skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was different. If you go for example on a Facebook group to ask a legitimate noob question they will not answer you, or make fun of you. In the old days in the forums people were more friendly, and for example explained to others even stuff that is considered simple enough, or pointed up good material to read. The only exception is of course if someone asked a question already answered in another topic, and thus the moderators would have gently invited to continue discussing on the already existing thread and closed the discussion.

> That sense of community is there with discord, you gotta use that.

Not in that sense. Discord is mainly a platform where you do voice chats. It has four disadvantages:

* not everyone wants to talk, for whatever reason, being introvert, not knowing the language so well to have a conversation, not having a microphone on the computer, and a ton of other reason

* a forum is public on the internet, someone that is not subscribed to the forum that has a similar problem could read it and find the solution, everyone could register and ask something. Discord servers are not.

* forums are textual content, that is preserved in the years. Sometime I have a problem with some old hardware or software and I find my answer in a response in a forum from 15 years ago. It's something that is indexed by search engines, of course even if forums were public, you cannot index voice chats.

* the forum had an asynchronous nature, as most of the old web had (take the email, for example). It means that I can start a discussion, and then go back to it when I have time. In the old days I used to check my forums at most once or twice a day, on the evening, check the thread I was following, maybe respond or simply read. Discord is synchronous, either you participate now or you don't.
Contrary to popular brief HN readers care about things other than the latest JS framework.

Israel, despite its size, has an oversized impact on world politics as well is home to a great tech scene. Especially when compared to Ecuador.
AFAICT, not a single state is below 30%. Mississippi is the lowest at 34.9%.
3:2 aspect ratio screens are amazing for productivity, and sadly very rare outside top end chromebooks

Chromebooks are just polished Gentoo linux machines too that don't have nightmare headaches of driver incompatiblity issues. A M1 macbook would have to run linux in a VM (even docker containers) and deal with the overhead/tax of that issue. A chromebook will just run chroot/container stuff against the native kernel with very little overhead and maximum access to the machine's available memory.
I fear that this design violates the so-called "substitution principle", which states you should be able to use instances of a subclass anywhere instances of the parent class are used. In this case, you have defined a default behavior, but I would argue it's degenerate, because the value of your subclass are all the same.

In general, it's better to design subclasses to be constrained versions of the parent. If you want to add functionality to a class you're better off using another technique like composition, or even just a simple utility method.

Another way to state the issue here is that a user of an encrypted string will always need to know that it is an encrypted string because the only thing cyphertext is useful for is feeding the decryption algorithm.
It's marketing mostly. A lot blockchainers rehash well known concepts to front innovation.
I must politely disagree with that.
It may be that we have been to distinct types of CS programs.

Some of my work as an under grad was taxing on my computer
and much more so as a grad.

Even simple things like compiling a system can quickly get taxing and slow.

Some classes require models, algorithms that takes a lot of power to process or to prove.

My master thesis was system would run for 48 hours on the desktop I had then, after some optimization got it down from 65 hours.

Ideally though you have access to a lab / server that you can offload your hard work on.

In my experience those resources were already under maximum load during most of the day and parts of the night.

Being able to just run them locally was convenient.
- The shock was considered "mild".

- "didn't like" was based on paying some part of an imaginary $5, not their money and not big money. I couldn't find how much of the imaginary money people would spend. $1 or $5, seems both were counted as "negative", despite a potential gradient in just how much someone disliked it.

- There could be peer pressure to have a negative opinion of the shock because people would assume you would want to avoid being shocked, that's what a "normal" person would do.

- People have different levels of pain tolerance. Those with higher tolerance may find the shock more interesting than painful.

- The recollection of an event can diminish quickly, especially when being questioned about other things, while being left in a room with only the shock button would expectedly narrow their focus back to the shock they had received earlier, likely triggering further curiosity about their shock tolerance.

- While being shocked as prep for the "test" is part of the story, the other half of the story is being left in a room with the shock button, and people are going to want to know if you shocked yourself or not.
It can if it is written into the contract. I suspect pretty much all contracts will have provisions for this in the future.
Interesting! I wonder how it compares to Cloudflare Pages, specially regarding updating a page after it has been deployed, and how easy it might be integrating it with Github.
Watching porn in of itself is no more a bad thing than playing poker or a video game. I’m not making a moral judgment.

Like gambling, it’s easy to fall into a behavior pattern that is similar to gambling. ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4600144/ ) I’m not sure of the pervasiveness of gambling or porn addiction, it isn’t my field.

There’s a reason why online porn pivoted to a model similar to YouTube — it’s a model that drives engagement, and you very commonly hear evidence that YouTube has a very significant addiction, even for toddlers.
> Spoken like someone talking about immigration who knows only what they've seen on Fox News.

What sort of character attack is this? Answer the main point.

> You're so unbelievably short sighted about a tech innovation.

Am I? Or is the current stage of Bitcoin and Ethereum not fit for mass adoption, Exchanges crashing all the time when the prices rise.
Ridiculous fees for swapping these tokens. Chia, a supposedly energy efficient alternative to bitcoin, destroying SSD's with their very own way (Proof of Time and Space) NFTs, which are burning the environment and definitely not energy efficient.

And why are we celebrating VCs getting involved in every new private token sale? You know how this ends.

This has happened before with the coins mentioned in this article [0] and more recently Internet Computer [1] which the price fell 75% since launching.

Does this really need to go on?

> There's more to crypto than bitcoin & greed is an unsolvable issue in humanity, not a crypto bug.

So you're admitting there is absolutely no point to crypto then, why do you think crypto will solve anything existing fiat money can't. Discuss.

[0] https://bennettftomlin.com/2021/06/12/why-i-have-zero-faith-...

[1] https://www.coinbase.com/price/internet-computer
I remember many many years ago taking an intro CS class and learning that the Java compiler was available on The newly released Mac OS X. I thought “Thank goodness I won’t need to use Windows” unfortunately, I never really got it to work. Some obscure errors prevented me from making progress and I wasn’t proactive enough to follow it any further.

The hardest thing about going against the grain in structured learning is that you’re giving yourself extra work - translating the instructions into whatever your toolset is, solving errors that don’t exist on the approved platforms. I wish the author the best of luck.
Tabula, OCR for PDFs
Commenting on the MS Paint IDE thread, I remembered how Tabula has helped me extract data on numerous occasions. I thought I should give the project a shout out for no good reason.
To all: please consider reading the Gemini faq [1] before chiming in with impressions of the project. You definitely don't have to agree with the rationales, but the discussion is impoverished without understanding their angle on those decisions. (Esp. seeing a lot of people who might be interested by "2.5 Why not just use a subset of HTTP and HTML?")

[1]: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi
Anecdatum:

In 2018 I was running a consulting business helping customers with backup to tape, but even back then most customers were doing backup to a dedupe (magnetic disk) library like the HP StoreOnce, but then often copying that spooled-to-disk data to tape one per week or once per month.

Now (2021) the flavour-of-the-month is backing up to cloud storage (s3 or Azure blobstore), sometimes directly, sometimes as a copy from deduplication storage. This morning's email summary tells me that one of my customers has just recently stopped using their on-site tape library; I have a quote out for some work with another customer to decommission theirs and replace it with writing to a cloud-hosted provider.

So tape is still getting used (assuming that's what Deep Glacier actually is), but it isn't owned by the customer. But if you are backing up to Google's blob storage, then no, it isn't tape, it's just magnetic storage again, just in low-speed access sections of disk.

The product I was working (DataProtector) has gone through a bit of churn as it changed hands from HP to Microfocus, so this could cloud the numbers a bit.
From my understanding: It existed, and the German apparatus acted as if it did. Turning Madagascar into a SS-run concentration camp as planned would have been genocide too, so it arguably doesn't matter all that much. Similar to some of the other "Jewish reservations" that had happened previously, e.g. Lublin-Nisko: It turns out if you cram many thousands people into an area without infrastructure, shoot everyone who tries to leave and add some forced labor, survival rates are not good. Who at what point considered mass deaths to be the point of the exercise vs just a (tolerable or welcomed) side-effect boils down to an aspect of the functionalism/intentionalism debate.
Understanding the Unidentified
You’re absolutely making a moral argument. The moral argument is: “people should not do things that I don’t like”. Weird sex has existed since time immemorial, and people will continue to do weird shit long after society collapses and we go back to smashing rocks together.

What difference does it make if someone likes being choked? How does that prevent them from “living their best life?” Of course, I realize that you and the GP are being weasels and really want to to say that some other widely politicized current issue is actually the fault of porn. Why don’t you just say it?
But why should we absolutely "lower net suffering"? Giving birth causes intense agony to the mother, but where are the hordes of humans advocating for the end of suffering, demanding that we put an end to natural births?
It appears quite different than PoW, which is how it is able to boast so much higher throughput.

https://tokens-economy.gitbook.io/consensus/chain-based-proo...

https://medium.com/solana-labs/proof-of-history-explained-by...

I agree it doesn’t seem very decentralized at the moment (not many validators and most support coming from the foundation) but that may change if the platform is able to scale.
youtube is more than the recommendation algo:

1. the community

2. user friendly interface

3 faster video loads, better quality, smoother playback compared to competitors
> Increases in money velocity by definition increases inflation risk

OK, but that is just a tautology. What makes you think that caring less about cash versus deposit accounts in a zero rate world is the same thing as, or leads to, increases in money velocity? The last I checked, it is just as easy for me to spend money (and in fact, a bit easier) with one form of cash-equivalent as another, so why would transferring my balance out of a money market fund and into cash affect inflation at all?

> This alongside Phillips curve suggests an increase in inflationary forces

The phillips curve is notoriously unreliable. If you want to argue that deficit spending which pays people to not work will create a supply shortfall and thus increasing prices, I can get that. But that has nothing to do with these types of portfolio shifts.
Many ivermectin proponents online also advocate against the vaccine.

If someone does accept the validity of the scientific studies of vaccine effectiveness, they probably aren’t so jazzed about promoting ivermectin because they’d realize vaccines are even more effective and a permanent or semi permanent solution, rather than having everyone in the country have to regularly take a new medication.

In any case ivermectin appears to be the new hydroxychloquine. A medicine that was randomly seized on as theoretically being effective against viruses and has failed in every properly conducted RCT.

Therapeutic efforts would be far better focused on making mAb treatments cheaper and more available, since they’ve been proven about 80% effective both as prophylaxis and a therapeutic.
I don't take downvotes personally. I've learned to accept them as meaningless gestures that make people feel powerful and in control, when infact no-one is really in control here. We're all acting :)
I'm glad the climate is simple enough that we can approximate it as a simple linear system
Chrome OS is built around VMs, so depending on the reason for that requirement, it might be fine.
My last company which was smaller, I was locked out for a month around earnings reports. I probably have more privileged information now, but I know not to trade on it by waiting the appropriate time.
I can' stress enough how much I love raspberry pi, from hobby to professional use cases
is this the fake second channel?
You think it's shady to look into a drug that is out of patent? What is the profit motive there?
What about people who've committed suicide on LSD? Was this an overblown old wives tale?
What good does suppression of opposition do?
That makes sense, as alcohol use and abuse has been with us for a millennia or more. The internet is a tad bit newer.

If you look, you will find plenty of inquiry, debate and research into the topic.
The performance of running Linux in a container on a VM is noticeably bad, even on a Google Pixel with Core i7 and 16 GB of RAM.

It works okay for most tasks, but is laggy when running JetBrains IDEs compared to bare metal Linux distros.

Edit: Chromebooks are nice in terms of laptop hardware support compared to some hardware / Linux distros I have used over the years. No issues with suspend / resume, printers and scanners work, great touchscreen and Android tablet functionality.

Some tasks that require more direct access to the hardware (e.g. device drivers used to read lab instrument hardware, debugging devices over USB, etc.) might not work as well (or work at all) due to the Linux VM and container sandboxing.
Obviously the two things have nothing to do with each other, and frankly I can't understand what the agenda is there.

The apparently-rational argument the shady-type make that Ivermectin is so good you don't need vaccines. But I don't think any honest advocates can claim that.

The fuzzy-irrational argument is you can't "trust" the medical industrial complex 'cause they're pushing vaccines and suppressing Ivermectin.

This stuff is terrible but there's method to their madness.
Fair enough...

My bank/brokerage doesn't take crypto. So Zelle is the next best thing given how slow and expensive wiretransfer/ACH is.
(Wasn't wire transfer supposed to be 'fast', it generally seems slower then ACH?). And yes, I do use crypto to send 'cash' to friends.

I do agree wholeheartedly with your statement crypto isn't ready 'for the masses' yet. For one thing, no coin can handle anywhere near the transactions Visa can. But I don't see that as a reason to vilify it, shut it down, or pretend that only criminals use it.

In HN vernacular, I see crypto's as 'startups' - some will pan out, the vast majority won't. Hopefully, each generation of coin will improve on the ones before it.

as for "just not for me" - I'm only putting beer money in. I think most of us that have been in it for a while are in that position. Certainly none of us are out mortgaging our houses. Being skeptical of the hype is a good thing. Maybe in a few years/generations crypto will be in a place that's more useful to you :-)

edit: formating s/any/and/
What connects antivax and untutored Ivermectin promotion is a generalized, reflexive, contrarian rejection of anything perceived as "establishment" science.
I've banned this account because you've been creating various accounts to troll HN (or borderline-troll, which still isn't ok). Can you please not do that? We're trying for more thoughtful conversation here.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Buy wallet.dat with balance and lost password
I had an older student at my high school teach a machine language course, complete with a one page table of opcodes and their hex values so that we could type them in.

After that I purchased a copy of Programming the 6502 by Rodnay Zaks. Books took 3 months to arrive if they were a special order like that, sometimes longer. To this day it's still one of my favourite books.
the question I would ask is when a new virus caused a pandemic, would you want the medical/healthcare system to test existing drugs for suitability? if some drugs are know to treat various pathogens and have a well established safety record shouldn't we allow any doctor to experiment using their experience and informed consent?

waiting for a properly run study will cost lived especially when there are corporate and political interests controlling these tests.

it would have been easy to run dozens of prophylactic studies while this virus was running rampant. same for testing the dozens of clinical sourced protocols. instead the medical testing establishment shutdown and ignore all clinical protocols that were successful used, and put the message out so that medical journals, big tech, pharmacy boards, hospitals, suppressed more discussion and application of these protocols.
Or maybe someone intends for freenode to fail.
I fully agree on the 3:2 displays and I'm happy to see more of them being used in regular laptops (Apple, do you listen?).

While I certainly don't hate Chromebooks, it seems that one can either buy inexpensive but underpowered devices (with slow ARM cores or low-end x86 Celerons) or devices on par with other notebooks - the Chromebook Pixel was certainly nice - but then you are not saving money compared to a regular notebook, even though the Windows (or macOS) tax doesn't apply.

The Chromebook security concept seems to be well implemented and can protect the user from a lot of typical problems. I'm still curious how much data Google collects from Chromebook users, though.

Resolution scaling is one of the most underappreciated technologies. My eyesight isn't really great and I'm using the macOS zoom feature often when I struggle to read text in a small font. It's great to see that ChromeOS implements something similar.

The trend of having to do everything on the web today (or using Electron apps) is still irritating. Contrary to expectations, this seems to result in more proprietary protocols (Slack, zoom, Teams, ...) instead of using open source or proprietary clients for open protocols. Well, this is probably yet another approach of solving a problem in CS by adding another level of abstraction ;-).
You could probably get pretty far with LibreOffice Impress.

I usually use Google Drive for this kind of stuff (specifically the Drawing app.)
Kenosha’s key role in election scandal
Actually, Observable is not JavaScript:

https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/observables-not-javas...

I think it's an amazing piece of technology, hosting some of the best interactive stories on the internet — but I too find it hard to use.
Hopefully more Laptop manufacturers make screens at least in 16:10 which is a compromise to having 16:9 on all consumer laptops due to the movie industry (the new Dell XPS comes to mind). The only way right now strangely enough to get something resembling that would be supported by a large manufacturer would be to buy an iPad and use it as a secondary display. You could try to use the iPad with a keyboard as a productivity oriented laptop but it would only really work out right now if you were a web developer and only needing ssh access.
That’s an excellent analogy. I make my living building web stuff. When I get home, I want to play with other things as a hobby. I also have a ham radio license, but that doesn’t mean I only want to use that instead of the gigabit Internet drop at my house.
I started using Joe because I had been using... Lordy, Wordstar. For years.
> Studying race and systemic racism in school is absolutely not “as damaging” as dictating the terms of school funding in a way that disadvantages the poor (and subsequently non-white people).

To be fair, when people talk about CRT these days they’re talking about a specific set of beliefs about race, notably a variety of race essentialist beliefs. Reducing CRT to “merely studying race” is dishonest. Moreover, as race essentialist ideas are want to do, I posit that CRT does harm poorer people because it lets rich whites absolve themselves by way of ritual while characterizing poorer whites as the aggressors. Similarly, we prioritize issues that are almost certainly harmful for poorer communities of color, like (de facto or de jure) de-policing high-crime areas (we celebrate fewer police-related fatalities and sweep under the rug the enormous spike in murders).

Note that this isn’t a partisan issue. The best criticism of CRT comes largely from liberals, progressives, and independent conservatives (CRT seems like it should be a slam dunk for establishment Republicans but in increasingly normal form they are finding innovative ways to bungle it).
Nah, this is an issue everywhere. Where I live there are few technology companies.
On starting out your career in Tech
Someone else in the thread was kind enough to share what they felt are good sources, so I’ll take a look at those.

I can only conclude that you have nothing to back your position, and you are postulating based on 2nd hand information. Of course I can go google something, but the value of a community like HN is that the sources shared by members here tend to be good ones (or at least better than average). Your refusal to contribute followed by a No True Scotsman argument are pretty disappointing.
I have aliases ff for fast-forward-only merges and puff for fast-forward-only pulls. I never type `git pull` anymore, and it's much harder to shoot your foot off with the aliases.
It looks like you've been using HN primarily for political/ideological battle. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of what they're battling for or against, because it's destructive of what HN is supposed to be for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting in the future, we'd be grateful. That means thoughtful, substantive comments that engage with curiosity rather than enemies.

Edit: it looks like we've had to warn you about this multiple times before. Please fix this.
Betterment auto-harvested a lot of losses in early 2020 during the covid drop.
Pretty soon you could get through it with an unmodified iPad...

https://www.andreafortuna.org/2021/03/13/coding-on-ipad-pro-...

Not sure when it's going to be out of beta.