skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going through another vivid round of realizing that my parents are humans. They tell you that will happen to you one day, they don't tell you it'll happen over and over.

Musk, a human being with more power than any one person can handle, makes a decision, then other people and events convince him he made a mistake, and he changes back to his old stance. That we don't want politicians and public figures to ever change their minds says much more about what is wrong with us than what is wrong with them.

What is pretty weird to me though was that I feel like he could have hedged this much better by taking a middle ground. If you want to accumulate a position in an asset, and you have a ridiculous amount of money, don't you do the Warren Buffet method of grabbing it a little at a time, maybe when nobody is looking?

If you were trying to build a position in silver, and your company accepts it as payment, don't you keep spending your other assets and just keep all of the silver that your customers pay you with?
The proof of stake ETH2 chain is already live for Ethereum and has been since December. That chain is parallel to the existing proof of work chain. They now need to merge the POW chain into the ETH2 validator nodes so they can conduct consensus from there on. The merge has been simulated already and is being tested. Core devs seem to be confident it will be feasible with low risk. But of course, there's always a chance something goes wrong.

For more info check out this beautiful site: https://ethmerge.com/
Mine is about 4 years old.

It's still a great phone, runs everything I've run on it really well, and as far as I can tell it's working as well the day I bought it. Still receives firmware updates too.

Its data connection is still faster than any other 4G device I've used, and faster than my home internet connection. The battery still lasts all day, and the ludicrously high resolution OLED screen is still in perfect condition.

It's hard to see why I'd want to replace it before it breaks.

If it lasts, I'll probably keep it a few more years, and because of the good experience, if it breaks I might get the same 4-year old model again second hand.

Even if you gave me a new phone for free, I'd put it in a drawer because there's no obvious benefit and considerable hassle to moving over.
but the product is great but it is underrated for some reasons. I think it is underrated because it is a small company compare to its competitor microsoft and google and getting use to notion is also little bit tricky.
I have had reports from students attending engineering classes say that since all classes have been on-line; teachers and administration keep increasing methods, amounts, and tools for testing, yet are decreasing the methods, amounts and tools for teaching. They complain, rightfully, how are they supposed to learn, when all that happens is they are tested?
I like the conclusion here:

> If it’s a core business function — do it yourself, no matter what.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/14/in-defense-of-not-...

Of course, then the issue becomes "what is core?"
It is really not difficult to use BCrypt or Argon2 with your backend of choice.

Proper password and session management have been made accessible for many years if you use any "modern" backend.
Making a monster circuit board table
Probably still better than anything HTML.
I didn't mean the theme. I just meant a theme. Also, if I recall correctly, the phrase "what's going on?" is muttered throughout the film as well. So I think it's a little of both (and more), where the more global theme is one of trying to understand understanding.

This is a pretty good video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vDmWFTvzto

Although, I think a lot of the analysis of Coen brothers can sometimes fall flat. Coen brothers films are hilarious, often in extremely dark and non-obvious ways, so oftentimes their films are overanalyzed. I often think answers to "why did the Coen brothers put this in the film?" are simply "because they thought it was funny".
There's a fantastic novel series that starts with Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson. It follows a series of the first colonizers of Mars, and every time it shifts perspective it dives into a new science/technology frame.

For a few chapters you are following an engineer, and it talks about the alloys and techniques she's using to build housing. A little while later you follow a geologist and the topic shifts a bit as this geologist goes out exploring.

You follow biologists, psychologists, economists, and each time it dives into the challenges they have in how they perceive Mars and what to do with it.

Inevitably, there's a conflict between the "Reds" and the "Greens". Given the series titles (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars), I'm sure you can figure out who wins. However, it seems to suggest a result that I find fairly likely -- it doesn't matter what you say we should do with Mars, people are going to do what they want. We already don't care about externalities here on Earth, there's no way we can police them on Mars.

That said, while I used to be a huge fan of the idea of colonizing Mars, I've swung around to the idea that colonizing asteroids is far more interesting. Mars is relatively resource poor, and asteroids are incredibly resource rich. There are some kilometers wide balls of iron, nickel, and platinum group metals out there. Not to mention water and carbon. All the materials you'd need to undertake construction in space and none of the challenges of having to lift it into orbit.
Congratulations to the team!!
Scala has been critiqued a lot online, from what I've seen atleast, and the Scala team took that feedback and are actively trying to solve it. From bettter tooling to simplifying language features, I want to thank everybody that has been part of the incremental improvements for Scala!
Libraries that don't rely on macros have been fast to get compatibility with Scala 3.0.0, so I'm glad to see it's not an entire Python 2 -> Python 3 situation all over again.
Hoping for many more years of Scala fun.
I'm not sure I'd call it a plot hole but it's a pretty weak explanation. Something like using humans for processing capacity or something like that would have made more sense at least in a handwavy SF context.
Not sure I've ever seen such blatant, overt misogyny on HN before.
The mmm.pages post yesterday was really refreshing positive, until a comment floating to the top ranted about geocities style/gifs being schizophrenic, nostalgia being toxic, and real creativity = having the same cookie cutter modern web design as everyone else (now that’s irony).

But based on your comment, you either: a) were inspired by the post itself and decided to have a little fun roasting this comment; or b) need to take a vacation.
I just use Slack as a universal command line interface for everything.

Slack's bot extensibility make it great for:

- As a universal notification system (calendar events, github notifications, sms for the idiot apps that insist on it -- all sms go to my slack instead of my phone, alerts about my 3D printer e.g. print complete, alerts about low battery on any of my devices or robots, automatic google maps links of businesses I have visited, just about everything really)

- Expanding upon references to things, e.g. if I tag a bot and type the name of a hiking trail it can fetch the alltrails page for it and link it; if I tag a bot and type the name of a restaurant it can fetch the yelp page and link it

- If I paste code it can run it in a sandboxed environment and show the results much like a Jupyter notebook

- As a text interface to Google Assistant (the implementation is convoluted; I have to TTS the text and feed the audio result into Google's ConverseRequest endpoint. I couldn't figure out a way to feed text directly to Google)

- I have all my IOT devices linked to Slack, I can turn on/off lights, set thermostat, pause/unpause my 3D printer, request a snapshot from any camera in my house, everything right from Slack

- Slack is also great because I can upload arbitrary files, pictures, videos, sounds with ease.

The best part is that it is available on all my devices with data synced through the cloud and native mobile apps so it makes all of the above conveniently available on my phone and e-reader.

The biggest downsides are Slack's sucky search, and editing prior messages isn't the best experience.
>What do we win here?

a more balanced power dynamic
If we feed AI all the knowledge about the physics of the world, then will it be ever capable of giving answers without actually performing scientific research inferring it just from the laws that define the world?
> The new age emotions resolution was just a big ol' F U to the crowd. Lazy, sloppy writing.

The writing did vary wildly between overly vague and overly explaining things, but I blame the trailers for people thinking this was what the movie was about. The only person making this argument turned out to be wrong (everyone left on earth would have died if they listened to her at the time) and she was making it out of desperation, not from logic.

The resolution was sufficiently advanced technology (no different than transporters or Ringworld construction). Love only transcended time and space in the sense that love is what drove the characters to do what they did.
i use diff messaging pretty much everywhere based on the medium of communication and audience
I think you just described ChromeOS.
> if you make them specify it in a contract

Does this mean that anyone who didn’t know to do this is screwed?
Fair enough. I think it would be more accurate to say that Wyden is the most vocal and effective when it comes to tech-related issues.
Ahoy – A GUI for Helm
>seemed to be driven by the goodness of their heart

...we are talking about Elon Musk, right? The one who got rich founding the definitely-ethical, not-at-all-shady company PayPal? That Elon Musk?
Which he stated was done to prove liquidity.
An experimental, proof-of-concept OCI-compatible runtime for FreeBSD jails
Efficient Merit Apocalypse: A Mirror on Meritocracy
In what scenario do you need to have personal info associated with accounts and don't need to have full access to it? I see no user privacy benefits to outsourcing auth, unless all you need is to do is to verify someone's a real person.
Covid-19 Related Transportation Statistics – Bureau of Transportation Statistics
> Its really not difficult

Good luck to you!
https://geology.com/minerals/gold/uses-of-gold.shtml

And now, please reciprocate, why do people need Bitcoin? If Bitcoin disappeared right now, what would anyone (besides people who are holding it) be losing?
That is great. But still, vaccinated people shouldn't be told that they cannot get infected. There is this weird misconception floating around that just because we get vaccinated we are somehow immune to covid-19. That is a dangerous and misguided belief.
> led to Bitcoin not increasing its throughput

Bitcoin did increase its blocksize and throughput. It about doubled it in fact.

> Its value is not in its ability to pivot every few years like a startup to fulfill some new purpose.

Yes, people don't realize that we don't want bitcoin to be agile, move fast and break things. We want it to be well considered, move slowly, and be safe and careful. Similarly, it aggrivates me that people complain about how "congress moves too slow, there's too much deadlock". We shouldn't want lawmaking to move fast. Like bitcoin, it should be slow, methodical, and careful. The problem with US congress is not that its slow, its that it is massively corrupt and opposing sides rush to put things together and then don't cooperate on improving proposals into a considered compromise. Slow compromise is what we want, not fast stubborn corrupt legislators.
The CDC director herself was saying back in April that vaccinated people don't spread the virus.

> “Vaccinated people do not carry the virus — they don’t get sick,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC, told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Tuesday. That’s “not just in the clinical trials, but it’s also in real-world data.”
Not hard at all. The fake ones doesn't make any sense from an English perspective. Looks like someone just picked the next word on a SwiftKey keyboard or something. "this word fits here... Right?"
But he's arguments are pretty sound to me. Do you have any counter-arguments than a generic statement?
I think this sentence taken out of context gives it a completely different meaning. Farmers were being killed by the Vikings for sure, but France the farming society was never under existential threat from the Vikings.
I think there's a distinction between the kind of "processing" you refer to and the kind generics are a good tool to solve.

I'm interpreting what you describe as something like the methods on an object (in OO land), e.g., the "ToString()" method in Java. Generics aren't good for all such use cases (though they are for more than many might believe). The more specific the operation, the less applicable (obviously?) generics are.

Generics are useful for abstract operations regardless of the type. As an example consider insertions, deletions, and access of members of a container such as a list or map. As such the underlying type/data model isn't really relevant to their utility.
quoting myself [1]:

"It's really easy to make fun of C++, but everyone has that one feature of C++ that they like. And they want to put it in Zig. If everyone had their favorite feature from C++ in Zig, Zig would just be C++. But I'm not going to let that happen."

https://youtu.be/Gv2I7qTux7g?t=454
How ‘Put That on Top Shot’ Became a New NBA Mantra
Nothing is 100% certain. If you don't want to risk it then stay at home.
> Thank you very much. Congrats on your personal life decisions as well.

No thank to HN FUD that delayed my entry! If I had only trusted my gut instead of the common "wisdom", I could have been a billionaire instead.

It may still be possible based on private BTC projection, but that will be in 20 years...

> The fact that these types of decisions don't fly here makes it all the more fun to rub it in their faces :)

Indeed! I already loved you, now I'll be sure to check for your comments :)
It's not standard, but that's not a surprise, as Markdown is a pretty barebones format. Most of what they extended it with is pretty simple, like [[wikilinks]]. There are also other tools being developed that can work with the custom syntaxt extensions.

Also, at the end of the day, it's still just plain text. You won't lose any of your data if you no longer use Obsidian.
Elon is a gambler on a hot streak. He keeps making big bets that pay off, but the luck to cunning ratio is dangerously high.

Some day the shoe is going to go cold and he's going to be fucked. He'll drop off the richest people list faster than he climbed it (which was too fast).
He mentioned the Lightning Network - that is exactly what its for.
I really like zim (a desktop wiki) together with some filesync software
Yes, considering the surface area they are relatively secure. But the surface area is absolutely massive and I have no doubt in my mind that there are multiple full remote code execution zero-days in all major browsers.

Treating security as an absolute is rarely useful because very few things are completely secure. No browser will be completely secure for the foreseeable future.
I love Red Mars. The whole series is good but Red Mars itself is fantastic, one of my favorite books.

You practically get an undergrad in areology reading it. Super curious to see how our reality lines up with the timelines in the book.
It can. The lightning network is part of bitcoin as peer to peer cash.
They may have bought more...
and after that they released a /third/ soundtrack, with songs which were not even in the movie.
Hey Tejas, great to see you here on HN! Thanks for the support both then and now :)
I think that a standalone auth solution is a good idea when you start to have multiple applications (microservices or not) that want to have the same user database. These could be multiple custom apps or COTS or OSS.

You don't have to use JWT to get a standalone solution (see for example this guide which I wrote: https://fusionauth.io/docs/v1/tech/guides/single-sign-on/ JWTs are used briefly, but most of the heavy lifting is done with application sessions).

If you have a single application, definitely use devise, passportjs, spring security or whatever is in your framework. 100% agree. But pretty quickly you often are adding in a forum, helpdesk, GSuite for employees, etc etc and having a single source of truth for a user is good.
Where they'll get you (for normal operations) is things like parking fees. At Newark, for an aircraft less than 100,000lbs that is $45/8 hrs.
I agree with Payments (PCI-DSS hell) & Notifications (especially email & SMS), but Authentication? Fuck no. Unless there is a business requirement for sharing your authN scope with multiple external systems, you should not worry about plugging your app's auth into someone else's idea of a good time. Consuming external authentication providers like Active Directory is something we do today, but it barely registers as "more complex" than integrated user management because its still the same server+process handling everything and all of the authentication state still lives on the same box (AD writes audit logs but these are out of scope from the actual auth flow).

We started trying to plug our app into an external SAML authentication flow (Azure) and it is making it much harder to prove certain semantics around user session lifetime and app security. Maybe it would be "easier" if we had just started with cloud native shiny BS, but I doubt it. Auth state would still be scattered across multiple systems, even if they all lived in Azure (or wherever).

Any time you take a problem that exists on one computer and spread it across many computers, it gets exponentially more difficult and prone to error.
Top researchers are calling for a real investigation into the origin of Covid-19
Also it's possible that even if he doesn't sell bitcoin, he can take a short position, i.e. via GBTC which closely mirrors the movements of BTC.
Between who? And at the expense of cheap, readily available, quality services?
Apart from the HN growd + a few more, I think more users likely just don't care about options to host data.
Bootstrap 5.0.1
Progressively got tougher. I'm scared of the implications in like 20 years.
Ransomware victim Colonial Pipeline paid $5m to get oil pumping again
US YoY inflation was 4.2% last month with another $6 trillion in proposed spending. Alternatives to bitcoin are looking weak as well
> there is no good company in this space

That's a bold statement.

- https://logseq.com/

- https://www.dendron.so/

- https://github.com/athensresearch/athens

- https://foambubble.github.io/foam/
Shhh it's the secret sauce
I'm in the same camp. Years ago I have done all three myself too. Now I'm in new place where everything is done by AWS, and I do admit it is convenient but also... quite slow.

I don't think deciding not to do something out of fear of doing it wrong is the right approach... If it's business decision then at least it's backed with some reasoning - don't do it because it's cheaper to buy it.
In the future skip to the part where that was retracted.

https://people.com/health/vaccinated-people-do-not-appear-ca...
It's my opinion that the working class is not a minority. Although "minoritized" does not necessarily mean minority, that's the idea that comes to mind when people read the word (also, my opinion). The word "marginalised" is perfectly adequate.

I'll admit it's kind of nit-picking. But someone did get the wrong idea from it.
Considering the terrible quality of the writing in these examples, it's simple no matter how it's presented.
CDC dropping mask requirements for fully vaccinated people
What I like about Joplin is that it lets me sync with my phone without much hassle via e.g. Dropbox
> I cannot belive how many landing pages I go to for prodcuts and I can't figure out what they actually do

You can do anything at Zombocom. [0]

I can't believe how many years this site has been around, and it's still essentially the same site. The only change is that it now uses JavaScript to animate the spinning circles rather than Flash.

[0] https://zombo.com/
The video linked of applying a neural net to GTAV for photorealism is really impressive if you haven't seen it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1IcaBn3ej0
I thought was actually mattered was hospitalizations and deaths. Why is measuring infections relevant?
Help me understand what the page being rendered is doing. Is that like an interactive app you are serving for user input?
> Something like using humans for processing capacity or something like that would have made more sense at least in a handwavy SF context.

ISTR reading that that’s the original explanation, and it is what the depiction of the programs-as-people (and agents specifically actively replacing people) is grounded in. The exposition—but just the exposition—was changed at studio direction based on test audience feedback.

(Personally, I think the change to in-character exposition is an improvement, not because it is plausible, but because it foreshadows and underlines that the “free” humans understanding of the Matrix is ultimately grounded in deception intended, as later made explicit, a system of control.)
> You'd think an intrinsically deflationary asset like Bitcoin would move differently in the face of USD inflation. Any explanation for why this might be?

I guess because right now a big percentage of bitcoin price comes from speculation and not from people realizing its deflationary potential. Which probably will change in future.
Sort of. Among DOGE speculators, people were saying that the coin might start to be seen as more "serious" (read: track BTC swings more closely) if it reached $1. It was trading at around $0.70. Then Musk came out on national TV and pretty much took a hard "lol DOGE is just a meme" position.

A lot of people were already astronomically up on their DOGE holdings; having its biggest advocate in recent memory (recall Musk crowned himself "Dogefather") basically dismiss any hint that it might be a "serious" coin amounted to a signal that $0.70 was peak DOGE (IMHO).

Given that this latest quip from Musk is explained as being related to concerns about BTC's power consumption problems, I wouldn't be surprised to see him in the near future pumping another altcoin that advertises as having a power efficient network like NANO.
Thank you for the reminder that I should try converting from Evernote to Notion again. Last time I tried (~2 months ago), the automatic importer died after importing ~10% of my Evernote content.

Though, based on some of the comments in this thread, maybe I _shouldn't_ and should try Obsidian instead.
A lot of countries have "de minimus" thresholds below which an individual can import duty-free. In the US for reference, it's $800, but other countries have other limits. If you're over that limit, either the product needs to be delivered duty paid (DDP) by the importer or if it is un-paid, the end recipient has to jump through some hoops to pay, with varying complexity in different countries.

Trade logistics is an interesting challenge, and one we want to solve so our customers don't have to... That is part of why we're introducing new regions in phases.
While there are obvious perils here, I fear it would be tremendously irresponsible to let our adversaries own this space. AI weapons must be developed if for no other reason than to battle AI weapons.
There’s a huge range between doing everything yourself and handing your users to another company and make all of your business depend on an external SaaS provider‘s whims.