skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. What is easy to understand for you depends on your experience, personality etc. I have been told many times by experienced developers that my code is straightforward and easy to understand and maintain. However I have also been told by some inexperienced developers that I am “doing it wrong” because I am not following whatever pattern or silver bullet is currently hyped/fashionable on HN. Which always amuse me. It’s like a young inexperienced virgin trying to teach me about sex based on what he/she has read in the latest fashion magazine.
> Had they just done all the proper testing and development they did after the aircraft losses upfront none of that would have happened

This is a textbook example of how the most expensive point to make a change is after the product ships.

An extreme example, perhaps, but a good one.
The US did try to annex the province of Quebec in 1775 but retreated after failing to take Quebec city (which was the biggest city at the time and controlled access to the saint Lawrence river). That was probably the closest Quebec got to joining the USA. The other two attempts (1812 invasion and 1837 rebellions) were even less successful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Quebec_%281775%29
Why do people think that Tether will take down crypto if it implodes? The market survived the implosion of Mt Gox, which was much more severe.

By this point everybody knows that Tether has junk status. Much ink has been spilled about the matter. It's hardly a secret.

A few years ago when Tether was the only stablecoin, then yes it's implosion would have been catastrophic. But now anybody using Tether clearly has some (good or bad) reason to do so. There's simply not enough people living under rocks to be surprised when the thing collapses.
For this to be useful, you'd need an infrastructure-- standard APIs and formats for interchange.

I'm picturing the initial sell as like those old Pokemon events or trading via the link cable, but you could buy a Trabant P601 from Gran Turismo, Zhongli from Genshin Impact, and Messi from FIFA21 to drop into the game too.

How do you make use of that sort of open-ended diversity without ruining gameplay? You'd either be limited to trivial uses (avatars/skins or randomizations) or you'd have a huge vector for feeding in game-breaking items and characters. The alternative is a closed network-- only allowing a small selection of pre-vetted NFTs that won't break the game, which adds very little value over something like the Skylanders/Infinity/Amiibo concept that already exists, except you don't get a cool figure too.
Nope, even before February they won't let you use the device, unfortunately. They're shutting down "incompatible" (non-whitelisted) devices and shipping out anything from $50 to used flagship replacements (pre-activated, so as soon as you receive the new one, your existing one will be shut off).

Unfortunately T-Mobile isn't a great option for this phone either, because the phone lacks band 71 (T-Mobile's only nationwide low-band). It may work well in some areas, but have no coverage in others. Verizon has a sort of pseudo-whitelist; you probably will have to activate a whitelisted phone and then swap the SIM, but it may work.

https://www.att.com/idpassets/images/support/wireless/Device...
Assassination means murder of a prominent person.
I wouldn't compile things on the PinePhone because of its performance, but I do it just fine on the Librem 5, so I imagine PinePhone Pro should be fine too as long as it doesn't excessively thermal throttle (it may be tricky to achieve that though).
My concern with many of the recommended clipboard solutions is that they include search and archival as an afterthought. For example, by default they will let you store clips for a few days, weeks, or months. Instead of storing them forever. They also don’t put a lot of thought into search. For example, search by regex, search by phrase, search by date range, combine these search predicates by and/or. It would be nice to have this functionality for text. Image search could use OCR to search images by words in them. The possibilities are endless when clipping becomes permanent archival instead of a mechanism for moving things from one window to another. This is a paradigm shift, I think. It is another category of application when you are archiving.

If there is anyone here who wants to build this I would be glad to help brainstorm.
I'm not confident that's a bad thing, and I worry that we're judging languages on metrics that only make sense for startups. Does a language need to chase growth?

I'm not saying Python shouldn't improve. But, if it comes to it, Python shouldn't cannibalize the niche it filled to do so. That will just spark other languages to fill the niche again.
Sounds like a beta to me. Perhaps you're thinking of a release candidate?
You can get the original game data freely from Internet Archive- https://archive.org/details/SpaceCadet_Plus95
Unfortunately Nokia is just a brand now, in the hands of a Chinese company which sells rather quickly and cheaply developed products. The phones which are sold under this brand are often buggy and never updated. Some run Series 30+, some run KaiOS, some run Android derivatives.

The landscape of dumb/features phones is worse now than it was 10 years ago, which is a pity. For example, jut imagine that it is hard these days to get one which does predictive typing right... or that the cameras are worse than 10 years ago.
> I do not think python should try to be concurrent

Fair.

> or any more performant than it already is.

Well, you can certainly argue that you’d prefer that the effort devoted to performance could be better spent elsewhere, but it seems a little down to say you don’t think it should be faster.

Let’s not beat around the bush here: pure python is orders of magnitude slower than other similar tier languages, eg. javascript.

That’s because it’s never been a priority.

It also keeps getting new features.

You can’t keep adding new features to anything without it getting slower bloating and becoming sluggish unless you devote effort to keeping things fast.

So, I certainly have no problems with people working on making it faster.

That’s awesome.

The goal isn’t “pure python only, no more c!”

It’s just: stop the pure python code being such a major bottleneck.
> Get over yourself.

LOL. OK edgelord. I can see I'm not going to get an actual conversation from you. Have a nice day.
> Is there something more specific you wanted?

Yeah sure, what is your network infrastructure too? :)

Are all the containers Linux only, or other OSes too?
> In some countries, loan providers can only look at your official credit score

Seems unlikely. Which countries? I'm pretty sure in the US it's the entire credit report, not just the score.
Men provide most of the calories in most societies. Most hunter-gatherer societies get more than 50% of their calories from meat -- it's not supplemental protein.

https://escholarship.org/content/qt4wc9g8g4/qt4wc9g8g4.pdf

Cross-culturally, men provide about 60% of the calories.

This makes sense when we consider how humans are different from most other primates. We have relatively long term pair bonding, which is unusual in great apes -- but very common in species, like many bird species, where males make a significant contribution to feeding the offspring.

The idea that men's contribution to food stuffs and the general welfare is a sort of supplement or entertainment, while "women do most of the work", is an early modern feminist myth, a product of a time when a lot of comparative anthropology had been considered but very little had actually been done. It's not dissimilar to how we discuss the wage gap, where the most basic number -- of hours worked -- tells a very different, more gritty story than the one characteristically told by feminists.
I think an important difference is that the subreddit doesn't post any random person who dies of COVID. They limit posts specifically to people who also used the last 6-12 months of their lives to obnoxiously post to their social media anti-mask and anti-vax messages, COVID denial, conspiracies, persecution victimhood, complaints about tyranny, etc. and then ironically died of the disease they were mocking. Big difference.

Just like Darwin awards don't just mock the dead in general, they mock people dying doing crazy dangerous things that they should know will kill them.
Yes, but this speedup comes from essentially unrelated changes from the same contributor, not from the parallelization work, which by itself would be a small slowdown (assuming the article is accurate).
Google, Facebook and Amazon are popular because they are platforms with large networks. They are a one-stop shop.

The problem is they are marketplaces (for information, goods or ads) where they compete in the same space that they own, and they own most of that space as private for profit companies when what they are doing is more like a public utility at this point. But one that completely takes advantage.

What we can do is build platforms to replace them that are actually public using decentralized technologies. For example, much (of course not all) of what Amazon does is connecting people to a very large database of products and making it convenient to buy them.

We could replace that with cryptocurrency and a distributed database or something similar. Such as Ethereum and IPFS or OrbitDB and some related trchnologies. Not saying it's easy or there aren't technical challenges, but they are not insurmountable and the benefits are obvious.

There are open decentralized networks like SSB or Matrix, and a few peer-to-peer ones that may ultimately work out better.

For search and advertising, look at things like YaCy as a potential starting point. But really we have no reason not to explore new and existing distributed protocols for search and information exchange other than sheer laziness. And there is a fair amount of really useful research. But we are lazy.
I unfortunately (or fortunately) had to get an eGPU to drive the two monitors. Settled on the Razer Core X + Radeon RX GPU as there was no stable way to drive the two LG monitors.
> Most people are not terrible at judging risk

This is perhaps something you self-perceive that you can do well so others must also be able. It reminds me of those studies of how sleep deprived people do poorly in cognitive tests but still self-assess as having performed well.

> world crash statistics

Until we start seeing police and investigators actually requesting for manufacturer's infotainment logs, I would question the statistics on this matter.

Arguably very few people would admit to have crashed because of infotainment screens unless there was video footage to prove it.
https://newrepublic.com/article/158535/self-cancellation-bar...
The beauty of Genshi is that its templates are pure clean valid standard XML, so it interoperates perfectly with all XML tools, and it has independent serializers for all the dirty quirky variants of HTML. So you can render your templates in XHTML, or any other version of HTML you want, and edit and process templates with off-the-shelf XML tools, that don't need to know about any special non-standard syntax.

Templating languages that use almost-but-not-quite-entirely-unlike-XML or -HTML don't work well with standard XML and HTML tools, because they don't recognize XML-or-HTML-with-some-magic-non-standard-syntax-sombody-nailed-on-to-the-side.
Banks don't get that special treatment for free. They pay for insurance and comply with regulations. Some of those regulations exist to reduce the risks associated with FDIC insurance, and a lot of those regulations exist to force banks to serve important social functions.

You can fault banking regulation for not being stringent enough, and I won't argue with you. But I'll never understand how "fuck banks getting special treatment" should ever translate into "therefore wildcat banks are a GREAT idea, right?"

Or, to put it another way: I don't want to bail out the big banks; why in fuck's sake would I want to bail out Tether speculators?
> A Walgreens takes money from a community and gives it to their shareholders.

Walgreens buys goods and sells them to the people. To the extent that it does so profitably, it can distribute some or all of those profits to shareholders.

Notwithstanding the fact that Walgreens doesn't "take money from a community" (its customers freely exchange their money for goods Walgreens offers), if you compare Walgreens' earnings per share to its dividend history, you'd see that Walgreens does not pay out 100% of its earnings to shareholders.

So your odd characterization of Walgreens, which implies that Walgreens is engaged in some sort of theft from the communities it is present in, is wrong in every aspect.
You might be interested in https://hnblogs.substack.com/. You could use its RSS feed as an input source. I'm not sure exactly what the author's filtering process is--I think it's partly filtering out domains that are known to not be personal sites and then going over the remainder manually, or something--but I read it every day, and while I usually don't follow any of the links, every once in a while I find something golden that I never would've found otherwise.
I assume it is a massive market. Every fast food restaurant, clothing store, mall, arena, train and airport station, and so on has or will have it in the near future.

Infrastructure isn't sexy, but it can make money.
That’s kinda the point. The digital signage options currently suck. It’s an underserved market.
I wish I could identify a finite set of tasks at which to practice and get much faster. The tradeoff between getting faster at one thing and learning a new thing that could potentially improve my productivity even more is never really clear to me. Someone can have perfected their craft in X and then something better comes along and replaces the whole paradigm.
China launches second crewed mission to build space station
Can’t you already do this? Host your own social networks, I mean. Of course, the hard part is getting others to join it. Isn’t that why protocols like Matrix and decentralized social media platforms like Mastodon were made? So you could communicate with anyone you wanted to on any other platform as long as they implemented the open protocols.
Hey, Cortical Columns!

From "Jeff Hawkins Is Finally Ready to Explain His Brain Research" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18214707
https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#comment-18218504
How to lower your blood sugar with out insulin?
Aren’t there services that will alert you when websites you care about are down?

If you visit a site and it’s inaccessible, there are lots of websites that tell you if it’s inaccessible to others.

Since there are both proactive and reactive solutions already, it just doesn’t seem like HN is the best place to post non-discussion-related downtime reports.
For 1 & 2, most companies are going to partner with a core banking service provider. Core banking is basically a specialized ERP for banks. The big players are Fiserv, FIS, Finastra and Jack Henry[0]

[0] Paywalled, but a relevant link where I pulled those company names from.
https://www.americanbanker.com/news/why-more-banks-are-ditch...
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From https://medium.com/syncedreview/google-replaces-bert-self-at... :

> New research from a Google team proposes replacing the self-attention sublayers with simple linear transformations that “mix” input tokens to significantly speed up the transformer encoder with limited accuracy cost. Even more surprisingly, the team discovers that replacing the self-attention sublayer with a standard, unparameterized Fourier Transform achieves 92 percent of the accuracy of BERT on the GLUE benchmark, with training times that are seven times faster on GPUs and twice as fast on TPUs."

Would Transformers (with self-attention) make what things better? Maybe QFT? There are quantum chemical interactions in the brain. Are they necessary or relevant for what fidelity of emulation of a non-discrete brain?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Fourier_transform
Apple worker says she was fired after leading movement against harassment
Ani-CLI (a CLI to browse and watch anime)
The problem is worse than that. They also use their BTC holdings as part of their assets they hold, which allows them to pump the BTC/USDT rate (print USDT, use it to buy BTC, see prices of BTC going up because of artificial demand, say "BTC is up, our holdings have increased in value and we can print more", rinse and repeat.
One of your recent comments is

> The bible hiehueheuhei omg im tired of spamming threads in the hopes of getting bannes why cant they just add an option to delete too ur acc

— that apparently explains why all your recent comments are worthless at best. Write to the mods at hn@ycombinator.com asking nicely and they will be glad to remove you.
The majority of the worlds population call what you do in the US “American Football”.
Nothing prevents an integrating plastic protection around the edges of a glass front. We could get most of the protection of a case in terms of dropping in concrete without the bulk. Ex: Ulefone Armor 10 5G granted the branding is ugly but that’s on the manufacture.

IMO at that point you might as well make the phone as wide as these new camera lenses and for some extra battery life.
They only put one sensor in cause they knew that more sensors would require additional training.
There's many terrible data brokers involved in many terrible things (especially in the US - they generally get zero headlines because they are b2b and rather secretive), so it's strange to have this headline be about Facebook, when they're the only company being discussed that doesn't sell your data (even if they do many other things with it that we may not like!). I know it's very fun to use them as the worst possible example in any given category of bad things, but I'd much rather have FB handle data than almost every single US data broker, if I was forced to choose between the two. A GDPR-equivalent would still be nicer either way though too!
ML will depend on whether or not whatever ML platform you are using has a back end for the M1 GPU. I suspect that the M1 GPU's would have at least a OpenGL and a Metal driver so I presume most games that worked on macOS previously would work on the M1.
They'd have to shut down the internet. If you can generate an address, I can send you Bitcoin (the role of the internet is limited to broadcasting the transaction to the network).

So, no. Perhaps for a certain class of user—someone who depends solely on an exchange—they can stop them but ultimately, no. They'd be limited to showing up with guns.

It's not nearly as futile as it seems unless people buy into the propaganda.
I completely get the point. We are looking at both sides of the same coin. Read my comment again. We are both describing the same problem from different angles.

You claim that WordPress has a responsibility to vet the submissions on their plugin repo in the same way that Apple vets apps on the app store.

I think this level of abstraction has made web operators lazy. I think WordPress.org has a responsibility to host everybody's code and that it is your responsibility as a website operator to vet that code before you let your server run it. Just because you pay for Github or financially contribute to an app on Github doesn't shield you from bad code that another Github user has submitted.

Nevermind WordPress and all of the plugins they host are GPLv2, which means.....(verbatim) "BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW."
> I'm assuming the point you're trying to make is vaccines aren't as good as expected.

No, I was responding to "Additionally, in my experience, physicians aren't terribly concerned about infections in vaccinated individuals" and pointing out that there's still a lot we don't know about the risks associated with infection after vaccination and arguing that these things deserve additional scientific study.
That's nice, but regardless, the law stood for forty years, even surviving the Supreme Court^.

Society abrogates individual rights by its very existence, and anarchic utopias that exclude all abrogation tend to fail comically^^ and/or catastrophically^^^. It turns out that compromise is a necessary factor of coexistence with other human beings, especially those we disagree with. If you don't feel that your rights are being abrogated by society in some regard, then you either are unfamiliar with the unconscious rights we all take for granted, and/or your circumstances align with the corruption that rich and well-connected people benefit from.

In the US, the Constitution guarantees you specific and inalienable rights, and lays out clear terms that the government is not permitted to violate without consequence. While corruption exists, and no constitution is ever written or enforced perfectly, your declaration that no rights are guaranteed is incorrect for US citizens in the US. Other countries have similar guarantees of rights, such as the EU and GDPR, not to mention many older ones as well, so that statement is incorrect in various ways for those as well. Societies vary wildly in who is granted rights and what rights those are and when they may be abrogated without consequence. Corruption is endemic to virtually all modern societies, small and large. Regardless, rights are granted in most of them.

I respect those that feel that their rights are violated by the laws of the society they are members of, but that is no excuse to declare provably false statements ("no rights at all") as if they're facts. You'll need to invest more effort in your arguments to make headway with that declaration, or define what "rights" means to you that lets you declare that you have none, or declare that the society you are a member of does not guarantee you personally any rights whatsoever.

^ For example: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/294/330

^^ For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28441794

^^^ A popular counterexample is an Icelandic system of government from a thousand years ago, frequently held up as an example of libertarian utopia that lasted for centuries. However, the governmental laws that implemented the godord specifically abrogated the rights of the citizens of Iceland, binding them without individual consent to the societal system of godords, laws, courts, judgments, and enforcements. If you ignored the judgment of the courts, you were stripped of your societal right to live; anyone could kill you without being punished for doing so. Ironically, this meant that in this ancient system, societal outlaws were truly freed from all abrogations of their rights, as they were cast out from society as a whole. However, being marked for murder by those who do accept societal abrogations tends to diminish the enjoyment somewhat.
People won't look at a entire catalog of 100+ photos. But if you do a few at a time you will get more eye balls.

People who stream usually don't dump an entire 8 hour stream in one video on YouTube. How many people would sit through the entire 8 hour video? But do clips and more people will watch more content. From what I've seen at least. (I'm not a streamer FYI)

The "pretending to be on vacation" thing is super wired. Haven't been on Facebook in years. Is it a new trend.