skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The payment mechanism he talks about that would enable micropayments to individuals rather than corporations, never happened.

It technically happened of course in the form of various companies trying to build systems that do this (using e.g. crypto currencies) and put themselves in the middle to try to "own" and control the lucrative revenue streams. But that's the reason it never happens because as soon as you do that, you end up with a fragmented mess of different companies all failing to get a critical mass of actual micropayments happening. So, the money exchanged adds up to not much at all. Most artists keep on dealing with agents and big media corporations. And most consumers keep on handing over chunks of their income to those same corporations.

I've not actually bought a newspaper or a magazine in over ten years and very little in the ten before that. I regularly did this in the nineties though. There no longer is a need. I can read a lot online for free. And I do. But I do feel sort of bad for the hard working journalists producing all the content I read every day not really getting anything from me.

Authors struggle not in finding their audience but in monetizing it. Ads are not the way. I'd love to have a sane way to reward them without having to micromanage the expense. If somebody builds a way for me to fairly distribute 20$/month among the authors of all the content I enjoy every month, I'd be happy to. That doesn't exist. That's money I've not been spending for decades. I spent that on Spotify and Netflix though.

IMHO such a system should exist. Douglas Adams predicted it because it so obviously needs to exist. Instead we've got this endless amount of greed and stupidity preventing people from making a living from creating content because middle men peddling shitty ads for shitty products need to be payed off. The content creation is the bit I want to pay for. Everything else is redundant or can be payed for by authors as needed once they have revenue (e.g. editing is a useful service).

Maybe I read a few hundred articles per month. Lets call it 200 (nice round number). That's ten cents per article. Now imagine that a journalist produces something that is read by 1 million people and that 1 percent of those actually pay that 10 cent. That's a thousand dollar. It's not a lot. But if they write maybe a few articles per month, that's a nice income. And those articles stay online for a long time. It would actually stimulate the creation of content that has a long shelf life. Passive income basically. Exactly what I want as a reader: quality content.
Of note, for a while a Chinese OEM was selling a copy of the Palm Portable Keyboard with bluetooth. (Main irritant: they used USB charging but put a very non-standard socket on the keyboard end -- it resembles a 4-pin firewire cable, only not quite -- which put a stop to me using mine.)
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win"
how much until it's revealed it was a nothingburger
Man lay dead at home for three years in Amsterdam flat
And we all helped build it…
NFTs are clearly the Zaphod Beeblebrox of economics.
I'm working on my first animation piece: a full length stop motion movie of characters building Marble Track 3, a working rolling ball track made of wood and glue. (popsicle sticks, chopsticks, toothpicks, etc.)

I've been working about 2 hours per week since 2017. 10,000+ frames taken so far. At 12 frames per second, the video runs about 14 minutes.

It all started after I uploaded a video of Marble Track 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlUqu6QE7bw (nsfw language) and some people asked me how I made the marble track.

This URL will show (a playlist of the snippets showing) in great detail exactly how to create a marble track.

https://mt3s.marbletrack3.com/

The snippets are still silent, given that filming isn't even close to completion.

On the same channel, there are behind the scenes videos of me creating the track. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHiQhB8J_KI2LYQ7dsexfLw

I have done some livestreams and recently some "summary" videos, done in a timelapse style.

Because work on the track takes a lot of time, almost every piece has its own name, and the site https://www.marbletrack3.com/ aspires to document all the pieces, and show which characters made which parts of the track.

While I am hoping the project organically gains visibility and financial support, I am not pushing for that so I retain creative freedom. In any case, I will keep making the movie of characters making Marble Track 3.
I'm so glad this isn't just me. I especially enjoy the disclaimers at the end of pharmaceutical ads.
Android ones would. Even without root, you're able to use apps like Termux, AIDE, and various emulators.
An important fact to have on the table would be whether marijuana use is tightly linked to early mortality. Regardless of the cause, whether it's cancer or heart disease, substantial increases in mortality should be observable.
I'm guessing from these responses that 'singularity' has turned into kind of pop-culture term expressing the center of a black hole.

A singularity is just where physical quantities go to infinity. There are many singularities at the event horizon. For example, as you fall into a black hole and approach the event horizon the time of an observer a distance away begins to speed up and approaches infinity - the universe comes to an end before you actually reach the event horizon. Many unphysical things like that happen. These are all singularities.

Importantly also, the energy density of space-time approaches the plank energy and this is a region where general relativity and quantum field theory do not agree with each other. So we know the equations are non-sense in this region for sure.
Dynamic rugs.
I read all of this and it reminds me of the response to COVID.

Ultimate authorities, no critical thinking, only believe approved sources, those who don't believe the authority are "deceived, backslidden, demonic, bitter, evil", the end of the world is near if you don't do as we say, they are always right even when they are wrong, family separation...
The whole book looks very full of interesting low level techniques. Do high level JIT compilers like the V8 or JVM apply vectorisation or any of the other optimisations mentioned there, or is that level of fine-tuned performance only possible if you code them manually in C++?
I really like builder games (Anno series) but haven't picked up factorio due to concerns of time sink.

Instead tinkering more with self-hosting stuff lately. I find it scratches the same itch - building / optimisation / problem solving vibe but has a slightly more tangible enduring value (something useful + learning)
> ...at the other end there is the small sliver of "common knowledge" that people do not disagree about (ice cream is delicious, kittens are cute, bad things are wrong).

Yeah, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:You_don't_need_to_ci...

> "Widely available, authoritative sources" is very similar to Wikipedias definition for reliable sources, and as anyone who been active there knows, the process is neither scientific nor reproducible.

Of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability_not_tr...

At least there's a method to their madness (:
Germans Advised to Leave Ukraine
I think the real problem here is the cowardice of commerce regulators. If they did their job properly so that no one organisation had more than (say) 10 percent of any market including social media advertising and search as markets, then we would not have as big a problem.

In other words, advertising is tolerable when the whole chain is thoroughly competitive.
On Folk Theorems (1980)
Fission-Fragment Rocket
Average days to fix: Linux at top, Oracle at the bottom.

Why am I not surprised?
No, that was was not Half-Life 3. That was a way to sell their VR.
CG artists have no real alternative. Digital matte painting and certain styles of concept art require a mix of painting tools, photobashing tools and plug-in integration that can’t be replicated with anything else efficiently.

Games studios, VFX studios, and other companies doing that kind of artwork are going to be licensing Adobe products for decades to come.
Re: proof-of-stake, it's pretty disingenuous to seemingly base the entirety of one's criticism of it on a cryptocurrency that has yet to migrate onto it rather than, say, the multiple cryptocurrencies in the top 10 by marketshare that are already on it and have at least claimed to have addressed the vaguely-alluded-to centralization issues. This seems to be a recurring theme of proof-of-stake criticisms: "well obviously PoS is a PoS because Ethereum hasn't addressed its problems yet... Cardano? Solana? Never heard of 'em!".

That ain't to say that proof-of-stake is perfect, either, but it's painfully obvious that its critics are coming in seeking to appease their confirmation biases rather than evaluate new technologies objectively and rationally.

Full disclosure: I do own a decent amount of some cryptocurrencies, including various PoW and PoS currencies. I'm obviously biased in favor of them, but at least I'm willing to admit that.
HN is one of the most echo chamberish communities on the internet and there are people who want them to be even more closed!
> If you think this type of "wokeism" exists in this society in any powerful form, you are delusional.

This is lited almost straight from the article isn't it?

"If you disagree with our group you are dumb."

> while the worlds powerful institutions are built upon white male supremacy.

See what I wrote above about trying to make people ashamed to be born white or male.
In contrast, a prominent thread about Adobe currently sits on the front page.
All the ironic comments let clear that us humans have full biased understanding of what consciousness is: Most probably a talking head attached at a walking capable body.

Spoiler alert: being able to speak isn't the definitive demonstration of self-consciousness, even for humans.

The things could actually be conscious right now and we'll know in maybe 600 years.

Just like what happened with Leonardo's flying machines: yes, we actually could have flied a lot earlier, but most people just could not believe it was even possible.
I'll bet that a good project for a different person who has idly thought "y'know, I'd like an excuse to learn rust..." could be doing that.
That study has been debunked. For example, in it he guesses at some factors fundamental to his thesis. Later studies to empirically measure those factors found his guesses to be wildly incorrect, and correcting for the empirical data, Ioannis claims are found to be unsupportable.
Why it is even relevant? Godel's incompletness theorem applies to almost any strong formal system with self-referential abilities, so if you want to do a good formalization, you bound to have one that satisfy Godel's theorem requirement.
The more fascinating use is to build artificial fish.
Adobe offered me a reduced rate subscription over the phone after I cancelled my subscription. No qualifications mentioned. I accepted. A year and a half later I noticed I had been charged 3-4x the reduced rate each month for the last 6 months. I tried to get my money back, they refused. I cancelled my subscription and vowed never to touch Adobe products again.

I was in a position at my company to end our use of XD and immediately move to Figma. We've grown 3x since and Figma's been great. For personal work I prefer Sketch it looks and feels like a native app.
> plague doctors who made efforts to protect themselves.

Indeed - the figure of Il Dottore from the Commedia Del Arte wears a mask with a long "beak". The beak was stuffed with sweet-smelling herbs; in those days, they thought that it was bad smells that spread disease.

Perhaps people gathered in churches because they burned sweet-smelling incence in churches?
Well, I feel your frustration. Indeed the English Wikipedia isn't immune from Systemic (western-anglo) Bias, as one would expect, and there's no one denying that within the community, either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Systemic_bias
That quote is either really stupid or downright evil.

> Those experiments that cannot be justified on scientific grounds

Duh. Those experiments are also already illegal. So that quote either thinks that scienists are comic book villains that want to torture for fun (really stupid) or they want you to think that (evil).
They may not radicalize into a Waco Siege situation, but they will likely continue to rob numerous naive members of their money, livelihood, and their children’s opportunities.
Definition of Logic Bombs and Examples in Python
You hit the nail with this one. All these productivity hacks or tools misses the crucial point. _Human psychology_. Sure, it is fun to have these, but at the end of the day the users require discipline to execute them. Nothing beats getting things done.

Of all the getting things done advice, I like breathing the most.

Simple,
cost effective, instantly brings you to focus if done correctly, elevates mood, rationalizes behavior. Nothing beats it.
> the remainder abandoned hard scrabble land and moved to better agricultural areas

In Norway, the relatively common last name and place name Ødegaard translates to "abandoned farm" and while not necessarily exclusively caused by the black death it rose to prominence as people took on farms after it.

It's fascinating how visible it still is in naming so many centuries later. (In the UK people might be aware of an Arsenal player with that last name, for example)
I didn't say you were dumb or that you should be ashamed. I'm just saying such "wokeism" doesn't exist. Interesting how you see this as a personal attack.

Also I'm not representing any "group". I'm just speaking for myself. Seems like you see this as some kind of team sports?
"Adobe burned all bridges with their customers when they introduced CreativeCloud"

I don't like Adobe and don't use their apps any more, but their apps continue to dominate the design, illustration and publishing fields. That is unlikely to change any time in the near future.

I'm using the Affinity apps - the apps are successful and thriving, but making little dent on Adobe's influence on the industry. (Affinity proves an app doesn't need to displace or overtake an existing app, but can carve out their own successful market segment.)

Adobe were caught-out with the success of Sketch and Figma for UI design, and with the Procreate painting app on the iPad. My impression is that Adobe's alternatives (XD and Fresco for the iPad) don't share the same "mindshare" among designers as those other apps.

However, there are some Adobe apps like After Effects that simply don't have any serious competition. Also, there are thousands of tutorials for Adobe apps that continue to make them attractive to learn. I wouldn't be surprised if there are more tutorials for Photoshop than any other software (or even programming language) in existence.

Interesting aside: The file specification for .sketch files is available on the Sketch website. This means Adobe XD and Figma can import Sketch files. The reverse is not true: neither Figma or XD publish their file format specifications.
"The right move" would be for them to do away with programmable documents altogether, and replace them with a simple scripting language that reads and generates documents, similar to how static HTML is generated by template languages.

That way, it would be clear for users that they are not "opening a document" but "execute a program".

There simply is no need to conflate documents and programs.
I have been using it for 10 months already, and loving it! I am using the Firefox extension to quickly add entries and the Android app to read them on the go. Although I am self-hosting a lot, I am using the https://wallabag.it hosted version (9€/year) to support the author.

When adding an entry, the server downloads the page and extracts the relevant text to display in "reader mode". This works very well for almost every site, but of course fails to get into medium's walled garden. I'm not blaming the author for not playing the cat and mouse game though, there's more important things to do in life.
Thank you but I think we are beyond that point.
I see people in my local squash club trading crypto. I see 18 years old "investing" in ICOs. I see people earning or losing hundreds of thousands and getting addicted to gambling. It's not just the people on the Internet somewhere, it's people I know and regularly meet at this point.
UPD: Latest nightly of FreeCAD[2] and LinkStage3/LinkDaily[3] opens it succesfully under Linux.[4]

[2] https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD

[3] https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD_assembly3/releases

[4] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1492457657277497348
>What you talk about is not something that any reasonable HNer would call wokeism.

Almost no HNer has anything approaching a reasonable, good-faith or even well-informed opinion on "wokeism" to begin with.
What is the current go to solution for cross platform apps?
Ironically almost every religious cult has “don’t be a jerk to people different than you” as one of it's highest precepts.

Cults operate differently - it's not what they believe, it's how they behave in the world. Not saying wokeism is a cult at all, but that religious cults often have Good Well Intentions. Precepts don't make a cult.

(A healthy religion encourages love and tolerance to those in the outgroup e.g "love your enemy")

But it's good that "people different than you" is mentioned when it comes to cults, but it's the other way around. The group is often labelled as different before it's labelled as a cult.

One way to quickly determine if something is a cult or not is if they have isolated themselves from the world, or if it's just those outside people saying "they are different from us".

Conspiracy theories are quite common in cults as it's one way for people to define an us/them idea which isolates the in group. In wokeism the theory could be that the outgroup is a conspiracy of crypto-fascist white supremacists. In trumpism the theory could be that the outgroup is a conspiracy of cultural marxist disruptors.
For example in Russia the chinese vendors would sell their stuff for cash rubles, convert them into crypto, send crypto to china, order a container of new stuff, ship it to Russia, repeat.

basically they save on taxes, conversion fees, cross border transfer fees, etc. on the cash portion of their revenues. it’s probably harder to do the same with card payments as the tax agencies are in control of electronic payments.

in the end there has to be a reason to use crypto in some economic activity. in the example above it’s cost management.
Thanks. I'm mostly interested in the audio analysis workflows. Spectrum/frequency analysis, stereo/spatial analysis, chirp generation, perhaps basic additive synthesis capabilities (ability to generate waves with shape and frequency). Less interested on the DAW side (MIDI, Sequencing, VSTs, etc). The DAWs you've mentioned there are generally great, but are often less geared towards the workflows I'm after...
i am of the position that AGI is impossible or if it is even possible won't be done for centuries to come
Super Mario 64 Textures Upscaled Using AI X8
Professional programmers should be used to prodding their brains and RTFM. It's a question of ethics not to thought-dilute openBSD.
I’m not saying you should get a phd in logic. I’m saying knowing what your inputs and outputs are supposed to be and writing test assertions is basically checking whether your theorem/lemma is true in disguise (unit of code works as expected) and knowing a bit of theory from that domain can’t hurt. Even if it’s only de Morgan’s laws, which you’ll admit is a rather low bar…
Bitcoin security model: Trust by computation
I suggest to try thinking in terms of events instead of streams.

You can extract data change events (e.g., INSERTs) from a data source, transform them with a streaming application (e.g., built with Kafka Streams), and load the transformed events into a data sink.
You know what, I'm curious. Name a form of advertising that does not fall under my definition.
> I didn't say you were dumb or that you should be ashamed.

You did say that white males where the root of the problem.

I am a white male.
nothing really great yet, but i'm hopeful for kotlin multi platform and compose
> Bitcoin is notorious for consuming as much electricity as the Netherlands, but there are around 10,000 other cryptocurrencies, most using similar infrastructure and thus also in aggregate consuming unsustainable amounts of electricity.

Nice generalization. I stopped reading after that.

How much is the banking system with all of its employees and buildings wasting I wonder.
Ah yes, the good old days some people are mysteriously nostalgic about.

I've seen quite a few people insist that SysV was perfectly fine and nothing about it needed fixing. But this article is a good example of how that kind of thing actually went: a myriad gotchas, bugs and undesirable characteristics eventually became so entrenched and familiar that knowing about all of this just became part of the sysadmin job.

Having an elaborate dance around system upgrades because it can break ssh was a perfectly normal thing. You're just supposed to know that.

And init scripts are fine as they are, you're just supposed to know processes inherit stuff, and take that into account.

And stray pid files sometimes stop a service from starting, that's also basic knowledge.

And rebooting? Nah, we'll keep the machine running for 2 years without a kernel upgrade, because who knows if all the services will come back after a reboot. Better not risk it.

And I kinda think I know why some people actually liked that. Figuring out problems like this when nobody else can and saving the day makes you feel like a wizard. The problem is that the competition didn't sit still and eventually Windows and Mac got good enough, and all this stuff became even more of a clunky impediment to getting stuff done.

I for one am very glad that systemd modernized things a bit and helped remove some of this stuff from the equation.
If Bitcoin, or something like it, can ever become the only monetary asset - this would probably be an amazing achievement for humanity.

This would mean much cheaper commodities(including gold and silver), much cheaper land, much cheaper housing, a lot fewer bubbles in the stock market. Much more healthy fiscal environment overall, with other stores of value "demonetized" and devoid of the monetary premium. A stretch goal for sure, but maybe can be eventually approached asymptotically on a longer time scale.

However, a pure monetary asset doesn't need to have any intrinsic value. It just needs to be a widely accepted store of value (and preferably, but not necessarily medium of exchange).

As such, it would seem that an entirely speculative asset would be one of the greatest achievements we will ever make.

Seems contradictory at first, but if you really think about it, I see nothing of fundamental importance that comes even close to it today. Especially today.
The Pythagorean theorem is really useful for any construction. Builders use it regularly. More experienced DIYers also use it. Not a good example of rarely used schoolbook learning.

How about obscure stuff about hyperbolic trig functions (sinh, tanh and so on)?
How to Turn Privacy on and Off and on Again (Google TechTalks)
I was surprised to see how janky the gallery demo app is on mobile, especially considering Dart is AOT compiled. Apparently Flutter is single threaded too and has a feature called "Isolates" but I'm not sure if they can be used to paint animations off the main thread
Well notice that you don't "buy the rights" in any sense, but sure, someone might buy "the first transatlantic flight", if it was sold by the pilot who flew it, much like Tim Berners-Lee sold an NFT to the WWW.

The key difference to naming a star, as always, is that the person selling this thing to you has a moral claim to it.