skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If those non-natives don't speak proper Dutch or with a heavy accent I could understand these parents, kids pick this up and it will influence their learning and future prospects negatively.

It's more complex. Learning in your native language has a strong effect in your ability to learn. For very intelligent kids this is no problem and may be actually good, but the aggregate effect is that non native kids will lag behind. Also immigrant parents tend to have lower education and worse jobs, with more demanding schedules and less time and energy to monitor closely their children and this also has a strong effect. A few inmigrant children is no problem at all but if there is a huge percentage then the academic level will drop. This will transform into just another force pushing segregation that will feed back the whole cycle.
Kazakhstan unrest: Blinken questions Russian troop deployment
Remove that second screen, centralize the keyboard, deck it out with tons of i/o and storage and cooling, then I may be interested.

Honestly, I wish Apple would bring back the 17 inch chassis with a 5k screen and tons of i/o etc. They could keep it super thing by virtue of its wideness I think and it would just rule.
The biggest problem is not the lack of a Unit test - which likely wouldn't have caught this problem anyways - but the fact they are using a "joke database".

Mongodb is good for your high-school app or prototype demos not for production SaaS that debits credit cards.
I had to mend a fence that was blown down in a storm just before Christmas, and needed some nails. I had to ask for help from an assistant in the hardware store just because there were so many different kinds. Nail manufacturers have not stopped innovating. I ended up buying "annular ring nails" that have ridges all the way down the shaft so they hold better.

Holding bits of wood together is a weirdly interesting area of tech.
The same comma typo bug could happen in C.

execl("/bin/sh", "/bin/sh", "-c"
"echo foo", (char *) NULL);

Here we get one "-cecho foo" argument passed to the shell instead of two, so it can't work.

Initializers are another example:

char *strArray[] = {
"how", "now"
"brown", "cow"
};

In non-variadic function and macro calls, you will most likely get an insufficient arguments error, unless another mistake compensates for that.
I wouldn't start a green field C++ project if I can help it[1], but if I had to I would probably go with the standard library with maybe as little boost as possible.

[1]: http://cliffle.com/blog/prefer-rust/
Looked it up.
I use it correctly, as do each of my kids and their friends. What's your point?
""Ghettos" are unavoidable, and much preferred over homelessness."

The former doesn't have to be endemic, and not the default option for the latter.
I am well aware of this. That doesn’t negate my point or the actual, correct usage of the word in non offensive fashion. There is a difference between “retarding” as is used here and calling someone ”retarded” as an insult. The difference seems to be lost on the perpetually offended.
This is deeply disconcerting, as I have also had an acute physical drop off recently, that I may have erroneously attributed to a bad covid vaccine reaction.

A couple questions:

It appears your arteries became blocked over a short time period, I don't understand the dynamics of heart blockages, but I'd figure this would be a gradual build up, leading to a gradual loss of athletic ability, if so, why did your symptoms present suddenly?

Another question: I thought heart stents were shown to be ineffective?

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02...
> Just some “jerk” handing you a vague diagram

Seriously ? ,
You look at docs provided by stuff like archiwiki, gentoowiki, man pages, tldr tools, whole bunch of other cool blogs helping you around with setting things up, entire web forums, matrix rooms, irc chats, mailing lists, and all sorts of other places to get help from.

And it is a jerk handing you a “vague” diagram?.

..... idk, if you can’t read a manual, then say so. A person doesn't become a jerk to provide you with one.

I understand linux/bsd variants of open source operating systems can be unviable/hard to use for people. Doesn't mean the builders become a jerk just because you cant match it to your usecase.
The "easy" way to do this is to write your application using whatever is included in a stable Linux distribution.

You get free, trivially applied security updates and a much lower chance of breakage. Optionally you can pay for support to have them fix problems in dependencies.

Granted, It'll be difficult with languages like Javascript where many popular dependencies aren't likely to be packaged.
The MaxMind datasets (even the free ones) come with an accuracy radius, which makes it abundantly clear that the location is not exact. The ipinfo response doesn't even include that.

You can't stop ignorant people from drawing wrong conclusions, but at least MaxMind made it harder for them to do so, as the article mentions:

> MaxMind has changed its default centre points to be in the middle of bodies of water.

I don't know how ipinfo default coordinates compare to that; I would hope that they've learned the same lesson.
I'm born in Bulgaria, We had plenty of Soviet are cars around up until early 2000's, so I'm very familiar with Lasa, Moskvitch, Tranbant and so on.

They are terrible cars. Some of their aspects, like being very basic is considered a plus by some people and that's about the only positive thing that can be said about these cars. The affordability for the Westerners came from the income difference, these cars were not affordable for for the locals as they had to save money for years to buy one.

Very bad, very unreliable, very inefficient, very uncomfortable cars can be popular only when they are extremely cheep or the only option.
Exit or sys exit kills the kernel, so for explorative programming in like spyder it is not that useful.
I think they mean you keep the URL and the content stays in the Internet Archive.

But it could also mean that the Internet Archive creates a special page, say, "Owned URLs", where they list a username owner for each URL that someone has payed for. If you wanted to trade your URL, the IA would get a small cut to modify the contents of that page with the new owner.

This is 1:1 equivalent to the proposed scheme, but cuts out the inefficient "mint NFT on Ethereum blockchain" step, replacing it with a simple database on the IA side.
It may be worth noting that all the crypto projects compete with each other and consider the others flawed, so it may be unfair to judge the whole sphere by some examples.

There are people who would say everything besides Bitcoin is a shitcoin atm. I personally am leaning towards that stance, although I wish the energy issue could be resolved.

I don't see why NFTs could not simply be "colored coins" on the Bitcoin blockchain?

As for people running servers, I think what matters is the option to run a server if you want to. In EMail most use servers by the big players, but people can also run their own servers.

It reminds me a bit of the counterargument to open source, that "nobody reads the code" - no, but some people can read the code, and if they would find something fishy, they would announce it to the world and hopefully even the nocoder users would be informed. It is still about trust, but people have a choice whom to trust.
> Instead of being hidden you can see how things work, sometimes you might even need to fix them

Well, using proprietary system as a child made me a reverse engineer instead :P
If your only solution is clunky, then sure, maybe NFT's are worthless as a distributed asset, if you can even call most of them that at this point.

But you're solution is bad, that's why no one does it. A much better solution is to use a decentralized file hosting protocol and store your base NFT file on it. These protocols are free to prune illegal data should their government force them to, but are economically motivated not to. With enough redundancy, (and if you're NFT is so valuable you'll keep a local copy) this isn't a problem.
This was exactly the topic I came here to talk about. These nails were primarily used in Australia till the 60's and then abruptly switched (for whatever reason). I can't tell if the study of the price of nails accurately compares the same nail type.
Yes. Arguably the more important societal benefit to learn in school is the soft skills of sociability, teamwork, and things in that class.

We certainly need the doctors and engineers of tomorrow, but they won't be very useful without healthy functioning societies in which can exercise these skills.

We also need a bunch of artisanal non-knowledge workers and laborers and should stop pretending those are inferior careers. A hard working, say, trashman is just as dignified as any other profession and if that's in someone's future, then we should make sure they can take and do the job with pride.
No you're not - it could be stored in multiple places. It's, a hash, not a URL, and if it's a properly constructed hash it would hard or impossible to fake. The content on server other than internet archive would have the same hash.
I can’t say much about the KDE experience on Debian, but Debian with Gnome was my daily driver for many years and I didn’t have much trouble with it. I’m on more exotic distros as of late, but if something happens, I always have Debian to fall back on. My only problem with the Debian lineage is it holds me back on older software versions and their unstable is … unstable as advertised, haha.
It's interesting that we have procedural languages that enforce strict whitespace conventions, ostensibly to improve readability and eliminate common sources of errors, but none that require the use of parentheses in complex expressions.

When someone I work with writes something like that example:

if (a==b & c==d)

... I tend to (want to) lose it.

I have decades of continuous C/C++ experience and I have no earthly idea what the relative precedence of & and == is. Don't know, don't care. Use parentheses whenever it looks even remotely like they'll help clarify the expression. They're free. (Floating-point precision shenanigans aside.)
You're trying to convince the wrong person. Linus Torvalds is the one you should start from.
Do you think Excel will gain tighter integrations with scripting? I read about Excel getting better scripting support but I forgot what all that entailed and what languages were supported.

Thanks for your perspective, by the way. I don’t use Excel much for higher order stuff, but I want to progress past pivot tables.
> I see this repeated a lot but it's just not accurate. E-mail was invented within like 2 years of the internet and immediately allowed universities to exchange messages with one another.

This is untrue. Look at my answer here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29847559 .
This is cancer, right?
This solves the problem while creating a new (big) one: make this decentralized and immutable file storage work.
I thought we were talking about the problem of someone pulling the rug out from under you by changing the content at a URL. The hash solves the problem, but what you are talking about is an entirely different subject, and a problem which all NFTs suffer. Or not a problem, but just a general property of NFTs and crypto as well. The network effect is extremely important with blockchains. You could also fork BTC right now and claim you own everything on the chain. Doesn't mean people will honor it.
> Glucose good in reasonable intake

> Sucrose (i.e. table sugar) is 50% Glucose and Fructose

> Frutose is bad.

So would substituting sugars with Dextrose powder (i.e. 100% Glucose) make sense? Dexterose powder is widely available and isn't expensive.
Some of these are great (htop) but I don't understand the purpose of cat with syntax highlighting. It just seems wrong to me.
If you use it to insult and offend, is that allowed or met with pitchforks in the US? Where I live there are many Irish, Scottisch and non native English, people use it all the time; to describe slow people and to offend. No one cares (even if they are the ones being offended). But when one of the Irish guys used it to offend a US couple who were vocal flatearthers, because they were flatearthers. Wow, that turned I a huge shouting match. Of course they left as, again, no-one here cares so they shouted and made a big stink but everyone was, eh yeah, whatever. In that case I am not sure if they were offended because of the use and connotations of the specific word (aka if he called them dumb, stupid, slow, backward etc they would have responded differently) or they were just offended. I think the latter and they used the woke thing as an excuse. But maybe that is not true: couldn't ask them in that state but I was curious.
the existence of an obscure excel modeling competition is 100% hackernews content. if you're trying to get your work life balance, check out the reddit home page instead
If they can verify that, how much does the blockchain add then?
Perhaps use a short random string or hash instead which is a reference to the saved state? This is preferable for a few reasons.
There simply are numerous hard problems to solve to make this all work at greater scale. In a healthy ecosystem like Ethereum's, there are frequent research discoveries (discovery of the concept of data availability, the application of BLS signature aggregation, proposer-builder separation, zkevm, data availability sampling, ...). The software engineering effort required to implement such research is colossal as well.

Ok, so there is a massive amount of effort to be put forth to
get something out of this, and even then it is still kind of up in the
air what that "something" actually is.

Would it not be prudent to have at least some sort of roughly sketched
map of what all this effort is supposed to bring about? other than
Lambos...

Or maybe ask if we would be better served if all that effort was put
forth in some other direction? Man hours are not a limitless resource.
You might be interested in Sevish. Their music is entirely written in nonstandard tunings (22EDO, various rational tunings, 5EDO, etc).
"All the while, nothing ever actually seems to get fixed."

Meanwhile, Bitcoin just works, and it is fairly easy to understand.

Every once in a while I try to get excited about Ethereum. They really do seem to think about a lot of interesting things and try to address them. But at the end of the day, it all just seems way too complex.

As for NFTs, I think they could just be colored coins on the Bitcoin Blockchain, which would also be easy to understand.
> In regions with unstable governments you cannot rely on the government to keep saying that your house is your house.

You can say it's your house all you want, but if the new regime sends soldiers to evict you, no amount of evidence that it belongs to you is going to help you.
You open another private account and invest in stocks again.
> In your Rolex example, I believe that there would be no way of person A selling their Rolex (and digital rights of the Rolex) without notifying Rolex and Rolex having to keep track of transaction.

What does "digital rights of the Rolex" mean? Also, why is it harder to notify Rolex of this transaction than it is to notify some blockchain?
This one has some closer views of some of the forming operations: https://youtu.be/CUTTmtLKD2g
I work in the lab of the author of this study. I can tell you that this was also a concern of the high school students; they were given a questionnaire about when THEY would like to start school, and they only wanted to shift start times by about half an hour for this very reason, and were concerned about when to compensate for the time, preferring shorter breaks than ending later. Fortunately for them, Swiss high school schedules are crazy with lots of big gaps, so improvements can be made to start times before sacrificing end times.
I wonder how this works out from a legal perspective. It seems like an NFT is a contract, that never expires, to host content at a URL. Can a buyer sue the seller if the seller shuts down the serving of that image? Otherwise an NFT is just a signed URL string.
Moxie makes so many good critiques (some are so subtle, it might be worth a second read). I got the sense he’s trying very hard to be even handed and constructive about a situation he feels pretty badly about, but his true feelings are bleeding through in some of the side points / parentheticals.

One point that I disagree with is his almost axiomatic premise that decentralization is an inherent good and the implication that the Internet went wrong because it failed to stay decentralized. To hint at great cryptography as the solution, as he does im his conclusion, is baked deep in his bones as an amazing cryptographer, but I think he’s prescribing the wrong cure. The problems with the Internet are fundamentally not about decentralization - they’re about trust. It’s a people problem, not a technology problem. Because of this, cryptography (I do not mean crypto) simply cannot be the answer - even the best cryptography is, like a great legal system, only capable of dramatically reducing the overhead costs and risk of operating in a given environment. When it comes to what great cryptography can achieve, I think HTTPS and maybe some E2E stuff that’s happening with Signal is as good as it can get (interestingly, HTTPS is good in large part thanks to Moxie) - it cannot bring us back to some golden Internet age.
> This type of library API breaking change on a minor version update basically never happens.

Literally happens all the time with Rails. To the point they decided to call their versioning schema “shifted semver” to afford themselves API changes on minor versions: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/maintenance_policy.html

Good luck if you are using Rails and ecosystem and you expect any sort of sensible versioning.
Oh yes, 4 of them. Windows, macos, android, and ios only have a handful of cuts in my experience. I'm not saying that's entirely linux's fault or anything. It's just that desktop linux has a market share of around 1% (depending on your source) and even that's fragmented across several distros. Hardly anyone tests their software or hardware on linux, let alone the distro you happen to use.

Some of the problems I listed used to be an issue on other OSs. For example Android used to have ridiculous audio latency on the order of 400ms, but a few years ago Google got their shit together and fixed that: https://source.android.com/devices/audio/latency/measurement...

The same can't be said for desktop linux. I don't think any of the distros even have a device farm for end-to-end latency measurements. The other 4 OSs have extensive testing and the devs care about user metrics.
> Western culture has taken over the world. People from all corners of the globe wear western clothes, listen to western music, watch western TV, talk about western current events, speak western languages and practice western religions. Not all, of course, but western culture is more dominant than any other. The place for white Europeans to practice their culture is called Earth.

Couldn't agree more.

I see this appeal to the early common roots of western culture as a point of union and positivity.

Sadly I think the mentality of division and protagonism, as opposed to the western value of individualism, has poisoned the well of our culture and people are much more susceptible to react taking offence that their micro-tribe isn't represented in full HD.

There is value in seeing the world painted in a broad spectrum of strokes and observing the patterns that emerge from different perspectives, but this requires tolerance and curiosity.
> At the same time, I think there are demographics in this country that are more likely to abuse the system or display behavior that make one a little more suspicious of them in principle.

i want to gently point out, without implying intention, that this is, in it's self, a racist belief
Well I imagine opensea at least prevents url collisions on their own service, but yes as the article demonstrates someone could sell the same url on several services while changing what that url points to whenever they like. I think most of the time the url points to the marketplace itself though?

So I suppose it is more accurate to say they own that particular citation of the url embedded in the blockchain, for certain values of own.
The song “I want it that way” comes to mind, the song topped many charts including in the US, and the lyrics are very strange upon reflection. What does “I never wanna hear you say. I want it that way.” mean exactly? Apparently the Swedish songwriter barely spoke any English at all at the time.
> This is trivially solved by including a hash of the object in the ownership certificate.

This doesn’t fix any issue. If the URL changes, your NFT is worth nothing and you have no way to get the object back.
Do you find the term "fire retardant" offensive?
I think this speaks to how when learning a concept, just having it framed in the right way can really help.

I’d heard of the Ferber method before and we tried it a bit to no success. But just hearing the same idea framed as “the parent checking back in regular like a metronome”, rather than “the baby needs to learn to self settle” just clicked in my head.

Thanks for the tips, will keep trying this and see if it sorts out the late night wakes too.
Awesome, thanks for sharing!

Would love to see some battle progress, watch the SLAs crumble. Oh and a way to starve a node of CPU, but then it would become more like a strategy game I guess.

[edit: forgot to thank you in my enthusiasm]
“A confession” was written when Tolstoy was in his early fifties, not when he was 18.
> Can you please cite examples? I've never seen any software do that.

With `gpg --verify` you can specify which file descriptor you want it to output to. I've previously used it to ensure a file is verified by a key that is trusted ultimate. Something that otherwise requires outputting to a file.

Something like this:

tmpfifo="$(mktemp -u -t gpgverify.XXXXXXXXX)"
gpg --status-fd 3 --batch --verify "$sigFile" "$file" 3>"$tmpfifo"
grep -Eq '^\[GNUPG:] TRUST_(ULTIMATE|FULLY)' "$tmpfifo" || exit 1

GPG also has `--passphrase-fd`. Possibly other option too.
This is the kind of garbage that pushes me towards libertarianism as the years progress. What's the point of electing democrats if their main concern is putting more onerous paperwork on the lower classes while the elite still make only laws that are to their benefit. I personally think we have a right not to be monitored in everything we do, and we are assumed to be criminals and have to file paperwork to proved that we aren't. It's getting entirely ridiculous.
I played around with the login flow of Visual Studio some time ago and it didnt seem to pin certificates so a simple mitmproxy plugin should help avoid logging in.

Never got around to making it though so there might be some pitfalls.
You played yourself.
The opinion: "they get social benefits, but the least they can do is respect our culture" is racist?

What's the problem with learning our native language if you want to live here and become Belgian for example?
I'm 35 and have been thinking about this a lot.

I start working on something and soon there after there is a constant stream of ideas and improvements that I could act on but aren't necessary right now. I write all these ideas down to get them out of my head but sometimes this process has a cascading effect and I find myself three layers deep into something very stimulating and interesting but it is not really what I think I should be doing. This takes up time.

I've never considered this to be unnatural or something everybody isn't struggling with but I recently started to think that maybe I need to calm my mind somehow and maybe there's useful medication for that.

Any experience on this is much appreciated.