skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But shares do have an inherent value. Owning them gives you a right to a share of the profits. You own a share of the company. You can vote on who you choose to run it - i.e. the board of Directors.

Now many companies recently have chosen not to distribute profits - e.g. Amazon reinvests everything back into growth.

And there are types of share that don’t give you a vote on who runs the company (or your tiny ownership percentage makes it meaningless).

And there are companies that don’t make any profits so there’s nothing to share out!

But shares, at least classically, do have an inherent value.

Edit: Examples of these classic shares are “Dividend stocks” [0], but even with say TSLA or AMZN when you buy a share you’re buying the right to a share of the future profits.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/dividend-stocks-4689744

Edit2: Now of course that inherent value might be zero if the company will never make a profit…
If anything it's an Eurasian peninsula.
You have very closely described Yggdrasil, which is a proof-of-concept for these sorts of ideas: https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/
Except trademarks are only unique within a specific industry in a specific country.

In the case of Delta Airlines and Delta Faucets for example who would get to have "delta.com"? Then what about all the other countries with independent trademark rules and authorities?

I like the idea, but it would end up being way more complex than it seems.
Capitalism Is Killing the Planet
mIRC scripting language
They look at the West with its respect for the human rights of drug dealers and notice that it seems to suffer from tens of thousands of drug overdoses every year as well as creating tens of millions of addicts inflicting crime and squalor on their communities. They notice that the streets of Singapore aren’t littered with needles like they are in San Francisco. They think you’re the moral idiot for tolerating this societal catastrophe in the name of human rights.

Singapore’s leaders believe that their severity is a small price to pay for keeping at bay the vices of the outside world. What would you say to them to convince them that they’re wrong?
Show HN: Brutalist one. A growing collection of real brutalist websites
I tried it, and it felt more like a fantasy computer game, like TIS-100 or something, rather than a real language. It felt neither easy to write nor read, and I'm not sure what problem it solves with "software" in general that other languages don't. Ruby is a great language for sure, and actually it has some of the DSL capabilities of Forth
I think this is true for many other disciplines, especially programming. You can code all you like, but reading text books on the subject and studying other people's code will quickly improve your skill.

This is something I wish I knew 20 years ago.
Hahahahahaha.

This is exactly the type of information that gets lost between generations that makes past decisions make sense. It's why I ferverently collect older academic/engineering literature. Not necessarily for the equations, but for some of the context around the problems and challenges of the time we no longer think about because they are "already solved".

Everyone moans about radiators once you start sealing up windows to be more green. Surprise! They were designed with the inefficiency of having an open window in mind for health and ventilation purposes since the turn of the century! Of course you end up with problems when you violate a functional invariant!
You're also likely playing a different pool of players in the middle of the night. Elo is based on the pool you play in, it's not universal.
Then you can’t use the password manager autofill anymore and you lose one of the defenses against phishing (the password manager checking the url)
> form validation, autocomplete, date pickers, video streaming

I'm confused by this comment - HTML5 does do all that out of the box. Are you saying it should have done it from the start?

I don't get the bit about JS being required to render static content either...
It does protect all devices in your home network, until someone uses one of the various NAT slipstreaming attacks from a malicious ad and open up the web interface to your IP cameras without you noticing.

NAT has become too complex and most consumer versions of it are developed for ease of use over security. Don't trust NAT to protect your network, because the device doing NAT in your home network most likely wasn't developed to use it as a security measure.
The rising power of subscription services
Yeah the company can buy back their own shares, or it can get acquired and taken off the stock exchange. The stock can also become illiquid and you can't sell. But as long as the company keeps doing well, it could also just continue indefinitely. The only way it could go through a downwards spiral of plummeting stock price is if they are doing something inefficient or becoming worse. So people that invest in inefficient or bad companies are the ones who will lose, again the goal is to move money from the inefficient to the more efficient. I mean you try to avoid stagnation and luddism, there's always casualties whenever things change, even if it is change for the better overall, and these are the ones who will lose in the stock exchange.

You can also just have really bad luck, invest your whole life savings in a farrier business just before the car was invented, so bad luck can also make you lose but the idea is that the change is for the better overall.
You could list some of those positive developments. Or describe what you consider false, obtuse, or untruthful in David Gerard’s books and articles, or in my summary. Or you can just wave it away with ad hominem I suppose.
I'm wondering how Apple reacts as the owners of Metaio, who were one of the first companies and brands in the AR space starting in 2003 (aquired by Apple in 2015): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaio

Having the domain is one thing, having the rights to use the brand name another if it's the same niche (which is certainly the case here). Or do rights to the brand name expire once companies get aquired?

If they still hold the rights they could try to block their future main competitor in the AR space..
> that's an unintended consequence

No, it's entirely unrelated to NAT. That's a consequence of the firewall on the router.

IPv6 doesn't get rid of the firewall.
I'm building with Rollup and TS.

See eg. this config.

https://github.com/Ginden/userscripts/tree/master/hacker-new...

Then I do `npm run build && cat dist/index.ts | xclip` and replace code.
Non-paywall

https://archive.ph/zAIaT
I use https://github.com/davecheney/httpstat whenever I've to do the same
Medium Reading Metric for Success on Medium
In the long run yes, however, (a) realistic population controls would likely mean a stable population, not a much smaller one, so that doesn't help much for deceasing consumption; and (b) even with totally unrealistic population controls (e.g. zero births worldwide) the population decrease would be slower than the time scale in which we need to reduce emissions - zero births would mean a population decrease of less than 1%/year (currently 60m deaths/year over 7.8 billion, the world skews young-ish so the death rates don't match what you'd expect from life expenctancy) but we need an emissions decrease of 1.5%-2%/year to keep the global warming in reasonable limits.

A smaller population would consume less goods and power, but since we need much less carbon emissions, achieving that through a population decrease alone would require a much smaller population i.e. so much extra death that IMHO that would be more horrible than the consequences of any climate change.
Yeah that's one of the most intriguing parts of Forth I thought, the everything-is-a-DSL, the metaprogramming, the language-is-a-bytecode-VM, etc.

I feel lisp is very similar, an inverted sort of forth, I've never tried lisp but it seems to be a much easier language to work with than forth.
which is also by far the best DAW that runs natively on Linux (warning: it costs money, though well worth it)
Capital punishment was abolished in Britain in the 1960s.

[edit] with some exceptions for which no one was ever executed (eg piracy). Finally sorted out in 1998
This is what ultimately killed Second Life. In the early days it was being used by businesses, for meetings etc. Then all the people with kinks moved in and now no one takes it seriously.

Shame really.
https://medium.com/@ryan79z28/im-a-twenty-year-truck-driver-...
> On the other hand, do you consider an end-of-the-19th-century lifestyle an acceptable target to aim at?

In some regards, yes. In others, not. I'm not saying we should throw away all medical progress from the last century if that's what you're wondering. Or that we should have factories in city centers spilling toxic byproducts directly into the street as was common back then.

I'm arguing our modern comfort standards are not correlated with how much work takes place, because most of what we consider work today does not produce anything meaningful/useful.

I believe a 10h work week is a high estimate for how much we need to work to maintain our lifestyle [0], accounting for the dismantling of slave labor in poorer countries which produce everything we consume.

The amount of work necessary to produce food over a century has been cut by at least two orders of magnitude, and although there's a lot to learn from some mistakes (monoculture destroys soil and exposes plants to sickness, and fertilizers make the land sterile) we can benefit from scientific discoveries applied to traditional techniques, such as permaculture in the field of growing stuff.

Also, you can take into account how much infrastructure has been individualized, which also accounts for resource/energy waste. Do we really need one oven/fridge per person? Mutualizing infrastructure saves resources.

Overall, i'm convinced a decent modern life is possible [1] if we as a society decide to investigate the topic, instead of planning the next great scheme to steal money from the public for the already-insanely-rich known as "Green New Deal" which will certainly not do anything to save the environment.

Only a global revolution can save us from doom. The people in power and the people who own the industry are precisely the classes of people who put us in this situation. They are both incapable and unwilling to address issues. I'm not exactly saying we need to chop their heads (though that is tempting) but we as humans must do our best without expecting anything from these psychopaths running the show.

[0] Though it requires other measures such as fighting planned obsolescence and resource waste.

[1] Not exactly as we know it. We would probably use different materials, build less tall buildings and live in overall less-urban cities (etc). But we could still enjoy what we consider modern comfort (abundant medicine/food/heat).
Oh, I wasn't aware of that. I thought it was just an off-github mirror of those lists. Didn't realize there were ads due to my ad-blocker.

Would you please change the URL, @dang?
That was precisely my point. Thanks for clarifying :)
> OMG, in the recitals there was one lady who just had to play every note correctly, no matter how many times she had to try. She stopped at every mistake and "corrected" it, until you wanted to scream at her.

oh man, that is frustrating! Somebody once said that a good musician will make their mistakes sound musical. Thinking that you must stop to correct a mistake is a fundamental misunderstanding about how music is perceived. I don't blame her though, I was once like this too. I think this is the default behavior for many adult beginners especially.
> calculating the monthly average

This abstracts away a fundamental property of skill improvement that is true for any game, but intensively true at chess: any ELO you win during a gaming session will be lost soon by a new gaming session in which you play the game tired, or unfocused, or angry, or feeling under the weather. You still improve from one session to the next, so there is a little delta because your average ELO win is greater than you average ELO loss, but it makes the overall process extremely slow.

What I'm saying is that 100 ELO doesn't make that much of a difference in skill. You probably regularly play at +200 ELO of your actual ELO. However, maintaining a clean game hygiene and actually accumulating the ELO points to reach this level of "estate" is a whole other story.
Climate crisis is real but you wouldn’t know from watching Fox Weather
Worked at a startup that didn't even bother with obfuscation because of this reasoning.

It was much cheaper and more effective to draw a legal clause then spend time and energy with obfuscation
That's really cool. I have been dreading the past couple of weeks having to pick up BIND9 docs to accomplish the similar with views.
A small anecdote:
Back when I was still a little kid I had an awful music teacher in school. He would throw all the theory on the whiteboard but never explained how it actually relates to the music itself. I would've loved to know so I asked how this strange mathematical stuff of 4/4ths makes music and he told me to learn it or I'd fail but nothing actually relating to my question. So I always had a bit of antipathy towards the subject and never looked it up or even asked somebody afterwards, even to just satisfy my younger self's curiosity because the whole subject's been tainted.

If those classes ever even mildly resembled even how well this little interactive tutorial presents and explain thing I probably would've joined the school chorus or learned to play instrument in an extra-curricular fashion. Which I regret never doing.

Eventually when I got my hands on a copy of Reason at age 11 or 12 (can't remember) and started messing around with it, I got to a point where I kind of understood the concepts -- the whole process was kind of similar to how this tutorial is put together, it just took way longer to figure out. :)
> What would you say to them to convince them that they’re wrong?

That the West is not littered with needles, so their severity is a massive price to pay for a minuscule gain.
Much like all biotech, the spectrum of use from truly (positively) transformative to the outright dystopian is very wide.

Can a similar implant be required for schoolchildren in order not to doubt what the teachers tell them to think, or feel positively whenever certain clichés are uttered? Certainly not beyond the pale in China and cannot be ruled out elsewhere. Western nations have had their bouts of indoctrination, too.
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> It sounds strange to me that you would like something to have said but don't really want to spend the time to make your argument.

Why is that strange? That is how we run our lives in most other fields. I want to holiday in Spain but I really don't want to learn how to fly to get there. I want a house to live in but i don't want to build it; that is; I want to have built a house but don't want to build a house.
You also now have a XXXXXX.sh rather than XXXXXX.com :)

Good domains on .com or relevant local tld such as .co.uk are worth snapping up.
Not possible. The required magnetic field increases with the size of the levitated region, and would greatly exceed limits set by strength of materials. A magnetic field that strong might also be directly harmful.
But that's the point. What makes a story good for one medium makes it bad for other. So it's not fair to compare them abstracting from the medium.

You can still have better and worse stories withing given medium, and you can compare them between media if you insist, but you have to separate the inherent trade-offs from real quality differences.
Thanks for pointing this out. My thought process was trying to highlight that many more of us would have been farmers 100 years ago :) The farmers I know seem to have a 24/7-esque job in terms of all the things they juggle.

The weird thing is that they are so ridiculously productive compared to the past having learned all these new tools, but their compensation is about in line with prior generations, because most all the productivity gains have gone to capital owners.
Stunningly useful even if you're a proficient pianist.

Moreover, Chang's a techie—an experienced scientist—so there's no bullshit or unnecessary padding here. As such, he'll appeal to many HN readers who tinkle the ivories from time to time and who'd like to improve their technique.

P.S.: I found his piano tuning info/techniques most interesting. As a hacker who couldn't leave well enough alone and who managed to put my old upright well out of wack and sounding like bar piano out of an old Western movie, this info would have been absolutely invaluable.
I'd read that post. There's a lot of good introductory material on Youtube, e.g. here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCSbzArwB10
> jump straight to Ethernet, which is damn fast, near realtime

And could optionally use ptp (precision time protocol) Ethernet interface so that the local network clocks are synced to sub-microsecond precision, and so can put timestamps on the midi messages so they can be properly sequenced.

And for increases reliability, incorporate with AVB which uses stream reservation to ensure priority packets can get sent.
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You are right that anyone having its own IP address would mean less censorship.

But also those IPs should be available without an entity having to assign.

And not only that but we would also need a free DNS system so you can't be denied host resolving.

And the domain names shouldn't be controlled by someone entity because you can be denied having one or the issuer can withdraw you domain.

Most censorship I've seen was done by DNS filtering. Also some domain names were withdrawn from their owners even if they didn't do something illegal.
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>code making use of the fact that we are running on known hardware

>you focused on supporting the official raspberry pi keyboard, mouse, and touchscreen you could circumvent a lot of the pains around driver issues

I'm afraid that's how closed, non-extensible systems are born, and later inevitably die.
This isn't true.

There are sibling comments here that mention the same, however, to add my own point here: I'm involved in a complex hardware plus software project which involves designing and doing a board bring-up for an Arm SoC Linux-based device. We need to visit the office only once in two to three weeks. For the board bring-up when we do not have the provision to provide the hardware to our software engineer yet, we have someone in the office connect the UART lines to it and have the typical VPN+SSH set up to perform the board bring-up for it.

Generally speaking, the engineers that are required for the labs would be electrical engineers and mechanical engineers. Also, even for these physical-based engineering disciplines, a lot of design is highly computer based thanks to great CAD, simulation, and future-looking generative design software from the likes of Autodesk, Ansys, etc.
That being said, I personally feel that being in person really can help in the epiphany process for hardware-based projects.
Only as in using full software rendering, there's no other way to get GL (as there was GLX for X11).
Does making music de-age the brain?
Stork, Powerful algorithms for publication tracking
My bad with explaining. The two laser example was to try to give an easy example and I ended up confusing everyone I guess. You have a single laser (for each wavelength usually). The laser shoots and is being returned (leaf). The same impulse is being returned again but from another surface at a marginally later point in time (the ground). If you would visualise that with common LIDAR software, you would have two points on the same trajectory: one at e.g. 20 m height above zero (ground) and one at 30 m above zero (leaf). You only have a single laser available that penetrates leaves but not ground. I hope that makes it more understandable. English is not my first language as well, so in case you want me to explain something again, I can try again or look up resources in English!
America is not a democracy but an oligarchy. The rich decide who's in charge. Meaning, they have all the power.
> 's been passed around to relatives, but last I heard, it still works after what must be almost 40 years

I think this is the reason for the new version. Fisher Price won't earn any money if the toys never breaks and never have to be replaced, to the detriment of everyone (including the environment) except the stakeholders.

The new version is much more suspicable to breakage and hence, a better chance at profits for the company.
I believe one of the features of the now-sunsetting CZI Meta was setting up search alerts for journal publications. I've been using Stork to do this for a few weeks and have found it very useful for helping me stay up to date with academic literature relevant to my research.
Yes last of us is amazing to watch.

But the game never starts. Your basically navigating cut scenes on rails.

Same can be said for cod campaigns and Titanfall. Hell titanfall 1 was multi-player only and it still has a story spawning Apex Legends
so the modem was just connected to a switch?
I’m absolutely fascinated by this debate, albeit as an amateur merely listening in.

It does feel like there’s a difference between giving someone medication that changes their mood, versus an implanted device that does the same thing. But I can’t quite put my finger on the difference. Maybe it’s just different and in a hundred years, it will be just as normal.
Most likely hardlines in power. Much like early South Korea and Taiwan, who's people had fortunately broken out of this trap.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Action_Party
Isn’t that attack still possible on IPv6? It’s an attack on the stateful firewall connection tracking, not NAT.
>138K yt subs, most popular videos around 220K

And this isn’t even that high! It almost hurts, smh.
I could have been more clear: there are a subset of community members who band together and encourage each other to fast (digitally)…

I’m also a Catholic (took RCIA @ Harvard), and incorporating regular fasting has been awesome :)
inet_aton has other, weirder behaviour: https://disconnect3d.pl/2021/02/16/terrible-inet-aton/
So instead of running code in the browser's sandbox, you have to run it at user level? Sounds terrible and this is what things where like in the 90s. Say you wanted to do some banking, you would have to download and install the bank's application, which usually only ran on Windows.

No thanks.
Which is fine actually. I was never interested in that feature. Security of the passwords is the most important requirement for me.
> e.g. this bug on Linux

This is literally one of the big things changed by what's described in the article (for those still using X11; it's already been solved for quite some time on Wayland)
Which in turn is making a reference to an even older post at https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23.
Corporate Lawyer and a Finance Guy Quit Careers to Build a $750m Barbershop App
Been to a public park in a big city lately? I have some sad news for you…
As opposed to what? The average superhero story that Hollywood has been milking for 20 years now?
Compare videogames not to great literature but to popular culture.
I’m polishing up the UI as well as the analysis algorithm. I’ll be done by the end of the year.
You didn’t watch it to the end, did you?
Yes, people started using javascript for basic things that should always have been part of the html syntax (when the web became dynamic which was the late 90s), to make up for what wasn’t in html.
> Should MS Word and Adobe PDF also execute code?

Oh boy do I have news for you! https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/applying-actions-scrip...

Not sure about Word as I barely know it, but I'm sure you can execute some sort of code. If not JS, probably VBA or other Microsoft language.
I was just quoting these sentences from the parent comment.
This!!
Astroturf and manipulation of media messages (2015)