skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the latest stuff that's now possible is very small form factors, variable focus lenses, and correction for people who need glasses including people with astigmatisms.
No it isn't. It's a bug that web browsers had FTP support in the first place - that's the job of FTP clients, browsers should just be handing off the link to one of them. cf the 'mailto' URI scheme - I think we've all come around to agreeing that web browsers shouldn't also be email clients.
what is wrong with that? Knowing that eventually it will blow up and knowing when that will occur are two different things.
Dude I didn’t even get to read one paragraph before your pop up took up the whole screen - I’m not going to subscribe to your newsletter or get your free book. Rather I stopped reading the article.
Become (in)famous enough and I'm sure historians would host your website in perpetuity.
Containers (8'x40' single-trip) were selling at auction over the last few years for $4000-5500. At auction in the last month I have seen the same item sell for $10000-14000.

Accepting scrap prices for a good container is a losing deal right now when the market obviously has room for them at a much higher price.
I'm honestly shocked that anyone even still makes them. Like I don't even own a device that is capable of reading a CD anymore. I'd imagine 90+ plus of Americans don't.

Interesting anyway.
I tend to follow musicians who are outside of the popular mainstream, such as fiddling, chamber music, jazz, etc. Many of the musicians still bring a briefcase full of CDs to each performance. I have asked them the hypothetical: Suppose I want to buy your recording but want you to get the biggest possible cut of the sale. Should I buy the CD or a download?

Answer: The CD. It is very hard for them to make money from streaming.

Something like that might be happening in other musical genres that I'm not as familiar with. If people are buying vinyl but digital music is effectively free, then of course vinyl will have more sales than digital.
A lot of shit that has been pulled on working women, where there's a point it just breaks (shitty work with little career prospect, no support, low wage and too much living cost) and they drop out of the work force, leaving them with few choices outside of marrying. For guys it can be more subtle, but bullying into marriage is still a thing depending on where you live. Making it shitty for singles can work in the long term (I'd argue it's been done for centuries)

Overall I think people refusing to build families is less on the expectations (though it has a role, I concur) than the overall economic situation where being poor/"middle class" is just so bad, anyone that's not dreaming of having kids just understands it's a bag of hurt all the way down.
Picking Colors for Pyret Error Messages
Lisp allows you to build compilers for your own languages. Compilers are a force-multiplier, but then you're the only one that knows your language.
it can be used to build better statistical modelling and computational tools that might, in the future, enable scientists and researchers to more efficiently or effectively figure out statistical or causal relationships -- and in some niche applications, e.g. in pharma or finance or insurance or advertising, that information might be valuable and help some people get rich. but the people able to capture the most value from those developments are unlikely to be the researchers or the people building the software tools.
I would pay 10x more for something made in America, because right now the defacto price is infinity.
Funny coincidence, I just started watching [1]. In it, Tyler Cowen makes the case that "Big Tech" is underrated, and around 6:30 he talks about the claim that YouTube radicalises people. He doesn't find a compelling case in the academic literature.

From a philosophical perspective, though, I'm a liberal -- if someone's videos are "unhealthy" but inside the bounds of the law, I think it's usually good for society for platforms to host them (though the companies shouldn't have a legal obligation to host them, and certainly need not promote them.) Grown-ups are grown-ups.

But maybe you're talking about actually criminal radicalization, like telling people to kill others? Not just asking difficult questions about the shape of the Earth?

1: https://vimeo.com/636460268. You may also be interested in the section after the one on "YouTube radicalization", on the Facebook whistleblower, around 10:30.
Interesting, the redirect works on all the news.ycombinator.com/PATH urls except /user
This is true. I’ve had both the Go and Quest2. The difference is between taping a screen to your face, and VR.
It works here on 4gb RAM device. But it will show warning that it may no run well on lower than 8gb RAM devices.
Stock android, vpn based firewall so you can block traffic in/out, camera notification notification, app firewalls to look for app communication, virus/root scanner. You can also degoogle the phone, turn off all sync, and use a fake google account just for app updates. Lock down 3rd party apps.

Then turn off everything you can in options on that phone, if you can root it, apk remove/freeze apps.

I de-googled, de-amazon'ed my phone, removed all accounts except google, and no longer use apps, i use a browser. (Except spotify/yt, because I listen to podcasts more than anything else.)

2FA on everything.
This is iOS, right now, and that's a fairly substantial number of users. It's not ideal but we also aren't hearing regular reports of iOS users being compromised en masse despite their browser monoculture.
They also became less durable along with pretty much all other appliances. A gain in features and the cost of waste. Hopefully they can be recycled st some point.
Thanks for this, I agree with everything you've said here. I agree that business skills will ultimately lead to wealth, but I would like to have a degree and be a graduate first.

I know it's going to be a struggle, and I hope I enjoy it at least a little bit if I follow through with CS. Employment is definitely not a good road to wealth, but with CS maybe I will learn those technical skills to make something of value later on.
NYC schools will replace the gifted admissions exam with a lottery this year
Taleb throws out controversial opinions for no other reason than that his brand is having controversial opinions and it keeps his name in circulation.
"the" hacker news?
Ok the contrary I found it very refreshing when they say they haven’t “seen eye-to-eye” in the first paragraph
How do you get this working on the Roku device?
I disagree, I liked the dragonfly inspired ornithopter.

Maybe not as originally envisioned, but I like the aesthetic.
> of course software is different, due to its globalised nature

Sure, not American, all the American software companies. They are global, unlike every other giant enterprise.
Love me my Thermoworks instant read. They do nice silicone scrapers and trivets as well!

I'll revisit the Kamado once I'm in a place where I can justify a grill that weighs in like a sumo wrestler. :)
>I think about how we can enjoy booting 30 years old retro computers and how the next generation will not be able to do the same because of locked down hardware.

This seems pointless. My old phone is obsolete. There is literally no reason I would want to use it over my current phone. I could care less if it was bricked.
> rising economic problems will prompt governments to start wars to exterminate "superfluous" population

The US is already doing this. The wars of extermination on the middle East are motivated by the desire to control the sources of oil, and when people react they're labeled as terror threats and eliminated. It is also not a new phenomenon, as it was already practiced to control the whole of north America and Australia in the past.
Thanks for the advice.

For the country's bitch part, I've got a green card waiting for me in the USA if I choose to study there. I fly in, and I'm already a permanent resident and then a citizen in five years. So hopefully that should work out
Nope, haven’t noticed since everyone is WFH now.
A huge asteroid will hit Earth.

There. Now are you going to call me this amazing prophet or just some schmuck who stated the obvious?
I wouldn’t classify floating point computation as deterministic
Have you considered how much VR is used for porn? Totally unrelated side note, but virtamate is um, probably risky for someone who feels like they could become obsessed with porn.
It's a test of intergenerational commitment, because you are asking the generation that bears the cost of construction to build something that benefits many future generations. But the future generations, even though they enjoy all those beautiful old buildings provided to them by their ancestors, are tempted to go cheap for the building they need to build themselves.

So as people become disconnected from the great chain of being that connects your ancestors to you and you to your descendants, they start to build ugly, disposable buildings.

Perhaps one approach might be to provide lower interest rates to buildings based on the expected life and maintenance cost. So a building that is expected to last 500 years would have a much lower annual interest burden than a building expected to last 70 years. That would require some type of government guarantee for the 500 year bond.
It requires no such thing. Police have argued (successfully) many times in many jurisdictions that the mere possession of large amounts of cash is suspicious in and of itself, and being able to show legal sources is pointless because the argument is that it COULD be used for a crime.
> apocryphal

I think you mean anachronistic there.
I think that's because usually with "elitist" programming languages you can freely play with ideas, way more than with other languages. I remember reading in "The passionate programmer" that they increase their signal to noise ratio a lot when trying to recruit Java developers by looking for Smalltalk developers.
I'm no expert, but I believe many of these ships aren't designed to transport liquid cargo. In fact when their solid cargo starts to act too much like a liquid, things go south real fast: https://www.theshipyardblog.com/liquefaction-of-bulk-cargo-e...
Yes, I laughed out loud and loved to see this because I've never heard anyone else articulate this opinion but me. I thought I was the only person who felt this way.

Now that I think of it, this sort of faux functionalism bothers me in other domains as well. Fake pockets, decorative buttons that look as if they are functional but are not, and so forth and so on.
Edit: this was intended for a child comment sorry
In Defense of King George
I see no reason to suspect there's much overlap there, and in any case this misrepresents both arguments. Climate change doesn't need to render the planet uninhabitable to all life in order to devastate human civilization; if we are forced to abandon the coasts, it will be the biggest refugee crisis in human history by orders of magnitude, and hundreds of millions will die in the resulting chaos and scramble for resources. Meanwhile, Mars is a barren tomb world, and, at best, living in a colony there will be a physically and psychologically exhausting prospect, and has no chance at exhibiting any real self-sufficiency for hundreds of years at best, let alone anything resembling civilization.
> Should I buy the CD or a download?

> Answer: The CD. It is very hard for them to make money from streaming.

For what it's worth, and I am not a musician and maybe every deal is different, the people I know who earn a living from playing music have told me that buying the physical CD or buying a digital download from an online store like iTunes or HDTracks nets them within a dollar or two of the same payout.

There's a substantial, as we all know, earnings difference between buying a CD and streaming the artist on a platform like Spotify or Apple Music. But the difference between buying the CD and buying a set of MP3s or FLACs or the like is, supposedly, far smaller.

(If your preferred artist is on BandCamp, I've been told it's even smaller or almost to the point that the CD makes them less money than the download.)
BTC are like casino chips. When you goto Vegas and at the Bellagio you give them $100 and you get back $100 worth of Bellagio chips, those chips only have value INSIDE the Bellagio and if you take those chips outside to a 7-eleven and try to pay for a slurpie and a taquito the 7-eleven guy will tell you to get lost we do not accept Bellagio casino chips. 2-cents. BTC value is an illusion they only hold value inside the BTC network and they are worth what the next sucker will pay for it. Yes you can make money from anyone inside the network who's willing to pay more than you did. Maybe i don't know what im talking about but im not the only one. 2-cents.
"Bitcoin will fail, it's just a matter of when" would not be considered an obvious opinion, or even an acceptable one, among most Bitcoin enthusiasts.
So true. Anyone that is smart enough to be president is smart enough to not be president.
That's great for equal powers. When one power is weaker than the other, it's a recipe for exploitation.
Now anything with native bindings is broken if you so much as sneeze.
> Taleb throws out controversial opinions for no other reason than that his brand is having controversial opinions and it keeps his name in circulation.

That’s true in general, but not particularly relevant here (except perhaps to demonstrate that this is a statement inconsistent with his reflexive pattern) because “Bitcoin is a tulip bubble without the aesthetics” is a pretty mainstream opinion, if one that a lot of mainstream proponents of have softened on (it is pretty close to Krugman’s position before that softened to a “a cult that can survive forever”.)

Actually, given his “not-bearish” line, which suggests he isn’t predicting imminent demise, only that is irrational to be on either side, his position seems like (despite that one line sounding like Krugman’s old position) it is actually identical in substance to Krugman’s more recent opinion: bitcoin has no fundamentals holding it up, but an indefinite supply of cultists that makes it unsafe to predict it going down at any particular time.
Well, are you shorting precious metals that will be on the asteroid or what?
Part 2: https://youtu.be/oGsajLIALJE
Do you have cake you can hand out too?
China is in a _much_ different place than the USSR was: for one thing hundreds of thousands of Chinese have advanced degrees from Western universities. A lot of them have industrial experience as well (as well as probably copies of trade secrets they could divulge if the CCP really insists - we even catch the dumbest of them in the process of doing so from time to time). As if this wasn't enough, the West has outsourced darn near everything manufacturing related to China. If they want 5nm, they'll have 5nm, within 5 years or less. And if they can't have it, they'll just take Taiwan.
I'm just curious about what warrants a 5 year news blackout for security reasons.
Did he say anything controversial?
If I recall it was more tame than the story itself.
Many U.S. law schools have LL.M. programs if you do get an LL.B. Such a degree, if from an ABA-accredited law school, would then entitle you to sit for the bar in the United States.

That said, I was admitted to the bar 12 years ago, and I often wish I'd taken the CS route. Your mileage my vary.
No. As long as you're preforming speculative execution Spectre vulnerabilities will persist. (Meltdown was different and solved.)

The good news is Spectre style vulnerabilities are extremely hard to use and indeed have never been observed in the wild.
Also, good security practices (only run trusted code on your own dedicated machine) provide full protection against theoretical Spectre attacks.
Without Microsoft software, Ransomware would not hardly exist. I think the “downhill” has been a huge cliff for the past few years, but it’s getting worse. Nothing drives Azure business better.
Software Crisis
It’s super interesting for combining scientific models with modern statistical computation in a flexible way

Also, randomized algorithms for all kinds of things are very useful in general-purpose computing
It’s definitely possible to get done, I work in a place where we deployed a testing product with similar architecture and it took about a year to get approved.

Some ability to host it or build a dedicated instance would be easier for us, but if your experience shows the market doesnt care its probably not worth the time.
How about all the military reservists and the voluntary soldiers/marines [and specops] unwilling to comply who will find access to capital from decentralized communities?

Fun times ahead, stateside and abroad…
> Rising energy costs - coal and crude - have pushed up prices of raw materials such as phthalic anhydride, cuprous chloride and urea. These are used to manufacture CPC Blue (Copper phthalocyanine blue) crude, a key ingredient of pigment blue, which in turn goes into the making of various shades of blue paints. [0]

[0] https://m.timesofindia.com/city/ahmedabad/gujarats-bolt-from...
On the US conviction rate: page 8 of https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao/legacy/2013... says "Of the 87,709 defendants terminated during Fiscal Year 2012, 80,963, or 93 percent, either pled guilty or were found guilty. [...] The rate of conviction remained over 90 percent, as it has since Fiscal Year 2001." I believe that "terminated during FY2012" here means that they went to trial, and their trial ended during that year.

That does seem like it's the figure that's formally comparable to Japan's alleged 99.9% conviction rate, no?

It may well be that in the US, as in Japan but to a lesser extent, cases are dropped when it doesn't seem like they will get a conviction. And of course the US tries very hard to persuade people to plead guilty by threatening them with extra-harsh sentences if they don't but are found guilty.

What apples and oranges do you think are being compared?

You said that 99.9% of people accused of a crime in Japan go to prison and have to work there. Which of the following do you disagree with?

1. Only about 40% of people accused of a crime in Japan have their cases go to trial at all, rather than being abandoned.

2. Only about 15% of people convicted of a crime in Japan go to prison.

3. If only 40% of people accused have a trial, and only 15% of convicted people go to prison, then at most 6% of people accused go to prison and have to work there.

4. 6% is smaller than 99.9%.

You haven't given any justification for your claim that "the only reason Japan hasn't collapsed to about 30% poverty like Greece is because of the forced labour". Again, there simply aren't enough people in prison in Japan for anything like that to be true.

You say you don't believe their figures. That's your choice, I guess. But it seems like quite a stretch, especially if you expect this to rescue your claim that forced prison labour has somehow saved Japan from otherwise inevitable economic disaster.

The official figures say that about 0.4% of the Japanese population is in prison. What fraction of the population would have to be in (I think almost all low-skilled) kinda-sorta-slavery to make the difference between an economy like Japan's and an economy like Greece's? I can't see how less than, say, 4% could do that. (I'd actually have thought it would need to be a lot more.)

In other words, for your theory to work, there'd need to be some sort of secret prison population ~10x the size of the official prison population. How are you suggesting that happens? Do you think lots of people who are officially reported as having been fined were actually hauled off to prison? (How come their friends don't notice that the official accounts have been falsified?) Do you think there are secret prisons in Japan that no one knows about, where these people are held? Or what?
Show HN: Kids Are Waking Up – Individual Sovereignty
Don't know if you've read his paper on Bitcoin, it's a decent one, it roughly boils down to two points: 1) no benefit in the meantime for the holder (such as a dividend or direct utility from the thing itself - a painting can be hung on a wall to look nice), 2) non-zero probability of perishing over any time period. From those two premises one can indeed conclude that the asset should be valued at no more than 0.

On the surface this is right, however I'm wondering if the first assumption is actually true. People do get some sense of fulfillment from participating in this "revolution", sticking it to the "big system", protection of capital from the "insane inflation", or just plain bragging rights (ex: laser eyes). Should this type of a benefit exist indefinitely then the conclusion of it being worth <= 0 isn't correct.
United States spends $3.8T+ (yes, _trillion_) on "healthcare", up from about $1.2T in year 2000. If you think people who own Congress will allow this overloaded apple cart to be even slightly upset, let alone destroyed, you're out of your mind. ACA was effectively a trillion dollar giveaway to them, by design. This is also why costs are "rising" - the direct beneficiaries are writing laws that benefit them.

Don't get me wrong, I too wish the Moon was made of cheese and everyone held hands and sang kumbayah. But I also recognize it won't happen in my lifetime, not with the government as corrupt as ours.
Various comments here talking about the conversion rate of FB/Goog. But for me personally Spotify is the one way ahead - I get ads for gigs I want to go to, and buy tickets a double-digit percentage of every time they come up. A dreamy business model.
> They're all working on their own chips because there isn't a viable server ARM chip.

AWS Graviton 2 ARM instances offer better performance/price than their intel instances. Does that qualify as viable? Or do you mean AWS has to make their own because there isn't one "off the shelf"?
> I believe that “terminated during FY2012” here means that they went to trial, and their trial ended during that year.

It means their charges were resolved during that year; very often (guilty pleas plus charges dropped) without trial.
And here's me just picking the burner size that matches the pot/pan size
This problem does happen, but committing node_modules won't fix it. Assuming the npm registry doesn't dissapear, npm will download the exact same files you would have committed to your repo. Wherever those files came from, 4 years later you upgraded your OS, and now the install step will fail (in my experience usually because of node-gyp).

Unless you were talking about committing compiled binaries as well, in which case every contributor must be running the same arch/OS/C++ stdlib version/etc. M1 laptops didn't exist 4 years ago. If I'm using an M1 today, how can I stand up this 4 year old app?

The real problem is reproducible builds, and that's not something git can solve.
Can people please stop inventing the performance of a chip that doesn’t yet exist.
The people who own Congress are the citizenry of the US as a whole.

The people that rent members of Congress, OTOH...
Graphics cards don’t really have anything to do with the pandemic. It’s more to do with scalpers and crypto clownery.

Some countries have had absolutely disastrous bouts of covid this past year (like Vietnam) and it screwed up supply chains a lot. Companies canceling orders because of expected drop in demand that didn’t happen are all rushing to put those orders back in, and it turned into a mess. There are plenty of factors at work here because each country that contributes to the chain had some different sort of problem.
Every system has a downside. Container freight is awesome, but it creates systems that have to constantly move. When the systems stop you get whiptail effects that can cascade.

Ports are natural chokepoints. Just like Apple or Google or Facebook extracts a toll, so too do the ports, longshoremen, port truckers, etc. Their rent seeking is baked into the system.
January 6 insurrection and Facebook: Internal docs paint a damning picture