skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Three things that you could add to the article that would benefit most beginning terminal users:

1. Variables

2. Pipes

3. Shell substitution (using `` or $())

It is important for new programmers to understand that their shell is a REPL - this is something that isn't clear to them. Teaching them about variables and composition drives this point home and just unleashes their intelligence. This has been remarkably effective in my experience mentoring new programmers.
When thinking about building a shed recently I noticed the cheapest option was concrete block. Concrete block prices have only gone up a little as opposed to the massive increases for wood.
> Talking about politics used to be avoided here

I don't think this is true, take a look at the top posts a decade and so ago:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1325376000&dateRange=custom&...

A few examples:

- Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day (1716 points)

- A new approach to China (1145 points)

- GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day" (1103 points)

- Enough Is Enough (1019 points)
> Imagine when they can limit the trade of crypto to people who have certain ideas.

You're referring to projects other than for example Bitcoin right? Since the whole purpose of Bitcoin is that it shouldn't be possible to control it centrally. Or are you saying Bitcoin will inevitably be controlled by a single entity? If that happens I expect its value to be zero.
Was he fired? I thought he quit after Tsipras sold out the Greek people?
That’s the whole idea behind tax cuts and increasing income share for rich people and stagnating wages for everybody else. Only rich people can use money in a productive way. Giving it to the rest is just wasted.
That is the main purpose. But check SNARKs and STARKs, they have a great future outside of blockchain too.
The man is sufficiently credentialed to suggest that this is at least a well considered position of his based on his experiences as an economist and finance minister.

He was fired from finance minister of Greece after only a few months on the job for the less-than-braggable achievement of completely sabotaging Greece's recovery and ensuring Greece was the only European country which failed to recover during their bailout process.
About the same as you.
Ah yes, of course! How did i ever miss that? I see it now; thanks very much!
That's so true, no matter how much this quality is important. It is always been seen from different angles by recruiters.
>For one, the computational work for checking everyone's transactions on everyone's computer (i.e. blockchain) is consuming the computing power of the people interested.

With ZKP there won't be a need to run every transaction on everyone's computer
> There is no external trusted documentation that says what the intention of the code is.

Working out what both parties intended a contract to mean and what it should mean, sometimes in contradiction of what it actually says is exactly what the legal system does.

You can't evade the legal system by writing your contract in a different form. Weirdly I think this idea comes from thinking law is code when it isn't.
>Technology is a slave to capital.

You mean it's slave to people controling capital? Because capital by itself isn't sentient or capable of making decisions.

>Talking about technology as though it has any moral imperative other than "make more money" in the West is naive at best.

Technology have moral consequences, not a "moral imperative". Technology doesn't care if it counts number of Jews, carrots or cans of Zyklon-b. But people should, and normal people do. Tehnology shouldn't be an excuse to do whatever you want, because "computer said so". Someone programed/tauhgt that computer. Someone is responsible for it.

>At worst it is not only boring to anyone over 21, but it's counter productive to improving the world.

Capital, corporations and billionaires are human inventions, so does kings, slavery, white supremacy, misogyny. Kings didn't stopped to be kings just because everyone asked them nicely. It took time but in the end, kings were no more. Because in the end they depend on ordinary people to do their biddings. Jeff Bezos doesn't check if drivers reached their quota of urin filled bottles, people (directly or indirectly) do this.

>In short: let me read what I want and save your moralizing for the people who actually make decisions. None of which are technologists (any more).

Not talking about problematic technologies, decisions made by people in power doesn't make them go away. Pretending bad things didn't happen is delusional, but just talking doesn't help either. Actions are also needed, even if they are inconvenient or dangerous. There are many ways change can be brought, protests, civil disobedience and more. But pretending everything is ok, will make every call to action fail, even before it started.
- Chatwoot
- GitLab service desk
- HubDesk.io
My point isn't that the procedurally generated woman is as easy for the AI to conceive in many contexts as Brad, but that there are ways of explicitly reusing parts of images and combining an actor, a hat and a location in a novel but acceptable way is a tough challenge text prompt driven neural networks appear to now perform well at. Manually tagging items in each frame and requesting that they're in the next frame with text prompts doesn't scale, but adding a degree of automation to classifying parts of a frame and updating the data corpus and text prompt for the next frame doesn't seem an insurmountable problem. Many existing CGI techniques don't scale well (even human CGI artists working on Hollywood movies expect instructions on frame composition far more explicit than a director's comments and storyboard; I had a flatmate who was that translation layer). I don't see us getting coherent cinematography from feeding it Hollywood scripts soon if ever and agree there will be significant uncanny valley issues with human mannerisms, but we can do a lot of convincing and selective creative work with text prompts that we couldn't until recently. Especially in combination with other tools, so if DALL-E's concept of geometry is nowhere near capable of generating the side profile of procedurally generated 5'6" Italian woman, we create the woman in a specialised tool for 3D procedural face generation, and feed DALL-E as many images with different angles and lighting as it possesses of Brad. I'd agree we're a long way from doing without human curation and letting the neural networks do all the heavy lifting, but it looks like its now a curation and classification problem rather than a "neural networks can't discern that" problem.
Why are we relying on code for controlling
Safety-critical system? e.g. Nuclear Reactors

Because humans can't perform calculations quickly enough to compute math millions of times per second?

Computers work well when there are a finite set of fixed, quantitative inputs and outputs: if x < 20, do y

Many parts of law are a lot more complex and can't be reduced to such formulas. Suppose you're suing an employer for wrongful termination. They say your job performance sucked and that's why you were fired. You say it was a hostile workplace, and when you tried to point that out you were fired in retaliation.

Go write some code to evaluate that. Let us know when you're done. Should be pretty exciting. Hopefully we can retain all of the judges and lawyers now that they're not needed any more.
If you have 15 minutes to spare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o73fWsqJDdY
Is there rigorous evidence that supports the idea of unconscious bias and the effectiveness of training in reducing it? I’ve seen it advertised in academia and wondered if it’s evidence-based.
Man who never wanted to ride in fighter jet accidentally ejects himself
Mind you this is roughly about the same time that mainstream global media were trying to push the whole "Greeks are lazy/scammy creatures by DNA" narrative in response to Grexit.

I'd take any "tumultuousness" with a large grain of salt and focus on the man's careful and nuanced arguments instead. Particularly since much of what he warned about during his "tumultuous" term has in fact come true.
Asking a theoretical physicist about the physics of consciousness
It is amazing. I was forced into it, though. I found out (the hard way) that no one wants to play with older folks. I'm very fortunate that I had built up enough of a base to retire early. It wasn't planned, but it was there. I just heard from an ex-employee of mine, that he just got let go, and is running smack-dab into this ageism issue. He's very, very good, but he'll struggle like hell, and he doesn't have my resources.

I do work for nonprofits. These are folks that can't afford even crappy devs.

TBH, I get kind of a "screw you" kick from doing this. I was willing to work for quite a bit lower wages than even kids right out of school (if the work interested me), as I had my retirement set, and I would have settled for having the bills paid. I would have been absolutely ideal for startups.

But every company that I applied to, was more interested in insulting me, and ignoring my portfolio, than in taking me seriously.
I usually have few reasons for being concerned about the future.

I think wars (even with the on-going war that Russia started), climate issues (even with the high consumption present today) and poverty (even with many countries still in it) will all have a trend of declining.
However, this echo chamber fueled with miss-information is one of the things I care for.

I am so happy the EU has power and will to make good changes that gives mutual benefit to everyone when other parts of the world does not.
NASA beamed holographic doctors to the International Space Station
>I personally like the simple delivery model of XMPP

The moment you ask for reliability it stops being simple. Stream Management + Stanza Ids isn't simple, and it shows - XMPP is the only thing I use today where it occasionally happens that a message isn't delivered and I'm not even notified about it.

On a side note I don't believe that this can't be fixed. Maybe if we had end clients checking directly with each other what's been delivered and what hasn't, like actual humans end up doing anyway, I believe it'd be more reliable. Besides instead of relying on the c2s-s2s-s2c cooperation chain to work, it'd rely on just c2c cooperation, giving much fewer variations to test.
Just to clarify I'm not talking about a p2p connection but rather e.g. checking the number of stanzas not with the server, but with the interlocutor's client, through the normal XMPP means, like <iq/>s maybe
Parent wasn’t suggesting they were.
Allow me to "old man" intervene here...

1. 2 Live Crew and Too Short weren't Billboard #1 artists, they were (perfectly fine) marginal hip hop artists who helped knock down the door on profanity in lyrics.

2. Almost every pop song in the 80s and 90s had no profanity, the ratio was probably 99/1 or higher.

3. As a dad of 4 I can attest that profanity in the top 40 pop charts is waaaaaaaaay up, WAP style songs are mainstream, and I've had to teach my 5 year old to say "radio edit" to Alexa.

I did an informal study, at the end of last year Amazon Music had a "top 100 songs of 2021" playlist, I listened to them all and 44 of them had lyrics I would consider inappropriate for a 5 year old.

I'm not a prude and I'm not making value judgments, but the floodgates have opened on profanity and explicit lyrics, at least in part because of the decline of radio's monopoly, the rise of streaming, the overall fracturing of the monoculture, and the Internet's rewarding of clickbait / extreme behavior.
This answer is wrong from what I read

Not all countries are buying oil and gas in rubble, just the ones russia considers “unfriendly”. But even from those, russia isnt enforcing it. Germany has said it wouldn’t pay in ruble. US doesn’t buy anything from Russia. Hungary is paying in ruble.

By paying in ruble they create an artificial demand for the currency, making it worth more. However Russian government can make the same thing with the euro / dollars they receive from oil / gas purchase. The only reason they asked others pay in ruble is so they don’t have to do the conversion themselves because you know, with all the sanctions it is a pain to do it.

The price spikes in Russia didn’t go back after the currency stabilized, so regular Russians are still screwed

I’ve never seen anything about the gold standard thing, but even if it is true 1- gold price is also volatile and 2- there is a reason people moved away from gold standard
How to compile mORMot ? Is there example repo of some Login/CRUD website made with mORMot ?
The problem is with sleep (and the "active" sleep "S0 Low Power" that will check email) and Modern Standby, which uses software to choose when to Hibernate, so might not.

Hibernate S4 itself is fine, except the risk of physically triggering wakeup.
The use case that opened my mind is blockchain domain registrars. You can buy a domain and own it forever without a monthly payment. Everyone knows it is owned by a wallet and you can update the blockchain with your DNS info.

As far as I can tell it might be a little while before some of the TLD are supported by major browsers without an extension but I do believe support is inevitable.

Domains are a great blockchain product in my opinion.

Another aspect is products that can be tokenized without a company controlling things. The smart contracts are really cool in that you can make it so that you get paid a percentage of future sales. Forget about digital photos but think of it from owning a musicians album (royal does this).

These are things that can be done without the blockchain but you end up paying companies to manage it for you. They also set rules and they can also cancel you. Free from management fees and no company dictatorship.
Why would you use the word filipinx when there’s already the gender neutral word Filipino? Also doesn’t filipinx exclude Filipinos outside of the American diaspora? Then what do you call Filipinos outside of that geographical area?

See, you’re digging your own semantic hole with all this political correctness.
After trying Matrix as a Discord replacement with a couple of different clients it was pretty terrible. My Discord usage is fairly simple but I run a community for non-technical people. Matrix UX was pretty shit between confusing clients and just the overall clumsiness. I would have loved to introduce a whole community to it but instead I went back to Discord instead.
Now we need a menu appplet, cute icon, and name like Lullaby.
You can cherry pick stuff off the internet all you want. Doesn't make it good science or plausible.

Contracting your muscles to make your heart skip a beat or two does not count as "stopping your heart by thinking". By that logic I can drive my car by thinking.

I'll give you that you can influence the rate of your heart with practice.
Yeah, but if you don’t do it right it takes a long time (relative to the 30s-1m if you do it right) and you’ll have a mess on you’re hands… or floor… afterwards.

I look at the pithy little bits in this quote as being standins for the larger acts that they’re part of, and wouldn’t read too much into it.
A potentially life-threatening disease can be mild. I'm not sure why you think your source is a gotcha argument? He sourced it in his second comment.

However, due to the increase in cases, especially in young people, they aren't recommended to get vaccinated with Moderna for example. And younger children aren't recommended to get vaccinated at all right now, except when having pre-existing conditions (Germany, can't speak for other countries).
all airlines have something like this. it used to be called "counter to counter"; drop off and pick it up at the airport.

my story, about 1988. we had a system in Omaha with a broken power supply (it was big, say 6U, custom voltages). there was a spare in Rapid City, and downtime was charged by the hour.

no problem, took the spare in a box to the airport. they told us it was too big for counter to counter; but a ticket could be purchased and it would be put on the plane. No, problem.

"Give me a coach ticket to Omaha."
"Sorry sir, those are all sold. We do have a first class ticket available."
"In that case, OK"

The box went in the cargo hold.
'That's exactly what it means'

That is exactly what is doesn't mean, the poster you are replying to has provided proof in the form of peer revied research.

You don't get to dismiss that based on how something should hypothetically work in an ideal world.

'That's actually the core premise of a representative democracy.'

Communism also has a core premice, that does not mean it's valid and holds in a given country today

"Elite cabal from a completely different species controlling the system in which we are slaves"

The same argument judtifies Feudalism

"when a political makes a decision in favour of an interest group, let's say steel production"

This is literally the dictionary definition of 'undemocratic'

And it also would justify Feudalism
You say you've done research, i'm curious how you did the research? The standard go to reference from people who don't like crypto is now is a 2 hour video that makes zero effort to look for any good.

Responses such as this one make me think of the crypto-scene as some sort of weird techno-religion.

Imagine writing something like this about using REST, a relational database, or a high-level language vs assembly.

Imagine talking about a certain political faction “hating” dynamic typing.

I’ll admit I had to stop reading your comment after the first paragraph.
Wow that's kind of amazing.

Much respect. It's def inspiring and a very different way to just view the world, and to do work that matters to you.

Warms my heart! haha. Old people rock!
1. 2% is not low.

2. Crypto is mostly open source software. Most open source software gets better quickly. Writing off crypto completely because of its current state is a bit short sighted.

3. Could you say more about proof of stake? Vitalik[1] supports it and so do most eth devs. Seems to be a matter of time and implementation.

1 - https://vitalik.ca/general/2020/11/06/pos2020.html
> analogous to how a secure VM can go faster with a JIT while still maintaining security

…what? You can’t JIT your way out of the underlying machine being slow. The machine is a watch; JITs typically achieve performance by speeding up an interpreter running on the machine (in other words, taking advantage of missed performance opportunities).

This analogy doesn’t work for POW schemes, since wasting energy is the entire point. My understanding of “L2” solutions is that they’re really just pseudo-verified batching techniques, where transactions are rolled up off-chain and settled in bulk. That doesn’t “solve” PoW; it fundamentally undermines the original integrity promise.
> I fully expect that once Apple releases their server class CPUs at the end of this year

I assume you mean MacPro by this. I haven't seen anything indicating something bigger than the M1 Ultra coming anytime soon(pre-2024). Hell, the M1 Ultra itself was a surprise to me.
in common law systems I know it when I see it is good enough, but I believe most of EU is under a Napoleonic system where you should define what you mean.
It seems to me that other cryptos or even CBDCs in the form of centralized databases will be used for that - to distract people from Bitcoin.

Even Varoufakis understands that Bitcoin is good for the individuals, but not for the governments because it can't be controlled.
This is yet another market that C++ seems to be slowing winning the hearts of the industry, as even with its issues, it is a much easier development experience than dealing with traditional FPGA workflows and programming languages.
website is down?
As a software developer, when I monetized my hobby code that solved a niche problem, I needed to spend 10x more time to make it from "usable for me" to "usable for users".
Most definitely mine too.
Why would Word do all that craziness instead of just saving a copy of the document like it did 20 years ago?
Maybe slightly out of topic, but I'm incredibly impressed by the intelligence of this man, and how easily he can communicate on complex topics in such a simple language even a teenager without most of the context could grasp.
That's why the ZX Spectrum clone I had used keys with magnets and reed switches. Super smooth, quiet, indestructible.
Bitcoin value is what it currently is because it's traded against fiat, so holders can cash it out for currency they can actually use to buy things the real world.

If the world's biggest economies were to hypothetically legally ban crypto holding and exchanging for fiat, then bitcoin's value in relationships to fiat would tank overnight as it would become useless binary data nobody would want anymore.
I disagree with you and the parent as to the core issue / cause.

Critical thinking skills generally didn't vanish over the past 5, 10, 20, 30 years. That still exists and you can see it in numerous other topics of discussion that don't get so heated. In some spheres of discourse such skills have been overridden by emotion, feelings, however. People are being taught to suppress rational thought and to unleash emotional reaction instead.

What has happened is a cultural shift in which outrage behavior, reaction-to-whatever, being triggered, feelings-as-all-important, et al. has become acceptable and primary. Virtue signaling - which is a resulting disease of this shift - is omnipresent today. That all started to build notably throughout the prior decade and accelerated during the Trump years. Emotional reaction and how strong that reaction is, became a way to win contests intellectually. This primacy of feelings is now being taught throughout the US at all levels and at all times. It's an intellectual disaster, it turns adults into infants emotionally and intellectually. It stunts their growth mentally and it makes them fragile, weak, unable to partake in rigourous debate without shattering down to emotionally acting out (if you're losing in a debate, throw a culturally potent accusation card to end the debate). For a masterclass in this behavior observe Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, when she does something stupid or ignorant, or when she is caught lying, and watch how she avoids responsibility (she acts out very emotionally and immediately begins throwing any and all accusation cards to deflect and shut down discussion); or observe her approach to argumentation generally, she always argues from feelings-as-primary (watch how she uses her hands as she speaks, it's a tip-off); she's out on the tip of the intellectual spear for the US cultural implosion and the impending rise of violent tribalism and highly dysfunctional statism in the US culturally (and it's no coincidence she's an avowed Socialist; 20 years from now if you disagree with her emotions, her brown shirts equivalent - Antifa & Co. - will burn your house down; we're nearly at that level of primative cultural behavior now).

People have gradually come to tolerate outrageous emotional behavior. It's conceptually no different than the broken window theory. Bit by bit more and more emotional, acting-out behavior has become tolerated in the culture. Now it's widespread and the US culture is increasingly a cultural ghetto. When feelings become supreme in the intellectual realm, reason and reasonable behavior loses out every time. The culture that behaves that way will collapse rapidly into tribalism and conflict, lacking the approach necessary to resolve intellectual conflict (turning to feelings and emotion as primary can only end in violent conflict in an intellectual contest, there's no way then to determine right from wrong culturally other than who can shriek the loudest or hit the hardest).
GDPR Fines: The Biggest Privacy Sanctions Handed Out So Far
It's kind of amazing that, in the interview, everyone is an idiot except him.
why... lol
They could also play a superpermutation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tpNuulTeSQ