skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disagreeing is easy. Coming up with reasonable alternatives is not.

Two steps ahead is bringing critical manufacturing back under one's control. Guess who wanted that?
Sad and true. Not funny.
China has hundreds of millions of people living in '15 minute cities'. You can still get out and explore with public transport that will take you literally anywhere in the country faster than driving.
yep. "time will tell" meaning GME ideologues will continue to move the goalpost for when the MOASS will happen in perpetuity.
> They ran one train there to pick her up and another train there to send her back every day for +/- a decade, until she graduated, because someone at JR thought that JR must convey a child to their school.

The story in question:

* https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/73525/train-station-kept...

The veracity has been questioned:

* https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/remote-hokkaido-...
Which is ironic, becomes sometimes it is the cumulative effect of the negative working conditions at some of these jobs that causes the "long illness and periods of personal instability" in the first place.
I'm not sure on the actuality of reduction in rationality but using shifting meaning and changes in phrases just strikes me just a slight step up from reading tea leafs.

Yes if there was some obvious shift of everyone referencing religious texts or astrological forecasts that would be one thing. Going from I concur to I believe is just a stretch to state anything about rationality.
C is an easy intermediary, C is a bad intermediary.

The issue with targeting C is you ended up losing a lot of information about intent. Compilers looking at C have to put a lot of trust that what the programmer wrote was intentional (and thus, unoptimizable).

Rust and C both end up faster than Nim because they are talking directly to the compiler.

IDK enough about Nim to say if it could hit Rust/C speeds if it targeted the LLVM instead, but it would be a lot faster than it currently is targeting C.
As written it would only work on Windows but in principle it should be achievable on all platforms
I mean 1900x1080. Although personally I'd prefer a bit more height than that.
Asshole, or genius?!

I love anti-patterns. My favorite is Android, in response to a government somewhere, every half year or so being required to ask my permission to destroy what shred of privacy I am still afforded. "What's the most honest way to meet the legal requirement and ask the user in good faith?" I hear you ask. Good question, and the solution is simple: randomly interrupt the user's existing workflow with a popup. Comprehending this non sequitur is near impossible. Rejecting the proposal is met with a caution that certain features may not function as expected and guarantees future interruption by the exact same question. And all this if you didn't accidentally click OK straight away because the popup jumped in front of whatever you were already trying to click in your intended app. 0.2 seconds of transient grey screen beyond which you regret that you have just given them permission to something you would never normally accept if it were explained in a single simple sentence, and undoing it is impossible. Sleazy.
> there was a power failure in my town

> If it had been logged to a DLT with an immutable ledger

.. while the power was off?

The vaccination rate is about a million an hour: https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations (!!), no blockchain is going to keep up with that.
Lego is working hard to make it an adult thing too. See the many Lego Masters tv programs in many countries, were it is mostly adults competing. I would say the have unlocked the adult market, and this is why the had such good results lately.
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_memorand...
Gaming walled gardens are generally a result of copyright / legal walls, not any lack or need of capability.
Ask HN: How can I calculate my market value?
Hi HN,

I'm looking for advice on calculating my market value.

I live in central Europe and work as a Cloud Architect, that also does DevOps and pretty much everything required project-wise.

I make 32k per year and it seems hard getting an average market pay. I have no university degree, but 6 years experience in IT, 3 years experience in CI/CD and 2 years experience with AWS and IaC.

How can I figure out my market worth?

Edit: I have little experience with negotiations and the job market, that's why I ask.
When my daughter was about 3 years old,I went on Ebay and bought a huge bag of used Lego. I think it was 10KG or so. My wife nearly got a heart attack, especially when I poured all those little pieces into the bath and filled it up with water,so I could wash them a bit. Then ended up catching the smallest pieces when I pulled the plug. We poured all those pieces in the living room. Took like 3 days to dry out. We built so many things since then. There are lots of sets mixed together,I don't care nor does my daughter. It's still nice to build something, especially when all you do at work is sending emails and writing some code here and there.
The only person who is going to find your garden useful is you and your family who gets to eat the handful of tomatoes you grow, that doesn't mean your gardening hobby is a waste of time.
Just fyi, for the crypto builders in this thread. A lot of people here mined like 100 Bitcoin early then never got it and sold for $3 and turned bitter and grumpy.

You can disregard their bitterness and continue solving and building interesting things.

Crypto has been around for 12 years now.
The energy argument is a bad argument because it's an obvious ploy by the terrible nocoin haters to latch on to broader environmental politics by a superficial analogy equating PoW to Fossil Fuel Power Plants and CO2. The reality is that there is plenty of zero-carbon energy to power our global economy -- it's called the Sun, and it's been working pretty well for a long time now. If we accept the ploy, then everything that isn't strictly necessary needs to go: Netflix, Google, computers in general, cars, trains; and we all need to return to living in harmony with nature and subsistence farming.

Instead of being fooled by feels good thinking, let's work on the real problem: decarbonizing the electrical grid.
Mostly what the other commenter said. Smooth scrolling / no tearing, no weird visual glitches (like the big black rings around all windows when changing resolution or logging out), etc.
> I'm curious if people like Vitalik feel trapped, or worse yet, that they have created a monster?

> If they don't feel bad, I wonder how they justify the cognitive dissonance.

"Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin’s Net Worth Hits $1.46 Billion As Ether Reaches New All-Time High" [0]

Trapped, not likely. Monster, maybe. Dissonance management not hard.

I think.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninabambysheva/2021/11/03/ether...
Anna Karenina would be my recommendation. I had a lower oppinion on novels in general before reading this, but Tolstoy is just phenomenal with his characters.

It made me realize how great books should help improve your empathy towards others, and being more understanding to behaviour you'd normally just vilify.
I've been using an internal MQTT broker as a loose IPC bus on my latest embedded Linux project and it's been awesome. I'm never using DBus again.

The revelation was when I had a developer overseas that needed to test something and didn't have hardware. One firewall change and an exposed port and now he was talking to a live target from halfway around the world.
In a non-ad-funded internet, that would entail filtering out very nearly every result.
By far the best exploration and novelty I've ever had in terms of cities has come from those cities that embody the '15 minute' approach. Surprise - nobody bans you or even discourages you from travelling away further than necessary from your closest conveniences!

By contrast, cities that are car dependent and spread out have been invariably the most alienating environments possible in terms of novelty. You have to drive, and quite quickly, because there's nothing else but concrete and parking lots and gigantic stores on any human scale.
What makes you think that smart contracts will not be backed by law? Even the word contract is in smart contract. This means if you fail to pay your end of the agreement police/courts will come after you. That part doesn't change.
That maybe correct. However even if was ten to hundred times the number it would not be a significant percentage.
TBH I remember your other comments about Wayland across many threads, and most of them have a quality of being confused in such a manner as to provoke long answers and derail the discussion.

> a protocol with multiple implementations - which is a good thing

The protocol is severely lacking in features. This means the "compositors" end up doing most stuff independently of Wayland, in mutually incompatible way of course. Thus the fragmentation of the Linux desktop: Gnome vs KDE vs wlroots, etc.
The Path to Successful Wafer-Scale Integration: The Cerebras Story
> maybe they use a dedicated security chip to improve isolation and achieve better security?

I call bullshit on this one. Security through obscurity is not a feature. If you want to have a dedicated security chip protecting the users, we need to have all schematics and source code to ensure it's safe and adapt it to specific use-cases.

Ideally, that security processor would be physically separate from the usual hardware and operating on specific data lanes. Just like secure smartphone designs don't give the modem hardware access to all phone memory. That the "security chip" is bundled with the CPU/chipset and answers to undocumented (secret?) x86 instructions means to my understanding that it's impossible (unless you're reverse-engineering the computer at the hardware level) to understand/restrict whatever it's doing.

I mean i find it funny that many of us are running Minix without even knowing it, making it one of the most popular OS on the planet. And i'm glad some security researchers figured out how to disable Intel ME completely via some undocumented instructions. But i would certainly feel safer and more in control if i could know/inspect wtf hardware is doing inside my machine. I would certainly trust a free-hardware CPU without a security chip more than a modern Intel/AMD CPU any day of the week.

Some previous related discussions on undocumented hardware:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28977175 OK Lenovo: we need to talk (october 2021)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28374523 It's time for Operating Systems to Rediscover hardware Usenix keynote (august 2021)
This is hard to believe to me, I've used `ssh -X` countless times over the last twenty years on Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, Mandrake, Suse, Nixos and whatever else. I cannot remember this did ever fail. It might have been slow. I might have fixed xauth issues at the beginning. But it worked. So I am wondering what you did to have such bad experience.
I mean I don't like to see food go to waste anymore then the next person.(From the perspective of the total ocean biome it's not a waste at all but a massive local boon.) But what's the big deal here? Is it just outrageous that people see where their fish comes from?
I'm not sure I understand this. Every decent city I've lived in (NYC, Berlin) has everything I need in <15 minutes already.
That's the problem I am trying to solve with finclout.
A lot of investors not only retail lost a bunch of money over the last 18 months.
Personally, I think there is a space for the retail guy in investing.
But it shouldn't be based on FOMO and/or hype. Not stonks and hodling. I think that's very dumb.
wow I had no idea how much time has been dumped into propping up this conspiracy theory. People have a lot of time on their hands (but I guess rationalizing ones own investments is good motivation)
Now imagine if this vacuum could be filled by competitors that right now don't have a chance to go against a de facto monopoly on social networking? Wouldn't it be lovely to see all the new products that could take over all these domains without the clutter of being Facebook: event scheduling/marketing, marketplaces of used goods, neighbours' community groups and so on?

Why should I feel sad that one major company isn't dominating all these spaces at the same time?
The desire to travel doesn't support the conclusion that automobiles are somehow natural and vital to the human spirit. In my world, traveling is a much richer experience when automobiles aren't involved. Indeed, they're a real buzz-kill.
Yeah I'm at a loss there- I have good Turkish, Greek and British food locally, but I need to travel if I want the best Indian, or vegan, or cocktails, or... it's not like I'm trapped here, I just have quick and slow options.
> Thus Wayland promotes fragmentation and death of the Linux desktop.

First of all, what is dead may never die. Second of all, no, it is false. The core protocol is indeed small (unix philosophy ain’t a good thing now for some reason I guess?), but the extensions are easily queriable and they undergo standardization if they are deemed useful. Would you prefer a single entity giving directions on what has to be included? That would seem pretty antithetical to the whole bazaar style of development.
> That was because, whether you agree with it or not, the US government deemed their behaviour to be illegal.

There are, and should be real-world limits on the ability of the US government to stop things from happening by deeming them illegal.

In the case of Wikileaks, one such limitation is the relatively decentralized nature of the internet. The US government was able to pressure Amazon to refuse to host it, but was unsuccessful in pressuring OVH, so Wikileaks remains online. There is no Great Firewall of America, so it remains accessible within the US.

Another limitation is that while the US government can and did pressure Paypal to refuse service to Wikileaks, there's no equivalent for preventing transfers of cryptocurrencies.
> Ironically, while this is a very data-driven piece of research, the fact that it chimes with how most people (especially within the HN crowd) 'feel' will make it more persuasive!

Well said! I wonder if the crowd here will realize they're only seeing this article because so many of their compatriots felt good enough about the article to upvote it.
Public transit designed to get poor people to work usually operate in a state of failure (bad schedule, long trip times, bad environment). Public transit designed to be a better alternative to driving for everyone tends to be fantastic and useful - and ironically helps solve the getting people to work problem, too. Maybe focus on building a better alternative to cars?
Cancer and its treatment aren't limited to advanced cancer; that's not a good example of the value of treatment.
A lot of ethernet port use is diagnosing/configuring devices in the field - servers, networking equipment, etc or just plugging in occasionally when you have to download a big file.
> Its a little bit disingenuous to blame etherium for NFT, its like blaming email for nigerian prince spam.

Except that the law and regulations are always behind once the early technology has been introduced, with early adopters getting themselves burned, sued or encountering significant losses - Hence the DAO hack of 2016. That is the reason why ICOs are now regulated.

Did you really think that the SEC would do nothing and sit there and let the 2017 carnage continue? NFTs are no different and that technology (like tokens) will be subject to regulations. The same with email and electricity but by other regulatory standards.
"But you are surrounded by people whose parents contributed to your economy, who were more or less raised with at least a decent amount of shared values."

People used to say that folks with different color of skin had a different culture, and therefore interracial relationships do not work. People move across the country (in the US) and get culture shock. In other words, people don't really consider others as having the same values and culture. "Contribute to the economy" is a weird phrasing: Most of my family worked to not starve and immigrants contribute to economies as well.

If you are afraid that someone from a "leser" country with a "lesser" value system is going to mess up your life, it isn't and the actual answer is for humans to make sure their global neighbors aren't crappy countries to live in. It is, after all, partly our fault (our = "developed countries") since we rely on the slave conditions in "developing" countries so that we have toys and food.
Standing up to the mob. Good for him.
I don't disagree. It can be hard to put yourself into the shoes of someone that you wouldn't make the same choices as, but I'm just trying to explain why they are making those choices. Bottom line is they will keep doing it until it hurts their profits.
> Why some manufacturers would want to use glossy on any non-touch device is beyond me.

Colour vibrancy and sharpness. A matte screen is literally a defuser between you and the actual content.
Your short comment really triggered my management PTSD. I wrote a huge ass post but decided to delete it and just summarize:

* Senior tradesman -> manager is not a natural transition;

* Senior tradesmen take business into account without needing to transition;

* Both technical and business understandings are attributed to management while business is subtracted from senior tradesmen. Hilarious.

I'm glad at one point in my life, I have the option to transition to this magical role where all of a sudden I will understand everything and even if the potential users of this potential idea might potentially touch the potential application.

I wish I could have written a clearer statement instead of this empty half-rant, but as it stands, I am but a senior engineer so am forced to come to grips with my own limitations. If only I would transition... and after, maybe I'll naturally transition to president of everything.
> calling things and events by their real names

How are the real names determined?
The sex tech to come could offer more than ‘the real thing’
Is this a language benchmark or a programmer benchmark? Usually these differences come down to the specific implementation more often than the language used.
As we discussed on the Nim forum¹, the Nim programs could definitely be improved a lot. elcritch did some optimization and managed to make Nim's time roughly equal to Rust.

¹ https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/8868
> You need to have a really good mental model of how TS works to be able to make sense of what TS tries to tell you.

Won't this sentiment hold true for Rust as well? You need to have a good mental model of how Rust works, with all its borrowings and lifetimes, to understand what its errors are trying to tell you, and especially how to fix the problem?
> #1 turned off the trim system and continued the flight without incident. (This flight is almost never mentioned, as it doesn't fit the narrative.)

I.e. they piloted the plane without the MCAS, which they were not trained to do. The whole reason of the existence of the MCAS is to avoid training the pilots to fly the planes without it.
A keylogger can’t steal your key if you use even the most basic security that this space advises.

If you don’t have any friends you trust (which is probably a pretty common thing), then you can choose any other people/entities you do trust. If you want to rely on the government or financial institutions, you can request that they be part of your social recovery wallet process.

This isn’t common yet, but you can also build your wallet so it’s very difficult to steal funds even if someone recovers your private key. Building challenge periods into your transactions is trivial and lets you know if an attacker has compromised your key. You can then transfer all of your assets out with your recovery key.
Yes, you are right. I concentrated on another graph, that shows the use of "intuition" words starts to grow closer to 2000. But it fits perfectly to a narrative of "The Book of Why" of Judea Pearl. He tells the history of statistics, and around 1980 there was growing frustration with logic and statistics. AI researchers was unable to build AI on a basis of formal logic (pattern matching, expert systems). So various probabilistic logics were spawned (fuzzy logic, bayesian analysis) they were trying to merge formal logic and statistics into a single framework. But it was not enough because it didn't allow to speak about causes and effect. And formal tools to deal with causality were developed in 1990s. Exactly when the "rational" word use declined and the "intuition" word use grown.

We see in graphs how people stopped using "rational" words (because they saw that they didn't work?), and closer to 2000 they've learned a new vocabulary. Correlation between the history of statistics and this graphs is just perfect. Though it is just a correlation and moreover it is a hindsight correlation, not a good reason to be overexcited and to propose a causal explanation.
I match your accusation of misunderstanding human nature, and raise it an accusation of profound naivety. If blockchains actually start being used for economically or socially productive or valuable functions then they will be regulated.

Suppose you sell something and the transaction is logged on a blockchain, that's immutable right? It's right there in the ledger, nothing anyone can do about it. It's immune from governmental interference right?

Say a court invalidates the transaction, maybe they think you lied to the counter-party, nothing they can do, right? The blockchain doesn't lie. Except they can prosecute you, fine you, imprison you, confiscate your property, pursue you to the ends of the earth and even kill you. If the transaction was an NFT, they can just directly modify the resource the NFT refers to. If it's bitcoin, they can fine you equivalent value in real world money and assets, or if they can be bothered to care about the bitcoin at all they can legally coerce you into transferring the bitcoin back.

It's like the scene in Game of Thrones where Little Finger tells Cersei that knowledge is power and only barely survives at her pleasure because presumably she was in a good mood. No. Power is power.
> As for wild urination and litter, the issue here is that public toilets and trash bins are scarce.

Yes! I don't get why more people (and elected officials) don't realize this. The city I live in (Philadelphia) has approximately zero public toilets. Many of our train stations also constantly smell of urine. These two things seem related?
Thank You, Valve
Being able to quickly fetch a gallon of milk or easily walk your kids to school actually enhances the ability to explore and take in novelty. Being forced to drive everywhere adds monetary and time costs as well as a great deal of risk from crashes.

Characterizing life in suburban America as it is currently built as embracing and enabling exploration and novelty seems pretty far off. It is much more common for people, especially young people who most desire exploration and novelty, to find our omnipresent suburbs to be stifling.