skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Upon observation, that huge community of developers appears to still be mostly building apps and altcoins on top of ETH and cashing out on BTC exchanges because that's what everyone uses and it's how you make the most money. These coins have not diminished in popularity, the huge community has only increased their popularity. If you take issue with cognitive bias then take it up with them. Like I said, I will concede this point when that changes and all the proof-of-work coins are gone, and the BTC maxis go away and stop having so much influence, but that has not happened and I am very skeptical that it ever will without also taking everything else you'd describe as "web3" with it.

I used to be very interested in defi but I can't anymore when it's evident that the same market forces and consolidation and network effects keeping traditional banking afloat are also keeping BTC afloat because too many people are invested in keeping it the dominant coin. I really hope I'm wrong and BTC is not "too big to fail" but if I am then I expect you'll see these fancy web3 startups pivot back to making "boring" web 2.0 banking systems because there is no big money in defi anymore.
Ted Lasso is good, but it's a saccharine, deeply unrealistic fantasy bordering on self-parody. So I can't really agree with you there.
You can get quite far mapping the triple concept to (PK, column, value) or (PK, FK, related-row) and transpiling from there.

(I played around with this some years back, not to the point where anything came out of it worthy of publishing, but enough to be pleasantly surprised how far 'quite far' turned out to be in practice)
This argument would be more compelling if companies were in general better at driving management decisions using all of the many data analysis techniques already available. Making something lower effort but also harder to understand and more error prone doesn't seem like an obvious win....
Well that MP3 the RIAA flagged was FULL of ones and zeros, so it only makes sense they would get flagged ;-)
By strongly worded diplomatic language. Military movement. Why? This is a recurring argument but a really weird one.

Everyone will always move their troops in response to movement of everyone else’s. There is tension and diplomacy.
I wish the UI has a left sidebar with scroll-able TOC, so I don't need jump back to home page to pick a different subject. I asked the same to gobyexample.com's author and was told they have no intention to change.
You should probably see a doctor. What you are doing here is exactly why this article is so bad: it relies on random anecdotes and confirmation bias to make its case. Any answer you get here will not help you. See a doctor, and get a proper exam and diagnosis.
if we poked out one eye of 80% of infants you would probably feel the same about that
It's been reproduced by other users, see below comment in this topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30061080
> Meanwhile, as we continue to not build housing (a trend over the last ~50 years), the price of renting continues to increase and the value of a house that you had previously bought also increases.

Yeah, that of course would be the major incentive to buy a house. But on the other hand, living in the Bay Area, buying into this market feels a bit like gambling to me. Do I really believe property prices will come crashing down? Not really. Am I certain enough to lock myself into a suboptimal situation at a gargantuan price? Also no...
> How, out of curiosity?

Compare with XFS over a mdadm say in raid10 3 legs f3, then cry.

> consumer hardware may not have the PCIE lanes really available to run multiple fast NVME devices well

Trust me, I have all the lanes I need, even if I would always wish I had more :)
Part of the problem though, is that we don't know for sure what non-linearities may be lurking out there. Maybe we add 100 more "neurons" to the net and it "goes exponential" so to speak. Or maybe not. There's still a lot we don't know about the emergent properties of these systems as they scale up.
I am certain there were quite a few people back then saying "the same" about Galileo Galilei. And maybe that the church only had their best interest at heart... to protect them from quacks and heretics.

I find your view dangerous. You believe the chances, that his person is "right" are vanishingly small? That's of course a good reason to flag (delete) that article. Why allow an discussion or other to read the piece and have their own opinion. I cannot believe people are saying things like that with a good conscience.
Not OP but I do. At this point in time it's clear who uses Firefox and it's not the masses. It's the ones like you and me. Maybe our closest loved ones, too.

It is doable. If there is an outrage, it would be manufactured.
That's totally fine to do. That's a very honest position, which is different from what both 12ft conjectures as well as implements.
Any Virtual Reality where I don't have the option of being a talking blue anthropomorphic dhole (i.e. my fursona) isn't one that I'll ever choose to adopt. Calling it a "metaverse" doesn't affect my decision here.
Ask HN: Where within Europe should we incorporate?
My co-founder and I are based in Germany and are currently evaluating in which European country we should incorporate. Maybe someone here can weigh in.
We are not super happy with the process in Germany (having to go to the notary, long waiting times etc.) and taxes are so-so.
Do alternatives like Ireland (low taxes) or Estonia (easy process) make sense when we would never actually move to those countries? Especially considering we might scale up, have employees etc.?

I am curious about incorporating in the UK, but I assume that Brexit made operating there a lot more difficult.

Any shared experiences would be much appreciated!
Certainly many things recommended for disabled users are of great benefit to non-disabled users, but there are also things that are recommended against for disabled users that the lack of can slightly hinder the usability of sites or applications.

One particular thing is that it is generally recommended against auto focusing in fields, but for sighted non-keyboard navigating users there are many applications in which setting the focus automatically in a field just makes a lot of sense.

But, as should be noted by my word choice, there is also an asymmetry to the damage accessibility considerations or lack thereof can cause - in disabled users they can make the site unusable, in non-disabled users they can make the site slightly annoying.
Initially the transpiling would be context-free of the schema.

It would really nice to have context when _writing_ the code, so we could do things like autocomplete (IIUC this is what Malloy does already).

Are there features you can think of that would be helpful if we had the schema context during transpiling?
It's syntactically and functionally correct, so despite the error messages I think 'valid' is a better label.

> You could build a C++ compiler with a flag to warn, rather than error, on encountering implicit conversions that are forbidden by the C++ standard. The language the compiler is accepting would then no longer be standard C++, but a superset. (Same for all compiler-specific extensions of course.)

The way I see it, these errors are already on par with C++ warnings. C++ won't stop you if you make a pointer null or use the wrong string as a map key.
I needed to script something for a FreeBSD server, and I was doing the development in Linux. It would have been OK if I had used Ruby/Python/Perl, etc., but I decided to do it in Bash. I had to make quite a few fixes when I got the script on the FreeBSD box. Then I deployed it to an OpenBSD system. More fixes.
This is a straw man (and basically pretty silly) argument, of course.
I've been running NixOS for 2 months having had my eye on it for a while.

So far I feel like I'm making progress. Having started from the masochism of Gentoo followed by the relatively lesser masochism of Arch my feeling is at least these hours of configurating are not being poured into the void but will have a substantially longer payback period. Reinstalling Arch or Gentoo always inevitably involved a large amount of remembering long forgotten config incantations which despite a certain number of git configuration repos for system and home and some scripted installation tended not to avoid a significant amount of tedious unfulfilling grunt work at the bootstrapping console.

Mind you I'm interested in views from those who are further along and feeling the pain. I can well believe that that getting to the first '80% how I want things' configuration might be much easier than the next 10% on the same path.

I'm using unstable, flakes, and home manager as a module in the main configuration.nix.

The language doesn't feel particularly arcane or difficult though so I don't relate to that complaint yet. As others have mentioned. A few fairly standard functional features (recursion, destructuring, first class functions) plus JSON sounds about right.
There's plenty of opportunities to take pictures/videos close to home. Which does not count as „traveling“ for most people.
President Bukele is betting that the bitcoin community will lend him money on less onerous terms than the IMF and invest their profits from bitcoin in El Salvador. He is buying goodwill from the bitcoin community, whether he also makes a profit on his bitcoin is secondary.
It's the title attribute on an image element that generates the tooltip. Did alt do that previously or was it always title?

MDN says not to put the same text in title and alt, as some screenreaders will read both.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/Im...
Ask HN: Does anybody allow websites to “Send Notifications”?
All the time I see web sites ask me if I want to enable this feature

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Push_API

I always say "No" because, in every other sphere, the brands I interact with want to communicate with me much more than I want to be communicated with. Does anyone else do differently?
I wish there was a long well-illustrated documentary about JWST. The story of its concept, design, manufacturing, testing, assembly, and launch is simply mind-blowing.
Good luck in your endeavors.

Tangential : the more I study early era scientist, the more it baffles me how some of the greatest discoveries in mankind were made by people who had the luxury of not equating an intellectual pursuit with a breadwinner.

Thinks pre-revolutionnary french aristocrats.

Burn out with chemistry ? Let's just switch to revolutionize physics, and then we'll have a party.

Can't wait for some society to find some modern way of that.

We need a way to enable polymath again.
Benchtop logic analyzers used to be more complicated. They are still technically superior with better probe termination, higher sample rates, and sophisticated hardware triggering.
Yup, nobody ever considered Bitcoin is vulnerable to attack. Thank you for the insight!

Snark aside, all risk is relative. Your bank account is also vulnerable to attack, and also a lot more vulnerable to human error and a bunch of other risks. Various instruments are good for various goals - as it happens, BTC is a pretty good value store. Not what anybody expected in the beginning, but there you go.
This stuff has been discussed in immense detail on AskHistorians, with citations to various historians (often with background on those historians for context), and the best you can likely say here about the electoral college is that it was a janky hack created to resolve an interminable squabble about apportionment. It had supporters among anti-slavery politicians and was uniformly supported by pro-slavery politicians, because it worked synergistically with the overt pro-slavery clauses in the constitution to tilt political power to the slave states.
I more meant people who were already dangerous kooks about other stuff before, although I guess it's never too late to start a track record.
Maybe interesting, I keep a list of large energy events/stores for thinking about the scale of global catastrophes.

Looks like this Tonga eruption is VEI5 or 6, so between St Helens and Pinatubo.

Comments appreciated in the doc!

- Mt. Toba 74kya, VEI 8/M8.8 eruption energy: 1e21-1e22 Joules

- M8 Volcanoes once every million years, but M7 yield > 10x more energy over time.

- Global Warming: 7.88e21 Joule/year

- Hiawatha Crater (Pleistocene, possibly 12kya) impact energy: 3e21 J

- Hurricane (1% kinetic, 99% latent heat): 1e21 J

- Human energy production 2013: 5.7e20 J/year

- Mt. Tambora 1815, VEI 7 eruption energy: 1.3e20 J

- Largest earthquakes 2: 1e19 J

- World nuclear weapon stockpile yield (extrapolated from USA): 16e18 J

- United States nuclear weapon stockpile yield 2020 (~2Gt TNT): 8.3e18

- Mt. Pinatubo 1991, Krakatoa 1883; VEI 6 eruption energy: 8.3e17 J

- Mt. St. Helens 1980, VEI 4 eruption energy: 1e17 J

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14EslUTRCwOgc_EobxH6X5e01...
Code Monkey or CAD Monkey? (2016)
I sort of did this. I went from a software job building web applications to working on radio hardware. The parts I worked on were the FPGAs that did the signal processing. I didn't do any of the board layout or PCB design, but I had to read the schematics and understand how to interface with various things on the board. It was interesting, but I found the work frustrating and the iteration time very long. I eventually went back to software and am happy with that choice.

Here are my thoughts:

- The grass is always greener on the other side. Other engineering fields have their own problems, the work is not always exciting, and you will have to learn a lot to be productive.

- Consider pursuing your interests as a hobby. Outside of cutting edge stuff or things like civil or nuclear you can do most things on your own. And the cutting edge stuff no one is going to let you do for a long time because it typically requires a large organization to do and large organizations get large because they have specialists. Plus they are generally risk averse. You could maybe find a startup doing interesting stuff, but they don't have the money to spend on mentoring you/bringing you up to speed.

- You are giving up a lot of money by leaving software. If you want to do things like have a family, own a home, start a business of your own, you should consider sticking it out in software and finding fulfillment outside of work.

Edit: Maybe you just want something to do that isn't behind a screen. Consider getting more involved in things like cooking, hunting/shooting, or working on your car. Those hobbies (and others) all have aspects that require similar skills as the interesting parts of engineering. Maybe you can find find some of what you're looking for there.
How about the payed version has a solid VPN thrown in? And I mean a VPN using Mozilla infrastructure... Not a 3rd party.

There's a whole market around VPNs... So obviously enough money in that space.
> we still want governments to enforce copyright and other IP law because it's a good way to make sure that people have a financial incentive to be creative or do R&D.

I have to believe that there must be alternatives. We need better post-copyright business models. This artificial scarcity thing is simply not going to work anymore. At least not without sacrificing everything about computers that make them special.

Maybe crowdfunding where creation is treated as an investment. Maybe patronage where it's treated as a subscription. I really don't know for sure. I just know it can't go on like this.
This is the path i see for myself.

Learning engineering so i can do my own projects. Funding it with software jobs. But its so hard to get space for projects...
I wrote this in 2012 - almost exactly ten years ago - and it remains true.

Looking at freebsd.org right now I see that my options for production, release systems are 12.3 and 13.0 ...

... which means that if 12.1-RELEASE came out at the end of 2019 and 13.0-RELEASE came out in April of 2021, you had all of 16 months to make investments in the 12 branch before it was hopelessly passe and all queries regarding it would be answered with:

"That's fixed in current ..."

The 4.x nostalgia is justified: it was polished and polished and polished over many years and many organizations were incentivized to invest in that branch
They could just take that $400 mil/year and dump it entirely into the browser for as long as the money lasts. Ideally spending some money refactoring their codebase such that it could be more likely for the code to survive on after a loss of funding as an non-Mozilla open-source project. Follow the public radio route and take donations, build a sense of community. Possibly spin up a commercial Rust consultancy/side-business (I know this is hypocritical, it's just that Rust seems like the "git" to Mozilla's equivalent of "linux", out of all the things I've seen them try. Sorry Thunderbird lovers :P)
naa, they have at most ~30k GPUs. most of it is lack of capacity rather that large demand
I wish there was a default "no" and a locally maintained in browser page to go see cached request and say "yes" one by one.

The popup sucks. Since its in browser, it's capable of being improved. As in: blocked.

[Edit: there is. Settings->Advanced->Site Settings->Notifications and set the toggle to deny. ]
Of course. Large companies like Pepsi have teams of analysts that only write SQL. I applied for a programming job there a long time ago and didn’t follow up when they explained in the interview that’s the only language they used.
Makes me think of how Marvin Minsky thought Meditation was a bad thing.
Yes this looks really cool, and similar! Feel free to hit me up on Twitter https://twitter.com/max_sixty
if your goal is to truly good-faith ask questions without getting the response you cite, it's entirely possible. The secret is to play dumb and make the person you're asking explicitly support each and every statement they are making in a way that would convince a normal person. Just keep asking reasonable questions and playing dumb. Then, at the very end, say slowly: "huh. well, ok, I guess you've explained your perspective, but there are these things that don't quite follow, and seem like they are just guesses or suppositions:" and list all the remaining problems. This is also an effective denial of service attack on the scientific infrastructure.

I don't think public health officials really want to be in the position of explaining their lack of certainty (combined with a set of previously established good practices that are likely to lead to good outcomes) about nearly anything, since we have a long history of noncompliance in patients and lack of certainly just leads to additional noncompliance.

I don't want to sound completely unsympathetic, as I've lived through multiple paradigm changes and I know well that scientists get defensive when you challenge their territory. but remember, we have to deal with the jenny mccarthy effect.
> Continuing this "you're either with us or against us" false dichotomy (...)

There is no "false dichotomy". There are only basic higiene and public health guidelines which are designed to curtail and mitigate the spread of a viral disease, specially when the spread is unsustainable and causing the colapse of health services.

You may very well prefer to opt out of even ever washing your hands, but you cannot force anyone around you to accept the risk your militant and contrarian attitude poses to them and your loved ones, specially when we're dealing with cases based on pathetic and utterly outlandish conspiracy theories. I mean, are we now expected to respect those idiots who were pushing the idea that covid was spread by 5G celular networks? Or are we claiming that rejecting 5G-causes-covid conspiracy theories and the like to be "continuing false dichotomies"?
Even assuming no more money comes in and the judge's order stands in a month there would be nothing preventing them from going to work at ThedaCare again at such a point instead of doing so immediately. After all the lawsuit is literally to try to keep them from leaving not actually about where it is they are going to.

My guess is the money they'll get will actually outlive the order anyways though, but there is no risk if it doesn't.
What are the well-understood reasons? It seems weird to me, as someone who hasn’t worked on open source, that the PR would just sit there untouched and not even commented on
According to this large randomised trial [1], simple interventions to increase the use of surgical masks reduced infection by 11%, and by nearly 35% in over 60s.

That doesn't seem useless.

Of course, if you're only talking about protecting yourself from others, then a KN95 mask is clearly the way forward.

[1] https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/09/surgical-mask...
Looks good. Smart to include ability to schedule a la Calendly. Don’t love the pricing. $40 “forever” isn’t as enticing as it sounds as you may be gone in a month.

Also, the paid version is for “Professionals”… who’s the free version for? I’d reconsider that language.
As Apple execs have an agenda of turning developers into low wage gig-workers, I'd run to Windows.
With symlinks (or hard links for that matter) you can have folders work like tags in a real filesystem.

That said, binary classification (object A is a member of class B, a function with a boolean truth value) is the basic concept in classification. That is, any classification can be represented correctly with binary classification.

There really are a few things where you assign something a category from a finite set (like a chess game was won by "White", "Black" or was a draw) but frequently when people build ontologies based the idea that "A is a member of one of this set of categories" they are going to screw it up.
>>> I used to be a junior software developer

So I used the numbers for a full-time employee, and I believe they are both correct. [1] if you prefer a government source, £611 × 52 = around $43k (increase presumably due to this being 4 years later).

Your British number is for all households, including those where one or both adults doesn't work. However, they are comparable.

On urbanism, you've completely missed my point. Americans are forbidden from living like Europeans by their state and local governments [2], and I consider this completely unreasonable.

[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwor...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-family_zoning
What?!? Of course not.

It’s just a pleasantly light start to 12 hour board game sessions.
IIRC very early on browsers would turn alt into tooltips, and then that functionality was split out into title. I understand why but I'm still bitter about it since they don't want you to use both.
That "brilliant set of ideas" included a number of overtly pro-slavery clauses (most notably the 3/5ths Compromise), and others that worked synergistically with the over pro-slavery stuff to prolong slavery (and which have janked up our democracy every since).

For more detail on this argument than you'll ever want, here's a starting point:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2243060
I'd hazard to say that it delivers customer value via two avenues: (1) better SLAs, and (2) lower expenses.

If your backend OS starts to run software more efficiently, cost less to host, has less maintenance downtime, has fewer security incidents, has fewer crashes, etc, having changed to it has produced customer value.
Academia is not necessarily the pinnacle of achievement in a field, it is the pinnacle of published achievement. There is always a dual track of proprietary knowledge, and knowledge available to the commons. Since the latter is most beneficial to society, that’s why we have awards for people when they publish their research, instead of hiding it for maximum profit.

I don’t see something new here, these institutions to encourage people to share are old, so it must be a problem that had been recognized for a while.