skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think a lot of controversy on the topic stems from people defining racism differently. From how I remember - racism was initially about categorically treating people differently depending on their race. That still exists in some areas/workplaces etc but has been mostly solved from a societal viewpoint.

This is the John Roberts "our country has changed" perspective. There is definitely not consensus across US society for it. It is a view strongly held by some and strongly rejected by others, correlating largely with political affiliation.

There's not even consensus that discrimination is bad. About all you can say is that spouting explicitly racist views is no longer accepted in polite society.

> What were now arguing about as racism is no longer the categorical mistreatment/favoritism and instead what people end up with, while ignoring the way how we got there - and that issue is indeed incredibly hard to solve.

The struggle today is the same struggle it's always been. The same factions who opposed having laws punishing discrimination passed decades ago are arguing for the dismantlement of those laws today. Those factions didn't accept that the discrimination those laws outlawed was problematic before, and they still don't today.
I'm grumpy about Visa/MC taking 3% of every transaction. I want a technofix for that. There are new blockchains that cost less than a penny per transaction use about a millionth of the wattage of bitcoin and I hope they turn out to be non-BS. I just want an efficient low-cost barrierless payment network.
It's really not that hard. Libertarians, minarchists and "anarcho-capitalists" take one of the things which inherently need a state to uphold it (private property) and use it as the conceptual foundation of their social order - while not liking "the state". All other anarchists don't and hence get labeled as "left". That's the main difference, and the reason why "anarcho-capitalist" is inherently paradoxical.

There is also another conversation to be had about minarchist/libertarian ideas basically wanting to remove all the good bits of the state (creating public goods, giving weaker participants of a system protection, internalising externalities via regulation etc.) but keeping the bad parts (police and military with their massive potential for rent seeking and state capturing of money pots, not to speak about violence and abuse).
Dell XPSes are good too

Unless you plan to put them into a bag or backpack suspended:

With regards to transporting your laptop in a bag or backpack, safety should be your primary concern. You should always turn the laptop OFF [...] Under no circumstances should you leave a laptop powered on and in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag, backpack, or in an overhead bin. The laptop will overheat as a result of that action.

https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/FAQ-Modern-Standby/td-p/7...
While Satoshi certainly had libertarian leanings, I don't see how anyone could possibly assign him to the "right" side of the political compass

> “It’s very attractive to the libertarian viewpoint if we can explain it properly. I’m better with code than with words though.” - Satoshi Nakamoto

The impression you get from Satoshi's writing and the people he associated with (e.g. Hal Finney) is that he seemed more left-leaning if anything.

There's a strong right-wing bent to the community NOW, I don't think there's any doubt of that, but to call its ROOTS "right" is unfounded
What needs to be done depends on the model. Some models are Ubuntu certfied [0] and just work. They even sell some with it. Some need a little tweaking. I recently got a P14s Gen 2 AMD at work and all I really had to do was install the OEM kernel to get WiFi working and set sleep in the BIOS to Linux instead of Windows. Otherwise everything works.

[0] https://ubuntu.com/certified
Lenovo has a tool that can keep the battery at around 70%. If you are 80% working in the same location, then it can really keep your batter life longer. If you are moving all the time, then certainly keep it charge to 100%.
(I'm Russian). This war was started by a single madman. If not him, it would never happen. Even his spy chief was fucked up [0] when he realized what's going to happen.

Yes — at least 70% support whatever he does — and I tried hard to disprove this painful fact to myself. But couldn't.

The only excuse is the 20 years of hardcore TV brainwashing — but it's not too great of an excuse. Better than in nazi Germany, but not enough.

All that cultural banter the article mentions never caused any actual sense of war — it was more like a Texan joking about a Canadian.

I don't know how to live with this shame. Can't even post in Russian, at local forums. All those stupid faces in the 'do you support the war' Youtube steet interviews… Yes, there are others — Navalny was poisoned, and is now behind the bars. Nemtsov was murdered in front of Kremlin long before the war. Kasparov, Nevzorov condemned this crime. Hundreds of thousands of IT left the country — unable to fight unarmed. But still…

Trying to drown myself in English, jokes, work to keep the sanity. Doesn't work half of the times. Jokes clumsy, work fucked.

Ukraine is now a moral leader of Europe. It will be restored — every single broken window. And people will live free and proud. It's my only bright cloud now.

[0] Fucked up spy chief — https://youtu.be/ucEs0nBuowE
I built something that will take care of the publish part but not the static site generation part here https://github.com/newbeelearn/sserver. Right now it only has one user i.e. me :-)
You don't run JavaScript in the backend and even if you do, it's not a problem for a lot of common use cases.

JavaScript is also not the language people write in, it's the target. People compile there code into JavaScript more so that writing it.

The reason you have JavaScript on the server side of things is that it bridges the browser gap. You get to share some bits between your client and server code. Also, if you have hybrid rendering solutions it's really convenient.

You don't exclusively run Node everywhere just because you have Node.

It's a tool that can do some things really well. That's it.
me three!! exactly what i've been waiting to hear about.
Same here when accessing from the UK - marketplace links just redirect back to the main laptop purchasing page.
Could DALL-E 2 be used to make a series of images of the same character doing different things? Like, if you wanted to make a childrens book about Bobby the 7-eyed giraffosaur's trip to the store, it would be weird if the character looked different on each page.
The GP said nothing about "benevolence", he was arguing it is in the interest of NVidia
Completely agree - if the projection from Q2 wasn't also so negative, I would say the market has overreacted a little bit.
Lenovo T14s here (AMD version). Stuff works out of the box on Debian, except for the LTE modem which works after a bit of a struggle. Battery life is better under Windows but I haven't bothered working out why, probably need to set up some power management stuff. Associated dock drives three 1920x1200 screens at the same time as the built-in one.
What level of economic activity in crypto is unrelated to speculative gain.

If you want to stop angry responses to claims for the value to economic process you need to be honest about the extent to which crypto is a game for massive speculative gain, pump and dump, washing and money laundering.

Use of public signed ledger to audit value flow and provide certainty to low doc activity like cash in Africa, payments to farmers worldwide, ending the game of 90 day credit and discounting for prompt payment, reducing rent seeking. All laudible.

But please instead of just listing them, give us some numbers.
SwitchCenter: an OSX Mission Control alternative (invite-only)
Hello HN.

I’m working on a tool that aims to replace OSX's Mission Control: https://www.switchcenter.app.

It will display the windows in a more orderly fashion and will also give you some control over them (i.e. you can close the windows or go full-screen).
When released, it will be a paid-for tool with a trial version available to try it out.

I would very much appreciate if anyone would be willing and curious enough to try the alpha-preview version and provide some feedback.

If you want to participate please go to https://www.switchcenter.app to subscribe, or send me an email.

Thank you in advance.
IMHO, apply the marmite first. It's extremely viscous, so much easier to apply to unbuttered toast, and while the toast is hotter to soften it. Plus, you want the marmite underneath a layer of something else, so that it's not the first thing that makes contact with your mouth when you bite. You want the flavour to develop as you chew.

Also, marmite works really well with peanut butter instead of butter.
I don't understand the backlash here. The jist seemed to be traditional tools that are exact take a long time to process complex designs. Deep learning offers a statistical approach that can give a 'coarse' prediction and they're using this to reduce development time. That seems to make sense to me, especially in the earlier verification phases of the hardware design lifecycle.

To me this sounds like a good use-case of AI and Neural Nets. It doesn't appear to be looking to replace the traditional tools, just augment.
"just consider how many generations it would take - if it ever happened at all - for free expression to return once language is denuded"

Well, how many do you think it would take and where are you getting those numbers? I'd say there are lots of obvious counter examples. There are many Chinese activists living outside China for instance, who managed to find their voice again after leaving a country that has universal censorship. That's a country in which many words are simply banned in all electronic communication, but it doesn't last. Plenty of people escaped the Soviet Union and became outspoken anti-communist activists, same thing.

The assumption above is exactly what I'm getting at here. You're presenting it like it's so obvious it doesn't need to be supported with evidence. But it's not at all obvious and actually is probably wrong; if it was right then the replies to my comment would be filled with compelling evidence that this sort of mind control really works.
Maybe that is what happened here. The cycle completes...
Life on europa id always discussed under ice, which is thick enoufh to block all radiation
Ask HN: Why aren't price comparison websites big in the US?
One thing I noticed and that I haven't been able to completely make sense of is why there aren't any big price comparison portals that serve the U.S. market.

I'm from Switzerland. One of the first use cases of the internet for me was to use the local price comparison site comparis.ch to get the best deals on services like health insurance or broadband packages. Comparis is a hugely popular website in Switzerland. And that's despite that fact that it's much wealthier compared to say, Germany (where idealo.de is the dominant price comparison portal).

My understanding is that there are a lot niche comparison websites, such as CamelCamelCamel for setting price alerts on Amazon. There are also aggregators for travel and other verticals. However, there appears to be no one particular dominant one-stop type of portal offering comparisons across all kinds of product and service categories like Comparis or Idealo.

I do understand that the United States has one of the highest average incomes worldwide and the people there are more willing to part with their money than consumers in other places. However, there must still be a sizable addressable market here, just like there is in Switzerland, which is also a wealthy country. And yet, no dominant price comparison portal has emerged yet. Why is that?
I don’t know how your company works, so I’ll make general comments. People who manage, including those who manage programmers, too often don’t actually do the work of managing. A big part of managing a team or project is making sure everyone knows what they are expected to do, how long that will take, how much it will cost, what risks it involves. It also means discussing alternatives and fallbacks.

At all times the manager should know what people are working on, when to expect delivery, and know how to detect schedule/cost slips early on. The programmer(s) should know exactly what they are supposed to be doing, and what “done” looks like — what their deliverable is. What I actually see most of the time is vague requirements like “make an e-commerce site in six months” from management (or in my case, customers), and the programmers left on their own to figure that out. Then the team spends five months arguing about programming languages and tools and the “best” approach to edge cases while nothing gets delivered, and their manager is not paying attention. If the manager set the deliverables the team could work to deliver in a clear way. “Site structure with navigation but no content or functionality in two weeks,” for example. Give the team a few days to decide on language and tools and so on then move forward.

With short iterations it should be obvious fairly early if the tasks are too vague, or the estimates are way off, or if the team is not working on the agreed-to goals. When those problems become apparent the manager (or customer) and the programming team identify the cause and adjust so the next iteration (call it a sprint if you want, same thing) goes better. The team should be delivering all the time — manager should not allow 80% of the schedule to go by without seeing continuous progress. In my case I’m putting something in front of my customers every few days, and my deliverables are easy-to-measure things like (for example) import these CSV files into a Postgres cloud instance, or verify that the addresses users enter have valid ZIP codes. With a more experienced and “gelled” team you can make the deliverables a little broader.

I’m describing Agile development, but not the rituals and nonsense that have made the term almost meaningless. Iterative development with clear tasks and deliverables, and a feedback loop with the customer, right from the beginning.

As for communication, you can set those expectations and if the programmer is not talking to the team, or the manager, or customer, within the time limits you both agreed to, you have a performance issue to deal with. Poor communication sinks projects more often than not understanding binary trees. From my own customers the number one thing I hear is “The last developers stopped answering my emails and phone calls.” I make a point to always answer and keep my customers informed, which puts me in the top tier of freelancers even if I’m not the most technically awesome programmer.
It would be interesting to know, in comparison, how high the fees are to the company that sends the DMCA takedown requests

And how much it costs to defend oneself against such a request
If anyone from Framework is reading this: It appears as though the image[1] accompanying the US International keyboard on the US Framework Marketplace[2] is inaccurate. It seems to be an ANSI keyboard with the word 'gr' crudely photoshopped into the right alt key. This is most likely a mistake, as the term 'US International' typically refers to an ISO keyboard. I would humbly suggest that Framework correct the image and clarify whether the keyboard in question is ISO or ANSI.

[1]: https://frame.work/marketplace/keyboards

[2]: https://frame.work/products/keyboard?v=FRANBKEN05
I absolutely don't mind lossy compression, until I can actually hear it, at which point I can't bear to continue listening.
My point is the author claims that it’s origin is such and such political affiliation “unquestionably”. Prove it.
Monero is the closest thing to "internet cash", sadly it's not as popular as other alternatives.
Then again, the solution to this is not necessarily Uber, but a regulation forcing taxi drivers to provide credit card payment. As far as I remember, these systems allow a default "do you want to tip" option (but I see what you mean, people probably tend to tip more with cash than with credit cards).
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS: What's New?
No the guy has way too many mistruths. America is not 90% white and 10% black.

Yes the benefits of white racism is psychological but it's also economic and legal. Please check out the copius data on employment and income gap for equivalently educated white and blacks. Check out ongoing disparities in the legal system at all levels between black and white.

To say white privilege is nonexistent is US is to be extremely ignorant.
it’s not your problem. pay them more so they don’t need to juggle multiple jobs?
There are new blockchains based on technology a million times more efficient than Bitcoin. Ethereum is trying to upgrade. Bitcoin is terrible, but this is fixable by using things other than bitcoin.
>It has been a decade of dumb claims and ridiculous assertions from the pro-crypto crowd.

Agreed. For me it was the NFT'ing of a fart that was the jumping the shark moment that drove me from being merely a crypto skeptic to being vociferously anti-crypto and advocating against it at every turn.
The author does not state that people "disagreeing" with crypto are toxic, just that a subset of anti-crypto people are toxic. (Same applies to some pro-crypto people).
Did anyone else see that apparently Marmite isn't even the best marmite? Somehow ze Germans have improved on it.

https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/food-and-drink/article/marmi...
True, but without light it's even harder. Of course we have seen life here around thermal vents but did it originate without light?
In isolation, but no cross-language invocations, reference sharing etc yet.

It'll work as promised when I can import a C# class in my JS code, instantiate it and then pass one of its methods to a Python module and invoke it from there.

Great times are ahead of us.
> The potential for cool applications of blockchains is still there

It is important to note that crypto currencies are distributed blockchains, a subset of blockchain methods. Blockchains for tamper detection purposes have been around for longer than bitcoin and its ilk, IIRC they date back to the mid 80s or before.
Are they interested enough in it to do more than buy merch? My impression is people collect way more of that stuff than they actually use, which isn’t a good sign for continuing investment.

Nintendo game remakes don’t always do well; the Mario&Luigi developer AlphaDream went out of business after their remakes failed.
Think pads are nice for the many reasons in other comments. However, the track pad and nibble-mouse on it are unusable in my opinion. For a laptop, it requires an external mouse to function, so if high mobility is a factor, I would look elsewhere.

My basic $600 acer laptop from 2017 has better trackpad than my ThinkPad from work and was expandable enough to cover my needs with a quick Ram and SSD upgrade and it has a really good, large track pad still working to this day.
[I've mentioned it quite a times on HN]

Ghost - If you are really serious about writing and monetizing it. Not useful if you are not earning from your writing

Medium - If you are gonna write once in a year. or. you are happy putting your articles behind their paywall

dev.to - If you don't have a niche, just writing for the community whenever you feel

hashnode - If you prefer having custom domain, writing for beginners, love SEO, want to build personal brand, and a bit serious about technical writing.

SSG + Github Page - If you love getting your hands dirty in coding & willing to spend sometime to learn a new tech. (plus point, you have full freedom to design it in your own way)

- My self-hosted blog built with NextJs. https://pankajtanwar.in/blogs
A better question is why does AI or blockchain need to be involved at all? A system like this already exists… it’s called the tax code: take a portion of generated wealth and allocate it to the public good.

And I think it should be obvious why we don’t let AI run that show.
You're probably thinking of Houston and Austin.

In any case, all three have rampant HOAs which serve the same purpose as zoning.
I don't see how this trains your muscle memory. Typingclub.com has some very well designed sections for practicing symbols that are much more effective.
some companies don’t even get you need 2 monitors and you want everyone to be aware?
Well that’s tomorrows breakfast sorted :)

I know someone who puts a touch of salt on his peanut butter, so I can definitely see marmite working with it.
You kind of have to plan things differently: assume that there will be 3 or 4 rounds of investment before the company grows to an appreciable firm - Seed, A, and B, there is some equity, say 10-15% for early employees, etc.

Then you will conclude that giving away more than 20% at each stage will dilute you into nothingness

Ofcourse the nature of the project, etc. matter a lot
At one time Baltimore worked long and hard, and spent a lot of money, building a subway system.

When the system was done, a prof I knew did a cost-benefit analysis and looked for an optimal way to proceed. His result, clear and solid: Brick up the entrances to the subway and otherwise just f'get about it. That is, even given the subway already built and for free, just the continuing operating costs would exceed any reasonable list of benefits.

The idea of cost-benefit analysis goes way back to the early 1900s: People saw that could have water resource projects that would let a desert bloom. So, there were a lot of such proposals. So, to filter the proposals people worked out the technique of cost-benefit analysis and wrote into some laws that for any such water projects the benefits had to exceed the costs -- that requirement filtered out nearly all the water projects. Subways and trains stand to be filtered similarly.
There is extra risk of course.

Good ventilation is required through a counter-flow heat-exchange. This typically gives you the problem of too low humidity, as you remove humid air and get condensation in the heat exchange.

There is risk of condensation in the walls. The internal warm layer is airtight, but the walls need to be ably to breath to the outside. Your wood can rot if you make mistakes here, especially on small leaks in the airtight layer. So air-tightness actually is needed to prevent too much condensation in the construction.

This all supposes that warm is inside and cold outside, as is typical where I live. In reverse conditions, with hot humid weather and cooling inside, condensation is likely in the walls, as the airtight layer is on the cold side of the wall now.

So condensation in the construction is unavoidable. I used an online calculator to decide my material use [1] to estimate how often it does happen, and how long it typically takes to dry. Inside my home, I need a humidifier, this winter it was often below 30%.

[1] https://www.ubakus.com/
Don't think it has much to do with the notation. Take the integral sign for example. What are we talking about Riemann, Riemann–Stieltjes, Lebesgue, some weird stochastic integral? It's the same symbol. You won't "understand" it better by using a different symbol. Even the Riemann integral, to rigorously "understand" it requires lots of concepts from analysis like least upper bounds (infimum, supremum), partitions, etc. The notation is hardly the stumbling block here, there's no way of getting around understanding the details if you really truly want to "get" it. But again, in practise, when you're doing integration by hand, you've learned a few tricks that work and you hardly ever think about it at the level of analysis.