skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, the old phrase "my avocation is my vocation"

I'm very blessed to be able to tell people this. When I was growing up, my grandmother had a radio scanner in her small town Virginia home, and I was fascinated that you could listen in on what the police and fire departments were doing on a daily basis. My parents bought me a radio scanner a few years later and as a young boy I followed the rabbit hole of radio communications, scanners, and listening in to police, fire, aircraft, amateur radio etc.

Fast forward many years: I'm well established in a career as an IBM System Engineer, and during my downtime in the 90's, I thought it would be really neat if, instead of purchasing books with radio frequencies, it would be pretty cool if you could search on the WWW for this data. This was back in the day when this data was just starting to be made available on dial-up BBSs, but this new WWW thing was becoming more and more popular.

Mind you, I still pursued my hobby of radios and scanners, and had lots of expensive equipment to listen to everything around me. All the while taking multiple conference calls with IBM customers and generally doing my "day" job from home.

So, one week I sat down and taught myself Perl and MySQL. Created an online database, solicited people over Usenet to submit data to the new site, and RadioReference.com was born.

Fast forward to today. RadioReference.com is my avocation and vocation, I get to stay home and develop and manage my business which is also my hobby. And we did some amazing innovation which resulted in Broadcastify.com, which allows you to listen to police scanners all over the world without ever having to buy a complex radio.

So, yes, you can monetize your hobby, and this article really resonates. I never made it about the money, but my business is wildly successful and I can definitely tell you that I am living the dream :)
The current state is, roughly: Government-backed contracts are ultimately enforced by litigation, which is judged by a judge, who is appointed and judged by the state government, who are appointed and judged by the governor, who is appointed and judged by democratic elections.

A couple factors make the current system powerful:
- Each decision-maker is roughly motivated to seek truth and behave honestly by the judgement of the next level up, so i.e. impeachment of judges should be rare
- The hierarchical structure makes enforcement exponentially cheaper than every human voting on every contract outcome.

Neither government contracts nor smart contracts can offer 100% correct validation of every contract. All they can do is attempt to set up a structure which tries to motivate the right thing and tries to make litigation somewhat cheap.

It seems a bit silly, though, to think there's no room for improvement there, both in performance and correctness.
1) By making all decisions public, you can make judging those decisions easier
2) By making all decisions public, you can easily reuse a single judgement in many decisions
3) By using machines instead of humans, there is dramatically more bandwidth for a much broader range of contracts
4) The topology of this network only really lets people vote at a single point – where a governor is elected every n years, which is hardly robust feedback.
etc.

I mostly agree with your conclusion on most parts of crypto but we shouldn't thing that "government is a solved problem" is a sweeping rebuttal of all smart contracts.
Winters is an underrated town, I think.
It is because Lazarus/FPC have no package manager to handle dependencies. It is crippling the ecosystem.

If you want to write an oss ORM/SOA framework with HTTP, you cannot use a HTTP client library, because then people cannot compile your framework when they do not have the library installed. You can write in the documentation, they should install the library, but no one reads that. Also, if the library gets an update, it might not be compatible anymore.

So you need to bundle the HTTP client in your framework. Now you could write your own or fork one, but in either case you end up with a framework and its own HTTP client.
What amused me, the most (except it wasn't really amusing, at the time. Looking back, I'm ROTFLMAO), was the recruiters.

I have a pretty heavy-duty résumé. I've been shipping (not just "writing") software for over thirty-five years, and have a fairly big portfolio (that really only covers the last ten years of my work, and just the open-source portion of it). I've written APIs that have lasted 25 years. I do good work, and can prove it.

They would contact me, breathless and excited by my CV, then ghost me, as soon as they figured out that I was over 40.

I guess that math isn't a big requirement to be a recruiter. The industry must be awash in 30-year-olds with 35 years of experience.

These days, I just make it clear that I'm older, and they stopped bothering me.
> Technologies like this can lower the cost of production

Seriously, is writing "infinite variations of the ending in Sopranos season 6" the limiting factor here?

The cost of production is already low, what's costly is distribution, for the distributor.

Make your movie and put it on YouTube it's already a thing.
That is not true anymore. The latest version of WhatsApp Web can be used without your phone connected. Not sure if it is rolled out globally for everyone yet, as it was fairly recent for me (couple days now).
Soon you'll find youself listening to number stations and military comms, then geolocating them with help from multiple WebSDRs...
> There are billions of people who do not want to "get back to normal".

Agreed. And I am one of them. People are here thinking this is about "politics", but really it is about economics. And it is probably why they see more "politics" on Hacker News, because it is a VC organization.

There is tribalism because people are suffering. The fact that someone does not see these people in their day to day life conflicts with a reality that billions of others live with everyday. And the people who are starting to feel it more are an ever growing number of people who thought they were well off.

The idea that we should compartmentalize things is really a human malady, a disorder stemming from our discomfort when we see this truth. That somehow we can separate tech from politics from money is delusional.
> Yet Matrix is gaining traction while XMPP is not.

I'm curious what you base this on. Without a doubt Matrix is gaining traction. It's a relatively newer project, has some new ideas, and there is a lot of buzz around it. But it has far to go before reaching XMPP's levels of achievement - millions of XMPP-connected users via Google Talk, and popular products such as WhatsApp and Zoom built on top of it. That many of these aren't, or are no longer, interested in interoperability or federation is not a protocol problem, and I don't see Matrix solving that.

XMPP continues to be widely used by individuals, organizations and governments who want more control over their communication. Across the XMPP projects and services I'm involved in, I continue to see plenty of new users and developers joining the community.

The reference client/server is definitely a pattern I agree with you on, however. It has served Matrix well, and others too. I've been a proponent of this approach for some time, and detailed my thoughts in the "Products vs Protocols" talk/post at https://snikket.org/blog/products-vs-protocols/
I understand what you are saying, but you cannot say they provide trust advantages as a factual claim. The trust model is _different_, not better. There's value in centralized trust as well.
Not that I'm a fan of him, but that's the least generous interpretation of the negotiations for the crisis in Greece.
You didn’t tell us what your vision is, and maybe the reasons why (which I agree can be or at least feel very justified) indicate what is so challenging and isolating.

If you are worried about people stealing your idea, but it took 2 solid years to flesh out and is a relatively unrecognized problem, then you might relax knowing that even if you inspire someone else to pursue your vision, you will be their de facto leader and teacher, not their victim of theft.

Of course maybe you don’t mention the vision because you are tired of getting shot down. I’m not going to say that that somehow means your idea must be flawed; I think most people’s conception of big issues is flawed, but if the issue you are tackling is uncommon and complicated, and tempts ridicule, then you have an unholy triad of poor feedback. How do you personally form priorities if this is true?

All in all it sounds like you could use some quality, thoughtful feedback, or even just someone to listen intently, but uncritically to your conceptions.

As for the other, more generic problems: If you can inspire others with your vision and allow them to hold you accountable to make progress then motivation, passion and meaning can come much more easily.
Making open source hardware design a reality
Except gold is not just a means of financial speculation, but it's also a precious metal highly sought after for it's uses in the electronics, medical, semiconductor, aerospace and other industries due to its very good electrical and thermal properties.

Bitcoin on the other hand, if you were to remove its capability for financial speculation, then it would serve no other purpose and would just be some useless bits of data, just like NFTs.
Looks like they have those here:

https://retroradionics.co.uk/#!/Zx-Spectrum-48k-&-128k-toast...
Fair, but why the leaf?
The worst part is, once you've selected high accuracy (or accidentally clicked allow once), you can neber lermanently disable it again. It will re-enable high accuracy every time location is turned back on. I don't know how that was legal.

I don't know if this is still the case as I don't see a high accuracy option in settings anymore.

Sorry can't find better sources. Just personal experience and:
https://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-note-3/5023...
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/location-mode-sets-to-hig...
Really highlights the absolutely massive gap between Apple Silicon and Cortex/the-rest-of-ARM. Although you'd really want to classify which Cortex SoCs you're using in that list, as implementers love to chop off the L2 & L3 caches to save die space. This is how we ended up with the bigger.big.little configurations - the "biggest" CPU is just the full CPU with all the caches it was supposed to have had.
please fix nytimes link
It is different: in a normal car, the driver controls the angle of the vector via the steering wheel, but with the Summon feature, the car’s programming does.
Still the Git concept works using a different trust model (i.e. repository maintainer).
> you'd be hard pressed to find someone with more nuanced takes on politics, tech, and crypto.

Really? Because there are some heavy-handed quotes in the article.
Yanis:

"The Gold Standard is, indeed, a great source of insight into how dangerously primitive Bitcoin maximalist thinking is. Suppose Bitcoin were to take over from fiat currencies. What would banks do? They would lend in Bitcoin, of course. This means that overdraft facilities would emerge allowing lenders to buy goods and services with Bitcoins that do not yet exist. What would governments do? At moments of stress, they would have to issue units of account linked to Bitcoin (as they did under the Gold Exchange Standard during the interwar period)."

The reason governments could do this with gold is that gold is easy to counterfeit, hard to store securely, and expensive to transact with at a distance. So it makes sense to keep it all in a giant vault (a bank, or central bank) and trust the vaultkeeper to issue ious and transact in those.

But bitcoin does not suffer from these defects.

I don't think Yanis understands this.

https://nassimtaleb.org/2016/09/intellectual-yet-idiot/
There are many videos of escooter battery fires, but the following is probably one of the most dramatic ones (not related to OP): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBUGEFErXxA

It's crazy how quickly shit goes south.
> IMO, content creation should be harder, not easier.

> If it becomes too easy, the quality goes toward hobbyist level, which is not what I want to pay for.

IMO coding should be harder, not easier.

If it becomes too easy, the quality goes toward hobbyist level, which is not what I want to pay for.
The biggest problem with C's pointer syntax is that it's prefix. If pointers were suffix, perhaps using a character that isn't doing primary duty as the multiplication operator, there wouldn't be any need for a Gibberish to English translator. Maybe think of @ as "address":

int i; // variable which is integer
int p@; // pointer that returns integer
int f(); // function returns integer
int f@(); // pointer to function
int f()@; // funtion that returns pointer
int a[10]; // array of ten integers
int a[10]@; // array of ten pointers
int a@[10]; // pointer to and array
int a[10]()@; // array of ten functions that return a pointer

Of course C is stuck with accidents/decisions made 50 years ago. But a language like Go turns all the declaration syntax on its head and still doesn't solve the problem. Rob Pike's blog post says as much (scroll to the bottom section on pointers):

https://go.dev/blog/declaration-syntax

He suggests Pascal's caret syntax (^), which wouldn't work if it was also used as the binary xor operator.
Does anybody know an open source platform doing the same in C++ with the same simplicity? I mean an IDE to edit the interface and code.

I used both Qt and wxWidgets, but am not very happy with any of them. Qt can do almost everything, but it is incredibly bulky, and QtCreator is not as immediate to use as Lazarus and Delphi. wxWidgets doesn't have a RAD IDE as far as I know.
This change was more due to the iOS 7 flat redesign, than to what the author proposes.

A design trend, where it became fashionable to have a flat design supported by illustration/iconography, further away from skeumorphism, which photography was more close to.
kinda like agents and artists ?
The term 'criti-hype' feels like a useful concept but an unlikely to last word.

It feels a bit like the author is 'criti-hyping' (or maybe the opposite, 'praise-undermining'?) regulation a little.

People don't believe in regulation, because regulation got co-opted by people who didn't want regulation. I agree, but if you're emphasising the repeated failures of regulation, rather than the malicious actions of the co-opters, then you're doing their work for them.

Part of the cause of World War 1 and 2 was a broad coalition of people who didn't like or want more democracy talking endlessly, and with big budgets, about how you needed strong leader to take charge, because democracy was worse than useless.

It's not particularly glamorous work, but supporting democracy and better regulation is the only way forward.

The secret sauce of 'surveilance advertising' is, according to this author, that they know things about you that let advertisers target you. That sounds like somthing that is socially useful, when used correctly. Why would you want to leave that in the hands of some random Billionaires who did basically nothing but lie, cheat and steal to get into the positions they are in now?

You can't opt out of democracy or regulation, you either do them well or you get a really crappy version of them where only one person has the vote or powerful companies write their own regulations. Neither of those is better than a crappy but functional democracy with crappy but functional regulations.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/qya2qf/durin...
The problem is that Netflix’s valuation was based on the idea that they could raise prices without losing subscribers.

That in turn was based on the experience with Amazon, which has raised the prices of Prime, products on its site, and the fees it charges its sellers all
while still growing.

Netflix’s valuation was based on the thinking that Netflix was now a necessity for people. But this shows it isn’t.

In fact, the loss of subscribers is an even bigger deal because it suggests Netflix is eminently replaceable.
What is this in response to? Do you think Yanis Varoufakis is unfamiliar with undergrad-tier “communism has failed every time” bromides?
> Was he fired? I thought he quit after Tsipras sold out the Greek people?

His less-than-transparent scapegoat of "the referendum didn't went my way" doesn't hide the fact that Varoufakis was forced out of SYRIZA's government after pushing disastrous policies designed to derail Greece's recovery.

https://www.businessinsider.com/report-yanis-varoufakis-got-...

Unsurprisingly, once Varoufakis was forced out and his successors reintroduced a rational approach to Greece's finance ministry, Greece ended up getting back on track.

Also, this is the same Varoufakis known for at the time pushing Greece both out of the European Union and into Russia's sphere of influence.

https://euobserver.com/world/127475
Which slack does already.
The world wide web had caused a global economisch crash just right after its first decade. That's huge.
It also uses ramdisk on WSL or for those who use hard-drives for builds.

Also great question about using nightly, we're using a shared-generics flag that requires nightly (and speeds up build times).

We're working on making this more configurable to enable / disable what features you want.
> "Greeks are lazy/scammy creatures by DNA" narrative in response to Grexit.

And it was particularly disgusting because Greeks and Poles worked (and work) more hours per year than anyone else in Europe.
If we must go with the car analogy then I'd argue that M1 Macs are the Ferrari and Lamborghini of personal computing: They are fast, sleek, and could accomplish a number of specific tasks much better than everything else. Sure it's entirely possible to pull a trailer with a Lambo, however every sane person would agree that any beater truck would have done a better job.

https://www.carscoops.com/2015/05/who-said-you-cant-use-lamb...
The choice is not between some communist utopia that Varoufakis alludes to, and people grinding in virtual worlds to make a living.

The choice is between a family in the Philippines facing severe hunger during the lockdown, and that family being able to sell virtual goods to wealthier people in the developed world, to put food on the table.

More generally, allowing web users to assume genuine ownership - secured by provable scarcity and public key cryptography - over virtual goods, means the profit that the internet generates will not be monopolized by a few internet giants.

Consider, the Ethereum Name Service airdrop rewarded over 100,000 accounts with its ENS tokens. This is a degree of diffusion in the distribution of ownership over critical protocols that was totally impossible before blockchain-based assets and networks.
After the stack has taken what it needs there are 35 solar panels left on the barn roof. Excess heat is used to heat the upper floor, given that it is well-insulated it needs no additional heating. Problem, solved.
Exactly. The situation is the same fundamentally, yet copyright gone wild makes music business behave like software business would if everything was patented all the time.

If you literally clone HN or LinkedIn (but call them something else), no one can sue you without having to prove you violated a patent or stole the source. No copyright violation occurred despite two identical products.

If you compose a harmonic progression that bears semblance to one in a song by a famous pop star, you can and will be sued. You are guilty of violating copyright because your music sounds similar. Even if you call your song something else and the lyrics, the arrangement, the instruments used, everything is different. Even if no one can prove you stole any intellectual property. Etc.

And the icing on the cake, now apparently even if you were first and they were inspired by your melody they still win if you did not bother to record your creative process while they faked a convincing recording of how they “came up” with your tune “on their own”.
Hey thanks for the reply and insights. FYI I did link my vision with a footnote at the bottom of the post. It's a long read, that's why I didn't just state it outright.
Note I acknowledge this in my previous comment by saying gold has intrinsic value. My point is that gold would still lose most of its value, since there's a highly speculative component to it.
That's the place for the Matador[0]. There's been a few videos of NLAWs hitting point blank but not doing anything simply because they were too close to arm.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATADOR
I agree to an extent, but we're also at a point where politics have spilled over into areas where they were a little less common previously. 20+ years ago it was political when Microsoft was in its antitrust fight. Right now, just one example-- social media account bans-- is not only very political, it is extremely partisan and polarizing as well. It is practically impossible to talk about the issue without touching on some aspect of political/social values.

So, it makes sense that politics come up more often because they now intersect more often with technology (or at least much more visibly) than they have previously. Unfortunately a lot of people don't engage constructively in conversations like that, ones where two different viewpoints may come down to core values that are taken as axiomatic. I think HN does a lot better than other venues when discussing these things but I also see a heck of a lot more comments flagged dead with awful, insulting and vile language that are every bit as bad as the worst you'd find anywhere on Reddit.
It depends on if the M1 can clock that much higher or not when given the thermal & power headroom. The M1 architecture internally could have other bottlenecks that limit how high it can clock.

See for example why clock speed records are filled with things like the AMD FX, even though Zen{+,2,3} is on paper (and in practice) a way better CPU - the older AMD FX just clocks really really well, even though it's otherwise a pretty crap CPU. Or for another example from history, the disaster that was P4 Prescott compared to the Core 2 that replaced it.
> One could just as easily claim that everything is philosophical, that everything is scientific, that everything is artistic, or that everything is mathematical.

No you get it! You know, in Buddhism, while progressing on the path, they say, first when you see mountains, they are just mountains. Then suddenly you see mountains and they are not mountains anymore. Then slowly you see mountains as mountains again.

Squinting! Yes good word, more squinting!

Hey Siri, define squinting: to look at someone or something with one or both eyes partly closed in an attempt to see more clearly or as a reaction to strong light.
Zoning isn't a thing in rural areas... pretty much at all. You can effectively do whatever you want on your land as long as you're not breaking state or federal laws.

It's weird how you're getting upvoted so heavily for citysplaining rural areas to someone who grew up in one, on a farm. Your profile says you don't even live in the US, but you're originally from the Bay Area... maybe you should listen in this case rather than trying to tell people in a part of the country you've probably never even visited how living their life works.
Money is just accounting. Making sure balances are in sync on sender and receiver's end. People don't have problems sending money from A to B. I fail to see the application here. I don't think money is going through a transformation at all.
Downvotes exist for a reason and the moderation has their own thresholds for sane conversation. Most my karma has been gained by what I would bet you consider "anti-vaxxer" talking points. Best thing you can do is give a stupid person some rope, if they wind up doing something useful with it well maybe they weren't too dumb afterall.
Krugman looked this a few weeks ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/01/opinion/russia-ruble-econ...

tl;dr: Russia is propping up the Ruble with all the means at their disposal
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