skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably an unpopular opinion here, but these aren't technical issues. They're cultural. Bounties won't fix it. In the case of the file picker issue, there have literally been third party patches that the GNOME devs could have used.

I couldn't stand more than a couple days of following their gitlab discussions. Each issue goes through roughly the same process: someone suggests a feature or a fix for a thing, the GNOME devs either say "#WONTFIX you're holding it wrong" or get mired into an endless debate of the minutia of the _best_ way to implement the feature.

If you want to fix GNOME, you'll have to replace the entire leadership structure _and_ a good portion of the devs (and somehow get them to ignore the zero-utility clingers whose contributions consist of endless discussion posts but no code). As it is they act like they were hand-picked by Microsoft to make sure progress happens slowly (if at all).
UK freezes record $13B in assets linked to two Abramovich associates
> Like oh we’re not pretending anymore, then lets make this gulf as wide as it can go.

Privilege is a tool that can be used to minimize or maximize inequality. If you have privilege, you can (and arguably should) use it to pull others up, rather than pulling up the ladder behind you, so to speak.

You can do this by running or working for successful companies that provide valuable, dignifying services and employ thousands of people to give them a pathway out of poverty, without making yourself obscenely rich and "widening the gulf".
> The reality says otherwise for reasons I stated earlier

Your communications of the reasons you've stated must have not come across very well because I didn't understand them from rereading your previous comments. What were the reasons again?
Well guess what?

They both have ridiculous issues that have made them both unsuitable for any form of serious application when scaled up to the tens of millions or even hundreds of millions. Even the very least of all use-cases: Extremely cheap, fast and scalable on-chain payment systems using a blockchain for regular users to use.

> The entire point of the Bitcoin network is to impose a global, unique order on all transactions and the only way to do that is if order within blocks matters.

Yes. The whole point of Bitcoin is to be a peer-to-peer electronic cash system using a transparent ledger where everyone can see the transactions on-chain. Not a 'store of value' or 'digital gold'.

Everyone knows on-chain payments with Bitcoin are too slow for realistically accepting payments in the real world and places like supermarkets, restaurants, etc unless you want to wait hours in the queue for it to settle or fail. Given it's even slower than VisaNet, you might as well go to the ATM and withdraw cash using card to pay; even that is quicker.

By that time, Bitcoin's volatility would already have caused the recipient to have a fluctuating price on the paid-for product, causing the sender to at worst under-pay for the value of their goods regardless. Using the Lightning Network also defeats the purpose of what Bitcoin was supposed to be as that is centralized by design and the transactions are off-chain without a trace anywhere to find it [0].

The whole point of Ethereum is to be the 'world's computer' and a smart contract platform with utility. Instead, it has turned into a digital slot machine with its problematic high fees when usage skyrockets and regular users that aren't millionaires can't use it at all, unless they'd like to spend $1000 to send $10. The network also can't even scale either so admittedly, users have to use duck-taped layer 2 systems that confuse them to even bother using them to save on fees.

Waiting years for ETH on PoS (ETH2) to launch isn't an option, as that was promised in 2016 to release by then, yet here we are 6 years later it's delayed once again. [1] No-one would tell users or even merchants to wait half a decade for a single product with years of known issues to get better in order to just use it. They will just look elsewhere instead.

The reality is, both of them have failed and deviated from their intended purpose and are not designed to scale for on-chain activities and both of them require 'layer 2' contraptions which at most are centralized themselves and highly complicate the usage for many users to even bother using it.

What a shame and a total proof of waste.

[0] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/aba062

[1] https://twitter.com/TimBeiko/status/1514010098145759232
USDT uses Ethereum.
The aluminum can or plastic bottle, too, though that's still not the most expensive part. Unless you're driving to the Arizona bottling plant to buy it, there are warehouses and trucking companies and retailers involved who also have to cover their costs of operation and turn a profit.
> The latter person giving way, to smooth things over, and to not stir strong feelings in the other, can turn out to blow up hard in the long run.

You're still approaching this as "A's feelings vs B's rationale". The original article is highlighting one (common) path this takes: one person's feelings are not being heard and they feel devalued and belittled. But you're still approaching it as partner vs partner rather than as a team vs the issue with a goal of everyone feeling loved, heard, and understood.

It is on both sides to make sure that the other person feels heard and an equal partner. If person B feels like their rationale isn't being considered at all, or that their feelings are not, it's the same situation.

>The latter person giving way, to smooth things over,

A valid feeling is that they are giving a lot. Their partner feels strongly about things ABC, but there's no free lunch. Changes to your behavior obviously have consequences. Folks are giving specific examples like "My spouse cares about laundry being in the hamper, I don't really so I don't mind putting in the extra effort to make them happy." But if one feels like they are giving more than they are getting, that's a communication issue beyond whether the dishes get done. The same as the person who feels strongly not being heard.

Your example: "can turn out to blow up hard in the long run" is necessarily different. There's resentment implicitly brewing. Maybe the spouse often starts these conversations more aggressively. Something like "Why can't you ever put your clothes away?" It starts off aggressive, is accusatory, and assumes that the spouse is acting in bad faith.

Put more succinctly, if things do blow-up in the long run then there's a similar communication failure that has occurred and one member of the partner ship doesn't feel like a capable and equal partner in the eyes of their spouse.

HOW something is done: how these feelings and thoughts are communicated is not just as important oftentimes, but is absolutely more important always. Specifically for small stuff like dishes, laundry, etc. "What" wins is entirely irrelevant and will vary from issue to issue and couple to couple.

If it's something more consequential like having children, parenting values, financial values, etc. that's more fundamental that the topic here and is likely just two people who are incompatible with irreconcilable values.
telling them to keep going to therapy would be equally good/bad advice

...unless you care to show me clear evidence that therapy is effective in aggregate

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/acps.12713
The OP is not alone in being screwed over by Google. I mean, your small business can get absolutely wrecked by them, and they don't seem to care. There appears to be out of control malicious targeting, blacklisting, suspensions, banning, shadow banning, and privacy violations without accountability or due process.

The opinions of many is that Google is very unreliable, unless you are a big enough customer for them to care. It gets really weird when you start paying for various Google services, but apparently are not paying enough. There can be an expectation of customer service and support, that is not there.

Even worse, if you are not big enough to matter or paying them enough, seems you can easily get stepped on (to include odd suspensions). Your business revenues can possibly decrease, where you thought previously it would been a good idea to use Google services and products.

Very good argument, as a small business, not to rely on Google. Find other ways, with better customer support and less weirdness. Have low expectations of Google, like you would street gangsters in the hood squeezing local unsuspecting businesses for cash.
From the SEC website: Who is an insider? An “insider” is an officer, director, 10% stockholder and anyone who possesses inside information because of his or her relationship with the Company or with an officer, director or principal stockholder of the Company.

A principal shareholder is a person that directly or indirectly owns or controls more than 10% of any class of voting shares or securities of a company. The principal shareholder has the authority to vote using those voting shares.

Elon has less than 10% share (9.2%), so he's not an insider. Probably he stayed under 10% because of this law.
You don't give Ethereum credit for USDT and USDC?

Ethereum introduced the concept of decentralized compute resources, in which it was also a first mover. Judging Ethereum in its current state feels like judging the internet in the 1980's and saying it's not a value provider.
>Yes, if an aspect of the product doesn't directly affect its price on the market today then it is invisible.

I'm saying that there is no invisible effect, just so small it can't (initially) be detected. But it is inherently additive, and one day (days, years, centuries, millennia) the market will correct for it.
If fuel cost zero yesterday and costs exactly $1 per ride (regardless of length) today then it would be transparency. What they are doing now is advertising a low up-front price and tacking on random surcharges to the final bill.
If you think that 280 characters is thorough intellectual discourse then you're spending too much time on Twitter.
Or rather that they don't have facts that you can be condemned as a traitor for mentioning.
Twitter already has this with Revue.
> You can _still_ find furniture like those bought in the 1800s that stand the test of time.

You mostly can't. I always wanted quality wood furniture and once I had enough income I went shopping. Nothing. It can't be bought anywhere that I can find. Eventually gave up and bought the nicest office furniture I could find but it is still a very nice veneer over junk plywood. And even that was many thousands of dollars because it is a nice veneer instead of a cheap junk veneer.

> Make no mistake, furniture in the past was quite expensive as well.

Not really. Both my grandparent families were dirt poor small farmers and the furniture they had was orders of magnitude better quality than anything I can find or buy on a 2020s silicon valley tech salary.
Right. The two extremes are perfect competition and monopoly. The truth lies somewhere between the two. In both cases supplier costs affect price
> And nowhere on reddit or in the media do I see a discussion of the pros and cons of a Ukrainian surrender. It's really hard to see how Ukraine will successfully fend off a country 10x its size. (If someone has an answer as to why that might be realistic, I'm open to hear it).

The status quo is far too advantageous for the pro-war segment of our national security establishment for that idea to get any traction. Currently we have a "moral" war for the first time since the Balkans, it's strengthening NATO, and Russia is being weakened at the expense of mere pocket change and outdated weapons. And from a PR perspective, the American public cares far less about Ukrainian casualties than dead American soldiers. Then there's the benefit of blaming Putin for inflation with "Putinflation" and advancing other goals like shutting down Nordstream 2 and selling LNG to Europe.

I'm pro-Ukraine, but I can't help but notice how average Ukrainians are being screwed by this conflict, while US foreign policy hawks are breaking out the champagne.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA_effect sometimes things that need some effort end up with more value in the eyes of their makers. That higher barrier might not be that bad, because I firmly believe one of the reasons what got us to the modern web is people not valuing what they had put into it.
Which is a perfectly reasonable claim. Rejecting it out of hand doesn't make anyone wiser.
I mean, yes, obviously. They don't just get a search warrant for no reason.
> No matter how fair Elon thinks he is, a completely private entity or person cannot guarantee unbiased free speech.

The gov has shown to be unwilling to hold free speech laws to social media companies, and Twitter has been so aggressive in censoring dissident political opinion.. what else are you proposing we do?
Ask HN: How can you make quick money?
Hi HN.

I'm in between jobs currently and am wanting to make some extra cash. I'm a full stack engineer with about 6 years of professional experience. Very confident in my craft, and just beginning to apply to jobs at mid-large companies.

Thing about mid-large companies is their hiring processes can be SLOW and I could use the cashflow sooner rather than later.

So I'm curious if anyone here has ideas on how to make quick cash within a week/month. Would love to leverage my engineering skillset (web development-react,typescript,node,postgres) but am open to any and all ideas folks may have.

Currently residing in the US.
A life span is finite, but your life during the life span is infinite.

See chaos theory's infinitely long line in a finite-sized circle
> Russia has 3x times as many people as Ukraine, not 10x times. It has a lot more land, but I doubt it is 10x times more.

It's actually almost 30× the land area (6.6M mi² vs 233k mi²)
"an area where 2.5 percent of children under 6 years old who were tested had detectable levels of lead in their blood"

"The presence of this fuel means the areas near these airports are often inundated with tiny lead particles"

I agree that we should find lead free alternatives (some exist, so it sounds like this is purely bureaucracy). There's really no reason to keep using it.

That said, it seems there is some fear mongering going on in this article. If the air is truly inundated, why is it that only 2.5% of the kids have a detectable level? If it's in the air and everywhere, then it should be detectable in vastly more children in that area. The biggest question in my mind is, why is this area so low when 50% of US children have detectable lead levels?
If the former prez is someone who blatantly and consistently violates Twitter policy, then good riddance.
A Kalvin-ball AI would be a pretty interesting novelty but I think good games are usually focused on simple rulesets. Not sure an AI is really needed there. Maybe you just mean hyper tuning drop rates and and modifiers and such?

I'm sure AI will eventually have a huge impact on the art, narrative, and engineering of games, though, so maybe you're correct that will bleed into game design as well.
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The conflict statistics bear out that we are in a lengthy era of peace. I am not being eurocentric, it's true for a vast stretch of the world since WW2. If you think we have not been in a time of peace, just wait till you find out what a time of war looks like. It will go from 3 ongoing conflicts to 100.
You can argue that it's oversimplified, but it's definitely not inaccurate.

I'm not even sure it's oversimplified, though. Your list is a good set of things to worry about if you're going to fight a nuclear war. But from a strategic perspective, what matters is whether the capability is enough to deter, and I'd argue that even the lower end of likely North Korean capabilities is plenty, for most scenarios besides an outright North Korean invasion of South Korea. Yeah, the missiles might miss and maybe the bombs won't explode, but are you really willing to gamble with Seoul, Tokyo and Los Angeles?

Anyway --- sure, let's negotiate about missile technology. That'd be great. But those negotiations aren't going to go anywhere unless we recognize that full nuclear disarmament in the near-term is a big ask, and extremely unlikely.
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Be careful with the drug stuff though. It's hard to tell from a short post, but if your problems aren't caused by some chemical imbalance - which happens in some cases, but in many more cases it's not the problem - then trying to fix it with drugs would just make you to have two problems instead of one. It sound more of "meaning of life" stuff than "some chemicals are not balanced in my body" stuff. Things like that are rarely fixed with finding the right pill. There are a lot of venues for fixing "meaning of life" problems, it's hard to say which one would work for you, but maybe try out some you didn't try yet.
Not all boomers were opposed to the US involvement in vietnam, plenty drank the koolaid and were happy to enlist.
I gave a clear explanation of pretty mainstream economics that no economists would disagree with. But okay.
I'd expect the more they short it, the more likely it is to be accepted.
It’s not a gotcha, friend. It’s just that you were wrong. You can now say the accurate thing instead and still be making a good point.
> Mr. Musk called the bid his “best and final offer,” adding that if his proposal isn’t accepted “I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder.” Mr. Musk earlier this year built a position of more than 9% in Twitter.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-offers-to-buy-rest-of...
> if you dare to post anything that doesn't align with what the MSM agenda ...

i think that this notion has lost its teeth as the MSM has been converted into some boogeyman and/or strawman. MSM certainly caters to an audience, and people are drawn to likeminded people, sometimes deluding themselves into believing that participating in a near-homogenous echo chamber would be an ideal expression of peaceful living. once there, though, they realize that it's still not quite perfect. foxnews not "right" enough for me so let's create newsmax or oan. biden's not "left" enough and so we should have nominated warren or sanders. people are going to disagree and that's fundamentally a good thing. how we disagree is where things seem to have degenerated.

the whole "MSM agenda" seems like an incorrect and lazy narrative. they have agendas and they cater to the people who demand those agendas. i doubt, though, that newsmax employs people to troll my tweets disagreeing with desantis' signing of the florida abortion bill today, reporting them in an attempt to get me banned. the people trying to get me banned are the audience and they believe they're doing the correct thing to advance their cause by attempting to squelch me.

MSM pours fuel on the fire, but they don't start it. same for reddit - it's going to be the collective of people and their ability to tolerate differentiated thinking. they're not brainwashed zombies, they're collectives of similarly-minded people who give in to their predisposed biases as exploited by MSM/social media for profit.
The cat is entirely out of the bag. There are many competitors to Twitter (Facebook comes to mind, albeit somewhat different) and the concept of an open online discussion forum, with all its toxicity but also its potential for timely and impactful communication, is not going away. Users have clearly proven they want myriad large scale social media platforms, and Twitter provides a niche and UX that appeals to a lot of people.

You can argue that people are stupid and these platforms are detrimental to society. This is entirely subjective. I would argue that attempting to kill such platforms would be more detrimental, as it will push people to decentralized platforms that are even worse echo chambers. So this is a story of lesser of two evils.
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I was anti-military and anti-gun ownership, until I happened to be in Ukraine at the time of attack, and until I happened to be in Belarus at a time of dictatorship.

PS: although I think organization and coordination is thousands times more important than weapons.
Read a variety of books. I read a lot when I was younger but regret that I stuck to a couple of genres and missed out on learning a lot more had I read a greater variety of books, something I did much later in life.
> no one wants a platform where they can be harassed

I’m not sure whether it’s that, or that simply no one wants a platform everyone isn’t already on.

Personally I would absolutely not mind being “harassed” by text, if I was also able to exercise wide spectrum of free speech myself.
> You find it hard to believe that a company would cut cost by reducing the amount of product they use?

No, my point is that if you want to cut costs, why would you focus on the cheapest (perhaps not in the overall sense, but in the total value of the product) ingredient that actually gives you the most "bang for the buck".

I would imagine that slight packaging changes could provide much more savings without changing the taste of what actually goes in your mouth.
> the fight for free speech is about the government censoring individuals

It is not. The first amendment of the constitution of the United States is, but freedom of speech is just freedom of speech.
The reason I stopped integrating any API based system (FB, Twitter, etc...) into my code bases for services I don't pay for (or my customers) is because they all changed willy-nilly and broke on a regular basis.

This is more likely to break (be broken by google) than an official API, and those are bad enough. (hard pass on even trying this out, especially if it's good/nice I'll want to use it and kick myself later for being an idiot.)
Thank you for saying this. As an outsider I (I only tried Julia a few times) this is exactly the impression I get every time I read a post (and comments) about Julia on hn. Don't get me wrong, I believe there are lots of interesting things happening in Julia, but it is not a magic wand. Often it is characterised as python with the speed of c, based on some highly optimised benchmarks, while the reality is much more complex. I find this uncritical evangelism quite off-putting tbh.
Re the OP

Absolutely magisterial! I feel represented in each and every word of yours. I [hardcore anti-algorithm, anti-collection, anti-surveillance activist] would not say it better myself.

Consider opening the licence for this post apropriately so the word can be translated and spread.

Thank you.
If you'd like to try building a Nuclear Fusor at home, rejoice, for Makezine has instructions for you! It probably will consume more energy than you can recoup from it, however.

https://makezine.com/projects/nuclear-fusor/

"Time Required: >16 Hours Difficulty: Hard"
idk anything about crypto. why is "bitcoin sv" bad?
Funny how the images change when you click "canvas on".
Hillary Clinton, like other neocons, thinks it would be great if Ukraine turned into another Afghanistan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLANOdsNhPg
> smearing your opponents intention

Where is the smear of the intention? Was it because I said you are attacking the argument from the standpoint that something is a fraud, when the argument cant be attacked from a position that it was a fraud because that's a fact we cannot know?
But isn't this demonstrably false? (Not even to mention that "progressive" in this context seems to mean something very different from the dictionary definition).
Hi there! Once you have lua running somewhere you're 90% of the way there. You can do AOT compilation which will output lua code via.

fennel -c my-fennel-code.fnl

Or you can use the lua package api to automatically load .fnl files via require seamlessly:

local fennel = require("fennel")
table.insert(package.loaders or package.searchers, fennel.searcher)

Enjoy!
Similar boat. Looking for my next inspiration, because then everything flows... Re-kindle the fire within.
Any clue what one of these might cost?