skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd argue that transitioning is an extremely hard problem. The Georgist system taxes property at extreme rates.

Forgive the naive suggestion, but tax rates on property can be be introduced progressively - few percentage points per year - for many decades.
In some cultures, perhaps. But I assure you, my n=1 experience is with plenty of companies that switched from a typical jacket-and-tie dress code to business causual, and ended up with a “huge amount of variety:”

All of the men wore golf/polo shirts, khakis, and tasseled loafers, but some wore oxblood loafers while others wore black or even brown loafers. And some wore plain leather belts, others wore woven leather belts.

</sarcasm>

Some cultures value conformance, and even if the rule is “wear whatever you like, as long as it’s not jeans or tee shirts,” they’ll self-organize around an unwritten rule of what to wear.
37% of US consumers canceled a paid streaming video service over past six months
In what way is automated trading of crypto derivative of Web 3?

Does this use smart contracts? Otherwise what’s Web3 about it? Or is cryptocurrency just being rebranded as Web3 now?
Slow, unreliable, and expensive. I think mostly people in the U.S. significantly overestimate how much access they actually have to the legal system. This misconception vanishes very quickly the first time one has occasion to interact with the legal system.
> 04 - Reduce cost for packaging

So it's cheaper? By how much?
Actually LNURL-auth [1] has nothing to do with blockchains except that it makes it dead simple to use a Lightning wallet, such as Breez, to log in.

All it does is send a request, get a random string, sign that with the private key, and send it back alongside with the public key and the signature.

Yes, it works. Yes, it is simple. No, it has nothing to do with blockchains. Websites like http://stacker.news are using this.

See https://lightninglogin.live
> In this Omicron phase, however, health outcomes from infection have been mild

In the US, Omicron has killed about as many people as Delta did. It's slightly less lethal on a per-case basis, but much more infectious, so on a population level, it's just as deadly.

In Hong Kong alone, nearly ten thousand people died from Omicron when the government gave up the zero-CoVID policy.

> There's also no winning condition in sight for this strategy

Chinese public health officials have set out very clear and reasonable conditions for easing controls: a high level of vaccination, availability of antiviral drugs, overall mortality less than flu.
> incredibly secure as long as you don't leak your 12 words

So what happens when you do? It sounds incredibly secure until you end up in a bad situation with no remediation.
Reference counting absolutely has pauses. Try allocating millions of objects in a block and then exiting that block. Hell, even malloc pauses when fragmentation gets too high.
Thanks, I was looking for this but couldn't see it for some reason.
Today Is Yom Hashoah
9000 km/h is not fast enough to vaporize much rocket.

You can experiment tossing stuff into a tub of talcum powder: craters just really like to be circular, shape of object or angle of impact notwithstanding.
If you've ever fell in love with a song, or an artist, or totally jammed out to some track in a manner that would be embarrassing had you been observed, or if you constantly walk around with a tune in your head, then yes, learning an instrument is a great idea. My guess is that anyone who appreciates music on a deep level is capable of playing it, if not artfully then at least competently.

It's also a matter of finding the right instrument for you, which could turn out to be a surprise.

I suspect I'm older than they typical HN demographic, but I made several attempts to learn piano over the years and was never able to stick with it. I also tried bass guitar and that was fun (and pretty easy!) but you only get so far without playing in a band which I never had the time for. Then I picked up my dad's accordion (of all things) and got to wondering what it would be like to learn to play a simple song on it.

That was two years ago and since then I haven't missed a single day of practice, learning, or playing for fun. Which surprises the hell out of me, because I'm the kind of person who bounces from hobby to hobby and project to project and rarely finishes anything. It's frankly amazing to have _something_ I can say I have worked on (and towards) every day for a long time. THAT inspires confidence and some sense of self-worth. (And I generally need all of that I can get!)

Sometimes it's frustrating to get "stuck" on a difficult piece or hand movement that's new to me, but I always have to remind myself that I've been stuck before and that I'll eventually get it right with enough repetition, even if it takes weeks. The joy felt when I finally _do_ get it right is so intense that it probably ranks up there with some of the best drugs, minus the considerable negative consequences.
Thanks. The point of my comment was not to actually ask someone to explain it to me, but again, thank you for explaining it, I appreciate it.
Agreed! "I can rub this stuff on my skin, it goes away, but protects me from damage? How on earth!?"
Some of these shots can easily be replicated with a 360 camera (InstaOne, GoPro MAX etc) mounted on a pole. Not as hip, perhaps, but makes tracking drones seem a bit unnecessary in many cases.
I not even done reading the page and fully understanding this, but my mind is blown.

> That's because this isn't just any old stipple image, that stipple is actually the background of a full X server session running in your browser using HTML5 canvas.

Thank you!
yes, that's possible.
Yeah, because you defined a line where the vast majority of people would agree.

But you can slide the line over to a point where people would be more split on the issue. E.g. say you're alone on a public beach playing your music, and one other person walks up to also enjoy the beach and who doesn't want to hear your music. Should you turn off the music? Is there a db level that's acceptable? Should the other person be required to find a quieter spot further down the coast? Or should you have to relocate to an empty spot?
It's not attacking "taxes". It's specifically pointing out the flaws in a gross receipts tax system.

It affects companies with large receipts but low margins (mostly fintech companies, which is why Stripe and Square also leaving).
It implements the actor model paradigm. Check this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7erJ1DV_Tlo
Are they coding in Notepad.exe?
I don't have a citation for you because I heard this from someone I met in university, but large farms take "bio-security" incredibly seriously. Trying to treat the livestock is far more expensive than simply culling them all and sterilizing the enclosure. Additionally, even if they tried to treat the flock instead of culling it, the disease would linger in the population and be a continual concern.
If you do anything with this drone at all, you'll be flat out violating FAA regulations regardless. It seems to be mostly autonomous, and based on marketing and support docs, doesn't appear to have a way to comply with regulations requiring the Pilot-in-Command to always have the ability to make flightpath changes. Gesturing at it or clicking a button on a phone to 'return to home' is not enough.
This has been one of the most infuriating things about the internet maturing or whatever it's doing. All the big players trying centralize and tie all of your accounts to you. I've been rather hesitantly linking my steam/game/publisher accounts with twitch for in game loot, but I really hate doing it.

What if they decide to ban me for some reason? Do I get banned from all of them?

Centralization is only good for the center, not the constituents.
Only Lake Michigan is within US borders, while the others are almost evenly split between Canada and the U.S.A., thus my irritation with the AtlasObscura piece.
In other words, can a connect the dots or color by number drawing book claim copyright on the solved version?
> delivers information about news

On the contrary, I think this is one thing that turns social media toxic. A lot of news is inherently political and having news on the same platform as social interaction means a lot of social interaction will be about the news.

Communities focused on hobbies (e.g. forums) tend to stay a lot more civil.
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It is possible to have to access to a subdomain and not the doamin itself. For eg you have access to rope.example.com but if you try example.com, then you connection time out. Any explanations, thanks
Neither has anything remotely mistakable for broad user-facing adoption.
> Going farther than this, conditions and restarts are really just a fancy way of packaging delimited continuations. I don't personally know any non-Lisp language that has attempted to package these concepts (maybe Dylan, which is a Lisp-like in its own way but without the syntax?).

Dylan does have a condition system, but it’s basically a Lisp without the parens, so probably doesn’t count. On the other hand, algebraic effects are another fancy way of packaging delimited continuations, so arguably the research languages Eff[1] and Koka[2] tried. (I don’t think either one explored the connection with condition systems, but I’m not sure.)

> I think Result<T, Err> type handling is fine and that most languages would be better served by that than having different types of exceptions. Conditions and restarts are powerful but your language has to be very expression focused (i.e. does not use a lot of statements) [...]

Huh? I don’t know why you’d say that, if anything I think it’s the Either err t / Result<T, Err> style that is more expression-focused (I mean, it even originates in Haskell :). I wouldn’t even call Common Lisp particularly expression-oriented, honestly, not unless we’re comparing with plain old C and not Rust.

[1] https://www.eff-lang.org/

[2] https://koka-lang.github.io/
I think this may be the first casual consumer drone on the market compatible with the FAA's Operations Over People guidelines released last year: https://www.faa.gov/uas/commercial_operators/operations_over.... Before this, all flight over people required a waiver by the FAA.

Drones under 250g, like the DJI Mini 2 would qualify as a Category 1 craft, allowing non-sustained flight over people and vehicles, but there was an element that the craft not have exposed blades capable of lacerating human skin, which the DJI Mini 2 fails.

Pixy is 101g and looks to have an enclosed rotor design: https://support.pixy.com/hc/en-us/articles/5039928089236-Pix...
I read quite well, but the speed and retention is entirely based on my interest in the subject. Animal Farm, like 30 min and good retention. Great Expectations, hour or so for 120 pages and crap retention. I thought one of the tricks or speed reading is to only read the first sentence of each paragraph? If so, you might be accidentally not reading the book completely or effectively.

One has to be trained to read and then reading skill must be practiced. For lectures, I’ve found taking notes by hand provides both a memory and a synthesis of the talk but it’s hard when both are complex.
This is jarring to me. Does the author use Lisp, APL, Forth or what?
> However, a lot of times the "want to do it forever" part could be a sign that the candidates doesn't want to learn anything new, which is indeed a very bad sign.

While that is true for a lot of jobs, there are also a fair number of employers that are perfectly content to have an employee that does job X at their company for as long as they are of working age. In the software world it pretty much follows from the fact that the largest chunk of development jobs out there are just CRUD apps and processes that feed them. Many companies do the same things with largely the same software for years and years and years. As long as an employee is getting the work done, many of those employers are thrilled to have a long-term employee doing the same tasks they've been doing for years.
My Linux machine boots X with less than 300 MB (no desktop, StumpWM, SystemD and PulseAudio on NixOS). It's probably possible to compress it further.

The problem might come from heavy webapps, but its doable to work with just 2 GB and 4 GB never posed a problem.
Give me Vi or give me death!

JK - glad to see Nano is still being developed. It was my first editor on Linux before I could learn Vi/m.
Totally disagree. The thing that was really novel about blockchain was its distributed consensus mechanism, even in the face of bad actors. Without that, just having, say, a cryptographically signed list of transactions really isn't new.
You mean, those poor employees who worked so hard to help grow the company won't get to enjoy the fruits of their labor?
A camera company with terrible camera quality.
https://project.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/mibasin.html
Consensus of the order of transactions.

A could sign two messages: "I, A, send my bitcoin to B" and "I, A, send my bitcoin to C".
There needs to be global consensus whether the bitcoin ends up with B or C, otherwise the coin would be effectively duplicated and it wouldn't work as money.

And further messages that A might sign in the future should not be able to retroactively change the recipient -- e.g. if we used a rule "the first recipient in alphabetical order wins", then A could take back the money months later by signing "I send my bitcoin to myself".

So bitcoin instead uses "the first transaction to be put into a mined block wins", and thus needs a global consensus for the order of mined blocks.
But avoiding working in the powerful logics is akin to working in a single logic as much as possible without merging any. So you've lost the benefit of multiple logics that you're originally claiming and you're back in my "use one logic" case.
> how is reversing special privileges for a corporate titan (Disney), that give it abilities that nobody else is allowed to have, authoritarianism?

Because 1844 other special districts exist in Florida, including Sea World, Universal, and other theme parks, HOAs, fire districts, water districts, law libraries, development holdings, etc. So Disney does not have rights that nobody else has, and those rights exist to allow those entities to have control over their property to avoid unnecessary, costly, and unproductive conflicts with county rules.
The line between useful notifications that benefit users and notifications being really obnoxious and spammy is really very thin. I can see how it would be useful to utilize a tool like Courier to help fine tune the process especially if you are utilizing AWS already.
I think describing this article as a one sided rant isn't really fair. The author shows that Go makes a few design decisions that make it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. This is generally a bad idea.
Rust may be the summum of correctness. In my view that makes it an ideal candidate for comparison. It shows the reader what a better solution would look like. And that this can work in practice.
Does that mean you shouldn't write code in Go? No of course not. But I think the author has done a great job of showing why they don't want to use Go anymore.
I love this perspective, and feel the same way about not just music, but also programming -- why is the thrust on "STEM" so anchored in "so that they can grow up and have a programming-based career"? It's stimulating, fun, and a vehicle for reifying your ideas/creative impulses (applies to both music and programming). Let's leave it at that.
Article: "But to their surprise, the scientists also picked up other sounds in the channel. “There’s infrasound events of unknown nature that occur several times per hour,” says Daniel Bowman, a geophysicist at Sandia and collaborator on the project. “And there’s no good explanation.”

This could help sort out those worldwide "hum" problems ('Taos Hum','Windsor Hum'.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum]
You're misunderstanding how the word "prove" works. In this expression, it's being used in an archaic sense meaning "to test."
That color is just awful.
Do you believe that kids that do online learning never leave their home or have any friends? That's a pretty ignorant view. There are tons of opportunities for kids to have positive social interactions with peers as well as younger and older children, as well as adults. Being forced to interact with a handful of kids around their age in a public school is not a great way to socializing.

My kids are all homeschooled, including parent taught as well as online education, and have friends of different ages with caring parents that are all very involved. They have outside activities including, music, PE, play time with friends at the park, zoo trips, museums etc.
Because simple hot air balloons (without gas buoyancy) would not be very effective at this sort of problem. It makes much more sense to use He lift weather balloons (even if they use temperature controlled solar power to maintain proper buoyancy).

I'm just looking at the pictures, but they don't look/lift like simple hot air balloons to me. I'd lean toward the science writer simplifying the language.
You are very misinformed. Here is your video on a random instance I found in the instance list [1]: https://peertube.ignifi.me/w/peBesyAgtzfRWS5FnDQQtn

[1]: https://joinpeertube.org/instances
> And I've actually came across some pretty valid use cases

Pics or didn't happen.
>Well then, you might ask, why are we running around logging in with email+password, or god forbid, Login with Facebook? Why aren't we logging into everywhere with public keys, if the technology is so old?

I like to to think i'm not logging in with my wallet, i'm logging in with my private key. I just also happen to have a crypto wallet also attached to that same private key.
I think that perspective is overblown. Yeah, anyone with the inclination to practice a bit can bypass a lock. You're not going to stop a professional burglary ring with any kind of lock.

But there are a lot more lazy crackheads and dumb teenagers than professional burglars.
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>You don't need any of the blockchain stuff to support logging in to websites with a public key.

Well yes, I wasn't refuting the author's "You don't need a f%ing blockchain", but simply stating that IMO Web3 is already miles better than legacy web, even just for its main authentication system.

>That's straightforward with any old public-key cryptography scheme like PGP ... but the login part itself could just as easily be an old-fashioned PGP key pair.

This reminds me of HN's famous Dropbox comment.[1]
Yeah, wallets are "just" public key cryptography, but it's easy enough for anyone to use and for developers to integrate. PGP is extremely convoluted in comparison, and to this day I have no idea how to sign a message with it without having to open up a guide. With metamask it's just two clicks.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
Not always. Goblins[0] is an example of an actor system that supports both synchronous and asynchronous communication between actors, with synchronous communication only possible if both actors are in the same “vat” (a kind of event loop).

[0] https://docs.racket-lang.org/goblins/
"JavaScript is much better than Python!"

I.e., I cannot read that page without enabling JS in my browser... :-)
"I don't see any truly large, complex, momentous applications or platforms written in Python."

Except YouTube LOL. Don't get me wrong, Python is not fast. But every time you run into a bottleneck you just rewrite it in C/C++/Rust and move on.
In the ‘00s I found a python/C combination very effective. All control in python, compute in C and the class mechanism easily tied things together. I would recommend this for any new heavy cpu development as the needs for each portion are so different.
> The worst I can do is downvote stupid or ignorant questions that could be easily answered by a web search and ten minutes of reading.

You can also state your point eloquently, as you did. All I'm doing is expressing my counterpoint to yours in this public forum.

I think where we really disagree is that I don't think there is a clearly defined baseline for "common knowledge". You say it's something like "10 minutes of googling", but I think there are other valid definitions, like the information you have on hand at the moment. i.e. is this a research library or a cocktail party (or something in between)?

There's certainly a point where it turns to trolling, but questions asked in good intent are fair game as far as I'm concerned.
> transactions execute correctly by default

That's not what you get, because in practice you want some physical good for your BTC and a blockchain cannot enforce that you do get it, it can only enforce that the BTC are transferred from one address to another.
Care to share some more details? Is it USB or SATA based?
The consensus mechanism depends on the existence of the currency as a reward. It financially incentivizes mining and choosing of the "correct" fork.
They did something similar with distributed tracing. Seems like dirty business tactics are becoming the trend at newrelic.
75 Percent of car buyers don’t want features locked behind subscriptions
Are you asking if I jumped off of the macOS upgrade path? I think that's what you mean. No, I didn't.

I'm running Catalina (10.15.7) on my 2008 MacBook Pro using DosDude1's tools. It runs quite well, and I still use it. I'll probably keep using it until I can get an ARM Mac.
> Errors as return values is only acceptable for code that is so performance-sensitive that you aren't allowed to do dynamic memory allocations.

Exceptions-based code can be zero-cost, if no errors occur, at an increased error-case cost. Using error values pessimises this, and increase branch prediction load (as every callsite is now a branch).

So in the common case where errors are extremely rare, exceptions-based error handling can be quite a bit faster than return-value error handling.

Which doesn't mean it's preferable, but beware thinking that return values are faster.
EU considers banning use of up to 12,000 toxic chemicals
Sounds like https://webauthn.io/ would solve your problem. It's a real solution in use by a number of popular websites already. E.g. Cloudflare, ID.me.
Yes, this is totally bizarre. You have enormously powerful people shaping the public discourse not only crying foul at idea they might face the slightest bit of accountability, but also successfully lobbying other people to defend them from any public criticism. Then we have to listen to them sanctimoniously talk about how "disinformation" threatens democracy, or whatever! Faceless Twitter employees shaping political discourse during an election get a free pass, though?

Meanwhile, these same people have no problem with using their power to shape and weaponize discourse against other people! For example, the news media regularly unmasks regular Twitter users simply for having a huge following with non-media approved opinions and then shrugs when they face death threats. But...don't you dare talk about the journalist that did it!
I'm no expert, but aren't most of these scams the result of the user choosing to deliberately transfer their assets to another party because that party has convinced them they will get something in return? In other words, I think the victim is mistaken not about the fact that they're transferring away their assets, but rather is mistaken about the identity and intentions of the party they're transferring their assets to.
"We're going to start charging you to grab up your PII unless you explicitly tell us to stop. YOU'RE WELCOME!" sounds like it ought to be illegal somewhere the New Relic developers have to worry about the laws of.

I wonder what they'd do if someone rigged their install to feed their servers junk information. Is that possible? I honestly don't know how the New Relic stuff works.
Just like LapTrap from the ClueFinders kids games!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_ClueFinders
https://cluefinders.fandom.com/wiki/LapTrap#:~:text=LapTrap%...).