skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's sort of part of it. On the one hand, I'm absolutely for anyone with the urge to go out and build a web site, just like I'm the same way about someone wanting to write. If all they find out is that they don't actually like doing it, then hey, they're still ahead.

On the other hand, I'm tired of the goofy fetishizing of the early, rather exclusive and limited web wrapped up in a copy-and-paste rant about social media and how this is some bold alternative to teh corporations. The talking about people who just have websites as if they've rejected modern society and gone off to live in communes in the wilderness...it's just deeply weird, and it's probably best killed by more people considering making a website a perfectly normal and doable thing.

Then, of course, we'll probably have much of the same enthusiasts bemoaning all the "terrible" websites by the wrong sorts of people.
The Laffer Curve argued that revenue from taxation might represent an inverted U shape with tax rate. If you were above the revenue-optimizing tax rate, then lowering the tax rate could increase revenue.

But that revenue-optimizing tax rate, which is the subject to much debate, is probably somewhere around 65% to 70%, far higher than the tax rates in the United States. We could surely increase taxes on high income individuals without doing much harm to the economy.
Genesis is building new cultural institutions for young people
We could do weekly. The volume of data is large enough that even sequential scrubbing when idle is about an 18 hour operation. As it is, we're happy with monthly scrubbing on the Z3 arrays. We don't bother pulling drives until they run out of reallocatable sectors, this extends the service lifetime by a year in most cases.

I intentionally provisioned one of the long term archive only appliances with 12 hot spares. This was to prevent the need for a site visit again before we lifecycle the appliance. Currently down to seven hot spares.

That replacement will probably happen later this year. Should reduce the colo cost by power requirement reduction enough that the replacement 200TB appliance pays for itself in 18 months.
I'd say you're not reading it at all.
There is one x too many, yes. But otherwise I absolutely do want that.

Hardware × software master × in-app,

maybe condensed with "flat volume", so that raising the in-app volume also raises master if necessary, while leaving other sounds at the same effective level.

The only difference I see compared to what you call iOS is that that one throws all "video" together in one giant pile. Thus youtube, netflix, spotify etc. all get the same default volume. That is really annoying me with android and I want that off!
It's extremely hard to find this feature. I sometimes want to use this but I can't find it without googling. Bad design.
My current Docker host is an used Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny I bought. It's got a 65 watt power supply and it's definitely not using all of it.

i5-6500T, 1TB of M.2 SSD, 16GB of ram and running a good two dozen Docker containers.

I'd say that's a better bang for the buck than a closet full of Raspberries struggling under the load :)
How to Improve a Legacy Codebase (2017)
I hadn’t heard of this before. Pretty neat way of using Bitcoin.
I had the same concerns as you. Here is what I did:

- setup HASSOS as a VM in my proxmox (and passing the usb zigbee stick through)

- install HACS for extra addons

- install the VSCode addon (meh, I’d prefer vim)

- install zigbee2mqtt

- write all my automations with appdaemon

That last point lets me write everything as python code instead of point and click (nodered) or some weird and limited (to me) yaml. With appdaemon, anything python can do is possible and you get an api to HA for the automation part.

VSCode also gives you a terminal so you can use git etc.

If you prefer there is also the option of using ssh to edit your files directly, you can break out of the default HA shell over ssh with “exit”.

HA didn’t make much sense for me until I heard of appdaemon. Now it’s amazing for me.
TFA is right there, and just the latest example of a trend.
https://old.reddit.com/r/nocode/comments/oxsaet/i_built_a_re...
Still looking for a solution to block Hulu ads on a smart TV. ublock works in browsers, but no such luck on the Chromecast.
Stability; or the lack thereof, is relative --- with currency made from electrons and hardly any ties to real world economic conditions being a relatively extreme example.
The rise of the machines seems that it will be a bit more subtle than Hollywood predicted.
Complaints I've seen include:

Forcing users to use a cloud account and an app for setup, and enabling telemetry without disclosing it to users, although once they were called out on it by folks noticing a bunch of traffic to their servers they eventually confirmed it was happening and added an opt-out option (see https://www.theregister.com/2019/11/07/ubiquiti_networks_pho...), also there was something about NVR and not being allowed to self host it, or use old hardware... I never bothered to really look into that one, but it seemed to come up a lot.
A quick script to launch my most common LXC containers (for remote desktops and containerized services).

https://github.com/kstenerud/lxc-launch
> If you want good utility as a home user then give Proxmox or the like a look.

Isn't proxmox just virtualization? didn't know it can be used as a NAS too.
I don't find that answer very satisfactory at all. Did they suddenly become greedy in 2020 where previously they were foregoing profit out of the goodness of their hearts?

Corporations are a tool, like a hammer. They're not good or evil. They exist and operate as they are permitted to. And human nature hasn't changed either, everyone is "greedy" to a first order approximation. So what has changed? What conditions have changed between now and then?
Sticker Mule built a social network from scratch

https://www.stimulus.com/stickermule
The Thing with "build x in y weeks": cornercases, load - but mostly, leaving out the whole planing and wire framing and the iterative process that lead to the end goal.
Also new technology; everytimeI refractorate with a new technology I am amazed how much quicker it is, how much more ergonomically it is from a developer perspective.
That Tim Couch jersey is really the best photo in the bunch. I'm originally from southeastern Ohio but I was born in Pittsburgh. A Steelers fan living in Ohio notices these sorts of details. If I happened to be back home in Ohio for some reason and I ran into that guy on the street, we'd strike up a short conversation for sure. Whether by accident or on purpose, Browns jersey guy nailed it.
> For me there was a huge divide between those who were supplying Smalltalk and worked that side of the fence, and the customers who were trying to solve problems. I saw that as why Smalltalk lost to simpler/arguably stupider tech like Java.

Possibly. I did the customer side for 15 years at two different companies, and then Cincom (nee ParcPlace). Smalltalk WAS/IS "weird" (er, "pink plane" paradigm shifty, etc) to begin with.

The fact that the total staffs at ParcPlace, IBM Smalltalk team, and Digitalk was smaller than the marketing team alone that Sun allocated for Java, and the insane amount of money spent bootstrapping college kids into training, I'm not sure how the "divide" would mark Smalltalk as different than the other offerings at the time. Sun just did it on a scale easily 2 orders of magnitude greater than Smalltalk.
Not really if its USB stack just locks up after a couple of hours and needs to be manually power cycled to work again.
#3 is boggling for me as I live in Finland. "Sunset" isn't really a thing here.

Automating anything based on "Sunset" or "Sunrise" is 100% useless as the time for both changes multiple minutes per day. Currently the sun will set at 22:28 and will rise again at 04:07. I don't want to control anything based on either =)

1 & 2 sound like something you should have a scene for. For #1: "Alexa, board game mode" and boom you've got enough light. And for #2 just slap on a cheap zigbee switch from Ikea next to the sowing table.
In 2022, I'd imagine there is some startup that does this. I'm not asking for something that truly scales to millions of users and has ALL the features of production reddit / hackernews. I'm thinking an MVP production app that has basic things that we all think about that a social networking app would have. I'm surprised that it's still so hard to find a "SaaS in a box" with some sample production apps like Twitter-clone/Reddit-clone, etc that does all the wiring for us.
> { Point x 2 y 3 }

I like your syntax, but wouldn't it be better as something like

{ Point :x 2 :y 3 }

or maybe:

{ Point x: 2 y: 3 }

that little bit of extra punctuation (only needs to be a single character) is really helpful in making clear what is the field and what is the value. Syntactic minimalism is great, but sometimes it is taken a bit too far

> Where here the $ in slot names means the corresponding value isn't evaluated

If parameters have type declarations, why not make laziness part of the type instead of part of the name?

I suppose it makes it clear at the invocation site that the parameter is lazy-evaluated. I wonder how important that is though? In Smalltalk, it is very clear, due to [] vs (). In most Lisps, you can't tell from the invocation site whether some symbol is an ordinary defun, or a special form or macro, you have to look up its definition or documentation. In my experience, that isn't a big problem – if you don't remember it, sooner or later you end up having to look it up anyway, to understand what the parameters mean and what it actually does.
If you don't want "theoretical bullshit", go to a bootcamp instead of complaining that universities aren't like bootcamps.
I don’t get what point you’re trying to make. A baker can make bread for a thousand people with relative ease, there is no need for them to be poor. The US produces enough to feed and clothe and house everyone with ease, including both the working poor and others. They choose not to do so for various vacuous reasons, none of which have anything to do with the FED.
Whatever it is, it is certainly bad publicity.

As genuine equipment manufacturer, it is better to make sure that equipment that used to work before an update, still does after update is carried on. Reject should only occur when the driver is installed for the first time.
This can cause an interesting loop with HA.

The "correct" way is to set up everything in HA and then link it to the Apple ecosystem with the HA integration.

If you set your stuff on HomeKit first and then enable the HA integration ... you'll have two of everything and a headache. Ask me how I know :D
> It seems like you've just moved the cheating problem from one organization to a different organization?

While that might seem redundant, keep in mind that most of the cheating happens because responsibility for both teaching and testing falls on the professor of the subject, and there is not much incentive to prevent cheating when the school must print X diplomas a year or disappear. I assume that an organization whose sole purpose is to certificate knowledge can be much more specialized for testing and spend most of their time trying to combat cheating.

> Are there examples of such certificate authorities existing now?

A sibling comment has mentioned pilot schools: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31548177
We mean energy, right? The surprising fact is that the energy cost of executing an instruction (scheduling etc.) is much higher than the actual operation. Thus SIMD amortizes that per-instruction overhead over multiple elements, leading to 5-10x gains (
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f464/74f6ae2dde68d6ccaf9f53...).

Even in this example, which apparently has 4x vector instructions vs 1x scalar, AVX-512 (and probably even AVX2) would reduce energy usage because they can do 8 (or 4 for AVX2) 64-bit elements per cycle.
This sets a marvelous precedent.

Also, the user is left with a device that is NFG.

Gee, I remember an age where you didn't have all of this signed driver bs that puts you, the end consumer, at the mercy of a supply chain, and at least left you with the option of writing your own.

Those were the days...

But no...

Computing must be gatekept through the supply chain for the benefit of cloud providers, malicious IC/HW fabs, and software companies!

I'd take having to scan and recompute hashes on my drivers on a regular basis for this stupid driver signature enforcement and trusted computing BS to either get ripped out wholesale, or be changed to be opt-in instead of "there really is no opt-out for non-developers.

After all, as long as it's the default, there is no incentive to making turning it on or off an easier process. Again though. That's industry's goal. Let us lock down your computing experience! It's too dangerous to have an Unwashed User with an unvetted computing environment!
The US has lower population density than Germany, so you need more km of rail to serve the same amount of people. But that only accounts for part of the difference in quality, to be sure
Then it sounds like a sampled 808 ("boom") and not like a real 808 ("BOOOOOM")
Java News Roundup: Structured Concurrency, Java Turns 27, Micronaut 3.5.0
I think the printing process itself lacks the requisite accuracy. If it were in the cutting I'd expect to see more instances of the cuts being crooked wrt the printed matter.
Can't lock anything but the front wheel. And it only works for classic bike geometries, so not the more expensive cargo bikes people use as car replacements.
Every ecosystem needs outside input of energy, such as sunlight.
Show HN: Geography Quiz Website Built Using Mapbox GL JavaScript
I decided to build a geography quiz website using Mapbox GL JS because all the geography games online have outdated UIs and lack user configurability.
Many worlds is not positing any old Descartes' demon though. It's just a trivial combination of things that are considered obvious.

1. Wavefunctions and superpositions objectively exist.

2. Wavefunctions can be entangled with each other, in ways that make parts of them not interact with each other.

3. When interactions have differing outcomes given different parts of a superposition, you find the outcomes depend on a single part of said superposition.

If you posit the exact same rules for the lab as the experiment, 'wavefunction collapse' or 'communication' aren't even concepts that apply 3 becomes tautilogical. The only questions are 1. 'why do I find myself observing the world as the experimenter who saw A and not the experimenter who saw B', but the other you is asking the exact same question, and you'll never encounter them. And 2. what is entropy/measurement/why do I observe the world as one experimenter and not both?

Superdeterminism goes the other way and throws out free will, information, and randomness. If you do that, you're left with equally large questions about why entropy increases, what is information, and why do we think we have free will? It's a fairly large philosophical step backwards low information explanations for many things have to be replaced with 'just because the universe is arranged precisely in a way that makes it seem that way even though there's no reason it couldn't be arranged differently'

Both are far more coherent and less egotistical than copenhagen or bohmian mechanics.
I think the sentiment is great, but reviving the old style is not necessary and makes it more kitsch than it has to be. I'm no fan of the boring, corporate Silicon Valley style either, but IMO the real revival spirit is about making your own personal style and not a fake 90s website.
> So you’ve come full circle here, though. What’s the difference between trying to have people not cheat the test at university and not cheat the test at the certificate authority?

Because certificate authority will be separated from teaching, its sole purpose would be to prevent cheating, and they will be able to focus on it completely. Currently, universities don't have much incentive to focus on preventing cheating, because of overworked professors, or simply because they must print X diplomas a year or disappear.

Besides, when certificate authority has a sole purpose of verifying knowledge, it will become obvious which certificate authority allows cheating - people certified by it will fail at their jobs, thus ruining its reputation.

> This secondary certificate authority idea undermines your entire argument though. Maybe I’m missing something though and you have a good idea for how the CA will mitigate cheating that a university can’t do.

The difference is subtle but important - currently, universities don't suffer much reputational damage from cheaters, because the testing aspect of university is interleaved with the learning aspect - so if a university has good learning opportunities, nobody cares if a certain percentage of its diploma-holders are cheaters. They are on their own.

With certificate authorities, cheating will be naturally devastating, because the certificate authority will (I assume) serve just as a filter for employers - employers will choose employees which hold certificates from a trusted authority, i.e. the one that doesn't let people cheat. So there will be natural incentive to prevent cheating, and the free market will do its thing.
Homeshick for dotfiles: https://github.com/andsens/homeshick

Docker for Obsidian and Alfred syncing - the three target limit on the free tier is just barely enough for 2 of my own computers and my work laptop.

I've also got a Brewfile for installing the basic tooling on macOS

I also have a "how to set up a new computer/server" document on Notion that I use so I don't forget any steps.
I find this speach very relevant: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko
I suggest displaying a banner saying "DO NOT USE CLONE!" every time you use the device.

This worked very well for DVDs...
> . Learn all the search operators like intitle, inurl, etc.

Google seems to ignore these 90% of the time I try them. I have better luck with site:, but inurl is pretty much useless these days
Teaching Robots to Touch
Except that's a straw man and not what MW is at all
"Venture Capitalists borrow money from Investment Bankers based on percentages.'

Me thinks you don't know how venture capital works?
Where I live it’s probably poorly supervised kids or drug addicts stealing bikes. I’m not generally afraid for my safety but I do fear for my unsecured possessions.
KDE KTrip – helps you navigate in public transport
Assuming the quote is correct seems questionable. How much was Google pulling in when they started again? The internet has gotten bigger, but most of the increase is it media (video, audio, and images) that you can skip indexing anyway as a first pass.
20gb is excessive? I run it in Proxmox myself, and give it 100gb. Not because it needs it, but because it _deserves_ it. Of all the silly things I host in my house, it's the most deserving of resources.
Test cricket is also technically limited overs, but it has immensely more strategic aspect to it spanning 5 days with 2 innings each.
The famous “Rules of (Test) cricket as explained to a foreigner”, anonymously penned decades ago, resemble GPT-3 prose.

“You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!”

The best cricket stats site is still CricInfo, going strong after 29 years. Though AI is leading to predictive services like CricViz, CricInfo has the edge with its human side.
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This doesn't go far enough.

The only thing that maintains the value of any asset (or currency) is the collective belief in that asset or currency. Put another way: there is an inescapable component of trust in every asset.

Crypto in any form doesn't solve the trust problem other than a very narrow slice because as soon as you interact with anything outside of the blockchain, you're adding trust. Even on the blockchain, all the math in the world doesn't avoid the trust problem (eg it's been estimated that over half the Ethereum are owned by less than 10 entities).

Even backing a currency with gold (or any other asset) doesn't solve this problem. Additionally, it's not even correct. In years long gone the US government just maintained a peg between the US dollar and the gold price. Any reserves (which were never 100% anyway) are irrelevant to this. You don't need them. You just need sufficient capital to maintain the peg. Even if you had 100% reserves you still have to trust the government to honor redemptions and not to change the peg. If you have sufficiently deep pockets, you end up not even having to spend much money because no one challenges your peg.

So what actually makes the US dollar work as a currency is that it is backed by the long dick of the US government. This is a combination of economic, military and even cultural might.

So going back to algorithmic stablecoins, it doesn't matter how much you have in reserve. It doesn't even matter if there's new money entering the system (as this article claims) to maintain the peg. If people lose faith in the "stable" coin, it's finished.
>A similar thing happened with Bear Stearns. It beat the market consistently every month... until it didn't. IIRC it blew up very very quickly

Very subtle difference,though. I am simplifying things here but IIRC, Bear Stearns blew up because they wrote insurance for things they didn't think would ever happen (housing mkt going down) and had a lot of exposure vis-a-vis how much premium they collected (i.e. sold a put -- limited upside , unlimited downside).
I doubt ARKK has _written_ put options. It might be the case that the value of the ETF will go down drastically but they won't go bust because of liabilities.
I agree. It upsets me deeply that people are working poor and can never earn enough to stay still.

I am arguing that in a society each person needs funding from somewhere, it can only come from everyone else in exchange for their work. Each person therefore depends on their costs being provided by everybody else. This relationship is therefore recursive. As each person must also provide for everyone else that someone is providing for.

As we witness in the world, not everyone can produce more than they cost. Some people cannot afford to travel or stay near work. Opportunities are cut off from them.
You might have missed the word "Perhaps" at the start?
> To be in balance, the Stablecoin must provide real utility to the Outside World that transcends the Stablecoin/Insurer construct. Specifically:

> 1. There must be a transaction tax for real utility provided by the Stablecoin.

Don't all major reserve-based algorithmic stablecoins charge some kind of minting/redemption fee, to reward the risk taken on by reserve holders? And that makes this whole argument somewhat moot, since it's not a purely closed construct like they're describing. Though perhaps this line of reasoning (equivocating to other financial constructs) could lead to fee pricing equations required for some notion of stability.
It should be legally required for these products to allow for people to turn 'smart' features off if they want to. Unfortunately, it probably won't be any time soon.
In Germany, we call them "Kreuzberger Bügel", named after Berlin's Kreuzberg district, where the same design was first used. (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreuzberger_Bügel)
Dandelion chemistry: Diuretics and the tyres of the future