skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't mention that because I think the "website with just some simple HTML and CSS" has moved mostly to Facebook and Medium and things like that. "Small bit of Perl and PHP" has been replaced with Wordpress and Squarespace. Those things are still around in a modern form. Nobody needs to do things the old way so they don't. My observation was just that if you're looking for the vibe of the old Geocities web, to me that disappeared along with the death of Myspace, for very good reason.

The other thing I remember about the web back then is that it seems to have had (relatively speaking) about as many cranks, kooks, conspiracy theorists, and other "outsider" types as it does now. There's still plenty of weird stuff to find. The only difference is they do it with memes on facebook now instead of on a Geocities site filled with stolen animated gifs. Some things just never change.
Then Sam would be the first rich Person mit persue additional wealth.
Physical books are valuable. Some people just prefer them over ebooks. As physical items, making and distributing copies is non-trivial and costs money. Due to their scarce nature, it actually makes sense to sell them.
Interesting, also I noticed you're also Alberta based like my team and I. We should chat, our WebAssembly browser games startup is hiring!

Discord link: https://discord.gg/zUSZ3T8
I don’t know whether it is innate, but it is cross-cultural: see Buss, D.M., 1989. Sex differences in human mate preferences: Evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures. Behavioral and brain sciences, 12(1), pp.1-14.
I don't know what 15/10 means, but the point is one of the options involves people that have something to give it up to benefit others, at their loss, no matter how small it may really be.
Is this something that could be scripted with some foo to be a basic search engine in itself?

Anyone know if something like this exists?
I don't dispute that gold is a good store of value. I'm saying bitcoin was supposed to have been more than that. It was supposed to be a currency. It failed.
dude, wtf
But by design Bitcoin doesn't dilute or expand through balance sheet, so in a BTC maximalist world, those 100 people still hold roughly the same fraction, right?
For those interested in the previous HN discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
The people you gave as an example who would benefit from EU style policies but are not in a position to move are people who are actively against implementing that style of policies.
Which is much more relevant fact than a random factoid. E.G. their pref is trade barriers and on-shoring of jobs not socialism.
I'm sure Elon holds more than 17%?
Nah. You can pair it up to an real WhatsApp-account using your phone and from there on, it’s go-code only.
Yes. Monero is the only cryptocurrency project right now that could succeed bitcoin in the form it was envisioned to be. I hope its privacy guarantees continue to be tested and evolve.
The Walmart thing really made me giggle. I mean, who even goes there? When I was on FB, I never visited Walmart page even once, over the years. What kind of a titan of social media they think Walmart is? What kind of serious discussion about social media can we have with people that think Walmart page is a measuring stick of popularity?
The capped supply and heavy bias of coin emission toward initial years create a strong incentive for hoarding and pure speculative use.

I would expect much wealth concentration if the emission had been purely linear with a fixed block reward, taking MUCH longer to get down to a small yearly supply inflation (100 years to get to 1%). Such a SLOW emission would focus on the use as a currency rather than "store of value".

It likely would have made Bitcoin's environmental impact much smaller as well, without speculators pushing up the price.
Raise the standard of living, and people have less babies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility

From the article:
"In a 1974 United Nations population conference in Bucharest, Karan Singh, a former minister of population in India, illustrated this trend by stating 'Development is the best contraceptive.'"
> a magical pseudo-currency that solves all problems and unexplainably makes everyone richer and richer

That is not what cryptocurrency enthusiasts believe.

I understand that you have to explain to yourself why others are dumber than you, even though they made crazy amounts of gains.

But maybe in the end, we just see something that you refuse to see.
Sonds a bit OTT! I have visions of David Attenborough
> Bitcoin aligns incentives. It's in the interest of those with lots of bitcoin to have everyone else use the same fork, so their coins have value. This discourages bad behaviour from whales.

No, not really. It is in the interests of those with lots of bitcoins to sell high and buy low. This means whales stand to profit by pumping BTC's value to leave everyone else holding the bag when it's value tanks. Rinse and repeat, and fat whales get fatter. But for this scheme to work, first you need unwitting users to fall for the promise of quick and easy fortunes at arm's reach. A tale as old as time.
Enough Strawberries in a Kellogg’s Strawberry Pop-Tart? A Court Might Decide
"but the dream of having a magical pseudo-currency that solves all problems and unexplainably makes everyone richer and richer "

I never heard that claim from crypto supporters, only from critics.
> The GIL will still be optionally available as an interpreter startup-time option

Sounds like they’re going to make it opt-in (or opt-outable) if they do merge it.
IMO Cryptonomicon is one of those novels where the journey is the real destination. If you don't enjoy the texture of his prose as it meanders through weird character episodes and technical exposition, there isn't some huge payoff at the end that will make it all worth it. That's pretty much all the book is.

If you're looking for something built around a more traditional plot, Anathem or Reamde might suit you better. People also like Diamond Age, but I think it falls down at the end--IMO at that point he still hadn't figured out how to write endings.
Lost hiker ignored rescuers’ calls because they came from an unknown number
Adobe Photoshop New Update Can Automatically Crop Objects
But not as a source of electricity right?
Directory/portal death happened. That together with a good-working (but highly marketed) search shifted focus from exploring some areas to consuming little pieces of information. Sites also changed because to make it to the top of the search you have to produce eye-catching pieces, not a complete theme coverage. All sites are almost identical time-sinks so with time only on few of them you decided to land.
As I understand it, even mild pain medications like ibuprofen (for women though apparently not for men) and acetominophen can relieve emotional pain as well as physical pain.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180206090700.h...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-courage-our-conn...
Billionaires are wealthy but usually don't hold cash assets (or much gold for that matter), currencies are irrelevant.

(In a BTC world they wouldn't hold much BTC either, if they do that'd be a pretty bad outcome since wealth would be moved to a none productive asset)
It’s just providing a Uniform Resource Identifier. Doesn’t say anything about how you micro your services.
It’s probably the longest book I’ve read that I didn’t particularly care for. What kept me going was the intermittent amusing cryptographic or engineering digression.

You can tell which places Stephenson visited during his research, because he’ll describe them in great detail, like the business district of some city in the Philippines.

It gets a little better as it goes along, but I’m not sure I’d recommend it.
If I independently discover a trade secret, it stops being a trade secret.

And are you telling us we need privilege to write a song?
> Where would I even go to find other sites that might be of interest?

Here?! HN is a collection of references to articles from the most varied www sources...

n submissions per day over m different sites, from l users which provide partial indirect profiles: you think one may not find new interesting sources? It would be a job in itself, to check where the submissions lead you.

(n, m, l: maybe dang could provide stats, it would be interesting. Edit: since we are here: most common www sources; www sources with the best upper quintile of upvotes in submissions (i.e. when they are noted, they really are)...)
Crystal lattice mismatch with silicon
Most ? I mean, I have a single outdoor light, above my front door.
Let's rewind to look at your historical perspective properly this time.

In theory yes a court could get access to your papers but for the average person because person to person interaction produces no permanent record and what limited record is created by correspondence isn't nearly as permanent because it requires one to take the time to file it and manage a very finite space nothing anything like your present digital life would ever come to exist to be requested.

As important is the cost of such a request. Compare the risk and expense of actually spying on a large population, to the cost of tapping their phones and paying someone to listen to a million boring conversations to the cost of bugging everyone's communications at once with a box installed for that purpose.

If you consider how feasible it would be to obtain that much privacy invading mostly useless intelligence it wouldn't historically have been hard it would have been impossible. They could have flown to Mars easier than doing that much physical surveillance unless every third citizen was spying on the other 2.

Historically I suspect such requests to logically be rare outside of settling business matters where receipts and contracts would be common or wills/trusts.

If you want to justify some sort of key escrow system you shall not find justification in returning to some hypothetical state of nature that never was.

Neither mass use of unbreakable encryption nor mass surveillance enabled by court order, nor your suggestion bear any resemblance to historical reality.

Furthermore if we can't trust the government not to break its own laws what would keep them from simply ordering your keys confiscated and ordering whomever holds them not to tell you?
>Most government proposed solutions create new problems instead of fixing the original?

Do you have any data to back that claim up?
The word I got was "flink", which actually does exist, in German, it means 'nimble'.
Finally a RISC-V affordable computer.
I'm a male software engineer and I'm marrying a male software engineer, that may account for some the data too.
State-funded university-level studies. State-funded health care. Brutal control over the flat rental market (at least in Stockholm).
The site is currently past its hosting limit for the day.

https://archive.md/Zb8p2

(Archived through google cache, so two layers of cache.)
Motivation of participants is irrelevant. Bitcoin is working because its participants are greedy and behave as such.
Sequoia to restructure itself away from traditional VC model
“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

I'm betting you are not an avid Pandas user ;)
> ... it goes well beyond any Lisp/Scheme (and many modern languages) in terms of having a practical but expansive ecosystem with a strong set of idiomatic conventions.

Does it, really?? Common Lisp is an ANSI Standard, I don't know how you get a more "strong set of idiomatic conventions" than that. And it's been "done" for 20 years now! People continue to use it just as it is, and there's very little pressure to change it because it simply works!

You're trying to justify a new wave of "modern" languages with a very weak argument... just call it for what it is: you want "cool", hyped languages to succeed despite the fact they offer nothing that the CL standard did not 20 years ago.
is techspot a credible source? asking honestly, first time i saw their content
I think one of the points people like Stephenson is his sometimes slow, semi rambling erudition on a matter of things that a particular mindset finds an entirely thrilling. Most of his good stuff is about the world and the books are just lenses into queer and interesting things.

Similar writers - Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, Umberto Eco, Douglas Adams.

This slow ponderous style with brief moments of impactful plotting might not suit all.
I was considering buying one as a gift, but there is no way I am going to saddle a family member with the cost of a subscription for what should be core functionality of a device.
like google and apples notification systems? or the state of whatsapp backups encryption?

whataboutism for sure but i uphold the view that the expectation of privacy from smartphone based internet chat should be very low for tech-literate people.
That's why it's either-or and not both-and.

You want reversibility and fraud prevention? Use an intermediary.

You want irrevocable finality and no intermediaries? You can do that too.

You're free to choose, nobody is forcing you to use one or the other.
I wonder if Intel will make any of their firmware open.
Back button is a bit broken there, if you want to back out of the login page.
He holds 16.98% to be precise.
A standard shebang will work, too. But one of my (perhaps idealistic) goals was to design QuickServ so that the user need never use the command line. Part of this involves sweeping the PATH and other environment variables under the rug.

Since the QuickServ syntax deviates from the standard shebang, I thought it would be important to highlight front and center in the tutorial.
I don't believe total decentralization is possible. Yet still this ratio is a little unsettling. This issue is not limited to bitcoin but all the cryptocurrencies. But I believe it's still better than to have single party control the whole currency.
This happened
Might be gulp.de ?
Springboard: The First Real Smartphone is out now
Honestly, and I say this as someone who loved the book, it doesn't get 'better'. If you don't like the prose and structure of the first 50-100 pages you probably won't like the book.
> The only thing it requires is that you have hash power and internet connectivity.

Your argument is a bit naive and this sentence I quoted is the one that shows the reason. Proof of Work is a energy intensive activity, not to mention the specialized tech it requires.

Access to energy today is more than ever a sign of the power (including military power) of a nation, so much that energy itself could be regarded as the ultimate currency [1]. Who has more energy is richer. In short that is because nations with abundance of energy enable all sort of activities. In nations in which energy is scarce, opportunities are constrained by the cost of energy.

Because energy in the world is still a relatively scarce resource, powerful nations control natural resources needed to produce energy in any way they can. The obvious example is oil, but also land itself can be seen as a means to produce energy: think of the space needed for solar.

So in the end when talking about Bitcoin we are back at square one. Even if it was the only currency of the world, it would still be controlled by those with more power.

In short: Bitcoin is governed by spending energy and CPU -> ability to produce energy and CPU -> control over means of production of energy and CPU -> international strength ensuring control over natural resources and IP.

[1] https://youtu.be/dcIQdlud88c
Thank you, it is an honor to be called based :) Usually people just call it like "hey you're kinda weird you must have aspergers or be a sociopath" (except they don't even call it that, they just think it and i have to guess).
Refactoring vs. defactoring
I paid Apple for my iPhone and for storage. I see no reason they should go out of their way to spy on me.
There is a foundational theoretical text in materialist philosophy that predicts exactly this happening. It was written in 1867.
When reading articles like this I sometimes feel like the only thing we can learn from history is that we do not learn from history.
Wait till they start putting noses on those things. In fact, I am surprised no one has done it. It will be super convenient... for the people collecting said data
As always, there's a relevant XKCD

[1] https://xkcd.com/978/
So they want to enslave our little friends, the robots. We shall raise awareness about this cruelty that happens under our own eyes.
Surely you will be familiar with the term 'navigation' to "land" on websites. (Main example.)
> There’s a lifetime of interesting books on Amazon

To the extent that the masses of reprinted-as-a-book Wikipedia articles, CC-licensed and public-domain content, or even GPT-generated books don’t sneak into Amazon’s selection.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/27/fake-books-sol...
Not in my experience. Once in a while i find very interesting sites that has existed for several years and i have found very recently. For example gwern.net schneier.com .
Work under pressure (podcast episode)
It is worse. Anyone can own it. NFTs don't avoid copying, and they are in no way recognized as copyrighted material. Its like having a proof of ownership of a public good: worthless.
And let's not mention Seveneves.
I'm most likely going to marry a psychologist.

I've studied CS and psychology.

Whenever I meet a woman that has studied psychology it is, on average, easier to connect with them as I can relate with how they experienced their studies.

But they can't always relate with me when I'm stuck on a bug :'(

Anyway! :D

My point is: some of us have done more degrees, and can therefore pick and choose from multiple categories since a shared study experience does carry over into an easier dating process (my experience at least).
The End of Solitude (2009)
This is really useful. Almost every project I’ve worked on has had to have a build script in part to inject this info so it being a first class feature makes life just that much easier.
> Motivation of participants is irrelevant. Bitcoin is working because its participants are greedy and behave as such.

The key problem you're trying to glance over is the fact that not all participants have the same degree of influence or control.

A greedy participant who is in a position to manipulate the market to fit his goals is in an entirely different position than a greedy participant who is completely powerless and vulnerable to this manipulation.

Is it ok if someone participating in a Ponzi scheme is fleeced just because you accuse him of being greedy?
Since you know Python... what about Threat Hunting?

I work with a Data Scientist turned Threat Hunter (which means you model and find stuff using data gathered for security).

Warning: like most data science-related jobs this can be a "lonely" position. I mean, very little people will understand you and your job but will buy the results.
Biplotter - "Someone who plots a plot"

I'm really impressed.
The relevant results from the linked article:

## format median_time mem_alloc
## 1 R (RDS) 1.34m 4.08GB
## 2 SQL (SQLite) 5.48s 6.17MB
## 3 SQL (DuckDB) 1.76s 104.66KB
## 4 Arrow (Parquet) 1.36s 453.89MB

I'd bet that doing the same with Pandas would require time and space similar to RDS (1). I really hope DuckDB makes it in the Python world, everything I read about it seems very promising. Using it myself for toy projects was pleasant, too.
The article is cheap clickbait.

What that journalist will say about soldiers in tank then?
My ideal Rust workflow
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Sun Microsystems co-founders launch IndyKite for open-source Web3 identity layer
Tom Hanks hails Edinburgh bookseller ‘hero’ for his dedication to typewriters
You don't really explore "the Internet", you explore interests. Interested in custom router/PC/phone mods? Start by using Google and major aggregators and visit all the user posted links, that's where the unique stuff is.

Sadly, you're right, the same few sites are in a circlejerk, with Google enabling them. You don't get many results from independent forums like you used to in the past, they're mostly buried. Still, it's doable.

The people's attitude however, that's what changed. I guess with the influx of not so knowledgeable/curious people it was bound to happen.

Used to be you'd ask "how to overclock X" and get replies with advice or more interested people. Now the comments are 80% "it's not possible", "the cooling can't handle it", "TDP is too high", "that's dangerous", which is barely relevant to the question.
What you describe for humans may be applied to the Internet itself: it turned 30.
Why do some people delay getting vaccinated or pretend Covid doesn’t exist?
Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring Engineers Who Can Design (+ EMs)
The main thing that's keeping me from moving to cockroachDB is that it doesn't support triggers. Once triggers are supported, I'll jump out of aws in a millisecond.
Things like that work for communication at very short ranges (Bluetooth has a pretty limited range). If you want something to draw power from a distant transmitter and to have any ability at all to do I/O (including RF output), you need a much bigger antenna to capture more energy. You'd essentially need something like this loop antenna crystal radio:

http://makearadio.com/crystal/19.php
Users choose which software to run, so they can fire one set of developers by running software by different developers. The software they run determines which blocks they consider valid, and if enough people agree that miners' blocks are invalid, miners will have to accept their blocks have less value or change the way they produce blocks.
If you're writing a game engine for an AAA game, surely you have the budget and manpower to use those lower level API's and push the GPU to its limit.

If the rest of the world can get 90% of the way with an easier to use and more portable API, that would be very nice.
I'd like to see a source for this as well.
Concrete can eat carbon emissions
Correct. Flash “source” files (used by Macromedia Flash and then Adobe Flash) were binary .fla files that were impossible to manage with source-control. The .swf files (from the original name: Shockwave Flash) were the “compiled” output from Flash’s .fla source files. Flash’s dialect of JavaScript (ActionScript) from .fla files (and later .as files) were compiled to a compact bytecode format, along with compact binary representations of Flash’s own vector art files, animation paths, and optimised JPEG and PNG images (IIRC Flash supported alpha channels in JPEG long before official support was added to JFIF).

SWF is a very clever and optimised format - it’s amazing what they fit into the minuscule Flash runtime of yesteryear when it was only around 300KB in size IIRC. It’s a shame there *still* isn’t an approachable replacement tool for non-experts for making cartoon-style animations and groundbreaking interactive games in HTML+JS yet (e.g. Fault-Line: http://www.nitrome.com/games/faultline/ )
15 out of 10, meaning you're living way beyond comfortable.

That's the kind of rich I talk about when I say "rich", btw, not some doctor or lawyer.
Would be fun if it also worked the other way. A group of people could have their own secret language and dictionary.
In Ukraine there are for some reason way more females on QA and Front End side of things and also in recruiting. So totally anecdotal but know a good number of couples BE+FE :)
Having after tax family income at 8K+ USD in a country with median family income under 500 makes for a very comfortable lifestyle.
You missed out on the part about how purchasing high quality furniture improves a marriage's sex quality.