skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it wasn't for the exchanges and on- and off-ramps then cryptocurrencies wouldn't exist at all. Potentially spending it one day is the only thing that makes the crypto world go around.

"Spending" it doesn't require cashing it out in a hypothetical cryptocurrency future. People can, and do, transact in cryptocurrencies. Though it's actually quite painful, slow, expensive, and lacks all of the benefits of traditional transactions so everyone avoids it if possible.

But this exposes another flaw in the currency argument: If the on-ramps and off-ramps were to become so cheap, fast, and ubiquitous that we could transact instantly in cryptocurrencies for free, then suddenly the underlying coins wouldn't need to have any speculative value. If I could click "buy" on a product and the exchange into crypto, transfer, and end-user exchange out of crypto was basically instant, then the exchange rate doesn't actually matter at all because I'm only holding for a brief instant. Yet that would break the speculative use case entirely, so the hype tends to follow the deliberately inefficient coins. Crypto proponents don't actually want cryptocurrency to be easy to use. They only want you to buy it, then do nothing with it. Ever. If you lose it, even better (for everyone else).
Nice, I recently replaced my mac book pro with a cheap Samsung laptop (emergency replacement, the mac died and the new ones are unobtainable currently).

I installed Manjaro on it and it was a relatively OK experience getting that going. I had some issues with the sound that took some "maybe this will work" style copy paste of all sorts of magical cli incantations to get working. But I kind of knew what I was getting into so I'm not disappointed by that. The important thing is that I have a functioning laptop with all my developer toys running.

However, the touchpad support is so awful that I ordered a mouse. I never needed one of those with any macbook I've ever owned. It seems it's impossible to configure the touchpad in a sane way without ending up with piles of custom scripts. E.g. the scrolling speed is way off and I constantly have my single clicks interpreted as middle clicks, which does such fun things as close the browser tab instead of opening it. Simple tasks such as selecting text are made hard because the mechanical pressure needed for the clicks actually tends to move the cursor by enough that you basically mis-click. I briefly used the touchpad under windows before I wiped the disk. So, I know the same touch pad can behave a lot more reasonable given better software.

So, any improvements in this area are very welcome!
It’s not so much proposing a word rather than trying to take over a popular one in an effort to shed the negative reputation which years of failure had given your first one. It’s not surprising that people who work on the web don’t want their hard work being coopted to bail the cryptocurrency guys out of a mess they talked themselves into.
> so I’ve made peace with the prospect of a highly turbulent future.

It remains to be seen whether the highly turbulent future has made peace with you.

If we can believe the predictions, things have just gotten started. However, we can expect more extreme weather events, more large-scale refugee movements and who knows what else, which might also affect day-to-day life in rich countries.

Until we at least have a clearer idea what exactly we can expect in the next decades, I'm not convinced this "making peace", trusting, we'll "adapt" is any more realistic than some procrastinaling college student who fully trusts his future self to wing that term assignment in an allnighter.
Got it, but it was actually a joke. They used an interesting choice of words, and I found it hilarious.
Python will add all-encompassing parentheses, making it a full Lisp. Keeping up with population growth, there will now be a handful, nay dozens, of ANSI Common Lisp users. And every ANSI Common Lisp program will still work flawlessly (sound and graphics included), despite changes in chip architecture. The Common Lisp Hyperspec will be enshrined by the World Heritage Foundation as an example of heavenly, Platonic writing. So let it be written. So let it be done.
One of the problems with HDDs for long-term backup is that they need to be spun from time to time else they might not start up when you need them. Or, at least, that's what I remember being told fairly long ago. Maybe that's no longer the case?
Are these still in active use?
It would be terrible to be in the situation that the author of the letter describes, but I'm genuinely curious what any company can do? They should probably confidentially interview the people involved, but if the other party denies it, what do you do then? And given the incident described is sexual assault, shouldn't the police be the first avenue explored, not HR?

If there is no independent evidence either way, it makes sense for HR to ensure the people involved don't work or live together - but who do you move if you have no evidence? Moving the person initiating the complaint could easily be described as "punishment" in hindsight - maybe you would have to move both people involved to new work assignments? But then you can still be criticised because one person got a "better" re-assignment then the other, based on post-hoc performance

My point is not that SpaceX handles these situations as well as they can be handled (I have no idea if they do), just that even if people and companies try and do the right thing, they can and will still be criticised. That is NOT a reason for them not to try.
Yes, you're right generally, though specifically in THIS case, we are actually talking about an obscure and extremely nerdy art project / game. That doesn't mean everything has to be one big art project. I'm in various other communities doing amazing stuff around climate change, for example, and the energy is just as intense and friendly as in the art/game projects. I linked to this because the community is one of the best I've experienced online in 3 decades of using the web.
Terrible loss of life, and the thought of these monster tornados striking at night is terrifying. Maybe it could have been worse though.

Most of the warnings issued were accurate, from what I've read [0]. I really hope we continue to invest in these short-term weather forecasts. Clearly there have been recent advances, and we can still do better.

[0] https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-critical-gap-in-tor...
There's also fatal flaws at the heart of capitalism and a centrally controlled currency whose value is manipulated at will completely outside a citizen's power to control.

These fatal flaws have not prevented capitalism from blooming all over the world.

Lest you think I'm some species of these crypto libertarians, I believe it's an imperfect solution to hand humans more greed levers to go about life dictating their actions by perverse incentives.

The solution for me looks more like a free net whose power is contributed by a mass group of volunteers. But who then will run the datacenters? With what materials will they build them and who will freely give it to them?

Capitalism needs to be ripped up from its roots before we can have a hope of a free in all senses world for all. Until then, maybe we first take control of the machinery by replacing the currency with which the state does its business of violence.
I have tried to replace photoshop with free software forever, and nothing still comes close to CS2. I don't care to make my life harder or use crappier tools because its not free. There is nothing free about crippling a workflow.
Langdon Winner [1] argues that nuclear power is authoritarian in nature due to factors like requiring long-term, centralized planning to realize and is infeasible in democratic governments. He argues that solar power is more democratized and is more fitting to a democracy.

[1] https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~beki/cs4001/Winner.pdf
Math is indeed there, multiplication, division etc. I just fail to understand why is that important for you? Incentives are also there - the infamous FOMO. I think it's not a thing to be proud of.
It's telling that the foundation that is supposed to shepherd Linux has found it unable to stay afloat without strapping other things like kubernetes and SBOM to the boat. There's an interesting discussion to be had there. And maybe someone will write a blog post about that. (Unfortunately, this one is full of anti-"woke" rhetoric, as is Lunduke's style these days)
I don't think that's GP's conclusion. GP's conclusion is that crypto is rooted in real innovation and the noise surrounding it gives the false impression that the tech is just a scam.
I am less interested in the contents of this project than in the fact that Molly White is obviously a talented web engineer.
Except "Everybody goes inside and stops spreading" is not something that is unique to a variant of concern.

When everybody goes inside, all the variants stop spreading. The pressure is the same on every variants, so there's no source of evolutionary advantages on any variants.
The ratio of "but Web3 good lol" comments to those actually appreciating a well made site giving a playful jab at silly net fads is a bit low eh..
> I think the worst part though is the bit about prohibiting future re-downloads for users who bought perpetual licenses in the past. The sort of company that pulls that nonsense is very precisely not the kind of company I expect to provide a good customer experience in a subscription product/service.

IDA never offered redownloads past the end of your 'support period'. As their last renewal email to me said:

> Please check our web site and the protected area for new files. If you find anything interesting or useful, feel free to download it immediately. Once your support period is over, the server will not prepare new download links!
The Washington Post article referenced in this post is really interesting: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interacti...

The yearly revisions of the GHG emissions estimates are really striking.
Windows 7 was actually pretty clean. It was basically Windows XP with a nice look & feel. Also the last Windows without bloat everywhere (ok, IE)

But yeah, 2000 was somehow the apogee.

Plasma is pretty nice nowadays but I sometimes miss the simpler times of KDE 3.5
> methamphetamine isn't crack.

Other parts of the world started calling whatever drug was wreaking havoc in their country crack in the mid-2000s, likely as a result from hearing about "crack" from US pop culture.

As such, meth is now called crack in Australia and New Zealand. Crack cocaine doesn't exist there.
Zero knowledge proofs will revolutionize civic life
I like the uutils idea but they have a very long way to go. The GNU coreutils are still the very best you can get.
> privacy and security shortcomings, and high transaction costs

I think these are the only technical arguments here, and there's real improvements there depending on what project you're looking at.
Could you give some examples? I am skeptical, but am willing to admit I'm wrong if you can really point to a "community that will blow your mind with their creativity and spirit".
Eh, I don't even consider myself in the "Linux is easy" group but I wouldn't pull up the word of a negative karma fresh single comment account that was created after the conversation started as gospel for the validation an entire group of people on HN are inconsistent.

It just happens you don't need to do anything special to install this on any traditional distro that ships with a default GUI install option. Regardless of your views on the viability of Linux overall these changes to libinput are really as zero effort as it can get on any OS, just wait for the update to push.
Hard to assume good faith from a article you strongly suspect is doing precisely the opposite.. are we supposed to just not comment at all except to say "oh sexual harassement is bad" ?

Theres a strong case that false accusations can be terribly detrimental for women that get ACTUALLY harrassed and assaulted.

Not just people who get offendes at literally every fashionable issue to be offended these days (sexism, racisme/colonialism, and environment in that EXACT SAME ARTICLE)
>Would be nice if the blog post included screenshots big enough to actually see what it looks like.

There's pictures and video: https://pop.system76.com/
I do think that's where you're hurting yourself. I've been using Macs since before OS X came out, and in the OS X era I have never had long downtime when switching to a new machine. In the old days before Migration Assistant, you'd just clone the drive. These days you use Migration Assistant. I do understand the "dirty" sentiment, but in reality I've been upgrading via cloning or Migration Assistant for close to 20 years now with never a clean install, and it's worked well.
> "Rewind the clock 20 years, there were all sorts of paid software offerings everywhere on the desktop. You couldn't uncompress a zip without paying (or stealing from) someone."

Windows XP had built in zip support and was released 20 years and 4 months ago. Before that, from memory pkunzip was free and it was zip which needed payment, but wikipedia links to a review of an early version from a BBS here http://cd.textfiles.com/rbbsv3n1/pool/pkpolicy.zip which states that it was free for noncommercial use, shareware license for commercial use, and that Phil Katz had helped people implement unzip (on deflate algorithm I think) in their own code without charging for his help.

You move onto talking about Steam (not open source) which is used as a DRM and payment engine for many closed source games - and that is one of the more popular uses of closed source software (as well as things like Microsoft Office), XBox, Playstation, Nintendo and PC gaming. Having proprietary Steam running a proprietary game after you login to Valve's proprietary online authentication, on a free reimplementation of proprietary Win32, but hooray because there's Linux somewhere inside, doesn't seem very close to the future Stallman was hoping for or the ideals of free software or open source. What would it mean to change the source of an online game? Probably that you can't connect to any servers anymore. What would it mean to move your FIFA team to another game engine?

The GDPR at least gives Europeans some rights to download their data from cloud services in a machine readable format, but strangely you don't seem to have that right to your data in a proprietary game stored on your local machine with access gated through a proprietary online service.
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Hi Abdallah. If you haven't signed up yet, you can do so here: https://github.com/features/code-search/signup. People on the waitlist are getting access as quickly as the team can support it.
To be fair, late 90s/early 2000s Internet was pretty much run for tech-savvy/nerd-types. Kind of hard to imagine now, but it was considered quite eccentric to have an Internet-habit back then.
I don't think Ghidras existence is unfortunate at all. Without it I, and a few people I know, would never have even touched this space. Ghidra is not perfect but a slick GUI is not something that is important in such a product.
If they use natural gas (methane) to make electricity to make synthetic methane, I will cry
“
The study by Discovery Health, South Africa’s largest health insurer, of 211,000 positive coronavirus cases, of which 78,000 were attributed to omicron, showed that risk of hospital admissions among adults who contracted covid-19 was 29 percent lower than in the initial pandemic wave that emerged in March 2020.”

29% LOWER THAN OG COVID

In other words, a bad cold or the flu. This is possibly our way out of this mess if it can become the dominant strain, why are we still peddling fear about omnicron instead of hope?
It would be terrible to be in the situation that the author of the letter describes, but I'm genuinely curious what any company can do? They should probably confidentially interview the people involved, but if the other party denies it, what do you do then? And given the incident described is sexual assault, shouldn't the police be the first avenue explored, not HR?
If there is no independent evidence either way, it makes sense for HR to ensure the people involved don't work or live together - but who do you move if you have no evidence? Moving the person initiating the complaint could easily be described as "punishment" in hindsight - maybe you would have to move both people involved to new work assignments? But then you can still be criticised because one person got a "better" re-assignment then the other, based on post-hoc performance
My point is not that SpaceX handles these situations as well as they can be handled (I have no idea if they do), just that even if people and companies try and do the right thing, they can and will still be criticised. That is NOT a reason for them not to try.
> Virtually every filesystem has some kind of error detection, maybe even error-correction built in.

Nitpick: you mean physical encoding, not filesystem.

Not nitpick: it’s nowhere near enough. Blu-Ray bitrot is a huge issue and if you don’t either write out your data twice (to the same disc or to distinct discs) or use PAR2 or similar, your backup isn’t worth the money you paid for those shiny coasters.
Reminds me a bit of f*ckedcompany.com back in the day.
Anyone making the "crypto is killing the environment" argument is basically just regurgitating a trope they read in the corporate media. Pretty obvious red flag.
man that was painful to read
Would it be fair to say that half of the job is project/program management?
But at the time the risk was still small, because the virus was mostly not in the US yet. Article doesn't say the risk will remain small in the future, does it?
I'd fire that person immediately. No one's so valuable that they get to poison the work environment.
> RISC-V has a bunch of competing vector instructions.

There is only one standard V extension. Alibaba made a chip with a prerelease version of that V extension which is thus incompatible with the final version, but in practice that just means that the vector unit on that chip is not used because it is incompatible, not that there are now competing standards
Why does 'interface{}' feel unlike 'interface{String() string}' to you? Just because it doesn't have a method? You know that you can inline non-empty interfaces, too?

func foo(x interface{String() string}) string {
return x.String()
}
> That said, my entire "consumption" of web2 communities like Reddit (AND HN!) has honestly been replaced with the amazing and kind communities I met "on" web3 (a misnomer in that context, as the entire comms stack is Twitter and Discord).

So your "web3" consumption happens entirely on web 2.0? And its existence doesn't actually require anything web3 related?

What makes it web3, other than the fact that maybe someone built a bot that requires NFT ownership to get into a Discord? Just the fact that people are talking about web3 in it?
Isn't the whole point of escrow though to trust a 3rd party service? Or maybe I'm confused about what purpose escrow.com served here. Was ecrow.com literally just facilitating sending x dollars from person a to person b and b/c it was a high dollar value it charged a high fee?
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> The decision to call all of this "web 3.0" without actually consulting any developers (that don't own/trade cryptocurrencies) was such a mistake.

Not sure I understand your point. What developers do you need to consult? Some random developers coined that term, as much as some random developers coined the web 2.0 terms. It's up to people to use it or not.
NASA was trying to get some form of series production for base system bus for long distance probes in late 1980s.

What happened was that pretty soon the budget got slashed, and the out of the prototype two units they barely scrambled to have one of them flown, with very complex process to balance the budget in face of constant attempts to cut it by Congress.

Maybe if NASA's budget was allocated in different process, things would be different. As it is now, the people controlling the purse strings care about their reelection so they will at best jerk projects around to send money to their states, or to place their own spin on things, etc.
I hadn't thought about it in this context before, but I used to train Kendo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendo), a Japanese martial art, a long time ago. One interesting thing is that Kendo doesn't have belts like most other martial arts, the principle being that seeing the color of someone's belt causes you to prejudge their ability. Ideally, you should only know how good they are by actually training/fighting with them.

I've been very disappointed by comparing people's titles with their actual technical ability -- somehow it never seems to be the case that the ability outstrips the title.
Not right now, but that's some common feedback that we hope to soon address.
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Maybe you should not always try and be the worst thing society will allow you without jail time.
It's a shame the Linux Foundation spends any money on things like 'inclusive' language efforts. They can do what they want, but I won't be supporting them.
Do you just not hear your voice when you think? Are there words? How do you formulate ideas without words? What happens when you speak - do ideas just cross some event horizon and come out as vocalizations? Do you know what the words are going to be before you say them?
it was made with a lump in the back as a functional monitor. it was supposed to be a all in one and now it just an "all in one" monitor.

sorry if i wasn't clear.
Why do people parrot this nonsense?
> there's no underlying value in cryptocurrency

Of course, there is a value: it's a decentralized write-only database that can be used for things like proof of ownership without the requirement of a central authority. A famous use-case is the illicit online drug trade, which cannot currently be achieved (to my knowledge) with fiat currencies.

It might never replace government-backed currencies (or it just might, who knows), but to say it literally has no utility betrays a lack of knowledge about the system.
This headline literally makes no sense this entire article is written by someone that has absolutely zero knowledge on the subject. I'm flagging it because it is incredibly foolish and will get someone killed.

First, You can't "flee a tornado" like you can a hurricane or a tidal wave. As a matter of fact this is one of the most incredibly dangerous things you can do. Your car is the most unsafe place as you're completely exposed to flying debris (the killer in tornados), and if you get in a traffic jam (which a lot of people 'fleeing' would cause), you _will_ die. Golfball to softball sized hail will destroy your car and render it immovable. You'll be stuck in the open and you will be injured. This happens _literally_ every time there is a severe weather event: someone tries to flee, and they die.

Second, tornadoes have a relatively narrow damage path and tend to travel in straight-ish paths. What's unpredictable about them is when they are actually "touching down" and that's what makes then dangerous. A formation can drop to the ground unpredictably and suddenly, then lift again. this can take place in under 15s and it can cycle several times every few minutes. This is what makes them dangerous and it is irresponsible, ill-advised, against recommendations from experts, and incredibly foolish for this news paper to be promoting this sort of content.

Source: I've been outdoors in tornados, in high school I've worked with trained weather spotters with the National Weather Service, and this is general knowledge for anyone that grew up in Kansas.
The Future of Computing: Domain-Specific Architecture [pdf]
Nice post, I think "software engineering" is slowly becoming yet another "bullshit job".
3D anatomical structure of the head and skull of white rhinoceros
This sounds sort of like the setting of Dune.