skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree.

I find it incredibly odd how people can be absolutely bad at basic life skills and act as if it were some universal thing about mankind.

If they got some condition in their body or in their mind that makes then a permanent wreck, alright that's a thing. Or sometimes life just happens and your mother is dead - alright, you can be a wreck for some time.

This shouldn't be the norm.
Is there someone who can point to a mono version of this font? I tried it in iTerm but forcing a proportional font into mono looks pretty bad.
Fair enough!

I can as well easily picture myself thinking differently when locked in a lift, compared to sitting in the comfort of my couch, commenting on HN :D
It might be a pretty good use case but only until there is a run on Tether.
> their current state is fine, right?

No.

They still, to this day, have not completed one of their promised audits. As such, we don't know what their current state is, and they have a track record of lying about it. There are rumblings that much of their current holdings are in commercial paper that aren't worth what they're assessed as, because Tether values them at the purchase price rather than the current mark-to-market value.

Even if they're solvent now, getting there via fraud is bad.
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There's nothing stopping you from having more free time. Move to a low cost area, get a part time job, and live a frugal lifestyle. However most people have different priorities, and prefer to chase social status and material comfort at the expense of free time.
This[1] comment explains it very well. It just cements why I moved back to Linux on my laptop, and will be moving to something running open source software on my phone, and open hardware on all my devices.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28159353
So they can be easily emulated. A Commodore 65 clone is in development at http://mega65.com
The only naiveté is self-inflicted by reading clickbait articles instead of how the system actually works. When people start worrying about Apple scanning for abstract subjects like "anti-government" they're worrying about some hypothetical system, not the one that's been built.
Ramenz Naam has been showing this for years:

https://rameznaam.com/2020/05/14/solars-future-is-insanely-c...

There are identical stories to write about onshore wind, offshore wind, and lithium ion batteries. This summer has seen a huge number of new storage chemistries announced from startups with skin in the game and experienced management that will close the gap for longer term storage.

The most optimistic prediction for renewables were too pessimistic. It's likely that we are still in the same situation today, and not nearly enough people are predicting the future accurately by short-changing new tech.

There probably aren't too many people on HN these days that remember computer tech in the 80s and 90s, but it had far fewer doubters, and didn't have an industry dedicated to creating a propaganda cloud about how awful computers are. And still, the internet and computers are far more advanced and penetrant into everyday life in ways almost nobody anticipated.

The renewables revolution will likely be as big. We will have more cheaper energy accessible to us than ever before. This may be enough to jump to a new stage of technological development.
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Codespaces lets you configure dotfiles and a script. Not vanilla. Not sure if you can use vim or whether it's VSCode only.
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But is it better? Buying maps and planning a road trip is satifying. Blindly following the voice on waze, not really. Worst part is getting there and not knownig how to get back without waze because I was zoned out of the surroundings.

Although the one part that is unequivocally better is the real-time traffic/incident info to reroute around trouble.
Without denying any of the improvements cited here, some things, even in computing, are no better:

1) Printers still suck. By that I mean, mainly, reliability. I try to print something from my Mac laptop. The printer is connected, has paper, and displays no error messages. Nonetheless, nothing happens. There's no apparent way to figure out why. There wasn't in the 90s and there still isn't.

2) Software quality is, if anything, worse. It's clear that no unusual cases are ever tested for; only the most common browsers and a few of the recent releases of the OS. Error cases are handled no better than they ever were.

3) What else?
Given the amount of money that has flown into cancer research already, probably not a lot closer. Cancer research is actually historically one of the largest wastes of money with some of the worst outcomes in terms of life expectancy increase.

And I'm not just being quip, the actual point here is that these generic takes about "military spending bad, xy good" are kind of shallow.
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I've served there and this hurts. I'm scared to think what will happen to the women of Afghanistan under Taliban rule.
Disabling web fonts works. It speeds up page load, and let's you pick fonts that you find readable.
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I don't think they are able to. China and Russia beat the United States in war games, so 100% of the forces will be devoted to that.
Mosh is more than changes to the transport layer so it's an apples to oranges question. Some of what Mosh does is related to the way the transport handles loss but a large amount of what Mosh does is about how it avoids synchronizing things it doesn't need to by changing some assumptions (it's really a terminal emulator synchronization not a raw byte stream synchronization like ssh) and using knowledge of the type of thing it needs to sync to integrate with the transport protocol instead of transporting arbitrary byte streams.
"You should have control over your own computers. Your phone should be your castle. True control means controlling your hardware and software. It means picking hardware that doesn’t depend on absolute trust in a vendor for its security, but gives you control over your own security so you don’t have to ask the vendor’s permission to use the computer how you wish. It means using a free operating system that lets you install whatever software you want and remove any software you don’t."

Has this ever been the case
even since the very beginning of smartphones?
I think he missed a lot bigger elephants. Things like the massive reduction in global poverty levels or eradication of polio. The global decrease in crime. We reversed ozone depletion and massively decreased the mortality rate for HIV. This post is more like a list of cool products we have now when we have monumental human development achievements no one is talking about.
Not really. Netscape wasn't trying to be Mozilla Firefox, it was trying to be The Internet.
That link currently shows 17% APY. I hope you don't believe everything you read.
I have been doing this for about 28 years now. It is always overwhelming. There is always one bigger tech rabbit hole to run down. My advice, start with 1 small thing you can do. Do not worry if it is right or wrong. Just pick something you can do. Then go from there. Just today I wrote some code I had been putting off because I was overthinking it. I had the code written up in about an hour. I was way overthinking it. I figured just splat something up and go from there. I found I had already worked most of it out.

It is one thing I got out of agile work. Sometimes people just do not know what they want. But they will know what they do not want. That can be a starting place for you to help figure out what they do want. Also many times something is way better than nothing.

Also if you are struggling with python vs C. Start with python. It is easy to splat something up and get something running and see results quickly. C used to be that thing. But it has a bit of a learning curve of 'how to compile a program' first, then learn to program with it. A good skill to have but when starting I would put it lower on the 'things to learn' scale.

That little program I did earlier I could have done in java/C/C++/C#/js/bash/powershell/winbatch/SQL/etc/etc/etc but I picked python as it got me to splat something and get it done. It aint pretty but it gets me the info I was after. 100% throwaway code. My only real nitpick with python is that its ruthless dogmatic approach to spacing. Some consider that a good thing. But at first when you are learning it can be a drawback as you do not understand grouping and scope yet.
It is what available for persistent storage.
IndexedDB run queries very slow but throughput is good enough so rather big chunks of data stored in single cell to offset latency.
And IndexedDB is just one storage backend. Author says he experimented with webkitFileSystem but didn't matched IndexedDBs througput.
Point of this project is storage medium abstracted so in future it will be replaced with what's better.
That is exactly why:

1. I only run Linux where possible, and I install myself (and I realize I do not control the BIOS, etc). OpenBSD would probably be even better.

2. I assume that Google knows everything that is going on my Android phone, Apple knows everything on any Apple device, and Microsoft know everything going on on my son's gaming PC.

This is a dangerous trajectory and we'll hear "But think of the children!" or the good old "If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear." ad nauseam.

We've been over the fallacy of these statements already, so I will just quote Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." (Although apparently the original context of that quote was not about Liberty at all.)
To play devils advocate for a bit, London is an incredibly safe city at night compared to say Paris or Rome or Madrid or Amsterdam. I’m pretty sure part of that is down to the staggering amount of cameras
the name could even be catchy ... CryptoFish
or infrastructure
It isn't OK and has always been wrong.
The police raided someone's house after a complaint. The government had nothing to do with this.
This has nothing to do with the validity of attestations, and I think it's pretty sad that the conversation is revolving around specific instances instead of the legal concept.

Nothing here invalidates the concept of attestations, this only calls into question the reputation of the individual firm that issued the attestation, which is the whole point of attestations.
With all due respect… you sound like a dick
What would this data look like if all of the people with natural immunity from exposure were excluded?

For example, about 33% of the American population was exposed to COVID, according to the CDC [1]

If Pfizer is 42% effective, would that effectiveness value drop even further?

[1] https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/coronavirus/c...
Isn’t the US still maintaining regular attacks from the air over Afghanistan, and the taliban has no advanced AA apart from manpads, meaning the US and allies has full air superiority?

How can the taliban operate in that environment? Shouldn’t any camp, convoy or even individual armed pickup truck be the target of air strikes even as the US withdraws ground troops?
> that allows SQLite to read/write from IndexedDB in small blocks, just like it would a disk

So it sounds like IndexedDB was the right abstraction all along.
And then someone will come along and claim that kitten videos are animal abuse. I wish I was being sarcastic.
Actually lives lost by war and violence have diminished.

https://stevenpinker.com/publications/better-angels-our-natu...
it's not a useful standard if it does not work out-of-the-box on a native windows install
The US was not in Afghanistan to nation build. It went there to dismantle Al Qaeda and kill bin Laden, which it did. Preventing the Taliban from retaking the nation would have been a bonus certainly.

The US didn't leave after two weeks because it took a lot longer than that to find and kill bin Laden and wipe out Al Qaeda in the country. The US didn't leave after killing bin Laden because Afghanistan was a relatively inexpensive sandbox for the military industrial complex to play in, train its soldiers in, and deploy/test weapons in. US & allied troop deaths in Afghanistan have been fairly low since 2013. So Afghanistan got to act as a war training ground with low risk of losing a lot of soldiers, an exceptionally rare commodity as far as the Pentagon is concerned. Now they have to find another country to occupy.
That's just for building though, isn't it? Package managers these days deal w/ network, registries, version management, transitive dependency resolution, etc. Not to mention Windows.
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I'm wrong - they didn't charge him. I don't know why I wrote that - I had read the article.

But they did arrest him.
It's also the same thing with the "server" header right? Cloudflare will override the server header to their own name. I think this an old thing, not a new feature introduced recently.

Well, not an issue for me though. Why not use your own headers?
> Accept satisfies a relaxed form of consensus and does not establish an ordering of unrelated transactions.

Awesome! Requiring total order for everyday transactions is like running the accounting year-end close checklist of a fortune 500 company every time I buy a cup of coffee, it's wasteful and pointless.

IMO, instead of imposing total order from the top down, we should grow total order organically by iteratively building up and combining sets of locally ordered transactions.

Edit: Ok so I read through the paper and it looks OK, perhaps even "obvious" (though I dislike how that term can minimize good contributions), except for the assumption about validators: "we assume up to f = (n−1)/3 of the validators are
adversarial and behave in an arbitrary way". How do you control the number of validators? They are cheap to manage (they just locally verify and sign transactions after all), so what stops the adversary from flooding the network with n*10 hostile validators and thus invalidating the assumption?
Can you give me a link? I would like to read his comments.
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You are correct, all forms have zero protection/throttling. Do as you please.
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Lowering the risk of a situation, ignoring the potential panic of your "friend", all of it for some laugh... Sure sounds like a solid example of being a dick.

Note that I'm doing evidence-based work and hypothesis, in no way am I being judgemental. We're on HN, after all ;)
HN is reliably the worst reading experience I have on the internet, exclusively because of the lack of line-wrapping.
You mean kinda like https://github.com/kemitchell?
> it's technologically trivial to check that the text [of an email] matches a reference

Remember who we're talking about here: Lawyers and business people — too many of whom don't even know how to use Microsoft Word "properly." [0]

(You have no idea how many contract drafts I review in Word where the drafter used 'Normal' style for everything and just bold-faced the headings; used blank lines to put spacing between paragraphs; and didn't know how to do automatic paragraph numbering.)

[0] Obligatory link to the famous comment about Dropbox's launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Not sure why this person is being downvoted, but it's well known that any informant that works with an occupying force is on the chopping block once that force is no longer there. This is especially true in the middle east as many cultures there have a history of generational feuds. In other words, they don't easily forget "traitors".
This would seemingly help police catch more of these abhorrent people in less time. I think the question is does that outweigh the eventual abuse of the much larger population of non-abusers.

Personally, I've been heading toward a life more free of the internet and technology. This move by Apple is speeding that up.
No, smartphones have historically been under the control of the phone operators. But that doesn't mean it shouldn't be true. I'm looking forward to getting a Linux I control and which provides strong protections.
Specifically, it synchronizes the state of the the screen rather than the entire byte stream that created it. When you first log in these are the same thing, but they rapidly diverge since mosh knows that you really don’t care that the cursor moves in exactly the right way, and that you don’t care to see anything that has already been erased and rewritten.
That’s a holdover from MacRoman.[1] If you’re on a Macintosh, Option Shift K at least on the standard US layout. Still comes up in Apple docs and user forums.

[1] http://www.alanwood.net/demos/macroman.html
"Scientific consensus" is easily gamed by any authority with enough power to influence the scientific community.

In the crudest version of this, any scientists who publicly disagree with the "consensus" are thrown into gulag. In more refined versions, they are excluded or expelled from the field, sometimes by activist mobs. The problem with the more refined version is that it's intentionally difficult to distinguish honest and qualified dissidents from kooks unless you know enough about the actual science.

Consensus is a social and political phenomenon, not a scientific one.
Compare with the current Internet of snitches, where people flag posts and want something to be done about it.
https://trimread.org/articles/210
I once was stuck in an elevator that had an emergency phone. However, when I picked it up...there was nothing. No voice on the other end, no tone, no background noise, nothing. My immediate assumption was that it was a dead line. The head of maintenance indicated the phone was working when he tested it after I got out of there, but if it was working when I was in there, that is a -major- UX issue, since despite having used both landlines and cellphones, I had -no idea how to use the emergency phone-.

Theoretically, too, the fact it was lifted at all should have triggered something that led to them calling me back; they never did. I got out by calling the fire department, since I thankfully had just enough signal
> I don't think you'll find many takers here for the idea that the physical and internet surveillance of the UK and Australia are a model to which to look forward.

Given the binary choice I would rather have the surveillance instead of the outrage-driven anti-science hordes that have been empowered by those US gifts to society Facebook and Twitter.
A friendly reminder/suggestion to people looking for a TV:

Sceptre makes consumer 4K "dumb" TVs upto 75". Walmart sells them.
Yep. You’ve found one of the true purposes of immigration law. As with barriers to free competition among employers in the market for employees acting to suppress wages to benefit companies, so with nation states in their control of citizens immigration allowing for higher repression and exploitation of various forms.
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No paywall link: https://archive.is/20210812154657/https://www.washingtonpost...
> This horrible obsession with exponential growth

I don't know if I would call it horrible. Money makes the world turn. Capitalism and all that.
People grab for any chance at individuality from "social norms" that are imposed for corporate convenience.

Putting critters in cargo holds is just a bad idea regardless. Sell seats in back on some flights or something.
Rumor has it, Dennis Montgomery, known fraudster with a long track record.
On the other hand, sport cars, helicopters, private jets, yachts and mansions have become more affordable than ever: when your net worth jumps from 100M to 200M this year alone, the 25M jet that seemed a bit pricey, now looks cheap. In the upcoming decade we're going to tackle private islands and recreational space ships.
He wasn't charged.
Your question assumes the West isn't authoritarian, which I don't think is supported by facts.
Of course! I'm not suggesting it's a solution for everyone at all. Just realize that Grandma will never have privacy like that.

Corporations and governments combine to basically make privacy a niche thing for tinkerers only, you simply cannot mass-market the development attitudes nor technical and opsec skills needed to achieve a real degree of privacy on the user side.
> The end goal is value. And value changes from community to community.

From one overstated and meaningless self-help word to another. Is that what a human exists to do? Provide "value" to the community?

> After work I play piano, chess etc and any improvement done to these are "productive" too because I'm increasing my value to my community by making music, playing chess etc.

How does that provide value to the "community"? Did you ask anyone if you playing the piano or chess provided value to them?

Funny, I play the piano, chess, etc for my own personal enjoyment. Didn't realize I had to play it for the community 's benefit. What else do I owe the community? So as I can better attune my productivity?
> Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage

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

Hours of work necessary to produce one unit:

Cloth Wine
England 100 120
Portugal 90 80

In the absence of trade, England requires 220 hours of work to both produce and consume one unit each of cloth and wine while Portugal requires 170 hours of work to produce and consume the same quantities.

If each country specializes in the good for which it has a comparative advantage, then the global production of both goods increases. Countries can trade surpluses for shortfalls and be better off overall.
Maybe you shouldn't revert to facile claims which don't even support your point, such as implying that a single good platform with good standards justifies never building anything cross-platform ever in any context?
It's interesting how much this topic has blown up, especially compared to how it usually does, after pedophiles are targeted.

It's also interesting that at least one prepared response will be found to my point above.
So how are we going to stop this if it becomes a reality for 99% of phones sold?

I'm very poor- like on and off homeless poor- and I would be willing to pay up to $200 for a free phone, but I couldn't go higher. I dearly hope that it doesn't become the case that any "free" phone isn't a luxury like current privacy oriented phones.
IMO the best versioning convention is YYYYMMDDNN, where NN is the release number you did that day (and so is typically 0).

With this, it's trivial to generate new version numbers, there's no version number angst, and version numbers are inherently ordered. Detractors will argue that this system doesn't convey compatibility or magnitude-of-change information, but that's a feature.
I absolutely agree. Whilst other roles play a part in accessibility the lion's share of responsibility absolutely sits with the front end developer.
> scanning your local files versus scanning cloud files

Correction, scanning cloud destined files, as a step of the upload pipeline. Local files not destined for the cloud are not scanned. It's a scan happening before the network stack of the pipeline, rather than after. But it still is already in the pipeline, an its way, at the point of scan (at least that's my understanding of their docs).
Microsoft and or/the vendor make side income from what the average user does in bing, preinstalled crapware, cut on games in Microsoft store sales, etc.