skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The inimitable Hans Rosling[1] used to call himself a "possibilist":

People often call me an optimist, because I show them the enormous progress they didn't know about. That makes me angry. I'm not an optimist. That makes me sound naive. I'm a very serious “possibilist”. That's something I made up. It means someone who neither hopes without reason, nor fears without reason, someone who constantly resists the overdramatic worldview. As a possibilist, I see all this progress, and it fills me with conviction and hope that further progress is possible. This is not optimistic. It is having a clear and reasonable idea about how things are. It is having a worldview that is constructive and useful.

• • •

In his book 'Factfulness' (definitely read it), he talks about "bad and better":

Think of the world as a premature baby in an incubator. The baby’s health status is extremely bad and her breathing, heart rate, and other important signs are tracked constantly so that changes for better or worse can quickly be seen. After a week, she is getting a lot better. On all the main measures, she is improving, but she still has to stay in the incubator because her health is still critical.

Does it make sense to say that the infant’s situation is improving? Yes. Absolutely. Does it make sense to say it is bad? Yes, absolutely. Does saying “things are improving” imply that everything is fine, and we should all relax and not worry? No, not at all. Is it helpful to have to choose between bad and improving? Definitely not. It’s both. It’s both bad and better. Better, and bad, at the same time. That is how we must think about the current state of the world.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Rosling
Maybe because they are private, keep changing every year their specs and those results are only in test projects, so far?
Thanks a lot. Pinterest and the Stack Overflow translations are a great start. I'm using that + *://*.quora.com/* now and feel like my web experience is already a lot better :D
Their decline will more likely be attributed to most charging happening at home.
A good friend of mine is a very senior civil servant in Ireland, and he says similar - most politicians are smart people sincerely trying to make the world a better place. I believe him. What's the alternative? Believing that all the world's problems would be fixed if only someone good-hearted would attempt to solve them?
I'd hope that the sarcasm is obvious, but the full snippet is better nevertheless.
This gives me TempleOS vibes. Too bad that guy was brilliant but also completely insane.
Trying to allocate memory the size of an underflowed uint64 does not seem safe. Is this possible in safe Rust code? Is there a Rust build flag that would catch this behavior?
Just need more RAM.
UK Regulator finds Apple and Google have vice-like grip on devices
interesting, does that mean that there is a part of 'active' pinterest users who take time to add tags to pics, letting pinterest to categorize a lot of pictures and let the google ranking higher?
The "sole" - that's what nobody said.
>A lot of technically sound solutions in this space simply lack the addictive quality to draw in the crowds. Instagram and similarly popular networks, for all their flaws, are designed from the ground up to exploit human nature. If you sit on any form of public transport, you can see this in action. People obsessively checking whatever networks they are on.

I think the main reason why they're hard to beat is the first mover advantage of becoming the first popular networks of their kind.

This advantage creates multi-sided markets. There are strong incentives for businesses to build on top of those platforms enabled by reaching a critical mass of users, this advantage is converting networks into a self promotional flywheels pulling in more and more users.

It gets addictive because businesses usually know their audience and journey they're on and create content incentivizing them to take the next step in that journey.

Of course it's addicitve for users if you can anticipate their next step, and for businesses if they have all those micro targeting options just a click away. The easy way wins.
I think it is the drivers linked. Try it on an external first.
Uzodinma’s 63RD Birthday Celebration, a Mockery of Victims of Killings in IMO
is there a src on this? Or are you just kidding around
Spot on. At the end of the day it's a lot less harmful to worship an invisible being than an idealised visible entity
I actually think most people believe a pilot is needed to fly a plane with autopilot. Don't you? Who would want both of their pilots to be asleep?
The pi3 CPU used an older ARM spec, which had issues with producing good binaries for e. g. Go-based builds (I remember that quite vividly).

Beyond that, I can only hypothesize that Docker on non-x86_64 (or multiarch Docker, in general), was very difficult to kick-start for whatever reason. This may have been compounded by the fact that Docker wasn't as broadly adopted by hobbyists back then, so demand for ARM builds want that great.
Then 'perception of historical achievement'?
Not FOSS. For many, that's an issue. Personally, I just don't feel comfortable working with sensitive information or proto-executables in closed-source software. I get the appeal, if you come from macOS or Windows, but for Linux it's often the first "dirty" thing you would introduce, so it feels like a big deal.

Btw. I have used Sublime. It is a very nice Editor. Most importantly incredibly snappy and so far no other editor matched Sublime's intuitive `TAB` completion dynamics.

Oh, yeah, and it's fucking expensive...
This is definitely not precise. I confirmed that the lookup is also performed by Proton servers for mails sent to third party mail services, not just from third party mail services. Are they also scanned?

Source IP I got in my test: 185.70.43.80

```

# whois.ripe.net

inetnum: 185.70.40.0 - 185.70.43.255

netname: CH-PROTONMAIL-20140915

mnt-by: protonmail-mnt

org-name: Proton AG

```

From privacy policy https://protonmail.com/privacy-policy

> We do NOT have access to encrypted message content, but unencrypted messages sent from external providers to ProtonMail are scanned for Spam and Viruses to pursue the legitimate interest of the protection of our users.

very disappointing.
we are not sure about it. but about Low bed trailer information, we think it is a good article to those logistic company.

https://www.dreamtruegroup.com/low-bed-trailer/
Yeah, this reads like my bucket list of Rust technologies if I ever decided I'd want to implement a text editor. Definitely going to try this out. Thank you for bringing this to our attention, OP!
HNS does not replace DNS. Rather it is seemingly trying to replace ICANN, as opposed to working with them. There are mixed opinions on which path is a good idea.

HNS also lost a number of core contributors about a year ago. The guy who ruined freenode is largely running HNS behind the scenes and is also invested in Namecoin.
correction/clarification: run UI locally (xwindows) not execute.
> If I publish a paper saying I have an algorithm which can factor large composites, and in the paper publish the factors to all of the RSA numbers

If some factors of those numbers are also large composites, without access to a good algorithm, nobody can truly verify your claims.

If not and you include all of those factors in an easily digestible way for computers to process (let's call that "code"), it will be easy for anyone to reproduce your results (run that code which multiplies all the factors and gets the resulting RSA numbers).

With code, they could easily check that there's not an error in your verification method too (eg. large number multiplication broken).

This would achieve both goals: you'd withhold your algorithm for security reasons, and your results would be easier to verify.

Edit: but to be honest, I think withholding the research is a bit of a special case. You are doing it on purpose, and you can easily offer a service to prove your algorithm works (eg. imagine a "factoring" web service that instantly gives you a hash of the resulting sequence of factors, and then only mails you the actual sequence in two days).
OTOH, sometimes “passion” industries like say education are not only politicized to the extreme (given outcomes matter to so many people) but also are fundamentally on a shoestring budget, wanting as much as possible for as little as possible. This may be a function of governments being involved, but I struggle to think of more laid back industries. Entertainment has been a decent industry as well, but most of the “tech” is on the money driven side and less on the creative side.
Serie Bratva and Cosa Nostra
a cynic would have probably avoided the duel and lived a less turbulent life.

p.s. I don't think Don Quixote is a great example of optimism...
Hace cinco años, la existencia me dio un golpe al que sobreviví levemente.
Al borde de la desesperación, creo que mis deseos de ninguna manera podrían estar destinados a volver a ser verdaderos.
Gracias a Sociópata, todo cambió para mejor.
Not sure what it is like in the US, but in the UK, the RSPB doesn't seem to think cats are a major cause of bird population decline
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/advice/gardening-...
Most people are like this when they have a ridiculous amount of their net worth tied up in a particular asset. Doubly so when they're leveraged.

The irony is that by dragging down property values rent control would actually reduce this type of behavior.
This "recommended" TLD list would block my bank site, government tax service and most of news sited since my country TLD is blocked here. Hilarious.
During my masters thesis I worked in the lab of an electrochemist studying the adsorption of thiol(ate)s on precious metal surfaces. Organosulphur compounds have an incredible affinity for soft metal surfaces. His parents lived over in Calgary, Alberta, and he recounted to me several times how it was impossible to keep silver clean there due to the the occasional outgassing of oil wells north of the city. It was little enough that nobody's life was at risk, but high enough that true silverware would reliably be tarnished within a month or two.
In South Korea, Big Tech’s power struggle with regulators is way ahead of the US
I think we can make the distinction between complaining and venting at that point, and the second one would at least serve the purpose of putting your mind at ease for some time.

And to be fair I don't think your example is particularly well suited here, because changing the patent system would most likely need more support than just your own actions, which can be gathered via HN. It can also lead other people to reflect on the issue and take actions themselves.

I would still classify that as complaining.

If I had to choose an example of venting, I'd say that I could go on HN to complain about the neighbor's dog that barks all day long. Nothing would come out of that, and I don't need anyone supporting any action on this problem, so it'd be venting.
Thinking about this, what if you prepare for the meeting and write down the estimate! What are they going to do, argue with a piece of paper? Scribble some notes to make it look like you were thinking, and write the estimate, then present it as your "original unbiased estimate" which, of course, will never change. This won't always be an option, but it's a good trick to have I think.
Currency conversion. I travel internationally quite a bit and it’s easier to use than Google when you need to do some quick math in different currency amounts.
In case you missed it, this is explicitly brought up in a separate section in the article.
SheetMS – A Webpack plugin to parse Google sheet files into translation jsons
In build time, the plugin fetches all tabs from your Google Spreadsheet and converts the first and second columns to JSON files, where the name of the tab becomes the file name.
Like any fintech thing to be honest. In this case it just happens to be quite legal as well as the law extends its grasp into the crypto space quite slowly.
Has Monterey been fine for app/pods/React Native development so far? I swear every time I do a big update it takes ages to get the dev experience working again and I can't afford to lose time this close to Christmas with deadlines looming.
Yes I meant the equivalent of 911.
https://gist.github.com/tyrell/2963c6b121f79096ee0008f5a47cf... looking at this, it seems that debian added it at least 3 years ago and even in 2016 there was a binary, unless you knew about it and it sucked.
https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...

Someone had to do it :)
John D Rockefeller is generally considered the richest person in history who earned his wealth.

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

Of course, there are many others richer, who stole it (kings, tyrants).
This is full of copyright infringement. If you don't want your app to be DMCA'd I'd suggest you remove all references to Harry Potter.
If a self-driving mode depends on road markings being perfect to not kill me then I'd rather not have self-driving at all.
>* If you're finding that you need 20+ plugins to add features then I've got news for you, you're looking for an IDE that has all these built in by default.*

I also have news for you, VS Code's whole selling point was "built-your-own-IDE" and big plugin ecosystem, not "here's yet another lightweight editor".
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We need a p2p client side / federated search engine, with customisable white/blacklists and proper caching. Able to both work with results of other search engines and index specific websites itself.
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Where I live its context dependent.

> selling house renovations to elderly people for 10x prices

is illegal if the targets were elderly (or disabled), but not if you are just regular Joe and definitively not to business. In fact that's how politicians usually "help" their friends here, so laws are quite muddy probably on purpose
You are not the first "genius" realizing this. Look up Ted Kaczynski. But he was smarter than you because he considered what this reality entails for the ruling classes: Namely the decision whether they shouldn't give up on maintaining the masses once technologically feasible. It is for this reason that it is a taboo and has to remain one. Everything else is propaganda and chatter.
... leaving time to study what bears do in the woods.
> That's called Currying.

Actually no. Currying is converting one function with multiple arguments to a series of functions with one each.

Partial application is supplying some of those arguments and getting back a series of functions that take more arguments.

So, currying = f(x,y,z) -> f'(x)(y)(z)

While partial application = f(x)(y)(z) + x and y being supplied -> f'(z)
>Personally, I just don't feel comfortable working with sensitive information or proto-executables in closed-source software.

So, just how the biggest companies, banks, governments, etc. in the world work (using e.g. Excel, Word, Visual Studio, etc)...
Seems like Atom and VSCode picked the wrong tool for the job.
Rijksmuseum to Stage the Largest Vermeer Exhibition in 2023
> You are not the first "genius" realizing this.

Found another one.
But not using a single plugin is near impossible.
Right, I think the problem then is that we only use one word for both, while at least in the "western" world I imagine a lot of people are ok with the former but not the latter. And saying something like "you can only censor material which is explicitly illegal" is not helping either, because like you said - that's still censorship.
Nice. We did the same for a uni project back in the day, but with a dedicated imu and an arduino uno.
Silver tends to develop a patina, which can be much nicer than boring shiny silver. If the intent is to have a pristine, sparkling object, then sure, silver is not the right metal. However, I really like the aspect of properly maintained silver items.

If the item is plated, the thickness of the coating is crucial. Polishing will remove some of the metal and over time the plating can wear off.
Pollution, windows, and cats appeared in 1971?

1975 is when the first commercial wind farm went up, maybe you got something :p

If it was all pollution we'd see improvements as we decrease emissions. (we have been since 2005)
I ask because "believe a majority of the statements are correct" can mean as little as "more likely to be correct that not" - it's pretty weak tea.
> about spotting when optimistic messages are hiding a power-grabbing scheme of some kind

IMO that's not being cynical. That's actually an universally positive trait: being able to spot power-grabbing schemes.

The problem with the negative side of cynicism described in the article is that, (to follow your example) the power-grabbing scheme is not the thing being detected, but rather the display of optimism. Every display of optimism is treated as being a power-grabbing scheme, or worse, naivety.

The things cynics end up attacking in the end isn't the power grabbing per se, but the optimism.

The answer is not to attack everything optimistic, but also neither to attack nothing. Life is hard.
Excellent, thanks. I am so glad to have that pinterest shit out of my search results. Companies that try to take over your life, even in small ways, should all fall apart.
Druid is also in a poor state at the moment (it pulls master from git) and it's not using wgpu at all. I assume it used to use a piet wgpu branch but it is not anymore.
I think it's valuable to send the message to the prospect that "I don't want to work with you". It sure beats out right lie like "I'm spread out too thin" when you are not, you just don't want to work with an asshole client.
Well… it‘s built on Electron. If your editor comes with its own browser, that‘s bloat.
Add more pods.

Its literally the answer to every devOps problem.

(This is a joke btw.)

(... or is it?)
Income Inequality Is Big, Wealth Inequality Is 100 Times Bigger
Card Transactions: Permitting Card-on-File Tokenisation (CoFT) Services
Interesting! I find the whole gig space fascinating. I wonder how much of it relies on exploitation of regulatory latency. My guess is that these actors has such momentum and platform advantage that even if all talked-about regulation were to pass, it would still remain popular despite price surges.
This frustrated me so much I've given up on the Mac. Bought a Dell this week. Actually quite excited to dive properly into Linux.
Digital Markets Act: ending unfair practices of big online platforms
Cynical people don't found unicorn startups, don't win marathons and seldom the Nobel prize. On the other hand, not being cynical increases your chance to achieve such goals by 0.00001%, while your chance to end up a broke hobo, a beat down athlete or a 50 y/o teaching assistant waiting for tenure shoot up exponentially.

All in all, cynicism sounds (to a cynic) like a pretty good adaptation strategy to the real world.
I think above comment is about jetBrains fleet. VSCode alternative written in kotlin
It's a function of rents / income.

High rents -> Homelessness -> Debilitating mental illness -> drug use -> even worse mental illness.

Nowhere has rents quite as absurd as SF but what you describe has happened to me in London.

Reducing homelessness and ever rising property values are not compatible goals.
> The NeXTSEP/GNUstep look is a little older than Windows 98

A full decade older.

NeXTstep was demonstrated in 1987 and launched with the NeXT Cube in 1988 with v1.0 being released in 1989.

I mean, come on -- look at it next to its contemporaries:
https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/05/gui/6/

Windows 2.0, OS/2 1.1, DR-GEM.

I really feel that even if someone doesn't like the grey-and-black look (I love it myself) that one _must_ admit it was streets ahead of its contemporaries.

Personally I think W95 looked better than W98, and W98 looked better than XP.
I don't disagree with the main point of the article, but I think it underplays the extent to which most publications being information-poor is the fault of the medium rather than the low standard of writing that we've become accustomed to and complacent with over the years.

This is not too unlike maintainable code. The code platform itself matters to some extent, but far less than the extent to which the author wrote with maintainability in mind.
Any option to sponsor? I'd like to contribute with money since my time is kinda devoured.
Exactly, and in those simpler times a lot of things where indeed pretty much assumed to be Devine/magic etc. Back then things where also very incomprehensible otherwise.

So my point is we are going back to that stage after a short "interregnum" where the machines in our daily lives where somewhat more comprehensible.
Effective 1st Jan, 22 the RBI has made it mandatory for all merchants to delete credit cards due to security concerns.

This is their new framework for permitting a similar experience for users and merchants.
Surely it's not only California that has these
Replacing end-to-end tests with synthetic monitors
Polarization in America: One side invaded the capital building in a violent attempt to overthrow democracy, and the other side wants to make voting for whoever you want as easy as possible.

Guess which pole I’m at and tell me how I should meet the other pole in the middle.
I'd describe TTGL as the reconstruction to NGE's deconstruction

Warning: TVTropes links

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Deconstruction

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Reconstruction
oh that's a shame, I don't have a bluetooth chip in my pc, but was thinking in adding one, anyone knows if docker works fine in FreeBSD?
Why always lightning, why not sound-speed ?

As soon as memory management issue is solved, i could see all future software will eventually be written in Rust (or similar language)
> "Manipulative" is carrying a lot of work in this discussion though.

Yeah, that's a very fair criticism. I'm struggling to find internally-consistent definitions that simultaneously:

* Allow small creators to talk about their work, while condemning large corporations that try to instill demand or desire where none would previously have existed
* Allow fans of a product to (spontaneously, without incentive) talk about the product

If you simply condemn any creator _ever_ talking about their work (and only permit fans/consumers, without incentive, to offer reviews), then that makes it nigh-impossible for anyone to discover new products. If you condemn only paid advertising (which would allow small creators to blog, to provide demos, etc.), then that unfairly advantages megacorporations who can advertize "for free" by utilizing their other properties.
... Indeed.

I even checked online to ensure I didn't typo-it, except I ended up (apparently) on page that had the typo...
I don't know, sometimes I just want a very thin cable that is flexible - for charging mostly. I bought a proper USB-C anker cable for my phone early on, and replaced it literally within few days as it was proper big shielded cable that had zero flexibility, horrible for charging. I didn't care that technically it could do 10GB/s, it just wasn't necessary.
Lets remember his answer on stackexchange regarding how many Greeks pay high taxes vs Greek owners of Porshe Cayennes, when he not recognized and was asked for references for his figures:

"Hi, can you provider references for your figures? - Skiiv

The figures come directly from SQL queries I executed on the General Secreteriat for Information Systems database.... – Diomidis Spinellis"

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/6883