skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've recently heard a rather interesting and optimistic take on this. Since we have had so many brilliant minds looking in so many places for new physics and still have not seen evidence of it, that suggests whenever we do find new physics, it will have to be so bafflingly strange that all these brilliant people could never imagine it. It may very well be a bigger paradigm shift than the jump from classical to modern physics.
KDE 5 is also really good IMO. I like it much more than Mate or Cinnamon.
All things equal, pick the areas with growth. Google, Meta, Amazon all have natural monopolies in growing markets where your individual performance doesn't matter that much. This is a safe play w good short term upside. AI, blockchain, security, etc are growing areas but you need to make an initial investment and maybe a lateral or down move to retool yourself and reorient your work network. This is the risky play with a lot more potential upside.

Life is short though, once your base needs are met, figure out what you want to work on and spend more time on whatever that is.
I am not a crypto nerd, so this may be a noob question: How do you manage the fluctuation/volatility in crypto value when quoting the shipping cost?
What are people doing about this on the client side? The solution that comes to mind is to do all my Rust builds in a sandbox of some kind, but with rust-analyzer involved, I'd likely have to put my editor in there as well.
Free Pascal/Lazarus is also near the top of that list, and it lacks a bunch of constructs that make handy footguns.

It doesn't do macros.
It doesn't have all the .H files.
It doesn't default to null terminated strings

It also has a lot of nice features

Begin/End make it easy to see blocks
It has clear syntax for dealing with pointers. @P is the address of P, P^ is what the pointer P points to
It makes it easy to tell assignment := from equality tests =
It defaults to passing function parameters by value, but can also pass by reference, or pointer.
It does separate compilation (units)
Strings are memory managed for you, counted, and can even have nulls in them.
Identifiers aren't case sensitive.
It now supports for .. each in loops

You can even participate in the Google Kickstart rounds in free pascal to hone your skills.
Back in the mid 1970s I had a friend that worked at Kodak on the molds for Instamatic cameras. His job was to build up the wear areas in the molds so that they could be re-machined. I cannot recall the exact process, but it was some form of plasma spray welding. Only fractions of a mm, so that the process of re-machining was easy.

The plastic they used was abrasive to the molds, and the bodies had to be quite precise to generate acceptable image quality. I forget how many cycles the molds could run before being swapped out, but it was only days, not weeks.
As an EFnet admin: EFnet ;-) IRCnet is still around too with some very active chat channels (e.g. #worldchat). The networks are much smaller nowadays though.
Competitors, but they both participate in OpenZFS development. Yet another success story for open standards.

https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/openzfs-2-on-truenas/
In the dark ages you can build gears. Gears can do arithmetic and calculus.
> In the process it will destroy the funding mechanism that has kept the world at war for a century, and massively increased poverty.

This is delusional: if WW2 was fought on any one currency, that was oil. It has nothing to do with fiat currency. Nor does, say, Syria.

We'll know the censorship resistance is working when Iran routinely sells oil for bitcoin.

> Mass theft of poor peoples savings via inflation is over.

Bitcoin has yet to achieve price stability against real goods, because the price of bitcoin versus the real dollar goes up and down by tens of percent on a monthly basis.

If you want price stability, use Tether.
Science.bio
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libera.chat is quite lively. IRCnet, efnet, quakenet, etc. are still there but maybe not as active as in the past.
Life sciences raised $1B in capital last year, and we know why
In the past year, ten companies in Utah’s life sciences sector raised a combined $1 billion in capital―the largest round of funding in recent memory.

“We spent the last few years building, and we finally reached a critical mass,” says Katelin Roberts, executive director at BioHive. “The influx of cash coming to the state wasn’t a coincidence. It’s really a realization of the work going on behind the scenes for over a decade.”
> The amount of school activities missed

Has been more or less spread across population. If only a known subset is affected, those will become disadvantaged and possibly even discriminated during employment.
> I have the same image as the owner and I have $213 where the new "owner" simply has the image.....

AFAIU the owner also has a sort of unique and unfalsifiable certificate that let him cash in on the picture later on if its price ever raise ?

Like a certificate of authenticity for the Mona Lisa. You may have a very good copy (or even the original) but without the certificate your version sells for less ?

Did I get that right ?
Huge fan of this!

I like the ui better than Tldraw, I think. I'll have to try it more and see what I think.
Yes, you just stay connected for a long time (idling). I run a bouncer (forward proxy for IRC, basically) on a server so I effectively stay connected 24/7 to all the channels I'm in, so asking a question, waiting a few minutes to see if someone answers immediately, and then leaving and coming back an hour or two later is totally normal (you could of course just keep your client connected, but my internet's not quite that reliable).
Inflation keeps poor people from dying of starvation. No one spends with deflating currency because one can always purchase more with it next year.

Except when enough people have this thought and the economy stops and you get the Great Depression.
That’s not a redirect btw, it’s the same domain. The xn—- prefix indicates Unicode encoding
The easier, less invasive but also less accurate option would be to publish an empty crate with a random name that does not exploit typos (just some random junk) and check how often that crate is downloaded.
You can assume that almost all downloads for this crate are bot downloads and just subtract that amount from the downloads of the typo-squatted crate
Tom Scott has done videos where this has been either used directly as part of the video or has been in the background.

For example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5JC9Ve1sfI - It certainly makes for a cool background.
'Stable pseudonyms' beat real user names for online civility
That set of charts refers to income (a flow) not savings (a stock).
I figure I can probably keep two or three problems in my head at once before I start making mistakes, and my branches stay in my head until they're merged or abandoned. 40? It'd be impossible. Maybe I just have a weird brain though (or am just not a good engineer, based on what I've read about stacks elsewhere since reading this post.)
A lot of East Africans have grandpas who fought in Burma during ww2 [1]. In fact a certain suburb in Nairobi is called Kariokor; a bastardisation of the name carrier corps.

1. https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/program/people-power/2019/2/13...
Elite Overproduction
Interview with Kary Mullis, Inventor of PCR Test
Qualcomm hopes to make Apple M1-matching chips for Windows PCs
Check out https://excalidraw.com/

I think it's more refined than Tldraw.
So I'm the complete same, but have you ever thought about how that might impact the way you communicate? I've found I've got worse at talking (verbally) compared to typing, because of how many cruxes I'd started relying on over the pandemic (along with other reasons of course).
I am "eating my own dog food" in the sense that I am currently using two projects that I developed specifically for that:

- HastyScribe[1] -- an opinionated markdown compiler that supports advanced features for technical writing like macros, fields and transclusion.
- HastySite[2] -- a highly customizable static site generator based on HastyScribe and min[3], another project of mine (and a pretty deep rabbit hole to go into, if you like unusual programming languages)

Examples can be found in the docs listed for most of my with my projects, here:

https://h3rald.com/projects

The only thing missing from those is search, but I could plug in LiteStore[4] and be done with it. OK, I think that's enough self-promotion for one comment, but you did ask...

[1] https://h3rald.com/hastyscribe/

[2] https://h3rald.com/hastysite/

[3] https://h3rald.com/min/

[4] https://h3rald.com/litestore/
Background: I've been a technical writer for 9 years. 6 at Google, 3 as the only writer at an IoT startup.

I helped Corrily with their docs [1] in August. They were interested in ReadMe.io. I wasn't keen on it because I had worked with Retool on their docs (hosted in ReadMe) a few years back and had found ReadMe lacking. But I was pleasantly surprised by how much it has progressed since then! If you're looking for a documentation product that is very easy to update and mostly just works, then it's worth checking out. The pricing structure gets steep very quickly though.

On https://web.dev I was introduced to Eleventy. Eleventy [2] is now my go to. The documentation for Eleventy itself is very strangely organized and needs a refactor. But I have found that there is always a way to accomplish whatever I need, and usually elegantly. Eleventy requires a lot of customization and probably wouldn't be a great fit for a huge contributor group with varying technical skill. If you're working solo or with a small team of technical people and need to do some deep customization it can be great.

Another project worth checking out is Docsy [3]. This is a Jekyll template specifically created for technical documentation.

Back at the IoT startup I had to set up the whole documentation system / tooling myself. I used Sphinx [4] and deployed to Heroku. Haven't used Sphinx since then but I remember being satisfied with it back then. reStructuredText, the flavor (?) of Markdown Sphinx uses, has some very nice features. I remember they had a very intuitive way to create tables. CSV format, I think... Again I was mostly updating the docs solo so "ease of contributing" wasn't a deciding factor (although when I left they might have struggled to update the docs, so maybe ease of contributing should always be a key factor).

I'll strike while the iron is hot here and mention that I'll probably be back on market in March - April and love to set up documentation systems (as well as write docs of course) if your company needs help with that. Poke around on my website (link in HN bio) to find my contact.

Edit: I left another comment in this thread cautioning to be careful when choosing a doc tool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29266957

[1] https://docs.corrily.com

[2] https://11ty.dev

[3] https://docsy.dev

[4] https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/
When sleeping on your belly, doesn't your back "push" on your lungs? There's then more mass to compress your lungs than when sleeping on your back.
I'd say success, period. Not in migrating to one software or the other (who cares), but in migrating a large company's national headquarters to your city.
TrueNAS very much supports a write log:

https://www.truenas.com/docs/references/slog/
Congratulations! I've been following your progress on twitter and I'd love to sponsor your work. I'm wondering if there are plans for supporting visual diff?
That assumes that second person necessarily takes away something from the first person by the nature of her existence. In reality, this is not the case. Two persons can cooperate and kill a mammoth together, so both now have more spare time - a measure of freedom. A tribe can capture more territory - a measure of freedom.
I will basically never watch a video unless it’s the only possible source of information for something I desperately need about how to repair something (which is becoming more often, unfortunately).

It amazes me that ANYONE would prefer to watch a video over reading, I literally cannot understand why that would be the case.

It would be great if prefer-video people could write something up for video-never people like me on why they prefer it! Then I could try to make a truly terrible video explaining my perspective. ;)
Right, it doesn't show the option until they basically think you're about to cancel anyway.
I'm not the parent but I'll answer as a 9 years Linux user and advocate.

Things just break with updates, or sometimes do not work. I'm on Ubuntu 20 right now and Firefox can't detect the microphone on some websites like FB or instagram, but works just fine on Chrome. On my home computer running Arch and similar setup Firefox detects the mic just fine.

It's brittle, it feels like it's duct tapes all the way down and the breakage is mostly because not many foss projects really care about backwards compatibility.

However, on topic, the awful mess that is the Linux desktop experience does not matter since we're talking about public servants and not home use.
I have thousands of baseball cards stored away from when I was a kid. I remember pouring over the monthly appraisals published in Beckett magazine. I haven't checked in years. The cards could be worth thousands for all I know.

It actually doesn't make any logical sense that baseball cards have value. They are stock photos printed on card stock. They sold for pennies. I don't own the rights to the image. I can't even play any sort of interesting game with them in the same way I could with Magic the Gathering cards or Pokemon cards. I simply own the card and can resell it to other people and try to assemble interesting collections and discuss with other collectors. There really is no other utility other than that.

Bored Ape Yacht Club has memed itself into relevance, as indicated by your casual mention of their brand. They are digital collectibles but they also have become a true club in the sense that there are exclusive events both in real life and in the metaverse that BAYC holders get access to.

They also have gaming franchises in the works. And I imagine if U.S. securities laws weren't so draconian, they would probably arrange profit sharing among holders for proceeds from merchandising the franchise.

But for now, ownership of a BAYC grants you ownership of a meme. That's not an insult, by the way, quite the contrary. Human culture is memes all the way down.
But doesn't every revolution start out with a niche of early adopters that see the potential in something where everyone else just sees the clunky first prototype? Bitcoin in the early days may not have been for you, but if your retirement fund starts holding an amount of crypto it will become 'for you' then. The Tesla Model 3 is for a lot more people than the model S, and so on. Why would a revolution need to be 'for everyone' during the growth-hacking days?
The historically first browser automation tool was iMacros (2001!).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMacros
My favourite desktop is the Unity desktop by Canonical, which used to be the old Ubuntu desktop.

I felt like I could tell they were building it for actual users. There were things like the corner pixels activating logout, so you could just drag your mouse straight to the corner of the screen.

It also ran well on old hardware.

Ubuntu moving to the Gnome interface again was a step back in my opinion, but it shows what can be done if there is a business with a clear vision.
You don’t really need the ‘—allow-dirty’ flag to do as the author claims. There’s no enforcement that the local git commit is ever published to a public repo.
You made my argument for me. When those in power use the justification above and the justification is not based on reality, it has disastrous consequences.

It's not a valid justification, and authoritarians don't care about objective reality or rationality.
NK did pretty ok for awhile as long as they had the USSR as their sugar daddy. And SK was a dump ruled by a dictator for many decades as well. Funny how the roles reversed.
Mobilewalla Opt-Out Form (tracking data used by homeland security)
Ok that’s pretty interesting. Some of my employees and coworkers have been complaining about taking things from SharePoint lists and making them in a more “screen friendly” format and removing the manual work. We are pretty locked down into what software we use so maybe we could adapt this.
Governor Baker blames legislature for $4B stimulus bill spending delays
> we don’t have perfect code or computers efficient enough to do proof of work

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the point of proof of work precisely that it takes resources to perform this work? I.e. it's not a bug, it's a feature.
During COP26, Facebook served ads with climate falsehoods, skepticism
This is an issue with any ecosystem. The alternative would be to have them in standard library which is silly.

The actual solution I guess are domain specific languages.
YMMV, I've been checking out discord and I don't really like threads much. It feels like the discussion is stashed away semi-hidden in a corner which sort of discourages casual / intermittent participation and you easily miss the whole thread. It's like I have to go out of my way and butt into someone's discussion whereas the chatter on an IRC channel feels open to every participant.
I don't think you get to count Australia, NZ, US or Canada here. For the most part, colonization in those places was a process of removing the indigenous populations to make room the offspring of the colonial power's settlers. That allowed the colonizing countries to export their political systems wholesale, including cultural expectations and created a relative tabula rasa for historical grudges (though there are some that we still see ripples of today, e.g. in Quebec and Appalachia).

On the other hand, most of the colonization of Africa was characterized by, er, conscripting the local population as labor forces for extractive industries (running from slavery in the 17th century to minerals today). The colonial powers imposed controlling political systems onto groups of people who had their own histories, political cultures (read: methods of conflict resolution) and grudges. Since the colonizers were running the colonies solely for extraction without expectation for economic growth, they didn't prioritize economic and political self-sustaining capability in drawing borders; that those borders have remained in place after the withdrawal of colonial life support has been the source of much of the economic struggle (which begets violence, which begets destructive undevelopment, which begets further economic struggle).
> No it’s a lot more like the market for luxury goods.

Yep exactly like that, except there's no luxury good, not even a receipt of a luxury good, just a ticket to the directions of an online store that's hosting the same bag of pixels that's given out to everyone who ever cared to come across the same public directions with their browser.

There's no respect to be earned from a public digital trail admitting you've traded real money for a link to a fake clout badge.
No, that's not it. A scam implies that it's deliberate deception. People being hurt is neither here nor there.

And obviously people ARE getting hurt, but that doesn't mean it's a scam. It's just a crazy bubble.
Ok yeah I can budge on warranty, but recall? If the part is flawed from the get-go, who cares if it was "broken" during a repair? Under recall it was clearly broken or bound to break imminently (assuming Apple can verify that the part was OEM).

And if Apple doesn't want to do the repair themselves under recall due to 3rd party repairs, sure, just send me the part and I'll do it. One part per phone. Just don't tell me to pound sand and eat the full cost of part+repair. Sounds straightforward, though perhaps there's something I'm missing.
That's an absurd hypothetical. A human being isn't an object...do you also mirror their consciousness?
Collabora is quite nice, but also complicated to setup (at least last time I tried, could be true only at individual level too). OnlyOffice has less features, but that also makes it simpler to use and deploy.
When I was in my late teens, I realized that videogame development was harder, underpaid and didn't focus on the aspects I liked about software development (long term vision of the software, software design).

I dropped that and never looked back. My career is very happy, enjoyable, well paid.

As usual there are exceptions in every context, but what you seem to be doing is similar, I believe that focusing on the product is wrong.

Working on a type of product has little connection to the type of work that is going to be performed, which could be boring or very different from what expected.

My thought has always been: focus on the type of work you want to do, the rest comes naturally (potentially even passion for a new product!)
There is no evidence. The thing we (non-philosophers) call philosophy today is like the thing we call pure mathematics today: it's the philosophy that hasn't been useful, and therefore hasn't been moved into another field like epistemology or philosophy-of-science or probability theory.
I do some digital illustration, so maybe my perception is colored by a workflow that can't be generalized to others, but I am puzzled by it switching back to the arrow tool after drawing a shape. If I just drew a circle, I'm far more likely to draw another circle than select something.
Largely failed? Everyone is using the GNU userland on Linux.

I don't see it struggling either really. The Linux desktops are in a better state than they have ever been.
We have an handmade website using Next.js. It generate the documentation from the markdown files present in the `content` folder. It was not the easiest path, but it does the job.

Code: https://github.com/mockoon/mockoon.com
Preview: https://mockoon.com/docs/latest/
I wonder what the exit condition for the pandemic mode is, or even how we define "out of the pandemic". Vaccines have delivered a great success in blunting the sharp edge. Compare cases vs. deaths. I picked 4 countries with varied vaccination levels: Singapore (>85%), Austria (>60%), Israel (>60%) and Romania (>35%). Case spikes occur regardless of vaccination levels, death spikes are near extinct in areas with high vaccination. Yet there are still broad restrictions: mask mandates, social distancing, wfh, vaccine passports, partial lockdowns.

Caveat: there is a lot more to this data than meets the eye, but public health policies appear to be driven by broad numbers, so for the purpose of the "how does the pandemic mode end" conversation these curves are a reasonable starting point.

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
Decentralized topic moderation is better than centralized topic moderation because it allows users to choose what they want to talk about instead of waiting for admins to approve those topics.
Sorry, I should have clarified "heavy" in terms of the level of OOP [1] insanity but yeah Symfony is very modular.

[1] e.g. "Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Loader\Configurator\ContainerConfigurator"
Octi is first on the App Store
Front end is mostly a young person's game, and most subject to changes in fashionable trends.

React and Vue seem to be the current winners in this space. Prepare to retool yourself in these to pass interviews.
NFT is just a token that represents the artwork.
You can screenshot, delete the original file or whatever but the token still exists.
Now the value of NFTs can be questioned, and the people who promotes them as well. We know for sure that some people will end up losing money when this fad ends so yeah giant scam indeed, but NFT as a thing still have use case, and you can say kinda the same about bitcoin.