skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some individuals gravitate to self-centered mediums—“their own” blog, microblog, and so on. They seek a platform. Perhaps they find it daunting to fit into an existing community. Perhaps they don’t want to deal with figuring out the unwritten rules and being rejected by unknown human moderators—they’d rather learn the technical tricks of the platform. Perhaps they think their thoughts are worth more than a drop in the sea of a big community. Perhaps they have something to promote or are better at strategy and creating a personal brand.

Other people find it easier to participate in a forum. They seek a community. Perhaps they’d rather defer to human moderators they trust for sustaining the community and maintaining the vibe. Perhaps the prospect of setting up a self-centered medium—and then networking, learning the techniques of promotion in order to get any readers, locking themselves into a fixed public “personality”, etc.—feels daunting to them. Perhaps they consider bits of attention (karma, responses) granted to them as a result of community participation to be worth more.
Is there a reason you partly cashed out? We should explore that. Is there some part of you that believes it will fail?
The word "want" might be imprecise here.

The Spanish conquistadors were fairly brutal, but they probably did not want to exterminate the population of the entire New World outright through introduction of dangerous diseases. If only because they needed some slaves and servants for their luxurious lifestyle, plus women for their physical needs.

But in the 1500s, our understanding of contagious diseases was basically nonexistent and the first rational means of combating them (such as quarantine) were considered on par with prayers, holy processions and a judicial search for witches that might have caused the latest epidemic through deals with the Devil.

We might be doing something similar again, and again out of ignorance.
We (Handsontable) now use VuePress[1] for our docs[2] and we are very happy with it. The best feature for us is the ease of customization.

Our challenge right now with the docs is to get a fantastic code snippet runner there. But that's beyond the scope of your regular documentation management tool, I suppose. VuePress will make it easy for us to integrate our solution.

[1] https://vuepress.vuejs.org/

[2] https://handsontable.com/docs/
It seems kind of seems hipster.

"I'll name the particles something that I can later disavow as a joke if people don't like it, so I'm not risking myself."
Am glad this is happening. A handful of people actually know what are NFTs.

Those with half knowledge are curious about their insane transactions.

Those who are dumb or greedy or both, think NFTs are the next best thing.

Events like this will even out the playing field, as the dumb ones will fear that their investments might wnd up on the torrent interwebs.
Aspect ratio of screenshots looks wrong when the docs are browsed from mobile phones. Is this a docusaurus issue or perhaps specific to your docs?
Chinese Tennis Star accuses former Politburo member of assault, goes missing
MS Office was so much more functional and nicer to use than libreoffice when I last checked.
It's a shame it was never built as real hardware (or a relief, as it'd probably have all sort of analog and timing issues), but it was really sweet to program.
Thanks! It's unfinished and on-hold for 3rd parties so it doesn't have all docs :)

I might retake it at some point next year to officially finish/launch it, like the code is basically mostly there.
Virtual worlds are already better than the metaverse will ever be
PHP: the original progressive enhancement.
I'd go a step further and suggest that trying to mimic a closed operating system is always going to be a somewhat unsuccessful uphill battle. Just look at how much the people over at ReactOS have been struggling for years, just to get the basics working: https://reactos.org/

It's certainly admirable, but to me it feels like Windows and all of the closed OSes will eventually die outside of museums and give way to open systems instead, at the same time killing any hopes of running older games and such, outside of cases where they are pretty simple, there have been source code leaks or other things to make running them easier (e.g. huge cult following). For example, you can probably port over something like "Return to Castle Wolfenstein" in a feasible amount of time[1] but something like "Cyberpunk 2077" or "Grand Theft Auto V" would be way more complicated in comparison.

Thus, your choices are probably limited to the following:

- use open systems and say no to playing games that don't support them, out of principle or otherwise
- use both open and closed systems, like in a dual boot configuration (or VM with GPU passthrough and relative mouse movement mode which is hard), for when you can't go without those games
- attempt to use workarounds like Wine or Proton or whatever, but don't expect everything to work out of the box, especially with hostile DRM

In the end, it feels to me that providing opposition to hostile business models is the only way forwards, even if piracy is notoriously bad in the industry and there is ample competition, so not doing DRM and even having parts of your project be open source is probably financial suicide, as evidenced by the occasional thread on /r/gamedev about someone having their game be essentially stolen and it being uploaded elsewhere and someone else getting profits from their hard work.

Linked, because it's actually pretty interesting:

[1] - https://github.com/iortcw/iortcw
I thought this was a joke at first, but then they go through lists of sex scandals and traveling and...

Is ANY of that true? Please. I had never considered that Trudeau and Castro were friends, let alone lovers.
I really like that story at the beginning. Unfortunately, the author uses it to construct a false analogy to Bitcoin.

The same article could have been written about the Internet of 1999. And it would have been wrong for a lot of the same reasons.

Here's what the author is missing: the reason that Bitcoin exists.

It's not about the gold bugs, although they get the talking head appearances. Should inflation indeed prove "transitory," the Bitcoin exchange rate is getting taken to the woodshed. I suspect this will be the outcome because gold has performed so abysmally. Gold traders know for a fact that inflation is transitory, and they're putting their money on the outcome.

Rather, Bitcoin is about censorship resistant money. That means that Bitcoin makes it hard for others to implement exclusionary rules that target specific individuals or groups.

Contrast this with the government-controlled currencies, especially the US dollar. They have been weaponized and weaponized again. Against individuals for domestic law enforcement. Against other countries because the consequence of wars between big countries is so horrifying. All over the world, the call rings out to use money as a proxy for violence.

Bitcoin and its censorship-resistant properties stand in the way of this Juggernaut.

The author doesn't mention this once. And this is what the author misses. When the goldbugs fade into the rear-view mirror and the world wakes up to the possibility that printing money can cause deflation, what will be left of Bitcoin's value proposition is censorship resistance. And in this regard, there will be no other alternative.
Show HN: Vanga – The AI That Upsells Better Than Any Human
Why would I be mad? If my neighbour happens to win the lottery, I'm not going around being annoyed that I didn't play. Playing on bitcoin was stupid then and is even more stupid now. That it made some people very rich hasn't changed that fact.
Federating is one goal but is useless without mainstream adoption.

Success is adoption. Enough users to break the network effect.

Signal is currently a good example of roughly the amount of users you need to start breaking the effect. So that's what success looks like. A very low bar version of it.
Cryptocurrency is an incredibly powerful technology, in that it enables distributed consensus via a self-contained economic system. The challenge is separating the hype from the real value, as the space is deluged by speculators.
Nice! I built a mutiplayer drawing app too, a few years ago, for Android called Pixmap. Still out there and running. It was fun to build.

My favorite feature to build was the Rewind feature, so you could see people draw something together over the course of months.
One obvious use case of circles was having a personal and a professional circle. While I just have a single handle on Twitter, my personal content is also highly innocuous. There are definitely situations where you don't want to swizzle everything together.
Insomnia – Angela Arena
Montel speaks with Angela Arena on this episode of Let’s be Blunt. Angela earned her MBA & MS from Boston University where she also studied as an undergrad. She was a business executive in the fast-paced tech world, juggling a career and parenthood when she began experiencing severe insomnia due to stress and decided it was time for a change. She is the founder of Kind Lab, a radical plant-based wellness company specializing in CBD solutions for women over 45.
but not slack threads, but reddit/mailing threads, or trees
The images are not even stored on the blockchain. So you are basically purchasing a very expensive receipt for something that you do not even 'own' and the images are sitting on a server somewhere.

This is definitive proof that these sort of NFTs based on images, videos, etc are a complete and gigantic scam ready to collapse.

QED.
I liked his point near the end of the article comparing blockchains to XML - overcomplicated and oversold and added to too many things due to marketing and consultant hype.

The obvious next question he didn't ask is, what is the JSON of blockchain? The one that's more flexible and efficient and ends up actually becoming ubiquitous?

Maybe it hasn't appeared yet? Maybe it shouldn't? I don't know, but the comparison is just waiting for that followup.
Very nice. I hope this makes some news and show people more clearly what they are actually spending money on.
> Good thing is for a small blog there likely won't be very much!

Spam is a large problem on any scale. Unless you use something that filter bots, the size of your blog doesn't matter much.
This is my favorite technical blog

https://www.righto.com/

Ken Shirriff started blogging about very average Arduino projects that he did but he taught himself how microchips work and he shares it with the rest of us.

There is a mental model for blogging that goes: "we'll submit this page to Hacker News, get 15,000 views; 12,000 of those will bounce right away; 30 will sign up for an e-mail newsletter; 3 will talk to a salesperson; 0.3 will start a trial; 0.03 will become profitable customers"

If you think that way you won't get the most out of blogging!

I'm sure every day somebody visits Ken's blog for the first time and spends the whole day reading it.

All of the content you describe is good. You need a lot of it. It has to be high quality. Some articles will be better than others and sometimes you'll struggle to get articles out the door. It will take a long time to accumulate enough articles to make a destination.

Be careful with "calls to action". On one hand you want people to take action. I've been told to add them to blog posts and really wanted to because I was just as hungry as my co-workers. Sometimes I feel like they drained all the authenticity out of the article though and were a subtraction instead of an addition.

Make it all about you and your reader. Don't let on that you are blogging because somebody else blogs, told you to blog, etc. Make it clear that you always respect yourself and the reader (e.g. watch self-deprecating remarks like "this blog is occasionally interesting".) There are many signs that make bad blogs seem inauthentic and you don't want to be that person.
And yet almost nobody who uses irc uses it, unlike omemo (xmpp) and olm (matrix). Its encryption also predates matrix by a decade, its dh prime is only 1.5k bits big.
Comparing countries like this to the US and Mexico shows how clueless you are.

And the hypocrisy of bringing up South Korea... like North Korea doesn't exist. I guess because it has to be us African savages who don't have leadership and vision right? North Korea doesn't fit the narrative so we'll pretend they weren't part of the Korea that was colonized... right.

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I always tell people trying to act like an entire continent is just magically incapable of giving birth to a leader this example of why these countries end up like this.

(The choice of Texas comes from the fact it's usually white Americans saying this stuff, so this might be lost on others, but feel free to sub in "big group A that looks down on small group B")

Imagine today the Netherlands invaded North America, and then took Texas.

Then they took not Mexico, but just Chihuahua state (3 mil pop), an area half the size of Texas (29 mil pop)

That'd be bad enough right? Imagine Texas of all places having to deal with the humiliation of being conquered, then topping it off with becoming the same country as the Mexicans they have a history if looking down on.

From there the Netherlands puts the Mexican minority in charge of the Texans knowing the history of anti-Mexican racism in the state.

They intentionally treated the Mexican minority as kings, and the Texan majority as second class citizens to ensure distrust and hatred between them. So even if you weren't some anti-Mexican racist before, you sure more likely to be one now... After all, all the negative notions that were already stewing just got proven right?

That ensures the Mexicans who are in higher positions of power are loyal to the Netherlands, and are highly motivated to maintain this new state, lest the Texans get their payback for the current set up.

In the meantime the rest of the US undergoes the same thing.

Then one day, the Netherlands just leaves.

I'd like to know what leader and "vision" you think would keep the average "damn illegals" Texan from not revolting immediately and destroying every reminder those Mexicans ever existed in a position of power over them.

You have a country that was intentionally engineered as a powder keg. That was supposed to be the leverage that kept things running.

So is it any surprise that when you haphazardly toss the powder keg out the window because sour grapes about losing your new toy... it explodes?

Oh yeah then I guess to sprinkle some spice on all that, let's remove Christianity from the Mexican side. Netherlands brought it, but only the Texans took to it. So now the Mexicans are also heathens to the bible thumpers.
The wave/particle duality is just an illusion, a feature of how we model physical objects, and ultimately how we teach physics.

Neither waves or particles exist in the real world, but we do model some features of the world through them. Particles and waves are just the solutions to the differential equations found in classical mechanics, and electromagnetism (which, interestingly enough, rely on the same mathematical framework). Then when teaching about them, we use analogies from the perceptible world. (And those analogies are wrong btw, waves in the sea don't really behave like physics “waves”).

In quantum mechanics, the equations are completely different ones, based on a completely different branch of mathematics. Then unsurprisingly their solutions have little in common with those above.
I don't think the resemblance is that strong: https://www.startpage.com/av/proxy-image?piurl=https%3A%2F%2...
I know this is not in the spirit of the article, but getting the number of weeks is quite useful generally.
One can do this with the standard date util like:

$ echo $(((($(date +%s -d 'Aug 31') - $(date +%s -d 'Jul 1'))/(60*60*24*7))))
8 # 8.7 weeks truncated

$ echo $(((($(date +%W -d 'Aug 31') - $(date +%W -d 'Jul 1')))))
9

It's useful to get the number of weeks from git logs for release notes etc., which can be done like:

oldvs='v1.0'
oldts=$(git log -n1 --format="%at" "$oldvs")
weeks=$((($(date +%s) - $oldts)/(60*60*24*7)))
And the reason for the shift was both political and economic: Verne's publisher was afraid of both losing the Russian market and souring relations between France and Russia, though public sentiment in France leaned in favor of the Poles. In other words, the shift was not Verne's intention.
This covers positive freedoms, but what about negative freedoms? Contrast these two people:

- The first person lives in a prosperous and authoritarian state. They have high positive freedoms (access to resources, healthcare, etc, thanks to the bounties of their society) but low negative freedoms (no freedom of speech/thought, low freedom of movement, surveillance, etc).

- The second person is a survivalist nomad. They have access to very little resources, but otherwise have no external authority that is constraining them in a negative sense.

So I think there's orthogonal variables here, and each of them could rightly be considered to be "freedom" as it's often defined by different people.
Are you saying Nano is based on Ethereum? Because it's not. Or if you mean the environmental impact claims are based on Ethereum... that's sort of true (Bitcoin is still the biggest offender here, but Ethereum currently also has a significant impact).

However, Ethereum is moving to proof-of-stake, so this won't be relevant once that transition is complete.
The cost is that it is fragmenting the already fragmented scene of open protocols with an inferior solution. Now I will have to install a 5th chat client in order to talk with the few people that will move to it.
Why Is IPv5 Unavailable?
https://xkcd.com/1886/
Or rather, the receipt of your purchase of a link. :P
I am so tired of seeing massless neutrinos being described as a "prediction" of the Standard Model, and finite neutrino masses as beyond-Standard Model physics or even a "mystery". This is especially disappointing coming from a supposedly serious magazine like Symmetry.

Neutrinos were originally hypothesized in order to solve a problem which did not require them to have mass, and for a long time after they were actually observed, their measured masses remained within error bars straddling zero. It therefore made perfect sense to model them as massless.

But to actually include neutrino masses in the Standard Model is trivial, and was done long ago.

The most straightforward way to do it is to give them quark-like mass terms. This requires introducing a right-handed partner for each known (left-handed) neutrino, which some people don't like because right-handed particles don't partake in weak interactions, and weak interactions are the only (known) neutrino interactions (apart from gravity), so you end up with undetectable particles.

The main alternative is to use Majorana mass terms, making neutrinos their own anti-particles, which some people don't like because it deviates from the pattern of all other fermions in the Standard Model.

A third way is to say "it's both", typically involving the seesaw mechanism, which some people don't like because it requires unfashionable GUT-style beyond-Standard Model physics.

Point is, there is neither a failed "prediction" nor a great "mystery" here. There is uncertainty about which kind of mass term we should use for neutrinos, because the experimentally observable differences between the alternatives are really, really tiny.
This is called pronoun dropping [1] and happens in quite a few languages, including Japanese as noted.

I had a friend in college who would always point it out (in English, where it's not very common). I still notice it often years later and I'm pretty sure it's thanks to her making me aware of it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-drop_language
An overdraft limit of 0 just means that you end up in an unauthorised overdraft sooner.

Monzo might be an exception here.
React is just one example, Facebook does a lot more engineering and releases it to the public than React.

I know I could just use and promote React without using and promoting Facebook-The-Platform. My argument was more around that by using React and promoting it, aren't I indirectly promoting Facebook then? Same goes for Microsoft or any other company that has a "good" side and a "bad" side. How can we support the good side without supporting the bad side indirectly?
Streamlabs devs used OBS name and Lightstream web design without consent
"influencer" is not a fancy word for a blogger. An influencer is an advertiser posing as a blogger. The broader term is "native advertising" - advertisements designed not to look like advertisements.
To designers of low-code systems: Please make them compatible with source control, i.e., diff-able text files.
A Guide to Modern CSS Colors with RGB, HSL, HWB, Lab and LCH
You need the authorities (the "people with guns") to be able to override whatever the blockchain says.

If you install a virus and someone steals your land token on the blockchain, should you lose the land? Most people and courts will say no.
Same with the New York Times. Having gone through calling to cancel, I vowed never to subscribe again. Now I simply scan the front page to make sure the end of the world isn’t upon us. (Many days, reading it, it appears as though it is!)/s
I been at one very large enterprise for the last 15 years; the amount of low/no code apps I've been through is...well you know when neo is in the matrix, he is shown the previous matrix versions by the architect? its that feeling, but in this case there is no version of reality where there is a win. The biggest problem I see even if this were to work, is that you don't really want non-developers using these tools. Who's to blame when the low/no code user makes a booboo ? These people typically don't want this burden, so I've always seen it pushed back to a developer...and the requests are usually beyond the scope of the low/no code tool such that it eventually always becomes a worse burden for devs than code
Haha, it should use ML to generate responses that align with the posters comment xD
I mean, you only get to use "Particle McParticleFace" once.
Lessons learned after 5 years of climate tech entrepreneurship
Maybe it depends on the topic a blog is about or something else but I have a small blog about photography ( https://50mmf2.com ) and I've had only one slightly negative comment.

My blog isn't getting much traffic or many comments though. I would imagine that as something gets more popular it attracts more negative attention. That being said, the more popular niche photography blogs ( mainly about film photography ) have largely positive comments as well.

Promoting just an email will yield a much lower communication rate. Which might be OK in some cases but it's also nice to receive comments. As long as they are not terrible...
"Microblogging" (or "social media") has life in it, as long as people like to blather on, but forums are dead. Why are they dead? Because their lifespans were limited.

The Death of Discussion by icycalm explains how that happened with videogames forums:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/end-of-20685789 (paywall'd)

The deeper discussion-worthiness of each forum's respective subject matter was exhausted. All that's left is rehashing the same old topics ad nauseum, or scholarish cataloguing work, or reacting to news.
Have you gotten it graded yet?
A Denser City, but at What Cost?
> What about the practise of Civil forfeiture?

That's not a feature of a particular monetary system, it's a US-specific legal doctrine governing any kind of property.