skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ebooks allow me to make the font the size that's comfortable for my eyes without needing to purchase large print editions and in a way that adjusts to how tired my eyes are and the ambient light conditions. For the blind, they can use text-to-speech software without needing to purchase special audiobook editions. You can use dark mode if you like. You can do text searches to go back and re-read a portion of the book even if you haven't memorized the page number it was on. And you can carry your library in your backpack when you travel. Cut and paste text into notekeeping tools.

Also, the books don't become moldy with age. Yes, I know the smell of musty books evokes nostalgia but the lung diseases that those working with old books are subject to are very real. http://www.library-dust.com/dust.htm

What I think bothers a lot of people is that ebooks separate out the informational content in books from books as a fetish object for collectors. But properly speaking, collectors rarely read their books and in many cases this would damage the books as uncut books are prized. In his celebrated essay, "Unpacking My Library" (http://www.ruthieosterman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/wal...), Walter Benjamin writes:

"And the non-reading of books, you will object, should be characteristic of collectors? This is news to me, you may say. It is not news at all. Experts will bear me out when I say that it is the oldest thing in the world. Suffice it to quote the answer that Anatole France gave to a philistine who
admired his library and then finished with the standard question 'And you have read all these books, Monsieur France?' 'Not one tenth of them. I don't suppose you use your Sevres china every day?'

Incidentally, I have put the right of such an attitude to the test. For years, at least the first third of its existence, my library consisted of only two or three shelves, which increased only by inches each year. This was its militant age, when no book was allowed to enter without the certification that I had never read it."

So there is a tension between the book as fetish object and the book as information, and the natural separation of the book into information and fetish object offends only those who never understood what books are or the role they play in society. This group, predictably, includes Ian Bogost.
Wow? Are you saying Iran is legally allowed to assassinate all Israeli weapon researchers? And all military targets for that matter?

Of course it is a crime! Fist the nuclear research is primarily for energy production. Second they are not at war with any country. And if they want nukes they should also have them like many other countries. In the case they'd actually were about to misbehave with nuclear weapons there are international legal protocols to deal with it. No need to behave like savages because the other country is technologically advancing and used bad words against yours
A killer app would be a spreadsheet format that worked as well as source code as storage format for a spreadsheet application. Something that was designed for manual editing in two different ways, in text editors and in a "cell editor". That would support all version control use cases that developers are familiar with and that have been best practice for decades.

Perhaps all that is needed is to port OpenOffice to the sc format (and extend it in the spirit it works now)
> > that is not in good faith

> I did not say that. I am sure that CRConrad is acting in good faith.

Oh yeah? Quoting the admonition to "Assume good faith" at me in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28591865 certainly at least strongly implies the opposite.
MLPs discard more spatial information. That is great for "Do you see a cat?" but bad for "Where is the cat?". So which one is better depends on your use case.
I run Altinity. We think it's great. This is going to help grow adoption which benefits everyone. Watch our blog for a post in a couple hours.

BTW congrats to Alexey on the new company.
As soon as you breathed in the air from the skin, you would lose the buoyancy form it and sink to the bottom.
Amazon Partners with Music Streaming Service Anghami
Actions like this are what losing the moral high ground look like.
It’s hard to support a government that pulls stunts like this.
blog+microblog on your domain, and that automatically forwards the content to social platforms

Micro.blog does this!
Sorry, but Nuclear is just proven to fail. Even if we would reverse course on Nuclear today it would be 20 or 30 years until the plants would be build. By that time solar and wind will another magnitude cheaper.

The way forward is wind and solar. Everything else shouldn't be focused on.
If you see a pile of cash, in a bank, in a safe deposit box that's not the one you're authorized to be in, how can you tell it's illegal?
Try to eat corn or grass used to feed animals. It's not going to end well.

And a global supervolcanic eruption would disrupt the production of food worldwide, not just in a single continent.

Therefore, I doubt we are not "more robust than ever", as you claim.
I am referring to both thermal efficiency, and power to fuel ratio. Meaning, for any given amount of work needed, a two stroke will produce more work for the same input of fuel as compared to an equivalent quality/design four stroke motor.

Your point is a good one though, but I think the common use case of the word efficiency, when talking about vehicles, if fuel required to produce a given amount of work (miles, horsepower, etc).
As a foreign medical grad, I agree 100%. Many people who are not med grads unfortunately do have completely skewed views of both our education and practice and are often thoroughly convinced to know everything about us. Strong opinions strongly held.
As long as you can track down a source-file with the same sha, you can reproduce the build. I've had very old nix expressions fail to build after clearing my cache, but it was usually fixed fairly simply by changing a URL from http://example.com/release/foo-x.y.z.tgz to http://example.com/archive/foo-x.y.z.tgz

When that wasn't doable, I could google the name of the .tgz file, download a couple and find the one with the matching hash, drop the .tgz inside the directory and change the source to a relative path. Actually I do this even in the "release -> archive" case because "Move a URL once, shame on you. Move it twice, shame on me."

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If you really don't want to change the .nix expression, you can manually add the file to the cache, and things will Just Work.
If you understand Arabic and are interested in the exploration of the history of Muhammad, Islam, and the Arabic language, I'd recommend checking out https://www.youtube.com/c/KhaledBalkin
If Politifact says so, then, brother, you can take that to the bank (but not the safe deposit box).
This reminds me of a time I worked with Typescript, and the team kept reopening discussions around the use of the "Any" type.

Trying to mitigate the boolean param dilemma, I would lean on Erlang and its multiple function signatures. It tends to force your solutions into initially harder but eventually more graceful form.

Generally, when my code starts showing these kinds of warts (silly parameters getting tagged on to function signatures), I take it as a sign that the initial tack I've taken no longer addresses the problem I'm trying to solve. More often then not it goes all the way back to an incomplete / outdated understanding of the business logic.
Imagine the irony of fate if they not only did that, but also had the audacity to call the resultant browser "Chrome." Makes me shudder.
Not that heavy. Air displaces about 62 lbs of water per cubic foot, so a goatskin the size of your torso would require more weight than a soldier could carry to offset it.
This, pseudonymous de-centralized discussion groups and forums, is what I would pick as the one thing I would like to bring back to the internet. There used to be a forum about everything, each one it's own community, most of which didn't require ties to a real-world identity.

I'm sure they exist, but they are really hard to find.
Physical Mute Button for Zoom Meetings
The inflation rate only really rose that high during the pandemic. Pre-pandemic, when that cash was put there, it was around 2%.
The reactor we stopped building 30 years ago didn't cost near that.
Working on launching a blog right now. The value prop is that it is guaranteed to make you smarter, each piece is a literary composition, and it is the best time and value for money you are likely to get that day.

What we do with language online now is what we used to do with code in the 80's. We're still in the shitty 8-bit game stage of public discourse, Twitter is internet Tetris. Like code, good writing isn't just what it represents, it's what it does.
Considering the US is notorious for mass shootings and gun violence, it's not at all surprising that someone would have that view. NYC is a fairly safe place, for now. So is Moscow.
Umm, what do you think happens to the air in that skin when you breathe it? It goes into your body, and continues to provide buoyancy.
many subgroups of atheism, and many of those fight and have fought each other..

agree 100% on legal code versioning - legislation should be a version control diff with 'git blame' like things for contributors ..
> Had they waited for the criminal cases to play out, it would've been years before they saw their money.

They could have sued directly in civil court without waiting for the criminal cases to play out. If the Feds have enough evidence to justify foregoing, you know, actual trials and immediately redistribute the assets to the victims then any court cases should be trivial formalities and quickly resolved. On the other hand, if it actually does take years to determine guilt then maybe the Feds shouldn't be so quick to apply the sentence before the trial.
Still on the books is different from still having force of law. Supreme Court’s Loving v. Virginia voids all miscegenation statutes whether they are repealed or not.
I'd bring back David Karp
If your startup org is bought by private equity. Run really really fast. Nothing you do will matter, staying is a lose lose proposition.
You're not supposed to question if someone read the article. You're gonna get in trouble with a concerned HN citizen
Bitswan Events: Random Emergence of Stable Higher Order Complexity
I admire Nassim Taleb a lot, so I read his BTC "Black Paper" carefully and wrote this rebuttal. Comments welcome.
Horses and the sea have a long history.
Docsify: A magical documentation site generator
iPadOS 15 Is Available
Slide Rule --> Surface Plate was pretty cool.
> Whether the claims of a religion is "true" typically doesn't matter much to the adherents. What matter is the community, traditions and identity the religion provides.

I see you said "typically", but your description of religion is in direct contradiction to what I understand as a Bahá'í, so I thought it might be worth sharing a bit.

One of the core principles of the Bahá'í Faith is the independent investigation of truth. It is considered a moral duty of human beings, and as such, I think it could also be considered a moral requirement for adherence. Without it, the adherence to rituals, traditions, identity, institutions, etc. is just an eggshell—and often cause of division.
This makes me happy
At least one small clinical study found that ivermectin was clinically effective at a safe dosage of 150 μg/kg. More research is needed to determine if this is a real effect or just random chance.

https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/6/989
Handmade directories, like blogrolls, are a sweet spot IME: I keep mine at https://maya.land/blogroll.opml (human or machine-readable) and I've found a huge portion of what's on it via other people's recommendations.
Education is a kind of solution but effectiveness is also a factor. I went through D.A.R.E and a whole host of other health and mindfulness classes. Just because you educated someone doesn’t mean they’re going to become immune to what you’re trying to teach them to avoid. Drugs, crime, and overeating are always going to be issues no matter how much “education” you throw at young people.
I moved my website from wordpress with 20 plugins, comments, disqus and lazy loaded images to static pages generated from markdown using Hugo. It's literally plaintext no JS, no tracking, no cookies at all. I got downgrade from B to D for not having CSP, XSS and XFrames protections. I don't even have forms or JS on my blog anymore. All content is loaded from 1 domain.
> Do they have $300+ billion in real estate assets?

If you believe that, I have a bridge in Xiangcheng to give you.
Is Federico Italiano really the Twitter poster's real name? Coz that's about the most Italian name ever.
Maybe, but the smartest people I know all rabidly hate bureaucracy and credentialism. And if you're smart, why not go into finance / tech instead? No education requirements past college, and you can start earning good money immediately out of school. You even get a decent work life balance in the case of tech.
"The USA is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.”

—Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian anti-colonial activist, politician, and political theorist
Internet Archive is down due to power outages in the SF Bay Area
RSS is too personal, too much outside the flow.

I have no idea about "too personal" mean, but the only reason you would consider RSS "outside of the flow" is due to the concerted effort by Google, Twitter, Facebook and Apple to reduce support. Even Mozilla(!) has been involved in removing support.

RSS is a perfectly good, tested and usable mechanism. Coming up with yet another syndication mechanism would be a huge waste of time and effort, most likely resulting in insignificance.
Some of the users of the safety deposit boxes were either unable to use banks (legit Marijuana businesses), or immigrants who came from situations where the banks were never trusted.
I honestly don't understand why folks post a limited quote from a source, with an obvious implication (in this case, that Politifact was "wrong" in their analysis of the claim), but then when you go to the linked source it completely discredits the implication you are trying to make.

That is, Politifact was replying to a specific chain email that US Dept of Homeland Security had made it a written policy that they could seize any safe-deposit boxes at will. This is clearly false, and Politifact's analysis is correct.

In this specific case, the government did get a warrant, and from what is being reported it does look like they exceeded the boundaries of that warrant. That said, there is a far cry from "individual raid, for which there is an underlying warrant, exceeds the boundaries of that warrant" and "DHS has said they can confiscate any safe-deposit box at will."

The more important issue is that HN should be a place where I come to the comments to learn more about some of the underlying circumstances of a story (and I usually do), not a place where a low effort comment is made with the deliberate intention to obfuscate. Please leave that shit on Twitter.
I was lucky to be part of the early blog sunrise around 2000. I was even more lucky to have a blog that was picked up, recognized by the likes of Macromedia, Adobe, and linked by a lot others. I believe there are a few references from few entries in Wikipedia and few other well known websites.

When Google Adsense was a thing and fun, I had it running on my site for quite a long time. There was a time when I supported my Startup with the income from my blog. A few of my years in Mumbai was just living off of the income from my blog.

20+ years now, I just have my blog as a record and archive for all the fun, stupid, silly, and nonsense that I wrote. Now, I write for myself and perhaps for my kids to browse around in future and, may, laugh. I have no comments, no analytics, nothing at all now.

I can understand the new generations loathing the likes of Blogs, Emails. However, I look at them as a digital record of my life.

For instance, I stumble on people online and then I reply back to the email thread we had in 2005. How nice is that?
I can not agree with the claim that Bitcoin's Script Interpreter is 2PDA as it is defined in Hopcroft et al.

Definition of the 2PDA as given by Hopcroft relies on the notion of looping with the number of loop iterations not known or fixed in advance.

For example: p. 351 (2nd ed), proof of the theorem 8.13 that you referenced, items 5 and 6 state:

5. [Our two-stack machine S] simulates a move of [one-tape Turing machine] M as follows: ....

6. S accepts if the new state of M is accepting. Otherwise, S simulates another move of M in the same way.

Bitcoin script is only capable of doing the "Otherwise, S simulates another move of M in the same way." part a limited, predetermined number of times.

The book introduces the notion of language accepted by PDA and TM in exactly the same way. See, for example, sections 6.2.1 "Acceptance by final state" and 6.2.2 "Acceptance by Empty Stack" that formalize the notion of language accepted by the PDA. Both of them feature "many transition steps" notation, without specifying the upper bound on the number of steps.

If the upper bound is fixed, any language accepted by such PDA could be trivially extended to not be accepted by iteration-limited PDA, but still be accepted by the PDA without iteration limit.

So Bitcoin's Script Interpreter is NOT an implementation of 2-PDA, and Minsky's Theorem is not applicable.
The primary argument is that the funds used to make transit free would be better put to use to provide better, more reliable, more frequent service.[0]

[0] https://slate.com/business/2021/06/free-transit-is-not-a-gre...
They also make sense if you're using bcrypt since it has a 72-byte max input length. More modern password hashing fuctiions don't have such a short limit, so you can set a much bigger max length to prevent excessive network traffic & processing (eg 1kB). Since functions like Argon2 have very large max limits (2^32-1 bytes for Argon2) it can make sense to set a shorter limit.
Chancellor hails London tech success as capital beats European competitors again
There is a significant distinction between the government declaring that money (/other goods) is another party's property and returning possession to the rightful owner (ie equity), and the government declaring that something was earned through an illegal activity and thereby transferring it to themselves (ie taking).
I have to admit I've had a similar reaction, at a previous company we were "forced" to use Ruby to be consistent.

I grew to love Ruby, though I admit I always approached it with half a mind pretending I was writing Perl.

These days I've sometimes fallen back into Ruby, but then had issues sharing it with colleagues - so I've largely switched to Go. While most people don't have a dev-environment setup I can give them binaries built via github/gitlab/jenkins, and so sharing tools & utilities is just that little bit less painful than with Ruby (and even Python).
> And he could have put $30 in Dogecoin 6 years ago and had $60,000 by the time of seizure. Or $30 in a random token this year like NFT-art.finance and made the same.

If that cash were the realized gain from such an investment, it'd be reportable income and the FBI would have seen it. What tripped up the FBI here is that the source of the cash was compensatory damages, which was likely claimed as non-taxable and thus not reported.
It's a readability optimization, not a performance optimization.
If you look at https://libgen.rs/scimag/, on the top left, there's Download -> Torrents.
Why not attack on both sides? I absolutely agree that they should never have been able to profit from that. But, while we work on removing their ability to profit from it, why not also make it less profitable when they abuse it?
This has been a huge problem at the state, county, and municipality level, for many years. John Oliver did a piece about it, a few years ago[0].

Some places actually create budgets, based on forfeiture. There's a town in Texas, that basically set themselves up as "highwaymen"[1] (Would have been ironic, if the town was named "Turpin").

Gives a whole new meaning to "Quota Night."

I remember reading about a person around these parts, that was unable to get their property back, after they were cleared, because the police department had already sold it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenaha,_Texas#Asset_forfeiture...
This kind of makes sense, but then those same lawyers are willing to work on spec and get a larger cut of the money when returned. (aka, they have no incentive to fight this system)
TED Talk: Life Lessons from an Ad Man [Rory Sutherland]
There are several Wireguard managers, but this isn't an issue with the transport protocol. It's an issue much higher in the stack, and one that requires that planets align in precise ways.

Things usually are not broken by breaking encryption. Things are usually broken via bugs in higher-level logic somewhere else. Wireguard is fine, but if the thing deploying and managing and configuring Wireguard happened to be vulnerable then it doesn't matter.

This is why you want defense in depth. Don't trust just one layer of security, ever.
Nuclear is not as clean as people try to green wash it out to be, nor is it ethical. https://meta.eeb.org/2017/10/18/french-state-owned-company-c...
It works on WSL but works better on WSL2. WSL is missing some linux functionality like locking this causes sqlite3 to potentially corrupt the data.
The police departments should pay for that. And they should be privately funded, so that the payments come out of their profits.
I'm not whitewashing, I'm trying to make people reflect on their reasoning.

What exactly is the problem? That child exploitation exists, or that you are reminded that it exists (and prefer not to be reminded)? It doesn't stop from you not using Freenet, and it doesn't stop from everyone not using Freenet (for anything). If you believe that it's only good for child porn, it's your opinion; others might think differently.

For some reason, people find a simple idea that you need to tolerate people you don't approve of because other people also tolerate you hard to get. Freenet is basically a technical implementation of Voltaire's quote — and any real censorship-resistant network will be same.
Well these guys say they've delivered quite a few packages with their drones. To hospitals. https://flyzipline.com/

Coffee wasn't on the agenda it seems.
I don’t know if there are casinos, card rooms, and/or home game poker scene in NL. If so, how do professional and semi-professional poker players carry their cash?

Carrying $20k+ to a good home game is not uncommon in California.
I’d say it’s criminal abuse of power.

Sadly, I don’t expect any thing as serious as even a slap on the wrist for this act that makes a joke out of the laws of the country.
Agreed, but I'm entertaining the notion that civil forfeiture remains legal.
> They weren't blue eyed blonde-haired, that's for sure

ok but the world-wide "suppress melanin/blue eyes" gene emerged in that same part of the world (north of the Black Sea) some 10,000 years ago, so it seems that the Aryans could have been as blue eyed as anybody.

https://web.archive.org/web/20091101055254/http://www.telegr...
I love Go to bits, but I really don't like how so many tools revolve around codegen and boilerplate. Look at Kubernetes for example: you can't write an operator without generating a bunch of boilerplate.
Submitted title was "The Western idea of a dictator within the Communist setup is exaggerated", which is presumably something the document says.