skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having worked on databases, I am not the one to discount the effort that has gone into building EdgeDB. I was but jokingly referring to this: https://www.edgedb.com/_images/_blog/40fc2a2a81483bb0979c96d...

Btw, if you folks have time, then EdgeDB should consider penning posts like the ones timescale has been doing for 3 years or so, in its march to industry leadership.
They aren’t very well hidden: they proudly wave the flag of traitorous slavers.

Confederate history month still exists in a bunch of states.

Have you seen the nazi flags at trump rallies? Jan 6th?
That would mean the person paying you have to get the bitcoin from somewhere. Doesn't really change the underlining problems of conversion. Unless the one you work for is outside the system. Which in large scale is probably pretty unlikely.

On ramp and off ramp isn't globally solved issue and many ways are easily attacked. Just ban fiat transfers to exchanges...
I’m guessing we have to choose between capitalism and eternal youth.

I’m totally ok with a post-scarcity socialist society.
> If you look carefully you might notice that your argument is also a critique of capitalism.

It might be...
>Do the ends justify the means?

Yes.
It is integrated with their catalog of stock illustrations, many of which are paid.

I think in future they also intend to charge for collaborative features or cloud storage.
Brave CMS
That doesn't really match my experience. When I read the docs and don't find what I want, I've gotten useful help from the community. Either they help me or they point me to the piece of documentation that I somehow missed.

Granted I didn't actually ever need to ask for much help because OpenBSD was so utterly simple to set up.
Brave CMS is an open-source CMS. Easy to use, easy to customize. You can turn an HTML template into a Brave CMS theme in half the time you would turn it into a WordPress theme. Try it, enjoy it. :)
Looking forward to rebuttal of the argument where cryptocurrencies aim to unbundle a fundamental state monopoly: money creation and finance.
They’ll sneer at the masses without eternal youth anyway.

Unless, of course, living a thousand years brings some wisdom with it.
People who judge that they’d need to know everything in order to be adequately informed presumably aren’t the type to become astronauts.
Latest numbers show the US with ~2.7 deaths/1000 cases. The global rate is higher: 14.3/1000. Just as it was 700 years ago case and death rates as reported by local authorities vary widely across locations.

FWIW US confirmed case rate (cases/million) currently stands at 236000, or 24% of the population. Of course some other countries beat that by a mile: ATM among the top 30 nations (in terms of total cases) the case rate title belongs to Israel which has 370000/million, but interestingly COVID deaths are much lower at 1.04/1000.
YouTube premium is $12 per month. If there is one subscription worth getting, it is definitely this.
It would be nice to see a type of text where this measure has gone up over time. I'm suspicious that the decrease is an artifact of the measure, for example it might be that the word embedding is "trained" on current texts and thus noisier on older texts.
I was searching for *(this but for programming languages and frameworks)
Making up a story with the emojis that displayed. The weirder the easier to remember. Haven't tried flags or numbers yet
Will have to look that one up.
Rack of squirrel, anyone? The chefs putting invasive species on the menu
Beautiful, High Fidelity experiences, your users will love
Yes. Maybe radicalise was the wrong word. Too many "terrorism" connotations.
That doesn’t solve the issue that the passengers will need to live on the ship for a thousand years, even if their relatives will be on Earth for twice as long.

Even a very big ship can be boring after a sufficiently long time.
I have a good friend who works as a high school physics teacher, and this is apparently exactly how they teach: they teach the intuition behind the problems so that the kids can visualise them.
Kudos to those who launch. It’s always harder than you’d think. That said, I don’t understand why people go the gimmicky route the moment they want to make something commercial.

Even a micro saas has to provide something of real value. You can’t skip that part, and surprisingly, it’s much easier to charge money if your initial focus is just on making a really good product.
And now let's be intellectually dishonest and pretend like they meant it literally. On Reddit.
company stooge.
Do you have examples of what in OpenBSD you found "utterly complicated to setup and use"? I've been using for several years now because of how devoid of complexity it is and because of how comprehensive the documentation is. Trying to even install other Unices nowadays frustrates me to no end because they're more complicated than "just keep pressing enter".
We are almost there. See AWS CDK. You could install an entire app from NPM, if someone had released such a thing. Right now the ecosystem is still building legos though.
so why is the expensive French nuclear so cheap, and supplies the enlightened fully-green Germany that's has insane high electricity rates then?

Someone forgot to inform them nuclear bad?
Depends on where you live.

In the US the most obvious mainstream example is republicans upholding white male supremacist laws. Of course they avoid direct language and use dog whistles instead, because saying out loud that you're a white male supremacist isn't a good look anymore. Of course the democrats do it too, but their dog whistles are more subtle and not as obvious.
At least for designers who also do print, most of them will depend heavily on Illustrator, inDesign and Acrobat. And since you buy these programs in a package, you’ll also get Photoshop. So it doesn’t need to be the best at what it does… it just needs to be good enough. EDT. That, and, probably more important: schools keep pushing the Adobe Creative Suite on their students.
I'm not aware of those studies related to the Ioannides paper, but the story on replication in psychology and specifically social psychology is not at all pretty.

My sense is that there are research domains that are functional, but others (social, clinical psychology) which are not at all. Given the level of motivated cognition and sloppy thinking evident in decades of psychiatric and other research into cannabis use, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find low standards in studies of this type. I'm not saying that's the case, but it's certainly my prior when reading any dietary studies, or studies of "bad effect x" of recreational drugs.

In general, when publishing any study like this the research should be contextualised properly. For example, it would make sense to state the effect size in relation to the risk of drinking 10% more than the recommended units of alcohol, or smoking 20 cigarettes per day.
HackerBCI – Brain-Computer-Interface Electronics
To get working hyperlinks:

https://web.archive.org/web/19991005013034/douglasadams.com/...
I think there was almost a good system in place: a variety of ad-supported sites that professionally reviewed new products, and a variety of ad-supported forums where you could get the advice of other people. Manufacturers win in both cases if they can make a good product that survives the professional review and doesn't fall apart or immediately break so the forums give it a pass.

The problem is tracking and dependence on ad networks. Corporations doggedly chasing the bottom line don't want to spend the time or the money to pick and choose specific forums and sites to advertise. They want to pretend to automate that process. Their laziness not only killed the old networks and communities around various product segments, but helped start the "listicle" de-evolution that has decreased content quality across the entire internet.

I used to be able to type in "product_name review" and get some useful, well-known sites. Now I get recycled garbage content, and I have to check all of those sites individually or restrict the domain in the search. It's ridiculous.
The pandemic and WFH have required me to develop skills I never had. My small children are in school from 8-2:30 (if they aren't home due to a covid exposure, snow day or holiday). In that time I have to get all my work done, do chores and, if it's about 30 degrees, go for a run.

Its really been an exercise in making hay while the sun shines. I can almost never get into a flow state, but I tend to do a lot of thinking beforehand so I can just sit down and start typing code when the time comes.
Was Marcus Aurelius the first guy to make the observation that he was probably a clone of someone born 2000 years earlier?
There's nothing wrong about writing about women doing stuff. It's the way they do it that's annoying. Write a good article. Don't bend the truth. Be honest! What she is doing is still impressive.
This is awesome. Seems that every major UI platform is supported including WASM, Android and iOS. I'm exited to hear that.

Avalonia is one of the most promising projects for C# I came across in the last year. I really hope Microsoft will add Linux support to MAUI.
Acting as if online advertising doesn't exist, or at least doesn't need to be targeted and attributed, would be a good alternative.
oh, I definitely have no loyalty to Neuralink. I'd particularly like it if something like Open Water, a non-invasive IR refraction imager, would succeed. Implants sound dangerous, difficult to maintain and intractable to upgrade.

And accessibility tech tends to be crappy and massively overpriced unless it's marketed to able-bodied users as well. My eye tracker was $200, because it's for "gamers", while the eye trackers for disability cost >$10K despite having the same hardware. Neuralink is never going to be affordable.

I probably overstated my impairments a bit. I can type and walk for short periods, just not sustainably. Basically my joints dislocate constantly and my nerves are unreliable. I'm at the level where e.g. something like a powered exoskeleton would be extremely useful, but not bad off enough for insurance to cover it if it costs $200K (since I can get around the house most of the time as long as it's short, and wheelchairs are cheaper.) So even in developed countries cost is an issue.
he was actually comparatively relaxed this time, as if it were his party. also didn't really have much new content and (believe it) none of the prior outlandish ambitions.
From their site, it's currently an open-source solution but they plan on introducing subscription plans with extra features in the future.

Looks exciting and is going on my bookmarks list, but it's to early to tell what direction this will develop in as we don't know about their future plans yet. I certainly welcome more competition in the space currently occupied by PollEverywhere and friends.
The so-called environmentalists, who are simply the modern day malthusian luddites, insisting nuclear is bad is what needs solving.

Bitcoin just demonstrated renewable energy cannot scale in practice.

If only 1% of the electricity demand cannot be sustainably and economically be supplied by renewables, some serious re-thinking about strategy is in order.
Talking seriously, there are conversations about how the human brain works, what could exactly be the "main loop" running the "consciuosness" yet undefined thing (biologically located in our heads, but it seems a bit of "consciusness" could be located right into our intestines, it even could have enough chemical bandwith for regular - close to realtime - comms with its upper buddy in the head). And it's not going well for us - our brains mainly- supposely being "exceptional stuff" among other living things, even not living things (crystals).

Most of the stuff currently available point to, that us humans are just somewhat very simple biological algorithms, possibly not even fully rational, but - just A LOT like neural networks - just able to better "match" - i.e. "a closed door needs to be unlocked, opened, before you can walk through it" - internal models of the reality with the actual reality around us, than other living or non living things.

We could even have hardcoded objectives deep inside the DNA, not a lot different than GPT3 and its fellow advanced descendants. Also not a lot alike neural networks, we could be just talking heads, and the actual calculations, rationality - the algorithm - is deeply buried well below the "conscious" level we experiment everyday. There's a chance that the evolution driven biological algorithm lying in our DNA - having evolved through a couple of million of years - it is just better, just matches the reality just a lot better than our 5 years old algorithms.

Think about, every living thing in the planet has biologically hardcoded instructions, why humans would be the only "special" thing not having pre-defined DNA based set of objectives. i.e. "you" get to pick the wall colors, but you didn't designed the "house".

The extra stuff there, eyes, legs, mouth, language could be just very sophisticated tools, not quite a lot different than feathers, tails, wings, etc.

So, back to our recently constructed structures, the hiper-complex neural networks could have some "patterns" quite a lot alike what we have in our heads/intestines. Those "patterns" one day, maybe in 600 years could technically be defined as "yep, that was consciousness"
No, index named are global in PostgreSQL and the SQL standard.
Can’t shake the devil’s hand and say you’re only kidding.

There isn’t much daylight between an ironic nazi and a real one.
Prototyping – Metal 3D Printing [video]
Apparent that’s how it was in the U.S. before the 20th century. People would buy a few things like molasses in bulk. And that was it.

It’s quite hard to imagine.

It also sounds quite inefficient. Like everybody running their own wood stove vs using centrally generated electricity. But I don’t know.

Anyone aware of books that talk of life in these times? For the early 1900s, I enjoyed “The World of Yesterday”. It would be great to get the same glimpses into the world of the 1800s.
Wow, you ran out of gas by point 3 and went with "other stuff". Talk about shameless.
Why does this biased spiel belong on HN?
Maybe (actually, very likely) I'm just an idiot, but I never could get lsp-mode to work with Tramp. With eglot, add the path and off to the races. That alone keeps me on eglot.
Wait, NFT creators never considered the fact that others could create NFTs from an identical digital source?
Almost every group has a theory about the people who are different than them. Sometimes the theory is based on some truths, but it's a theory, and a theory cannot represent the whole truth.

Often conspiracy theories as a whole are simplified explanations of reality. There may well be based on actual evidence. They are perversely comforting to hold. To know you are in a chosen group who really knows whats going on, that there is a clearly defined enemy that can be hated... That is psychologically comforting compared to not knowing whats going on in life. It's why every political group will define their enemy. It is more scary to not know why the world is what it is. Imagine a world of today where no one is responsible for the state of it! Conspiracy theories in cults increase in-group cohesion and decrease tolerance to those different from the group as those outside the group are often part of the conspiracy.

Conspiracy theories are mostly a pattern such as "we see these clear signs and occurrences in the world, therefore people in power are in a secret conspiracy to take over the world to bring in a hell on earth".

Conspiracy theories are encompassing explanations of reality too. They can explain missing facts, they can explain alternative explanations, they provide a narrative to unknowns, contradictory facts and evidence can be used to show how the conspiracy is working. It's very hard to see whether one is within the spell of a cult or a conspiracy theory when one is in the middle of one.

The best way to crack a cult member is to get them to see their in group / out group behaviour from the outside. So, "Why are you are jerk to people different than you?" is actually a really good question!
I’m sorry but this is a consequence of the current nature of NFTs in this space that should have been obvious to any technologist. It’s just baffling to me that this stuff has got this far.
Good news, Sony already patented it. [0]

[0] https://fortune.com/2013/04/30/sony-patent-is-hilarious-terr...
You laugh but corporations and the woke are just as cultish as some niche "religions"
It’s from the first issue of Wired UK, a spinoff: https://archive.gyford.com/1997/wired-uk/1.01/adams.html
Isn’t that also a critique of all desire, period? Thinking the next shiny thing will improve your life. Then again, how much of life consists of reacting to a state of unease or to some desire?
Increasingly less so over time I presume. Sneering at C++ is rapidly overtaking insulting Javascript as the world's conversational standby.
There is something to be said about time and place.

The early internet was a unique time and place. Crypto reminds me of that today, and really the only place that does.
A top researcher says it's time to rethink our entire approach to pre-K
OK, thanks for the explanation. I think I understand what you mean. But this kind of generalisation takes very careful analysis to discern and I'm not convinced, yet. I'll be more easily convinced when I see something blatant, and n ≤ 10 is so far not there for me, even given the shift in what is predicted.
The god-emperor thing was a meme. The racism and QAnon bullshit is sincere.
I caught the tail end of this wind of optimism when I was first connected in 2001. In my head, the Internet will always be that hectic, eclectic place it was then. Even the design of this website fits that paradigm.

Watching it taper off with the rise of "social media" was a sad thing indeed, but I don't think the old spirit is fully lost.
Brave on iOS blocks YT ads.
The question to ask is: perfect for whom?
Android has around two thirds of market share worldwide iirc, and up to 90% in some countries. The Default HN Country (US) is pretty much an outlier with its 50/50 split.
Well, last week I discovered an entirely new category of product I didn't know existed (tag management assurance & compliance) via an advertorial piece posted on LinkedIn.

Other than the modern RTB ecosystem I don't think any other form of advertising is inherently flawed.
The federal government yanked access to monoclonal antibodies citing they were made for a different strain when omicron came around.

Problem is plenty of people were still getting delta and they still worked, with lesser efficacy, against omicron

And the antivirals they're handing, you're better off fighting covid without them

remdesivir is a garbage drug
Why WebAssembly? Is this technology really still alive? Having a look at https://webassembly.org version 1.0 from 2017 is still advertised.
Same thing when you apply for a job or you try to catch the attention of some girl you like. What you’re most concerned with here are your own expectations. And, just like an advertising come up you showcase your best attributes and downplay the worst.

(Which isn’t to say that, in a world where everybody does this, actual listening and radical honesty couldn’t be a much more profitable strategy.)
And nobody checked if you could grow wings
Consider starting your own business. I'm aiming to help people like yourself startup: https://cxo.industries
> writing test assertions is basically checking whether your theorem/lemma is true in disguise

But that is almost the polar opposite of treating a program as applied logic. If there is one thing that is not reasonable when dealing with logic, it is "proof by multiple test cases that seem to work, I think".

And I don't clear the low bar for de Morgan’s laws, I've completely forgotten what they are. And on looking them up, that doesn't look like an important component of programming. A programmer could reasonably get away with not knowing them. Probably going to learn them by rote over a few years, but that is hardly "applied logic" in any sense that is worth talking about.
GitHub: Verification of Domains
Back in the day, the web actually had to be sold to people and businesses. They were reticent to pony up money to "get online". They didn't understand the benefits. It was pretty common to make these kinds of pitches to businesses as part of a broader idea of getting everyone online where we would all enjoy the benefits of a free and open society.

Businesses were the last to take it up, and the first to destroy it. But no one saw that coming.

I heard this kind of pitch made a dozens times by 1999, to hundreds of businessmen who are now probably dead. No one thought for a moment that getting more metrics on people would mean the death of privacy. Everyone was worried about the government spying on us, and no one had an idea it would be through scrolling and click tracking. At the time this was written, I had a palm pilot and mobile web; but I never would have predicted what a combination of smart phones and social media would do to scramble the average American consumers' brains.
You forgot to Address your logical error from your previous comment:

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

Are you now moving the goalpost?
> 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.

Yes, but that’s not because they were late to the party. They had the app for this kind of work in Adobe Fireworks and they shut it down with no migration path. That’s what opened the market up for Sketch and later Figma. Now that the latter exist, there’s no reason to pay Adobe’s extortionate prices, or buy into their monopolistic business practices.
Who would steal two Palmtops from you? That is a travesty indeed.
I'm not really surprised. Every time there's an unregulated market with the potential for loads of cash, people rush in to scrape up every cent before either it gets regulated or everyone else runs out with the money.
I don't see how this doesn't fit my definition of advertising. Liking the advertisement or finding it interesting is not in contradiction with what I wrote.
And they say travel bans don't work!
But that is a very interesting anecdote.
Have you tried it recently?

When I tried it a couple of weeks ago on an old Android device (Pixel 3A) there was a little jank. Then I tried a couple apps bundled with Android and was surprised to find a comparable amount of jank.

I've heard it's worse on iOS though.
How in the world would crypto make a difference?

If you want to send money directly to a person in an irrevocable way, do so.

If however you want to use an established intermediary platform with standardized and seamless fundraising and distribution and payment processing capability and its own terms of service... How would crypto change that? We can't just use the magic world to wave problems away... This is the type of statement that breeds deep skepticism and even cynicism of crypto currencies and eco system.
And this works up until about high school physics, but not too much further. Not only do many interesting mathematical objects lack some intuitive basis, some are interesting specifically because they behave counter-intuitively.
And 1 to 10 religious ones.
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