skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never said it’s not natural or that there’s anything wrong with it. It’s known to be associated with stress so barring other known factors, if you suddenly start losing your hair then stress could be a cause. In contrast to long term loss, short term loss from stress tends to be reversible if it’s caught early enough.
As I said, it's a reliable litmus test for detecting shills! They'll always crawl out of the woodwork to defend it with lies.

https://diginomica.com/bitcoins-damage-planet-coal-powered-c...

>Bitcoin's damage to the planet - the coal-powered Chinese phenomenon that uses more electricity than the whole of Argentina

>There's good reason for environmental campaigners and academics to worry about the effects of Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and Blockchain on the planet, not to mention on geopolitics and the distribution of wealth.

>However, while China is the world’s leading investor in clean energy, it remains highly reliant on fossil fuels. Indeed, between 1990 and 2019 China's coal consumption nearly quadrupled, according to US think tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). So the environmental impact of its electricity habit is massive.

>The CSIS estimates that coal still powers almost 58% of all Chinese electricity usage. Roughly 21% of the world’s carbon emissions came from China between 1990 and 2019, and the CSIS estimates that nearly 80% of those emissions were from coal.

>So the subtext ought to be clear: despite its promise of digital newness and disruption, Bitcoin is largely a coal-fired technology whose energy usage is soaring and its carbon footprint growing. That should be something for mega-fan Elon Musk to ponder while the world’s richest man develops his electric vehicles and plays 'billionaire bottle-toss' with space rockets.
I don't mind that belief system, and I'm actually advocating for people to not denigrate or lecture people that talk about astrology. The bar shouldn't be so low. I'm pretty sure this is being a decent human being, you're assuming a lot for a reason beyond me. I would still use the term play along because it is accurate.
Think about it.

What is the point of a transaction you can't eventually confirm whether it happened or not?

Monero may utilize a heaping helping of obfuscatory steps, but those steps need to be consistent, and reversible. Otherwise, you have no guarantee that someone well placed hasn't modified the record in all the right places. Nation state's sole reason for existence is to implement solutions to these kinds of hard-to-reverse problems by sponsoring tooling and regulation to ensure that knowledge graph can be traversed. Either through mandatory reporting of the requisite metadata by exchanges that handle those transactions en-masse and who make money off it as a pre-condition of doing business, or by banning systems and instituting penalties for being discovered to use such an unreversible system.

This is the part that blockchain people don't get. If you have a public ledger, it's a matter of time until LE and regulators figure out how to legally constrain you. You may have a chunk of time when you can get away with untraceable transactions, but measures will eventually be implemented that will practically break anonymity for a lawfully operated business if you keep any sort of bifurcated record.

Then there's the final measure of making it impossible to legally reenter the fiat market from these types of assets as well. Successful money laundering is already fairly difficult. Without a way to feasibly re-enter, it becomes that much harder.

While in theory you could have two monetary instruments that fuel disjoint economic systems, there still has to be a cross-over point, and you can bet that that will be the point of maximum scrutiny.

Not saying it's impossible to make work, but don't expect everyone else to make it easy for you. The glacier may not move quickly, but it does in fact, move.
Oops - many thanks for the correction.
thx for the linx
haters gonna hate
> for various features and scenarios

What would those be?
I added a little test for this to my blog, based on Facebook's function. https://ddr0.ca/blog-posts/11.Graphics_Card_Test.html

So far, the only things which haven't reported my graphics card to me are the Tor browser (good), KHTML (good, but probably because it doesn't support WebGL), and Lynx (of course, no js). Firefox reported much less info than Chrome did.
Install unifont, set it up to 32px.

As for the terminal, use anything.
Yes, it has. Sorry for the wrong link. Here is the right one: https://wiki.debian.org/ath9k_htc/open_firmware.
I enjoy christines style of writing very much. I can only recommend it to anyone out there interested in dev ops, rust or nix. Her narrative style and different characters may be a bit jarring at first, but I got used to it pretty fast.
Scoop is amazing.

You can install, update, and uninstall software.

And it also won't leave crap on your machine - everything is portable by default, and sits on a single folder.

Installing software with scoop gives me peace of mind.
You can clearly see that from data. looking at 0-day disclose, black market exploit prices and attacks in the wild.

0-day exploits for both iOS and Android are 3 times as costly as windows.

You're looking at linux as it is but linux as it is not what you should compare it to. Android\iOS or even something like Red Hat should be the comparison point.
Maybe because generally men have a lot of trouble identifying their self worth in society, maybe because few people are actually that sympathetic to men and their struggle to find meaningful fulfillment within their lives.

Every struggle is seen as a negative, some "toxic" side of masculinity that needs to be eradicated rather than embraced and understood. We are positively hostile to it.

And somewhat strangely we also attack femininity, though in a less openly hostile manner, more killed with compassion. We seem to feel sorry for outward femininity which appears to be having the effect of pushing women towards a more masculine outlook. I feel we no longer adore femininity like we once did.

Some may argue that this is all for the best, and that we need to push us all to some more less defined state, but I'm not so sure that the cost in diversity is worth it.
Amen. If a static web page does what you need, one should not be unwilling to just make a static web page.
I agree with you. I run a corporate data science department. Maybe I'm an anomaly, but I have a lot of freedom to decide how things get done. And when our website went down the other day, I got to hand the problem to our Tech team, go to sleep, and wake up to find a functioning website because I work in a company that pays a skilled team of people to handle problems like that. One of my friends was moving from a salaried job to freelance and balking at charging really high rates. I explained how much BS other people handle for her in her job, like buying computers, finding clients, etc.
What he able to monetize the site at all? Didn't see anything in the article besides him posting a few links that increased certain book sales. If he managed to get a penny for each viewer, he would have made $700k.

If not, I'm curious how anyone would best leverage a temporary & massive surge of eyeballs for the highest monetization?
NASA-Industry Partnerships to Develop Spacewalk Services for Moonwalkers / ISS
> all the stimulants everyone was using to code more

That's interesting. Do you mean Adderall/Ritalin?

That stuff has a relatively fixed useful half-life. It doesn't work for as long as people might think. It also doesn't actually make thinking clearer. It makes people feel as if they are thinking more clearly. I don't feel like looking for it, but this has been studied and reported, somewhere.

If you are referring to crank, well, the half-life of that stuff is even shorter...
Never gets old.
> Plus a lot of rich-person-worship (1) and self-glorification (2).

I could not resist (Chesterton's "The Fallacy of Success")[0].

[0] https://www.commonlit.org/en/texts/the-fallacy-of-success
Sure, but would the people working on http/3 be otherwise working on ESNI? Its a different problem space requiring different skills.

> Most wireless protocols hide packet loss from upper layers anyways using retry/FEC. I can't think of a common situation where wireless packet loss is even visible to layer 4, so efforts to build tolerance to it are usually pointless

Its attempting to build tolerance to sudden transient latency spikes interacting badly with congestion control algorithms. You can hide packet loss, you can't hide some random packet taking a lot longer to be delivered due to having to be retried.
Jupyter Flex Dashboards
I was just thinking about how I'd like to redesign an internet radio.

. Break apart the programming/setup from the physical interface.

. Use a phone or pc for all setup, perhaps like a Google wifi router, a lot of the time this is done by a different person than the end user.

. make it look like a Tivoli Model One, except with an 8 (or so) pole switch or button set. off/am/fm/aux/internet preset 1-5
Perl was made exactly for that.
https://brill.com/view/journals/fasc/6/2/article-p196_196.xm...
How does keyset based pagination deal with deletes? If the cursor/current key is deleted you lose your paging state. Or am I wrong?
If application developers actually use MSI(X) instead of Nullsoft/InstallShield/Inno/random homegrown EXE installer that spews stuff all over the FS. I've been contributing a lot to the winget repo, and well over half of the applications (including Microsoft(!) software, including Office, Visual Studio, Teams, and VSCode) do not come in a MSI.

It's been a gigantic annoyance for the people at Microsoft as they are trying to figure out how to do upgrades/uninstalls without the data you'd usually get from a deb or whatever.
Show HN: The Web Developer Knowledge
> How well are black people's interests represented in the US?

Reasonably well it would seem from the outside. 11% of congress is "black", which is roughly in line with population and there seem to be hundreds of laws and programs aimed at helping them. And there's also lots of media attention to their problems and struggles.
Good song. But it reminds me of the 80s rather than the 90s.
Not all JavaScript does, and the kind that does isn't neccessarily something I asked for. I would be plenty happy if GitHub and Stripe couldn't show their 3D globe animations until I request them, for the sake of privacy.
Yes, I think you're right, I should've written increased. Thanks for the correction :).
Linux is also stable. The binary interface isn't going to change. It's possible to write Linux software that you can boot directly into and it will never stop working or do anything you don't want it to do.
A New York father pulls his daughter out of Brearley with a message to school
Some do on doesitarm.com.

Example,

https://doesitarm.com/app/photoshop/

> Known Issues

links to https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/photoshop-for-apple-sil...
DisplayLink is a software encoded and compressed video stream that the hardware dongle decompresses on display. The experience is not great on my M1 MacBook Air. Sometimes it doesn't work and I have to plug/unplug, DisplayLink doesn't support refresh rates higher than 60hz, and you have to keep their software running in my task bar for it to work, and there are occasional visual artifacts. If you're planning to use your M1 in a multi-monitor setup, I suggest waiting for Apple to support it natively, especially if you're doing any kind of design work.

If you occassionally just want to plug in to multiple displays, it can bridge the gap. It's no substitute for a dedicated workstation.
Since there's no arm64 binary on pypi, it downloads source and builds locally.

For some reason, the pip building is failing for me (python@3.9 from homebrew, all non-brew packages in --user). However, if I download the source and do the bdist_wheel manually, it succeeds and produces installable wheel.

Cffi is unbuildable without a patch, it is failing on symbol ffi_prep_closure being non-existant.
I have been having a terrible time staying away from conda in windows, but the ridiculous amount of time and spent trying to install some python modules using pip is just not worth it.

I’d be lost without wsl.
Just an imho related post form the front page right now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26845037

How smooth that is compared to this here…
For one thing, I suggest following and disseminating Micheal Geist, who is a prof at u of Ottawa and had a long history as a voice of reason and resistance on such topics, including this specific one.

https://g.co/kgs/5gqwwr

I've also noticed Andrew Coyne of the Globe pointing out the crazy in recent federal internet proposals.
I don't think that's the reason why anyone wants to go to mars.
All have exploded, the one you are likely thinking of had a hard landing and exploded several minutes after touch down.

SN-15 is getting it's raptors currently, so this could change very soon. The main issue is the engines and some issues they need to work out there. Overall the hull will be ready before the engines.
> It's arranged more simply and straightforward, masterfully though, I dunno...

It's easy to make "complicated". It's very hard to make "simple and straightforward".

Whether that's an indication of mastery is not a closed question.
I don't have anything particularly concrete but I'd say find an open source implementation of something similar that has had a track record of running without too much incident and carefully copy its implementation, design and configuration.
When I was referring to our own desires I was including human society.
I'm surprised about the Python issue. All I had to do was a 'brew install python' - and that was months ago I think.
Using the phrase "conspiracy theory" to simply describe theories about conspiracies is pretty common nowadays, the phrase doesn't have an inherently perojative connotation. Just because it's true does not mean it is not a conspiracy theory.

Study showing the phrase "conspiracy theory" doesn't alter people's judgements of a situation: https://psmag.com/news/has-conspiracy-theory-lost-its-negati...
Loongson Technology develops its own CPU instruction set architecture
I got a 30 year mortgage in 2001 (Austin, TX), then a couple years later thought better of it and refinanced to 15 years. It was grueling for a few years, but in the long run you pay far less. It has been nice to have no mortgage payment just in time for the pandemic slowdown.

If you _can_ do 15 year, it's great to do so. I did have to buy in the "bad" part of town in order to do it, but in my case that wasn't really that bad, and by the time the house was paid off it had started to gentrify. I could imagine doing this in Detroit or St. Louis and really regretting it, of course. Predicting 15 years out is basically impossible; I got lucky.
> the F.S.F.'s insistence that the world can be neatly partitioned binarily into products that are entirely composed of “free software” and those that are not, and a want of such a binary partition often creates such bizarre paradoxes.

There is no such insistence by the FSF. They simply chose such boundary for giving their certification. It does not mean we should not go further than that, and FSF would of course encourage you to make even more freedom-respecting hardware.

If FSF would demand absolutely free hardware, there would be no devices to certify.
Darknet Diaries: Meet Jenny Radcliffe, the People Hacker
> In the end, it turned out that the whole T+2 system was stupid, and leaked through the abstractions built on top.

While T+2 is antiquated, that doesn't excuse Robinhood giving margin accounts to unsophisticated participants (who don't understand the consequences of trading on margin), fronting them funds with "instant funding" while their ACH transfers are in flight, all while having limited capital on hand. Vlad could've come out honestly and pointed out their sleight of hand was also a contributor alongside clearinghouse requirements, but instead, smokescreen.
i have no hard data, but my impression is that more and more apps are
Even without detailed comparisons, a "Related projects" section is very useful to the user. Sometimes I see such a section with comments on the other projects like "ProjectA: in case you want features X and Y", or "Project D: emphasises minimalism and configurability", and that is both immensely useful and increases my confidence in the current project whose README I'm looking at. It makes it clear that the author has your best interests in mind and understands their project's strengths and weaknesses.
What scares me is that the “middle” view is pretty far right.
Oh? I didnt mean to do that.

I'm all about the Mars trips themselves and not the stock, for what it's worth. I look forward to both because both are signs of a strong future for the civilizations on Mars.
Once WinGet comes preinstalled with the OS, Microsoft will have completed the cycle.
I don't know if I really agree. I want to. But flash was supported by much better tooling than what I see in most spots today. Dreamweaver, for all the hate we have it, seems laughable simple compared to common frameworks today.
Hey there, nice to meet some fans! Yeah it did really well critically and we shifted a lot of units but the marketing investment killed the profit as we spent on it like it was going to be the next Guitar Hero. It was always going to be more niche than that so this was its achilles heel. Activision loved what we did almost too much and killed the profitability. When I started to see Eminem and Jay Z turning up to promo events I thought "wow" / "oh crap how much did this cost us?!"

Working on it was amazing. My job was remixing music for a video game and turning it into gameplay so what was not to love! I prototyped some of the earliest mixes in the game so helped to get the project through it's earliest milestones. I met a lot of famous people and got to remix Daft Punk, DJ Shadow and a few other heroes of mine. My favorite moment was opening the Ableton project sent to us by Daft Punk containing their stems. The music nerd / fanboy in me couldn't believe I got to play around with these stems that very few people ever had access to. They basically don't work with anyone as a rule so the fact that they collaborated on our project was insane. We had their likenesses in the game and the big pyramid stage. Was surreal!

It was a great gig and I feel we produced a cult classic game that stood the test of time. The financials just didn't stack up.
Does anybody sell Bluetooth Bakelite Button Boxes?

http://www.johnwolff.id.au/calculators/BellPunch/PLUSBakelit...
Adding a screenshot to a README would likely take about 5 minutes. Put your app over a white background, take a screenshot, trim it, paste it in a commend under "Issues" and copy the GitHub-generated shortcode/url for it.
Everything this author complains about has a purpose.

They don't have to use compiled, minified and obfuscated css, vectorized graphics, and user-agent detected custom fonts

but if you don't, then you are unoptimized for other realities

websites in the past used system fonts, you can still do that.

websites in the past used low quality raster images, or high quality raster images. those websites don't look good at higher resolutions. conditional logic to fix those sites is messy.

you can still make sites like that.
I definitely need to start getting into things like leetcode, building a general repertoire of solutions to problems will certainly help in the future.
CollabVM – Control Collaborative Virtual Machines
Well, he could have bought an actual wifi capable radio for around half the price of a Stream Deck. (Unless, of course, he already had the latter device.)

It's an existing product.
If it's anything like my Kaypro, someone would have to port it to call out to the right BIOS routines for the display, I/O, etc.
Also Android\iOS in general as a platform is more secure, Android\iOS are far more restrictive when it comes to users. narrowing the attack surface for casual users.

For instance, rooting in order to install custom drivers\software is very difficult.

A single place to download content(App store) which provide tremendous control over content. detection of rogue apps, removal once they turn rogue, check assurance.

Seamless updates through a single pane of glass.(App Store again)
> Every flavour of Linux uses a different layout for its root directories, stores configs in different places and generally is not consistent from distro to distro.

As a very casual Linux user (macOS is my daily driver), are there any efforts to solve these "death by 1,000 cuts" arbitrary (I assume) differences?
I recently removed all animations from my android and the zero latency blows me away, it's like it got instantly way faster. Wish i could do that for the web

Most of the sins of the modern web can be easily undone
And now I am sad because I've never met a person like you, even if many other people told me that I am exactly such a kind of guy -- a tinkerer and a critical thinker who rejects some of the status quo and is seeing it as the bad mess that it is and doesn't pretend otherwise.

I completely agree about Hashicorp btw. They are for me one perfect embodiment of the philosophy you outlined: they challenge the current preconceived notions and are severely pushing back against too much complexity.

Same for clarity in communication. Thinking about it, in my 19.5 years of career, I spent the last 3-4 much more in improving my articulation than improving my programming. The latter kind of started happening automatically due to the former. Felt quite pleasantly surprised by that.

So, thank you for existing, really. The world needs more people like you.
The slave economy was only partially dismantled, not burned to the ground.

Southern poverty stems from post-war wealth extraction by the same land-owning elites who dominated the pre-war economy.
> Marzari stated that she was not overriding Clark’s “freedom of thought and speech.” “There is no requirement that [Clark] change his views about what is best for [Maxine],” she explained. “It is only how he expresses those views privately to [Maxine] and publically to third parties that is affected.”

Sounds like they’re fine with his transphobia. He just can’t talk about it.

Still, wow. Is this really how we want to do things?
Abstract is mostly readable to a technically person:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-021-00821-9
If the Dutch would get Philips to weaken crypto devices [0], [1] then it wouldn't surprise me if the Swedes would ask the same of Ericsson [2]

[0] https://www.vpro.nl/argos/lees/onderwerpen/cryptoleaks/2020/...

[1] https://www.ceesjansen.nl/en/cryptography/

[2] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02684527.2020.1...
Zero people have looked at a mission statement like that and thought "Ah, now I understand the scope and limitations of my company, and will use that to direct my ideas".
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Google just released a feature called Heads Up to remind people to look where they are walking

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/googles-heads-up-t...
What you're describing here is, unfortunately, very similar to the Trump playbook. And is something to be very wary of in the future.
There's Frets on Fire: http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/