skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember my first job in tech support where I'd have to walk 40-50 year old white-collar workers through basic tasks like opening files in folders, connecting to WiFi, resetting passwords, etc. I have no problem whatsoever helping people with that sort of thing when they truly need it, but it would always irk me when they'd just giggle and say things like "Oh, I'm just not a computer person!" This would blow my mind, like, could you imagine a carpenter having to constantly be told how to use a cordless drill and justify it with "Oh, I'm just not really a power tools person!" It's one thing to grumble about technology these days, but refusing to learn the basics of the thing you use to do your job is ridiculous.
It's not "free copy for twitter" anymore than a press briefing is "free copy for newspapers".

Leaders communicate wherever people are already reading and listening.

Today, Twitter is just as important of a conduit as newspapers or the evening news.

People already read Twitter and find it far more convenient to follow a world leader than to visit individual sites or set up an RSS reader.

Also you might be suffering from a legal misunderstanding -- Twitter doesn't get any kind of monopoly, free or otherwise, on someone's tweet. You keep the rights to your tweet.

There's zero difference between journalists reporting on a press conference and reporting on a tweet, except that tweets are instant while press conferences take time to set up.

And also that tweets are direct to the public, while when you read a journalist's article they might be omitting parts or spinning it.
Folks are coming to HN and twitter to see what happened.
What can we do? Deregulate the payments industry. Ain't gonna happen though. The regulators and the regulated like things just the way they are.
Hacker's Guide to Numerical Analysis
250k was one one programmer made in an experiment over a couple nights.

The Ethereum world (and potentially other cryptos) seem awash with this kind of thing.
It feels like throwing money down the virtual toilet has become a new international sport for rich people. Ethereum is like giant garbage can for throwing away money; it lets you waste it all on ridiculous DeFi fees or on some useless NFTs, or you can waste it on completely ridiculous trading schemes that are only possible because of major flaws in the design of the garbage can... Um, I mean Ethereum...

Rich people these days don't seem to bat an eyelash when it comes to throwing away huge sums of money on some obvious scams but they will not risk to invest even small amounts in new promising projects.

Is there some kind of secret club for all rich people where one of the rules is that you should only invest your money in scams? That's the most rational explanation I can come up with.

I'm not surprised that so many people believe in conspiracy theories nowadays. It's really difficult to explain how else rich people can be so dumb... It's almost like the invisible hand of fortune is selecting them explicitly because of their stupidity.
Oh also, check out all the features:

www.captivate.fm/features

Meant to add that :)
This reminds me of secretly installing the metal slug emulator on computers when I was in high school so me and my friends could play before band class lol.
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Absolutely. I believe it was estimated that asteroid was equivalent to something like 3000+ nuclear bombs all detonating at the same time.
Those 2 are part of 6 courses. See my comment above:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26515981
"Depends on what you mean by "civilized", but I take your point. I do wonder, however, if there isn't a correlation between the increase of light pollution and the trend away from reverence for gods. In other words, does the ability to see the grandeur of the heavens on a daily basis influence us to believe in greater beings?"

I wouldn't say it's exactly subtle to say "depends on what you mean by 'civilized'" and then immediately talk about the "trend away from reverence for gods". If you want to clarify, then clarify, but as it stands your comment is quite clear.
With one site I developed with Shopify, I have a huge cart abandonment rate because of that 3 step checkout, even with the accelerated checkouts like Apple/Google Pay.

A single page modal checkout on the same page is the way to go these days, even Stripe's new checkout is unfortunately doing the same thing with not keeping the user on the same page.
Why Dinosaurs Would Have Never Built Spaceships (2015)
Not OP, and I don't know if you've ever worked within Shopify, but the developer experience is generally terrible. They've given up supporting most of their own tools and basically just tell you to work within their site admin IDE which is also lacking in many ways.
Oh c’mon I thought it was well written and NOT just a sales pitch for the product. The author clearly had experiences to share and this product demonstrated a solution.
Backup on the Fly
Things change, people change, priorities change.
It may not be convenient for you, but I support people pouring themselves into projects that have a license that matches their willingness to share.
> I can't help but feel like if you want static typing, you're better off recognizing that python is not the right tool for the job.

If the one and only thing you want is static typing, sure.

That's, like, never the case in programming, so it's not really meaningful, though.

In real world programming scenarios, you are always dealing with balancing multiple dimensional problems and “python, with some degree of static typing” is a reasonable component of the solution for lots of them.

> Or said differently, adding mypy feels like trying to get out of a trade-off decision.

No, considering python’s available static type checking (whether mypy, pyright, or whatever, or even a combination) is turning a big coarse trade-off decision into one with finer-grained options, not avoiding it.

> For me, platform core values that stick out for python would be Approachability, Simplicity, and Velocity. I understand the posited value mypy brings to the table, but it feels in contention with the original core values that made python appealing to begin with.

IME using Python’s typing, usually incrementally added, it's not particularly. In fact, it's an enhancer to velocity as the code base evolves.
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Popular opinion: I think governments should invest at least a mangitude more money into adult education and life long learning should be normalized.

Situations like the one mentioned here shouldn't happen.
I have a cousin who buys into the whole 5G causes cancer stuff. He makes sure to not buy any 5GHz routers (802.11 n) for safety reasons... Uggghhhhhh.

I don't know. I mean, if these guys knew how the technology worked, then they wouldn't be fearful of it. But its one thing to have erroneous beliefs, a big problem now is that these conspiracy theories are now giving way to violent actions.

https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/memphis/news/pr...

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Now the type of violence being discussed by the intercept here is slightly different: they're talking about racially motivated hate groups attacking infrastructure to bring about political change.

But given the current events of the USA (some anecdotal evidence... I feel like there are more 5G conspiracy theorists than far-right white supremacist... but I'm no law official, I don't know for sure...), I have to think that it has to be related to the 5G conspiracy theories as well.

EDIT: Though... the events of January 6th do support the claim that racially motivated hate groups are organizing crimes now. And the thought-process of white-supremacists seem very similar to 5G conspiracy theorists as well ("Jews will not replace us", etc. etc.). So maybe there's more overlap between the two groups than I originally expected.
It's more true to say it's like arel than ActiveRecord, yes. It's more powerful than arel, though. It's otherwise not an ORM (more like an RM) and uses the Repo pattern.
> willing-to-experiment-by-pushing-all-the-buttons

This is a great way of putting it and something I haven't thought of before. Mostly, I have been guarding my 2yo from pushing-all-the-buttons because I'm scared of her breaking something expensive (air purifier) or hurting herself (elevator). But I want to foster this sense of creative exploration.

She has taken a lot of interest in my Macbook (lots of keys to press, and she sees me using it) but zero interest in the cheapo tablet I bought her.

Any advice?
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This project may appeal to people who are critical of proof-of-work blockchains (like Bitcoin) due to their high energy consumption.

From chia.net:
Chia Network develops a blockchain and smart transaction platform created by the inventor of BitTorrent, Bram Cohen. It implements the first new Nakamoto consensus algorithm since Bitcoin in 2008. Proofs of Space and Time replace energy intensive “proofs of work.”
The problem is of course that you want both. First you want to punish them so they, and others, are not motivated to do such a crime again.

But at the same time, you want them to go out as a better person than they went in (else there is no point in releasing them).

Punishing people after their release is not benefitting anyone.
> Have humans lost the ability to tolerate the knowledge that someone, somewhere, may disagree with them?

Scratch humans. Liberals fancy themselves as apolitical and simply "intelligent."

Think of the smarmy liberal culture icon Colbert saying "reality has a well-known liberal bias."

Side-note: if this were a critique of conservatives, it wouldn't be flagged.

It's a form of classism under the pretense that it's not - that's why they evade examination of themselves by centering the conversation on identity. "I'm not the problem - I'm an advocate for them!"
I agree: the email reads to me as entirely innocuous.

The rest of the world doesn't seem to agree, though. Right-leaning media proclaimed it was a smoking gun that would destroy Biden's candidacy. But Left-leaning media wasn't any better: to the extent it covered it at all, it was that the email was part of a sophisticated forgery and disinformation campaign by Russian state security services intended to cement Putin's dominance over the USA, with Twitter and most mainstream sources going so far as to ban sharing it.

That's a far cry from innocuous.
Damn wrong clipboard url, here’s the correct one: https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN2BB18R
So it should be accounted for directly instead of laundering it through "exempt" status.
I would suggest starting with something very simple like "command-line tic tac toe". Just by trying it you will already come across a few patterns that every game has. Then you port it to GL or something, and this will expose you to a whole new set of problems. Then you try to implement online support for two players, and so on. This should give you a nice platform to jump into the next things. Are you interested in every single aspect of game programming?
Do you think it's working? Looks annoyed to me.
Hopefully they also stop exporting unsolicited people.
AI for drug discovery as a Venture Capital meme – the case of Insitro
I think you're right, sans the bit about human nature. Traditionally influence is a function of understanding and wisdom, and that is a function of time and years.

The internet changed that.

Now it's a function of perceived popularity and perceived influence. That has become a (cheap?) proxy. It's not the person per se, but the "social proof" attached to that person.

We've been trained to use quantity instead of quality. Is that human nature?

Attacted to a pretty face? Yes. That is human nature.
A password manager really helps here, yes.

The downside is that I always see the cookie banners, which I mostly try to ignore but some of them block most of the page.
Curious why there isn't more specificity in the article? Is it to protect the sites and allow them time to fix? I'm not asking in a derogatory fashion, more trying to figure out the level of potential exposure I have myself. Tough to determine from the article.
> Dealing with the limits of the Linux Desktop to get better Docker isn't worth it a lot of the time.

That's just your personal preference; I'm using all three (macOS/Linux/Windows 10) and all three are fine for desktop.
Which processor? A lot of this is just rehashing Mac vs PC
React Hooks in Svelte
Also Shopify.
The ad supported model made sense for newspapers and magazines but it doesn't scale. Anytime you obscure the price or separate the payer from the benefit you get distorted and unforseen consequences. It took scaling this model to facebook levels before the failure reared its head and it is indeed much worse than we had ever predicted.
confirmed, Facebook, IG, Whatsapp.. can't be happier!
It wasn't my fault this time! haha
A major use case I have for WSL2 requires systemd, full stop (it's critical for the package manager I use.) It's pretty painful not having it available, and this is really something that needs improvement IMO. To be fair, this could be fixed in the software too (to some extent, not fully but working) which would also be a solution. But I suspect this isn't the only problem people encounter. There's a lot people use modern Linux for.

In practice that hasn't been a roadblock for me, because VMWare Workstation 15.5 finally supports running on top of Hyper-V, so I can have both working at once. Moving everything to a single hypervisor API has some nice benefits...
Whatever Intel. I've been using the M1 Macbook Air for a few weeks now and its remarkable. Faster than any Intel based Mac I've owned. Even runs apps faster using Rosetta2 than the most recent Intel based Macbook Pro. And runs iOS apps (both officially and sideloaded).

And it does this without burning my lap or making my hands sweat just touching the keyboard. For 10 hours on a single charge using it heavily (compiling, running test suites, Slack, Zoom, etc, playing games). It'll get close to 18 hours if just browsing the web and watching videos.

One thing it doesn't do: run x86 Windows, virtualized or dual boot. Not a huge loss for me.

Say what you want, Intel, there's no question that Apple's M1 is a big deal.
Most people never think about the defaults.
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Developing countries lack proper legal system where laws are based on property rights and market economy. That's why mentality of African people for example can not change and can not embrace capitalism.

I would suggest you to read Hernando De Soto - The Mystery Of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs In The West And Fails Everywhere Else

The book argues "it actually has everything to do with the legal structure of property and property rights. Every developed nation in the world at one time went through the transformation from predominantly informal, extralegal ownership to a formal, unified legal property system. In the West we've forgotten that creating this system is also what allowed people everywhere to leverage property into wealth." [1]

Book is in the public domain: [1]
https://archive.org/details/Hernando_De_Soto_The_Mystery_Of_...

Once the China for instance embraced capitalism and changed their legal system to allow private property ownership and allow market economy they thrived. Plus allowing American companies to come and exploit cheap work force they acquired "know-how" by now widely known and familiar stealing of intellectual property and copying literally everything they put their hands on.
> when developing countries are pressured into free trade agreements (for example by making aid dependent on this)

"forced" is probably not the right word. "baited" is better.

The developed world uses aid/loans to manipulate policy in the developed world, by targeting desperation. Make loans that the recipient cannot repay, then offer to restructure if they will comply with certain conditions.

This is why the IMF exists.
> Leaders communicate wherever people are already reading and listening.

I don't disagree with your post, but do general Government communiques not come in the form of press releases to all willing outlets?

Perhaps Twitter should at itself to the list, and press releases come with an abridged 280 character surmisal that they could then use.
Have to admit, while this is good and reassuring for accepting worldwide payments, Shopify is no good on the subscriptions front and this is very poor if your subscriptions business is digital, like a membership system.
Don’t you have to do that under windows too given WSL2 also runs as a VM?
> I'd contend more that the emotional appeals for tough on crime laws and media crime porn drive the mentality of imprisonment in the US.

But those are produced by people who profit from the system as it is. People didn't just arrive at the cruelty level they are at, they were whipped to it, and countervailing opinions are shut out of "serious" discourse.

Note that I'm not talking about private prisons here, I'm talking about vendors, contractors, and the funders of politicians that need to preserve local human warehousing jobs.
Just curious, where do you live and how hard is to immigrate there?
As different as the mirror universe was, my favorite part of Duke Nukem 3D will always be the laser triggered mines.

Why? You could stick them to anything. Including other players. Sneak up behind someone, put a mine on their back, the next time someone walks directly behind them they explode.
Lest people forget the OS-tan trend of the early 2000's.

https://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php/List_of_Can...
Okay, find me the code. Go ahead; I'll wait.
The real competition in terms of price and convenience is a VPS.

So to approximate this with Kubernetes you have to avoid the big cloud providers and things like kubeadm as that would mean at least two cores and the resulting price tag (even if you use things like burstable). Using k3s is a nice option. Must avoid load balancer and often static IPs.

I wonder why there aren't vendors who are selling k8s namespaces directly with a quota (reinvented shared hosting in k8s).
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Nitter [0] makes twitter tolerable. I never browse Twitter directly, I find the UI atrocious, and most tweets self-aggrandize or worthless.

There are some gems occasionally, like OP (Duke Nukem 3d was awesome).

There are extensions to redirect from twitter to nitter sites [1]. For example, the main site is not very responsive right now, but the alternative instances [2] are very responsive.

[0] https://nitter.net/

[1] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Extensions

[2] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
That should be up to countries, not Twitter.

Whether a world leader can announce a war without consulting with the military first has nothing to do with Twitter. In the past (and present), they can still do that just as easily over live radio, live TV, or announced to journalists as breaking news.

It's up to a country to determine the official processes by which a leader can speak to any media outlet.

For most leaders, they use Twitter responsibly and blandly, not very different from other channels, and honestly their staffers manage it for them. If a leader is irresponsible, then it's up to the legislature to take action.
Somehow I never shared my maps with anyone.

But we played Quake after computer science class in shool.
It's a Mac. "whether the screen is faulty, or the board is faulty" have the same fix.
M1 MBP here, and my lap is freezing. I have no idea what the fans sound like, and I do lots of Go benchmarks using all cores pretty often (I know, it's probably not that strenous--but for a tmux+vim+Go dev this thing is impressive).
Strange: the price on their systems seems to have gone up since the last time I saw them.

I wonder if shipping issues have caused their prices to skyrocket recently?
PAPL is sort of the sequel or plai.org
https://papl.cs.brown.edu/2020/
I want to echo this. I am stunned anything productive gets done in Cairo. Flip a coin whether the traffic nightmare lets you get to a meeting on time or even the office in less than 4 hours.

I, probably naively, took this as more of an efficiency move rather than political.
Ah, the Roddenberry universe. I think that will begin after the cost of clean, limitless energy approaches zero. At that point anyone can turn dirt into a house or a hamburger so compensation becomes much less of a concern.
They didn't deliver the package. They did the opposite.
I live in one of the regions of the world where Twitter has never been popular. According to surveys, only 11% of Quebecers are on Twitter (compared to 77% for Facebook).

I have never created an account and, for me, the format of the threads is strange.

So I always have a thread reader application in my bookmarks bar for when I need to explore the platform. I even put that link through the application in order to read it so the jokes fell flat. Even what I understand to be one letter per tweet came across well.

I don't understand why they complain. They enjoy the platform because it allows them to write quick messages. I enjoy the platform because I can easily read it using third-party software. Everyone is winning here.

Sharing the threadreaderapp link to my local friends who are not on twitter means I am sure they read it all. Otherwise, most people just read the first message.

Edit: This comment was written when this thread was under my parent comment.
You know how Ali floated like a butterfly?

Not that.

You know how Tyson early in his career just walked straight forward and punched?

Like that.
The only thing that comes to mind is having most websites be sites and not apps. Most sites don't need custom fonts, JavaScript, and CSS.

If Firefox & Chrome had support for something lightweight like Gemini (https://gemini.circumlunar.space/) then most sites could just use that.

With that sort of setup, restrictions on the web like uMatrix would be a lot less painful because most sites wouldn't ever need to be whitelisted.
Except the library claims that will be moved away from. To the JSON system
If you don't want to make changes like turning the highlighter color to green or set the TZ to Belgium, it's a great template for making your own version of the script, and it does the useful work of collecting a bunch of 'defaults write', 'pmset', and 'nvram' commands
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It's a Mac. If the computer doesn't start, take to a shop for an exchange.
What you're describing is really no different than ActiveRecord scopes. The difference is is that Rails will silently do an N+1.

I do agree about Changesets—they took me quite a while to grok, but I really like them now.
Liberal societies have baby booms after wars so we should have another war. This modern logic stuff is absolutely brilliant!
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I couldn’t find it either.
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