skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you personally. For me, it's easy to gather my thoughts into sentences and paragraphs, and I'd rather learn Markdown and Hugo (or LaTeX!) than edit a video.

But that isn't some kind of law of nature - it isn't true for everybody. There's a significant group of people who find it much easier to use video or voice and powerful tools have arisen to help them.

For example, the TikTok video editor gets people started quickly and lets them learn as they go. I'd really encourage you to watch a tutorial to see how easy and surprisingly powerful it is.
Shamima Begum[0] is a recent high-profile example of this happening

> UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid announced that an order had been made with the intention of stripping Begum of her British citizenship. The UK government could not legally deprive her of British citizenship if doing so would leave her stateless. However, the UK government contended that Begum was eligible for citizenship of Bangladesh and was not left stateless. The Government of Bangladesh, however, stated that Begum does not currently hold Bangladeshi citizenship and would not be allowed to enter the country.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamima_Begum
We couldn't ask for a better creator of ETH in my opinion. He isn't selling these coins for personal gain, he's donating upwards of a billion dollars toward fighting covid in India.
I posted this article Cryptocurrency Tulipmania: Bitcoin is a shitcoin monday about how Bitcoin is a shitcoin for many reasons, especially because proof-of-work sucks. I'm glad to see it being abandoned by Tesla!

https://henvic.dev/posts/bitcoin/
Talk to kids about cryptocurrency mining and suddenly you have teenagers who understand Merkle trees and zero knowledge proofs. They understand mining rigs and GPUs, which are about as ground up as anyone in the PC generation ever got. They also use raspi's, there are real advantages to learning reverse engineering (Hackaday is evidence of this), and I'd even say ethereum is the new netbsd.

The abstractions we spent the last 30 years on (operating systems, protocols, etc) will fade like musical genres. There were literaally people who spent 5+ years of their lives learning OS/2, SCO, VMS, Novell, and others. I"m optimistic about kids.

Also, there are demographic issues. Consider that aptitude is Pareto distributed, which means the population lull between millenaials and the younger zombie apocalypse generation creates a smaller total sample of people in that range, so you don't encounter as many upper percentile people in that cohort because there just aren't as many of them. Any minority demographic is necessarily going to appear less exceptional because even if the distribution is the same (pareto), you're going to encounter more of the long tail cohort, and fewer of the very tiny exceptional elite in that selection. This guy is on about a group of kids who have the same aptitude distribution as older folks, but since there are fewer of them than the mega generations like X, Y, and M , he's ignoring their exceptions and focusing on their long tail.
Finally some real software. Lots of productivity because no internet. No facebags.
The Cheetah Software Engineer
For the self-storage spam, I eventually just googled the name and region and found contact information for a plausible match. I sent them an email explaining the situation, and while I never heard back from them, I haven't seen any more mail yet...
Some Things Are Bad and They Don't Have to Be
Suggest it to Netflix.
Elon Musk says Tesla will stop accepting Bitcoin for car purchases
I agree.

I hired a freelance editor to help me with my blog, and it was the best money I ever spent for improving my professional writing.[0] You can get a good editor and still self-publish.

If money's tight, there's still substantial value in just having an editor review a portion of your book and telling you about anti-patterns in your writing.

[0] http://mtlynch.io/editor/
I've opted out of most junk mail. There are a few places that do not honor that request. If its addressed to you the USPS will deliver it.

My biggest issue since opting out of most things is that the postal carrier will still deliver the grocery coupons, coupon packages addressed to a different address. I've complained so many times, USPS just stuffs them in and doesn't care.

One thing you cannot opt out of is Every Door Delivery Mail from USPS. USPS allows advertisers, typically local folks, to buy delivery to an entire route and not be required to individually address the mail items.
Musk would make a good politician. He mastered the art of the flip flop. This is why taking financial advice from twitter is generally a bad idea.
How on earth do you secure that Bitcoin has been mined with sustainable energy?! Makes no sense. Did Elon Musk actually write this and why is it in a jpg image?
Biden signs cyber security directive
That didn’t last long
Is the goal to replace rr or coexist somehow?
Online chatting, too. My typing speed increased dramatically when I started having conversations online.
What I hear you saying is that you have no confidence that we can learn from experience, and that our understanding of the process of radio active decay, and the effect of radiation on humans is incomplete.

If that is correct, then I'd Do you fly on airplanes? Have you compared the risks of flying in 1967 and the risks of flying today?
cuz of the character limit . elon and tesla bypass the usual PR firms and just post to twitter
Because good advertising still impacts you even if you “know to ignore it”, and there’s lots of ways to advertise to people that aren’t ads in the classic sense.

I suspect that adblocker usage is also a lot lower than you expect, with a quick Google showing less than half of people worldwide using adblockers on desktop and adoption below 20% for mobile devices in the US. So there’s still a broad market to target.
I can understand that technological improvements will have improved safety and efficiency.

I definitely agree that we need a spread of technologies to provide for our energy need.

I'm not convinced nuclear needs to be part of that solution though.
Well I'm not interested in working with people who feel entitled to targeting someone and mobbing to destroy them based on opinions and personal beliefs. This is illegal activity imho
What is a Bitcoin Wallet? Or how similar it is to an email’s password
SpaceX has a cottage industry popping up around it to serve its hungry fans
Elon Musk says Tesla has stopped taking Bitcoin for cars
Avoidance of margin regulation was not really a factor in what happened here. For exchange traded stocks in the US there are two margining schemes: Reg T and portfolio margin. Reg T is available to anybody and gets you 2x. PM is harder to get, but not that hard: IB will give PM to accounts with at least 100k. PM gets you 6.66x. I think swaps can be used to do better than PM, but Huang didn't need swaps to get 5x.
Just throwing my solution for dotfiles synchronization into the mix as well here, homeshick:
https://github.com/andsens/homeshick

Maintained for 8 years now, 1.7k stars, only needs git >=1.5, bash >=3, and no root access to install.

It's well tested, stable, and super hackable to fit your needs.
Not really. Lots of neurons in this part of the brain modulate their activity to movement in heterogeneous ways. The algorithm details vary, but at some level you’re trying to find a 2d x/y velocity signal encoded in the 200d neural signals. This decoder is a bit more sophisticated (using deep learning style approaches), but a Kalman filter was state of the art for a long time.

For the adaptation, there’s a rich literature of neuroscientists in this field studying how the participant adapts to the control characteristics of the decoder, and how the decoding algorithm can be designed to adapt after seeing more data during use. Here’s one paper if you’re interested http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~liam/research/pubs/merel-fox-c...
Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes on $6B in revenue
Seems like stuff folks say in a bubble. 90% of it will disappear once ethereum fixes this/that.
Hah! Many layers of hypocrisy here, heh, but at least this is a better place to end p. I hope this triggers a sell off.
> To confirm, think of a polka-dotted elephant.

You monster! :D
Security patches aren't important for most software, when it's not connecting out to any servers.
I think the line about streaming is less of the author being a jerk and more of the author resetting the dialogue concerning the average tech know-how of Gen Z relative to previous generations. Of course for every IT geek in the author’s generation, I’m sure there are at least two in Gen Z, which the author could have acknowledged.
BTC still dropping even 30 minutes after news. so much for that EMH assumption of all public info being digested by market instantly
Junk mail is vital for the USPS finances. It's over 20% of their income, ~$16 billion/yr.

It's a shame. Anthing I get in the mail that's not a first-class letter addressed to me by name goes into the trash unopened. But without the will to significantly downsize and reorganize the USPS it is a necessary revenue stream.

https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2019/1114-...
In the early days of card payment terminals my mum couldn't remember her PIN number to pay at a shop. Had to run over to an ATM and do a pretend transaction and take note of what she entered.
> Yet he and other employers in the industry face a more fundamental challenge. Low-skilled workers are fleeing food service for higher-paying jobs at fulfillment centers operated by Amazon .com Inc. and other retailers, according to Daniel Zhao, a senior economist at the employment site Glassdoor.

Amazon will probably sell fresh cooked meals from their fulfillment centers, delivered in their trucks.

"All restaurants are Amazon."
I've been working on a canvas-mostly render library. Some things like text input would require using the native component to some degree; e.g., the input element could be invisible while the canvas would render the text field in its place.

Honestly, why even bother with the DOM? Even for "article" sites; you can have pixel perfect control over your rendering, especially if you even implement your own anti-aliased bezier curve rendering algorithms. There's already a library that processes fonts (opentype.js) and returns the parameters of the bezier curves that need to be drawn to construct the glyphs.

You're fine still using HTML/CSS for a bunch of reasons (lighter static sites, already have developed codebases for each).

But, why not own the whole thing in TS/JS? For web applications, you'd then have pixel perfect consistency across browsers and mobile devices. There are two ways Flutter, for example, compiles to a web application[0]: either to a mix of canvas, CSS, SVG, and HTML, or just to pure WebGL Canvas using a WASM build of Skia (that's right - the engine that renders HTML/CSS in the first place).

So with WebAssembly and the Canvas, especially taking into account the upcoming WebGPU API which will unlock even better render performance, I'd rather have my whole application be defined in JS/TS and own all of the experience down to the pixel -- complete control. Obviously this is assuming convenient libraries (in WASM/JS) for rendering text/curves/etc. to canvas will exist.

Would be awesome for certain web app usecases.

[0] https://flutter.dev/docs/development/tools/web-renderers
Fixed the percentage, thank you. Hope you are doing well too!
Could trains tow blimps?
Yeah it's pretty much brand new and for sure within the return window. Maybe there's something wrong with it. I was expecting cool fireworks for sure, but it's been nothing but a PITA thus far.
Not while they're off the clock they're not. That's the point here. Don't be mislead if someone approaches you outside work in their uniform: they don't represent us. Arguing around the exact definition of "part of us" is a bit silly no?
Tesla suspends Bitcoin car sales over environmental impact
Like the crack in the bridge over the Mississippi, the actual time can't be predicted. But that crack (amongst the thousands of other bridge problems) was certainly expected, and no surprise when it finally happened. A country is no different from a house. If you don't keep up the maintenance, things will definitely break sooner or later. The US's infrastructure has been lacking maintenance for decades.

Many talk about the financial problems like the acrobat spinning lots of plates on sticks. He's having problems keeping them going, and those plates are getting wobblier and wobblier.

If I have to make a prediction, I'd say in the next 5 years or so. So don't take on too much debt for you to handle, and start prepping for very difficult times.
Has anyone considered the environmental impact of electric vehicles?

The electricity is generated in the most part by fossil fuels, so how are they in any way a green alternative?
I played Everquest and would be running from monsters while typing as a young teenager. So I’d have to type as fast as possible. I touch type around 120 wpm without ever being formally trained.

Maybe try something that forces you to type quickly like the game The Typing of the Dead or The Typing of the Dead 2? They’re silly games but might help since they add urgency to the typing.
You can refuse mail by writing "Refused" on it and returning it to the mail system.

https://about.usps.com/what-we-are-doing/current-initiatives...
It seems dead and it relies on some (older) rebar stuff. And the custom "actor" syntax would probably break Ecto..
Writable Websites Using GitHub Pages and GitHub Actions
So women should be forced to work under a known misogynist, their salary and promotions tied to a boss that thinks them inferior and has literally published a book saying so? Yeah, there are no examples of that going poorly.
Even the free-form mode 75 character per minute sounds amazingly fast for a thought interface.

I wonder what it's like to use. I know there have been many attempts at this, and they're steadily improving, but I watched a talk at EvoMusArt 2007 where researchers used a smaller array of cranial electrodes to have the user control a mouse. That it worked blew my mind. But they talked about how slow and noisy it was to get the cursor from one side to the other... maybe a minute IIRC. What I remember most distinctly was the researcher said it was physically draining to do, that after 5-7 minutes of this activity they would be sweating and exhausted, without moving.
Am new
Was not expecting that to be controversial.
Palestinians are Semites. If you weren't aware, consider why.

Israeli, Jewish, and zionist are not all different words for the same thing.
I like these guys but get annoyed at the 1kWH == 1 Typical House. While a case can be made that over a 24h period a house may consume 24kWh the fact is that "typical" houses burst to anywhere between 5kW and 10kW depending on appliances (AC + Freezer compressor + Oven baking a roast and boom you're at 10kW) As a result if you hook a thousand houses to a 1MW reactor you're going to get a crap ton of brownouts.
Wormhole is a file sending site with end-to-end encryption
The whole point of a trustless transaction is that you don't need to worry about who the counterparty is. You don't need the leverage to sue somebody because fraud is not possible. For digital transactions, the lack of trust can be two-way - two mutually distrusting people can confidently exchange Bitcoin for Ethereum in a transaction, because the software and math behind the blockchain prevents fraud from happening at all.

For meatspace the best you can do is one-way. If I'm buying a car with Bitcoin, I still need to trust the car manufacturer to deliver, but the car manufacturer does not need to trust me. They don't need to know who I am or how deep my credit line is, as soon as the bitcoin hits their wallets they have extreme confidence that the transaction won't be reverted. No bounced checks, no chargebacks, etc. It's a zero fraud system, and there's also no intermediate party (like PayPal or a bank) that can decide the transaction shouldn't happen. Whether or not the payment is accepted is at the sole discretion of the recipient.
I'm honestly super content with LFS. Wrote our own little API server to hook it up to Azure Blob Storage, never have issues with it. I don't recognize the issues mentioned in the article at all. Our whole team relies on it for years, and it delivers. No problems. Keep up the great work, git-lfs maintainers! Much love.
This is pretty interesting, either they did a proper research before putting 1.5B$ into it, in which case they would already be aware of the energy consumption, in which case, why announce this now? Or they put that much money without proper research which looks pretty bad for Tesla in my opinion.
All of those are heavily algorithmic in nature, so understanding algorithmic complexity makes it easier to understand how and why the software handles the way it does.

For example, joining together many separate 3D objects is extremely slow if one just selects all and does an union, since the algorithm needs to check all pairs of objects for overlaps in 3D space.

That may not be immediately apparent to non-programmers, but to programmers, it will feel like an intuitive consequence of the problem and the inevitabilities of its solution.
I also think its much faster to get information back out of text than it is to watch a video.
This is short enough for a multi tweet tweet which would be the natural thing if it was actually Elon who wrote it.

He doesn’t strike me as the sort of the guy who would put his statement inside an image and I would expect him to understand enough about Bitcoin to know that there is no way to guarantee it being mined “sustainably”.
> I mean it in the sense that the 50%ile capable person is really all things considered, not that different from the 95%ile capable person.

You must be living on a different planet from me. I can kind of see how someone might be tempted to just say “you know what, you’re right” and let you keep on thinking that, though.
Minimum cellular cost for very low data volumes is about $1.75/month.

5G is only useful if you need bandwith in an area with very high contention, like a stadium, or you're in an area remote enough that the lower frequencies work but the higher ones don't.
> Junk mail is vital for the USPS finances. It's over 20% of their income, ~$16 billion/yr.

I wonder how time and money processing and delivering that junk mail cost them. They could forgo that $16B and have more time to provide better service for non-junk mail.
I've already seen some of that various agencies sharing work on numerous different "sharing platforms" and this is not internes this is supposedly big name agencies working for major brands.
Bare git repos are fine for starting, but you quickly hit limits if you want to use your dotfiles on different machines, e.g. share your .zshrc config between Linux and macOS.

A comparison of popular dotfile managers:

https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi/blob/master/docs/COMPARIS...
> For the lazy people who would rather listen to a random stranger on the Internet:

The not so much "random stranger" above is clearly taking the Netanyahu regime side and discrediting any humanity from the reaction that the other side is taking.
Looks like my knife catch orders might get triggered tonight lmao thanks Elon.
Weirdly, the UK is actually pretty sensible when it comes to crypto taxation, which I note only because normally I'd expect us to have the daftest system in the world.

Here you are taxed only using Capital Gains Tax (20%, after the first ~£12500) which in theory applies to any increase in your assets, but only once you sell and convert the value back into GBP. So here Vitalik would owe nothing if he never traded out for "real" money, and then it only applies on your total capital gains in a year: you don't pay it per transaction when trading (although I think if you were a professional trader there would be some other tax handling around that).
Neural implants ideally would be non invasive, with high spatial resolution and fast frequency/temporal resolution. The reality is that you can only choose two of these three. I don’t see non invasive options being feasible with current technology. There is some good research into more biocompatible invasive options, but problems can take years to be found.
>It's a shame Apple doesn't make the Terminal.app engine available to developers.

Sigh. Add it to the pile of "things Apple really ought to open source just to give back to the community that they used to build the worlds most successful business from"
I have a belief that human ingenuity will be able to generate truly clean power. If you believe that too, then this period of nuclear usage, is a transitory period.

If this transitory period has the ability to create substances that will potentially cause bother to generations living in thousands of years time, I think that's a problem.

Quite simply there are alternatives.
Glad I could help, I never want to punish curiosity (especially in an age where someone in the know can find a source in seconds). I don't like linking to Wikipedia, especially when asked about recent controversial events (where plenty of other biases and internal civil wars occur over that information). But it's a better (and frankly faster) gesture than assuming bad faith with a commenter.

If I really wanted to be thorough, I'd at least skim through the listed sources and link what I felt was the most credible and impartial source.
I just now had dinner (takeout, ate in my truck) at a Petro truck stop in Bordentown NJ. There was QR code on the napkin holder for the menu.
Or keep posts up if they fit their ideology
Yeah, I grew up in the same era as the article author, and I'm honestly much happier about the state of access to resources these days.

The modern "digital native" that I categorize is the legions of young people getting started in programming the vast number of rich environments that exist today.

Yes I remember the times upgrading my 486DX-33 to 8Mb of RAM, installing slackware from floppies, figuring out whatever dark magic was needed to run Duke Nukem 3D over IPX networks simulated over dialup, and heady and critically important discussions about the role of Amigas, coveting the barmaid in LoRD on the high school BBS, running unauthorized star wars MUDs on the high school computer network and getting dragged in front of school boards because you ran "nethack" once (in fairness it was likely also the pornography being accessed and distributed leveraging the school T1 lines as well but in my defence I was 14).

It was a time and a place, and there's certainly value in reminiscing. But these new kids will create their own time and place, and demanding that they somehow pay homage to my experience as being "more authentic" seems a bit pleading.

And to be honest we downplay the limitations of our times. Free and accessible development environments? Not on the standard desktop PC operating system (until DJGPP came along anyway, and even that had severe limitations for a while for building native windows apps). If you were a super nerd who went out of your way and downloaded an obscure little free unix system developed by some finnish guy named after a peanuts character, you got a compiler. And then if you scrounged around random docfiles spread out across dozens and dozens of random howtos, you could sort of learn how to program C, or python or perl.

I look at today's technical environment, available to the entry level student in some technical field, and the available breadth and depth of tooling, the amount of documentation and tutorials, all available for free, and it's amazing. If you're someone looking to build something interesting, there are a 100 different more opportunities to do that today using accessible tooling than there ever was when I was a kid.
I’m using Git+LFS because my issue tracker, CI/CD etc natively speaks it. Not because it’s in any way superior or even on par with the large file handling of Mercurial (or even SVN to be honest).