skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel dumb(er) when typing, and smart(er) when writing
The number of times I was unable to find a solution to a problem when simply st
Is this something common? Has this been (dis)proved scientifically?
Worst in Show 2022 – The Repair Association
Google "ryczałt dla programisty". If you play your cards right in Poland you can get legally around ~10% tax total (this includes national insurance ~5% and IP Box 5% for programmers).
No, mjg59 is right - the operating system is a root of trust. Microsoft could push a Windows update that patches a messenger app in place for example. I probably shouldn't have brought up the "knowing what your peer is running" problem as it just confuses things.

There is plenty of progress to be made here without getting into the next layer of how do you trust your OS. Android is at any rate in a decent place because so many users don't get their OS bits from Google but rather, an intermediary, and it's very easy to change those intermediaries (it means buying a new phone but people do that all the time anyway).

Reproducible builds and audits are all very theoretical today. Reproducible builds on their own aren't actually useful because you're just comparing hashes: someone has to have actually read the source code, understood it, documented what it does or compared it to some natural language description, and they have to keep up with all the code changes, and they have to convince other people to trust their judgement. It's a lot of work and we don't have any companies that do this sort of thing today. The industry needs a network of auditing firms that specialize in this but it's a chicken-and-egg problem: there's no point creating such a firm when their outputs are so hard to use, and there's no point making their outputs easier to use when there are no auditors who would create them.
> The US was a colony to the UK.

Yes, and by that view, the USA is /still/ colonised by Europeans. The colonised Natives are not represented in any meaningful way.

> Singapore was some shanty island town that even Malaysia did NOT want to take in because how bad it was.

You can feel this way, but that does not justify the colonisation of Singapore by Europe. In fact, it begs the question as to why they would colonise such a “shanty town” if it wasn’t worth something to them.

> cannot become a prosperous nation without hard work

I’m not sure which fantasy you ascribe to that ignores how much hard manual labor the developing world’s people perform for the global economy. In fact, that is literally the basis of colonialism - to find able-bodied workers to enslave and resource-abundant regions to extract value from.

> and a predictable rule-of-law

I don’t know why you have such a negative impression of developing lands, to blame them for all their faults and claim they lack “rule of law” entirely. As if this is perfect in developed democracies, and the sole reason for their status.

> to blame "colonialism" is nothing but empty words that will help no one.

It is important to acknowledge history and not completely ignore it like you have. Regardless, you are right in that “blaming colonialism” helps no one - but that’s because colonisers don’t want to take the blame and fix things, but instead control the global playing field. This affects the poor classes of developing countries too, if you haven’t noticed.

Anyways, I get the feeling none of this will educate you, so probably not worth my time.
> And if your income is smaller than 710 BGN, even if it's straight zero, then you'll have to pay social security as if your income was 710 BGN

Is this really how it works? They're taxing people with 0 income? I guess it isn't relevant to the target audience of the article but it must suck for the unemployed.

> Accountant fees: about 150 - 200 BGN per month independently of the income.

This seems really high. Why do you need an accountant every month instead of once a year?
I was perfectly fine with the initial take - vaccine once or twice, side effects are rare.

Now that it's becoming vaccinate every six months, the outlook of the cumulative probability of side effects doesn't look that good anymore.

And, going trough an inflammatory process every six months doesn't seem good on its own, even if the vaccine wouldn't have side effect.
Other evidence suggests counter to your evidence.
I've done the job of redaction both manually and automatically. I don't think either will hit 100% accuracy, but the difference will be pretty negligible, but the automated method frees up 50 people for a year and gets the data out in a fraction of the time.
The supreme court justice Sotomayor just said last week that there's 100,000 CHILDREN IN HOSPITALS.

The misinformation has reached the highest levels.

We live in a continuous Onion article.

They lied about Covid have also been lying about inflation.

And we're about to pay the price.
I would go even a step further, and expose them to industry through collaborations as much as possible. That way they can not only make up their own mind whether academia or industry is for them, but also create a network that might help them find a job.
Wow, you weren't kidding! I looked it up and saw this account: https://www.dawtrina.com/cosmo/index.html

"It is not hyperbole to suggest that it changed my life. Even today, writing in 2015, over a decade after this game vanished forever, it's still a huge part of my life. I met my wife through it. I made many lifelong friends there. I've been to Cosmonaut weddings and visited Cosmonaut graves. I've met a couple of hundred players in person. It still resonates as a community today."

What a cool sounding community.
Small typo in the list of countries: “United Emirates” -> “United Arab Emirates”.
Yet to me, literate programming is certainly the most important thing that came out of the TeX project. Not only has it enabled me to write and maintain programs faster and more reliably than ever before, and been one of my greatest sources of joy since the 1980s -- it has actually been indispensable at times. Some of my major programs, such as the MMIX meta-simulator, could not have been written with any other methodology that I've ever heard of. The complexity was simply too daunting for my limited brain to handle; without literate programming, the whole enterprise would have flopped miserably.

If people discover nice ways to use the newfangled multithreaded machines, I would expect the discovery to come from people who routinely use literate programming. Literate programming is what you need to rise above the ordinary level of achievement. But I don't believe in forcing ideas on anybody.

-- Knuth, Donald
> But the JWST was not designed or tested in a vacuum

this is false. NASA has a house-size vacuum chamber that was used for testing. Also the author got the price tag wrong.

I wonder what else about the article is incorrect.
If you want an even simpler and more scalable chat you can use my multiplayer online system:

http://github.com/tinspin/fuse

The HTTP server is written in Java with a custom JSON database and it has clients in C++, C# and HTML5.
It’s a real shame how difficult programming is. I don’t mean that it is difficult to write difficult things, but that it is difficult to write simple things. Once upon a time, one could download visual studio, click about to make a new project in (e.g.) Visual Basic, draw a gui in the gui editor, and click the run button. One could then start adding simple functionality (e.g. working through a book). Or even longer ago when a computer might dump you practically straight into BASIC when you turned it on or you might get access to a mainframe/minicomputer with programming tools already set up. Nowadays, an ‘easy’ introduction could involve the horrific process of installing and setting up python on windows (where it is hard to do things other than input/output text) or editing some html/JavaScript files where there are more easily possible interactive things but lots of things are difficult like ‘just drawing things’ or anything that requires a server side.

P.S. if you, like me, were wondering what Libera Chat is, it’s the moral successor of Freenode with Freenode now being a shell of its former self.
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> Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox, Brave. At least 5.

Chrome, Edge and Brave are the same engine

> whipping together a simple browser is quite easy

Slapping lipstick on a pig doesn't make it a different animal.

Yes, there are superficial differences like watching ads in Brave to earn their "coin", but it doesn't make them a truly different/competitive browser.
That happens to be my own submission, FWIW.

DDG is accusing Google of manipulating browser-extension standards for Google's own benefit, FWIW.

(Discussing specific examples in contenxt is often useful.)

That particular issue seems to have more bearing on DDG's attempts at creating its own browser than of Google specifically thwarting DDG's search.
Humidity and condensation. They said he lived there for a few months and probably spent a bunch of time inside over the years and says it has bathrooms. Any breathing, cooking or bathing will release humidity, if the steel reaches dew point you will get condensation on the walls which would match outside temps since it sounds like they are not insulated.
There are a lot of security benefits to using a TPM. I wouldn't mind if I could use an open source one in Linux.

They ameliorate a lot of low entropy problems for passwords and can improve security. I can't imagine a proprietary one being mandatory. My banking app uses the mentioned remote attestation so I can't use it on my less-Googled Calyx ROM. I just think that's stupid instead of very strong warnings.
Another thing I've been enjoying lately is literate programming. Amazingly it turns out to be faster to write a literate program than an ordinary program because debugging takes almost no time.

--Bill Hart
2021 was the 2nd year in a row that there was sales on Apress where they throw out great Lisp books for 6/7/8 Euro printed or digital. Subscribe to r/lisp or r/common_lisp and you will get the news.
That's exactly what L2 is. Otherwise the orbits of JWST and Earth would have different periods. It's handy to be able to have constant high speed communications and not need large antennas with blackouts.

It also is handy to keep the closest IR sources (Earth and moon) in the same direction as the sun at all times so there is never a point where you have a significant IR source above the sun shield.
I have been printer free / paperless for over a decade now. I am not sure why printers are even needed anymore
The effect of this simple shift of emphasis can be so profound as to change one's whole approach to programming. Under the literate programming paradigm, the central activity of programming becomes that of conveying meaning to other intelligent beings rather than merely convincing the computer to behave in a particular way. It is the difference between performing and exposing a magic trick.

--Ross Williams
The cool thing about Flutter is that it draws components to the Skia canvas. I wasn't even aware it had a WebView. I'm not sure why you would use Flutter if your app consists mostly of a WebView. The bugs that were found are probably not fixed because they are very low priority. You don't save a whole lot by using a WebView in Flutter rather than building a simple shell around the iOS and Android WebView. Without knowing the details, I'd guess that the programmer is using the wrong tool for the job.
I don't think Signal was ever on F-Droid? IIRC its code does contain some proprietary blobs and Signal doesn't want non-official clients to connect to their servers, so it'd be against Signal's wishes to have a fork on F-Droid without those proprietary blobs.

They do offer an apk on their website though.
Does this have instructions?
AI-VEN.COM has added the ability to take part in the bounty program. You can receive additional income to the profit from your investments.
In a combustion engine, removing your foot from the pedal causes engine braking, which is a function of your gear, but it's very possible to nearly stop a speeding car with engine braking alone, with a series of downshifts. Pressing the clutch removes this effect and lets you roll with minimal braking.

Electric cars don't have that, so they simulate it. Automatic cars do that too, to an extent.
For some context, in the book Omnivores Dilemma, author Michael Pollan states that an orange that our grandparents ate as kids had 5x the nutritional value as an orange today.

Amazing book, everyone should go read it.
Cool! Do you login with one account bouncing off 60 IP addresses?
The code is fine, you're publicly chastising yourself over it for no reason. Mongoid had bad API semantics, and you did what you needed to do to make your code work. Then, you got rug pulled by a minor version update when they said "oopsie, we think these semantics make more sense!".

There might be an argument to make that your test suite could have caught this, however.
> turning GNU/Linux into a version of Windows

The piece of software systemd is most like is launchctl, which doesn't come from Windows.

On the other hand, the biggest "Windows-ism" to reach Linux lately is io_uring. But it's both too technical and too useful to have some populist uprising against it.
JWST User Documentation
Ah, that's why I led of with me being cynical because I am; I absolutely get what you meant and traditionally that is what disruption would be; a new player entering the market and disrupting the incumbents due to the player innovating where the incumbents stalled out trying to maintain their position.

My coy interpretation/version is that frequently this ends up less about innovation and more about shifting consumer bases by simply making a flashy product with a superficially cheaper barrier of entry while introducing other means of having recurring revenue from consumers.

My take is just that with physical office stores in particular, printers are just the sort of thing that people who go to physical stores to buy electronics still want, but I would wager it's dwindling, and a quick search seems to suggest this also [0], while another [1] suggests it's a slow but steadily growing market (note: this report mentions a bit on 3D printers, but the full report is behind paywall so it's not clear if that factors in at all)

I've never heard of Raptor Computing until you mentioned it, and it looks like they have a niche with Power9 processors and that they allow you to get basically kits or prebuilts? I kind of feel that's the "unique" niche that differentiates Raptor Computing from someone who might try to disrupt printers, in that Power9 does have a uniqueness to it, where as the technology for most consumer printers is just the same, it's just the vendor lockdown that differs.

You might get a dedicated following of privacy conscious persons who would like a completely unlocked and non-aggressive home printer that just prints, but I just find myself wondering if the cost of ownership is _really_ worth it for the right to own a printer. As another poster commented on the privacy concerns of copy shops, I'm starting to wonder if maybe that's the next direction that can be done to consolidate the options to professional printing units that make a proper effort to secure the process of printing end to end and make ubiquitous "utility-like" printers that can be placed anywhere to offer scanning/printing/signing services.

But I don't think the answer for this is home-office use anymore, and I don't see it as a market that too many are interested in trying to upset, but instead just making sure everyone gets their cut as the market transitions.

[0] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/274447/hewlett-packards-... (Note: I have no idea how valid this is so take it with that frame of reference)

[1] - https://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/5323193/printer-g...
Bevy is still in its very early days. Using their limited development time to develop for what is already today old hardware doesn't make much sense considering its peak is likely another 5+ years in the future. By the time Bevy is very mature, the hardware that is only able to run OpenGL will be even less relevant and a very small niche.

That being said, as far as I know Bevy is modular enough to write third party render backends. If it keeps growing, I'm sure someone will do that.
Once a program has been developed and the developers have moved on to other tasks it needs to be maintained. The fundamental problem is that if you modify code you didn't write, you don't see the big picture and you don't understand the reasons why the code is written the way it is. Thus changing code without a larger context is almost always going to introduce new bugs.

The only way to correctly change code is to deeply understand the implications of the change. This requires a deep understanding of the code and an awareness of the big picture. Yet the "why" of code is rarely ever written down in standard programming practice. The goal is only to elaborate the "how" so the machine can perform the task. The programmer communicates with the machine.

Literate programming, as used in Axiom, is an attempt to communicate with other users, developers, and researchers in addition to the machine. The goal is to have the program read like a story so that others can understand the rational, the theory, the choices, the implications, and the implementation context as well as the "how".

This code is intended to live forever but it is highly probable that you will not. Write to communicate with the next person to pick up the torch. When you explore code, write down what you learn. When you change code, explain why you made your choices. When you write new code explain what others need to know to maintain it.
> I've seen some unscrupulous departments making no sincere attempts to help students finish their PhD on time, then turn around and offer up scraps like hourly teaching "contracts" to teach their classes, after their PhD funding has run out.

That is getting increasingly difficult to pull off, since students (and attorneys) have figured out thatched can sue the university of the don‘t fulfil their part of the PhD agreement. Universities are totally paranoid about being sued, and all sorts of administrative arse-covering is the result.
Certainly what I will try---I am building up some networks to provide them with more opportunities (e.g. internships).
If that were more profitable that's how the market would already be?

I guess most people just believe the story about the chips being used to make sure there's enough ink. If they're even aware of the chips.
I've got a PIXMA 925 SOHO MFP. It literally eats ink just cleaning printheads on power up, power down and just regularly if left on.

I printed about 50 graphs+text pages on new cartridges, now one's low the rest are about half.

WTF.
>>Is there a reason consumer printers haven't been disrupted by some bored billionaire?

Because it is dying technology where innovation resources are put into paperless conversation of things that still require paper today.

Personally I believe we are already there, a person and business can be 100% paperless today if they choose to, many have chosen not do for some reason.

However people choosing to keep their horse and buggy does not mean a billionaire should invest money on making a better buggy
So is Moxie, does that mean that we should blindly disregard everything he thinks about crypto too?
If by those unaffected by COVID you mean self-employed people, not sure that's really the case, as taxes for people that are employed by a Bulgarian company are not THAT much higher. Using the 10k BGN example, your net salary is 8627.94, and the employer (of course, excluding accounting and all that stuff) pays 10567.60.

I don't remember exactly the numbers for self employed, but if his are correct (and they seem a bit off, maybe because of the missing health insurance), the difference is basically 5-600 BGN, so 5-6pp.
> entirely
I'm all ears, if you want to explain how this is possible without breaking multiple laws and cross-country agreements
In a report published in July 2020, the British government's SAGE group predicted that lockdowns and social distancing would result in more suicides with the following reasoning[1]:

> The lockdown is likely to impact most determinants of good mental health, such as engagement in
usual activities, social interactions, physical exercise, and financial stability. A Lancet study of
the psychological impacts of quarantines, reviewing 24 academic papers, found that quarantined
individuals experience severe psychological symptoms including post-traumatic stress, confusion,
and anger. Stressors included longer quarantine duration, infection fears, frustration, boredom,
inadequate supplies, inadequate information, financial loss, and stigma. The review showed that
most of the effects come from a restriction of liberty through stricter quarantine measures, and that
voluntary quarantine is associated with less distress and fewer long-term complications.

[1]: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
> What’s worse, I have seen very progressive young PIs become complacent and conservative once they had tenure.

That's what I am worried about in myself, having seen this in others as well. I'll try to be more introspective.

> I wouldn’t bet on academia changing its tenure criteria.

No, I am not doing that either, but in this case, there's always the 'War Games' games response: 'A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.'
You can, but you won't be able to receive push notifications with it - to send push notifications to your app Signal will need your developer keys, or relay push notifications via your server. And I don't think Signal can relay push notifications.

Telegram, actually, can send push notifications to third-party clients, but requires uploading developer keys to them.
Prior to IRC becoming an accepted protocol, the "talker BBS systems" tried to avoid the need for a user to have a "client application." I'd say it was AOL that put an interface on chat and sold (a) the idea of a chat client and (b) the idea of online chat to less technical users.
The US doesn't have huge lockdowns.
Funnily enough, hambuger in french is "steak haché" (hashed steak).
The Wrong Side of Right
You get used to it quickly enough.
1) The JWST is not in the shadow of the Earth. It’s solar powered.

2) It didn’t cost 9,000,000 dollars to build. That’s off by 1000x.
Albania also has great sea, amazing food and welcoming people
US citizens can move to Puerto Rico and pay 5% tax, very legally
"Prosumer" laser printers (often labeled "home office" or "small office") are pretty great.

I had an OKI black and white printer for about a decade before it died. I printed many, many thousands of pages on it. (It was in a period where I was doing a lot of research, and I prefer to read research papers printed out.) In those 10 years, I never finished the original toner cartridge. I paid around €200 for it.

I'm on a Brother black and white laser printer now. I checked my Amazon orders, and I ordered my current toner cartridge in 2015. The printer was €98. Toner is around €20. It has network capability and is full duplex.

They're black and white only, but in the rare case that I need something printed in color, I'd usually rather have it done at a copy shop for a few cents since the quality is far higher. (If I'm printing in color, I usually care about such things, but for day-to-day printing, black and white is sufficient.)
I wish Mike Hearn would rejoin the crypto world, in the Ethereum space.

Ultimately his enormous contributuons to Bitcoin were mostly wasted by Bitcoin's leadership, when they prevented Bitcoin from achieving mass-adoption, but his talents would not be wasted on Ethereum, which already has a clear path to massive scalability and a pro-adoption leadership.
Basically Google Pay and other NFC payment providers. Haven't encountered SafetyNet requirements anywhere else.