skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear though, any kind of investing into items with no practical value is fundamentally a ponzi scheme. For someone that buys low and sells high there's always someone that buys high. Be it on the stock market, forex, crypto exchanges or whatever the NFT scene is doing these days.

How do you differentiate a crypto rugpull or a company going bankrupt after all the funding has been drained out by its owner? Or fiat devalued by inflation? In principle it's all different sides of the same coin, pun intended.

So yeah, always has been.
Have you ever thought about closing your Google Account and got discouraged when you realized that there are so many other services that depend on it? Worse, have you ever had your Google/Facebook/Apple/Outlook/Twitter account closed without knowing why?

Centralized systems are amazing, until they aren't.
Strangely, Neil Young isn't canceled for homophobia and the related use of the "F" word. The woke are all about power, the rest is a smoke screen.

Young's use of the "F" word is simply not reported by the party outlets, so hardly anyone knows.
>In academia, these days, you can probably question anything and everything

I don't think so. It seems more like you are encouraged to question a specific set of beliefs but simultaneously heavily discouraged to question a different specific set.
Agree: faceted classification is far better but the cost of changing the classification system is prohibitive. But with computerized cataloguing I don't see how one could eventually move the classification meaning away from the shelves and into the software, while preserving old classifications for backward compatibility.

That way we might also (gradually) move away from the misconception that things belong to one and only one canonical classification hierarchy, a woeful notion that seems to permeate not only library classifications but our very understanding of the nature of things.
The article is illustrative for a number of reasons, but something stuck out to me which bugged me, which is that it's common for people on one side of an issue to throw out minor comments which would have major implications if true, but which generally feel quite unexamined.

For example, cars are pitted against cycling as if one is somehow diametrically opposed to the other. But we have empirical examples of this not being the case.

I live in a city which is pretty car heavy (London). It's not LA, we don't have sprawling freeways everywhere, but the road outside my house is lined with cars on either side, there are multiple ring roads that are 2, 3, 4 lane roads, the vast majority of the city centre is not pedestrianised, etc.

Yet I can and do ride my bike every day, in areas both with and without cycle lanes, and so do lots of other people. The time taken for me to get from point A to point B via bicycle could not be meaningfully improved that much - if I had a direct monorail-style route it'd be a bit faster, sure.

Netherlands, UK, and US stats are here: https://content.tfl.gov.uk/pedal-cyclist-fatalities-in-londo...

Very very roughly, NL is at 2.5 deaths or serious injuries per 10 million km cycled, UK is at about 10, and the US is at about 40.

I'm going to use this data and further make an unsubstantiated claim that in the UK, London probably has fewer accidents than a more car heavy town.

So yeah, it's more dangerous than the stereotypical example of a cycling paradise, but it's not some sort of hellscape.

The point then is that you don't need to eliminate cars in order to create an environment in which people both have and exercise the ability to walk and cycle. You do need the roads to not be urban motorways.

But something like this:

https://live.staticflickr.com/7129/7667009494_ed377c00cf_b.j...

I think provides a reasonable balance.

The main part is that drivers understand that cyclists are a thing that exist. In London you don't expect to drive about at 30mph everywhere because well, the road is thin, bicycles, buses, taxis, people stepping out, whatever. It's not a divided motorway, you don't own it.

Another example is the idea that geometry is inherently against cars. It's inherently against cars the use of cars for commuting from a large suburban area to a small business district. But there exists no geometrical constraint that effects me driving from village/town/suburb A to village/town/suburb B.

This assumes again though that you have a balanced town/country plan. If you make everything a massive big expansive road and spread out too far, then sure, cars end up predominating.

I guess moderation, and the use of cost-benefit analysis, is just boring. No-one wants to campaign for it, and would anyone even listen? Is it catchy?
Legos are still one of the most satisfying toys to buy your children. Yes they are expensive, yes it's annoying that a lot of them are built just once. That being said when you look out at the competition the bar is low.

I have a 5 and 3 year old and watching them patiently page through the instructions and put together something complex that they really care about is incredibly satisfying. Some of the sets have relatively complex mechanisms in them as well (I'm thinking specifically of the Lego Friends Shopping Mall and the Minecraft sets) and the kids are forced to understand them at least on some level.

I don't know that my daughter would be interested in classic Legos, it's Lego Friends that caught her and will keep her in front of a 200 page instruction manual for 4 hours and in my mind there's nothing wrong with that.
> This is life. There will always be tensions, envy, politics and resentment whenever people come together, regardless of gender. Jesus was betrayed by one of his very own disciples after-all.

Clearly. But that’s an irrelevant truism when the point is that the accounts of the individual who was most familiar with Jesus’s teachings wasn’t included.

Honestly, the reason they weren’t included isn’t even relevant when the point is about the authenticity of the book. I just bought them into the conversation to add some context for those who might not have been aware.

> So you say you've read the whole bible, but have you read the gospel of Mary Magdalene which you consider would "redeem" the bible by? Why, haven't you read it?

I have read it.

> There are many books in the bible that give a females account. You should know about them as someone who's read the whole book (an impressive feat).

It’s not that impressive of a feat.

> And what do you think of the many other books omitted from the bible, for example the gospel of Thomas? Is it because it was written by a man?

I’d already answered that question.

> Is there really anything in this world that is written and collated that does not fit a narrative defined by their authors?

My point is that those collating it are not the authors. Ie the narrative is defined by doctrine centuries after the original authors. This, in my opinion, compromises the authenticity of the book. You seem to disagree though, which is fine.
The best features of PHP are:

1. Core API of stateless functions. Compare this to the bootstrapping requirements of, say, Java or Python;

2. CGI-like resource management in that you tear down everything after a request. Many people get upset at, say, the "global" keyword but "global" here just means "request-scoped". There are no STW GC pauses and it's difficult (but not impossible) to leak resources;

3. Executing code for a request is single-threaded. This is almost always what you want; and

4. PHP's copy-on-write arrays (that are really hash maps) that maintain insertion order are so incredibly useful and is almost always what you want.

Crapping on PHP for things like function inconsistency (eg functions that use underscores vs those that don't, needle/haystack inconsistency) is a tired cliche and boring at this point. It really adds no value complaining about things that just don't matter and/or are historical.

My biggest grievance is that Hack (FB's fork) is basically better in almost every way. The collection types (vec, keyset, dict) are better (eg less weird coercion defaults). The type system is leaps and bounds ahead of anything PHP has. Nullability as part of the type system is amazing. It's a shame Hack didn't become the dominant dialect.

As for the book, I went through it and it's really solid. Good job to the authors and maintainers. It covers a lot of issues like register globals, sanitizing input, Unicode and so on. It also has links to more detailed information on any of these topics.
This is my first introduction to The War on Cars, but I am such a big fan of this anti car movement. Strong towns was my introduction to the movement but my views were solidified through several city planning youtube channels (city beautiful, not just bikes). Before buying into this and related movements I relocated to a rural town where the vast majority of our taxes go to roads. Plowing, maintaining, building, it's all roads around here. Most of our town is convinced that our taxes are so high because of inept government or corruption but when you look at the city budget it's painfully clear that roads are just really expensive when everyone lives on 2 acres, every road is wide enough for 2 heavy duty dually trucks towing boats and potholes are unacceptable. Not to mention that when roads are high quality and wide, people drive fast. The odds of my kids getting smashed by a speeding truck are way higher than I'd like them to be.

We've got to stop with the whole "everyone gets a quarter acre and a truck" mentality. I live out in the middle of nowhere and everyday construction begins on a new home, filling in every gap of what used to be farmland. All of us are 15 minutes away from the nearest anything. To be fair though, I'm sure they're all moving out here for the same reasons I did. Housing near work or transit is so scarce and expensive that it just doesn't make any sense. We're spending the same as we would in the city center on a house, but we're getting a mansion out in the country instead of a shack in the city.
I think perhaps there was just a greater general acceptance of the output of academia in the past, if the so called models or 'scientific process' were followed.

Now it is much easier to come across the material, opinions and research that challenges the previous academic output.
We've got four X1 Carbon's in our house - the oldest is a gen2 and the latest is a gen 9. They're all amazing but share the design quirk changes noted in by the OP. My biggest issue remains that the keyboard layouts are slightly different.
The problem with the tech sanctions is that the bullet has left the chamber.

Even if the Biden administration were to say fine - Huawei, you can produce your chips at TSMC, and SMIC, you can buy an EUVL machine from ASML. China would still persue a completely US influence free semiconductor supply chain, as the US has clearly demonstrated its willingness weaponize its dominance.

From a Chinese perspective, the interest of state and its big unruly tech companies are now aligned. Alibaba, Xiaomi, etc. are all making chips now.

It is not all given that the escalated tech war is a longterm winning move from a US perspective.

But time will tell.
The degree of wrongness is often overstated, because nobody will get promoted for admitting that the subject matter cannot be improved on.
As I mentioned above I teach IT for $, I fix things for fun(not bicycles, yet?)
Satisfaction ROI much higher fixing.
Tears of joy for a rewired glazed pottery lamp they made themself 50 years before From teaching :tidbits from Admin, occasional complements from students.
> But they're not required to tell anyone whether a transaction happened.

If they receive a court order, they are required to hand over records.

> Sued about what?

If I buy something from an artist, I am entering a legally binding contract with him. Such contracts can be enforced in court.

Of course, if I just send the artist some money, then he is under no obligation to give me anything, tell anyone about it, or even say "thank you". But that's not what I do when I want to buy a piece of art.
> That part of any language can be filled out with a framework quite easily

Consequence of that is that every other language is de facto is dominated by one framework provider that you almost always have to use. That in it self is the basis for a stagnant community.

Frameworks solves a general problem, you on the other hand solves a specific problem, sometimes those two are aligned, but many times they are not and then you are on your own.

> I don't think there's a good reason to design a language specifically for web projects

It definitely is because web has some unique properties and I think that one of the reason why we are unnecessarily shuffling JSON from backend to frontend where it is then transformed to HTML by async JavaScript (which gives a rather disjointed user experience), instead of sending a proper HTML document immediately from the server, because most backend languages suck when it comes to doing proper web.

Thus the industry creates these band aid solutions that constantly makes both the web and web development worse.

> language gets anything wrong that compromises the design of every project that uses it

Language design is overrated when it comes to producing customer value. What is important is how the general architecture works

* memory model (shared, per request, etc)
* request model (by the app or by the web server)
* resource model (mapping URL to file)
* compilation/build step
* deployment
* hosting
* tooling (IDEs, linters, testing, package manager, etc)
* how to scale
* available programmers
* community

PHP wins by these metrics.

But if you want to have some fancy language feature to print out a proper HTML document, or what is more likely a JSON blob, go ahead, but it does not improve the end user experience at all.
Bother ... I've not been keeping track and I've just realised I submitted this not so long ago.

Apologies. I was prompted by the submission about "My seatbelt rule for judgment" here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30237457

Having realised I've returned to delete the submission, but find that I can't.

/mea culpa/
Backlash? Wait till the bubble pops and witness the meltdown. Just go into see the discussions by self described degens. People putting paycheck by paycheck into NFTs.
My prediction is in 2200 (yes, 178 years from now) cars will be as ubiquitous, if not more, than they are today.

Cars are like distributed computing - millions of independent transportation options are superior to top-down, limited public transportation.

You’ll see countries with heavy public transport continue to adopt cars - and autonomous cars will only accelerate it.
There are still some dinosaurs like myself that prefer phones to be easily portable, and a larger screen for consuming content.

My phone is for calling, texting, quick lookups on the internet, and various small/quick tasks.

My iPad is for longer content consumption sessions, like reading news/books, watching movies.

If anything got replaced here, it was that the ipad replaced my laptop for 90% of the stuff i used to do on that.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.

For an insight into how our logic engine doesn't, itself, function in what we would consider a logical way. Reading this book made it easier for me to empathise with people whose situations I could relate to but their reactions to said situations made me question their sanity.

Be thankful for a high functioning brain. Be understanding that very minor differences have majorly different outcomes.
Oh something I totally missed to explain is that Tokyo is not built like most European/American cities, or even most Japanese cities; it's a city of cities so to speak, so the circle is not around a "life center" (it's somewhat around the imperial family castle, but there's no normal people living there). The circle line stops on the important "cities" that conform Tokyo, which are built in somewhat of a circle itself! The big buildings and everything is on the Yamanote line then. And it's fairly big, not what you'd have as a circle line in most EU cities, it takes a bit over 1h to go around in train. A bit like London, but more extreme.
Yes, the tablet wars were won around Android 4 when it was clear that Google didn't care about the large screen format.

My kid is around 10 and they're on their second iPad. The first one was an iPad 2 I got used and had to upgrade when it was too old to run Netflix.

The only true use-cases for Android tablets are for home automation.

With Fully Kiosk Browser[0] you can have the screen activate on camera motion and automatically load the home automation front page. Any $100 tablet can do this until the browser is too old and you can't update it. Then you throw it away and get a new one.

This is the one thing the iPad can't do. You could theoretically put it in a box and use the built-in kiosk mode to have the screen on at all times with the Home app enabled. But the screen will burn in and you'll have a bad time.

(There are some extremely ruggedised Android tablets for industrial use, but I'm not counting those)

[0] https://www.fully-kiosk.com
Wordle in the TypeScript Type System
I t420s fell out of my opened backpack a couple of days ago. Not the first time it fell, once I even stepped on it - but after the last drop the display has some problems and i have to push on a certain point to get it working, which made me put it to it's well deserved retirement.[*]

In need of an quick alternative I bought a Dell XPS 13 9343. I like this a lot - it has a way nicer display, the form factor is just great for my needs, build quality is good and even the keyboard feels right (missing a trackpoint tho).
Unfortunately it supports Microsoft's "Modern Standy", which is a fancy name for s2idle - which just doesn't work using Linux, at least I couldn't get it to work . When in s2idle it looses power and does not reliably wake up, in s3 it goes to sleep but needs a hard reset to wake up.

Waiting for my t470s now, as far as I know the latest Thinkpad generation stat supports classic s3 sleep.

*: Actually it lives on as a small NAS/Homeserver. It even packs three disks (M2 SSD, HDD in the HDD slot and an Ultrabay-HDD adpter).
Sounds like Trudeau... Is this senator 100% wrong all the time? Which bits are wrong?

Sounds more like you've just used this comment section to launch your own rant against a voice that's too loud for your liking...
K-12 education is not a “search for truth” or about “free exchange of ideas and informed debate.” These aren’t college kids. These schools are to socialize kids into the morals and values of their society and to teach them the basic foundational knowledge their society believes to be true. That has nothing to do with “capitalism” and indeed is what pre-capitalist societies long understood education of children to entail.
> 2200 (yes, 78 years from now)

So, what's the current state of cars in your time? ;)
it is though. an NFT is just a crypto currency with a total supply of 1. and ethereum contracts allow the creation
You and me not listening isn't going to fix massive spreading of fake news.
It’s hard to tell. Aichi has the highest private vehicle ownership in Japan per capita and in total, but people still commute using the train.

About bicycles: In Japan hitting something with your car is an offense in itself. So, even if a cyclist or pedestrian is breaking traffic rules, if you hit them you will be liable to pay between 10-100% of their medical costs+damages.
Theoretically, Wayland has proper support for fractional scaling, and this just works. In practice however, this only works for wayland-native applications and all applications running through XWayland will be rendered small and scaled up, which ends up looking terrible. I guess this is implementation dependent, but this is consistent across Wayland on GNOME, Sway and KDE Plasma.

This is unfortunate, since many applications can scale just fine, but only through older hacks. Chrome and Electron applications will scale just fine by providing a proper DPI. Same for very old apps. GTK and QT applications will not, but they scale just fine by setting appropriate environment variables.

In practice, this leads to the experience often being better on X11. I've found KDE X11 to handle this the best, with the limitation being a single global scale, only certain fractions allowed and needing to restart KDE after changing it.

GNOME with Ubuntu patches and Xfce will scale everything x2 and use RandR to provide a higher virtual resolution. This has performance costs and messes with cursor speed (measured in pixels) but otherwise also produces good results.
A scientist that was never wrong didn't do much science to begin with.
3. Executing code for a request is single-threaded. This is almost always what you want;

And now with fibers you can launch "threads", which are not threads but work like them.
In Wayland the data of the clipboard stays in the app where it was "added" to the clipboard and only transit between the application where it was copied to the app where it is pasted when pasted.

I think the issue was at this transit stage on Firefox side.

It didn't have any impact on the compositor, it would behave differently in the receiving app. Some would crash, some would freeze for a bit, some would be totally fine but would just fail to get the data to paste.
We didn't have a vote though.
Could you explain the benefits of switching to Wayland that you experienced?
Yes, but then you can probe the pins and MITM, like you can with an external TPM chip. (See something like the TPM Genie) It's internal because it's more secure that way.
That first article is a decade old.
The Super App
Two things stand out for me:

A really good daypack. I was using book bags for family days out, but they were uncomfortable and impractical. When the National Trust reopened their outdoor spaces during the pandemic, I sunk £80 into an Osprey backpack. It has made a huge difference. I used to get very sweaty, and I have a broken collarbone that would ache. These are no longer issues for me. It has made being out in nature for a full day even more enjoyable.

Bose Sleepphones II. I got them for a good deal on open box clearance. I usually listen to a sleep story on Calm.com to get to sleep. I have these for if I wake up in the middle of the night. They're comfortable, and great at blocking sound. I don't love the sounds–they're a bit overcompressed and some have really obvious looping points–but the things work.
In Neal Stephenson‘s book Anathem, the monk-like students are punished by having to memorize incorrect mathematical proofs, because they know it takes years to extricate the false information that is affecting their thought processes. A cruel punishment indeed.

In the wake of the replication crisis, TED Talks kind of remind me of this, because now we are uncertain which of the 50% of talks are fake and which are true.
The Framework ticks many boxes for me but still no matte option for displays.

Glossy screens literally give me headaches, they only work in pitch dark ambient light.
Line go Up
We need more products like this. Simple, minimal and polished.
I guess it's a matter of preference because I find writing Javascript tedious, the forced async when not needed, or that for some reason Node doesn't give me a line and a description when I make a mistake, it just ... fails?
> there is something inherently honest about them: pay money, get a collectible. There are no financial instruments here that can be misunderstood.

What is "a collectible"? There's what all the grifters say they are/can be. That's where the dishonesty comes in.

All scams are technically fundamentally honest - pay money, get rock - once you remove all the parts that are dishonest.