skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>mandating that your links have ugly underlines just because some people might have trouble reading them

I hare designers that chose terrible font sizes and terrible color contrast, do you designers use some extra special screens where light gray on white looks readable?

I am wondering if a site with such fancy designs that look smooth and cool could do an experiment and offer a high contrast, big fonts, no animations version then let the user decides. Maybe we could get some data and see what people that use them able sites use, liek Gmail , do people chose themes with low contrast, many animations and cool looking links?

I hope good designers will prevail in the end and get rid of the form over function crowd, where you need perfect vision and some super expensive screen to be able to proeprly use a web page.
Don't compare Linux and Windows, thats in bad faith. Developers just want to accomplish the best software they can, its all done in the open, but that doesn't mean they have to design software for other systems with different capabilities.
All I'm saying is for most people taking 6 months off is a pipe dream. It's almost insulting for them to even have this argument. These are ultra billionaires who if they wanted to could just stop working to focus on being a parent. None of us normal people can do that
Gitai successfully demos autonomous robot inside the International Space Station
I didn't read the whole article but skimmed through it and didn't see a clear answer to the question "why does grammatical gender exist"?

As a native English speaker, I've never understood why it was invented in the first place.
Plus, this was for making a condiment. You don't lose the salt, it still gets added to your food before you eat it.
It's like getting an inside room on a cruise ship. The difference of course is that on a cruise ship you're on vacation and usually not in your room except to sleep. But I guess that's what they want to college kids to do...
Apple uses Webex for meetings instead of some homegrown FaceTime, for the same reason — somebody else already built something that works.
I always felt, generationally, that I'm in a weird spot, somewhere between a Millennial and a Gen Xer.

I caught the end of Gen X, so I get some of the gripe, but I've always been a technology native, so in that regard I'm closer to a Millennial in life experience.

Many people in tech are a bit like this, perhaps ahead of their time because they caught the wave earlier.
IBM has lost about a third. The rest have underperformed.
(IBM is the runaway loser here.)

https://ibb.co/RbKvHk3
It's fundamentally impossible to be both racist and not right wing so I'll just have to assume you're a troll.
Have they?

IBM stock was at it's peak 10 years ago. Sure, now it might seem a bit ludicrous to put MSFT in the same category as IBM, but 10 years ago Microsoft was far from sexy and not part of what people would imagine would be the future of tech (There is a reason there was no M in FAANG when that term appeared). IBM and MSFT where in the same category back then.

Now, since Nadella took over 5 years ago, Microsoft image has completly changed. And over the past 5 years, while all the "FAANG" have increased in value indeed, they have not increased equally.

Microsoft has increased the most, even more than Apple. Who would have bet on that?
It has grown about 50% faster than Google and 2x faster than Facebook.

And when you say that they all have increased in value, their is a strong survivorship bias in there, you are only thinking about those companies that are still performing well today. We forget about Nokia, HP, Blackberry etc. That where big back then, but couldn't transform themselves. Just has everyone predicted Microsoft would not be able to.
He was giving investment advise, not nutritional advice. Just because you don’t agree with the morality does not mean he was incorrect or dishonest.
The things described in the article are certainly good but I don't count any of them as "innovation."

- Many countries have had free banking for decades now. The USA's banks have finally decided to stop gouging their prices, but that's hardly innovation. Overdraft fees basically are just a made up problem in order to extract money from customers. European banks have had a notion of "no money, no purchase" for ages now.

Ditto with fast transfers and lower remittance.

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True innovation would be more control over your money. For example, you could have a bank account with $100 in it, and you allocate dollars $0-50 to be "online" money. This can mean different things, but for the sake of example let's say that means that you can go to https://bank.com/user/endisneigh and if I give you a special code that I create you can take an amount of money directly from my bank account, specified by the code. No need to use something like stripe.

Another example could be the ability to automatically change where money goes depending on its source. Got a deposit via Venmo? It goes to X. From your work? Goes to Y.

The future is programmable money. That's innovation IMHO.
xxHash is not really "new", it's been available since 2014. At least, that's the oldest Python bindings available on PyPI:

https://pypi.org/project/xxhash/0.0.1/

Sure, as it developed, xxHash variants appear. The latest in the family is XXH3 and it's already being used at least since 2019:

http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/2019/03/presenting-xxh3....
Sorry but YouTube is not a far more potent vector.

Facebook and Zuckerberg were fairly blamed because they actively developed features that amplified misinformation, and refused to take any action to curb their damage.
Is it?

Nobody at risk from you having a heart Attack while driving to the grocery store?

Nobody mentally at risk watching you collapse, or hitting your head while doing so in a splattery way or outright die in front of him/her? I mean #MentalHeatlhMonth did use to mean somthing...
The size comparisons in the left margin are a great touch. Tsar Bomba just keeps going.
This reads like a bud light commercial
It embeds assumptions about what the societal defaults are, nothing more and nothing less. Like you maybe I'm skeptical that it does harm itself, but certainly societal defaults are problematic. Maybe and probably, there are bigger problems, but whatever.
That's not how the legal system works (or he'd be already in jail) and it is already a broken system. You'd need proof to convict him. If we let things happen based on individual suspicion, all hell will break loose. I suspect (based on your username that you are a serial killer). It shouldn't give me the right to take your assets, arrest you, etc...

The DEA agent is just another dude, like me. He should have 0 powers; and always defer the judgement to the competent court.
At my college, people fought tooth-and-nail to live in this environment rather than continue with double occupancy dorm rooms. At my school, groups of people claimed a suite (with "points" assigned weighted towards older students). So seniors and some juniors had their choice and they 100% (literally all of them) preferred suites to dorms. It was a fun place to hang out during the day and at night, and you actually have a private space to sleep. No listening to your roommate snore or getting sex-iled when their SO comes over.
Retool is amazing!
This is truly an optimistic take. Mark's "maybe no one else would bother building this if I don't" ethos is inspiring. But, man, that can justify absolutely anything. It seems like an expensive hobby, like Rod Stewart's model trains. Impressive, amazing, had to be built by that one person or it never would have been made....but, it's gratifying to only that one person, too.
IBM has entered the chat...
Details of this "complex transaction" [0].

1. Using account A, Flash Borrow 500m DAI
2. Deposit 500m dai into yDAI
3. Deposit ~500m yDAI into yUSD
4. Deposit ~500m yUSD into yUSDVault
5. Mint ~$500m crYUSD (it used yUSDVault as underlying)
6. Account A now has $500m crYUSD
7. Using account B, flash borrow $2b ETH
8. Mint cETHER
9. Borrow 500m yUSDVault
10. Mint $500m crYUSD
11. Transfer $500m crYUSD to account A
12. Borrow 500m yUSDVault
13. Mint $500m crYUSD
14. Transfer $500m crYUSD to account A
15. Borrow 500m yUSDVault
16. Transfer 500m yUSDVault to account A
17. Account A now has $1.5b crYUSD and $500m yUSDVault
18. Using account A, Redeem $500m yUSDVault
19. Transfer 8m yUSD to yUSDVault to ~double its’ share value
20. Since yUSDVault is now worth double, cream now thinks that the account A’s $1.5b crYUSD is worth $3b
21. Borrow $2b ETH
22. Account A now has $2 ETH, $500m yUSD, and $1b in Cream collateral.
23. The ETH and yUSD can be used to pay back the flash loans while the $1b collateral can be used to drain Cream.

[0] https://twitter.com/Mudit__Gupta/status/1453401698563596293
It's easy to look at these various grammatical gender systems and to think it's a bit of weird useless complexity. But systems like this are useful: you can see them as providing error-correcting parity bits on nouns which make information more robustly distributed through a sentence.
Hell, I know people who can hear just fine but who nonetheless watch TV and movies—in their native language, mind you—with subtitles on 100% of the time.
Because the algos are crap or on-purpose?
I thought it would be about cyclical cosmology.
This is great! Many applications (like dedupe) don't need full crypto guarantees.

If you need something fast, and crypto secure, I recommend checking out Blake3/b3sum. I'm just learning about XXH3 in this thread so I cannot comment on how it stacks up but I love b3sum for fast file hashing.

https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3/tree/master/b3sum
Reviews anybody?
Hopefully it will also help with mortality in the unvaccinated, which is driving >90% of US deaths
"These issues are irrelevant for connection-oriented and reliable unix sockets."

This comment is really confusing to me. It's not irrelevant, you need to serialize the messages somehow. And if you ever decide you want to add some new messages, then you have to deal with versioning. It's not simple. What you have described is just a cut down implementation of D-Bus. And you are leaving some other things out:

- race-free name resolution, the solution you described has a lot of race conditions

- message ordering, the best way to do this reliably across 3 or more processes is to use a bus-based method

- security, auditing, rate limiting, i.e. how does a system admin manage your service. This is all solved with D-Bus

I've seen lots of complaining about D-Bus over the years about how it's "too complex" but everything in it is there for a reason, and I've never seen anyone actually able to make a simpler design that works as well. If you implement all the stuff I just talked about then your solution will be about as complex as D-Bus. So in terms of message buses I actually think it is quite simple compared to other things like ActiveMQ. Please stop implementing ad-hoc protocols over a socket unless you have a really good reason to do that, it drives me nuts to see that stuff getting deployed and people going through the motions fixing the same bugs over and over. At the very least you could use protocol buffers, or use ASN.1, or re-use the D-Bus wire format, or do anything besides rolling your own.
“We do not take the development of this technology lightly. Our hope is that it will one day be used to bring healthy kids into the world, so we must hold ourselves to very high safety and ethical standards. Our plan will be to work closely with scientific, regulatory and ethical experts to ensure this technology develops safely and responsibly.”

From their homepage
well, it's not just a small bedroom @ 333k, it's the small bedroom plus all the shared spaces.
Ransomware Has Disrupted Almost 1k Schools in the US This Year
I recall reading something about having to have "an account in good standing", which certainly suggests that they can tell if an account is a real one or a dummy one.
You know who was violating fire regulations for decades? Nuclear Power plants! You would things that's the one place where safety would be taken seriously, right?

https://www.wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/601/fire-p...
sort of reminds me of the post someone made a while back about living in their allotment. the conversations people were having in the comments were so entertaining, even though half of them were about regulations in different places!
No banking system has the type of risks DeFi has. Saying that they have some other risks is just a long way to change the topic and it doesn't answer any of the questions around DeFi.
No. Probable cause requires evidence that a crime is taking place or is about to take place, not suspicion that a crime is about to take place. As an example, I remember a story of a judge who threw out a case for lack of probable cause:

An officer pulled over someone who had removed their hat after seeing the officer. The officer reasoned that the individual removed his hat to avoid being profiled and stopped by the officer, which the officer deemed suspicious. The judge agreed it was suspicious, but ruled that merely removing one's hat is not evidence of a crime.
Iridium is a reminder of the sheer might of Motorola at their peak and also the sheer folly of their management.

The constellation was literal decades ahead of its time, they were mass-producing satellites before the concept of a mega-constellation was even on anyone's radar. Pretty much everything about it was technically amazing.

Unfortunately it was probably a contributing factor in putting Motorola under.

There is probably a timeline where Motorola doesn't collapse and space tech is accelerated by multiple decades as a result.
It looks like a morose Visual Studio icon
Maybe they can. Most americans go to school, right? What if an AI companion makes that obsolete? University too. Those are very expensive years that can be saved. Maybe you cannot get a high paying job anymore without a $500/month AI companion because without it you are considered stupid.

How about doctors? How much visits to a doctor can be made obsolete with an AI companion?

How about entertainment. Americans spend something like $200 per month on entertainment. Maybe your AI companion can entertain you better.
> If you say the words “financial innovation” many people incorrectly believe it is largely negative

Hmm. I'm not sure I agree. I'd say instead that most people are doubtful that financial institutions are playing nicely, and/or that "fairness" is increasing.
No keyboards, but -- Astrid Lindgren, the legendary Swedish children's writer, wrote her manuscripts using the Melin shorthand system. One can browse a bunch of her notebooks online, side by side with a Swedish transcription [1, 2].

Quoting one of the linked sources: "These manuscripts have long been seen as the key to new advances in research on Astrid Lindgren. The explanation for why no one has taken on the task is that Lindgren wrote in shorthand, given the well-established view that her stenography was almost impossible to decode. When we started examining the material to see whether using digital methods to interpret it was feasible, we saw that manual reading, too, was relatively simple if you know shorthand."

I got curious and found a comprehensive paper about using computational tools (handwriting and image analysis) to transcribe Lindgren's manuscripts [2]. Interesting stuff.

Oh, and I think Astrid Lindgren actually also worked as a shorthand typist during a period in her life.

1: https://www.uppsalauniversitet.se/en/news/article/?id=14082&...

2: https://omeka.ub.uu.se/scripto/s/al-koden/7/7/item

3: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2816/short5.pdf
Sure, that end is noble, but the ends don't always justify the means.
Just because iPads could run MacOS, Kubernetes, Docker or whatnot, doesn't mean it should.

I never understood developers and engineers complaining about iPads. This device is not made for you. MacBooks are.

There's a reason why Apple is a 1 trillion company, why they make the best tablets for a decade and why every other company before has miserably failed.

And one of those reasons is not shoving their devices with stuff "just because they could", but playing it smart and with an end goal of what kind of device it will be and who it'll serve. Professional developers are not one of them.
Let us know how the results compare to your previous laptop! =)
I keep thinking of that scene from The Beatles' Help in which they all walk into the same apartment through four different doors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx_7xjpySK0
> PWA Builder was founded by Microsoft as a community guided, open source project to help move PWA adoption forward.
It would be really cool to load duckdb files too. sql.js-httpvfs seems convenient because it works on everything in database so you don't have to create indexes, or setup keys and constraints in the client.
I see it as closer to the Amazon pivot from selling physical goods to selling digital goods (using digital as an umbrella encompassing AWS, Kindle, Prime (which essentially digitizes fulfillment and delivery), etc.).

FB sold users to advertisers. Very Web 2.0.

Well the potential decentralization of Web3 potentially destroys that business model and the Meta strategy seems like it reflects this potential change in the way Amazon saw the world going to digital?
This sounds great; I've made a few PWAs and wanted to publish them on app stores but couldn't quite figure it out so I gave up. Might give this a shot.
Any helpful references handy, Batman?
My phone has face ID and it worked great, until I started having to wear a mask all the time.

Considering we wear masks in the office now, having Face ID on my computer would be completely pointless.
What about security? A number of innovations seem to overrely on new options which could offer potential for breach.
Basically forcing people to live in common areas is horrible. Many people find public spaces distracting at best and uncomfortable or worse. Thank God I had my dorm room to escape to where my roommate and I only had to ignore each other to get some peace.
replying to myself to make another note, it's also why sunday is my favorite day on here. there seems to be more miscellaneous content posted.
>Munger, who donated $200 million toward the project with the condition that his blueprints be followed exactly.

Blueprints translate to reality exactly zero times in any large scale building projects. Plenty of billionaires richer than Munger learned this lesson, including crown/royalty that literally rule countries. That said, I am facinated by what Munger's house is like if he's this obessed with socially engineering others via architecture.
"And the absence of crime is not due to these cameras."

Really?

Otherwise safe neighbourhoods used to be a preferred target for burglars once, because there is a lot of valuable items to steal there. This kind of burglary is becoming less viable due to modern security systems, especially the sort that connect to a remote security service that sends a car to every alarm.

Claiming that low level of crime means that security systems are a result of fearful mindset is not unlike claiming that being in good health shows that the immune system is superfluous and not worth the metabolic investment.
It is hard to give a general answer. It wasn't invented, as such, but in the Indo-European linguistic family, a distinction was drawn in the mists of time between an 'animate' and an 'inanimate' class (which is perhaps the most important category distinction that there was to be drawn), and it is from that binary division that a three-fold gender system evolved.
https://4dayweek.io
Agreed, Meta's "good parts" would have a better chance to succeed if it weren't entangled so much with Mark and Facebook at large. Listening to the interview made me feel that Mark/Facebook have good intent with this work (and are clearly doubling down ala rename) but the metaverse feels like something that's being pushed through vs a natural extension of human connection. They are making sure they have a big say on how it unfolds by shifting the focus on the company towards. Good and bad.

I was "defending" the metaverse to a friend outside of the tech bubble last night and I talked a lot about how much I learned about socialization/human connection when I used to play Star Wars Galaxies and World of Warcraft. That those relationships which started somewhat "metaverse"-first meant as much as my "real" connections did... and that's what I feel the essence of Meta/metaverse is really trying to bring to everyone.
American history is littered with medical salesmen touting miracle cures to desperate ill people. Would you prefer our modern communication mediums be saturated with their pitches or do we want to wait until there is a reasonable scientific consensus before unleashing re-engagement algorithms?
> Since my schooldays I have been listening patiently to claims that Latin and the Romance languages are inherently sexist because if you have a group of men and women, the adjectives will be masculine.

This can be just as easily reversed. Imagine if instead we would use feminine gender for a mixed group and masculine gender only when the group is composed of men. Someone then might complain that this is sexist because men have special treatment - a group consisting of only men has a separate word to highlight the fact that no women are present.

Same with claims that the word "woman" in English is sexist because it is derived from a word "man". If it were reverse (men were called "women") the same people would complain about sexism because the female version of the word is shorter - as if something was subtracted from the masculine version of the word, suggesting that women are lesser than men.

So in summary - my impression is that the complains have nothing to do with the material, but are just the product of current cultural zeitgeist.
I don't think they'd remember the tips about smallpox, considering it hadn't evolved yet. As for iron smelting, we have a wealth of experimental archaeology on the subject under much easier constraints than you're proposing. The DARCs team [1] took 4 years to figure out a usable bloomery based on archaeologically known designs and years of prior experience, and it took a decade more to get all the modern materials out of the design. You could certainly cold-work iron if you could identify the right meteors, but those are rare and notoriously difficult to find [2].

All I'm saying is that you're vastly underestimating the knowledge, skill, and cultural context that went into these technologies.

[1] http://www.warehamforge.ca/ironsmelting/

[2] https://sites.wustl.edu/meteoritesite/items/some-meteorite-r...
I lived in a four-bedroom apartment with individual bedrooms (and three common rooms) my first two years and a rented house with a couple of housemates my last two. From the rendering shown, these kids will have less space by something like a factor of ten. The amount of living space per student proposed here is by no means common and really does look like a prison block.
> intent is literally the heart of criminal law

it is literally not. Though it is a requirement of some crimes.

> You have to have intended a crime for it to be a criminal act.

No, you don't, in general. You have to have intended a particular outcome if the particular crime requires that, but plenty of crimes do not have such requirements (or specifically do not apply if intent is present). E.g., “depraved heart” murder, involuntary manslaughter, and any strict liability crime or crime of negligence or recklessness.
Well, /I'm/ not suing you, the money that you stole is suing you...
But this is exactly where we should double our efforts, because the problem is technical: we do have lots of data to analyze already.

The influence of anti-histamine drugs was relatively quickly discovered because everybody expected asthma patients would get worse and the opposite was happening, so this was an obvious thing to examine. But many more drugs may play a role and these are hiding in plain sight - I hope researchers try to organize around it and make more meaningful discoveries.