skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I compare it to the dot com bubble. This is simply what happens when you introduce large amounts of stupid money to a very immature sector. The average American doesn't exist. But of course a lot of amateur investors with dollar signs that lost their money 20 years ago, are the same kind of gullible fools lining up for a repeat of that. So, I'm happy it is happening and it can't happen fast enough for me. In fact, it's long overdue.

Back in the day, if you even hinted at "we might get a domain name and a website", you'd be getting funding. People were dumping millions in some pretty moronic and misguided notions. A lot of those companies failed for quite obvious reasons. But not without making several people very rich. Investors have a way with money where they manage to not lose when things go bad and win a lot when that fails to happen. That's one of the perks of playing with other people's money. Worst case you just take your cut and then you wash your hands of the whole thing. Best case it was all you and your genius insights. Sometimes stupid money is tempting for smart investors. When it's on offer, there will be people taking it.

And of course few companies actually had some good ideas and got a little more funding than they would have otherwise gotten and used that to become amazingly successful. Amazon, Google, Ebay, and a few others survived the bursting of the bubble and survived and thrived.

The same is happening with crypto and blockchain companies. Most of them are obviously empty shells run by charlatans operating out of dodgy jurisdictions. But those are actually pretty easy to spot. If it looks dodgy, it more than likely is super dodgy. If it looks to good to be true, it probably is. So, people losing their money are mostly just fools. The exact same kind of fools that lost their money 20 years ago. When some of those fools are institutional investors betting with your pension money, you'd be right to be a bit concerned about that though. That too happened 20 years ago.

More interesting is to look for the things that just aren't that dodgy at a first glance. Some of these companies are looking pretty serious actually. Solid investors, actual customers, working products, etc. It's not all scams and pyramid schemes and those might be the possible survivors of the crypto bubble bursting. Some of the tech is actually quite impressive and looks like it might be used to solve some real problems.

There are probably more than few very good tech companies just putting their heads down and getting some real work done right now. Those are the interesting ones to follow.
It's the other way around, I think, there are technological challenges to using Matt coatings

The issue is, like you said, the smearing and contrast, which was a bigger issue with newer, high DPI displays.

That being said, I do believe there are solutions - I have used 4k Matt displays that don't have the aforementioned issue, I think most glossy displays are there for there as a form over function thing.

Glossy displays are still annoyingly reflective and good antiglare coatings are exceedingly easy to damage
I stopped before this point. Thankyou heaps for reading further and sharing this quote. I think it really nails it.
The Shrkeli, "former hedge fund manager and convicted felon"?
The only technical limitation we have is that matte displays collect dust etc. so they are not suitable for touch-devices.

Why some manufacturers would want to use glossy on any non-touch device is beyond me.
Jobs recovery far more rapid in right-to-work states
I've encountered far more "nut jobs" driving in Scotland than I have on public transport...

Edit: The only awkward scene I ever witness on my occasional commute into Edinburgh by train is when two laptop users sitting across from from each other accidentally touch screens - of course, both people immediately apologise. It's hell.
Somewhat ironically, this sounds like the perfect application of the American conservative political strategy of "starving the beast."
Yeah, maybe the outward pretense of rationality was more important in decades past.

In my experience reading scientific papers, "we conclude" is just a pretentious old-timey way to say "I think". It never actually meant anything more rigorous, it was just the norm to write more pretentiously and inflate the certainty of conclusions.

We've been greatly humbled by being wrong over and over in recent decades. Maybe that has driven people to be less confident and stop presenting their thoughts as inevitable rational conclusions.

Another illustration of the weakness of their data interpretation -- the figure shows use of the word "data" has declined in the past 20 years. Has actual use of data declined over this period? Quite the opposite, surely.

I think (haha) this last point is actually quite revealing and strongly supports the "decreasing pretension" interpretation of the paper's word use trend charts. Maybe people stopped saying "the data says" over and over in a crude attempt to box the reader into submission.
> but the get rich quick pitches are just too attractive to the average American who doesn't understand technology or finance.

This is the real reason there's such a backlash; it doesn't actually matter what the underlying merits or otherwise are, the ubiquitous sales tactics, cultishness, and arrogance of the advocates have enraged people.

I'm reminded of Russ Alberry's epic rant from 24 years ago about spam destroying one of the original internet decentralized communities, USENET: https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/writing/rant.html
That was really funny.
As a nomad, and someone who's traveled to 40 countries and speaks 3 languages, I'd personally love to live in a world where passports don't exist and people are free to travel to any country they want to. I think trying to make all passports equal is the wrong solution. Passports are issued by the authority of a country, and not all countries have equal authority on the world stage. UN issued passports might be a possible solution, but I can't envision global trust in the UN's authority. If the UN started issuing passports for stateless people, I can imagine the passport would immediately be treated as a low-status passport by countries, if they even accepted it at all. I think a better solution is to abolish passports altogether, but I can't envision that either.

The truth is, the world is not an equal place. Never has been, and never will be. In terms of justice, the best we can do is to make sure that those at the bottom have all of their basic needs met, access to opportunities to increase their status, and a continually rising standard of living for everyone via innovation and sustainable development.

As an individual, the best one can do is to work hard to obtain a better passport. That's what I've done, and there are many opportunities to do so.
USB-C goes to great lengths already to minimize "space and weight" costs. The easiest way to address those would be introducing "modules" that provide multiple ports when practical in the space that's designed for a single connector. Smaller designs though would inherently be more fragile.
I remember encountering this approach in A. K. Dewdney's Computer Recreations column of the April 1986 issue of Scientific American: "A program for rotating hypercubes induces four-dimensional dementia". It included enough pseudo-code for my young self to get something working in qbasic, even adding support for red-blue cellophane glasses so that the hypercubes could be seen in 3d. Great memories!
> Because no matter how many times misinformed critics call NFTs a "scam": there is something inherently honest about them: pay money, get a collectible. There are no financial instruments here that can be misunderstood.

It can absolutely still be a scam. Wash trading is trivially employed to inflate the price of the "bid money" step, fraudulently suggesting the existence of demand when there is none.
On February 5, 2022 Bricksmith 3.1 released.[0,1]

It is long awaited release since 2014 which brings macOS Big Sur support now.[2]

N.B. "AWESOME LDraw" — a curated list of digital lego resources.[3]

[0] https://bricksmith.sourceforge.io/VersionHistory.html

[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/bricksmith/files/bricksmith...

[2] https://forums.ldraw.org/thread-24283-post-44805.html#pid448...

[3] https://git.io/digitallego
Elaborate? Where can I find further reading?
I don't think that having two different count()s with different edge-case behavior is the way it should've been improved. If someone used the method incorrectly in the past it's part their fault for writing it incorrectly and part PHP's that it didn't fail (and "fail" is also kind of a stretch since the behavior was described in the docs IIRC).
I wonder how far the billion dollars goes towards making him feel better. People have justified far worse for far less.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninabambysheva/2021/11/03/ether...
The thing is, cars are neither more nor less independent then public transport, in practice. Sure, if I have a driver's license, a car, and money for gas, I can hop into my car and drive... wherever the government has seen fit to allow me to drive (most importantly, by building roads to those places). Of course, I also have to find some place to park, and I have to abstain from alcohol for many hours before getting in my car; I need to be well-rested as well. While driving, I have to be constantly alert, so the most I can do in parallel is have a conversation or listen to some music.

With public transport, I just need to buy a ticket - no need to buy and maintain a car, no need to spend weeks to get a driver's license. Then, once I have the ticket, I can wait and then hop on a bus/train/subway and go to... wherever the government has seen fit to allow me to ride. In practice, today, roads lead to many more places than public transit, but this is not a necessity of the world, it is to a great extent a choice that was made long ago. Also, I can get on a bus drunk (but not disorderly) or tired out of my mind. While riding, I can work, play, read etc.
This is funny as I was just thinking to myself this morning, "My X13 is the worst Thinkpad I've ever owned". The S3/S5 issues aren't limited to Linux, they exist in Windows too. I've set my laptop to just hibernate whenever I close the display to get around the issue, though it's very annoying.

I also made the mistake of optioning mine with the PrivacyGuard screen, but that's on me. I actually can't wait till I can justify upgrading.

Performance is great on the "original" AMD one, 8 cores, 32GB of RAM!
I'm perfectly happy with my Kindle Fire 10. Makes a great comic reader and video device.
Sorry;
Now; SI = [Number of Shares Short] / [Float] + [Number of Shares Short]
You miss strangers more than your family?
> An organisation that publishes flight data and charges for it, is incentivised to produce accurate, timely data about flights.

Depends on who pays, right? If their only consumers are insurance companies, they are incentivized to keep data in a way which is favorable to insurance companies (there are lies, big lies and statistics kind of deal). I believe this is what lead to the sub prime mortgage crisis.
Have you ever studied the undersea cables running throughout the world for telecommunications (ie the internet)??

Do you have ANY idea how many there are in almost every country in the world (with backup links going to other areas)? What in the world are you talking about?? The internet is decentralized, plain and simple. Put it to you this way, let’s say you wanted to “take the internet down”, please (short of EMP attacking the entire planet - in which case we have way bigger problems than the internet obviously), how exactly would you do that. Seriously I’d love to know. See, I happen to have worked at major internet hubs throughout the world, and you would have to simultaneously take out hundred (again across the planets) in order to even slow down the internet.

Same principle goes for “truly” decentralized crypto (ie Bitcoin is the obvious example). Tell me, how exactly (even if you were the ruler of a major nation power) would you take either down? I’m dying to know…..

It’s impressive how ignorance spreads like wildfire. Do your homework people. Read. Do the actual math. Use your heads. What’s wrong with all you!?!?
The great thing about a promise to be compatible is it means if it does break your build you know where to report the bug, and help out the developers who were trying to make a compatible release for your benefit. And that doesn't have anything in particular to do with semver at all. It is just about your use case and if you need to pin your dependencies or not, and the downsides to either approach.
How do we recognize such madness in the future, before we get caught up in it? After it's metastasized?
On the last day of the spike I saw in the pre-market the GME price to go over $500. Figured that this is good enough for me and as everything related to order processing was very slow I set a limit sell order for $490, figuring that it probably hits $500, but wanted to be sure it goes through. Once the price spiked at 483 and started rapidly dropping I was f-ed. Cancelling the sell-order took like an hour (couldn’t add a new sell order without releasing shares from the old one). By that time the price was in the dust.
1. I'm not saying it's not more of an issue for some than others, but I still think learning to navigate that is part of life. It depends a bit on what kind of life you want, but I think we're inherently social beings, and learning how to navigate difficult social settings is important, even if difficult.

2. I'm pretty empathetic and emotionally reactive, and honestly I've found that WFH makes this worse in a lot of ways. Working IRL helps humanize people. A disagreement over text might make me feel like I'm being attacked, but it's easier to see it more as just a discussion if it's happening IRL. People that I view as being malicious start to seem more human and relatable IRL. I'm better able to vent and commiserate with others IRL than over text.
Does PHP say it follows SemVer? I don't know as I don't use it but Python doesn't.
IDK there are lots of games you can play with accounting when you have as much cash flow Uber has and not operating at a profit is more of a tax-avoidance strategy than a 70B dollar scam on public market investors...

It's also wild how much money they need to commit to lobbying on the state and local level against union interests.
Please have a look at an X maintainers very own presentation: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cQoQE_HDG8g

Wayland is not a middle man as it is the compositor itself as well - it does the minimal amount of work necessary to compose the desktop. X on the other hand just transfers messages between clients and the compositor without doing any actual work (x render functions are almost never used by modern applications)
My next bug bear is screen sharing on Wayland.

Exactly. Wayland is unusable for me on current Debian family distros because tools like Slack and Teams can't share screens properly and IME just about everyone now uses some tool like that for remote working. None of the other advantages matters much if I can't send essential communications without logging out and then starting a new X session first.
Your comment could basically be describing Greece.
People mostly don't have the resources to even get to another country. A country where most of their established social network won't be able to help them.

And for example, in the US, if you don't speak English or Spanish it is going to be difficult to get unskilled work (understood that there are some places where other languages would work, I'm characterizing the overall situation).
TypeScript is nice, the nodejs community is not. It is a shame that such a nice language as TypeScript is stuck in such horrible community.
From an ethical / fairness perspective, I think that the idea that someone should be prevented from visiting or settling in my country by virtue of their birth situation is utterly ridiculous, abhorrent, and awful.

From a logistical perspective, I think that if my country accepted anyone from anywhere around the world, I think that the lovely little picket-fence green England I live in would turn into an absolute hellscape of poverty even faster than it already is.

I think most people probably hold those two views simultaneously and try to reconcile them.

Passport control is kind of just like a larger-scale way of keeping the supermarket checkout worker out of your Michelin-starred restaurant society Facebook group. They'd just fuck it up and make it awkward for everyone. Is it fair? No.
Or production is on forced holiday because we are lacking µC (ST) for our devices. So it is not only future demand or high tech components, part of it is already here.
This point is underappreciated, and the nut jobs in cars are also more dangerous.
I agree, but what I'm asking is if it isn't easier and cheaper to have a robust logging system with a public DLT. I'll give you a real example of how bad some of the database systems are in my country: a study on police gun and ammunition control found that many police stations keep track of ammunition by logging the numbers on a.... ready... a chalkboard. So I don't trust the cops who sell bullets to drug gangs if tomorrow they tell me they are not doing it anymore because they are using a computerized database to keep track of their equipment.
> I mean, at some point you gotta ask yourself why cloudflare shows all TOR users a captcha in a targeted manner :)

Because exit node IP address' are known, you have just said it.

How does it have anything to do with user fingerprinting? And how does it answer the question of @gtsop asking whether different users of ToR web browser have different distinguishable fingerprint or not?
For the radio version of creepy, the Moth Radio Hour creeps me out so much. There's something which I cant put my finger on, it's like the real emotional stories have been produced and refined by a team to become a kind of product.

Each story is told in a similar way, using hooks, pauses, climaxes, introductions, wavering voice and a personal message at the end to give maximum listening impact. They are crafted as much as a TED talk.

It's creepy and doesn't feel natural because the stories are all true and personal. It's like an uncanny propaganda but where you know the content is real and true, it's just the way its being told which is weird. You can hear the persons stories have had many people working on them.
If you upgrade without proper testing you are the only one to blame. Seems like that blaming PHP is just an excuse for poorly managing language upgrades.

PHP has one of the best track records for retrocompatibility, this is really the worst thing you could pick to blame PHP for something.
Do you find no value in this at all?

Let's take this then

> Common Sense usually means Big Hairy Ball of Experience-Grounded Implicit Knowledge

I don't agree, here's some very straightforward 'common sense' statements that I've seen not followed at so many companies

Don't micromanage.

Do trust, but verify.

Treat your staff like humans, not like crap.

If the staff you employed know more than you, listen to them.

Focus on business outcomes, not the tech.

All good rules with few if any gotchas. All horribly broken at various places I've worked.
It'll be interesting looking back whether the Musk FSD stuff cost lives or saved them. I'm guessing saved but I we'll see.
It's also an incentive for the apps to use Wayland which is a good thing.
I’m always surprised how much random gaming merch Target displays.
Does anyone know if there's a corresponding group in Greece working on the same goal? I'd hate to imagine a whole river as a national park but on the other side of the border they're dumping fertilizer and building dams.
> I think a coat might be in order.

The coat won't stay dry though.

> you will see a ton of people on mobility scooters.

Mobility scooters in bike lanes are dangerous - they take a lot of space and sit below line of sight of many bikers. They are dangerous to themselves on the road, and are dangerous to people on pavements. All in all, they tend to be a terrible idea.

> Everything can be delivered to your door at the press of a button now.

... by cars.
Quite true, although my (possibly naive) assumption was that with it being a statically typed language and these being "simple" algorithmic benchmarks the gap would be closer.

Not expecting it to match Rust or C in performance, just surprised at the size of the gap.

Would be interesting to see what the generated C is like from the Nim code.
The fact that your local shop, work or school is 15 minutes away doesn’t preclude you from walking for 30 minutes.

The fact that my commute is a business park 30 minutes away doesn’t make my life full of exploration and novelty, it just wastes time and money.
It's much better to start improving from the lowest point :)
"They" are the data aggregation websites that post shares SI.

FINRA and the SEC have nothing to do with the actual calculation of SI that various websites report.

Read; https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/lbydkz/s3_p...

S3 SI% of Float = Shares Sold Short/(Float + Shares Sold Short)
Not OP but there's a lot of useful old blog entries about this topic to explore at curedmeats.blogspot.com
Mine is probably pre-Alder Lake, so this certainly fits my experience.

For my son, I got a Thinkpad E495 with a Ryzen 3700. It can go forever on a battery charge, but it lacks the spill-resistant keyboard as far as I can tell.
You're joking about 'forcing' right? There are so many decisions in modern operating systems that are not easy to change. Are you mad at Linux for 'forcing' you into 'rwx' filesystem security? Or 'forcing' you to use iptables for configuring your firewall?

Other desktop environments shifted to compositing 15 years or longer ago since it performs better on modern GPU's than the old 'damage check and repaint' algorithms. I don't think it's impossible to do that with Wayland, but since nobody tried to build that I think interest is very low.
Read; http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps...

S3 SI% of Float = Shares Sold Short/(Float + Shares Sold Short)
It is a balance, but is it the right balance? London is breaching the European and UK air pollution limits. My dad was a very confident cyclist but has almost stopped due to the accidents and near misses. He didn't wait for a fatality.

I feel like the demographics of who cycles in London is pretty limited, it's the young confident cyclists. No children, very few tandem bikes with children, few women [1].

Much of London doesn't have room for cycle lanes (we have a few, and many mixed cycle/bus lanes. Even those are often used by turning vehicles rather than being physically separated like in NL). US transformations, once they get rid of (enough of) the cars, have lots of space for BRT, or cycle lanes, or etc.

London also has a not-enough-parking policy for the city centre, which helps reduce car traffic, parking minimums are the bane of dense, cycle-friendly and pedestrian-friendly development. In other words, the picture of a high street is showing good transit first of all, not good cycling infrastructure.

[1] https://www.onlondon.co.uk/will-londons-cycling-gender-gap-c...
> Banks in the UK pay out a maximum of 1% interest on even the best savings accounts (i. e. the return doesn't even keep pace with average person's PoV inflation).

Interest paid on deposits is a free market (generally speaking); if that rate isn't worthwhile to people, they will start leaving and the bank will raise its rates.

> I am skeptical of this explanation for why we should let the banks hold our money.

You aren't 'letting' them and it's not a collective decision. You personally choose to give them your money. Put it elsewhere if you like.

> Or indeed remain alive as anything but a source of borrowing.

They can't lend money without deposits. The deposits are the money they lend.