skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived in Switzerland before so I know kind of how it works: the blue/pink slips for paying things are really convenient, you just don't need checks. And I lived in China for 9 years where checks don't exist either (because the trust system isn't really in place, so they went straight to QR-based mobile payments). In the USA, a lot of people don't use checks anymore for practical purposes (though there are some hold outs, and you might need to write a check once or twice every 5 years). Checks and cash are just things that you don't need to use anymore. I can't wait until I don't have to carry my credit card in my phone anymore (I already don't have to pull it out more than a couple of times a week).

> Anyhow, the "digital health file" prototypes were hacked again and again and it's been delayed several times to get to tight privacy.

That sounds like Germany, they are conservative like that, and they probably aren't wrong.

Faxes aren't bad though, there are plenty of fax2email gateways that make them as convenient as receiving email.
they really aren't.
I am one of those introverted people but was feeling lonely last summer and started going to group fitness classes and realized right away that if I went to yoga classes half the people there are middle-aged guys who wanted to look at young girls... Well, I wasn't interested in looking so I started going to other classes instead where it's not difficult to get into something like a high school club in a harem anime.

I ended up in one that was poorly attended (just me) and was trying to seduce the instructor (probably the only way you can score at the gym). It was a hot and humid day and I was starting to see stars and the next thing I know I am on the ground and this woman with anime character hair (the instructor) is leaning over me and looking very concerned and I think... this isn't too bad.

Well she goes down some form she's supposed to fill out if somebody faints in her class and asks questions like "do you identify as male?" and "what pronouns do you use?" It was the first time anybody ever asked me those questions and I can say it is not as bad as fainting is.

It turns out she was putting on a play the next day so I wind up dragging along my wife (who is cool) and my son and my sister-in-law and it turns out to be the absolutely worst play any of us have ever seen so at least we have a funny story to tell about it. (One of the players who seemed male identified himself as an "it" and we joked that fat must be a third gender.)
>Neither of those requires unsustainable energy production.

Being able to fuel up your SUV without having to spend $10/gal does. The average HN user making $150k/year salary might be able to absorb such a bump in fuel price, but not the average american.

>> We're going to [do thing to fix problem] and make [maligned entity] pay for it!

>Got other ideas to address externalities? Or are you just like all libertarians going to pretend they don’t exist until it’s too late and nothing can be done about it?

The part I'm making fun of isn't "tax carbon to internalize externalities". The part I'm making fun of is the thought that you can do it without making the end-consumer pay for it.
Unfortunately, the penalties for violating sanctions are very harsh, and the USA has been known to go after charities[1]. Your bank is covering their asses.

[1] The ALAB Podcast has an excellent couple episodes about the persecution of the Holy Land Foundation, if you're curious: https://www.alabseries.com/episodes/episode-23-the-scapegoat...
Outside the UK, "country" usually means "independent state".

The UK usage is more local than anything else, because if you're going to call Wales a country you'd really need to call things like Bavaria or Texas countries.
In theory I agree wholeheartedly, however in practice HN consistently allows off-topic far left political spam while marking any attempts to combat it as a "flame war". This phenomenon is more than a psychological bias: it's a self-reinforcing artifact of HN's demographics.

I offer you a challenge:

I will provide you with quantitative data that I am correct on this issue, and in return you remove the restrictions on my account.
May be. I am in no position to argue with Drew or Avery for that matter. (:
I set my kid up with a Raspberry Pi 4, large key color lit keyboard, and monitor
with HDMI loudspeakers.

Then I wrote her own "OS" - it's a bunch of python and bash scripts that
run things she wants. As she asks for more things it should do I add
a command and show her. So far she can:

1) Log in with name and five letter password*
2) whoami (she loves this)
3) music - it plays a random track from her music collection
4) photo - a random picture from our vacation last summer with her in it
5) sound - a random sfx plays in the speaker
6) say - text2speech the next word

The main objective is to get her typing and word recognition happening.
She is 5, so definitely NO INTERNET. This summer I am going to add

7) talk - unix talk to daddy's computer on the LAN *

* we haven't talked cybersecurity yet, remembering 5 character
password is still advanced

* I will regret this I know
None yet, reading with great interest. Really, I just want to echo the many, "THANK YOU!!" sentiments related to your work out there.
I think it is the question, because if there is an AI that can experience qualia, and my toy AI doesn't, then there's some inflection point between the two that can experience qualia. You can set up goalposts just slightly past any toy example but you're just inventing Zeno's Qualia.
>In my programming 101 70% of students did not even attend the final. Then, next programming class was a better with high percentage of students passing. Eventually, when we got to class like theory of computation 80% of people failed to finish.

I'm kind of astounded that your program was so badly calibrated that first 70% of freshman dropped the major rather than take the final exam, and then, several years of curriculum later, the 300 or 400-level theory class still fails 80% of its students. What the hell? But I suppose by my own definition, that's basically what we should expect from using weeder courses to stop people majoring in a field for money.

Still, at least at my undergrad institution, once you got past the weeder courses, a fail or drop rate of 80% would be considered pretty bad.
Iridium flares are a big thing though. You won't see them all night but around dusk and dawn, when the sats are lit by sunlight but the ground is dark, they can definitely be seen very easily.
SpaceX engineers in Fiji for six months
I mean by that logic India is the most hard done by here - (perhaps) the worlds most populated country reduced to a single data point.
Why so expensive? Couldn't you just site it way out in the boonies? If you put it on a giant purpose-built concrete cube, it seems like most of this stuff becomes cheaper.
Bing, Yandex, and DDG are more than serviceable. Furthermore, you have to imagine every search counts. Sure, Siri results might come directly through Google but that doesn't mean they won't lose some other fraction of your searches if you set your default search on Safari to be Bing.
Mad Men missed the opportunity to really highlight that connection. By the 1950s Don Draper would have been intimately familiar with Freud and Bernays and the effort to get women to smoke. He was quite dismissive for being the best ad man in the world, even though the techniques he ultimately used were also rooted in the psychology of the consumer.

The campaign that Draper landed on, "It's Toasted", was actually created around 1917 or so I believe. Bit of an anachronism there.

Other interesting campaigns in the show: VW's bug, Kodak's Carousel, and of course the Coca-Cola ad at the very end. Truly wonderful show.
Ask HN: VLAN VM/multiseat gaming server for older games?
I would like to make a server that would output games in VM to several other devices like tablets, or have several people using the same computer with different monitors, keyboard and mouse. I don't think it is too demanding since it will be games like AOE2, SC:BW, UT2004, Stardew Valley, Quake 3, Minecraft, nothing too demanding. Games that are on one screen It would be a cool pick up and play system, I am not tied to any of the ideas I would like ideas for a portable server that can play PC games together easily would be like and maybe some suggested games. Games like SSB:M could be done on one screen.
Others commenting about sanctions are correct. Chase did what was expected. Your experience was your fault.

Hopefully your account isn't frozen (happened once to a friend where they accidentally doodled a sanctioned country's name on the side of a check that had nothing to do with that country).

Search on something like "Syria refugee scam" and do your research before sending money. Always research a charity's actual use of money before giving to them. Especially if you can't find any records, they aren't transparent enough for any consideration.
I don't get how Pinterest hasn't been removed from existence by Google. There is literally no one who is ever searching for things that wants a Pinterest link, but the incredible persistence of Google in showing me Pinterest is amazing.

Though this kind of goes to the related question: why Google don't allow you to setup your profile to nuke domains from consideration when you search, I do not know - it would completely divorce them from any responsibility for search result manipulation and make everyone happier.
Xfig, naturally... just kidding ;-) They have been drawn with draw.io.
Probably my favorite episode yet
>Do you think it's sustainable to raise your entire dev team's comp by 20% or 30% year after year after year?

Is it more or less sustainable than hiring new staff each and every year to replace those who leave?
…a limit to how user-hostile a tech giant can be before it really starts to hurt their bottom line…

Reading that line I just realized that google lost me as a YouTube viewer in the past two weeks. I used to follow a bunch of ~100k subscriber channels that produced content every couple of weeks on building things and how to build things. I'd generally watch one or two 10-30 minute videos a day.

They've cranked the ads through the roof to the point that I'd see the same 6 second Liberty Mutual bit three times before the video even got through its introduction along with a couple other ads.

I now realize its been days since I even went to the site. So I guess for this n=1 we've found the limit.
Sad to hear that it didn't take off, tho thanks for the insights!
FB has been making their API increasingly useless for a decade now. They don't want you building integrations, they want you in their walled garden using their tools.
Is there any action taken by U.S. lawmakers that you wouldn't consider an overreach? Apple is also a U.S. company composed of U.S. citizens who should be at liberty to make and sell whatever devices they see fit. U.S. lawmakers should act primarily in defence of that liberty.

> If we will not endure a king as a political power we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life. -John Sherman

I hardly see how Apple, by taking 30% of revenue from substantially games, is king over the production or sale of any of the necessaries of life.
> They’re charging the apps for distribution, which is a lot of infrastructure and a lot of human-driven process that doesn’t come for free.

Yes but they're overcharging.

> Every segment of every market does not need to be relentlessly competitive.

It's significantly better for consumers if a 27% distribution fee faces competition.

Alternate app stores are a poor way to achieve this, but that doesn't mean the status quo is good.

> You are not entitled to be profitable any way you want

Same to apple. They want to control things they shouldn't have this much control over.

> Countries — especially relatively small ones — that try to legislate around this are just as likely to be seen as more trouble for Apple than they’re worth to have an official presence in.

If they get that aggressive, then thank goodness for the EU.
I've watched some YouTubers do that. For the people that say "United States," a common very follow-up question is "where in the United states"?

That tracks with my own personal experience internationally: if I just say "the US," people ask for more specifics. So I now just respond with more specificity to start.
> Would there have been a booming software industry?

Yes. Maybe even more so.

Because Apple has shown that having a safe, secure and profitable platform results in consumers choosing to spend more.
N.B. YSFlight[0] is freeware & partially open-source[1] flight simulator.

One of the cool features is that it could be used as screensaver Linux, macOS & Windows if launch it with a `-demoforever` flag.

P.S. Here is free "YSFlight Handook"[2,3], where are a lot of YSFlight internals documented.

[0] https://ysflight.org

[1] https://github.com/captainys/public

[2] https://forum.ysfhq.com/viewtopic.php?t=8172&p=92286#p92286

[3] https://ysflight-opensource.github.io/handbook/ysflight-inst...
> Future plans for the project include making it the C backend of Zig's translate-c feature and making it an optional C frontend for the self-hosted Zig compiler.
The Zig project is able to compile C because it embeds LLVM. This is different and has different use cases, imo. Example: this may be a good alternative frontend for C compilation in Zig under specific scenarios.
CMT pin. A welding technique to fuse metal with plastic
I'm sorry, but this is an absurd theory. There are way easier and cheaper ways to identify gaming preferences than investing in state of the art hardware, software and networking to allow remote streaming of games.
Oh, I need to type Object.entries(x) instead of x.entries()

Makes sense, otherwise entries would contain itself.

Thank you!
I love the idea of interpreting every FAANG coding question this way. ie "Oh that's cool, you guys are having trouble duping a linked list with random pointers in your code base. I can totally do that for you. Good thing I memorized this on leetcode the other day."
You are absolutely right. For deviations beyond, say 4 or 5 sigma, it's much more probable that it's not a statistical fluke, but a systematic error. Assumption wrong, experiment wrong, theory wrong or something like that.
We expect that measurements land within +-1 sigma of the true value with ~68% probability (and 95% for +-2sigma). Implicitly, we assume a Gaussian distribution (often the case to good approximation, at least for small deviations), and also that we can invert the sentence: the true value is within the error band around the measurement with that probability.
Now that is awesome!
The fact that it's there to begin with is still a problem.

The fact that you have to keep stomping cockroaches doesn't mean your house isn't infested.
Why are you making this about Eastern Europeans? There are countless Americans with that last name, it’s an American movie, and as I recall the characters in the movie bearing that name are American. Lastly, these snowplows are also in the US.

Everything about this is American.

Eastern Europeans don’t enter into it.
I think it's a good test of how conscious a person is. The way we are taught to understand the world - through the scientific process - leads to the conclusion that consciousness is either an illusion or emergent.

It is only through direct inspection of one's own internal experience that it becomes apparent consciousness is not an illusion. Therefore those who claim consciousness is an illusion are not in fact conscious.

Those who say it is emergent are perhaps conscious but have not looked carefully enough to understand that consciousness is an entirely different category of thing to physical reality.

The problem here is that science as a system of thought operates in a kind of space separate from the space of conscious experience. The intelligence born of that scientific process which is a kind of entity that exists in it's own right - is not itself conscious and hence cannot introspect correctly about consciousness.

So when a person is operating in the mode of scientific thinking they are in a sense embodying that disembodied intelligence that is not aware. Or at least it is not able to introspect about it's own awareness. And so they draw incorrect and non-sensical conclusions that fly in the face of everyone's direct visceral experience.

It really is quite a phenomena.
Next time, keep it in alphabetical order but randomize the starting letter?
Any place where the currency crashed, crashes regularly, or which is economically unstable.

E.g. Turkey, Belarus. They haven't necessarily gotten cheaper, but they probably have to tourists shopping in USD.
The 13th Amendment does explicitly carve out an exception for this. Not that I approve, but it's perfectly constitutional.
To be fair, there’s a lot of Texans who would like to call Texas a country as well.
Right, this is about the color NFT. But how about other picture NFTs that would pay fees to the color ones?

Surely the processing of a picture is done in a centralized fashion, and that is what determines the amount to pay to each owner of a color NFT.
Nope. I've also experienced this (just sort of fell to the floor unconscious and then woke up 10 seconds later). It was like my brain was slowly paging in bits of memory that had been stored out to tape. Like, who I am. Where I am. Why I am there?. When I wake up from most dreams, I have a bit of trouble remembering what's true and what's dream, but I know where I am, who I am, and why I'm there.
Security 101: Securing file downloads – Timo Zimmermann
I've never found a canned/bottled kvass at a "pan-East-European" grocery that was better than "just OK." Usually too sweet, too malty, and too syrupy. Sometimes you see on the cans drying drips of molasses (or motor oil or whatever) that it's sweetened with.

I'd kill for a Soviet street-vendor style kvass: dry, golden-yellow, fizzy, and tasting of burnt toast.
Programming language syntax matters. It's the interface in which the programmer writes the code, synthetic sugar can reduce the "mental overload" of a feature.

For example, in C, the array operator is mostly synthetic sugar for pointer addition, and could be removed. Should it be removed? Of course not, cause programmers are not thinking of pointer arithmetic when indexing an array.

And as much as I love lisp, it's one of the top reasons none of them ever had widespread adaption. Nobody likes having to do math like this (* (+ (sqrt 4) 2) 4).
Who are the 4 people in Vatican City? Are you the Churches tech core?
That’s above the fold, not the whole screen.
As expected.

Google has no clue about game development.

When Apple, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo talk to game developers, most talks are about what can be done with the platform regarding game development.

Most Google talks are about how to use Play Store and Google cloud for analytics and KPIs.

It took them until Android 12 to even have something like a game SDK, a barebones one, and most likely Stadia SDK isn't much better.
The most straightforward solution to this is the one that D employs, whereby A(B) is syntactic sugar for A.B() if the former is not otherwise valid.
Services talking to each other, and storage persistence, are only tangentially related to internally defined enums. At some point you need to marshal data in and out of a serialization boundary, and it is at that point that you must handle cases you didn’t anticipate. But it’s just serialized data; it may be intended to represent the same value your enum describes, but it’s up to the deserialization code to do the right thing if it encounters a value it doesn’t recognize.

What I mean is, code that deals with serialization cannot by definition avoid the problem of “what if the data is invalid”. It’s not just enums but every aspect of your type system that must deal with this problem (typically by just throwing an error if the data is invalid, etc.)
Algeria needs investment to diversify its industries. It’s also running out of water.
I talked to my nephew a while back. He’s part of the young generation and work in construction. He advised me to switch from Google to DDG.
> Except here the encapsulation comes at the cost of extending a core library at runtime

No, it doesn't.

Pervasive OO style and monkey-patching core classes are orthogonal. Ruby favors the former strongly, and supports the latter, and Rails rather heavily leverages the latter (to the extent that it has been harshly criticized for it by much of the non-Rails Ruby community), but there is no necessary relationship between them.
> Tying that choice to the choice of hardware and operating system is anti-competitive.

Except you've just invented that arbitrary distinction.

You can't seriously suggest that a Microwave, Treadmill, Car, Calculator, Thermometer etc would all need to invest the ridiculous amounts of time/money in supporting users wishing to install alternate operating systems.
Why not this?
(sqrt . sum . map square . fft) list

I really don't see what chaining via methods bring that simple function composition doesn't.
Relevant Asimov: https://urbigenous.net/library/power.html
uBlock Origin available on iOS? Please explain!
U.S. Housing Costs Surge, with No End in Sight
> Violent reactions are really the only deterrent left to keep thieves at bay.

Yes, it was quite easy to quote where you said, "Throw out existing laws, revert to what is literally the definition of barbarism."
>If you look at Medicare for all it's supported by 52% of Republican voters and 7/10 of voters in general. It's pretty much the definition of an electable policy.

Only because no one can actually agree on what it means. Which goes to it actually not being passable.

"Medicare for all" has essentially turned into a marketing term.

Politicians would love to capitalize on it's popularity, but that would mean fighting over the meaning, and that would reveal that many people are actually very against certain aspects of it, like funding sources, covering controversial procedures, or even where to draw the line of what's "healthcare". Is OTC medicine? Exercise equipment? Healthy food? Housing?

Everytime you include or exclude any particular policy, you lose some support.

So it ends up being this catch 22 where politicians really want to cash in, but can't figure how to do it without causing the stock to crash.
Yandex in particular is way better than Google for finding illegal content in my experience.
In principle making a some-of-the-web search engine is a tractable problem. Start by indexing known high quality, preferably moderated sites. Allow trusted users to upload their bookmarks for indexing. And so on...

My guess is the reason there are so few competitors is economics. You can't get investment as long as Google stock is a sure bet. Few will pay for your service as long as Google is answering their questions. Advertisers aren't interested as their money is more effectively spent on Google. Therefore you can't build an audience sure to lack of revenue/capital.
I used it to parse different RSS/XML feeds and for some web scraping. I think of it as the grand daddy of all of these "no code" tools that we see these days and it was very intuitive to use.
And we know this how exactly?
> "Low performers" in need of a "performance improvement program" (PIP)? Start with the managers who believe in a Gaussian distribution. Then move to the managers who believe that the "bottom 20%" are always low performers.

HAHAHA well said.
Or it could be people lying
I can vouch for the veracity of this. My great grandparents migrated from Alvito Italy just at the turn of Italy becoming, well.. Italy in the late 19th century. My grandfather recounted on tape how he ate a lot of spaghetti growing up and made a lot of bread. During the depression, he said his sister made pizza at home but he didn't care for it. After the conclusion of WW2, Grandpa Joe said he'd rather eat steak and burgers over spaghetti now that he could afford it. He'd probably sneer at expensive pizza..