skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think I developed the habit at a time when sleep just never worked on my linux machine though

I did the same in my ~15 years of Windows & Linux desktops and laptops, with the sole exception of an IBM (yep, was still IBM) Thinkpad on which suspend to disk would magically Just Work on Linux if you created a partition at the correct location, with the correct size, and with the correct type ID. The BIOS handled it somehow, I think, which seems crazy but it did work flawlessly. IIRC I didn't even have to tell Linux about it, and I ran Gentoo at the time so I doubt it was doing anything for me automatically.

Switching to Mac a little over a decade ago broke me of the habit, eventually. It was one of many coping behaviors I didn't need anymore and had to un-learn. Unfortunately, now that I'm used to shit actually working semi-correctly a fair amount of the time (to be clear, Mac is far from perfect, everything else is just so much worse that it's like no-one else is even trying) without my having to spend time forcing it to work, it's hard to go back.
> “you need a 3GB OS update even if the only fix is 3 lines of code in Safari,...”,

If Apple really cared, it would have changed this scenario by now. A 7year old android device which can download/sideload latest Firefox is technically more secure for web browsing than an latest iOS device which is yet to receive an OS update with the critical patch for the Safari.

But as Tim Cook proudly claims, People who use Apple products are those 'don't want to take risky decisions themselves' maybe they'd be willing to wait for that OS update however long it takes.
One thing to add to The bad/The ugly:

- requires Wayland - does not seem to work with X11

This makes it a no-go for many a potential user.
Breeds vanish because too few people care. If too few people care, then...who cares exactly?
A-ha – Take On Me (Remastered in 4K) (1986/2010)
No, you could create an NFT that supposedly represents that but unless people buy into the idea, no is becoming the owner of anything.

If instead Ycombinator would release each user as an NFT, and allow people to buy/sell then, then yes you could become the owner of an HN account via NFTs. But until then, the one who knows the password is the owner.

People seems to have some sort of problem with trying to understand NFTs were all thoughts and logic go out the window as soon as NFTs are mentioned.
Cryptocurrency has even become less useful as time has gone on. The utility of the internet and smartphones was immediately apparent. Cryptocurrency fans are always reaching for that analogy, but it's fundamentally flawed.
That means this person has single handedly improved the global social knowledge-space about SQL and improved the world.

Impressive isn't even strong enough to describe what this is.

Thank you, Mr. Gordon Linoff for advancing humanity.
Get a VPS, they are actually cheaper than VPNs (if you only need one country location).

You will have one single IP and you won't share IP with hundreds of other people thus being flagged.

I have never been blocked from a site when using my VPS, including sites that otherwise block VPNs, I think they don't care for whatever reason.

Doesn't mean they can't know, they will, but they seem to not care?

Some websites might do.

Only way you can get a completely "native" experience is for someone to set up a VPN in a computer connected to a residential connection in the country you want appear in.
This is the equivalent of someone seeing how much a Picasso sells and wondering if they should become an artist. For every success, there are 10,000 failures.
Next commercial Falcon Heavy mission to launch debut Astranis satellite
I'm curious to know how to will be spun into being good for bitcoin.
But it’s not. It’s a token on a blockchain with some metadata. You’d actually need a separate legally binding contract to link it to actual ownership, and at that point you could have just made up the legal contract without any blockchain or token…

With your example, if the game goes down, an NFT of the in-game purchase isn’t going to be very useful. What’s the difference between having a token or not of the content if there are still no servers for the game either way? Maybe the NFT still points to a screenshot? Great…
The lack of sharpness is obvious. Saturated colours don't make up for it.

It is a pocket camera, and it does very well.

But I agree - it's clearly not a substitute for even a mid-range prosumer SLR.
Oh I had some negative encounter with Jon Skeet as well. For a person that has so much notoriety seemed he was quite defensive about me pointing out his "non-answer" he gave to someone else.

My situation was that I noticed that person asking was on a very basic level and he gave answer that was not correct in context of experience or what was actually asked. Even though technically correct.
Imagine living in a country that drops depleted uranium on civilians as part of it's programme to hegemonize its 'real' currency!

Or living in a country that continuously devalues its currency, forcing exponential consumption, thus stealing from the poor to give to the rich and destroying the environment while at it?
It actually makes sense, the "YC generation" turnover is overdue. A few will pass through to the next dialectical synthesis successfully, but a lot are going to be left behind.

Crypto is one of several things which are going to carry things through to the new order. (Avatar embodiment and pseudonymous identity is another, and DAOs taking the place of traditional startups is another.) A lot of people here are going to be left confused and angry, but that's the nature of change: the innovators of the past boil slowly into being stuck in their ways and unable to adapt.
Or... it could mean that the dominant culture defaults to describing identity labels as offensive. The labels themselves would only be offensive if someone deems them so. Remember when "gay" was a slur, but now it's an acceptable term for homosexual? That is, unless you're an edgy 13yo boy on the internet and think calling something 'gay' is funny.
Yeah, I think a lot of these theories can be easily tested by looking at the demographics and details of the crimes. For example how many of the murderer than victims cohabitated or how many were drug related
Mmmkay, but concrete could also shrink the global carbon footprint. Mixing CO2 to concrete makes it hardening much faster and the result gets more durable.

https://www.globalconstructionreview.com/researchers-find-wa...
This article conflates NFTs with cryptocurrency, in a way that looks to me to be intentional in order to bolster his argument that crypto is for rich people to conspicuously consume and to pump and dump on the plebs.

NFTs aren't money, or currency and just because they can be created on some blockchains doesn't make them so.

I also don't see a genuine effort from the author to really understand why proponents think that this technology will positively change the world. You might not agree with them, but at least then rebut their arguments instead of creating straw men.

Bitcoin is open source, the original founder is nowhere to be found, there were no VCs involved in its creation or in the distribution of the coins and the entire network is run out in the open. The Bitcoin network is a commons.

The permissionless, decentralized, p2p and stateless aspect of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin is as revolutionary as it was 12 years ago, and in these 12 years "normal" (i.e. non-rich) people had access to them as much as anyone else. Heck, 10 years ago there were faucets that would hand out 5 bitcoins if you solved a captcha.

The people who are today involved in the creation and distribution of fiat money have incredible power, a power which is largely hidden from view, but which actually drives and shapes a lot of what we see. Of course these people won't take an open source competitor lying down.
Miner fees are paid from transaction fees (since mining is quite literally verifying transactions). You don't lose value for miners being paid.
- [Not relevant] There's this limitation about fetching host+port [0] in the worker. It works fine in wrangler dev but doesn't work on Cloudflare worker. I don't mind that it's a limitation of the platform but there should be documentation and wranlger dev should be consistent with the actual worker.

- It's not relevant now but I couldn't figure out how to connect cloudflared with wrangler tail on windows. Wrangler tail points to the cloudflared docs but the cloudflared docs doesn't mention wrangler at all. I was pretty lost for what to do.

- [Not relevant] I haven't investigated this properly but Promise.then.catch doesn't seem to work? async/await works though.

- I'm pretty sure URL.createObjectURL in this example [1] doesn't work on the worker.

- Wrangler dev doesn't have the request.cf object. I see why but a dummy one would be cool.

None is deal-breaker but they wear you down when you walk through the documentation.

[0] https://community.cloudflare.com/t/fetch-in-worker-strips-po...

[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/examples/read-post
Persistence Layers
Are you saying that companies like Motorola/Lenovo, Samsung, LG, Sony, Nokia/HMD, Huawei - who all were producing each a handful of different models at the most different price points, targeting all different market segments - didn't have the resources to build a model with a removable battery?

I am more inclined to believe that they consumers have signaled that removable batteries are not as important as improvements on other constraints like size, durability and material look & feel.

Let me flip the question: if removable batteries and repairability are important to you, why don't you buy a Fairphone?
Creating an NFT is a transaction.
Thanks for this, but I needed to disable animations in accessibility for this to work.
How accurate are his answers? Have they been validated for correctness?
He was sharecropping on the land baron's property. Not his land, not his money.
IMHO. This wasn't about cities defunding police as it was about DEMORALIZING the police. People will cite: "Look the crime rate was country wide so it couldn't be the result of specific cities defunding." But no. It is that the policing forces are demoralized nation wide. They do less patrolling, less aggressive tactics, less pull overs, less arrests etc. Police are more timid now. This is the result. I expect it to become much worse - with SF city the goal nation wide.
Generally speaking - GP GUI is just a front end for making changes to the registry for local group policies. You can find the mappings and make the registry setting changes yourself.
I would argue btrfs does not deliver "classic" RAID1. Last I checked if you lose 1 disk in a 2 disk btrfs RAID1 setup and then reboot, it will be unable to mount the filesystem until you change the mount options so that it is set to 'degraded' mode. This is very different from other RAID1 setups (e.g. hardware raid controllers, mdadm, openzfs), and a big problem if you don't have lights out management or fast physical access to the machine.
No clue. I just know people who do it.
I would assume she was speaking specifically about coronaviruses. There are at least four other coronaviruses which have been endemic in the worldwide human population since at least 1889. So they've had plenty of time to evolve more deadly variants but haven't done so.

It's impossible to prove a negative and predict with 100% certainty that SARS-CoV-2 will never evolve to become more deadly. But we can infer from the natural history of those other viruses that it will probably follow the same pattern.

Note that those other "common cold" coronaviruses can still be quite deadly to immunocompromised or frail elderly patients. The only reason they aren't killing people on the same scale as COVID-19 is that most of us get infected as youths and build up some natural immunity that protects us as we age.
So you limit the types of transactions in your blockchain to "this thing has been issued to this person/id/hash/whatever" and do not have any transactions of the type "this thing has changed ownership to a new person/id/hash/whatever". A bank account that allows deposits but no withdrawals/transfers, its still a ledger, it just limits the operations you are allowed to do (not the operations you could theoretically do).
OCaml's community has always struck me as really toxic and hostile to newbies. If a newbie asks a question however politely, they're frequently berated as though asking for help is cheating and everyone should learn things the hard way as they did. Alternatively, if the community doesn't have a good answer (e.g., "How do I do X in OCaml?"), they often respond with some variation of "You're stupid for trying to do X" or "If Jane Street can make millions without X, then your company doesn't need it either!".

Of course, every community has some toxic members, but in my experience they are so pervasive in the OCaml community that it virtually characterizes the entire community. And I've heard every justification including "Everyone is mean to the OCaml community, so the OCaml community is mean to everyone else".

Anyway, I don't care to get into an argument about whether or not OCaml's community is toxic, I'm happy to agree to disagree.
Well, I already happen to have an MS from a US university. So, the next logical step would be a PhD.

And PhD is a whole another beast. It's a commitment that I'll have to think hard and carefully about.

I've considered the idea of doing PhD in Canada before, at the University of Toronto, or the University of Waterloo; not for PLT, but for networks which I was into back in the day. I'm not into networks as much anymore.

Is McGill University known for PLT? The other university I've considered is TU-Delft in the Netherlands, which does some things in the field of PLT.

However, it's been over 3 years since I graduated, and I'm not sure if I'd get glowing letters of recommendation from my prior schools at this point. To top it off, my master's degree focus was on OS, networks, and cybersecurity (the "systems" stuff). So, I'm definitely not going to get anybody to praise my abilities in PLT.

(And I love cold!!)
What are the conditions under which these footprints were made, and how have they managed to survive undisturbed for so long?
> potential assets and subsequently engaged in a more complex aspirational relationship with the conquered than most European cultures have tended to do.

What utter nonsense. The british colonials were epic in their attempts to integrate their colonized into their societies. Gandhi himself trained to be a lawyer at a prestigious law school (the Inner Temple) in England. See the plethora of ex-colonials in England itself. Same with the spanish (whose colonized peoples have literally adopted the moniker latino/a to describe themselves) and the portuguese (who -- as the descendants of portuguese colonization -- are pretty popular overall in the areas they colonized).
1. Find a place that takes RMB and gives you crypto.
2. Send crypto to your wallet or foreign exchange.
3. Abroad, sell crypto for non-RMB fiat currency.

No mining needed.

China can't ban 2 (or perhaps they could by putting the great firewall into overdrive) so they are banning 1.
Hoping that Gordon sees this, he’s a wonderful person.

helpful to the nth degree as his dedication to answering questions as is so demonstrated here in earnest.

all your recognition is well-deserved. it’s been a pleasure to work with you (and nice job solving the interview qs i give to others in pure sql from the other side of my desk)
Agree that crypto should be a major component of any SSN replacement solution, though I would prefer to see something quantum resistant for future-proofing. SSNs are supposed to last a lifetime after all.
How long before Amazon starts paying their workers in a BezosBucks cryptocurrency that can only be redeemed at the Amazon company store? https://jacobinmag.com/2021/07/amazon-warehouse-communities-...
> FYI, I didn't find the tweets you've linked to to be convincing.

To be clear, no, they're not convincing arguments. It's people who know this space and find the claims by prometheus so unbelievable that they make fun of them.

I was quoting this more to illustrate the tone of the discussion. The argument is ultimately: Prometheus makes claims about costs that are very hard to believe, and doesn't provide much evidence that they are true.
NFTs don't actually prove ownership of anything but themselves. Owning a hash of a URL has no connection to the real world, and can't prove that the NFT was created by the author of the artwork.

It makes me doubly furious that NFT is advertised as caring for artists. In fact, NFT makes it easier than ever to sell stolen artwork. NFT itself doesn't contain any copyrighted material, and selling metadata/URLs is not illegal, so it's likely that fraud through NFT is de-facto legal if you just carefully word it as selling the NFT of the artwork, and not the artwork itself.
It is true. If you replace "normally" with "always" then it arguably becomes false, as your link explains.
Using my Pinephone as a daily driver. What do you think it cannot do (apart from running Androis apps)?
The problem with NFTs and blockchain is that they purport that anyone can have access to it…the whole decentralized thing.

Except all these NFT stores require an invite from another artist. As someone who loves taking photos but isn’t socially connected because it’s a passion and not a job, it seems very elitist. Maybe it’s that way because I don’t have access to it and my brain is just playing tricks. But it seems like one of those “you aren’t good enough for this” kind of thing. Some of the online stores like Foundation app have become gatekeepers rather than outlets.
You can create saved searches, like sorting by new for a tag you're interested in. I don't have email notifications setup, but from time to time I visit my saved search for pytest questions -- which is a subject less inundated with homework questions and more with people trying to do their work, unsure of how to integrate their ideas with a testing framework.

Though, some of my most popular answers have come from digging a little deeper on an older question and adding a better write-up, or simply answering a question for a newer version of the technology at hand.

When it's a technology you use (or had used) everyday, it's easier to get a sense of the answers you would appreciate if you'd stumbled there from Google
An non-async Task<int> is returning a Task<int> object, where the return statement of an async Task<int> method is of type int (which will be wrapped in the resulting Task). ”return 1;” eg only works in the latter case.
Please don't take my comment as dismissing the platform. The team behind the network, and the apps have done a phenomenal work. And I still use the occasionally buggy clients on a daily basis, and I pull as many people I know as I can to use Element.

My comment was on the fact that the UX is what always fires back at it, most if not all peers I've introduced the app to have told me they don't like it because it doesn't work reliably. I keep telling them that's the cost of using a truely open and secure messenger.

Thanks for pointing out the new focus on the UX aspects, and yes your approach of 3 separate code base is an ambitious endeavor. But I also think it was the right call to make. The Web client is the best messenger client I have ever used. And each mobile client are an absolute delight in term of near native feel.
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> Remember: Currency is not an investment. A good currency has a stable value over time; otherwise it's very difficult to conduct commerce.

Perhaps that is why countries like Japan are changing the definition of crypto and calling it "virtual assets" instead of "virtual currency".
This is the sort of thing that really needs to be questioned.

1. How much security do we need for this transaction?

2. For this block of transactions?

3. Can we have varying levels of security?

What we are ultimately trying to know is, is it profitable to double spend? If the answer is yes, then no one should be transacting, and anything they do transact is a gamble. If the answer is no, there's much less risk, and the farther the answer is no, the safer the transaction.

But we likely don't need as much security as we do now. In fact, it's very easy to handle at a user level.

A. Put the transaction on the blockchain.

B. Wait for additional blocks.

C. If your transaction is huge, wait for more additional blocks. Wait a week, a month. This is an important transaction. When the blockchain has not reverted for such a long time, finally do the transaction in the real world.

If you are transacting with yourself, you don't need any security at all. If you are transacting with a bar and the bar knows you, much like a tab, you don't need much security. If you are transacting with an anonymous person, you want high security.

So security is currently handled on a blockchain by blockchain basis, where it should be a transaction by transaction basis. What if you can't wait a month? Then you should put heavy fees on that transaction and it should be put in with other higher fee transactions.

4. How does security change with transaction size? Does it make sense to have limits?

5. How does security change with total transaction block size? Does it make sense to have limits?

6. When the coin price goes up, how does that change these factors?

7. When the mining reward in coins drops, how does that affect security?

8. When Bitcoin, in 100 years, moves to 100% transaction fee system, what happens to security? What would the transactions fees look like?

9. In 50 years when the block reward has been halved 5 times, either the price of Bitcoin moves to $1 million, or the security drops. Is that okay?
Ooh. Does Stowage work with https://twitter.com/awscwoud?
Not sure what his intention is/was, but I am assuming he also gets clients thru this. Many blog posts out there uses this technique to attract potential clients.
Security by obscurity is no real security.
>> The greatest human rights issue of our time is LGBTQ voices being heard.

Maybe in the western world but we know that there are places where women have really no voice (or less) or places like NK where very few people have a voice...there is also the forced labor in China and Africa. I highly doubt the greatest human rights issue of our time is LBQT voices not being heard. That could only be said by someone who thinks less for other people in need. Minorities are always "heard" less but let's not make this the greatest human rights issue. People are being beheaded and people are dying of starvation right now. They've been filtered out by the whole world.
In competitive Fortnite it seems like Epic is quick to permaban cheaters. Personally, in the last year of playing, I'm not sure I've run into more than a couple obvious aimbotters.

But I guess Epic has games besides Fortnite.