skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I interpreted the story as humble bragging. Too many HN stories-of-convenience are nothing more than humble bragging. It would have been a much more impactful comment if he spent the second half talking about serious losses and learning a lesson.

Every time I post about how I'm bad as something or made a mistake, then learned a lesson, it is followed by a bunch of humble braggers telling stories-of-convenience about how they avoided such an "obvious" mistake.

Finally, let me share yet another of my lifetime fails: During 2008/2009, I was convinced everyone was wrong about risk management at huge investment banks -- subprime mortgages and synthetic CDO^2! I was thought they were infallible, filled with financial maths geniuses would could navigate any financial storm. I was dead wrong. I was shocked when Goldman's legendary Global Alpha fund CLOSED after massive losses. Could. not. believe. it. It's still a bit shocking to write, because their record of outperforming the S&P 500 using partner money was the stuff of legend. And, yes, I lost so much money against Bear, Stearns & Co. and Lehman Brothers. Ouch!
Adjective inflation. Yet another consequence of the advertising business model.
An actuarial modifier for underwriting OOS satellite insurance: Space debris mitigation, January 2021, The Journal of Space Operations & Communicator 18(01)

>Insurers are already pulling out of the market for LEO due to the risks of collision and space debris. General market consensus indicates current premium volume about half of what it should be.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348151316_An_actuar...
I recently came across XP4Q ( https://xpq4.sourceforge.io ) when I was looking for a long-term stable desktop with traditional look.

Tried it out on an old MacBook and the look was great, but then I got bogged down in the standard get-trackpad-and-wifi-working.

Not sure how far the "pixel perfectionism" goes, but the few hours I used it (before breaking X11) it felt good.
Why a dumb phone if you have a verifiable FLOSS GNU/Linux phone in 2021, Librem 5 or Pinephone?
That cantilever design is known for having rigidity problems for 3D printers and isn't used at all for subtractive manufacturing. Compare it to a MaxNC 10[0] or a Taig[1] micro mill and you'll be able to see how much more robust their construction is.

[0]http://millingaccessories.biz/2015/04/07/maxnc-10-cnc-millin...
[1]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-TkXnpUUXqLg/T4Qj3qVU9JI/A...
You can pick technologies that are old and still well maintained. RubyOnRails or Java Spring are not going anywhere for example.
A guess, but SMS spam has gotten to crazy levels, and probably carriers are blocking/flagging more now...
In Germany about 40% of the cases where naked child photos are found are false positives: it is sexting among teenagers...
Afghanistan is a direct neighbour of China, as you mention. It is perfectly normal for China to take an interest in that country, not least considering its strategic location and natural resources.

I think China shares the same concerns as the West: The risk that the country is used as a terrorist breeding ground.
Slightly OT, but Minecraft was a godsend for my kids during lockdown. AFAICS, they made no distinction between playing with their mates in a virtual playground from playing in a physical one. The interactions seemed identical and definitely helped them socially in that time.
"The fastest, correct miner for a block that communicates the quickest to the network will get the block." is misleading at best and completely false at worst.

If I'm misinterpreting you, feel free to clarify, but to me it looks like you're saying that latency matters (more than a fraction of a percent) with cryptocurrency, and it does not matter.

And moreso, "the fastest decision-making computer with the shortest time to the network makes the block." is not true. Even if you mean "lucky" by "fastest", since the computer that finds a block doesn't have to be fast, 99+% of the time blocks are found far enough apart that time to network is irrelevant.
Hi! Looks pretty good! Please, check the pricing page, the "Prime Account" box has a higher top margin than the others, I think its an error. Really like the website.
It depends on how you see autism. If we develop a universal therapeutic cure for cancer, that would eliminate “people with cancer” but not by eliminating those people.

Developing a pregnancy screening for “fetuses pre-disposed to cancer” may have an entirely different mechanism of reducing cancer and one that many people (myself included) would find far more troubling that the therapeutic cure above.
<<<picking up nickles in front of a steam roller>>>

This! I see so many "options trading strategies" for retail traders that are exactly this.
Neat kinematics with a horribly flexible frame that denies any serious usage. That said - it's designed to a low budget that increases the potential audience, and that is something that can only be welcomed. I'm particularly interested in the software as that will be an enabler for future variations that have mechanical rigidity.

Nice website!
One airport, 1,300 snakes: San Francisco helps to save endangered species
I'd say it has been a better designed language for sure, which wasn't that hard since they just needed to take a look where Java messed up. So many things are obvious in hindsight so it's not a fair comparison. Regarding platform and reach, Java still wins i guess.

Disclaimer: Using neither.
Librearts
Cutting through Polycrystalline diamond with a water jet laser CNC
Policy Groups Urge Apple to Abandon Building Surveillance Capabilities
yeah, there are certain signs of this being put out as quickly as possible.
On a global perspective the interests of too many people don't align to reach any sensible consensus by conventional means. We see it with the pandemic, we see it with global warming and we saw it in general with every conflict and wars.

How can we make this happen?
I agree with you.

Imagine that this comment were my only contribution to this message thread. Imagine that ten other people commented the same because the community was very engaged. Now, imagine that pattern of commenting across every discussion.

Would an emoticon have been better?
They are the least interesting objects outside. It is quite possible that inside they are much more complex than a hypothetical singularity.
Yes there's no PFS in ETSD. The data is encrypted with the recipient's public key as normally in PGP so if the private key is compromised then the malicious user can decrypt all messages that were encrypted with that key (if he also gets access to the server holding the ciphers of course).

We wanted to use PGP because it's a well known and heavily tested solution. Also, the openpgp.js library is great and makes it really easy to encrypt/decrypt the messages to the client side without the need to really mess with security stuff. Finally, the users would want to have access to their old messages in the future so using ephemeral keys for each transmission wasn't really possible.
Satisfactory is an incredible game. Maybe my favorite of the last two years. And it isn’t even completed. Beautiful, coherent, well optimized, unbelievably huge content, without limits to the player’s creativity.

If anyone reading this loved building factories in factorio and building huge buildings in Minecraft, try Satisfactory now.
Thank you for the suggestion, I'll get to it ASAP.
Just to let you know a few people are still waiting for the demo. The project looks cool but we would like to see it work without having to download and install stuff. It may sound petty but there are many projects out there and practically speaking installing all interesting ones would take ages, so we need to be picky and choose carefully. I bookmarked your page and am visiting it regularly, but the demo is still not there. Thank you very much for your work and I hope a demo appears soon!
That's how I read it too!
Lenny, a bunch of sound files for asterisk, is great for this.

Nothing beats a confused, talkative old man, when it comes to wasting a caller's time.

I'm sure you could adapt the files / logic.

(If you love hearing telemarketers experience stress and annoyance, search for lenny examples youtube...)
Sure, I can also cherry-pick articles on how meat consumption is unhealthy as well.

B12 is a solved problem for vegans via supplementation, and we even supplement farm animals to get enough into omnivore diets. Vitamin D is also a solved problem, and omnivores are deficient as well.

There are some vegans that refuse to supplement due to being on fad diets, but that does not mean vegans cannot get the nutrients they need.
> So for whatever reason, Go has decided that null pointer dereferences are not a big deal. But God help you if you try to comment out a variable use without assigning it to "_". Then the program fails to compile.

I think that's a good explanation of why people are so frustrated with this. There are lots of features like go fmt, go vet, the compiler checking that you use all variables and all imports that can feel a bit restrictive. But for something like null pointers, there is nothing. It's incoherent.
And this toxic bs is upvoted to the top? It's disgusting.

When I was reading that twitter-thread I was enjoying the style and the story. I don't like these pictures, yes, but it's just a miserably small part of the whole thing.

And when I was reading your comment I was regretting I’ve opened HN today. Are you so old to be so grumpy or so young to be so toxic? Not cool.
If you scale up your local reactor enough, you basically end up with something resembling a Dyson sphere.
The sphere isn't difficult to build. It's impossible to build.

It's unstable without active stabilisation. The stabilisation has to be perfect because otherwise you get massive distorting spherequakes propagating through it, which will make it a very uncomfortable ride for a short time and will soon tear it apart.

A perfect spherical stabilising solution with components and sensors that are light minutes - or possibly light hours - from each other is impossible because of the signalling delays.

Ringworlds have the same problem. Even if the ring is made of infinitely strong unobtanium, it won't stay in a useful orbit for long enough to be built, never mind inhabited.

Swarms have more potential, because you can build them with sparse shells and move things around to handle instabilities. But you still need massive computational effort to keep swarm units from colliding with each other, possibly at very high speed.

None of this matters, because the limiting factor for civs is collective intelligence, not energy.

We already have access to far more energy than we could possibly use on earth for any technology that's actually buildable. But we're not using it because we don't have the species IQ to make the right choices.
Stablecoins find a use case in Africa’s most volatile markets
I've seen criticism of the karma system in general, people doing everything for likes.

Maybe the same thing as for the algorithm applies: turns out hate and anger give the most engagement and in turn the most likes, so people optimize for it.

Another thing, on Twitter it seems obvious that the way mentions and retweets draw other people into discussion facilitate mobbing, but of course they are good for viral growth.
CUDA, SYSCL, DP++, Qt, MFC and WinUI, Metal Shading Language, DirectX, most COM APIs in Windows, WinRT infrastructure, macOS IO/Driver Kit, ARM Mbed, Arduino, the native implementation of most well known ML libraries, all major game engines middleware, LLVM and GCC, just from the top of my head.
With todays phones and network connections, downloading and rendering images actually constitutes only a small proportion of the total loading time.

Of that small proportion, the cpu time of rendering the images, relayout of the page for changed image dimensions, and re-rendering the image and all overlapping text and layers each time a bit more of it partially loads, is more substantial than the network delay of loading the data.

The TL;DR: is that optimising images isn't the place to start to make most websites load faster, especially on mobile.

Obviously if CPU speeds increase faster than network speeds, image size may matter again in the future. But today the size is mostly irrelevant as long as you aren't serving your photographs as multi-megapixel images or gifs.
I kind of like the robot voice. Very soothing.
ArduPilot Custom Firmware Builder
> it doesn't seem like making $3m off Netflix stock trades over a couple of years is particularly alarming on the surface

It is often the manner in which this money is made. Very concentrated bets, like buying far out-of-the-money options, that let you get enormous leverage - buy the option for pennies, exercise for $50. Combined with the absence of activity on other stocks, lack of other regular trading etc.

If you just had a "hunch", bought some shares of Netflix, maybe some other techy stocks for camouflage, and made your "measly" 10% return a few times, you'd probably never be caught. But that's not life-changing of course. To make the $3m over, say, 4 trades, you'd need to have $7.5m to play with, which is quite a lot.
I think it makes a big difference if you have a twitter account or not. Without one navigating through the thread is much harder, on the edge of being a dark pattern, and you can't use unrolling bots.
This is not the case on Qubes OS, which I use. If you care about security, can't recommend it enough.
Google puts gmail spam in your spam folder, and they're terrible at mistaking legit stuff for spam.

While their overzealousness is annoying, at least you still have the message in the spam folder.

There is no SMS spam folder, so they'd have to drop messages they think of as spam.
Also, Kessler syndrome doesn't keep you from leaving the planet, just from having satellites. When passing through a debris shell, as opposed to staying in it for years, the collision risk is very small.
the site is down? - https://code.kyro.se/iodine/
lol there actually ate zettlekasten consultants out there. The same type of people who teach you how to develop a second brain...
Thanks for saying that I am not wrong, your insecurities point straight about what I am talking about. I am saying, that the product the post is promoting to be awesome it obviously not. Because you can't understand that, you undermine my assestment. Good job! and thanks!
Good to see that you're dogfooding you're own software.

As a budding git enthusiast, I have a few questions.
How are things like merge conflicts handled? Does sturdy support rebasing or some equivalent? Is there an equivalent to hooks?

I sometimes deplug when I want to get in the flow, how well does sturdy perform offline (no internet connection)?
Because to power a type 2 civilization you need around 4 * 10^26W (as the paper states). Over a year that is around 10^31 kWh worth of energy. Assuming fusion can transform 1% of the input mass in energy you need ~ 1.4 * 10^19 kg per year. To put that number into perspective mount Everest weights 2.7×10^14 kg [1] so thousands Everests worth of mass.

That is a lot of mass to extract and transport to the power stations (accelerate, decelerate). So it just makes sense to only needing to build the facilities to collect the power from existing sources (stars, black holes) without the logistics of transporting the fuel.

Moreover, the space around a star or black hole is real estate that would go unused otherwise, while asteroids, moons, ... are more likely usable by such an advanced civilization.

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-would-the-estimated-weight-of-Mou... (I took the highest estimate in the first answer)
Isn't down syndrome discrete? Either you have it or you don't. You create a test for it and then you screen based on the test.

How does that work with a spectrum? Where is the cut off? What level is "dangerous"/"dysfunctional" enough to warrant an abortion?
Well, your expectations were clearly wrong.

“Open” in this case means open standards and access for accredited entities.

Because if you grant access to just anyone, then you’ve created an instant fraudster’s paradise.

The legal requirements in the UK (which you may be talking about, unsure) are not meaningless, they are there to ensure that known parties and known good practice are in use. Open Banking the company is working on ways to help small businesses gain accreditation and may already be able to offer assistance, and while accreditation is not free, it’s only a few £k, hardly enough to break the bank.

As a non-accredited actor, if you have a limited company you can register as a technical service provider for free and develop your product against the sandbox environment.

Oh and you don’t have to negotiate access with each bank either. The whole point is to pre-vet and establish trust ahead of time.

That’s as open as anyone with half a brain should want it to be, given what we know about people’s ability to protect their own finances.
Those same bad eating habits have also invaded China with dire consequences.
Japan’s Liquid Global Exchange Hacked; $90M in Crypto Siphoned Off
> What I imagined when I first heard of "Open Banking" was a public OAuth2 endpoint where I can grant my custom script access to just my bank balance and transaction history (possibly with a change webhook) and have it update my finance tracking database.

Banks are dealing in financial stuff. They probably do not want to deal with people having problems understanding OAuth2, API's, sandboxes and such. That is an entire different business.
The government can read all the iCloud backups, what would that gain them? Vote for a better government
This sounds very similar to a paper version of what I do with LaTeX PDF books. I constantly am typing and pasting stuff into a notes .txt file–every idea I have, anything I don't want to forget, anything I learn, URLS, names of books/movies etc. Then every few weeks I move stuff from the notes file to a place in a LaTeX PDF book, mainly the current year's book, then others split off as they get big enough, e.g. programming languages, mathematics, my programs, my essays etc. I put lots of pictures, and the books look lovely. (I find links between stuff isn't often necessary, as the hierarchical structure is so clear, and so easy to change around. But hyperlinking any 2 things is easy.)

It did take me about 3 months to master LaTeX and the common packages enough that I don't have to give it a thought these days.

Before that, I spent 25 years filling notebooks with ideas, notes, diagrams, drawings, maths, etc and never looking in them again, because there was no way of organizing them. Everything was just lost and forgotten.
The Pinephone keyboard mod adds a 6000 mAh battery, which should be enough I guess.
The podcast this story is from has been pretty interesting if you're interested in the social side of technology.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09ndpbv

As much as I miss people using old-school smilies, emoji really have enriched things like Slack a lot for me. However I think in Slack it's the ability to add your own, every company seems to have it's own vocabulary of custom emojis that form part of the culture.
LibreOffice 7.2 Community is strong on interoperability
It wasn’t a complaint or admonishment, just dang posting a bunch of VisiCalc links that readers who liked this link might also find further interest in.
OCaml will be a viable alternative when multithreading works, hopefully soon.
This wouldn't work as you could have a semicolon in a string, to handle that you would need to know when you're in a string, and due to the existence of backslash escapable quotes in strings, you can't do that with a regex*

*A real Regular Expression. The extended versions with e.g backrefs can. But they're also Turing complete anyway
Ordnance Survey launches its first developer hackathon
I really don’t understand how you can, with sound mind, compare a public facing ‘social media’ with my very personal and very private phone photos. These are two completely different things.
Married 10 years here. I've said in an anniversary speech that you should marry someone who you'd bring to a zombie apocalypse. Not just someone who can fight or fix cars... you know, worldly stuff. But someone who's not going to abandon you when things get rough. And someone who you'd risk your life and the lives of your team to rescue.

I think whenever someone says that it defeats the purpose of marriage, what they mean is you probably shouldn't marry someone who doesn't bring you forward and someone you wouldn't want to give more than half your stuff to.
Let’s say this business model were banned or didn’t exist. Getting people to choose to read your articles instead of the billions of other things they could be doing with their time on the internet would still be critical if you want to get them to subscribe.

I think it’s less to do with the business model of advertising but rather I think both that business model and the tendency towards inflating adjectives are both caused by there simply being too much information, entertainment etc. for us to make a reasonable decision of what to pay attention to. We’ve exceeded our own human capacities to process and choose between different streams of information.
Are you describing what is also known as "Tragedy of the commons"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
There is a website called Nitter provides a clean front end to Twitter: https://nitter.net/ and mirrors at https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

The domain name in Twitter URLs can be replaced with that of Nitter or its mirrors to view the same tweet and threads using the Nitter front end.
Maybe? Not all plastic plays nice with machining, but E3D demoed mixing additive and subtractive manufacturing with their tool changer setup, which is a much more rigid Cartesian system.
Ah gotcha, thanks for the tip.
Or Kotlin, KOlang.
From a linked article:

> It would be great if web browsers would accept in an <img> tag all the video codecs they can play in a <video> tag, the only difference being that in an <img> tag, the video is autoplayed, muted, and looped. That way, new and masterful video codecs like VP9 and AV1 would automatically work for animations, and we can finally get rid of the ancient GIF format.

Of course, the typical rebuttal on HN will be "I hate autoplay, nothing should autoplay without an explicit click", which is why we'll be stuck with GIF for another 10 years.
It's amazing how good humans are at detecting these sorts of patterns.

For another example, in minecraft, people noticed you can find diamonds if you dig straight down from clay patches. At first I dismissed it as superstition but it turns out that are technical reasons for why! You can watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Icj5TNmBUI for details but the tldr is that due to how minecraft seeds their linear congruential random number generator, whenever there aren't carries/overflows the coordinates are always a fixed offset away.
Just yesterday I was ranting on hn about how we don’t value solving the big problems. But I don’t know the answers.

As an individual I try to learn and improve minimizing my negative impact and working towards a sustainable business. But that is so small and insignificant in comparison to solving problems like these.

Maybe we have to think very long term and improve the effectiveness and reach of education. Maybe the hope is that future generations are smarter and more empathetic than us.
I am waiting for assembly instructions...
Most criticisms of Go could be adressed by a language with a Hindley-Milner type system: https://go.dev/blog/survey2020/missing_features.svg from https://go.dev/blog/survey2020-results. Having a ML-like that compiles to Go could solve all those issues, while still keeping the great ecosystem that Go managed to build. Just like with Scala, this new language could allow people to see if that's what they really want, and offers to the Go team possibilities of evolution without the need to commit completly to them.