skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having one less cable on your desk is neat. I used wireless keyboard for a while (and still use one with the computer that is connected to my TV).

I ended up moving back to wired keyboard though mostly because the wireless one tended to go to sleep and take half a second to a second reconnecting when woken.
I am defending my arguments.

"treatment of the predominantly Muslim Chechnians by Russia" is pure BS FUD accusations. Chechens are mostly treating themselves in the last 15 years. And it turns out relatively benign, compared to stuff like ISIS, Afghanistan, Xinjiang, Lybia, Israel, Yemen.

And that's the context of early XXI century, there's really no other one. You're not the World Police to judge others, likely you are a much worse perpetrator yourself.
I’m remarkably positive. Just trying to ruffle some feathers but unfortunately my sense of humor falls on deaf ears here.
Relatively speaking, returning the materials to Earth is VERY easy. You need about 15,000 m/s of delta V to get from the Earth to the Moon. To deliver material from the moon to the Earth you not only need less Delta V for escape from the moon, but you can also aero-capture. This means you can get away with about 3000 m/s on the return trip. Probably less than a sub-orbital point to point hop on the Earth's surface.

However I imagine that returning the materials to the Earth would not be the initial goal. Probably they would be used for other Space related purposes. Fuel for Mars transfer, building Lunar bases and Colonies, etc...
In the social sciences this is actually a common use case, so some CAQDAS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-assisted_qualitative_... are using that. See a free one here: https://github.com/ccbogel/QualCoder/wiki/09-Coding-audio-an...
As it stands bitcoin is a decentralised casino.
I think I would argue the decentralized aspect has also failed.

Because of limited throughput (350k per day), most transact via exchanges and off chain. Some what 90+% of coins are owned by a ridiculously small volume of wallets, with most concentrated in exchanges with a huge volume of coins.

Because of the nature of mining, we are seeing more and more consolidation into fewer parties who can afford the electricity burden and hardware capital. We are long gone the day of people mining btc with their ati cards at home. In fact, I saw a blog about how mining is completely unprofitable.

It is massively controlled at this point by few rich parties (exchanges, miners)
who have disproportionate sway on it's value (wash trading) and transaction throughput. Why exactly should people trust these guys rather than publicly traded/regulated banks or government bodies?
Pretty much this. I can quickly set up an entire new environment for my SaaS in under an hour; on a good day probably in about 10 minutes. It will run on any Linux environment: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Azure, what-have-you.

At my last job we had one of those hyperfancy devops setups with all the fancy devops tools. Literally no one in the company knew how to spin up a new environment. I'm not exaggerating: no one knew how to run a dev environment and when they had to set up a new region for legal purposes it took weeks for the team. All of that was initially set up in an age of legends in the mythical past of a year and a half ago.

Theoretically it would all failover and scale to the moon and back. Emphasis on theoretically because no one seemed to understand how it all worked, so who knows how well it would behave when it failed. There was actually some major downtime in my time there which was rationalized away as "growing pains", but in in my opinion a major factor was just that no one really understood how it al worked.

If something goes wrong with a simple system then often the diagnosis and fix is simple (in this case: just deploy a new environment). If something goes wrong with a complex system then all of this is much harder.

Not saying you can't use these tools correctly or that there isn't an appropriate use for it, but it's a good case study on how the complexity can spin out of control if you're not careful in how you apply it.
Thanks, it was pretty motivating to see Dillo compile pretty much out of the box! Kudos to Dillo for portability (the source code is from 2015 and I'm testing it on a relatively recent macOS...!)

The legwork to port it (its underlying FLTK toolkit, the socket-communicating daemons, openssl, etc.) looks a bit daunting however. I might consider it if nothing else works.

Thank you
I worked out of my off-grid cabin the last 18 mo or so - you can easily consume under 150w of power (monitor, laptop, lights, 5g phone, router).

Starlink does add a lot of draw (~100w)
I had 3 keychron keyboards, each lasted less than a year before the switches failed, reverted back to a logitech K780 from 5+ years ago and it works a champ.

Also Keychron had some obscure usb cable requirement, that they could never convey over support emails. You would think that any usbc usbc cable would work for a keyboard, but not the few I had laying around that were longer than the provided one

Just my two cents, I wouldn't buy another Keychron
This comes across as somewhat bullying, intentionally or unintentionally. The person may be neurodivergent and the Twitter account may be a reflection of that.
Agreed. All this post did for me is make me think even less of Brave. It hasn't really changed my opinion of DDG. For the majority of DDG users (like me) who only use it for search, this changes nothing. All it does is make the Brave folks look like mudslingers.
Or is the robot playing its creator to enhance survivablity? (See also Ex Machina by Alex Garland.)
No shit! It helps impulse control.
No, it is not just a general NDA.
Ok good, but why you're assuming that there are no parallels to your case in "other dictatorships"? In Russia we saw people refusing the war, in China there i s work to fight corruption and expose the corrupts... in Iran there are pro west people and some public figures that publicly criticize the supreme leader and so. Whatever answer you have for this can be the answer for your case.
My whole point is, the free press of the west only free for the cases that doesn't hurt that much, and because of conflicts between the democrats and Republicans (a similar thing exists in other countries, like Iran). But for cases that matters there will be practically no alternative story (see: Ukraine war, Iraq war).
Oh look, an unsigned article recycling myths about what Web3 is and what its impact will be. So tiresome to see how ignorant people in tech are about what is being built, how it will be used, and what the potential is without actually trying it out. As with anything with a financial incentive there are bad players in the space, but there are also people dedicating their lives to creating a better financial future for everyone. The fact that people like whomever wrote this dreck get away with the BS the spread, because people aren't actually intellectually curious enough to check it out is disappointing along with the spin that there is some nefarious force of people trying to steal from others. Do yourself a favor and actually try shit before you comment on it.

Example:. There is an entire social network protocol called Lens that frees people from the nefarious crap that Web2 gives to us. No costs to using it and it is built so anyone can build a network with privacy protected.
How long does it typically last until it does? What model do you have?
I was surprised Colin has to ask random strangers on the internet to sponsor his work on FreeBSD for EC2 instances. You'd think Amazon would be interested in this, they seem to have more than enough cash if they're making their own CPUs.
Sounds like a content farmer.
Well in some situations you can also get away with CRDTs or Gossip (SWIM), but yeah in the general sense Paxos (Raft is a Paxos-family algo). There are lots of paxos family algos to choose from[0].

> I’m also currently building a distributed search engine using etcd for the service registry, broker peer announcements, and worker queue and it’s been a good experience so far.

As a random stranger on the internet, please build an abstraction layer around etcd. Even if there's only one implementation, I've found that so many distributed projects that just never reach the scale that etcd is built for would benefit from the option of writing their own drivers (you don't need a full plugin system just a regular abstraction layer).

One example is Kine[0] for k8s -- if k8s had a built in option for writing/reading from something like Postgres from the beginning it would have been a better project for it, IMO.

If you do build a plugin system though, you can pass off the work of maintaining the other implementations!

[0]: https://vadosware.io/post/paxosmon-gotta-concensus-them-all

[1]: https://github.com/k3s-io/kine
(concurring, not arguing) I've certainly learned more from a curated set of podcasts than I ever did spending too much time on forums.
How a $2T crypto crash is even affecting the Golden State Warriors
I'm guessing because of what's mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31491321

TLDR: Their Calendar app became "not free" and you needed to pay to get notifications or alerts, but only if you downloaded from the Play Store. It's still completely free on f-droid
Serverless has been kinda out of reach of non-enterprise but has a lot of promise for individual developer experience. There's no add'l vendor lock in if you use serverless platforms for typical (mini-)monolith deployments such as django+postgres
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Yes, it’s been around for several years. I’ve been working on Joystick for a year. The “don’t take drugs” is a joke.
Welllllllll... don't forget that Linode had grown very stagnant, and had no desire to cut prices, until DigitalOcean came along and forced the issue. Once DO showed up, Linode suddenly had to produce nice tooling and $5/mo VM's.

I don't think that would have happened otherwise, and I'd be really surprised if Linode doesn't follow DO's price increases within a few months.

Not really saying this as a DigitalOcean evangelist or anything. It's just that business is business.
> Yes, and when the Fed reverses course after everything breaks from this tightening, BTC will rise again. Why are extreme boom and bust cycles of crypto surprising to anyone anymore?

I wouldn't be so sure. The narrative for crypto was that interest rates were never going to go up, QE was never going to stop, and we were going to see hyper inflation.

Somehow - crypto was uniquely the only possible hedge against this.

This has proven to be false.

It's at least going to need a new narrative. At some point, it's going to run out of narratives, and it's going to need to actually deliver value.
I use this one: https://www.lyx.org/; it's free.
This reminds me of the Little Liddell and the Big Liddell of classical Greek scholarship fame.

The little Liddell is the small version of the famous Greek lexicon, while the Big Liddell is the big version. To make matters weirder, the small version is huge.
You should check out MMM Global

https://behindmlm.com/companies/mmm-global/

It appears the main guy behind it died recently, but its still an active movement in Africa.

https://behindmlm.com/companies/mmm-global/mmm-globals-serge...

The number of people caught up in these scams is just insane:

3 million Nigerians lose $57 million in MMM Nigeria collapse

https://behindmlm.com/companies/mmm-global/3-million-nigeria...
Energy price cap: Typical energy bill set to rise £800 a year in October
I'm surprised that MethodHandles are as slow as they are, being a newer API, but I should know better by now in career :)

Definitely putting the LambdaFactoryMethod usage trick in my back pocket for performance sensitive areas.
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What's the difference between Akko, EPOMAKER Akko, YUNZII Akko, Womier Akko, Gliging Akko, COSTOM Akko on Amazon?

That all looks... entirely reputable. Absolutely.
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To play devil's advocate here, Bitcoin might be a kind of digital gold. It suffers less inflation (supply grows slower), is more divisible, and is easier to move and store.

People might argue gold has other uses, but they don't move the needle, and anyway, so does Bitcoin.

The thing is gold has thousands of years track record as a store of value and as money or something to back money. Bitcoin obviously does not, and it remains to be seen if it can replace gold in that way. I don't see central banks stocking up on it yet.
I tried several higher end keyboards, and build 2 of them myself. (custom keycaps and all), but the average enthusiast mech. keyboard is just not usable for programming. most of them are high profile, while they are great for typing, they are terrible at activities where you have to navigate around in a speedy way (something that you do a lot during programming).

A low profile keyboard is a must, and the custom scene just doesn't have that many options for it, and you have to go commercial.

I have the G915 TKL Clicky version and it is a great keyboard. It is fast, low profile, and the switches feel great (Rebranded Khail Choc V1). The only problem is that it is a bit too noisy for office setting, and I can only use it at home. The G915 Linear version is quiet, but it doesn't feel that great, and I didn't like it, so I sticked with the Clicky version.

I am curious how this new attempt will feel and work out. I wish Logitech had a normal TKL layout for this, as the Mini feels a bit too cramped, while the full sized keyboard is just too large.

The more options in the market, the better for all of us.
Heh. Worked on that in a previous life.
I don't think their target audience for this keyboard is people who care about the brand of switches. They are more or less marketing this as a 'premium office keyboard.'
Yes. Most definitely. I haven’t seen React frameworks used very often with .NET functions.

Java has the some of the highest cold start times even on GCP and AWS..

Neither Java nor .NET are obvious choices for any kind of modern web application, I’m afraid
I am a DO customer despite the cost being a little higher for my purposes than AWS. I like their UI, their email reminders, their pricing transparency, and their support.

I switched to DO from Linode a long time back for something that was relatively minor in hindsight, but I've never not been happy with the change.
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I had the same experience with Java and its looong lines of AbstractFactoryFactoryBuilders. Tabs + spaces offered the best of both worlds, and enabling whitespace visibility.

In the end it doesn't matter what's my preferred way of indenting code, the hardest part is always making people agree on it. So whenever a new project starts and the team needs to define code styling, we go with the language/IDE defaults. Anything else requires IDE setup and attention to indentation, which is too much to ask for when people barely pay attention to code quality.
- Militarisation. Countries are spending a lot of defence.

- The move towards reverting globalisation(with rising unemployment, countries are looking inwards)

- Inflation (this is not going to end in the near future; inflation is the result of quantitative easing that was done multiple times. Here is a good explanation of that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_nGEj8wIP0)

- Differences among citizens of different countries are becoming prominent (the reason is the same as point #2 above)
Well, for my date or wife (at times when I have one or the other), I can see how much they've drunk.

And no means no, and her not being enthusiastic is a good sign you should go home. Those go a long way to not being accused.

Agreed that being wrongfully accused of rape is a crapshoot.
DO's lack of SQS type offering seems even more strange with a product like that. What are people using to plug this gap?
> USA-ians

This is never going to catch on, except in Latin America and with trollish Europeans baiting for responses online. Said outloud it sounds like "U.S. Asians", which is just going to make people confused. Nobody actually uses this demonym in America.
Pandoc uses LaTeX to make the PDF, so you have to set up LaTeX somehow to be able to handle the emoji. I use “normal” Unicode in md source all the time, but not emoji, so, sorry, I don’t know what to do.
>this author seems to take as a fairly key element of their argument that people getting stupid rich and then doing government type stuff without democratic oversight is good [...]

Which part is bad? The "government type stuff" or the "without democratic oversight"? I agree that billionaires fielding their own armies/police forces would be pretty bad, but what's wrong with funding homeless shelters or schools? If I decide to volunteer at a soup kitchen, am I also "doing government type stuff without democratic oversight"?
A currency could be a good investment if you expect the value backing the currency to outpace or be more stable than the value backing other currencies or assets.

But in my opinion, Bitcoin is not backed by a lot of value, rather it’s backed by a lot of cost, which is confused for value.

Enthusiasts wrongly believe that proof of work (the primary cost) is necessary to create scarcity (the primary value).

Proof of work is not necessary to create scarcity, so it’s a pointless cost, and scarcity is not valuable enough to be the primary value.

While scarcity is important to prevent inflation, we now have many cryptocurrencies which support scarcity. With that plethora of choices, the most valuable currency will be the one that producers and consumers (the real source if value) choose to transact in.

People will choose to transact in the currency that best supports transactions. This comes down to cost, speed, and features.
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But the topic (of this thread anyway) is Palestine in general, not the West Bank and Gaza specifically.
The business owner’s 10 rules of project management:

1. Stay on budget
2. Stay on schedule
3-10. Do everything you can to achieve 1. and 2.
Nokia earned billions from this code. I bet those hours were paid back many times over.
Privacy should be the default, not a button. The only way to achieve that is through regulation.
disclaimer: I am one of the co-authors pf the code as well as founder
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Symbian, the Ozymandias of smartphone operating systems.

They had a lot of the right ideas very early. They started building a high-resolution graphical mobile OS for 32-bit ARM in the mid-1990s, when most phones barely could display two lines of text and receive an SMS. Many concepts in iOS and Android today were pioneered by Symbian.

IMO, the biggest failing of Symbian was to disown the UI and focus on the lower layers of the operating system. Symbian's licensees like Nokia, Motorola and SonyEricsson wanted to control the GUI layer themselves, so they had annoyingly incompatible GUI libraries for Symbian. The platform was already hard to develop for, and then you had multiple vendors piling gunk on top like Nokia's Series 60 which was a terrible piece of work.

In a parellel universe Symbian would have acquired the BeOS team in 2003 and kept them in Silicon Valley, tasked with building a truly excellent mobile GUI on a five-year time horizon independent of Nokia's meddling. A well-designed high-level UI framework in a reasonable language could have made the embedded C++ underpinnings of Symbian mostly irrelevant — basically shipping Android a couple of years before the fact.
I doubt they will be impacted.
The dungeon-group finding tools with instant teleport detract from immersion but they are a life-saver if you don't have a lot of time to dedicate per session, or don't have many friends who play at the same times you want to, yet still want to go dungeon-crawling with a party.

There's really nothing stopping people from going the extra mile for role-playing and immersion, it's more the local server communities that have been harmed by these tools but WoW classic brought back a lot of that "old-school" feel for those who seek it.

I'm not really up on the current state of either but I think there's merit in both approaches, I personally found both enjoyable.
> I always find this a bit sad, because it seems to take away the idea that programming is about assembling composable parts

[OT] Concerning "programming is about assembling composable parts": I always find both sad and ridiculous when self-proclaimed software developers bash Unix because they are not able to appreciate its philosophy.
And Bartosz is the guy for category theory and programming. Highly recommend his YouTube lectures and book on the subject.
I still own a Das Keyboard II in pristine condition with unlabeled POM keycaps and Cherry blue switches. Was not so happy with Das Keyboard 4, now I am a happy Kechron user, too.
I would actually say that humans have an enormous extra set of data that we, as people, are "trained" on. We walk around in our daily lives, seeing things constantly, and that influences our perception of art. Art is always a product of the broader context it was made in (social, environmental, etc). Something that gets accepted or praised today might very well not have been 200 years ago.

One of the things that is interesting with these new big models is it is dramatically broadening the context in use. The models are learning both the textual representation of a concept, as well as the artistic/visual representation and the relationship between the two domains.
There's a recurring joke in the Morrowind community that the best way to play it is by hurting yourself enough to get amnesia and then playing it.

I know by now my favorite play style (Dark Elf, long sword, heavy armor, destruction magic). But I need to branch out to try something else, but then I won't be playing my favorite way! Magic in particular is pretty difficult to work with in this game.

I still remember discovering the mushroom buildings of Seyda Neen.
The idea that we can make preservation repairs will be exposed as a fallacy a few decades after we've tried, when it becomes clear that our objectivity at the time was just regular hidebound contemporary trend following. Might as well embrace it and make something cool.
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Oooh, I know this one!

I spent about a decade as a PM in early-stage enterprise software companies (Box and Talkdesk, among others) and left in 2019 to open a dog boarding business!

I found real estate, had plans drawn up, got permits, found a contractor and ways a few days away from closing my SBA loan. Then the bank called and said they were putting a hold on new underwriting because of this COVID thing... this was March of 2020.

Had to shut that down before I ever opened my doors, but then I started a dog treat business, and that's going well!

Here's an AP article that covers it... that's me at the top with my dogs: https://apnews.com/article/business-coronavirus-pandemic-8ea...
That could be because you probably assume that any drug use leads to addiction and despair. More often than not, despair leads to drug use as means for temporary escape and relief.
I've been searching for this comment. This is the first time I've heard of this phenomenon and I'd consider myself a heavy and long time user of YouTube

YouTube always amazes me that there can be content creator with millions of subscribers (or number of uploads in this case) that I have never heard of.
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