skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great to hear these little neighborhood libraries are international. We have them here where I live in Colorado, US.
Go Ahead and Fail
Social Media and Political Dysfunction: A Review
I dont think they really care about the environment. If they did, they would accept PoS or similar environmentally friendly cryptos. That way they would be promoting their use instead of the old inefficient PoW ones.
Because it has 0 exposure in the oversaturated market.
Big Bread will want it taken down
Retail is in it for the pump & dump. They just hope they have good timing.
Just a supplement to your point of water not always being fatal to electronics - I once found a PSP lying at the bottom of a lake. It was by a school, so I guess bullying had been involved. One thorough rinse later and it turned on. Battery and optical drive were shot of course, and the screen was seriously watermarked. But still.
Can confirm neighborhood libraries are a thing in Pittsburgh (USA).
I worked and got paid in crypto in the past, which made me able to move out. Also I used crypto to pay for services, I just bought a GPU (for gaming, current one broke, I do not mine crypto) with crypto that's still shipping.

I won't call the adoption pathetic, it is just that you are not in the circle of adoption/need. Just like I see people mentioning services here that they say they cannot live without and I do not care if they close tomorrow and I have no idea what those services do.

Crypto is a needed option, it can be made to be more environmentally friendly. I personally *often* do not (and cannot) benefit from the global banking system despite all the waste it produce from electricity to wasted manpower to the carbon footprint of material for buildings and offices.

Crypto as many other technologies have use cases, believe in the use case, don't be dogmatic. This is no different from "we only need Java in the world why other languages exist?".
This kind of video content in VR is of almost no interest to me as long as it remains 'flat' (2D in wraparound)-- once you've seen videos in true stereoscopic 3D, everything else pales in comparison. That may not be an issue for most people, but I know I'm not the only one. It kinda seems like most of the reason to use a VR headset instead of just a wide monitor in the first place.

I'm sure it's possible to do some kind of software based interpolation/upscaling (not sure what term to use here) to convert 2D to 3D, but I don't know how involved that process would be.
I'm a new homeowner with kids way out in the boonies, and coming from a city I've had an accelerated need to find and buy ... stuff.

Craigslist is just about over. It's a subset of things that are cross-posted to Facebook Marketplace.

What Facebook did that Craigslist won't recover from is to align groups with classifieds. I belong to regional groups devoted to selling bikes, boats, furniture, baby clothes, among others. That's where the action is, and while there is cross-posting to Craigslist, that trend is certainly ebbing.
OK then, I assert that Beacon Studios is a company to be avoided because the management is incompetent.

My evidence is that the founder is a hothead who wastes his time leaping into online flame wars with little understanding and no evidence.

Can't you understand that this mode of discussion is totally unproductive?
If you have the space, a second deep freeze is a game changer. You can often find them for cheap or even free, the ones from the 90s seem to last forever.
How would a sex worker cash out their crypto if all major cryptocurrency exchanges do KYC?
Why do you want to sexualize children?
I think you are too optimistic about how fast China can match TSMC's chip-building capabilities. It will take China a decade or more to reach the level of what TSMC is doing right now.

I agree that China is way more important as a manufacturer of goods than Taiwan. But I think Covid has shown that companies need a more diversified manufacturing base.

The question right now is, can China ramp up its plan to be a leader in AI and chip building fast enough?
Substack's Growth Spurt Brings Growing Pains
In NL every supermarket, baker or other place where you can buy bread will be more than happy to sell you half loaves, to the point that plenty of them have them pre-sliced and packaged ready to go.
Is Wikimedia hoarding cash? If so, I’d hope that they would have some kind of money management in place (adhering to the same ethical standards as for payments, as otherwise this move would be quite hypocritical); if not, inflation does not matter.
Archived: https://archive.ph/sAUtC
The noise floor of a car is incredibly high, such that it’s probably not a high quality system, it’s just a loud system.
I had a new one in 2005 and I LOVED that thing. I sold it and bought a hybrid Camry in 2009 because of gas prices and while the Camry has been great I miss the Element all the time. It was such a practical vehicle, and it had actual personality. It was so easy to clean, the soft plastic panels on the edges meant parking dents were really rare, it was surprisingly small and easy to park (especially parallel park, it was short and narrow), being able to easily take the seats out meant you had a huge amount of room in the back, no center console cluttering up the space between the driver and passenger, just super nice all around.
Yup. I've been making my own bread for ~4 years, mainly due to family. When I know I have a busy week ahead or travelling, I make two loaves that weekend and freeze one. Family gets good sourdough bread, and the toast from frozen is in no way noticeably different.
Why do you want to destroy all discussion?
What are you talking about? BitTorrent is absolutely alive and well, and the big sites still have everything you want as soon as it airs.

I'm not talking just popular movies; I was getting Battlebots episodes from Rarbg earlier this year, in 1080p, pretty much as soon as they aired in the US.
> I will lay out my argument very clearly

I think I got it, but it still seems that you were talking past the point from OP.

You are trying to make some statement about how individuals have more power with functional democratic institutions vs the despotic-like nature of the "town company".

What OP seems to be getting at is the point how communities before had higher levels of inner trust, and how this relates with TFA.

In a time where things were not globalized and people actually knew and interact with their neighbors (instead of getting stuck on Hacker News talking with people on the different side of the planet), the idea of the "town company" as the institution that coordinated the society vs "the government" didn't matter so much, as long as there was some sense of community and high-trust.

It was this local community with insular trust that we lost with globalization, and this why it makes no sense to talk about "company loyalty" anymore.
Is this a cautionary note for Hans Reiser ?

“Don’t attempt to wash your wife’s blood out of a Honda Element… it will rust !!”
Governments can do this: https://xkcd.com/538/
> I believe many people who hate crypto are the ones that have a good life in a relatively non(or less)-corrupted government-led society, which might be a good reflection of HN demographics.

Maybe. I hear this a lot too. But as a counterpoint, I happen to live in the USA, and have a pretty good life. I know a LOT of people who have good lives in this relatively uncorrupted society who are going into web3. And who are funded by very well off people in said country.

I'm not saying that web3 can't help people in bad countries. It's that I don't think that's the end goal of a lot of this enthusiasm. Because I don't think those people were trying to help out people in your country before crypto existed (not verified, but I think this is a reasonable belief).
Or... Genders are more equal in countries with less religion
I must be more fickle than you. There's no way I would trust a half jar of tomato sauce that I found on Craigslist.
> "Do one thing and do it well doesn’t really appeal to me to begin with" means that you don't like the Unix model in general.

Yes? Some people don’t like it.
This is really neat! Nice one OP!
I don't see the lawsuit piece here, but definitely there was a bunch of speculation going on around that time:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/15/luxury-real-estate-agent-rya...

I feel like this is less someone getting an unfair benefit and more just eager people experiencing at least part of what the regulatory framework is meant to protect them from— which is being taken to the cleaners on the basis of rumours that don't end up panning out.
Since cross chain activity is made available that's not true, I could do 100% of my money on avalanche or solana and bridge some only to donate
If you check actual share prices before and after big news, you will see that it already is defacto legal.
Sometimes an idea opposed by many is really just a bad idea.
You can get automatic resource handling with controlled types, but this is not part of the baremetal minimal runtime you can use for a driver.

You can get ownership tracking with SPARK, but you need to use proof techniques.

There are pointers in Ada, but it's not at all the same as in C. First, C pointers are really addresses, references and pointers in Ada. And pointers come in various flavors named/anonymous access-to-variable/constant/subprogram, pointing only to the heap or also to the stack, with accessibility levels depending on where the type is defined... which lead to fine-grain distinction of the various use cases with SPARK so that only correct use is provable.
Where is this information coming from?

This absolutely does not mirror my experience. Most Web3 companies, even VC funded, can't offer even close to FAANG.

Do you have an example of such company?
I think you make it sound as if that was good, but it was straight naive or irresponsible
Yeah I always tripple click things I read, always have. Drove a coworker of mine nuts because he just hears clickerclickclick all the time. I just do it mindlessly. I think it helps me focus? I tried to abstain from it for the sake of the coworker but it was really hard to focus.

Edit: This is also why I don't read articles on medium. Before I know it I've shared half a sentence or a word to twitter or some shit.
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> A dissident who needs anonymity from their repressive government does not need the same level of anonymity from the Swiss legal system.

Well too bad for the french dissident who got arrested because they needed "the same level of anonymity from the Swiss legal system" which was queried through Europol thanks to protonmail suggesting it.

Just a reminder to all sysadmins around: never help cops. If you feel like you HAVE TO help your local cops, do it. But never ever answer to foreign cops instead tell them to fuck off (or don't answer), and especially don't suggest them to use a certain convoluted legal process to get your hands tied into betraying your user.
Crawl, walk, run. You can't go directly from crawl to run. You need the intermediate steps (pun not intended)
Please use real values in tests
Which is ridiculous--if people would actually test drive a minivan or use it for a few weeks they'd end up loving them. The side doors, back hatch and fold flat seats mean a mini van is a heck of a setup. My wife makes fun of me but if we fly into someplace and rent a car I'll almost always get a minivan.
I've been told we'll never run out of space in Unicode.
So, how is this different compared to a slap by one famous person that got reposted thousand times?
Can Lightning exist without the Bitcoin blockchain?
In the UK these are commonly set up inside old unused telephone boxes - you can find them in many villages/towns, e.g.: https://nothingintherulebook.com/2018/11/03/british-phone-bo...
I remember making secret directories on my Windows desktop by using a transparent icon and ALT+255 as filename. Good times.
I've worked on an async version of life, with the intention of a hardware port (but never got around to that bit) super interesting stuff.

https://jacquesmattheij.com/asynchronous-life/
Coal is a bad analogy because coal also generates a lot of energy and has uses in chemistry and metallurgy, and those things create real value.

The problem with coal is that its externalities are not properly priced in, making it look quite a bit cheaper than it actually is. Much of its cost is being placed on a hidden credit card with an unknown interest rate. If all externalities were priced in coal would probably not be competitive except in places with few other good energy options and in roles where it's hard to replace like bulk virgin steel production.

Crypto has few real value-creating uses outside the original core use cases of easier international wire transfer, some utility in areas without functional banking, black/grey market commerce, and hobbyists/techno-nerds who use it because its cool. Those use cases are real but they are also the use cases that existed in 2008-2009 when Bitcoin launched.

Web3, ICOs, and DeFi all seem to be almost 100% gambling and scams. Every few months I go looking for systems and use cases for crypto other than the original ones mentioned above and all I find is gambling and scams.

I don't think crypto will go to zero, but I think its actual value is very far below its current price. FOMO marketing for various forms of web3 and token shonk is getting increasingly shrill and desperate, which is not a good sign. If I had any of this stuff I'd sell.

Of course remember: it's very hard to call the top of these things. They almost always go higher than anyone expects. Sub-prime mortgages kept going far beyond what anyone thought possible. Regardless, you don't want to be a bag holder when it eventually does crash.

The best way to win in a casino is not to play. The second best, if you've played, is to quit while you are up and ignore the fact that there is a chance it might go higher. Here's some good old fashioned Native American financial advice on this topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXbDB3uEltY

You aren't special. Someone will win big in the casino, but it won't (statistically) be you.
One of the metric I know is sensitivity - how many dB per watts can a speaker produce. Logic is that at lower watts amp has less distortion. For best results buy an amp that's like 10x smaller than required, tho you will waste tons of power (which then goes into class A/B/C/D/E amps...)
AllState sells identity theft insurance, something to consider. They basically pay for a lawyer to clean up the mess it causes
Stopped using Opus after encountering bluetooth speakers that could not decode it. Having my collection with me is only useful if i can listen to it. Now i use high VBR mp3 in 48k, no need to upsample on playback.
I was thinking of making a s-expression editor that would structure a lisp program as a tree, but it was a native program.
When a store has a buy-one-get-one-free deal, it would be nice to have an app that would match me up with somebody else in the store who also wants only one of that thing; then one of us could buy them and we could split the cost. I can't be the only one who doesn't have room in the freezer for a second bone-in pork roast.
Interesting, I didn't know this was a thing, but after some cursory research it does seem like part of its use case is to stop this attack vector.
Tomato sauce, wine, soups, and other liquid foodstuffs are excellent contenders for ice cube trays. A housemate in university introduced me to 'red wine cubes' from the freezer for chucking into beef Ragu and it turned my world right side up. We now have bags of all sorts in our freezer.
We have them in Toronto, ON. We call them LLLs or Little Lending Libraries. There are actually quite a lot of them.
The desired outcome was reached, and the effort and money spent likely wouldn't have been spent unless deemed necessary.

Always difficult to draw direct causality though.
Yes, that's always good to check but given the size of the repository (the number of directory and files is just massive!) it can be really annoying to navigate. Often faster to just run the winget CLI somewhere.

winget.run should add a link to the manifest directory, that would be useful.
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This seems unlikely, given that people buy houses with money transfers.
The snowmen are in Unicode because they existed in a character set before the Unicode standard was created. Unicode was deliberately created as a superset of all existing character sets at the time.
Archived: https://archive.ph/OpLDh
The biggest feature of PHP for new people to the language is in-lining

You can do stupid stuff like

<table>
<?php foreach($array as $row){ ?>
<tr><td><?php echo $row[0];?></td></tr>
<?php } ?>

Meaning you can just inlay PHP in your raw HTML as you please, this example will reprint the <tr> and <td> for every key in $array
I also use regularly miller/mlr with files having 1M+ lines and I never had problems with the hardcoded processing (i.e. "verbs") nor the DSL language which is know to be much less efficient compared to verbs.

Both visidata and miller are essential tools to process/view CSV/TSV files, way better than LibreOffice or Excel in terms of performance on large files.
more research is needed to identify the underlying causes.

Could the causes be as fundamental as E-bikes are Faster and Heavier?
Why would you make a personal attack based on a discussion about an industry? I didn't think this was a flame war, more a discussion about the crypto industry - I'm not upset, I'm just bored because I'm stuck in hospital with little to do. This is a tech forum, so is it not the right place to discuss tech industries and opinions thereof? I'm not even in the minority in thinking the crypto industry is unproductive and largely centered around scams and greater fool schemes.

I'm not sure what your personal attack has to do with this discussion - I guess you could have that opinion if you wanted.
Great game! That was really fun!

I would love to have the ability to copy-paste the results of how wrong or right I was after a set amount of games (like wordle)
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Upper-case subscripts are missing, for one: I'm not allowed to talk about the normal force F_N in plain text email. Superscript and subscript Greek letters would also be nice to have, eg in context of relativity.
Archived: https://archive.ph/mGjpJ
Fascinating just to see the prices of bread in another country. In the Mumbai area, it looks like a half loaf costs between 17 and 75 INR -- with most around 22 INR, or 30 cents US. Here in Toronto, we often pay $4 to $5 (USD) for a decent loaf of sandwich bread. The difference is pretty striking.
I bet white wine cubes go great in a glass of white wine too!
In Czechia as well, all supermarkets carry (500-600g) half loaves, only difference being that some are cut and packaged already directly from 3rd party bakery and some they cut in shop, usually if they have their own bakery like Tesco or Albert (Ahold). And of course ALL convenience stores carry 1/2 loaves, many even 1/4 loaves.
https://labs.openai.com/waitlist

You probably can't try it today, but if you are patient you will be able to.
Went to Bangface Weekender in 2012, an absolutely undescribable experience. If you can go, go!
So Unicode has all these mysterious characters... but I would bet that it's still true that many people on the planet speaking common languages can't even type their name...

This post is from 2015, and I'd love to know if unicode has added better support for non-English languages since then.

https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of...

Based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_(Unicode_block), only 3 more Bengali characters have been added since 2015.
> that this is an existential issue for the United States, which undoubtedly along with allies would go to war to defend Taiwan.

On the contrary, this is not an existential issue for the US and they would not intervene directly against China (they've always been very careful never to commit to intervening).

It's similar to the situation in Ukraine. The US are helping Ukraine but they do not want to intervene directly and certainly do not want to start a war with Russia. Well, China is a much more formidable adversary than Russia and the US will never effectively declare war against them.

For China the issue is (1) they could not afford to lose an invasion attempt (domestically it might mean the end of the regime), which is quite a big undertaking, and (2) the fallout on the world stage may be too big politically and economically. And so the military option has not been a good one so far and the status quo suits everyone.
hey thats what the US or any other western government do as well, lets not forget the convenient let's pass these pork filled bills while the plebians are watching their soccer world cup, super bowl etc.that happens EVERYTIME...really democratic too, considering the pork in these bills consist of things the people do not actually want such as making encrypted chats illegal or forcing people to get the jab or lose their jobs makes you wonder where these politicians are getting their ideas from ...
That's 6 primitives (unquote,quote,cat,dup,drop,swap). For comparison, here's the minimal (non-concatenative) Combinatory Logic:

S x y z = x z (y z)
K x y = x

The following by itself also suffices, but needs K in its definition:

S' x y z = x z (y (K z))
Defining a multi-year buy & hold strategy as speculation doesn’t sound like something I can get behind. I get what you’re saying, but I think you’re making sweeping generalizations here. There’s plenty of people that invest in useful economic activity, but also save some money in other assets like gold and bitcoin. You are just calling these people speculators hoping for a greater fool?

Or is it possible that these people have grown to trust bitcoin, seeing it as a savings vehicle outside of the usual currencies?
And still no external link character, ridiculous.
Yep, i also don't quite understand what needs to be solved here.

I just ask the cashier in the bakery for a half or quarter loaf. Or grab a pre-cut half/quarter one in the supermarket. There are plenty of options (types of bread, sourdough or not, based on different grains, etc) over here in germany.
I think one man publicly assaulting another at an incredibly high-profile event in front of a live global audience was bound to be insanely popular regardless of whether or not a Russian bot army signal boosted it.
What is a scenario where you’d be running git in the subdirectory of one owned by a malicious user? Unless a machine is badly configured and administrated, when would one user ever have authority of ownership over /home or /opt or /? And if they have sudo privileges well then they have the authority to do whatever they want. Is this only an issue because of some Windows idiom? I’m somewhat dubious.
I can't speak for NewMountain but I assume he was talking about using a DI framework or container (e.g. Spring) where dependencies are defined declaratively and the framework handles the instantiation. This is what brings the indirection and the cognitive overhead.
https://github.com/termux/termux-app/releases
I suspect there's an entire alien alphabet (like Marain, for instance) in there someplace. There was a proposal to stuff Klingon into the Private Use Area, at least...
Pff, wait til you discover you can freeze also sausages and butter without losing any quality, which sadly can't be said about bread, defrosted bread tastes pretty bad, which is why I don't freeze it. I mean if I would be that desperate or lazy that I wouldn't want to go to small convenience store right under my building to buy half loaf, I have always at home enough flour and it would make more sense to keep dry yeast in stock to prepare own bread.