skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"IP" isn't property.

Also, only decentralizing, open source, individual empowering, tech, isn't anti-human.
"Pushing CRT" sounds pretty subjective. What measurement are you offering here?

CRT, itself, is a pretty nebulous concept outside of actual legal scholarship. "Pushing CRT" is a common right-fringe talking point. How much do you think the majority of Democratic voters agree with "pushing CRT"?
> The SEC attempted to establish jurisdiction over Do Kwon and Terraform Labs late last year but failed spectacularly.

The effort that produced this order in their favor in February?
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/02/18/terra-ceo-do-kw...

How did they fail?
What’s Urbit’s identity-as-NFT scheme? Does that mean I can sell my identity to someone else? Where can I read more about this?
(I am attempting my first "as much as possible make the database do the work" app right now, after 35 years in the business. Yeah I started out on the scientific side, and then the sort of things SQLite is obviously great for.)

I do not understand how one implements the multi-role access system on top of SQLite that postgresql gives you for free.

Other than do it from scratch (eeek!) on the app side.

Just as an example, think of the smallest db backed factory situation you can imagine... as small as you like. There will need to be multiple roles if more than one role accesses the database tables.
It's the internet. So many people just looking to argue...
AMD 6000 series cards also support hardware decoding of AV1.
They are not located in the US.
If $1 is equal to 1 UST then why bother holding UST at all? Just hold dollars and convert for on demand usage.
Is this any more of a conundrum as water costing less than gold?
> Where Rust’s complexity does matter is in projects that prioritise getting developers on boarded and implementing new features as fast as possible

Agreed, and I think unfamiliar developers implementing new features as fast as possible is also much more likely to result in hacky/make it work code than throwing a Java developer at a C# project or similar.
You’ve got incredible self control. I love turning knobs and dials and that’s basically what emacs is.
I bought at $390 I'm fairly sure. I don't regret a thing.
Looks like a photo from a multi-purpose mobile device and not a dedicated camera. The leash goes under the leftmost dog's front-left paw.
> The lay-up wins of SQLite in a multi-server environment are operational simplicity (compared to running, say, a Postgres cluster) and read acceleration.

What's the operational simplicity? You still have to do backups and replication and SSL. Maybe you don't have to worry about connectivity between the app and the database? Maybe auth?
Well maybe our bureaucrats are simply better at getting paid.

Still the healthcare issues being fixed with more government intervention is like someone breaking your leg then giving you crutches and saying “where would you be without me”.
It seems Ponzi scheme has become a misnomer for "scam".
(sorry for venting time :)

> Back in those days, x264 felt to me like a software written by aliens from the future.

Indeed it may be :) H.264 might not be the latest and best video coding standard anymore, but in my opinion x264 is, and will always be by far the best encoder ever written for a video format.

Which brings me to...

> Because back in the days, both Videolan projects x264 and x265 (especially x264) had much better psychovisual quality than commercial encoders.

Unfortunately x265 isn't a Videolan project (its developed by MulticoreWare Inc.) and it's a very mediocre encoder which doesn't hold a candle to x264 and IMO kind of a shame considering its legacy.

Also after 2018 it's practically became maintainenance-only and was surpassed by proprietary encoders in MSU encoder tests in the following years. That's a big loss considering x264 was still seeing significant efficiency and performance improvements as late as 2013 (when the H.264 format was 10 years old), so when compared to x264 I assume a good 4-5 years of potential improvements have been left at the table for x265.
There's some law which states that when the price of something halves, the usage doubles.

Look at LED lighting, it's more energy efficient, so now we deploy more of it, ending up using exactly as much energy as before (but now everything is well lit).

The same with video codecs, as they get better, we generate more video.
You might be surprised how much money is made and exchanged under the table which makes negotiating these things precarious for some businesses. The negative economic impacts when these businesses die are still felt regardless of if they cheat on their taxes.
> The immediate effect is that money is transferred from people who are bad at predicting the future to people who are good at predicting the future.

No

The effect is transfer money from unlucky to lucky fools. Nothing in that is good for anything, not even the "lucky fools". You are lucky once, not next time.

Being a fool is not shameful. But you need to know yourself and stay out of speculative markets
To scan the files in your folder like that you can use quicklook. Just press space to open the first one and use the arrows to navigate. Another super power of macOS.
>Hmm. Could it be that you're... overestimating?

As I said... wilfred social science...

Here's a nice visual graph that I like: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/06/12/7-things-to...

Go put your finger on the republican line and see where it moves.

There has been analysis done by many groups which have confirmed where the political polarization derived heavily starting with gay rights. The republicans who had 'closeted' homosexuals moved left. Trump literally started a fight with russia and the middle east trying to benefit homosexuals. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-adm...

The republicans clearly moved left and it was the right thing to do. Whereas Truman != Obama. It's rather easy to objectively see both parties have moved left.

I feel like this is rather objective fact. The better discussion, why is this the case? Is it perhaps where the democrats have gone is the right place both parties eventually end up? Or are we about to watch 2nd civil war?
Joplin I think has its own built-in conflict resolution. I use my own WebDAV server for sync and don't have any problems across 3 devices.
OK, thanks. I don't use languages that have this concept.
Well, even CA still operates under the basic assumptions of contemporary US capitalism. There's a notable limit to what you can accomplish in terms of social change when you still cannot (or refuse to) directly control housing costs (for example), or control capital flows, or the labor share of (in this case, state) GDP.

While there are some great analyses that point out the flaws and hypocrisy in Democratic governance within CA, I think it's also equally true to say that the state's "left" leaning situation ends up pointing out the inherent contradictions of contemporary US capitalism as well as anything could.
As is the printing of the dollar, except it's backed by a big military and fancy bankers.

Don't forget to point out how most other markets operate on similar Ponzi principles too. You can't make profit off of anything unless you can have someone else pay more for it than what you paid.
This is HN, you can just say "Gabe" and we'll get your point! :)
Not the cash in the shoebox under my bed
You can easily watch 4k AV1 videos on any recent 6+ cores CPU.

So, not an issue unless you're using hardware from 2015 or so? In which case you're unlikely watching a ton of 4k+ content anyway.
I didn't, I just shut the site down.
The whole cryptocurrency ecosystem is doomed. A roller coaster ride that can only end in one place: Zero
Remember: those h264 artifacts aren't real, they can't hurt you!
For the initial loan to get it issued quickly, that’s correct.

To have the loan forgiven, you had to submit documents at tax time to verify it or it became a low interest loan that had to be paid back.

PPP was one of the best ideas that came out of locking down the entire country because otherwise a tooooon of people would have been laid off immediately. Instead, even people who couldn’t do any work at all due to lack of child care were able to be paid, maintain insurance and benefits. They had to act so quickly.
Also primo.so
They think that they flaws of the incumbent system justify any flaws in the new one, without realizing the burden is on them to prove the new system doesn't posses _all_ of the problems (and more) of the original.

I think "whataboutism" describes the situation well. See it a lot with the crypto crowd. Clearly a lot of cognitive dissonance going on there.
Then don't keep your assets in banks linked to the USA so they can't just seize your assets on a whim, they actually have to prove that the money should be seized.

What activities can a non-american do that would result in seizure of their funds, but wouldn't also subject them to arrest? (other than accruing IRS debt)
As a society we need to finally treat Uber as a parasite.
"... and then I found out that this other country - which I thought had the best healthcare system in the world - allowed for-profit insurance companies to dictate what treatment would be paid for, and allowed millions of people without insurance to likely go without any sort of test for cancer at all."
Mamoru Oshii's Greatest Scene
> This seems to be mostly false, in the sense that many schools run huge class sizes for many core courses (cough couch Berkely) and in practice non-TA instruction

Berkeley is not a good counter-example.

There are usually several teaching professors doing a full time job behind the scenes -- handling a myriad of student crises, handling a huge quantity of special accommodations, plagiarism and other academic misconduct, behavior issues (on the part of both students and staff!!!), constant question bank maintenance, constant schedule tweaking, interfacing with faculty demands from down-stream courses, and so on. Those are all trivial, though. Most important -- by far -- is training and managing a large course staff most of whom have never taught a recitation or graded a homework assignment!

Scaling up from a class of 1 instructor and 40 students (at Olin 20 or 15 I'd guess?) in one class to class with 40 staff members and 1000+ students and several lecturers is its own skillset. Those instructors are not teachers. They are mid-level managers. It's a different job, and not one that most undergraduates are prepared to take on.

And the face that it's a machine matters. Teaching a few recitations or lab sections and grading homework is not even remotely the same as instructing a course.

It's a bit like saying that you don't need experienced management at a logistics company because, after all, everyone learns how to do the warehouse job within a week. True, but keeping that machine running requires institutional memory and is itself a full time job. And just because you can train cogs quickly doesn't mean many of those cogs would do a particularly good job at designing and operating the underlying machine. Or even a miniature version of that machine.

> but I think you might be underestimating how much better intentionally-designed support resources can make the process.

Having spent time both inside and outside the elite academic institutions, folks who use places like Olin or Berkeley as barometers for "normal" are wildly out of touch with 90+% of the 4,000 colleges and universities in the USA.

Students at places like Olin or Berkeley are already the cream of the cream of the crop. At Olin or Berkeley you have a handful of good student-educators every year. At normal places the acceptance rate is closer to Olin's reject rate, and the applicant pool is way lower quality. At normal places an above average Olin kid comes around once a decade or less, and the annual cream of the crop at Olin or Berkeley simply never pass through.
I miss the 68000 series. It was such a pleasant platform to program on. I spent many hours disassembling the ROM on my Amiga with a debugger, and learned so very much. x86 really doesn't compare, although the x86-64 extension by AMD improved it quite a bit, but it still doesn't compare to the 68k's plethora of addressing modes.
I frequently eschew the usage of google maps when traveling after the initial, stressful arrival in a new place.
Just because you have the power of google maps at your fingertips all the time, it doesn’t mean you need to use it all the time.
And no, it doesn’t demand an explanation to do so. It is your friggin life, live it as you wish, you owe us nothing.
You don't have to manage a database server if there is no database server.
What hubris to expect that your tiny filter bubble can accurately reflect large-scale tendencies!
What if it's only partially working for the parent company?

More generally, there's a more simple way of converting money to power: Employment. As long as you have freedom of contract, you can pay somebody money to do stuff for you.
> not a made-up price that makes their business competitive?

Ah yes, the age old strategy of exporting externalities. Manufacturers will just relocated to greener pastures my friend, our regulatory system is just a net cause of pollution if it drives manufacturing to developing countries.
Definitely users cannot be trusted with private keys. Why? Because when I worked at Google on the Play Store I learned that even sophisticated developers cannot be trusted with their app’s publishing key. How could the end user ever be trusted with something similar?
Where will the additional doctors and MRI machines come from if more folks had access to healthcare? If all the uninsured in my state suddenly had the same access to health care as I did, there would be 700,000 additional people who need primary care physicians, OBGYNs, psychiatrists, and so on. I think it would be a net good, but I would absolutely expect that the wait time for treatment would go up. You can't just snap doctors into existence. (I mean that)

Healthcare in the US isn't fair for anyone.
I highly recommend "Feeling Great" by Dr. David Burns. He's very data-driven and passionate about helping people improve their thought processes and therefore feelings. I've been seeing a therapist associated with his work and it's been very helpful at uncovering many deep-seated issues of perfectionism that have led me to distressing anxiety lately. I sympathize with OP even though I've tripled my salary since the start of the pandemic by climbing the corporate ladder. But I'm constantly feeling like I'm not doing enough or feeling amazing enough. This therapy has taught me to see the value in my perfectionism, but also why I may want to tone it down a little bit.
The thing that I can't get my head around is how they could iteratively test their code given the (presumably) slow speeds of compilers back in the day.

In other words, how did they write code and make sure it worked as expected?

Surely you couldn't be recompiling the game every 10 seconds. Was there a strategy employed?
I’ll literally boot up my Mac to do something with preview even if I’m in the middle doing something on windows.

Just did this a few days ago when I needed to combine two PDFs into one.
Neato. I'm getting TouchDesigner vibes. I like the art browser.
Ask HN: What are the downsides of taking a VC round with high valuation?
Was approached by a small startup valued at $1B. <100 employees, pre-market, early beta product.

Other than expensive stock options, any other reasons to be concerned about such unusually high valuation?

Thanks!
That certainly could be a factor that might contribute to the SEC failing, I’m asking for the evidence that the SEC did fail.

US courts have regularly exercised jurisdiction over parties located outside of the US.
No. If I did it wouldn't be a problem, I'd just move format to format over time, but I know from experience that an encode from someone with talent and experience is a whole different experience than an encode from someone who's just clicking a preset.
Preview and OmniGraffle are the 2 apps that I really miss from OSX now that I’m on linux full time.

That’s about it though.
I thought the definition of a "warrior" here was that they didn't help people at all, they just screamed on Twitter.

(AKA isn't Twitter itself a huge part of the problem?)
Almere looks very similar to large parts of Florida, just with more town houses. Both look like master planned subdivisions with layouts that look interesting from the air interspersed with canals surrounding commercial areas.
> cmd-shift-'.' . The '.' matches the prefix for auto-hidden files.

This is definitely not behavior I'm seeing in either file picking dialogs or Finder windows.
The ecobee3 solves this particular problem by having remote sensors. I'm absolutely in love with it since it takes an average of all the sensors as the temperature.
> I know HN isn't very fond of crypto, but I still feel for everyone stuck in UST space right now.

I can't speak for HN, but any financial instrument that can't be easily differentiated from a ponzi scheme should be assumed as one unless proven differently. I think that's just investor due diligence frankly.
I'm convinced that's what NFTs were partially invented and pushed to do. Hot new shiny thing to bring new money in to let the original crypto group cash out.
Bobby gave Lisa $10. Lisa then gave $3 to Uncle Sam. What percentage of Bobby's money went to Uncle Sam? 30%. It's that simple. Bobby gave Uncle Sam 30% of his money.
If they sold to the US investors they have to abide by US rules. US has a bunch of extradition treaties making it very hard to run from US law enforcement.
> So a simple starting point for water rationing is... ban lawns and watering lawns

This is far too simple of a take in my opinion. The problem being that pollution from concentrated populations in the desert regions causes air quality problems without sufficient vegetation. If you turn Denver into an even bigger parking lot, then you end up with something even more unlivable.

Eventually, I think this will inevitably cause a migration out of desert areas. It used to be a crazy idea to build a city in the desert. We’ve somehow forgotten that trying to sustain large populations there is extremely volatile.
Yes, I grew up poor in a single parent household. Generic food brands at discount grocery stores, clothes from thrift stores, etc. I know what being poor is.

>Do you really believe that it is a good thing that they are getting scammed out of what little they have?

Do you really believe that's what I said? I said I have no sympathy for people who choose to lose their money in irresponsible ways. I believe people have agency and they should be held accountable for their decisions. That's part of being an adult. The alternative to that is: daddy government tells everyone what they're allowed to do with their money, because nobody has any responsibility.
I don't know if most people who say "no thanks" realize that the foods we eat today look very different from the food people ate 100 years ago. Diets evolve.

Also, bug eating is normal in many cultures. I didn't grow up eating bugs but I've tried them and they're not bad.
> signals that the author doesn't have an interest in working with the greater open-source community to develop it further or adopt it.

This reminds me, there's a somewhat inherent affiliation in the flamewar over the branch name master/main.

The people who use "master" clearly don't think it's a bad term to use, and probably think being upset over it is silly. Those who use "main" either think it's (to some extent) racist to use the word master, or don't want to be yelled at.

Whichever word you chose ultimately signals affiliation, and the other group will feel you don't recognise their frustration. -- I think the sensible people just ignore it.

Rather.. I think if you want to have a community where people with different cultural attitudes feel welcome, I think some toe-stepping is inevitable and unavoidable.
Emacs is not so much an editor as it is a tool well-suited for writing custom editors. This is why Orgmode is so great and why its Emacs implementation is peerless. I used Orgmode for some time. I was not really an Emacs user. I used Orgmode and my Emacs use was incidental to that.

If there isn’t already a good mode for what you want to do, Emacs is good only if you want to write the mode. For instance Haskell support in Emacs is not great; the most-used mode is not part of GNU Emacs and falls well short of the quality standards of the modes GNU ships. I found myself trying to do Haskell in Emacs because I already used Emacs for Orgmode. This was a mistake. I was better off doing Haskell in Vim.

So for stuff that has a good mode—Org, lisp, C, mail if that is your kind of thing—use Emacs. Otherwise don’t bother, unless you like programming your editor.
Drop some local h265 mp4s into your edge browser, works fine for me with the extension.
$4.2 trillion was the total stimulus spent. I find it hard to imagine the scale of this spending, with nothing to show for it. No new infrastructure was built, and we still seem to be staring at the beginning of a recession.
>We need to talk about a "software archaeologist" specialty where one tries to plow through a mound of garbage left by the predecessors and seeks to figure out what prescriptions their therapists had written for them

Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes about software/computer systems - "we build our computer systems like we build our cities - over time, without a plan, on top of ruins."
Why does Stripe sell books now? I thought they were a payments company.
Consumers didn't hold a gun to anyone's head and force them to profit from environmentally disastrous manufacturing and shipping practices, or to profit from literal slave labor in supply chains. Those actually committing those actions, and profiting from them, are responsible for their actions, and it's shifting the blame to suggest that those who have no say in how private businesses are run are responsible for how private businesses are run.
The article, and possibly a lot of Web3 discussions/posts, seems to confound two subjects, one that many of us can understand and support, and another that seems dominated by die-hard fans looking for problems that match their favourite solution:

1. Use choice, independence, and sovereignty, and
2. Crypto, in the coin-and-NFT sense (sorry, I'm old, that's not what crypto used to mean, I'd like to revert, get offa my lawn)

The second has been discussed on HN and elsewhere, well, if not to death, then to near-death. Of it no more herein.

The first, though, is a really interesting topic. We do not need "web3 crypto" to get decentralized privacy respecting user first systems, but if the conversation around "web3 crypto" gets us closer to these things, then, please, converse!

(Cynically, perhaps, I think the article is an attempt to link 1 and 2 to make 2 a solution for 1. Manipulative, perhaps. Underhanded, perhaps. Desperate, perhaps. But if it starts us talking more about 1, great!)
Whereas "scam" has become to mean "thing I don't like".