skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The focus on fixed money supply seems a little absurd to me anyway, given the triviality of creating new crypto-currencies, and the relatively low transaction costs of trading between them.

Imagine making a case for returning to the gold standard, when thousands of other choices for new precious metals, all with the same performance characteristics, were literally just lying around, and a network of drones would let you swap perfectly and instantly between those metals for pennies!

In that light, one can certainly understand the fervent contempt that Bitcoin maximalists hold for "shitcoins"; but a free-banking market cuts both ways. Barring a state blessing one chain and outlawing the rest, creating new cryptos and swapping between them won't go away. The proper way to measure the emergent "monetary policy" of crypto-currency is of the sum of all chains, not of Bitcoin itself.
Pairs nicely with my friend's 80's themed track: https://soundcloud.com/protocolzero/trainride-to-paradise/s-...

Would be cool to drive the rendering with the song?

Definitely could see combining music with a visualizer like this to travel back to the 80s. Maybe put billboards up on the side of the road with all of the hit products/popculture of the time passing by? Probably too heavy handed, open to suggestions ha
I've used LaTeX for the duration of my Bachlor studies. The results are superior to Word, but that's just about where the benefits end. It's a nightmare to use and I don't see how investing time to learn it will benefit me in the long run.
DISCLOSURE: I work for Amazon, and it's the only FAANG I've worked for.

In my experience, how much flexibility you have in your role varies drastically depending on where you land. I've worked in two different organizations in Amazon. One was beset by significant institutional inertia and therefore I had less freedom to exercise all of my talents.

The current team I'm is both is very new and it's the first time the something like this team has existed in my organization. So there's much more a start-up feeling, and I'm using a lot more of my skill set than I did previously.

Amazon is such a large company that no one can really speak of the 'Amazonian experience'. I've known people who had terrible jobs such as the posts you'll find on Blind. On the other hand, I decided on a Wednesday afternoon that I was taking a 4 day weekend for mental health reasons. My boss had no questions.

UX Engineer might be a good way to get your foot in the door. And then meet as many people as you can for 1-2 years. From there you can find new opportunities that better align with what you're super passionate about. It's what I did, and it's worked out for me.
AAAA records are the type of DNS records for IPv6. I take this to mean that Reddit only has AA records (IPv4) addresses now.
The Quicksilver word processor / desktop publishing system offered a user programming interface in lisp.

The Quicksilver lisp used object-oriented programming and most of the documents and desktop system were objects. Calling methods on those objects originally used a function called "tell" for message passing:

(tell object method parameter1 parameter2)

Later they deprecated "tell" in favor of:

(method object parameter1 parameter2)
SpaceX enthusiast designs a 1:110 scale Lego Starship
Very outrun. Nice work :)
I think it's the opposite. There are many many more multi million dollar software business than broadway shows, meaning that you have a much lower chance of success making a hit show. It just looks easy in hindsight because you dont see the 10s of thousands of shows that failed and never got picked. Even the "flops" are better than the shows that didn't even get picked up.
> There are many good reasons not to get vaccinated, some of them even officially recognized as medical exceptions. Having already had COVID is of at least as much if not more value than a vaccination; IMO, and the debates still rage there but few say natural immunity doesn't happen.

If you recognize all this, I really wonder what exactly you are arguing against. All the Covid rules I'm familiar with treat a healed infection with covid the same as a vaccination.

> In no way does a blanket policy of social shunning benefit individuals or society.

If that was the case I would agree with you. But these are not blanket policies and so I'm left to wonder what exactly you object to.
"How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain 'good policies' and 'good institutions', seen today as necessary for economic development. Adopting a historical approach, Dr Chang finds that the economic evolution of now-developed countries differed dramatically from the procedures that they now recommend to poorer nations. His conclusions are compelling and disturbing: that developed countries are attempting to 'kick away the ladder' with which they have climbed to the top, thereby preventing developing counties from adopting policies and institutions that they themselves have used."

-- Ha-Joon Chang, Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective

source: https://anthempress.com/kicking-away-the-ladder-pb
That's amazing. Had no idea we had a GitHub office here, let alone in the country!

If you're working remotely, are you employed by Californian standards/regulations/benefits or by local ones here in Denmark? If you don't mind me asking.
This is ridiculous nonsense written by, presumably, someone who isn't a professional software developer.

Software developers often have to run several emulators (e.g. Docker Desktop, Android, and iOS emulators), hundreds of Chrome tabs, compilers, heavy 'ol IDEs, Microsoft freakin' Teams, and a bunch of other stuff concurrently. 16 GB is just enough for many workloads, but it's easy to see use cases in which would exceed that.
It worked for Hitler's Mein Kampf by just changing a few words using "feminist" language, and even won some special recognition from the publishers.

> Boghossian, Lindsay, and Pluckrose wrote 20 articles that promoted deliberately absurd ideas or morally questionable acts and submitted them to various peer-reviewed journals. Although they had planned for the project to run until January 2019, the trio admitted to the hoax in October 2018 after journalists from The Wall Street Journal revealed that "Helen Wilson", the pseudonym used for their article published in Gender, Place & Culture, did not exist. By the time of the reveal, 4 of their 20 papers had been published; 3 had been accepted but not yet published; 6 had been rejected; and 7 were still under review. Included among the articles that were published were arguments that dogs engage in rape culture and that men could reduce their transphobia by anally penetrating themselves with sex toys, as well as Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf rewritten in feminist language.[2][4] The first of these had won special recognition from the journal that published it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair

> Mein Kampf and intersectional feminism aren’t usually lumped together in many people’s minds, but if linked with the right language and buzzwords, left-wing academic publications apparently will accept the combination as scholarship.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/3/grievance-st...
This article is complete FUD.

> of which the following sources are considered to be renewable

in other words, it attempts to define the world "renewable" along favoured political ideologies.

From Wikipedia:

> Advances in breeder reactor technology could allow the current reserves of uranium to provide power for humanity for billions of years, thus making nuclear power a sustainable energy

TL;DR: nuclear is just as renewable as solar (beyond any likely duration of the human civilisation).
Oh, that's interesting. I didn't think about batch importing local data. Yes, I imagine you want to minimize the time importing data, and so halving the size of your main data would speed things up by a sizeable amount.
Looks like it defaults to old.Reddit.com now?
If it’s to avoid the association with Xi Jinping, why not simply say so?
Sounds good in theory but what about those who've fallen so hopelessly down the rabbit hole? I've pointed out the statistical flaws in the tweets and Instagram posts they send me, often there's an "aha" moment. But then they'll find another article from a questionable source or tweet from some "data scientist" misrepresenting data from John's Hopkins and the process begins all over again. Debunking the same nonsense over and over again is exhausting.
I was in high school during the beginning of tpb. I leaned towards the Pirate Bay’s ideas and philosophy of what- digital good was and where ownership exists.

I’m thankful that I followed the arguments and merits of both sides.

If I was in high school now, I don’t think I would be as lucky as to get to be apart of good faith arguments. Instead, I might end up believing in Qnon.

I’m so thankful that the original web was much more pure, good hearted than what it has become today.
This really (continues) to burst the trope here on HN that IPv6 is "easy".

If you look at any discussion of for example expanding IPv4 address space, lot's of "experts" come out of the woodwork claiming IPv6 is the same as IPv4 and/or that it is easy. No it is not just an address space expansion and no it is not easy for many use cases.

Even the big players (Azure / GCP) struggle to fully enable an IPv6 only or IPv6 supporting servicing offering across their products.
In the world of the glue that holds the web together, A is a DNS record that maps a domain name to an IPv4 address. AAAA is a DNS record that maps a domain name to an IPv6 address. A website without an AAAA can only be used over IPv4. (The opposite is also true, a website like http://ip6only.me/ that has only an IPv6 AAAA DNS record cannot be reached over IPv4.)

A user noticed that Reddit recently turned off its AAAA records, and posted asking why it was now an IPv4-only site.
I’m American and I wouldn’t know what to make of “half five” in English (I speak some German and it’s the same as Dutch there). To say 17:30 you’d say “half past five”.
It’s probably because his videos are short so the algo doesn’t like them
The parent commenter cherrypicked a few of the weaker arguments and threw out the extensive criticism of other aspects of the device, such as the atrocious UI.

The reMarkable was panned pretty hard by every major tech outlet as being useful for only one thing, and worse, not very good at that one thing.
I grew up with both the old one and the new one so I sometimes say it the old way and I am almost happy that my kids don't understand it immediately so I have to correct myself.

Fun fact: it was actually decided in Stortinget (the supreme legislature of Norway) in November 1950 and implemented in July 1951, as far as I know the only time a matter of how to pronounce something has been decided at that level.
Does upper body strength have a big impact on longevity? I would have imagined that daily biking covers 99% of the health gains
No, the link that was submitted was (thankfully) an old.reddit.com link is all.
My memory is fading on this, but I recall that early cruise missiles used some kind of on-board terrain navigation system.
What’s a professional group then?
> I'm a mathematician

That explains everything :-)

You probably don't solve quadratic equations anywhere near as much as an engineer/physicist would, and so prefer less memorization and more "being able to derive when I need it". The latter is just too time consuming to do it every time.

I'm guessing you don't recall off the top of your head what the integral of 1/sqrt(a^2-x^2) or of 1/(a^2+x^2) is (unless you happen to teach Calc II), but most physicists likely do as they encounter it often and just memorized it. At the very least, if they had to derive it every time it showed up in a problem in an exam, they would run out of time.
Did you mean to reply to a different comment or something? Not sure where the 99.9% number is coming from
I mean this with all the respect in the world, but I think you've gotten yourself caught in an ideological bubble here. To someone who doesn't already agree with you, this comment sounds like an argument against the concept of wage theft more than an argument against oncall. After all, you can't prove something's bad just by classifying it under a nasty-sounding label!
Reddit used to have an AAAA (DNS IPv6-equivalent of an A record). They deleted the record. Users have noticed and posted.

> Yea, we found a couple of internal issues that need some debugging. Since it's a holiday week we decided to rollback. Better safe than sorry.
>
> It'll be back, don't worry.

Nothing to see here, really.
3D ink made of living cells for creating living structures
They don’t extract those birds at the moment of death, it’s likely most of that damage occurred after death.

So sure, every part of bird exposed to the acid is causing harm, it’s just death is caused from the inside rather than damage to the birds skin. Further it’s likely their exposure is mostly from drinking thus inside out.
Betteridge's Law strikes again

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
I thought I was the only one who felt this way^. Dunno why this article is upvoted so much. Actually the post heading itself seemed so clickbait-y that I didn't click into this link and the comments until it reached 500 votes.
I've thought that many crypto solutions are just workarounds for not having global standardization around laws. Do you think a global governance level (with more buy-in than the UN) would help mitigate some of the challenges that a global company encounters?

In other words, do you think there would be as much of a need for DAOs if a company could register with a global authority, had globally aligned taxes, etc?
I am using Supernote A5x. It has solutions for almost all issues the author addressed. Syncing is exceptionally good. It can sync to its own cloud or dropbox.

User can install Kindle app, so I can read all e book. The annotation feature while reading the book is good.
If you don't publish it in the right venue nobody will read it, which means nobody will cite it, which means you did the work for nothing. At least in all fields where I know people.
The new “connect” subscription for $11.99/month is required for dropbox/drive integration. That was enough reason for me to pass on remarkable. I get the subscriptionification of everything but the pricing is out of whack. I mean if you capitalize $144 at 3x you’re paying $432 for a simple integration.
The Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's clever exponential circuit, reverse-engineered
Kung Fu reference. When you can take the pebble from my hand ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9selPW2lL-M
Okay, laugh at that all you want. I see a community of people that raised $41M in a permissionless, open source way. Ethereum gas fees have been higher than ever recently, which does make micro-payments impractical on layer 1, but the ETH community is currently migrating to layer 2s, such as Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, zkSync, and StarkNet, which will make micro-payments feasible again. This is an early, early attempt at collective bidding. The next iteration on something similar will get better and better.

The PEOPLE token also shot up 2000% over the past few days, so anyone that held their tokens has more than made up for gas costs as the remaining community members will likely spin up a new DAO for a different purpose.

Other similar DAOs, like Pleasr, have been successful at bidding for works of art, such as the unreleased Wu-Tang Album (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pleasrdao+wutang&t=brave&ia=web) and the Edward Snowden Stay Free NFT (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/16/22388548/edward-snowden-n...).

Stay tuned, my friend. You might miss the whole revolution if you blink.
This was my first counterargument to his post. Latex can be used to make amazing documents but, it is a pain in the ass to learn. If they simplified latex in a similar vain to HTML2 -> HTML5, then it starts to look reasonable.

I think his frustration is misplaced on the medium of content. He is addressing the same issue everyone else has, the fragmentation of information. The internet isn't a one stop shop anymore. You are forced to cycle through huge amounts of reposts and micro-posts to get anything useful.
If you've been in the computer world for 15 years, it shouldn't be particularly hard to get a job. I'd focus on finding an open position that you want, and then do interview prep. Interviewing isn't too demanding at Amazon, and I speak as someone who spent quite a bit of time as a lead technical interviewer (i.e., I was the hardest/most demanding interviewer for the job to which people were apply).
> There's also the need to heat water, and that requires resistive heaters.

In terms of a kettle or cooking you're right, but you also can't cook/boil using mining hardware as they're heat limited to ~100C. For hot water heat pumps work great.

> Also, heat pumps don't really work in colder climates as the only heat source.

Ground source heat pumps work just fine in cold climates and have been rapidly getting cheaper.
They noted an issue with IPv6, and disabled it rather than troubleshoot it over the holiday weekend.
I am employed here in Denmark, wouldn’t have it any other way.
IEEE-754 Visualization Tool (Half-/Single-/Double-Precision)
Tomahwaks. They still do.
During the Irak war, they had to send them to Baghdad thru a longer path because the desert is so flat and the missile could get lost.
Which often aligns with the people that elect them. Central banking fixes serious flaws in money systems, and provides levers to mitigate disasters caused by external forces.

Compare it to a boat. Central banking gives you the ability to steer, sure someone might be bad at it and lead you into dangerous waters. But decentralized currency is like shooting the helmsman and ripping out the rudder because someone did a bad job of it once.
> All this being said, Reddit should copy Hacker News, Twitter should oust Jack Dorsey, Facebook should die, and billionaires should pay their goddamn taxes so we can implement Universal Basic Income. Doing this will enable actual good people to do actual good and useful work without having to rely on ads, difficult to come by donations, blockchain pyramid Ponzi schemes, or bullshit jobs

This was either written by a 20somethings who wasn’t there in the “good times” he is describing, or by someone who was there but still has the mindset of someone in their 20s.

I don’t know which is worse.
According to the South African doctor who first discovered the variant[1], it produces generally mild symptoms, and is not deadly.

[1]:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-59450988
Something awful, 4chan, and Ogrish were all started 2003 or earlier.
I thought a resizable ring buffer was a valid implementation, but maybe I'm thinking of Rust's VecDeque and there's something about the semantics of std::deque that doesn't allow that.
They believe the content creators are the victims
I thought "is back to being a legacy website" is referring to old.reddit.com. Had me excited for a moment.
Please don't take HN threads on generic flamewar tangents. We don't need a thread like this to veer into yet another race-IQ war.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29369974.

Also, your account appears to be using HN primarily for ideological battle. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of which ideology they're battling for, because it's destructive of the core value of this site (intellectual curiosity). If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the intended use of HN, we'd appreciate it. We've had to ask you about this before, so please fix this.
I wound up in a situation that involved creating a frame control bubble around someone who I had no power relationship to in the hierarchy. It ultimately became intolerable to the other person but ultimately self-actualization was the bait to the trap and they made off with it.

I’d never done anything like it before. It was in the context of quitting a video game addiction and bringing many ideas from the video game world into human relationships.

I see her moral position but given that it is effect as opposed to intent there is a possibility that Frame Control can be communication by other means, particularly used outside the conventional hierarchy of work and romantic relationships.
Ask HN: Jaded about the internet?
Are you jaded about The Internet? I've been online 20 years now and I feel like I've reached the pinnacle of what The Internet is about and have in a way reached the end of The Internet. I've seen just about everything you could want, and participated in many communities over the years, and I feel everything is just 'samey' now and follows the same pattern. It's hard for anything on The Internet to stand out and be unique (at least for me). YMMV on this.

Now with Web3/NFTs/cryptocurrency people are building an abstraction layer on top of the web and want to decentralize all the things, which is good to see, but I want to see all that fleshed out properly before I dive into it and leverage it. This is the shiny thing I look forward to on the web, but it's still early days. Other than that, the web seems kinda boring lately.

Are you jaded about the web too? I'd like to hear your thoughts!
Nassim Nicholas Taleb put out a video explanation of how Simpson's Paradox applies here, which is more direct and less tongue-in-cheek compared to the post: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XVRfBhy5vGI
A type DNS records are used for looking up IPv4 addresses, AAAA records are for IPv6. This effectively takes Reddit off of the IPv6 internet and is a bit of a step backward.
$GME wasn't a rug pull. It was a market maker making a market.

There was a suspension of buys, which is a wonderful feature of retail brokerages. The security is still purchasable today, so no one was permanently harmed.

Clearly, the industry as a whole decided to repair the damage done by retail investors and move on. A naked short like that would be too costly to pull off today. In addition, many investors have learned from the experience.

But by all means, reject the comparison.
Yes, been trying to do just that, thx!
TOO SOON!
You weren't the only one for sure!
Has no one wrapped up the above into a business?
But once you’re at tens of thousands, it rears its ugly head again, einundzwanzigtausend.
Yeah LaTeX needs some actually useful error messages first before it can be considered for something that people use widely. It's crash logs are even less useful than C++ and that's saying something. You basically have to do guesswork to figure out what might be wrong if the damn thing won't compile.

My BSc thesis wasn't the first thing I wrote in it, but it likely will be the last one. The idea is good, the execution is a resounding meh.
Nextstrain focal build for (21K) Omicron now up
Direct link to nextstrain visualization

https://nextstrain.org/groups/neherlab/ncov/21K.Omicron?r=co...
The service is worthless if you can trust a central authority like a government that 99.99% of people do.
On Kindle it's just clicking "buy now" and waiting 30 seconds for it to load on the device.

I know that's not "drm free" or anything but I doubt 99% of ebook users actually care as long as their device can load it.
Why be that specific? The WHO’s guidelines already made it clear why some names may be skipped. Referring to Xi Jinping directly would be counter-productive to their goal of depoliticising the name.
I understand why you're saying that but when you try do develop on Xcode running an emulator and at the same try to use your machine normally (keeping some tabs open, listening to some music etc.), suddenly 8 GB seems like very little.

Moreover, when you develop for a platform like iOS, you have very limited control on how fat your application will be.