skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What is fundamentally wrong with the current system, I honestly want to know?

Consider all those works that are in the public domain and that can be shared freely. Iconic pictures like the Mona Lisa are available to the benefit of everyone. No one owns the exclusive rights and everyone has access to this shared cultural history.

There's also collateral damage with the current copyright system. A lot of lesser known works have little commercial/brand value. But they remain illegal to share. These works are at risk of becoming lost culture. And in many cases the original authors don't own the rights to release the works into the public domain at an earlier time, because they have contracts with publishers.
if the space is here to stay so is the token price, in fact we haven't even begun seeing the gains as almost no one is in this field yet.
I wish they removed trigraphs. They are removed from C++ since C++17. I hope they do that in a future C standard as well. Currently I switch to std=gnuXX in GCC solely for this reason (and sometimes to get access to some POSIX headers).
Would you be more likely to use something like the escrow system described above? Or is there an alternative mechanism that you'd be more interested in?
hey there, i've left a github issue / feature request.

Column UI would be awesome
> The current (very high) price of 1.5 SEK/kWh

The average December price was around 2 SEK/kWh in southern Sweden, which after net fees/tax/vat is around 3 SEK/kWh for home charging. Assuming a charging efficiency of 85%, and Tesla given range numbers are accurate, that should give around 6 SEK/10Km. But actual range should decrease in winter weather.

> A good diesel car needs maybe 0.7 liters per 10 Km

An efficient diesel is around 0.5l/10Km depending on driving style. So it's close to parity with electric at the moment.
Ask HN: How do you find an App you need?
I need a simple App, so I go to a search engine and type "app question and answer note-taking". These are the results I got:

- The Best Note-Taking Apps For Writers (2021): A Roundup

- 10 Best Note Taking Apps (With Alternatives...)

- The best note-taking apps for students

- 3 next-level note-taking apps that'll change the way you work

and on, and on...

Where are the actual Apps???? I don't want to read about the best, or the "10 best", or whatever generic list prepared for SEO. I want to see a list of the Apps that satisfy the criteria.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong. How do you find an App you need?
For movies and music, see Insta.
Python's int() truncates towards 0, but (at least in Python 3, I don't know if it was always the same in older versions) its division operator always floors, so -7 // 2 gives -4 even though int(-3.5) is 3. (The int() function is best thought of as just "make this float into an integer, I don't really care how"; if you want to be more specific, you have math.floor(), math.ceil() and math.trunc(), and you also have round(), which rounds towards the closest integer; if the float is evenly between the two integers, it goes towards 0 when the integer part is even and away from 0 when the integer part is odd.)
It's already the case, check https://app.electricitymap.org/ and look at the hydro storage on the left. Usually it stores energy during the night (a least in France last night).
> To be able to backtrack the data to a person, there was always going to be a need to go through the watchdog.

The assumption in the deanonymization literature is that this data is unavailable. So no, you don‘t need to go through any watchdog.
Unless someone is actually called Hello World. Or perhaps Bobby Tables. ;)
I pay quite a bit more than $60 for the VPS, but the point is that I'm paying for a lot more than simple photo storage. $60 a year is a lot just to store my photos.
Take payment in crypto. Something like BCH if you want to minimize network fees. Programmatically move your funds to an exchange and convert to USD using your exchange’s API if you don’t want to hold crypto.

Easy weekend project.
Yeah. It's "the ternary operator" the way John Carmack is "the author of the tweet we're discussing". It's a correct description, but it's not his name.
I can remember in the late 90s it would take about 20 minutes to download a 3mb MP3 file. My employer’s homepage is now about 8mb, according to the browser dev tools.

> I don't want to just blindly blame JS.

JS is a tool, a language. Don’t blame the tools as they have been refined to an astounding degree over the last 25 years. As a long time front end developer blame the business, specifically:

* Developer incompetence. Do you really need the largest frameworks humanity has written and a million dependencies to put a couple lines of text on the page? Yes. Well, no, but most developers will claim otherwise and most businesses will refuse to hire those who are so capable.

* Stalking. Analytics code is a silent performance killer and generally responsible for a lot of JS on many commercial websites. This wonderful stuff allows for session tracking via advertisements across various websites and at times serves as a point of malicious intent by both valid business interests and criminal organizations.
I remember this page from geocites... Opend my eye about some ugly aspects of OOP. But, without proper marketing and without some luck a lot of ideas should be rediscovered again and again.
And maybe the table oriented programming ideas are too common sense and therefore not a good kind of diferentatior compared with other smart ppl...
France threatened to cut the power to Jersey a few weeks ago, Ukraine faced its own threats from Russia, so I will still look at something as strategic as electricity production along borders. Cross border electricity grids are all good until there is a conflict or a major shortage (remember what happened to EU cooperation on PPE in early 2020 when EU countries were seizing PPE crossing their borders).
What would be the use case of AV software needing to perform remote code injection?
vocabulary.com is pretty nice in its more casual, chatty approach.
Soma, in Brave New World, made you more passive (as well as happier). Curing/alleviating depression makes you more active. It gives more meaning to life, not less.
If BTC is your idea of a failure, being the catalyst for a +2 trillion dollar industry, then i guess failure isnt bad at all. Again you are just claiming things ignoring everything else. Lifes too short for haters. good luck
Apple puts Foxconn India plant on probation after protests
Why should it be easier for first timers to use Arch ? It does require to know a lot, so if those people are going to pick Arch first they will be spending hours and hours reading all the needed resources. And no, this is not optional: to use Arch, you're supposed to know how all the parts work. If not, many other distributions will be perfect for you.
Even without sample size having these aggregated results makes it very easy to predict who picked what with a modicum of extra information. (Even silly binned personality type.)
I think you are confusing thermonuclear with fission. Thermonuclear means fusion. The first case you mention, the sun, is indeed thermonuclear.

However reactors are on earth not thermonuclear, they are regular fission. Fusion may be on the near or far horizon, depending on who you ask, but we certainly don’t have that ability yet.
I disagree with the definition of “real” here. If we fully automate the production, would that suddenly make all the work “abstract”? Or would developers working on automation be the only ones doing “real” work?

If yes, then modern jobs of US-based policy makers who write organizational scripts are also “real”, because they basically define exact same thing, only for people-based systems overseas instead of fully automated systems.
Some of the scripts need to be placed in the head section of the document which is a blocking operation.

Some of the ads are generated on the run based on that tracking data and it involves many, many http round-trips before it's injected via ajax.
Further, comment sections have some sort of fb tracking integration, triggering even more round trips.

And all that is separately loaded on a non optimized website layer with many externa JavaScript frameworks and dependencies.As well as injected video components, huge images which most likely aren't optimized. Lazy loading should be native now, no jQuery function needed, no intersection observer either, and it does work ok, but it's often not properly implemented or not at all.

As for react, the stripped shadow Dom might be faster then the native Dom, but you still need the Dom and react is still a heavy load. I remember the days when people said don't needlessly load jQuery. Today, people use react when there's no real need to do so.
I found that I need to regularly restart Chrome due to how it will start behaving worse and worse in handling input events...
Oh yeah I apparently missed the suing / negotiation effort.
Yes they had to, in case the person giving the data had opted for being notified about some severe medical condition or other revelations that would show up during the analysis process. For those cases, these mappings were kept around, and did require going through the watchdog.
> a country thousands of miles away had a temporary foothold on Chinese territory

To effectively argue that "Hong Kong is of course part of China because it's right next to it on the map" opens the gates to all kinds of jingoism. Just for the record, to me the Falkland war was a war between two imperialist countries. Contrary to what was popular belief among my peers back in the day, I did not and do not think Argentina has more rights to the Falklands than the UK just because it's "right next to it" and not "thousands of miles away" like the UK.

China is always adamant that this or that region is "a natural part of China". For some reason people have to come to accept the state of affairs regarding Xinjiang, Tibet, the Spratly Islands. If they don't change their minds then there will be no stopping the fascist juggernaut. Mongolia, parts of northern India, Taiwan and Vietnam are to China what Belgium, Poland and so on were to the Germans in 1939.
Burning waste for electricity makes financial/carbon/environmental sense until you have eliminated all fossil fuels from your grid.

Denmark has had a reduction in carbon intensity per GDP similar to the EU average, which has brought them close to France and Sweden, who've been low for a while but haven't improved as much over recent times as say Germany.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PP.GD?end=2...
There's barely a case for AV software existing at all. It's the root cause for all kinds of impossible to track bugs and performance regressions.
I could be wrong here, but “Thousand Currents” does not seem to be an alias for “BLM.”
Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC”
I keep seeing hints of this strange model of the soul, I don't quite understand it, but it's like people are describing themselves as being multiple people.

There's the them that wants things, and the them that does things, as separate entities. The "wanter" is only briefly able to wrest control over what the "doer" does, mostly the "doer" has its own will which is not what the "wanter" wants, but something else.

Surely we're just one person. If someone wants something, it's they that want it, if someone does something, it's they that do it; but having this model of being multiple people allows them to completely disown their actions as the actions of someone else, as stuff that just happens to them, which in turn reinforces the narrative of not being in control.
Not GP and not even sure I agree with them.

However I think there's some semantic issues with "chemical imbalance" that are worthy of examination. Depending on your basic philosophical views regarding materialism and the origin of consciousness, you might be of the view that all mental states are the result of brain states. This is a reasonable view. Considering what we know about brain function and the rather broad meaning of the words "chemical" and "imbalance" arguably all brain states are the result of "chemical imbalance" of some kind.

(I know the brain is also an electrical system but the electrical pathways are deeply entwined with the chemical ones)
Exactly, if you want your aluminium extrusion immediately during high electricity prices you pay a premium, or wait for lower prices. Industry will just have to adapt to the new normal.
Perhaps we'll need Terafactories soon.
That depends on the encoding, does it not? The binary sequence equal to ASCII "Hello world" might well be PII with many different encodings. By accident, of course, but nevertheless 33 bits of information would be enough.
Has pinouts.ru gone down? Doesn't seem to be.
Most of the above? Surely you are aware of this.
Let me repeat what I've said before. The solution is not to regulate the big social media companies. It is to split them up and require them to implement an api so people can aggregate different companies of their choosing.
Your arguments, much like your head, are full of hot air.
It's like, surely you can "scale down" an electric smelter.
Only that would mean almost rebuilding the furnaces afterwards.

And it's sort of "simple" for the iron smelters.

Try to shut down an aluminium smelter at an hour's notice.
I'm not sure if it wouldn't be cheaper to build a completely new facility afterwards.
1. Don't have NULL at all

2. Have sum types

3. Have several useful kinds of them (like Option and Result)

4. Allow people to make their own to serve their specific scenario

Basically Rust, Haskell, OCaml.
Do you get paid to write these fluff pieces?
> If your therapist isn't helping, find a new one.

This has been my experience as well, both personally and through friends.

An important point is that a therapist which works for someone might not work for you, it's rather personal.
There is GSConnect Gnome/KDE extension:

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1319/gsconnect/

I had issues with it, but may work for you.
I actually work in a table oriented language, harbour, a child of clipper/xBase mentioned in the article. There are a few issues I've found with a table oriented architecture:

1. Managing state is a bit of a nightmare. Harbour is based off of DBF databases, which are essentially flat files of a 2d array, and keeps your record number within any given db. You can then query a field with the arrow operator (table->field) but you have no guarantee that any subfunction is not changing state.

2. DBMS lock in. Because you're operating is totally different paradigm moving dbs is actually rather challenging. Harbour has a really nice system of replaceable database drivers(rdd), but when your code is all written assuming movement in a flat file, switching to a SQL based system is challenging. I'm currently in the process of writing a rdd to switch us to postgres, but translating the logic of holding state to the paradigm of gathering data then operating on it in an established code base is quite a challenge.
The UK is not reliant on Russian gas. Most imports come from Norway. And we have an active program to build new nuclear power stations to replace those at end of life.

Also, the UK currently has 20GW of battery storage in the pipeline. It starts quickly and is even being designed for frequency response providing full load within 1 second. That is very useful in dealing with nuclear or grid failures.
Those quotes give a much better sense of the word's current usage than either dictionary definition, I think. Myself, I find this usage of "facile" grating, preferring Webster's definition, but that's because I spend a lot of time reading Spanish, French, and books from before 01900; Eliot's quote can be plausibly interpreted either way, perhaps showing how the shift began.
It sounds a lot like Japanese corpo-speak.
> Or at least it lets lens makers delivery the same image quality with smaller and cheaper components, thus increasing image quality for the same price.

This is the correct interpretation, by removing parts it's now possible to reallocate the money (and R&D) to cheaper but more effective sensors and lenses.
Find a local butcher who wraps in paper? That paper coating may be plastic, though, unless they use waxed. Veggies are often loose at eg Whole Foods. You can get your milk in glass bottles pretty easily.

It’s likely easier in Europe, but it’s feasible in at least some parts of the US, depending on where you live.

It takes paying attention, but once you adjust your habits, it gets a bit easier.

You can probably get a lot of mileage out of just not heating your food in contact with plastic. You’re not going to eliminate all exposure, probably want to focus on the likely highest impact parts.
Well deserved as well. They are really nice cars!
> Copyright holders should declare the value of their copyright, and have to pay an escalating fee based on that value (1% per year for the first 10 years, 2% per year for the next 10 years etc) as a tax.

I hope this doesn’t come as a surprise but copyright holders do in fact declare the amount of money generated on their copyright and pay taxes on it annually, it’s called…taxes and it’s usually going to be a minimum of 10x all the way up to 40x your suggested rate.

Realistically for a company like Disney to pay $150M/year on Star Wars would be a joke and drop in the bucket compared to the amount of taxes attributable to Star Wars annually. All this would do is benefit big business that brush off those extra costs and harm new properties that couldn’t afford these taxes to protect their copyrights.
Of course there are other ways to meaningfully own the digital artwork, you listed some in your response:

You created the image. You own the copyright to the image (which has legal weight). You may restrict distribution or reproduction in those situations.

These are all more meaningfully ownership than owning a digital receipt on the blockchain pointing to a url on a 3rd party site, which is more akin to buying a star or a piece of the moon from somebody who sets up a website and purports to be selling these ineffable things.

I disagree with you about the point of NFTs, the point of them IMO is to provide cover for ponzi schemes and convince marks parting with their cash that they are buying into a get rich quick scheme in which they'll get rich and someone else will be left holding the bag when they sell their receipt for digital art to someone else.

The references to art markets, asset tracking, provenance, new technology etc etc are just indirection used to distract from the fundamental transaction - give me money (including really high transaction fees for the marketplace) for this worthless receipt which says you own* this digital lion pic, unique amongst thousands of other similar lion pics because it has a cigar or an eye patch. No wonder companies like Nike, Games companies and football clubs and are rushing to take part too and sell fans NFTs, they can't lose!

* For certain values of own not conferring any rights over the image whatsoever.
I remember reading this essay when it first came out. To try and reword it using modern terms: The author wishes that programming languages had database persistence capabilities as 1st-class built-in syntax instead of cumbersome bolted-on API functions.

Examples where database syntax (i.e. SQL syntax) is 1st-class without noisy syntax of function calls, without command strings in quotes, etc :

- business languages like COBOL

- programming languages in ERP systems like SAP ABAP, Oracle Financials

- stored procedural languages inside the RDBMS engine such as T-SQL in MS SQL Server, PL/SQL in Oracle, sp in MySQL

In the above, the "database" is the world the programming language is working in.

The more general purpose programming languages like C++, Java, Javascript, Python omit db manipulation as a core language feature. This 2nd-class status requires 3rd-party libs, which means have extra ceremony syntax of #includes, imports, function calls with parentheses, etc. Some try to reduce the cumbersome syntax friction with ORMs. In contrast with something like SAP ABAP, the so-called "ORM" is already built in to process data tables without any friction.

The author works a lot on CRUD apps so a language that has inherent db syntax would enable "Table-Oriented-Programming".

But we can also twist the author's thesis around. A programmer is coding in SAP ABAP or a stored-procedure in MySQL and wonders why raw memory access where contiguous blocks of RAM can be changed with pointers is not easy to code in those languages. So an essay is written about advantages of "pointer-oriented-programming" because direct memory writes are really convenient for frame buffers in video games, etc.

In any case, I don't see any trend where a general-purpose programming language will include DB SQL as 1st-class. Even the recent languages like Rust and Zig don't have basic SQLite3 db persistence as convenient built-in syntax. If anyone proposed to add such db syntax, they would most likely reject it.
It's a good question, and I don't like posting excessively long comments and didn't have time to make it concise, so here's an attempt at an answer:

https://pastebin.com/fsrTtiKY

I think science is too big a thing to have a small set of "core features", and the question of how to usefully define "honesty" in a scientific context is another big topic, but reading about "bullshit" (the term of art that has its own literature, not the colloquialism) is a good place to start thinking about it.

I would suggest that fraud is one of the rarest types of dishonesty, because people who are both smart and dishonest have less risky ways to proceed, and that such people are very glad fraud exists, because it misdirects attention away from their arguably more damaging and prevalent methods. Feynman has a passage about how honesty in science is more a state of mind, which I agree with. But really, the techniques to be dishonest with low risk are the same in science, journalism, politics, and business.

My field isn't sociology of science though; these are just views from the genomics trenches.
Crystal's interpreter – A special holiday present
Stripe and any number of the new fintech companies make card payments an absolute pleasure compared with the drama of getting merchant accounts, leasing a PDQ etc.

We run an SME (a boarding kennel, so nothing exactly cutting edge) and Square costs us 1.75% for cardholder present transactions. No minimum charge, cash is in the next working day, they do all the compliance so provided I don't do anything mental like taking pictures of payment cards, I'm sorted.

Obviously there's a higher cost for online processing and you could probably bring down the percentage cost if you shop around, but the ease of entry for card payments these days is absolutely astonishing.

The biggest problem with crypto is that you, as a business owner, want to make it as easy as possible for people to give you their money and crypto is a massive frction unless you're marketing to the tiny subset of people using it as a currency rather than a value store. It'd be a bit like accepting gold over the counter.
Another similar site is beeminder - pretty cool concept! There is more than enough room for similar sites.
The odds of Nordic countries fighting each other are astronomically low.

Russia was always profiting off Ukraine, while France and the UK have generally been at odds (yes, all those micro-states count as British as far as the French are concerned).

The situations you're presenting are not comparable.

And regarding PPE, yes, everyone was doing it initially but the rest of the crisis was handled together. If anything, I think the EU received extra powers to be able to handle similar crises in the future.
Beeminder[0] is another. I particularly like that they keep a list of competitors in this space[1] - active, up and coming, dormant or dead. OP, perhaps you could think about asking Beeminder to add you to their list :)

[0] https://www.beeminder.com/overview

[1] https://blog.beeminder.com/competitors/
That's great if you don't plan to sell anything.