skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If we don't fill more planets, eventually we will die out.

The thing is we have an almost unlimited numbers of issues to solve right here and right now instead of anticipating the death of the sun or a on in a trillion chance asteroid collision. Problems which are easier and cheaper to solve and would have a direct measurable impact on billions of people.
States can make it difficult and criminal to buy and sell crypto for fiat currency. It would probably end up working like drug prohibition, where drugs are still traded and used, but with one key difference: fiat currency is a superior alternative to crypto for almost every transaction a person makes, whereas the alternative to illegal drugs is substantially different (sobriety or alcohol).

Crypto prohibition would have a far greater impact on its users than drug prohibition ever had, IMO.
Not every project is covered in HN/reddit. Social media impact is not feasible for every project. Some distortion shouldn't mean discard it for all projects. Staring on GitHub is slightly higher effort than say to like on Twitter/Instagram etc.

There are plenty of projects that I have used after seeing here, and say opened few issues or even made a MR or two.

Riding the social media wave is first step to getting users, issue responsiveness, project maturity all make a difference.

1000 star, 100 use , 10 create issues, 1 contributes. More eye balls in general can improve project quality. The maintainers have to be responsive yes, but that really is visible only with more exposure.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/6/12/21283813/g...

https://www.8toabolition.com/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol...

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2020/05/30/bad-ap...

https://www.livescience.com/evidence-police-brutality-reform...
The article also claims sex is fun without any corroborating data. Highly suspicious!
Ask HN: Do we need a Hacker's Bill of Rights?
Similar to the Maker Bill of Rights, what are the principles for building reusable software that would form a Developer's Bill of Rights?

https://cdn.makezine.com/make/MAKERS_RIGHTS.pdf
I think I might just need to move to Arizona
You could also look at how doctors were bribed to accept the introduction of the NHS in the UK, they were against it at the time.
> Lambda? Beanstalk? Glacier? EBS? What even is all this stuff.

Yeah, well, if you don't understand something, you're not gonna recommend it. I'm glad they've found a solution, but to make a blanket statement that no one needs cloud is just dumb.

also

> Identity management. You don’t need it.

Oh. Oh, no.
The Illusion of Money
I've dabbled in vintage/nicer bikes and used to think it was snobism when people on the forums described bikes from walmart etc. as BSOs. Then I owned a few bike-shaped objects and tried to fix/update them and realized they were just a few steps removed from junk to begin with.

It's sad that you have to get up into the few hundred dollar range to get a usable bike, because around here that's actual (very used) corolla money. I don't want to have to be an enthusiast (and spend enthusiast money) to get a bike I can reliably commute on.
But AWS specialists get paid more, and if as a sysadmin you push these technologies in your business, you will become a highly paid AWS specialist.

This is a big driver for the adoption of any tech - internal teams want to gain specific skills and job titles in order to get paid more somewhere else. I know that sounds cynical but as an engineer this has often been at the back of my mind when choosing technologies - either personally, or as a sweetener to get buy in from other engineers on some architectural choice I know they would otherwise object to.
Apologies, the snark is mine not theirs. My point was that the evolutionary pressure on viruses doesn't necessarily make them less serious and there are counterexamples to support that.
> Google "russia says georgia shot first" and you'll get hundreds of millions of hits with articles claiming both ways. If you think this is an unorthodox view I'm afraid you just didn't follow the news of this story at all.

I have no doubt about that! You can probably even find several (thousands) claiming disguised Ukrainian nazis had also participated!

However, I was responding to you claim that NATO forces that were there for wargames are somehow to blame, which is indeed unorthodox.

> No! He made it quite clear that if NATO decides to defend Ukraine we have a moral and legal obligation to do so as well. It's in the very same interview.

I can't come up with any realistic scenario where NATO decides anything that Biden doesn't agree with. Obviously he can't just say "Hey, we don't really care about Eastern Europe and Russia because we would like to concentrate on competition with China for foreseeable future, but at the same time we can't afford to look weak and unprepared again after Afghanistan disaster, so we are going to act tough and continue to be visibly and deeply concerned about situation in Ukraine!", don't you think?

> So obviously in the very same interview he isn't taking it off the table - it's just not what he will be doing right now

I mean, when else do you expect him to do it? Stationing US troops in Ukraine after Russia has already occupied it would be quite challenging in my opinion.

> This is from an article posted 45 minutes ago from NBC News. Obviously Biden has not taken sending troops off the table.

He means further reinforcing deployments of forces in existing NATO member countries in Eastern Europe.
The blog titles says "why we are migrating...". I didn't get any of that. I got " why I like BSD, and thus I am migrating"
Perhaps I'm in the minority here given the comments thus far, but I've always been of the opinion that equivalent work should be compensated equivalently and commensurate with the value of output generated for the company.
The health care market is about as far from a free market as you can get.

Tons of heavy regulation everywhere limiting supplies of doctors, nurses, ability for folks to see pricing info, for pricing info to matter etc. Consumer of the service often is not the one paying. So you can do crazy stuff like make an insurance co pay $10,000 per pill for something that overseas no one would ever pay that because they'd be paying themselves.

I've been in third world countries, cash pay places, no insurance, no govt stuff. You can call and ask how much something will cost, they tell you, you go, pay and done.

My bills in California have like 10 pages of notices and warnings on them for each charge. So it's a 5 page document per copay. Its crazy.
I think this is satire?
Who Needs a Raspberry Pi Microcontroller Chip? Maybe You
My boss graduated from Berkely, and so I occasionally had to administer a FreeBSD box he kept around for the "superior OS philosophy".

My biggest annoyance, apart from the obvious lack of systemd, was a social one: Any time I had to look up how to accomplish some non-trivial task I would inevitably find a thread on the FreeBSD forums by someone else who has had exactly the same problem in the past, together with a response by some dev along the lines of "why would anyone ever need to do that?".
First of all. Not thousands, but 571 as i checked on a population of 320.000.000 in the US and with a reasonable amount of people unvaccinated ( and they chose for this, other people aren't responsible for other people's decisions)

And as mentioned in my above comment.

Can you show me how many are dying because of Omicron specific and how many are related to previous Delta infection that were already admitted in the hospital?

I'm not saying people aren't dying. Lockdowns aren't in place for the flu and that has also 52 k. deaths per year ( = 145 per year) and is much less contagious as Omicron. Also, Delta is not gone yet.

You have to compare numbers with reality. Otherwise I can ask you at how many deaths per year you would reduce restrictions or at what death/severity rate.

0 is definitely impossible as some people will remain unvaccinated. You could have the same argument that 10 people are dying per year...

PS. Compare it with December 2020/January 2021 which would be comparable with visiting family/friends multiple times. We aren't anywhere near that peak with *7 infections.
Good example of this: What is the complexity of the fastest algorithm that prints the nth Fibonacci number?

Novice: "O(n), because you have to iterate from 0..n."

Expert: "O(log n), because we can use matrix exponentiation."

Master: "O(n), because F(n) has O(n) digits to print!"
>If you reject people just because of their birthplace

You rejected one because they had a lower SAT/ACT. It sounds like you want birthplace to be a major factor in admissions though.
There is more than a slight difference between moving to California and Saskatchewan - just the same, adding another 10% to the state income tax will send quite a few people in the other direction.

I’d agree that universal health care probably wouldn’t come about incrementally, but there is no fundamental reason we can’t improve the system incrementally.
I said "I'd argue" like I would, just as GP said "I'd argue". That means we aren't yet. I just wanted to voice that I disagreed so others could pick it up.

Central point of failures, ownership, privacy, etc etc. Obvious stuff I don't want to ramble about.

Only HN would try to downplay decentralization, something we know the benefits of, only to bash crypto/web3.
For extra items in the right click menu to appear, Explorer has to load dlls and ask them if they want something to appear.

If one of the dlls is slow to respond, Explorer can’t show the right click menu. Even though 99 out of 100 times you right click the desktop, it wasn’t to open that ‘ati settings utility’ or whatever a driver added to that menu.

It wouldn’t surprise me at all if the reason they removed the items from the main menu wasn’t both to make it less useful to add crap items and to make it less painful if they don’t load quickly.
> lacking a Toyota Corolla equivalent

I think this is referring to reliability and cost together. Although I would point the author at the Priority Current. That thing will probably ride until the wheels fall off. Belt drive and internally geared with a bottom bracket motor.

https://www.prioritybicycles.com/products/current
I use it all the time; it boils down to a single line in sysctl.conf:

hw.acpi.lid_switch_state=“S3”
To add on to this: his whole argument about range not mattering assumes that there is an easy place to plug the car into every night, something that is not true for most people that live in an apartment (and could be true for many people that rent their homes and don't have a pre-existing place to plug the car in).

Nontrivial amounts of cars don't overnight anywhere near an outlet, and that particular use case is not handled very well by existing electric cars at all.
I assure you Google has thought of this and is making absolutely sure not to do any sort of thing in the minority communities
It’s pretty cool that I can send $1M to someone without a bank intervening, not to mention that nobody can stop the transaction from happening. And then they can print that out onto a sheet a paper and put it into a vault.

Crypto is really great if you’re a drug dealer or some other kind of criminal.
Ethereum is the only major smart contract chain that uses proof of work. Any other chain would use proof of stake, which doesn't have the environmental concerns you laid out. If you're passionate enough to take the time to write giant posts on this topic maybe take the time to learn something about it.

I have no relation to either of those places and found that website via an internet search for the terms "papyrus NFT". Your tone is weird and erratic so this will be my last interaction with you on this thread.
The security posture is quite different, so it's not as easy as just oh, turn on some magic module and be done. Security requires work, regardless of OS.

A fair bit is included in the base system already, see capsicum for example. Also, see HardenedBSD, which is arguably better than anything Linux has built-in.
Interesting piece. Definitely have to read it from a lens of a highly paid tech worker, nothing wrong with that either.

Buying an electric vehicle right now if you aren't a highly paid engineer is a bit of a wedge I'd say though.

We're only just approaching a cross roads of fuel/electric competition in vehicles.

If you buy a car and expect to hold onto it for 5 or more years, slightly under the length of the avg new car loan, then you want to be really sure the one you pick is stable and the right choice. To me that removes most of the EV options available, regardless of how much I like their style (looking at you rivian).

I'm excited to see what's available on the market in 5 years but right now it still feels early to buy a brand new EV if you aren't a high earner.

A used leaf or bolt still looks like the best bet to dip into the EV market and drive something cheaper until full adoption and kinks are worked out by the big car companies.

I have owned some electric vehicles, so not trying to be a hater of it, quite the opposite.
I hear these things happening all the time at hospitals. Are those urgent care places you see in mini-malls any better with respect to billing?
Some background stories over the years: https://vtdigger.org/tag/jay-peak-resort/
No "Web3" really isnt just a marketing campign. Look up web3.js, which had its first release in 2015, it offers a set of tools for creating and interacting with ephemeral/emergent internet architecture which is what Web3 is really about.

I dont disagree there are a number of less than scrupulous people floating around selling worthless tokens, BUT to solely focus on them is to ignore a real core of interesting computer science advances.
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Personally, I would lock my children in a cellar for 15 years if that's what it took to protect those who have compromised immune systems. Talk about not being able to defend yourself!
> In general, people spread their assets. So for example, you could speculate some on the stock market, some in cryptocurrencies, etc.

I find this funny, my tech stocks portfolio has gone down 10% since the beginning of the year. I do monthly investing, so that's a loss compared to my average price over time.

In contrast, I bought ETH at around $20 USD, and it being at $2000 is still quite a good outcome for me.
The thing that bugs me is that 25 years in the tech industry and I never heard a single person, engineer or business person, ever use the term "web 3." Then one day a few months ago it seemed like a ton of news outlets dropped articles on the exact same day which started using the term.

It smells like a made up buzz word that did not originate organically. Someone coined this termed and released a bunch of press releases to get it to catch on. I don't even know why people are giving it the time of day. It's someone's marketing speak and it smells awful.

And furthermore, decentralization is not new nor is it unique to the web, nor does this "web 3" garbage have anything to do with the web either. Web 2.0 was also buzzwordish but at least it was referring to a genuine paradigm shift in the way that websites work. The inclusion of the XHR request API in browsers and the birth of publicly available RESTful APIs that web-sites could consume which helped lead to the split between frontend and backend development as specialties that we see today (whether that's a good thing or not is another discussion).

"web 3" is just marketing PR garbage for "crypto is the next big thing ... somehow."
You mean the company with the 1.7 trillion dollar market cap?
Because I see far too much time/effort/money being spent on the "protection" of certain crafts while more practical things are being left to rot. Tax dollars should only be spent on heritage crafts once the economically-relevant trades are protected. At the moment places like Britain are hemorrhaging tech skills and knowledge.
Can't resist mentioning my personal favorite expansion of a sqrt:

sqrt(1-x) = 1- \sum_n C(n)/2^(2n+1) x^(n+1)

where x is in (0,1) and C(n)=binomial(2n,n)/(n+1) is the n'th catalan number.

[Learned this from http://www.math.chalmers.se/~wastlund/coinFlip.pdf]
There are people who want “free market” solutions and the definition of “free market” tends to be any solution that involves a corporation running it. Generally people deep down know that it is obscene for a country as rich as ours to have large numbers of people not be able to get some level of healthcare. Thus the Frankenstein system the U.S. has. We mandate ER center see patients and stabilize them but without government paying for it. Since no one works for free we get the asinine billing system the U.S. has.
Since any currency is merely an agreement about value between at least two parties, technology itself isn't going to differentiate what is and is not a "cryptocurrency" from "something using a blockchain".
>There is controversy about Docker not running on FreeBSD but I believe (like many others) that FreeBSD has a more powerful tool. Jails are older and more mature - and by far - than any containerization solution on Linux.

If FreeBSD jails and Solaris zones were equivalent to Linux containers, we'd have seen them take over the backend already. We haven't. They're really useful, they provided a degree of safety and peace of mind for multi-tenancy but they're not granular enough for what's done with $CONTAINER_RUNTIME these days.

Jérôme Petazzoni has an old talk where he touches upon container primitives and compared them to jails : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK5i-N34im8
Sure and cash is backed by a special linen-cotton blend of paper.
I never understand why do people think the government is going to do such a great job at running things. Have you never been to a DMV or had to interact with any federal/state/local authority? You get nothing but unthinking apathetic people who just want you to go away. I assure you government employees will care even less when something goes wrong.
I would definitely argue that complexity comes from the number of meaningful options available to the player, not strictly rule complexity. Simple rules can lead to complex situations. This has little to do with the skill of the players involved, even two amateurs playing Go are faced with constant decisions that will effect the course of the game. It is indeed the 19X19 board where placement is allowed anywhere therein that gives Go it’s complexity.
Pretty sure 'surprise billing' laws that are coming down the pipe only apply to out-of-network bills, would not help cases like this.

(per this https://www.cms.gov/nosurprises/Ending-Surprise-Medical-Bill...)

The hospital in the article has a price transparency page here https://www.ssmhealth.com/resources/patients-visitors/pay-my... (behind multiple TOS of course). It seems to use epic / mychart. I used it to search for 'facility' and 'emergency' and got nothing. the embedded pdf bill calls this 'emergency services'.

My guess is that ER facility fee isn't a 'shoppable service' under CMS definitions because it can't be scheduled in advance, but the fact that it doesn't say 'abandon $800 ye who enter here' on the front door IMO should be a crime.
no, this can't be backed up, not even with models which post-hoc 'describe' other outbreaks of other diseases/virii outbreaks
Ha, nice!

Seriously though, javascript is not a great language if you are looking for robust determinism. I can understand their decision to go elsewhere, given the domain and design.
It's not obvious at all, the issue is that move semantics in C++ don't really have much to do with the concept of moving. Most languages that have move semantics treat moves as a kind of relocation of a value from one place to another, hence the name. You're not changing the value, you're relocating it and in fact once the relocation is complete the original location is destroyed. So for example in Rust, you are absolutely welcome to move an immutable object.

In C++, a move is an awkward kind of mutable copy operation with a special overloading rule that allows binding to rvalue references. There is nothing obvious about how it works, people get tripped up by it all the time along with all the additional complexity about when moves happen vs. when an elision happens vs. when a copy happens, the fact that T&& means wildly different things depending on whether T is a template parameter, and the bloated set of value categories introduced by it: glvalues, xvalues, rvalues, prvalues.

I absolutely sympathize with anyone who doesn't feel like knowing all these C++isms.
I’m baffled my point went over your head.

We have tens of thousands of thousands of deaths every year. In the past decade 300,000 died of the flu and nobody notices.
This is much worse than that. In a free market you would at least be able to find out how much something costs before agreeing to it.
The healthcare market in the US is anything but a free market. It is ludicrously riddled with costly regulations at every single level of care.
There's one interesting thought in the article: that financial markets could be correctly predicting the end of the Covid pandemic phase.

The unwinding of the Covid trade doesn't necessarily correlate with that, but it's a reasonable proposition.

Most of the other stuff is opinions and I agree with the sentiment of many of the other commenters: You might be right, and I certainly would like you to be right, but there's little hard evidence that you are, and June 2021 was a nice cautionary tale that you very well might not be.
It can be the basis of an economy. But it will always be a very inefficient if you measure efficiency in terms of societal value with respect to the societal effort put in to create that value. Why? Because it necessarily entails a large section of our production being focussed on a small proportion of the people. And even ignoring issues of fairness, diminishing marginal utility means that those people don't derive nearly so much value as that same effort directed at the masses would create.
Right, it's unpleasant to see snark.

I hope my original comment doesn't read that way. I mean more "the Nix language isn't much different from something you're familiar with".

> "you should start out by reading the introduction docs"

This one I kinda buy, though.

With programming, with many things, you can get quite far without having to understand all the details. And many tools do quite well by being intuitive to use.

Nix is quite weird. And can be quite difficult. And it's got a small community, so it's under-documented and you won't always be able to find someone who's run into the same problem with a good explanation as to how to fix it.
Tonga has no internet after eruption
Actually, the benefits of decentralization are worth weighing against the costs of decentralization.

There's a reason that the process of going from web1 to web2 involved quite a bit of centralization. If web3 cannot meet its goals in a way that either maintains those benefits or creates a new benefit that substantively offsets the cost of losing them, people won't care. And if people don't care, this web3 will be as much an empty buzzword as when web3 referred to Siri and Alexa.
collapse. US Presidential election will have no clear winner.
The core of it is moving money around without a payment processor. Sending money person-to-person is part of this, the other part is software than can move money natively (and more importantly, atomically with state updates in the software which isn't possible with eg Stripe API calls).
find a topic you are interested in. it's the only way.
Nice! I had discovered that adding a '!' does this on DDG, but didn't know about the backslash - cool tip.

I will say that it's nice to be able to add the exclamation point at the end, instead of putting it at the start like the backslash. That way, you can decide after you type your query whether you want to go directly to the first link or see the full results.