skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. This article comes with the typical psychiatrist bias that depression is indication of some personal deficit (cognitive distortions or faulty brain chemistry) when in my personal view, given the state of the world there are many good reasons to be depressed.
The notion that a minimal first version is the ideal starting point is mirrored in this quote from John Gall:

> A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.
Quite a few theorists have stated things along the same lines, and I think the analysis is generally correct.

After the “death of god”, man lost a common frame of reference and replaced highly spiritualized modes of existence for highly economic modes of existence. Well, now we are facing the “death of the market” and finally realizing that it is a destructive fiction and that it is not reasonable to reduce everything to exchange value and calculation insofar as it leads to the actual existential crisis that is climate cataclysm.
Lol this made me chuckle
There are two separate ideas here. Believing in the concept of a vaccine as an effective disease prevention mechanism, and believing the current narrative that all demographics need a covid vaccine, the risk reward calculus always shows it does more good than harm, etc (I'm not trying to faithfully summarize, but more make the point that there is a distinct and political covid vaccine push that's not the same as just saying a vaccine works)

I personally had to suspend my mistrust of the government in order to decide it was worth getting vaccinated. A good rule of thumb is that the more someone tries to push you to do something, the more you should question their motives. And governments that have mismanaged and lied about everything else they do, like you say, have no reason to be trusted on this one thing, even if its generally popular.

So it's not surprising that people who do believe that vaccines work (which is really not up for debate) may not agree with the putative urgency of getting this vaccine.

Should just add that I don't really think there is anything we can do about this mistrust this time around. You get credibility by acting like you have people's interests in mind, and like you know what you're doing, so it would take a long spell of that before folks have any real reason to take what we are told at face value.
In movies, the phone would revert immediately back to a dial tone when the other party hung up.

That's not how any phones ever worked even back when they used dial tones.
Thank you, I think I missed `-constraints`, then! I will give it a go and check out the generated file. I expected it to be turned on automatically. My bad! That said, I will check if it does the constraint checking properly. I hope it does!

I know, Erlang's ASN.1 compiler does it too, automatically. It is pretty awesome.

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Update: `-constraints` does work (`validConstraint = temp1 >= 10 && temp1 <= 20`)

I will try out more complex ones. :)
sounds like a scam to me
It's not quite the same since Adam Smith though. Lifting trade restrictions has correlated with the greatest prosperity known to mankind.

It turns out that if your trade balance makes your currency very cheap then investing in your country also becomes cheap. This increases your (cheaper) production and then increases your exports making your currency more expensive. Ie trade balance tends to balance itself out.
My guess would be that I place larger displays far enough away that my eyes aren't constantly refocusing.

A better answer may be that I also benefit from displays below a certain proportion of my field of view. I try to work in open areas where I can relax my eyes periodically by looking out of windows, and being able to see around the screen is important for that.
Ohio Scientific and Commodore 64 Environments
I like that everyone readily understands the supply/demand phenomenon as it relates to the price of used cars, but many people are unable or unwilling to grasp the relationship between the supply of new houses and the prices of used houses.
Wow! you weren't kidding, the feature appears in release 5.3.0 (5 days ago!).
> and you are supposed to say “thanks” and put up big signs saying “the EU paid for this”.

A lot of these projects, e.g. linking up people to shared sewer systems, are things countries should have done on their own decades ago without requiring money from somewhere else. It's a reminder to the population that without the money from the EU this project would likely not have happened at all and that the EU indeed improves their very own lives!

This is especially important in countries such as Croatia that have a high amount of "EU sceptics" who claim alllll the time "all Brussels does is prescribing us to teach our children LGBT culture and we get nothing!!!" (source: am half Croat, have heard this individual line far too often).

For large infrastructure projects aka the TEN (Trans European Networks), these usually give so much benefit to the economies of the countries involved that yes indeed you are supposed to say "thanks to the EU for organizing and coordinating this over multiple governments".
This "gift economy" sounds someone trying to put a nobel spin on a debt based economy.

I bet in many cases if someone got a reputation for not reciprocating "gifts" they'd soon find themselves not receiving anything. Hardly a gift.

And why are people "hinting" at things in this economy, and why this is presented as something different from a direct request. How often have you come across people "hinting" at what they really want, when really they are demanding. Sounds like something out of a cliche mobster scene, "lovely tanks you have there Colonel, it would be a shame for anything to happen to them".

> No one ever assigns a specific value to the meat or cake or house-building labor, meaning debts can’t be transferred.

If the bakers wife were to "hint" to the butcher that their friend could do with some extra "iron", whilst simultaneously saying "did you enjoy those scones i gave you" (wink), then the debt is transferred. We can pretend that it wouldn't have happened, but people are people the world over. Some would be nice and help others because they like to help, others would use what leverage they have to get ahead in life.

This gift based economy just sounds like a passive aggressive debt based economy, and it doesn't sound real.
Wikipedia: "At typical refrigeration temperatures, Stirling coolers are generally not economically competitive with the less expensive mainstream Rankine cooling systems, because they are less energy-efficient."
Oh yes because the reason Assange gave for not going to Sweden was to avoid extradition to the US, something HN said was 'conspiracy theory', now proven conspiracy fact.

These people know nothing of justice, only power and violence.
It is fair to like Rust, but there is nonetheless an influx of web developers who already know JavaScript and TypeScript moving to AssemblyScript to (finally) experience what Wasm is all about. They don't want to move to other languages. I believe their experience should be highly valued, and as optimal as possible.

This influx is the reason why AssemblyScript is now in the top three WebAssembly languages next to C++ and Rust (https://blog.scottlogic.com/2021/06/21/state-of-wasm.html) and should not be taken lightly.

There is a huge opportunity here to build an optimal foundation for these incoming developers, so that they won't be let down.

The influx has only just begun.

Ideally though, interface types would give languages options: the ability to choose which format their boundary will use. Obviously a JS host and a language like AssemblyScript would align on WTF-16, while a Rust Wasm module running on a Rust-powered Wasm runtime like wasmtime could optimally choose UTF-8.

I'm hoping things will be designed with flexibility in mind for this upcoming most-generic runtime feature.
You can buy their domains - in that respect, they function like “regular” domains. Also, they support emoji
I went to see the definition of the word decimate because I thought it was a stronger word than one-in-ten reduction, more like reduce-most-of or something, but yep, it’s history is fascinating and it actually does mean one-in-ten harking back to Roman army times apparently!
Code Review Is Work
How is that different from what your own government does with the taxes you paid? They also take your money and spend it on infrastructure, projects or social support that you might or might not want to/need to use.
Ask HN: What comes after the nation state?
In a time when the in-group is increasingly self-defined, as geography becomes decoupled from allegiance, does the nation state seem like an anachronism?

As a thought experiment, what would the world look like if we had:

- opt-out citizenship based on birth location

- opt-in subscription citizenship decoupled from geography

- voluntary and public tax payments (subscription fees)

The idea is to "put your money where your mouth is," taken to the extreme – even the playing field with opt-out citizenship, create equity by decoupling it from geography, and provide accountability by transacting in public. To me, this seems like it solves some people's alleged grievances, but creates new problems. It also raises other questions, like switching costs – can you move between governments as frequently as you'd like?

Ignoring the fact that this is totally implausible for a number of reasons – mostly due to violence – I've been finding it a fun idea to think about recently.

Would you want to live in this world? Will we inevitably converge on something approaching it?
Yeah, to be clear, I only mean this from the point of view of non-average Signal users.

It's a little weird that Signal is both the "baseline security that everyone should have" product (a la HTTPS or WPA2) and the "you are literally hiding from the government" product. Of course, the target market for the latter, when you are not another government yourself, is by definition mostly illegal activity (whether or not the laws are justifiable), so it makes sense that there isn't a good product just for that.

In this particular case, it also complicates things that people who are literally hiding from the government also have normal ordinary conversations with lots of people, and it helps things for those ordinary conversations to happen on Signal, but this bug is particularly bad if you do that.

(I'm also not really sure where, say, people buying recreational drugs fit on the "average"/"non-average" axis. Is it a reasonable precaution to not text incriminating information to your drug dealer over Signal? It feels like it shouldn't be necessary, but I can see the argument for it.)
Drawing on funds that you paid into and the receipts are essentially the money you put in is not hypocritical.

Forcing people who leave a club to pay 50-100 billion pounds on the way out the door for arbitrary made up claims is perhaps. While a good chunk of money is allocated towards retiring UK officials in the EU, most of it is not. Lawmakers from EU countries are literally on the public record stating 'Making them pay!' and coming up with arbitrary numbers of '10s of bilions' on the spot, out of thin air, not based on any rational reconciliation of funds, which is my view, blatant corruption.
Vaccines that have been through clinical trials and approved by the FDA generally work. I’m fully vaccinated, but you have to admit that there’s a difference between the COVID vaccine and other vaccines— not just in terms of development and deployment speed, but also in terms of underlying technology, at least in some cases. Skepticism is a reasonable default stance for most things, emergency measures included.
Recovering a HDD with Early Bitcoin
I mined bitcoin early in 2009 and found a few blocks, at the time it was worth nothing and was a novelty more or less. I believe this was before the first bitcoin pizza purchase. I left the wallet.dat on the hard drive without backing it up.

Now the exciting part! I still have the hard drive. I save all my old computers and they have all the original drives in them.

I always thought about that early wallet.dat file and that if the price of BTC went high enough I would recover it. I think I may have written over the windows partition on the drive so this is a bet that I can even recover the files. As a trial run I formatted a SD card and ran TestDisk on it to see if I could recover the files and how the software worked.

I have been really concerned I would mess the drive up or if I send the drive somewhere the bitcoin could be stolen without my knowledge or I could actually even be robbed. Early bitcoin blocks were 50 BTC each so theoretically if I can get the file it may have a significant amount accessible.

Currently I am leaning toward having a professional company go over the drive and be there in person for the process. The cost for the recovery isn't a huge deal since I have invested in Bitcoin for years and have the profits from that to pay for recovery.

Any advice on what you would do in this situation or finding a reputable data recovery in the US would be great!
What an amazing effort from Kiesenhofer. I imagine being alone in the front for that long would be many times more effort than staying in the peloton. Heroic effort.

I am curious how this upset compare with other upsets in previous Olympics? Has there been bigger upsets than this one?

If this were a tennis event, would this be like someone who was ranked top 50 or top 100 in the world beating Novak Djokovic to win gold?
Yes this would be a big help. Can always "clear the sandbox" and start fresh once I've poked around with the end result.
"quotes"
Well that's why I used "I" alot...but you're right it's subjective - Ferrari or f150 aside, it's a potato to me.

If you need a truck, you get a truck for utility. If you need a Ferrari, you get a sports car. This ends up being literally the worst of both worlds. I think they could have gone simple, without looking like a oddly-cut diamond
If this is caused by climate change, we're probably doomed.

Suppose there is at least a 50 year latency between human emissions and effect on weather, we're just starting to feel the effects of the past. I really hope this is just a statistical effect, but it feels like it isn't. Crossing Fingers.
There's usually motorcycles in front of the chasing groups as well, and I don't think the motorcycle for the leader is specially marked.
Four golden lessons: Advice to students at the start of their scientific careers [pdf]
Thought the best way was to develop a basic and easy library. Then upload a malicious binary that doesn’t match the source.

There was a really good post on how to do it and evade detection.
Objectively just about everything is abnormally expensive right now. Not just in the USA, but also Canada and Australia that I know of. Maybe other places as well.
> Two white male creative directors at a top London advertising agency have won a sex discrimination claim after a female director vowed to “obliterate” its Mad Men reputation of being full of straight, white men.

director kept Mad Men reputation of shitty management... pay gap is a reflection of shitty management that is causing bad hiring practice.
That's crazy! I know american cities handle services that are handled at a provincial level here in Canada but the budget for the city of Montreal is only around 6B$ in Canadian dollars. And that's with all the costs that come from snow removal and the never ending repairs our roads need due to winter damage.
I was just referring to a paper I wrote, some years ago[0], about a [quite successful] system that I designed. It has become widely adopted, and has been taken over by a new, energetic, and highly-talented team.

It is something that many in today's industry would sneer at. It's a primitive, mostly-procedural PHP framework that fails to achieve Buzzword Bingo.

I deliberately designed it to be primitive. It is meant to be taken up by fairly unskilled users, and implemented in spartan, low-tech environments.

It's really quite successful. The important parts are that the code quality is extremely high, as is the robustness of the system. I don't know if I've ever gotten a question about the code. In fact, I'm really just teats on a boar hog, as far as the current team is concerned. I don't think there's one blessed technical thing that I can offer them. It only took them a month or so to grok the system. They did sneer at it a lot, but they have yet to rewrite it in node.js (but they have written some excellent adapters for it in Node).

I'm a big believer in functionality and utility over purity. It needs to work, and work well. Pretty is nice, but Quality and Applicability are the Principal goals.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/bmlt/
The display is easy to replace, but we don't currently have plans for alternate versions.
> A good rule of thumb is that the more someone tries to push you to do something, the more you should question their motives.

It is a rule of thumb. Not a universal law.

I hope you are not questioning the motives for having traffic rules. Or motives of your wife asking you to avoid a particularly dangerous place when coming back from work.
Yep. Another silly example is bullets bouncing around the room in movies and in supposed "true crime" fics. A friend of mine was being 100% serious when he raised that as a concern when I was talking about indoor gun ranges vs outdoor gun ranges. He had never seen bullets hitting anything IRL so he didn't know that bullets are made of soft lead and get somewhat squished before falling straight down along the wall.
Yeah because Snowden and Chelsea Manning are free US citizens...

People on HN are so full of propaganda and lies, it's shameful. Delete me, you're all empty slaves.
Most of the ways that police enforce their views on the population in the USA are technically illegal.

Only a small percentage of it has to do with actually enforcing the law. The majority of it is curbing behaviors that threaten the status quo.
I think you're mistaken there: AssemblyScript is much newer, it's momentum is only just getting started. AssemblyScript is one of the top three most desired languages for WebAssembly now: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2021/06/21/state-of-wasm.html

In the past year it has gained numerous libraries and bindings, including from Surma from Google. Stay tuned...
There’s only a handful of cities that I’d call “boom towns” (in that a singular industry creates intense income inequality). Dallas is booming, but it’s got a well-diversified economy with prosperous but affordable suburbs. Same thing for Atlanta, Kansas City, etc.

Lots of rural areas and small cities have broadly shared prosperity too. I was very surprised when I went to East Texas and saw the brand new strip malls and shiny pickup trucks everywhere. (Along with a very racially diverse and integrated population driving those trucks and eating at the new big box restaurants. I was completely unsurprised to see Trump doing better than expected among Latinos in Texas.)

NYC, DC, and SF are probably the only cities I’d put in that category. Maybe Seattle. That’s only 12% of the population.
This seems to be the same company. Clicking on "Policies" on dot.tk forwards to Freenom.
This is a very simple analysis. Here's the phrase list: [1] It's quite short. It's clear how they get the numbers, but not clear what, if anything, they indicate.

A big problem is that they only count one side.

"Fortune-telling: Making predictions, usually negative ones, about the future" - counts the phrases: "I will not, we will not, you will not, they will not, it will not, that will not, he will not, she will not".

One would expect that they'd also count "I will, "we will", etc. and show a ratio. But no.

This is measuring something, but what?

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/suppl/2021/07/22/210206111...
Agreed. I have no opinion on his conduct, but his treatment is appalling— criminal, even— by any reasonable standard.
Show HN: Wafer – a small Web Component base library for the client and server
As opposed to the alternative, which seems to be to have that money funneled into the pockets of Tory donors/pals through astonishingly corrupt contract awards, while the places that formerly received EU investment now get nothing and lapse into neglect and poverty because nobody in Westminster gives two shits about anything outside the M25.
The facts stand. The vaccines are still emergency approved, so they still need to be actually approved as safe. And clinical trials are still ongoing

At least until January 2023
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer%E2%80%93BioNTech_COVI...
"countries should have done on their own decades ago without requiring money from somewhere else."

You mean like Western European aid and investment from the US for reconstruction after the war?

Or the fact that most these countries were still under military occupation and 'should have done it' while the USSR was extracting their wealth?

Germans killed millions of Poles in living memory a few roads and bridges are owed.
No. It's fake. Even Clubhouse said so. It's just randomly generated data.
"Weaker E2EE" as in "PFS is not commonly used with email". As for the metadata, no metadata is leaked that signal does not also leak.
What will we replace it with this time?
Doing something "pretty well" compared to the task and doing something complete, is not really the same, when we are talking about a possible infinite universe to simulate. Because in this case, even just correctly simulating the leave of an tree, would take infinite comouters.
The first time this hit a week or two ago our patio "flooded" to about 4 or 5 cm deep in water alarmingly quickly. I grabbed a broom and jiggled around the drain to remove some leaves/twigs/mud and it cleared within 30 seconds. Today, no flood on our patio

I wonder what the state of the drains are in most of London's streets considering the recent lack of basic services due to covid... This is not exactly new - its not like we don't get rain in London so I am surprised this is happening quite so frequently

It would not surprise me to hear that basic street cleaning has been totally neglected for the past 18 months
Smooth and swept = aerodynamic

I understand your point tho, even if I don't agree about the particular car. I'm all for change, but I personally don't see anything creative behind it, just an attempt to be different, which is a bad goal imho
Supply and demand. That, and electronics needed for new cars are in such short supply because of supply chain problems.
Note that this link is a new study, not the previous bogus 40% study that had a very small sample size and counted yelling as violence.
This is the result of overfunding. If there is no work to do then work will be created. In this case that work is actively harmful to the people who fund the department.
I wondered about that, also. I'm pretty sure that some societies and communes are democratic, where the people make choices as a group, not having specific leaders that they are obligated to follow. I think that Quakers would be an example of one such society, they govern by what some call consensus based decision making.
In word but not in spirit. They stopped updating their repo for an entire year while integrating a crypto shitcoin in secret.

These actions betray trust, and trust is Signal's entire reason for being.
New car shortage was explained by a chip shortage. What is the reason new housing starts are not keeping top with demand?
A sure sign they can't keep up and aren't winning over mobile web devs.
This seems like a very onesided display as the EU claim is 40.8bn (less than your 50-100bn) and the UK recognizes around 35-39bn of those, so it doesn't seem to be as much fantasy or malicious, just regular negotiation.

Based on: https://www.bbc.com/news/51110096