skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am always curious to read an exposé of the (hypothesized) neural mechanisms at work here.

This is principally because the medium (it is some combination of the personal computer and the smart telephone) is not strictly new in its ability to engage the user. Industrial citizens spent a great deal of their time viewing television prior to the internet era, what is new is the rapid feedback those seeking to engage their audiences have. The A/B test, use of user data, et cetera, these are all mechanisms by which the software developer increases the attention-commanding power of his software.

But of course, the software developer is not typically interested in or aware of the psychology (a complicated field) and is instead focused on outcomes. In reality, the software developer is conducting large scale psychological experiments on how to best entrance the user, but the language used for this process is more of business and technique than it is strictly of science.
NFTs Can Be Fungible
This kind of fancy terminal manipulation is usually an accessibility nightmare.

Real GUI frameworks usually provide semantic information to the OS, which allows screen readers to determine that a given control is a progress bar that is 50% filled, and then render that information by playing an appropriately-pitched tone. In a TUI, all they get is a line of fancy symbols changing quickly, with no context as to what those symbols mean. Same for i.e. ncurses based menus. When programs use colors to signify which menu option is selected, screen readers usually get lost.

Screen readers specifically designed for text-based systems (such as DOS) usually had ways to work around this issue, but modern, GUI-focused ones don't really offer those options any more.
I was having the same thoughts...
Cars are not something anyone would buy every year. Even those buying every other year are few.

Not that I like the amount of resources we are wasting that way, but a whole lot of people buy a new version smartphone every year.
> Even back then, people didn't share computers unless they fully trusted each other.

Or you're in a big enterprise or university that has a ton of shared machines. sudo wasn't really designed with single-user machines in mind, `su -l` is good enough for those.
Here's mythbusters doing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lttgT1XZVvE

They estimate the savings at insane 20 feet at 20 something. Far from your claimed 100%.

Could it be, that your road is not as flat as you think?
That would also explain the necessary braking to not run into the truck, wouldn't it?

But I couldn't agree more: let the machines do that perfectly and safe. Let's reap those sweet 25-50% increase in fuel efficiency.
Over the past few years, I've grown so accustomed to seeing "gross" become the new "problematic". Magic words that you sprinkle into headines or comments, in order to trigger credibility from a certain audience that is pre-conditioned to agree when they see that word.

It's been interesting to watch "problematic", a very dry and clinical sounding term, evolve into "gross", a far more openly moralistic declaration. The shift reflects a lot about trends in progressive thought and discourse itself over the past decade.

So much so, that it was actually jarring to discover that the headline actually meant... "gross"! As in, there are references to dead animals, etc in the body text. It's been so long since I've seen the word used in its classic sense, it was surprising!
To make things portable look up termcap(5) and tput(1) to ask the termcap database for the right control sequence for your terminal, and use those.
> ...pull out the HD. I beat it with the handle, like a good 10 times...

Heh. Nice.

A coworker's Mac wouldn't boot. I couldn't hear the hard drive. It was a model with the tip of the spindle exposed. I found a pencil with a gummy eraser. Gave the spindle a twist as I turned the power on.

Told the amazed user, "Do not turn off your computer until after you have backed up your data. That probably won't work twice."

Good times.
Redact: Tool for building decentralized, end-to-end encrypted websites
Bog standard in Germany
I recently started using python click [1], which is awesome after wrapping my head around some things.
Click also provides a useful abstraction for creating progress bars.

[1] https://palletsprojects.com/p/click/
It seems almost like its always guys, and the way they talk sounds exactly like the Amway/Avon ladies that my mom was always around when I was a kid.
No, technically you cannot trust them, although I don't think they have reason to lie. Every successful supraregional newspaper today is dependent on Facebook and collaborates with it.

To those that downvote you I would really hear your reason. My favorite high quality newspaper (non US) was transparent with that fact that direct collaboration is necessary for successful economic prospects. The paper said it can only promise to report objectively on Facebook, the dependence wasn't even disputed. I don't know exactly, but I would think it was at least 6-8 years ago.

But I would argue that newspapers today try to establish themselves as authoritative sources. I think the problem Mrs Haugen tries to identify is far less dangerous than the proposed solution of a government institution consisting of former social media employees. That is ripe for special interest corruption. That is worse than some angry and angsty teenagers and even less democratic.
I don't argue with that. But the biggest problem is IDE integration. Too much magic and your IDE is becoming useless because it cannot autocomplete the most basic things anymore..
Good explanation. It is a nice progress bar, but not particularly unique; many command line tools use progress bars like this.

I've always been curious how the Heroku CLI renders its progress bar, which is unique as far as I've seen. It does not seem to use characters, it's seemingly a smooth, pixel-based fill like you'd get in a non-terminal app. Downloading a pg backup is the most common place I see it.
Scam NFT's are talked about since NFT scammers posts about theme everywhere. Non-scam NFT's are not talked about since nobody cares about them. When non-scam NFT's gets popular then people will start to talk about them, but until then it is only natural that people talk about the more popular use case.

If what you believe was true then we would see plenty of people talk about all those things, but as you said nobody talks about it so those communities doesn't exists. It is basically all scams and people talking about theoretical scenarios of people maybe caring about NFT's in the future.
I’ve used worse tools. I’ve also used better tools. I’ve had a pretty long career in IT and in that time I’ve learned that comparing ones tooling (or even just software in general) against the worst in the industry only leads one to repeated settle for terrible. What we should be doing is striving to do better. And in fact those who do say “fuck this shit, we can do better” are those more likely to disrupt their specific fields.

So no, I don’t buy that people who’ve used worse are more likely to put up. It’s jaded people who have lost interest in technology who are the ones who settle. The rest of us keep on pushing for something better.
The UK similarly did simulations five years ago [0], but didn’t act on the findings from those either.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/07/coronavirus...
Interesting that these topics always focus on smartphones or the Internet. It's as if we talked about smoking in terms of "lighters are causing addiction", or "holding cylindrical objects in your hands is addictive". Or, about alcohol, in terms of "ingesting beverages is a social problem".

It's not the Internet itself that is the problem. It's not the devices - even extremely convenient ones, like always-connected smartphones. There are particular types of services that are problematic, provided by concrete companies, who optimize their addictive and distracting potential on purpose, advertise them heavily, and make money off the problems they cause. These are well-thought business decisions, made by well-known people. And yet, as a society, we shrink away from talking about them, preferring instead to put blame on incidental topics: the Internet, the smartphones, the engineers building the hardware and software[0].

I wish for a day when we collectively wake up and focus on the actual root cause, when we come to the conclusion that some business models just shouldn't exist. We've done it in the past, and because of that we[1] enjoy physically safe food, toys, medicine, appliances. But either we've lost our way in the last decades, defaulting to an asinine view that "all is fine as long as there is demand", or the process of understanding and mitigating threats to society takes too damn long. Maybe it's the latter - but that's not good, because the kind of abuse we throw at each other is following the economic and technological growth curves.

--

[0] - Or, a related favorite of mine, "the AI". As if wild machine learning algorithms frolicked in the forest, and occasionally came out of the woods on their own, to take over some business or governmental decision process. No human making a self-serving decision to involve an unsuitable ML model in a system it doesn't belong in was ever involved.

[1] - People in wealthier countries, at least.
Along the lines of David Graeber's ‘On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs’ in Strike! Magazine
http://gesd.free.fr/graeber13.pdf
Occasionally, when asking for a return to Amazon, they'll say "we've refunded you, no need to return it!"

It kinda makes more sense than having it mailed back to be destroyed.
Is there any evidence this is actually true?

Literally every year at this time, Bloomberg or the WSJ reports that Apple is due to cut production due to some negative factor or another.

So far it has always turned out to be complete bullshit. It’s pretty obvious that there are many parties who could benefit from such a rumor.
There are characters that are boxes of varying width, but maybe you've confirmed it's not even that?
Accept that it is about emotions, not facts! A lot in life is.
It's an interesting problem.

If I am an accident oracle -- say I know with certainty where, say, 50% of accidents will occur (the other 50% are truly stochastic with no structural component at all) -- and the city believes me, then surely when I tell them an accident will occur at Intersection X, they will take measures that prevent accidents at Intersection X.

But this also means any measure of my ability to predict accidents is confounded, because the equilibrium behaviour would be that I never predict an accident and plenty of other accidents occur. Moreover, because of all the other confounders, it's actually unclear whether we should expect accidents to go down or up or stay the same or what, and to the extent year to year variability was already quite high the problem will be even larger, so even high level numbers before and after hiring my services aren't easily interpretable.

Which is fine, you just need to convince decision makers of this particular inferential fallacy and then hopefully they keep listening even though the KPI is wrong. Except what if the type of accidents change and I'm no longer an accident oracle? Then the mitigation efforts are wasted, and also the money they pay me.

One solution would be to basically engage in some kind of RCT where some of my predictions are held out for assessing my model while others are acted on and where the strength of the prior about my effect decays. Good luck telling voters and lawyers that justification, though.

Fun stuff.
One year later, The Post’s Hunter Biden reporting vindicated–but still buried
Yeah, the whole thing just has me thinking of the South Sea Bubble.
Same here, and now that my Sony Xperia Compact is now on life support, I will have to switch to iPhone. There is no Android phone maker left that produces something between the ultra-small Atom and what used to be called phablets.

And even Apple seems to have a hard time selling smaller phones.
I interpret CS Peirce, another rung on the ladder of knowledge
I guess everything really is cyclical :)
having lived at both, the bay is much much much nicer
terminal rendering is fun. it's often limited but the few it offers gets you going nicely.
This is absurd. A lot of companies do interviews that make sense and are not focused on some obscure bitshift puzzles.

You need to be a strong developer to work efficiently as an SRE.
How does the system cheat them? I can guarantee you work is a lot more pleasant for myself and my peers than it has ever been. I have more options than ever and I get treated much better by my employer than my parents ever did, not to mention my grandparents.
>He found our company from “Who’s Hiring” on HN.

hmm, a feat I have not as yet been able to match.
The primary advantage is increased trust. With a SQL database, it is necessary to trust the organization that hosts the database. With blockchain it is necessary to trust a distributed network of organizations (or more precisely their computational power).
Anything new happen with Janet?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28255116 (August 2021) [114 Comments]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23164614 (May 2020) [269 Comments]
It's a mass noun in some dialects and a count noun in others.
No, I don't think that sailing against the wind of contemporary newsrooms offers a promising career outlook. On the contrary.
They use this package under the hood: https://github.com/jdxcode/smooth-progress

It uses glyphs of boxes that have varying widths. When joined together, they appear as a solid bar.
You mean one where employers respect the individual worker, try to give them comfortable working conditions and trust them with being honest about the work they do?
Yes. Some only sell to resellers. Some list on eBay directly. Some are semi scammy like Bulq.
I thought the BETWEEN boundaries are always closed. Isn’t that pretty clear?

If you’re worried about date part precision in that comparison, you can always TRUNC before you BETWEEN.
irony being you think twitter updates is professional
How do you coordinate the failover? Custom scripts or?
The papers are interesting to people making tools - if you can see what mathematical assumptions are made you can see what limitations a method has and whether it can apply to cases you're interested in.
There are companies that buy up returns and resell them, but I don't get the impression that these make up any significant part of that chain. Unsold lots from liquidations or just unsold remainders from large retailers: sure, those can be sold without too much hassle. But the heart of the matter seems to be that returned items will apparently quite quickly cost more than their worth to handle for eventual resale, and just shredding them (and not spend any time at all beyond unpacking, registering, and then dumping it in a bin) is cheaper. The only exceptions seem to be high-end items where a limited investment can make them suitable for resale as a discounted refurbished item, and even then there are reports of brand new televisions and tablets just ending up in a landfill¹.

1: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jul/23/charities-c...
Haha when I was searching for printers across the district network the librarian was looking at my screen. She called me out across the room asking why I was looking at printers at a different school. Oof.
Do you have a few examples?
It isn't written anywhere in the documentation, but the first 744 IP address-hours per month are charged at $0.00.

Link to pricing page: https://cloud.google.com/skus/?currency=USD&filter=C054-7F72...

That means if you just need one VM, you won't pay for IP charges.

Obviously that might change anytime without notice.
That line on its own does read as if they didn't intend to move the project, but reading the entire post makes it clear that they consider the decision to be the mistake.
As long as a poor person can buy a 60k car on finance with 10k down, it would be hard to justify limiting that poor person from trading stocks with 5k and driving a 5k beater. And it would be even harder to justify this as something for their own good.
> SpaceX made the product on private money

And public loans.

This doesn’t fully detract from your point that SpaceX is different from traditional government space contractors, but it should be noted.
Talking about Racket and macrology, I think OP should get in touch with the PLT/Racket team. Matthew Flatt made many talks and papers about macro layers and proper scoping.
Always fascinating to me that people want to take away people’s liberties for their own good. Somehow, this authoritarian streak persists despite being the source of constant human suffering.
It appears this [1] is the actual website talking about Redact.

[1] - https://redact.ws/how-it-works
I personally prefer sending JSON or CSV over the wire, and keeping all presentation logic on the client side. This allows me to adjust the presentation layer based on what's best for each specific client.

Why do you prefer to send HTML over the wire?
They specifically ask you when something like that is being used.

And I don't think giffy or others are receiving your emails. This is probably just usage stats, but someone needs to check that.

Windows 10 start menu on the other hand send every keystroke to bing. You cannot turn it off either
> your refusal to comply with basic health and safety precautions violates "basic human rights" of everyone around you...

1. I mean, I'm vaccinated. So pardon me for not taking that outburst seriously.

2. That is a stupid argument. We haven't managed to eradicate the flu, I caught it the other year. So it isn't obvious how someone being unvaccinated can expose you to extra risk - COVID is still going to be around and you're still going to catch it eventually - if you haven't already. Probably several times. There is no credible plan to eradicate the coronavirus.
0 is not a probability; trying to use it as one leads to division-by-zero errors.
Manipulating ZFS Pool from FreeBSD Rescue System
Connectivity checks can't possibly be useful, because the network can go down after the check. Then what, the phone explodes?
I don't know what it is about life coaches and their writing style, but a few sentences in, I just knew this guy had a course to sell.

Is there anything that makes Nick qualified to provide that advice?
>He just paid $1M for a 3 bedroom house.

Sounds like munich.
Prior to the outage I received an erroneous email from them about an old account, followed by an apology about it. It seems they were having other issues than just the router config.
> Most of the time the NFT just points to a piece of digital media accessible to anyone, and it conveys no rights of ownership or use of that digital media.

Or very surprisingly any guarantee that the media pointed to is immutable or won't disappear.
Note that nowhere does Baez hint that he has any results showing that category theory actually helps these concrete problems, just that he wants to try.

He specifically calls out that real world problems are too messy for such an approach to be a natural fit.
Certainly cheaper for Amazon. It seems limited to 'cheap' items like books and such though.
Of course. And a lot of people will lose a lot of money. And it is tricky to ensure you are in the former group.
>but as you said nobody talks about it so those communities doesn't exists

Here is a very simple example of a community that's just a normal community of people buying and selling NFTs https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/ without it being about "getting rich quick" like you said. There are other communities like this. Again, no one talks about it because it doesn't fit their narrative, not because it isn't popular or because it doesn't exist.
Statically linking doesn't necessarily fix this. Nor does ensuring only one version is actually linked.

The problem starts when different dependencies have different opinions about ABI-important details. Like layout of data structures, layout of v-tables, use of concurrency primitives, or even stack utilization.

I don't have as much depth of knowledge in cargo (rustc probably can't avoid these problems). From what I can tell, it prefers resolving dependency sets per executable, which means it would be opting for the combinatorial explosion of compatibility sets problem. That's a valid tradeoff to select, though I am extremely skeptical that an organization with 30k Rust projects would find that dependency juggling is a non-problem.
That’s not really true. Model year changes come in 3 forms: new generations which are pretty big changes and happen about every 6-7 years, facelifts which happen once per generation and are usually just aesthetic changes, and minor years where they only fix usually pretty minor issues.

It’s not a set of incremental upgrades each year that eventually get to something new. The only time things change significantly is with new generations.
I know. So what? People weren't actually productive for 40 hours in the office either, it was still based on timelines. Nothing has really changed here, other than trust actually being tested to a much larger degree. And perhaps people on both sides are finding out just how much trust there is.
That bunch of people is not going to make significant amounts of money, they will take significant amounts of money from other people, giving nothing in return.

I believe that in English language fraud is an appropriate word for such enterprises.
Quitting social media is not really about FOMO, it's about the fear of being bored due to not having anything else to fill that time.
If you go to a store and don't feel the prices are "fair", is it okay to "manipulate" the system by stealing?

> We may not agree, but philosophically this seems to be a sound position, especially since the cost of rejecting the system is extremely high.

Why doesn't he just work a part time job if he wants more leisure time? He's a software engineer. He could easily make enough to get by with a very light workload without being dishonest with an employer
Could be rumor spread by Apple to increase prices.
If you think that NFT issuers are more trustworthy than banks or big companies then I have bad news for you. The NFT you get is as trustworthy as the paper you bought saying you own the golden gate bridge. Nobody can take that paper from you, but they sure can take the bridge.
Its still shocking to me how big the new container ships are and that right now there is a huge line of ships from China all lined up, we can't get the containers off the ships fast enough. Its even worse to think that much of it will barely be used and go to landfill. https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/149...
I don't think we can make a lot of assumptions about counterfactuals. There's a bunch of people primed to act out regardless of how well the messaging is handled.
ProtonMail launching ProtonChat, ProtonDrive, ProtonWallet, and more
But that just further muddies the distinction between gambling and investing if you contrast with poker.

Poker is highly skill/knowledge based.
Winning tournaments consistently is very doable for a good player.

In both cases "consistently" doesn't mean without losing from time to time. Even Buffet makes mistakes. As does Negreanu.
M3O – An open source AWS alternative
There was a gun in the house when I was a kid. Explicitly to protect the family against intruders.

Number of times intrusions occurred: 0

Number of times the gun went off by accident: 2

Number of times a drunken adult gave the gun, loaded, to a kid: 1
It's the reverse. Doubt about models is sustained by denialism, which is sustained by short term economic interests.