skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since I started working for myself, I do find periods of time where long hours are the norm. Most of the time I stick to a more regular schedule, but when I was building an MVP I put in long hours because taking a break meant having to re-learn how all the code went together. Once I had made the various breakthroughs, I backed off again.

Then later, when working with our first customers I found myself working long hours again.

Now I've backed off again somewhat.

So I don't think it's necessarily "when you don't know what else to do", for me it was driven by either not wanting to miss an opportunity or trying to hit some deadline.

Most of the time now I can choose when to do that, and often find it's more productive to be contemplative about things like new features rather than doing them in a hurry and having to do more refactoring later on. Then again, in some parts of your business cycle you simply don't have that luxury.
If you enjoy legacy strips you may like https://joshreads.com/ - the comics curmudgeon.
Yeah, there was not a lot of insight in this article. “Comic strips fail when they can’t adapt” is the deepest idea here, closely followed up by “people used to be pretty racist.” (paraphrasing)
> I don't think there is a way to do something like `exec {myvar}>file`

I might be misunderstanding this, but piping to `save` is how you usually redirect to a file in Nu: https://www.nushell.sh/book/commands/save.html
With 16% of Americans saying they have invested in cryptocurrency in some form, coupled with the classic adoption graph (https://www.ou.edu/deptcomm/dodjcc/groups/99A2/curve.JPG), crypto is begging for ways to burst into the mainstream early majority, and the way to do that is with the familiar. They want Coinbase, and OpenSea, and low friction experiences.
This is Ouija board pseudoscience until proven otherwise. The scientist behind it is already disgraced. If there is any element of "assistance" in interpreting the locked-in patient's brain waves, the wishful thinking of the assistant likely fudges the results to create a fake message, exactly like an Ouija board. Scams like this pop up every few years, preying on desperate, sad people. See "facilitated communication".
Ask HN: Did you know that your brain reads faster than your eye?
Hi HN community

I’m new here and hope you forgive me if I didn’t choose the right HN channel.

I am looking for interested people who would like to integrate the reading mode Bionic Reading as API into their apps or services. The beta API is expected to be ready by the end of April.

The prototype of Bionic Reading so far is already available in 3 RSS apps. In “Reeder 4+5”, in “Fiery Feeds” and in “Lire”.

Now I want to make the reading mode available to as many people as possible. Moms and dads, students, CEOs, people with dyslexia and many more write to me. And also many who can read even faster with Bionic Reading than before.

If you are interested, please sign up on the website.
https://bionic-reading.com

I would be happy if BR is in your app or service and so many people can be helped.

Best regards from the Swiss Alps. Renato
reading through the replies to this, perhaps it should instead be that if you create a method to prevent downgrades you must also provide documentation on how that prevention method works in great enough detail that it can be circumvented.

Were they to document a way for you to disable the fuse check, then the user could disable the fuse check and do their own downgrades, or if writing this kind of technical documentation is too laborious then they can just provide themselves a downgrade service and just point to that in the documentation.
I appreciate how much time this probably took. I've used it a few times and I'm a huge fan.
>centralized servers

The internet was not designed to be centralized. It become centralized because everybody realized centralization was a way easier way to do everything.
I'm also one of the people who ultimately decided not to buy a switch (despite wanting to) because of nintendo's aggressive and misguided notion of ownership. There are other options that doesn't involve me betraying my principles and financially rewarding those who trample on my rights.

Now that the steam deck is out, I'm glad I did.
OK the specs look fantastic. I'm very interested! Looks amazing, and will be following. Thank you for building this.
Why would you use good/expensive olive oil to cook/fry with in the first place?

If you're not able to taste a difference when you're adding salt you might want to try a different size or type of salt. I have maybe 5 or 6 different granularities and types I use for difference times at home.
They're doing some cryptographic operations to prevent modified games from being loaded (probably a signature, but I'm not 100% sure). One of the uses for a rooted switch (or any other console I suppose) other than piracy is to play modded games. You can find youtube videos of people doing all sorts of crazy challenges in popular games and many of these challenges require modding the game.
> And your wallet isn't "centralized" at all. Just because MetaMask happens to be implememented using a server doesn't mean you can't export your seed phrase and import it into (eg) TrustWallet and use that instead or as well.

It's not even that. Metamask defaults to using a particular server, but you can set it to anything you want to in Settings.

The original post is just wrong. Aside from the default set for convenience, Metamask isagnostic to whether you want to plug it into a centralized or decentralized API service.

If you choose to run a local Ethereum node, Metamask even has a default already set in the Networks dropdown list.

This feels like yet another article trying to paint broad ideological strokes about Web3 without grasping any nuance.
The payment processor is the party to the transaction whose trust is least dangerous.

You swipe at the grocery store, what's Visa gonna do, not record your transaction? Why is that the only part of the exchange that you're worried about?

Why is it them you want to stop trusting, and not the POS terminal manufacturer who could be lying about the total on the screen?

Or the grocery store you're buying from who could be selling you poison, or who could refuse to carry out a delivery you ordered after taking your money, or who could mischarge you for the items you bought?

And how is your situation improved by switching away from the payment processor with legal responsibilities and administrative controls, to an immutable system that will never, ever, ever let you get the money back in the event of any of the other parties to the transaction turning out to be untrustworthy, even if a court orders it?

Immutability is not correctness. In fact it is the opposite, because in any system that takes input from the real world, errors are guaranteed, whether malicious or accidental. Eliminating the possibility of error correction from the system decreases it's trustworthiness.

> Bitcoin can in theory transact more volume than VISA while using the same energy as it is now since the block time is always 10 minutes.

No it can't. The bitcoin block size is fixed at 10mb, and they've been full for years.

It is theoretically possible for consumption to go down as people exit the network, but that won't ever happen, because the POW system is inherently a power-consumption arms race. There is not, nor can there ever be, a disincentive from buying more hardware and consuming more power. If you crunch more than the other guys you're going to win more blocks and be financially rewarded. The protocol guarantees that the ROI is always positive.
I remember a project when I was consulting that was floated, a few years ago. It was a blockchain-backed ledger for tracking fuel charges across a truck fleet - effectively, when the truckies filled up with fuel, they'd record it in the ledger. It can't be modified or altered, nobody can defraud the company because it's an immutable record!, shouted the sales team.

I mean, the truckie could always put the wrong value in when he entered it.
Maybe you could provide a solid point of "the actual harm done" when someone says "there are nazis in the army"? (if it's true)

If it's false, maybe you can claim slander on an entire army? Even the law doesn't protect anyone from that...
Interestingly, from an RN I know, this type of thing in the old days would have been caught by a two party check system. One person draws the drug, the other checks the intended treatment and the prepared drug.

Then again, holy crap, if they've normalized deviance to the point people are flying through overrides unconsciously, let alone 5 that's either one horrible UX, totally dysfunctional workload management is at play, or process has fundamentally failed somewhere.

I'd be surprised if actual mens rea was in play, but I'd have to read up more on the details of the case. Though I do know that pharmacists actually have a quixotic way of mixing CaPs in drug names in order to visually differentiate homoglyphic drug names to decrease the odds of mistaking one drug with another. So it isn't completely out there.
Wonder if most of the washing advice applies to buying from wet markets, there's some pretty sus sanitary environments out there.
Cable-actuated hydraulic brakes seem to get good reviews.
No, the BTC protocol is limited to an upper limit determined by the maximum blocksize. Last I checked that put the limit of BTC at something in the region of 7 transactions/second without increasing the block size.

To match Visa alone you'd need to increase that by a factor of 250 - you could reduce block time, increase block size, whatever. But that would also by necessity increase the storage requirements of each node by a similar factor.
It looks like they only search ~30 websites.

I just discovered my local RPi distributor has the 4B-2G in stock. (one less now, even though they're charging what looks like a fair but more than the usual "in stock in Australia" surcharge...)

https://raspberry.piaustralia.com.au
I don't understand this hatred for middlemen amongst the crypto crowd. Middlemen provide trust. You want to replace middlemen as trust providers with code? The trustless solutions like Proof of work are slow and inefficient and cost much more than middlemen do.

And despite all of that the cryptoverse still has middlemen and centralised platforms. Because not everyone has to run their own node. Be your own banks is not feasible for majority of human population.
How about on the Engine Control Modules on cars other than Teslas?
It's not about verification, it's about reasonable doubt.
This seems to be beating a dead horse.

Who actually gives attention to this knows this already. People that want to gamble still throw money at it anyway. Eh whatever.
Secure boot works fine on PCs -- it's not all or nothing.
Looks interesting, but the claims are a bit questionable. The brake limiter is also very suspicious---"in the heat of the moment" is exactly when I don't want my brakes not working. Plus it's a proprietary drivetrain that I have no reason to have any confidence in its reliability.
Visualization of monthly global temperature anomalies between 1880-2021
An immutable database guarantees that the "paper trail" has not been tampered with.

In supply chains, there's a lot to be said for having a paper trail even if (or especially if) some of the papers are fraudulently written.
In a vacuum, allowing for hackability is easier than building a walled garden. Locking a device down requires hardware and software to be developed that would otherwise be unnecessary. From that perspective, it's understandable that some people feel entitled to be able to use the hardware they paid for in whatever way they please.

Of course, in the real world, hardware like the Switch is subsidized by publishing fees and the like. I imagine that that revenue must outweigh the R&D costs of gimping the device.
I’m sorry to say but this article reads very bad even if the authors had the best intentions. If they don’t feel like sharing actual data on what they found then why waste peoples time with that tone.

Sounds like someone just rushed to press the Publish button.
The internet is a small place, and the "it's just a game" defense didn't prevent 17 year olds from catching federal felony charges then, and it sure wouldn't now, barely out of the 10-year statute of limitations.

Between the statute of limitations now being a farce, and the young gentleman who made it out unscathed legally are now battling employment, credit, and security check issues... maybe the stories of SIM swapping, SWATing, social engineering, doxing, DDoS, bribery, conspiracy, nation-state actors, treason, and other miscellany that plagued our late childhood with paranoid fever dreams....be better off untold, at least until more of us are confirmed retired or safe from petty retribution.
For #9 I wish they offered a clear better alternative, I wonder if they would agree on any one technique, probably not.
For me I haven’t found a better, easier way than reverse sear, I know sous vide is good but I refuse to go there for now.
Ah, well, you're better equipped than I am to figure this out. Anyway the FPU will have to deal with it. Maybe if the big float computations are mostly vector ops, though, that will help.
My most use web browser is chrome since I usually checking my webapp responsive on there. And since most of internet users who use my webapp will also use chrome so I want to make sure the responsive on that browser as good as posssible.
Yup, that can, indeed, be a problem. Relying on apt (for example) is generally a bad idea, hence why you'd want to vendor everything that your app needs if a specific version of, say, libcurl is something that your app requires.

This along with the supply chain issues you mentioned is why some maintainers are moving towards using distroless base images instead, though these can be challenging to debug when things go wrong due to them being extremely minimal, down to not having shells.
Pretend there is meaningful market segmentation here all you want. At the end of the day all one has to do is plug in the DP cable and it will work as a regular monitor, and this probably bypasses some of the input lag of the built in OS.
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And they can't on a Walmart owned database based system? You know the good old boring web application? HN is one example. Hundreds of people are using it, upvoting and commenting at at any given second. Works just fine.
Centralization has several serious problems.

How do you determine who gets paid? If it's by impressions, you have all the clickbait problems as with advertising.

What happens when the central gatekeeper decides they've had enough of anyone criticizing their interests and starts booting people out who do? Or journalists self-censor for fear of that?

What do we do about privacy? Having a big database of everything everyone reads is bad. Tying it to payment info and therefore identity is unacceptable. We do not make lists for future fascists or communists. In theory it's possible to address this with cryptography and zero knowledge proofs, but we all know it won't be in a centralized system, because they want to track and control everything you read.

Meanwhile the real problem with subscription fees is people read different sources in different amounts. If you read one religiously, you pay the $5/month. But it should be possible to get the articles a la carte for a low price, e.g. $0.10 each, for the publications you don't read all the time.

So the thing we really need here is an anonymous payments system with low transaction fees. The blockchain people keep trying to do this, and let them if they can, but how about this.

A payment processor that uses the cryptography and the zero knowledge proofs. They know who you are, you pay them, you get a secret which allows you to spend the money. Now you can use the secret to pay for articles or anything else, and the payment processor debits your account and credits the seller's, but they can't tell who you paid, only that you paid someone and someone paid them. This would be highly useful in general, but especially here.

This might require some constraints like not supporting chargebacks, or maybe the cryptographers can figure it out. But if you can make an anonymous $0.10 transaction with no transaction fee, that's a solution.
Even then, I think blaming it on laziness is really not a good idea. People are not lazy for not understanding how systems work - not every single person has time for that, or cares about decentralization. Laziness implies it's a problem, and programmers have an unhealthy fascination with seeing problems and thinking they can all be fixed somehow if they just technology hard enough.

You have to look at the individual decisions that people make, and actually make it worth someone's time to do something themselves. For some people, they care a lot about decentralization, are anti-corporate, etc., but most people don't care. They see that they could either spend money on a cheap PC and 10 hours learning about, setting up, and troubleshooting their own mail server; or they can get a gmail account in 2 minutes and get the exact same practical result. The same will apply to web3 systems. It's not laziness, it's people making rational decisions.
How to disable hints?
"How can you get a known safe drug if it's illegal?"

This is a great and very important question. There'd be a lot fewer deaths and adverse reactions if more people took it seriously.

For one, you could study chemistry and pharmacology and synthesize the compounds yourself.

Second, you could test the compounds you got. There are testing kits you can buy and testing services (like those done by DanceSafe at festivals), but while they can test for known compounds, they can't test for unknown ones (like many of the new designer drugs that aren't well known yet)... and they generally don't test for potency either.

Third, you could grow or pick some natural psychedelics, like mushrooms, cacti, and various plants. You have to be really careful with this and really know what you're doing or rely on someone who does. Alan Rockefeller's talks on identifying psilocybin mushrooms are great for this: [1]

Fourth, some psychedelics like morning glory seeds, hawaiian baby woodrose seeds, salvia divinorum, and ketamine can be acquired legally in many places. 5-MeO-DMT itself is legal in some places. So where these are legal you should be more assured of their safety -- though you'll still want to make sure the seeds are pesticide-free, for example.

Finally, anyone who cares about safety should be advocating legalization, as it's keeping these substances illegal that makes them less safe and leads to many unnecessary deaths and overdoses.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcL-7u80kjs
You don’t need to settle every transaction instantly on the blockchain.
http://lightning.network/lightning-network.pdf
what if the method involves paying the original company a fee to use the old version? Would that be considered acceptable?
Not everything is centralized. Internet routing infrastructure (e.g. BGP) is decentralized. Capitalism itself is decentralized allocation of resources. Power grids are decentralized loads and (increasingly) generation.

It's true that centralization & decentralization tend to operate like a pendulum over time. Having a blockchain that provides historic cryptographic evidence of provenance with a modicum of worldwide trust seems like a generally valuable capability to combat all forms of digital newspeak.
Currently the performance and power benefits of having tightly packaged RAM are taken full advantage of by the M1 family. A less tightly coupled memory system will likely have significant performance implications. There's a reason why all GDDR memory for GPUs is soldered, as there's signaling issues caused by things like longer traces and the electrical behavior of the sockets themselves.

People also seem often to forget that interconnects are a significant amount of modern power budgets - look at the Epic IO die often using more than the cores in many workloads. It may be the the M1 family looks less attractive when you actually have to add these requirements.

Perhaps there's some possibility of having both a tightly-coupled RAM package and also have an extensible memory system - though that has significant management complexity if you try to treat it like a cache, or likely needs app support if it's some NUMA system where they're mapped separately. But possible, at "just" the cost of the extra memory controller.
It's almost as if trust turns out to be some kind of dominant strategy.
This is a good example of a problem that's common to most web technology: the people using the tech have absolutely no clue how it works and have no way to confirm any of it.

It's like when I give my credit card info to PayPal. There's a picture of a lock on the bottom of the page, so probably safe, right? I'm on OpenSea and it says the NFTs are "decentralized" and that I have absolute ownership if I buy one. So how come people can still right-click-save-as when I post the image on Twitter?

The tech is solid. There really are NFTs and they cannot be stolen etc etc (barring bugs and phishing of course!). It's just that there's no way for a layperson to confirm any of that. People are just as likely to use some random Django+Postgres app than they are a real blockchain system because they're indistinguishable as long as everything's going smoothly.
"Getting to Yes" is a legendary handbook for negotiation, and I would add one more to the reading list - "Never Split the Difference" by Chris Voss, former international hostage negotiator for the FBI.

My takeaways from the book:
1. You have a better chance at getting what you want once you establish a connection with your counterpart. Small talk do help.
2. Ask open questions and invite suggestions to "trick" the other negotiating party to seek solutions for you.
3. As the book title reveals, never split the difference. Getting 50% of what you wanted isn't a win-win but still a failed negotiation.

Sharing a popular quote below:
> To get real leverage, you have to persuade them that they have something concrete to lose if the deal falls through.
I am old! "Axa" is seriously everything that is wrong with the way newer generations are using the language with English alphabets! I still cannot believe people do this.

I have personally set a standard or a set of rules for writing Hindi using English alphabets myself and I have seen my friends follow the same. We do not use such shortcuts/shortforms.

Hell, even "Acha" is not the correct way. It must be "Achha" (double Hs).
It's still down, can we just have an image album?
The problems you’re describing are problems of the internet, not decentralization. Few could’ve predicted what the initial rules of the internet would generate after a few decades. We can learn from the outcome and come up with new rules.

The point about how “people want centralized systems” reminds me of the initial response to Apple’s privacy strategy. At the time, it was met with skepticism, to say the least. Privacy wasn’t something that normal people obsessed over, and it came at the expense of wonderful features that were only possible through centralized archival of personal information.

Since then, a steady drumbeat of surveillance scandals, security incidents, and technological innovations have turned data retention into more of a liability than an asset.