skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be nice if they didn’t have to care where the information is stored. And maybe that is the case 90% of the time. But that other 10% matters a lot and I don’t see that changing anytime soon.
The "boring" computer my parents bought in the 80's was a KayPro II with three programs - WordStar, CalcStar, and DataStar. It was great for me to learn those programs. The structure of text formatting in WordStar made HTML really easy to learn a decade later. I am excited to see if the WordStar keyboard commands come back easily to me after 35 years.
There is actually tribalism in the form of economic equality. Rich people only hang out with rich people. Poor only with the poor, etc.

What does a rich person need to do to be segregated from society? Simply go to a expensive restaurant or country club.
It is quite simple: someone is offered a cigarette, and they accept. And they have some more, and it is pleasant and social and/or stress relieving (both in ritual and physically: warm smoke in the mouth and throat is pleasant, as is the slight buzz, as is the act). This will often happen at a young age (teens, early twenties), within social settings. And then the addiction and ritual are the thing, and that thing is extremely satisfying. If you do not and have never smoked, then this will seem stupid, and it is, that would be a completely fair assessment: it is unlikely that any smoker will recommend that you become a smoker. Note that many people who give up smoking will replace it with an equally pointless (albeit generally much, much healthier) addiction/crutch that gives a mild buzz and requires some ritual habits (running, for example).
On Debian Stable, pretty much all updates are security updates.
The article is partially paywalled, so I'm not sure if they get into this, but giving up the immense power that being the world reserve currency gives you, just to boost the manufacturing industry seems like a terrible trade-off.
Google employees do not usually have access to user data - only a very small subset of engineers do, and it's strictly controlled.

"Political activists" is just one (rather unlikely) insider threat among many that a company like Google has to mitigate.
I figured it was 100% an economic port but you're right they do have a small part of the black sea fleet there too.

It would be an exposed chokepoint if Russia didn't also hold sevastopol, though.
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Give me three links to compelling and non-trivial things in the cryptocurrency ecosystem that are:

(1) not just the original simple payment use case, as that was always there.

(2) is not self-referential to the crypto ecosystem, but something useful for doing things entirely outside it.

(3) is not a vehicle for speculation, gambling, or other kinds of fluff or fraud.

I’ve asked this for years on many other forums and have yet to see a single thing that meets all those criteria that I or anyone I know would actually use.

It’s been 13 years since Bitcoin. Show me something I should care about.

For the Internet I could have sent you thousands of examples of such things a few months after the first public ISP appeared. DARPAnet and the other predecessors of the Internet were immediately useful in countless ways that were not self-referential.

Self-referentialness is a huge general bullshit red flag of mine. It’s also a characteristic of pseudoscience and pseudo-profound bullshit in the realm of philosophy. Real things look outward from themselves. Bullshit is self-referential.

Edit: a lot of conventional finance outside basic banking and venture investing also fails the above test. I am not defending financial capitalism. On the contrary I see cryptocurrency as a vector allowing the financial capitalist cancer to infect tech.
This isn't just a difference in UI, but also in the way the OS handles processes. Under macOS, the vast majority of programs host all windows under the same process. In other words, windows do not represent instances of apps, even under the hood. You can spawn additional instances of an app with the terminal, which will give each instance its own dock icon, menubar, and set of windows.

So shifting window closing behavior to function like that of Linux or Windows would actually require a much more fundamental change than it might seem.
I think I’m fortunate that I find cigarettes fairly easy to pick up and put back down. Don’t get me wrong, I get hooked like the rest of us, but I seem to naturally fall off the hook after some time.

I usually pick them up to cope with intense emotions. Not healthy, I know. After a few weeks of smoking 2 packs per week (not per day, thankfully), I begin to feel intense anxiety from smoking. The longer I continue the habit, the worse the anxiety gets. It escalates to the point where thinking of a cigarette makes me sweaty and nauseous, and actually smoking one will trigger a panic attack. After a few of those attacks I can drop the cigs with minimal fuss.

Anxiety feels like a curse, but in this case it acts as a restoration force against my tobacco addiction. Life is strange.

(No, anxiety is not a good thing, and no, you should not smoke cigarettes)
"First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?"
> Being anti-dam is environmental NIMBYism.

Hard disagree.

Dams simply need to be categorized as dirty energy. They are probably less dirty than coal or natural gas energy. However dams are dirty and they should be treated as such.

Categorizing an energy source as dirty does not mean we don't use it. It doesn't even mean we don't build more of it. We don't have 100% clean energy today. I hope that someday we do. And when we are 100% clean energy I hope that 0% of it comes from dams. Because dam energy is extremely unclean, damaging, and harmful. And it's not "NIMBY" to say so.
The vulnerability of aircraft carriers to cheaper weapons notwithstanding, there is currently no other platform which does what a carrier group does.

So they’re very expensive and much more vulnerable than they were 30 years ago — what else is available to project power 10000 miles from the US in a robust and flexible way? When that thing exists I think we’ll adapt to it quickly.
> Otherwise this feels seriously off - just being able to add new rules that people must adhere to whether they agree or not.

Have you heard of 'democracy'?

When your government writes a new law by majority do you have to adhere to it whether you agree or not?
I wouldn't care, honestly.
> However, almost any CPU made in the last 10 years is capable of software-accelerated ray tracing with software like Pixar's Renderman and the open-source Cycles engine.

People have been rendering on any CPU they could get their hands on for the last forty years and there is no such thing as "software accelerated ray tracing". That would be like someone saying their car does engine accelerated driving.
I don't know how it works, but I know there are many loans (APR <1%) applied for even old home renovation project in rural area.
That's probably not the case of the land attached to the houses mentioned in the article, though.
That said, I also read somewhere else that the $500 are not actually a sell price, but a rent price. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think you have a good point. The trick is to consider the device or object not on its own, but in the context of the organization.

Large organizations like the military would probably be happier with an item that needs intensive inspection, servicing, and repairs on a very consistent schedule, but is absolutely guaranteed to work within that operational window than they they would be with an item which is low-maintenance but has an unreliable service lifetime. A maintenance schedule can be planned around and budgeted around so that it doesn't affect operations. A random outage or failure is expensive, and can only be planned around in a probabilistic sense.

As individuals, we don't have the time or knowledge to do all of the inspections and repairs to maintain an "industrial grade" system at a level that makes it worthwhile. We need stuff that "just works" for some unspecified amount of time, and we accept the cost of random failure and replacement as a tradeoff, since most failures in our lives don't involve the loss of human life or millions of dollars. The exceptions, like cars, tend to be engineered more like the former category, and can only really function reliably in the context of a larger organization (regular maintenance at a specialized repair shop).

So it's not really a spectrum of quality from cheap and unreliable to expensive and indestructible. It's actually a spectrum of logistical overhead from individual use and low upkeep to multinational organization and high upkeep.
This is exactly what most HOAs do also.
> mice on a keto diet

There's no single mention of diet in the abstracts and non-paywalled versions. Care to share a link or screenshot to support your claim?
Better software doesn't always exist and when it does exist is not always possible to switch (or has other downsides).

But for example Steam updates on boot, which is a (albeit minor) pain when I want to use it. Similar with Spotify. There aren't really any great alternatives to either of them that have equivalent libraries of content.

Or going right to the core, Windows and it's annoyingly frequent updates. Sure I could use Linux (and I do on a few machines), but that isn't possible on my work machines, and introduces incompatibilities on my personal machines.
The following two claims cannot both simultaneously be true:

> I'm not sure what they are talking about either about running around regulations: know-your-customer and anti-money laundering is practically required at all exchanges and brokers. There have been reports of this actually working to stop crime money from moving, or stolen money from being sold off.

and

> I can tell people who enjoyed this they can send money to bc1qeqc0rt4476ffuet6cl6r3a4ft5wts6ra0jhh7f, and they can do so, from anywhere in the world, at any time of the day, from any device, using software of their choice, and any amount they wish, with no restrictions applied.

It may be true that most people who enjoyed this can send money to that address with no restrictions, and that anti-money-laundering regulations still have teeth. But that's not specific to cryptocurrency. I can say the same about fiat currency: almost anyone can send US dollars to $geofft on Cash App (or send to me on PayPal, or do an international bank transfer, or whatever).

If it is true that literally everyone can send literally any amount they wish to that address with literally no restrictions, then restrictions on the flow of money such as anti-money-laundering laws, attempts to recover stolen money, embargoes, or simply taxes (which, to be clear, I'm not taking a universal moral stance on, there are some that are good and some that are bad) plainly cannot be enforced.

Perhaps the argument is that in the short term, cryptocurrency is subject to those laws because people use it as a transfer mechanism for money they ultimately want to receive and spend as fiat currency, and at those boundaries, the laws of the fiat provider apply. But treating that as an essential long-term property of cryptocurrency undermines so much of the argument towards using cryptocurrency.

Or put another way: it is baffling to see KYC/AML compliance touted as a feature of cryptocurrency to appeal to political interests when any mandatory compliance to any one country's monetary laws would so obviously be a bug in technical terms.
There are many things that city governments do not have regulations against.

Some people wish to live in a place with a bit higher standards than their municipality sets. Because municipalities have to set rules and standards that make sense in both the lower and middle class neighborhoods as well as the rich ones.
People here keep citing the wargames with retired Gen. Riper, who sank the USN repeatedly from the perspective of a non-peer adversary using non-technological methods to organize, and disposable, low value swarming assets to overwhelm American defenses. Both Iraq and North Vietnam had patrol boat navies and the wherewithal to invest in attacking a carrier, but didn't.
> Google used its market position to starve a competitor.

They just followed Microsoft's formula.
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I use it as a place to put files I’m working with in the moment. Once I’m done with them, I either file them away or delete them. Although I don’t use a desktop on Linux anymore, I still use the directory for that purpose.
The site doesn't work with Adblock and Ghostery; just a white page (and a total of 20 scripts blocked).

Lame. Why do people rely on Javascript so much these days?
I used to love the Heathkit catalogs as a kid, but never bought anything, because, by that time, everything cool seemed prohibitively expensive.

(But I could save up my money to buy (overpriced) parts from Radio Shack, and products to tear down from garage sales, and build my own designs of simpler circuits and machines.)

Two of the coolest things I still recall:

* The "Most Accurate Clock". http://www.n8obj.com/Heathkit.html http://www.prc68.com/I/HeathkitGC1000.shtml http://www.nixie.dk/~jthomas/gc1000.html

* The Hero series of robots, which you could build yourself. The Hero 1 could include an arm and speech synthesizer. (There were many other robot toys and ill-fated consumer products at the time, but the arm that looked like it had a lot of flexibility in manipulating the environment put it in a different class.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HERO_(robot)

IIRC, at some point, Heathkit were also doing PC and video terminal kits together with some kind of training program (there were also non-kit Heath/Zenith products like those), and maybe an oscilloscope?

(A scope was another piece of bench equipment that was prohibitively expensive for most kids at the time, and I couldn't get access to one until I started taking classes at the wonderful community college. But a kid could do a lot of things with a Radio Shack $5 soldering iron, $25 multimeter, and a ~+5V TTL level bench power supply that was 4 AA batteries and a diode.)
1. The abstract is not great.

2. This is a study from China, including "School of Traditional Chinese Medicine"
Idyllic yes, but my point was that it took a good scrubbing to get to that point
>But if they want to build a pond in their front yard AND take responsibility to make sure there aren't mosquitoes by spraying it appropriately

Well, then you are going to need an HOA to enforce that unless you live in a municipality that already does.
Come to thesopranos reddit thread. It's 9 part quotes, 1 part very serious literary criticism on the most complex tv show maybe film in existence imo (as it's essentially an 86 hour movie).

A lot more noise, but a lot more insights overall then any literary critic can muster. The problem is it's a needle in a haystack, but it's not that bad when you still find enjoyment in most of the hay!
I've always been on the fence a bit about Gmail's mobile site vs. the iOS app. The mobile site is really great and it has the usual advantage that it uses no data and no battery if you never load it. But many other Google apps are dramatically better or don't even have a web counterpart. Best example is Google Translate, that uses the camera and a bunch of CPU time to do some wild shit.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments and/or flamebait to HN. You started a wretched flamewar with this. Not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sometimes people make simple things very complex. As long as he regularly backup his work he could be using an old machine with no issues. Why does he need to backup a vm image, why encrypt it? I imagine you think he should be uploading the encrypted vm image to the cloud... Writers been doing without for centuries. But then again, what do I know... I drive a car made in 1980, a motorcycle from 1962 and use a terminal (vt52 compatible) I made out of an MDA monitor and AT keyboard...
... and by definition, John Grisham, Danielle Steel, David Baldacci, Janet Evanovich, Brandon Sanderson, Michael Connelly, Nicholas Sparks, and Lee and Andrew Child are the best writers in the world.
One much more feel-good program I'm aware of -- Mentors In Tech is doing mentorship for community college students who want to break into the tech industry. [1] They're almost all from underrepresented backgrounds, many on their second career, and mentoring has a big proven impact on their outcomes. It's run by the person who founded the TEALS program which brought real CS teachers to thousands of high schools. [2]

[1]: https://mentorsintech.com/
[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/technology/microsoft-send...
I don't like automatic updates either. I can just acquire the new version somehow and update it that way (perhaps handled by the package manager, when I tell it to update the package); it shouldn't be a part of the program itself, I think.
It's written by Indianans for the Indiana Supreme Court.
It's not just about foot traffic. The Walgreens I live near in SF has had plenty of foot traffic during the pandemic (I literally live across the corner and the lines to check out were just as long after as before). Yet since the pandemic started, it gained.. a police officer stationed at the entrance.
There is nothing significant. Maybe timestamping documents on the Bitcoin blockchain. Otherwise only use for the technology is payments
There’s also increased cost on businesses to stay open in high crime areas as crime rises, the insurance rates go up and it costs them more and more to recover from property destruction and theft.
It would lose something... :-)
There is a lot of complexity here not covered by the overview, such as the way that the clustering works (the adaptive splitting like that means that we have not just a tree but a full DAG traversed by the GPU), the way the software rasterizer works (lots of careful balancing to manage the GPU well), the way that the materials are calculated on this geometry (don't have GPU derivatives accurate enough, so analytic derivatives are used instead), the interaction with the rest of the frame (decals use stencil so a lot of juggling is done to rearrange things). Heck, even the two rasterization passes to handle occlusion is pretty unobvious.

The 10000ft overview is perhaps easy to understand but the details are anything but basic.
> So how we perceive morality is something we can learn, and we can pass onto generations, basically recreating the concept of evolution through culture, at a much faster pace.

That does not really work since nothing would stop people from changing their minds years later, especially when it feeds into the human instinct of tribalism. See WW1, WW2, how the nazi party rose, etc.

> We've evolved, and still evolving.

Only if those with non-tribalistic tendencies outbreed the rest of the population.
Ripgrep will compile a list of all files in your home directory in seconds. Combine it with dmenu or fzf and you’ve got yourself a pretty handy search tool
True but as far as I remember it inserts a 'hard' line ending every time it wraps. Meaning you have to go back in and clean up all those line endings if you want to go back and edit a paragraph, otherwise everything ends up out of whack.

What I'd prefer is an editor that wraps visually but only inserts line endings at the end of a paragraph (when enter is actually pressed).
I quit with Allen Carr too, but with the subscription based online portal, not with the book or the documentary.

I forgot when I quit smoking exactly. 1 year, 2 years? I was smoking around 1.5 packs a day. Allan Carr definitely helped, I found out that it is not perfect for everyone though. But still, it is the first thing I recommend to people who want to quit.

I rarely need to remind myself why I don’t smoke anymore and the mentality I gained from Allan Carr makes that justification quick and easy.
The problem is not that the state doesn't pick the winner, the problem is that it disadvantages the winner of that state immensely.

If in some hypothetical election state A goes 15/10 for candidates X and Y but state B goes a full 20 for Y, then it the majority opinion of state A got screwed over and B hands the election to Y.
I think you can read the parent as saying the mice on the keto diet, were in another different experiment, to compare this one to.

If I am reading it correctly...
I've never smoked, but in my cubicle days I often tag along with a colleague who did smoke. They'd have a puff, I'd get coffee, and we'd hang out and chat for five or ten minutes outside.
I can learn things so quickly because of the web. When I was growing up, I couldn’t have dreamed that I could have access to so much without going to multiple libraries, and the thousands of video tutorials are just something new to humanity. The web doesn’t suck imho, although it does introduce some serious privacy issues
Melbourne and Sydney internet: only true if you're not on FTTP. You can even sign up with providers like Launtel which let you subscribe to FTTP by the day..

The air quality comment is VERY surprising, just checked it myself.. Dead of winter during a lockdown in Melbourne and there's STILL more air pollution than Hong Kong.

EDIT: Having just double checked this, this is incorrect - Hong Kong has triple the average of Melbourne. Was checking point in time vs Melbourne, however Hong Kong gets significantly worse as the day goes on. See historical comparisons.
> Because there is no better SW. See Windows 10

Windows 10 isn't even the best Windows, let alone the best software in its field.
Did you do civil? I did mechanical and barely just heard of LRFD and probalistic design. Not very common in mechanical, maybe in aerospace.
I quit for nine years. After a stressful event four years ago I started again. I think that, for me, the habit of going outside once an hour is the part that's hard to change.
Author of the piece. This was one of my favorite early Tedium pieces, and it was a nice surprise to see it floating around again after all this time. Cheers.