skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you study the history of bitcoin (or were around and paying attention), it wasn't at all designed as a cult or a scam. So this is factually wrong. However I think it's true of a lot of the later coins.

I think you're missing the point. I think what OP is saying is that the nature of a deflationary, speculative asset means that a cult-like environment will organically form around it. Early adopters have a strong incentive to hype it up and get others to buy in to increase their own wealth. And Bitcoin was designed to be a deflationary, speculative asset.
Did you watch the movie..?
I knew this was gonna be a rough read after the setup. And then he got to the part where he's "just drawing parallels" between the Cultural Revolution and college campuses, and I knew there wasn't anything else I needed to read. And of course it leads into "maybe we don't really need to make sure eeeeeveryone is vaccinated, freedom of choice" apologia.

The part he's missing, or being wilfully ignorant of, is intentionally distorting heresy and orthodoxy through bad faith and selfish uses of both. I can understand that the person who challenges the system due to experienced injustices or inequities is coming from a different place than the person challenging the system because they aren't allowed to dump mercury into the water supply. One is trying to speak to a system they perceive to be unfair while the other is trying to keep the system from performing as intended in order to further entrench their own interests. That they might seem similar is mostly window dressing.

I heard this argument in 2008 when folks loved to point out that Obama was popular with youth, just like Mao during the Cultural Revolution. It's Sinophobia, full stop.
Show a poll that people don't associate it like how it's always been
I bet it is something boring, like a fuse blew, or maybe they still have the auto/manual lights selector even though the car is autonomous, and somebody misconfigured it.

You'd think 'are the lights on' would be a self-check it would perform, though. GM has to know that headlights go out occasionally, right?
> I'd argue FAA levels of safety aren't suitable for cars. If a car has an engine failure or even a structural failure, they can usually just stop. Planes don't have that option.

I had supposed we were thinking primarily about software faults and specifically those relating to the self-driving bit of a self-driving car.

Best case: self-driving car gets lost and is found with flat battery miles from "home" (?)

Worst-case: self-driving car kills cyclist/pedestrian and doesn't even notice or stop.

We should spend some thought on how to handle the latter because it will happen sooner or later. To be blunt: if the algo kills, why wouldn't you ground the algo (all instances of it)?
> People are so unbelievably disrespectful with noise in the US.

People from the US even speak louder :)
> There's a myth that groundskeeping is more costly without them

A... myth? Have you ever used a rake, and a leaf blower? How about for many hours?

If there's no change in costs when switching between the two, it's getting hidden or absorbed somewhere. It takes substantially less time and effort to use a leaf blower than a rake for the vast majority of tasks that call for either.
No, he is talking about a post-mortem. The same word can mean different things in different contexts.
It's not clear if the "no reported data loss" concerns the 1 of 3 or 3 of 3?
The actual trend toward robotization have nothing about moral, humanitarian or legal reasons but more about how to ensure obeisance: actual government derive all toward dictatorship and all dictatorship knows that a certain point in time people will revolt, robots will not.

In the past there were no means to minimize the needs of loyal humans, workers are humans, soldiers are humans etc, now automation reach a sufficient point to automate *some* aspects, on one side might be sold in moral, humanitarian, legal terms etc, in some aspects might also really be, but the real target is just the old classic race toward absolute power.
I would guess outsourcing to contractors is involved in this mess somewhere.
An aside about "Just War Theory" (JWT). I took a semester course in philosophy with Jeff McMahan (who has been working in this area for a long time). Having a theory (and a thus set of rules most countries try to follow) is better than nothing, but the current theory seems absurd. It exculpates soldiers from participating in war - it claims they are not doing anything wrong when they follow orders to kill other combatants.

The simplest example of a justified war is one of defense (like what Ukraine is engaging in). But under JWT, even though Russia is not justified in its actions, the individual soldiers are morally permitted to follow orders to kill combatants. Thankfully, at least, under JWT soldiers are not justified in following orders to kill noncombatants.
It is incumbent on the communicator to word their point in such a way as to clearly relay their intent. It was my "read" because that's how you worded it.
So there you go, an opportunity to learn about SPARC ADI and hardware memory tagging on Solaris.

IBM invented timesharing and containers, no need for Solaris stuff.
You might if the fireman is pointing the hose at the wrong house, or a larger fire has broken out and you need to figure out whether he should change what he’s doing.
> And yes, it acts as a currency just fine as proven in El Zonte/El Salvador

A journalist that went to El Salvador and tried to use BTC to pay begs to differ:

> By Friday the final tally looks grim for crypto fans. Only 10 of almost 50 businesses had taken Bitcoin, amounting to $485 out of $1,700 I’ve spent. And only four crypto transactions—at the pool hall, the peanut vendor, a Starbucks, and a Caterpillar-brand T-shirt store—had been entirely seamless. My experience isn’t a fluke. In a recent Chamber of Commerce survey of 337 businesses, only 14% said they’d transacted in Bitcoin since September.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-bitcoin-travel-probl...
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Rebuilding the whole thing might end up being a lot easier than what Atlassians seems to be doing, which is restoring each user individually from a backup (?).

Though, going by their speed, this seems to be a weirdly manual process, not sure what is going on there.
I was just thinking about car alarms this morning as I was listening to a mockingbird mimic one… I’ve actually started hearing the stereotypical car alarm siren noises dramatically less lately, it seems these days the vast majority just use the car horn, which isn’t great, but has improved things.
Or Flask just for some quick educational wins and whatever its preferred ORM/DB presently is (also SQLAlchemy I presume?).
It really is a matter of perspective. I ended up doing the same thing as the parent comment, switching to Linux after being fed up with Windows and MacOS. It took me a few tries to find a package manager that worked for me (and I certainly borked my fair share of systems in the first few months), but Linux just worked in ways that MacOS and Windows never really did for me. Software installed quickly and flawlessly. Dev tools like git, docker and make were no longer second-class experiences. My coreutils were up-to-date, out-of-the-box. I could test and compile stuff on my own system and reliably deploy it to the cloud without needing to account for different architectures, kernel breakage or ABI incongruity. Virtual machines and containers executed faster than any other system I had tried. Microsoft Edge wasn't begging me to leave it as default. I didn't get notifications about The New Safari.

It ultimately comes down to workload, I suppose. If you're a creative professional or build iPhone apps for a living, I doubt you'll enjoy your time on Linux very much. As someone who does neither of those things very often, Linux feels like home to me.
At least mowers and other garden tools will all be quiet and electric, some day. Most of the new ones for sale
already are.

It’s an air pollution issue too. Emissions from the old ones aren’t really regulated and many of them really stink!
Java, UNIX, mainframes, services for all that stuff that must be done at Fortune 500s but isn't fashionable to write blog posts about.
For 1, this is well established history that I didn't feel was necessary to provide sources for. That said, the vox article linked to by jeromegv does a good job of describing the transition.

For 2, I'd make a distinction between paths built for long-distance travel (roads) and paths built for connecting to destinations (streets). The two have fundamentally different goals that cannot be safely achieved at the same time. To allow for high-speed travel, a road should be as predictable as possible, with limited entrances and exits and barriers to prevent people and animals from wandering onto the road, and should be restricted to vehicles that can maintain a high speed. To allow streets to connect to destinations; such as homes, shops, and workplaces; there should be many entrances and exits to the street. The destinations should be packed as tightly as possible, so that they can be reached with a minimal distance traveled. It's not just that these goals require tradeoffs, but that they are fundamentally antithetical to each other.

The best way to satisfy these two goals is by having separate designs for streets and roads. The roads are pathed around pedestrian areas, and allow branching off into them at limited locations. The streets are mixed use, with rougher surfaces (e.g. brick/cobblestone) to prevent high-speed travel. This doesn't exclude motor vehicles from using roads altogether, allowing for use cases such as delivering food to cornershops or dropping off somebody with limited mobility, but does steer motorized traffic off of the streets and onto the roads wherever possible.
It's interesting to me that people still doubt that CRDTs can be used in practice. The fact is that they are already being used in practice by many companies with millions of users for applications like rich-text editing and state management in 3d applications. See https://github.com/yjs/yjs#who-is-using-yjs

In fact, Yjs - a CRDT implementation- is the most downloaded solution for collaborative applications. Even more than ShareDB (the most popular OT-based solution).

Yjs ~90k/week - https://www.npmjs.com/package/yjs

ShareDB ~13k/week - https://www.npmjs.com/package/yjs
Loved that message. Should be taught to everyone who begins learns programming.
This is why airpod pros or similar noise cancelling headphones are worth their weight in gold. After having them in a city environment for more than a week, I realized I'd gladly pay north of $1k for them. If I lose them I will instantly go into a physical Apple store and buy a new pair so I'm not without them for even a day. I can't go back to the normal city noise levels every again. I don't even have music or anything playing most of the time. They also serve the dual purpose of avoiding talking with strangers or panhandlers.
I see what you're saying, but I think that's too narrow of a reading of his comment, but it doesn't really matter.
If you read what Musk says now or years ago he actually is very much for moderation, but not censorship or banning people of the platform. In a way Musk is for something similar to HN point system.
It could also be that some bumbling meat-man clumsily knocked the switch out of the "Auto" position. The Bolt has a truly idiotic headlight switch which always indicates "Auto" even when its been disabled by turning the switch counterclockwise.

In Canada it's programmed to reset to Auto every time the car is started, but not the U.S. model.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZlYCSmtD_4
I did this too for many years. I recently reversed the filter logic from whitelist to blacklist since spam filters nowadays seem efficient enough that passing through `name*@domain.tld` by default and only blocking those few addresses that leak and start sending spam is less work.
> The problem is that databases do not include a GUI for data viewing.

Let's say that I have PyCharm open right now, I'm importing Qt and Sqlite. How would you like your GUI to function? Seriously, write for me a detailed spec and a detailed workflow, and I'll get to work on it already. My Gmail username is the same as my HN username if you'd prefer to collaborate offline.

This invite goes for anybody else who [ab]uses Excel even though they are versed in SQL.
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> My brother is a doctor, though we aren't close or even on speaking terms

Given the nature of this post, maybe consider working on this relationship and at least getting back to the point of talking to each other.
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I'm sympathetic to BLM and I don't think Rittenhouse should have been there with a gun.

But calling what was going on in Kenosha a "civil rights protest" makes you look foolish. It was rioting and looting. The kid did not go to some daytime march and shoot people carrying signs. He was LARPing as a security guard because people were torching businesses.

Opinion is divided so much already... if you want to convince anyone to join your side who isn't already there, you have to have your facts straight and be honest about what happened.
No Pinto ever set foot (I mean tire) in Italy AFAICT, I think they weren't ever imported in Europe, but - seriously - I once happened to be overtaken by one of the few Lamborghini's they have, on a highway, I was going (cruising) at a "normal" speed (some 120 kmh) and had this strange "something blue" feeling in the rear mirror and by the time I realized it was the police flashing lights I heard "whoosh" and they were gone. (in some rare cases they use these Lambo's to transport transplant organs when elicopter was not available/couldn't fly) between cities:

https://it.motor1.com/news/457740/lamborghini-huracan-polizi...
Go to google.com, search "pile of spaghetti", click "images"
> Excel-like frontend backed by a database

Microsoft Excel itself can connect to databases (MS SQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, etc). I think you need to have set up the database table(s) elsewhere.

Microsoft Access provides a GUI to any database (including PostgreSQL etc), and (IIRC) the ability to create new tables. It allows editing in a table-like way (rows are locked during editing, if the database supports this), or in a form-like way. Queries can be made in a text/SQL-like way, with a GUI, or in a form-like way. For all this, it supports data types (number, date, lookup-from-another-table etc).

At my previous job, the research scientists had several tools built in Access. It was a very fast way to develop a UI, and the IT industry is less efficient now this is no longer commonly known or understood.

I think Access is Microsoft's best software. It's a very powerful tool, but was also very accessible. You can drag-and-drop to create multi-table/view queries without understanding SQL, then switch the mode and see the SQL. Once you have the query, you can drag-and-drop to create a form (to edit the data) or a report (to format each row as a page to print out etc).
>If you study the history of bitcoin (or were around and paying attention), it wasn't at all designed as a cult or a scam.

I'll have to disagree there, go take a look at Satoshi's net worth. I'm honestly amazed the crypto community hasn't come out unilaterally against the concept of premining and ICOs because if it works the way it's supposed to, there is no way it won't end up as a scam where the founders of the token end up staying richer than everyone else. I mean we've seen this over and over again.
Can you show these evidence
I agree, the original stories are something very special. The Disney movies are very hit or miss - the ones which stick close to the stories are generally good renderings of the original tone. The 'cash grab' holiday themed ones are generally awful.

There are moments in those stories that made my kids and I laugh out loud - Eeyore is such a funny character. Him drifting down the river in the "Pooh sticks" story is a mental image that still brings a smile to my face.
You get both the demanding users and the giving users, but the point is, the demanding users don't actually cost your open source repo anything. When it's a website, every user is money out of your pocket.
I think it's the fact that he went to that civil rights protest with a weapon and the idea of policing the protestors that was probably a bad thing. Most responsible gun owners would argue that he shouldn't have even been there with weapons. No one is attacking the exercising of one's right. They're pointing out the poor decision making of rittenhouse.

It would be no different than showing up to a freedom rally/protest with weapons and the idea to police the area.
This is just sour grapes attacking the one cryptocurrency that actually works and has utility. I understand people are upset at the broader concept of cryptocurrency since pretty much every single project in this domain since 2015 has been a scam, but Bitcoin actually is useful, actually was grassroots, and evolved into stability before the normal scammers from finance shifted to ruining any cryptocurrency project that tried to start.

I use Bitcoin regularly to pay for services, and less rarely, to pay for actual physical objects like computer hardware, or donate to the EFF, wikileaks, or Erowid. Getting around credit card company financial blockades is extremely important. Bitcoin works great. It's worked great for the last 8 years. I never got rich and never tried. Maybe the "cult" dudes should try treating it as a currency instead of an investment and step out of the finance bro mindset.
Came here to post this myself. How did this not gain traction?! Let's try this again :)
Old Sears and JC Penny catalogs:

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ZigBee and Wi-Fi channel coexistence
This one is good for the legaltech market: https://www.artificiallawyer.com
> If I then want to share a dataset with a colleague and email it to them, the easiest friction-free way is to attach an .xlsx file. Sending them an email with attachments of SQlite .db file + executable app for Windows/macOS is much more cumbersome. The alternative of sending them a link to a cloud-based "database-as-worksheet" SaaS platform just creates another set of problems. An all-in-one db+gui tool like MS Access also isn't really an option since it doesn't have the same powerful GUI data manipulation as Excel.

The alternative is to load the sqlite DB into Excel via PowerQuery and then share the file, which will maintain type safety of all columns through the excel data model.

This provides much better GUI data manipulation too, as you can define relationships between the data in the model e.t.c.

The problem is I would guess less than 1% of Excel users actually understand this functionality, but it is absolutely core to doing proper analysis in excel (not saying you don't use it - you probably do - but lots of users don't!).
I never said they were invented for cars. My question was why don't they think roads, as they are in 2022, shouldn't be a car only domain? This argument of "well their original purpose was for..." is logically incoherent in a multitude of ways. There are thousands of things that we use a bit different than originally as intended due to the advancement of modern tech
Same here. Reddit exists for posts like these. I look forward to the day this place becomes tech only. Or another place similar.
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Node.js packages don't deserve trust
I don’t see how that’s relevant. New versions of TLS, etc. neither help nor hurt centralization, which was the topic at hand.
I'm definitely not missing the point.
> Can Silicon Valley still dominate global innovation?

This article is all about "Unicorns". Symbolically a unicorn
represents virginity and chastity, but also wildness and what is
untamable. Nowhere is the symbol connected to "domination". If Silicon
Valley loses it's special place in the world it will be through this
semiotic error, an aberration of the distorted lens of economics.
You say that, but it helped my sleep tremendously
> I'm glad you don't have the option of deciding that my life is not worth living.

The comment you are responding to is not asking for the option to decide if your life is worth living. It is asking for everyone to have the option to decide for themselves if their own life is worth living.

> I'm not sick or anything right now but people who say things like this terrify me.

Things like what?
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Which will shortly outside very few categories become obsolete software.
It's not open source, but https://sciter.com/ is basically this. JS, but with a custom rendering engine that isn't web/DOM based.
Loads of people today say covid is caused by sinners, 5G networks, a conspiracy to take down Trump, you need 73 boosters until you're finally safe, the world needs to be shut down until we flatten the curve (now until who knows when), etc.

AIDS panic in the west was dumb. Covid panic has become an endless treadmill of insanity pulling in all directions.
> The theory is that if we make passenger rail better, then consumers will be more willing to choose it over alternate, less environmentally efficient methods like driving or flying.

Then we don't want these CSX tracks that are shared with freight. We want all new high speed tracks that can compete. Most people in the US have a car, and you need a car most places you want to go. Fast trains mean they are enough faster than a car to be worth it. Otherwise people look at the train and think "but I have a car sitting in my driveway that can get there faster for less money". Most of the cost of a car is fixed (insurance and payments is by time not mile), so the cost to drive one more trip is very low.
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For a small project, I would simply ignore the GDPR. The likelihood of getting fined for a tiny project is too small vs. killing it by overcomplicating it.
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On 4/9 Musk twitted that he would be in favor of $2/month fee for verified account, paid annually to deter bots.
I don't doubt your experience but let's not pretend that there haven't been any changes in the past 2 decades.
The suspect in this case was Tarek Abou-Khatwa, who, maybe I’m making assumptions here, doesn’t sound like he’s white. Are you saying that the super-racist FBI agents decided to cut Mr. Abou-Khatwa a break because he’s a member of the good ol’ boys club?
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Where is a good place to start reading for someone without a medical background, unfortunately my mum has received a terminal diagnosis in the last week.