skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am aware it exists, but I have kinda put it off as I often feel that forks fail to deliver better than the original (worth to mention as a worthy fork is UnNetHack!).
Is BN any good? Worth playing if your not into the magic stuff?
Gold has been valued for millennia. Regardless of what anyone thinks the price of gold should be, most will agree it’s not zero. Gold has uses for jewelry that cannot be substituted with any another metal.

Bitcoin has no use other than to sell or loan to someone else; or to pay taxes levied by criminals.
>the response is stored in an SQLite database,

I tried using a database for personal notes many years ago and the problem I discovered was that I can't do a quick Ctrl+F to find previous scraps of knowledge.

Instead, I use plain "notes.txt" and use the editor's text search functions (including regex functionality) to locate things.

These 2 ways of finding text have very different ergonomics:

- SQL: select * from notes where description like '%ubuntu config%';

- text editor: Ctrl+F "ubuntu config" <press Enter>

Yes, one can write a program to "dump" the SQL database to a text file for subsequent search by a text editor. The problem is that it creates a read-only file that you can't edit-in-place. And one can also write a custom wrapper program in whatever language as a GUI for the database but now we're way past your simply "reply to email" paradigm and expending a lot of effort in "yak shaving" instead of just taking notes.

Not saying your system is bad for you but I'm guessing that most people would find the friction of a SQL database too high for freeform notes.
As a society, we've been sleepwalking into a very dark place technologically for well over a decade now, and those of us who have tried to point that out have been routinely shouted down and called luddites for it.

I fear we're far past the point of no return, and there is no escape from the disaster we've created even for those of us who have avoided participating ourselves.
Serious question for you. Have you read any recent papers? Some quantum computing applications have outperformed classical computers already[0] and will get better with more qubits and less noise. This stuff is in its infancy and making small baby steps. The phone in your pocket didn't get here without punch card programming or computers the size of rooms. This is that and you're around to witness it. Have some patience!

[0] http://arxiv.org/abs/1905.02860
The Hindenberg was also reportedly quite tail-heavy coming in for landing, which suggests a leak. If it was leaking at the tail and this was triggered by static discharge it would fit most of the facts.
> Emulation just means "to imitate another system".

Is an AMD CPU an Intel "emulator"?

If one piece of hardware aims to be compatible with another, pre-existing piece of hardware, I wouldn't call it an emulator. Maybe an implementation.

Sure there can be bugs, and a very advanced software emulator may have better compatibility than a less advanced hardware implementation. But a hardware implementation is fundamentally functioning much more similarly to how the original hardware functioned. Parallel logic gates are quite a different programming paradigm than sequential software.
Syncthing is the easiest, cheapest, most reliable way I've found.
When you deactivate your FB account they keep all your datas. I hope you know that. Deleting your account should delete your datas, though. (But I don't 100% trust they do. And maybe some national agencies keep a copy)
if someone's off on some tangent implementing a major feature without coordinating with the project maintainers and it subsequently gets rejected because it doesn't fit the constraints that they've stated for the feature...that's on them.

the go project is pretty upfront with how they go about deciding what will/wont get into the project, what process to follow, etc.

Posing it as "why doesn't go have generics" is bound to be reductionist, because it's too coarse of a question, and any real implementation winds up having a lot of nuance.

the question winds up just sounding entitled and petulant though, so if someone can't be bothered to ask a well informed question about why go doesn't have generics yet, the best answer really is "because it hasn't been added.", tautological as it may be.
The one thing I found weird when I looked into Zettelkasten is the focus on having relatively hard to read IDs as the primary part of the title. It could certainly help in the original use case of having to categorise and store physical paper notes, but it just feels obsolete in a world where you have digital notes, hyperlinking, and search.
Who does it now?

I don't see how it follows that if bitcoin is useful that somehow militaries or rule of law can't exist.
It just seems like the people at FB have watched Black Mirror and decided they want to do all the things they saw.
> I linked to a PDF, not the whole site. Let's focus on the information in that document. Thanks.

Cherry-picking which piece of propaganda or disinformation to paste from a propaganda and disinformation-pushing group doesn't make the propaganda/disinformation less biased
I think it's both a supply and demand issue. A much greater supply of dollars = more buying power, plus people working from home increased demand of certain items like lumber and computer chips. On top of shortages of everything for the reasons you describe.

That will get worked out, but here's why it looks to me inflation is here to stay:

1. Wages are going up in order to solve labor shortages. Higher wages = higher cost of goods = higher prices. And wages are sticky. Workers now getting paid $25/hr probably aren't going back to $15.

2. The just in time supply chain is being re-evaluated. We need resiliency, but it's less efficient and more expensive. Higher COGS.

3. The Fed seems likely to keep increasing the supply of dollars and don't want to raise interest rates much.
But of course we now know it's actually 137 :)
> Who does it now?

France sent a warship to escort its gold from the US to France. Wasn't free, probably wasn't cheap.
I can't reproduce the problem under mpv or Kodi. We've already passed the peak user experience of software bondage. Here's to hoping the next big trend is popular adoption of user-representing software.
That's a reasonable and short list.

But you're in my camp, you want to use the machine, not admire it. Still, I bet you can find something to get excited about this year, while I may not be able to. Again.
> I have currently no reason to believe that IKE or TLS are intrinsically broken.

Okay. Not worth debating.

> bitching that Cisco et al won't start using it

Sounds like a good way to distinguish between vendors.
The conversation has moved on (meaning, you're right, and it's already been pointed out and discussed by others).

You should read the other comments before you add your own.
The percentage of visitors without JS likely doesn't make it worth it for the developer to spend time handling this nonstandard.

A site like this can definitely be created without JS, but it's their site and therefore their choice.
Come on, I'm exactly using it on a dynamic IP, but with a caveat: it's a forwaded port on the firewall to a machine on the private network which runs wg. That's how I remotely connect to my HomeAssistant installation. So just run it on localhost or a private IP and redirect the port from the dynamic IP.

I had to do this because I lost my patience while configuring OpenVPN on my Mikrotik router. Wg by contrast was very easy to install, a plugin on HA, and a QR code on my phone. No copying keys, no config, no BS. Van't wait for it to be included in RouterOS.

The only issue I had with it running on a VM was that the VPN would randomly fail for some obscure reason and I was left with a frozen terminal in the middle of a ssh session. So I switched to an existing OpenVPN instalation on bare metal which works flawlessly. I need the VPN exactly because my IP changes at every PPPoE session, so I can't use IP based ssh access.

Who cares if Cisco is not using it? Most commercial VPNs are junk or insecure anyway (PPTP I'm looking at you). They'll have to provide it when everyone uses it, just like they did with ssh.
But which ones and in which order? And in whose shoes?
I don't like to be treated like the next ordinary person. I want to be treated like the royalty i wish i am. So get on with it?

Remove the people with the "useless degrees" and you'd be left with shamans, witch doctors and a pathetic existence that can be ended on a whim by any civilization that kept its own people with the "useless degrees." That is what happened to natives in the Americas when the European touched their shores. Their demise was trivial. Not even with modern WMDs can you wipe off whole populations across whole continents that easy.

So if these people don't like to be treated idiots, they better stop acting like idiots.
Scandinavian countries have quite a lot of transparency and it works fairly well. I agree that humans are pretty corrupt but it can be mitigated in a lot of ways. I live in Scandinavia and yes, our politicians are corrupt as well but the systems and how people vote incentivise them to do the right thing most of the time.
“only 20%”
This article reads like every other defense of the old against the disruptive new. It can almost be found page for page in the innovators dilemma.

It is rooted in a lack of imagination. The entire argument is basically because this network does not do exactly what Cisco and the big VPN vendors with large enterprise deployments and bare-metal machines and thousands of end node clients it will not displace them.

That’s like arguing that the streaming will not displace CDROMs, because streaming cannot be rotated in a disc drive at a sufficient speed. The author acknowledges containers, but disregards the growth of zero-trust-networking and evergreen deployment models.

Technologies like Tailscale and ZPA, Docker and Snap, and immutable operating systems are being quickly adopted. These change the equation to the point that traditional approaches around ZScalar may feel as obsolete as a 5.25 floppy in a CDROM world.
Not a very convincing rebuttal? It basically is ‘some features are not yet
implemented (but in the backlog) and big Corp router vendors don’t support it yet therefore it is never going to work’.

Also, being a user of ipfire. They are far from stable and it feels a bit like projection.
I have a Mega SG. After years of suffering with dodgy Sega Genesis/Mega Drive emulation I now have a system that is damn near perfect, even better than the real thing in many ways. If software emulation could have given me this, great. But it’s never been able to come close.
I want to thank the mods for changing the title of this article posted here, my original title was a bit hyperbolic to say the least but I am quite worried about where this path leads overall.
Luckily you don't need a ship to transport bitcoin, you could use a telephone or TLS 1.3

Edit: or just keep your private key (which is best practice)
A couple years of worse prices from phasing coal out more quickly seem like nothing compared to the long term effects of climate change.

If we're taking about nuclear: I don't see any chance of Germany halting its phase-out of current nuclear plants. New plants meanwhile don't seem sensible economically
I have good and bad experiences with Pandora. The biggest issue was telling it I didn't like a song and having it recommend another mix of the same song. Dislike that one and get yet another mix of the same song
How is consuming some of these other digital products better than "surfing" the internet?

Most of the time I'm learning things on the internet. It also helps one find new hobbies. For example, I've been researching ultralight aircraft recently. I dont think I'll actually get one due to price, storage, spouse, etc. But it's fun to learn about.
Quantum computers aren't that powerful, in my understanding there should be no reason that a large quantum computer couldn't exist. [1] is a fun paper that discusses if efficiently solving NP-complete problems should be considered impossible in physics. In it it is also discussed why this does not exclude quantum computers.

[1] https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/npcomplete.pdf
so far in my experience it's a bit meh on both fronts. modules got rid of GOPATH, which is kind of nice. i personally never cared much about the whole SAT vs ...whatever algorithm rsc implemented (I forget the details at this point, which may be an indicator of how important it is the the user base...or I'm just ignorant of the benefit's I'm getting/missing)

having it be incorporated into the project is ultimately the real win, because it gives a target to consolidate round.
> Improved wages and working conditions for streaming

I’m trying to understand what this means. Was Netflix paying less than the rest of the industry or was there something else going on? The linked articles don’t have details.
Begging the question. It remains to be seen if the document I linked even is a piece of propaganda or disinformation. Being correct would be adequate defense against those accusations, wouldn't it?
At first I thought you were one of those who spent years not getting their first job, but no you worked in the industry for 7 whole years! Did you get paid much more than McDonalds wage during those years? Then you got rewarded for your performance! You are therefore a perfect example of someone getting rewarded for performance. Rewards aren't perfectly correlated with performance, no, but that doesn't mean that performance doesn't get rewarded.

Sure, it is hard to earn more than you earn now. But you are still earning way more than most, and all that required was to pass a few tests. How can you call that not rewarding performance?
Isn’t the whole point of declaring pronouns that it gives you the option not to be gendered, if you prefer?

If you’re a pseudonymous dog, your pronouns can be “they/them”.
The eye tracking thing I've tried doing at some point, a few years back. Unless you have hardware to support running neural networks it turns out to be way too power-consuming, even if it's push-to-point (you have to depress a key to move the pointer to where your eye is/was).

A4 format would be great, yes.
My dad, a nuclear physicist, always had his briefcase locked with the combination 137-731. As a kid I just knew it was "some important physics number".

(He never kept anything super secret in there as far as I know; the lock was just to stop it from opening by accident)
How come there were seven horsemen of the Apocalypse in the Bible?

and 12 disciples of Jesus?

and ten commandments?

It's real confusing.

maybe what it means since there's seven horsemen of the Apocalypse and six is the number for the human...7*6=42.

Maybe it means the horseman of the apocalypse and the human beings are going to be friends and the humans can get a ride on the back of the cool apocalypse horses.
Ah, but how many metaphorical bridges?

(but btw. the parent comment was a reference to the book, where someone tried to come up with a fake question, matching the answer)
You can earn 10% on your fuc**ng money
Firing in FAANGs is very thorough process as others have comments. The activist likely broke company protocol at some point, otherwise the company would be inviting a wrongful termination suit.

Something that is mostly unstated but widely understood is MeToo started as a good worthy and needed movement. Then people were dragged to the courts of public opinion never having been accused of any criminal misconduct, where the only apparent wrong doing was hurt feelings or making some feel uncomfortable. This turned MeToo from activist protest group in to a rogue militia twitter posse who is seeking out its next targets to drag through the muck. Unconfirmed and baseless accusations are deemed an acceptable part of their MO. If there was a self proclaimed MeToo activist leader in a company they would likely attract a lot of attention, both positive and negative.

Just as they have targeted others and they themselves have targets.
You would have fallen to a scam then ...
> they don't have a requirement or test for it.

Automated and thorough testing of client-side JavaScript is a huge, huge burden because you cannot simply run a script in isolation in a headless V8 instance or something: you need the entire browser and clone environment running.

Secondarily: the major tools for performing automated testing of web-applications within modern browsers are all lacking in some critical way, for example while Cypress automates Chrome fine, for some reason it loads the entire SUT into an <iframe>!!!! That alone will introduce massive differences from production, top-level browsing (the project is full of hacks that do things like re-write `window.top` so that the SUT can almost believe it's not running in an iframe, but enough differences leak through).

For all the effort Google put into Angular's Protractor, Chrome does not make this easy.
Iceland was hit very hard by the great financial crisis. Their banking sector was devastated. The dutch almost completely lost ABN Amro.

And of course Sweden had a major financial crisis in the mid-1990s.
The electrical engineer in me wants to see bigger and better grids that allow us to better utilize more renewable (and intermittent) sources. Show me that transcontinental or intercontinental or transoceanic HVDC backbone that lets electricity slosh around all over the planet. Just in the US I fantasize about an HVDC line that runs the length of I-40 alongside an aqueduct covered in solar panels to knit together the eastern, western, and Texan grids while also bringing the southeast's excess fresh water to the southwest.

The pragmatist in me (and the witness to the difficulty of getting anything built, and the greater difficulty of getting anything maintained) thinks grid investment is both unlikely to happen and even more unlikely to work well. In particular, transmission is low-value, high-risk, and expensive. It's low-value because distributed generation and storage are getting cheap. It's high-risk because high-power-density things are dangerous (check out all the Western fires started by electric utilities' transmission lines and switchcraft). It's expensive partially for good material and access reasons, but also for bad political reasons (NIMBYism and the fragmentation of responsibility for large land areas) and simply real estate rights cost. It's like trying to build California's high-speed rail but with less value-add, so it's going to be a horrible uphill slog of questionable merit.

So yes, I agree with you. More microgrids with more distributed generation and storage are inevitable. And I think that they're probably going to destabilize and likely kill the large-scale electric utility as we know it in ~50 years. I often wonder why more power companies haven't already become telcos to utilize their poles to distribute internet access.
The first step I think is making nuclear count as "green" for the the EU subsidies, and natural gas not.

Even if no one builds nukes with that plan, then at least all the green parties will be having more public internal battles over the issue.

See https://www.politico.eu/article/france-injects-e30b-into-str... for example for Macron staking his campaign on the nuclear subsidies.
Mathematics is not boring to those interested in it and pursuing it. It is a universal language.

Adding unnecessary complexity will take away from its "purenesss" and terseness. Language is not a barrier to entry.

You will then be graded on incomplete formulas but great storytelling.

Let's leave the storytelling to all the other fields of life.
Also it’s avoiding any sort of look at history - except super early on, I don’t think any of those large vendors have ever been the early adopters of any new tech or approach. They wait until they have a critical mass of RFPs or sales deals that are blocked by their ability to check that box before they spend the effort to implement it. And the customers generally only start asking for it once it’s already in wide use.

If Cisco did have it already supported, that would be the more shocking case.
I only heard that he picked it because it was the "funniest" 2-digit number. No idea if that's true but it seems in line with most other things in the books.
Conveniently, USB drives can be backed up.
Backup natural gas plants? Just throwing it out there, don't know if that would actually be sensible.
It must be 2006 again because we're having arguments online about the word free.

Usually the word free in "free and open source" is libre, as in freedom, not free beer.
Abstractions add a great deal of "default", potentially very complex, behaviour. This is great when starting a greenfield application. Even in extreme cases like RoR they work and quickly get a whole lot of things running. Fantastic. My newfangled thingamabob does something!

And then the application grew and you have the guys who have to watch and keep the application online when it's business critical. They HATE abstractions. Because 7 abstractions that are used throughout the application means there's 127 cases the developer hasn't thought through, at least ten of them a ticking time bomb. That's 128 possible cases, one of which the developer has actually thought about, 5 they have verified to be reasonable.

An easy case to show what's happening is the suggestion every new developer makes. "I'll just have a thread per connection, that's easy". And yes, it's very easy to get it running. It doesn't block during dev, it handles multiple connections and generally does the job. And it's absolutely guaranteed to crash you server for 10 different reasons in production. And yet, every new developer will (and should) do it.

There's just 2 camps developers in the world, who don't agree and this won't seriously change. Learn how the "other camp" thinks and you'll do better.
Sure, but when said company is investigating you officially then something tells me they are preparing to fire you no matter what
Itunes (well I guess it’s Apple Music now) does still support 5-star rankings, it’s just hidden behind a context menu. I still have a Smart Playlist (can you even make those anymore?) of my 4-star and 5-star songs that serves as my daily shuffle rotation.
Wow — some hot takes in there!

> Why BTC is worth exactly 0: Gold and other precious metals are largely maintenance free, do not degrade over an historical horizon, and do not require maintenance to refresh their physical properties over time. Cryptocurrencies require a sustained amount of interest in them.

And? None of these reasons mean it is worth “exactly 0” (not to mention some of them are just plain wrong). Gold requires sustained interest too!

Bitcoin continues to be the only “currency” (regardless of how practical it is in everyday life) that’s free of direct influence from government monetary policy or insider control. That reason alone makes it totally unique and extremely valuable.

> The customary standard argument is that "bitcoin has its flaws but we are getting a great technology; we will do wonders with the blockchain". No, there is no evidence that we are getting a great technology — unless "great technology" doesn’t mean "useful". And at the time of writing —in spite of all the fanfare — we have done still close to nothing with the blockchain.

It’s a technology in its infancy, and it’s also clear that we are doing useful things with crypto:

• DeFi has incredible potential to upset the power imbalance of the banking industry. It is rapidly democratizing financial instruments which were previously only available to the big guys.

• NFTs, whilst something of a fad right now, have established means of recognising ownership of digital assets.

• A global currency like Bitcoin makes international payments possible in areas where it would not be otherwise.
Nah, these questions matter now.