skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My parents reached out asking me to help them figure out how to buy this Amazon crypto. They've recently become interested in crypto and so I've been teaching them how it works and how to use it.

Luckily I hadn't taught them anything about eth except how to buy it and how to self-custody it yet.

After seeing how easily they were scammed into believing this was real, I am recommending they steer clear of eth entirely and just stick to learning about bitcoin. Too many (believable) scams on smart contract chains.

The only btc scams I've seen are along the lines of "Send me your btc and I'll double it back for you!" which is obvious even for them.
And you don't have to read our comments where we share our anger at Facebook/Meta.

Surely you don't think corporations can't be criticised?
Not sure what you're expecting given how old it is. Why not write a polyfill as an exercise for yourself? Convert it to png, then save as an image tag to a data url.

Here look some people adapted to ios in one hour faffing around on twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1241476768?tt_medium=mobile_web...
Hm yeah now that you mention it I recall that as well. Isn't that just an arbitrary crippling though? I can't imagine a good reason for why SSE would be hogging more resources than websockets.
> TWITTER WAS SO OPEN THAT MANY SAW THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME A DECENTRALIZED INTERNET STANDARD, SUCH AS THE SMTP (EMAIL SENDING) PROTOCOL. FOR A WHOLE HOST OF REASONS, ALL REASONABLE AT THE TIME,

Given that there was exactly one proprietary twitter 'network', I would not say that none of those reasons were 'reasonable' at the time. They were just wishful thinking in bed with corporate marketing.

I don't think a lot of tech people quite understand what a public good looks like, but Twitter was never it. From day one, it was built as a walled garden, and any access you have to it is through the benevolence of its operators.
Actually, that suggests an even better idea: Abandon our bodies and let someone else clean up the mess. I mean... it's worked before. :D
If it's a mistake that Facebook reversed, it's not censorship.
Tired of hearing "web3" everywhere, it's the one buzzword that really disgusts me. Reminds me exactly of the dotcom era. This is what happens when the "ideas guy" grifter infiltrates the OSS community.
You may not be a paid shill (I’m certainly not accusing you of it - that would be against the rules) but your behaviour is indeed curious for someone who is trying to not look like one.
For instance, why are you trying to get in touch with other HN’ers with a history of pro-China commentary?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29615344

Don’t be surprised that people are suspicious. And it’s not because of a difference of opinion - users here are very tolerant of that - it’s because of repeated behaviour (another example: avoiding answering difficult questions regarding the alleged sexual assault of Peng Shuai).
I'm actually a native English speaker (30yo), and feel this might actually be a recent usage? I think I started noting it as an oddity in the last decade or so. I kind of like it for the reason mtlynch said, even though you could argue it's less correct than "can't recall". I'm curious if there has actually been a long usage of "forget" this way that I managed to be oblivious of, or if it actually is recent.
I'd argue almost the opposite: The worst thing for society done by twitter is the promotion of all the virulent garbage speech which is then parroted by the media.
The site is definitely quite sketchy looking - but this article is fine and perfectly reasonable so I don't know if we really need to comment on the website itself. If the website were adding unnecessary spin then maybe it'd be of note but it didn't.
Yeah, eth is bad enough, but BSC and Solana are where the truly depraved and desperate get-rich-quick victims are. Absolutely brutal.
I think you overestimate the amount of trust that some of us have in organizations and governance.
Let me try to help you two agree.

> you will [generally not] get this kind of access to user data via apis, even if the user grants it to you.

...with the exception that:

> the privileged few get to break the rules

OK?
>If you're tired of censorship, cancel culture, and the erosion of civil liberties subscribe to Reclaim The Net.

That's the website slogan, not part of the article.

If Facebook reversed the decision, it's not censorship.
the laser eye types don't even acknowledge the federated social ecosystem either.

you can have decentralization without blockchains. Just adopt the existing standards, or get involved with the W3C / IETF if you want to be part of the process defining the next ones.
It was referring to his preferences about women in the context of marriage. Should companies concern themselves with the marital preferences of their employees?

This is a person writing his autobiography and discussing his marriage in the context of previous failed romances. It seems like the entire marriage context is left out and the statement is presented as some kind of opinion on all women in general. It's quite bizarre to choose to not have a charitable view of these things when one quite obviously exists.

Purposely looking for the worst possible interpretation of things is not useful in society. It leads to everyone attacking each other for hidden meanings and agendas.
I have no questions either, I also just wanted to say thank you for the website. It's a bit weird, because I've never actually used it myself except to report my findings.

I've made 8-10 reports or something like that, because it feels like the right thing to do. Which is a compliment to your sites design.

I see you're planning to redo the front page. Why? I've never used the front page. I immediately search for the game or manually edit the URL from my browsers location bar (https://www.protondb.com/app/{id}) to insert the id of the game I want to report on.

After writing that, I do have a question; do you have objective, real data on what users want from the front page?

The only thing I want is a search box that responds to both game titles (with automagic for things like roman numerals and other game title oddities) and numeric IDs. The rest can be hidden.
Project Names and Borges Numbers (1995)
I think the intention is more to try an avoid every comment just being "China bad, F*ck Intel"

We all know there are human rights abuses in China, but no amount of emotional comments on an HN thread is gonna fix that. It would be more productive to have some sort of more thought provoking conversations.

And on the theme of discussion, isn't reddit very moderated? I think 6% of all posts where removed last year (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56099232)
I read it as accusational for working at an odd hour / after hour, so I was asking to see if that accusational tone was implied or just read into it by the reader. Why do you care why I care?
Of course, that’s why I said “extremely difficult” — it’s never completely impossible. I was thinking about Apple, who made iCloud reasonably e2e encrypted: of course, they can still push malicious updates targeting specific devices, but that needs to be a deliberate action by the organization, not a single rogue employee.

It’s not entirely unlikely that AWS was hacked / socially engineered in order to get this privilege in there, perhaps because some specific s3 buckets were being targeted.

As an organization, you need to have a high enough level of protection that these things are just not possible.

So maybe this whole idea of managed IAM policies being installed in all customers’ accounts is just a fundamentally bad idea, and should just be given on a case by case basis.
Bombing and pillaging countries left and right for more than half a century - totally fine, we're bringing democracy to the savages.

Becoming an economic threat to the empire - bad, very bad. Anything you do is bad because human rights, environment, blah blah

The lack of self reflection is staggering. I expect to get flagged immediately, of course. Can't go against the narrative
His name is Donald McNeil.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/business/donald-mcneil-ne...

"We do not tolerate racist language regardless of intent," Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet and Managing Editor Joe Kahn said in a memo to staffers.

This "regardless of intent" is a pretty scary standard. Ancient magical thinking which placed taboo on certain words at least had the excuse that people really believed that uttering such words would indeed summon literal demons or other malevolent supernatural entities. Joe Kahn probably does not suffer from such superstition and yet behaves as if he did.
Understood. I was going to delete it... then it got flagged. No excuse.
ENS is great until you lose control of it due to a hack or a death. Compare the reprocussions of that with the traditional system.
No, it would be abuse of dominant position; it is illegal only if you are in a dominant position to begin with.
‘Near impossible’ plant-growing technique could revolutionise farming
Jim Allison - Breakthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MapggZMbCaI

Dr. Allison recently was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his persistent decades-long pursuit of using our own immune system to combat cancer. I was diagnosed with Stage 4 melanoma in early 2017, and I have been cancer-free for almost five years. Thank you, Jim.
Looks like the Japanese did a great job in rebuilding Tokyo, and the country as a whole, after WWII. “Boys, be ambitious!” actually worked. They had one of the world’s great cultures to build from.

However

“It’s possible to have a liveable city at any scale—Tokyo proves that” could be challenged.

It’s certainly true for some values of “livable”, and may be possible if you are working within an old, well-established, stable, sustainable culture, like the island culture of Japan. Let’s see how that works in, say, Africa.

But some folks wouldn’t define any city “livable” that denies many/most of their residents a reasonable plot (maybe 100 sq m) of open land to go with their non-rabbit-hutch (200 sq m) personal housing. Privately held land…tragedy of the commons and all that.

Any high-density city seems like a devolutionary step from the lifestyles of our nomadic and pastoral ancestors who had such land (and whatever housing size they chose within their practical time and resource limits) as their birthright…
Hacking human psychology for money is really important, and it makes a difference in people’s life’s whether you can do it or not. That’s essentially it, we do agree, but fundamentally you think there’s something “wrong” with this. Artists don’t make millions of dollars generally so them making more money is good enough for me.
Nand2Tetris opened up a world for me. Searching for it on HN, I also found these books (three of them new to me):

* The Elements of Computing Systems [1]
* Understanding Computation: From Simple Machines to Impossible Programs [2]
* Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective [3]
* Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software [4]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26036790

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26040203

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26040101

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26038506
look at the activitypub ecosystem then, where no one needs permission to become a participant, and vc's refuse to even acknowledge its existence.

https://git.feneas.org/feneas/fediverse/-/wikis/watchlist-fo...
> How do you pronounce Wuhan? Do you start with you lips closed or can you do it with your mouth open?

I don't understand this question. The only sounds you can make by closing your lips are P, B, and M.
I don't pretend to be unaware of that. I think it's a separate problem.

Like, okay, we say that anyone improperly imprisoned is being forced into labor.

What about everyone else? The argument above was that it clearly is forced labor, even when your sentence is completely valid. I disagree with that.

> US citizens are not uniquely criminal, but US incarceration rate is by far highest in the world. You don't get there justly.

It's a mix of things. Even if you fixed all the bias in the system, you could still have a high incarceration rate with harsh but not inherently unjust laws.
Flame Triode with Gain
> storing and protecting waste that lasts 20,000 years

Earth core contains gazilions of spent nuclear fuel. Just burying spent nuclear fuel would not make anything worse.

But it is suboptimal, because spent nuclear fuel can be used in the future reactors.

I don't understand why people repeat this statement about spent fuel again and again why there's no problem.
It is censorship, though. Not government censorship, but don't you think that one day in the future, once these non-government censorship systems are in place, that a corrupt or evil government could abuse those systems and make them defacto government censorship systems (we're already partway down the slope with things like CSAM and copyright monitoring, although the former is especially heinous and so censorship of that type of content is desired).

Not every provider of user-generated content should have to abide by these rules, because the damage that can be done by a relatively small forum or website is usually minimal (although see sites like Kiwi Farms that may not technically directly encourage harassment but where it is nonetheless often perpetrated by sadistic individuals who participate in their forums), whereas the damage that can be done by a Facebook or a Google is much, much greater.
Not a hobby but I decided to study religious texts from all Abraham religions (Islam, Judaism and Christianity) as well as Dharmic ones. Why? Because as an Atheist I've always been curious about this but never worked up the stamina to actually do a deep dive until now.

So far the it has been a net positive in my life. It has broadened my understanding of art, philosophy and history and I have also met a lot of interesting people and have grown my network significantly.

I started reaching out to religious organizations in my local community and everyone welcomed me as an outsider and answered all my questions politely. It would have been even better without the COVID restrictions as the in person activities are limited but I can't complain..

I don't think I will completely "settle" on a specific religion but I can confidently say that my views on spirituality and religion has massively shifted as a result of this journey.
Your elevator stops at next floor and doors open.

You grab your child practicing their walking skills on a dangerous edge.

I just get up and stand in a doorway away from the unsecured bookshelves.
> The note-taking apps are good enough. Even pen and paper is good enough.

It works for me too! I have a working piece of paper that I jot down notes on, plus whatever I need to do. If the "to do" is "long-term" enough, I have a lined A4 piece of paper for this purpose. I add it to the list.

For note-taking, I write stuff down in my "lab book", or on my personal website. Easy.

It's like the time I cobbled together a couple of ESP32's to act as an alarm system. The problem is, the Wifi was a bit marginal, and Wifi is always subject to drops anyway. My dad's solution: use a whistle.
I agree with the title and disagree with the article.

I was hoping the article was going to talk about how much advice comes from survivorship bias and people's general inability to see the difference between cause and correlation of what they are recommending and true effect. On this subject, I could rant.

As others have pointed, "non-obvious advice" doesn't inherently have any reason it's better. The vast majority of people I know who struggle with problems aren't struggling because they haven't been told helpful advice, it's because of some combination of lack of conviction of the advice, lack of discipline, and in some cases (as the author points out) is hard to discover how to take the advice . (While advice that lays out clear actionability is good advice, I don't think that advice that is more general is bad advice.)

Take diet. I think you'd be hard pressed to find people who said salads were unhealthy. I believe most know that they would lead to less heart problems in the US, they are cheaper, and would help lose weight.

The more I have gone into philosophy and that path of many successful people, most of them have taken to simplifying everything they do. It's said that only masters can truly simplify. It's the amateur who overly complicates. But I digress; I firmly believe that obvious advice is often the most useful. Personally and professionally, most of the problems with advice that arise is that it wasn't followed, not that it needed to be non-obvious.
“Hacking human psychology of money” But that’s exactly what it is. It is revolutionary for the people who couldn’t do it before.
There wasn’t omicron then
> steer clear of eth entirely and just stick to learning about bitcoin

Although even that isn't so clear cut - you have to educate/warn about Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin SV, and so on.
Doesn't that make Twitter the central authority providing the trust framework required for it to work?
Yes. It's important to analyze why the person giving the advice is suggesting a particular course of action.

If it's face to face, after I ask for advice, I always follow up with "Why?"
Beware the Elf on the Shelf, privacy watchdogs warn
> Have you ever heard of common consumer grade computer equipment regularly dying from it?

You have outed yourself as someone with zero experience operating computers, either individually or at scale. Computers have moving parts, whether fans or hard disk drives. Just because those were moving doesn't mean they will begin moving again from a dead stop. There are also things like dead cmos/nvram batteries that can prevent machines from automatically starting when power is applied.
Has anyone figured out how to do a neural network with backpropagation all in analog hardware? That would be fascinating.
>Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. This may be done on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient". Censorship can be conducted by governments, private institutions and other controlling bodies. Governments and private organizations may engage in censorship.

There is nothing that presupposes that the entity has the obligation to carry your message. Just that the entity removes your message on the grounds that they do not like the material.

This comes up every time someone mentions that X(a private party) censors something. Yes, X is not the government. Yes, it is still censorship. If undertaken by the entity on it's own, it may not be illegal. If the entity had government influence in it's decision, than it may be.

There are some here that argue that the status quo is fine and others that argue that we need to change our laws and regulations to protect individuals from more privet enterprise censorship. That is where the debate is, not whether or not censorship exists.
Enhorabuena!
I'm not really sure where you're going with this.

Mastodon is a federated system, so there is no _they_. You can choose not to federate with groups/nodes you don't want, but its basically invite your village type of model. Pro-LGTBQ+ groups don't have to fediate with neonazi groups, if they don't want to.
Sure, then show me an open market where this was being done before at scale ?
> Apple shouldn't have to be a proxy for those services

With health insurance being tied to your employment in the US (unless you're poor or elderly), how could Apple not? The system is designed that way.
Blockchains
Robocopy uses /mt 8 by default.
> Twitter's developer API followed a typical pattern: do anything you can to get traction for your platform. This includes being "open" to encourage developers to build stuff on your platform. Then, when you don't need them anymore, ditch them.

From my recollections.. Twitter was a company that had a user base, but no plans or strategy to become actually profitable off that base. They, like many companies at the time, seemed to assume that if you just build the big "next generation open platform" that money would just start falling from the sky... somehow.

Ultimately, the red line meets the black line, and you have to turn to VCs who push you into the most obvious solution: Shut down all the "open platform" dead weight and start pushing advertising.

I don't think these are intentional moves but rather the natural consequence of certain types of silicon valley business "plans."
Almost no one claims that IQ tests are invalid, they really do estimate g, very strongly correlated with IQ. What is often being questioned is the strength of correlation between scores and life outcomes. And of course there’s the incendiary nature vs nurture debate.
U.S. SEC rejects Valkyrie, Kryptoin Bitcoin trusts
And they, of course, know it's a numbers game. Why suffer all the failure and risk never having another hit when you can let others do it for you?
I used to use this back when I mained Windows. Ever since moving primarily to Linux, and getting familiar with Emacs, Calc mode simply beats every calculator I've ever used in total functionality. However, there are certain cases where I also like to use https://insect.sh if lots of units are involved.
And with PYTHONSTARTUP you can get creative.

I only use it to display numbers as hex and binary [1] but I'm sure it can be useful in many other ways.

[1]: https://github.com/L-P/dotfiles/blob/39ac8d5849a593ef1633ed8...
What else would you do with those cells? Keep them alive?

Our immune system is probably strong enough to whack most cancers before they become a macroscopic problem. Most hopeful treatments of today are in direction of engaging the immune system against cancer cells.

If I had to guess, the ultimate solution would be resolving immunosenescence. Our immune systems are getting worse over time, so the chance of a runaway malignity grows with age. But we might be able to prevent or reverse this loss of function.
That's exactly what this app from UC Berkeley does

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.berkeley.b...
What is the third choice between segregation and desegregation? Bell does not propose any kind of half-segregation or slow re-segregation. He literally just says desegregation was the wrong choice. Some binaries do exist.
Thanks for the correction. :)

And wow, you've been the maintainer for a very long time!

Thanks for your work. Imo Krita's design is a model for KDE productivity apps.
Not all treatments are equally profitable. I’m close colleagues with the cancer research dept here in Oxford and there’s more than a little cynicism about what types of pursuits get funding amongst grad students.

Diet change, for example, is generally undervalued I’m told.
2021 in Review – 2021 Trends Article Collection
That makes a big difference. It's almost like a Python 2 vs 3 situation. When I was using Foxy (2) last year, just about all of the material I found online was for 1 - and it doesn't work. It was the classic community shooting itself in the foot, and I sincerely hope that it has improved since then.
GM, Waymo, others join retreat from CES over rising Covid-19 cases
Perhaps this one is better? https://nationalpost.com/news/mp-mark-strahls-merry-christma...

You can find a link from his main website[0] to his instagram[1] and twitter[2] posts mentioning the issue, but given the context they're perhaps bad choices

[0]: https://www.markstrahl.com/new-page/
[1]: https://www.instagram.com/markstrahlmp/
[2]: https://twitter.com/markstrahl
Who says I have to buy an ARM SoC. I can always just check out and keep using second hand devices. Or something from Intel, if I need more power.

And to answer your question, two come to mind, NXP and Amlogic.
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