skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plausibly better for the climate (it's not fossil carbon, it's much more recent carbon) but much much much worse for immediate human health, since it spews all sorts of nasty particulates out the chimney and also into the home.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/07/fireplac...
Discussed yesterday:

DarkPattern.games: Find Healthy Mobile Games - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30184457 - Feb 2022 (199 comments)
https://youtu.be/Km6bFBSVty4?t=76
Based on an arbitrary choice. I can deduce as many answers to my questions as theories of identity that I can count. None of them will give me any insight into the question of subjectivity.
Vercel/nextjs.org is a nontrivial company whose business fundamentally depends on supporting the React ecosystem.
> Meta's death (if it happened), will be a slow and a long one.

Exactly, there's no way Meta will suddenly disappear and go poof, barring some kind of extreme government action or bizarre corpora-cidal action by its controlling shareholder Mark Zuckerberg.
That’s such a horrible metric. I try to mentor my colleagues to solve problems using what’s already there. If they take a week to launch a feature without increasing the code size, I’m incredibly proud of them.

One of my own major wins last year was a big update to a project to strip out legacy cruft and tech debt, and scrapped maybe 5,000 LOC. The end result was smaller, faster, easier to test, and more robust. I count that as a win, by pure LOC, it was a massive failure. (Unless you don’t count code removals against an IC’s score, in which you’re optimizing for churn.)
I don't know how to solve obesity, I'm not trying to. But back to the current situation, vaccines are a practical way to help keeping health services functional. It doesn't solve other health issues, and is much less restrictive that going after smoking, eating, alcohol, under-exercised people, etc.

I'm not sure what are you suggesting. Applying all those restrictions? People are already barely accepting current restrictions. Or do you mean since we can't have all those restrictions, we must have none?
yeah should be:
New Zealand's bid to become a dark sky nation
with my tinfoil hat on -- planned stock buybacks?
Neither of these things are sensationalist, they are both awful.
It seems a companies true value and its stock price don’t aren’t as correlated as people would like me to believe.
Texas Bitcoin Miners Shutting Down to Help Power Grid Survive Winter Storm
Quorn: A story about Single Cell Protein
the minecraft modding experience on the raspberry pi my pre-teen has is dead simple to get working, with a quick code-observe loop, but then there's a gap moving to java mods on the PC, which is much more involved
As another commenter pointed out, minimum wage affects less than 1% of the population. It's a bit bizarre to focus in on such a long tail.

More importantly, Big Mac Index is based on the average US price. But Big Macs in, say, Arkansas can be almost 40% cheaper than one from California. So it's really not fair to compare the federal minimum wage to the national price.
Exactly my thoughts too. I'm fine with a simple noise-removal pass, but if the AI is context-aware, what's to stop it saying "hmm, this brain would look more like a normal brain if I remove these tumors". Obviously, they'll test for that, but that only handles common cases they concider, it's always going to be a risk for more unusual sceanrios, and the danger with altering the data is that anyone looking at the results wont have a way to tell how dubious that data is.

Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox#Character_substitution_b... which was _so much_ worse than the equivilent OCR bug because it occured at the image level, where everyone expects errors to to produce noise, not contextly sensible and sharp _but wrong_ characters.

EDIT: based on other comments below, this is thankfully not the case, the AI just understands noise, it doesn't try to "fill in the blanks" based on how brains are supposed to look.
The harm to a live conversation of talking over someone is clear. There is no harm here, only a digression that can be ignored or not as participants wish. The OP had as much time and space to make their case. Again, threaded forums are not live, linear conversations, and have different characteristics for what is healthy and useful. Replies, even contradictory ones, are not interruptions. There is not one conversation going on, but many, and the conversation cannot be steered unilaterally without agreement from others to not engage in the original conversation.

In general, there is nothing wrong with detracting from someone's point (though there can be in specific instances). The point may be ridiculous and need detracting!

There is also nothing wrong with being derogatory when appropriate. Some speech is indeed bad and should be called out -- were you not doing just that? (Though I, of course disagree that the speech you were objecting was in any way bad).
I don’t know if Small World is the reason for that.
Those companies have business development deals in place with Twitter that authorize them to do this.
In hindsight the solution seems so obvious. I wonder what lead to this insight. Did he get direct feedback, or did he intuit it?
I'm speaking from the POV of those who go into the trades. I'm from a very working-class/blue collar background, and most people who choose to be plumbers aren't choosing that over being a lawyer, doctor, or even a grocery store regional manager. They're choosing it over the service and hospitality industries or basic white collar work.

Prior to the pandemic, most of those career paths/jobs were only getting you like 10/hr and raises are either non-existent or at the whim of your manager (and still small). The trades usually have defined pay scales and increase to a basic standard of living pretty quickly. It's easier to support a family as a 25-year old plumber than a 25-year old Walmart employee or a 25-year old bank teller, for example.

I wasn't looking at all jobs, only the set of jobs that would be competing for the career decisions of future plumbers.

"High" is a relative term.
> And it should only be getting more performant as they put more working into optimizing it.

You say this like it's not an 8 year old framework. I wouldn't have such high hopes for it rising significantly.
It all depends on circumstances and your position in the transaction. If you're a business, you probably want to handle customer complaints and refunds yourself, not be subject to the whims of emotional customers.
So, these are some good apps for the most part but Binary Eye definitely seems like a better QR scanner. I prefer Password Store for passwords, which can also handle 2FA.

Some others...

Infinity for Reddit

Fritter

Wikipedia

Telegram FOSS

Termux

Tasks.org

SimpleLogin

PCAPdroid

OpenKeychain

Mullvad VPN

LBRY

i2pd

DuckDuckGo
> For a given heat, a well insulated room is as comfortable as a badly insulated one - but with less energy input. A modern computer is as useful (more so) than a Pentium 4, but with less energy input. An LED bulb provides as much light as an incandescent, but with less energy input. When energy becomes expensive, it makes energy saving worthwhile, which makes the return on investment higher, which draws in R&D money.

You're right, and I think these are compelling examples. And climate change need not even be considered for these to support a carbon tax.

Thanks for the response.
It’s a great story, but I don’t understand how the insurance company is relevant to the finders. They found it, it’s theirs (you just said) so the insurance company… wants to pay above market value for nostalgic reasons?

Incidentally there’s a miniseries about this topic I just started watching, the overacting on the Spanish side of the production is cringeworthy but it’s a fun premise, you might like it. And if you already know it, you might comment on its veracity!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fortuna_(TV_series)
One could, but with that argument it equates all life as being equal. If that is the case, why is it wrong to murder?

Personally, I can very clearly see that a cow or a dog is concious whereas a plant (if concious at all) is very much further towards unconcious than a human understanding of conciousness. Therefore I opt to reduce the suffering as much as possible.

I would hope if an alien species that was much more concious than we could comprehend were to stumble across earth, they would not cause us suffering and eat us merely because we are not as intelligent as they are.
Which of course highlights how much of the US (world?) economy is dependent on user tracking and advertising. Actual manufacturing and selling of goods and services? Not so much.

Unless of course you count "delivering user information to advertisers" or "bombarding users with ads" as services.
If landlines in the US still supported fax, I’d get a landline (my printer has a fax). I want a landline anyway, but fax is the killer feature.

Every year or so there is something that is just easiest or fastest to submit via fax, the alternative being mail.
I'm sure many of the Trader Joe's store brand products are white label. It seems inefficient to have such a wide range of frozen products that are constantly changing. They simply find a frozen pasta dish manufacturer that abides by whatever quality guidelines and just change the label.

Another possibility is that trader Joe's does actually manufacturer a lot of their rotating products but just simply rotates the store that receive them so they don't need to have a massive production for something so small. Cacio Pepe sauce for new england area for this month, southwest region next month.
I belligerently hate Meta, but it's pretty wild to speculate that a company with 1.9 billion users will just up and die. A slow death on the order of 10-20 years may happen but I doubt React will still be popular by that time no matter what happens with Meta.
I have not had as much of a problem with structuring django projects. I agree there could be better documentation recommending best practices.

There is a very good talk from Dan Palmer from Djangocon 2021 called "Scaling Django to 500 apps" that gives helpful advice for project layout in a django app that may only have a few or several apps:

https://2021.djangocon.us/talks/scaling-django-to-500-apps/

That said, if we're going to dig on Django, it lacks typing, core-based API patterns and any embrace of modern front end. There are positive signals though, releases are coming faster and there is some real talent on the tech board right now.

I do think django and python in general are in a defensive position to hold the future of backend webdev compared to node / deno. However, there's still plenty of opportunity to compete for developers.
> Javascript proponents say the ability to mix and match is its strongest feature, but to me the analysis paralysis of having to stop and shop for a library that does X (and will only do X) is a total productivity killer.

If you can settle on a good enough batteries-included framework without analysis paralysis, you can make the individual as-needed decisions about libraries without it. It's not a problem of a higher order.

If anything, it's lower-pressure, because the cost of a wrong choice is much smaller.
Oklahoma Will Fine Teachers $10K for Contradicting Students' Religious Beliefs
“There are approximately seven scanners per million inhabitants and over 90% are concentrated in high-income countries. We describe an ultra-low-field brain MRI scanner that operates using a standard AC power outlet and is low cost to build.”

This is fantastic. What a sentence to get to write.
Microsoft's Office division has enough bets on React and React Native I'd be surprised if React didn't survive regardless of Meta.
> a simple noise-removal pass

Even that is inventing data, no?
Think of all the technologies that we use today that were invented at companies that no longer exist, or are no longer relevant. E.g. Java was invented at Sun, C at Bell Labs. Why would it be different?
Europeans and westerners generally put themselves on high moral horses, whether it is free market, free press, state violence or freedom of religion.

The reality is that if you look closely many have state religions, media tax, shady deals (incl. with Iran & Saddam), flexible morality (Germany's China policy) & protectionism (+ tax holes)

India adjusted for the fact that per capita GDP is 1/3rd that of Mexico, fares pretty well. Modi might be India's first "Free Indian" Prime minister, the colonial legacy still dominates every other office including the judiciary.
3... 2... 1... cease & desist
Jump aren't really crypto folk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_Trading

It's kind of a new thing for them. They do HFT and the like in normal financial markets.

>Jump Trading is a registered broker-dealer and member of multiple exchanges including the CME Group and the New York Stock Exchange.[13][4] They are also members of most European exchanges including Eurex and the London Stock Exchange.[14][15]

>In September 2021, Jump announced their cryptocurrency business through a new brand named Jump Crypto

Also from their website:

>We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting-edge research to global financial markets.

so they sound a bit more of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies type outfit
It takes a lot less effort to do both of those things, than it is to build a third-party app store and to entice users to join. They may attempt to, but it would be difficult. It’s a lot easier to show ads than it is to get users to use those crappy carrier or OEM bundled bloatware apps. Even Apple has had to allow app hiding or deletion of its first party apps in recent updates, because a lot of users don’t use a lot of them and find them to be clutter.
The author of this post has no idea what they are talking about.

Not minor quibbles or terminology or preferences - but flat out incorrect.

I post this for posterity / search engines / future readers: Ignore this post.
This sounds more complicated to me than just using React plus an API backend.
I still miss your meme's from my Duke days! Glad to see you on HN
The state-of-the-art in server side is simpler and, arguably, more powerful than SPA + APIs.

We wrote a demo social music player with Phoenix LiveView: https://fly.io/blog/livebeats/

And Remix has another great take: https://remix.run/docs/en/v1/tutorials/jokes

PHP is amazingly capable too: https://laravel-livewire.com/

Even Rails + Hotwire go a long way.
There are other benefits of F-Droid, e.g. the lack of malware and adware. You can be sure that anything you install will respect you and behave.
I couldn't agree with you more here. To me, it's a clear sign that he "wears no clothes". The Metaverse presentation was the most idiotic presentation I've ever seen. He must be completely surrounded himself by people that just agree with him.

It reminds me of this clip from Silicon Valley.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAeEpbtHDPw
Hopefully the system would be trained to accurately convey relevant medical information rather than to generate an image of a brain that looks normal.
One of the nice things about where I work is that QA is a very short distance down the hall. When they tell me "It's doing X", I can walk over and say "Show me". And then I see that they didn't mention that it was in mode Y when they made it happen, and they did step Z on the way to get there. They may not have thought that those pieces mattered, but to the developer, sometimes they do.
> From a SME perspective, there's nothing wrong with banks.

That is only true in most developed countries, but far from the reality in the developing world. Even in the developed world, having the alternative is good, as it gives room for competition.

> Banking loves SME's and vice versa

In Germany, there are plenty of restaurants and bars that are cash-only, because the transaction fees + the cost of operating a PoS is not worth it.

Try running a (legal) cannabis dispensary or a sex shop and knock on a bank to get a loan for rotating capital.

> years of trust, not mentioning underwriting, lending, risk scoring etc.

And all of that is going away with the increased consolidation of banks, the "AI models" that deny you a credit line based on your postal code, the fintechs that want disrupt retail banking but provide Google-level of customer support, etc, etc, etc...
React is great until you have non-trivial state management then life starts to suck again.

The # of react apps I've seen where every key press entered into a form takes 200-500ms is super high. Heck the first version of Work At A Startup here on HN had input box latency problems that looked a lot like what I see in React all the time.

It is funny because Redux's religious adherence to a const store makes no sense. Sure it provides a cool debugging trick where you can rewind things, but other than that it seems to just provide an endless hole of performance issues with people using the spread operator incorrectly.

C# and Winforms lets me pump out CRUD apps at literally 20x the speed I can in React. What takes me a day in Winforms can take a month in React. Wish I was kidding there. I once prototyped a website in Winforms, less than day.

I spent 3 days getting a date time picker working across all browsers desktop and mobile with accessibility support working. (Only because Safari doesn't support datetime pickers....)

Web dev sucks compared to desktop development. Hell Java + Swing had higher developer productivity than web dev.
Wait, you didn't answer your question. Who owned the gold? Who did the insurance company reimburse? The Spanish Crown?
If Government needs an ID it is free to issue one. Instead they're routing taxpayer money to feed yet another private spy network. I am curious who's getting kickbacks for it.
I'm not talking about how my javascript source files are organized, I'm talking about how the functions are dispatched from the UI. That is done with event listeners strewn about in the DOM.
> Up to 10k rows of data.

uh, how is 10k tweets (1 second of data?) enough?
> Well, which part doesn't it explain?

It doesn't explain how consciousness emerges from this. Brains/computers/processes can self-reference or self-explain all they want, that still doesn't say how doing so results in having the actual consciousness you experience.

It's not a trivial thing we're talking about here: there could be a brain just executing logic and making decisions, or there could be that same brain but it's actually aware of that fact, not just aware in the sense that it's processing inputs including the inputs from which it can derive that it itself exists, but aware like you are there and the one in that brain.

The only one that you can know for sure has consciousness is yourself, but can you explain why you have it?

If the brain is an electromechanical process that works on its own, and consciousness is just observing it, then it doesn't need this observer, the process already does the same on its own.
Sure:

> Where does this end in societies governed by the rule of law? Who can decide to opt-out or in?

I think individuals themselves should decide what is and isn't OK to spend money on. In such a world you rely on law enforcement doing actual work instead of using vague KYC, AML and Terrorism laws that are extremely obtuse.

Real criminals just use a middle man while regular citizens have to endure this insane regulatory environment without any benefit.

KYC/AML is just a waste of time, energy and manpower.

> That can also be achieved by mandating banks to offer accounts (as some countries have). So I put that down to a political failure.

What if you don't have a functioning banking sector? Or even a functioning government? You're just supposed to accept that you're not going to be able to participate in a global society?

> The ability for people in extreme situations to store value in something other than their governments currency. Think Lebanon, Argentina, Venezuela, Turkey, etc.

Sure, but most (if not all) of those things can be taken from you. Bitcoin can not. Of course, there's always the $5 wrench attack but relative to other assets, Bitcoin is superior in this regard. Even if it's just slightly better than other assets it's a win.

> Could be used like that, but so can normal money and incentives

Yes, but Bitcoin mining is a natural free market incentive to this problem, incentives and money is not.
OK, don't.

"Causation" is purely interpretation; the universe has nothing to do with that. People invented causation to help understand the universe, but there is nothing fundamental about it. So long as you think you need causation of any kind to understand consciousness, you will get nowhere.
I read it when I was a kid (11/12)... along with Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal. I was chiefly impressed by both, for quite some time I thought both of the them were real and represented real(!) values. To this day I can quote quite a bit of both.
A related video from around 1994: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5Io2WweTxQ

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5193898, but no comments there)
Same here. Inherited a huge rails code base and it's as bad as any node project. The autoloading has been enabled in the entire project so I have no clue whether a class is defined within the project or is fetched from a gem. I've never grepped this much in my life
In an unregulated capitalist economy, the inevitable end result is monopoly. The best way to compete in the economy is to not have to compete.

Without external restraints, any sufficiently large company will focus on eliminating competition either through pricing them out of the market or just outright buying them.

The only reason the US has more than one cellular network right now it because the government has prevented multiple attempts at mergers, and even with that effort we're down to three.

edit: if you disagree, I'd love to hear your opinion. The government has entire agencies dedicated to maintaining competition in the economy. If monopoly was not the inevitable end result of capitalism, then such agencies would not be required.
Curiously, I was just thinking how I personally am often wrong about inflation right before logging back in to see what responses I’ve had to this comment.

One of the important things I tend to forget, is that effective rate of inflation is different for different people within the same economy.

For example, the official rate of inflation in the U.K. right now is 5.4%, but if you’re poor, you’re likely to be constrained by fuel prices (which just went up ten times that: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/uk-faces-record-rise-in...) and food (which has done worse, but unevenly and over the whole year: https://twitter.com/BootstrapCook/status/1483778776697909252).

This is because inflation isn’t just caused by just governments printing money, it’s also caused by a reduction in the availability of things to spend that money on and even the rate at which money changes hands (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money).

There’s also a totally unrelated argument that I can follow but not adequately repeat about the impact of various levels of inflation on consumer spending and the feedback that has on employment etc., but that’s not an argument that I expect to do anything at all to reduce anger.
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Nobody uses it anymore, there are too many people on it.
Look through your javascript dependencies. Is react really at the top of your list for worries of death? hah.
You should see their houses, it is designed for obsolescence.
At least for the old POSIX stuff this is sort of excusable... it operated under very much more relaxed assumptions, primarily that people could trust each other to a somewhat large degree.

Obviously, the rise of mass-population Internet access and financial (or "lulz") incentives for hackers changed the game, and we're still paying for all the decisions to be backwards-compatible, even decades later.