skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Expensive watches are supply limited

Exactly like NFTs. Not defending NTFt's just pointing out your argument isn't making much sense as presented.
To add to gus_massa's referenced dang's earlier comments on this, it would also be harder to moderate. HN has limited moderating resources, yet dang et al do a really good job.
LilyPond: Essay on automated music engraving [pdf]
A trip down memory lane!
Correct. What I was trying to get across in my earlier reply is that a URL isn't quite treated the same as their name would imply these days. I could see why that might annoy purists, but these days there are browser APIs that enable modifying URLs (which modifies the "back" history) through Javascript, without actually doing a full reload of resources.

So even though you're requesting a different address, you're technically not getting an entirely new "resource." No matter where you hit the address, you'll get the same base blob of HTML/css/js, but going to the URL directly will fire the proper navigation (through js) to get you to the spot you requested (which may involve loading different resources, dynamically).

Hopefully that explanation makes sense
Obsidian just looks at the folder you specified and all files created with it are just plain text. You can work in notepad all you want and use the software to view the rendered markdown.
Have you tried switching to Wayland?
Al Bundy remembers, four touchdowns one game, Polk High. And you know, Im okay with that. I could care less whether anyone else remembers or even notices. To me what's important is I do.
Twitter is adding ownership verification for NFT profile pictures.
As a former game developer, I don't get why the people start from scratch by developing their own rendering engines or even game engines. Using Unity, Unreal or even Godot is helping you to launch your game 100x faster.

I know it might be fun to develop your own engine but it will take a lot of time and it still won't be as usable as an engine developed by 100x more engineers.
I don't use this, but am also not surprised at this turn of events.

Also, I feel vindicated in steering clear of Samsung's continuous efforts to get me to enable their cloud sync on my phones over the years.
> Link to a more readable version with less bullshit on the screen

There's no need to do that when the site is compatible with reader mode in browsers, which is the case here.
I keep IPFS companion turned on constantly but when I hit a site that's getting loaded through IPFS it often takes so long that I end up turning IPFS off so it just fetches it from the central server
You can see what people own by their wallet address.

The watch example is apt, similar to a Richard Mille being a flex that 99% of people won’t ever notice or understand it conveys status.
Take a look at IronDB too. High scale distributed implementationd.
If Obsidian weren't proprietary, I'd probably be excited for it. They do make it easy to jump ship, but I'm still both morally opposed and skeptical. If they really had your best interests at heart, they wouldn't keep any secrets. While the company appears not to be evil at the moment they could change their mind at any time, potentially without you knowing.

Instead I've chosen to replicate Obsidian's functionality in VSCodium. The parts that are missing (Mostly advanced search/scraping functionality) writing scripts to do. This works well because I've already modified almost every aspect for writing code. Extending it to notes should be relatively simple.
> fixed point was very important back in the days when CPUs didn't have dedicated floating point instructions

That's a misconception, before widespread dedicated hardware (eg on-chip 80x87) there was software-emulated floating point arithmetic (eg Microsoft Binary Format) for general use. In contrast, fixed point solutions are very narrow purposed, that is, you choose a specific binary representation format so your specific range of values would fit with acceptable precision.
I’ve never tried Pop!_OS but I hear such good things about it from people that have that’s it’s on my rainy day list of things to have a toy with. That and NixOS - but for very different reasons.
https://archive.is/Ei1ic
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28692612
Highly regulated, not highly regulated. It's important people don't look too much into this defence because what matters is people get the treatment psychiatry says people need and praise be to it.
I disagree. my grandma, my mum, my gf and most of my friends understand the concepts and processes of personal banking. crypto is complex and unforgiving and not very userfriendly for that reason. i doubt that they would ever be able to use it in a safe way.

Finally, normal people want service. I got scammed online while purchasing a leather good. My bank helped me to charge my money back. Paypal does that, too, here. Alone this feature makes cryptos a nightmare for regular users.
> Link to a more readable version with less bullshit on the screen

You linked to a totally different site that derives revenue from advertising. So, a site that is making money on the intellectual property of the original site without contributing anything back as far as I can tell. Plus you are directing traffic away from the original site that may gain new readers for the good work they have done on this interview. I'd say your link is the BS.
Maybe because there aren't any mature alternatives yet?
Proxmox is excellent. I have a headless machine running a bunch of VMs with GPU passthrough on Proxmox and it has been chugging along with no issues.
I deff would like to see a 100MW sand system built out.

I think the sand direction is deff an improvement over the 300 delta_C systems now with (NaNO3, KNO3, NaNO2) at the 900 delta_C in used in the pdf, but idk if it will win out in the long run with the need for direct contact vs some kind of sCO2 system with higher delta_C mixtures (for example a theoretical mixture CaCl2 + MgCl2 with 1500 delta_C, or even engineered metamaterials[0, i've only seen some specific examples of electromagnetic metameterials when i was in school about a decade ago, this post was about a year after i left] in a mixture to have even higher delta_c).

There's only so much one can do when one limits the materials used for heat capacity to naturally occurring ones (i imagine that compounds in the future could be engineered to be at least a order of magnatude higher in delta_c from natural mixtures).

[0] https://news.brown.edu/articles/2012/10/quantum
> A "bunch of crooks" is what you get in any market that operates without oversight or regulation.

That's unfair.

The lack of regulation will pretty much guarantee the existence of crooks in the market.

That doesn't make all market participants crooks.

I do participate in that market once in a while, try my damndest to respect the laws of the jurisdiction I live in, even when I passionately disagree with them.

Also, I have never tried to swindle anyone in my life. In short, I don't consider myself a crook.

However, I am completely fine with operating in a market where I do know there are crooks. I try to remain vigilant. If you don't like it, just stay away from it.
I was shocked over the $279.00 sensor. (I was looking at a watch winder on google. $90 at Amazon. $1.90 at ali-something shipped from China. I knew things were cheaper direct from China, but this suprised me.)
IPSec takes around 30 lines of config to setup using strongSwan and can be setup in minutes. But there are lots of footguns which makes it a bad protocol for non-experts to secure.

Wireguard on the other hand is secure or off.
"Productivity", like "passion" before it, has now become meaningless.
You can, but there is variability and it's not entirely predictable. So you can be sitting alone out the back waiting for that odd big wave to come along while other smaller waves pass you by and are caught by surfers closer to shore. But you could be waiting 20 minutes between waves, or you could be out there for more than an hour waiting for that bigger wave never comes.
Today's NFT is nothing; it has no value except for its speculated price. I hope that a good company can take advantage of this craze to have some functionalities related to cryptocurrency and NFTs.
> Who's doing the scheming, I wonder?

As with all pump-and-dump schemes, obviously those who pump it.

Let's put it differently: what concrete, real-world, tangible value is there driving crypto speculation? Is there any at all?

It boggles the mind how crypto proponents try to frame crypto in general and their own investments in particular as something that has this sky-high intrinsic value based only on potential popularity and a belief that they can pump them up indefinitely.
I've seen outline links being posted before, so I assumed it was fine. There's ads on this thing?! I didn't know, I use a blocker and never saw any ads. For that I apologize, and I will remove the link.
If you want something like Honeycomb but scales better then maybe look at Druid.
Oracle’s New Exadata X9M Looks Disruptive
I'm pretty agreed on the latter point -- I do expect that we'll see real regulatory pushback, especially in the US, if the dollar's status as a reserve-currency is ever in question.
Because you’re probably waiting with the crowd near where the smaller waves are breaking so you can catch those. Some people do just wait further out for the bigger waves, but they miss out on all the smaller waves breaking closer to the beach in the meantime. If you had more warning you could go out before anyone else sees the larger set coming in. Other people will usually see it in time to get there, but you’ll be first in line.

That said, I don’t think it would be worth it. You usually don’t want to take the first wave in a big set anyways, because if you miss it then you can get stuck in the impact zone for the whole set.
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Big sets like the one he’s talking about don’t come by very often. If you sat outside waiting, you’d miss 20 minutes of catching smaller waves.

And if you just watch for bigger waves from where you can catch the normal ones, then you’ll have a dozen other guys to fight for it when it comes, since that’s what everybody else is doing.
(2019)

Anything new here?

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20625440
> So of course, if you are a woman, if you can do STEM, you will. Some will enjoy it, others see it as the way to not live as unprotected lower class.

And how does these life choices of these Indian women differ from the life choices of the Indian men? Do they all do STEM only because they enjoy it so much? Seems like you are speculating about a subject you don't know much about.
I actually use this technique on a PR based workflow.

In BitBucket, you can make multiple PRs from the same branch.

> I guess I could run the merge, and resolve the conflicts locally, then push a separate branch to make a PR with for each target with the original+merge commit inside.

Yes, that's basically what I do. Though most of the time, I don't need to bother with the merge commit, because I only do this dance to get something into both master and release, but they haven't diverged too far, yet.
why not use a throwaway

don't be too proud of this technological terror you have constructed (death star reference)

what about small companies trying to get user feedback

if you don't want emails, use a throwaway. hurting deliverability of legitimate businesses is no cool amigo
Eli Creole - 400 Mawozo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkY5_Q1mYR4
I'm not planning on working on anything related to systemd in the near future. If anything, I will write a config generator/type spec for startup/Upstart in Nix.
Countdown to Cisco Wireguard with proprietary extensions and all kind of incompatibilities. :(
ACH replaced real clearing houses. Some banks have implemented rapid low-fee transactions, but not all. It's not unreasonable to assume that banks will widely implement an ACH replacement that makes this advantage of cryptocurrency exchange irrelevant.
This is really cool, starred right try out at a later date.

Question: what does GUI virtualization actually mean? Does that mean the OS runs windowed in your existing DE? I’m guessing that means no HW acceleration. Is it possible to selectively pass through the GPU for a KVM-esque experience?
> Also: the US is but one place in the world. There are quite a few folks on this earth that aren't burdened with a US passport, and quite a few places that don't have capital gains on crypto sales.

Many other countries are taxing bitcoin as well. In fact it's the rare exception (Google seems to indicate about a dozen) that doesn't tax bitcoin. Your original statement about bitcoin being a way of avoiding capital gains taxes is simply false for most people.

> It is my admittedly limited understanding of US tax law that - as long as you don't sell - you aren't getting taxed on gains (unrealized capital gains).

And of course capital gains only happen when you sell. That's why it's a gain (the difference between the sale price and purchase price). That's the same way selling stocks works too. You only pay the capital gains tax when you sell.
Can't you sign a lot of time the same hash? Just use another initialization vector, salt, hashing algorithm, and you get a new nft.
KDE is certainly closer to Windows than GNOME is, but in my opinion only enough that longtime Windows users would likely find it sitting an uncanny valley of Windows-ness, at least with all the default configurations (which most new users would be using) I've seen.

In practice I've found that Cinnamon, XFCE, and MATE configured similarly to how they are by default on Linux Mint to operate more like Windows than KDE does.
It's written in TypeScript...
The military uses human silhouette targets so that you learn to estimate ballistic compensation from the sight picture geometry. It is part of basic training. A target that is round does not provide useful visual cues for estimating ballistic compensation as might be seen on a battlefield. You only have a second or two to estimate range and make appropriate ballistic compensations based on what you see in the sight picture.

The US military stopped having people punch holes in paper targets a very long time ago. In the 1990s, you trained on a field of varying silhouettes that randomly pop up for only a few seconds at ranges anywhere from 50 meters to 300-400 meters. You were expected to detect the target pop up in a busy field of view, estimate range from silhouette geometry, compensate for ballistics based on the range estimate, smoothly pull the trigger, and still hit the target most of the time before the target disappeared again. It becomes muscle memory but it is all based on silhouette geometry in the sight picture.
Have you heard of Riemannium? (not serious)

https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0101014
> All assets can be roughly divided into few categories: currency, debt, equity, derivatives/bets, collectibles.

Says who? Your Econ. 101 book?

You flippantly decide that no new class of asset can ever come into being and decide to present it as one of the fundamental laws of nature?
> Ride sharing is only profitable if Uber and Lyft don't pay the drivers as much as taxi drivers.

If that was true then how do you explain that there are countries where Uber rides are actually provided by taxi cabs?
>how to spice them up with narrative

Oh, Lord; NO!

I would like see all Human Narratives/Unnecessary frivolities/Assume-reader-is-a-Idiot language banished from the Teaching of ALL Maths/Science.

What we we need is a focus on the direct teaching of Principles along with their Real World Applications.
Sounds a little ominous, a bit like a warning, used here the word "disappointing" is rather passive aggressive
This would be even cooler if it could be end to end encrypted. E.g. client side it spits out a decryption key, and encrypts all traffic with it. Then on the browser, you paste that in and it will decrypt.

Obviously you have to trust the javascript to not do anything nefarious with your data, so maybe it’s not really adding much security.
Why? For those people it's at worst a neutral argument, as getting migrants ain't bad for you (and is arguably good).

Of course, now we'd have to discuss who 'you' is. If you are talking about individual people, or about eg some statistical measure of the country or county as a whole.

See also https://openborders.info/keyhole-solutions/ which would suggest to eg just charge people to immigrate.
There are some great titles where the whole game was built around a unique feature provided by a custom engine. It probably wouldn't have been possible to do "Teardown" in Unity, for example; not without making some serious compromises, at least.
Or then it is just that people have been trained to click boxes as other one contain ToS. They don't even read the text next to it...
There are some flaws in the argument:

.NET has today more funding in Microsoft than ever (this is a gut feeling from seeing the things they move).

The argument Project being part of the foundation equals de-facto is not correct. I think there is zero evidence for that. It is however often the other way around, that successful projects fold into the foundation because of it being the de facto foundation and no other foundation has strong ties to .NET
Yep. So in a final answer to the original question of backwards bug-compatibility (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28897534), it seems that it will be retained under the current proposal.
That would be sort of cute compared to my guess, which is something like "Biden is soft on Russia to censor small local stations."
Inbreeding gets a bad reputation in humans because we have poor genetic diversity and endless recessive diseases due to going through at least two near-extinction events (population bottlenecks) that took us down to 2000 and 55000 humans.
https://gizmodo.com/extinction-events-that-almost-wiped-out-...

Many animals can inbreed with much less downside.

There are lab mice that are entirely homozygous (inbred until every gene they have is identical). They're not quite as prolific as normal mice, but they survive.
Yes. See eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dematerialization_(economics) however: we are really using less stuff. Especially per capita.
As I have finished watching the show, it's like it is hyped up at a certain point. It's quite interesting, but as a developer, some terms don't make sense.
Awesome work, thanks! Great to see clipboard support with Windows.

Would love to eventually see Windows apps behave like Linux apps on a window level, instead of displaying the whole Windows VM.
Probably because it’s experimental and is not mainstream yet.
> so long as a lot of people don't cash out at once

A lot of people can’t cash out at once. Teather isn’t obligated to redeem to USD, it’s not just a scam (them not having backing), it’s just overall an absurd situation.
“Give me your money and I’ll give you a note that says I have your money, and then I’ll never give you the money back, but perhaps you can exchange the note to others for money?”
Sampo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampo_generation

Also, Lying Flat (now banned in China)[1]; the Church of the Sub-Genius[2]; Moloch[3].

The God of Economic Growth eating its supplicants.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_ping

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius

3. https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
I met Roger briefly as a presentation on J at SFSU.

He seemed like a mellow, straightforward person and I enjoyed how he explained a one-page long set of c-macros that expanded into the initial J compiler (written by Ken Iverson or someone else).

I remember asking him, "How do you debug something like that" and he said "don't make mistakes".
IPSec can be set up in minutes if you have a working config to copy and paste off of that matches what you're trying to do. Otherwise, expect hours of scratching your head trying to figure out why it's not doing what you want.

Source: I'm an infosec professional and general systems guy and I use IPSec at home with StrongSwan. It took me several hours to set it up and I still run into issues from time to time.
"LUKS and Nvidia driver not compatible"

I've used Nvidia binary drivers with LUKS full disk encryption for years, on laptops and on desktops, and it's just fine. I can't even think of a possible way they would interact.

The framework laptop looks interesting, but there are so many misunderstandings or inaccuracies in this writeup that I personally do not trust the benchmarks or other details to be accurate.
[2021-09-22] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28621057
It's less useful as money because so many people use it as a speculative asset.
Mouse Mouse (a computer mouse made out of a real mouse)
I get the rationale. it just makes for one more layer of indirection that you have to overcome when trying to figure out what the configuration actually looks like.
Unfortunately not this one but thank you
-25% flash crash when there is a minor economic event (if even that). What happens when there is a major 2008 style economic event? What happens when billions in BTC need to be sold in a day because a large entity needs to cover their margin call? Crypto has no floor.
My sense is that crypto would also go tits up. I don't disagree about problems with traditional finance, but I think that asset valuations, including crypto, benefit from those problems.
> Your original statement about bitcoin being a way of avoiding capital gains taxes is simply false for most people.

Only if they decide to sell.

Also, only if they're not willing to do what it takes (i.e. move to a jurisdiction with no taxes on realized cap. gains and toss the US passport out the window for something better).

Finally, you haven't addressed the "barter" case (trade BTC directly for goods). I'm sure the US has found a way to tax this on paper (the IRS seems to be the only functioning part of the US govt these days), the question of enforceability is a different one.
Likely the government will determine the value of the house, deem your disposition of the Bitcoin to be equivalent to that , convert to USD and send you a tax bill.

This is pretty common around the world: barter doesn't get around taxes (at least at large enough sums)
Purchases denominated in BTC are treated as realized gains or losses:

> cryptocurrency users must deal with capital gains and losses in addition to whatever sales taxes they might face at the point of sale.

> For example, let's imagine you bought $10 worth of Bitcoin two years ago and it has since appreciated to $100 in value. If you sold it on an exchange, you'd have $90 of realized long-term capital gains, just like you would with any other capital asset.

> If you instead used that same $100 worth of Bitcoin to buy groceries from the supermarket, you'd still have to pay long-term capital gains taxes on the $90 difference between appreciated value and your cost basis.

https://www.kiplinger.com/taxes/capital-gains-tax/603117/how...

> If the fair market value of property received in exchange for virtual currency exceeds the taxpayer’s adjusted basis of the virtual currency, the taxpayer has taxable gain. The taxpayer has a loss if the fair market value of the property received is less than the adjusted basis of the virtual currency.

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-14-21.pdf
Was it really alchemy or proto-chemistry? After all Newton lived in time when chemistry was only starting to be defined. And it took quite a while to come up with proper ideas.