skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt enough people will read this for that to happen.

I think what's important is not the breakdown, but the demonstration of pain. You can probably recreate this genuinely by focusing on the specific who and what around your customer. Who are they (in his case himself/his sister), why are they in pain (reconnecting with his sister/her brother), and I guess you probably need a way to turn that pain into a gain, but it sounds like that last part is something you iterate on, so it's not as big of a deal.

You don't have to shout at VCs to be interesting to them, but shouting at VCs is a way to show VCs both the who and the what of pain, which they find interesting.
Finally a great use for the MacBook touchbar!
Small airplanes still use a leaded aviation fuel known as Avgas. I think of that every time I drive by the airport in the middle of Renton, WA right next to the lake.
https://generalaviationnews.com/2019/06/06/the-future-of-unl...
Great article about Yars Revenge and one of my favorite Atari games:

https://www.polygon.com/2015/3/9/8163747/yars-revenge-is-a-j...
What happens when the people you manually re-followed share content you dislike?

What I'd use Facebook for is keeping up with friends - for that it doesn't have to be the largest social network around. It would probably be better at that purpose if it was smaller.
The shfmt parser seems re-usable: https://github.com/mvdan/sh (syntax subpackage).
BTCUSD basically forgot what down is on october 1st. a great many things happened in the time between that and today. attributing the current price to just one event is naive - but convenient.
Where are you getting this information from? Is it from this study [1]? Real money is also going into crypto [2, 3, 4, 5]. I think it's quite an accusation to say that Tether is always the reason crypto comes back. People also "buy the dip". In some cases, maybe it is Tether, I don't know, but saying in all cases that it is Tether making crypto bounce back seems like a stretch to me.

You assume you know why it bounces back every time after reaching whatever bottom it does, so, I'm also wondering, what do you think triggers it to start going down after reaching its tops?

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3195066

[2] https://www.microstrategy.com/en/investor-relations/press/mi...

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-03/novogratz...

[4] https://news.bitcoin.com/kevin-oleary-crypto-exposure-greate...

[5] https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/28/investing/tesla-bitcoin/index...
The problem with solving the mystery of consciousness is that we don't even really have a definition of it that makes sense. Until then, the answer will inevitably be 42.
It's not a forest. It's a field, the same as wheat or corn, just that the product is different.
I totally understand that, I'm not a young mind anymore, and I get that most of these are pointless superficial tricks. I spend most of my days venting about the state of computing (especially since web2.0 came and replaced a lot of stuff with bloated regressions in many offices)

But I considered readline a good addition, not a waste of time and neurons.

ps: I stopped using zsh/fish, my emacs theme is the vanilla theme.. you forget about these 'improvements', for real tasks they don't matter.
Does VC (read: capitalism in general) encourage sociopathy? Yes. But what you wrote reads a little intentional/conspiratorial. It's not a case of "VCs want to control the monsters", it's "if the cold rational decision is to fire 10 people who won't be able to afford rent, you'll be more successful as a businessperson if you do that rather than being an empathic human being and refusing to fire them".
>If you have to write forceful "It's not dead! Really!" blog posts

How is this different from modern languages making similar posts about how they're very active?
> What do we call the generation of around 1980

We call it people born around 1980.
Implementing Switch Case in Python
It wasn't just old hardware. Upgrading from SunOS to the early Solaris versions on the same hardware was noticeably slower. 2.4 was the first usable version IMO and it improved a lot by the time 2.6 was out (but then they dropped support for older hardware).
A book strapped to your face = vr headset
> Wasn't this the promise of the internet? A place where any and all information could be free?

Is it not? I do not think the promise was that any and all information on someone else’s computers would be free.
The real problem with these kinds of posts is the equivocation in the word "dead".

People wanting to defend languages (also APL lately) want to implicitly use a definition something like "0 people are using it and no work is being done in it", but by that standard you can't ever declare anything dead. That doesn't make the definition "wrong" but it does make it not useful. The purpose of a definition is to split the relevant set of possibly values into at least two non-empty sets.

Other people are looking at the first and second derivatives of how many people are using it, how popular it is now compared to its height (in the programming language world it's already a problem if your "height" of usage isn't right now), and the likelihood of it ever coming back.

From that point of view, Perl 5 is, if not dead, certainly very close. To me, most tellingly, Perl 5 has no plausible path that I've heard for acquiring some unique value proposition that can give it a new lease on life. As I said in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26567151 , in a lot of ways Perl's biggest problem right now is that it won. It convinced people that its way was good, and as a result, Perl's previous value proposition has been incorporated wide and far in other languages. The only time I pick up Perl now is when I have the need for a seriously heavy-duty string munging task that fits into about 200 lines, and I get huge wins from the RE syntax in Perl. And by time-of-use, Perl is probably my "best" language, the one I've used for more clock time than any other. Even so, that's where I am in 2021.

I would encourage the community to either decide that it's OK just continuing on as it is, or decide that it wants to try to find that new unique value proposition that will give it some sort of unique value in 2023 or 2024. But there isn't an option where Perl continues along as it is and it experiences some sort of burst in growth. You have to pick one, you can't get the advantages of both.
That's overly reductionist. It's more like saying that there's no point in raising the drawbridge because there's an open window the enemy can shoot arrows through.
That and finding the symbol on the the keyboard if it lacks the APL labels. I learned it with a small reference card I placed on top of a standard IBM PC keyboard.
Certainly the "news feed" has to be the most used feature? From shoulder surfing some Fb users, it seems like users spend most of their time scrolling until something triggers a response. Then back to scrolling...
This old RFC came up elsewhere in the thread and sounds like a similar idea:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1806
> The trisolarans use a device that meddles with the results of particle experiments, to make the results super unexpected, so the scientists will commit suicide out of desperation

I actually liked that concept, and I think if participle experiments unexpectedly stopped working a lot of scientists would lose heart.

But (SPOILERS), I couldn't get over the mechanism they used. They program two protons to effectively do their bidding flying around the world causing havoc. They communicate with the protons instantly and the protons can move around on their own, hear and see everything, effect people's vision, effect equipment. Honestly it wasn't really clear where the capabilities ended. It seemed so plot-convenience-y that it ruined the first half of the book for me. Which, despite people's criticisms here, I did like.
I feel like the notion of "Awesome Lists" (https://github.com/topics/awesome-list) were built for such a topic!
Split Ring Resonator
It would probably end up looking like western Texas, where resource companies go through and buy the mineral rights from the property owners. It's rare to find a plot of land where you actually own anything you dig out of the ground anymore.
Just a nitpick but the process of crystallization evolves energy rather than involves. So it’s proceeding to a lower-entropy state. If we wanted to trigger such a transformation we’d have to involve machinery so you’re right in that sense. But there are other ways in which the universe stumbles into lower-entropy states sometimes, including crystallization from a super-saturated solution. Super-saturation could be driven by something as simple as the day/night cycle
Conclusion 2: there is disappearingly little connection between IQ and socioeconomic status :)
Something that doing custom development proves with every new client...
Convert macros to functions in the Python C API
So I'm not a fan of metaprogramming or heavy abuse of tricks for convenience either, and I do get and agree with your point!

But for some anecdotal nuance concerning the React example:
> Take React for example. It's an abstraction, arguably a new "language", and requires ample documentation and usability concessions to be palatable. You could accomplish this with macros as well.

I feel like the standard before React was just every (web) framework inventing its own templating language, whereas I found React to be really easy to learn, because the way it abstracted things were straightforward and well explained. It's tooling however is one of the scariest things I've ever seen haha.
The Car Shortage Is About to Get a Whole Lot Worse
> I wonder how many other greybeards that cut their teeth on SunOS prefer FreeBSD over Linux today?

Not a greybeard but I certainly reach for a BSD when I want to "use Unix".

Linux is a quivering basket case that cant decide if its Unix, MacOS or Windows.
You know I had the domain metafirm.co and someone purchased it from me on the Sedo marketplace after a year of being on the market on Monday. Wondering if you are right.
Is this really different than say vegetarian being demanded to take work in slaughterhouse?
The day Google and Mozilla will merge, they will make Goozilla, even more frightnening than Godzilla.
Actually none of the zero-condom users reported getting a STD. My theory is that zero-condom users tend to be much more exclusive and to have fewer clients, or to do this closer to part-time?
Why not? I'm interested because I mostly hear good things about the way LaTeX output looks, and as an amateur font geek I'd like to understand people's objections to it. Sure, it's off topic, but that happens aplenty on HN no?
Growing an Open-Source Hardware Infrastructure
a college dormmate asked if I was using my video card to mine something he called "bitcoin", apparently I had some AMD Radeon model that was better than all the other cards at the time

i laughed and went back to playing counterstrike

i miss 2009
The Mindset of Good Managers
This assumes humans are interesting NPCs. I feel like we're the bizarre comic relief planet for the really interesting players to have the space adventure of the day.

I understand your point, though, but even if it was true, keeping track of all the physics in the Universe's filler would demand more processing power than what is needed for our planet. The speed of light would be our rendering depth, and that's still an unthinkable amount of computing, copy-paste included.
I believe https://metacpan.org/pod/PDL would be the closest Perl equivalent, but it's not my field and I haven't used it.
Could you link, please? i would like to see that.
there's exactly 0 chance futures aren't hedged with the underlying.
Why wouldn't it work? I've used it many times and it works fine. Also it's far from its final version as of now.
The actual title is "Bitcoin jumps to new high above $66,000 after landmark U.S. ETF launch". You are not supposed to editorialize titles.
Mona Loading Dark GIF
I'd be watching for pigs on the wing.
Oh, I think you can still chase a few pointers up the Tree of Evil from advertising
> I find mac's unix to be really a weird variant

It's closer to BSD than it is to Linux. Not super similar, but closer, especially in ways one tends to notice on the command line.
What I wish would die is discussions of the death of languages. It's as useful as classifying people as good and bad athletes. Everyone is better or worse at some sports, and the threshold for switching from good to bad is purely arbitrary.

It's better to have discussions with substance. "Perl job advertisements are down 34% in the last five years" might be useful. "Perl lacks libraries to do [task]" might be useful. "Perl is dying" isn't.
I echo these sentiments. It's a truly surreal experience if you're comfortable with firearms.
Why are we no longer having a discussion about the environmental impact of Bitcoin?

A technology designed solely to burn fossil fuels has no place in society.

How is the price still going up after all the conversations we've had on this topic?
Apple switched to zsh because newer versions of bash are licensed under GPLv3.
Or: How do you make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.
Hmm...I thought that was an option...but nope...longest screen timeout I can set on my Pixel 3 is 30 minutes.
>A handful of countries are organizing their own crosscountry remittance systems.

USA can just bomb them into the approved currency.
My pretty extensively customized zsh config with ohmyzsh takes maybe a quarter of a second to load... Maybe I don't have as customized config as I thought because if it is taking a second or more I can't imagine what is being loaded.
The AtariAge database of 2600 games is more complete but the more the merrier.
Neal Stephenson, having coined the term in his book Snowcrash, is probably getting a good laugh out of this.
Open-Source RISC-V SoC for *Any* FPGA
Most people are really attractive with the right clothes, makeup, and attitude.
When USB was first being sold it was supposed to connect everything. Monitors, modems, network cards, peripherals.

USB has been letting everyone down since 1998.

I am floored at the ports. Floored. Apple LISTENED? Like, seriously, LISTENED to its customers? I thought HDMI would never come back.
They have no duty whatsoever to make their platform healthier, and honestly it's getting repetitive, hearing people bemoan a completely-optional-to-your-life social media company for being too good at getting people to talk to one another.

And no, there is no possible argument you could make that says you must use Facebook because of anything Facebook has done except be extremely valuable and easy to use for its users.

Nobody has to use WhatsApp, nobody has to use Instagram, they choose to because other people decided to use them. It's not Facebook's fault entire governments decided to run out of WhatsApp, and those governments/your friends could switch to/add on a different platform if they wanted to, they just don't because what Facebook offers for free (the network) is a lot better than what other technology offers.
It seems the lesson here is that changing things out from under someone isn't a good look. What would have been the cost in not changing users' shells for them?
I feel while decks are terrible they force whoever said intelligent individual to sit down and try and package all their thoughts into a cohesive narrative. If they can't do that, then they have a seriously problem ahead of themselves getting capital and people to come work for them.

Alternatively - if they can't do that as they are really good speakers, they need to find someone who can translate their in-cohesiveness into something digestible for other people. This skillset is very rare and I would argue is super important in the early days alongside building effective product/executing/product fit.
There is a lot of fuss on Youtube about Earth 2.0 metaverse
Mona Lisa Octocat
I can say confidently I couldn’t figure out what a line of APL code did 2 hours after writing it myself. I had to write comments at almost 5:1 ratio.

In other languages it’s easier to communicate “why” you are doing something, while in APL it’s the “how” that’s easiest.
> it's pretty comical to think that conservationists could ever come up with enough money to seriously outbid oil and gas companies in lucrative areas

It would be less comical if there were a global carbon tax that reflected the actual costs of the externalities of fossil fuels. And yes, I know that's not likely either, but a boy can dream.
To be blunt: my suggestion is to ask for forgiveness rather than permission. Most people who technically hold the rights to those older games won't care enough about them to enforce it. If they do, they'll almost certainly start with a C&D which is basically free to respond to. Very little risk. By the time you're large enough for them to care about, you've already succeeded and can ask for permissions properly.
I’ve spent hours trying to find a review of transparent mode on AirPods or any other similar transparency modes with regards to reducing wind noise amplification while still allowing sounds of cars etc. through. I’m looking for a good solution to listening to music while riding a bike that’s safe but better sound quality than bone conduction. Sadly I can’t find any objective measurement of these combinations of noise cancellation and pass through. I can’t even find a review that mentions if this is how pass through is meant to work vs just passing along all sounds. If the latter then wind noise pass through sounds like a good way to completely ruin your hearing. I guess these days all we can find is marketing and reviews that amount to puff pieces with rare exceptions.

Would you be willing to give a personal experience? Have you tried transparent mode in windy conditions?
White paint made using lead dates back to at least 2500 years in Greece.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but to open a payment channel with another party on the lightninng network (for example Starbucks to buy coffees) you need an onchain transaction. Then when you finally want to settle all of the lightning network transactions (pay your tab) you need another transaction. So you need at least two onchain transactions for every merchant you want to trade with.

The reason this doesnt scale is because for 100 million people to open one payment channel, it will take over a year to process all of those transactions. That wouldn't happen though as the transaction costs would skyrocket to the point people wouldn't bother.

Am I wrong? Genuinely, this is how I see it and why it cannot work.
>"This changes also simplifies making tiny freebsd images with only sh(1) as a shell"

What's the current process to make extremely small "minimal" freebsd server install?

Is it Nanobsd[1], because the unfortunate downside is that the base can't change (I realize that's a feature) and for a web server or database server that might not be ideal.

[1] https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/nanobsd/
It remains pretty crazy that he made the defenses he did given Netflix have previously pulled episodes of Community for having a joke about how blackface is bad.

Doesn't exactly seem consistent other than "we spent a lot" on this mess.
Atleast epic's MyChart runs on Android and iOS.
IMO the energy needed to manufacture, install and operate all the wind turbines and PV panels would approx cancel out the benefits of renewables ( do we even have that quantity of raw materials readily available ? or would it take an asteroid or two ? )
Whether you use bash, zsh, or most any other shell, back up your configuration files. On almost any internet-connected system, I'm three steps away from my setup:

1. Install prereqs with package manager (curl, git, zsh, vim)

2. Download and install oh-my-zsh

3. Pull .zshrc, .vimrc, etc. from Github

4. (optional) Add workarounds because Windows Terminal still can't handle color and cursor position codes.
Dropbox didn't invent uploading stuff to the internet.
It's an Electron ‘app’ that can open arbitrary files.

This isn't the sort of API that unlocks some previously impossible feature, but DOMPurify is incredibly slow and I would trust the browser's implementation more, obviously. Rewriting DOMPurify better has always been an option, but that's not an easy value proposition for most developers, hence the best we've got is still DOMPurify.
Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it! May I ask why do you find it confusing? I’d love to improve it.
LOL this is a very rebellious thing to do (editorialize the title) but I got a good kick out of it regardless.

Hacker News is bad at understanding the game theory behind Bitcoin and why it will stick around. Instead they see it as suboptimal software, which is true in a lot of ways, but in the end it does not matter. Network effect is everything.
I appreciate the care here! I do think he very clearly should not have assaulted me, and I also think I made a mistake by not screening him. Both are true! I have no sense of guilt or self-blame around this, I mostly have "Oh, I failed to do a thing that would have protected me, I'll make sure to do that next time, good to know."
What was the price premium you paid to get that single cable experience? 1000$? 2000$? between the hub and monitor?
>>“If you want to change the system,” Gilovich said, “you’ve got to make people think in systemic terms.”

or put another more accurate way, if you want to take money from people, you have a dehumanize them, abstract them away into a caricature instead of an actual human to be empathized with

You must dehumanize them.
Dave Chappelle belongs to a minority too. In fact, a minority of a minority (black comedians) - unlike most trans. Watch the show, he talks about this too.
@beat was a full decimalization of time (1000 'beats' per day).

This is just giving new, universal names to hours. I can see this working a lot better than the alternative (use GMT/UTC everywhere) as you'd always have mental contention as to whether you meant a time in local or GMT. This way you don't need the additional label. And I could imagine getting used to the idea that my workday lasted from P-X & the other geographical zones had their common hour blocs.

Potential issues:

* 0/O ambiguity

* presumably the day flips over when the hour goes from X->A, which means sometimes it's tomorrow already.
DDG also just uses the bing search API for all their results seemingly. They claim to use other sources as well, but in the tests I conducted building Kagi last year, it was always identical to bing. They must have a special deal with microsoft because the API fees at that volume are completely unsustainable, as in the operating costs are 5-10x the theoretical profits from advertising. If they were actually scraping, this wouldn't be a thing: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/ad...
~/.zshrc:L1:"zmodload zsh/zprof"

~/.zshrc:EOF:"zprof"

Doesn't take long to track down the culprits. nvm is a huge contributor to startup lag, IME. I am not a frontend dev, and rarely have to touch Node, so I comment out anything nvm-related for daily work.
I likely will never be able to advertise escorting as Aella due to legal risks and due to Onlyfans removing anyone who reveals they're an active escort.
Pinterest shares soar following report PayPal may buy it
Yeah, if anything it'll add btc to the market and lower the price, rather than increase it. Anyway it's just the approval, and not the actual distribution.