skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm sorry. Did you just claim that getting 1000€ would improve the quality of life of Jeff Bezos, you and me, and a beggar on the street, by an equal amount?

Jeff Bezos does not buy bread with every incremental thousand dollars. He builds institutions that provide bread for a cent cheaper to millions of people.

The assumption that you can equate these utilities is exactly the fallacy that caused so many to starve in Russia and China. Markets coordinate capital for the betterment of people at large.
Because Linux folks like to bash on Windows, while in reality they live like every application would be putting their stuff into C:\Windows, like Windows used to do in the old day pre-XP.

So naturally when all applications depend on the same shared libraries and configuration files, they need to be updated on a full swoop.

Yeah, when one knows their way around UNIX it is possible to actually install new software that works around this, but that is exactly the problem for most desktop users, "one knows their way around UNIX".
Wouldn’t call iPhones fashion accessories. Overpriced - maybe.
There’s a mental mismatch in here. The pull request workflow works on GitHub because 1. every piece of code has a clear owner that is in charge to gate-keep the changes, and 2. if the gatekeepers fail at their job, contributors have a reasonable recourse (forking).

Neither is true for Wikipedia. There are no clear owners for each article so the editors are more or less hidden in the shadows (from the readers and casual contributors, at least), instead of being front-and-center of an article and explicitly taking responsibilities. It is also very unclear why they get to “own” the article like a GitHub repository; are they the initial author? Major contributors that took the baton from the original author? In many cases they are, but Wikipedia does not make that relation clear, so the editors look like self-appointed to an outside eye, which is why people have issues with gate-keeping (not the gate-keeping itself).

Making things worse, an “outside” contributor also has no chance but to work with those (seemingly) self-proclaimed maintainers; only one article can be under an entry on Wikipedia, your own modified copy has no chance competing with the original, even if you managed to make other people aware of it and agree it’s objectively better. That’s competitive imbalance, another trait of undesired gate-keeping.

I’m not saying what the Wikipedia community is doing is wrong. But if that’s how they want to do things, they need to fix Wikipedia to reflect what they want the process to work. The current system is broken.
> Is it impossible to make work, life, or social structure more fair?

Without stealing from the people you're disadvantaging, yes it is impossible.

Spot the Marxist.
I'm friends with a gang of three Oxford graduates, who met each other there in the 80s. I know them through mutual interests and like minded mutual friends. They're just part of the gang, get on with everyone regardless of background.

What you do notice though, is they absolutely know how to work their asses off. They're constantly organising things, writing stuff, offering to edit and help develop other people's work, coming up with new ideas and sharing them. They know how to dig deep into a topic and root out the interesting, fun and unexpected, and do something with it.

There are other people in the community who are much the same, it's a very collaborative community. It's not that they're the only people who stand out, but they're right up there.
No it has cancer.
For me, tapering nicotine was about as hard as getting daily exercise. Instead of a bit of muscle soreness or tension, I'd get a mild headache towards the end of the day for the first few days of a two-week cycle. About halfway through the two weeks it would usually stop, and while I'd still want the extra cigarette, I wouldn't get a headache from skipping it.

I suspect if you're using enough nicotine that you can't feel the effect of a cigarette, you're probably using a lot more than I was getting from smoking. I'm not sure if my advice is equally useful for you, but I hope you manage to kick the addiction cycle at some point.
This is not so much about crypto as it is about Moshe Hogeg. It is being alleged that he started various investor frauds, these companies are just a subset. In general, allegedly, he raises money for an idea... takes that money into raising money for the next idea... and so on. Only a small proportion goes into actual development, the rest seems to be spent on "consulting" and such.

Also note that these currencies are really not Israel's most hyped anything. That's just the author's way of sprinkling some anti-Israeli spice.

You don't see articles about (some obscure crypto nobody heard of) starting with "US's most hyped ....". Even when it's not obscure, you don't see Dogecoin articles start with such a sentence. It is irrelevant and incorrect.
Swiss Covid Certificate – Technical documentation of the swiss Covid certificate
There are things which were considered addictions and then they became normal and even encouraged behavior, such as reading. Is it a real addiction if it depends on the historical period? Drug addiction doesn't.
> "if hardware is too hot for you to hold your finger on it indefinitely" it's too hot and it's going to break very soon!

Are you talking about junction temperature, package temp, or heatsink temp? The only CPU I own with a package temp that's cold enough to touch is inside my phone.

Meanwhile some of my data center machines are a decade old and run at 75C all day. I've never had a CPU fail before the machine became obsolete
I have pre-hypertension which is a BP between 120/80 and 140/90 and the quickest 'fix' is to follow a lower sodium diet. I think it's pretty common for people around 'parent' age to have this, especially if they eat the SAD, so it'll be something you hear as a kid. I know I did!
I never understood why we need these black & white labels when it comes to substance usage. Obviously, never smoking any tobacco whatsoever is the healthiest option. But so is never drinking any alcohol or never eating any sweets. But it should also be obvious that every cigarette you do not smoke and every beer you do not drink as well as every chocolate bar you do not eat is an improvement for your health. I don't think you are failing unless you completely stop using a specific substance. You are failing when you are not trying to improve.

Why not start by not smoking for a day, a week, a month? Why not consider your internalized, automated habits (like smoking one cigarrete after lunch) and try to eliminate them one by one if you feel like they control you instead of the other way around?
Except in what concerns Google, the Linux kernel is an implementation detail considered no go area for app developers to call into.

Ignoring this advice might lead to application termination.
> The majority of Wikimedia's money goes to software development, not keeping the lights on

The majority of the money goes to grants (because they don't even know what to do with it internally), followed by fundraising and brand building ("advancement" and "communications") which has the largest staff numbers.
Then lawyers, and technology staff and contractors are a distant fourth...

> a world where WMF spends the absolute bare minimum to keep the lights on, with no further funding to new software development, and Wikipedia is still a success

I 'member back in 2005-2008 that was the state of the world. WMF paid Brion Vibber and the bandwidth bills and Brion kept the lights on. It was the most successful time for Wikipedia with massive growth and recognition.
That was the original reason for HOA's. After the supreme court ruled racial covenants were unenforceable the idea was that HOA's could enforce them.
Caffeine and L-theanine (coffee and green tea)
A Programmer Developed a Perfect Flower Recognition App-Huawei Developers
Then is anything clean? As wind and solar both have clear externalities in manufacturing and decommissioning...

Probably well burned wood and other biomass might qualify. Though that is quite complex thing to do at least with particulate emissions...
It was released for free in 1998:

https://www.itprotoday.com/windows-78/corel-release-free-wor...

http://www.iitk.ac.in/LDP/FAQ/pdf/WordPerfect-Linux-FAQ.pdf

The free version can still be found out there:

https://tldp.org/FAQ/WordPerfect-Linux-FAQ/downloadwp8.html
This is the unit. It looks fine — still a box, but a bit less of the standard look I suppose.

https://www.windmillair.com/product/the-windmill-ac/
this was deployed in Indian slums - which is probably the largest , non-native English speaking cohort as it can get.
The dutch government's SSO app is a complete pleasure to use for this- I hope they use it as a model for everything else.
A Requiem for Sparc
It definitely depends how you smoke imo, and probably your predisposition to it. I have tobacco in joints, and I don't smoke weed that much, and I also smoke cigarettes on rare occasions, e.g. on MDMA. I've probably smoked about 100 in my life. I have had moments before where in the day I've thought "I should have a cigarette". However each time that thought has scared me into not having one. In the end it just never grabbed me, and I could go forever without any tobacco without an issue. I don't consider myself addicted to weed either and yet still I would less like to give that up forever than tobacco. So it depends how you use it. If you start to use it with regularity then I think that makes it more likely to hook you.

There is definitely a high associated with nicotine. My wife gets it extremely strongly. It can be quite trippy and even anxiety inducing, or anxiety reducing. It can be both stimulating and relaxing at the same time, almost feeling like an LSD microdose in the weird body feeling. However people who have smoked for any long period don't really get that high anymore
And yet here they are investing in something that is so obviously a scam that possibly even my grandmother would notice.

It reminds me of the "but you fuck ONE goat" story: one misstep like this surely can and should have more impact than all the good steps.
Tips for Recruiters
> Oh, you want the latest version? You need to update your Ubuntu 16.04 first, it'll say!

Well, yes, that's the flipside of updating everything at the same time. You have to update everything :)

And if you're using an LTS version of an OS, you'll usually get a related LTS version of the apps from the same era, especially for the older OS versions. Because they prioritise production stability. If you just use it as a working desktop you'd be better off using the bi-yearly versions.
Indeed. One of the earliest use cases I remember is Valve using them for decals, text and UI elements in Source Engine since 2007: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/2007/SIGGRAPH2007....
> The US has seen the most spectacular rise from poverty to wealth ever seen in history.

This is not true, historians collectively agree that Korea has seen the most spectacular rise.

Also, your comment was spectacularly off-topic and anachronistic. A country being a manufacturing powerhouse during WW2 doesn't mean that immigrants have a fair chance today. First they need to be able to enter, then they need to be able to succeed. That's the topic.
Seriously, SPAM KING Richard J Schueler, did you pay taxes on all the money you made with all the Viagra spamming you did from Panama, and all your shitcoin shilling and lying about HEX being a CD, when you should have called it HOAX? And did you do it with a smile, just like you lie so easily to all your victims with a smile?

As the winner of the "Golden Pump Award" for "Best New Scam" for "HEX", and as one of the first people in the world to be successfully sued for online spam, specifically the Viagra spam scheme that you ran from Panama (which you lost, under your previous name "Richard J Schueler"), you could personally solve scams by ceasing and desisting your shilling of HEX, and your recruiting of unsuspecting developers to work on it, and your illegal false claims of providing CDs (certificates of deposit).
Well, coffee doesn't contain nicotine
If you read my comments, you'll understand nothing what I am here for.

Of course I present facades posting here. If you think what the comments represent one thing or another, then that's just your mind interpreting one aspect of the comments.

BTW, put your words into action, citing any of my old comments that prove your point. I have no idea myself what those comments could be interpreted by a stranger. A good opportunity for me to calibrate. Thanks in advance!
Does anyone remember what happened when the authorities tried to destroy favelas in Brazil? Criminals started eliminating police officers' families. That's the way it works. You don't touch them, they don't touch you.

Anyone knows what happened when Russians eliminated their 'thieves in law' (criminal bosses)? Street crime overwhelmed that city.

You can't live w/o counter-elite. There's a kind of balance, as always.
The biggest win we could achieve for self-hosting doesn't involve people actually self-hosting. The idea of personally maintaining your own infrastructure is unlikely to scale to general population - but the thing we're really after is ownership of data and the ability to own infrastructure.

So, I think, the ideal situation would be to have a combination of big and small companies offering storage and compute as a commodity. You'd pay a fee to keep your stuff hosted somewhere; any time you see a better offer, you can migrate to a different provider without much hassle, and with near-zero downtime. Cloud services would work by shipping their code to your data, not the other way around[0]. And if you were so inclined, you could just build your own infra, or even buy a turn-key "self-hosting in a box" kit.

Pieces of that vision are already here. Compute providers are plenty. You can order "self-hosting in a box" kits. Internet architecture makes everyone's computer equal (at least in theory, ISPs mess it up with NAT, and their T&Cs). The only thing missing is the part where you own your data, and SaaS vendors serve you - the bit that makes SaaS truly be Software as a Service, instead of Serfdom as a Service.

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[0] - Preferably with homomorphic encryption preventing SaaS vendors from putting their hands in the cookie jar, if we can get that to work without creating another blockchain-level environmental disaster.
> how can we improve our average level of well-being

What average?

MEAN:

Two systems of 100 people

System 1: 1 person with $10m and 99 people with nothing (mean=100k)

System 2: 100 people with $50k (mean=50k)

The latter is far far better despite on mean being worse.

MEDIAN:

Two systems of 100 people

System 1: 51 person with $1m and 49 people with nothing (median=$1m)

System 2: 100 people with $250k (median=250k)

The latter is better despite median being worse.

If you want to decide if a system is fair or not, think which system you'd like to live in if you rolled a D10 and ended up being born into the decile you landed in. Roll a 10 in america and it's great. Roll a 1 and you're collecting cans and hoping you don't get an ingrowing toenail.
Pay, how? I thought Teams came for free with every Office365 license? Do you mean paying in CPU cycles?
Since when is a program allowed to decide to delete my information on its own accord? If not me, who authorised this? Not me.

Really that kind of threat of deleting documents is completely unacceptable. It implies that I, the user, don't have any say. That I must make this decision right now. Because I have nothing better to do. That the computer cannot simply store these documents and restore them later when preview reopens. (Which it most definitely can)

Its just lazy developers, or, much more likely: just bad ux.
Pretty sure they aggressively limit how many IR codes can be downloaded by one customer.
It's OK, we'd only spend half of it on bitcoin and spend the other half on air conditioning.
How do you cope if you want to record people who don't have an SSN or equivalent? (e.g. I have none, because the country of my citizenship doesn't issue anything comparable)

Or if you're expanding to countries whose SSNs clash with each other?

SSN as PK is wrong regardless of whether you're doing SSN as password.
Dear Ben,
what you wish to achieve is to turn upside down desktops for everyone based on the needs of a disorganized person, you.

Don't do that.

There are lots and lots of people using computers not for just tossing around casual fragmented piece of information but for coherent content creation, for products that need to be reliable and many many times inherently complex, made by organizations with reliable practices.

Shortly, there are other needs than what you are familiar with, try not to act for everyone based on isolated views.

Btw. the problem with today's desktops stem more like in the urge to make those work like handhelds made for the flow of fragmanted causal pieces of information. The UX of desktops is really poisoned with the limited concepts of handhelds, by the trends (I so hate this word representing appearences rather than thoughtful behaviour) of UX designers who go after coined concepts addressing some isolated views. If they do at all, sometimes just doing differently for the sake of difference, which is not too intelligent thing.
Interesting. I'll have to add that to my list of questions to ask companies in an interview. Not being able to use Linux is a total deal breaker for me.
> I wouldn't trade my health for a billion dollars.

That's a decision that thousands of americans make every year they can't afford the healthcare they need to keep them healthy.

Those that can still work ridiculous hours damaging their health for far less than $1b - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/29/opinion/work-hours-us-hea...
Ross from Accursed Farms has some great videos * about exactly this phenomenon and why it is so detrimental to gaming culture in general.

* https://youtu.be/tUAX0gnZ3Nw
I totally get the ritual. The process of grinding coffee and preparing the cups, milk, filter and machine takes ~ 5 minutes or so every morning, and it's one of my favorite parts of the day.

I've got a dog and live next to a park. Taking 45 minutes out of my morning and afternoon to walk her gives me more "headspace" than anything else ive tried.

I guess I get my kicks elsewhere?
Page never finishes loading vendor.js. The rest of .js seems to be loading OK.

Edit - Nevermind, it finished loading. Took 1.24 min in total.
I live in Belgium where we already have eID and SSO apps that work okish. But I fail to see the need for an EU wide ID. I don't think most EU citizens use services from other EU countries than the one they live in. Not services where they need to ID themselves. How much of the population would be in the category needing something like this?

I'd say this should be left to the national Governments.
That would mean getting the German government on board. And their track record around these things has been less than stellar, to put it mildly. They always find a way to add wrinkles and complications that make initiatives such as this one pretty much useless in the end.
Camera Wants to Kill the Keyboard
I might've been too unclear in my comment. I was indeed speaking specifically about the issue the parent comment had with writing detailed tests before the application logic is implemented, just to be forced to change them because the initial idea for the api had to be changed.

Changing existing apis comes with a very different set of challenges
> Where do you see this?

In reddit, colleagues around me etc. Hacker News posts/initiatives. 2-3 years ago everyone was all "Hey look at my new Office 365 setup". Now the cool new thing is more self hosting, often driven by a desire for more privacy. There's also new businesses around this usecase. Look at https://www.beeper.com/ for example. It's a hosted matrix service but all the bridges containing your private data are self-hosted.

> My money's on your anecdata being 100% from a techie bubble.

Absolutely. But this is where things start before they get mainstream. Things pick up traction here. Then they mature and commoditise and make their way to the mainstream.
Unless those apps are particularly performance sensitive, I'd recommend updating the host OS, and run the 32bit stuff in a Mojave VM.

I still run a Sierra VM for a billing/invoicing app I haven't migrated off of yet.

I wouldn't want to use it for my IDE, but for stuff you need occasionally, it's fine IME.
I never claimed or implied anywhere that it does, and I know for a fact TFA doesn't involve note detection.

I'm just disputing the GP general assertion about NNs that "NN's are not typically great at realtime either", which is quickly disproven by the TFA which uses NN for realtime audio.
I'm not really looking forward to using a government issued tool for payments. Especially one that's advertised with nonsense like "[..]can be accessed via fingerprint or retina scanning[..]". I'd love to see hard guarantees that these governments don't have access to said tool. Until then, it's a hard pass for me.
This sounds like LinkedIn without all the fake positivity
Exactly. I mean, how hard is it to just give people a proper changelog? Am I the only one who's excited about the new features, when I get to read a proper list of them before installing a new version of the product?
Theoretically, could we run small heatpipes through chips to cool them down?
I can see this being useful for refactoring legacy codebases. You create assertions for existing code, whether correct or wrong as a result of existing bugs, and then make sure nothing changes after your refactor.

For new code, not so much. The generated tests wouldn't prevent bugs by themselves, but they may uncover bugs if you see assertions that don't make sense. But you have to spend time reviewing the tests.

The tests also don't describe what they are testing in human terms so you have to refactor them before commiting.

They also would end up testing more than necessary. Sometimes the code behavior might be intentionally ambiguous, not expected to matter in the real world and behavior that will likely change in the future that you should not depend on today.
Indeed, I use tinc instead of tailscale but it's the same concept. It's how I access all my self-hosted stuff.

There's also ZeroTier and Nebula. Mesh VPN is definitely here to stay!
Checkout Zerobin (now privatebin). No database required, has expiry. All decryption/encryption in the browser.

zerobin: https://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=php:zerobin

privatebin: https://privatebin.info
That's obviously impossible.
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV15K4y1V73y