skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Edit: oh, the much simpler answer is that it was posted twice and both posts were on the front page. People flagged the dupe. That's fair. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27336405.

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I think the submitted title probably had something to do with it; As a title, "the emperor has no clothes" is generic and baity. It's also false in the sense that there's no consensus view, so to the extent that the analogy is meaningful, it doesn't apply. I've attempted to replace that with a more neutral and representative title now, drawn from the author's own words. Suggestions for a better title are welcome.

Beyond that, HN has had so many threads arguing the same points about cryptocurrency over and over, that it's not clear there can ever again be a new discussion about it. Repetition is a curiosity killer, and usually indignation takes its place as people resort to hammering each other over the head with the same dumbed-down clubs, back and forth.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

However, I think we can try turning the flags off on this one because Macjiej is at least trying to take a different and more specific angle on cryptocurrency critique.
If you're in rural India and don't have access to a bank account, but you do have internet access via a smartphone, then I could definitely see cryptocurrency being valuable to you. And that doesn't even take into account countries like Venezuela that are experiencing hyperinflation, where cryptocurrency would be much more useful. There are cryptocurrencies that are energy efficient and have low (or even zero) transaction fees. I doubt the author has looked into these coins.

Beyond just currency uses, smart contracts open the door to phasing out escrow middlemen for purely digital transactions (like buying/selling domain names, etc.) Decentralized lending and borrowing is another major use of smart contract coins.
See the taxonomy of documentation solutions, https://documentation.divio.com/ and https://youtu.be/t4vKPhjcMZg?t=324
Probably not. Almost everyone holds a core belief that precludes a universal morality, even outside of tribalism.

That is that a government is morally justified in performing actions that we would find abhorrent of performed by an individual or smaller group.
Trench warfare and massed charges really aren't much of a thing any more. And if you really end up in close quarter combat it's much better to retreat and do something else.
They're not required to, nor did I claim they were. They do it because it's good for business, because their vehicles can last for decades and their business practices reflect that.
I truly don’t get why all technically inclined people don’t block ads systematically. Ublock origin plus ghostery on computers. Pi hole for mobile.

I realize he was at his mom’s house, but when he gets home ads should be blocked!

These types of stories absolutely bother me, but it’s all totally abstract because I don’t see ads on the internet essentially anywhere.
Scientists Create the Next Generation of Living Robots
I see that sequoia has sq, a command line utility but it says it is stateless which IIUC means that it does not store keys. I would like to use it but not quite sure how. Any recommandation ?
What businesses and how did the storms ruin them?
1. Promise a revolutionary technology ("self-driving cars are coming"!)
2. Use that promise as a pretext to ignore all regulation
3. Make a fortune
4. Drop the tech story

The author lost me here. Completely subjective take on what Uber has done. They've completely improved ride-sharing and cab hailing within the whole industry, including non uber users. Depending on what country I travel to, Ill be using a different app like Grab or Didi or a local taxi app that were all made possible by Uber's initial disruption.

Some of those financial regulations are unjust. People can send remittances in crypto to relatives in repressive countries, and you hear their stories from boosters. But people also want to move billions in untraceable crime money around. Guess which traffic predominates

IMO the former outweighs the latter. Perhaps remittance doesnt sound like a big deal to the author because they may not know immigrants who use these crappy services. The thought of punishing some darknet users buying pills online is more alluring than focusing more on fixing the flaws with remittances. I'm talking new residents who pay income taxes on their biweekly paycheck(fair) and then pay western union(bad deal, less fair) to send 50-200 bucks to family in far off places with spotty infrastructure and electricity, in remote places where there are no ATMs and the relative has to travel 2 hours into town to pick up their western union transfer. Millions of people go through that every day and I'm much more interested in crypto solutions and dont mind if it takes some uber style disruption to fix that later on.
NASA does
My crack-pottery detector is giving a low whine. I don't have qualified background, but even then, the arguments seem fairly weak, similar to the kinds that argue for intelligent design. The author's somewhat controversial history doesn't help either.
That sounds...really wasteful.

Perhaps a happy medium? Maybe not $1500 Damascus knife, but maybe a nice Wüsthof so you're not throwing so much out, and damaging the environment.
Cryptocurrency allows people to exchange money without dealing with financial institutions or governments. I don't own any as an investment, I use it for playing poker online. That's it.

We give too much voice to all these people suffering from hysteria. I suspect the only reason these people are given a voice is because they usually call for more laws to "fix" more things which benefits those in power.

edit: Also speaking of things we should ban, I think if we are talking about things that are actually harmful to society (not that I actually give a damn), we should start with banning twitter so that we can stop hearing these "moral" rants
> They know everything but they are completely unable to use it for advertisement.

You're almost right.

The data they collect wasn't ever intended to be used for advertising purposes. They do it because they seek to pivot from adtech to the much, much more lucrative and entrenched govtech in the future.
Pinboard is a one-man shop, he tweets all kinds of personal non-business related things on his twitter account.
Creator here. There is no defined objective. Perhaps that disqualifies it from being a 'game'. One hope I have had is that the game could be used to discovering interesting (turing complete or otherwise) rules that may have information processing capabilities beyond the game. Vague I realize. The timeseries at the bottom is just measuring the number of 'on' cells.
Bingo, and very well put. I have several friends who work at Facebook. I won’t, and this is why. I honestly think part of the reason Facebook pays such a premium for engineers is the ick factor.
NB: KitchenAid is Hobart.

I immediately recognised the design from the pictured mixer. Turns out they are the same company, different branding. Now owned by Whirlpool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KitchenAid

TIL, FWIW.
Yes I understand this is a bit problematic.
Reminds me of Hemingway's "Write drunk, edit sober."
Eternalist Systems
The "vigorous open debate" only began when the initially vehement denial of the possibility of a lab leak (from many Chinese and American scientists, officials, and press alike, e.g. Daszak's early 2020 publications) failed to convince

In any case, if the hypothesis turns out correct, the important question is not "who is to blame", it's "how exactly did this happen" and "following a detailed and public risk/benefit analysis, should we allow this kind of research to continue"
`√2` works but `√-1` doesn't, which surprised me a bit. I'
expect unary `-` to bind tighter, but in this context it considers that it's a binary operator between `√` and `-1`. If you put parens it works of course.
Said another way: Attention economy. There's no rhyme or reason for why any one particular outrage bubbles to the top and becomes today's cause célèbre.
This is great - just signed up. I have been waiting for someone to solve this problem for a while. Great job! Excited to try it out.
Sounds kind of like what thewirecutter.com used to be, or a higher end consumer reports?

Nowadays youtube channels like Project Farm have kind of replaced that niche, I could see a channel dedicated to hands-on reviews, funded by affiliate links. I'd watch long videos on several of the topics you mention above...
Zoom out a bit and apply systems-level thinking. We all know that a small number of locally applied rules lead to complex emergent behavior. Millions of individual inheritance decisions have an impact. We can choose to believe that people, individually making self-interested decisions, aggregates into a net good, but I'm not exactly convinced based on whatever first principles are in play.
I also work for a security solutions vendor and we evaluated multiple solutions to integrate into our project.
We found ttyd to be most mature.
I find it less stressful when I know that I could easily swap out a broken RAM module and continue to work, than to wait for the repair of my device.
Totally disagree. I’ve bought all kinds of items from surplus stores and Swiss military gear. Usually, better by a large margin. The only thing it suffers is aesthetics if you care about such things.

These are all better in most cases:

Medical grade

Military grade

Industrial grade

Cleanroom grade (for some items)

Marine grade

Try looking into it.
Citation? You left yourself open to proving a negative here.
Specifically:

The volunteers also slept continuously. They would toss and turn like everyone does, but they almost never woke up for a concerted window in the middle of the night. This contradicts a growing idea, popularized by historian Roger Ekirch, that sleeping in eight-hour chunks is a modern affectation.

Ekirch combed through centuries of Western literature and documents to show that Europeans used to sleep in two segments, separated by an hour or two of wakefulness. Siegel doesn’t dispute Ekirch’s analysis; he just thinks that the old two-block pattern was preceded by an even older single-block one. “The two-sleep pattern was probably due to humans migrating so far from the equator that they had long dark periods,” he says. “The long nights caused this pathological sleep pattern and the advent of electric lights and heating restored the primal one.”
For RTOS such a chip is always fast enough. The problem is IO latency and software.

A RTOS is typically a much slower and much smaller OS. FreeRTOS e.g consists of 3 small source files, and the control loop might be from 1KHz to 10KHz (for extremely high-dynamic systems). Compare that to the snapdragon loop of 2GHz. Factor 1e6.

https in real-time is obviously a joke. There exist proper networking protocols for hard realtime, not randomized and spiky Ethernet based protocols. Telcos use such proper realtime, slicing protocols.
Why is it that if I deny Instagram mic access on iOS these “coincidences” stop happening? I’m convinced Instagram listens, too many experiences to suggest otherwise. I’ve read all the articles and tweets on this subject and yet remain convinced. And when I deny mic access, issue goes away.
If small-bound is <20 and likely to never be >50, yes. Otherwise, be careful; future people will not thank you for that timebomb.
There are a few things that it offers:

- “bank accounts”

- a universal notary and authenticity service

These are building blocks for a number of applications.

Most order applications don’t make sense, but hey, everybody needs “bigdata” too
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These two resonated with me:

> A lot of intelligent observers look at cryptocurrency, see that it makes no sense, and reasonably infer that they must be missing something profound on the technical level. Tech culture has a nice tradition of not deriding new ideas, but we need to break it here and speak out

> [non-tech people] don't see the huge silent majority of tech people who know it's a scam. That's on us

It is on us. I never realized this before today. I'm pretty sure it's nothing but a pyramid scheme, but I always gave the enthusiasts the benefit of the doubt. After all, Elon is so cute when he's enthusiastic! But yeah he probably knows it's a scam too, what was I thinking.
I use a $4 folding "outdoor" pocket knife from Wal-Mart. I have used it for cooking, digging holes, cutting branches, rope, plastic, fabric, tightening screws, fixing zippers, opening cans of food, hammering random things... I honestly can't remember the last time I sharpened it, it doesn't seem to be dull yet.
I would like more information on that number. It doesn't sound tenable as presented for physical goods.
If you are going into the wilderness, you should really check a map beforehand. At very least, figure out which cardinal direction you can go to get back to civilization. Even just knowing "walk west and eventually you'll hit a highway" greatly improves your odds if you get very lost.
I'm talking about proper brand name construction knifes like Mora... Using the wrong tool for wrong job will break them, but used properly they aren't easy to break.
When I first heard of cryptocurrency I was reminded of when people started idling in Team Fortress 2 to get content drops. It was such a daft cart before the horse approach, but of course those dropped items could be sold for fractions of a penny and people can be dumb.

It also reminded me of Folding at Home. Here people completed by virtue of their personal compute resources.

Of course crypto serves as neither a form of entertainment or scientific discovery and is just a massive waste of resources to create artificial wealth. If only all that computation did something useful.
That is one very good question. As always, a combination of things. First, there was funding. Bootstrapping allowed for one pivot, and that one was more or less dead kn arrival due to a combination of timing (finding e-commerce logistics clients in September is hard) and Covid (people were too busy to carw about new stuff). I could have seen the need for a pivot earlier so. But the, being a solo founder means you only have that much bandwidth. I had to focus, and the one project I had lined up (enough to keep me and a future co founder alive for almost a year, plus the very realistic option of long term business) fell through, as mentioned, in September.

My mistake was to stick with plan A too long, I could have pulled the plug earlier but didn't. Usually I don't gamble, there I did.

And I realized that, despite wanting to start my own thing for years, I cope less with financial insecurities than I thought. A stead paycheck is nice, especially when it means that I don't have to care about every business aspect.

I also underestimated how hard the idea was to sell, and how active and well funded the competition was. I had one shot to get a first big enough customer to make it worthwhile. I missed. The pivot came too late. It was a possibility from day one so, so I pulled the plug on the whole thing in time, and more importantly in budget.
Yeah same with x^-1, I forgot about that, thanks!
Metal is a mix of Objective-C and C++14 subset as shading language.

Same applies to many system Frameworks written before Swift happened.

I bet they aren't running X rewritten in Swift blog posts inside Apple.
Indium wire is sometimes used to make gaskets, especially for cryogenic systems. You have to make a new gasket every time you open the seal, though. It's much more ductile than copper and handles vaguely like stiff clay. You can sort of sculpt it together when joining the seam.
> There are advanced reactor designs that don’t rely on the fission of U-235, but rather use the far more abundant isotope U-238. Some of these reactors can burn “spent” fuel, or “depleted” uranium left over from the enrichment process—extracting something like 60 times as much energy from uranium as traditional nuclear reactors.

Does anyone have links for such reactors?
My First Cup of Rust
I'd wager that, as with other digital "purchases" from companies like Apple, Google, Steam, etc, if your account is closed, you lose everything since you didn't actually buy it.
The debate so far looks like

10 LET A = 0
20 PRINT "Scientists: Look there is no evidence of a lab leak"
30 PRINT "Journalists: What about" HYPOTHETICAL$(A)
40 PRINT "Scientists: that very unlikely"
50 PRINT "Journalists: So there is a chance!"
60 A = A + 1
70 GOTO 10
I started programming with .Net languages via Visual Studio (which is quite a good IDE), and I disliked dynamic languages exactly for the reasons you list. But nowadays I mostly prefer dynamic, optionally typed languages ala Julia.

Typing a '.' and seeing the members is very nice, except when the type is not concrete and it's not clear what type is actually being returned. Then you'd have to do trial-and-error using a slow compile cycle. In a dynamic language like lisp, you could just `(inspect x)`. In Python, you can just `embed()` and run, e.g., `x.__dict__`.

The IDE telling you about syntax errors and non-existent functions etc is very nice, except when you use macros and meta-programming and now your stupid IDE won't just shut up (I have this problem even with Python in VSCode).
> Humans used to sleep in two shifts

Yes, when they were toddlers.

(Is this news?)
> It's burning a massive amount of resources and that is just increasing

Do you own a car? Have you ever used plastic? How much resources are burned by banks?

> I don't have the stats but I imagine the exponential growth in Bitcoin/coin prices is mainly from people using it as a pyramid scheme/casino not simple an upticl in usage

Yea lets also ban computers because they allow cryptocurrencies.

> A transaction is still pretty trackable (we know where the mt gox money is, yeah?)

Ever heard about Zcash or Monero

> Over 60% of bitcoin mining takes place in one country on specialized hardware, not terribly decentralized anymore

Yes the tech is not perfect but tons of research (Proof of Stake etc) is happening to make it perfect.
Horrible idea to allow governments to have more power for this duty to “care” for future generations (as if they did any sort of a good job taking care of the present).
Would love to get a real time look at the dopamine rush the author got when writing this long winded diatribe. I can smell the self righteousness through my speakers.
That's not really accurate. For most people, they deal with financial institutions directly via the fiat onroads and offroads fror the exchanges.

The fact that you can formally buy, exchange, and cash out of crypto with full banking support gives cryptocoins a veneer of Government support and legitimacy.

The USA bans online gambling and ponzi schemes. Cyrptocoins are worse, because they include a side order of immense waste of electricity and advanced manufactured computer chips, and enable ransomware.

I think this article is completely correct. We, as members of the tech community, have a duty to communicate with the public and democratic representatives that cryptocurrencies are a harmful technology, and the formal exchange of them for fiat should be banned.
Twitter is a bad blogging platform.
That video (and channel) are truly great.
In one of his books, Richard Feynman told of staying in the "Hotel City" (in Switzerland, I believe), observing that in America they would have called it the "Hotel Cité", because using a foreign name makes it sound fancier.
Facebook Sharing Debugger Hypocrisy
Anyone happen to know the specs/details of the equipment used measure a reflection from that?
Please make your substantive points without name-calling.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Everything on the table... would start with detention, counseling, move on to extensive public community service, all the way to real jail time for assault, then supervised probation.

Now jail can make things worse because kids can get introduced to exactly the wrong people, so it might need some reform. Not sure how juvenile-hall is handled these days.
I'm the author of the thread. For what it's worth, I grew up as a refugee whose mother had to find incredibly inventive ways to send USD to family back home, where it was illegal to possess.

What I don't understand about the crypto remittances argument is how the people sending and receiving them are supposed to convert them into spendable currency. My hunch is that a lot of the value of cryptocurrency in those countries comes from the fact that it's been astronomically increasing in value, not that it's a great way to move money around remittance barriers.
I have a ruggedized phone with Caterpillar Tractor branding. There are other waterproof and rugged phones now, but a few years ago, they were the first to have a smartphone with reasonable toughness. (Of course, before smartphones, there was Nokia.) I have it so that if I get dumped off the horse, I can call for help.
What's the objective?
login prompt. What am I supposed to see?
I like the idea of this, and I'm sure you save a lot of money, but the downside is this: I want to do some one-off job I haven't done before. It'll be difficult, because I will be trying it for the first time. Do I really want to make it even _more_ difficult by cheaping out on tools? I've done this several times, and I've ended up doing several jobs over again with better tools after I've screwed up the first time.

Edit: In other words, cheap tools aren't just less durable, they often do a worse job (or at least make it harder to do a good job).
Fascinating. Any clue as to what the largest factor for "similarity" is, and how much it contributes?
I'm not seeing the image there.

This?

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/79/82/72/79827236408416d55d8f...
In our company, our interview process goes like:

1. Paper screening the candidate. Looking at resume to see if they have skills for the job on paper. If so go to Personality Screening.

2. Personality Screening is done by talking to them and seeing if there's a cultural fit and also throw in some programming questions or feature discussions to see how they think.

3. Technical Screening by way of pair programming on a problem set that is based on the position that should show a mix of skills, tracing bugs or implementing features. If Frontend, mostly JavaScript and a Frontend Framework like React if needed.

As far as your questions go, we put weight on hobby projects but just so that we can see their code writing and some logic up front. As an example, I have seen one candidate with a recent Ruby on Rails project that had all their spaces and newlines everywhere, and I'm not talking about spaces or tabs here, think one chunk of code has 2 spaces, next had 3, another had 5, just everywhere that made the code super hard to read together with the messy logic/abstractions, from this, I assumed that they are still junior. On the contrary, I've seen a candidate that has really good code on a similar Ruby on Rails hobby project that reflected well on their work.
Fitbit may soon be adding snoring detection to its devices
Because it’s wasteful and pollutes.
That’s strange, because Italy has a law in place for which is mandatory to install a bidet in at least one bathroom in the house. “Health Ministry Decree 07/05/1975 Art. 7: For each accommodation, at least one bathroom must be equipped with the following sanitary facilities: toilet, bidet, bathtub or shower, sink.“ (https://www.indicenormativa.it/sites/default/files/Decreto%2...)
Wolfram Alpha and iOS also give 2.2

On MacOS the answer is 2.4

In kalk it's 2.002

On Windows it's 0.4 in simple calc, and 2 in programmer calc (and there's no % in engineering calc)
No, they just talk to each other and take turns being the lowest one.

I mean how many military equipment companies can you sustain with a country the size of California? Whatever your answer, above a certain pay grade, all employees come from a single engineering school anyways.