skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Super excited to be able to scroll my grocery list on the watch while holding the basket in the other hand!
And nobody is talking about a company, the whole premise was that there's a mandate to have a smart meter/smoke detector/etc.; if that were to happen, it isn't a company selling you something for their interest, it's a government telling you to get something for everyone's interest.

E.g. in France the smart electric meters are mandatory ( they don't belong to you but the utility in the first place), and are of a specific type that does nothing but collect electric consumption. I'm sure that if it were left to a private company there'd be a microphone or two just in case, but that really isn't the scenario we're talking about.
That is a great little article. I like the way it addresses how someone may feel that "I'm not feigning surprise, I really am surprised!"

As the article says, regardless of how you feel internally, choose the external action that is likely to give a happy interaction rather than an unhappy one.
Sure we do. That is why almost everywhere on earth it is illegal to drive a motorcycle without a helmet for example. Laws aren't made just to piss people off or create a thriving helmet industry. They are there to make it harder to fall into the stupidity trap.
As a thought experiment we could consider whether the legal specifications would be necessary if this awareness of situational and widespread ability differences was more established in our culture. What if all doors, everywhere, were easily opened by anyone regardless of whether they were standing, around a certain height, and had free use of their arms?

I think likely we would still need some kind of formal recognition, but it's interesting to ponder.
Q: Why do they call it "limb differences" instead of what I learned it a decade ago as "disabilities". Is "disabilities" considered offensive?
RSS is still the de facto standard for podcast feeds.
Have you tried Meditations by Marcus Aurelius? TL;DR - do something for other people, don't whine about your current position, don't whine about stupid people, believe in god(s). If you don't know what to do for other people, start at any local homeless shelter or food service. They always need someone to help. If you don't like my list, read that book yourself.
If you continued to play it out with computers you’d run into Zeno’s paradox. At some point the buyer stopped going to lower increase amount,s but it could happen in which case I guess you’d end up in the middle and quibbling over pennies.
I think there are more groups of people than the two you described (money hoarders and basically wage slaves).
Don't be fooled by this randomness.
I always thought that surds is short for 'absurds' :)

Nice to read the etymology of the word!
To continue your retarded analogy, I’m not looking to add my own disks to their machine and hang my cpu on their wall.

I just want to use the compute resource they rent me for arbitrary computation.
Coming from a country in constant economic crisis, thinking of what ifs all the time is the way of living, then moving to a 1st world country life suddenly enters easy mode, as you know problems in a 1st world country won't ever be as bad as what you used to know, and since you are used to having issues, budgeting and saving become easier.

A lot of the things the author mentioned, I would also do, just because I don't see the point of wasting money if they are offered for free, and saying hello to the cleaning crew is just basic human decency, c'mon.

Also, the paycheck stuff, anyone who has ever cared about money would throw a fit if the money is not in their account the next day, from what I gather all the author's coworkers never had an issue in their life.
> I think these distinctions are important, becaues NVIDIA is not telling anyone that they have (1) an open source driver, and (2) that this driver is well supported.

this is not correct. this is an extract from an nvidia presentation:

> We'll report up-to-the-minute developments on NVIDIA's status and activities, and possibly (depending on last-minute developments) a few future plans and directions, regarding our contributions to Linux kernel; supporting Nouveau (the open source kernel driver for NVIDIA GPUs, that is in the Linux kernel), including signed firmware behavior, documentation, and patches; and NVIDIA kernel drivers.

Now, even putting this aside, the situation is not so black-and-white.

I wasn't able to boot Ubuntu with my latest Nvidia card. The closed-source driver can work perfectly, but it doesn't boot a Ubuntu image. I don't remember the details, but I think rebuilding the image with closed-source drivers didn't produce a functioning system, and if memory serves me well, I had to go as far as booting with another card.

Therefore, a closed-source only approach does actively damage the open source world in a concrete way.

Second, the nv driver story (obfuscating the code) is really deplorable, and there's no excuse for being explicitly antagonistic.

All in all, I think that being fiercely closed-source (they'd be good friends with the GNOME devs...) in a open source world, can't avoid doing concrete damage.
For the love of god, must this all be in novel form, anyone want to give a reasonable TL;DR.
Out of curiosity, how did it make life less meaningful to you?
> Should workplaces cater to people who are emotionally disabled in some way?

Not the person you're replying to, but certainly if you e.g. lose a child, your workplace should be sensitive to that and not fire you because you're unable to show up to work that day.
I had Frontier (originally Verizon) DSL up until 2014 when it became obvious that the network was turning into crap, which finally led me to switch to Charter. This story doesn't surprise me at all.

Luckily, in my region Frontier was sold to Ziply last year, who immediately started investing in ditching the old copper wires and now they offer symmetrical gigabit fiber here, so I switched back and have never been happier.

Based on what I've read over on the Ziply subreddit, Frontier's network was in poor shape when Ziply took over. For example: https://www.reddit.com/r/ZiplyFiber/comments/kw56u4/does_zip...
I used Arch many years ago as my main OS. I eventually had to give up on it because (i) several packages I needed were badly out of date, combined with (ii) a rule against AUR having packages that were only updates of something in the repos. I was left handling the compilation process all by myself.

When several of us raised the issue in the forum...I'll just say we didn't get a warm reception. That was more than a decade ago, so things may be completely different now, but it left a bad taste in my mouth.
Ok, it means that projects that manage to get some publicity are "retro-next".
It seems obvious in retrospect. Calling it a foregone conclusion is too harsh.

Twitter crops photos to fit their preview formats. It seems like an obvious improvement to show people's faces when cropping, etc.
What on earth are you talking about? If I buy a copyrighted work in the second-hand market I don't have to pay any royalties to the original creator. That would be extortion.
The owner of Freenode might have a problem with that.
If you don't like their service simply don't use it? Why should anybody be expected to cater to you instead of someone else?
My dad did this for someone's whole team as a favour because he overheard what they were doing over lunch or something like that. Later, he met the manager of the team he'd done it for and asked if they were going to transfer any of the employees that got freed up for the work and she said "no, there's still lots of work to do and the speedup, while helpful, wasn't major."

Went to her retirement party a year later and got the truth: Her pension was tied to her salary as a manager as an average of her last three years, and her salary as a manager was directly tied to her number of reports. If she'd have given up half the team as she could have, she would have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars over the rest of her life.

There was a lot of that type of stuff going on when computers first came in and hackers here and there started optimizing things. Individual interest and politics doesn't disappear.
...Lack of blockchain adoption?
Demonstration Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPhEmC6b6XU

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.08328
> The only way a fiat court could unwind the structure is if they declared the trust structure itself to be invalid.

Right. Which it would do at the drop of a hat if it got in the way of a lawful judgement. It'd need to get there, sure, but yes a court can actually order the blockchain to be incorrect as it relates to ownership of a thing.

If nothing else the government has standing. Emminent domain, for example.

And once the blockchain is wrong, it's wrong.

> by making sure the DAO is incorporated in a friendly jurisdiction,

Ha ha ha, do you think a french court will allow a tax haven company to make french courts null and void within the borders of France? That's basically giving up sovereignity.

Who's going to stop french police vacating a property? Math?

I don't know if you've read court judgements ever, but it's extremely common that things involved in a crime are considered "spent", "consumed" (I forget the word). That means it's not yours anymore.

Your "but It's mine on the blockchain!" means zilch.
We are just talking about being bad at math temporarily. Let's take a physicist who is having brain fog for a day. In this case, it would be weird to say they are situationally disabled or disabled at all. I think your term "mentally/physically overloaded" would be closer to what I am speaking of. Not sure about "functionally disabled".
It’s worth noting that fidelity does take payment for order flow for some orders: https://clearingcustody.fidelity.com/app/item/RD_13569_21696...
If all major cloud vendors altered their TOS to forbid mining, only those who can sustain it themselves would mine and we'd be forced to internalize the externality that cryptomining is not a sustainable way to produce currency and record transactions.

If anything, a ban such as that would be good at finally putting the nails into the crypto-coffin. Currencies and transactions are really one of the worst blockchain applications that could have been chosen for the first large-scale use of the blockchain.
For me, at least, reading offers significant advantages to listening when it comes to intake speed. I can trivially rewind if I need to, I can more readily skim content that I understand, fewer comprehension failures due to accent/pronunciation issues, etc.
> I never forget my roots.

I hope the pun was intentional.
For those in Pokemon cards, you should check out the Whatnot Slabathon [1], where we've been auctioning some super rare, PSA-graded cards on the app all May!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFe8tseC85Y
> if one uses Windows Terminal.

This is also true of the Windows Console as of Windows 10. Any VT100 (also VT220, VT4xx, VT5xx, xterm ...) support we add to Terminal eventually flows out to the console host integrated into Windows. :)
Bias aside, the saliency algorithm doesn't work well either. This twitter feed (SFW) https://twitter.com/punhubonline often shows the punchlines in the preview, spoiling the joke.
To be honest I think about moving to psychology/counselling but the irony is that it's so difficult to get into and the pay isn't as good even though one is helping people. I'm stuck in dev until I can figure another way out, apart from the sales/management route.
It appears that Digital Ocean changed their TOS in 2015 to reflect that all credits expire 12 months after they are issued.

See https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/are-tos-cha...
This appears to be basically another mode of operation for Discover, which definitely has ads. (At least on Android. Not sure if on Chrome yet.)
They do that in Honduras, Bolivia, and other developing nations. I've seen footage of one such prison where the inmates voted to exile the prisoners with AIDS to the dump, where they were forced to scavenge for food to survive.

I don't think I'd recommend it for the U.S.
An iPad is a computer with a different UI model and some limitations (and some advantages) when compared to a laptop or desktop computer. The main difference is between iPadOS and Windows, MacOS, Linux.

Reading

Movies and videos

Web browsing

Writing, spreadsheets

Zoom and Google Meets

Games

Online banking

Writing code (remote over ssh)

System admin

Everything I can do with a laptop.
I’m speaking generally about this move. I absolutely don’t use their shit service.

Look, I don’t know what’s so hard here. If you sell cloud compute it should be on the basis of usage. If that usage is 100% then charge aptly.
So the condition of your bet would be that all NFTs everywhere have zero long term value? So something like, by 2030, no non-fungible token will have a monetary value?
My tiny bit of nerdery around little-known airfields stems from being fascinated by the names and airport code of my city's main airport. What today is called the Louisville Muhammed Ali International Airport has the code SDF and I find it fun to explain why that is and why the code doesn't seem to have anything to do with the name or the city. The airport was originally named "Standiford Field" named after a previous city mayor. It couldn't use the LOU code that better resembles the city name because it was already in use, by the city's other airfield, Bowman Field. (A WW1 era field, IIRC.)

Bowman Field is not "little-known" enough to qualify for this website's criteria, but still a fascinating tiny airfield. Today it is now the oldest, continuously operating airfield in the country. Interestingly some of the nearly as old or slightly older airfields still operating today stopped operating only for the bare minimum time (at least a year) needed to switch airport codes with a larger, newer airport. At this point it's almost a point of civic pride that our largest airport has one of the most confusing airport codes, simply because the city didn't want to shut down a good old airfield still doing its job with smaller aircraft.

(In the recent Muhammed Ali rebrand the city did briefly look into a code change, but even if ALI had been available, which a small Texas airfield uses today, UPS probably would not have been happy if they actually tried to change it.)

(It's also fun to explain why SDF is an "International Airport" that almost never has international passenger flights. SDF is also home to UPS' "WorldPort" and is the central hub for the majority of UPS Air flights, so has tons of international cargo flights every day. If you get a package from UPS and it travelled by air, it probably passed through SDF.)

Anyway, nerdy airfield facts.
We wouldn't call them not good at math either.

Most people wouldn't call it a situational disability because they don't know the term. But it's a common term in relevant fields.
Sorry, it was a bad explanation. The point is that you have to keep a lot of past state in memory for future messages to make sense and sync properly, unlike an event based system where you (more or less) only need to perform some action when you get an event then forget about it. This is an IRC thread though, sorry I got sucked in but let's not let the Matrix CEO derail it and try to score users. The whole point is is that it didn't make sense for them to switch to matrix because it uses more resources than most IRC servers and because they are trying to be a drop in replacement, not make users sign up for new things.
No, but also not just someone, Ted Nelson. I highly recommend Geeks Bearing Gifts or Computer Lib/Dream Machines. He is a crank, who has never been involved in a successful software project as far as I am aware. He is also great.
Not sure who did this , but this is amazing collection
The True Esoteric Meaning of Bitcoin Pizza
I feel like this would be worse tbh. Not enough finger movement and pushing the fingers outwards doesn’t seem like a great idea long term.

I just don’t get the fascination for these minimal type keyboards, have tried a few and they frustrate the heck out of me.
Reminds me of the old hack someone did using the accelerometer in a Macbook hard drive to switch between Spaces:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uvQTTPr9Rw
Supposedly[0] all the servers and other network infrastructure are intact, and it's solely the domain names (freenode.{org,net,com}) that were compromised. Grain of salt, obviously, but they have at least claimed there isn't a problem there.

0: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/df80d8d36cd9d1bde46ba018af4...
Also this from abstract: "we find a substantial ex ante probability of there being no other intelligent life in our
observable universe"

The keyword is "observable" universe what about probability of life in unobservable universe. When we discovered microscope and telescope only then you could say that we started "observing" something. Modern science is only 100 years old and we can not even imagine what would be invented and discovered for 50 or 100 years.
> saved the town millions by siphoning power from the local college at peak power demand.

I'd like to hear more about the details of how this worked. Did the college have its own power source like a research reactor? Was this technically legal or in some part of a grey area?
>I have no idea what you would use such a thing for.

This can be said for pretty much all of Ted's work. Interesting and thought provoking, nonetheless.
i just to say Apple is one of the only companies that I know of is super serious about providing first class features to people with disabilities. Other companies do provide some of them but they are not as well thought out as Apple
I would be, but there's one condition: the US pulls out of any military alliance/support for South Korea.

Chine will obviously not risk another Korean War, there's nothing for them to gain. If South Korea loses US support, yup, I'll take that bet in a heartbeat.
The idea that farmers markets are commonplace in rural areas is mostly BS. They exist in cities for sure, but you pretty much need an urban population (and probably a fairly well-off population) to really support a farmers market.

Just because farms exist in an area doesn't generally mean the people in that area are getting their food from those farmers (at least directly). That's mostly a relic of an old vision of farms that grew every type of produce and had a variety of livestock instead of the corporate monoculture farms that dominate today.
Well, #forth on Libera.chat now :)
What do you want to know? I've been using since late-Jan / early-Feb.

I fired up an EC2 instance, docker-compose'd up, added the initial few syncs and then let people just add their own.

Mostly without trouble since then, though I'm running an old version as a result of the fire-and-forget.

(edit: also, text me on Keybase or email me since I don't get notifications for responses here)
This is so ironic, because the lack of RSS in Chrome was the reason I built the RSS Feed Reader extension for Chrome back in 2010 when switching from Firefox.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rss-feed-reader/pn...
Imagine the world where images aren't algorithmically cropped. It's easy if you try. No AI below us, above us only thumbnails.
Thanks for the links! Wish he would write a full-length book of "stats for beginners" so I could better understand his critiques of its misuse, but this looks like a good place to start anyway.
This is also exactly analogous to why cryptocurrencies should be banned entirely. They are sucking up shared resources and making the things around them (e.g. electricity use, turning on of fossil fuel power plants, mucking up the GPU markets for productive or entertainment purposes) all around worse for everyone else not taking part.
Proteins that predict future dementia, Alzheimer's risk, identified
Apple certainly doesn’t have the dominant marketshare with desktops or laptops; even in the US, they’re about 40-45%.

Apple’s been advocating for accessibility for decades; this isn’t new.
You might be unaware that it's not spelling out individual words letter by letter. It's closer to a "pictographic" language (likely there's a better term, please correct me) where a sign will stand for a concept, and also have a flexible interpretation depending on the context, including the signs you use preceding/following it.

Its depth is quite fascinating -- ASL truly is its own language, not just "English with your fingers". (Though I should add I don't know it myself, this is just based on discussion with an interpreter friend.)
It's just a you thing. Much of the world is not English speaking, and many languages (including English, by the way) use the libre root. It has a well established meaning as a specific meaning of "free". I'd even go so far as to say that "libre" itself is virtually an English word now. Sorry you don't like it. Maybe learning a second language will help.
I'll add my own related story.

When I was a sophomore, I applied for and got a summer job at Kodak. My father said to not be disappointed if it was driving a fork lift because that's usually what they are. But I showed up and was directed into an accounting office where on desks, next to stacks of IBM punch cards, were some brand new IBM PCs. I spent the summer hacking Lotus 1-2-3. They had seen on my application that I was familiar with computers.
I disagree, I don't think it has a place. It's useless.
Wasn't it for all the drivers? In a neighboring country, as a passenger I always notice that the driver sees the price before accepting it.
Which animals will survive climate change?
Steganography: Decoding Pico-8 Cartridges
I have an observation that some technologies go in and out of style on a (human) generation cycle, like vinyl records, retro computing/gaming, and mainframes to PCs to clouds. If RSS is one of those, it will get hot again sometime in the 2030s.
> since submissions should link to english content in the first place

I don't think this is the case. I certainly don't see anything like that in the [guidelines](https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
This was a stupid comment about how I didn't like the nomenclature and now I regret making it.
My understanding is those were promotional credits. Now they're doing the same thing with referral credits. I guess we shouldn't be surprised, but it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I will be moving to one of their competitors ASAP.
Thanks for your kind words. I took it in a positive light, and appreciate your thoughts.

I usually bottle it in, but wrote the above post as a release. I'm definitely luckier than a good fraction of the planet. I also truly believe that at some point, we really need to stop blaming our parents, and take ownership for our own actions. It is just really hard some days, to face up to the missed opportunities.

Now that I have kids, I imagine advising myself as if I was advising my kids at some point in the future. That has really worked wonders. I'd advise my own kid to say c'est la vie, and move forward in life with optimism and confidence :)
Taking notes (with the Pencil), for both business (keeping notes during meetings) and spare time (sketching home improvement, bad poetry). Reading, although I also have an e-reader. Watching Twitch. Playing music from YouTube while cooking.
The classy way of handling puns is to avoid them if they're not intended and leave them unstated if they are. It's funnier to everyone who notices that way, and less distracting to people that are just there for the content.
Most of us call him Nassim, cheers. It is interesting data to see him called Nicholas here.
I think a lot of businesses "borrow" the inventory from the supplier and only pay them once the inventory is sold. It's not the same as a marketplace, per-se but considering you pay apple, download from apple servers, after apple does "QA" and follows apple rules, i'd say its pretty similar to a store that sources select products and provides the checkout infrastructure and distribution logistics.