skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never liked the arguments which end up shilling for or giving a pass to the fossil fuel industry, which amounts to destroying our planet. Humans need clean air and water to survive. No matter how indispensable one might think oil and plastics are, if humans destroy themselves because of their usage, then it was not worth it. Just a relatively few humans getting rich from destroying the planet and the future generations of humanity, means it wasn't worth it.

There are alternative ways to make plastics (https://hempplastic.com/), and hemp is just one example. It's not to say that all kinds of plastics are easily or quickly replaced with alternatives, but it is to say that it's possible to find alternatives. And probably the greater effort and urgency to find alternatives, without interference from oil companies, the greater variety of replacements there will be, and sooner.

Maybe there is some minimum point where we just can't replace fossil fuels for a particular product or industry, but much better to get to that point, where we minimally rely on fossil fuels. Let's first make every effort to find alternatives, before saying that's the case. I have a strong suspicion, we could probably reduce reliance far more that many think or want us to discover.

Another sneaky part of the pro fossil fuel argument, is since replacing them is hard, let's be really lazy about it and allow them to pollute the air and water at will or for many generations more. As if we or our Earth can afford such. If anything, the correct answer is that greater effort should be made to replace fossil fuels as much as and as soon as possible, because of the great harm they are causing. We should not be lazy, because doing so might be our undoing.
Sanctions when applied properly can work. They need to actually impact directly on those who are politically powerful, while also imposing difficulties day-to-day on the general population, which encourages unrest and internal disputes.

Russia thought it had protected itself by having low foreign debt and large foreign reserves. What it didn't count on was that the US and EU reserve banks would freeze its foreign reserves, while also getting SWIFT and the MC/Visa payment networks to disconnect from the Russian banking system.

There currently is no alternative for foreign currency exchange and Russia has had to engage in much less efficient and expensive (because they are being made to pay through the nose) foreign exchange through China's nascient payment systems, which means they are exchanging rubles for yuan, instead of USD/EUR.
Finland and Sweden are parliamentary democracies. Officials are elected to carry out governmental processes. These people are trusted to serve the interests of the country. Not everything needs to be put to a vote of the people.
I use a 2 line prompt which obviates the need for that but nice tip all the same.
I would imagine Twitter would have access to analytics that third parties don't have, which would allow them to pretty easily work out which accounts are logged in and used for browsing and which are actually abandoned.
But, as noted, for this case there is very little in the way of cost.

Nature did, in fact, explore the winged-bipeds body plan to full fruition twice, once in mammals, and did winged quadrupeds before and again in mammals. She is progressing on a another as I write this. And, humans did end up conquering the air without growing wings. Nature isn't picky about methods.
> You can have universal login with MetaMask, sure, but that functionality isn't reliant on a blockchain. It's decades-old public key cryptography.

For sure, you can do PGP, but if it's decades old, you have to ask yourself: Why hasn't public key cryptography taken off as a sign in solution in the same way that email or Google or Facebook have been?

Mainly because it's always been a chicken and egg problem for consumers and application developers. If you implement PGP as your sign-in method, it's unlikely that any consumers will adopt it unless they're developers. And you increase the barrier to entry for anyone who does not understand it.

In the case of MetaMask, this has already got significant traction at 21 million monthly active users (more if you count other EVM wallet solutions), because there's no other way to interact with a blockchain. It's also relatively user friendly. And there's an ecosystem now of applications that require it for interaction, so you're starting to see network effects grow for "Sign in With Ethereum/EVM".

> But successful internet communities do everything in their power to remain walled gardens

This will be proven to be false in the long run. This was the same argument against Linux back in the day vs. Windows. The bazaar will win against the cathedral in the end.
First off, I don't give 2 shits about twitter, so I don't care if the numbers are skewd in either direction. This is more of an interest in seeing how SV stats/metrics are just a game. Just so that's out there.

A lurker isn't an active user in my opinion. Maybe that's not the same understanding as accepted definition. The lurkers might be absorbing some of the ad content, but they are not helping create new avenues for ads to be shared. Twitter's ad share surface area would increase tremendously if every user was actively producing tweets. That's the only metric that they are concerned. They don't care about how many people actually see the ads once they are there. They make their money on the potenial eyeballs alone. Lurkers are not helping increase those numbers.
I recommend you read about "representative democracy". This is fine. Elected officials make decisions - not the electorate.
But if you are going to be querying on a particular, known-ahead-of-time value in the JSON, why did you use JSON to begin with? It's not like the data came through some other system, since this is SQLite. Couldn't you have just extracted the pieces you cared about ahead of time?
This is a corporate piece essentially informed by the company itself outlining they can do so. Who knows if it is true? The fact of the matter is if your argument is going to be "Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is it" (which is what you are proposing), that is not proof. It's a strong hunch.
I agree with the kernel of your point here, but also with the author of the article when he says "But systemic problems like this can rarely be solved from the bottom up, and my sense is that the project leadership does not agree that there is a serious correctness problem. They accept the existence of individual isolated issues, but not the pattern that those issues imply."

My impression is that the Julia core devs are more focused on functionality and being able to construct new, more powerful, faster capabilities than on reflecting on how the foundations could or should be made more rigorous. For this, I think the devs have to philosophically agree that soundness in the large should be a first-tier guiding principle, and that the language should have mechanisms whereby correctness-by-construction can be encouraged, if not enforced. Presently, notions of soundness seems to only be considered in the small, such as the behavior of specific floating point ops. Basically, I don't think the core devs are as concerned with soundness, rigor, and consistency as they are with being able to build more impressive capabilities.

I don't want this to sound like I'm ungrateful for the awesomeness that Julia and its ecosystem does bring to the table. For numerical computing, I don't see any alternatives whose tradeoffs are more favorable. But it is disappointing that it doesn't seem to learn the lessons about rigorous language design and the language-level implications for engineering vs. craftsmanship appropriate for a twenty-first century language.
It's one of those things that's obvious if you think about it, but still blew my mind when I read about orange juice being blended like wine with various oils, etc to ensure consistency throughout the year and across huge production scale.

Probably the subliminal advertising image of the straw straighy into an orange from childhood.
you can run an Ethereum node without running a full node. agree IPFS client is pretty janky but the idea of content addressable p2p hosting is not a bad thing.

the goal of these base systems is not to be faster or easier to use than a centralized Amazon server. the goal is resistance to centralized control.

mod note: my other account “web4” is rate limited after a couple comments?
I recommend it as well, and one added benefit is you're in the same network as their cheap "storage box" servers (AKA SMB/CIFS/WebDAV/SSH storage server), so you can connect the two and get faster block storage compared to combining two clouds.
European dealmakers face shrinking debt options as recession risk looms
One visit from the US police. US-unfriendly countries have no leverage over it, and similarly, the US has no leverage over satellite ISPs based in countries they aren't on good terms with.
I'm the author of the article and that is my conclusion also.
it's not so great for centralised platforms, unless the centralised platform you are talking about is infura, in which case it's a huge win.
Yeah. Shanghai is the one that's always talked about but from what I understand, it's all over the place, most major cities are locked down as well. Similar to your article, I read somewhere the figure is between 25-40 percent of the population is under lockdown.
Spending money on hobbies is part of the benefits of working no? If you can afford the essentials I would hope people are spending money on things they enjoy.
...so you're going to write your own HTTP requests? Encrypt your traffic and validate certificates by hand? Toggle in each TCP header from a memory debugger?

Most of the Internet is bots because humans don't actually generate HTTP traffic - they fire up a bot called a "browser" to do it for them. The challenge for anti-spam is to distinguish which bots are currently being directly controlled by humans and which ones are not-so-directly controlled by such. This isn't even a hard line; I've frequently hit Hacker News' bot detection just by upvoting a comment and then clicking reply too quickly.
By invading Ukraine. LOL.
I mean even with the price increases my little server that could that serves some basic self-hosted apps up for me still costs me less that a meal at a non-fast food restaurant. I'm sure I'm getting more utility out of that than 1 meal
I did ;)
Antifeatures: Features you don't want but have
I'm glad you were amused! I had fun dissecting these images and figuring out what lurked inside :)
I think it's connected to a more general phenomenon though. Pewdiepie has 111 million subscribers on YT and gets like 3-5 million views per video. Like 95% of his subscribers don't watch his videos.
Nice side effect: SQLite's SQL is almost entirely compatible with Postgresql. This probably allows one to use Postgresql instead of Mysql.
Unlike passive media consumption though, Twitter needs users to submit content (tweets, replies) to give lurkers something to do.
Turkey sees YPG as a subsidiary to PKK. Others don't necessarily agree.
Only if there is someone who'd like to sell in rubles.
Nice try Elon, afaik twitter did disclose that they might be undercounting spam at 5%

it s very hard to say anything about bots without IP addresses. The most active bots get sold / change subject etc.
Ooh, oooh... now do nearly hostile homogenization of culture.
> fundamentally change the situation for people who are very vulnerable to COVID-19

the situation is already fundamentally changed in terms of treatment efficacy than what it was in 2020.
> This is 2022, we have to pack our food with some plastic.

We don't; cardboard packaging for food is pretty common nowadays.
They never had an issue operating in Saudi Arabia despite the invasion of Yemen. They still maintain their Guantanamo Bay location. How is operating in Russia inconsistent with their values?
I assume there's a clause in the franchise agreement covering this sort of thing. If the franchisor decides to exit a market, the agreement probably provides a process to do so.

Not a McD franchisee, but I've been involved in franchise businesses before.
Damn, if only China was this strict about its lab safety.
US cops kick back against facial recognition bans
That was one of my first thoughts too. It would be awesome if this could simply be yet another display module for the Framework Laptop. It seems as though Framework uses EDP (Embedded Display Port) so an e-Ink display of the correct dimensions which uses EDP would work in theory. Although I'd imagine there would be some work to be done to make it function well.
how many of those are minted with OpenSea? and how many are high value - not spam?

OpenSea engineers should be shamed for their use of HTTPS URLs in contracts, but it is not the norm outside of their minting platform.
Turning on my cynicism switch on a bit. The author is a very good content marketer. A hot topic in our corner of the world — which is author’s target audience — is Elon Musk buying Twitter. Musk tweeted that the percentage of bots is the main issue of the deal. He disputed Twitter’s number of 5%.

I believe the author writing prompt was just: a headline about fake Twitter accounts showing a number significantly higher that 5%. That’s it. Whatever the methodology, that was the author’s goal.

The article achieved this goal. Otherwise is completely irrelevant. Even for the person who wrote it.
Any big organization is amoral. This includes countries.
Is it?

In a non-democracy, the dictator decides whatever they what.

These are democracies, and so people elected their representatives, and the representatives decided to join NATO. I lived in Sweden for many years, and it seems like the general population indeed supports it. No law says you have to go a referendum, and it's definitely not against the constitution. The fact it was a quick decision is a actually great IMHO - people often see democracies as slow to respond, and here you have two countries moving a democratic process relatively quickly.
> The presence of troops does not imply an occupation.

70 years "presence" of troops does.

> If you mistakenly think it does, then (among other things) you'll be unable to perceive alliances.

That's a nice way of saying vassalage.

If it was china occupying south korea for 70 years, we'd call that occupation. If it was russia occupying south korea for 70 years, we'd call that occupation. Somehow, when we do it, it's an "alliance".
I tried to find my source but I’m no longer able to successfully google it. I do remember the worst offenders were big box chain fake-organic brands like “Earth’s Best”.
The Julia example is closer to Rust's `unsafe`. Pretty much every language let's you skip bound checks, in Julia (like other modern languages) it is elective. The author was complaining about a library that decided to skip the bound check in a clumsy way (there happens to be a "correct" way to skip the bound check). It is not really about the language.
Employees, electricity, physical space, infrastructure, etc.
> You don't need something as powerful as Copilot for that kind of boilerplate though, there have been "snippets" / macro things for that for forever.

I'm not aware of anything else that writes good wrapping error messages automatically though.

Your use-case is precisely what you'd be using generics / standard codegen for.
As a small complication: I have a twitter account, doubt I've ever tweeted. I browse twitter quite often, but I'm _never_ logged in.

No idea if I should be counted or not in any particular bucket, or how anyone would know.
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> As a human even if I hear a name in another language I still fundamentally understand that it is language.

Reminds me of the classic Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry sketch "Your name, sir?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNoS2BU6bbQ
"There are worse fates than death" and "There was a season for everything".

Sometimes one's fears leads one to a fate worse than death; sometimes better to just accept the risk of death and say that if death wants to come then let it come.

Also, the pace of time means that everything changes and sometimes this is hard to accept; but unavoidable. Everyone's life has seasons of joy and hardship.
Doesn't this site, and all of the content it links to, pretty much disprove your theory?

Yes, sure, I often do go to the "top sites" when searching for content, but I still usually start at Google. And, despite all the SEO spam, Google still does a fairly decent of landing me on, for example, the appropriate Wikipedia page, Stackoverflow post, travel site, etc.
San Francisco police use driverless cars for surveillance
I watched the video and I want to believe, but... I don't know. I have cats, I know cats are intelligent, cats can be trained to understand single words, etc. But I'm just not convinced any cat can string together English sentences like this. Also, the concept of time might be a bit abstract for a cat who is always living in the present moment. And then there's the most viewed video on that channel[1] where he presses the "cuddle" button, and then... doesn't cuddle. He seems like he knows pressing a button get a reaction, but he doesn't know which button is which. Good morning human, time to play with the disembodied voice buttons again.

Like I said though, I want to believe. Can you think of any longer videos that might convince a skeptic?

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvgfI9P377U
I really also like contabo. Good server with great pricing from my own personal experience.
> but C can read out-of-memory locations too, so what?

So it's widely considered a plague upon the field, suffered because of the lack of alternative?
Yep, we'll add another database instance in the future. But 250€/month for the AX161 is something we first have to justify...
My strategy is no-backup. I do remember all my passwds, my bitcoin key is written on a wall of my living room. Few lost HDDs with photos which have nostalgic value for me may be considered like not so impornant to print it in my living room's wall. I store that HDDs on upper shelf for easing loss of data via falling down that piece of rust (the secret is I really don't need all that digital stuff, seriously. And I am heavily rely on Gmail as a critical point of access to lots of services from legal business to cryptocurrencies earned with some illegal ways. Not a decent way of backup managing but I'm sure it is kind of common.
This is great news. I don't think Turkey will be able to stop this considering how pissed off other members are at Russian genocide and belligerence. Seems Turkey doesn't mind that...
I guess, but after seeing videos of people screaming from their balconies because they can't leave their homes even to get food https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/china/shanghai-residents-... it seems odd to focus on no one buying cars.
If the level of a bill surprises you, you are financially irresponsible. That just doesn't gel with an adult beyond a certain age (barring some outliers), which is probably what you are seeing above.
Everyone else leaves NATO and sets up NATO2 where Sweden and Finland are members but Turkey is not.
I was bit by trying to figure out of how to combine unit of measurements with other numerical computations. Ultimately a lot of the features look great on paper, but once you start using them, I only ever was able to produce an ungodly mess instead of what I could accomplish in Python in roughly the same time. Everything that goes beyond what Matlab does, sometimes looks great on paper but is not very pleasant to use / sometimes badly broken unfortunately. That being said I work in an area of scientific research where Julia or more specifically DifferentialEquations.jl would seem to walk away with the win, but I find myself searching for alternatives implemented in Jax.

I would still think most of this is my failings, but it is also extraordinarily hard to figure out what is going wrong.
R is not constantly breaking. R Core does a remarkable job ensuring backwards compatibility. There are only a few prominent examples of significant "breaking" behavior across decades of the language existing, and those can often be reverted by setting an option (e.g. `options(stringsAsFactors = TRUE)`). But backwards compatibility is the primary concern with any update to the R language or the packages maintained by R Core.

Now, if you're thinking about changes introduced by a specific user-contributed package breaking your analysis, that can indeed be a problem. But that can't be blamed on the R language. And the main user-contributed R statistics packages that have been around for decades (such as lme4 or survival) are mature and stable.
An owner-occupier would naturally not have to worry about vacancy taxes. If you are a landlord, can't afford the vacancy tax, and would lose money on tenancy, eventually your most efficient option is to simply give away the home to someone who will happily take it.
Here is a series of headlines that give the best explanation of this architectural change that I've ever seen:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18411779
Wish I could get the same experience, we have frequent issues with INSERTs to small tables randomly taking 5-15 seconds and SELECTs from small tables going on infinitely. Their built in stats reflect this as well, so it doesn't appear networking or application related. I'm just frustrated and ready to self-manage my own clusters again. The first reply took around a day to begin with.
This estimate seems very low
agree that media storage is not going to be easily decentralized, and most web3 products will depend on big cloud tech companies for storage and services.

almost all NFT platforms will extract some % commission from trades as a form of monetization. they could take 0% but then will have to cover their costs some other way; maybe monthly subscription or regular advertising.

but in the end it doesn't matter how the platform decides to offset its costs, if the data and assets are removed from centralized control. good example of this is NFT art marketplaces - one can go offline, and users can just move to another, or build a new one on the public data (blockchain tokens + IPFS media).
The only dictatorship in South America right now is Venezuela. Bolivia is the next closest country, but I'd be hard-pressed to call it a dictatorship.

Neither of those countries are remotely anything that could be called a US vassal. If anything, they are some of the most reflexively anti-American countries in South America.
I thought it'd be higher than that tbf