skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have seen so much fuckery with the stock price and ridiculous headlines in het media about GME that can't really believe that we have seen the actual squeeze. Furthermore, the SEC report said that the price run-up was because retail bought in, not because the hedge funds closed their positions. So when did they do this and went from 200% to 20%? Besides all of that, the fundamentals for GME are great. They are hiring great people and seem to be working behind the scenes with some of the biggest companies to, what seems to be, create a NFT marketplace linked to gaming, that will be 'carbon neutral'. all-in-all a good investment on that end I think. time will tell.
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I've tried many times to get something else, but I stick with thinkpads because they're easy to service, and the trackpoint. The trackpoint is a big deal for me.
That's what happened in Germany. The rail system was made debt free, turned into a for-profit company, but kept in ownership of the federal government. Overall I'd say it's doing much better than a completely private system would.

In Canada CN Rail was made debt fee flogged for 2B on the stock market. After 30 years it's now worth much more, so it's been great for shareholders. But a lot of branch lines were cut, freight prices increased as much as possible, and there has been zero movement on passenger rail, both urban and Intercity (well, except Toronto bought a bunch of rails in their city, a tiny fraction of the CN Network for a significant fraction of the privatization gains..)

Privatizing monopolistic infrastructure doesn't usually work well.
X's network transparency is not feasible when using any modern window manager, since you'll still be slinging pixel buffers over the network, and compositing them together on the client. It's just easier to render on the host and just send a single pixel buffer instead of a bunch of them as this is faster and simpler.
I think 1980s kids who grew up and got well-paying tech jobs are their largest customer demographic now. Kids play Minecraft instead.

That's what my oldest son said, at least; he doesn't see the point in Lego now that Minecraft exists. Breaks my heart. I mean, Minecraft is fantastic, but it's not Lego.
> but it does show how much time and energy such an endeavor takes.

The reason it takes so much time is not that is requires a lot of "energy" or that the problem in general is particular hard to solve. Wayland is fundamentally flawed at the concept level and the only way for it to get to a usable state is to turn it essentially into another X. Combine this with general stubbornness of all involved parties and the extreme hesitancy to standardize essential things you get a recipe for disaster.
It's a pretty bold leap to find a shift in language and then presume that this represents an underlying change in how people reason.

It would be equally believable that people are simply using different, more fashionable, words, but reasoning the same as they have always done.
> What is noteworthy is how he has used his wealth in his philanthropic efforts to eradicate disease and suffering. That deserves kudos.

Well, yeah, kind of... But what is also at least as noteworthy is how he got that wealth. His philanthropy since he retired has only begun to make up for the stifling hand his evil empire laid over computing for decades.
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> Point is geniuses learn way faster by themselves than going to a class. It's a huge waste of time to sit in a lecture of someone speaking at turtle pace, I would fall asleep. Sorry if you went through that.

You're generalizing from some poorly taught class, whereas it's unlikely that a genius would remain in such a class, and also unlikely that the education would not also be supplemented with other forms of teaching.

Terence Tao was a child prodigy the likes of which are rarely seen, and his bio is full of classes/teachings.
I think it is more that established facts have been shown to be only true within limits. Newton has been correct enough for centuries, but now we know more. So we hedge our bets.
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Consider yourself lucky to be working at a company where you would even want to be around the other staff I guess.
NFT is not a bubble or scam, but money laundering scheme for tax evasion.
> You post as if the only argument I made was about the gender of the authors but that’s not the case.

In an online forum, people will usually only respond to things they strongly agree or disagree with. I just strongly disagreed with the idea that a book should not be read because of the gender of its author.
Oh, it does give them what they need, plus loads of other needs they didn't even know they had - and sometimes these other needs take priority regardless of whether that should be the case. I.e. they will sell you milk, which you likely need, but also all possible types of cheese and yogurt and cream, which you really don't but might actually end up consuming more than milk.
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Let's break down the loyalty program trends that will shape 2022 and the coming years so you can build better relationships with your customers.
> it must not have been intended for frequent swapping

Don't attribute to intent what can be adequately explained with LSD laced vodka enemas. For the last decade the design language of ThinkPads is an atrocious [and successful] process of making their users suffer.
Just cycles repeating. Remember 2013 then it was all kinds of shitcoins when the term shitcoin was most used, happened. Peercoin, FeatherCoin, AmsterdamCoin, TitsAndAssCoin. They all pumped and dumped. Somebody looking into crypto late 2013 would have found 99% scam coins. Same thing in 2017, 99% scam ICOs. Today its 99% NFT and token scams.
Ironically, I have had the same experience with MacBook Pro 2017 model. It’s got some other funky bugs too, but it’s not my main driver either.
> When people ping you on Slack or email and ask you in a really curt/terse way for something it can feel very transactional without the occasional small talk to humanise your coworkers. And I find it really hard to do that sort of small talk remotely/virtually.

I'm the opposite, its work and everything is a transaction.

Nothing worse than pointless 'hi how are you?' Slack messages where the other person doesn't give a shit about your response, just ask your question as concisely as possible.
> 5. Patent expired so more community

This should probably read "competition". Some of the stuff secondary brands offer puts shame to Lego, both in creativity as well as in pricing. Bluebrix and Xingbao both have models that are a lot more playable than anything Lego has ever offered.
Good point regarding localized UIs; I haven't thought about the benefits of this approach for translations
A bunch of shorts 100% closed their positions. That was the original smaller push that made the stock take off. The rest of it was momentum from retail investors, algorithms, etc.

There was never going to be a flag day though... shorts cover over time as their bet looks less likely to payoff. By the time the "squeeze" day arrived the billion dollar losers had already covered.
> The most effective social movements have both an elite and mass component.

And guess which of those parts the movement as a whole is usually most useful for.
The main comparisons I have are building sites with Ruby/Rails and doing JS front ends attached to REST APIs. All three types of project have their own pros and cons.
Talk to your mom or dad.
I think its the change in your life that increase your anxiety and will pass in a months when things stabilize.

Btw, youre doing better than most
>American households had a median balance of $5,300 and an average balance of $41,600
This is the problem with generic questions, you write "best bang for buck" but for which use ? As I wrote, for a kids tablet, no thank you. For entry level user maybe, for someone wanting more again probably not.

But this is a problem with generic questions/statements, there is no "one size fits all" thing
Our iPad 2 still gathers dust somewhere in a drawer. The 2-in-1 mini laptops killed its use case for good.
I wish there would still be a left company making laptops for professionals.

I would throw decent money to anyone not subscribing to the current form over function trend. I want thick, sturdy, long battery live, proper palm rest, good old LAN port. Is that too much to ask for a modern laptop?
> If I don't trust AXA I don't make any contract with them.

One of the huge challenges of the insurance industry at the moment is that while research shows that 60% of people think insurance is important, only 30% have a positive view of the industry. https://www.nsinsurance.com/analysis/the-geneva-association-...

This leads to people still buying insurance, but buying much less of it than they or the industry would like. So yes, this lack of trust is leading to bad outcomes for both the industry and the individuals, but the argument I worry you're making - that the industry exists and so therefore is fully trusted is not a valid one.

I think you've misunderstood my data center point. The point is that if our hypothetical insurance company has a brilliant automated payment system, but it's running in a place that it cannot be verified, then there's little benefit to trust. A smart contract solution on the other hand can be public and verified (without your grandma running a datacenter). None of this requires fast internet or even datacenters.

Trust issues absolutely are the problem here, and a deficit in trust is leading to bad outcomes. Smart contracts are a tool that can be used to help, because they act as a public, transparent, verifiable statement of what the payments process actually is.
> But cycling doesn't cut it, right? Especially when you do it daily, you build some kind of immunity.

Yeah, it's called getting in shape.
Sounds like a nice way to end up in a plea bargain.
> And why would anyone need to be able to verify that?

Because, in the bank example, after a bank transaction happens, the artist may not like a particular supporter because, for example, the supporter may be a white cis male who doesn't like the left bullies, so the artist may lie that the transaction happened at all, saying that he/she didn't receive any money from the supporter. In this case, and other such cases, there must be an independent log of events that actually happened, despite what people may say.
You can still do it without tests as long as you have a version control system that isn't absolute garbage.
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I also found some info about how Nintendont lets you use controllers and virtual memory cards: it provides the game with its own implementation of the GameCube system calls which then use whatever is best suited for the task, even for the controllers. The USB GameCube controller adapter is completely different from the native ports in GC and GC-compatible Wiis (it's a USB HID device, while the original one sits on an internal bus). Same for memory cards, in the original hardware those sit on the EXI bus while the Nintendont just works on files on the SD card), and the same applies to the Optical Disc Drive.
If you look at Lego Space during the 90s it is a long list of new versions (almost yearly) each with their own specialized parts.

Personally I don't feel like this narrative about a substantial shift in Lego sets fits with reality. To me it feel like people conflates it with the rise of licensed sets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Space
> X originates in the 80s and it's not a design that stands the test of time.

Actually the fact that X11 can be used today despite the fact that we went through several cycles of vastly changing GPU hardware shows that it absolutely has stood the test of time.
The hot swappable CD drive / HD bay / extra battery was pretty awesome in my memory. But I agree I'd be unlikely to use it now.

I haven't used a thinkpad in the last 8 or so years -- but I do miss the keyboard on some of my early models (eg: t40p)
It does seem like a good idea on paper, though when you look at the reports of how many people have actually DRSed their shares it becomes painfully obvious that it's so few that it isn't likely to ever make a difference.
Just because you can create a new currency it doesn't mean it's a good idea.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/685739-if-the-management-co...
The more recent ones without the battery slots are pretty horrendous to service. They are a complete mishmash of absolutely standard laptop design the same as all the other vendors. Screws yes, but then a layer of fragile clips on the chassis. Then tape. Lots of tape. I’m not a fan.

The best part of the thinkpads is the sheer amount of corporate corpses on the market which keeps the parts available and cheap.
I think almost everything he says is true (based on my own experience with management). The reason this post is good is because it provides very 'quotable' statements. Of course no one will learn how to be a good manager just based on these bulletpoints, but they can serve as a basis of discussion, so for example if you'd like to mentor new managers in your company (and you understand/agree with what the post says) then this can be a good starting point; you pick one quote, e.g. "As a manager, everything is your fault" -- then talk about it at length.
Doesn’t Stephen Diehl CTO for a private blockchain startup?

https://twitter.com/dystopiabreaker/status/14701269278180679...
I suspect the issue is the separation of academia and the mainstream discourse.

In academia, these days, you can probably question anything and everything - revisionism is rampant in all sorts of areas.

In the mainstream, though, that is not necessarily the case.
> Most of the ThinkPads' unique features, as I’ve realized upon writing this article, are long gone.

I was always under the impression that Thinkpad fans specifically sought out the older laptops (obviously people do buy the newer ones, but people who are specifically fans of Thinkpads rather than it just being another laptop). I know thats certainly the case for me. I never even considered that someone who considers themselves a thinkpad fan, or even collector, would rush out to buy the latest one.
My brother and I got the first two grey castles in the 1980s (the first castle yellow; grey was a fairly new colour back then). Those castles mainly relied on fairly large castle wall pieces. At first, even as a kid, I felt that was cheating; we should have gotten bricks to assemble all those walls. Later I discovered what a boon they were, because they allowed me to rapidly design new and different castles. Sure, I couldn't build a spaceship out of them, but just exploring the space of all the possible castles you could build was amazing.

Some of these specialised pieces inspire creativity. Especially with spaceships.

But I do agree that many modern sets just invite you to build this one thing out of them. We did actually turn out Millennium Falcon into an X-Wing and a TIE-fighter once, but we did eventually turn them back into the Falcon. It feels more wrong than it used to to build something else.
> For 13 inch, HD should be plenty.

I think you mean Full HD? HD should be declared illegal on any device, if you would ask me.
Also a lot of the positive changes were do to the efforts of Nikita Popov[1] who has now left. It's led to the creation of the PHP foundation.[2] I haven't kept up to date with the foundation's efforts.

[1]:https://www.npopov.com/aboutMe.html

[2]:https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/2021/11/the-php-foundati...
> there are hundreds of equally as great frameworks on dozens of more moderns and better though out languages: go, python, nim, ruby etc

Have you actually tried using for Nim for building a scalable web service or even just complex websites with auth of your choice? Nim does not even come close to what PHP has to offer in terms of solutions for every need you may have.
I don't have children but I have a pretty good idea what it's like. I think many childless people (over a certain age) do. Turns out people are really good at this empathy thing; it's something that's strongly hard-wired in our brains.

> Not having kids [..] allows you to focus on pampering yourself with your millions your whole life...with the side effect of perhaps coming to the conclusion that your own life is meaningless somewhere down the road.

That seems an unfair characterisation; I don't have children for the simple reason that there are enough humans on the planet; it's not like there's a shortage. Many childless people I know feel like this.

I'd actually love to have a family; I just chose not to (thus far anyway) because I think it's better for "the greater good", which sounds a bit lame but that's what it is. You can agree or disagree with that take, but it's not pure selfish hedonism like you're describing; quite the opposite in fact.
I tried with the Ergodox-EZ for 6+ months, but I struggled with using the Jetbrains software

They (PyCharm, PHPStorm, etc) use a load of multi-key shortcuts which include use of the function keys and it became a real pig to use and ultimately I gave up (expensive - I'd bought 2; one for home, one for work...).

How do others manage this? Have another layer with all the usual keys but replace numbers with function keys? I don't fancy remapping all the shortcuts.
I still have X301 somewhere. I think this is probably the last machine in the house with a working DVD drive.

Funny enough Windows 10 on it runs just fine while CentOS is slow as molasses. On SSD. Go figure.
12 ft ladder works on the Economist: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.economist.com%2Fcu...

It's pretty funny that the entire article is only like 3x the length of the preview.
You say anarchy, I say freedom.
> I still broke down all the elaborate sets, put them all together in a big box [..]

In a box?!!

Our kids store piles of bricks on more or less every horizontal surface in their rooms.

> the elaborate sets

Our kids will always build each elaborate set once, according to the instructions, wait a day or three, then it's fair game to be cannibalized for their latest homespun supermegagiga-jet, -spaceship, -car or -house.
Ancient Egyptian art had a strong preference for simple geometric shapes. Following that aesthetic and you want to build a really huge monument, what other shape could it be?

If you want to read about Egyptian art, the articles in Hartwig are excellent.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17073753-a-companion-to-...
My friends and I used to build Lego spaceships and then "battle" by physically smashing them in to each other. Fond memories.
We have many of the current banking regulations because, as it turns out, the same organization claiming to securely store other peoples' money and wishing to gamble using that money is a conflict of interest. Someone has probably invented fractional reserve banking for crypto, but most crypto users don't want to deposit their crypto into such a system. Many banking regulations exist to mitigate the impact of that conflict.

The other major class of banking regulation has to do with governments monitoring transfers of money. I'm not entirely convinced a weakening of their ability to do so would be a bad thing.
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see also

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27874100 (643 points, 170 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29976454 (584 points, 360 comments)
I'm not sure what do the number mean.

Percentage of users running Firefox using Wayland WM/DE or percentage of users running Firefox with enabled Wayland support?

These numbers in theory could be dramatically different, as Firefox with enabled Wayland is not a default yet.
My FF-related reason for using X11 that drag&drop from FF to Nemo doesn't work under sway but does work under i3. Trying several combinations of environment variables to switch between native and xwayland mode didn't make a difference.

The second reason, not related to FF, is that wine-wayland is still experimental.
I don’t think Wayland will fail. I’ve been running it for about a year now (since Fedora 34). It’s been mostly smooth sailing, and a big quality of life improvement, with only a few drawbacks. (Screensharing does not work for all windows, such as my terminal.)
The PHP era, with all its flaws, brought an insane amount of productivity compared to previous solution (eg. Java).

I can't quite pinpoint what was the cause but I've never been as productive as with PHP + JQuery.
Modern tooling is just plain slow, mandatory and definitely gets in the way. Having extra layers means more bugs you waste time on and bugs that are harder to debug.
It seems like there are also less and less tutorials and documentation.
I can't read that graph. It seems to show 100% X11 usage throughout (while also using various Waylands).
The iPad created the mainstream tablet market.
> According to the article rationality started to decline at ~2000

From the article:

What precisely caused the observed reversal of the long-term trend around 1980 remains perhaps even more difficult to pinpoint.

Eyeballing the chart, "rationality words" peaked somewhere there.
That study doesn't show what most people think it does. Monkeys have no idea what a firetruck is, so how could a monkey have any preference towards it? The only thing they managed to show is that there is a flaw in the experiment. In a sense it is the ideal control question: do the monkeys distinguish based on something they cannot know? A more charitable reading which is mentioned is that male monkeys prefer hard shapes with wheels, but I doubt that is very relevant.

And yes, companies absolutely do market towards boys and girls. They don't write "for girls" on the box, but they consciously produce two product lines. Often it is one unisex line and one that is "forbidden for boys", i.e. it has pink and glitter and you would be teased as a boy of you bought it. This way, they can create artificial market separation and increase sales.
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Sure, but the main thing is that if you do ssh -X it does kind of work. I can have one individual window integrated with my normal desktop, from a remote machine. It sucks but it's enough to get a few basic things done.

Wayland should surely be able to at least match that!

Individual pixel buffers should still be faster if only some of them change regularly, right?
Have a look at the Fujitsu Lifebook series. I’ll stick with my MBA though.
If you still have the flag for that yellow castle hang on to it, that's a collectors item.
I am also looking for a similar robust laptop with Lan Port, headphone jack, good battery life and decently competitive CPU.
I have been using multiple Macbooks from past 10-12 years and have seen the machine degrade over time both in term of software and hardware (with the exception of latest M1 series)
> Typescript ... has cryptic error messages.

This is very strange to hear. Typescript error messages will show you a type mismatch and explain why one type isn't compatible with the other. What's an example of a cryptic typescript error message?
>"It does to an extent, but ..."

"but" part does not matter. There is always an explanation why they do it. Does not make it any better.
One other change: the gradual introduction of weapons and violence-related styling.

Back in the 80s some "minifigs" may have had sad faces, but never angry/violent ones. That changed a lot over time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_and_LEGO
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