skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The book getting started with raspberry pi was the best introduction to computing I’ve ever seen.

I just wanted to second this comment. I was skeptical that the book included with the Raspberry Pi 400 kit would be good or useful, but it is amazing. If anyone remembers the old Usborne introduction to computing/electronics/programming books, it feels a lot like those in some ways. If I was nine years old again and got that book, I'd probably be buried in it for weeks, trying out all the different projects.

The Raspberry Pi foundation also published a book on game development, which is also very much like a lot of the old Usborne books. Really great for kids who are a little older.
This article is an example of a person speaking from the perspective of massive financial privilege.

Does the author realize how much people in the third world have been screwed over by banks and why they wouldn't want to trust one? The author's opinion would be vastly different if the author were a resident of Turkey or Lebanon or Nigeria right now.
While you certainly can calculate everything easily on a calculator, I think there's a value to being able to do your own arithmetic easily, in that this transfers over to good estimation skills and having a sense for when you typed the wrong thing into the calculator. Not something I have a proof of, though.
Imagine a car factory that has a number of sub-assembly lines. One makes brakes, another engines, another transmissions, another alternators and so on. We know a complete car needs these in set ratios to make cars, so that is the ratio they are made in. Imagine a factory that made huge numbers of brakes, transmissions, alternators, but a limited number of engines. Engines are the limiting factor = they limit the number of cars that can be made - all the other parts will fill all the factory space until the walls break.
A virus has to operate in a similar way = translates the infecting RNA and starts to make all the viral components that make up the virus. The cell makes functional viruses until the cell walls break - triggered by fullness or exhaustion of cellular resources that trigger cellular rupture (apoptosis) and as many complete viruses that were completed enter the circulation to infect other cells. All the extra unused parts are released. Note all parts in all stages are also displayed on the external cell membrane as immune system cues. This is why a true infection produces a very broad antigenic response compared to the response to spike alone. This also explains the 'super immunity' from vaccinations coupled with infection - in any order, as we have observed and has been reported.
The omicron mutation seems to have optimised the internal cellular production of a larger number of components in the (more or less) optimal numbers needed to maximise the number of completed virus particles manufactured before cellular break-out. All the components are still displayed = antigenic cues to the immune system are still displayed = good immune response. This process, as a whole, makes a larger number of infective particles released in a shorter period of time.
This explains the faster spread via more particles and also explains why the infection 'breaks out'.

It breaks out even when vaccinated because the adaptive immune system takes about 5-7 days(varies) to increase it's antigenic response and the Omicron cycle only takes 3-4 days to start making large numbers of infective particles. This means it can ramp the increase of infective particles ahead of the antigenic response. This also explains why the break out infection starts to decline in that period after ~~5-7 days as the adaptive immune system gets the upper hand and the infection subsides.
Can you participate in the global economy by holding gold bars, wheat and fine art?
> And I don’t really see that changing either.

So, crystal-ball-gazing time: I don't think this part is true for iPadOS, but it's going to take them a couple more years to really get it right.

Here's where I think they're skating: watches and phones are personal devices, Macs remain what they are (personal computers, I could define this but it doesn't seem necessary on HN), and iPads (and HomePods) are family devices.

"Modes" and Family Sharing are both brand-new, and I can see effort to merge the two concepts so that you can put the family iPad in "Alice mode" or "Bob mode". Instead of separate user accounts (in MacOS each user sees a personal set of applications, that will never happen on i-anything), iCloud just manages all the login stuff in the background so that each user sees the subset of the system they're allowed, with their personal data and user accounts swapped out transparently.

This is a bad fit for how apps and logins work... right now. But Apple is clearly trying to fix that, like I said, I think this will take a couple years at minimum before we actually see it.
> the part where it was decreed that the bridge is a monument and that in the future it would no longer be taken apart for tall ships to pass because of the risk of structural damage to the bridge each time that happens.

That’s just the nature of government. The people running things in 2022 are not bound by the promises of people who used to run things in 2017.
Oil and gas companies could easily do better right now (likely cheaper than the method in the OP). I know someone who worked at a fluid analysis modeling company and they claimed that pipelines could easily detect and fix leaks. Pipelines just don’t care until it passes a certain disturbingly high threshold where it affects profitability.

The evil and greedy people at the helm of these companies cannot be trusted with the responsibility of managing our planets resources without oversight.
Not counting gmail, calendar, or the docs/drive suite, Google has >12 applications on the app store. Apple's "search" is pretty crappy WRT seeing what a dev has released (or at least the Google LLC "dev"), hence the range.

And ads definitely show up in YouTube and such.
I paid for Linux Academy, pre and post merger with acloud guru. It made such a huge difference in brining me up to speed. AWS docs and tutorials are just never enough sadly.
> when another company wanted to pay me double

Did you get a raise for double your salary from your current company? If not, I think you will continue getting exploited, since you've "said" to your current employer that you won't even leave them for double the pay.
Very good point. I think you're right. It's more likely to succeed with a pragmatic and undiluted message of targeting the worst offenders first.
This is interesting. Are you saying because some user switch to safari during checkout and tracking lost here? Since cookie will be cleared. But how about these special query param as you mentioned? That still can be maintained for tracking?
Hardly important but I hope that in parts of the std lib where they added support for contexts by adding a `FooContext` func for every `Foo` and latter just calls the former with `context.Background()`.. we can just have `Foo` that takes a context argument.
> Exhaustive switch seems

This would only make sense on an enum type, which would be a completely new thing, so it can be introduced without breaking backward compatibility. Constants and switch on non-enum values would stay, because they are useful independent of enum types.
Stanislaw Ulam (from his book Adventures of a Mathematician): "There are three types of mathematicians. Those that can count and those that can not."
Nice.

I hadn't seen systray before. That's cool, too.
Why are you assuming that the parent commenter is in the US?
What this article and most others lack is an adult treatment of why serious neuroscientists and philosphers of the mind feel the problem is in fact, hard.

To me, the fact that illusion and hallucination are being invoked is strong evidence of handwaving being engaged in to dismiss an otherwise difficult problem. This is not a scientifically rigorous explanation and it doesn't take the other side seriously.

As a younger guy, I read Dennet and mistook him for a serious thinker. Then I read his rebuttals of his opponents and all he did was accuse them of 'residual christianity' and make profane acrostic poems. These guys just aren't taking the other side seriously and it's kinda silly honestly.
I think there is a barbell situation here:

We need libraries that are less opinionated and more tightly focused, working through standard APIs that are open and composable. As an example, htmx works w/ any back end fine because it's "just HTML". That's great because you can use htmx with any HTML-producing backend without a big conceptual shift on either the front end or back end.

But the downside of that approach is that it is more fiddly and doesn't handle a lot of stuff out of the box (e.g. CSRF protection) that someone who wants it to "just work" expects.

This is where the other side of the barbell comes in: a nice and complete collection of htmx + whatever config is needed for a particular back-end, and all the other stuff that a typical developer might need to just get things running would be really nice. As someone from the java world, maybe just a pom.xml file w/ an init script that sets up the base project, or something like that.

I know I'd like the latter for my java projects!
Cash, separate personal accounts. This is not a hard problem.
omg, thank you. I've always wondered why my work email count was wonky.
If you build with centralization on top you can ignore most of the inefficiencies by doing the majority of operations outside of the base Blockchain and only integrate and settle just enough on-chain to be able to integrate with the rest.
I made this for a catering service

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Serious question: how can consciousness be an illusion? I’m not even sure what that would mean. One could argue that many things are illusory (e.g. the external world). But it’s quite hard to dismiss the notion of actual experience occurring in the world. Our experiences could lead us to false conclusions, sure, but we cannot deny their existence.
"We" do not demand leaky pipelines.
Python 3 is the most striking example but it's unfortunately common in Python. Generators were originally slower than list comps, so after their introduction some modules got slower as they switched internally. super was slower than explicit parent calls, and some modules switched even if they didn't immediately need the fancier MRO. True and False were slightly faster when they were alternate names for 1/0 rather than a different type due to various fast-paths for int handling. I think before 2.3 old-style classes were still faster than new-style classes in some cases, but my memory is pretty fuzzy.
> The US Big Mac [1] has 11% more calories than the Denmark Big Mac [2], which is an 11% difference.

Sorry, could we get someone to check those numbers?
A better retort might be: "Do you want your health insurance premiums to be set based on which recipes you Google?" This one has the advantage of having a material impact and being almost-real[1].

[1] https://www.coverage.com/insurance/status-update-your-social...
Google doesn't really have apps though

Google has 17 apps for Apple devices.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-one/id1451784328

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/screenwise-meter/id1455562397

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google/id284815942

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/notable-women-ar/id1425071635

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/just-a-line-draw-in-ar/id13672...

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-tasks-get-things-done/i...

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/looker-mobile/id1533498070

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-podcasts/id1398000105

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-stadia/id1471900213

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-fit-activity-tracker/id...

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-fi/id1413936031

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/grasshopper-learn-to-code/id13...

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/youtube-music/id1017492454

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-keep-notes-and-lists/id...

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-maps/id585027354

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/youtube-tv/id1193350206

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/youtube-kids/id936971630

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/youtube-watch-listen-stream/id...
The minimum wage one is next to useless. States and cities set their own minimum wages. Unemployed people or people on fixed income have wages of 0. This chart doesn't really describe any meaningful set of the population or how they are doing.
Test the rats
Not a lie at all. Apple is as dirty as they come.

Apple is a cartel and Google pays the protection money that Facebook failed to. If Apple really cared about privacy and not money, they'd block Google from the platform too.

A single policy changed wiped 25% of a trillion dollar company's market cap. That's a gravitational wave that shows what kind of overwhelming monopoly power Apple wields.

To be clear, I hate Facebook and ads, but Apple is an incredibly dirty business and is doing massive amounts of harm to startups and our industry as a whole.

Apple owns "America's computer" (50+% of average American's internet usage), and they control it like a dictatorship. High taxes, close inspection of every deploy, arbitrary rulings, forced use of Apple platform pieces, no possible business relationships with your customers.

The DOJ needs to step in and remove the App Store monopoly, its tax, and its arbitrary rules. When you run a device this pervasive and entrenched, it's no longer a platform. It's a common carrier. App installs need to happen over web, where they'd still be just as safely sandboxed, monitored, and remote killswitchable.
> In other words, you can build centralization on top of decentralization, ...

We see that with Coinbase (a HN unicorn btw): lots of people are apparently not only fine leaving shitloads of coins on Coinbase, many are also totally fine using the USDC "token" which is (mostly) backed 1:1 with actual USD. I don't remember the stats but big "exchanges" hold a sizeable part of the circulating coin and it's not just people "trading": it's a lot of people simply holding to their coins and using Coinbase as, basically, a bank.

Heck, I think if they sell for USD (not USDC, don't know about USDC), their USD at Coinbase are even FDIC insured up to $250 K (for each american on Coinbase: it's not the same with Coinbase in the EU).

I'm not saying it's good or bad: I'm just saying that people leaving coins or USDC or USD on Coinbase are very far from "running their own bank".
This assumes the leaks are unavoidable. They’re not. There’s lots of technology the companies can use to find and fix the leaks. However the lack of regulation/enforced regulation means that it’s a race to the bottom. When I see these companies being proactive and pressing for legislation that raises the bar, I’ll buy the personal responsibility argument a little more.
I wonder if Amazon use its Ring mesh network to monitor their delivery performance too
Depending on code review instead of a static type system does not scale. Look at all of the memory safety security vulnerabilities that are solved by "simply making sure to manage memory correctly."

Also:

variableDefinedInAFarAwayModule := 17

...

TestSomething(variableDefinedInAFarAwayModule)

It's not always as clear as a constant value being passed to an incorrect type.
I mean, there have been plenty of valid arguments against PHP the language and its standard library, but the big issue most people end up having have to do with its ecosystem, developers, and frameworks. My earliest rants about PHP was the sheer volume of bad tutorials; googling for "php sql" or whatever would invariably give you examples susceptible to SQL injection. And the other issue was that everyone was building frameworks, CMSes and forum software left right and center; there were a lot of islands, each with their own ideas, structures, etc.

PHP should have made a much bigger push early on; mark the weird and unsafe functions as deprecated and point to e.g. prepared statement alternatives. They should have built a package / dependency manager much earlier on. And they should have made a lot more efforts to get a developer community up and running.
Texas Crypto Miners Shuttering Operations as Winter Storm Approaches
This is a good point, updated parent post
I see this pro crypto argument by disfuctional states a lot. But is there sufficient infrastructure to use crypto in disfuctional state? If you want to be cashless you need a lot of infrastructure around you...
That's not how direct democracy works.

If we assume that Switzerland is probably closest to the ideal of a direct democracy please take note that voters can not directly vote for the executive government (The Bundesrat, or federal council).

They elect members of the two houses, which in turn elects the 7 executives. Usually this is based on the recommendation by the parties and with a specific formula considering party, language and area of the country.

We also can't fire government members this afternoon. It's just like everywhere else. We can just not re-elect them.
Your point is valid, but the Go philosophy depends on you following conventions to have reliable code. This is true all over the place, e.g. you can easily ignore errors.

Other languages take a stricter approach, and maybe that's better. Not defending (although I like Go), but it's really more a language philosophy than a singular defect.

As the other commenter noted, this should fail code review and you should be using the provided constants, and it should be clear to you. And if you disagree (which again is totally valid), you should use a stricter language—there's plenty out there!
Apple's "search" is pretty crappy WRT seeing what a dev has released

Click on the dev's name and it shows everything that dev has published.

https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/google-llc/id281956209
Sure but in domains like running a streaming tv service, or building a phone, catering to a small subset of users means you are a smaller company, and then it is very hard to build a decent phone, or create something like netflix.
What would you do as a resident of Turkey or Lebanon or Nigeria?

Would you use cryptocurrency for currency or for savings?
From actually reading the article:

Burgernomics was never intended as a precise gauge of currency misalignment,
merely a tool to make exchange-rate theory more digestible. Yet the Big Mac
index has become a global standard, included in several economic textbooks
and the subject of dozens of academic studies. For those who take their fast
food more seriously, we also calculate a gourmet version of the index.
Why? I am not disagreeing, I simply know very little about the financial industry. But it seems to me if your going to say it's one of the stupidest deregulation rules ever you should have some reasons as to why.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAd

They had this mobile advertising platform then closed it, or reduced it to the ads GP mentioned.
16 or 17 still sounds pretty young. In the December 31, 2020 lecture for Harvard's introductory programming course (CS50), the lecturer explains that 2/3 of the class have never programmed before [0] (most enrolled students are 18-19 years old by then, assuming the number excludes non-Harvard undergraduates who are taking the course online).

I started later, and I attribute it to my parents being low-tech, and online discourse framing programming as "really hard" and something you just do to find a steady job (versus make something useful). I bet I would have started a lot sooner if I had different influences growing up, but at least there's still time to learn now.

[0] https://youtu.be/YoXxevp1WRQ?t=208
I've seen this myself on the .NET side. Someone will create an MVC application then rip all the views out and tag everything with a decorator that turns those controller endpoints into API endpoints, then slap Angular or React on top of that. More recently I've seen Web APIs created which explicitly lack any front end integration (this is what we do at $DAYJOB when .NET makes sense).
You’ll have to change your username if you end up working there.
Companies Could Bring Production Back West to Save Money
And you quite very likely need to be willing to break the law, as most countries only recognize/accept payments in local currencies.
Veganism is funny. Some vegan food, such as avocados and certain nuts (cuisine definition; not botanical) such as almonds require a lot of water to grow, and also there's the transport problem. Although that one's a paradox: a transport ship might seem like its terrible for the environment, but its actually quite efficient compared to an airplane or every customer using their car to drive to the grocery store (though via local consumption it can be avoided). In this respect, individual responsibility matters, you can make a difference in various ways. Don't use fast shipping by airplane even if you can easily afford (only do it by exception), you can also sometimes pick train (e.g. from China, via Russia to Europe). You can do grocery shopping perhaps by bicycle instead of car. Other non-vegan food, where no animal got farmed (a free range chicken a family holds) is thrown away or not eaten (even though it was already produced), foods with trace elements (e.g. milk sugar) is avoided, foods with by-products such as gelatin or whey is avoided. But they drive in a train powered indirectly by coals (electricity network), or use a bus with tires made from pigs. And that's somehow fine (as long as they don't know it). What it boils down to is impact of choice, and simplicity of implementing it. Avoiding eating meat is a lot easier than avoiding any animal (by)products, therefore I find veganism self-defeating, and a luxury (first world) problem as well. No normal, average human being is going to have time to care enough about this issue to put the effort in it, its unreasonable. What works? Taxation, for example. If I'd drive a SUV instead of something small like a Ford Ka or Nissan Kia then I'd be paying a lot more per km on fuel, and for what gain? Its not worth it for me. But Americans barely pay any tax on their fuel.
Putin and Xi call for halt to NATO expansion, Kremlin says, in show of unity
It's worth pointing out that lots of countries don't even have minimum wage laws. It doesn't mean people there make $0 an hour.
I like Laravel for similar reasons. It comes with tools and packages by default so I don't have make decisions.

Also pretty useful when you start a new project and you know what's happening.
I think I understand what gp means. He is trying to point to a contradiction in ggp reasoning. The question is in the definition of words "subjective" and "observer". You cannot define an observer using the concept of observer, that's circular reasoning. "Incredibly complex neural automata" is just handwaving the problem away. Equivalent of saying "here the magic happens", not an explanation.
That's an organizational problem, rather than a software architecture problem.

Refer to the first 3 bullet points of the Bezos Mandate.
This is totally uncalled for IMHO.
Better for who? Probably not the shareholders.
An oppressive regime will just make crypto illegal if they want to, make even possessing cryptographic keys punishable, etc. And crypto transactions make it easier to trace spending to you anyway, especially when the regime can unabashedly MITM any traffic within or into/out of their country, etc...
1. Said friends have no need to know who each other are. They only need to know their role to deliver a package to designated individuals.

2. The shards they hold can only be used by the recipient via hardware they have physical access to. They can not collude without the recipient. I also trust the, far more than any potentially malicious bank insiders.

3. Wills can take a long time to process and bank accounts can be frozen for months following the death of a spouse. I want a plan that gives those I wish access to capital as soon as they are in a safe location to receive it and get the bulk of it stored in a coercion resistant way with a new quorum.