skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I advocate for a negative interest rate so that well developed econonies are no longer under an artificial pressure to grow at the expense of sustainability and other economies.

However, that doesn't mean the proposed mechanism i.e an explicit wealth limit is actually reasonable.

By the way an economy suffering because the wealth is never spent is the root cause of every single economic depression in history. Bill Gates is rich enough that he could never spend it all.

Today's consumption society is just an unsustainable method of avoiding a depression. All money saved must be invested because nobody tells the wealthy to stop playing the accumulation game. A negative interest rate would get rid of the need to increase debt.
I've had instances where I was in the room with someone speaking a language I only partially understood. The non-verbal queues often were the major mechanic for communicating.
I’d come back and find the frame attached to the post and everything else stripped off it. Not only that I bet the frame creaks and all sorts. Plus it’s going to be a lot weaker. It’s a stupid invention.
> medical procedure

you are being vaccinated thousands times a day by countless parasites, fungi and bacteria, yet when it's safely designed by tens of thousands of smartest people in the world it becomes... medical procedure..?
Would you mind kindly linking to or detailing how someone might set up such a setup?
Or conversely, Ukraine is the Sudetenland being invaded by Russia. The West’s shot at stopping this is now.

Russia has been for a while, and now stepped up, similarly aggressive rhetoric against Eastern and Central Europe.
> As the popular saying goes, there are only two hard problems in computer science: caching, off-by-one errors, and getting a Rust job that isn't cryptocurrency-related.

For whatever it's worth, we are hiring for a non cryptocurrency Rust job, haha.

https://www.svix.com/careers/
Browse HN on "Past": https://news.ycombinator.com/front

1. It's yesterday's news. You've probably got some contextualisation for the story as you've likely already caught wind of it from some other channel. Much of the compulsion of HN comes from the too-brief and decontextualised subject lines. They are, ultimately, a Dark Pattern.

2. The Machine Stops^W^WScroll Ends. Typically there are ~60--100 or so items. That's ... more than you can comfortably read, but it is finite.

3. Skip the comments. I'm increasingly finding they're less worthwhile than the post(s) themselves, usually. With some exceptions.

3.0 Those exceptions are rarely in more-active discussions. Or political ones. Or business-oriented ones.

3.1 Definitely skip comments dominated by drama or cheap shots. Utterly not worth it.

3.2 If you must read comments, do so logged out, and collapse as you go.

4. The front page has had a day to sort out its rankings. Typically, the top few items are reasonably significant or interesting, and that likelihood falls as you go down the list. HN ranking is arbitrary enough that there can be quite good content far down the queue, but be discerning.

5. Browsing day-olds seems to help ease the urge to scroll and check often.

6. If you're feeling adventurous, go back a year or five or ten and see what's being discussed. You may discover a ... sameness. Which might make you question the value of aggressively pursuing the latest all that much more.

7. Close the tab and go on a dandilion break.
I think the distinction is that you're 24-year-old daughter has a lot of friends online, and you don't
I do[0]

> the death toll of history’s two nuclear disasters we have added the death rate that Markandya and Wilkinson (2007) estimated for occupational deaths, most from milling and mining. Their published rate is 0.022 deaths per TWh.

> The sum of these three data points gives us a death rate of 0.07 deaths per TWh. We might consider this an upper estimate.

> For example, included in this database were deaths related to an incident where from a water tank ruptured during a construction test at a solar factory. It’s not clear whether these supply chain deaths should or shouldn’t be attributed as a death from solar technologies.

Deaths: Nuclear 0.07 vs Solar 0.02.

Greenhouse gasses: Nuclear 3 tonnes vs Solar 5 tonnes

Here's one from 2012[1] where they breakdown nuclear deaths to include Chernobyl and Fukushima and remove those (i.e. electricity). Nuclear wins by a lot.

Or a 2014 study[2] showing nuclear beating solar rooftop (note, concentrated solar is a lot safer than rooftop. Concentrated is actually safer than nuclear but the death rates are so small I'm not sure why we're arguing over them).

There's plenty of sources showing nuclear's death rates are roughly the same as solar, wind, and hydro. All of which are 2 orders of magnitude below biomass and natural gas and 3 below coal and oil. Similarly also 2-3 orders of magnitude less than coal, natural gas, and oil (1 magnitude less than hydro).

These discussions are absurd. We just end up sitting here quibbling over a small tradeoff between emissions and deaths (a very difficult thing to measure) while we just keep producing gas, oil, and coal. Pick your battles. When we have a clean grid we can quibble over these numbers because at that point they will be significant. But at this time they aren't even close. If you want to complain about the cost of nuclear, sure, that's a fair and honest discussion we can have. But there is no evidence to suggest that nuclear isn't safe and green. This is very concerning when it represents 50% of the zero carbon emission energy in the US.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/rates-for-each-energy-so...
Paul has since regained quite a lot of weight: up to 500 pounds in 2019 https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/20/worlds-former-fattest-man-to-... and 546 pounds as of a couple months ago: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/worlds-ex-fattest-man-...

(Apologies for the highly opinionated source, but as you might guess most of the news coverage is from UK tabloids.)
Really excited to start digging into this!
Be careful with that. Depending on where you live this can be seen as "incitement for robbery" (or whatever the correct term is) which is a crime in itself at some places even.
This seems to focus on WebGL, and the alternative, WebGPU, is still only available in nightly builds.
Whats the name of shill coin that BBC promoted recently?
That's still possible today, but nobody can actually be bothered, because there's plenty of other stuff to do as well.

I do recall ~8-10 years ago, we were building an app and did a user test; we had a phone with a webcam rigged to it so we could see from the user's point of view.

But for this you need dedicated (in multiple senses of the word) UX people, and they are both rare, and companies seem to be reluctant to hire them.
> why riscv when MIPS already existed

MIPS, POWER, and SPARC, AIUI - all open enough that you could make your own processor using them.
I leave the pi on in the drawer to control/use IKEA tradfri buttons via their gateway.

A giant plush enter key allows for smashing as needed.

https://flyingtiger.com/products/enter-key-3015609
My real problem with the Socratic method is that it only works when your recipient is generally in a relaxed environment which promotes an inquisitive, low-stakes interaction, as opposed to being under stress or pressure to understand.

It fails spectacularly when by the 3rd "What's a different way to write 'Ten'" the student starts huffing and puffing in frustration for you to move on and stop wasting their time with silly questions, (blanking out mentally if you do continue with the questions anyway), only for them to give up for 'not getting it' once you get to the 'real' stuff.

In other words, they feel too pressed with time to allow themselves to be patient and learn all the relevant material, but they're too frustrated from not being able to piece things together once they've forced themselves to skip all the important pieces out of perceived pragmatism.

It's a frustrating exercise for both teacher and learner.

So sometimes the best thing to do is match the student's needs and style, and swallow the fact that you need to do things backwards for a bit, until they manage to get to the desired point their way, and that this is going to take a while.
Not a good alternative for the big middle distribution of computer skills of the computer user base. Web browser only? Great. Highly skilled? Great. Everyone else? It can be a nightmare. Linus' Linux Challenge videos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0506yDSgU7M) provide excellent insight into the typical user experience for anyone beyond web browser only requirements and beneath administrator level. If you find yourself saying "what an idiot, how did he not know that "do as I say" would mangle his OS," you're definitively in the highly skilled camp.

Linux UX convention relies on the terminal as a matter of course. Almost everything not in the package manager requires use of the terminal. Even many of the package managed applications require tweaks and configuration via terminal. It's an open secret that package managers are largely inferior to the terminal anyway, in every distribution. The almost universal response to "I am having an issue with the package manager" is "use terminal." Bottom line: terminal is far less user friendly than an object oriented environment, and is often much slower. Until a flavour of Linux exists which never ever, for any reason ever, requires the use of the terminal, Linux will remain in the low single digits in terms of consumer market share. I don't think this will change, because if you ask the average Linux developer what they think of the terminal convention, they love it, and they think users just need to stop sucking so much.
One man's gimmick is another man's novel idea to solve a problem.
I don't think that the response of NATO states would be more economic sanctions.
I was under the understanding that docker didn't use user namespaces by default -- so "root" in the container is the same user as "root" outside the container -- but that LXD does. Has that changed?
> There is no significant evidence anywhere that blind children's understanding of language and their ability to speak is any lesser than that of sighted children.

I'm not an expert but this is from a 2015 paper which does a literature review citing many papers arguing just that.

> In summary, although the research to date is not fully supportive of a link between VI and SSP deficits, the mixed evidence provokes compelling reasons to hypothesize that access to visual cues supports early speech perception and subsequent auditory discrimination and phonological mapping.

- Brouwer et al.: SSP Deficits in Children With Visual Impairment (2015) https://pubs.asha.org/doi/pdf/10.1044/cicsd_42_S_33

I would agree it's not exactly an air-tight case (as would Brouwer et al given their hedging), but you are making a very strong claim with "no significant evidence anywhere".
I helped a startup increase customer retention and reduce a major pain point
I want to remind everyone what happened, here.

By the beginning of 2010, it was clear that the App Store was likely to become a massive cash cow for Apple. Flash was direct competition, however. If one could play a game in a browser rather than buying it, Apple would lose out on that income. Everyone was clamoring for Apple to add Flash capability to its mobile iPhone browser. Adobe offered all help, yet Apple continued to drag its feet. It became obvious something was going on.

In April, Steve Jobs wrote an open letter, "Thoughts on Flash", stating, among other things, that HTML5 could deliver a superior experience to Flash and that Flash had such inherent security and performance problems that they could never be rectified.

These were lies, but Apple's henchmen in tech media, especially Wired and Gawker, repeated this lie endlessly, destroying a creative ecosystem and industry so that Apple could have its App Store.

The web is still to this day unable to deliver an experience like Flash could, and likely will never be able to.
Tree [1], master [2], submission [3], abort [4], driver [5] – words can have different meanings in different contexts. Do you feel the need to "wince every time" you submit a link on HN?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_(data_structure)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastering_(audio)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_submission

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_abort_modes

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_driver
Being in the "middle" is not a class. Social classes - certainly in Marxist theory, but also in other classes analyses of society - are not the rungs on a ladder: Low, Middle, High. Rather, they are characterized by their social role (e.g. role with respect to production, distribution, ownership etc). And a social class may have more or less power and wealth, depending on circumstances.

Centuries ago, people who owned land, workshops etc. but were not nobles were referred to as the "middle class" - the middle between the peasantry and the nobility. Today that moniker is meaningless, though it persists - even though people of "middle" wealth are in no way not a distinct class.
I did a year of server-side web dev from 2002-2003, then decided I wanted to do something different. I went back to grad school, got my Ph.D., and now I’m in high performance computing.
I recently decided to take a month of reddit for the sake of my crippled attention span. Over the past year, I've already narrowed down my subreddits to what I'd consider useful information, but that only helped a little. There's just too much stuff on there.

From now on, it'll be mainly HN and books for me.
Could you link the museum? Tried Ruffle a long time ago, would love to see how well it works now. Also curious what kind of fixes you had to apply. Once you patched the source, did you use the same tool FFDec to compile them again?
> This is what car anti theft devices do AFAIK… why not bikes?

Well, with a car you can easily secure the mechanism because ... well, it's a car. Cars are huge compared to bikes and have enclosures protected from the outside world. Try that with a bike without increasing the weight while making it still hard to just break apart. Oh, and you probably need some energy to make it all work, too. Also there's costs and chip shortage. But yeah, main point is to make it actually secure within the given space and dimensions.
I was just thinking with vendors making hardware more hostile and if they made that not a possibility where an external camera defeats that. If a capture card works then that seems even easier and if youtubedl is under attack maybe that is how people will do it but one thing is for sure, people will do it.
> A close friend of mine had perfect scores in basically everything and Harvard turned him down on the basis of "we already accepted your older brother and it wouldn't be fair of us to take two of you".

I will go out on a limb and say that this is a narrative he shares to avoid embarrassment, and it’s probably not true from the Harvard perspective.

SAT scores and grades are only one part of the admissions evaluation criteria. How did he do in the others? What about his brother?

Something like this might happen if his high school had a certain range of slots for each elite school, and the school counselor decided to against advocating for him to get into Harvard specifically for some reason. That said, it still may have been a polite way of saying that he was not as good as his brother. Furthermore, if he was actually a compelling applicant, I imagine he got into some other elite school.

I really wish more people would learn about and appreciate the different evaluation criteria that elite schools use. These criteria aren’t perfect, but they strike me as being fairly dynamic.
Traditional advice was you analyze potentially malicious binaries in a VM. I guess its more prudent now to do it on air-gapped systems?
It's a very small difference to be honest.
I don't understand why x^n+y^n=z^n has no integer solutions for n > 2. I tried to understand it for a long time but it was too difficult so I gave up. :)
I pretty much never use a phone, and all my screen time is a computer.

How do you even mindlessly watch youtube vid after youtube vid on such a tiny screen?
FWIW I've always called it 386 (3 cent quatre-vingt-six)..
For a professional programmer, OSS from 20 years ago is not a hopeless task. Read compiler errors, fix headers, patch things, eventually get a working build.

For a non-technical person who just wants to get their animations working again? Essentially impossible.
That's what many elder people are actually doing for years and decades. It definitely doesn't help to cut down fake news.
http://web.archive.org/web/20150618081109/https://www.foreig... if you aren't a Foreign Affairs subscriber.

I don't agree with Mearsheimer's point of view, but as I said before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30562655), he certainly can't be dismissed as Russian propaganda. Probably his name should be in the title.
If you switch phones often, a Yubikey might be better 2FA (it's definitely safer).
I tried using the globals, but it does not have much affect, so I don't think ESM has that much to do with it, see results here: https://github.com/grissius/jest-is-a-rude-needy-clown-and-e...

The benchmark covers several different scenarios, and memory and time efficiency leans more towards Jest (which is already pretty bad as it is), so I don't think it is fair to declare "A blazing fast". The project looks promising (appreciate ESM and TS support), don't get me wrong, but speed is not its strength.
Tangentially related, but "what happens if I refuse" is a thing with US tipping culture as well. I was at a bar once during a conference, I didn't realize you're supposed to tip the waitress at every drink you order. That was not ideal.

I mean on the one side I'm cringing with embarrassment, on the other... the fuck?
- Able to engineer turnkey DX tooling and set up functional, enjoyable value delivery workflows for teams

- Able to engineer efficient and horizontally scalable greenfield architectural solutions

- Able to pick up existing/legacy solutions and work with/modernise/replace them with minimal business impact
Cool site! But, I would very much challenge the premise that the news is the proper thing to start your day with, under normal circumstances. (Obviously, right now is an exception for a lot of people, because of the invasion of Ukraine).
I still distribute a visual basic 6 program that gets thousands of downloads a month

https://www.garyshood.com/rsclient/
Vulkan/DX12 is quite intimidating, even for an experienced programmer, let alone a novice. I am a DX12 graphics driver developer and I still find the API intimidating at times, and a missing barrier can cause hard to debug graphical corruptions, something you didn't have to worry about in OpenGL. Metal is simpler in comparison. WebGPU is a good stepping stone between OpenGL and Vulkan. It feels closer to Vulkan/DX12 in design, but takes care of the tougher things like synchronization, barriers, memory management.
And if you're into crypto, the last thing you want in the morning is an anxiety-inducing reminder of short-term volatility.
Just last month Malawi also had a case (the first in Africa in more than 5 years apparently). Apparently the strain matches one from Pakistan, but they don't know how it made it to Africa.

They're performing a large scale inoculation drive since apparently only 1 in 200 cases leads to paralysis (which is when it is spotted).
This was me and the Saturn V rockets my kids broke after building it. It was just too cool for them not to touch lol.
I used to live in Jersey City, maybe that explains it?
Thank you very much for the information.

I have a running troll with friends who are unvaccinated, it goes like this.

""" The elites know the second coming of Jesus is near, the idea they had is to kill Jesus before he is born.

Jesus can only be born from his last remaining bloodline, somewhere in the world are the last descendants of Jesus.

They need to find his parents and serialise them.

To do this they created a tracer virus that has no symptoms but is detectable to test bio security measures for when the real virus is released.

When you get PCR tested they take two swabs, one for the bio security test and one to get your DNA to see if you have Jesus's blood flowing within you.

If you have the holy blood it will render you sterile, your DNA is also tested so they can visit you and follow up on your family, those too young to get tested.

Jesus will raise again at the start of WWIII they need to kill him before he is born.

That is why the lipid nano particles concentrate in the ovaries, to sterilise Mary.

They did the same with Bin Laden who has Muhammad bloods in him.
"""

I have been adding to the troll story overtime when new bits of information surface, they find it quite believable.

I have also tried the inverse story, where its actually godly people trying to find the descendants of Jesus to save them from what's coming. So you need to take the vaccine to protect you from what's coming.

But this inverse story doesn't work at all. Conformation bias is strong.

If you want to use my troll story please quote me. It's original and took me awhile to come up with it.
>The web is unable to deliver an experience like Flash could

I think the browser has been on par with Flash Player for a while, but Flash-the-authoring-tool (to my knowledge) does not yet have an equal. (I'm told Adobe Animate, the rebranded Flash authoring tool, is somehow unsuitable for creating games, despite HTML5 export features.)

To put it another way, I think we've more or less replaced the Flash Player, but we haven't replaced Flash Professional. (As others have mentioned, Unity kind of covers the same ground, but not really.)
(1) Doesn't that severely weaken the frame? It looks flimsy, and even if the lock part is attached back, it does not look like as strong as a welded joint.

(2) The levers introduced by the long straight tubes seem to open up a physical way in. Imagine twisting the bike off the post.

(3) Once LPL shows how to open that lock, one might want to swap it for a better one. Is that possible?
I never said it was different. Quite the opposite. I said that the behaviour is the same. The technology it attaches to is different, that’s all. Making a dispositional inference at all is the error.

Or more bluntly, every generation complains about the next one, but most old farts don’t realise they’ve sleepwalked into the cliché.
Seems its still in closed beta: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/cloudflares-r2-st...

But yeah, comment sounds so weird for a non released product.
"It's not me it's the 'system'". What a weak excuse!