism
That’s a pretty good analogy the signature isn’t often not a simple hash of the malware but rather a more fuzzy signature based on core functions that are harder to alter without loss of function.
My prediction is that thanks to the stimulus checks the USA will start growing much faster and leave the EU in the dust. Meanwhile the Euro zone is unable to engage even in the tiniest bit of fiscal stimulus.
Leo Szilard’s Failed Quest to Build a Ruling Class
I don't think it's ridiculous, no. (But I think wincing at some of your examples would be.)

Really I'm not the best person to judge though. I'm happy to be guided by people who experience racism and groups tackling the legacy of slavery. Because those things seem important whereas my terminology preferences for asymmetric nodes in a distributed system, when there are plenty of sensible alternatives, seem less so.
The US, too, had no channel 1. (Source: I'm old enough that my family owned a TV in the 1960s.) And my current cable TV service, from Comcast, also has no channel 1.
Brings a whole new meaning to "I had a shit of a flight."
One of the definitions of "slave" is "A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another". Is that not a metaphor either?
I criticize the article based on its claim, not my expectations.
Have you tried https://www.magicearth.com?
I’m using it on iOS where it supports Car Play.
From a quick search it seems to me that it also supports Android Auto.
the problem with wanting to write biographies of failures is the same problem with publishing negative results in science: there are too many failures, and too many ways to fail. It's like entropy - there are so many ways to do something wrong that it's not very efficient to learn how to do something by enumerating all the ways you cannot do it. Much rarer is success, which is why it's more worth the time to study. Maybe this is a controversial opinion.

Maybe adjacent failures are worth study - studies of people who very nearly succeeded compared to someone who did, where subtle differences ended up being significant. These kinds of things can create "what to watch out for" kinds of guides.

In addition - what is failure? Was Nikola Tesla a failure? He died broke... but he still invented AC generators...
This is a crazy read; I was there (though very young and not well connected) and, just try to get your head around a world in which the Internet was so new and unstable:

http://phrack.org/issues/45/8.html

Also: $300 for an X.25 hookup! I totally could have run an X.25 board!
If it's titled "Fast food steak experience", yes.
>What's the alternative? Stop reporting news altogether?

Maybe don't report something that one person told you and that you can't otherwise confirm?

That used to be the way that news was done, right?
im sure youve heard it before, but priority 1 for me is get the playhead scrubbing reset and looping all sorted. something like logic is very intuitive imo. cheers!
What better way to open your eyes than be inside the belly of the beast?

People can grow and have regrets.
The staggering cost of surviving heart disease in the USA
Happy Eclipse and NetBeans user for what concerns Java development.

I rather suck it up and use Electron for Java development (VSCode + Microsoft/Red-Hat plugins) than having to deal with InteliJ.
I think you are reading too much in my message. Me disapproving of someone's life choices does not mean I do not think they have the right to make those choices. Neither have I shared anything about my parenting plans. A knee-jerk negative quip does not help in such a conversation.
I used this in school it is great!
This! It's a superpower. It's very hard though. I still struggle.
In my view, if the goal is productive discourse, every contentious social justice scenario demands a nuanced parsing of the facts.

I'm not familiar with the LibreOffice change, but from what I can tell, it doesn't seem like this change was delivered with any fanfare or something like an official blogpost targeting the general public and presented as an effort towards inclusion and social justice. Instead, it seems to be treated by the developers in a manner that reflects exactly what it is, a trivial relabeling, perhaps in a positive direction, but one that doesn't merit injection into the wider discourse over racial justice. The developers made this change based on their personal values and in a way that doesn't interrupt the natural workflow of the users which inevitably draws scrutiny and creates contention. I'm all for developers using whatever labels align with their values, where I have a problem is the pronouncement of such trivialities as if they represent something meaningful.
As someone who has failed as a CEO - I can’t write about it, because it would have a bad impact on my former team, who is still working away.

Not only must you find someone willing to document their failure (I am), they have to be free and clear (I am not).
Does this count?

https://jspaint.app

(& github: https://github.com/1j01/jspaint )
>create infrastructure for authentic speech.

What would that look like?
Record Label 2021
YJIT: Yet Another Ruby JIT
Why do the lessons only have code but not the rendered results? It's difficult to follow along if you don't know what the code is actually doing...
Thanks for trying us out :)

Spreadsheet like support is not something we currently support but we'll have integrations and also native support coming soon!
> It's not a currency, that's a misnomer to a great degree

I agree with you. The comment was made within the context of (a) Visa treating it like a currency and (b) OP referencing the original dream of Bitcoin supporting a decentralized financial system.
Does it run NVidia's CUDA?
at least he mentions the biggest caveat: <<The government needs to respond accordingly. "If public policy doesn't adapt accordingly, most people will end up worse off than they are today," Altman said.>> But I find his point about the next 100 years being the ones we make the most progress in more discussion-worthy. I'd find it hard to top the 20th century but then again, who knows what the future brings? (except climate change)
House construction is such a lucrative industry in the US, too bad they banned it. Imagine banning farms that produce more than a set amount of wheat or corn per acre. Absolutely ridiculous.
If it's sold as a "ready to eat steak" (hence the title), I wouldn't expect cooking instructions, yes.
So what are the legal aspects of this scenario. If a bad guy keeps on holding the domain can Fiserv take that guy to court and get back the domain?
There was a channel 1 briefly in a few places, but it turns out that it wasn't a good spectrum for TV so it looked awful, so no one wanted it. They didn't bother to renumber all the channels though, so channel 1 just didn't get used (although it's available as a virtual channel now).
The real issue isn't the 'false' stories. Most 'false' stories are from hyper-partisan outlets that don't really matter. The mainstream media rarely writes 'false' stories, because lying is dumb. Lying creates blowback, which harms your credibility and hamstrings your ability to shape the narrative. If your goal is to mislead, the best path to tell the truth, the politically convenient truth, but never the whole truth. That way, folks like you can (plausibly!) ask "where's the lie?"

Well, it's hard to put my finger on a specific lie. Even if I did, you'd (plausibly!) argue "That's just one article!" Luckily, there are plenty of hard data out there about how the American people have been misled.

One great example is the Trump tax cuts. 64% of Americans got a tax cut, of whom 40% were convinced that they did not! [0]

Our media is incapable of informing the people about a matter of simple arithmetic!

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/business/economy/income-t...
Thank you, I really appreciate it :)
That is the bargain...

IIRC, StarShip will result in something like 1 Million tons of annual launch capacity -- 3 orders of magnitude greater than today. Commercial applications are required, and satellites such as StarLink are a natural start.

Meanwhile, some of that launch capacity can be used to build space-based instruments for much cheaper.

Overall, I'd call it a win.
Life support is expensive and we're a ways away from creating cattle that aren't conscious, don't feel pain or suffer, but yet their bodies still function.
I think you're right about that. Coupled with the fact that extremes from both "wings" are, despite being quite small, very loud and have the megaphone of the news media and social media to make them seem larger than they really are.
Something which is inevitable. It's hard to turn back the clock on something like this and I don't see any obvious solution for it, which is why both companies need to be regulated heavily to ensure they treat app developers fairly. If they're going to monopolize their own platforms, then whoever wants to sell on that platform needs to have guarantees that they aren't arbitrarily banned and that they have sane avenues to dispute any conflicts with Google or Apple. This is what regulation is for, to ensure fair marketplaces.
Here's an example of the type of article that was coming out during this time.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/russia-stole-the-presiden_b_1...

You're absolutely right, Russia very likely did spent time and money attempting to influence the 2016 election, very few would doubt that. What I have issue with is the erasure of the fact that media outlets and mainstream Democrats were absolutely and without a doubt pushing the narrative that Russia "stole" or "hacked" the election, which is very different from attempting to influence.

That piece I posted, of which there are hundreds of similar ones easily perusable quotes:

"[Donald Trump] it turns out, is no more the duly elected president of the United States than I am the world’s most decorated ballerina."

Do you see the issue there? It was a mainstream opinion at the time to believe that despite misguided Americans legally voting him into power, the election was fraudulent and Donald Trump was not the legal president.

I truly believe if the Democrats had exercised more tact in their accusations 4 years prior, we wouldn't have seen the horrific events at the capital by domestic terrorists peddling essentially the same conspiracy theory which had been forced down their throats by centre-left media.
I'm curious what damage you think was done here?