skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly what I've been thinking of lately. I started web development in 1998 and in 2000 I got searching for some way to store data.

At first I tried Macromedia Coldfusion, later acquired by Adobe. Now that I checked on it, it seems to be going strong, to my surprise. It was too hard for me. And it was closed software. There was no way for me to learn it without spending money on it. And it wasn't what I was really looking for.

But I just needed something simple. Something to tinker with. So I found PHP. It was exactly what I needed at the time. Later I also found MySQL.

The amount of garbage required to build a single website is enormous. So enormous that we have gone a full circle and people start using static site generators to create pure HTML sites. Because of speed and few other reasons.

So I got to thinking, why is it that we're building webshops with all these open source technologies, with a huge amount of overhead and "bloat", when all you really need is a few simple things.

Well, as the creator said it, there are a lot of unknowns. Huge learning curve etc. But that's how Linux got started, as a tinkering platform. I really think this is the right path to take. Making an open source web programming language, that handles all the needs directly built-in. I totally agree with the philosophy and if you will, proposed abstraction, of the problem at hand.

But also, it makes me shiver to look at the code and not understand it. So much to learn. But it gives me hope to see, that other's have come to the same conclusions. Looking forward to hearing more!
I don’t know the specifics of this, but:

Because they don’t need to. My guess is that you just associate a lightning address with your username, and all Twitter does is present that to a wallet. This way twitter doesn’t need to do KYC, or ever hold any funds. They’re just the phone book.
"Rainbows End" (no apostrophe) -- different meaning.
My dude, hear the words of wisdom and you shall be handsomely rewarded if you heed them.

You are not Adobe or Autodesk to pull off a subscription model. Not successfully.

Sell a perpetual license that is valid for the current version plus anything that is released in X months after that.

Then, sell an option to extend the access to upgrades for Y% of the original purchase price once X months are almost over. If X months are over, sell the same option with a mark-up.

This is universally perceived as a fair arrangement and it gives you a recurrent revenue from people who do keep on using your software (just like with the subscription). Best of both worlds.
old school but still some of the best

https://www.metafilter.com/
Doesn't that ring-like structure in the center look like an antenna? I suppose it could just be traces between the 'lobes' of the circuit on each wing. That said, it does seem like a tall order to pack in useful sensors and some way to transmit into tiny particles like these.
Apple M1 Primer
Good point. I guess all we can do is try to educate people.
I view it as an attempt to reduce the work required in "front end" land, making full stack development more feasible than it is today.
They will still mine your emails when you send them to other users who use Gmail.
> Manifestly, recursion is never strictly necessary, and is furthermore almost always slower, or anyway no faster, than you could do maintaining state "by hand".

Recursion is required in procedures like Ackermann's Function [1]. You can still simulate or write functions that avoid the syntactic fact that the procedure definition refers (either directly or indirectly) to itself, but you'll always be papering over the fact that it cannot be implemented with a fixed number of state variables.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ackermann_function
Apache latest patch causing mass crashes (2.4.49)
He sucks, a thin-skinned, petty hypocrite. The best thing you could say about him is that his proteges (Vance, Grenell, etc.) are even worse. It's a stain YC ever worked with him.

I know it's going to get flagged, but whatever.
Sure, but let's say efficiency comes up to closer to like 85-90%, which should be achievable. Would you suggest that it's still not worthwhile? You'd never need to worry about damaging your charging port, since everything is now solid-state.

I know a few folks that moved to exclusively wireless charging because they broke the USB port on their phones over the years.
Thanks for the references, I came to ask that. I have a bunch of Ivermectin left over from my bout with Covid. I need to figure out what a good dosage is for my dog in case he gets infected with hookworms.
I don't agree. This way it is a) easier to onboard _receivers_, and b) stays open in the sense that _senders_ can send bitcoins by any app they want (including non-custodial of course).
that's actually a traffic calming technique, to make car drivers more attentive and more purposeful/communicative, rather than driving on (human or machine) auto-pilot all the time. more obvious collision dangers make car drivers more mindful, but to drivers, pedestrians by themselves are clearly not enough 'danger' in a car-centric city to demand appropriate attentiveness.

cars create some of the highest congestion/vehicle, as they demand more street area/time per person than other forms of transportation. so by displacing cars, viable mixed-mode transportation reduces congestion extralinearly, which in turn mitigates the extra right-turn burden for cars despite needing to navigate a more diverse traffic stream.
How's It Going with the Universal Cultural Takeover? Part II
EDIT: you guys cant take a joke
"If that is the case, it would probably involve continued pillorying of big-tech firms, especially Google, which Mr Thiel has long accused of being a monopoly."

He accuses it of being a monopoly but AFAIK he's not for anti-trust and he views these monopolies somewhat positively.
That's the poor people's speculation.

Real money just buys western passport (for themselves of their children via birth tourism) and buy real estate on the North-American west coast.
In the town of Edson, Alberta, a group of anti-vax folk held a covid party to acquire “natural immunity.” Now paediatric ICU patients are being displaced by people who deliberately infected themselves. Gosh, I wonder why people are so upset with the anti-vax crowd that they now wish for them to die. It’s a real mystery!

Get. Vaccinated.
"No political discussions at work" seems like it solves the problem right there. If anyone decides to break that rule, they can be reported immediately and if two people consent to breaking that rule (consent between each other), then the company doesn't have to get involved until one or the other reports the conversation at which point it's a simple write-up.

That was always the policy in school growing up too. I really don't know why we ever strayed from that rule.
Great, thats all I need to breathe in every day
The key to Cherry and similar mech switches is that they activate well before they bottom out. With a bit of practice you can type by just lightly floating your fingertips across the keys, seldom getting the impact of hitting the bottom. There's not much travel that way.

My problem was finger joint pain, which was getting bad enough to affect my productivity. This completely fixed it for me. I just had to put up with a few weeks of inaccurate typing while I learned. Sometimes I get complacent and type too much directly on my laptop, and the pain starts coming back, but the mech fixes it every time.
A few things.

First, it's very strange that an antiparasitic like ivermectin has become known among mainstream laypersons.

Second, those articles are from the 80s, one is nearly 40 years old.

Third, various antiparasitic medications on the market for dogs contain ivermectin (e.g. Heartgard, Iverhart, and Tri-Heart) - these uses include the prevention or control of hookworm infections.

Finally, when the original article mentions "three types of drugs" to combat parasitic infections, they are referring to the benzimidazole, avermectin/milbemycin (or macrocyclic lactones), and tetrahydropyrimidine classes of drugs - where ivermectin belongs to the avermectin/milbemycin (macrocyclic lactones) class of drugs. With that said, ivermectin-containing compounds are actually a notable part of the research.
you're only going to write to the USB drive when you upgrade your kernel.

all these worries are completely overblown. I've been using USB boot method for close to 10 years now. It's just another folder/mountpoint to backup along with your normal backup.
Could?

Hitachis RFID-'Powder' was developed almost twenty years ago.

https://thefutureofthings.com/3221-hitachi-develops-worlds-s...
I'd like to hear more about why it would be a moral failing to moderate content without assuming liability. If this were codified into law it would on a practical level eliminate the possibility of moderation in many cases. That feels like a net loss to me, since I'd like to remain able to visit online spaces with the expectation that I won't be served certain kinds of content (hate speech, animal slaughtering, smaller things like political positions I find objectionable after I've had a hard day and just want to relax, whatever).

That doesn't mean it's moral, I suppose, but it feels like an uphill battle to prove that it's not. What are the harms that derive from allowing platforms to moderate without assuming liability? What's the alternative? Either they lock down everything and have human moderators approve all speech submitted to the platform, which seems draconian and expensive, or they let everything through, which reduces the usefulness of the platform and forces them to host evil content or content that may cause more harm than good (e.g. medical disinformation). Either one seems worse than allowing moderation while waiving liability.

Further, this flies in the face of moral custom. Although there can be legal penalties under some scenarios, we generally don't find people very much at fault for illegal acts that take place in spaces they control unless they had knowledge of or participated in those acts. If my fiancee starts dealing drugs out of my house, and keeps it secret to me, I shouldn't be on the hook for that. And yet I can choose to "moderate" who does or does not live in my house.

What's different here? Facebook owns the space, would prefer not to serve hate speech, and 99.9% of its users would prefer not to be served hate speech. What's the harm? What moral principle should prevent them from doing so?

Finally, what about sub-platforms moderated by users? Can reddit morally allow subreddits to moderate? If they can't, so much the worse; but if they can how is that different in principle from reddit doing the moderating?
I got severe wrist pain in my right wrist after a year of using a regular keyboard and mouse.

After several changes, I got a microsoft ergonomic keyboard [1] and a logitech mx ergo advanced trackball, and I've been pain free since then.

The trackball helped a lot since I don't need to move my wrist, just my thumb.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/microsoft-ergonomic-keyboa...

[2] https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/mice/mx-ergo-wireles...
Maqbool on System and Application Architecture Elixir Wizards Podcast
Thanks for asking! The difference is that Diablo 3 represents 10E6~ dev hours invested into making a fun game, and items make it more fun. The items are a kind of 'share' in the total fun of the game. Now if we imagine NFTing the Diablo 3 item system, that's interesting.

Mostly what's interesting about it is why it hasn't happened. I've noticed that actors in public blockchain ecosystems VERY strongly seek 'incentive wells' i.e. locally maximized extraction mechanisms. This might be a property of certain general public-ledger economic systems, because it sure comes up a lot. Basically the law is: as long as a blockchain/Dapp/pattern makes money, the people writing it won't improvements to it outside the core extractive mechanic; at least not without some rare external inputs, which inputs are surprisingly rare in practice.

So if your application is on an incentive hill from this perspective, you know it will never get written.

The Diablo 3 Dapp won't get written by Blizzard because it lies on an incentive hill from blizzard's perspective, simply because: assets would (1) increase item prices due to fees and (2) Blizzard would be cut out as a middleman for at least some transactions.

Only once you find public-ledger tech that fixes those incentives (and probably other incentives I've missed) will you start to see interesting and complex distributed applications
If you’re not familiar with it, I was riffing on a popular riddle: “if a plane crashes precisely on the border of two countries, where do you bury the survivors?”
Ahh nice, a planned obsolescence piece of junk that prohibits any other connection to the device while using it.
It's horrible for cars, electronics and Alcohol. The base model iPhone 13 Pro is 1850$ in Turkey(the min. salary is 330$).

There's this thing called ÖTV, or "excise tax" which is applied to everything that is not basic biological need, essentially.
It's not just very high(%50 for the cheapest and least powerful cars and goes to a few hundred percent for the luxury ones) but also it is applied before VAT, so you pay VAT on the tax too.

Oh, maybe you can just buy stuff from abroad, right? Nope, very hard to import cars. Phones are required to be registered to you passport or the carriers would block the IMEI after few months and you guessed it right the registration fee is high(300$) and you can do it once veery 2 years. Maybe you can bring alcohol at least? Nope, max 2 litres per passenger allowed and it is again match to you passport.
Collapse: How Bridge Connector came crashing down
Flash was absolutely NOT killed by Apple. Adobe killed Flash, and it was unrelated to Steve Job's letter.

Source: me. Was working at Adobe at the time, probably at the thing that actually led to the demise of Flash (not that it was my intention in any way to contribute to the death of Flash, the decision to kill it was a surprise to me as much as it was to anybody else).
Again comparing with the median wage is more appropriate if that is your goal. GDP does not have a direct connection to what the average person earns - much of the GDP gains over the last 30 years have gone to the rich.
Great example of an article which, I hope, invokes the Gell-Mann amnesia effect for most of its tech-educated readers. Its fascinating to read such articles being written with so little irony.

Journalism really is dead now.
That's nice! And customizable without an account!

Are you behind the project? I think I spotted a bug:

After hiding the "Popular" links, saving and returning, the "CUSTOMIZE POPURLS" button stops being clickable.

I can keep customizing it with the back button, though, so not a big deal... Anyway, I'm liking it, thanks!
Mobile Fortnite has been dying for over a year before all this started so not much of an income. Note: Most gamers move over to a non-mobile device for these games or at least a Nintendo Switch.
Another reason for me to be glad that I don’t use an email provider. But is this true? Does Protonmail do this?
I'm guessing they also don't want to. If they took custody of the Bitcoin, I believe that would make them a MSB, and hence get to do all of the "fun" associated with that. Also, the additional security and financial implications of holding money for their users.
I also think if we remove advertising from existence another plus for the society would be getting rid of "articles" about "look this dog how much barks when he sees the postman", maybe some would pay for that, but I think having micropayments to access content would force the content to be meaningful
The implication that being explicitly anti-cancel-culture is an apolitical stance is somewhat amazing.

This seems to be pretty obviously courting people with a particular political lean, not simply people who don't want to talk about politics.
To be honest I didn't have them on flea preventatives. I never had an issue with fleas until the past year going to a popular dog park in a temperate area (which I guess means the fleas can live longer than say a desert).

Now I have them on the monthly NexGard chewables (prescription from the vet). I havent seen a flea on or off of them in months.
That’s true of any JavaScript though right?
TypeScript is an amazing beast on backend as well
Then it wouldn't be Gmail.

Not being flippant. Google's whole business model is predicated on operating like this. An accountable Google would probably be a very different company with different products.
Twitter will hold the bitcoins and collect interest before transfering to person tweeting?
Sounds like a security flaw. I’d submit it to a big bounty program.
Length.

Shorter courses are easier to complete simply because statistically critical interference is less likely to come up. In the next six weeks, there will be fewer time consuming surprises than in the next sixteen weeks.

Of course a compressed schedule requires more daily commitment. There's no free lunch. Good luck.
Indeed, the mainstream media talks about NFTs as if they were property titles, completely misleading the public into thinking NFTs are something they are not. A lot of people also think Bitcoin spends a lot of electricity because it needs to do super complicated calculations. When you explain them how bitcoin actually works they usually can't believe it. The misinformation floating around with regards to cryptocurrencies is staggering.
The one that doesn't blow up the stack.
Arts and Letters Daily is a nice curated list if you are looking for something a little more arts focused: https://www.aldaily.com/
According to one API I follow, SF county's Rt is slightly below 1, which means its case count is halving fairly slowly... and its cases/100k is still slightly above 10, which is CDC's benchmark for prevalence.

They're probably on the verge of being able to relax some mitigation measures, but those mitigation measures are what keeps those numbers low, so that requires a big degree of caution. I definitely wouldn't say they are being too conservative with it, they're just on the verge of being able to relax a smidge.
It's terrifying to think what Spanish flu would do in today's world. Back then it wrecked the planet in times when almost nobody could joy-travel anywhere they wished on a whim and the world was made up of only 2 billion people.

Today, +6 billion people more and anyone can book a 30 Euro flight to snap a selfie in a different country.
As I said, I really don’t want to get drawn into the environmental debate, but there is one persistent myth that does need to be corrected: the idea that emissions from “heavy” vehicles are not priced. They are. They’re in the ETS. Reductions in heavy vehicle use due to tax will not reduce carbon emissions at all, as it will be emitted elsewhere in the economy. The only way to reduce the emissions of an activity covered by the ETS is to lower the cap, which can be done without a vehicle tax of any kind.
Epic's first-party games are often a showcase / development driver for new versions of UE, though (the way Unreal, the game, first popularized UE, the engine). If Epic can't publish their own games on iOS anymore, they would have less incentive/ability to iterate UE on that platform even if that license wasn't canceled.

It's a loss for cross-platform gaming altogether. Apple just really doesn't give a damn about their users =/
How does a mask mandate impact economic recovery?
I am currently a simpleton Notes.app user. It does the job enough for me.

I just downloaded this, tried it out. Fantastic work. The editor is excellent and behaves how I'd expect. I love the calendar right there. The app uses a small amount of memory/cpu.

What keeps me on Notes:

1. Subscription. I'd pay for a one time license. I'd pay for upgrades, but I'd want to own it.

2. It needs a mobile version with sync.

3. I don't see a way to switch into light mode.
$16/hr for a skilled trade welder position at a company that posts on this website? You Americans need a $15 minimum wage lol.
I have a fairly large CAPI (UI) example in my Common Lisp book and it runs OK on the free LispWorks edition. The free edition of LispWorks is memory and session time limited, but these limits allow many use cases. The message list for LispWorks contains comments that make me believe that many people use the free edition.
No, everyone did not agree with that. Phrases like "against the laws of physics" were being thrown around.

And for nearly every other computer security issue, simply the presence of the possibility is enough to take action.
Alternatively: ask them to code it, and hire the ones who refuse.
Innovations in robotic system for inaccessible environments
I sold my first bootstrapped SaaS business
"For a man who wants to live for ever"

Typo in the first sentence. s/for ever/forever/

I guess no one has editors any longer...
Is it a free speech job board if the companies are going to fire me based on what I post on my twitter account? They say no cancel culture right on the front page.
Delta wants U.S. airlines to share banned passenger lists
Vernor Vinge's first use of that concept in a book was published the same year as that workshop. I wonder how the timing of that works out. It's not uncommon for the stage to be set by previous work and multiple actors putting 2 and 2 together in a fairly short period of time.

I can never keep track of who has published works as serials or as short stories prior to novelization. I don't see anything in Wikipedia about that for A Deepness in the Sky though.
Yes my so cal county brought back indoor mask mandates. Btw according to recent press releases CA is the state with the lowest new case rate also.

I don’t think it’s hampering the recovery, people are going into work, shopping and eating out more than a few months ago as far as I can tell.
"I call it 'haku' because I like the sound of it, and also because that word can be written in many ways and mean many things in Japanese. I was definitely thinking about Haku from Spirited Away. Also, I like the resemblance with Raku, the implementation language. I would write it 珀 (amber) or 魄 (soul, spirit)."
Yeah, they could think covid probably came from a lab or that Hunter Bidens laptop was neither Russian in origin or misinformation.
I am having a hard time finding an upside contribution to society that Facebook is responsible for.
https://unfeeder.com/ is pretty good.
You're missing the link: https://carbonengineering.com/
Bitcoin's energy consumption depends on mining revenue. Currently the main component of mining revenue is block reward. Block reward will go to zero over time. How much energy Bitcoin will use then is not known today. It is a new experiment that mankind is performing for the first time.

The old financial system is not very efficient. In the USA alone, millions of people work in the finance sector. Automating those tasks via crypto systems might save a lot of energy.

There is a good chance that Bitcoin's energy usage will be completely solar based in the long run.
Would love to see more of this stuff done with privacy coins instead.