skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quoting to me is for fast running rooms to avoid confusion about which conversation a message is in response to. Or for context when replying to something hours old in a smaller room. It's not really a mobile/desktop distinction.
> International traders wouldn't want your shitty fiat.

I'm sure there are local traders savvy enough to get a +30% premium in local cash which they then immediately exchange for more durable assets.

So international traders wouldn't but national ones that know the country, they would.

If I could sell my crypto for +30% and then immediately use that money to buy gift cards at a store (just brainstorming here) and could put those online and redeem them and cash out with a 10% slippage, allowing me to keep +20%. Why wouldn't I do it?

I don't know such a method since I'm Western-European. But if I'd be from Venezuela, then I'd know to what extent a plan like this is feasible among: friends, family and perhaps even certain strangers.
I learned web programming on PHP, and a ton of anti-patterns well. Making a single script with a very rich stdlib is quite handy, as well as "just running it" on your desktop instantly. However scaling out large projects in a performant way, doing big refactors, or mature server programming, I'd pick nearly any other tool today.

Disclaimer: I still maintain my PHP site from '08, so I'm current on trends.
URLs evolved into URNs and URIs
Adafruit has been manufacturing in US/NY/Manhattan of all places for almost 15 years now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDeiO-k6GME
> I don't think any JS code can be worse than old PHP code.

I'm currently working for a company where all our microservices were written in Node.js by juniors.

JS can absolutely be worse than PHP
PHP are deprecating language "features" from 7.x to 7.y.

It's very hard for me to treat a language seriously when I could write code that simply won't be valid PHP in 2 years time, or worse, behaving differently.

Given the severity of some past PHP vulnerabilities, being on an old version can certainly be a problem.

> I guess they might do it again from 7.x to 8.x, we'll see.

PHP 8 has some _massive_ breaking changes
Good luck prosecuting me with my US hosted site Britoids.
> people who are humorless about their beliefs deserve not to be taken seriously

Sadly this wasn't the case for Matt Stone and Trey Parker when they had to retract one particular South Park episode.
Neither was it for the Charlie Hebdo massacre victims.

As much as I agree with this statement, the threat is real.
Same. I'm concerned that a leading IRC client that for its own growth reasons doesn't allow opting out of sending the beacon. Then you're left with an otherwise inferior client in order to participate. Or worse, a server that kicks you out if your client doesn't send the beacon.
What's your definition of success? Google and Facebook federating?
OK, so it all comes down to assumptions.

I honestly assumed he found the tweet when looking the researcher, and would have made the same joke if the name were Mike Smith. I didn't think the joke was especially entertaining, and don't see it being any more or less cool or funny with a Spanish name.

I could see how if the exact opposite were true, it could be racist.
Mandatory SMBC: https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=1452#comic
That too, but many aren't firm with such tools and Excel is very prominently used. They often employ special software (I mostly worked with them on optical systems) that use Excel as a common output format for visualization. Don't know the name of their simulators.
My point was merely to give an idea of the sheer size of an application in a way that TB would not.

Every FOIA request is screened by humans, which can result in false positives and negatives. So could a machine-screened result. Would people be comfortable with an automated screener, which, while hard to do with classified info, would conceptually be possible with FDA records (from either food or drug side). The records are quite free form.

I’m in favor of these records being public except perhaps some proprietary process data. Of course it will be used by people who don’t understand it for wild attacks.
C++ is indeed the most useful for use-cases where high-performance coincides with heavy OOP needs.

Games fall right into that category. But my hope is that one day people will write games in more secure and slightly less verbose languages, like Rust.

Most other software needs can be fulfilled by wrappping C function calls in Python or some other interpreted language.
You do not need an _external_ server for a lot of languages. If you use node for example you can use the express package to run a custom server, or embedded tomcat for java
I've never actually tried writing CGI scripts with a non-PHP language (I've not really seen the point since it's usually more ergonomic to just use a language native-server interface like Python's WSGI).

Do any other languages have the same kinds of optimisations that PHP has with FPM where it keeps the process alive but pretends it's a complete fresh execution at the language level? (getting the performance benefits of a persistent process, while having the simplicity of CGI-style execution).
> and wondering why π has that value specifically and not any other value.

Maybe the question should be "why circles" then. Early models of the solar system suffered under the assumption that everything should be modeled using circles when ellipses modeled everything better.
My kids are 5 and 7. First and foremost, with any parenting decision, you should try to be honest with yourself about what your kids are actually like. If your kids are doing well in school , seem to have friends, seem to have interests, and overall seem happy, then you should remember to have license to take it easy on them. The goal is to raise a happy and healthy adult not to impose arbitrary sets of rules. If they are on the path of being happy and healthy then you can relax a little.

We try to keep our kids screen time under around 2 hours a day on weekdays and we don't stress too much about it on the weekends. Being that they're in school all day, it's not too hard to keep it under that time frame during the weekdays. If they were watching TV for more than a few hours straight on the weekends we'd probably kick them off just to encourage a little variety.

To us the important part isn't necessarily the raw hour count, but rather what they're watching and that throughout the week they have a life filled with a diverse range of activities: playing with their friends, playing outside, physical activity, reading, etc. If they're living a diverse life, I don't see including TV as part of that life as an issue.

It's also important to me and my wife that we have time to spend together without the kids throughout the week. Frequently that time is afforded by a couple hours of the kids watching TV. An insignificant price to pay to keep the connection I have with my wife going over the years.

It's really easy to treat screen time as some kind of evil that should be avoided at all cost, but I'm personally not convinced it's all that damaging if consumed in moderation. Realistically it's also just a fact of our modern life and fighting it is going to cause so much more strife than learning to work with it.

YouTube has some of the most interesting and best content around, but you have to be diligent to prune the algorithm periodically to keep suggesting interesting content and not just mindless clickbait or advertisements.

Video games are very stimulating and there are many kid-friendly puzzle games that I think have taught my kids how to properly reason through a problem.

I'm sure this will get much more complicated as my children get older and I have to start worrying about pornography, social media, and other unsavory content, but at this young age I think it's okay to let your kids have a little screen time be a part of their life.
Yes but all too often the problem with capital is precisely that it is secretly owned and moved (see "Moneyland").

That cryptocurrencies make money more private and easier to move is not really a benefit at all.
Well the standard model doesn’t predict them, and apart from one detection that has never been reproduced we’ve never detected any pre-existing ones or any created in a particle accelerator.
Is buying a smart refrigerator a smart choice?
A bad low-code experience is being forced to manipulate endless drop-down menus and checkboxes when it’d be 10x faster to just write a SQL query. For example, Salesforce. Ideally you should be able to drop down a level in any such tool (e.g., Excel to VBA, Python to C).
There's absolutely no reason to have NFTs involved there, or even for there to be a "there". You're accepting a false premise of artificial scarcity that is being pushed by dinosaurs. Humankind needs to just accept that information costs nothing to copy now.
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The cost of Rust's abstractions are largely at compile time, not at runtime. For example, see https://idursun.com/posts/rust_zero_cost_abstractions_in_act... or https://carette.xyz/posts/zero_cost_abstraction/.
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The latter part of your comment really emphasizes exactly the whole thing I don't want to partake in.

As for my own experiences: I grew up playing games as did all the people I spent time with in my youth. I've played countless games online, starting somewhere in the late nineties, and joined a number of communities built around those games. I've found that most communities and public servers are quite loud, rude, and unpleasant. I usually have to put in some work to find a circle of like-minded people who just want to enjoy the game in a civilized manner.

The absolutely worst I've come across was probably the Worms 2 online play. Nothing but kids thinking themselves cool by swearing and insulting each other. The best ones were the community some of my friends built in
Dungeon Siege, role playing communities in Jedi Knight Academy, and some of the casual guilds in Elder Scrolls Online.
These places have wealth, in the form of foreign currencies like the USD, real property, businesses, commodities, etc. Their national currencies rapidly depreciates though, so it can only be used for short-term liqudity purposes.

>>Wouldn't it make more sense to use fiat from elsewhere like EUR or USD?

That's a good question. The only use-case I can see where cryptocurrencies are a better fit is when digital/international payments need to be made. Crypto allows that without any formal approval, from the state, for a USD/EUR supporting payments/e-wallet/banking firm to operate in that country.
Some freedoms are trade-offs with other people's freedoms, e.g. freedom of movement vs freedom to not get covid. That's where your perspective fits. But other freedoms are more win-win or win-neutral situations and don't require trade-offs. But I agree that the ratio between the former and the latter tends to increase as society becomes more developed and free.

There's also an important difference between negative and positive rights/freedoms.

I notice that this discussion nests inside moral philosophy. We need to grapple with the tools and constructs in that discipline when thinking about freedom.
Well, you made quiet a few assumptions here. We don't yet know how much fundamental quarks are and what (if anything) hides in the subquark level.

Given the lack of adequate instruments, our minds and unconventional approaches are our most powerful tools at this point. For example, we generally consider the space between particles as void. We can't see anything, we can't detect anything, so we assume there's nothing there. But for what it's worth, there could be trillions of unknown particles that don't interact with matter. So why would it matter, you ask? Because it's not impossible that under certain conditions some of these might cluster into matter or interact with it in unobvious ways. The existence of dark matter and energy (or the related phenomena) indicates this is not impossible.

But yes, I see your point. However, I hope we get deeper into understanding this phenomenon before I die. Who knows, maybe it's because of some yet-undiscovered aspect of photons, and metaphysical speculation is not necessary?
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Funny you should say that.. we're working on it ;)
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Or buy a lego bonsai
> but very difficult to master on a native level

The same can be said for all of the languages being discussed in this thread. I'm skeptical that English is any harder to learn at a native level than French, German or Polish.
HN sort of straddles old forums and new social media.

I think a large part of what made people so recognizable was avatars and signatures. It's a bit of a shame they went away.
Frankly my reasons for using it boil down to:

1. WordPress uses it

2. PHP is far less terrible than I remember (having used it in very early days)

I manage a WP (woocommerce) site for a small business. It's not my day job, it needs to be simple. Most of the "day job" is handled by content management users. I have written a fair amount of plugins though to enable custom functionality and the process is perfectly fine.

I looked at Ruby, I looked at Python, I looked at node. There's nothing as simple and, frankly, as mature aside from commercial platforms like Shopify that charge an arm and leg.
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Dare I say it… this domain seems like a good use of blockchain. Content won’t go away, references can be baked into the graph, makes preregistration explicit, edits would be transparent.
Shout out to all the Crossref/Datacite people in this discussion. I use your services in polite mode for discovery and don’t know what I’d do without them. If any ORCID people are in the house you get some appreciation too.

I struggle to link articles to datasets but if the solution is out there it is probably based on your work.
Right? Speaking of, you're violating this site's guidelines right now. You people give the tech industry a bad name.
I'll be honest. I really don't like PHP. However when I was running a coding workshop, very frequently people would ask:

"How do I make a web page talk to a database?"

I'd say: Well, you know that HTML file? Rename it to become a PHP file and you're almost there!

As pretty much all cheap hosting already offers support for PHP (and MySQL for that matter) this would almost always work.

I would love to be able to do this with NodeJS, but imagine teaching that to an absolute beginner. The conversation would have to begin with hosting platforms / SSH / server management / reverse proxies etc....
> what are you doing here if you think that the comments are so bad

I actually wonder this a lot, strange behavior isn't it? lol
Yeah, english is pretty easy if you're coming from a Romance language, simpler tenses, articles, prefixes, less use of gendered language (so you don't have to remember a tree is female in portuguese but male in spanish).

My main issue with the language was pronunciation and orthography, the fact the way you write is not the way you read for many words was just bonkers for my brain used to read any word in Portuguese and know how to pronounce it but now that I see even natives struggling i don't mind it that much anymore HAHAHA!
The neutrino mass thing is much less a surprise than the rest. Neutrino mass always was quite possible as an optional add-on. Basically, the situation for the quarks, where all six have mass, can be copied to apply to the leptons as well.
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I suppose, but I've never encountered a production site that was using Gunicorn or similar as a true server. Usually that's coupled with something like Nginx or HAProxy.

So yeah, you technically don't need one for Ruby or Node.js, but I sure would.
Holy moly, twenty whole terabytes of this mess!
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Knowing nothing about P or modeling distributed systems, I wish the author had shown their code and an example of how the model checker found the problem.
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Slack, Teams, and Discord are proof that there are serious demands to have a chat system. It's just IRC as it is, is clearly outdated for the current market.

It's niche is as simple as it was way back when, you can create your own chat server for your community. Instead of having to use Discord, Slack, etc you can create your own and control it fully. While it's possible to do that to this day it's not to the same level it was back in the late 90s for example.
Unsettled barbarians, e.g. hunter gatherers, are remarkably free and unhierarchical. It's only when you get to a stage of development where hoarding of wealth is actually possible that freedom is subordinated to rulers.
How people dare to have different worldviews. People in other countries love so much when a Californian lands from heaven to tell them how they should behave, communicate and be offended.
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The way I've always understood this is that you can speak surprisingly bad English and still be understood. To a large extent you can just throw most of the right words in a sentence together and be largely understood - even if it sounds fantastically wrong.

I'm thinking of things like .. in Slovak, spoon vs teaspoon is lyžiča vs lyžička. If you don't understand how they mutate the word endings - and as far as I can tell, memorise them all on a case-by-case basis, this is easily lost. small spoon, little spoon, tea spoon, there's not many ways in English for it not to be understood.

So my understanding is not so much that it's easy to learn, but the MVP of being able to communicate is a surprisingly small subset of the full language.
I feel that posts on forums are more elaborate. People there are not afraid of writing/reading long block of texts, IMO the information in forums is more specialized and of higher quality. On the other hand, on social networks is not unusual to come across comments like: "Too much text", "TLDR?", etc.

Forums don't reward immediacy.
I am sure I have seen that elsewhere too - it looked familiar even though I've never used that discuz software before
This equates power to freedom, where the degree of freedom correlates to the degree of power, and only the truly powerful are free. If that is your thesis, then you are in agreement with Snowden.
yeah but only I have the certificate of authenticity
One thing ive done with my tiny amateur setup is close my eyes and click the switch a bunch of times, such that I can attempt to discern between two settings but no longer know which is which, and then attempt to discern a difference. The crossfade sounds like a very interesting method although it would prevent the destruction of knowledge for me as (at least I don't know how) you can't randomize it. But maybe my approach is terrible, it's just something I cooked up because I noticed I couldn't tell what anything was doing anymore, it helped make difficult decisions slightly easier.

I would also be interested in hearing about the studio! Was it just a big place that you were renting occasionally, is it possible to rent a real room with a mastering desk? Im still renting so I can't do all those fancy room modifications yet.
NFTs are bigger than the size of the Ethereum blockchain
I totally agree and in my haste wrote the exact same comment. Ie, don't have a comments section!

I think slowing down the speed at which a person can respond will greatly decrease low value content. And probably be better for everyone involved.

An example, my local paper is trash. Yet, to comment online I have to register and subscribe and .... it's hard, so I just don't. I don't comment, or read that paper anymore.

Which is a somewhat bad example, because I'm not consuming the content. However if something is low quality or I disagree with it, or agree even, I need to pair action with my reaction. I'm pretty busy these days. So to complain or compliment It needs to be good.
> the main matrix homeserver blocks you from federating with them if you violate their CoC and kicks all matrix users from your room

In my opinion that doesn't really matter. matrix.org is "just another homeserver" - it just happens to be one with a large amount of Spaces and rooms, and thankfully federation doesn't orbit around matrix.org nor does it depend on that.

There are plenty of other homeservers which federate with each other quite happily. I've seen some rooms which have a policy of not allowing users with a matrix.org account, because they disagree with the matrix.org CoC/policies/actions, and that's also fine, because the nature of the matrix protocol allows that freedom. If a person wishes to stick with matrix.org, well, they have that choice. If a person has a homeserver which gets booted from federating with matrix.org, that's also fine - the problem will eventually be routed around by federating with plenty of other homeservers. This happens already.
No, banks create money when they make a loan, they don't lend out deposits. Loans are constrained by risk and by reserve requirements set by central banks.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
The double spend problem. That enabled decentralised trust and interchange of value. You could tank the value of bitcoin or ethereum by imposing tough regulations to it but it will still be around regardless of what you do as long as we're here. The implications for what that means for banks and governments of today is huge.

In the meantime though what people actually use it for today:
- To get richer because the price is going up
- To get richer because it's an unregulated market so you can be a market maker today or dive into all the other trading variants programable money enables that don't have any counter-part in traditional finance.
- To get richer starting a small project with no experience and getting overfunded.
- To transact because you're part of the 1.7 billion unbanked
- To keep your wealth because you're part of the masses that don't agree with your governments restrictions on your money (china comes to mind but you could expand it to westerners too that don't agree)
- (less than 5% probably?) build stuff, experiment, learn, try to come up with the financial system of tomorrow.
I’d add to this, that we know very little about the spatial distribution of nuclear matter at and below the scale of a nucleus. The standard model excels at understanding the salient characteristics of asymptotic states before and after an interaction, things like spin, lepton number, etc. But we still can’t tell you how gluons are distributed inside the proton.