skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is there some nuance I’m missing?

Yup. They’ve had attestations. In those, an auditor just looks at an account at a moment in time. So you could, for example:

1. Get a loan

2. Put it in the reserve account

3. Ask accountant to verify the amount

4. Accountant attests to seeing money in the reserve account

5. Afterwards, move money out to pay off the loans

Sound crazy? Tether actually did this, it only came out in the NYAG settlement.

USDC uses a US accountant, but nothing in the procedures they use would prevent such a scenario. The auditor merely relies on management assertions in an attestation.
Don't know the clock speed but 8 cores at 3Ghz working on 128bit SIMD is 8316 = 384GB/s so we are in the right ball park. Not that I personally have a use for that =) Oh, wait, bloody Java GC might be a use for that. (LOL, FML or both).
What does better mean? I've never had any trouble finding exactly what I am searching for when using DDG. As long as I find what I want, does it matter if Google is "better"?
No waste disposal is wrong. For both solar cells and wind power. The panels are hazardous waste, and the carbon fiber blades are so far not economically recycleable, thus land fill material. Both last no longer than about 10 years, after that they are degraded too much, blades of wind turbines sometimes degrade even faster. Furthermore you can't put a wind turbine into the ground like a toothpick, especially not one about 200 meters high. They need massive concrete foundations, and if in a forest, broad ways to deliver and maintain the stuff. Guess what producing all that shit at scale means? More emission of the stuff you want to counteract the atmospheric effects of.

Never mind, shit happens.

Also stuff at sea degrades faster, and usually needs a shitload of continous maintenance to counteract that degrading. There is no cheap and clean storage at the scale needed, at least if you don't play stupid externalization games.

The needed stuff does not grow on trees and needs to be produced in energy-, material- and transport-intensive ways, emitting even more of the stuff whose atmospheric effects it is supposed to counteract.

Where were we?
> Apple has always been a hardware company though. Software has just been for the purpose of selling their hardware.

I'm not sure that's the right perspective. Steve Jobs said in an interview [0] that "Apple views itself as a software company."

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEeyaAUCyZs
My background is software, I do (mechanical) CAD just for hobby stuff, but I agree about the GUI being a convenient way of working on it.

What I desparately want though is an on-disk format that's plaintext, makes sense, and results in reasonable diffs so that I can use git for version control.

I just don't understand, being familiar with git, how people can work with 'save and mark new version' style 'version control' that's so prevalent among tools that have anything at all.
Fair-ish points. For on the go, they can still take their dedicated over-ear monitors though, thus reducing the compromises. Sure it's not the same but better than the alternative.
Not really, the performance will make your 2011 mbp feel an extra 10x older now.
> FAKE NEWS

Interesting opinion, it doesn't change the fact that many people are still mad about Rogan's comments.

https://consequence.net/2021/10/team-terf-dave-chappelle/

https://www.foxnews.com/media/the-view-hosts-clash-joe-rogan...
HN is a technical pride - if it ain't broken, don't fix it.
I like not having "notifications". I like having 5 minute delay between comments, you know, to let the world process that information as well.

Regarding inefficiency, I doubt it takes more electricity than running an average sized social media, content, messaging, notification, whatever platforms. So in a consequentialist approach it works.
I went through vimtutor multiple times, until the basics stuck enough to allow me to (mostly) work without constantly looking at a cheat sheet.

I used the VSCode vim extension too, which I believe eased me into it since I was already comfortable with VSCode.

I know the extensions are limited compared to straight vim, but IMO at a certain point you get diminishing returns with time spent learning your tools. Personally for me, getting proficient in normal, insert & visual mode was most worth it; I'm sure I'd benefit from learning how to do crazy macros, but didn't see a need to go beyond that.
While this is true, the user shouldn't be forced to setup near-required internet connection for the device to get it running. Seeing the dark patterns with Windows 10 has already motivated me elsewhere to switch to a Linux desktop at home.
Yeah, the right thing to do is to "quietly" announce your company's political views in the "subtext" of all your marketing materials, social media posts, company culture, and job descriptions.

People really do seem to forget how crazy the natural social separation is between the red and blue tribes is in the US. The CEO didn't really have to send an email for me to who they were voting for.

If you're okay with companies really obviously announcing their political affiliations in literally everything they do but not okay with companies being explicit about what everyone already knows then I think that says more about you than the company. Expensify is straight up not at all politically neutral, never has been, and doesn't really even pretend to. This wasn't a rogue CEO -- the employees voted on and helped write the email.
It is cute. Wish it worked in firefox though!
I always imagined it was because China could pay their employees scraps and didn't care about workplace safety.

No idea if that's accurate or not, though.
> I still marvel that they've built such a big company around a SQLite fork.

> Expensify is built on Bedrock - a private Blockchain-based data foundation atop a custom fork of SQLite

This seems just that they use Bedrock, which itself is a blockchain data foundation (whatever that means I have not much idea), then that thing uses SQLite fork.

For me this is more like someone uses ABSL or MYSQL. Not build around it, but just a small piece of tech.
Yes, CloudFlare has software, and I think that only further highlights the difference between a complex cloud provider and a piece of software. What good is CloudFlare's software without the vast global network to back it up? Pick a problem, though, and there's probably an open source solution though: CockroachDB for global HA dbs, there's a bunch of containerized drop-in S3 API replacements, etc. But something tying them all together requires a lot of ops work that you don't get through software alone.
The languages I mentioned all got generics during their lifetime, so yeah they were all more powerful than C.

C won due to UNIX, had UNIX not been a kind of free beer that companies could build their workstations with and universities avoid paying for commercial OSes like VMS, history would have taken a different path.
That's been a thing for a couple Intel generations now. I think only the 2016-2017 laptops had those horrible hodgepodge of arrow keys.
At my office they just gave up and replaced the HDMI connectors with USB-C connectors in every meeting room. Now it's the people with the older windows laptops who need a dongle.
The portable thing coming out of this is S3. Your S3 code runs on multiple vendors (and locally, with some hassle) too!
I guess I'm pretty much alone here, but I don't really like these new MacBooks.

The things I'm happy about:

- Function keys are back!
- They kept touchID
- Chips are probably pretty good
- Headphone jack, yay!

But what I really dislike:

- The case-design looks kind of outdated. I'm getting MacBook Pro 2006 vibes here.
- The base price starts at 2.000$ (2250€) !
- The notch... On the iPhone the notch was justified with a whole sensor array for FaceID, now we have something similar sized here for one 1080p camera. With a hole-punch I wouldn't have said anything; but here I'd rather have 2-3cm of bezels than a big notch.
- I really bought into the USB-C future! I know that's not the case for everyone, and the addition of the SD-Card reader is welcome. But the HDMI port seems a bit...strange to me. It doesn't really cry "future of connectivity". I charge my MacBook with USB-C I connect my screens with USB-C (to display port) and for my occasional USB-A and HDMI needs I get out my one dongle. This actually seems like a step backwards for me.

I know lots of these are highly opinionated, but...yeah: Bummer for me.
>though I also don't know if that is working yet on the M1 platform

Dual booting isn't working and likely not any time soon as Microsoft does not intend to support Apple M1 [1]. And I doubt Apple have intention to port their GPU Metal Drivers to Windows. ( Compared to using AMD Drivers on Windows in the old days )

He will likely need to use some sort of VM solution like Parallel. [2]

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/09/13/microsoft-says-wi...

[2] https://www.engadget.com/parallels-desktop-17-m-1-mac-perfor...
... and neither is the M1 (in any configuration) a "full blown 16 core desktop CPU".

Those will be called M2 and come later next year, according to the rumor mill anyway.
Yeah. I think a key sentence is, "It is impossible to consider this field of science without grappling with the flaws of the institution—and of the deification—of science itself."

The process of science, that is, actually checking to see if one's beliefs are consistent with reality, is essential to distinguish truth from falsity. Scientific institutions can and have done terrible things though. TFA references scientific racism; the eugenics movement is related to it and still-existing scientific institutions had a significant role in promoting eugenics. See [0] for a self-critical overview. That's the "flaws of the institution" part.

The "deification of science" part refers to how the effectiveness of science as a problem-solving tool gives a sort of halo effect (truthiness) to anything that adopts the semblance of science. That's kind of unavoidable; if something works, it gets status, and people will try to have some of that status rub off on them.

I sort of disagree with the article's statement that "pseudoscience has always been a core feature of post-Enlightenment scientific knowledge and it remains that way because scientists refuse to integrate contemporary science, technology, and society studies research into university curricula." Scientists are critical of themselves and their fields and teach and discuss the material covered in TFA. The author was trained as a scientist, and their critiques mirror those expressed within science; again, see [0] for an example. If you do human subjects research as a professional scientist, you receive an intensive education in the ways science (and medicine) has failed to treat people as people, and accept strong limitations and oversight on your own research activities. I also sort of agree with the author though because the same level of education is not generally provided with regards to science's role in sexism or racism, at least not to the same rigor as human subjects research.

[0] U.S. Scientists' Role in the Eugenics Movement (1907–1939): A Contemporary Biologist's Perspective https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2757926/
Oh I mean, you can say "its body of knowledge" instead of "truth" but the punchy headline still works. Indeed, be careful calling it "body of knowledge" -- this can imply a level of truth, and this is what the article is attempting to dissuade you from: the scare-quote-unquote "science" is standing in for science's body-of-narrative, which we should not mistake for truth.

As a physicist the headline has an air of truth but this interpretation does not go far enough. Science is not even "about" the narratives it generated! Go to a science museum with your little one. There's no science on display. There's technology, sometimes discussions of what was done, very rarely you even get to peek inside how it was done. Even that isn't science, but it gets closer.

What you miss is setting the child up for certain expectations only for them to be subverted. The process of starting to develop a test that would really discriminate between two options so that you can ensure your guesses are on the right track. The process of sticking with a problem for months. The process of doing something an absurdly hard way that you know works but will be very very tedious, then looking at the final solution and finding out why that solution would have "made sense all along," then using what you know to find a simpler way to do it.

The kid never comes out of a science museum with new heuristics to use to evaluate how they fool themselves and what might be done about it. They hardly even will come out with new technologies to see the world from a different perspective.

So the narratives that were generated by science were substituted for science itself, just as much as when you watch Sabine Hossenfelder you don't learn how to solve the Schrodinger equation. Nothing wrong with her work, mind, pop-science just is this way. People are interested on what the latest theory is because that's something that you can recite at a dinner-party. To learn actual science would require more than the 3-minutes standing in front of an exhibit that feels "natural" at a science museum, more than a 10-minute YouTube video. What is at stake is no less than a conversion from the passive to the active attitude.

Stop equating Science [active, transformative, bubbling, at-hand] with Truth [passive, informative, cold and still, inaccessible], indeed.
In both of those, it seems that you could hire a professional and ask them how to fix it. English as a second language for professionals is an incredibly common subject, he could easily find a class or hire a tutor. If it's holding him back at work then at least some consultation would be worth the cost.

For your spelling, it's probably not as easy to find someone targeting you as a demographic, but I'd look for someone who does tutoring for kids with dysgraphia/dyslexia etc. There's a lot of quite specific techniques that are used based on increasing understanding of the underlying causes of spelling difficulties - if you've never learned any targeted at your weaknesses, I bet you could make a noticeable improvement quite quickly. I'd aim for someone who is using research-based methods, since there's still a lot of more folklore-based teaching around on core skills like writing.
Obligatory, by now, value signaling in the article looks like customary gestures to ward off evil spirits. I think debating whether women are or are not intellectually inferior should be ON the table. It's widely accepted that women are physically weaker - although I wouldn't necessarily call that "inferior". It's an optimization. The problem is that low intelligence itself has become an insult, not that brain differences (statistical! On average!) might exist.

Think about small skinny guys. Short guys are often perceived as less attractive and less manly, so they often compensate for that by being gym rats or acting hyper masculine, or just trying to project lots of confidence. I've seen enough of them to think there is a trend. If people of one sex are consistently physically weaker, I can imagine it can cause changes in behavior and brain.

I want research to be done even in areas that are considered taboo. No one argues that men are more prone to physical violence, risky behavior and substance abuse. You can get away with saying lots of bad things about men in general, and it's almost fashionable now. I want it to cut both ways. No sex or "race"(skin color) or faith or whatever should be immune to criticism and study.
I read articles like this and once again realize that there are many trained scientists that have never read a bit of philosophy. The underlying theory of why the scientific method is so successful is there, and it's often ignored.

There is a reason why we use the scientific method, and why we know that our knowledge is inherently limited, and presents itself as a dance between inductive model-building, and deductive model extrapolation.

Science-as-truth should generally be always thought of as nonsense. Well done, falsifiable, repeatable, science-as-really-good-prediction is a much better model.

It's important to remember that even in the standard model of physics, behemoth of human achievement, is both incomplete and limited in scope.
I assume the addition of a local testing server to bring it up to speed with other languages improved things.
don't you see, the lack of examples is proof I am correct!!!
These chips are impressive, but TBH I have always been annoyed by these vague cartoon-line graphs. Like, is this measured data. No? Just some market doodle? Please don't make graphs meaningless marketing gags. I mean, please don't make graphs even more meaningless marketing gags.
For sure it depends on the quality of data and the target of the service. Basic knowledge in Elastic search will beat Google for confined data sets.

Major search engines have grown to the size where it is theoretical more beneficial to train a model and then query that model. In theory this will win but in the real world this will not work as we already can see with the failing Google search engine.
Maybe companies should adopt a practice of only hiring middle-of-the-road rational, calm, level-headed people, instead of people who are far left or far right?
If you work at a large enough company it all starts to look like someone else’s code.

The malicious person can always find the worst way to break everything, but dumb luck can get you pretty close.
Or, the police assume that everyone uses Google, so it doesn't every occur to them to ask DDG. It's not like the police are known for their tech-saviness.
People living on Earth: All on this page, one by one
The software side hasn't been there on x86 GP platforms, even though AMD tried. It's worked out better on consoles.
Why? Just don't buy that model.
Honestly I don't 'get' this.
It's the "Fuck you Jony" edition. Ports (including HDMI!), MagSafe, and no touchbar. Would be a fine laptop if it didn't have government spyware baked in that I can't turn off even if I power it down.
Ask HN: Paid email hosting for domains, but not Fastmail
I've been with Fastmail for 6 or so years. I am ready to move. Who should I consider? I'd prefer to not use Google or Microsoft, though I realise this might not be practical. I would prefer not to self-host, I just want email to work.

It appears Fastmail consider Mail.app on Catalina insecure, and it requires its own 16-character alphanumeric password to access my email via IMAP. I set a password, and tried it in Mail.app…and it didn't work. It did work in Thunderbird. I tried their pre-made .mobileconfig file to set up the account via System Preferences…and that didn't work in Mail.app.

I raised a support ticket asking for some guidance on what to do next – explicitly mentioning that the app password did work in Thunderbird – but was told my password was wrong and I have to reset it…and the ticket was closed. I've spent most of a day trying various things and I'm done. My email has been just fine for 6 years, it started getting a bit wobbly about a week or so ago, and I've lost all patience trying to resolve this. So, I'm looking for another provider.

I am looking at Protonmail, since I have no requirement for any of the Google or Microsoft productivity suites…anyone else sensible I could look into? I don't need turbo levels of privacy or suchlike, just a setup that works (that I don't have to self host, since I do a lot of that and self-hosted email is a nut I haven't cracked yet).

Thank you.
Reaper is so freaking good. The quality that the small Cockos team can produce is crazy. It's completely usurped Protools for my (now) hobbyist DAW needs.
Q: "Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks?"

A: "Chuck Norris"
It absolutely should be an option, but it'd also suck to lose that portion of the screen's vertical real estate in its entirety - especially when 16:9 / 16:10 aspect ratios already make said vertical real estate scarce as-is.
If you code full time just force yourself to use it. Disable arrow keys in the .vimrc. Find the most common 5 procedures you use in your current editor and write out how to do those in vim on a post it note under your monitor. Also print out the vim cheat-sheet and have it visible. You'll pick it up in a few days. No one is going to care that your productivity dropped for a week.
"Many" people is a weasel word, a couple dozen could qualify.

It's only an issue for the media-addicted and those who fill airtime for a living.
The only way to build wealth is by investing. The SEC gate-keeping this is outrageous.
I don't like the notch either but you can compare this to the Framework laptop? This is literally a monster in performance compare to some of the most high end laptops on the market.
Do lawyers that print off dozens of sheets per day even use inkjet printers? Most of the scummy behavior revolve around inkjet printers, and I bet most would have switched to laser because of its cost-effectiveness. This seems to be confirmed in my limited sample of office printers. I've yet seen an office that used an inkjet printer.
> The worrying trend without a counter force is authorities like Big Tech and institutions masquerading imperfect science as truth.

I think it's a matter of triaging problems. The situation we are in is that thousands of potentially preventable deaths are happening every week because a significant portion of the public trusts polemicists and Facebook memes for medical information more than their own doctors (this isn't intended to be hyperbolic or to strawman that position, I believe that to be a fair assessment of the situation.)

Is so-called Big Tech really being too tough on misinformation? And even if it is, is that an issue we should prioritize ahead of other measurable harms caused by that same misinformation?
Show HN: Computational Playground Design Tool [video]
They also have this in English https://www.axelspringer.com/en/press-releases/following-new...
I think Jobs had a point about designs that require a stylus. There were many portable computers before the iPhone that required a stylus. iOS was designed with fingers in mind and then added a stylus for some kinds of work. This is similar to how the original Macintosh had no arrow keys and forced developers to design for the mouse. Later designs then added arrow keys.
Doesn't retrograde imply that the procedure goes up the colon?
MacBookPro18,2
Someone in the thread said "it's the same in finance vs crypto now".

I wonder how tapering and rate hikes will affect this relationship. I have dabbled in weird edge-case-crypto territory, and even with all the scams, there's so much cool stuff and promise. But I don't know if it's sustainable given the overall economic context we're heading into.
>FAKE NEWS

You seriously reply with two more links to yellow journalism. I can't tell if you're trolling or not, but that's three strikes, you're out.
There are lots of jobs that consistently pay multiple six figure comp. To compare them to someone who realizes a one time capital gain from an inheritance or whatever is laughable. The two are simply not the same.
Agreed.

I think the big thing to remember is that "performance crown" at any moment in time does not have a massive instantaneous effect on the purchasing habits across the market.

I have no doubt that Apple will continue to grow their market share here. But the people that continue to buy PC will not expect ARM-based chips unless someone (whether Intel, AMD, Qualcomm or someone else) builds those chips and they are competitive with x86. And x86 chips are not suddenly "so bad" (read: obsolete) that no one will consider buying them.
I like Productive on ios, there is a degree of gamification there with streaks and the like - https://productiveapp.io/