skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think even crypto-skeptics can see the utility of crypto in situations where people do not have access to functioning banking system.

But I think the most useful type of crypto in such a situation would be something like a decentralized version of a "stable" coin like tether or USDC, rather than a speculative asset like more classic crypto coins. People in dire straits want to transact trustlessly or move their wealth to a safe jurisdiction, they don't want to speculate on the value of a volatile asset.

The issue is, I can't really see how a decentralized stablecoin could exist.
> what if I always want reader mode? This is technologically complete impossible and all the solutions are a band-aid.

Sigh… welcome to Opera versions 9 to 12. Not only did this complete technological impossibility exist, it did so over a decade ago.

Tools → Preferences… (ctrl+f12) → Advanced → Content → Style Options… → Presentation Modes → Default mode [User mode]
> And the people who can do so are usually the same people who’d be perfectly capable of analyzing binaries directly.

I doubt that. And even the people who are good at analyzing binaries probably prefer to have the source code available to save a lot of time.
i never said they don't

i said it is the addition of the steps and their expectation in the west that i find weird, replying to OP's story

wich i assume he has an agenda to push some services over there to compete with chinese ones

then i mention things they have and we don't

maybe that is the result of not always expecting what the west expect, wich allows them to be this agile and adopt things much quicker, wich allows them to go past the post industrial age quicker

we seen it already with 5G

what prevented that to happen in the west? lack of education, lack of market will to invest, they wanted their society to remain in the bronze age because more profitable, and also some of westerners believe 5G is a conspiracy

it's weird isn't it?

they do what we can't do because we built a society around profits first
I would definitly be willing to invest in it. The idea would be to make it (atleast) a break-even operation eventually.
Yes. It uses tesseract for OCR and gathers the OCR text and puts it in a database, and you can then search.

So if you enter something you know is on the water bill then it'll come up in the search, such as the name of the water company.

I've never used Evernote so I'm not sure it's better but I had no problem finding stuff so far.

Also you can tag documents and search by tag so you have that too.

Paperless kicks ass.
Being largely dependent on government spending and tax breaks does not make you a public sector organization.

True in only the most reductive and naive sense; but this is the sort of mistake that ostensibly private orgs like the ones above count on, in order to avoid the kind of scrutiny & accountability that an explicitly public agency must endure.
He doesn't just run Ubiquiti. He founded it on his own credit cards, based on his own product ideas. He built Ubiquiti from nothing, essentially. Also, prior to "WSB" phenomenon, Ubiquiti was the subject of short campaigns and had really high short interest levels (https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/12/02/how-you-can-profit...) which they clearly overcame. Really fascinating story.
You can just use unsafe if you care in this case though.

It's a saner default option tbh.
I know that. There’s also zero evidence that any of the drugs that these people have taken have extended their lives. They’re absolutely zero studies that show that these compounds are either safe or dangerous. Anyone saying that they’re either has a bias.

And there is no evidence that McKenna’s drug use did not cause his brain cancer. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. The best we can say is that we do not know.
What frustrates you about Linux is exactly what drew me into FreeBSD. Have you looked into the BSDs and their development model? For example, the FreeBSD kernel and the base operating system are developed as a cohesive unit like you described.

I've been watching videos of your baby progress over the years. I love the look and guiding philosophy. You should be immensely proud of what you've accomplished. But without leveraging the existing drivers, GUI frameworks, decoders from BSD or Linux, I fail to see how it can ever be more than a toy OS. However your vision implemented on a BSD base, could be the next Solus.
I don't have a lot of experience with it and you would have to make the jump over to functional programming but I really like how Ocaml does types. It's all completely inferred by the compiler. This means you have to write very explicit code when it comes to casting--you can't even add an integer and a float without casting--but I don't think this is a bad thing. You can also explicitly type things if you want, and in that case it appears on its own line as opposed to mixed in with the function args. I vastly prefer this. I can't remember exactly what it looks like in Ocaml but in Elixir it looks like:

@spec full_name(String.t, String.t) :: String.t
def full_name(first_name, last_name) do
"#{first_name} #{last_name}"
end

As someone who historically hasn't done any typing, I still find this a little noisy, but it lets me read the function as normal and can look at the spec only if there is any confusion.
Doesn't eating nothing have negative opportunity cost? your body slowly starves seems like a negative outcome to me.
Article that bashes Putin, can't downvote. It's a rubbish article though, too much personal opinion and super naive.
Stop denying that the problem exists.
There exist professional mechanics, and there exist oil-change technicians. The professional mechanic has literally hundreds of tools, of dozens of different types. The oil-change tech has maybe a dozen tools that he uses in an average week. The professional mechanic studies his craft and learns about suspension, brakes, engines, transmissions, electrical, fuel delivery, spark delivery, sensors, ecus, interior parts such as window motors, air conditioning, fuel pump replacement, diagnosis, etc. The oil-change tech can find the oil filter, screw it off, and screw on another one. Sometimes without even over-tightening it.

The "Wordpress Guru" is far more akin to the oil-change technician than to the professional mechanic. He likely does not understand HTTP, let alone TCP/IP, he might google CORS when he has a problem, likely copies code from Stack Overflow without understanding it, and has heard of Big O notation but has never had to apply it to his work. Honestly, I'm probably closer to that extreme than I would like to admit, but I do strive to understand ever line of code I'd be git-blamed for, and think that I understand two levels below the technologies that I do use on a day-to-day basis.
Fun game!

I have a suggestion: the huge numbers are not quite readable. Maybe add the scientific notation as well.
Comparing 73,400,000,000,000,000,000,000 with 844,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 is tricky, especially since the numbers are not right aligned.

Adding a 73.4×10^21 vs 844×10^21 would be helpful.
> I sometimes wish text adventures would still have a bit more prominence today.

Text adventures are still alive. Its just called Interactive Fiction now. There's also a whole bunch of modern (often open source) tools available to create them.

Competitions: https://ifcomp.org/comp/2021

IFDB: https://ifdb.org/

Tools: https://itsfoss.com/create-interactive-fiction/
You are absolutely correct, unless the queen is actively managed by the beekeeper. Commercial beekeepers will have a queen for half that time, and then replace her.
> Meraki could have been that until the Cisco acquisition and now $$$$ (and they make it extremely hard for SMBs/ProSumers to buy in).

Meraki competes against Ubiquiti and Aruba InstantOn with Meraki Go, not mainline Meraki.
They've been on Maven Central since just after release:
https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-be...

The search indexes aren't realtime, though being improved.

Note: mvnrepository.com is not related at all to Maven Central
We were not discussing whether the protest was peaceful or not; we are discussing whether or not self-evident leaders of the movement wanted a coup.

You can personnally cry and cry that they were not leaders of the movement, but never has Tamara Lich publically denounced James Bauder, or denied her desire to overthrow the government. She never went on record denouncing his involvement in any leadership position. Letting someone in a protest you supposedely organize run around and demand the overthrow of the government is a thing that happens all the time; it's common. Whenever that person has the limelight on them, you vigorously denounce them and deny any sort of leadership on their part. Failure to do so means you agree.

Ultimately, this whole convoy was dangerously inept. That's a thing. You can be so clueless, so reckless that you're a danger to others.
A lot of software has dependencies that will have changed over time. Likewise a lot of software fails to pin down exact versions of said dependencies. That makes code that hasn't been committed to for a few years relatively likely to be broken.

Older C or C++ projects may be "standalone", but when built with the latest GCC or clang produce lots of warning messages and may be miscompiled courtesy of programmer vs optimiser. Older python programs may refuse to run under python3.

So while code does not rot, the GitHub project is unlikely to contain all the code for the project, and those external dependencies changing has much the same effect as rotting.

A still running CI would be a better indicator that the project works, but failing that, recent commits are the same signal.
OP didn't mention discord at all. Do you mean my post's parent? They said "because nobody but discord can actually moderate", which is counter to my experience; therefore my post asking for clarification. I'm keen to understand what the moderation tasks are that discord can accomplish that the users who are discord server admins cannot; perhaps I will learn something new, or perhaps I may be able share something I know.

Certainly, as I mentioned, I do see problems with scams and spamming in some communities due to the admins of those communities choosing not to moderate, or not knowing/caring that it is possible, but those problems do not seem specific to discord - IRC also had them, as do other platforms. Hence my confusion.
It's not fashionable to actually read long articles, since to take the time means one will be slow to comment and likely be buried (like this comment will probably be) but this article is worth it. Especially valuable among the "24 theses" are:

Corrupt capture of political and economic institutions and the culture at large is not a historical constant. Victims have reversed it by penalising perpetrators and enacting systemic reforms. Or by establishing new forms of government.

We don't have to accept the status quo. We don't have to keep letting foreign criminals who don't even live here (for any value of "here", since this is a global problem) buy our real estate. We can take that shit back. "Property rights" were not invented by God. People made them up and people can unmake them if there are good reasons to do so.

But corrupt networks are resilient. When challenged – and even after suffering such blows as the fall of a government or the prosecution of leading members – they usually succeed in maintaining or reinstating the corrupt system.

That's what terrifies me. Look at how quickly the worst people in the Soviet bureaucracies turned into cappie criminal thugs--and, in Putin's regime--murderers. "Communist" systems (the USSR never claimed to have achieved communism; the cappies started calling an extremely flawed country "communist" to discredit the idea rather than the implementation) had more than a few bad leaders, but capitalist systems have only bad leaders, and we pay a lot more for this shitty "leadership".
Which was the another thread you read?
> your example is daily infrastructure people already have

Of daily infrastructure people already have, because someone dared turn it into software?

> You only need a few of them.

I guess we can keep email, but we should strip all the software layer from waste management plants, or the archiving systems of national libraries and museums, or the operating systems that support the browsers we're typing this from, or the avionics from passenger planes, or whatever you decide is the right number of software applications.
Badly written software sold to a software company. Checks out.
Perhaps your ISP is shaping/throttling your connection to MEGA?
Cryptocurrency doesn’t address the hard parts of financial inclusion
I see what you were alluding to. I thought it was something specific to aids.

Interesting to think that of what covid response rhetoric would look like applied to the aids epidemic.

EG we don't let possible disease spreaders eat together, so why would we let to consenting adult vectors have sex.
> As for cold-emailing, I’ve never heard this term before. I’ve certainly never established any sort of relationship through cold-emailing anyone (or being cold-emailed), and I’ve been working professionally for more than 24 years. Maybe this is peculiar to certain job types.

It's just cold calling, by email, isn't it? Plenty of people write to me cold off HN and I write back to them. At work it's also fairly common to get emailed by someone selling some service, right? Salespeople have their own way to find the people they need.
And prisoners in concentration camps are responsible for their own famines. If only they would eat less.

How can you hold responsible people who have no economic freedom?
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I believe one of the selling points of PDFs was the absolute lack of reflowing content.
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Ah gotcha. Yes, I'm already working on a browser extension for that. That's also the main differentiator to my competitors.

Hey you can sign up for an account to receive updates, or just reach me directly via email. My email is on my profile. Thx
If you have uploaded a video to YouTube, you don't need a smartphone to browse the web.
Looks like the victims of a communication bubble. Early reports of radiation spike at Chernobyl indicated that it may be due to disturbances to top soil by the invasion force.
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We use "mob programming" once a week for 30 minutes, in a way that you described - a "Sentry Smackdown". In zoom, we find 3 of the most "interesting" sentry errors, split up into 3 break out rooms, each group sees what they can find, then 5 minutes at the end to give our update and next steps.

I love it and it's helped get momentum on things which would typically just sit there. BUT, 30 minutes is definitely my maximum for something like this.... even if we did something minor like make this meeting 1 hour long - I would dread it.

Context: we do have an engineer on-call (on a weekly basis) and they will respond to urgent sentry errors, but the above helps sentry errors with less urgency get moving without being a total buzkill for the on-call engineer to look at ALL of them.
Having used their products for years the "ubiquiti sucks" mood has been their own fault. Product quality has declined, they keep promising features that don't work / kill throughput / just don't come out for months if ever.
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Personally I don't care about follower counts and likes and other such nonsense. I stick to one platform because I've met people there I like to chat with

I'm also not just consuming content and trying to stay ahead of trends.
I don't think you understand just how much of your system and the libraries out there are C/C++. Popularity isn't a measure of entrenchment. C/C++ will likely exist forever because the industry isn't going to rewrite every single piece of the system into Rust. And it isn't like you can just go to one community and ask them to switch. These are huge federations that talk to each other using C/C++ bindings and have hashed out protocols over years and years of board meetings. I think Rust has a place. We can build new things in Rust or replace some things with Rust. But acting like everyone should learn Rust and C/C++ has no value is dangerously ignorant.
Post Object Oriented Programming ---- aka POOP.
Again it's not about wealth, it's about people and power. Wealth has power attributes to it and is many cases a proxy to power.

However many government officials have incredible amounts of power but little wealth. Look at any communist party officials over the history of time you will see incredibly levels of corruptions without any wealth AND they aren't doing corrupt work for other people, they are doing it for their own benefit (To refute your idea that some wealthy person is behind their corruption).
TL;DR: The hackjob happening in the social sciences will be used to launch ad hom attacks on much more rigorous scientific disciplines.
Microsoft: Support it until the sun burns out.

Apple: Buy the new model! No wait, the new, new model!

Linux: Do it yourself.
He literally says: "Now there is no skepticism because they understand that we save lives every single minute with crypto. You can try to ignore it, but you cannot ignore when their families are actually fed with crypto, or when the soldiers are dressed in bulletproof vests and helmets with crypto."
I stopped giving Krebs any kind of respect after he argued against GDPR protections on WHOIS records just because it makes his job (of doxxing people, I guess) harder. Sorry, but I can't see the privacy and physical security of millions of honest domain owners as a good trade-off for the work of "anti-abuse and security professionals".

I was also not amused when he started defending anonymous shell companies by saying "Not everyone who uses shell companies is trying to launder $$. Some people just really value their privacy."

https://twitter.com/briankrebs/status/1336487678301364226

I'm guessing that in addition to third-party WHOIS privacy, Krebs also has a shell company. Privacy for me, but not for thee.
From what I'm reading, most of their IP is in the tech side. AI and other stuff.

Showing me how to clean, manage and use their product shouldn't be the secret sauce because they're otherwise relying on a quick market saturation before someone catches up.
Sounds legit
Thank you for the explanation. I've never contributed before to open source and have benefited from open source software a lot, so I'm trying to contribute to this the right way.
What is their legal theory though? Have courts found that journalist must retroactively update their previous stories based on new information? Even if they have, is that defamation?
I do own their equipment but won’t be buying more.
> At no point in invoking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman does one bother to define what a true scotsman is, only what it is not by way of handwaving away any example of problems with a category by implying the category excludes them. It's exactly what you've done when you state "People who argue against GC are almost always arguing against" some ancient, nonmodern, unoptimized GC.

Yes, that is how a NTS works, which is why you should be able to see that my argument isn't one. If I had said the common criticism of GCs ("they have long pause times") is invalid because the only True GC is a low-latency GC, then I would have made an NTS argument. But instead I argued that the common criticism of GCs doesn't refute GCs categorically as GC critics believe, it only refutes high-latency GCs. I'm not arguing that True GCs are modern, optimized, etc, only that some GCs are modern and optimized and the conventional anti-GC arguments/assumptions ("long pause times") don't always apply.
Speaking only for myself I disagree. I only had vague notion of them, but read Krebs on occasion, but didn't have any strong feelings on them ... until this. As long as the info in the 1st post form the lawyer is correct, I wouldn't buy from them
> That’s the defamation.

But that's not remotely defamation.

You can decide to judge him harshly in the court of opinion for not fully disclosing that, but that isn't defamation.
The whole ADHD as an adaptation theory has been throughly debunked.

Your confusion is very understandable because most people don't know what ADHD is. Some of the symptoms overlap with immaturity, so people who are not qualified to tell the difference will frequently misdiagnose the problem.

If you want to understand ADHD, this video for parents of ADHD children will explain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSfCdBBqNXY

You don't need to watch the entire 3 hours. The first 10 minutes should be fairly enlightening.
It's been a very long time since I've done any vision tests, but I remember something like that, and I'd passed all my vision tests with flying colors - admittedly, that was over two decades ago.

I definitely process vision from both of my eyes, but it's kind of difficult to describe. It's almost like there's kind of an overlay between the two scenes outside of the focal point - but it's not nearly as distracting or disorienting as that sounds. I'm getting all the data, I'm just not assembling it correctly.

The small grace for me is that traditional 3D shooters never made me feel disoriented. However, when I tried Half Life 2 on an early Oculus Rift, I got simulation sickness pretty bad - felt nauseous for a good 45 minutes after playing for about 5 minutes :|
Now ban Amazon from blocking Pinterest on mobile.
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What won you over?

The thing I left out was that it's only been four month of being forced to write typespecs (I actually secretly resent it when I am forced to add them to private functions) so maybe I'll come around?
I know that Bali is not in India, I never said so. Bali is popular with expats, while India is popular for offshoring.
Yeah, how did they bootstrap the first pdf reader? /s

It must have been hard guessing at the spec until you could read it properly.
I know you didn't say "buy the most expensive", but you said "stick with professional models" which comparatively are more expensive than general models which can work just fine.
newpipe app allows this
New tool to find code snippets to safely re-use
Really cool! Just debuted today. Can save time over searching Stackoverflow, etc.
Get back to your Jira tickets. You have standup in 10 minutes and you better be able to justify your daily wage.

--Your boss
> "Inability to push with horrible ideas is many times more valuable than ability to push with good ones."

The electorate's disinterest in addressing climate change could be the thing that breaks that rule. Seems far too likely that the word megadeath won't just be the name of a band anymore within our lifetimes.
> This is why things like 'evidence based' medicine is so dangerous -- we don't have evidence for the vast majority of impactful conditions, simply ignoring patients with these conditions is not a workable solution.

Maybe that's true at a population level, but I can take it. Just tell me the truth. If you can't treat me, then just say that. I don't want to be "ignored," but I'm not interested in being placated, either.

This, basically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyugCJ40IIw
The BSDs are proof of what I'm saying. Sure the base OS is developed and released together. Meanwhile the stuff in the ports tree (the programs users actually want to run) is very similar to every common Linux distribution.

Also FreeBSD in particular has several Linux compatibility APIs and shares drivers with Linux whenever it's possible. As a founder it's tempting to fantasize about building your own universe but everyone comes back to reality eventually.
Thanks! I had originally found it in Douglas Hofstadter's & Daniel Dennett's anthology, The Mind's I, which I also strongly recommend to those who haven't heard of it.