skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most people are too hard-headed to listen to common sense or do what is in their own best interests. I am simply doing my small part to encourage average people to see the light, even if just my friends and family.

This could just as well be used as an argument why the homeless/drug addicts/etc shouldn't get help. "If we don't help them, we're encouraging them to see the light and take care of themselves". No, probably not, we're just being assholes.

It's fine to tell people (even people you know and love) that you won't play support for their computer troubles because you're busy or hate using Windows, but framing it as "I'm actually helping you by not helping you" is weird.
My friend lost 1M in Cypriot bank. There are many stories about frozen assets.

If you have decent money, using single account/country is not just lazy, but stupid.
Hang on - there is a - for want of a better term - Capital Gains Tax on property price rises? Wow. Is it working?

The UK had a simialr tax in the late 40s - it enabled the building of the "new" towns like Milton Keynes and Harlow (where I was born). Simply put, if everyone knew the government was going to build a ton of new roads and schools on that field, then you would be crazy to sell the field for anything less then a fortune. But if everyone knew the government was going to simply tax the fortune straight back at 100% then you sold the field for a fair value, and the government spent the money not on buying the field but on roads etc. Since that was repealed in 50s no similar large scale house building has been affordable.
Reminds me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warnin...

Far less than 10,000 years ago, humans likely would've written similar messages on things of importance to deter thieves, and we just ignore them now as curses. How does one warn people of the future about genuinely hazardous, long-lasting materials without relying on language (which will certainly change on that time scale) and without the future generation dismissing it as bullshit curses?
SEPA is more relaxed than you might think. N26 has a nice explanation [1]:

> ...[A]ll standard SEPA transfers should arrive within a maximum of 2 working days. Keep in mind that if a transfer is made just before a weekend or holiday, the time frame will be extended to a maximum of 3 working days.

> You’ve probably heard that all SEPA transfers have to be completed within one “banking day,” so let’s clarify what that means—one banking day is equivalent to two working days due to the opening hours of the banks involved. Any weekday that is not a holiday is considered a working day.

[1] https://support.n26.com/en-eu/payments-transfers-and-withdra...
I am old enough to remember printed books in the library that contained pre-computed tables of logarithms, sines and other common functions.
An interesting notion that machines with these will experience a form of dementia as their memory cells fail to write and start reading as old or corrupt data.

Fortunately, we can always move such a mind to a brand-new brain, able to hold more data for longer. Or simply keep it synchronized all the time, so that respawning would be immediate.
> I’ve never quite understood -- can’t the bank do that for you?

You want them to tell you you have a fixed, gauranteed rate of return and use it to buy some apple stock or some bitcoin with it?

The answer is they can do it for you, they do, do it for you, but you have to sign up for the gambling account not the instant access cash savings account.
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I was actually hoping that JS would be moving more and more into FP territory...
Technically true, we can't predict when or if specific mutations will or won't occur. We do know this virus has in fact already mutated significantly on two of these axes though (virulence and vaccine resistance), as variants have emerged that vary in some degree in those ways, and it seems somewhat optimistic to think it won't continue to do so.

Fortunately it's not mutated too much in terms of vaccine resistance. Delta seems significantly more resistant to single doses than Alpha but a second dose so far does the job. We've only recently exposed the virus to large numbers of vaccinated people though, so there's not been much time for resistant variants to gain an advantage.
Businesses are protected too:

https://www.dnb.nl/betrouwbare-financiele-sector/nederlandse...
Are CryptoPunks truly worth hundreds of thousands of dollars?
One of those citations brought me to "How to Think, Say, or Do Precisely the Worst Thing for Any Occasion", a study that show how the worst thing has a higher probability of occurring than random chance would make it. With a title like that I could just not read it.
imo one of the most important things to learn for longterm survival doing remote work is that you don't have to work from home. i can just as readily work out of the back of my car at a skate spot or do emails and marketing on the chairlift. in the long term i'd like to build a truly portable workspace for backpacking and be able to go fully remote. co-working spaces or the library are good options for many people but really anything that gives you some semblance of normalcy and routine is good enough.
hikkimoding is comfy to be sure but the social strain from doing it for an extended period, especially during crunch can be pretty hard mentally, that experience has been pretty universal among the freelancers i've known over the years.
PRIVATE / INCOGNITO BROWSING NOT SUPPORTED

The NK Pro, NK News and KCNA Watch websites do not support private mode or incognito browsing.
Knowing that preferences are subjective, both a pure gnome and pure plasma environment will be polished and frankly, good looking. Seriously, do check it out again.

Hell, windows definitely wins the price of “worst overall aesthetics” where not even their own native apps have a uniform look.
Surely having ADHD would only give insight into whether it can be learned by someone with (that type of) ADHD, it doesn't speak to whether it's natural or learned for other people - just as someone who has a physical disability not being able to learn to ride a bike wouldn't prove that riding a bike can't be learned?

(I'm not arguing for or against the point that they can be learned, just against the "proof" that someone with ADHD has - and not because of ADHD specifically, but because generally speaking any argument which relies on "my experience proves X about humans" is likely to be short-sighted.)
“ I spend probably 2% or less of my computer time now in front of Windows computers. I use Zoom a little”

So, Windows user. I spend 0% of my time in front of Windows computers and still wouldn’t refuse to help a non-Linux user. Also zoom is available for Linux. Hypocrite.
I remember reading this article about Daryl Davis the black musician who converts Ku Klux Klan members ( https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/mar/18/daryl-davis-bl... ). If I'm correct one of his trick was to let people talk and ask them questions that would highlight the inconsistencies in their talk.
This makes me sad. All of these added features mean it's increasingly hard for more junior developers to break into this industry. The market essentially dictates that juniors learn JavaScript. The status quo of poor interviewing practices is such that juniors are forced to memorise curious quirks of the language, rather than focus on the essentials (like in JS: The Good Parts) to be productive.
Why would I want such a certificate exactly?
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NixOS (and guix) is the only OS (not just linux distro) that solves dependency hell hands down. Seriously. Windows and mac just pushes the problem around/can mandate certain versions due to their size.
Quite interesting.

Newbie question: In the corporate world, where for instance people need to run QuickBooks, what would be the solution? Is there a way to wrap QuickBook in a container/emulator?
‘Beats’ ‘benchmark’ ‘nm’ are all marketing terms. You can only do so much comparison using such numbers but what you miss completely is that we are not putting them in a server farm. x86 is still coming as a CPU offering while the M1 and ARM chips are SOCs. It reduces system power as far less separate chips are needed to do other stuff while simultaneously being much more performant. A 5850U miniPC uses a 65w power brick. An M1 mini sips at best 39W. You would have to compare 1.65xM1 with 1x5850U
Thanks for that. From the blog post I wasn’t sure how the temp variable was being used and thus how much of the work might be optimised away entirely.
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Cheater? The evidence is inconclusive.
Ivorian TV presenter suspended for asking guest to simulate rape
Is ”algorithmic” a synonom for ”imperative” in this case? I haven’t seen this usage before.
Which component of your laptop broke and which Librem model did you order?
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If you're saying we should be rolling them out faster and banning and/or restricting fossil fuel usage further when its too carbon intense and easily replacable then I agree.

Luckily the projections are for faster growth in the future as the fossil fuel groups political stranglehold gets loosened.
> Refusing to support my friends' and family members' devices that do not run Linux is the next step in my personal fight against products that run bad software

> So, when my mother, sister, brother, or anyone else comes to me begging to have his or her computer fixed

Sorry to be blunt, but you sound like an terrible person with an over-dimensioned ego.

If you do not want to support your family, fine - no need to announce it to the world. You are free to do that of course, but you have to bear the consequences of people saying "what a [put your favourite expletive here]" instead of "what a wise person to battle against mighty [put your least-favourite tech here]".

I support my parents with their tech even if it is often full of things I would not have used. I roll my eyes up and fix it. And ask them not to do this anymore, and they still sometimes do.

This is not that different from them telling me, 40 years back, to not do this and that. And me still doing it. Boy, I am really, really glad they did not decide to stop supporting me until I grow up :)

Honestly, read what you wrote again and take a step back to say "ok, this sounds really bad".

PS. when you gain back a lot of time for not supporting these technical noobs, make sure to fix your site that has plenty of problems - it does not look good for an "Itinerant Engineer" who built the impressive number of 11 web sites.
As discussed here [1], a fairly beefy Ryzen/RTX setup is often found idling around that number.

[1] https://hardforum.com/threads/killawatt-owners-whats-the-idl...
What is your experience about Linux on Macs in general?
What right does owning any NFT confer upon the owner, apart from the right to sell it to someone else? Is there any other distinction between the owner and a non-owner apart from that?
The pang11 specs are here:

https://tech-docs.system76.com/models/pang11/README.html
There's much more to an internet connection than the average speed per second.

If we're talking about downloading files (and loading websites), you're mostly correct. However, temporary slowdowns, disruptions in wireless connectivity and wireless-specific packet loss affect audio quality a lot, while not having much impact on your download speed. Even when streaming audio or video, you don't feel them as much, as your device usually keeps at least 10 seconds of buffer that it can rely on. When in a call, though, 10 seconds of buffer would mean 10 seconds of latency, which is simply unacceptable.

You can have a 1.2 mb/s connection that sometimes goes down to 64kb/s for two to three seconds. Even if your download speed is still 1 mb/s, you can't really receive more than 64 kb/s when in a call, or you will get dropouts.
> The other is softer - I am curious how normalising pain may positively benefit a developing child. Could it build toughness? Might my child be more likely to stand up to a bully?

Aren't you worried this de-stigmatizes violence, and could lead either to adoption of violence as a problem-solving tool, or in general a society that accepts everyday violence?

I'm living in a place where I never have felt physically threatened, not at dark streets or drunk alone or whatever. I do recognize large part of this is privilege of being a male, but I've always felt my physical well-being isn't threatened. I'd never try to fight back unless that's the last option, rather de-escalate, run away, call police.
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You can run anything in a VM. With something like QuickBooks it's not like performance will be a problem either. The great thing about a VM is that someone else can set it up for you and then you can reset to a good configuration easily if they break it. (Why aren't non-VM systems like that with checkpointing?)
Perhaps we should stop badgering the site to death.

WBM has a mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20210901085438/https://www.rober...

I don't see images in the mirrored page, but I also have no idea if there were any in the article itself.
class Foo {}
const r = func()
Foo.prop1 = r.prop1()
Foo.prop2 = r.prop2()

What am I missing? Why do we need all these new syntaxes?
Perhaps related: The 30 million line problem (Casey Muratori): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZRE7HIO3vk

Among other things, advocating for more stable & open standard HW interfaces, rather than OS-level APIs.
> Obviously, you want to reject those

I fail to see why in a self described journal of 'controversial' ideas you would reject anything really. Speaking of which, I'm no flat earther but I find many of their ideas fascinating or at the very least entertaining.
This is the concept of a Land Value Tax (LVT), except that unlike a property tax, LVT wouldn't tax your own improvements to property (like building a house), only 100% of fortune gained from land appreciation.
> Perhaps my fellow nerds and geeks will call me naive.

I don’t think it’s naive, but the way it’s being presented as, “I’m doing this for your own good” is obstinate and frustrating in a way I wouldn’t want to be towards my friends and family.
I've been really impressed with Chialisp, a functional smart contract language that's really really cleverly designed to be auditable, safer, and more efficient than Ethereum/Solidity. There's not a lot of tooling for it yet but this would be a great place to add it.

https://chialisp.com/
There's always a price when you censor something. There's also always a price when you regulate something, too. In this particular case, the likely attacker was literally in the same house, so there's not a lot of argument to be made that the extra burden of censoring would add a similar or greater gain.
Just like almost every news site.
You keep your books in a plain text file and use ledger-cli
To those of you that know Erlang, is the book "Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good" from 2013 still relevant in 2021?
>Their suggestion on emergency incidents is 30 minutes response 24/7.

Why 30 minutes? Why not 29 minutes? Why not 31 minutes?

We worked on a project with a client to predict a certain event which, if it happened, would result in a loss of about $100MM (that's a hundred million dollars).

During that conversation, the client said they'd like us to predict the event 48 hours before it occurs. My question right off the bat was: Why 48 hours? There was some answer.

My next question was: at what point is it too late to notify you?

The client said: never too late. Even if you predict it two minutes before it occurs, we have ways to mitigate the damage and procedures. We can do something to save the situation.

It went from 48 hours to 2 minutes, and the ML team was happy because these are really two different things to tackle.

Therefore, it is useful to ask about what they are trying to do? What systems are impacted? Where's the urgency?

One must be careful not to take client's solutions as a problem statement, but to discover the underlying problem they are trying to solve.

Here's another example of an informal conversation with a friend: the friend asked me "How do you solder a copper wire to a thin metallic plate"?

I could have just answered the question, but instead I asked "What are you trying to do?"

He said he had this fuse but the wire in the fuse melted, so he wanted to use a thicker wire for the fuse. I replied that it's the job of the fuse to die to save downstream equipments, and if he did that, he'd save a fuse but ruin costly equipment. The fuse did its job.

"Solder a thicker wire to a metallic plate" was what he thought the problem was, but it was his solution. A poor solution to the underlying problem.

Here's another example:

One project was stuck before we were involved and doomed to fail because "of the client". We went there. Big table with a bunch of people from legal, security, data, etc. They said there was no way they'd do what our company asked.

So we slid a sheet of paper and a pen and asked them "What are we asking? Can you draw the data flow?". We were hunched on each part of the big table over that piece of paper. Their security engineer drew the flow (VMs and different systems, our system). We smiled and said it's really not what we're proposing. We drew the actual thing, and he said "Oh, if that's the case then I don't have any objection". Unanimous sigh.

That was a mid six figure project unlocked just like that.

Asking questions and digging deeper and helping people figure out what they actually are trying to do really is a good way to find better solutions.
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Nominally (before Zoom court) court proceedings (and records) are open to the public.
> “To tell you the truth, nobody actually wants to use EUV,” says David Kanter, a chip analyst with Real World Technologies. “It's a mere 20 years late and 10X over budget. But if you want to build very dense structures, it’s the only tool you’ve got.”

Why would nobody want to use EUV?
From what i understood from a old French HGV driver who used to do inter-european trips:

The UK still have plenty of qualified drivers. Short-haul drivers have to be paid either the minimal wage of a country of the negociated sector wages if the sector Union is good. The Unions in the UK are worse than French unions (i wonder how it is possible) and did not secure any minimal guaranties, the drivers takes those minimals from EU + national laws. And while the pay is not that poor compared to other EU countries, HGV drivers also used to have a tax break and bonuses for crossing the channel. Now i think they lost this advantage (from what i understood). Also long haul UK -> portugal, UK-> Italy were probably the best paid trips, and are now filled by French drivers (probably other EU drivers too).

From what i understood, short-haul are the worst: worst pay, you have to get off your truck and help the stock or factory workers fill your truck if you don't want unbalanced cargo or worse, the hour are not much better than long haul except you don't have bonus day off.

> The whole thing was an artefact of EU rules specific to lorry drivers that allowed them to work here using cheaper (and I think less stringent) qualifications from elsewhere whilst also living elsewhere

No true for local haulage. For long haul, you do have companies who plot the trips to go through let's say Poland so they can take Poland's minimums on pays and qualifications. Not true for all EU long haul though (Uk-France it is quite expensive to cheat)
[Baptists] take the moral high ground, while the bootleggers persuade the politicians quietly, behind closed doors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers_and_Baptists
Indeed, the core problem is that "making a consumer aware that a product exists that they would be interested in purchasing" sells much less than "convincing a customer that their life would be su much better if they only bought this product"
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So, as a Linux user these past 20 years or more, it's not that I'm unwilling to help my Windows-using family and friends, it's that I am no longer competent to do so.

The last time I tried (perhaps 8 or 10 years ago) the problem turned out to be that Windows insisted on controlling DNS settings that were never going to work. Somebody else had to find this out and fix it after I'd banged on it for an hour or more and failed to figure out what was going on in Windows' rats-nest of system config. It was then that I realised that I should never try to help Windows users ever again: the likelihood is I'd do more harm than good. There've been a couple of newer releases of Windows since those days, so the situation's only got worse.