skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
quick look spreadsheets when you don't want to wait half a minute for excel to load. Quick look pdfs with nondescript names that you've downloaded to check paper titles/authors, quick look ppts youve been emailed (from within the email app) to see if they're worth reading in depth.
> The problem is not 'someone is not correctly following the serialization rules'

Yes, yes, I pointed that out. grep "immediate cause" and "indirect root"

> the serialization rules are quite terrible

Did that need to be said explicitly? I agree FWIW. I have already made a value judgement mildly against YAML, in case that's not clear. It's only mild because the problem can be worked around. I think this approach is more practical than moving the whole world over to a completely different thing.

> problem is fixable […] non-ambiguous […] rules

Is the implication here that you say YAML is ambiguous? It's not. I don't want sloppy analysis. To be precise, the ambiguity is imagined, it does not exist on the spec or software level, only in the head of people.
IRC had zillions of web interfaces everywhere, and it
was used by everyone in Europe, at least in order
to chat in public channels based either by theme
or by regional locations.
There are a few other factors not discussed in the article:

1) in terms of economic growth, China is expected to surpass the US as the biggest economy by the end of this decade. Some of these predictions have been moved forward by economists factoring in e.g. Covid and the policies of recent administrations (i.e. they had that effect apparently). So, the closer that get, the less evident it gets that we should trade using dollars. After all once that happens most trade effectively is not in dollars anymore.

2) Demographics this century are going to be interesting. China is the largest nation right now. But its population is actually shrinking and projected to dip below 1 billion by the end of this century where other countries (e.g. India and Nigeria) might end up becoming larger. The US looks like it would shrink except it is able to keep up through immigration. The same is happening in the EU. So relatively speaking, China will become smaller in the next decades even as the world population continues to grow.

3) In the past hundred years, oil has been the major driver for our economies and we've historically traded in it using dollars. However, with clean energy coming up and China not having a lot of domestic oil production as well as a massive clean energy industry, this is not likely to continue to be the case. Large parts of our transport sector are transitioning to EVs right now. So, the less important oil becomes, the less important the dollar becomes. This will also transform economies very dependent on oil right now (like the middle east).

IMHO, it's not a given that the US loses its dominance. But it does need to adapt to prevent that from happening. A pan North American/European/South American block would still be an enormous portion of land and the world population. And it's culturally very homogeneous. I've not been to either but I think I'd feel a lot less of an alien in e.g. most of South America than in most of Asia where language and culture are much more different (not better or worse, just different) than what I grew up in. Unite those economies, and you have a block of countries that is mostly already maintaining friendly relations, shares a lot of values, and doing a brisk trade with each other and the rest of the world. Australia, Micronesia, and much of Africa also fit in that picture quite easily. The world is a big place.

But isolationism as practiced currently is not putting us (Europeans and North Americans)on a positive path. It didn't work out that great a century ago either. The US needs to look at its past to see what worked and didn't work last century. Winning WW II and landing on the moon was not an accident. That was the US transforming itself from the failing colonial economy it used to be to a world power in about forty years and changing isolationist policy to a policy of being the world's leading economy. That had its own problems of course (and several wars) but it wasn't all that bad. If the US declines into irrelevance, it will be its own fault.
I agree. Even when Windows has "fast startup" enabled, the time from POST to actual desktop in Linux is still better and has improved significantly, and Windows still has that "tends to go slower as you start to install stuff on it". These days I can usually reach Gnome even before my _monitors_ have had time to boot.
Google Colab supposedly has great miner detection for example. I Googled out of curiosity recently and couldn't find any clearnet mentions of anyone bypassing it in the recent past and the old ways don't work. Though it must be possible it at minimum doesn't seem to be easy.
For the curious: https://hangprinter.org/
As someone who has used Windows, Linux and Mac comprehensively over the years, and bounced between all three a few times, I can say that ALL operating systems have warts and problems. There is no such thing as a perfect operating system and its unreasonable to expect that any system will ever work 100% perfectly how you want. You also shouldn't expect to be able to get an operating-system-A experience on operating-system-B, if you want A, keep using A.

However, I've found that with Linux, the "perfect" experience is much more under my control than it is with Mac or Windows.

I've settled on using Sway (on Manjaro, but I also use Ubuntu on one laptop because I was lazy about finding drivers and it came with Ubuntu) and besides Windows games not running well on Proton on Wayland (for which I need to switch to X instead, where I just use gnome), its been a very stress-free and convenient environment for me.
Most workplaces are badly managed in my experience.
Really? Last year when we were in the office multiple of my coworkers had awful tearing on their Linux machines of multiple distros. I’m sure it was related to their specific hardware/driver setups but still. These were workstation class machines.

I can’t remember ever seeing tearing on my MacOS machines. And I’m even using a cheapo $15 DisplayPort adapter for my third monitor.
OP obviously didn't try i3. duck :)
In case anyone feels like it's time for their particular solution to this "problem" to shine, https://qntm.org/calendar
You say Norway, I say Yesway.
Hi, i build this. Its looking at the web(reddit) to see what words are how often used. Based on that i can discover new trends but also provide some more info on any given keyword you would like to research. Aaaand its mostly free.
Plz enjoy :)
https://dhall-lang.org/ ?
Animals do totally get lost and disoriented. Unless the headline and the article differ wildly, the premise is so preposterously fallacious that i didn’t bother RTFA. It’s like an article titled “why the earth is flat”.
I missed the day where the word tangent must have been explained, then failed basic trigonometry and felt like an idiot for the rest of high school.
> Another person gave it to his grandmother who was sick with dementia. She became lucid again but died a day or two later.

Lucidity before death has been reported before for patients suffering from dementia and other neurological illnesses, so this might have been coincidence. The term is "Terminal Lucidity" if you want to search for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_lucidity
> I don't think crypto is the only reason for GPU shortage (others being more demand from stay-at-home people, and general semiconductor shortages)

Then why are only GPUs unavailable?

We can still easily buy CPUs, memory, SSDs, etc.
Exclusive look inside the US supersonic presidential jet
Yeah, I know, but I also hear WSL1 is super slow especially for Node, which is a big part of what my mentees want to learn - the major point of setting up that devenv at all was so I could use it for mentoring, and quite aside from
my own impatience with flaky tech, I also don't want to waste a mentee's valuable time with nonsense on the part of the machine we're using as a teaching and learning tool.

We all have busy lives. When there's only an hour a week or an hour every other week to spare for doing this, it's on me to make sure they get the most out of that time. So, from that perspective too, it was more worth spending the money on a known good platform than spending any more time dinking with one that had already shown itself at best only questionably equal to the task.
You have it backwards. One should always assume our way of life is about to fail, so we take action to protect it. If you assume it is impervious, complacency will let it decay.

Pessimists persists in humanity because sometimes they are right. It’s valuable to let that fear be voiced, explored, determined, and planned for.
Oh, so it's secretly proof of work.
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I still click and drag scroll bar frequently. It's faster, easier to fine control the position (especially useful when you want to toggle between two or more positions).

To me, all three ways to scroll (scrollwheel, auto-scroll, dragging scroll bar manually) have their uses.
> But seeing the HW situation, energy burn, scammers, infra hijacking, etc. there are so many negatives I'm more and more in favour of making it illegal.

Machine learning has literally all of these downsides. Would you be in favor of making that technology illegal as well? What other technology and innovation should we ban because your benighted insights have determined they are too bad to continue?

Before you object, a powerful ML model could be more valuable than several mining fees that could be generated by this kind of "hacking." And, sure, infrastructure hacking seems like less of an issue, since no one seems to give away free GPU time, but crypto has that constraint as well.

I'd be curious to hear the justification for this neo-Luddite stance and whether it applies to other tech like ML.

EDIT: initial conclusion was too judgmental/not inquisitive enough.

EDIT 2: If you downvote me, then please do me the courtesy of telling me where I'm wrong. How is crypto mining different from ML training and inference with current model sizes?
I’d love it if I could fast forward to the Suez congestion
At the end of the day, this kind of discussion is about who have the power, "the markets" or the central banks. The answer, is obviously, the central banks.

You can see it all around the world, in the current crisis, what decide the interest rate and the interest of the public debt is not "the markets" is the central banks. Otherwise you will not find demand for assets that, in some cases, have negative return.

So, it's not the supply and demand in the markets what decide the price, but the policy of the monetary authorities (1).

(1) - This only apply for countries that have its own floating currency.
cloudflare does good enough for me, They have privacy protection on by default and the their CDN services prevents the exposure of IP address. Cloudflare is not gonna be a good choice if you plan to host anything risky though.
Another reason not to trust cloudflare might be because it is based in the US.

Though from what i have read i have liked cloudflare's stance against free speech. Piracy is another matter though.
That is if they get a court order they will likely boot you off, Though pirate bay has had success running on cloudflare for a long while.

If you plan to host something risky, cloudflare is probably not your bet, though if you were just being cautious cloudflare is good enough
How does your country intend to "keep growing". Will it do the export strategy that China and pretty much every other Asian country followed (Korea, Japan)? If yes, then it will be done by pegging the currency to the dollar with the end result of accumulating a reserve of US treasury bonds. The additional bonds that your country is purchasing will allow the US government to do more green investments, maybe even abroad, maybe even in your country. If these investments end up increasing the trade deficit even further then the green investment cycle starts again.
The Rise of the Meritocracy
For those interested in the history of Windows OS, this is hands down the best resource: https://www.winhistory.de/index.php
Why do they not support email + password signups?

I'm not super averse to Google SSO but I would not tie my critical infrastructure to it in any way.
I remember being so excited every time a new Windows came out. These days I just dread what the next update is going to break.
I'm skimming through the human readable spec, and it seems decent, but I noticed the spec allows unquoted strings. What's the reasoning for this? In my experience unquoted strings cause nothing but trouble, and are confusing to humans who may interpret them as keywords.

Any reason for not using RFC2119 keywords in the spec? Using them should make the spec easier to read.
The Best, Loudest, and Filthiest of AC/DC, According to Angus Young
Imagine if a site made the user downpress on a link for a longer time before the click would register?

It's actually insane.
> The "advantages" MacOS offers really comes down to eye-candy or slightly more consistent shortcut mapping,

I mean, not really, no.
My English is probably lacking (not a native speaker), but I can't parse that sentence for the life of me, let alone understand what it means. Curiously enough, googling it brings up exactly two results: the book you cite and this HN thread.
My thoughts exactly. That's why I _love_ getting bug reports from users.

The bug is right there, here's what went wrong, here's how we fix it, `git push`, deploy. Everyone's lives just got better. LOVE IT.
> The grass is not greener on the other side.

Sure it is, just not ALL of it. Everything's a tradeoff; I like my work Mac, but I'd never buy one, and not just the absurd Apple Tax reason. For my use cases, BY AND LARGE Linux works better, for me, but the Mac has some really neat features I miss in Linux.
Yeah thats the other thing I found fascinating about macOS, a bunch of useful features are very hard to discover. Mostly because you won't see any menu entries, but some sort of drag-and-drop will / alt+click will activate a very useful feature.
Their idea of being user friendly, I guess.
Can you buy a house with cocaine? A car? Stuff from amazon?

What if the person you sell cocaine to for dollars to spend on Amazon reports you?

What if you get an IRS audit, how do you justify the funds used to buy the house?

Yes, you'll be able to use crypto on black markets, but that is hardly covering all your needs.
> they had to rename a gene to stop excel auto-completing it into a date.

No one in their right mind uses a spreadsheet for data analysis. Good for working out your ideas but not in a production environment. I figure excel was chosen as this the utility the scientists were most familiar with.

The proper tool for the job would be a database. I recall reading about a utility, a highly customized database with an interface that looks just like a spreadsheet.
Other reasons to not want types happening during parse time:

- “modified” numbers, e.g. $50, 35%, 1.2345568896347853246863477

- Dates. If your language tries to convert a date to Unix time or Julian Day, you can have problems with time zones or distant or historical dates.

- strings vs symbols. The person writing config shouldn’t have to care about this distinction.

- Automatic deduplication for fields of objects can be a problem.
Oh and it seems I forgot, that this is a nationalism inducing topic. My point was, if you would base trade on countries that follow strictly basic humitarian rights - there would be not many options left.

So if you actually want that - maybe do so based on clear criterias.
Now what whould those criterias be?

- funding and supporting of terrorism?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone

Involvement in overthrown democratic elected governemnts?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in...

use of Torture?

etc.

If you try to make things simple, do so consequently and see how that works out. Usually not too well.
Well, it does have those nowadays.
Take a look at the dots-menu above the track-position slider within the playback view. It is called "Play speed and Pitch".
"ISRIB" seems be this compound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISRIB

It always helps to expand abbreviations when talking about things that only a few readers will already know about. Typing it out is O(1), having N people look it up is O(N) if you allow me to abuse the notation like that ;)
Coreboot is the solution here, but it's just a shame so many hardware manufactures are so protective over their shitty firmware.

Why can't they just open-source whatever they crapped out, and have professional developers maintain it for them for free?
ML requires a useful corpus of data to train on. I don’t see how the energy abuse of crypto mining is remotely replicable with ML. For me, this has nothing to do with having a “neo-Luddite stance”
You’re too dismissive, Linux apps are terrible compared to Mac and it’s a big reason preventing me from switching.

That you got used to using crappy software doesn’t mean I want to do the same.
Oh, the devs and ops backbenchers in Bangalore will still be on...
1) case in point: Windows 10 Settings
LogMeIn owned
Xbox Game Pass and Apple Arcade: quiet turning point for video games?
Binge Viewing, Sleep, and the Role of Pre-Sleep Arousal
I did something similar on the Apple //e running prodos.
Memory and SSD chips are made on older processes with coarser structures which means that they're more or less unaffected by the current limitations in manufacturing capacity that CPUs and GPUs suffer.
> it's nigh impossible to eliminate tearing on multimonitor setups with X11,

I haven't seen tearing in longer than I can remember, and can't remember anyone even mentioning it, so I think you're overplaying this point JUST a tad. I tend to use older laptops with Linux, and older screens (VGA, DVI), so maybe that's the reason.

I hate touchpads.

I don't do PDF editing.

Everything's a tradeoff.
Why does that seem weak? One of the annoying things about taking time off is coming back and having to catch up on what you missed. Without that issue, your time off will be less stressful, and you will be less likely to try and check in on what's going on at work.
Maybe I’ve been spending too much time on FT, the Economist, and Bloomberg but is it just me or is this pretty low quality for an economics write up in a major paper?

These two things can be simultaneous true:

- The USD and it’s position in the world has never been as fragile as it is now

- The Renminbi / Digital Chinese Yuan has no viable path to supplanting the USD as things stand today.

Until there are no more capital controls on the mainland, a free floating exchange rate (that is not controlled by the central govt.), and a trust that the central government won’t step in and devalue (or possibly weaponize in some way) the RMB, I would put my money that it will never become THE reserve currency of the world, digital or not.

Digital RMB news has generally felt like lots of hype machine and PR. While it would be beneficial to the CCP, Chinese economy and Chinese businesses - I still would bet it would be mostly relegated to the utility as a medium of exchange, not as a store of value (why do $$ mainlanders want to immediately turn their RMB to pretty much anything else that’s offshore?).

Unless I am missing something major and obvious here..
Microsoft didn't just drop the ball on the general design. Individual features have fallen behind. The calculator in Windows 7 was great, you could type sums and edit your history to quickly make changes to calculations. Windows 10, history is just for looking at.

I now have a Texas calculator on my desk.
Loot boxes linked to problem gambling in new research
> Linux apps are terrible compared to Mac

And it's this sort of absolutism that continues to solidify the "cult" like impression of the Apple consumerism culture.
I don't know how much it matters.

The numbers sound big but then in different perspective not so big. The internal debt of the US, in some sense, at least when we are thinking about the viability of the US dollar in international trade, cancels itself out. And debt and swaps with Europe or the UK? Perhaps it matters less than debt to other countries.

It really boils down to the exorbitant privelige. How big is it really? Who exactly bears the cost and who encurs the benefits? Not exactly clear in the details.

However were Japan and China to give up their "mercantalistic" practices of buying US treasuries and instead letting their own currencies appreciate and start trade and investing without using the USD.

Then that probably would be quite a thing.
If that's your critic then Proof-of-Work is the issue, not crypto currencies in general. There are multiple Proof-of-Stake implementations already in production (still very young though), each with its set of properties (see Cardano, Algorand, Tezos, Polkadot, Harmony, etc).
I don't think there's anything controversial in stating that on average women still do most of the work around the house, including with children, and earn less for their actual work hence easily becoming financially dependent on a partner. I read somewhere that when women started working more the average cost of life rose so the double income doesn't cover more than one did before, basically causing mothers to become more dependant on a partner than previously. This was in the US.
FWIW-W, Susan Blackmore in her 1999 book, the Meme Machine, notes there appears to be an equilibrium for brain size. Neanderthal had a bigger brain size than modern humans. The larger brain requires more calories, and increases mortality for the mother.

Blackmore, Susan. The Meme Machine, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press 1999
Terminal allows fine tuning the spacing. I tried to optimise my font to look good on the default settings, but that doesn’t always work and never works for every program.
what's the reasoning behind prostitution being non taxable?
I believe Hamachi was mainly a level 2 VPN, perfect for transporting IPX, which was really mainstream for LAN games of the 90s.

This seems to handle layer 2/3 since they mention support for TUN/Tap interfaces, but I guess 99% of people will just create IP tunnels, layer 2 is not the hot thing anymore.

Also, Hamachi was not decentralized from what I remember.

What is presented here reminds me a lot of n2n.
Insightful comment, thanks for sharing.

For those that are interested, here is some more context on official cooperation between countries that surround (and are dependent on) the Nile:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_Basin_Initiative
In (2) I think you meant to write "f : R -> R^n"
I'm pretty sure even something like that doesn't give you carte blanche for, say, murdering people. So there's a line to be drawn, and reasonable people can disagree on where exactly to draw it.
Elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
True and especially in France where there are lots of ghettos, I have friends there who were making around 1200€ a month (common minimum wage), and paying 600€ for rent. They probably had 400€ running monthly costs. Imagine these people receiving a 500€ bill...
What do you think of Proof of Space-Time? https://spacemesh.io
I don't think it's even a matter of wanting to use Mac. What I read was "I simply don't want change. Full stop."

Subjeectively, being attached to an email client feels odd to me. That's what the brower is for; same for a PW manager. If Bitwarden has a client, I wouldn't even know. The browser ext works just fine. I used to use LastPass.

Ya can't have change without change. It's not necessarily easy. But it's always true: No delta, no glory.
Are expensive office buildings and high end transportation an indicator of an innovative country? They can definitely act as infrastructure to support innovation but it remains to be seen.