skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I'm so tired of the hype around cryptocurrencies"

I was tired of the hype around crypto virtually from day one.

Long before a coin was worth even a penny there was a huge amount of hype around them from the true believers. I thought it sounded like a joke and super sketchy and didn't mine any.

I thought of actually mining some when a coin was finally worth a dollar, just in case.. but never got around to it.

When I heard a coin was worth $300 I thought it was ridiculous... but the hype kept going.

Then they were worth $3,000 and ordinary people started talking to me about them, there were a ton of articles about bitcoin and other coins in the mainstream news. I thought surely now peak hype had finally been achieved.

Then banks started to notice and make their own coins.

Then it went to $30,000 per coin... WTF?

Yeah, I missed out... big time. I don't know how much higher the price of bitcoin can go, but I do know that each time I thought it couldn't go much higher it did... a lot.

I'm still sick of the hype around crypto, and avoid any articles about it like the plague... but bitcoin doesn't even need hype at this point, as its meteoric rise in value sells itself.
There are other methods of self-correction (e.g. social pressure) that have been much more effective over the long run. Now you might say, "there's nothing interfering with social pressure in capitalism, you can have competitive markets with social pressure". But often, companies must either accept ethical violations or be out-competed in a competitive marketplace.
We're not conflating, we're providing context. Western culture had/has a sickness of violence and intolerance that decades of activism is chipping away at. Some people perceive this activism as "intolerance to heresy" when to others it's "intolerance to intolerance."

I'm not in an oppressed group, and I've done my fair share of foot-in-mouth. But my sympathies are with the ... subaltern..., not generally with people claiming to be treated as heretics because they got censured (not censored) for using their public or corporate positions to pick on people or support picking on people.

Yes, there are excesses. I don't support them. But I'm glad I'm living through an era where it's becoming less acceptable to be a prick in public.
I know what recursive means, I know what selective means, I know what an acronym is, and I think I see the pattern in that picture, but when I put it all together I am lost.

Alternatively, is this a joke and the "recursive, selective acronym" can be used to justify any word?
How has nobody heard of Perforce. It was the SCM of choice for a lot of companies until git came along. Doesn't Google still use it?

BTW, Perforce's diffing/merging tools [0] are fantastic.

[0] https://www.perforce.com/products/helix-core-apps/merge-diff...
The problem is that in this scenario, the airline is still emitting CO2, so global emissions never go to zero.

If you want to say that the airline is not at fault, because they purchased an offset, then the cement plant operator is at fault: they never offset their own emissions, they only offset the emissions of the airline.
speak for industry, in academia there is code still running from 20+ years ago which has been used for publications etc, not a lot but they exist and should be applauded.
Yep. That falls under costs being "hidden or absorbed somewhere."

Arguably there could be even more beauty in not even raking them! That doesn't mean leaf blowers and rakes are comparably cost effective, though (as implied by the claim I replied to).
I can think of worse causes to try this for.
is-odd gets about two million downloads a month. is-number gets 278 million downloads a month.

I guess the interns have been very busy.
A third of the world still burns wood for fuel. One of the most effective things we can do to curb emissions is get them using coal instead. Renewables are not in the immediate future for much of the world.
The subreddit has 'Humor' in the name, not 'Joke'.

At that point it's probably best to avoid human language altogether
They've been driving for a while now. Can't you go with data from their existing rides to form an opinion? All you're going with is fear right now. Those cars are already better than the majority of drivers.
But taxing emmissions and lowering other taxes / adding incentives has the same effect with much fewer drawbacks.
Toyota Hiluxes' main use is for moving around. What is the main use of this spyware?
True true, but at least you will have to check the api and start implement the library itself. Chances increase that you will see something weird about it the more you have to look at it.
> What is the latter doing that the former isn't?

Java has a standard library. A really big and well written standard library.

npm has a package called "is-number".
I think the key insight that's missing in these discussions is we need to tax carbon at the point of extraction, not at the point of consumption. We need to make mines and wells unsustainably expensive to operate. If people really need oil, they'll find ways to manufacture it more cheaply from biowaste.

The trouble is that this is a Hard Problem because a huge fraction of the world's carbon is extracted in or by countries whose geopolitical standing would be crushed by this. But unless we do this, the same amount of carbon will ultimately be extracted and subsequently burned by somebody.

(Also when push comes to shove nobody actually gives a shit about any of this, and any politician who deliberately does anything to raise fuel prices will find their head on a pike)
There's often a "bigger-fool" element to many types of assets (not, incidentally, to modern currencies). But there's a sliding scale.

Would your asset, under conditions of perfect information (, public pricing, market equilibrium, etc. etc.) fetch some price in the long run?

In the case of startups, yes... I think many of the early-stage dynamics are the same... but there's incredible competitive pressure towards "long-run real productive value"... in most cases, outside of scams, founders have strong incentives to turn fools into investors.

Whether someone is just a "bigger fool" or an "investor" comes just from where the future value of their stake will come from -- is it other fools, or is it a genuine long-run demand?

In the case of start-ups, if they fail to deliver that productive value, there's a sense in which it was, retrospectively, a foolish enterprise. But I think we should just call that the relevant downside-risk on honest investment.

As far as I can tell, everyone involved in crypto pretty explicitly think's their future value is coming from bigger fools (ie., that it will "go to the moon"). No one involved seems to have any plan for making a coin have a future value of its present cost, in the long run... ie., when the plates stop spinning
At this stage I'm starting to think that we'll need either:

- a drastic societal change or,
- stumble upon an ancient alien artefact progressing our technology to the point where coal becomes useless

(digging a giant hole in my backyard with the hope of finding a Stargate whilst writing this comment)

Edit: morbid humour and sarcasm aside, the sibling comments provide some context on why taxing carbon might actually work
(UK here) I have a large lawn (longest diagonal is 40m) and many mature trees and I also hate leaf blowers with a passion. I now have some proper rakes designed for leaf sweeping - approx 75cm wide. I can clear the whole area in about 90 minutes (approx once per week). I have a tall collection sack and a set of the large plastic grabs that let me pick up huge amounts in a single go. The speed trick is to avoid pickups for as long as possible, working a 'wave' of leaves across the lawn. I pick up piles from the leaf-side of the front line and don't ever try for a complete pick-up, so the ones left behind simply get raked a bit later. The collected leaves are dumped, unbagged, in a massive pile that grows throughout the collection season. In the summer I mix my grass cuttings in and in autumn (a year after the first leaves were added) I have some superb weed-free mulch. The raking also helps keep the lawn in good condition.

Every few months my old petrol leaf blower is used for about 30 mins to clear debris off a gravel path that has proven impossible to rake, and when this blower dies I'll get a battery one.
> - it was using Docker Swarm, which fell out of favour (Kubernetes won after all)

This feels like saying to stop supporting Firefox because Chrome won after all. Kubernetes is far from perfect, so we shouldn't try to eradicate all of its competitors for it.
.padStart() was added precisely because of the leftpad situation.
Seconded. It is so seemless that it is literally possible to not notice which machine you are on if you are just firing up something new for quick exploration.
If you want! That's the least interesting detail of the whole story to me so I didn't remember it or feel like looking it up. Thank you though.
I don’t think the enjoyment of art is the driving factor at the high end. High end art serves as a store of value and a status symbol. Surprising similar to bitcoin!
classical situation where the tool defines the workflow and not the other way around..
It's the name of a town in QLD.
I agree, but going "off script" usually leads to much worse results that fewer people can work on.

If the hard is still hard in a framework, you might be using the wrong framework.
this would also help stop people hooting unnecessarily, if they had to hear it themselves
It’s moot in practice. The people inside the house are caught off guard while the people kicking down the door are well trained, staffed, and practiced. Their zero injury success rate is impressive.
And if every parameter is one byte, the minimum, it will take at least 70gb to save or share this model. So it's still way to big to package directly in a app.
> If people actually cared about creating a broad coalition to address this, they would want to highlight both facts, not hide the latter fact.

People fighting for black lives aren't hiding bad things that happen to white people. The reason Duncan Lemp doesn't have posters up about him isn't because black activists against police violence haven't fought for him, it's because both black and white activists against police violence haven't fought for him. And as white people still make up the majority of people shot by police[1], far more white people than black failed Duncan Lemp.

I find it to be a fantasy that somehow, if people fighting for black lives would emphasize the suffering of white people, it would suddenly turn the white people who are hostile or ambivalent about this stuff into supporters. Again: you can't get white activist gun owners to defend a licensed gun owner who was surprised and shot in his own home by police executing a no-knock warrant that wasn't for him. The NRA supported gun control to criminalize the Black Panthers. The Black Panthers were an absolutely straightforward open carry movement, with one important difference.

edit: I meant to exclude Reason-style libertarians from this. They're scrupulously consistent.
I use VS code with the same plugin for working remotely. I also use jupyter lab with port tunneling and there's no difference to what it was like working locally. My company issued computer is just a VM off in some cloud. Working like this has a oddly retro-futuristic feel to it. Like we've gone back to the days of mainframe development.
IP addresses, yes. Cookies not always, depends on what you store in them. So my point remains, nothing wrong with hoarding data if there is no PII.
My only problem with this description is that it also describes markets at large. Because markets are always intended to be exponentially growing in real value over time, any individual entering them and holding assets will accrue assets at a great amount than people who can not afford to. Over time this results in greater and greater accumulation of wealth into the hands of those who originally simply possessed more.

This is a fact that has been evidenced by ever increasing amounts of wealth concentration in the hands of fewer and fewer individuals over the past 50 years. [1]

Unfortunately, it seems cryptocurrency is a just an extension of the many of the systems we already have that are described in fiat amounts.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/pikettys-inequal...
It is a bit of a tossup though. Some apps make good use of this space and some apps have a thick empty header bar which wastes more space. Overall I think it is good and hopefully apps adapt but it is definitely hit-and-miss at this point.
Those are people pretending to be cats and dogs.

Cats all hang out on the dark web using things like TOR and tails OS, which is a portable operating system that protects against surveillance and censorship. [1]

[1] https://tails.boum.org/
The point was "this person was attacking Rittenhouse, and is the kind of person who would attack someone". Rittenhouse was a clear cut, video-verified, and court-confirmed case of self-defense.
Future potential clients. I plan to put them on my portfolio site.
Puppet is one of the DevOps configuration languages. IIRC it had mostly "won" against Chef, and subsequently "lost" against Ansible.

Perforce is basically Git, but shittier and proprietary. I think it's mostly popular in the games industry.
One thing I've learnt over the years, is that users do not care about the inherent complexity of your problem.

Like water, they will always choose the path of least resistance. It is why people would rather copy-paste documents than learn git, despite versioning being inherently complex. It is why people complain about android, but only use 1st party preinstalled apps or freemium ad-infested crap.

Excel works and it is easy. It does not matter how hard the underlying problem is. I hate having to use excel too, but I have found myself periodically relying on it when timelines get too narrow and having a ready-made interactive dashboard is convenient.

That being said, I can't imagine using it for a use-case where the rows-of-interest are greater than a few dozen.
> Satoshi did not pre-allocate lots of coins

By designing half of all bitcoins to be emitted in just the first 4 years, they ensured that early miners like Satoshi would end up with a large slice of the pie.
This reminded me of a quote from Catch 22:

"His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn't earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce. Major Major's father worked without rest at not growing alfalfa. On long winter evenings he remained indoors and did not mend harness, and he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain that the chores would not be done."
Somehow I thought they would have hooked the selector up to the AI but you’re right. This probably just got missed on the checklist when the car went out. That selector also makes it seem highly likely to be missed.

Detailers always turn headlights off. (At least they do for my car.) They probably always turn them off when they come in to be cleaned then need to be turned back on when they go out.
This is actually spot on. I've known programming languages for over 25 years.
I always wanted to be a software developer. I ended up being a network engineer (and pretty darn good at it too).

About three years ago, I switched to a developer role at my work, and then a lead developer not too long after that. I didn't land my dream job because my coding was so good. It was because of my underlying understanding of what we actually do and how the network stuff actually works, coupled with the minimal fact that I also know how to code that was ultimately responsible.
I see, that makes sense now.
... you didn't? Who swept your floor before?
The same cars sold in Canada have the tail and head lights on when it turns dark since September 2021. If the mechanic is scared for their eyes they can just have well lit area to work and the lights will not turn on.
As the article explains, the FBI agents were doing this more for a the benefit of his neighbors.
People pushing carbon offsets seem to have a lack of understanding of how global element cycles work. To be brief, the only way to 'offset' fossil fuel CO2 emissions is to bury an equivalent amount of carbon, extracted from the atmosphere, in a geologically stable formation or a permanently anoxic aquatic basin. End of story. Planting trees does not 'offset' fossil emissions unless you plan to take the tree and bury it in an anoxic environment in which it can never decay. Solar panels and wind turbines offset nothing at all.

The only real fix for fossil-fueled global warming is to eliminate fossil fuels from the energy mix. A practical plan for doing that would result in perhaps a 3% reduction in fossil fuel PRODUCTION per year (no, don't try counting emissions, count production). In 30 years, this would mean zero fossil fuel production globally.
XML (the superset of HTML) is used to create graphical interfaces in android applications... And there are currently many applications developed in electronjs for this same need: Develop graphical interfaces with HTML and CSS
There was recently an accident in Miami Beach. Elderly woman driving a Bentley reversed into a terrace restaurant. Killing 1 and injury 6, including a 3yo [0]. No charges filed because being senile driver (and voter) is not against the law.

[0] https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022/02/25/recalling-trag...
> The reason this keeps happening with NPM is because of absurd number of dependencies in the average node app.

But why does that happen? There are now lots of languages that make it trivial to add dependencies. While I find projects in those other languages to also have too many dependencies, it's no where near what happens in JS apps. I'm thinking of projects I've recently worked on in Rust, PHP, and Java. Java projects seem to be a distant second-place to JavaScript projects when it comes to willy-nilly dependencies.

It's not a rhetorical question: Why is the culture with JS so much worse about this?

I absolutely hate that I'm going to suggest this, but is it just because of the average skill level and experience of people working on JS projects?

Or is it because JS is such a bug-prone programming language that we're all afraid of actually authoring any more code than we absolutely have to, because we know we'll waste hours debugging things that should be relatively simple?

I honestly don't know.
Another aspect I think is, how much open source dependency do you actually need for your project. You can probably get by with fewer packages than you expect, which also makes it more feasible to run a curated package system.

For example, you can't submit any old Haskell library you put together to Hackage, or you couldn't at the last time I checked. It had to meet certain minimum standards to be considered.

I honestly don't know where you would start in terms of curating NPM, precisely because of the dependency on dependencies. You'd end up curating half of the ecosystem.
>Pumped hydro is okay, cost-wise. Unfortunately, the capacity isn't there to meet our energy needs.

We can build plenty of pumped hydro before running out of space.
My "nothing malicious or dystopian" question is:

* What happens when someone dies without a will passing the title?

The process for handling this in today's legal framework exists... but when trying to put this in a blockchain framework either gives additional permissions to someone or results in reinventing more problems than the existing system has.
For real? Stoked! I've kinda considered that one a "failure" and moved
on to "Ethics for Hackers" for Routledge - which I promise will pull
no punches. :)
“would have to deal with it for a year.”

Who can afford to move every year with rent inflation at 25 yoy? Clearly you aren’t living in the gilded state with its luxurious rent control provisions.
A human being is not a software or engineering project
Gotthard Base Tunnel is rated for 140 mph, not quite 200 mph but close. It has a maximum depth of 8000 feet. Would something like this qualify for the route across the mountains? Optimal train path would probably be somewhat different from the current road network anyway, so road examples provide only approximate information about railway network construction difficulty.
This is ultimately about scale though. It's easier for Linux because of the relative number of contributors to distro repos.

Ubuntu has 10s of thousands of packages. NPM has well over a million. The average update frequency is also much higher, as is the number of contributors per-package.
> or self-publishing books about new fundamental theories in physics that center around the mass ratio of the proton to the electron being exactly the square root of 3371456

That is oddly specific. Do you have a link to this book?
> node was one of the first languages to have a build in standard way to get and manage dependencies

CPAN? Pip in python? Pear for php?
> the airline is still emitting CO2, so global emissions never go to zero.

Sure, but global emissions decrease, and the market will allocate effort to the industries where it's cheapest to reduce emissions. So you achieve the maximum reduction with the minimum cost, as opposed to a prohibitive "net zero" goal, which is neither achievable nor a worthwhile target.
There are only two solutions: 1) Trust someone 2) Carefully read through their changes

node_modules should be banned from .gitignore

npm should stop moving folders around. If I have placed a module in node_modules/foo/bar it should stay there! Not get moved to node_modules/foo@1.0.0 etc
That's... a tweet containing an image of Elon Musk's "liked tweets" page containing a tweet. Since tweets are 280 characters at most and Twitter takes a few seconds to load because they don't have static pages, please just copy / paste the contents of said tweet, it's better for accessibility.
> The only advantage Perforce has,

Perforce is also ripping fast for updating/status checking, (run git status on the Unreal Engine repo to see the difference), is centralized (a feature, not a bug), has full support for partial and shallow checkouts. It also offers support for _running_ perforce, not just their hosted offering.

> and the reason why giants such as Ubisoft have committed to it

The reason companies like Ubisoft, Epic, etc use it is because it predates git.

> is that "it handles large files better". That's it.

Lets' not pretend that "better" is a good comparison. Until 5-6 years ago, git didn't handle large binary files at all. Even now, it's a "pick your poison".
The trouble with security manager is it’s only as good as it’s widespread support.

If it worked, and was widely used, for example, nobody would have had to worry about the possibility of their logging library downloading code from an LDAP server and executing it.
Taking Pictures the Hard Way
Well, I mean, I think that _is_ kind of the point. Clearly breaking down doors willy-nilly is undesirable, and potentially dangerous, so they'd really want to be making the case that it is _necessary_. The claim by the police here that the overriding concern was the affluentness of the area would tend to undermine that.
We are talking about scientists, which are for sure able and used to work through different tools during their career. And we are in 2022. We have good tools that with investment could be a much better fit. Said that, I don't know what one cannot do with i.e RStudio to use Excel for science. In a second moment, python, pandas and notebook are pretty accessible too..
Yeah, similar "thematic" naming to MacOS versions. I don't know why the original one was called Gopher, though.
>Men are more vulnerable to making certain narcissism-related mistakes, such as getting into bad investements because of FOMO

Is there a reason men are more easily scammed?