skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You can't control if people think your viewpoint is extremist or guilt-inducing.

True. I'm not saying he can control the impact of his viewpoint, I'm making an observation on what that impact may be.

>and there is much room for debate on whether or not they're extremist.

Also true. I classify RMS as an extremist, but recognize that reasonable people may disagree.

>Some viewpoints can be logically categorized as being at the end of a defined spectrum

That is pretty much the definition of extremism, being at the final end point on either end of a spectrum. But then that's why I don't gravitate towards viewpoints that exist only as a single point on a spectrum. I prefer a multi axial approach that takes various considerations into account. Unfortunately for me that often makes it significantly harder to convey a short answer on my views, because they are fairly nuanced.

As far as RMS, he may have planted a very good seed, but I don't think that OSS would have gained dominance in many areas if there had not been more moderate & practical people working in the area.
How to Find, Repair and Take Advantage of 404 Errors?
You might peek at Coalton.

https://coalton-lang.github.io/reference/

I don’t think it has sum types, but it offers a rather sophisticated and very functionally oriented type system that compiles back to SBCL. It looks neat, haven’t found time to play yet…
You can quote printed sources directly, you don't need to make them into a website first.
Yeah, they said whoever has the most beans has control. So these guys got a loan to get beans, took control, and left with the money. They didn't even hack it.

They fell for the Proof of Stake / Ayn Rand fallacy which is the assumption that anyone with a lot of money is a good person.

Btw, that's why proof of stake is so complex. They have to do all these complicated hacks to get stakers to be good.
So you think them doing something they enjoy together is a life wasted? Why call someone else's choices wasting. I enjoy spending time with my kids and doing things with family. Should I tell a couple with no kids who travel they are wasting their lives by not having a family or am I the one wasting my life by not traveling? Seriously to each their own. Let people live without judging. How much life are you wasting by browsing HN?
Practice for coding interviews with this repo of data structures and algorithms
Show HN: Battlewords – Wordle Meets Battleship
The naming seems strange but the idea is sound, right? Perhaps they should have picked a different marketing name for each of the Gens. Anyway, it's like how we have: C++ 17 map and C++ 17 unordered map. Different functionality is specified in the same versioning standard.
One of the downsides of car-centric cities is that lighting has to be insanely bright because of the speeds of the cars. At human walking speeds, you can get by with substantially less light to illuminate; but that won't work if there are bright lights elsewhere nearby.
It’s physically impossible for the human brain to multitask like this (multiple streams that both require cognitive attention), and studies have shown that people who try to do this actually end up with long term damage to their ability to focus. It’s very likely that you never were able to do this, and at some point just hit a threshold of damage to your focus that you finally realized it.

Also, the same study showed that the people who multitask think they’re successful at it, however external observers can see that they’re not. This is why you have so many people who claim that they can do it.

[1] https://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/august24/multitask-resea...
It is worth pointing out that einpoklum's point is not merely academic: Stallman is old enough that he really did get introduced to computers and programming and software through corporate and university mainframes, and not through personal machines like (I assume) most of us.

The decline of the early open hacker culture in favour of corporate proprietary software during the 70s deeply informed the idea behind Free Software.
Basically somebody borrowed a bunch of crypto, bought controlling “shares” (tokens) in the DAO, and voted the treasury into their own wallet.

I’m curious why controlling levels of the token were on the market, and I have to assume that’s what the creators didn’t account for: the possibility that the people who were supposed to manage this thing would be buyable at a realistic price. I’d also ask why there wasn’t some kind of time delay on important decisions like that? It’s pretty bizarre.

It doesn’t help that smart contracts are just not super easy to build. They’re just easy enough for you to think you can, but when I’ve dug into the actual complexities, it’s been pretty rough. It’s especially hard when each op costs gas, so you’re having to focus on security and efficiency at the same time. I have to imagine it disincentivizes more complex business logic around managing a DAO, like you’d expect for something like this.
Hey everyone,

I've been working on a little side project which is a version of Wordle that you can play against others. Choose a word, then take turns guessing and see who gets it first. The twist: any letters you use in your own guess are revealed to the other player if they are in your secret word!

You can play in your browser here:

https://battlewords.riley.dev/

There's also an Android app available:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.riley.batt...

Unfortuantely, Apple has rejected the app as being too much of a Wordle copycat.

The tech stack is Expo/React Native on the front end, and then Firebase (Hosting, Functions and RTDB) on the backend.

If you challenge a Random Opponent and we don't find someone to play against you within 2 minutes, we'll have a Bot play against you so you can always play a game if you want to.

My friend group has been playing it for a few days now and finding it fun, but let me know what you think!
I have a "MacBook Pro (13-inch, M1, 2020)" and I clearly can't have 2 external monitors. I tried everything.
I genuinely don't know since most of my knowledge of NFT stuff comes from people commenting it vs. primary sources, but are there very active markets for NFTs in general beyond initial offerings? Like is there an active, healthy and functioning market for BAYC, or was it more about an initial rush and now a bunch of people have tokens that have value on paper but no market to realistically sell them?
> I think part of the problem is BOTH political parties demonize their opponents rather than make intellectual arguments on policy.

This started with Newt. Newt Gingrich is primarily responsible for modern partisan politics

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gi...

I still strongly feel that the mainstream media deserves a larger portion of the blame.
Tokens from Manchester City to PSG Prove Disappointing
> (1) it's merely an alternative spelling of "demon"

Combine this with the BSD Daemon illustration [0] and you've got my personal idea of where daemon came from.

Which was shattered just last week when I attended a conference presentation by a jungian analyst who definitely did not use daemon in the sense of demon.

That was a weird and frustrating moment.

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon
Jeff Bezos at MIT in 2002 – Discussing Mobile Computing and Shopping Behaviors
I think this depends on the specific city. Your description was my experience growing up in Miami - during the wet season, you'd have a good number of dry days and then a few days at a time with a lot of rain.

But where I live now in Jacksonville, it's not really this way. During the rainiest part of the year, roughly June - September or so, it rains in the afternoon probably 90% of the time, sometimes for an hour, sometimes til night. So there are still different ways of getting into that top 10.
Hope you're running all the up-to-the-minute anti-fingerprinting you can find. For a long while any time I went to YouTube even in a private window they'd ask me to log in under my old Google account that I hadn't used on that computer for years. It was creepy as hell and I'm still not sure if they've stopped because they can no longer associate that account with that computer or if they're just confident enough now not to ask.
Also, notice how vanishingly few give checkable examples, and when they do their example is often bad.
This is a really useless news story. Couldn't they do a little legwork and figure out which books were rejected? I'd really like to see what material was in these math books. I'm guessing the rejection is some level of overreaction, but it's hard to say how much without knowing what's being rejected.
They accept PayPal for subscription payments (or at least did as of when I was a subscriber). Unsubscribing was as easy as clicking to de-authorize in PayPal.
> She said that the recovery team is allusive

Accidentally apt malapropism/typo? They keep alluding to the idea that there may be something that can be done, but it remains illusive. :)
DNA wasn't yet discovered when he was alive, and "genes" were an abstract philosophical concept.
"Google containers"
Step 1: Be important enough that your causing a stink gets attention.
> However, on Monday the stablecoin’s value had not hit zero and was around $0.12, since some traders were voluntarily buying beans, betting that some rescue package would arrive to rebuild the project’s treasury and restore the peg.

Well, that rescue package better be at least $500 million this time, or the guy's already written the code to do the same thing again, but $182m richer...
I have AT&T and see “suspected spam” calls on my iPhone.
I did this in high school when I had a TV and computer in my room. DVDs of family guy or south park running nonstop while I played warcraft 3 on the computer. My attention span was essentially 0. At school, work or with friends I constantly felt like I needed to be somewhere or had something that was left undone, this is definitely damaging to the psyche.
This is one of my environmental bug-bears. How much non-recyclable, glossy paper is wasted on marketing bumf that gets distributed across a whole country only to land directly into the trash, possibly landfill? Even if it was recyclable, it's still serves no functional purpose except to be disposed of.

In the UK politicians also send out these kinds of flyers in bulk (never mind the inundation of flyers for takeaway food, Domino's Pizza, Papa John's, etc.)

For any single piece of legitimate mail (which is vanishingly small as most stuff is paperless now), there are perhaps 20 or 30 pieces of junk that come with it over the course of a few weeks.

I honestly wish it got legislated against. Junk mailers aren't entitled to offload their waste through my letterbox. I don't understand why they have the right to shove advertisements into my own home.
So how in general should people be notified of official actions/activities? Just hope they find out somehow? It's not like most people read some local newspaper any longer.
Absolutely agree. Nothing more to add than I tell everyone I know who mentions NFTs this so they do not get scammed.
The implication here is that Modern Egypt and Ancient Egypt are the same culture, which isn’t true by any real definition since as you mentioned Egyptian culture was Hellenized centuries before the Romans showed up (and semi-Persianized centuries prior to that.)

This is like claiming the Islamic Republic of Iran is the same culture as ancient Persia.
> no dog in the fight here but I felt impelled to point out that ensuring auto updates are on solves almost all security holes except for the security hole it opens up.

In almost any computing context, but especially in the context of a personal blog, the vast majority of exploits are against known security holes for which patches have already been released and those with automatic updates enabled are already safe from.

Yes, hypothetically updates can deliver new flaws of their own and even potentially intentional malicious code, but from a practical sense it's not worth worrying about if you're using mainstream software packages on a major OS.
Mac App to add icons to cloned repos
Agreed. I think the only way to have good test automation in games is to quite literally develop an AI that plays your game.
As has been said, NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token Scam. The S is silent.
Something must have changed with AT&T because up until like 6 weeks I was getting bombarded with spam texts, like a dozen a day, then they just suddenly stopped.

I've heard that forwarding spam texts to 7726 ends up counterproductive because that system opens up any included links, letting spammers know they've hit a legit active number. Is there any truth to that?
You beat me to it. I have sat with hundreds of software and network auditors. Never once have I heard them say something was secure. At best they might say they didn't find any high severity issues in this particular audit. I am curious who their statement was intended for.
Despite new listing procedure, Coinbase faces fresh questions over frontrunning
In addition to.
Yes, a typo.
The feature auto-screens and only alerts you if the caller is deemed important. Most of them just hang up and there's no interruption at all.
No Fuckin' Thanks!
At my last job we were doing ML with full motion video. Our data scientists kept looking at synthetic data (being able to use it would have solved a lot of practical problems for us) and rejecting it :)
And we get brutal winters to boot! I like to joke about the enduring myth of there being an object in the sky called "the sun" that makes the sky glow during the day.
Europe's now-drowned 'lost world' and the 25m-high tsunami that finished it off
I would safely assume the latter (minus the value bit).
> “Should I put my money into traditional finance or defi? What are the pros/cons?”

I have no issues with this question, because you want to compare the two and find out what properties suit your goals.

> An axis that should be compared when choosing a finance system is “how likely is my money to disappear?”.

This is not what was being discussed, but it is certainly an important question to ask if that is the choice one is making.

> A single event where an amount of money that’s this fraction of the overall system and this much value is a newsworthy, meaningful, relevant, comparable event.

We already agree that the two events are newsworthy. The thing we disagree on is the following: If 0.1% of traditional money is stolen is newsworthy, then this adds further evidence that 0.1% of DeFi money being stolen is newsworthy. I don't agree with that.
This is a terrible solution to the problem. If there are services that make our lives easier and more pleasant we shuold absolutely be able to take advantage of them.

This is like saying don't buy food from restaurants because it may have prepared it unsafely or overpriced.

Overpriced is a real problem and the steps to make the price obvious to consumers is very difficult. But we solved the safety by mandating safety standards and labeling backed by real penalties. This law seems a lot like the latter and will make it easier for users to take advantages of services with the safety that they should be able to expect.
TurboTax’s fight against free tax filing
Imagine it embedded right into the sidewalks/pavements to make them glow at night. Magical.
You're the first person in the thread to bring up work camps. How easily one can defeat a specter of one's own construction.
You don't get a voicemailbox full of car warranty recordings? That's what I get.
I read somewhere on HN in the last couple months that Google is prone to banning/deleting accounts that it thinks are associated with accounts it bans, so I would not do this.
A perpetually starving totalitarian absolute monarchy?
Star loses $500k NFT after crooks exploit Rarible market
Yes, but that doesn't preclude the possibility of building a business around the production of free software and even around its distribution.
I think there might be a simpler explanation even than that - I suspect HN took over from Slashdot simply because it has a rich corporate backer, thus doesn't really have to make ends meet using banner ads. Slashdot did for a while too (VA Linux) but eventually the gravy train ended. Banner ads really make the experience worse, and they don't work well on sites targeted at geeks due to rampant ad blocking. Lacking any form of banner ads probably also contributed to allowing the HN UI to be extremely dense, so the throughput of topics can be higher. Technical people like density, fast loading, and relative lack of ads.

The heydey of Slashdot was when it was itself in its 'startup phase' with Rob Malda leading the charge from the front, and back then it was great. Complex and sophisticated technical discussion, as well as other topics. Arguably way less politics than HN, though maybe more open source-oriented politics. Not many ads. Useful-ish summaries.

Frankly the question why HN is more "successful" than Slashdot rankles somewhat because I feel like it's maybe not really more successful, depending on what you define the goals of such a site to be. To me it's just different. For example, Slashdot threads did a great job of mixing discussion and entertainment. They made me laugh, they made me cry, they taught me a hell of a lot about UNIX and programming and often they did all these things simultaneously. Some people don't like entertaining comments but Slashcode gave people great UI controls so you could hide them if you didn't like them. In practice, I found they made discussions way more enjoyable to read. In contrast, HN basically just bans entertaining comments. It's a crude approach.

Slashdot also pioneered a lot of ideas and tech that made very big discussions work. Back then sites got "slashdotted" because Slashdot scaled far better than many of the sites being discussed. Contrast this with HN, which can't really handle threads of more than 500 posts before the UI breaks and around 2000 posts, the site itself starts to break.

Finally, frankly, Slashdot moderation was way less frustrating than HN's can be. HN claims to a high minded search for intellectual curiousity, or some such. DanG makes it work, more or less. But absolutely nothing is formalized in any way. How would you replace Dan? The principles which are claimed to be enforced are sufficiently vague and inconsistent there's no way you could ever scale the model up. Slashdot, for all its faults, provided a crisp and actually formalized moderation system that tried to reflect the priorities of the user base rather than Malda himself.

The current site is a shadow of its former self due to neglect and being out-competed by other sites that were able to keep on the VC train longer, but the core ideas of the site worked. Honestly I miss it sometimes.
The phrase “software is crap” was said by someone criticizing Casey Muratori, not by himself or by me. It was a mischaracterization.

If you want to paraphrase him correctly, he has claimed several times that there are several low-hanging-fruits performance-wise in modern software.

> I've never heard "performance is impossible" from anyone

First, I said “impossible or impractical”. This comment section is littered with the second. Second, this is not an exaggeration, nor refers to you. It actually happened: a FAANG product manager told Casey it would take several years and a PHd degree to fix some performance issues in a MS product that Casey had diagnosed. Casey then proceeded to create a performant proof of concept with feature parity over a weekend or so.

> what do they offer as the solution to that?

Are you asking for a silver bullet? Because there are none. The first step towards a solution for low performance in modern software is stopping the automatic reactions of saying performance is unnecessary, impractical or even impossible, whenever someome with enough knowledge of the problem domain claims otherwise.

The path to faster software involves actual hard work, rather than attempting to publicly shame people who offer solutions.

I really don’t think this is unreasonable at all.
From another article on the same topic https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/14/twitter-n...:

> Man who paid $2.9m for NFT of Jack Dorsey’s first tweet set to lose almost $2.9m

> ‘This is the Mona Lisa of the digital world’, says crypto entrepreneur Sina Estavi who bought the NFT in March 2021

This is a good example of why so many people don't take cryptocurrency seriously. It full of hype men who spout transparent BS like the above quote, though most don't have millions to blow to get into the news like this.
yeah they end up routing their calls through some small telecom like "Crazy Eddie's" which give them some legitimacy in the eyes of the phone network
Once I have a local copy, I don't have to depend on the continued availability of the shady website. I can pass the copy along to friends who might also enjoy it, and I can watch the movie whether or not I happen to have high-speed internet access at the moment.
create a business account so you have support.
CloudFront is an AWS service (we use AWS for our infrastructure) and it has nothing to do with CloudFlare except sharing 6 letters in the name.

Would be nice if you double-chcecked both claims before making allegations publicly (or at least contacted us for clarification) as we do not have the resources of a big company to right all the wrongs said about us.

Everything about Kagi and privacy is available at kagi.com/privacy
NFTs have made a little more sense to me since reading a comment on here or reddit effectively claiming that crypto is easy to get into, but hard to get your money out of. Especially depending on your age or where you live. As a result there's a lot of money floating around the space that people can't effectively extract, so instead they just speculate wildly on whatever they think will increase their virtual hoard. It's just a big game.
Thought New Orleans would be near the top of the list.

It's sandwiched between Lake Pontchartrain and the Gulf of Mexico. Additionally, there are other large thunderstorm producing lakes nearby like Lake Salvador. It is exceedingly odd out that way when you go more than 2 weeks without rainfall.
Gizmodo Is Publishing the Facebook Papers
Thanks for the correction. In FSF terms, it has the first two freedoms (run the program, inspect/modify), but not the second two (redistribute program freely, redistribute modified versions).

Still, the latest version is on GitHub? But it's only for "personal use" according to the EULA (and not making your own fork for example).

https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite
Google's Pathways Language Model and Chain-of-Thought
Even in the best environments, stuff happens. If you have a central enough role in a large enough environment, you will cause pain for a ton of other people every once in a while, even if it’s not directly your fault. If you have a process that completely prevents all fuckups that an engineer could possibly cause, you either have a relatively small leaf node project or one that is low productivity.

That said, I wouldn’t necessarily give this question to the most junior candidates. Coping with a large existing sourcebase rapidly is a set of learned skills even if it’s just cargo-cutting a solution like this.
The rain often comes at night too, so for much of the year you experience a feeling that it has just rained, and everything is wet, but it's not actively raining.
It causes a lot of fraud in the US, too!
Did you just compare a $200 HP or Asus Chromebox to a $0 free 15 year old Dell tower from your local Freegeek?

We can do this all day.
Yes you would. But that doesn't mean you can't represent it with 16 nice graphics that clearly show if something is supported or not.