skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a tangent. I must have been maybe 15-16 at the time, so somewhere around 20 years ago: One of the first pieces of software I remember building was a POP3 server that served files, that you could download using an email client where they would show up as attachments.

Incredibly bizarre idea. I'm not sure who I thought would benefit from this. I guess I got swept up in RFC1939 and needed to build... something.
"stole" or redistribute. the math works out the same in the end. the reason I used "stole" is because if you "redistribute" every ounce of someone's wealth, I imagine you might get some push back.

You can re-apply this formula to various top N% but you get similar numbers: both for income redistribution and wealth redistribution.

The reason all those articles of top 10% have 70% of the wealth seem so impressive is not because the top 10% have so much, it's because the rest of the 90% has so little. and so even a modest amount in the top 10% is much greater than the tiny bit the bottom 90 has.
I'd guess it speaks more to how the pronunciation of different words from an ancient language has in some cases converged -- and in other cases diverged -- over time, in its descendant languages.

If they were even all that different words to begin with. (Never actually learned Latin, just picked up words and phrases here and there.) In a mongrel language, originally Germanic but with massive direct and indirect Latin heritage, one can talk about someone's "daring exploits". Whose? Mainly, IME, those of people like Livingston, Stanley, Richard Burton (not the actor)... Explorers. "Exploits" as a(n English) noun does lead the mind more to thoughts of exploring than exploiting, doesn't it?

So go easy on your explorer-exploiters. The Portuguese ones were at least probably no worse, on average, than everyone else's.

("Verbing weirds language", they say, but it doesn't even need to -- language is plenty weird enough to begin with. All of them, probably. (OK, OK, except possibly Volapük and stuff.))
The trailer for the show is available online; https://twitter.com/FFVV1211/status/1528043201885442048. No amount of promotion is saving the thing.
This is a strawman. Nobody wants to eat pesticides.

"Common sense" was that you don't eat the poison. You remove it from the food first. You also remove any soil on the food, and if the food is sold in a box or can, you don't eat that, either.

The thing I want to learn, because I'm more interested in learning than I am in reveling in how right I am, is whether common agricultural poisons can be rinsed off with a bit of tap water, or if they're too sticky or too easily absorbed for that to be sufficient. Apparently they can't be washed off this easily, which is annoying, because I rather like buying my apples without worms in them.
If you'd ever wondered what pro-CIA astroturfing looks like, this is a pretty good example of the typical playbook.

- Accuse someone of being a shill without addressing argument
- Dismiss completely valid comparisons as whataboutism

Repeat ad nauseum. It never ceases to blow my mind how deeply people are willing to shove their head in the sand in order to justify the misinformation funded by their government.

US intelligence aactively manufacturing genocide campaign against geopolitical competitor and lying about it on the world stage. That is a face, and no amount of reframing or PRC blame shifting is going to change that.
I sometimes like to imagine a world in which .NET was cross-platform and open source from the start such that when F# was introduced it took over everywhere Python was popping up. It's a fantastic world to imagine but a depressing reoccurring dream.
It's be hilarious when these become widespread, and plastic will start rotting like wood.
It's possible but unlikely. There really isn't any selective pressure on humans to do this. It's much more likely that we will figure out how to handle microplastics before our bodies evolve to digest them.
More generally, if you want to include a block of untrustworthy structured data in a protocol, it’s very much preferable to do so in a way that does not require inspecting the data in question to figure out where it ends and thus where the outer protocol resumes.

English is not immune. Think about “who’s on first” — there is no way to distinguish the untrustworthy name “who” from a grammatical part of the conversation.
This is an inversion of how human behavior works.

The reality is that a context is created, either intentionally or not, and then people behave in the context.

I commented on this phenomena 4 months ago in a different thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30184653) and 7 months ago somewhere else (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28972157)

Quoting one of them

> So you treat users like idiots and then they start acting like idiots. It really does work that way.

> Let me give an intuitive analogy for those unconvinced. We're going to use a gym, library, and bar. The same person would be exercising, studying, and drinking at those institutions, in specifically that order.

> We shape the buildings (create the context); thereafter they shape us.

> It's the difference between say assuming your customers are alcoholics and then building a bar and saying "it is of public benefit, profitable to our company, whatever, if our users studied so let us make a library and they will rise to the occasion".

so "Recommendation systems just mirror what the users watch" is not a complete statement. It's "Recommendation systems just mirror what the users watch in the <built context of the site>"

The same users on youtube, kahn academy, twitch, and xtube will follow dramatically different paths because the products are just slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. They are castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination as Fred Brooks said, true. But they do amount to a concrete form and context and it does meaningfully influence behavior.

The system encourages the bad behavior. The context is what makes it "natural" - it doesn't have to be that way.
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Doesn't sound very noteworthy tbh. It's obviously possible and the implementation is straightforward.
timestamps must come from a globally recognized signed source, like digicert or verisign.
It's a sad state of affairs when articles like this are getting flagged by HN almost immediately.
> For a while, it was like being on a modem again

Internet in Congo if you're not on the UN satellite
> linuxphones

A hacker friend of mine carries around his pixel, which he has set up to use DAS KEYBOARD (ohne buchstaben) as his Linux development workstation.

This is a wonder to see, honestly. Truly a cyberpunk scenario out there on the edge of linuxphones.

Apropos, I flunk out with my PinephonePro+KB setup, which doesn't work nearly as well as his rig. Grr, power management "last 1%" ..
There are many different programming paradigms; Logic, functional, declarative, iterative, OOP, stack-based (if you consider Forth style languages their own paradigm). Each has its pros and cons.

>> much more widely used and honestly now in hindsight probably better tool in most cases.

Knowing only OOP means OOP becomes the only tool for all cases.
People did this on AOL in the 90s as well!
I should have an update when the next crate is ready for publication—I ended up writing some Unicode handling stuff because unicode-segmentation didn’t offer the interface I needed while unicode_categories is outdated and has a flawed implementation (my replacement code is 10x faster by my benchmarks). I need to do some additional work to verify that my segmentation algorithm is at least comparable in speed to unicode-segmentation and fix that if it’s not and I’ll have a 1.0 release of finl_unicode ready probably in the next month.
The syntax is easy in Lisp, but you don't know what it means without having the vocabulary of operators. The vocabulary is fluid and varies from dialect to dialect.

However, the vocabulary part of a Lisp dialect consists of things which are named. Names can easily be looked up in documentation.

Furthermore, you know what is and is not part of the form even if you don't recognize the operator: you know that (fnoozle blub (grogg)) q42 is invoking fnoozle with two argument expressions, and q42 has no part of it. You don't know how/if those two arguments are evaluated but if you look up fnoozle in the manual, it should be clear. The manual will talk about the arguments, and you can identify which of those is blub and which is (grogg).
Yes, I use the v6.22.0 Pro version from the Play Store.
Elden Ring is a marvel but its not same to me. Morrowind is not typical fantasy so the alien world of mushroom houses and silt striders takes it to the next level. Skyrim and Oblivion were less interesting to me as it was standard high fantasy setting.
Everybody wants to be an ancap, until it's time to be an ancap.
What evolutionary pressure is giving an advantage to humans who can digest plastic? The article is talking about "bugs" as in microbes, bacteria. Not animals.
"...and quite possibly even racist."
No need to read further, what an absolutely stupid thing to say.
Maybe the author should open a dictionary and look up the word "racist". (I hope he did in the years after he wrote that.)
> society keeping the 'less fit' members procreating

Society is part of the ecosystem within which fitness is determined.
Linode doesn't seem to come up much. The only submission in the past year that's gotten more than a couple comments is:

Akamai to Acquire Linode (https://www.akamai.com/newsroom/press-release/akamai-to-acqu...)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30352772

986 points | nycdatasci | 3 months ago | 326 comments
The Blockchain created a new generation of capitalists, and this is their third or second baptism.

Their first was mtgox, I think?
I was looking for their implementation of T9, but haven't found it yet. Would that be in here? Does anyone with more context or Google-foo know where it is?
In general I trust the older tech more than newer for long-term archiving. So that would mean HDD (the oldest tech thereof you can find still sold, probably) or tape or DVD over SSD.

But multiple copies in multiple formats cannot hurt, and the most important stuff should have multiple live copies.
Strangely I think that might actually be less of a concern with BAYC? From the article:

> A growing number of NFT projects are granting owners the right to commercially adapt their works, which has been a useful strategy for increasing brand visibility but has consequently introduced a host of legal disputes. Bored Ape Yacht Club was among the first to adopt these terms, which led to an explosion of Bored Ape merchandise and derivative NFT collections but also set the stage for bitter copyright lawsuits.

IANAL though, and also "bitter copyright lawsuits" doesn't sound exactly like where you'd want something like this to end up :)
Overly complicated, color QR codes.
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. Guess it's been longer than I realized since I last played.
All == 4, apparently.
I've been working for a carrier in Italy in the first half of 2000s. We designed some phones with manufacturers but any phone could work on our network AFAIK. There was not much choice at the beginning because we only had a 3G network and there were very few 3G phones (only one at launch.)
If this was two weeks ago you most certainly would have included UST at the top of this list.

People reading this should definitely question the other ones on the list as well. what proof do we have that the rest of these coins are really stable?
Firefox has worked with IPFS since early 2019 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ipfs-companio...

Brave just took the step of forcing you to always have the extension installed instead of making it optional, basically

I've tried IPFS a time or two and always found it to be INCREDIBLY slow (even worse than tor) with ZERO content discoverability.
I would imagine the more probable scenario is that, if plastics truly have a deleterious effect on human health, as many people say, then we will evolve to have more plastic-resistant bodies. But this can only really occur if we incur so much damage due to plastic that it broadly effects our reproductive potential at a relatively young age--a very high bar, and at which point it is probably much too late.
Looks interesting. What does the integration look like?
I've always wondered why didn't GitHub or CircleCI have this?
My first assumption would be lack of food
It is possible: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31495844.
> It's a nice anecdote, but I've lived and travelled in various African countries and never been sick from consuming fruit, vegetables or pressed juice.

That's all and good, but how do you even know that? One can live with parasites for quite a while before noticing any symptoms.

I come from a 'third world' country. We really wash our fruits and specially our vegetables. Even though they might come from large farming operations, you can still have people without proper sanitization handling them after taking a dump.

Heck, there are still places where you cannot enter a body of water without worms piercing your skin and having a party in your intestines. Our elementary school curriculum was pretty extensive on diseases and specially parasites.

> The idea people throughout history didn't eat raw fruits and vegetables is also quite wrong.

They did. People also died a lot. Although a berry growing somewhere in the wilderness will probably have less of a chance of carrying diseases or parasites that infect humans (on the account of not having encountered other humans). After farming? All bets are off.
This article doesn't address microplastics. These enzymes degrade plastics, but what is left over? Does the problem of microplastics still occur such that the plastics only degrade to a certain size?
> This seems like something you could build over a weekend

I think you've succinctly illustrated why software estimation is notoriously unreliable.

Those estimating do not yet understand the problem.
I dont like it at all. I think it just tries to solve something that's not a big deal.
Interesting project! It's quite relevant to me as I'm just about to embark on my bachelor's thesis and I've been fiddling around with a few different work flows so I'm definitely going to give it a spin.

A few things I noticed when trialing.

1. Left sidebar, second icon. What's it supposed to do? I'm assuming maybe export but the button doesn't do anything. I couldn't find export at all either, so I'm not sure if it's broken on my machine or if it's a limitation of the trial.

2. The block type options (paragraph, title etc.), I'd like if the options looked more like buttons rather than just plaintext fit in a box. Just a border around the options (or optionally a background color for them) would already be very helpful.

3. Contrast. The left sidebar icons have very low contrast. The border around the blocks also could use a stronger contrast. I wouldn't actually mind seeing each block's borders at all times just to have a visual outline where one ends and the next starts.

4. I haven't tested this, but does the app support different types of citation standards? Both for the source list at the end as well as the inline references inside a text?

5. do we have any type of control of the final exported product? Can we make our own template with fonts and everything set in place or will I have to export it to LaTeX first?
The CFML Slack had a member in SF meet with the Linen team. The Linen team moves very fast and within hours they had our Slack indexed. I've used their search and I cannot say enough good things about them.
Clearly the argument is that inefficiency grows with size. Small charity (even a so called large one) is nowhere near comparable in size to a nationwide government program. Therefore comparing efficiency between these organizations is not apt. Clearly.
Building with classic Southern US techniques doesn't negate or even significantly reduce the need for air conditioning. Without AC, these types of structures still become incredibly hot during the summer; they suffer from mold and material damage from humidity; they required workarounds like sleeping on a screened-in porch during the summer instead of inside the house, because the house itself was too sweltering to tolerate, even at night. If you were lucky enough not to be laboring outside in the South during the summer, you spent a large part of your day sitting around being miserable. It was a major contributor to the south's lag in economic development, and a strong contributor to historically poor public health and life expectancy.

They're also not particularly efficient in terms of space utilization, making them unfeasible for sustainable, 'walkable' neighborhood development.
130 MB for the whole tape is not a lot. It equals to a floppy disk throughput, which is probably not a coincidence. However, basic soldering implies that the rest of the system acts like a big software-defined DAC/ADC.

Dedicated controller could pack a lot more data, as in hobo tape storage system:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid
I cringe at the places I've used XML for things like declarative programming, its just too obnoxious to think about.

However, as someone who is currently pushing bytecode on the wire in place of such things, because reasons, I can only tell you the madness is just a toolchain away.
Did you manage to get on the latest Mass Mail going out tonight?
Many mature companies are freezing net headcount, but still backfilling positions. Others are instituting temporary hiring freezes. Others are laying people off.

In the startup space, many companies were raising money on valuations equal to 30-50 times ARR. Investors can be very picky and many startups are about 1 yr of cash on hand. If they are forced to raise money now, and their performance isn't the best of what's out there, they are going to be SOL or facing such onerous terms, it's going to be demoralizing.

Startups should be preparing to ride out the storm and that's going to mean they're going to find a way to push off a fundraise / going broke at any cost, if possible.
I think there are great discussions to be had on the subject of listening to people's experiences without necessarily ignoring factual evidence that contradicts it. My problem is specifically with that person writing two paragraphs of literal fantasy over someone expressing themselves in a way that feels foreign to them, interestingly enough contradicting the very point they're trying to make by doing so. Just very weird, in a way I haven't seen here before.
> check that the type provided implements a comparison operator

If I understand correctly, this is done with traits in Rust. In this case, the PartialOrd and Ord traits. More elaborate use cases for traits cover things like "is this type safe to send between threads" and "does this type have a statically known size on the stack".
There was an article by varnish taking about how you should leave the caching and memory management to the OS - even if you can beat the virtual memory manager today you’ll stop improving your home grown solution while RAM and the kernel keep marching on.
You capture what I failed to articulate.
I feel exactly that way about Oblivion and Skyrim
Unless the BAYC contract permits some party to deem a transfer of the NFT illegitimate and reassign the IP rights back up the chain, it's just as much of a concern. As illustrated by this very story.
Fair enough! I defer to your superior wisdom.

So, four years earlier, not five. :-)

I have seen comments from people who worked at Accenture in the last days of Symbian, about the difficulty of putting together the build system today. Apparently bits need a specific MS C++ compiler that only runs on WinXP.

I think it would be wonderful to see this resurrected and ported to the RasPi or something. Symbian was capable of SMP, and there were a lot of 3rd party apps back in the day.

One of the things that crippled Symbian in the market was the range of UIs, all incompatible. I owned devices running Series 90 (Nokia 7710), Series 60 (E90 Communicator), and UIQ (Sony-Ericsson P910i). There was also Series 80 (earlier Communicators), and MOAP and OPP in Japan only.

AIUI all needed different programming tools and apps from one couldn't run on the other.

Frankly, none of that matters any more. Whatever is in this FOSS release and can be used with modern FOSS tooling is all that matters. Nobody needs early-noughties phone apps on a RasPi. Just something that can be used on a desktop with a mouse and keyboard.

I suspect a few old Psion and Symbian enthusiasts would appear and enjoy modernising their own apps to get them working again. It's not that long ago.

EPOC32 and Symbian were great OSes to use: fast as hell, stable, and low-resource. On a RasPi 4 I think it'd stomp all over Linux, and it's vastly more modern than RISC OS.

C++ has come a long way, too, since Psion chose it. The rough edges have been smoothed away.
You can free to change the color of the GUI in the code and build it yourself. Change the values here to your liking - https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/Simple-Commons/blob/mas... .
I was gonna say that book bans and burning are different things, but the fact that she's publicly using a flame thrower on it makes the stunt cool enough to overlook that.

Margaret Atwood is a treasure. Margaret Atwood with a flame thrower is the best thing I'm gonna read about all day.
Interesting, could you give some examples of concepts from relational algebra that have helped inform your understanding of schema design?

Asking as a practioner interested in learning the conceptual underpinnings :)
It can work more subtly than that, but takes admittedly a much longer time. If being slightly more plastic tolerant give you a slightly longer reproductive window, then those genes will become more common. Simple as that.
At my old job, SecDevOps built a metric fuckton of monitoring of all AWS accounts in the Organizations, as well as some pretty complex pipelines that checked the typs of infrastructure being built.

Everything built in AWS was done with Terraform (minus some bootstrapping of accounts and orgs). Custom terraform modules were built which were guardrails of underlying raw Terraform providers.

I'm not saying it's ideal, I'm just throwing it out there.
Am I the only one who thought this was going to be a flip phone startup in the Summer '22 YC batch?
Tether is the fuel for unlicensed unregulated exchanges that are happy to list the shit coins that legit exchanges won't touch because they're pump and dump scams. All those sketchy exchanges are almost certainly not keeping client funds segregated either so when Tether goes down all those exchanges will become insolvent and probably just disappear with the rest of the money.
Fascinating and incredibly exciting -- can't wait to see how the world uses this library
Well, friction in transactions, arbitrage, and collective belief in the value of an asset.
Right now they seem to mainly be used A) as a proxy for US dollars on crypto exchanges, and B) by their creators, to pump up the crypto markets.
Working on this suite of apps might be his day job. If he takes up a day job he might not be able to work on and maintain these many apps.

Can you develop and maintain a suite of 8-10 apps only on your free time? I was talking about how this specific developer who makes these many apps can make money, and not how you do.