skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why it's surprising that some things might bother some people but not others. (?)

Anyway, I thought the passage was an interesting reflection of the perspective of the 'nomicon authors. I'm fairly new to rust, and I've observed the culture – or at least, some part of the culture, and only as it's visible to newcomers – to be astonishingly friendly and helpful, but also sometimes, well, condescending. I sometimes get the occasional vibe of "this is bad and you want a bad thing" instead of "let me acknowledge your concern and here're options for addressing it" (with all the usual caveats: this attitude isn't by any means universal or even exemplified by a particular individual; obviously, the rust community doesn't owe anyone anything, so don't interpret the complaint as a demand; &c).

I wonder whether other people have had a similar perception.
The only reason I mention that you should mind your own energy uses is that you seem concerned about externalities and distraught bitcoin is doing the opposite of your thesis. Discuss away but it's not working. Your best bet is to regulate what you have influence on, your own uses of energy.
They didn't bring any guns. How can you seriously believe they tried to take over the government by force in the most heavily armed country in the world, and not bring any guns?
> Net Neutrality does not block standard QOS techniques.

That’s not true. Nailing down what ISPs are allowed to do in terms of QoS is still very much an open question. It’s not legally clear, for instance, why Comcast would be allowed to prioritize real-time video streams yet not be allowed to deprioritize BitTorrent sharing. What you’re referring to is peering discrimination but the whole of net neutrality is a larger and more complex subject.
Why not? They have at least one external VGA, which you can use to drive at least some 14 to 17" external panel at stunning 1024x768 to 1280x1024!1!!

Or not so old ones with HDMI/DP easily anything 22 to 24" @1920x1200, as I do.

edit: more screen real estate is always good!
I built https://phrase.shop for creating secure yet memorable passphrases.
> Having the rules change in the middle of the game won’t affect investments?

The rules of the game change all the time. Every business plan has to take into consideration the risks/benefits of possible regulatory changes. And yes, changes will affect investment. But the hypothesis is, it will drive investment away to the extent that it will "kill the goose...". I would phrase it less hyperbolic as "in a significant way".

To reiterate: We are talking here (up to now) a about once in a life-time event. And that is both the Covid crisis, as well as being able to profit from.

> I mean, what if the next company comes up with a cure for AIDS. Are they confident the IP won’t be broken either?

So the classical slippery slope argument. The whole point why governments are bringing the option on the table is, because it is an exceptional event. So, it doesn't translate to AIDS/HIV.

Will people believe that? That's anyones guess. Do you believe anyone will forgo possible profits from the whole range of possibilities of treatments based on mRNA because of that precedent? I seriously doubt that.

I do not see those risks, but then I also do not see much the benefit either. It isn't like just the patents are the limiting factor, and you could ramp up a production of those vaccines from one day to the other.
Nasdaq: System is unable to record high Berkshire Hathaway share price
text to speech?
Frederick the Great, potatoes and the art of rebranding
Wasn't there a whole ordeal with competing entities, even within national organizations and army branches, who were all zealously entrenched in their own little jurisdictions?
The word would be "phones" -- distinct units of sound regardless of meaning.

The next level up would be "phonemes", which must contrast against other phonemes within a particular language. For instance, in English /b/ and /v/ are phonemes, because "bat" and "vat" are two different words with only that portion changing. (This is known as a minimal pair.) However, in Spanish, /b/ and /β/ are not separate phonemes; they are two phones in complementary distribution.
Like with most things, the best is probably some middle path, and society will overshoot one way and then the other. Whether we are currently “overshot” or not is up to the reader to decide :)
Great way to put that, thanks!

Part of debugging is turning off something for a short time, moderns have a tendency to assume everything in the past was done out of ignorance and debugging isn’t required, destruction is.
Yes but the government doesn't prosecute itself (see the director of the NSA lying to congress while under oath) and corporations are only ever hit with tiny fines they can pretty much ignore.
Does anyone know why something like binary search isn't a first simple choice for skipping to the next unique item, if the index is ordered?

Is it because of the tree structure of the index?
Security didn't even use tear gas.
Back in the day I used to force all websites to not only use my font, but my font size.

I no longer bother since switching to HiDPI displays, but it was helpful for a while.
Is there a website to allow me to check my own email address?
Fire fast.
Sounds like you need a new bank. Checking accounts are pretty cheap these days, why not switch?
Unlox app does this - its primary feature is to use FaceID on an iPhone to unlock a mac, but it also has an AutoLock feature if said phone goes out of bluetooth range. The signal level threshold is configurable so you can keep it on a pretty short leash.

(no relation, just a happy customer)
Ask HN: Are you a YouTuber? Or thinking about becoming one? Tell us more:-)
People on HN often recommend blogging, but I wonder if YouTube is the new blogging in some respects.

Do you have a YouTube channel? Or are you thinking about creating one? Or do you have a channel that you stopped updating?

If you have a YouTube channel:

- what made you create it?

- what do you talk about?

- is creating videos a periodic thing? Or something you do regularly?

- how easy (or difficult) has it been to gain an audience for your content?

(Feel free to post a link to your channel. Or leave out if prefer :-)

If you don't have a YouTube channel, but have been thinking about creating one:

- what would you like to talk about?

- what's holding you back from creating a channel? Any particularly fears or worries?

If you have a YouTube channel, but stopped updating it with new videos:

- what caused you to stop updating the channel? Boredom? No time? No audience? Rude posters?
For me `forge` says "Opening TLS connection [...]" and that's it. Nothing else happens and no error visible anywhere. Tips?
Few people are buying the utility tokens to pay for the service. They’re buying them to hoard so they can resell to other speculators

That's not a utility token. If you want to create a true utility token, make it stable and you won't have to worry about speculation.
Would a thumb print reader be viable in this case? Can those provide arbitrary strings? I'd still store the password in a manager in case that device breaks.
Most of the time I browse on my phone. If I'm on e.g. HN and I click a link, and I get a 3/4 page cookie notification, or if Intercom pops up a bubble over half the phone, I usually just close the page and don't bother. I think this backs up what you are saying, so much content isnt pay or watch ads, its "I'll glance at it but really I dont care enough about it even to dismiss a popup". This is very different from physical or service purchases. As I said in another comment, its "browsing".
The problem here is really just general flaws in capitalism. The main thing I hate about ads is the broken corporate incentive -- companies want to earn as much as possible and the feedback loop of worse customer experience is weak.

So annoyingly while it is true that ads are a currently necessary part of funding the internet, it is also true that a perverse incentive exists to just keep hammering the $ button once you find a model that works. It is a good argument for why we probably should want to pay directly for content. Or y'know, just topple capitalism on account of it generating toxic localized optimizations literally everywhere.
I wonder if the millions of communications that fraudulently bear the names of their constituents have anything to do with that lack of enthusiasm.
Syntax highlighting to the rescue! I’ve almost been bitten by that “feature” before, but the VS Code extension for YAML caught it.
The World at My Fingertips
A lot of websites have terrible code for detecting your language preference and treat "en-US" as a default in the sense that if they get any other clue what language you may speak, they will prefer that rather than "en-US". I live in a non-English-speaking country, and I've solved this by switching all of my OS and browser language settings to "en-CA". When possible, I also list the other languages I speak after "en-CA". I get non-English sites, or sites that I don't speak the language of, far less often now. Some sites are just strange though: on YouTube the UI has been a mixture of three different languages for several months.
Of course! And while that is a valid point, my issue is not that you can turn them on or off - it's the fact that they are there.

Again -I totally understand they have to make money. This is only my opinion - that's all - but it just seems wrong to replace someone else's ads with your own.
Is this another pump and dump following DOGE jump last days ?
>This is very 'unhacker' advice, but I generally learn to love defaults

There's a lot of wisdom in this advice: the more time you spend messing with settings to customize the UX; the less repeatable this configuration is, and the harder it is to get a new system back up and running.

Also: what's "hacker" is working on many many different systems, and being able to at least minimally adapt to each different system's set of defaults, so you can remain productive. (and for me, this means absolutely forgetting all about one platform's take on hot-keys, shortcuts, and setting up aliases).

Mouse-scroll direction? I can't abide the "reverse" (scroll down to go up), and that's one thing I'm not ever going to let slide on a new system.
Or, "How my own personal preferences can be spun as the ultimate battle of good versus evil."

Yes, we all like it better when people speak clearly. And yes, some people dress up poor quality of thought with complex words and grammar. I hardly think either of those things is unique to the English language, or to Marxism.

So yeah, his first five rules are all pretty much standard techniques of writing, taught in any English comp class. The sixth, to avoid saying anything "outright barbarous", is completely useless as written. It would be a lot clearer to say "All of these rules are guidelines, and sometimes your writing will sound better if you break them."

But mostly this seems to be about him arguing against a strawman. I'm sure plenty of his political opponents write badly. I'm sure plenty of the people he likes write badly, too.

I did find one passage that I liked: it's interesting to note that "fascism" had already lost its meaning by 1946.
I would login to my other account if I hadn't thrown the password away.

Persecuted? No. Pretty damn aware of the many times that people immediately downvoted every comment of mine they could? Yes. I'm a bog boy, I don't care about Internet points, but I also don't enjoy spending my days with people so petty and small. Grown, professional adults no less. If I feel persecuted, maybe it's because I like a lot of HNers know what bullying feels like. Feels like bullying. This applies to myself as well, but just because people have bullied you doesn't mean you aren't also a bully. You might even be more likely to be that because of learned behavior. HN is full of psuedointellectual high brow bullies. Not to smear all you fine people. It's not everyone, just an uncomfortable percentage.

What proof would you accept? I mean in the second one, you can literally see where dang has detached it, without a reason as to why. In a topic discussing politics and tribalism. There will be no proof of it, there's nothing to prove, but if that isn't evidence of moderator intervention (without transparency, no less), what is?

This is why even for all that I've learned form HN over the years (would love to not read it at all), I hate the discussion. It's so toxic. I'm getting probably rightly moderated but HN is full of people being ugly to each other on an hourly basis. I'm part of the demographic that should most appreciate HN, I can't imagine how people that aren't feel.
Banks want a coin with a central bank and fractional reserve. US banks want all that plus a value pegged to the dollar.

Fractional reserve banking allows banks to create money from nothing. Banks don't like their money making power taken away.
It has this setting and defaults to using your phone as the proximity device. Not sure why else I should BT pair my phone with my PC.
Such claims have already been overturned - and that blog post is _very_ light on details.
I realize this is far from the main point of this phone, but wow, that picture quality is...not great at all
True story.

This algo-madness is a vulnerability in the system, break into it like a real hacker :)
This article is about screening which is a public health policy. Policies shouldn't promote things that are not effective.

Anyway, patients can't make all decisions regarding their own health since most drugs need a medical prescription. And doctors won't just do any procedure that you ask them to.
This is how the OCSP standard works.

It needs to be chatty.
California bar owner who sold fake Covid-19 vaccine cards to face felony charges
I'm not sure why traditional advertising should get a pass here. Traditional advertising finds whatever fears and insecurities you have and exploits them to sell you stuff. If you're worried you're not manly enough, better buy an $80k truck with at least a V-6. If you're worried you're not a good enough parent, better give your kids some sugary crap. Exploiting people's psychology like this is also an overreach.
> but if it succeeds, good on Suhail!

Well, not exactly. There's plenty of people who have been successful at, frankly horrible things.

I count this kind of "not your computer, ours" rent seeking change as "bad if successful".
Git design doc for the evolve command (2018)
That is not how coups work. Legislators are seized in order to provide the coup with a veneer of legitimacy, at gunpoint if necessary (but it often isn't). Many coups involve no bloodshed at all, and are the product of bluff and intimidation.
how does anyone surf the web in 2021 without an ad-block? I'd be more interested in opinions about the article.

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...
Oh,

I thought they were going to avoid sending a font when you load the page for the first time. Nope, they're going to have you re-download a font you likely already have installed.

The web just keeps finding new ways to get worse.
reader-mode is the best thing to happen to web browsers.
I can relate. I went through a clean install recently because my last was about 5 years ago and I wanted to start fresh instead of installing from a Time Machine backup.

I had a checklist from last time in my notes and remembered that it only took a few hours and then the system was set.

This time it took much longer. Maybe because I went from Mojave to Big Sur in one go.

So now I've started a small project where I automate as much as possible, using defaults and/or Plistbuddy to edit macOS configuration settings, install dotfiles using GNU stow, profiles for network settings, and just copying files around.
Big-A Agile and Scrum don't do such a great job, but the principles of agility do.

There's a book called Accelerate that describes and prescribes proven values and techniques that promote agility.

Also, Don Reinertsen is awesome - check out his books on running a software organization based on lean principles.
It's appalling, though the Techcrunch piece doesn't provide the annoying detail that the 19yr-old who submitted 7.7M fakes did it in support of Net Neutrality[1] - with friends like this...

1: https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-technolog...
> NSA released a now older OSX hardening PDF, still lots of relevant stuff:

> Disable Unnecessary Services: The following services can be found in /System/Library/ LaunchDaemons. Unless needed for the purpose shown in the second column, disable each service using the command below, which needs the full path specified: sudo launchctl unload -w PathToPlistFile

Today, you can't do that unless you disable, well, a different security setting.
They hold 13.3% of all BAT.
Introducing ideas associated to the topic that expand it and offer new perspectives is of course welcomed.

The issue with the China apologist comments is that their intent is to damage control by attacking the negative sentiments that would make the country look bad and steering the conversation towards the evils of other countries, i.e. whataboutism. This behavior is so prevalent online that you'd be hard pressed to find any discussion that criticizes China without it.

I'd also find it frustrating if in any thread that criticizes the US there would be comments about how China is worse. That might be the case, but it doesn't minimize US' problems and only distracts from discussing them. Yet such comments are much less frequent--I'm not sure if I've ever seen one.
The chart you share is buggy. If you click on the block size, you'll see it measures Bitcoin blocks as being around 800kb. This indicates that it's ignoring the segwit witness data.

In reality, BCH blocks are a about 1/3 the size as Bitcoin blocks for the last 7 days: https://fork.lol/blocks/size.

If you zoom out to the last year, you can see that BCH had a rise and fall in number of transactions per block, whereas Bitcoin was consistent: https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactions-btc-bch.ht...

I don't see how Ethereum relates to the dearth of real-world traction BCH has versus Bitcoin. Moreover, Ethereum has a different block emission rate, a different pricing model for transactions, and a different wire format for representing them, so size and quantity measurement comparisons are apples to oranges. Suffice it to say that both Bitcoin and Ethereum's transaction capacities are maxed out (signaling high demand), whereas this is not the case for BCH.
I think Campbell's "journey" is about storytelling and the narrative journey, with a heavy dose of Jungian psychology, not about tech/science ideas. So I'd say it doesn't fit here.
It's of course technically doable - the laptop itself is a device that talks to the drive via T2. But it's not something Apple wants to do. This was an issue for years already before M1 was introduced.
haha as a physicist I totally feel it!
> Netflix is already paying it's ISP

And I would argue that that is good. It creates an incentive for Netflix to invest into encoding, compressing and developing new tech in general. It also provides openings for competing platforms with better technology.

Take that away, and we could have a race to 8K@120fps or whatever with the whole internet as losers.
This conversation is odd. Someone says there are no real world use cases. Someone else says yes there is and poses one. Former person points out that in fact that example just makes their point for them. The counter is well there has to be some use case because there are theoretically an infinite number of them. We just have to find one from that set.

This example right here. It presumes that content creators will happily just bypass distributors like Netflix. I find that unlikely because it ignores what Netflix actually provides for content creators.

1. Funding in some cases.

2. Discovery and a ready audience.

3. Availability of content to your audience.

Content creators have little motivation to not use Netflix or Disney+ or whatever other service. Those services have little motivation to use crypto streaming payments. And frankly most consumers don't care enough to create an incentive for the creators by voting with their wallet.
I think that's a combination of "I want to lose weight without really changing anything" and "We want to reward loyalty by tying promotions to tenure...until you're no longer useful and we can sack you at a moments notice in an unfortunate cost-reduction exercsie."
I have churned through three macs since 2012 and have never once installed fresh. Time machine has helped me move between them. At one point I had to temporarily move back to an old one while the other one was being fixed, and I did the exact same thing (I experienced some hiccups with brew packages that were no longer compatible due to missing CPU optimizations on the old mac).

I periodically clean my mac, though. Remove stale configuration files, cleanup apps, etc. I also have a bunch of stuff written down, as well as scripts, to help with installing new macs (to help my friends reinstall theirs).

I'm very nitpicky about configurations and apps. I've got dozens of apps and micro-apps I use. which are very modified. These include the typical BetterTouchTool, Alfred, Amphetamine, but also smaller apps like Audio Balance. My terminal is heavily customized, both in terms of iTerm 2 settings, but also in terms of my zsh config, custom commands, etc.

I'm sure I'd be able re-create my environment within days, but these would be very rough days....and time machine just works! I don't need anything else.
While I can't be sure of what they were trying to say, my guess would be they were referring to the fact that Mozilla earns money from partnering with Google, while Brave doesn't need to do that, they have BAT, and so Brave might not be as hesitant to modify YouTube functionality as Mozilla.
> It is almost impossible doing some digging for infrastructure without coming into some old structure.... usually mosaics, old villas, old graves, etc...

Or if you're _very_ unlucky, an unexploded bomb from the 1940s in a questionable state of chemical decay.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/03/15/london-2012-olym...

https://www.dw.com/en/500-kilogram-wwii-bomb-sparks-evacuati...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-43027472

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-24799937
Yes, the unwashed masses can't handle abstract concepts like 1:1000 being smaller than 1:500. We certainly know better than them the value of years with the kids versus a physically satisfying romantic life, and if they think differently they are clearly just irrational plebs who should be hoodwinked for their own protection. We can't let a lifetime of unique experience and perspective stand in the way of a good one-size fits all system that produces better (for our definition of better) results on average.
X11 is a crime against humanity.
I've been considering TimescaleDB for some use cases. Specifically to keep a transactional log of messages sent out.

Has anyone independently benchmarked TimescaleDB vs Postgres w/ B-Tree vs Postgres w/ BRIN? Given that most timescale data would benefit greatly from BRIN, I'm surprised their various blog posts never cover it.

I have discovered one person who tried to replicate some of the benchmarks around Postgres vs TimescaleDB (back in 2019), but they came up with data that contradicts the latest blog post around TimescaleDB vs Postgres performance, which makes me reconsider whether I really need what TimescaleDB provides. Maybe there have been large changes since then?

http://blog.coelho.net/database/2019/09/13/postgresql-vs-tim...

https://blog.timescale.com/blog/timescaledb-vs-6a696248104e/
I guess I am used to this sort of rhetoric around UB because it is just something that should not be done. I'm assuming you're not coming from C++?
To summarize: one can't predict user adoption. If they can, I'd encourage them to start the required companies in order to capture it.