skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exact same situation here — I don’t want to go larger than my 2016 SE, and I refuse to give up my headphone jack and fingerprint sensor because I use them many times per day and the alternatives suck.

I thought I broke my home button last night and practically had a heart attack trying to find a recent phone to replace it. I cannot belive how much of a monoculture smartphones have become. Kudos to Apple for creating the Mini — it’s just too bad that “courage” prevents them from supporting a headphone jack to bump airpod sales.

And un-kudos to Google, who decided 2021 is “year of the giant phone” and pushed the Pixel 5a, 6, AND 6 Pro to dimensions that rival the iPhone Max. Such a shame after the almost reasonable 4a and 5 sizes.
EV6 price is in the same ballpark as Model 3. EVs have a higher initial cost, but the cost per mile is low. Even in the U.S. with relatively cheap gas and expensive electricity, EV is still cheaper per mile. In Europe it's a bargain, especially if you can charge at home using off-peak/night tariff.
Social narratives change with the generations.

Surely he can still teach people.

What did everyone expect when all technical knowledge of humanity is on YouTube? That the next generation would pay for knowledge historically artificially restricted to those who were financially viable?

The historical origins of college degrees are for rich aristocrats to buy secular degrees, even if they were meaningless, as the public lost faith in claims of divine intervention that gave kings and their heirs power. Secular gibberish the rubes could not falsify.

Why does a supposedly secular grand narrative mean anything when there is no root node of the universe?

Are facts of science untrue if they’re not discovered in an ivory tower administrated by helicopter parents?

The social narrative to break is being labeled a farmer or senator for life. Why should rich first worlders be a afforded stability their nation takes from others?

Tough luck, fellow Americans. But you aren’t the center of jack squat and it’s your own inventions and entitlement that brought you down. Just how it goes. Your narratives are not sacrosanct.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Beamer
As a counterpoint I left religion in part because of recurring encounters with different evidence and perspectives online. It's possible I'd still believe in invisible friends without such low friction opportunities to interact outside my geographic bubble.
Kia operates independently of Hyundai.
Everybody knows that Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k43XjuhInkU
Ain't marketing hostility grand?
Top Development Articles to Read in 2021
So you take the money, walk away and someone else pays for it?
I think it currently stores energy in a spring, hence helping the user go up and recovering energy on the way down.

I was just suggesting that if the energy can be stored in a battery or hydraulic accumulator, it's easier to change the "counterweight" force. In both cases, I think it can be done without any net assistance from the electrical grid.
This has gotta be tied to some monster Azure spend commit from Zip, or whatever company owns Zip. That is the only logical explanation for such a trash feature.
Thanks for the clarification because it sounded like a more definitive statement than a normative opinion.

Join some of the FB mining groups... you'd be surprised at how many 'normal' people have bitcoin miners. They aren't at the scale of the commercial places, but it is happening. Especially once China shut down, the markets were flooded with boxes.

This is also why I prefer GPU based mining. More accessible (gpus are everywhere) and it is actually the older hardware that is more ROI profitable. It isn't a hardware race like it is with bitcoin. The risk is lower too... if you burn out a $100 card, it is a lot less of an impact than a several thousand $ card.

The interesting thing to watch is what what coin (or technology) will pop up next as the top GPU PoW. There can only be one.
I heard Schmidt on a couple podcasts[1][2] recently promoting this book, and I found them to be useful for understanding how AI is being discussed among the political and leadership class. I was surprised to see all the negativity here - I thought he made some interesting points, and I appreciated getting some insight into how decision-makers are thinking about this in terms of regulation and geopolitical risks.

[1] https://tim.blog/2021/10/25/eric-schmidt-ai/

[2] https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/eric-schmidt-ai-human-futur...
Yea isn't the Internet fun? :)
These buy now pay later companies are going gangbusters. How do they all survive when they essentially do the same thing? Isn't it becoming a commodity? What's to stop Citi or any other traditional bank from adding this feature to their arsenal?

Like telehealth being relatively easy to spin up today with tools like Wheel and Twilio - are the margins in this here game the moves? Are these pay later companies _owned_ by incumbent banks and just rebrands?

Or is it just sign of the times in todays startup space?
>You might wonder what the benefit is for you. Well, don't think about that!

Lol. Today is a good day for whimsy
How this semantics is extended to handle named multi-stacks?

For instance, how is interpreted the main example of the introduction [1]?

{fn f => {spread $x $y $z} {$z drop}
{$y clone square pop} {$x square pop} add {$y abs pop} sub
}

Notably, how to interpret the second use of $y that makes sense only because the former y value has been duplicated in the first $y call?

[1] https://www.dawn-lang.org/posts/introducing-dawn-(part-1)
Years ago I read an article in The Economist about problems with land registries in some third-world countries. It was easy for rich people to bribe the registrar to alter records. Poor people who owned land suddenly wouldn't own it anymore, and couldn't prove otherwise.

A blockchain-based registry would prevent such forgery. A master key holder could change ownership, but not without a visible record of the change.
I spent some time in Ogden, Utah. It was amazingly clean. It was very nice to experience.
None of that was covered in their white paper
No, it was "don' be evil." You can do a lot of evil and still not be evil if you adopt a utilitarian position and claim that the good you've done outweighs it.
I hope Henry Kissinger is better informed on AI tech than he was on Theranos blood-testing tech.
I’ve looked at the Xperia 10 III (boy, that name) a bit. I just don’t understand the screen choice. What the hell is the point of a super long screen like that? If it was half the height I would be more than happy. Extra height just means it’ll stick out of the top of my pants pocket!
This is basically a slam piece. Yes, our Teslas and our friends were not accessible via the app for a while, and it raised some eyebrows - but unlocking via Bluetooth during this outage was not an issue for anyone I know. "Tesla drivers left unable to start their cars after outage" as a title is beyond misleading. Remote unlock / remote climate were down, but nobody was "unable to start their car", you just had to walk into bluetooth range for it to unlock instead of being able to do so remotely from anywhere with an internet connection. Interestingly enough, no author info/credentials on this article.
At that point why just not power off their machines? That 3 websites that has “free js” is almost as useless as a brick. Also, free software in itself never protected against security vulnerabilities, many eyes is a fallacy.
Great. You've invented an expensive, badly performing database. Not only does the government have a verifiable way of associating a property with an owner and a history of ownership already, now you're either exposing owners to have their names revealed publicly for eveyrone (People are willing to pay a lot to know who to threaten to steal/occupy a plot of land), or to just keep a shitty database.

And then, the owner gets no benefit from it either. In the case of sales, you're still going to go through the state to certify the sale (with an actual, physical person). In the case of terrain where ownership is still blurry (which is already the case in lots of places in Europe, so the absolute fucking mess in the rest of the world is just a nice wrench in your plans), you still need a physical person to look around and figure out who it belongs to for months, before making a decision. Your blockchain doesn't help.

Blockchains are shit, expensive databases, part 342
True that was bad. But it's nowhere near as bad as this step from Microsoft.
Kubernetes Blockchain Operator
This is an awesome idea. I wonder if it could be extended slightly as an alternative to stairs in small spaces.
The UK does not have proportional representation, that's not correct. FPTP & PR are opposites- you have to choose one system or the other. I agree that presidential systems are probably suboptimal, but it is worth noting that South Korea has a president in addition to FPTP, single rep districts, etc. Again my point- if you're a stable culture, you can make any system work!
Microsoft Edge had a great start, great distribution potential, good product thinking and innovative features.

Then in a span of two days this plus https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/11/is-microsoft-...

Shooting yourself in the foot would be a correct characterization. Would be fun to see a video of the meeting when they decided this was a great idea.

It almost signals a change in leadership that took place at the Edge team few months back, and a new product direction that Microsoft may regret in the future.
This article is uncannily apropos for HN.

The spectrum of opinions towards emerging technologies is so starkly colored by the eras during which practitioners did their primary work.

It reminds me of the Heinlein quote from “A Door into Summer”, “When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.”
> Just seems silly to have to break a window because of an internet outage.

Not a realistic scenario. You might not be able to get in (though that's also a happy path of really odd circumstances that would have to occur), but you can always get out either using the manual release, or you just open the door normally since an Internet outage for the app wouldn't affect you opening the door from the inside.
Anecdotally the biggest factor for that, barring any acute health issue, will be your activity level between now and then.
Without giving away your secret sauce, what are your approaches to the cleaning process? Is it a combination of different passes of algos or is it something more generic and "sausage machine-like" like a neural network?
And here, I think (seriously) that Jimmy Carter is pure evil! You really can't have "absolute judgements" on any person that are universally recognized.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10626577
Right. And many insurance companies already reward hospitals and doctors more if the diagnosis methods and treatments were appropriately effective.
For example, if the patient with pneumonia is discharged but re-admitted a week later for recurrence of the pneumonia because they weren't given the appropriate antibiotic, or their bed during hospital stay wasn't at a 30-degree angle, etc...then they get less money from insurance.

Or if a particular emergency department physicians keep ordering unnecessary and expensive diagnostic tests, not only may those tests not be reimbursed, but their "score" for quality of care goes down, and so will their personal reimbursement.
The closest I know of is Lex Friedman, but when he still gets technical guests on his show it's usually more about high level topics around AI and tech rather than the specifics about code or ML, although that sometimes happens. It's a great show to check out regardless.
Study: Diversity statements required for one-fifth of academic jobs
Interesting take that immigrants should be progressives. Why? What is the explanation?

Russian immigrants in the U.S. i know are all conservatives. Their explanation is rather simple and i can't even disagree: "i risked my life to escape from Soviet Union and i won't vote for someone who wants to reform America using it as an example".
> Like providing people across the world with access to a financial system thet can't be denied from?

And what a lot of people seem to realize is that there are reasons for this, the controls exist for a reason. Allowing everyone access is not necessarily a good thing across the board. That realization will at some point be forced though, which leads into regulation in some form, which will takes us full circle again...
This is an interesting study, but it’s far from the conclusive answer to the question of how the gut microbiome relates to neurological conditions. Given the heterogeneity and complex etiology of autism, a study of this size is not sufficiently powered to pick up all plausible correlations. If there is a causative connection between the microbiome and autism, it’s likely only true of a subset (perhaps a small one) of autistic people.
Cambered wheels are the automobile equivalent of wearing pants round your knees.
If Apple can fit the antenna in the Minis, I’m not sure this is a compelling argument. You could always return phones to 2015 thickness to fit extra battery, especially if you returned them to 2015 width/height (width and height creep have pushed manufacturers to thin their phones to keep them weildable…ish)
There's a mechanical door handle on the interior.

If you run out of batteries completely and need to get in the procedure is:

1. Open a small panel on the front and apply 12V to the emergency cables to unlock the frunk (this only works if the car is powered off as I understand)

2. Jumpstart the car's low voltage battery, located under a panel under the frunk

3. Unlock and open the door normally

4. Attach an EVSE charger to get the HV back online as well
The local public library has a sign that says obeying the law is required in the library.

I asked the librarian if there really was a problem with the library being a law-free zone. She shrugged saying "what can I say". Personally, I doubt that a sign would dissuade the types who go to the library to commit crimes.
You don’t need a decentralized blockchain for transparency or redundancy.

Also, is transparency is a problem that needs to be solved for land records? That is, what are we missing now?

For redundancy, decentralized is either inefficient or insufficient. There has to be something motivating various someones to maintain the infrastructure. That is, money. Since the resources can’t be planned or organized, you can’t have the right amount — there has to be a wide, general incentive or you risk having too little, redundancy. That means either a bunch of money spread all over or a significant risk the decentralized data will simply stop existing.

And then there are the issues with a decentralized ledger. E.g., what so you do when it is out-of-sync with the legal authorities? Say I swindle you out of your keys and transfer the blockchain deed to your house to myself. I end up going to jail and am ordered to return the property. Or maybe you sue in civil court and obtain a legal order to recover your property. Only I refuse to transfer it back, or loose my keys and can’t transfer it back, or die without transferring it back. Now there’s a decentralized blockchain that is wrong and can’t be corrected. After all, if it could be reliably corrected at the order of a central authority it’s not actually decentralized.

I don’t know how this can be considered promising without a solid plan to address the various issues.
I miss that show.
* ipfs peers and cluster peers
* ipfs swarms
* Ethereum transaction and mining nodes
* Ethereum 2 beacon and validation nodes
* Private Ethereum networks
* Filecoin nodes
* Filecoin backed pinning services (FPS)
* Polkadot
* Algorand
It is impossible for everyone to "be a valued employee at a large company". We could all be 'valued residents/citizens of a large country', but we're not.

Your "great health insurance" is provided by an employer who is factoring the costs of that in to the price they're charging others for goods/services. Other people are bearing the cost of your privilege. I have little doubt that most folks in your position and companies like yours will generally shop for the lower cost services/products, which will necessarily mean those other companies you're buying from will not be able to provide the "great health insurance" and similar benefits you enjoy.
It's only really a problem if you use the IDs in the same system. It's highly unlikely that you'd link 4B schemas into a single binary. And anyway, if you do have a conflict, you'll get a linker error.

Cap'n Proto type IDs are not really intended to be used in any sort of global database where you look up types by ID. Luckily no one really wants to do that anyway. In practice you always have a more restricted set of schemas you're interested in for your particular project.

(Plus if you actually created a global database, then you'd find out if there were any collisions...)
> And I felt a bit better. Because if Neil Armstrong felt like an imposter, maybe everyone did.

Nope, everyone did not. That's a good story to make yourself feel better, but Neil's personal psychological problems don't spread to everyone. People who feel accomplished due to their accomplishments exist.
>>BWhen collective beliefs meet new evidence, the most sensible thing to do is often ignore it. If you think the Emperor is naked, and everyone else is acting as if he isn’t, you get no benefit from stepping out of line. Even if you think everyone else can see the Emperor is naked, it is still risky to say so. Even if you think everyone else thinks that, and also thinks you think so, that is still no help unless you’re sure they are going to act on it.

This is especially true in autocratic regimes (political, corporate, or social).

The repeating of a lie is both a loyalty test and a loyalty builder. Even if everyone knows that it is a lie, to get someone to repeat it both commits them to a risk for 'the cause' or 'the leader', and simultaneously demonstrates their loyalty to the cause and leader.

The bigger the lie, the bigger the commitment needed to repeat it, and the bigger the demonstration of loyalty.

It also has the simultaneous effect of successively isolating the followers from other factions. Eventually, the only ones who will tolerate 'those crazies' or 'the faithful' are the group of followers, which provides further motivation for everyone in the group to stick with the group.

When leaders of any sort ask directly or by implication to do something sketchy or morally compromising, run the other way; the path you're being asked to follow is never good.
Is the example in the page really made by the computer? In my opinion the pauses in where the filler words were are slightly too long. Is it possible to configure this?

Is it possible to keep some filler words? I make something similar (but not professionally), and sometimes I like too keep a few of them.
>> Nobody chooses software based on reputation.

That's why Google has been so successful with Stadia.
I always love hearing about the logistics of trips like these, and this article leaves me with lots of questions.

On the AT section, they mention starting out with packs that weighed over 20 pounds, which is extremely light for backpacking. That’s probably a few days of food, a change of clothes, 2-3 liters of water, and an ultralight sleeping bag. But then they mention a tent, too! In contrast, I talked with someone who thru-hiked the AT in the winter, and they said that their packs were routinely over 70 pounds, and that they had ditched their tent in favor of staying in the shelters and wrapping their sleeping bags in Tyvek. How were the guys in the article resupplying? Trips into town every few days sounds very time consuming.

The article also casually threw out that they went through 26 pairs of shoes! Are they buying those at retail? Did they get sponsored by someone?

It also says they mailed themselves packages of food to be picked up at post offices, but it wasn’t dehydrated backpacking food: “Almost half of the airtight bags they had stuffed with rice and beans, tortillas and other fare broke, leaving their food covered in mold.” Has anyone else heard of people relying on perishable food to sit in a post office for weeks/months?

Overall, I read this article with a tremendous amount of respect for the physical and mental accomplishment (that’s a lot of miles and those trails are not easy!), envy, and…bewilderment, I guess? Is dropping $25k and taking a year off school to speedrun three of the most iconic trails in the US a good use of time or money? Part of me would have loved the idea when I was that age, but part of me thinks about all the travel, gear, time asked of family, and time asked of myself, and thinks it would not be worth it.
Because of said $$$ bug bounty. There have been countless mitigations since launch. The biggest one for me is they nerfed (locked down) Bitcoin script for security reasons, which reduced it's utility for anything but transferring BTC.

Granted, it's inability to scale would have made that true anyway, but the resulting inability to have smart contracts on Bitcoin might be one reason arguments for scaling it with bigger blocks have failed to win: if all it does is move a coin, why bother changing the block size etc when you have Lightning etc.
>Is that supposed to be some sort of accessibility thing

Probably. I remember being on some microsoft site a few months ago, and noticed all the photos had alt-text describing their contents.
I don’t see how being multiethnic makes Russia or Iran not have national identities (the requirement for being a nation state).
One programmer broke the internet (2016)
Wow that's not a comforting thought. How is that even possible?
If I'm not willing to pay for a browser, why should I be surprised when the free software tries to make money? Yeah, it's not ideal and I'll turn the feature off if it makes it public. But I'm choosing to use a free browser instead of paying for it.. So I can't blame a company for trying to monetize it.
My problem with foldables as “mini” replacements (because they fit in your pocket) is that I literally do not want the larger screen. I don’t watch videos on my phone, picture viewing is fine on my current 4” screen… I’ve tried a larger screen and it just frustrates me that I can’t get a smaller one.
You honestly think that was a goal? There's no way Microsoft had the goal of increasing user privacy with the engine switch
It’s weird to me to hear this. I was schooled in Romania as well and have the opposite impression. I am a little younger to be fair, I was in elementary school as opposed to high school in 2001, but, my impression ( biased since I am a man ) was that everyone, men and women, was encouraged towards STEM. Mainly because it was and still is seen as a path out of poverty. In fact, very often the teachers would praise girls for their conscientiousness. I heard this a million times as a student. Boys rush to solve the problem, blunder, end up making a big X on the paper, backtrack and make mistakes because they don’t pay as much attention while girls are more attentive and are more careful in their solutions. This is the stereotype I got left with from school. Plus, a lot of teachers of STEM. Even in Uni ( also in Romania for me ) I had a lot of important subjects taught by women.
That equation was never in place prior to the attacks, there were official scenarios that suggested this tactic, but passengers and crew would have been correctly expecting another hijack with detour to Cuba or something
Not sure.
Honestly a right wing hack that spreads vaccine misinformation and ivermectin as the only true covid cure is the opposite of what I want in a programming podcast.
All versions of the same protocol have the same ID. That is the point of IDs -- to link together different versions of the protocol.