skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh woe.

Taiwan, SK and Singapore are western protectorates. Particularly US and ENG heavy investment in these states post WW2 [Germany included]. The US is built on the dead indigenous populations - and is an extension of the British isles as is Australia, South Africa, New Zealand. All seem to be mysteriously well for themselves.

My point is just to shift your perspective just ever so slightly and you might come to an altogether different conclusion.

> What’s important is the leadership and their vision.

Blanket statements like these are and always have been the common European view of Africa for centuries. To suggest that africans are incapable of thought. It gives them a right - I suppose a righteous cause - to pillage and do as they please since they were dealing with barely human animals...cattle.

Just after WW2, Hitler had reduced Europe to rubble and independence was granted...but was it really?

African leaders with an african agenda - back in the 50's and 60s- just after independence suddenly found themselves dead, suddenly farmers and their sons had AK47s and righteous cause to overthrow a government they had previously never dared to speak of. Suddenly, American companies were getting absurdly favourable terms to extract minerals by the military leaders of whatever coup was successful, EU rose from the ashes and the music started playing again. Africans know that familiar tune. It's been playing for centuries.
I was not planning to get a paid account there anyway. And regardless I prefer gitlab (due to the ICE stuff).
Wow,that's insane. Thankfully in my teacher's case, the city basically said "oops our bad" and did actually extend the yellow (albeit several months later).

They did not refund any of the past fines though.
Inflation on their savings is really the least of most poor people‘s problems.
Exactly what‘s funding wars is also funding social welfare and public goods and services. But It‘s cool that you and everyone else in this will be super rich when the time comes so what do you care.
Didn't Berlin attempt to convert to Linux but had to revert back because all their end users were too stupid/scared to learn a new OS? I know a German city did that at one point.
What's the point of E2E in a public chatroom? If there's no restriction to enter anyone could just put a bot in that logs everything everyone says.
not everyone has a positive relationship with the HR department of their work place. Ergo one can be cynical of any practices or policies they put forward thus leading towards a mistrust of the term.

You might be assuming everyone else has the same relationship with the words that you do and this could be a mistake.
Newer solutions which use abstraction layers like postgREST will hopefully result in easier migration down the road - but I doubt most products/projects use such a thing.
What do you mean by Markdown not supporting other languages? I don't see how it wouldn't support other languages.

Although we're using Asciidoctor (syntax / markup language) with Antora (tooling) ourselves, including with a Chinese translation. It's similar to the Fedora documentation:

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/ur_PK/docs/ (Urdu? Most translations are very incomplete; it's just volunteers.)
It's still far behind PHP[0], but with Next.js/blitz.js I think we're going in the right direction.

[0]: as in, I would have nightmares trying to introduce beginners to full JS stack vs I would have nightmares thinking what they will end up coding when they easily become dangerous with PHP (which is I guess why there are so many bad PHP codebases: it's super easy to start)
Thanks, that's a really helpful list. Getting the goals right is, I agree, a bit part of the answer.
Bitcoin yes, but the cryptocurrency market as a whole is moving towards proof of stake cryptocurrencies which don't have this specific issue. In 4-10 years I don't think Bitcoin will still be the most valuable cryptocurrency by market cap.
A non crappy UI is the big one. Forums almost universally suck.
That's certificate transparency, which few blockchain proponents seem to consider a blockchain — and the developers of Trillian definitely don't class it as such as per https://transparency.dev.

I think that is a useful concept and that's not terribly far out of line with what I was proposing — the main idea was that the useful part is basically the chain of signatures for a transaction but that it's only worth so much infrastructure because so much of the system depends on real-world activity outside of it. If my driver signs receipt of your goods by having both of them wave a key over a phone, that is useful information but there's a cap on how much value you can see from it because it doesn't say whether those statements were honest. The types of blockchains proponents outline are too expensive for that but something like what CT does could be useful — the key part being that it's kept small, efficient, and allows offline operations to handle limited connectivity.
Anyone buying an NFT is getting an NFT. Nobody is getting tricked, a necessary condition for a scam. Therefore there is no scam.
It's a non-static, non-homogenous, equilibrium. It changes with technology, environment, and culture.

As surveillance gets easier, we need to choose having crime for the sake of privacy. As the manufacture of dangerous materials and weapons gets easier, we need to choose between living in a more dangerous world, or slowing human progress.

Not every culture has the same risk tolerance. Not every time period has the same risks.
There's a lot of Fortran work being done recently including a standard library and package manager. Maybe you could find something there, or just ask in their mailing lists.

https://github.com/fortran-lang
And if you are arrested after making one of these illegal choices, are you still free?
I came here to say the same thing. Linux is fine for us devs and sys admins. The general populace wouldn't tolerate all the quirks to each DE one bit.
Now switch to Linux too.

The more we invest together, the easier it becomes. German states can help Spanish states, and Finnish schools, Danish universities, and French businesses, etc. - collaboratively investing so that everyone benefits and Europe can build its own Tech industry and have some independence from the US.

This is absolutely critical to move away from the dominance of "Big Tech" to FOSS solutions that independent, small co-operatives can maintain together.
It's the kind of story that was cheered on on Slashdot. Multiple times. I can't count the number of times I've seen "Some German [agency|municipality|state] [is planning to adopt|has adopted|cancels adoption|reverses adoption] of [StarOffice|OpenOffice|Libreoffice|Linux]". I think it's some kind of meme, the product of peculiar German administrative politics, or a result of vigorous Free Software activism in Germany because I don't see such headlines nearly as often for any other locality.
Are you always connected? If not how do you receive the answer?
The way NFTs are being traded currently is a global game of musical chairs. You are basically paying for your name to be attached to a specific asset address on a distributed ledger.

However, i do see some use cases. Imagine a decentralized NFT ledger where e.g one can buy the copyrights (and rights to royalties) for digital assets like music that would then be integrated into services like Apple Music or Spotify. That would create a neat marketplace for intellectual property.
Most forums needed you to be registered only if you wanted to post stuff.. so the same as twitter... but without the character limits, with file uploads, etc.
Those people still overwhelmingly prefer dollars.
It’s not true that there is a MS tax on office software - you can now run Google Suite, so there is at least one major competitor.
I agree with you, I believe that simulators, games, software that are "walled-gardens" in the sense that they don't have a lot of interactions with the external world aside from IO and netcode for multiplayer games (that's a pita though), will be usually better in a purely functional model. We must either stay single-threaded or adopt purely functional programming or transactions in those kind of systems. Now, this can be achieved in both C++ and Rust as those kind of systems are not "safety critical", C++ has the edge in metaprogramming while Rust is one step forward in moving the lifetime correctness on the programmer's turf. It's hard to make a point which one is better suited right now as both in my opinion are flawed and have their advantages, it gets evangelical pretty fast. One thing I know is that C++ has the upperhand just because of the sheer amount of libraries that exist in the space and its supporters like Autocad, Valve, Epic and other companies that have billion $ infrastructure built on it.

Right now I'm working with fax machines and I have to provide a C library which is consumed by Scala services. Neither C++ nor Rust would have been an advantage as we are familiar with other methods of verification which are more battletested.
I don’t know if this is a new take on phenomenology. Derrida is mentioned, but you might be interested in Heidegger if curious about Object-Oriented Ontology. Heidegger is often avoided for his politics.

Morton is trying to make bleak predictions of collapse comprehensible for the next generation of thinkers. You’ll have to read something that mentions hyperobjects a lot; our previous word millenarianism was too awkward.
Realizing gains in a shockingly volatile speculative investment just seems like common sense. Particularly so if you can take out your original investment and be "playing with house money" so to speak.
Wait - this thing runs Windows?! I figured it ran some kind of bytecode or toy OS. That's very neat that it runs a commercial operating system.

I'd seen this post before but I'd never noticed the monitor with the Windows login screen.
This is a 20-year-old problem. It won’t improve. And we’ve lost the cloud fight (practically no site is Affero GPL).

OSS is dead.

Even Linux - I bet half installs nowadays are on AWS/GCP/etc., and they run custom distros, and one day Debian won’t have enough funding to fix all CVEs, and the only ones which will be constantly viable to run when you have liabilities (=all the time) will be cloud provider-maintained ones.
True, people on IRC usually don't mind conversations being public. Check out OTRv4 though, they are working on modernizing the encryption: https://bugs.otr.im/otrv4/otrv4
Antora, which uses Asciidoctor (rather than Markdown).

The obvious example is the Antora and Asciidoctor documentation:

https://docs.antora.org/antora/2.3/

https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/
Dunno about that. XMPP and Matrix seem to have solved this issue. Plus implementing TLS is much more difficult than implementing e2ee so I do not get the argument.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but you mention liking history. I find a lot of quality articles at History Today. [0] For science, I find Science Daily to be a good daily (ha) read. [1] Similarly, Quanta Magazine. [2]

Owing to the lack of an HN-type site in these areas (that I know of), I rely heavily on RSS feeds from all of those and kind of "roll my own" HN.

[0] https://www.historytoday.com

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com

[2] https://www.quantamagazine.org
The entire online population of the Internet in the late 1990s / early 2000s is the size of a "small" current-day social network. On the order of 100m people or so.

Individual communities were much smaller than that, and in a crowd numbering from 100s to 1,000s, you'd come to recognise names and frequently meet IRL. I still see people I know from those days turning up online today (there are a few on HN itself).

Conversation scales poorly.

I'm not sure what exactly it is that online discussion is meant to accomplish any more (well: selling terabucks worth of advertising and manipulating behaviours at a global scale), but back in the day, we were at least sold on the idea that it might be personal connection and useful information.

That ... seems to have been a pipe dream.

Put another way, tribalism is one response to world too large for everyone to belong to the same tribe, and the establishment of tribal boundaries itself begins defining further emergent behaviours.

There's also the intersection with existing tribes and rivalries and a carrying-over of dynamics from the offline world to the online, which again, most commentators of the 1970s--1990s seemed to have conspicuously missed.
NFTs don't confer ownership of anything except a string of letters. Unless there's a legal system backing them, they're just trading cars.

Owning an NFT of a digital image doesn't mean you own it anymore than owning a LeBron James card means you own LeBron James.
Is the Brain a Quantum Computer?
The hardest working people are living paycheck to paycheck. Inflation, as long as it doesn‘t go hyper, is not a major concern.

The only thing normal inflation seriously devalues is resting on your hard work for way to long.
I say, on the phonological level at least, French, German, and even Polish are easy. Their phonetics, both the consonants and the vowels, are straightforward. English, in contrast, is out of this world. (Its origin lies in the language of an island nation, after all.) So much so that it looks like their neighbors, the French, have huge difficulty with English pronunciation (and native English speakers, especially the Americans, seem all too happy to return the favor - their atrocious French pronunciation is, in fact, what they are taught, just look at the transcription of French words in conversation guides, it is amazing how bad it is, ‘é’ is transcribed as ‘ay’, etc.)
Perhaps your router just wasn't quite the fit for it. "Lots of fiddling and restarting your router 10-30 times over a weekend" sounds nothing at all like my experience with OpenWRT and DD-WRT.
Yeast infection symptoms in female – HealthLineFit
The complexity that comes from the zero-cost abstractions promoted by both C++ and Rust here isn’t in performance (not runtime nor compiletime) but in programmer reasoning and refactoring.
There are other blockchains without those issues. I'm not naming names but if you care to research the space at all you'll find many, with various strengths and tradeoffs.
source open is different from "open source". look but don't touch
LPC is not a secure bus. TPM on LPC bus without Parameter Encryption enabled is not protected against Man-in-the-middle attacks. I recommend SafeBoot and TPM.dev for more information.
"True of just about everything" If I had a dollar for every time I heard of this against an anti-crypto sentiment...

I would have at least 10 dollars
A quick search came up with an order of magnitude more sites in laravel than django. And combined are still a small fraction of sites on the internet.
I've not used it yet - but planning to give Nextra (https://nextra.vercel.app/) a go next time around.

The 'docs' theme is intended as a quick way to produce a documentation website based on Next, which you can obviously customise further with your own components if needed.
Same. Our Node applications can take up to 10 minutes to build and deploy from a pipeline, but our PHP applications are deployed in <2 seconds by executing `git pull` on a VM.
I absolutely think that digital art is as valuable and worthy of recognition as physical art. My wife is an artist (oils and water colors, not digital) and we've discussed it at length that the skill and talent required to create digital art imparts equal value. I'm not arguing against that (I'm not saying that's what you're saying either, but just to be clear for folks who read the comments).

But...I do not see the value in being able to "prove" that you own said artwork...because you can't do it...Globally, the number of people who know what Ethereum or any other block-chain technology means is probably what..many thousands? Maybe..maybe a few hundred thousand? And of those the subset of people who actually care...I'm sure is far fewer. So you can only verify yourself as the "owner" of said art to a very small subset of people...

I guess it's like a collector community? People are willing to spend literally millions of dollars to prove to other collectors that they are the owners of these digital assets?
https://hhvm.com/
Does a German state have the ability to audit software or contribute patches?

And what would the patches be for? What use-cases do they have that are so unique that they need custom software?
Perhaps Patreon can find a niche here by letting people sponsor alternative hosting (on Patreon) for the content they want to support.
Never heard of this, looked up whether there was some gap in the theory the video failed to mention, found a discussion on why this model isn't more pervasive: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/341400/why-would...

& one comment which specifically separates pilot waves from the bouncing droplet demo https://old.reddit.com/r/quantum/comments/7crdz6/whats_wrong...
Why Clojure (Lisp) is good for writing transpilers (2020)
It's worth noting that many recipients will use SPF and DMARC to avoid accepting "forged" email like this -- spammers make very heavy use of the historical lack of authorisation for sending mail as if from a particular address.
OpenStore Raises $75M to Acquire More Shopify Sellers
Ironically, this is great for NFT artists: most artists distributing their work as signed tokens want the high resolution media to be more widely distributed across many points of failure (that's exactly why IPFS is typically chosen).

So far most comments here fail to understand that the economic value of an NFT, unlike traditional art through most of recent history, is not tied to scarcity of access to its media. If you want to learn more about this (very polarizing) paradigm and how it can benefit artists, I suggest the following links:

[1] - https://mattdesl.substack.com/p/hicetnunc-and-the-merits-of-...

[2] - https://jackrusher.com/journal/what-does-it-mean-to-buy-a-gi...
Well… if the vintage computing thing continues for a couple decades, it may be worth to invest in warehouses to store the computers after they become obsolete and before they become classic.
Bonsai annuals are fun, easy, and not much investment to lose of you mess up. By July the garden shops' starter plants are often already started miniaturizing their leaves, you can often pickup a bunch of "damaged" plants for free. Leave them in the nursery pots and keep 'em alive and you can get awesome results.

Peppers, tomatoes, and hemp all work well that way. Tomatoes can make fruits bigger than the plant, if you torture them right.

Cucumbers are lovely as minis but are much harder to keep contained and harder to get to fruit. They grow their fruit too fast and its hard to get enough water into the plant without drowning it.

Tobacco was entertaining to grow in a small pot, i got a 6ft plant that flowered in a 1L pot. it never had great leaves and it scavenged nutrients out of lower leaves to grow higher ones so it was all spindly. Never "miniaturized" the way other plants do. I suspect pumpkins and some other families would behave the same way.
I think it really depends on what you want to get out of it. There's content that is just a treat and fun to watch, but the idea of it being a "class" is rather disingenuous. Like, are you really going to become a composer after watching 6 hours of content? Or a rock climber?

But the stuff that is set up where you can have a chance at succeeding by practicing what you are seeing really does work. I was gifted a subscription and because of it watched the Thomas Keller series of cooking. I had never cooked before, but I have tried just about every recipe of the series a few times over, and no joke I've been able to produce truly REALLY fine dining experiences at home. Those lessons, for instance, are super didactic, build cooking up from first principles, show you all the steps, etc. It is fascinating content.

And then, for instance, watching some of the other stuff, like rock climbing, for example, can also just be fun. So, all in all, I think depending on what your profile is and what your expectations of it are it can actually be worth it.
The Creator Economy
I really would not discourage C, at all. Even encourage it, especially for embedded. It really makes you grok the lower levels in a way few other languages do, and it's still widely used.

C++, though, agreed.
These kinds of long-lived communities also generate a lot of unique culture. Not really possible when it's just your own thing (unless you're a genius or just incredibly creative)
> Freedom exists only as an equilibrium between your freedom and that of others

What are you talking about? Snowden is talking about the Freedom of the mind.
The suicide attempt rate is only marginally higher in the US than in other developed countries (something that can be explained by other factors much easier than access to guns)

The amount of people who die to suicide is higher in the US because you are much more likely to actually die if you use a gun to commit suicide than other common methods. Higher access to guns increases the rate of people who successfully kill themselves. (Which is probably a bad thing. In general those who survive suicide attempts are happy that they lived.)
There was a mode in ICQ long ago where the person you were messaging could see everything you typed, as you typed it. A friend of mine always wanted to use it and it was mildly terrifying.
Can somebody explain to me what is the long term "let's vaccinate everybody plan", and what data are we collecting to determine if the plan is working or not, and what data would indicate that the plan is not working in that case?
Amazon may drop Visa as partner on US credit card
Yes, but you could then have a legitimate court case over the ownership, and might even win the right to control it anyways. NFTs are a scam because they offer no legal rights whatsoever.
The problem is that from an experimental / observational technologies perspective we have been for many decades now in some sort of "evidence desert" that pushes against fundamental technology boundaries and that is not conducive to solving big "mysteries".

Unifications, re-interpretations, new conceptualizations (new forces etc) are the mental tools through which we solve previous "mysteries" (and create new ones). Right now there are alive more physicists than ever and even a tiny piece of important news could lead to a revolution - in like a couple of years. But what you really want is a firehose of new data points, "a new window". This has not happened and it may not happen for generations (for the attentive reader: gravitational waves are at the very, very edge of the detectable).

As Feynman might say, the Universe doesn't owe us a continuous stream of gee-wow moments

But if I had to bet where the breakthrough might come from I'd say it would probably be cosmology rather than elementary particles...
To your second point, this is already the case
"Freedom" is a symbol. Like all symbols and all symbolism it means nothing to Bob and everything to Bill. It means one things to Sarah and another to Sally.

One person's freedom is another's tyranny and vice versa.

It's all a treacherous language game.
Note that IRCv3 is backward-compatible, so you don't need a new client. Any existing IRC client can connect to it just fine; including multi-protocol clients like Pidgin. And if you do want a client with all the new IRCv3 features, that client can still connect to old IRC servers.
If you plunge a sword into your chest, you also can't make choices later on. Does that mean it's impossible to choose to plunge a sword into your chest?