skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I have a better understanding of conspiracy and conspiracy theory thanks to covid. A conspiracy theory starts with a group of people who has more knowledge than everybody else. This makes the actions of the group look strange and suspicious to another group of people who have reasons to believe that this group is hiding information on purpose and start building theories about the strange behavior they observe. Notice that nobody need to be malicious or anything, and hiding information on purpose is very common. For example if you use a PR firm to get journalists to write about your startup, you are effectively conspiring with the PR firm and the journalists.
> If two services is chatty, they should be merged.

Welp, I guess I'll just merge with stripe then, thanks for the tip!
Any reason to leave us out? We are, after all, one of a very small number of truly independent indexes.
https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/03/to-track-or-not-to-track.htm...
One of my favourite games of all time is Mafia 1 that was released the same year as Morrowind (2002) and similarly it has a big, lively open world and the 3D graphics were top-notch at that time. I revisit Mafia every few years and for some reason the graphics still amazes me - sure, the textures are low resolution and models are low poly, but the overall art direction is amazing, the colors, the city design, the lighting at night, everything just blends in perfectly and to me it's as immersive now as it was back then.
Hi, is there a wordpress theme with this design system that we could drop in an existing website and benefit from it?
Ohh ok thank you. I think a lot of your *s were lost in the formatting! You can put a backslash before a * to print it literally.
“We had to drag conservatives kicking and screaming”

You didn’t answer the question. You agree Obama was a conservative. So is he still? Not “more or less”, you either are or you aren’t.
Although you are correct, the point goes further than that because any system of taxation is effectively a subsidy to whatever doesn't get taxed. Income taxes cause over-allocation to assets, wealth taxes cause over-allocation to short term spending, taxing left handed people causes allocation to right handed people, etc. I like the idea of a land value tax/Georgism, from a philosophical belief that we should under-allocate to people whos claim to fame is that they got to the land first.

But nevertheless the original point stands - the state may be handing out advantages but it is not a form of spending. Not taking stuff is different to handing something out even if in some models they have equivalent effects.
Yeah, one would be surprised to realise how popular the Queen and the family is in the UK for exactly the same reason: somebody to look up to. British make fun of American celebrity culture, but then there’s that appreciation of nobility and the royal family.
No, the licenses themselves are protected by copyright as well. But the only license I can think of that explicitly states this fact is GPLv3, which begins:

Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <https://fsf.org/>

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
Ask HN: Can one contributor of an open source software forbid someone's fork?
I never expect this to happen but it does happen in real world.

In project ABC, a contributor Foo comes up with a new API while contributor Bar believes that this API "confuses everyone".

Apparently Mr.Bar is rude and arrogant, but what happens next is that Mr.Foo creates a fork.

After a few iteration Mr.Foo creates a new repo ABCx with the same code from his fork, and of course with some identical structure from the main repo.

Now Mr.Bar is even more angry and claims that he wants to forbid this fork.

But the questions is:
Mr.Bar is just one contributor of project ABC. Does he have the right to "forbid" a fork?

The license is MIT.
Chernobyl’s strange black fungi have a superpower
Shameless plug for https://vimcolorschemes.com/jamespwilliams/bat.vim
The person is simply falling into that all-too-human trap.

Where they see something they don't understand, and assign an "alien" status to it. They might as well be saying that BOTW is for Klingons, for all the rationality there is behind it.

In that poster's vein, we might as well refer to all GTA players as criminals and thugs (of course they're not!). When in reality, the player base of both GTA and BOTW has a massive overlap - both games are largely played by the same people. "Computer gamers".
I'm currently building a habit tracking app as well, mainly for myself. I like the simplicity of this one and the nice animations.
Amazon had a thing where they would send you a physical button to re-order subscription items. I wonder if you could do the same for this. I don't want to pull out my phone to tick a box. I want it to get ticked automatically when I do something.

The reason I don't get into these is that I want an API so that it can hook into other things. But I see why an app is easier to start with.

But maybe a programmer focused habit tracker with an API is a niche. Some kind of payment system where it takes a tiny payment every time you actually achieve a step towards your goal seems like it would align incentives too.

Also, if you can track sleep/exercise/happiness I'd wonder if you could demonstrate what makes an individual, or people in general happier. Big task I know, but I think Google Fit and that ring mounted mood tracker is aiming for something like this.
Millions of dollars optional, they can be borrowed dollars, access to which seem easier if you are connected and signalling good status
of course i have an adblocker ... aaaand it looks like that's actually the issue. i don't think it used to be like that.
What a bullshit propaganda this is. I'm also missing a list of all those so called conspiracy theories which turned out to be true.

"Fake News is what we tell you! Conspiracy Theories are what we tell you! Believe The State! Don't trust your eyes, ears and common sense!"
It's just a matter of preference. I prefer to think in terms of document rather than application. I don't care whether my previous document is opened in Word, VSCode, Text Edit, Notes or whatever, but I want to go back to it.
> Afaict RSA is simpler to crack with quantum computers than ECC.

RSA requires 2n qubits to crack, ECC requires 6n. Since the normal RSA key is 2048 bits, and the normal ECC key is 256 bits, RSA requires a 4096 qubit quantum computer, and ECC requires a 1536 qubit quantum computer. If you use 4096 bit RSA and 512 bit ECC keys, this becomes 8192 qubits and 3072 qubits respectively. I'm not aware of any ECC curves larger than 512 bits.

Ultimately, both are broken in a post-quantum world. However, in the interim-quantum world, where quantum computers exist but are noisy and unreliable, RSA is safer.
I’m old. Your concept of accrued grief is new to me, but resonates.

I have memories of friends and family dying going back a half century, but the death of one of my baby chickens a year ago still has a profound effect on me. A decade ago I would have been pretty surprised by the depth of my grief.

In fact when I talk or write about her death, it sounds seems faintly ridiculous. But inside it still exerts a powerful weight on my soul.
Did you miss the tutorial? You said 'training pit', which should be it. It literally tells you what to do. Basically, use target lock, roll when enemy attacks and then try to hit.
This YouTube video is a much better treatment of the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-as8kVASgXw
Cant say i have encountered this yet. But flatpak aims to solve this problem.
The speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI
would love your thoughts on you.com and especially https://code.you.com/
This is great. We've been using sqlite in production as our exclusive database storage solution for over half a decade. For non-trivial, multi-user systems too.

Replication of data has always been a concern for us, with the current mitigation being periodic VM snapshots. In order to engage larger customers, we would need to tighten this up.

Our next gen data storage technology leverages some dark magic from fintech. Append-only log, single writer, synchronous replication, etc. Most recent benchmarks with replication to 1 sync witness on same lan are in excess of 200k business objects created or updated per second.
If the machine had linux with windows skin on, most people wouldnt notice since everything is done through web browser nowadays
I believe no sane person can fully commit to "my country, right or wrong".

Being Polish I admit that my country does some shitty things and I support the EU in their actions to stop that (fines, blocking of funds).

Maybe you should be a patriot for the country, not the state. Germany the country transcended the Third Reich and is mostly fine today.
Person with adhd here --

The good: I really appreciate that the free trial doesn't require a credit card/just freezes the features until an opt-in for a subscription.

The bad: i think there's a bit of a bootstrapping problem here...You want me to set up a system to make me do more stuff? I'll get started on that later ;)
Is there any good sources on why these things work?

Like I saw a condolences card that someone made for a colleague that lost his wordle streak. What's actually going on there in that person's brain, why do they view this as a loss to be mourned or a failure while happily ignoring other things that may be healthier options?
Have you tried mayansmoke?
"For example, if you are a competitive powerlifter, your status is determined by how much you can lift (strength) and how many competitions you have won (competitiveness). If you are a VC, your status is determined by what companies you have invested in (network) and how well those companies have performed (money).
I could go on, but you get my point."

I would have liked to see him go on... Money and strength... I see where this guy is coming from: The dog bro cage of american highschool stereotypes. Peak shallowness.
Kazakhstan president proposes reforms to limit his powers
Is this what you're looking for: https://144blocks.com ?
I work in an enterprise and have loads of meeting with folks that are wearing suits while I am in the technical side of the house. I could clearly see that the approach changed when I started wearing suit pants (trousers?) and well ironed shirt and oxford into the meetings than my usual tshirt and jeans.

As someone else said in the thread, it works like a shield and also a projection of authority somehow in those meetings.

When I realised that I started building my closet up with shirts and trousers and retiring my tshirts and jeans for work outfit.
As someone who's spent a bit of time dealing with fringe views, this take resonates with me.

It's a nice companion piece to this: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/a-modest-proposal-for-...

tl;dr Trump's power came from the fact that he was a big "fuck you" to smart and cultured people. His voters were sick of being looked down on and treated like shit.
It looks like Google decided the user wanted to search for toothpaste in their 2022 version so showed that version of results, the 2009 version is showing the toothpast results but still thinks the user may have meant toothpaste.
I know the Gothic series[1] isn't that well known outside Europe but it feels weird to see ER hyped for things that a nearly twenty old series was famous for.

Organing Learning

You don't matter

There’s Always a Plan B

Letting the Player Breathe

Everything you need to learn, you learn by exploration. There are no tutorial, no hints, no hand holding. You are just some dude. Nobody even cares to know your name and even low level NPCs can beat you up. (Though of course the power fantasy here is that after many hours of playing you earn your place and become the hero but again, that needs to be earned.)

Enemy too strong for you? You can try to run around it. You can use a magic spell. You can master the combat system. You can lure it towards an NPC that might finish it off. Or you can just grind up your stats and come back later. So many ways to solve a problem.

Sadly even the studio was never able to recreate the magic fully in further games. Though Elex is quite decent but sadly had to make a few compromises.

[1] Gothic 1 and 2 and add-on explicitly excluding Gothic 3 which plays differently
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern%E2%80%93Gerlach_experime...
Sounds like you should use a compression tool that recognizes the content and recodes QOI as PNG on the fly, then zips it.
On a related note, there was an article/website that talked about how to design the ux of a cli tool properly. E.g. how to design the arguments among other things.

I've been struggling to find it again. Does anyone remember what the article/site was called?
A creepy and arrogant suggestion that's actually a sterling example of the main problem over on the non-"conspiracy theory" side: the assumption that they are correct combined with a complete unwillingness to talk about specific topics and specific objectively existing artifacts. Pretending to be nice and reasonable as a cover for intellectual dishonesty and ignorance of the arguments on the other side. Have you read Peter Duesberg's "Inventing the AIDS Virus?" No? It'll take you 10s to find the PDF. Engage with that, and then we'll have something to talk about. Don't just look down your nose like I'm crazy while refusing to listen.
Ah, cool! No, I wasn't aware of them... thanks for the pointer!
+1. Reducible is the 3Blue1Brown of Computer Science.
Cool idea, i’ll be sure to start using it tomorrow
I really wish there was some better process than certbot for getting certificates. Feels sketchy as hell to have that thing running on my servers.
> I think it's more that the left believes government has a responsibility to guarantee equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome in what is assumed to be a fundamentally inequitable system.

There is a section of the left-right spectrum that believes in equality of opportunity, but that it’s certainly not the leftmost people in that spectrum. The left pole is not “equality of opportunity for all” and how far left you are is defined by how strongly you believe in that.

I think it’s more the middle of the spectrum who hold the view and the left extreme is much closer to equality of outcome.
Greetings, I’m working on my first “real” Rust project which is an IRC bot for the #f1 channel on Libera. All it does is post the results of a race into the channel. You can find the code at: https://github.com/obviyus/hamverbot

It’s my first time building something async in Rust and using Tokio so I’d love to have some experienced Crustacean eyeballs on it. Please feel free to drop suggestions, pull requests or general advice for working with Rust.

Cheers.
Looks like Apple’s marker felt to me
I think I have seen it before, but I am not sure. It has a similar base to mine, so if I have seen it, I have definitely tried to use it. The question is whether it has good colors for latex objects. I'll check it out if I get the time.
His course on 2D Game Physics Programming looks very promising, too!

https://pikuma.com/courses/game-physics-engine-programming
No. This is a very simple and reasonably efficient image format. It is notable for its simplicity and straightforward implementation, as well as its speed compared with png.
It's not especially hard to find examples. A couple off the top of my head, as I was looking into the education system in the States recently.

"African-Americans have had worse access to educational resources, so let's shut down gifted programs for everyone." https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/08/us/new-york-gifted-and-ta...

"The population of certain high-status schools is not demographically identical to the population at large, so let's stop using objective criteria in university admissions." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harvard-test-optional-sat-act-s...

"Girls do worse in math class than boys, so let's change the curriculum to be less about math and more about social justice." https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=13658
> I've come to be disgusted by the term "conspiracy theory" in ways I used to not be. It's overused now and seems now to serve mainly as a sort of rhetorical power or status assertion. Someone's fears or beliefs are labeled "conspiracy" if they contradict some normative belief held by a dominant group with which the speaker identifies. I've noticed this on the conservative as well as liberal spectrum.

> What's changed my mind is realizing how often things that might be labeled as conspiracy theory actually happen. Even if something didn't happen, many of the fears are actually well grounded and labeling them as such in my opinion reflects a certain amount of lack of empathy on the part of the labeler.

> I'm not saying certain beliefs aren't absurd or physically implausible etc. But if they are plausible they're often coming from somewhere reasonable. Widespread conspiracy theories tell you that a large segment of the population doesn't trust something, and the appropriate response is to figure out why that thing might be untrustworthy.

> I agree with the linked article, and understand that they are writing to a specific audience. But it has a patronizing tone that I think just reinforces the problems involved. If there's a widespread conspiracy belief, it's not enough to say to have "empathy" for someone who holds it, as that casts the problem as being with the person rather than the things that caused them to lose trust to begin with. You need to be asking why such large parts of the population distrust the subject of the conspiracy and address that.

I don't know if you have any "conspiracy theorists" in your close circles. One of my former friends has really gone done the deep end, and why you could argue that some of the arguments are funded in reasonable doubts, the whole world view is not. It is absolutely impossible to have any discussion with him, every argument is countered with "you can not trust mainstream, science media, people..." while at the same time those same sources get used easily for their own arguments. And it usually is not just one, there is 9/11, vaccinations being used by Bill Gates to steralize people, free vacuum energy, covid. At the same time he sees himself at the forefront of defending against a new emergence of nazism while supporting people who have literally been filmed doing a Hitler salute (supposedly that was "out of context").

It is true that these people are victims, but they are victims of propaganda who pull people toward more and more outrageous claims, and a social media machine which develops the most addictive media techniques and no care for the overall affect on society.
I expect MacBeth to be one of the most produced plays in the English speaking theatre world, so it makes sense that many noteworthy accidents / incidents happened. However, Hamlet has apparently been staged even more often, and it would be interesting to compare the number of incidents, but since there's no curse for Hamlet, no list of incidents exists, at least not on Wikipedia. Macbeth's curse could also be a self-fulfilling propehcy in some cases.
Because it's not so easy to setup and manage? Maybe it will become more popular with tools like https://github.com/gravitational/teleport
I don't think anyone's yet written an RFC for IP over viral DNA … you can be the first!
Large amounts of venture capital from US investors, a really large monolingual market and path dependence.

More generally though, relying on outliers for your argument is perhaps not the best approach.
We can objectively measure speed.

Please detail how we can objectively measure “offense”.
I for one do not think the comments trivialized anything. I see these as inevitable questions that a leader like Drew Houston should be prepared to answer at some point. Think of it this way, would you disqualify me if you were hiring and I asked a similar question at the interview?

I think the underlying actual question for Dropbox to ponder (but perhaps not answer publicly) was "what is your moat?" without the business development language and at least for me that remains an open question.

I remember I was in college when Dropbox started and I thought Dropbox was silly to offer more storage for inviting more users. It was easy to approach people and ask them to try something in college. I think I almost maxed out my invites. I remember feeling I was taking Dropbox to the cleaners...

One activity question for HN: why do you think Dropbox continues to exist today while copycats like Barracuda Copy have failed?
As far as dark themes go, I have settled on a variant of gruvbox (base16-gruvbox-dark-pale) and do not see myself changing any time soon. Just see how harmonious texts from different contexts look: https://i.redd.it/p5h7ongm51541.jpg
You’re missing the point.

Society A and society B won’t disagree on whether something is moving at 150km/hr.
Not sure about Elden Ring, but BOTW has also a main-mission with story progression and location-targets you are supposed to go to. It's just not forced into your face, as there is not much of a quest-tracker and flags telling you what you are supposed to do. The main-mission is just there, but you can basically forget it without any reminder.
For even smaller devices have a look at some of these:

https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-pinephone-pro-keyboard-...

https://www.fxtec.com/pro1x

https://store.planetcom.co.uk/products/astro-slide

Also worth checking out https://liliputing.com/ for new product details as they report on all sorts of fancy mini computers
> we are further away from what? The goalposts differ wildly, depending on who you ask

literally anything

the intelligence of a wasp; the intelligence of a cat; the intelligence of a Downs syndrome person; the intelligence of a 3 month old baby

AI is very far from all of the above
Anti-goals and how they are useful to systems design
I was actually thinking of this approach once but immediately convinced myself it's crazy. Good to see it seems to work at least. :-)
That's a stretch, because it wasn't said during production.

Which reminds me of the earlier Wikipedia days where "In popular culture" was a common section, and it often contained increasingly trivial references. There's also an xkcd about it: https://xkcd.com/446/
Half of older adults now die with a dementia diagnosis
I also wrote my own colorscheme (loosely based on an existing one) for emacs and I love it. Everything is the way I want it and I know what to customize if I want to change something
This is just plainly false. While not quite as bad as the average Ubisoft game, Elden Ring's world design is very similar to Elder Scrolls, Skyrim in particular. Most of what the author brings up are aspects of the game not related to the open world. The open world itself is not nearly as trend-bucking as a lot of other game design decisions From Software make, which is honestly a bit disappointing. In general, Elden Ring is their closest game to a typical AAA title, a lot of the quirks and contrarian elements from their earlier games are absent in it.
Dbeaver supports sqlite directly. It's homepage states:

> Supports all popular databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, MS Access, Teradata, Firebird, Apache Hive, Phoenix, Presto, etc.
A lot of this is done with home automation where you have physical buttons (zigbee, rf433) or sensors (rfid) doing <something>

The something can be logging the fact, displaying it, ... Your imagination is the limit.

A great product to stay with us Home Assistant (https://www.home-assistant.io/)
Amazingly beautiful, but it won't last.

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Little_Pigs
another possible entropy source: the sequence of different kinds of hardware interrupts should be very hard to predict.