skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a long time when we didn't have much support volume we just used a google group that anyone doing tickets could access. This has the nice upside of being free.

We've used Teamwork Desk for the past few years and have been decently satisifed with it. It can be a little clunky at times and the help site feature has had some weird downtime, but for the most part it handles our small support workloads fine.
thank you, startup plan is always welcome!
“US doesn’t buy anything from Russia.”

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/russian-oil-flows-but-incre...

“Germany has said it wouldn’t pay in ruble.“

True. Due to long term contracts in place, some oil is not purchased using rubles. Still, other European countries including Netherlands, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, Greece and others are purchasing in rubles. Also, India and China are purchasing a large amount of oil. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/who-is-still-buying-...

“By paying in ruble they create an artificial demand for the currency, making it worth more.”

The demand is not artificial. The demand is the damn. Europe still imports 27% of oil from Russia.

“However Russian government can make the same thing with the euro / dollars they receive from oil / gas purchase. “

This is false. They cannot “do the same thing with the euro / dollars”.

“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.”

Again, false. They are deliberately increasing the value of the ruble.

“I’ve never seen anything about the gold standard thing”

https://seekingalpha.com/amp/article/4498704-russias-3-step-...
Most goods and services don’t fluctuate minute to minute despite input prices varying minute to minute. If I go to a car dealer the price of the car doesn’t change while I am there even when the real time price of commodity inputs are moving that quickly. Is that denying economics?
I've only seen the Sinclair ZX81. If the ribbon cable is similar (and it sure looks similar from a cursory image search) you should be able to fix the keyboard with just two electronics-related items, a multimeter with continuity mode and electrically conductive tape.

On the ZX81, the metal on the ribbon cable is exposed on one side. Which means you can put one multimeter lead somewhere close to the bottom of each trace, and the other lead you trace along the exposed wire. If your multimeter stops showing continuity, you know you have a break there and if you look really hard you should be able to see it.

If you have a lot of breaks close to the connector (quite likely), take a pair of scissors and cut off the part with the break and plug the remainder of the ribbon cable back in. Otherwise, cut the electrically conductive tape into a thin slice and tape that over the affected spot. (Soldering won't work, you'll just melt the ribbon cable).
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You're really doing not much more than a correlation equals causation thing. The rise of capitalism in certain countries has occured during an increase in the enjoyment of some specific kinds of liberty. But was that caused by capitalism, or was it caused by the parallel adoption of classical liberal political thought (which by itself has nothing to say about capitalism)? Was it caused by the rise of empire and the exploitation of natural resources across large parts of the world, exploitation that is not in any real sense dependent upon capitalism itself? Was it caused by scientific and medical advances that could conceivably have occured in different economic and political systems?

And then ... what are we to make of the freedoms that capitalism does not enhance? Current capitalist societies do a (historically) good job on what has been called "freedom to", but a fairly poor job on "freedom from". There is a coherent philosophical argument that the latter are at least as important as the former, in part because you cannot exercise the "freedom to <X>" if you are forced to trade your own labor in order to live, or because you are sick with no means of accessing health care. Capitalist societies certainly do very well at ensuring that those who control capital enjoy freedom; it's not so clear that they are anywhere nearly as accomplished at ensuring and amplifying the freedom(s) of those who do not.

There's no question that capitalism has proven very effective at driving the discovery and adoption of highly efficient means of production. This has created a world of material comforts that has never been seen before, accessible in most senses to all but the absolute poorest in capitalist countries. The problem is that while material comforts may be a wonderful thing, and perhaps even in some senses a necessary component of freedom, they are also insufficient.

Dismissing human striving for something better has rarely been productive in the long run. Yes, we know that the experiments during the 20th century in the Soviet Union, Cambodia, Mao's China, and elsewhere should make us very cautious about any similar proposals. But to act as if this (both capitalism, and those particular sorts of responses to it) are the only options, as though this is just the best we can do and there will never be anything better ... this is just uselessly pessimistic and almost certainly wrong.
I don't know what the real level of danger is but most of us probably have dozens of rechargeable batteries in our homes including in old electronics we don't use any longer. I've found a couple of old pieces of Apple gear with very swollen batteries.

The number of batteries will only increase as a lot of outdoor gear (lawn mowers and the like) are increasingly practical to have cordless electric versions of--to say nothing of cars. (Of course, this decreases the need to store gasoline at home.)
Yeah, thanks to C pointer syntax, there's a big faction of programmers that think that understanding indirect addressing is a major intellectual accomplishment.

I don't have anything better to offer though - C pointers make a whole lot possible in a very terse way.
You could listen to one of the versions out there that only lasts an hour. That would give you a good sense of the full piece.

Then you could go listen to a snippet of it, in this extremely slow version, and get a sense of that.

Then combine the two.
great tip. dont think i wanna self host though. will see, not decided yet.
Great point, it really does help frame the context: "you're local first but you allow A, B, and C - so you must allow/have X, Y, Z functionality."

The term "decentralized" has also been sullied a bit lately with relative failure of self-described projects, no rocket ship growth of legitimate federation projects (not yet anyhow), and was also another term that the Bitcoin et al "communities" misappropriated - along with the word "currency".
> you perceive that your life is at stake, the fate of rest of the world may not matter so much to you anymore.

This little underhanded slap is hilarious. I love it how you folks always try to frame things in “a single person is responsible for the entire apocalypse” terms. Frankly, it’s why your argument struggles. You devolve into ridiculous moral absolutism.

Considering that conservatively almost 90% of the people on this earth eat meat, I’m pretty sure that any global catastrophe that may or may not arise from meat consumption will not fall solely at my feet.
>Imagine when they can limit the trade of crypto to people who have certain ideas. Or limit the percentage of your wealth you can spend on certain items (games, movies, ... food).

Do you think this can't be done already with credit cards?
It's extremely hard to run chips at sub-ambient temperatures for a sustained period of time, as you have to get extremely careful about condensation.
We regularly see this question and we get the same types of answers. I'd like to offer an unpopular take and echo Jonathan Blow's sentiments [1] on the topic: if you feel like an imposter, then you probably are an imposter. So you have a responsibility (or several) where you lack either ability or understanding, or both. It sounds like you know what you should do: improve your ability and understanding for what you are responsible for, either before the bureaucracy finds you out, or before you hurt someone.

[1] https://youtu.be/YUFXuxa0Drk?t=89
Lots of responses here about people getting mail to the wrong gmail address. This never happens to me because I have a unique domain; that seems to cut down on the problem a great deal.

Most of the "wrong" email I get is genuine spam but it tends to be from companies I signed up for that have since gone out of business and sold my address to spammers, or companies that have had a data breach (naturally).
I find that confusing in a bunch of other ways. I much prefer the non C style of name : type rather than having the name embedded in the middle of the type.
will check it out, thank you for the suggestion
It probably looks new mostly because the pipes are so shiny. This is because, in order to change any note, a new pipe is actually installed in one of the slots.
Yep we also create a unique id for each project so that you can run 2 different rust apps during the same session, or else 1 rust projects build files would be mixed with the others how we go about this is we create a directory /dev/shm/<uuid> and symlinking this created directory into the rust projects target dir
Apologies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/business/putin-russian-oi...
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In the future going for regular blood filtering will be like going to the dentist.
FWIW, Nathan Dunfield's hand drawings are typically very difficult to improve upon.

This is an impressive paper. Thank you for sharing!
Except in the real world for any black hole we observe (stellar mass or larger) that temperature is much lower than the cosmic microwave background so that you won’t see it.

A stellar black hole floating out between the galaxies would not be evaporating now but rather slowly gaining energy from the CMB. The universal will have to expand for a long time before it gets cooler than black holes.
Could be the western powers actually don’t have as much global influence as they once had. China, India, Turkey and Israel (along with a host of others) have no problem interacting with russia economically. The recent crash was just another opportunity to make some money and buy the dip.
On the other hand:

>anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

That casts a wide net, and something that a segment of HN would find intellectually gratifying and produce good conversation shouldn't be avoided just because traditional media happened to stumble on it too. I try to keep in mind the "probably" modifier, and that other people may be gratified by different content. Generally speaking I only flag clickbait or things that are divisively partisan and probably won't produce any actual conversation.

Then on things like politics... Well, just consider this headline currently on the front page: "Crypto, the Left & Technofeudalism"

Crypto is a massive bit of emerging technology, but it is virtually impossible to separate it from some of the politics and social values involvde. It's pretty much baked to the motivations behind many proponents as well as the people directly working on the tech.
Most people aren't even aware of most wars and will likely follow whatever it's safe to support. The Irak war was safe to support until it was marginalizing to do so.

You want to look like a weirdo? Just tell your friends how worried you are about the war in Yemen, and how evil you think it is that USA is supporting Saudi Arabia. Most people will put you in the crazy conspiracy theories bucket.

The only reason people are so concerned about Ukraine is because it's all over the media and they're told they must be very opposed to it and very concerned. A week without this in the news, it'll be wiped out from their memories.
I started buying and restoring Commodore computers about a year ago.

A Commodore 64 was my first computer and it’s so satisfying diagnosing which chip is bad, replacing it and seeing the computer start up successfully.
So, something like "Europe and America will turn into China-style mass surveillance states if we don't demand a change in direction immediately"?

Has the benefit of being relatively true as well. Google leadership was all too eager to get in on the Chinese censorship machine (Dragonfly) as I recall:

https://archive.thinkprogress.org/google-dragonfly-china-cen...
Why would people accept bitcoin IOUs when the real thing is more interoperable, saleable, private etc.etc. and of course doesn't require trust in the issuer. The answer is force [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
This seems like a fully general (and somewhat unconvincing) argument against doing theoretical physics. The key paragraphs are:

"What’s going to happen with this new solution? Most likely, someone’s going to find a problem with it, and everyone will continue working on their own solution. Indeed, there’s a good chance that by the time this video appears this has already happened. For me, the real paradox is why they keep doing it. I guess they do it because they have been told so often this is a big problem that they believe if they solve it they’ll be considered geniuses. But of course their colleagues will never agree that they solved the problem to begin with. So by all chances, half a year from now you’ll see another headline claiming that the problem has been solved.

And that’s why I stopped working on the black hole information loss paradox. Not because it’s unsolvable. But because you can’t solve this problem with mathematics alone, and experiments are not possible, not now and probably not in the next 10000 years."

First, let's grant that no experimental evidence will be forthcoming in thousands of years. (It's conceivable to me that some astronomers will get lucky and provide some indirect evidence of some sort, but ignore this for now.)

Why do we believe that this problem can't be solved, or at least profitably investigated, with mathematics (and physical intuition, and the rest of the experimental evidence we have about black holes – it's definitely not "mathematics alone")? At least in principle, one can imagine that there is a finite set of possible solutions (corresponding to dropping various assumptions, as she mentions earlier in the article), and all but one of those can be ruled out a priori via mathematical inconsistencies, a contradiction with physical evidence from non-black hole phenomena, or other undesirable properties.

Maybe there are special features of the black hole information problem that make this impossible. But this overall mode of mathematical investigation is how theoretical physics works and has always worked. Einstein discovered general relativity by tweaking assumptions and deducing the theory was likely to be true because it resolved various issues, but we had no direct test [edit: of gravitational waves] for about 100 years. It would have been unfortunate if he concluded the problem was pointless to work on because no experimental evidence would manifest within his lifetime.

(Example problem fixed by Einstein: https://aether.lbl.gov/www/classes/p10/gr/Precessionperiheli...)
Marin county is a poor choice if you want to build things. They are extremely uptight about permit enforcement. Sonoma is easier.

I'm in Solano, which is somewhat ok. We still sometimes struggle with the permit department. It would be even easier if we were about a mile north, in Yolo. But there isn't a huge inventory of properties for sale so you don't necessarily get to pick.

On the plus side, if you're trading in from a home in the inner bay area, everything will seem very cheap.
Ways to Fortify Your Retirement Against Market Volatility
The gig workers fighting back against the algorithms
“Other side bad”
I think topics tend to cluster as people follow up on interesting posts; at least, that would explain two active discussions in two days.
Governments certainly will attempt to issue IOUs backed by bitcoin. And some people will accept them.

If you are willing to trust your bitcoin to an exchange, as many people are, you should certainly be willing to trust your government.

But a lot of people hold their bitcoin offline, in hardware wallets, in cold storage. It's not that hard.

Another feature that bitcoin has, that gold does not, is proof of reserves. Barely any exchanges do this, but this will change with time.

Proof of reserves pretty much makes bitcoin IOUs for the government useless. You can't cheat by printing more.

I think far fewer people will trust their government with bitcoin under a bitcoin standard, than trusted their government with gold under a gold standard.

Particularly after a few governments default.

I discuss this more in depth at

https://web.archive.org/web/20210116135412/https://taaalk.co... (long)
Thanks, will do. That link was added with an edit after my comment. Looks like a great article.
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Movies cannot be better dubbed. I want to watch and hear the original actors act. Voice is an essential part of acting.

What you're saying is effectively "our voice actors are better than the original actors", which I simply cannot stand behind.
> Even Varoufakis understands that Bitcoin is good for the individuals

He is not saying that. He states that individuals that own a lot of it are incentivized to like its fixed monetary policy, at the expense of the safety of the majority.

> If you have gold, it is good for you if its supply is limited, fixed if possible. Same with Bitcoin, silver, dollars. (Nb. It is why the rich and powerful traditionally opposed expansionary monetary policy, crying ‘hyperinflation’ at the drop of a hat.)

> A fixed money supply translates into a deflationary dynamic which, in a system prone to under-employing its people and under-investing in things society needs (i.e. capitalism), is a catastrophe in the making.
Perhaps it was posted using a DAO running a SmartContract on The B_Chain?

;)
"Think of the children" is used to pre-emptively attack any opposition to what is being proposed, i.e. "you are against this? you don't care about children?". It is despised by privacy advocates and I wouldn't support any group who used a tactic like that.
> perhaps something to consider: more and more people seem to be listening to old music instead of the latest and greatest.

The most likely explanation is survivorship bias. That is, the old music that people listen to is the better stuff that has stood the test of time, and the very latest tunes... haven't. Yet.

Eleven years ago the latest popular tunes included the gem "Friday" by Rebecca Black. 21 years ago it included "Who Let the Dogs Out?". 29 years ago it included the Macarena.
While this is the most thoughtful comment, it seems like without the effective equivalent of population caps, price controls, and a large redistribution network, a deflationary system would involve people fighting over progressively smaller pieces of the pie, while those who have more than enough continue to take a smaller amount of their resources over time until the effective expenditures of the wealthy are effectively zero. This also would effectively bar new entrants to the system, so children, those with little access to tech and energy resources, and those in developing counties.
My pet peeve with Lazarus, Deplhi and other visual RAD tools is lack of reusability and composability.

The built-in visual blocks are great, but building your own is nontrivial, you can not build them visually, you must code. To add insult to injury, in Delphi custom components were system-wide, not project scoped and required elaborate installation/registration to show up in the IDE.

Also pascal is insanely verbose, i.e. simple list operations (like building list of options for selecbox) span multiple lines of code.

I'd like to see a RAD tool with so good component design as Lazarus (the Delphi component model design is great and provides for fast, memory efficie t implementation) with a modern language such as TypeScript.

I guess I will need to write my own... once.
> a swarm of up to 30 small drones

Wow. I get the complexities of this, but I’m surprised that we’ve never done 30 before.

I had presumed that Shock & Awe with drones would be 100+ .
Plex servers and containerizing all of the services that support it are how I learned to use docker before I became a professional. It’s now turned into a collection of containerized services all talking to each other with dynamic dns on cron, pihole, wireguard, HomeKit running all my appliances and more…
I don’t get it. Is it only a homelab if I use it to practice network certification exams?
There is some grass fed, organic, grade A level gatekeeping in this thread…and it made me want to rant.
If you had to pick, would you choose missing docs or incorrect docs?
Any thread about this is incomplete without mentioning the article about a note change in this performance by John Darnielle (of the band the Mountain Goats, who is also a novelist): https://harpers.org/archive/2016/01/there-are-other-forces-a...
I've seen interviews with Varoufakis before, there are several on YouTube. I find him very hard two bear for two (unrelated?) reasons.

First of all, I have the impression that he's incredibly vain. Maybe that's not entirely his fault, because parts of the left in Europe celebrate him like a rock star. But when he retells the story of how he negotiated with other leaders of the EU about the Greek debt crisis, the framing is always that he was the only wise person in a room full of idiots, and they wouldn't agree to the rational course of action because they were intimidated by his superior intelligence. This is of course just my observation, and I don't have a good source ready, so I'm curious if others have the same impression.

Second, although he downplays it somewhat when asked directly, he is a full-on radical marxist. This includes the view that anytime someone makes any money anywhere whatsoever, that can only mean somebody else is being exploited. I don't know how marxists square their conviction that no trade is ever beneficial to both sides with the reality that nobody is held at gunpoint to make those trades, but here's an example quote from the interview:

> So, when a recession hits, and the central bank decides to stimulate the economy, the central bank lowers the interest rate of the overdraft it grants commercial bankers – who then exploit this to profit from arbitrage (by lending the money on to customers at a higher interest rate).

I find this incredibly disingenuous because as an economist, he knows better. Lending is a service that banks provide that many (arguably perhaps too many) people choose to make use of. And Varoufakis is fully aware of the difference between risk-free and risk-adjusted interest rates. But of course, "banks bad", that's what his audience wants to hear. I think there, he agrees with the crypto people to a much larger extend than he would admit.

TL;DR: I think Varoufakis is overrated, although I somewhat agree with him on crypto.
This is immediately useful for a huge number of practical real-world applications.

Make sure to watch the short explanatory video (and turn the sound on) -- here's the direct link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uXFYpVumh4

The short video is great. The paper looks great (based on a very quick skim; this is an area in which the authors have far more expertise than me). The high-level explanations are great. The web page is great -- informative and to-the-point. Really impressive work!

--

EDIT: The senior author is here at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31134139 -- his comment should probably be above mine. Please upvote it.
If I had a teenager, I would've made sure they know about the great shadow library. [1]

It has a few advantages: there are no wait-times for the ebooks, it has no agenda other than providing access to books, and it actually has the real banned books you almost certainly wouldn't find in a public library.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis