skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Democratic discourse fundamentally needs facts to debate, not lies, propaganda or un-verifiable anecdotes. People who come to a democratic discourse without facts deserve no time of democratic people.

I agree. Wholeheartedly. What falsehoods do you hold that keep you from participating in democracy then? Or are you saying that you, above everyone else, uses facts and logic only?

What have you voted for based on emotion?
This is interesting. The hacker did not return the ETH, so the $320M has come from the deep-pocketed investors and VCs behind Solana/Wormhole.

Interesting to note that the VCs are bailing out the retail users here, instead of the usual flow where taxpayers are on the hook for bailing out too-big-to-fail WallStreet banks.
That's just a branding gimmick, isn't it? I don't think anybody is fooled (or if they are then it's unobservant meat-eaters, not vegans).

If I can try to summarize your opinion (tell me where I'm wrong), it sounds like the crux of your issue is that it's not just the action of eating meat that's bad, it's also the idea of eating meat and the rituals associated with eating meat. In other words, if someone eats a "tofurky" for Thanksgiving, they're engaging in something similar to eating meat, which reinforces the norm that eating meat is an acceptable thing, or suggests that there is a genuine (superior) non-plant-based version of the facsimile you're eating. The objection isn't purely "you could be eating tastier stuff", you think the end goal of more widespread veganism is actually undermined by the existence of meat substitutes.
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It poisons (and dumbs down) the ecosystem to post generic dismissals like this, so please don't. Of course, most projects end up failing - but that's a bad reason to direct this sort of barb at specific ones.

If you have a substantive point, make it thoughtfully; if not, please don't comment until you do.
In the long run you are right, in the short run the various fake/substitute foods and ingredients are good intermediate steps to a vegetarian/vegan diet.

I think the bridge many aspiring vegans/vegetarians find hard to cross is finding really 'hearty' foods that don't have to taste like a steak but give you a similar experience (or feeling?) So the easiest first step is the substitute products.
If you are in a city, but can't get wired Internet (I'm in downtown Chicago), I would recommend trying T-Mobile's Home Internet before you go for Starlink. T-Mobile's "Trash Can" router is a bit flakey, but the speeds are great and there are no limits. Plus, no installation, just plug in and go. For $50 a month, it's really a steal, IMO.
As noted by others, a.) it really looks like a Draken, an old Swedish supersonic jet fighter used by contractors and the National Test Pilot School for a variety of roles, and b.) nothing like this ever gets "caught out" by a satellite unless it's the result of a crash (recall the panic over an F-117 going down decades ago because it 'pancaked' in a manner that could reveal its shape).

I have had acquaintances and a grad school mentor that worked on projects out at the remote test site (among other facilities). They had very, very good situational awareness about what was overhead and when, and established & practiced procedures on sanitizing things before anything got to where it could image the site. We also have decades of lessons-learned on things like heat signatures where airplanes were parked, such that their shape could be divined even when the test article was safely ensconced in a hanger.

We also practiced (and I would assume still practice) a variety of denial & deception activities to foil all manner of collectors and confuse the opposition, from RF to visual to various MASINT measures. One example is the Wet Site at China Lake, which was covertly built to assess the RCS of various maritime platforms (most famously Sea Shadow). When Soviet birds went overhead the radar dishes were pointed in a different direction and radiating on misleading frequences. The dirt spoil and vehicle tracks from the concealed construction of the test facility's saltwater pond was hidden like the tunnels in The Great Escape. Cool stuff.
Not hard for a non-technical person to remove the speaker. Housing pops right open with a small flathead screwdriver. Then you just remove the speaker's magnet, no desoldering or anything like that required. Took 5 minutes.

I did it to one of mine to use it to track my bicycle if it ever gets stolen.
Afrigen has used the public data of Moderna mRNA vaccine to make its own version
Try delta v: rings of Saturn for 2d.

Outer Wilds has fun scaled down space flight.
Part of the problem is that after a fairly short period of time you can't reply anymore. I want looking through my "threads" section for a particular comment and found someone had replied to an older comment I made and had misunderstood what I said. I wanted to reply to clarify, but the reply button had been removed. It seems like after so many hours or days, you can't continue the conversation. It's a shame, but it does keep zombie threads from living indefinitely.

I was recently cleaning up some passwords and unused accounts, and found an account I had created in my password manager that I forgot about. I signed in for the first time in about 5-6 years, and the same thread was the top thread from 5-6 years ago. So I get timing things out. But it seems way too short here.
Jeff had an episode where he took it out to his cousin's farm, and it didn't work there.
You don't have to side load. If you value the 'protections' the app stores offer, you can continue to use them, from how this reads.
And that is the difference between a hired employee and an owner-operator.
Modern digital cameras like the Arri Alexa have 14+ stops of dynamic range. That is less than what Kodak says about most film stock.
I’d say both yes and no. Some aspects, like a trip to Security Post Kareah to hack off a crime stat, are definitely more amazing as a new player from that story compared to someone who’s been playing for a while. It’s a chore, half the time you have a crime stat it’s because of a bug, and if a bounty hunter gets you during this process you wake up in jail. Neat the first time, could do without it after that.

Other parts you’ve done before but still enjoy because it’s a part of the game that you like. Box delivery missions are relaxing sci-fi sightseeing to me, and that’s only going to get better as the universe expands. The places we already have in the game are pretty amazing and a lot more is planned. I’m not into truck simulator games, but put it in space and heck yeah I’ll fly boxes around.

And then the third category is stuff that we’re not playing at all yet because it keeps getting delayed. So that’ll be a new experience even if I’ve been playing Star Citizen on and off since it hit alpha. Salvaging is the running joke here, but even that is kind of an ongoing distraction from the many professions that are supposed to come after it. https://reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/ngke3m/salvage_soo...
Why is black box included?

My first introduction to the term was in the first chapter of SICP and it speaks positively about abstraction.

Also, I'm still not sure why cultural appropriation is actually considered bad.

Anecdata for sure, but I remember one time my cousin (who is of my same culture) excitedly tell us about how in another country (in another continent), a singer from our country was quite famous and they listened to his songs and even sometimes wore clothing from our country. It seems like our cuisine is popular there too. And all of us thought it was very cool!
Everyone would be glad if Apple and Google would drastically drop their cut to 5%-7%. They basically take a risk free 15-30% stake in revenues (!) of many companies that serve users on mobile devices.
Every day I'm frustrated by apps that I know were once highly simple and functional.

The idea that we're paying for devices and apps that are artificially limited and hobbled by others seeking more profit really has me worried about the future.

For example, Winamp ran several years as a music player, although it was not a very profitable operation, it functioned just like every other consumer music player since the 70s, with play, stop, track skipping, fast-forward, shuffle play etc...

Now music players have completely screwed up the model for a music player. They more often don't function properly unless a subscription is paid for.... They insert ads into music playlists, they often skip more than one track, they don't truly shuffle music, and they also add a ton of frustration with buffering and connectivity issues into the simple process of listening to music, even when I play my locally stored collection of music on them.

The practice of reducing features in something as simple as a music player, a device that is meant for enjoyment shows how grim the concept of a software-driven world should be. Products are rarely solving problems now, they are only introducing new and stupid problems, and not innovating further. It's a huge problem that should be addressed.

I'm tired of hobbled functionality, hack the planet. :P
Or Haskell
I agree.

Also seeing `None` in the last line, on its own, my Rust mind went on and decided your comment must be a function that returns None.
It could be Ada or VHDL, which is even more terrifying still.
A year and a half. More or less. But it was relatively fast.
Yes, that's certainly true. Yet that's kind of my point; saying to "never" do something like a full rewrite is a bit extreme because it's almost entirely situational. Now while I do share a general pessimism on rewrites, they can be appropriate. Money and power of course help with that.

> No doubt any new product will be created by youngsters that despise 90s pragmatism, local data model, and lack of telemetry. Meaning it won’t be a product for me.

*sigh* Yes.

Although LibreOffice has one thing going for it in that regard... which is that it seems less likely that youngsters would even be interested in creating a word processor to replace the legacy LibreOffice. Many of them may not even know what LibreOffice is. Unless the word "blockchain" became attached to it (don't get any ideas, kids!), word processors are boring. If a rewrite ever happens, maybe there's at least a slight chance the engineers will be some coding veterans with wizard beards.
Connor Leahy on EleutherAI, Replicating GPT-2/GPT-3, AI Risk and Alignment
100W continuous draw is around $15 a month in power alone - this buys you unlimited 5G in many places around the world.
Great news.

Apple has turned the magic of software development from “how cool would this be?” to “how cool would Apple be with this?”

That’s an environment of software suppression instead of free innovation, and Apple has felt little pressure to change.

For anyone concerned about the security and privacy implications, don’t fall for the misconceptions perpetuated by Apple: non-App Store apps will still be sandboxed (so they can’t access other app or system data), and also scanned for malware by Apple - just like App Store apps!
Very interesting read. As a purely front end engineer, I am always fascinated by other peoples ability to reverse engineer everyday systems that I use and complain about. If I wanted to learn more about reverse engineering, do you have any recommended readings or talks?
That's nonsense. They're bringing in $5billion/year from advertising.
If we're talking alternate history, DOS 2.0 is a completely different beast than the CP/M-based DOS 1.0. It added things like directories, pipes, device files, and hard disk support. If you look at the PC-DOS 2 manual, they broke compatibility with the existing API in a few places to make that happen. They even promised more, such as that it'd eventually have support for multi-tasking.

Digital Research was in fact able to deliver on the idea of a multi-tasking DOS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiuser_DOS Compatibility suffered in some places, as the idea of having to share a system wasn't present in most DOS drivers. It filled its niche, but never broke out of it.

I feel if MS-DOS did establish a stronger multi-tasking foundation in those early years, there may have been less of a need of NT for home users. Who knows how many more years the average person would have been using DOS?
Yea I really appreciate that candor. I am quite worried that I would end up the same way. I think that is what is worrying me and has me asking this question.

Have you tried any courses or read books on how to discover initiatives from the company's strategy and goals? It sounds like maybe the company doesn't have those clearly defined if it is hard to figure out what to do next, granted I know nothing about your company and product team makeup. Best of luck!
It's very difficult not to be if you want truly secure messaging.

It seems unlikely that big tech and telecom corporations, whose lifeblood is personal data harvesting, or government, with surveillance states becoming the global norm, are going to agree to adopt a genuinely secure end to end encrypted messaging standard or protocol on the best devices ever to facilitate their practices.
The size and extravagance of this thing is rather off-putting. I was expecting a modest off grid passive house.
Nobody wants to build for iPhone or pay 30% to Apple. We build for it because that's where Americans choose to be, and if you want your software business to reach audiences, that's where you have to follow. It frankly sucks.

I don't like the fact that my code is up for review. I don't have the nanny state overseeing my web deploys.

I don't like the fact that the feedback is uneven and arbitrary.

I don't like being forced to give up my own choices for login and contact, essentially ceding my customers to Apple.

I don't like paying thirty percent for being forced to build for a platform I don't even want to be on but have to.

There should have been an open standard for native apps distributed over web. It should have been cross platform, like HTML, so we don't have to build twice or use stupid hacks to share code.

Apple builds hardware people like, but they're monsters.
Great website. I'll be using this.

Two small bits of UI feedback:

1. It's not extremely clear that the search field is usable

2. Feature request (probably for medium term, I get this is a very new project): The 4 boxes up top giving a breakdown of different dark patterns is cool, but it would be cooler to filter granularly. e.g. some might not care too much to avoid such things as grinding or "complete the collection", but would still like to avoid others.
Do you really believe the average North American has a heated pool AND hot tub in a frigid northern climate?
I don't know, but it's beautiful. Maybe because of the ratios, maybe because it looks so intentional, it relaxes me.

At the same time, I find these boxes horrible: https://nlc.p3k.hu/uploads/2019/07/ferencvarosi-helytortenet...
In California we pay an average of 25-35c/kwh.
Can you confirm this is a Gecko based browser? I find the wording a bit ambiguous in the article. Thanks!
I haven't done jack since the Kickstarter. When does this thing come out?
We're not talking about TFA, we're talking about the OP's comment- which mentions literally nothing that Splendor is so worked up about.
the parent comment combined with your open source reply[0] is where open source usually shines, in my experience: a feature that is important to the community but isn't prioritized due to lack of energy available

I recognize there is some nonzero work involved in stewardship over managing PRs and issues, but hopefully it would be less net energy than EatKind having to do the legwork of porting the extension to FF (and maybe even Safari) themselves

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30195132
> To make it harder for stalkers to abuse them, Apple included (and has since upgraded) several safety features that will alert someone to the presence of a nearby AirTag that’s not their own, including an audible beep.

Is this saying that Apple is relying on the unknown tag to announce itself by emitting a beep, and is that true?

I think you want your management device (e.g. phone) to alert you to the presence of such a thing, not that thing itself.

(Of course, you still need to find it.)
I've just recently FIREd on $650k in Poland (I'm in my early fourties). To me, that is enough.
One big reason for Apple devices is app notifications.
> trolls [...] negative reviews

Trolls gonna troll. That's nothing new to vegans and companies calling kind products "kind." [1][2][3]

> selling point

It is absolutely a selling point to rally kind people in this rapidly growing market together.

[1] https://veganproducts.org/vegan-box-delivery/the-vegan-kind-...
[2] https://bkind.com/
[3] https://vegfaqs.com/kind-granola-bars-vegan/

> arbitrary notions of morality

Is this kind? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7hAELEBjX4

People who participate in this practice are unambiguously unkind. People who put a stop this practice are unambiguously kind and deserving of the adjective kind.
It's entirely reasonable if they have a tankless water heater + electric heat. The amount of powerdraw that can be required during a shower means I would trip a 200A circuit during the winter. Average powerdraw would certainly be much lower, but you have to prepare for the peaks. Adding in an electric pool heater, more square footage to heat, and probably a fancy electric range, means you could hit 400A somewhat easily if you aren't being careful.
I guess I don't get it. For the price of an AirTag, you can buy a more capable tracker with GPS and mobile data. And it won't be notifying the trackee that it's there. The AirTag seems like a downgrade.
Not sure if you're speaking generically, or about this specific post, but; TLA+[0] is not an acronym but a language name. TLA, however, is an acronym of "Temporal Logic of Actions"

[0]:https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/tla.html
Punative pricing in california is really a disservice to customers/consumers.

In just about every other business, if you use a lot of something, you get a discount. For california electricity, it's the opposite.
The economics of joining a startup has changed compared to a decade ago. This was made most apparent a couple years ago when the thread on a VC's startup boosterism video roundly denounced it for spreading empty promises:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21865065
It's 2022 - the year of a US election where the general sentiment is that all seats are up for grabs. IMO it seems to routinely get nasty in here during elections years.

The silver lining is that the nastiness typically narrows its scope to politically-based or politically-adjacent threads and the niche threads get even better. I swear I've never seen better discussion on Nim/Rust/Zig on here than I have in the last year. The guy on here advising us to stick to threads with < 100 comments is a genius.
I always see cool ads for games that have nothing to do with the games I end up installing.

Would be nice to find the real games, if they even exist.
And because of that impending banning of slavery, the South decided to bolt, instead of wait for the westward expansion of non-slavery friendly states to be added to the government.
Which area of portugal is this? I was looking to do exactly the same. Buy a cheap land and build a small house myself. I am just wary or property tax, bureaucracy and construction costs. Would love to read blogpost about your experience on this
My impression is that in many European countries much lower supply ratings are normal (like 25A, I think I've even seen 17A on an apartment with A/C!) and it's just sort of accepted that you will trip the main breaker if you run too many things at once. In the US tripping the main breaker would be a pretty crazy occurrence, we seem to always spec in order to make that very difficult to do. I wonder if one difference is the safety margin applied considering the long trip time for breakers in a light overload condition... if you have say 100A service you could pull 150A for a decently long time before the main trips, perhaps for the runtime of some appliances, and over time that could lead to heat problems.
Firefox Reality also supports Servo as a browser engine, so this might be even more exciting! https://github.com/MozillaReality/FirefoxReality#experimenta...
Yeah, "tomato pie" is common in places with a lot of transplants from that part of Italy as well, especially places with old school Catholics who didn't eat any animal/dairy products during lent (Philly, NYC and the surrounding NJ suburbs to name a few). I grew up eating the stuff. I've since tried vegan pizza with fake cheese, from a place with great vegan sandwiches, and it's not worth it compared to a pizza with no cheese. When I make focaccia, I toss some pizza sauce on top before throwing it in the oven and it's amazing.
Needs a 2018 tag.
Also noteworthy is that bridge technology is what allows these chains to have immediate utility to the market faster.

Centralized Exchanges are extremely slow in listing new blockchains, especially meta assets on those blockchains. For example, want USDC on Solana? Sorry even if your exchange listed Solana and allow for withdrawal of native SOL, they aren't allowing withdrawals of tokens to the Solana network. They dont know, don't care, don't have the development resources to prioritize that, aren't even familiar with a erc-20 standard of tokens yet, and legal hasn't gotten the rubber stamp from the New York Department of Financial Services anyway so why bother catering to the rest of the world..

Whereas the permissionless bridges plug in immediately and billions of dollars of assets can move in without bothering with a centralized exchange. Building starts immediately, forget about the permits.

So, private participants fixing a crucial bridge is the rational move.
> Hell, I'd go so far as to say solutions for every major climate problem are on the roadmap currently.

"Even if the world manages to limit warming to 1.5C, some long-term impacts of warming already in train are likely to be inevitable and irreversible. These include sea level rises, the melting of Arctic ice, and the warming and acidification of the oceans. Drastic reductions in emissions can stave off worse climate change, according to IPCC scientists, but will not return the world to the more moderate weather patterns of the past."

"Ed Hawkins, a professor of climate science at the University of Reading, and a lead author for the IPCC, said: “We are already experiencing climate change, including more frequent and extreme weather events, and for many of these impacts there is no going back.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/09/humans-have-...

And actually, here's this direct from the headline statements in the IPCC report itself:

"Many changes due to past and future greenhouse gas emissions are irreversible for centuries to millennia, especially changes in the ocean, ice sheets and global sea level."

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6...