skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe this rigidity isn't an intrinsic character trait and more related to a general hostile polarization on a political level.

I think I have become more rigid with experience although I don't feel inclined to be sorry for reacting differently to a new version of Blender than to a new NFT scheme. Random example, but I think the idea is clear.

Also I can fully understand and am certainly guilty of being prejudiced against certain ideas depending on the source. An example is Google here. The ad industry is so hostile to user privacy that I cannot really laugh that away if Google proposes something helpful, which they still often do. But ultimately that is a price they have to pay.
Do we know what the current tally is?

Is the code still in use?
IEEE Spectrum[1] is really wonderful in the both the breadth and depth of content. It's free with an IEEE membership or $75/yr on it's own.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/
Very well said. The more centralized "layers of abstraction" will be built, no question about that. Smaller, more specialized, more efficient institutions. For example, the US has a long tradition of small Credit Unions – that's fairly similar in principle to some of the DAOs popping up these days.
Who are these people who need "privacy and freedom" that can't be had with regular banking?

I mean, it's not like your account balance is public on regular banks..

I struggle to come up with an example which does not involve shady business, and if that's what we want, it seems like a better solution to just legalise those businesses...
You’re basically saying every comment here is a conspiracy theory, since (essentially) nobody here provides sources and everybody is convinced they’re spewing the unadulterated truth.

By your definition, it’s a conspiracy theory for me to say, “I’m sure JFK was shot!” Because I’m saying it as fact without source. But then it’s also a conspiracy theory to say, “I’m sure JFK was shot by aliens.”

The what is essential in defining a conspiracy theory.
> Not that FOSS in general is immune

As GNOME is intent on proving...
> was almost certainly bankrolled by dark money

Look at the bright side of it, now we can spend some of that money on the NHS!
If you want the Ad optimisation from FB/Google/whoever to work, it's important.

More generally, if you want to be able to track your own users and where they come from, it matters.

If all of your traffic is organic, then it's irrelevant.
But it is a good alternative for Firefox since Music Mode for YouTube is currently only for Chrome
- People don't want to run their own email / FTP server -> Their data and conversations are being watched and analyzed.

- People don't want to run their own IoT server -> Their device/subscription stops working if the company goes out of business or changes the ToS.

- People don't want to create their own subscription feed -> They are being manipulated by the algorithm and misinformation.

- People don't want to run their own bank -> ...

There are lots of good reasons to run your own infra and we should strive to make it easier to do for everybody
This is Dan Dennett's "illusion of consciousness".
I don't think the protests were actually popular among every single liberal, but it was considered taboo to say anything against them. I lost several friends during this period, expressing my concerns about the protests, and more specifically the organization behind them. I was called an Uncle Tom.

My former workplace hired outside therapists to attend to us people of color, and held special town halls and discussions. Meanwhile, I was losing sleep because the local strip mall was being looted, and I had to listen to gu shots all night. I spent one night sleeping on the floor of my living room with my guns due to reports of break-ins in my neighborhood.
zing :)
Hope you realise that mine was completely made up example just to show the basic characteristic of exponential growth in presence of static component.

I chose 10x growth factor to make sure the reader gets a point you can have absolutely disastrous epidemic brewing and still be invisible for many years.

With smaller reproduction rate and other confounding factors detecting a new epidemic like that could be even more difficult if you only look at total number of cases.
My impression is that rewrites are rarely worth the effort and it's better to improve on what you have, but this is the business economics perspective. It sounds to me like this is essentially a research project that kept growing? The authors have managed to keep their interest in the project by being able to rewrite the code while avoiding previously made architectural mistakes and having fun while doing it? Is this a fair take or am I underestimating the advantages? To be clear, I read the blog post and there have definitely been tangible advantages and they are still enjoying the language 6 years in so it looks like they made a good choice.

You seem to still be stuck on word usage, so I rewrote my comment to focus on what matters. Do you still disagree with what I write, if yes what do you disagree with?

> they didn't maintain interest in the code because they could use a fancy language, they did it because it was integral to answering questions that they were paid to investigate and that they've dedicated decades of their life to study.

Which they could have done in C++ as well since they already hade the code in C++, only it would have been a more painful process. But they could have rewrote the project in C++ as well for example, was this not a viable approach? If not, why? I believe there is a difference between research code and business code, where researchers have more freedom to choose languages that suit their projects rather than focusing on output.
> kids in first year of school should know how to draw flag from memory

Roman Mars taught me that – well Ted Kaye, but Roman taught me in his seminal TED talk [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnv5iKB2hl4
why are (some) computer scientists so bad at software engineering?
FYI, WSL now supports mounting physical disks. So if you're running a setup like that, you can take advantage of a VM managed for you, along with not having to run Samba because files are made available in explorer (via 9P).

I was able to get it working (with a few setup issues) with a RAID 1 mirror:
https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/6711#issuecomment-10...

(Forgive linking in the middle of a Github issue. Everything ended up working with the latest updates and being an administrator.)
Google has an easier time providing targeted ads via search keywords. Facebook users spend most of their time in their feeds which is a relatively weak signal for monetization.

Note that google appears to be acting as though they are effected, you can see this in their push for FLOC/topics (but the impetus for this could be coming from android moreso than search)
Stop buying means not turning on the heater in winter… so go back to hearth and fireplace for heat to combat… pollution?
Eh so is runescape items.
I mine ETH. I have flexpool.io configured to pay me out after I accumulate 0.05 ETH which is about $140 right now.

They pay me out to my MEW wallet and the transfer costs me about $7.

I then have to transfer from my MEW wallet to my Coinbase wallet which costs me about $5 since I choose the MEW turtle speed which takes longer.

I then sell the ETH immediately because I realize how useless this crypto crap is for transactions or store of value. That costs me about $2.50.

So about $15 in fees to get my $140. You call that a great transfer of value network? I’ve mine cryptocurrency since you could use a GPU for BTC. There is no legitimate use for cryptocurrency today and I doubt there ever will be. It is structurally flawed in numerous ways.
But that’s a completely different matter.

The issue of Python 2 / Python 3 is that the two were not compatible, which made the transition extremely complicated. That has nothing to do with the new version making the old one essentially outdated because of the usefulness of its contents.
I think 'you' (consciousness) are a combination of all of those things you mention (body, thoughts, memories, feelings etc..). I dont think you can do a distillation of the 'you', without removing consciousness. If you perform this distillation the only thing left is a dead body. (maybe thats what you mean when you say that all living beings could well be the same if 'you' is removed).

But I'm not very trained in this topic, so I'm not sure what I am saying its coherent, but I like and agree with Antonio Damasio's perspective and I find it refreshing. That is where my comment is coming from.
No, I'm deadly serious. GPLv2 vs CDDL is a complex situation with somewhat easy results (somewhat because there are divergent opinions - so far those opinions only got clicks in media and nothing in court).

It's hard to determine whether GPLv2 would apply on distribution and on what kind of distribution, even.

But your comparison with "pirated NTFS driver" was completely out of whack, suggesting that it's illegal to even do it personally (as would be the case with "pirated NTFS driver"). GPLv2 applies only on distribution. Always did, Always will.
Bravo! I'm working with and for genuinely great people, but my past experiences with such "stick and carrot" bullshit mean I still treat my employer (i.e. the legal entity) as the schoolyard bully: don't cross their radar.
They needed the launch of specialized observation satellites, that doesn't sound like "low hanging" to me...
Yeah that Greek incident wasn't great. Still a lot better than when the biggest crypto exchange of Turkey just left with all the money that one time. That was catastrophic for many customers!
“Oil and gas companies lie about the environmental damage they are causing intentionally”

I feel like I’ve been reading some version of this headline for decades. How have we not been measuring and keeping them accountable every step of the way (and doubling down every time they get caught)?
Digital direct democracy is a potential opportunity that has only become possible with ubiquitous computing devices (iPhones)
I don't think this comment deserves being downvoted much. It states an important issue: In simplicity Go might win, but practically you might be better off learning Rust and have the compiler warn you about issues with your concurrency usage for any non-trivial problem.

I don't agree with the "callback functions is easier" part at all though. It takes a bit of wrapping ones head around channels and so on, but when understood, I think they are easier to handle than all those callbacks.
How to Install an Alternate Python Version
Unpopular opinion on HN, but I’m 100% OK with being tracked because it means:

1. I get to use products and services I like without paying money from my wallet. I have plenty of data to share that’s effectively worthless to me.

2. I get exposed to new products and services (through ads) that I’d like to buy. I like buying things!
> providing ... service

The mafia also provides services. You don't just pay them and get nothing in return. Of course, there, as here, you really have no choice but to pay; and to pay ridiculously inflated rates.

> ... at equal price

Not true. Apple's price is zero. Sucks if you're competing with them, then. Maybe we should all be thankful Apple at-least let's you compete, even if with a handicap. Unlike the mafia.
pi or arduino with a bunch of extra parts to make things and see action. They can learn simple code basics without layers of bullshit from modern dev.

but wait... do you want them to go from that to today's dev environments? ;)
Interesting fact, the Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs was the grandson of the founder of the Burroughs Corporation.
well, one could argue that one of the use cases that cryptocurrencies are not good for is "digital cash". transactions are quite slow and expensive, so vast majority of cryptocurrencies are unusable for e.g. buying a coffee in starbucks.
Note this will download the video and ffmpeg the audio out of it, so you're no longer saving bandwidth.
I used this index two days ago: my siblings and I want to buy a present as a group, but we are split across multiple countries and it wasn't clear how to make a fair split. We ended up agreeing that everyone would contribute their local equivalent of ~7.3 Big Macs.

The only minor correction needed was that the index lists the official dollar exchange price for some currencies while the real price is not even close to that, but that's not the index fault.
Yes, decentralization at the core creates a better environment for experimentation and competition at the 2nd level built upon it
As the Dutch say: a cat that is backed into a corner, makes unpredictable jumps. And Zuckerberg is one really smart cat, with a lot of money at his disposal. So I wouldn’t rule him out yet.
Corbyn's no populist. He's often described as a populist; but in fact he is and always[0] has been on the left wing of Labour, a centrist party. Socialism != populism.

[0] He's been a Labour backbencher since 1983, and his policies didn't change much over the intervening years.
Around here, if one half of a married couple dies, the surviver can't access the shared account until the state gives its OK. Which can take up to 6 months.

Imagine living without money for 6 months while having to pay a funeral. I saw it happen to an elder woman. She had to loan from friends and family because of this.

Now I heard the law has been updated to avoid the most egregious excesses, but the basic principle still stands.

I know of a few people who keep 1 or 2 months worth of money at home, just in case. Can't blame them.

Banks are generally good at what they do, but don't put all your eggs in 1 basket. Someone will make a mistake at your expense, better be prepared and have some buffer.
This is pretty much my experience as well, including the part about Java programmers.
If your price is under 50k, and he wants to pay in installments, then
I'd just close the discussion. Dude is your yanking your chain.
Yet Google tries really hard to get you to log in, to the point where if you log into the browser to be able to sync your bookmarks and settings, you will be logged into your Google search as well.
That’s roughly equivalent to 120,000 Euro/year once normalized for taxes (~50% for self-employed, ~30% for employees).

I have no idea what typical salaries are in the EU, but that’s on the low end of mid-career for much of the US.
This essay is too simplistic about the motivations of some crypto holders. For many people, the more complete sentiment is this: People don't want to run their own bank but they'd rather deal with that extra hassle instead of letting the government erode their purchasing power or confiscate their savings.

How much of a reality that is to particular person depends their economic environment. A Venezuelan living with hyperinflation thinks about the fragility of their savings differently than an American.

Likewise, many don't really want to run their own electric generator because it's noisy and keeping diesel fuel on hand is extra work. However, they'd rather deal with that than have no electricity when the power company issues rolling blackouts.

So, an option can be framed as a "bad choice" but it must also be compared to other bad choices that may be worse. Which bad choice do people prefer? A noisy diesel power generator they have to babysit or a no power at all?

Writing a hypothetical essay titled "People Don't Want to Run Their Own Diesel Generators" -- will not actually educate readers on what's happening.

Yes, crypto POW uses too much energy. But how do you get people to prioritize the environmental impact over their fears of government manipulation?
I mean… yes, but also, not even remotely.

Languages like Rust have solved this through the concept of editions (or whatever you want to call it), essentially package or module-level “compilation mode” which allows evolving the language without breaking the old code.

The issue of the Python transition is that it was way too massive and the repercussion were way too widespread (e.g. they necessarily leaked into the APIs) for this to be possible, despite Python having an entire mechanism to handle this with `from __future__` (though admittedly that being a file-level attribute makes it less than ideal to move the language forwards).
Wait until your non-tech wife accidentally sends ETH to a BTC address. Or her hard drive dies. Or a million other things that can happen.

And the one “legitimate” use case you list is to use cryptocurrency to bypass US controls on money transfers to monitored countries.

How long do you think that hole will remain open?
What a great example of the Bulverism fallacy! Love it!
Buying somewhere else, using alternatives, such as green gas or heat pumps
...and then never go back
I don’t want regulations while being aware I’m at my own risk to take care about my money.
What kind of efficiency are you talking about? It's far, far from clear -- at best -- that crypto can be more energy-efficient than traditional banking.

Transparency? Really? For whom? Do you want your taxes on the blockchain for everyone to see?
You should be able to use "replace" to use your forked module instead of the original and you don't have to change anything.
But, rather importantly, was there a Union Jack in the corner of that big red flag?
The problem is, small developers won't have access to all the options - especially the good options - that the big companies would have.

Currently, if you you manage to make a great app or game you have access to the exact same processes as the Epic or Microsoft.
Or it is a sign that something of great value - something worth protecting - is hidden there.

It implies danger of another human, who is likely now dead.
> How have we not been measuring and keeping them accountable every step of the way

The answer is: money
> I’m arguing for the tax because it provides a strong incentive for app developers to stick to Apples payment systems, that’s good for me as an end user.

You as an end user are not party to the agreement that Apple has with the developers. You are of course free to choose not to do business with parties that do not support Apples payment system, but the same goes for Stripe, PayPal, Adyen and all the other PSPs.

> I’m also arguing for the tax because I believe that Apple has the absolute right to collect such a tax, why wouldn’t they?

Because they are abusing their position to do so.

> They’re far from being a monopolist.

Your understanding of what constitutes a de-facto monopoly is broken.

> Stockholm syndrome?
> Mobile app development sounds like the last thing I’d want to have anything to do with.

That is your choice and your right, but plenty of high performance and/or low level applications have no choice but to go native.
I've setup a misterfpga with the atari ST core and put it in a keyboard case. I think that a lot of the old software from back then are perfect for a 3-6 years old and my hope is that he'll be used to it by the time he's 6 and will be more likely to be open to retro games/environment.

Of course, this is all speculation, my son is only 2 years old so let's see how it turns out, but I did start using such a computer at 3 and it was great for me so I'm highly hopeful :)

I will also not allow any mobile gaming, mobile gaming is a wasteland of predatory practices.
> accepting non-determinism from QM

I think it's deeper than non-determinism. We can imagine an extraordinarily precise "random" number generator that is software, more than capable of fooling all measurements we as humans make of it. It would also be non-deterministic. It would also, importantly, not be real.

Until we can confidently say that the equations of physics are not actually themselves reality, we can't say materialism is even a thing. To be a materialist requires belief that what we know is a description of reality and not reality itself, and that would be true even if we had a deterministic "Newtonian" pre-QM view of the world coupled with advanced theory.
It's really interesting to see certain Apple users justify how Apple's choices are always the right one (even when they are diametrically opposite to Apple's choice from a few months ago, at which point they also defended the Apple choice as the right one).

And I say this as a long time Apple user, both on macs and iPhones.
Their main approach would be pretty much the same as with Software Freedom Conservancy vs Canonical, afaik.
Looking at the plugins source it seems you are right.

The video just gets replaced by the plugins text.

I am not sure if this would even save much battery if running in a tab.
I know many electric-only houses: you can heat yourself without methane.
Different court case.
I sometimes think of it as interior decorating. I do a lot of frontend though.
Believing in God is a good coping mechanism if you cant deal with the fact that things, both good and bad, happen for no reason all the time. Knowing "why" gives comfort in the vast chaos that is reality.
It's more nuanced than that. Mounting a human skull could also mean: here's a graveyard where people have been burried with their most prized possessions. There's a really interesting documentary about Onkalo, a Finnish nuclear waste repository where they talk a bit about this. I think the conclusion they came to was make it look as boring as possible. Or at least more boring than the hassle to get in :-)
Is this a command in order to download the audio?
Please correct me if I'm wrong. This privacy change only affects apps on iOS?
I only use the facebook.com website. Ad tracking in that context hasn't changed?
We're at a point where you can have your coins on a hardware wallet, and have a simple route into an proper exchange with the possibility to pay fiat to your bank account. Documenting this and updating it yearly is not that much extra work if you really believe in it. Every year, practice the process with your wife/sibling/whoever and 10$ so they are accustomed to it.

It's work, but you are running your own bank.
The cure for HIV/AIDS has been one clinical trial away for >>30 years, now.

Don't believe the hype. Wait for results.
> I don't have the time, energy, or skill to securely run important servers all by my self.

But some other people do.

> I give an institution my money and, due to a combination of their size, insurance, and regulators, I'm confident that my money will still be there tomorrow. They are unlikely to give me fake notes, and they can refund me if I've been defrauded. I trust them.

Good luck! Your trust in them is not a guarantee that you are able to get your money back from them at any point [1] [2] [3] [4]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonalFinance/comments/aqxz5n/h...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonalFinance/comments/ryc8i4/b...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonalFinance/comments/l4tps5/h...

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonalFinance/comments/cbpxit/h...
I said wide deployment. A single company and Suse don't count as wide deployment.
Such stories do make me thankful for working in a job that allows me to quit one day and to start somewhere else the next day. This is a luxury for most people.
>What gets me is the way that people will see a picture of a swastika and immediately brand everyone involved as a racist,

There's actually pretty large bounty to identify the person who was holding that nazi flag. The assertion is that this was not one of the protesters at all. Afterall the trucker convoy is quite diverse given so many truckers are Indian.

The CBC has been caught creating propaganda so many times: https://www.mississauga.com/news-story/7081133-opp-shuts-dow...

My favourite is this one: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/dear-qallunaat-white-pe...

Don't worry, the CBC clears says "racism against white people does not exist" right on that page. CBC is on the record they don't hire white people anymore: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/cbc-no-caucasian
How I started building Lichess (2021)