skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, let's be clear: you make claims that aren't true (Sweden hasn't done what you originally claimed; they have significantly fewer restrictions than most of Europe, even today), and then when people point out the factual inaccuracies in your statements, you retreat to arguing about the wisdom of Sweden's choices.

Reasonable people can disagree about policy choices, but misrepresenting facts as a starting point does not make you look reasonable.
I think downvoting is an anti-pattern because it's a negative interaction, and I think negative interactions shouldn't be encouraged if we value high quality discourse.

If downvoting bad comments (for any definition of bad) was harder or even outright impossible you'd still have an alternative: upvote an other, better comment to have it shadow what you consider a less valuable contribution. And that's a positive interaction.

Whenever I find a comment that I think is on-topic and somewhat constructive, but I still fundamentally disagree with the take, I generally go hunting for a comment that embraces my point of view (or write one myself) and upvote that.

I very rarely downvote comments on this site, and generally only do it for comments that I consider to be completely off topic, flamebait or stupid "meme" references. That being said I do comment quite a bit and I admit that I'm always a bit frustrated when I take the time to write what I consider to be a constructive (if sometimes controversial) comment and I get downvoted reddit-style. It feels disrespectful, almost. I probably care too much about that stuff, I acknowledge that.
I bought my OP-1 at a steal for $600 two years back. I'd pay $1200 for it today, maybe $1600.

There's a lot of more technically capable stand-alone gear that can be had for less of course. My MPC Live is what my finished (not good compared to others, I'm just an amateur making video game soundtracks for kids I teach game dev to) songs ultimately come out of, and the Octatrack is something I've really enjoyed playing with. None of these are going to be something that lives in my backpack and comes out in the park on a sunny day when I've got that perfect boss battle intro sequence drop popping into my head though. Size considerations aside, I can slam down a decent prototype of a song that's actually listenable in just a couple of minutes on the OP-1 before the idea fades away, and have a blast doing it.

I think their pricing is sensible. The thing fills a niche no other piece of gear I've found can. That seems worth paying for.
This page is nuts:
https://teenage.engineering/products/op-1/anniversary/made-o...

The crazy part about it is that they only really mention the bits that show the OP1 in a primary means, you can find every case of a modern musical team making something and find an OP-1 somewhere. Taylor Swift? Easy.

Despite the clear flaws and price, the OP-1 just does something for creativity.

Also: This is not seen in the list as they picked the cover they did instead, but you get to see the OP-1 used in force here by Chvrches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haunJARHPm4&ab_channel=NPRMu...
After seeing what's going on in that you begin to hear where the OP-1 is used by them in creation of the album.
I confess being super happy that English is not so hung up on the gender of words. So, it has that advantage over Spanish.
The Next Chapter for USDS
In theory you could do it without completely matching orbits to save a lot of fuel. Just getting a close slow encounter, grabbing it and letting your orbit just be whatever the new average of your velocities is. It'd require a stronger capture system perhaps depending on the mass of your capture vehicle, but it would save a lot of fuel.

Recycling what's up there might eventually be viable but for the start we'll be shipping up raw stocks. Recycling is probably about as difficult as refining from metal rich asteroids once you consider all the coatings and paints that are added to things and having to sort all the different metals, plastics, and what have you out.
I mean, re-read that 2-3 times.

With the emergence of a new group of people that have massive crypto reserves at their disposal, paying for a timeshare in crypto would make that asset accessible to them natively.

It’s not a bad idea. If crypto is a new paradigm, the world will need crypto-XYZ to appeal to that crowd. Cars (Tesla), and timeshares are among them.
I rather really wish there was no way at all to vote on comments. — what purpose does it serve?

I very often see the top comment on the page to be a thoughtless one-line that is self-evident, but also not wrong nor easily disagreed with, and thus incurring the most upvotes from simply being quick to read.
let s = "hello world".to_string();
for ch in s.chars() {
print!({},ch);
}

will iterate through a string character by character. That's the most common use of the "char" type - one at a a time, not arrays of them.

Although the proper grapheme form is:

use unicode_segmentation::UnicodeSegmentation; // 1.7.1
let s = "hello world".to_string();
for gr in UnicodeSegmentation::graphemes(s.as_str(), true) {
print!("{}", gr)
}

This will handle accented characters and emoji modifiers.
A line break in the middle of a grapheme will mess up output.

By the way, open season for proposing new emoji starts tomorrow.[1]

[1] http://blog.unicode.org/2020/09/emoji-150-submissions-re-ope...
I've been using Shadow for a year and that's exactly what it does. It's a standard windows box and you can install whatever you want on it, and there's no usage limits. I use it to play windows games on my mac without fussing with dual booting. I played through the Witcher 3 entirely on that machine. :)

Non action games are playable over Wifi, but on a wired connection it's much better. It does have its own client and disconnects if you are idle so I don't think you could run it as a server, but I never tried.

The only odd issue I ran into is that it supports a virtual USB device for pass-through which is cool, but you can't use a fancy multi-button mouse as that USB device because the mouse is "special" and it's always a 2 button virtual mouse but the xbox controller worked just fine.

They do have a fairly slow rollout of new hardware updates and new country support at this point, and seemed to be in danger of going out of business for a while, but so far it's still there. You can always hook up something like Dropbox to back up work in progress.
> The ONLY purpose of down votes is to suppress conversation.

This assumes all conversation is equal quality. That particular point has never been true in social media, and has actually become worse post-2016, with increased partisanship and bad faith arguing.

It's impossible to run a high-quality discussion forum without some sort of check on bad behavior. That said, it's up for debate whether downvotes are the best answer to this problem.
Why a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be a catastrophe for China and the world
It's probably the same reason why IIRC the default Rust String does not have a "small string optimization": it would add a lot of unpredictable branches. And it would be even worse, since unlike the "small string optimization", even small mutations which don't change the size would have to allocate when the original was read-only.
It would be nice if you could play a youtube playlist in this interface... probably the best media player ever ;)
Effects of Fortuna
You can whip up something pretty quickly as a shell wrapper and add to it as you need. I just threw this together: https://gist.github.com/peterwwillis/755002d6d3849af5bbc6cb8...

$ cliv

Usage: /home/vagrant/bin/cliv [OPTS]
/home/vagrant/bin/cliv [-i] VERSION [CMD [ARGS ..]]
Opts:
-l List versions
-h This screen
-n Create a new /home/vagrant/.cliv/VERSION
-i Clear current environment

$ cliv -n tf012
$ cliv -n tf013
$ cliv -l
tf012
tf013
$ cp terraform-v12 ~/.cliv/tf012/bin/terraform
$ cp terraform-v13 ~/.cliv/tf013/bin/terraform
$ cliv tf012 terraform
Terraform v0.12.29
$ cliv tf013 terraform
Terraform v0.13.3
$ cliv -i tf012
PATH=/home/vagrant/.cliv/tf012/bin:/home/vagrant/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:
/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin
PWD=/home/vagrant
Yup it sounds like a bit of a gray area for now. I think for most people it probably comes down to the way your broker reports the transaction on your 1099. I.e. if my broker reports it to the IRS as a "covered" loss, that's probably what I would use when filing my taxes.
Nah, I wish, you just learn how to implement quicksort in Java and stuff like that The only languages I saw during my degree were Java, C, Python, Perl, and a little bit of Prolog. And I finished my Bach last year.
BP has been in business for decades making 20-80B/year in profit. If anything, their financials should be an indication of what a 100B company looks like.
> We’ve lost half the potential information. If a post has zero upvotes, does that mean it’s bad? incorrect? uninteresting? mediocre? There’s no way to tell, because zero has multiple meanings.

Having downvotes doesn't fix this problem. You still loose information. If a post has zero upvotes, does that mean nobody cares, or a lot of people love it, and the same number hate it? The only site that gets this right is youtube: It shows both likes and dislikes.
I think slashdot’s voting system was well equipped to avoid that problem, but they faded anyway. Maybe it was the redesign? I think many of their innovations in 1999 would go a long way to resolve political downvoting today—-new accounts were unable to vote on comments, you were unable to vote and comment in the same posts, metamoderation to ensure fairness, and up or downvotes having to fit categories like ‘insightful’ or ‘offtopic’.
The world’s first high-temperature ammonia-powered fuel cell for shipping
> I rather really wish there was no way at all to vote on comments. — what purpose does it serve?

It serves both to manage the S/N ratio and to provide feedback to commenters on what the community sees as signal vs. noise.

> I very often see the top comment on the page to be a thoughtless one-line that is self-evident, but also not wrong

I don’t see that often on threads with substantial discussion. I suppose if that was a real problem, weighting upvotes by some measure of how relatively unfavorable the comment’s position is at the time upvoted would mitigate it.
I agree that flagging has value, but it is grossly misused to suppress discussions that are on topic but are outside of the overton window.

Generally speaking I think HN is wonderful, and if staying wonderful means we have to tolerate censorship, I'll gladly make that trade, but I do wish people had thicker skin (that's a problem on all sides by the way).
It's funny you say this, because the topics on HN are actually quite broad. If flagging weren't a thing, all we'd be talking about is Trump this, guns that, free speech this, trans that, racism here, racism there. Now that would be quite boring.
> Because if there were, they would be able to more easily raise the capital from private investors rather than the public market

Coinbase isn’t raising capital though because it’s a direct listing.
Not really. We already had one - COVID + decade of economy reset cycle - combined rolled into one. Next one - will not happen (probably) until at least 2027\2028
Congratulations to coinbase and the team ! Crypto and blockchain technology are the 800 pound gorilla that will disrupt everything in society ! We are coming !
Latest Miguel Ojeda reply to Linus concerns

https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/4/14/1130
The notion that HN is well-moderated is bizarre. HN is exceptionally hostile to those who hold beliefs contrary to HN-acceptable norms.

If you want to get banned quickly, criticize pg portfolio companies (even politely, with valid criticism), point out that white supremacist and other hate speech is welcomed so long as it is polite; point out that responses to hate speech are _not_ tolerated.....

The community here used to be absolutely amazing. 10-15 years ago the discussions here were actionable, and I was able to make valuable professional connections in the the comments.

These days, that doesn’t happen. The discussions are lower value, less open minded, and more strident. It’s a pile of shit.

And candidly, that’s why I’m logged into a banned account to post this. Uncomfortable truths can’t be posted from IPs/cookies/users that you want to preserve. Daniel Gackle will ban your ass if you point out, for example, that he tolerates and even welcomes extremely bigoted shit.
All crypto is > 2T, as of the last few days
That's just cross-side network effects. More users is better for hosts which means more hosts which is better for users which means more users.

What you probably have in mind is "direct network effects", more like what you'd see with a chat app or social network (though social networks also have cross-side effects between users and advertisers).
probably in their s1 or other sec docs
The example is very impressive! Sounds very natural.
I've found that using 'term of art' more effectively communicates 'this word has a domain-specific meaning that might differ from what you would naively think, pay attention' than simply saying 'x is an x term' or the like, which people tend to gloss over.

[edit] I am pleased to see that HN readers as a group love to define things, and also that I need to learn to refresh tabs I've had open for a while before responding
> The typical American "nearly silent" one you are describing tends to be more of a flapped /ɾ/, by the way. <d> is often the same.

yes, exactly! also out here in South Dakota we specifically pronounce the "t" in "Dakota" as a "d," I've noticed.
The phoneme-grapheme correspondence in Spanish is better than English, but let's not pretend it is 1:1. Does it account for assimilation in rapid speech? Does it account for coarticulation of adjacent consonants? Does it account for regional/dialectal variation? Does it account for secondary articulation?

Even ignoring all of these, its clearly not bijective. For example:

C --> /k/, /θ/

Z --> /θ/ [0]

K --> /k/

Q --> /k/

G --> /ɡ/, /x/

J --> /x/

N --> /n/ (with several distinct secondary articulations), /m/ (rarely)

M --> /m/

R --> Can be tapped or trilled.

Etc. You can go here and see many bijection-failures here: [1]

I am being intentionally unfair to Spanish (which truly does have a much, much better phoneme-grapheme correspondence than English[2]), mostly to illustrate the point that there aren't really any languages which have a 1:1 mapping between spellings and pronunciations. Even if you decide to use the IPA to write your language, non-standard dialects end up needing to read words that don't match their pronunciations. What happens when inevitably the language undergoes change - do we update all of the books to use the 'new' spellings of words?

The ideal orthography shouldn't be completely 1:1, but it should be relatively shallow. From that perspective, Spanish orthography is a fairly attractive option.

[0] The non-1:1 situation with /θ/ gets much worse in most dialects of Spanish, where it is not distinguished from /s/. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_Spanis...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_orthography#Alphabet_i...

[2] Look at how effective Spanish-speakers are at reading without "decoding" compared with Portuguese, which also has a good p-g correspondence. In particular, look how much faster the Spanish students are at pseudowords, on page 141: https://www.academia.edu/17872463/Differences_in_reading_acq...
Compare Coinbase to say a major exchange like the NYSE. Realize that crypto is a space that could be damaged by gov intervention at any time. Realize that there is very little lock in effect on these markets, and fees are becoming less and less over time.

How does Coinbase ever manage to justify a valuation this high? 100B....

Ping me when the stock price is under $100.
Glad you enjoyed it :)

And yeah, under the hood those other languages do all kinds of wild optimizations with their "immutable" strings like sharing substrings between different strings and pooling to reduce allocations. I intentionally left out those nuances because from the user's perspective, those are all implementation details (even if they can surface in the form of performance changes).
Uh, yes.

https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/phone-scams-cost-american...

https://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/phone-scams-cost-americ...

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-how-much-phone-scams...
I feel like downvoting on HN is a way of saying “No. We don’t behave like that here”. It’s one of our community’s tools for preserving, teaching and enforcing our values with newcomers. Yes, it’s open to abuse. But it fills an important social function. And from that perspective, of course it’s limited to people who’ve been involved in the community awhile.
It also depends on time hours.

I once made a post that criticized the Anglocentric perspective of an article. — it was initially upvoted, but then became downvoted when UTC+2 went to sleep, and then upvoted again when UTC+2 woke up. — one can take a particular guess as to why.
Yes, please. One of my biggest peeves are posts that are meant to be educational, but yet don't define the types used for variables nor define the namespace / package they are from. Java posts are rife with the latter, and I'm really not looking forward to the `var` keyword making the former a thing too. And quite a few get bonus points for doing such on types that require a new dependency -- but good luck figuring out which dependency without knowing the dependency name nor the package name of the class!
Yeah they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26813194
4. Economic incentives for the current entrenched players to participate, or for everyone to abandon the entrenched players for new open ones.

That's by far the hardest part, and I'm skeptical it will happen anytime soon. I suspect things will shift eventually as the market changes (e.g. the shift from desktop to mobile), but I doubt it will be toward openness absent government regulation the forces it.
We've made it awesome again.
I understand a lot of that stuff. I think the last 10 years have very thoroughly vindicated fiat currencies and central banking. The fact that we powered through the last financial crisis without inflation and the biggest pain was inflicted by austerity policies in Europe made it all pretty unequivocal. Crypto is powering close to zero of the mainstream economy. Nobody got a bitcoin bailout. The "money" isn't flowing. I've seen multiple big Wall Street banks say they're going to start using blockchains for whatever and fail to get any traction. It's great for avoiding taxes or buying drugs but I haven't seen any other practical application. The game theory aspect is probably very relevant. There's a lot of FOMO driving speculators into the frenzy.
I'm not sure but in any case they have a great collection of papers and talks in that repository.
Maybe you just noticed it lately.

Term doesn't imply a specialized meaning. Term of art does. And it doesn't have a negative secondary meaning like jargon.
We recently took on a project to use Wasm to speed it up a bit. Blog post here: https://jordaneldredge.com/blog/speeding-up-winamps-music-vi...
I love breaking things and I've noticed that user are able to intercept the UID / ID of the received messages in the Websocket and edit / spoof past messages from other users.

edit: And editing other user names and rooms settings.

Just letting you know. :)
It would be really interesting to see an article about biggest companies YC passed on around that time in the crypto space. We hear about the YC success stories but I think the “could have been”s are also equally interesting
I too don't see people leaving. We can complain all we like. Nothing will change until there's an alternative.
If you are low enough, Kessler is simply not possible because square-cube scaling means that the fragments deorbit in less than a single orbit.
The same way DMCA 512 intersects with contributory copyright infringement. The only difference is that CDA 230 has no notice-and-takedown regime for defamatory content.
>I'd love to engage with you on the merits of pricing for what the market will bear

Well, there's also the level of pricing and milking it that poorer consumers will tolerate without hating the company, so there's that...
Do you also ignore online reviews on movies, restaurant, products, etc.?
Are these new attacks? The video in OP only seems to indicate the ability to attack content on a Wifi connection of other connected clients if you're already connected.

It doesn't give you the ability to "crack" a WPA2 network without the password.
The OP mentioned "AI that makes opaque life-changing decisions". In that context, "through the back door" was more likely meant in the sense of "without anyone noticing".

It doesn't really matter if there is "less" discrimination without AI. While AI is not there, there is no discrimination from AI. If there is some after introducing AI, then it's a problem with AI.
As a novelty, we actually already tried that: https://desktop.webamp.org/

Note: Nobody thinks this is actually a good idea, but it's kidna fun.
It's like Rule 34 but for merch on Alibaba.
Why isn't this solution robust? Seems like using the DEBUG trap would be very robust.
Archive link: https://archive.is/MeZ4K
>Even more embarassing for someone like the FBI beating the chests about the valuable information that they absolutely have to have access to, but to find out there was nothing of value on the device.

That claim by the FBI was obviously made in bad faith to begin with for the San Bernardino shooting. Of course the shooter didn't store some kind of incriminating communications or plans on his work phone, there was never any rational explanation for why he would have done that. They destroyed their personal phones entirely but didn't even bother to reset their work phone. Add to this the fact that a law enforcement screw up is what originally locked them out of a recent iCloud backup to begin with and they already had access to everything else that was in iCloud before they reset the password. It was painfully obvious that they were pushing hard behind "But TERRORISM!!!" to either set a precedent or get a signed build of iOS that bypassed any protection from brute force attacks.
One of my first practical pieces of software I wrote was for Winamp. I noticed at the time Winamp didn't support using the Media Keys unless it was focused. So I whipped up a simple application that listens to the media keys, then forwards the message to the Winamp process directly.

I haven't used a media player since Winamp that I like as much as I liked Winamp. I really miss it.
No doubt, no doubt. At what point does Will.i.am realize this is doing him more harm than good here.
One thing I find hilarious, btw:

The antiquated low-tech equity exchanges charge less than 1 bp in trading fees on average, if I'm not mistaken.

The hip new high-tech crypto exchange charges between 50 and 200 bp in trading fees (unless you trade a lot), around 60 bp on average, it seems.

So, crypto trading on Coinbase is two orders of magnitude more expensive than good old fashioned equity. Yay for progress!
Isn't AZ selling the vaccine at cost? Won't AZ also have the opportunity to improve their vaccine (or delivery protocol)? Won't more data be available in one year with which to make these decisions?
Personally I also use it for comments that are so absurd that they don't warrant a comment.