skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I cannot imagine why you would feel OpenBSD is complicated to set up.

Maybe the fact that there are so many manual steps to have a usable, "production grade", setup? Sure, you just have to follow documentation, but you're in for hours of work and learning tons of concepts before having anything secure if it's the first time. Also, if you make a single mistake along the way, all the help you'll get is a "Yeah, you did something wrong. RTFM".

That certainly isn't the definition of simple to me.
The complicated impact of media use before bed on sleep
> I've found bloc + freezed-based code generation to do state works much better for me than any alternatives. ymmv.

YMMV definitely applies :) Since I have some experience with exactly that alternative: I see bloc + freezed as the antithesis to GetX. "Clean" abstraction over "simple" code. There might be more extreme example for both sides of course, but this has been my impression.

We do use bloc + freezed for some specific flows in the app where the abstraction just fit better. A better fitting abstraction is a big plus on its own for those usecases. On the other hand, bloc had a bunch of breaking changes (nicely visible in https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_bloc/changelog), and that especially in combination with hydrated bloc has given us a bunch of grief. I hate breaking changes more than anything.

It might still be a better solution - so really, YMMV - if your goal is maximum abstraction to be able to change frameworks (or in this case, I assume it would be about state management solutions), after all that's where the solution is coming from. For me, that was an anti-goal, abstraction = complexity, while minimal complexity with maximal development speed was what we needed. GetX fit perfectly for that. Admittedly, ignoring some things to learn with lists and at the beginning strange issues with Obx change detection, but the latter got better, either with bug fixes or experience. If Obx misbehaves now it has always been a clear fault on our side.
Thank you for providing clever humor is still possible and encouraged here.
Tolkien is the obvious example. The Silimarillion always struck me as a worldbuilding reference forcibly turned into a story. George R. R. Martin is a modern example.

The level of importance of world building really depends on what the goal is. I don't think h2g2 would have been majorly improved by a lot of world building, but I can appreciate the world building that's been done for Pratchett's Discworld, though that's as much a reflection on the length of that series than Pratchett's priorities
I’m skeptical about that 5 degree bet. What’s your source?
It seems that the whole crypto pitch is predicated on this idea: black markets are better than regulated markets.
> 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.

How would you suppose bitcoin or any other crypto would lead to this?
Well... yeah. Why would I pay for something on the Internet? We've all been conditioned that text content (at least, and also music and videos to some extent) should be available for free, and ads can be blocked.

I'm vaguely for the idea of micropayments, as long they're actually micro (10⁻⁶). Even 10 cents for a piece of content seems somehow too much, because it all adds up. If we do the napkin math, large newspapers like the NYT might not be able to sustain themselves in that new world:

> 4500 (staff size) * 50000 (average yearly salary) / ~10M (audience) = $23 (required revenue per subscriber)

And this doesn't even account for office rent, travel expenses etc.
Indeed, and it seems to be a nice write-up, not dismissing that. Kudos to the author.
So, war propaganda again.

This "massing of troops" has been there since the cold war. It's still showing the same framing of the photograph without the barracks which have been there for 60 years.

And as a fun fact, this location is on the direct straight-line approach to Moscow when coming from Berlin, not Moscow to Kiev...
Yeah, good point, should have said information. Knowledge cannot be transferred directly to people, only information. The person needs to understand the information to convert it into knowledge. An analogy I have heard used before is that data is the primitive, the integral of data is information, and the integral of information is knowledge.
> Sugar is not a drug

Define drug. One definition I found is "Drugs are substances that change a person's mental or physical state", which would included Sugar.

> It does not create addiction

It absolutely does. Not physically (or at least no more than any other substance, if you consume a massive amount of anything your body will become accustomed to it and you'll feel withdrawal symptoms), but nor is alcohol or a load of other "addictive" drugs
ICP looks pretty dodgy from some quick googling. The number might still be true, I have no idea...

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/pg3nuf/was_...
i see pee is actually good at something?
It is theoretically possible, but I doubt it really happens at scale. If it were, we'd already had front page articles about it.
Is that actually true? The last data I saw on this indicated that there are a huge number of people falsely claiming to be bisexual. That is, relationships amongst the population claiming to be bi are overwhelmingly hetero. The young especially think there are (real or perceived) social benefits from claiming to be gay or bisexual even when they're not.
> His answer was that I may just not have the "mathematical maturity" for the material.

What a clueless, absolute piece of shit..

Clearly he lacks the emotional maturity to deal with students (or just people in general) and unequivocally should be fired as a teacher and restricted to doing research.
A feature for whom? Any streaming box that does this in my house is getting chucked straight into the trash.
Faster Internet displaces social capital in the UK
Good idea, and I suppose people wouldn't have a problem throwing yet another bot into their server. I'd imagine the data it's scraping to be IMMENSE considering Discord saves everything.

https://blog.discord.com/how-discord-stores-billions-of-mess...
$3.6B Bitcoin seizure shows how hard it is to launder cryptocurrency
This. Are we done solving all problems of the world, that we started solving non-problems?
Easiest sale in the world.
LLVM does a pretty good job of vectorizing code these days, and pretty much everything is using it. And making vectorization more effective is one of the most workable avenues for improving compiler tech.
There's TV the device and TV the specific way and content to watch. Of friends our age, precisely zero have the latter. The device about half have I think. Which is very different from our parents generation, where everyone has both.
I currently have to juggle Build & Release Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, monitoring tools, Building images, Configuration management, some DB admin. The context switching is almost a defining feature of modern DevOPS/Operations/SysAdmin/Infrastructure Engineer jobs, unless you are working in a pretty big company that allows you to specialise.

On the other hand if you get a job dealing with only build pipelines or only Kubernetes maintenance it will get boring in a while. Best is to rotate between projects, and have different team members build expertise on some area.
Talking is a black hole for information by this metric.

I guess the author wants us to stop talking to each other too?
Discord is by no means perfect but we have to give it credit where it's due: It is a very fast and responsive platform. I am currently in "servers", as they call them, with thousands of users and it feels just as effortless as one on one chats. It also offers a great deal of separation as well as public options. Comparing it to slack for instance, where every chat is almost an independent ecosystem. and using more than one is always additional effort. Video calls on the other hand are second to none. The only true criticism I have is the fact that all file uploads are entirely public with no restrictions whatsoever and as far as I can tell, there is no option to change that. Still, it is my top choice of all the proprietary options by a considerable margin.
git as designed is truly decentralized and doesn’t consider your copy of Linus’s kernel tree to be much different than his - and so you ask him to pull from you.

Of course we immediately centralized around GitHub and turned it into a glorified SVN but that’s the fate of all decentralized entities.
YouTube is a strange outlier in that they still tolerate adblockers despite them being very easy to block (at least in the 99% case), so I don't think they'll be the first to implement this.
> I'm amazed at how the openbsd community seems to like calling people idiots.

"The complete idiot's guide" is a well-known series of books that cover a variety of topics for beginners; the title is a play on that. It's not an insult.
They make ‘em for secure key storage. The kind of drm scheme you’re describing, though, is not going to be too challenging for someone to subvert who’s already willing to use any of a number of methods to have firmware read off a protected chip.
Moderators' time is free, and maintaining reddit could be free. Hosting uses electricity, hardware and internet connection, and neither of those are given away currently.
Not unlike signed art prints, or really any work distributed by an artist. Often these are certified by the artists themselves. For further reading, see [1].

[1] - https://mirror.xyz/mattdesl.eth/eUrK8MrRfKFJYVKTwi5F4mCIBJEB...
Sorry, but Binance is not web3. Why didn't you give SushiSwap or any other decentralized exchange as example?
Douglas Adams has build numerous comprehensive worlds so I don't think it's that. Computers, and the speed with which they've changed, are a particular detail of world building that makes the sort of snarky answer given by Douglas Adams necessary. You see, if he'd written that Arthur Dent had an Apple ][, with a 1.023 MHz CPU, 4 KB of RAM and an audio cassette interface, as was the newest thing available in 1978 when the first version of the story aired, then any readers later on would have been jarringly taken out of the carefully built world, and forced to check when a computer with 4 KB of RAM was modern, assuming their eyes didn't glaze over first.

JK Rowling exercised similar authority in the world she created for Harry Potter, as the Muggle Prime Minister was never named and naming the Prime Minister Sir John Major or Tony Blair would have done a similar disservice to that world.
I've heard lots of NFTs are just links to links that starts with "https://s3.us-east-1". It makes some sense to make it any ways but not like that.
Basically it all comes back to monopoly on violence. If you steal my painting, police will crack open your home and take it back.
Oh, no these things are hilarious. They actually name all the possible individual side effects (some of which sound much worse than the original condition) but it's done in a voiceover that's played at like 2x the original speed.
He he, the only reason I have a TV in the first place (plus two in storage) is because my dad keeps replacing his (because of some tiny new feature) and I find it a waste to throw out a perfectly good panel.
Only a few days I posted this [1]

>I cant upvote you enough. This single comment contains many of the contrarian view against HN. It is nice we have these real world stories on HN to balance the ideological fight against ads, where All Ads are evil.

And of course there are people who disagree ( but the upvote suggest otherwise ). I am not sure if this submission was a response to that or a coincidence. But a lot of the replies here pretty much make my point.

A lot of people on HN either have an idealistic view point of Ads, or a near zero understand of Ads as a business.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30205606
Oh I didn't realize that, thank you!
I sometimes wonder how long it will be before Google shelve this one as well…
> To put it another way, please try to explain to me how societal pressure could prevent you from becoming an expert at, say, math in your free time if you were obsessed with it.

Ah that one is easy. As we grow up we are not left alone to explore what we like. Rather, people tell kids what jobs are appropriate for men and women all the time even before they ge their own interests. It's also exacerbated by role models that they see in TV and other social settings. As kids grow older a gap develops in their interests which makes it very difficult for them to transition to "the other side" at any point after that. So women tend to lean towards caring for other human beings, social sciences, etc and men become engineers, construction workers etc.

This also depends on the culture (thus proving it's just a social problem rather than a biological preference): e.g.: in India the ratio between female-male engineers is almost 1 (900 something per 1000 or something like that), which is unheard of in Europe. (whether these women stay in the workforce after other social events or not is a completely different topic but again kinda the same cause, e.g. the expectation that after marrying you are just there to have kids and take care of them)

> because the vast majority of the work done to become really strong is done alone

Again, assumes you have an interest in the topic in the first place... working hard at something you have no interest is not something easily done

> The left just seems to have some bizarre need for different things to be exactly equal when they have no reason to be.

lol...
A lot of tech people have this rather Dilbert-esque view of marketing. In practice any halfway sophisticated marketing/advertising/paid search/etc. is a lot more quantitative and data-driven than they probably think.
If it's biological, explain what possible evolutionary advantage being a reclusive puzzle-solving obsessive would have offered in a pre-technological culture - i.e. most of human history.

For most of human history and for most humans there was nothing to study, invent, or analyse. Certainly not anything that would take years of reclusive effort.

At the absolute really-pushing-it earliest, academics and abstraction only became a thing in the late Stone Age - which is hundreds of thousands of years after modern humans emerged.
I remember this all working well many years ago so long as:

- the remote box has git, the LSP-server, or w/e you are trying to run
- you use SSH control master: https://xenodium.com/speeding-up-emacs-tramp-via-controlmast...
The myth that Ionic is slower than react native (android native - > skia ) or flutter (skia) has to stop. The evidence isn't just there anymore, chromium is the open source library with the most human resources on earth (mlre than 1 million commits) and therefore has more optimization resources than any competitor. The addition of edpressivity through new features in newer releases does not slow the browser despite the very infantile and hand wavey idea of "bloat" that many HN readers share.
In fact Ionic should be even faster than Electron since it embed many modern optimization practices inside the UI framework. Unfortunately it seems people have zero interest doing serious benchmarking of similar tasks on multiple GUI renderers so the myth stay pervasive. What is sure is that you will never actually have significant performance issues in Ionic or otherwise you're doing something wrong.
Still the myth allows react native and flutter to survive relevancy despite their major ergonomics and expressive inferiority, but for how long? People are used to experience that Electron apps are usually better and faster. The smartphones double standard will break.
> If they were to disappear tomorrow, much hardship would ensue. They are, however, overused...

No, that isn't true. There is a reason the environmentalists have had so much trouble getting their policies to catch and it is the fact that statements like this are manifestly wrong. The hardship caused by fossil fuels is minute compared to the benefits. If anything, oil and gas are underused. There is little question that if we could get more people more oil & gas, lifestyles would improve more than damage done by negative externalities. We've seen this play out in multiple countries. The only reason not to be pushing them like mad is that we're about to run out of useful reserves.

The benefits of a modern economy powered by cheap energy substantially outweigh the negatives. More cheap energy pretty much inevitably increases the general good. Taxing that energy doesn't help.

> That's how all market transactions work: Whenever you buy something, it's because the value you derive from the purchase is higher than the price you pay.

Yeah, but that isn't an externality. An externality is something that happens to a third part to a transaction - which is my relationship to the fossil fuel industry. I purchase very little fossil fuel.

The externality is they enable other deals to happen that would otherwise be impossible. Like my groceries.
Doubtless there are a lot of cynical actors around all this, but when making frustrated generalisations I prefer to apply Hanlon’s Razor!
I dont really see the benefit of having a dedicated forum for everything, sure that used to be the norm and arguably you can search forums easier, but stickied comments work perfectly fine on discord and you can search the comment history.
Where is the "pedantic technicality" though? Looks more like a continuum to me.

Consider, here are some activities I do, which of them are you sure is "watching TV" and which aren't? Is it such a clear bright line?

* I watch "Only Connect" - a very difficult BBC Two quiz show - on the iPlayer web site. There aren't any adverts of course because it's the BBC, but this was made to be shown on a broadcast TV channel even if I haven't watched it that way for years.

* I watch the Two Ronnies "Mastermind" sketch on Youtube. Once again this was made to be shown on broadcast TV, decades ago, as part of an episodic show - but now this is just one sketch

* I re-watch the final sale decision scene from The Big Short on Youtube. The Big Short is a movie, this was never made for broadcast TV, and all I'm watching is one clip from a much longer work.

* I watch previews of a friend's review of the entire Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. Most of these were movies. (but there is a TV series) and he doesn't include clips but he does talk about them. This will eventually be a Youtube video, but I'm watching the preview.

* I watch an SC2 AI Arena playback of a match that happened recently between two AIs. It's video, at least by the time it reaches me, but it was never intended to be broadcast anywhere, many of these videos are never watched by anyone they're generated automatically so why not.

* I play a video game with an FMV cut scene, such as Command & Conquer: Red Alert.

* I play another video game with a cut scene but it's in-engine using the game's 3D assets, such as GTA3.

* I join a Teams call with colleagues to discuss progress on our main Project

* I watch a rather hypnotic screensaver of overlapping fractal shapes.

* I read a web page with some simple animated multi-step tutorials. Is it important whether they're animated with Javascript, GIFs or MPEG video?

* I read this comment on Hacker News.
Ads, in whatever medium, are fundamentally bad UX. Not to mention utterly without value and a waste of precious human attention.

It is always breathtaking to consider how much has been built on the back of advertising, I guess because there is no better option.

But always remember that it is fundamentally bad UX: content providers forcing consumers to do something unpleasant, that they would rather not do, in exchange for the content.

Nobel Peace Prize to the person or organization who figures out the business model to take us beyond this absurd paradigm.
I think this is a weird consequence of social media - a local maximum.

- facebook, digg/reddit and twitter kill independent forums. They are 'good enough' mostly for friction reasons that people slowly move there. I think the twitter part is unappreciated - in the past when you had one simple issue, you had to register to communicate it. Now people are likely to tag the profile on twitter with their problem. Sometimes these people remained, now that user acquisition channel is lost.

- they suck at creating communities (I think intentionally), so people don't contribute as much.

- discord is a chat app with flawless ui. As a chat app it's great at building communities due to frequent interactions and instant feedback. This means most active people do everything there, same people who would have 1000+ posts on old style forums.

The tl;dr is that forums are best at preserving information for outside access, but are inferior in making new people join and contribute, which means they are never going to proliferate again. The old optimal balance of chat vs forum is never going to return.
"What works: You tell me!" is alive and well apparently.
I check my pi-hole dashboard mostly to have this LCAR interface in my iPad.
Because contrary to your assumption, it does work. Not everyone behaves like you. And simply hearing about a brand influences our collective decisions, even if no single ad convinces you.
> We could have an oracle that checks Wikipedia's list of Russian military engagements every day and if there is a new one in Ukraine and it stays for five days

See, that's the issue. Wikipedia already has the Russian-Ukrainian war, because Russia has been occupying Crimea for years.

Wikipedia as a source of truth when money or power is on the line is also difficult. That's why topics frequently get locked.

The NYT would work as a source, but keyword matching could be iffy.

A nominally third party site (again, if real money is on the table) could easily be a fake set up by someone heavily invested in one of the two answers.

That shouldn't be used to say "ground truth isn't available", I'm just not sure it's machine readable and scalable yet. It's possibly I'm missing something obvious.
i also have similar view, i think it could be solved by bot that can watch message and if someone asks_and_answers question that might be useful for broader people you could do something like /makrbot mark 5 then it will publish recent 5 conversation to some read only seachengine indexable public page, maybe also anonymize usernames.
I still don't know what you mean by n ≤ 10.

Have you played around with the demo?

http://recur-env.eba-rm3fchmn.us-east-2.elasticbeanstalk.com...

You can input there a sequence and it will predict the expression and next elements.

For example, for the sequence: [3, 1, 8, 9, 18, 19, 37, 74, 92, 166, 332, 406, 738, 1476]

It predicts: u_n = u_(n−1) + (u_(n−3) (n mod 3)) + u_(n−4)

It's a really decent guess, and if I give it one more element (from 14 to 15 elements) it gets it correctly.
The justification will be a consequentialist argument, we sacrificed/tortured animals and in exchange we gave this to humanity; the overall calculus is a net positive.

This post shows the very worst of the equation, and they will bring up the best, maybe some people that couldn't walk that now can, or some psychological disease for which this contributed to the cure.

They will probably bring up numbers like, this damaged hundreds, but will benefit hundreds of thousands.

This is not the first time society accepts such a compromise. There are innocent people in jail serving life sentences, because every criteria will have false positives. We can undo this wrong right now, we just have to let everyone out of prison.
Growing a mango tree from seed – one year time lapse [video]
Unless the problem is NP, it would be trivially easy to fake these steps. If you follow this line of reasoning you would eventually discover proof of work/waste
There should be an 'X' at the top right, is it missing for you?