skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been doing sleep from 12:30AM-4:30AM and then a second sleep from 7am-10:30am. I work with a team that works in Poland and I am in PST time zone, so I mostly do meetings in that time, and then just do coding after I wake at 10:30. It works fairly well, and am well rested with just 7 hrs of sleep.
Quickstart documentation (linked from readme), with many examples, is here: https://looker-open-source.github.io/malloy/documentation/la...
…but it feels like we're in early adopter territory for at least five more years.

You’re probably right, but as an owner of one of the first Nissan Leafs to roll off the line (still have it), my spouse and I view the current market as a luxury of choices and any number of which could easily be our only car. Some of it is perspective: folks will comment on the need to find a charger on a road trip, but never mention that they haven’t had to go out of their way on the way home to find gas since…well, since they bought their EV. Some of it is legitimate, since chargers aren’t as common as gas stations.

But c’mon, even a 200 mile range on a trip is more “minor inconvenience to find a charger on the map on the dashboard that will route me there” rather than “early adopter”, and that’s just once in a while.
There is Nickel in development which might replace Nix (the configuration language) in future.

https://github.com/tweag/nickel
Is it easy with SQL? Or are you just used to it?
I wonder if anyone is watching the fiat markets. The whole world is dumping their assets. China-US problems are about to become worse.
That's the dominant liberal propaganda, yes. It doesn't necessarily match the historical record, especially in different countries.

The same propaganda holds Churchill in high esteem despite the Bengal Famine and his general enthusiasm for imperialism and sympathy for fascism. There's a reason there are people with the first name "Stalin" in India, but Churchill is overwhelmingly hated.
The one qualm I have with this line of thinking is that: 1) Buying crypto is optional, and 2) It is a mainstream view now that crypto is extremely volatile, a risky investment, and yes, even a "ponzi scheme".

Given all this, and assuming adults are free to accept their own risk tolerance, what is the problem? If these are the assumptions, there is none. The problem comes from the belief that there is some limit to acceptable risk tolerance for the general public, beyond which it is so risky as to be definitely detrimental to the public's finances.

I claim that there are many riskier stocks already than the mainstream crypto. Outright fraudulent crypto are also already illegal under current securities law. Is it really just the concept of a tokenized, distributed public ledger (re: blockchain) that rubs people the wrong way?
Irrational?

> Sure, one-off experiences are valuable, but I think they're overrated

One-off experiences are literally what your life is made from
It is funny how the NFT craze has so quickly polarized hate against blockheads.

I remember first noticing how cryptocurrency enthusiasts were completely ignorant about both currency and technology. A few years later I found some of these people had gotten more trading experience than many people working in finance had gotten in several times the time.

Last year I was at the funeral of a relative who'd died of COVID-19. Two year prior her husband had committed suicide. Her boyfriend (whose affair with her was a factor in the husband's suicide) showed up and wanted to boast how he'd scored a graphics card so he could mine Etherium. I told him that I couldn't get a graphics card to game or train neural networks and I didn't want to hear about this s*t anymore.

If it was today I might have kicked his ass and gotten away with it.
Investing is when you buy something that creates enduring, repeated value over an indefinite period of time, which you can capture without selling the asset itself. Real estate, for example, creates value (a place to live) over a long time, which you can capture either by living there yourself or renting it to someone else - without selling the house.

Stock is ownership in a business which creates value over time (shoes, tweets, cars, etc) which is captured in a variety of ways, like selling through retail or ads or whatever - without selling the stock.

This is why currencies, gold and the like are not investments. They do not, in and of themselves, create value. They may be good to buy/hold anyway though!
CylinDraw - A Cup-Specific Rotary Plotter and Engraver
They said that there would be spin off and supporting industry also moving into this new industrial zone. Maybe a board manufacturer will move in, to pick up the chips from Intel one side of their operation, and deliver them to AWS on the other.
If those things don't seem like issues to you, there are no problems. Then again, if you don't care about privacy at all it is a little strange to engage with an article that is about privacy.
I made no claim that it was a purely crypto mindset, they've flogged this phrase to death, and continue to do so in their echo chamber communities.
Except in what minute of my day am I supposed to take off the hat I'm currently wearing to put on my IT Server Room hat? I don't have time to wrangle this stuff any more. I have multiple clients, I have side hustles, I have what's left of a social life after pandemic, I have family obligations. There are only so many hours in a day. If my time become more effecient by throwing a bit of money at the problem, then it is worth it to pay "experts" at something to relieve me of the burden.
Worked as patent agent. Back in tech AMA.

+ extremely independent
+ lots of reading about different subjects
+ less time working on tooling or “chores”
+ admin to manage your calendar
- much higher productivity expectations than tech
- high intensity
- varied knowledge of attorneys
The Nix community itself keeps talking about something similar as a first class citizen, like a YAML or TOML-type package definition scheme to be used for "simple" packages.

I don't agree with this direction, though. Basic packages can already be described pretty simply using native nixlang, and the complexity scales well— you can add patches, fixups, flags on dependencies, extra fetcher args, whatever and it's a pretty smooth ramp all the way up. Whereas it would be considerably more jarring if you could use the "simple" thing up until the point where you abruptly hit a wall and then suddenly had to start over in real Nix when you hit that one thing that happens to require it.

Quite apart from that side of things, if a significant portion of nixpkgs were converted to the new simplified package definition style, it would majorly shrink the potential pool of example package definitions for novices to examine.
only 7Billion suckers on Earth. Pretty soon you'll need aliens to buy BTC to keep propping up the price...
What does executable size have to do with anything?

What matters is language expression, readability, and maintainability
I agree that a lot of it is very lame compared to other professions.

Nevertheless, it is VERY far above the uninformed and often willfully ignorant rantings of parents, and there is some serious academic and real-world work done to improve teaching & curriculum.

While parental input should certainly be considered, as a whole, parents haven't got even the first clue of what is needed for a sound education suitable for a highly complex society. Their expressed preferences are to shut down things they don't like, ignoring all consequences. And those shut-it-down impulses come from all sides.

To reduce schooling to the lowest & loudest common denominator of parental preferences would be a disaster on the scale of societal collapse.

We have the most complex society ever in the history of at least the solar system - and it is barely runnable as things are. The only way out of this will be to maximize the intellectual capabilities and scope of every generation.

Increasing qualifications and especially requiring education in your teaching subject? Absolutely. But substituting a push for that with turning it into a "Parent's Choice Greatest Hits"? Nope, it'd likely be better to just shut it down.
I have no idea what future crypto prices will do, but you do realize that smart contracts allow people to bank, from their browser with nothing but a MetaMask extension, without a bank, right?

There's heavy dose of speculation present in any emerging market, but crypto, especially its smart contract sector, is not just speculation.
> a handful of instructions are needed for turing completeness and you can ignore most of the rest.

This is an idea that assumes spherical instructions in the void, in other words, just passively staring at a listing (or at most, writing a hello world).

On a simplistic ISA like the 65xx, it's very complex to handle arithmetic as simple as a division or multiplication.

Implementing them is hard, and reading them is hard, too ("what is this code doing"?). There are multiple implementations that one has to know in either case, otherwise it takes a considerable time especially when writing them.

Anything beyond a "hello world" is definitely complicated in ASM.
>They only package linux-libre, so if your device needs proprietary wifi, you're out of luck.

I wouldn't say you're out of luck in that case. If you need upstream Linux, nonguix has it: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix
I wish someone wrote a GUI for Nix that

- System and home manager support

- Multi-machine and multi-user support by following the practice of splitting the config up by roles / intent

- Provided an "about:config" like experience for well defined fields

- Integrated with git hosting for easy backup/restore

- Included built-in search of other Nix config repos so you can see how other people did things

(I was originally hoping to but my attention has been pulled in other directions since I keep giving up on adopting Nix)
Re: iOS Safari default search conundrum: You could use something like Launch Center Pro[1] to pass queries to your search URL in Safari. Minor convention change (eg. initiate search from LC vs. directly in Safari) but it's still at least one less step.

[1: https://contrast.co/launch-center-pro/]
Most of their changes are client changes, making the client more friendly to elemetary school children, by taking aeay options, using other graphics and a sign in using QR Codes. According to the Golem article they are in contact with the upstream developers, who currently don't want to integrate these things, but support them to some degree.
you should get IOT LTSC enterprise for 10 years support.
> It's always bewildering that someone defending Biden always has to bring up Trump.

Hey, I'm not from US so I can allow myself to do unthinkable thing by your standards - I dislike both of them! With this, I don't think we need to steer the conversation into Trump vs Biden. However, I do think that some of Trump's comments regarding NATO were quite chilling for Eastern European NATO members.

> could be next...what? Do you recall what happened in 2008 with Georgia? This is literally straight from Russia's playbook. They stationed war games at Georgia's borders, tensions heightened, shots were fired, Russia claimed they were fired on first. Now Russia occupies parts of Georgia. This is exactly what wargames at their borders threatens. It's disgusting and absolutely should be universally reprimanded to post up warships to do war games outside of high political tension areas.

You seem to have very unorthodox view of the events. This is first time I hear that it was actually NATO troops who fired at Russians while being at Georgian territory under pretext of wargames, if that is what you are saying.

To save everyone the click, here is relevant excerpt from Wikipedia (which might or might not come from biased sources, I'm not from Georgia to claim either):

The Republic of Georgia declared its independence in early 1991 as the Soviet Union began to fall apart. Amidst this backdrop, a war between Georgia and separatists left parts of the former South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast under the de facto control of Russian-backed but internationally unrecognised separatists. Following the war, a joint peacekeeping force of Georgian, Russian, and Ossetian troops was stationed in the territory. A similar stalemate developed in the region of Abkhazia, where Abkhaz separatists had waged war in 1992–1993. Following the election of Vladimir Putin in Russia in 2000 and a pro-Western change of power in Georgia in 2003, relations between Russia and Georgia began to deteriorate, reaching a full diplomatic crisis by April 2008. On 1 August 2008, South Ossetian separatists started shelling Georgian villages, with a sporadic response from Georgian peacekeepers in the area.[32][33][34][35][36]

> Incorrect he said that sending troops to act unilaterally against Russia was not on the table. If you actually listen to the press conference you're referencing then you'd realize this was not a promise to never send troops - quite the opposite.

So you concede that Biden never actually said he will send any troops to Ukraine?

> Source for Biden repeatedly saying Russia will pay a price for Ukraine invasion?

He repeatedly said the price will be economical (joint sanction package together with EU).
800% higher gas price in my country. It is insane.
Agreed, if UNIX as concept is ever to evolve, it cannot be bound at UNIX === Linux that many now seem to consider.
It's not a currency for anyone who is holding it long term, by definition.
It's not useless though. It works just fine as a currency. It's just that nobody is using it. Like how Signal is more trustworthy than WhatsApp but nobody I know uses it so it doesn't matter.
I took a look at a GCSE Computing exam paper
I just switched away from asdf (primarily developing Go on Mac) because of the problems it caused.
Yes that'd be good. The figure I'd like to know (maybe I missed it) is how much it reduces the heat by
In what sense can it ever go on "sale" in the context you keep using? It has no RRP.
I read an interview with the responsible vicr-principal of the school today [1].
From my understanding the only created QR Codes that included login and password (minus last 4 digits) and the client used this info to send the request to a standard matrix server. The users only had to type in the last 4 digits manually.

Everything else can be configured via the matrix server config

[*]https://www.golem.de/news/matrix-grundschule-forkt-messenger...
Which is not to say that people weren’t trying. They tried sending off fleets of spaceships to do battle or business in distant parts, but these usually took thousands of years to get anywhere. By the time they eventually arrived, other forms of travel had been discovered which made use of hyperspace to circumvent the speed of light, so that whatever battles it was that the slower-than-light fleets had been sent to fight had already been taken care of centuries earlier by the time they actually got there.

This didn’t, of course, deter their crews from wanting to fight the battles anyway. They were trained, they were ready, they’d had a couple of thousand years’ sleep, they’d come a long way to do a tough job and, by Zarquon, they were going to do it.

This was when the first major Muddles of Galactic history set in, with battles continually reerupting centuries after the issues they had been fought over had supposedly been settled. However, these muddles were as nothing to the ones which historians had to try and unravel once time-travel was discovered and battles started preempting hundreds of years before the issues even arose. When the Infinite Improbability Drive arrived and whole planets started unexpectedly turning into banana fruitcake, the great history faculty of the University of MaxiMegalon finally gave up, closed itself down and surrendered its buildings to the rapidly growing joint faculty of Divinity and Water Polo, which had been after them for years.

Which is all very well, of course, but it almost certainly means that no one will ever know for sure where, for instance, the Grebulons came from, or exactly what it was they wanted. And this is a pity because, if anybody had known anything about them, it is just possible that a most terrible catastrophe would have been averted — or, at least, would have had to find a different way to happen.
Yeah, the floor value of bitcoin is probably its value in crime.
I'm going to look into this, thank you.
Isn't the difficulty tied to the hash rate?
I have a subscription to Dailyburn.com
It's a 30minute daily workout. I was quite faithful for a long time, but i've fallen off the wagon.

It's still a great solution, in spite of my personal issues with motivation.
> Most of it's value is speculation not actual profits or sales.

“Most” is the key difference: a share of Tesla is fractional ownership in a real business which has proven capable of selling real products which people want. Some fraction of that is definitely speculative but far from all of it, and there's no reason to think that the value would decline to zero under any feasible economic situation.

A Bitcoin, in contrast, has no value other than what you can convince someone else to buy it for. Nobody needs it to conduct business, it's trivial to set up competing blockchains, and the deflationary model is designed to make you profitfrom everyone who starts buying later despite not having created any new value.
I'm pretty sure in the US the barriers are also commercial, ie, Epic (a huge hospital software company) is not going to make it easy to do digital transfers of their patient data to non-Epic computer systems. Only the small-fry software companies will want this.

What needs to happens is for the US federal government to issue a mandate: if a hospital wants to get federal dollars (Medicare, etc), its computer system has to comply with the FXHR rules (Federal eXchange for Health Records, or whatever they want to call it). To establish FXHR, they get the top 5 vendors in a room and tell them that they WILL come up with a data exchange protocol and format within x months. They did this with HIPPA, they can do it with data exchange too.

And it is sorely needed. I went to Mayo Clinic for a week, which generated 80 pages of medical reports. To get these transferred to my regular doctors, I had to call Mayo, request the transfer, and they had to schedule the transfer, which sometimes took up to a week. This isn't because they are inefficient (far from it). It's because when they do a fax, sometimes the fax machine isn't on, so it can't go through. They have to retry until they get through. The receiving machine ran out of paper. Etc. It's ridiculous.

Beyond that, I watched my eye doctor try to flip through 80 pages of crap that mostly didn't relate to him to find the pages that were eye related. None of this has any structure; it's just a bunch of pages of text. Horribly inefficient use of his time, and very likely he would miss something important. You want to see blood test results? Well, I had about 10 of them testing various things, and the lab results are spread all through the report. Good luck finding what you want. Truly a mess, and the large software companies have zero incentive to fix this problem. Their goal is to be "the one to rule them all", or at least one of the few. And when there are only a few, there still won't be any data exchange, because they will be duking it out with each other.

Government screws stuff up all the time, but so do private companies, and government is the only player in a position to force the private companies to do the right thing.
I think it comes back bigger each time because more people get involved. From a handful of tech geeks at the start to maybe 100m people this time around.
No, using flakes still requires enabling the “experimental feature”. The difference in 2.4 is that you no longer need to use a prerelease version of Nix to have the experimental feature available.
*won't
Si vis bellum, para oleum.
I own no crypto anymore. But it should be taken into account that it took a pandemic to get it back up and there was a multi-year decline before COVID.
> without games windows would crumble

Eh, pretty sure it is mostly Office, specifically Outlook, that keep Windows alive. Glorious PC Gaming Master Race is relatively small, although they do spend a lot of money.
Bitcoin supply is not effectively limited until a satoshi is no longer adequate to express the price of a good. The 'supply' of Bitcoin doesn't only increase with mining, it effectively also rises with Bitcoin's price. Say I need to order one pizza per week. In late 2011, one BTC lasts me one week. At today's price, the same coin lasts me more than 50 years. There's no need to bid up the price of a whole coin in a (hypothetical) world where whole coins are scarce. You just buy less of it, because nothing is actually denominated in BTC - that would be unsustainable. Everything is still denominated in fiat.
I'm curious. What was your experience working with attorneys? I heard an anecdote from a law student that the classmates were highly competitive about grades. Less anecdotally, there was a recent Financial Times article about corporate lawyers at one firm billing ~100 hours each week, and others sleeping only ~5 hours a night. It also reported a more accurate measurement from a survey:

"That level of exhaustion is taking a toll. In a survey of over 1,700 lawyers published in September, LawCare — a mental health charity in the sector — found almost 70 per cent had experienced ill health, either clinically or self-diagnosed, in the 12 months to January 2021, including depression and anxiety. According to the study, those aged between 26 and 35 were displaying the highest burnout scores — in part because of a lack of autonomy over their working lives. A fifth of respondents said they felt unable to cope." [0]

I'm guessing that law attracts competitive personalities who are willing to work long hours to make money, and that prospect might cause many lawyers to be high-strung.

[0] Paywalled, but the most relevant bit is quoted: https://www.ft.com/content/f4006248-eb05-49d2-a938-d70118c4c...
It has been multi-threaded since at least the early 2000s and most of the work for handling scaling beyond 32 cores was completed in 2012.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1516/ConcDisSys/2015-Concu...
Bitcoin isn't pretending to be any of those (which is essentially what the claim is). Do you see any of that on bitcoin.org, anywhere in Bitcoin Core, or in the Bitcoin Whitepaper? Or in any of the top cryptoassets by market cap?

Don't conflate people talking about something with the thing itself.
Consider what will better bounce back.

While if US sells off, so does Europe. However as the market recovers you would think Europe would return to previous 'reasonable valuations' faster than US would return to their current greater overvaluation levels?

Personally I've avoided US markets for some time for more p/e realistic markets like Australia (my country) and Europe in part for above reasoning.

The one I am watching is Asia, as SE Asia has the growth potential over western nations I feel but its not quite time but I would like to get more across Asian based ETF's in the future.

...IM no expert so shovel full of salt and all that :)
I thought hot water bottles were supposed to have water around 100F (38C) or below? I imagine most hot water heaters put out water hotter than that, no kettle needed.