skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we’re seeing a lot of this in the economy today. I think a lot of the inflation were seeing is companies that know they can get away with it given the narrative, and taking the opportunity.

Same thing here, no one can dispute that the overall macroeconomic picture is deteriorating. So you have cover for some fat trimming
The most successful salesperson I know has a pretty flat affect but knows her product super well and is excellent at needs analysis. There’s definitely a lot more to sales than glad handing people with a smile.
> If anything (at the risk of sounding extra American), these threads remind me that the US is still the place to be if you want to build something different.

Interesting, because recently the USA exited Bloomberg's top 10 innovative countries, while if I remember correctly 7/10 where European countries [0]. Sorry guys, you can't stay on top forever.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-03/south-kor...
It is a shame that open source is much more of a subject in the world of programmers than in the world of user interface designers.

A face lift for claws would be worth 1000 new features.

It is a fact that people rate software by how it looks, and anyone who is not a geek will pass up Claws - and the geeks will install it alongside whatever they regularly use.

I wonder if there is a way to get more open source UI work?
Just revert d9d0762 or use actual REL_14_STABLE.
Maybe you missed that rulex compile to regex, so the arrow is pointing in the correct direction under that point of view.
Let's also not forget the whole deal with financing.

When you buy a house, for $1 million or $50,000, the normal case being described in yours and the parent post is that you are buying a house on margin while using the house itself as collateral for the loan.

If you show up at a house that is for sale and ready to be sold with a million dollars in cash -- well, a million dollars in easily-authenticated cash equivalent -- and ask to buy the house as-is, no conditions or concerns on your part, you can make a deal happen markedly faster. Not microsecond fast, because why, and the sellers might balk at such a weird transaction or shop around to see if they can get another seller at a higher price, but once you take financing and any sort of buyer-protection out of the equation it basically comes down to registering the sale with the local registry.
My main phone is an Xs Max that I bought around 15 months old. I just replaced the screen on it because I finally got unlucky on a drop that broke it. (I replaced the battery as well while I had it apart.)

The only real reason I’d consider upgrading is for the better camera on the newer phones. I think I paid $400-450 for that phone 2.5 years ago and just spent $125 on a screen and battery for a phone that will likely be great for another 1.5 years. Under $600 for 4 years seems pretty good.

While I was waiting on the screen to arrive, I bought a 2020 iPhone SE for $150. It’s perfectly usable and in some situations, I prefer the smaller form factor. (I hate the loss of FaceID.)

My wife’s 13 is better for sure, but only really noticeably in the camera.
Its short interest has increased by almost 200% since April, now at about 20% of the float. So now that there's a lot of money riding on people hating Coinbase, I expect we'll continue seeing more articles like this.
Or more specifically if you’re looking for an app to help track and improve your *mental health* I definitely recommend Sensive [1].

You can add a quick log into how your day was, and answer a few questions to record your total mood disturbance score. Very productive and helps you reflect on ways you can be more positive day to day.

[1] https://sensive.xyz
I did non-commission sales for a while as well, and made no effort to appear more happy than I was. People appreciated my candor and knowledge, rather than being won over by my charm. I sold a lot of stuff, and there was even a time that a customer found out I wasn't in that day and decided to come back another day instead of dealing with anyone else, even knowing there were no commissions.

My proof that I did well at it was that management constantly told me I need to upsell more and tried to scare me into it, but at no point did they ever actually move to take me off the sales floor. They knew I did really well, even without their extra BS items to push.
This can happen anywhere, not only on software. I once bought a set of 10 or so entries to a climbing wall. Some time later I wanted to use it and was told that it was no longer valid. There was no "valid by" date on the card, but I was told that the place transfered ownership and that this decision to not accept the old card was ok'ed by the lawyers.

At least for software you can keep a copy of the installer. Unless it checks the license with the server, then you're screwed...
Yes, it depends on the thickness of the slabs, the local climate and the initial moisture content of the wood.

But, that much lumber is worth a lot of money. I think most domestic hardwoods are currently in the $5-$10 range per board foot (e.g. 12"x1"x1"). And that's rough sawn, you still need to mill that into usable pieces.
You're basically saying that college is completely pointless except as a way to rank a meritocratic society.

Except college/testing doesn't rank meritocratically. It reproduces our existing structural hierarchies in the next generation. It would be simpler and more honest to give the kids of rich parents fast track internships.
Compared to the $44B he owes them, finding some way to trigger the special clause that only requires him to pay $1B may be great.
I am going to criticize your blanket statements without backing it up with evidence by making other blanket statements also not backed up with any evidence.
https://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php

There are three. Dillo does some crazy embedding thing (and only works in X, not Wayland), litehtml is simpler but can't render everything. Haven't tried 'Fancy' - since it's webkit, it's probably the closest to a real HTML email experience.
"Invented here syndrome" is a real and pernicious problem.
Im sorry but I don’t understand how anyone can look at that and think it’s a good way to build UIs. I’m almost certainly in the wrong, considering how popular this library seems to be getting, but holy heck that looks like a tedious mess to work with. It’s like you have to learn every raw CSS selector, and then also learned how it’s represented in Tailwind, and then scatter that all over your markup.
OMG, incredible, never heard about this.
Fair points. Still, statistically, it is useful to recognize the empirical (but imperfect) correlation between Big-O and run time. One does not have to be confused to know this. Rather, one would be lacking perspective to not recognize that there is a connection. This connection is important if you want to be empirical validation of an algorithm on a particular computer.

I just want to point out that your comment could easily be perceived as a ding against self-taught programmers. Many self-taught programmers (which I will define as ones that have not had a formal CS degree) read extensively. Many use their intrinsic motivation to really dive in. Also, many are successful. Bill Gates is one example.

Yes, there are programmers of all kinds that have a tendency to write sloppy blog posts, to make overconfident and inaccurate statements, to forget things they've read, to hack their way around, and so on. There may even be a statistical correlation between self-taught programmers and such behavior. But I'd suggest we points out those behaviors when they are a problem rather than make assumptions about their educational backgrounds.
Environment FUD refutation (just the one I personally link to most):

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/03/05/the-frustrating...

PoW security is a vector, and doesn't flip from secure to insecure at some specific point. A gradual reduction in mining hash rate doesn't render the chain noticeably less secure.

Feel free to fork Bitcoin and use it as an alternative. Please note that this has been done in the past, and will probably be done in the future. There is a reason why the economic majority remain with Bitcoin, even though PoW isn't energy neutral.
There are a few [1]. I've used "fancy" in the past. I can't say I have a complaint.

[1] https://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php
I am rather compulsive with my approach to anything, whether work or leisure, and have a strong tendency to pour myself into the task at hand. I wouldn't categorize this as "toxic productivity", in that I don't feel like it causes me any harm, and isn't focused exclusively on work-related matters. I am the same way with hobbies that I am with work tasks that I find challenging; if I'm going to do a thing, I will do my best to be as good at doing that thing that I possibly can, regardless of the overall merits of me doing that thing.

The part of what is described that resonated is the feeling that I can't "sit still", and have to be "doing something". I've got a three year old daughter whom has improved my life immensely, and yet I still get comments from people about my other projects, and how much I get done regarding those projects, despite having a toddler. My secret, of course, is just that I can't sit still. My free time has been diminished pretty severely by becoming a father, and yet when I have a spare hour or two, I won't sit and relax; I will take that time and try to push through as much as I can on whatever project I'm working on.
That's ignoring capital cost, i.e. the cost of not having access to the $2000 for 5 years. It's practically zero if you are able to afford a $2000 designer table, but should be included if you're being 100% honest.
Here's what he suggested:

* Assemble a group of five labs, where the leading investigators have an established reputation (tenure should perhaps be a requirement). Substantial labs with several students are the most desirable participants.

* Each lab selects a recent demonstration of a priming effect, which they consider robust and most likely to replicate.

* The board makes a public commitment to these five specific effects

* Set up a daisy chain of labs A-B-C-D-E-A, where each lab will replicate the study selected by its neighbor: B replicates A, C replicates B etc.

* Have the replicating lab send someone to see how subjects are run (hence the emphasis on recency – the experiments should be in the active repertoire of the original lab, so that additional subjects can be run with confidence that the same procedure is followed).

* Have the replicated lab send someone to vet the procedure of the replicating lab as it starts its work

* Run enough subjects to guarantee power (probably more than in the original study)

* Use technology (e.g. video) to ensure that every detail of the method is documented and can be copied by others.

* Pre-commit to publish the results, letting the chips fall where they may, and make all data available for analysis by others.

I hope that psychology is a field where it is possible to fund such a protocol from grants or from internal school funds. However, that protocol seems to me to be laborious, expensive, and not at all "easy to get".
> Bitcoin is inherently a-political

I would disagree pretty strongly with this. Bitcoin has been aggressively libertarian from the start, and its popularity is due in part to the political arguments made in support of its use ("monetary policy bad," "code is law," etc).

This isn't necessarily of all cryptocurrency, but Bitcoin in particular has always been part of a particular political agenda.
Nuclear produces very little waste. One or two sites world wide should be enough for the current or 100 times the amount. Since we already need these sites and they cost practically the same regardless how much waste is buried, any additional nuclear waste is stored for free.
I'm pretty sure that's the iconic clearlooks theme on top of gtk2 (that combination is obvious if you've spent any amount of time with it).

In any case, those screenshots are too old, and the UI is using gtk3.

https://git.claws-mail.org/?p=claws.git;a=blob;f=configure.a...
> Apolitical means it doesn't enforce you to do things because politics demands it of you; only because the protocol enforces it.

Why is the protocol defined like it is? Could it be... politics, perhaps? What kind of things does the protocol encourage, and what kind of things does the protocol discourage? Could there be a political ideology described in those things?
I once bought a LT lic. for serpstat.com and after a while they gradually reduced features for those users and more or less feature-freezed it.

LL: Don't buy, and don't offer LT — It's just a poison pill for both parties.
It would be nice if there were a way to quantify the value of your dependencies.

If you have a dependency with 1,000 LoC and your application is utilizing 800 of them, that seems like a good reason to use the dependency.

You're (hopefully) getting unit tests, documentation, and public exposure of the code (bugfix opportunities) for "free"

If you have a dependency with 1,000,000 LoC and you only need 1,000, that indicates the dependency isn't a good fit for your project.

This is only a heuristic, but are there any tools that examine metrics like that?
Apple M1 Affected by Pacman Hardware Vulnerability in Arm Pointer Authentication
Curious why this gets downvoted. Despite all the marketing talk parroted by Ars, this looks like a bog standard LD_preload rootkit.
I agree that PoW is wasteful by design. But it should be tuneable - it should somehow target securing, say, $X/hour, and not more, because it's even more wasteful.

This could be implemented through an oracle that gives the current price to the protocol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain_oracle
I'm with you. I'm pretty into neat experimental frontend + css stuff, and I'm baffled by how passionate Tailwind's fans are. It always feels like there's something I'm missing.

In all fairness, I've never actually tried it.
PoW precedes bitcoin but was never used as a distributed consensus algorithm before it, blockchain precedes bitcoin but was never used as a distributed data structure before it, this is all acknowledged in my original comment. Do you argue that innovations composed of several ideas are exactly as novel as those ideas themselves? that would lead you to believe that there is no innovation at all happening in computers and computer science since the 1980s. Neural Networks were invented and reinvented several times since the 1940s, is GPT3 just a boring exercise in implementing common knowledge in your view?

The person I replied to means by the 'it' that they see no novel unique thing about the bitcoin system itself, or perhaps any arbitary cryptocurrency system in general. It's reasonable to assume that in a discussion titled "In defence of cryptocurrency", saying "it" without qualification references the main thing everyone is talking about, not any single part or sub-idea.

But the brilliance of bitcoin is exactly how it merged 2 completely different ideas to obtain a breathtakingly novel 3rd idea that is much more valuable than the sum of its constituents. A centralized blockchain gives you exactly as much trust in its contents as the amount you're willing to put in whoever holds the root hash pointer, a PoW posting/updating algorithm gives you trust that writes by anonymous nodes probably cost that node some amount of computational work (as much trust as the underlying work function has anyway).

On the face of it, those previous 2 things have nothing to do with each other, none of them references (even implicitly) the other in any interesting way. It takes intelligence to look at those 2 things and imagine a distributed append-only database with untrusted unnamed peers, and then come up with the all the rest of details and rules that make it work, and then implement all of this in a (relatively) bug-free open source real system. To the extent that any of this seems obvious or inevitable in retrospect, it's all the more evidence for how genius it is.

It doesn't matter a single gram that the technology later attracted scammers, radicals, and con men who think it's a silver bullet for solving any problem, I can say just as much about OOP. And yet nobody disputes the genius of Alan Kay and the novelty of Smalltalk.
> 4 toasts

Hopefully someone who knows this person contacts either them or someone close. This person is saying they are about to kill themselves and clearly needs help.
You’re probably not good enough at a lot of things (this is true of nearly everyone), so why do you make the extra effort to get good at work? How do you know you’re not good enough? Are you getting fired over and over?
> allowing any two willing parties to transact directly

And what happens if one of the parties is not willing? If someone's e-wallet gets broken into and funds are transferred? How does any current system handle that situation?

A lot of folks consider irreversibility a feature, when there's a strong case to be made that it is a bug.
You are running on up to date version which seems to have no known critical bugs.
> After hunting through the website I found the tiny "get old version" in the footer. I entered my license key and was told it was already used. I wrote to the support email and was told that "Mumu" was discontinued and "Mumu X" was a new app that I'd have to buy it again.

The "already used" message sounds to me like maybe the app has an online license check that's still registered to your old Mac.

If you still have the old Mac, it might be possible to unregister the app on there.

Otherwise, it sounds like support might be confused about your situation. Any app that has a license check like this ought to have a way to migrate to a new Mac.
Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
Currently evaluating the tradeoffs between using my network (smaller pool, high trust), public boards (large pool, low trust), and recruiters (presumably medium on both scores).

There was a similar discussion on HN in 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17791766
If you still have the old Mac, generally the info for the license file will be stored in your ~/Library somewhere. Probably ~/Library/Application Data/<App Name>. Copy it over to the new system in the same spot and it generally works.

You can also just search with Finder (specially in the ~/Library folder as it doesn't search there by default) for the app name and see all the related files. Copy that stuff over.

I got a copy of OmniOutliner pre-installed on a new Mac (back when Apple did stuff like that). I found that file and copied it to my next several Macs.

There are some cases where companies have activation servers and once they shut those down, it's all over. How their app is checking to see that your license is already used is a bit unknown. Moving the license might work, it might not... but it's worth a shot.
Maybe it would be a bit more user friendly to embed it into a product for end users.
To get something useful and not attackable, the complement operation would need to take the complement inside the set of valid UTF-8 strings rather than the set of all byte-sequences, which is probably doable but I'm not sure how straightforward it would be.
I just checked and they do not block all porn, but the porn that does not fulfill their regulations.
I think the trick is to find an instance where the people mostly share your interests. When I first tried mastodon.social, I didn't get anywhere. But when I found a more niche instance, I was able to find a lot of good content on the local timeline, which gave me people to follow and gradually exposed me to the larger fediverse.
The blog mentions it at the very end but the linked text “The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants” is a great read. L-systems, the technique used to generate these trees are a surprisingly easy way of generating various fractal-like patterns, and are a very fun thing to play with. It’s not that often that a relatively dense bit of CS can be used to make such pretty pictures.
The Svix Webhook Service (YC W21) Is Hiring (Remote)
"Vale tudo" can also be translated as "Everything Goes/Everything Allowed". It's also a brazilian martial art

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vale_Tudo
LD_PRELOAD rootkits are by definition not "ultra-stealthy".

Nothing here looks special, there are a plenty of these:

https://github.com/chokepoint/Jynx2

https://github.com/chokepoint/jynxkit

https://github.com/NexusBots/Umbreon-Rootkit

https://github.com/chokepoint/azazel

https://github.com/unix-thrust/beurk

https://github.com/mempodippy/vlany

https://github.com/nopn0p/rkorova

And presumably tens more I've forgotten about. Highschoolers write stuff like this.
I'd look at the bottom face. Because you have a reference (the table) for the selected side, not just guessing which side is toppiest.
They're two different roles, but universities have traditionally done both and it has been effective. It's no use teaching Scientists how to think if they don't learn how to collaborate effectively and communicate their ideas to a wider audience.

I'm not sure what you mean by "old ways". The setup you describe is the one we already have. Family connections and money are key to getting a leg up.
You can also do that with certificate transparency logs though.
> The story of the Sámi people is very similar to many other native people...

Also hitting them with bible:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianization_of_the_S%C3%A...
The difficult part is not setting up a SQL database, the difficult part are complying with all the banking regulations. If you have a distributed ledger, you do not need to comply with these regulations and everything gets easier.

This is both a good and a bad thing.
Is ‘irony’ the right word to describe current situation where we convert fossil fuels to calories in the name of Agriculture? Without fossil fuels, food production would go down drastically.

If we have to run faster to stay in the same place and burn down the world in the process because we are past carrying capacity, then I think the solution hasn’t found the right problem.
That ignorance is often a shield to protect from thinking about ethical issues. Once you start believing that a fish can feel pain or a cow mourns you have to think about whether you want to keep eating them despite that knowledge. It's easier to not know or to keep believing something that's wrong.
Interesting choice to cancel a planned smartwatch with two cameras
Not sure about GP, but the Font / Color combo is darn near impossible for me to read.
That's a hard no :)
None of the houses on my street have easy access either. The point of that anecdote wasn’t that everyone should have backyard doors, but rather that the street design should make it easy to get to places, and not require circuitous routes that make life difficult for pedestrians.