skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A general rule I've found to be very true is: if you can't explain a concept to somebody else fully, clearly, and concisely -- then you don't _really_ understand the concept yourself (i.e. if you can't explain it to a 5 year old, then you don't really understand it).

"Imagine ... that they're not very good at articulating what the intuitively feel to be right about web3. When they talk about decentralization it much less about technology than routing around the central locus of control that serve as gatekeepers to keep people down."

And this describes exactly people who haven't really thought through the web3 concept -- especially indicated by the emotional perspectives of "feels rights" that the status quo is filled with "gatekeepers to keep people down". This makes it seem like a trend amongst the cool kids, which to me is what it actually is at this point.
Reminiscent of QBasic for me. Well done! Looking forward to more development.
mIRC users. Pfft.
Technically light can be converted into mass, but I’m not sure that’s relevant here.
Labour is doing productive things, work is employment. Antiwork and other related things like "the abolition of work" by Bob Black are against wage labour and capitalist exploitation moreso than the need to do things to keep the world turning.
I rarely (never?) see Apple engineers posting in these threads. With other big tech organizations some kind of insider insight is occasionally provided.

Is Apple’s culture of secrecy that strong? Is it a sense of superiority? Is it embarrassment? Are they just not here?

As a mid-career engineer with highly marketable skills and an inbox stuffed with job offers the only two companies I would never entertain an offer from are Facebook and Apple.

Facebook because their fundamental purpose for existence is harmful to society and Apple for their perceived (or actual?) engineering incompetence.

I don’t really have a sense for the kind of engineer that works for Apple. With other big tech orgs I have some sense, even if informed almost entirely by tech forums.
In the US, State and Federal agencies could share this data feasibly, if not for certain policies.

I read stuff like this about salaries, budgets, contracts, etc. regarding various US federal/state/local governments quite often. In reality, almost all that info is already publicly available. Often in excruciating detail.

For example: the salary of ever single NYC employee (cops, teachers, etc) https://www.seethroughny.net/payrolls/city-of-new-york. Every California state employee salary (and pensions) https://transparentcalifornia.com/. Many state and local government employee salaries are collected by https://openpayrolls.com/.

Federal gov contracts at https://www.fpds.gov/fpdsng_cms/index.php/en/. Most states have similar sites for their contracts.

The issue in government transparency in the US is not transparency per se. It's that few people bother to actually dig through the raw data or perform good analysis of it.
> If you're picking up basketball at age 30, I hope you know that you're never going to be anywhere nearly as good as Curry, or Lebron

Well, I hope so, too. However, in basketball, the really good players aren't even going to let you play with them, so you're forced to play with people your own level. In music, you're constantly hearing 8-year-olds who are better than you will ever be.

I believe it's the motor skills, and the plasticity of the brain. Personally, I memorize pieces with no effort at all, but sight reading is a bitch for me and always will be.
So what's Wayland?

I can't be the only one who is frustrated when they click on a HN link hoping to learn more about something, and instead I'm presented with a list of folders and files.
Other:

I suck at interviews. No one wants to hire me for the roles I want. I don’t have the skills yet to influence how I want people to perceive me so that I can get a job in another role. I don’t like my current role, so wouldn’t want to change jobs just to stay in the same role.
I read the OP differently. As in, modern society is enormously complex, to the point where everyone can’t assimilate all the information necessary. For example, maybe you bought a car based on the freedom to choose between performance and emissions. But how much do really know about the fuel mapping in your car? Do you know enough to make that accurate judgement even without the added complexity of fraud in reporting?

As far as the euphemisms hiding intent to control choice, I agree that can happen. But I think there is a area of nudging incentives before strict regulation. The classic example is changing organ donation from an opt-in to an opt-out system. Nobody’s choice was removed, but a small nudge can have a measurable systemic impact
The fundamental difference as far as I can see will be removing the distinction between macros and function. For example, (assuming parameters starting with @ are fexprs):

(defun if (bool @then @else)
(cond (bool (eval @then)))
(t (eval @else))))
Doctors who feel they discovered a radical treatment but can't convince their colleagues and then create a sales website with training courses and products are highly correlated with quackery.
> The cryptobros can't seem to fathom that they got sold on a bunch of useless shit.

I think it’s more that they can’t afford to acknowledge it: the only way cryptocurrency has meaning is if they can line up a buyer, and as soon as you allow that to be questioned those big dreams about becoming as rich as the people selling them on “web3” start to look pretty unlikely. A lot of these people have built their vision of the future on very high returns and the only way that happens is if they donate their time pro bono to the major investors backing these companies.
Yes it does, and the German state governments have made very questionable decisions here.

I'm arguing against the misguided notion that this is being dismissed as conspiracy theory, which it absolutely is not. Luca has been controversial since the beginning.

The reason why a centralised solution was chosen is quite simple to see, though:

In the centralised system, the health agency knows who to contact when they might have been infected and could in theory force these people to do a test or into quarantine (in practice, they usually don't have enough personnel to do so, though...).

With the decentralised system, every person can get a notification when they could have been exposed. Whether or not they act upon that notification is up to them.

In the end, I don't think the privacy nightmare is worth it (especially given that health departments are understaffed), but I can see how other actors could come to a different conclusion without it having to be a conscious decision to collect a ton of data for other purposes.
Many of the files will violate cloudflare terms of service. You cannot put video files behind normal cloudflare cdn as an example.

This is a risky setup.
Here's one - if you're interested, you can continue to look for others...

Absolute Risk Reduction = 1·3% for the AstraZeneca– Oxford, 1·2% for the Moderna–NIH, 1·2% for the J&J, 0·93% for the Gamaleya, and 0·84% for the Pfizer– BioNTech vaccines.

https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-5247(21)00069-0
Diaspora and Mastodon. These are the prime example what the web 3 generation wants: no central company, everyone runs it‘s own server, user is in control of all it‘s data

And they are a total empty space. Because it‘s complex to use ans is missing the network effect which is really really hard to get without a central company doing marketing in some form
Tips make for better customers.
We don't generally set salaries by the employee's proximity to the peak of human existence: find me an economic system that does and I'd learn about it. In this case, like it or not, the football program brings a lot of value to the University in terms of notoriety and money.
Seems like a reworking of the "everybody has an agenda" retort you see so often these days. It's a slippery slope that only leads to dying a curmudgeon, as all chances for new perspectives were rebuked as agendas/evangelism/propagandist/etc.
What makes you think you can’t sign as a trusted authority a decentralized object? Maybe before you condescend you should learn the utter basics of what you are talking about.
> Fwiw, Ohio accepts tax payments in Bitcoin:

Ohio businesses can no longer use Bitcoin to pay taxes. Don’t worry, though. Sprague went on to say that in the 10 months since OhioCrypto.com launched, less than 10 businesses have chosen to pay their taxes in Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies. No one is really going to miss it. [1]

https://thenextweb.com/news/ohio-suspends-bitcoin-tax-paymen...
I think your opinion is shared by a lot of people, but at the same time, "DSLR hobbyism" is alive and well, it's just shifted to Instagram.

That being said, as another dilettante, I take WAY MORE pictures with my very heavy camera system (~7000 a year) than with my phone. It's because phones can't come close to the the focused experience of having a camera in your hand.

As far as Good Photographs being 90% technique/framing/instinct/editing, that's true. But phones don't allow you to get near the level that's possible in those categories as an interchangeable lens camera.

Let's say I want to do some street photography. On an interchangeable lens camera, I have a choice to go between 18mm to 300mm+ in focal length, and if I compensate with my position for the main subject, I can get very very different framing. I don't have this lattitude with a phone, where I can go from 13mm to 77mm, but where I have to sacrifice a lot of the little quality lattitude I have outside of three discrete positions. That's only in sunny situations. If you're inside or of it's a bit dark out, you can't use the telephoto lens, and you have a tiny native range from 13-26 or so on most phones, because the quality is so atrocious for longer focal ranges in less than stellar conditions that cropping a wide angle is better.

As far as fake Bokeh, it's great for simpler portrait. However, if I want to use the defocus more subtly or in a more complex way than sharp foreground/blurry background, tough luck. This isn't hypothetical, multiple layers of depth is a good way to get a better sense of pop that just adding on more blur. Most of my all-time best photographs use mildly defocused elements in the foreground to create and organic frame for the subject, which is then followed by a slightly blurred background again. This way, you can have an organic framing of your subject without distracting from it, and creating an increased sense of depth.

You say "just get closer to your subject", but that removes a lot of compositions. Your position dictates the perspective you have, and your focal length dictates your framing options. So if I have to get really close to my subject, I just lost a lot of my creative power in how I want to frame my image!

Then there's instinct. When you are this limited in your freedom and creative choices, you can never fully develop your instincts.

Then there's editing. To get a usable image out of a phone camera, you need a massive amount of editing that simply cannot be done by a human. As a result, you can only get a fraction of the manual editing latitude of a bigger sensor camera. The lower actual resolution also hurts your ability to edit a lot.

So while I agree that Good Photos are only 10% hardware, using a phone camera means you also have a sacrifice a lot of the rest of the 90%.
Well, perhaps the question is: better for who? I can't watch most mainstream TV shows with my little kids. Witcher, GoT, etc. Perhaps mainstream TV of the 70s was forced to be better for a broader audience.

The shows are better for me, more entertaining, more exciting, etc, but not better for everyone in the house. The sharding of entertainment into different age groups leads to people not sitting together and watching a show together, and instead we're all in different rooms with headphones. imo that's worse.
and imagine it wasn't a drafty victorian, but rather a new build passive house with incredibly good insulation. One would probably be fine with the heat pump alone.
SmallTalkUnix
> They do? In my experience it's much higher

I'm not sure where you work (or where you live), but my experience has indeed been that payment processing is a pretty cut-and-dried technology at this point. People charge insane overhead for it because, as a marginal utility, other people have no way of determining what it's actual value is.

> That's what a lot of people say, but how much of that is _really_ they just don't want to pay a 30% cut?

I don't really think it matters, the statement is true nonetheless. If third-party app stores exist, Apple would be undercut in a heartbeat. By obstructing other people from competing with their App Store business, they're eliminating the need for the market to set a price.

You can argue to the ends of the earth with that logic (lord knows Apple keeps lawyers on retainer for that express purpose), but Apple's strategy here is to prevent them from having to compete with the rest of the market. There's a reason why European regulators are wising up to this nonsense (and a reason Apple obeys); it's a lost case. Everyone knows that it's dumb, the only defenses I've seen for it boil down to apologism and misunderstanding.

Why do we need to keep giving the world's largest company the benefit of the doubt? Can't we just hold them accountable for once?
If you don't have the resources to do so, the level of difficulty is identical.
> if you only view yourself in terms of your utility to others, you will be consumed for your usefulness.

I have seen what you say firsthand in myself over the years. Concepts about treating yourself like a business and over emphasizing your "brand" are part of this. I'm not demonizing those concepts, just they can be overdone or overemphasized.
I love induction. I did however struggle with my carbon steel pan. It just wouldn't season properly. I followed the instructions from the manufacturer, online guides. You name it. The thing would start shedding its coat after a while. It was a mess.

Then we moved to a house with an old electric stove. The pans turned to pure magic. More non-stick than our teflon pans.

Then we moved again to a place with an induction stove and bam: the pans are shit again.

It is obviously me, of course. Heat is heat. But something about induction makes me unable to use carbon steel.
> Is the game rigged.

In a way, yes. the VCs know it is a scam, which is why they are doing it.

> The never listed coin is the best; the listed, non-VC coin is better; and the listed, VC-backed coin is the worst.

Precisely.

It is exactly what happened to Internet Computer when that launched on Coinbase and Binance, as the author in this article describes, as well as I did [0][1]. The same happened especially with ENS [2][3][4] and the same happened with DESO. [5] These tokens listed out of no where on Coinbase or Binance, so that means that insiders who bought in at private token sales are using these exchanges to unload their holdings on to the retail buyers on the exchanges when they list.

By the time that has happened, it is too late and expect a pump and dump on the token price, hence why all these tokens are 'under performing'. As for the ENS token, they are doing it all over again via another airdrop [6], just look at how much ENS they can 'airdrop' and gift just to pump the price again.

That is the hype of 'web3' illusion and scam.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27492858

[1] https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/33b6e8116ce5...

[2] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum-name-service/

[3] https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/6dcf651bba03...

[4] https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/1457857919068737543?lang...

[5] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/deso/

[6] https://decrypt.co/87505/coinbase-votes-favor-another-ethere...
Looks neat, kinda reminds me of a cross between QBASIC and Turbo BASIC.

I tried it a bit but found a few issues:

1. The about box doesn't seem to use the current term size - it appears out of bounds in 80x24 (which is my default term size).

2. In help, the down arrow key with the cursor on first green letter moves the cursor right. If the cursor is in some other place it hides the cursor.

3. There should be some mouse support, especially in help as it is much easier to point and click on links than navigate the cursor.

4. On the topic on navigation, page up/down should work in help as it makes easier to skim it and skip sections (also IMO sections should be in individual pages instead of having everything mashed together). Tab should also jump the cursor to the next link.

5. Trying to copy and paste an example from help (the first example in graphics, the one with the "graphicswindow(500, 500)", "wait(5)", etc) crashed the program with some out of bounds error. This happened twice but for some reason it didn't happen a third time - not sure what i did different.

6. (after it worked) the example runs but if it exits and i try to run it a second time the IDE disappears (the term goes black with the cursor at the top left) and it hangs - i had to kill it with killall spade)

7. Pasting works from the X clipboard but trying to copy something (doesn't matter if i use Edit->Copy or just select it) doesn't work.

8. Code completion window appears even with single value even after the complete value is written (e.g. if i type break i still get the code completion with a single break value that remains there until i press enter). This isn't really helpful and is annoying. Also it should be possible to "complete" with tab instead of just enter as tab completion is very common.

9. The tab key doesn't seem to work in general.

10. The delete key doesn't seem to work on selected text.

11. Selection seems to work weirdly if i select backwards with Shift+Left arrow - the selection is always in the letters at the left and side of the cursor and the entire line from the end of the selection to the end of the line becomes gray (however Shift+Home works as expected).

12. Not a bug, but IMO errors should move the cursor to the error line and be a little more human friendly than "Expecting some of FunctionStatement but got Token {tkRaw = TkKeyword KwEndIf, TkLocation = Location {lcLine = 6, lcColumn = 3, lcOffset = 237}, tkOffsetEnd" :-P
This seems to be the opposite advice from what pg is talking about. The very last paragraph closes saying don't worry about the todo just follow your muse.

If you are forcing yourself that much to get it done maybe it's not the right thing to be working on anyway?
Shorter flange distances do mean that retrofocusing design can be avoided, and an equivalent optical setup can be made much smaller.

For example, a Voigtlander 35/1.2 lens for mirrorless full frame is about 60mm (diameter) x 60mm (length) while I don't know of any equivalent lens for an SLR that is less than 90x120mm.

Also, you can't have the rear element go too far behind the flange distance of an SLR without getting smacked by the mirror. With mirrorless this isn't an issue. But you don't want your ray angles to be too extreme or the microlenses won't focus well onto the photosite.
I would guess that by involving Elixir the intention may not be so much about learning how to set up a single home weather station, but on development foundations scalable beyond a single device/data source and client.
Yes, I agree with that - it should be a user toggle instead of a "walled garden" automagically applied to everyone. Especially after it was determined that posts from the president are Presidential communications, which by default (legally) are public. That suggests you shouldn't have to log in to read everything current and past public servants have posted.

The phone thing is a different issue - one that I've noticed on a lot of other sites. It's always under the guise of 2FA, even if you don't enable that. It's an obvious data grab.
They basically fell for an opportunist gold digger with a PR department. The driving factor has literally been a rapper, this dude: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smudo

(… I wish I was joking. I'm not.)

[ed.] just to be clear: that absolutely does not excuse the states' decisions. While it might be understandable that someone can drive social and media discourse with some luck and prior experience, it's the states' job to do their due diligence and not base their decisions on empty PR.
really interesting, thanks for commenting
It will take some years. As of now no bigger DAW supports MIDI 2.0 AFAIK, which is also because almost no 2.0 devices exist (Roland's A 88 MKII is the only one I know of).
Huh, Fort Bragg is a lot closer to Crescent City than Oceanside. I would think the earliest time would be the center of the incoming wave?
> Decentralized software development already exists, we trust it and it works.

Not in the way needed. You probably means git, which yes, allows for distributed development in that unlike previous systems it doesn't rely on a central server to exchange code.

But that doesn't mean people don't organize. I review people's code. People review mine. There's a list of people that's been agreed that are in control of a project. There's somebody who owns the domain, somebody who builds installers and makes releases, somebody who can say "no" to adding some code.

> Besides, as long as you speak the same protocol and use the same data, lots of people can roll out their own software.

Cryptocurrency is to a huge extent about the contents and management of this data. So nearly anything interesting will need cooperation. This means a small group getting together and figuring out how to change the protocol.

> But indeed, if a small enough percentage of the population control enough of the mining power things could collapse or at least degenerate back to a centralized society.

It already is centralized. The decentralization is more theory than practice.

> It is up to the members of a decentralized society to do their share of mining and be in the lookout for that not to happen.

They already failed, then. And no wonder, because 99.9% of the world is not even capable of having opinions here. Like if you show a random person a diff from the bitcoin git, they couldn't tell you what it does, let alone if it's a good or bad thing.

Even if you can, there's lock-in. If you already put a significant amount of effort and money into say, BTC, there's a cost to pulling out. So a lot of people will stick around even if things aren't exactly to their liking. This means there's a variety of changes that can be made for the worse with impunity on the part of the people in control.

> In order for a society to be decentralized and remain so, a big majority has to want that and hold it as one of their values.

Then it's an outright impossibility. It's the downfall of all libertarian schemes, the idea that everyone is passionate about governance. The vast majority of people want to lounge on the sofa, not to attend regular meetings with their neighbors to discuss a variety of issues like roads and sanitation.

Really, a democracy offers lots of ways of participating that the vast majority doesn't use. I don't see crypto changing that.
AwesomeWM has been my daily driver for 6 years now. was using i3 for a few years before that. Awesome definitely hits the sweet spot for me.
Are the Tongans okay?
Students Can Learn Problem-Solving Skills in Social Studies
Markdown for Writers, 2d Ed. Rev
Have you tried LSDeluxe?

https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd
The state one was a little late with features (as always, nevertheless, now has all we need) and a famous pop star lobbied around like crazy in talkshows and on politicians (he is financially invested in that stupid luca app).

How it goes as usually.

Just wanted to also leave this here: https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2021/luca-app-ccc-fordert-bund...

"The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) demands an immediate end to states' alimentation of Smudo's million-dollar tax grab "Luca app."

and also as always, predicted the illegal data grab, but noone ever listens..