skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel you are getting into the definition of the role of the Bank as intermediary as stated in the latest link above, and to be fair the definition of what Money depends on what is role in the economic transactions.

Bankers themselves don't describe like that: "Economists frequently assert that banks can create money out of nothing. Bankers have a different opinion: for every loan they need to attract money. And, strangely, they are both correct. How can this be reconciled?"

ING: "The money creation paradox"
https://think.ing.com/uploads/reports/Money_paradox2.pdf

"Why don't Economists understand money?": https://youtu.be/EObtwxpDSzk

Please see particularly as of this point (Video at correct time): https://youtu.be/EObtwxpDSzk?t=804

"If You Don't Understand Banks, Don't Write About Them": https://www.forbes.com/sites/francescoppola/2019/09/17/if-yo...
Taruskin is writing in the context of the western literate (i.e. classical) tradition of music, and he was very sceptical about the mainstream, hyper-intellectual way of composing as represented by who adhere to serialism and other structured devices which eschew immediate pleasure. He is saying here that those other composer (mainly minimalists who wrote what he called pattern-and-process music) who have more immediate appeal do not necessarily represent a panacea for the woes of modern classical music.

The western literate tradition has a long history of emphasising the co-existence of intellectual understanding and the immediate appeal of the notes. Beethoven is the most famous (or notorious) example, but scholars have traced it back to as early as the turn of the 16th century[1]. Like food and sex, which can be enjoyed with different amounts of complexity and intellectual involvement, it's reasonable to say once in a while, "this time, we can do a better little better than mere animals".

[1] https://www.routledge.com/The-Crisis-of-Music-in-Early-Moder...
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Nice to see that other people love Donkey Kong. Here's what I have to share.

When I study (mostly algorithms and mathy stuff) I listen to this:
https://youtu.be/daOaDBIh9xo

For chilling I prefer this:
https://youtu.be/CKAc3nYEatw

For coding session (where I need to be creative) I listen to this in loop (usually 9-10 times in a row per session (I code a lot, mostly JS (I got a different song for Rust, I feel like for Rust different brain regions need to be activated)))
https://youtu.be/AnEfB1F9BaY

When I travel to work (literally _travel_ to work, I choose working locations far away from my apartment, so I can walk there. The furthest was like 20 miles.)
For this, I listen to this:
https://youtu.be/0ttYoJk5sHY
Iphones have IP ratings. Make tiny mistake in battery swap and display re-gluing process, and your phone is no longer waterproof.

There is a difference in doing something properly, and doing it ”good enough”.
Well paying for an abortion isn't really an issue at the moment unless i'm missing something (you can just use cash? The issue here is insurance cover, but that doesn't change). Also I have tried to search for 'pay for an abortion with cryptocurrency' but can't find anything relevant on this happening in reality (other than people suggest it could possibly happen?).

How would paying in crypto avoid app store fees? Presumably you mean the Apple / Google App Stores, when Apple or Google will still want to take their 30%? How do you bypass that?

> purchasing digital assets like art

Who is using Crypto to purchase art? (Note: NFTs are not purchasing Art, you own some metadata that refers to a piece of art publicly hosted somewhere else). I can certinaly use my fiat currency to purchase both the rights to artworks, to purchase actual physical art pieces without having to jump through payment hoops, and even to purchase on-demand streaming of performance art. I cant really do any of that with Crypto without turning it back into regular fiat currency first (without searching out the tiny amount of places that accept crypto directly, but even then - whats the advantage to just paying in fiat?).

I mean I'm entirely unconvinced there is a compelling real use-case in anything listed here.

> ten years ago it was inconceivable to do these things with crypto, ten years from now it may be that these systems will continue to improve in terms of fees, privacy, scalability and user experience.

IMO if a technology is actually transformative, it will find a valid use case quicker than this. The only real use-cases I have seen seem to have been creating ponzi-schemes, effectively laundering money and speculative gambling on the price.
Don't underestimate the Germans. They'll get this done. They'll be pretty far done executing those plans in five years and probably will raise the ambition level rather than lowering it. I also predict they will trigger a pretty big economic boom doing so. All that money flowing into the economy will do a lot of good. They've actually been criticized for holding back too much in the last few decades. This looks like it might be the trigger that fixes that in a hurry.

Cheap Russian gas might make a brief comeback depending on if Russia is able to fix its leadership issues that are causing the current crisis. Right now it is looking pretty bad. But nothing that a Russian revolution wouldn't be able to fix. If that fails to happen, I doubt the Russians are going to get a lot of gas business from Europe with Putin remaining in power. Basically right now they are dealing with the stick part of this stick/carrot strategy. But even if that does happen, the message that they can't be trusted was received loud and clear. Business as usual is not going to be a thing any time soon.

Whatever they currently still receive in terms of gas revenues will start drying up either way. Oil is going to stop flowing pretty soon. And either the Russians close of the gas or the Germans will diversify their supply to the point where it won't matter if they do because the threat of the Russians cutting them off is now both very credible and completely unacceptable as a status quo.

That will make gas a lot more expensive permanently for the Germans and will only increase their ambition level with respect to reducing their dependence on it. If heating prices double or triple permanently, people are going to be pretty eager and creative getting into more cheaper ways to heat their houses. That's already happening in a lot of places.
… and why is “learning” in quotes?
How long did it take to repair the damage in Berlin after WW2, for how many years has Chernobyl power plant been a problem? And how many years will it remain so?

In any case, I have not heard of any fears that Russian missiles could damage Ukrainian wind or solar power plants.
Listening to a good album - start to finish - on good HiFi.
Basement's Brand New Site
Considering power density meaningless puts you in direct confrontation with reality. In physics you can't create energy, you can only convert it. So from what you're converting from is the key consideration to take as that also determines the cost.

And while nuclear is expensive at first, its longevity and reliability pays for itself. As it's further developed, that initial tax will only be reduced.

As if you guys don't realize that this "renewable" stuff is pushed by a nuclear reaction that happened thousands of years ago in the core of a plasma ball that is 8 light minutes away? That is not efficient.
As a separate path, I finally learned to internalize recursion by building a R7RS Scheme (and a good chunk of its standard library) and spending a year doing projects for fun in various Schemes and Standard ML.

I'm not saying every dev needs to do this but if you do want to get better at recursion, reading this book isn't the only path (good news for me because I really didn't like The Little Xer format).
It would be interesting to see the distribution of model types which power the top solutions across all competitions. I have a feeling gradient boosting will be very common.
> Hacker News is extraordinarily resilient to lousy connections

It really is. Where I live when you run into the limit of your data package, your network is usually throttled to 100kbps. I changed my plan to just 3GB per month because I was staying at home most of the time due to the pandemic. Now I'm pretty much back to my old routines, but I didn't change my plan yet. I have a 45 minute train commute and 3GB can be used up in a few days just browsing reddit and loading news sites.

Anyway, google search, hacker news and facetime audio work as normal at 100kbps. Google
maps works with a bit of patience. Virtually nothing else will load. 5 years ago most text-based things worked at this speed albeit slowly. Now everything is so bloated and so much content will not load show until fonts and things are loaded.
Sadly politics today is endless arguments about minutiae rather than actually solving problems. The culture wars exist for a reason. The longer we are at each other’s throats the longer the wealthy can reap the rewards of rent seeking behavior.
But nuclear energy isn't cheap
Cool project.. reminds me of all the phreaking websites I used to read as a teen.
I definitely sleep less well in the hot, humid, summer than in winter. When it's cold you can add layers. When it's hot you reach a limit of zero layers of clothing/coverings and then have to move the heat and humidity elsewhere artificially via A/C.
I also think (this is my subjective opinion, I have no proof) that cold reduces swelling and inflammation, thus making for easier breathing during sleep.
You still have to pay taxes when you convert back to fiat though. And eventually you have to do this because you don't want a significant portion of your wealth in stablecoins that might collapse overnight.
My old iPhone 4 makes a great bedside clock.
According to the article, it looks as if it originates in admiralty "prize" law, which seems to be about buccaneers like Francis Drake; and later extended to the colonies, to allow seizure of ships and their contents trading with a colony without authorisation (e.g. not a British ship, or duty not paid).
Once Apple stops providing software updates to a product they should allow other communities such as Linux to support the product (and supply appropriate documentation) in the products second life.
Asteracea (As Of)
Our family cut off all of Netflix, Disney, etc. and now I have just CuriosityStream[1] (I think after hearing it on Curiosity Daily Podcast). I watch that. Our family rarely watch TV.

1. https://curiositystream.com
Interesting! A lot of people wouldn't want to live in a feudal society but are OK with working in one.

I guess it's all about inertia.
>It's been 8 years since and no fight for Crimea. This still contradicts the original statement: "as they would rather vaporize than give an inch of their land to russia".

only if you believe that viewpoints and opinions and attitudes of humans never change, a ridiculous notion

>It is easy to be brave / stupid sitting in a safe place in front of computer screen.

if you don't like that that's their attitude, feel free to complain to them about it, don't attack me, the messenger, telling you how it is. after all, it is easy for you to doubt their resolve in a safe place in front of a computer screen
You ever toss and turn at night because it’s just too hot to sleep? Someone moving from the North to California would likely experience that. I know I did when I moved to Texas and my air conditioning unit broke down.

The authors say there is adaptation to the local climate so someone living near the equator might still get good sleep. The data is based on weather, and it checks out; it’s hard to sleep on a hot summer night.
As far as I know there is, after 70 years of research in many nations, not a single industrial satisfactorily working fast-breeder reactor. Is there one?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor#Development_an...

The most advanced one is Russia's BN-800 (now burning 60% MOX). Its planned big brother was cancelled "In 2015, after several minor delays, problems at the recently completed BN-800 indicated a redesign was needed. Construction of the BN-1200 was put on "indefinite hold", and Rosenergoatom has stated that no decision to continue will be made before 2019."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-1200_reactor

This is not due to a lack of interest or funding because Russia launched a new project towards another architecture and builds a small reactor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREST_(reactor)
It's a Ponzi scheme. He doesn't even seem to push back against the "Ponzi" phrasing.

Also -- this is merely a footnote -- his Ponzi scheme is currently the 3rd-largest political donation source in the USA.

https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/summ.php?GoToPag...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/-crypto-cash-...
> it's speculative proactive defense, which is something just about any startup advisor would caution against

True, but at that point, Facebook was not a startup anymore. Playing defense as a startup might be silly, but as a large tech company, it's arguably essential.
I think there's an inherent conflict between languages creating programs like clay to be molded by the developer and the user, interactively (repl, smalltalk), vs. languages creating programs with optimal machine code with no extraneous computations, and/or maximal low-level control (sometimes even at the cost of making it harder to alter code, like manual data structures or hand-rolled assembly or vectorization). I wouldn't call Smalltalk technology from the future, but rather optimizing for a different ideal (though I've never used Smalltalk to experience the magic firsthand (and/or smoke and mirrors, ctrl+f "white/blacklisting")). Smalltalk (like Java) is bound to a GC, and GC wreaks havoc with using finalizers for manual memory management cleanup, since finalizers can be called while a variable is still in scope unless you use GC.KeepAlive() or friends.

On the other hand, optimized C++ is notoriously hard to debug, and debug C++ is slow (especially when using "zero overhead" abstractions that are only zero-overhead in release builds). There's cool work at reversible debugging, binary-patching, etc. (low-overhead tracepoints, Linux kernel Kprobes which failed to hook some functions I think were actually called, CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE, most recently https://justine.lol/ftrace/, though both CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE and ftrace depend on injecting nops into code which can later be replaced by tracing code).

JavaScript excels at neither performance nor dynamism, though I think it's still a lot more dynamic than C++ (userscripts can tamper with page contents and scripting) and faster than Python (through herculean effort of the V8 developers funded by Google ad revenue to make web apps and advertising faster). And C++/assembly, by its nature of allowing complete control over the machine, is difficult to sandbox beyond running code in an isolated process or VM (or compiling to WASM then to x86?), as opposed to JS/WASM being (theoretically) memory-safe and sandboxable by taking away APIs interfacing to the outside world.
Excactly these are very common in surrounding countries. These trains have to run anyways because of legislation and laws allowing people movement with public transport.

There arent that many travelers in summer so By making it cheaper you promote tourism and people appretiate it.

The “you shouldnt nuy it its not for you” people just have no idea and probably dont even use trains or live in the area.
> do we just wave a magic wand

We have at least 6 magic wands:
1) if the VVER 1200 truly cost 1.4 billion to construct in 4 years, nuclear economics are saved.
2) building a lot of marine nuclear plants
https://whatisnuclear.com/economics.html#economies-of-scale-...
They require far less concrete (no need to protect against seisms) and much less redundancy because the cooler (water) will always be there (the ocean won't disappear) hence preventing radiations escalation in a passive way.
3) using disruptively simpler/cheaper models
https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/publications/magazi...
4) using more complex but significantly more efficient models (I'm mainly talking about the underresearched supracritical reactors)
5) if SMRs are not a scam and can really have a fordism era
6) rationalizing et reconciloating regulations with cost effectiveness.
I upvoted because it's an interesting point: but I think your definition of 'civil war' is just wrong. It's people in a single nation/people group fighting to resolve differences. Limiting it to exclude things like secession is an unnatural split that doesn't have any obvious benefits. Like, some people end up fighting because 'their' side is being attacked, they don't wish for dominance but only survival ... you'd be deciding for each individual person if it was a civil war or not.
Not to mention that Ukraine earned some billions in transit fees, which helped upgrading their military.

What if the EU had not bought Russian gas?
Then Russia would probably have sold more to others like China or India and Ukraine would not have earned money from transit fees, nor would there be any leverage against Russia at all.
There is something wrong in the other side.

Whey you try to make a phone that is water tight, very tiny, tough and as durable as possible, you can't expect it to be easy and safe to open with easy tools. These tools are still cheap enough that you could have them in your local community center or library (here in Finland we have weird stuff in local libraries) where people can do it.

Changing batteries to watertight wrist watches or is also hard.
My experience with shorter versus longer jobs, in the tech industry, consulting a few years back:

- 30-60 minute consultations, I need to charge $600/hour minimum to make ends meet

- 1-2 week gigs, I need to charge $300/hour minimum to make ends meet

- 6-36 month gigs, I need to charge $100/hour minimum to make ends meet

Making ends meet means covering mortgage, health care, etc., not having a decent lifestyle. There is overhead to:

- Finding clients

- Billing

- Cancellations

- Marketing

- Commuting

- Networking

- Contracts / legal

Etc. All of that overhead goes down with longer jobs. I don't feel that "longer jobs" are the root culprit here. If I were to guess, the root problem is that anyone can do carpentry (poorly). That sets low expectations on prices. That keeps better tradespeople out, since you can make so much more in any of the other trades.
Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?
My passion is writing developer tools. I like the feedback you get and the way it shapes the work.

It's cool when you can build software and someone runs it on their own data just a short while later and has a direct line of communication to you, providing a tight feedback loop.

I quit my job a few months ago and in a few months I'll have to find a new one. I thought I'd see if anybody had any ideas for tools they wanted to see written that lined up with my interests and that I could try my hand at, to see if I could make a go of working on dev tools for myself before going back into the job market.
Fair points. But maybe one could stop to ask why are there so few experts or why has the nuclear industry been out of favor for literally decades in Germany?

The anti nuclear power movement started from Denmark and they have at least two high profile nuclear startups. While they are of course not direct short term solutions to the current gas crisis, these things change how people can think about nuclear energy.

Again, so much of German writing around the subject has this very peculiar air of complete passivity, to someone looking from the outside. Things seem to just happen to Germany with no role of their own. Look outside Germany to see some counterexamples.
Sort of like a 1031 exchange in the US: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Revenue_Code_sectio...
The standard procedure for me is uninstalling pulseaudio and installing "apulse", which is ALSA-glue for applications that depend on pulseaudio, e.g. browsers. And my experience with Bluetooth is that it works fine directly with ALSA.
Author here.

> Did Github ever solicit feedback from the community for this feature? Was there ever a beta before they rolled it out?

There actually was a closed preview for this, but it wasn't long and the feedback I gave them (which is almost everything that's in the blog post) wasn't implemented.

> The visual font size problem seems particularly disastrous:

They made the decision to match the capital heights of the two fonts, not the x-heights. If they match the x-heights, the capitals in math mode will be too large.

Since the small letters are way to small, perhaps they'll increase math font size a little bit in the future to balance it out.
Neither are headless browsers.
> I thought this space was revolutionary at first too.

Seems like you don't understand my frustration at all.

I don't care about revolutions. I don't want disruptions. I want alternatives that can (at least) be viable for the current global systems. I want people to have the option to adopt something that can work for their situation without forcing them into a Procrustean Bed. I want to have more tools at the disposal of societies that can help them establish effective checks and balances.

> Personally, I've also seen very little innovation and actual usage.

You know what is funny? The same thing can be said about the Free Software movement. Detractors of FOSS love to point out that most open source projects are just copycats of the then-established projects. Plenty of people (even here very highly skilled people on Hacker News) will say that they have no interest in using Linux on the Desktop because it is not "convenient" for them.

Still, I don't care about the "lack of adoption". I don't need to convert the majority of people in order to have FOSS working for me.
If you want to come back and dip your toe in the water, Visual Studio 2022 is better than ever. But Rider is a great IDE and I’d recommend starting an evaluation of that.
» PixelBox Public Alpha
Another take on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIhCuzxNvv0
I played more 500 with the extended playing deck.

My brother and I were keen players and developed a number of variations, particularly suited for two or three players.

One of the more fun ones was having a compulsory bid; no minimum number of tricks, but you were not allowed to bid in a way that would cause all the bids to add up to 10. You then had to make your bid exactly, so it added that element of strategically throwing tricks like you have in Hearts to force someone to go over. Standard 500 scoring if you made your bid, and -10 points for every card you were high or low.
I think they're suggesting that industry motivated by profits will out-lobby environmentalists and anyone else. I've seen it suggested that the anti-nuclear message was propped up by the coal industry who saw it as a direct threat.

Environmentalists have made minimal headway against Murdoch media here in Australia, struggled to make progress against coal/mining, etc. Industrial lobbyists have far more money and power.
Blog post author here. The kerning is probably a problem with their font config that can hopefully be fixed. I don't think -- and that's me personal estimation -- that people will write tons of `a\,=\,b` to work around the bad kerning, so that's a change I would still recommend making.
Interesting; is there a law that dictates that the Earth is an oblate spheroid? A bit like the Indiana Pi Bill?
Absolutely; the language moves fast. Around 2015 I was using C# at work. Last year I did some code review on a C# project and at first I had no idea what I was looking at. The new features and design patterns used made it like reading a language I had never seen before.