skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Try doing a transaction comparison between any payment service that offers foreign transactions

I've done many. Order of magnitude better experience than bitcoin, which I've also done.

And without knowing that your bitcoin transaction cost many tonnes of co2 on stolen electricity (~70% of which is based on fossil fuels, per a recent bitcoin energy use study).

It's like building an instant messaging system based on throwing molotov cocktails on your neighbors houses to create smoke signals.

"Works great!"

> try using smart contracts in crypto

Smart contracts is just the dumbest idea yet. Anyone who thinks they're a good idea clearly doesn't know what the actual challenges are in existing contracts. It's not solving these challenges at all, but instead making them much worse.

> Hating crypto , because news reporters only show you the scammers and the speculators , is blind hatred.

Seriously? But that's all there is. To a rounding error.

And for good reason. Aside for committing crimes cryptocurrencies are worse in every single aspect.

> Are you still gonna say people who use the dollar for daily transactions don’t exist ? That dollar is also a good idea only for scammers and speculators ?

What do you think the percentage of dollar transaction that's crime? What do you think is the case for bitcoin?
Yep. Is a very sneeky move. Tells me how incredibly awful the film is.
This is true. It is because it is from an older era when it was possible and also common for individual scholars to work independently and (as a result?) the topics where mostly doable by one person. Most of research today is done by a large pool of groups of 2-3 people (I am mostly familiar with physics), who are constantly interacting with each other, so it is not very easy to attribute breakthroughs to just one single person. And the topics seem to be more complex. The Nobel prize has not adapted to this. Still it is entertaining to read about the awards they come up with.
I've never been on Twitch before. Decided to check it out to test your comments.

Popular live channels on top is all games, 2/6 appears to be DOTA. Next section shows popular categories. Top category is Just Chatting, followed by a bunch of games. Next section is popular Just Chatting channels and the top two both have "try on bikini" in the title.

So that is what a first impression on twitch looks like without any personalization: mostly games, with some kind of mild erotica front and center. It would be easier to ignore the erotica if it wasn't so discordant with the rest of the content...
Sure opinions are often wrong. However their correctness is often uncorrelated with their popularity.

What we should do though, is to learn to distinguish holding opinions that some people may find offensive, from offending people with the excuse of just voicing our opinions.
> it's only for specific classes, you cannot change the behavior of 1 == "one"

More clearly because builtins are protected from monkey-patching, you can’t change the behavior of == where both operands are builtins. “Only for specific classes” implies the scope of applicability is much narrower than it is.
Let's just say that it's really difficult not to break anything during CPR in general. Especially because the patient is often old and fragile. On young people, it's much easier.
If I just stay away from the 0 point (by betting a fraction of the bankroll) then regardless of sequence length the ensemble stats positive. I must simply not be understanding the rules of the simulation.

https://dotnetfiddle.net/5r4ARk
Until you reimplement every language as transpilers to elisp, that's not the same thing at all. In this respect, Emacs is actually in the same tool category as VSCode or Vim. As you'd set up Dev Containers in VSCode, you'd set up TRAMP in Emacs to ssh into a Docker environment, or (more likely for Emacsians I guess) access a Guix environment or Nix shell.
I guess I hit a nerve with my comment and it came off a little harsh. I mean those points I said in all sincerity because it’s been 40-50 years and the top-down approach really has not come about in the timeliness required to prevent the worst case scenarios. I don’t actually believe every one of the people of the world will change their standards of living to meet what I said, however...
I don’t think this is a similar scenario to banning lead gas or aerosols harmful to ozone. These changes, if implemented by the government, would effect families’ dinner plates, the way they get around, how much and what they can buy and how they throw things away when they’re already used to things the way they are. It would severely limit their ability to travel freely. And we can say that new technologies will arise to take the place of those things that were lost but there will almost certainly be a gap between when we would need to lose access to those things like cheap transport and meat and when the new tech came out (high speed electric planes, lab grown meat, etc.). Basically any way you look at it, the average person NEEDS to have a lower standard of living for the foreseeable future to prevent the worst of climate change. This plan of action is not popular anywhere, so obviously it will never be implemented by any top-down approach.

Again just my thoughts. Didn’t mean to hit a nerve here.
Yeah, it looks whole bad!.
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I did not know this. Should he have accepted the prize then?
It is possible. Here’s how:

- reach out to 20 biggest streamers on twitch and get them to agree to move to your platform, the same way spotify got Joe Rogan to move from YT to Spotify

- with signed agreements ready get funding

- build the platform, and all accompanying streamer tools, preferably fix all major issues that twitch has

- set the date for launch

- launch, with all your onboarded twitch streamers streaming “we moved to platform x” on their abandoned twitch channels

- profit

Note: this requires a few million USD, but it is definitely doable. In fact, YC could get a few investors and build this in a year, if they wanted to.
'Occasionally' invalidates his entire premise.
> sounds similar to insulting Edison because he designed the inefficient incandescent bulbs

If he designed and sold that in 2021, trying to replace LED lightbulbs, and lying through his teeth to pump up the value of his lightbulbs, well then yes.

Can blockchain people please first come up with a use case, that isn't crime, before saying it's worth using more energy that many countries? (for a rounding error away from 0 number of transactions)

All the enumerated use cases are so naive and uninformed that clearly they've just been invented without knowledge about the field. "Move aside, expert in field, I'll just solve this with technology. No I don't need to hear you describe the issues".
I cringe every time I read startups proudly writing about their unique compensation philosophies.

Almost without exception, they have to end up changing it and ending up with typical corporate structures. Because there is a reason for them. Because all employees are not equal. Because some people put in much more work than others.

Would be a huge red flag for me, it's typically a special type of arrogance leading people to believe it's not enough to build something new, they also are special enough to re-invent the wheel on every organizational aspect.

In a sense I suspect there is a deep immaturity: Not wanting to deal with the realities of having to treat people differently, of struggling to figure out how to reward high performers, how to allocate finite resources. This is then justified in hindsight by coming up with some nonsense like:

'Some will say that this doesn’t offer a career ladder. Uniform compensation causes us to ask some deeper questions: namely, what is a career ladder, anyway? To me, the true objective for all of us should be to always be taking on new challenges — to be unafraid to learn and develop.'

This literally does not mean anything. It's just handwaving around not wanting to deal with employee issues. Stay way.
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Free Pascal has some support.

https://wiki.freepascal.org/LLVM

There are other some other attempts around too.
What the U.S. Can Learn from China’s Infatuation with Infrastructure
Alternate link: https://archive.is/5RcUw

I have been interested for a while in the phenomenon of why some countries are led by engineers, and some by lawyers, and whether it really makes any difference. Perhaps it isn't so much a determining input function, but a reflection of whether a country's needs are material/get-us-out-of-technological-poverty, versus established-wealth/manage-our-conflicting-interests in its evolutionary stage?

Although as some people note, the US has been generally lawyer-led since the beginning.
Sometimes you get lost and you have lots of information to give to explain your position. I was writing a blog post aimed at non techincal people and 1/3 of the way through I was at 1200 words. Nope. That needs to be cut down to 600 words.

Once I wrote a blog post that I knew most people would just disagree with, so I wrote out a full length explaination. I posted it on Reddit, hardly anyone read actually read it and every single one of their comments againist my point was commented on in my post. Lots of people upvote and downvote based on title. Which kind of makes sense since you normally have to go to the page and read it before making a decision but the upvote and downvote buttons are right next to the link. One of the reasons I don't upvote often is I just forget. I've clicked the link read it and I'm off to my next post.
No, this wasn't it. My google-fu is also failing me.
My neutered male cat sometimes disappeares but with exception of that one time I had to fetch him from the top of a 14m tall pine tree he always returns. My other cat (also a neutered male) never goes away for more than half a day.
Yeah, it does appear that relative to other activities, schools are less risky. France appear to be having issues though, and apparently that's related to schools.

The UK numbers have stopped decreasing since they re-opened schools, but that could be due to the B.1.7 variant.
If I understand correctly, you don't want to setup it yourself and maintain the server, correct? In that case, you can use hosting, provided by miniflux developer: https://miniflux.app/hosting.html
Your private email that you don't use for signing up anywhere is irrelevant except for phishing and spam. Your secondary email address will become the foreign key that is used to correlate the datasets from everywhere you signed up with it. The +tags can just be removed since it is known how they work. Might give you a small protection against attackers who don't know about email address tags.
I’m not an expert on cars, but isn’t there only one brand known for having all the controls on a giant touchscreen? The other brands all have buttons and dials and things, with haptic feedback of some kind. Maybe some have smaller screens, for a navigation system that you can pay extra for? But then smart phones have become so popular, that maybe that’s not so important any more.

I don’t own a television myself, but surely there must be _some_ dumb tvs still available. If not, then just buy a computer monitor instead.

I think that these two examples are probably overreaching.

However, I agree that zoning and building codes can be overly restrictive. If you want to get away from them, move out of the city. The county rules are often less restrictive.
Great project - love to see more alternative systems.

It should be noted that this is a port (or, rather a rewrite in Pascal) of Peter de Wachter's RISC5 emulator to a bare-metal Raspberry Pi environment, not a native Oberon system running on bare-metal ARM (i.e. there is no ARM compiler backend and all binaries are compiled for RISC5 and run in emulation).
I actually do do this - https://github.com/mikadosoftware/workstation

I like the idea of using k8s as suggested upthread. I just have not had much time to push changes / work on it recently. One thing worth thinking about is i have moved to podman - seems a lot slower to start up but is user space which seems sensibke
"Infinity plus one" is completely legal and well-defined in multiple mathematical formalisms [0], not least of which (and my personal favorite) are the surreal numbers [1].

[0] https://blog.plover.com/math/infinity-for-kids.html

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_number#Transfinite_ind...
Here's a version of a piece in just intonation—

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i68ifRkitA

—and "modern" equal temperament:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEbi-7tPaqo

As much as people describe just intonation as pure, etc, at least in this example it just sounds wrong to me.

As far as I understand, just intonation requires instruments to be tuned differently for different keys and stops "working" if a piece strays from the key (which music from Bach's time will often do).

Equal temperament is our workaround for the physics which doesn't quite match the 12-tone system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_temperament
Bootstrap vs. Tailwind vs. Bulma
All who aren't, should be aware that this Piney Point mine has been trouble since inception in the late 60s. The 'solution' of dumping the waste into the bay/gulf is becoming a pattern, eg 2003 (500mil gallons) and now again in 2021. In 2011, an accumulation of 170 million gallons of undumped waste 'leaked' into the bay.

This may be a truly difficult predicament, but a real solution is necessary.
I have seen plenty of almost naked girls on twitch frontpage. This is borderline prostitution and should have no place on twitch, a platform built for and made popular by gamers. I really hope twitch gets a worthy competitor soon.
The article betrays a complete lack of empathy for the pain points of the customer - which is probably why he's having so much trouble to get people to pay for them.

He starts out by citing Field of Dreams "if you build it they will come" but then seems to completely miss that point by building it without validating it was something people actually wanted.

"I didn’t care so much about creating a product that would actually make me money, I just wanted someone to use something I built." perhaps sums this piece up best. He's getting into this for the wrong reasons - to be an "entrepreneur" or have a "passive income" rather than solving a problem anyone wants solving.
It's probably the opposite - the marginal value of the work done from 32 to 40 hours is a lot lower than the first 32. In fact I doubt most organisations would be able to distinguish between the output of someone working 32 vs 40 hours. Instead of trying to measure though it seems fairer to just keep a straight hourly rate no matter how many hours you work.
Falling through case statements bydefault has been the cause of so many bugs over the years.

Fall-through can be a useful behaviour, but it's definitely a foot-gun.
Love the transcription errors: "Phat 32", "little NDN".
> The mean converges to zero with time. It doesn’t grow exponentially.

t=0 mean(w) = 1
t=1 mean(w) = 1/2*1.5 + 1/2*0.6 = 1.05
t=2 mean(w) = 1/4*1.5*1.5 + 1/2*1.5*0.6 + 1/4*0.6*0.6 = 1.1025
....
t mean(w) = 1.05^t

Don’t you agree?
Alright HN domain experts. I’m prepared. What’s the rub?
Killing polar bears there is prohibited though (they're a protected species). It's only allowed if it's the absolute last resort.

So it's not like people are going around shooting up polar bears for fun or anything :)
https://gossipsweb.net/ ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26446516
I'm a big fan of Miniflux and I'm using it for a couple of years already, this looks like a neat project. Thanks for sharing it.
Ouch. I guess I can cross that town off my list. Personally, I think trespassers should take personal responsibility for the risks that they take.
Intuitive post that was. Particularly liked this part:

"This is always difficult to make an article to tell people how to be successfull. Because for any tips that you may give, there are always people who will succeed by doing the opposite. People are very different and we have to accept it. Also being successfull is all about being yourself and being innovative, so really the kind of things which don't follow rules."
It's hard to tell whether experimenters are delusional or dishonest; I think it's a mixture in practice.

Researchers have no incentive to refute their own success; and neither do their peers who are producing similar "research" themselves.

The whole game is to state enough metaphorical propositions until they seem concrete.

"New AI interprets conversations and writes stories!" they say...

Their evidence? Run it enough times until a subsample appears to match our expectations, and show that subsample.

What about all the other counter-examples? That's compared with "errors humans make too!!!!"

When, of course, if you look at those counter-examples they completely destroy the interpretation of the system as understanding anything.

It is ruled out by the data analysis procedure: measurement data is fed to algorithms which assume it is sampled randomly. The whole purpose of "intelligence" (, understanding, etc.) is to uncover the non-random underlying model which explains the data distribution. Thus statistical AI simply cannot do what it is claimed of it. All we are left to do, for marketing and financial reasons, is play a game of metaphors and superstition.

Personally I find it infuriating. It's profoundly religious/superstitious and a debasement to scientific practice: of course, computer scientists aren't scientists; and here is where the problem arises. They have no empirical sense of what a model of the world actually is; nor of what a "mere statistics of measurement can do".
It’s only practical on mixtures with high co2 gas concentrations
Like with every other solution, under the current political and economic systems, there's no incentive to scale it up quickly enough to make a dent in global warming and it will just live in small local prototypes and in the dreams of techno-solutionists.
Persuading People Through a Voice Synthesized by AI (2020)
Isn't that what Mixer did, and failed?
> If it succeeds, then the branch is taken and the variables (if any) are assigned, which in python means that they are assigned to the whole current function. This is a big side effect.

Assignment is not generally a side effect, and even if it were, matched branches in a switch statement potentially having side effects or externally visible variable (re)assignments is normal in languages with switch. (Ironically, match-based assignments visible outside the pattern match expression aren’t typical in languages with pattern matching, so actually the behavior you describe is more typical of switch statements than pattern matching, which is typically a block-scoped expression with local bindings.)
We're aiming to make our service accessible to everyone, which involves customers choosing their own price. So there isn't a fixed price we could raise. Additionally, there is a free trial month, which adversaries typically make use of, instead of paying for the service. Hiking he price without deep additional changes is not in our interest and wouldn't change anything in our case.
but they allow some girl streamers with massive cleavages. at nipples they draw the line.
Do you know what would really made a difference? having a Nobel prize for WAR. We really need an equivalent to this.

Thus, we all could know the faces of the people that tried harder or did more for creating or fueling wars in the current year.
Some predictions seem pretty vague, even if the probability of hitting edge cases is low. E.g. "Will ETH be above $1,500 on January 27th?" begs the question on which exchange? Or smaller ones like at which hour, does it have to be higher all day or just for a single trade, if for a single trade, if Alice sells Bob 0.01 ETH that day for $2k does that mean it was higher etc.

In general oracle role seems pretty hard when big money is involved.
> This was the first time that I was aware of Apple had shipped a little Endian processor.

FWIW, the LaserWriter 16/600 PS (introduced 1994) uses an Intel 80168 as I/O processor for AppleTalk serving etc.

So Apple did develop for and ship little endian CPUs way before the iPod.
This is true.

If you are building a crud application (todo list/trello, social media scheduling, and analytics are all examples of simple crud applications), the moment you see success it will be cloned by people in eastern Europe, India, or SE Asia, and priced at 10% of yours.

A moat or barrier to entry is a must now. Solve hard problems.
Death is dead. Death remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of the murderer of all murderers?
I had some of those CDs. In the early 90, before broadband Internet, they were a godsend.
That site parent directory is worth a look too, lots of memories over there.
I've been playing with it since yesterday and I have to admit it's great
Breaks are always automatically added? Well that sucks, It can be very useful to do one thing for several cases in a switch statement.
Nothing yet. I'm kind of stuck in the "interactive tool" step.
Any sort of table, plan or a roadmap makes me more depressed, because I cannot stick to it and that amplifies feeling of guilt. Best results I had when my plan was to do just one thing, even if it was only one line of code throughout the day and even doing nothing at all I had coded as doing resting. I had incredible progress with this approach.
I've been looking at the use of algae with regards to sequester img CO2 from the atmosphere. This seems to have some remarkable advantages: single molecules which make mass production easier, presumably less finicky operating procedure and way more straightforward to pump into disused oil wells. From the abstract it does seem to need CO2 being supplied to it as opposed to drawing it from the atmosphere actively. I assume this could be used in exhausts of some kind?
Definite benefit is the fact that the CO2 is captured immediately as opposed to over a years long timeline, like trees.
I'm curious, what are those serious side-effects? Humans have seen nipples since...forever? These sounds just like another crazy theory
(most) SaaS businesses have no moat. So, distribution is the key.
It depends. If you are doing a side project next to your regular employment, i would avoid creating any legal entity unless strictly necessary. Why? You add legal obligations to yourself. When you are starting up as solo-entrepreneur, try to minimize distractions and put all efforts in validating the product idea and ship it to your first customers. Sometimes these customers require you to have the legal papers, you take care of these when it is needed to seal the deal.

There could be other reasons. Take for instance my own case. I started freelancing and do side projects. In this case I approached it with a reason. Namely my revenue as freelancer is funneled into my side projects. This means expenses i make like purchasing other services, SaaS or tooling to support my side projects are written off my revenue. Im re-investing my revenue into other venues.

As my side projects are maturing i’m switching now to a limited liable legal entity from self-proprietary.

Hope this gives you some ideas.
I used to use the Screen as a terminal multiplexer, but for the last 3 years, I have really only used Tmux. It is not better or worse. It's just different :)
He's a psychiatrist and generally researches everything he writes about quite thoroughly, so I'd be surprised if he had no clue what he's talking about in this case.
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it's more like soft porn. and it's not just twitch. youtube as well. tiktok is full of this. they all get many views from this. and of course there is OnlyFans which took it a step further, letting girls get money directly from viewers.
No need to be pedantic. It clearly is based on firefox, no?
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