skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m sure you can imagine a formula. If you’d like to share a particular formula that works for determining the “intrinsic value” of any arbitrary asset I can explain why it’s wrong or meaningless.

Sure. Net of assets minus liabilities. Book value.

> EUR literally floats wrt USD. There is no coherent way to disagree with this.

They both change value with respect to eachother but neither is priced in the other. Goods in the US are priced in dollars. Goods in Europe are priced in Euros. Euros are not priced in dollars, and dollars are not priced in euros. They're independent and exchangeable at a market rate based on relative purchasing power and demand.

The price of a euro is not determined by the dollar - although a rate of exchange exists. The price of an apple in the US is determined by the dollar. The price of a dollar isn't determined by the euro. The price of an apple in the EU is determined by the euro. I'm sure there's a name for this.

> Yes they are, any time someone does an FX trade.

I see what you mean, and yes the rate of exchange floats.

> I think you meant “1” since you didn’t disagree with scarcity.

It's not scarce, you can just build up. We impose artificial scarcity with zoning considerations, but it's not inherently scarce.

> Try bringing EUR to a US Apple store.

Why would I do that? I don't live in Europe, I don't participate in the European economy. I can exchange one for the other, or have Visa do it free of charge, as they participate in both. Currencies only apply within their boundaries of acceptance. The euro is not a currency in America which is kind of the point I'm making about acceptance. It's a currency somewhere but real estate is a currency nowhere like gold.

So given it carries few (or IMO very few) attributes of money and is not used as money anywhere and its price fluctuates with respect to a currency, it's not a monetary asset. It's not monetized. It's totally independent.

> Do you really think that’s why Nixon suspended gold convertibility? That’s a… very charitable explanation

I don't really care why we got where we got - the result is better. FDR really took the US off the gold standard in 1933 - following the UK ending the gold standard in 1931 "abruptly and unilaterally." [1] Nixon simply killed off the last vestiges.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard
I would assume matrix displays with multiple LEDs for brighter output would still mostly put them in series, because a single LED voltage drop doesn't make for a nice voltage to work with. With parallel strings of LEDs in series, statistics helps match I-V curves. But perhaps some uncommon design constraints make some signs work out the other way.

There are always going to be exceptions (like your 2 cell battery example, or "LED throwies"), but we're talking about the common scenarios. In general I think talking about putting LEDs in parallel is just confusing for anyone that's reading an article to know what size resistor to use.
But how much faster is Windows 11 than Windows XP?
one surprising interaction with ls i had recently was that it coloured files with capabilities differently, but it was pretty difficult to figure out what was going on.

and that looks like a recent change, as in 2012 someone complained that ls didn't distinguish those at all: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/LsShowCapabil...

so i had an executable that was behaving unexpectedly, somewhat similar to the linked write-up, which ls showed with black text on red background. for a while, until i remembered about capabilities, i couldn't figure out what the unusual colour meant. eventually i found the word 'capability' buried in https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Gene...

compared to that, exa seems to be a bit more obvious with its '@' indicator (it would be nice if it was documented in the man page and not just in https://the.exa.website/features/long-view) and the -@ option to print xattr/capability names.
It doesn't have Fantasque Sans Mono, unfortunately.
“anti-American/tech/white/male/journalism sentiment”. That’s a lot to take out of a story about a woman with the polio. I’m sad what’s happening to this site.
If you create a problem, people will beg you to sell them the solution.
It's for emphasis. You might see this stylized as with the hand clap emoji between words in other contexts. HN isn't advanced though to support emoji, however.
I've been on HN for 13+ years now.

I can assure you that there's a better way to get the right to downvote than pretending you don't understand at all why someone would say Windows is more usable than Linux, and not posting anything other than a quote and a wish you can downvote.
Awesome...Now will have to go next time in Alabama. They do tours of the Studio!

https://muscleshoalssoundstudio.org/

https://muscleshoalssoundstudio.org/pages/gallery

Past artists using the Studio:

- The Rolling Stones

- Aretha Franklin

- George Michael

- Wilson Pickett

- Willie Nelson

- Lynyrd Skynyrd

- Joe Cocker

- Levon Helm

- Paul Simon

- Bob Seger

- Rod Stewart

- Tamiko Jones

- Cat Stevens.
The word "this" does not refer to the bug, it refers to the use case that produces the bug. I.e. it is shocking that a dramatic/obvious UI bug in a common use case was not caught.
What should it cost?
Thoughtworks Technology Radar, Volume 25 [pdf]
>As some others have mentioned, expecting any sort of health benefit from an ultra-processed candy is pretty ridiculous.

Yeah. Pop-Tarts are my go-to example for my rule of "if you eat something unhealthy it should taste correspondingly good enough to make up for the hit to health". They fail it, badly. They're unhealthy and don't taste nearly good enough to make up for it.
I think this is a wrong measure for something that is happening constantly. We can calculate excess deaths from Covid because we have base (a year before the pandemic), but we can't calculate excess deaths from fossil fuels because we don't have anything to relate to, anything changing.

Every person needs to die and so in a steady state world it does not matter whether we are using fossil fuels or not -- the number of deaths every year will be the same (ie. the same as births). So you can't really say there are any excess deaths because there is no excess we can measure.

What would be more useful is a measure of how much it impacts average lifespan and healthy years (ie. how many years you can expect to live in relatively good health).
The bad actors in this space are the ones pushing fake bitcoin, like BCH and BSV. I agree that XMR might be the only true cypherpunk project left, because no institutions are keen to admit they trade in it.

This model of federated multi-sig wallets is actually a cypherpunk move. Blind signatures disconnect the transaction graph, like XMR.
There are dozens of us I tell you, dozens! In my case I saw the light after two years of programming in SmallTalk, where our dev images shipped with Cambria by default.
> "reMarkable might do it for me if they had a more powerful CPU onboard and a way to get your code to run on it so the device can be tailored to solve more use-cases."

The reMarkable is very intentionally an e-ink notebook and very little else. If you want a device that can be tailored to solve more use cases, one of the e-ink Android tablets would probably be a better choice.
> Weird because Russia isn't really a nation-state.

Its a nation-state in the functional sense (a Westphalian sovereignty) but arguably not in the politico-social sense (a nation-state in the functional sense that is also aligned with a single national identity and vice versa), though like most Westphalian sovereigns where that is true, works very hard to align national identity with the state, and the former sense is mostly a clear, concrete distinction [0] while the latter sense is a platonic ideal which is, at best, approximated, so binary inclusion/exclusion is always something of an arbitrary line-drawing exercise.

[0] And mostly corresponds to status in international law, but there are exceptions
As everyone else said: please hide the font names.

As is, I ended up with my current reference font. No surprise.
> We removed the trackpad and, lo and behold, there are cut-outs to access the pull tabs that hold the middle battery cells in place.

That's not exactly what I was expecting based on the headline. Still seems pretty complicated.
IME Windows update in 7 and 10 do not "just work"

On both, there have been updates that spin for hours and fail. This has happened on multiple machines in multiple environments and MS "support" is a massive convoluted time suck. Maybe I'd get real support if I or the non-profits I support were Enterprise users.

I've had update issues on Linux as well to the point where I simply reinstall on a major update. That's easy to do on Linux because it is free, but a pain on Windows because it is not.

Every Windows box I support is eventually going to get replaced with a Mac because time is valuable.
> ~2k Twitter followers

I think you read this wrong. She's following ~2k people, but she has 185.7K followers (and 1.46M subscribers on Youtube).

> There may be some information that I'm missing here.

Other posters have provided a bit more information that might change your interpretation of why Naomi tweeted this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29015822

> But if you're starting from a place of NPR being too right-wing or bigoted, then I've seen enough.

I agree with your assessment of Twitter being mostly self-promotion and race/gender-charged drama, but no-one said "right-wing." I don't think an accusation that any media outlet cuts out facts that don't fit their narrative can be dismissed out of hand these days, unfortunately. I don't have a strong opinion about NPR, but I can see how Naomi _might_ not fit in the narratives they try to push. But I acknowledge that I'm being a bit intellectually dishonest, I'm not bringing any evidence to bear here either.
what do you mean by "why more"? you can always have more. are there not enough for you at the moment?
I'll say that you probably shouldn't be into cassettes these days if you aren't interested in learning how to do basic maintenance yourself (cleaning capstans and the like). You can pick up a tape deck on eBay or find one on the street, so it might seem like it's not so big a deal if they fail, but without an understanding of how easily they fail, the amount of money / time / storage space you spend on them can rapidly outstrip the amount of enjoyment / nostalgia you get from using them.

Both tapes and tape players can be in poor condition. If you stick a dirty tape into some old tape player, you can end up with gummed-up capstans, which can snag the tape and destroy it... and then you may have no idea how to remove the tape without damaging the tape player. You'll suddenly be evaluating your hobby and wondering if you want to buy a new one or try to rescue the one you damaged. Or you might have a dirty head, which scratches the tape, and you might not figure it out and ruin some perfectly good tapes.

Long ago I remember seeing a guide much like this for VCR repair. Although it had fewer images, it had much more text. I haven't been able to find it since.
> If we're talking 'average user could probably get on with this'

We were talking about two things. What you just outlined, _and_ since you listed distrowatch's ranking I pulled out metrics from a job supporting a very, very large number of Linux systems.

And I'd argue that if you're looking for a consistent, modern, GUI based experience, then that correlates with the distros with an actually decently sized userbase with large corporate installations. They're the ones that are supporting Linux with people who wouldn't try to run Linux on a dead badger.

> then the only one there you mentioned really is Ubuntu.

> Fedora is close but in the end is really just a staging platform for RHEL. If you want to use any proprietary software /drivers you're likely going to need to enable RPMFusion etc.

What users end up doing instead of installing RPMFusion or somesuch is just downloading .rpms and installing them. If that's out of bounds for an average user than so is Windows with essentially the same model of downloading an exe or msi.

> OpenSUSE I haven't used in a long time so can't really make a comment but I know it's well established in the Linux space.

It's big in the European scene, particularly corporate and .gov envs. There's a language barrier at play hence why it doesn't make as much noise. There are millions of people using it as their daily driver though.

> Debian is really more suited to the server environment & CentOS/RHEL actually are server distros. If the average user tried to install Debian if they managed to install it they'd likely end up with a system with lots of 'stable' (synonym: outdated) software & struggle to get anything proprietary installed (or OSS - does it even have a software store by default now?)

I literally said "Debian and CentOS (or RHEL if you pay for it) on the server". I was digging into internal metrics so that you could have a better idea of what distros are actually being used by my than 1k people, and which ones have nothing better to do than botnet distrowatch.
I'm on desktop, using Firefox, and it's just an empty page with a red border at the top for me.
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I use magnetic tear away cables for a lot of my gear. They have magnetic tips for lightning, USB-micro and USB-C.

For stuff like charging headphones, LED lights and other random gadgets with mixed plug types, I use charge-only cables for that stuff, and it's been super convenient.

There are also magnetic cables that support limited fast charging and data, but only at USB 2.0 speeds, so that could still be a deal breaker for some people.
I think you’re missing the entire point of the joke.

>If you come across a $100 bill, chances are you are in fact the first person to come across it.

The economist assumes you won’t be the first person because of market efficiency. Your assumption above disregards this. It seems like you are having a hard time reconciling that with the imagined scenario of seeing the bill, because the assumption is someone who noticed it previously would have picked it up. The fact that those two don’t reconcile is the whole point.
Any apple repair they are going to make you wait. They don't do much of anything in the store anymore these days, they just scan with their software and send away. No clue why they don't image a loaner laptop for you in the meantime. They much such a big hubbo about pros using their hardware then they don't offer services that pros require for their hardware, like no downtime since they can't just tell the client that their rig is out of commission for four days.
time is very punishing to IRR as it stretches on, but the returns accumulate. you cannot assume a dollar is fungible as you may not have been able to invest in the same thing at some other point.
He talks about the plan to create digital blockchain coins by the central banks, official crypto coins. There are aleady talks about this, and most central banks are working on it.
I live outside of Pennsylvania Dutch country and two weeks ago driving in that area I was shocked to see many horse and buggy drivers distracted by their iPhones.
You all stop attempting to engineer human society around slowing covid spread? We look at the problems confronting us holistically? I could go on but really this is it.
The mike hardware used in the UMA-16 USB mic array [0] is the Knowles SPH1668LM4H-1 which runs about a buck and a quarter [1]. The DSP, SHARC ADSP21489, is pricier as an eval board >$500 [2].

0. https://www.minidsp.com/products/usb-audio-interface/uma-16-...

1. https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/knowles/SPH1668LM...

2. https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/analog-devices-in...
see also: https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl

(available packaged in most linux/bsd distributions)
I'm impressed at the level of detail in this guide, and have bookmarked it for when I (eventually) get round to fixing my decks (one with an electrical issue affecting the left channel, one with mechanical issues, and several more with just general "issues" that will need to be diagnosed before any repair can be carried out!)
Something I've been thinking a lot about is that news of nation states attacking NATO member systems often make headlines, but there is little about NATO members attacking these same nation states.

This sort of results in an impression that there is a capability asymmetry between the two. Is that true? Or do we just not hear about it.
Sometimes I wonder if folks use rose colored glasses when thinking about MagSafe. I don't miss MagSafe and I enjoy the interchangeability of chargers.

I could not keep my 13" MacBook plugged in while using it on my lap. The MagSafe cord repeatedly fell off when my leg, or a pillow bumped into it. My MacBook MagSafe port had black marks on it from arcing. At least three times I couldn't get it to charge because a metal fragment (once a folded paper staple) became magnetically stuck to the receiving side. On one of those occasions I couldn't fix it till I got home and grabbed some tweezers.

It was a smart solution, but IMO to a tripping problem that wasn't widespread.
Not a single microphone but there is acoustic vector sensor which can also give you the sound's direction. Very expensive though, several Israel companies use them for detecting gunshot's direction.
https://www.ese.wustl.edu/~nehorai/research/avs/avssensor.ht...
Rightly so. But, the science and technology is still progressing and I hope we can achieve a safe green energy.

Fukishima is still a disaster and it will take more time to shake that off and yet more time to understand the ramifications of it. (as with Chernobyl)
Securing your digital life, part two: The bigger picture–and special
Ads delivered via OS components, for one!
I used HHVM for a while and it was good before PHP7, but then it quickly became irrelevant once the PHP core and community got their act together.
Ive was probably cursing at the announcement: "WTF are you doing! You're giving people what they want? That's not the Apple I left, mate. By this time, in 2021, there should be NO ports on the Macbooks, and it should be so thin you could shave with it. What the hell is all this?"
That's 480usd/hour for studio time.

Asking Google, a studio runs "30-200+" an hour, which doesn't say a lot, but says that todays prices easily undercut what The Rolling Stones chose to pay.
This Company Is Making Digital Humans to Serve the Metaverse
Yes www still uses hack. No we probably won't ever migrate to another language for www.

That being said, I don't think anything BUT www is written in hack.
> The tooling now revolves around VS Code

When I was there a couple of years ago, doing Hack development using vim was well supported. Not as slick as the official IDE, but more than good enough for my day to day tasks.

> There's literally no reason to justify the massive investment a complete rewrite would be, like literally none. It's not even close.

Definitely, and my (relatively ancient) background is as a PHP-mocking Perl developer.

In the end, the tooling is far, far more important and relevant than the language, and the tooling at Facebook is better than anything I've seen elsewhere, by a long shot.
> The best place to draw the line is Texas. More national identity than Texas and you're a nation-state, less and you're a state.

When used in the politico-social sense that invokes national identity, nation-state still takes as a minimum requirement the functional sense of Westphalian sovereignty, which Texas lacks. Texas would probably be considered a nation-state in both senses if it was a nation-state in the functional sense; but as a subordinate unit of a Westphalian sovereignty it is not a nation-state in the functional sense, much less the narrower social sense.
How much of that is because those people aren’t being team players vs them learning things differently?

In my experience the people who “know everything” either wrote the code from scratch (thus understanding it at a deeper level than the quick summaries people would use to describe it) or just read.the.damn.code. This is a problem I also deal with working with junior team members who would rather ask a question about how something works rather than read the source. Even if I do try to explain it, I can’t explain it to the fidelity and nuance encapsulated in the actual code. Nor can I explain the context as well as clicking “find references” does.

As such I am not sure those people who know everything are secretly zealously guarding their information. Any brief explanation of something technical is simply too low-res compared to reading its implementation. So even if that person is super nice and tries to help as much as they can, I doubt anybody would learn as much as them just from secondhand information, as opposed to reading/writing/modifying the source themselves.
Because real hackers are unwashed, unshaved and live in hoodies?

As a community we are not really a suit and tie sort of affair. Whether that means a bikini, a nice cotton henley or your favorite cyberpunk cosplay - who cares?
It doesn't take long to read and you can find it online or get it for a couple bucks. Agree with above comment--worth a couple hours read.
The woman in the McDonalds coffee lawsuit was severely and permanently harmed.

The claimed harm in this case is they wouldn't have paid $4 for Pop Tarts if they'd realized they were less healthy.

(Yes, I read the complaint.)
Ah, that explains your attitude here. Do tell us more about NPR's liberal bias.
I absolutely agree. I'm hopeful that with the ridiculous debt loads that are common today, that there's enough pressure to start inventing these kinds of things.

"Succeeding" at the current setup (which includes not going broke) requires high school juniors to know enough about what they want to do that they can do the ROI calculation, and heavily penalizes them for getting it "wrong". Which is ridiculous and unfair. It also pushes everyone to be the sort of people who I don't particularly like to hang out with.
> There is no such thing as a "recognised standards authority".

Yes there is

> Who would be the root standards authority to appoint other standards authorities?

You’re thinking of signing authorities.

> And why can't the Reproducible Builds project be one of them?

You could also flip
The argument on its head and say why should every committee that throws a specification up be considered a standards authority when half the time specifications are incomplete, contradict other specifications or flat out don’t work.

Anyway, I’ll make this my last post on the subject. I have no interest to waste any more time explaining the difference between a standard and a specification to people who are unwilling to consider there might be a difference.
It looks like he was sleeping in his car with the engine running and suffocated: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/legal-exper...
Fun fact: we manage to record amplitude and phase of radiowaves, though. That allows us to record them at different points on Earth, ship the recorded data to a datacenter and computationally merge them to get a planet-wide virtual telescope dish with a much better angular resolution that a single telescope dish ever could have.
The best carbon capture technology is to plant trees. As in, billions of trees per year, which is carbon negative only if the net number of trees is growing. Maybe even get creative on the biology side of things to make them easier to plant in harsh environments.
norminal case, or worst case? it's nominally O(1+c) - find the right section, turn forwards or back a couple pages (c). Problem is, worst case for an analog journal is something like O(NaN) because you can't find it and then give up, frustrated.