skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, tbh, it sounded harsher than i intended, and you could actually plot a pretty successful path by life simply by doing the opposite of everything I say.

But there's lots of new shiny.
Yes, some of it turns out to be the new big thing. Lots more of it turns out to a neat feature that simply gets replicated / bought and integrated into current platforms. Lots more settled into specific niches or makets you'll almost never hear about on HN.

The majority disappears, wrong or right, and we all have time and attention budgets.

I'm not against, I'm just not interested until it can tick more boxes. Or unless it happens to tweak my interest for whatever personal quirk of mine - and in this instance all the information is stuck behind my least preferred delivery style so....?

Even then it's often moot.. the database I'm using now is dictated by application compatibility more than anything.. there's already "better" for almost any measure of the word, _except_ that this is the db our vendor app supports and have stored procedures developed for, and porting isn't a priority.

All that said, if and when you take over the db industry, you're welcome to hold me up as yet another grumpy old timer who couldn't keep up!
Floating solar may be cheaper than solar on rice field, because rice field needs space for machines so special solar equipment is required. Also it reduces yield.

Why it is encouraged in Japan is because of usage of farm land for non-faming use is strictly restricted but having solar while farming is allowed (called "solar sharing"). There are many non-farmed farm land exist that technically able to just put solar. Japanese agriculture industry/gov is far from efficient/practical compared to other big countries. I don't think they are good reference.
I feel like Illich would have despised the browser as it is of a cowardly sort of simplicity, one that shoves complexity behind a massive amount of bloat leaving only space to participants who can afford the top-of-the-line fastest possible hardware, encouraging the incessant purchase of increasingly faster machines.

In browser application development, ease of use is usually implemented as superficial simplicity, as an additional layer of complexity that hides the underlying layers. Meanwhile, systems that are actually very simple and elegant are often presented in ways that make them look complex to laypeople.

This reminds me of DawnOS's author's note: "Imagine that software development becomes so complex and expensive that no software is being written anymore, only apps designed in devtools."

-- Sent from a computer that can barely display modern websites, and being constantly asked to participate in Slack or Discord channel which it cannot.
It's more like legislators observing that Betamax is failing and deciding that it's in everyone's best interests to tell Sony that they have to adopt VHS instead of creating confusion in the marketplace.

Or like 1996 when Apple was failing and everyone should have been forced to standardize on Windows.
This is such a cool experiment. Anything that involves sound like this is extremely interesting to me (I have a cochlear implant). Maybe I can hack it so I know when people are making payments :D
I assume you are talking about a parliamentary system? Yes, I also prefer it. It is even better if there is a good mix of parties in power -- Germany, Netherlands, etc. It seems like 5-10 parties in parliament forces a good amount of compromise, which results in the most progress possible. I prefer what is loosely termed as a "weak prime minister" where the coalition is multi-party, over a "strong prime minister" where no coalition is required. (Please ignore the scenario of a _constant_ super majority, like Singapore's "People's Action Party".)
Have you tried taking a job at a Contracting firm type place? (Accenture, Revature, TCS) they do hire American on shore contractors, and they hire basically anyone. Go in, do some work for a year or two to at least get a bit of corporate recent work experience, and jump to somewhere better.
You Can Draw in 30 Days by Mark Kistler is a good, very basic, instruction book I think.
Happened to me too with NSIS when a bunch of people threatened to sue me for things they should understand better

https://kichik.com/2006/11/03/mr-smarty-pants/

https://kichik.com/2006/12/02/mr-angry-pants/

https://kichik.com/2006/12/15/nsis-media-remover/

https://kichik.com/2008/02/08/mediacentric/
It’s time to approach your search differently

Learn to build a network inside the companies you want to work for

Start with Sarah Johnston’s advice: https://briefcasecoach.com/

Having worked in HR - you are trapped in the ATS system black hole. Never apply for a job cold. Always have an employee refer you in. You will 3x your chances (from 2% to 6%) with that one decision.

Employment isn’t by companies, it’s by teams.

Get your LinkedIn & Twitter game going.

I’ve been where you are. I made $50k more a year by making the decision to hire a career coach.

You’ve got a lot to offer. Giver yourself a real chance.
And your argument is that because innovation has, arguably, slowed (not even halted!) you are happy mandating the current standard.

It's a good thing there is so little innovation coming out of the EU or else their wreckless legislators could have actual impact.
I'll start a spite ~store~ car.
While I agree with you that they are trying to do it, the Johnny Depp case was an example to show that there is a limit that will backfire after 6 years if crossed.

There are lots of cases in court where men are discriminated against (domestic violence was an example), but I believe that being white still has enough advantages generally. Agism is a stronger thing though that will get worse, as old people don't get instagram likes.
> The color of your skin will also be a factor, certainly more so than in the US

You sure about that. Out police force is known for being more liberal about shooting people based on skin color. I'm not German so I won't argue with you but I don't get the impression that there's as much institutional racism there.
Top Economist Urges China to Seize TSMC If US Ramps Up Sanctions
>So, it's paper money, but one that won't survive heat or strong electrical fields, and that you need to use with your phone. And will lose all value if the central repository goes under. And is not recyclable or efficiently burnable.

Literally none of this is true.

There's so many comments in this thread that pagination is now turned on so apologies if you didn't catch some of the explanation elsewhere.

It's a synthetic polymer (not paper) that can survive heat and strong electrical fields that can (but doesn't need to be) be validated with a computer, maintains its value if the issuing party goes under (see the key rotation comments in this thread) and is recyclable.

Burnable? Actually yes, at a high enough temperature (higher than linen) but it would first melt. We have previously experimented with "burn proof" polymers but found this wasn't an important metric to optimize for given the huge tradeoffs those materials come with and which our colleagues who make Hong Kong, Canadian, and Australian dollars also reached.
Matter of taste.

I find Rust perfect for hobby projects because:

1. Squashing bugs that show up after the code successfully compiles (or, in Python's case, appears to work) is a big drain on motivation.

2. The ecosystem's focus on API stability means that, once it works the way I want, the costs of ensuring "it built/ran yesterday, so it should build/run today too" will be minimized.

3. I don't have to write as many unit tests to feel I can trust it with my data.

TL;DR: Once you're on the same wavelength as the compiler, Rust is great for projects where your motivation is purely intrinsic.

(Well, that and the compiler has been constantly improving. Things especially got much better after non-lexical lifetimes landed.)
I guess this would be a good time to plug a small project I worked on: https://github.com/rben01/collagen . I got tired of seeing how crappy text looked when placed on a JPEG (due to the compression artifacts) and how large some PNGs were because they had a small JPEG-like area, so I made a little CLI program that solves that problem. Rather than settle on any particular image format, it allows the user to provide a collection of inputs -- images (in any format your browser supports), SVGs, shapes, text -- and bundles them into a single SVG file (it base64 encodes the images). So if you want to scale a PNG and place it on top of a JPG, you... just do that, with SVG transforms and whatnot. It produces a single file and is a lot easier than writing out the SVG yourself, and is nearly as easy as opening up a tailor-made mage editor and doing it there. And it's really, truly lossless, as it doesn't touch any of the input data.

In theory, you wouldn't even transmit the SVG directly; you'd zip up the components and send them across the network and then encode them into an SVG on the other end, which would mitigate some of the size increase due to base64 encoding.
For starters in the telemetry category:

- Every CLI program you start

- Every app you download and run

- Every typo you type

- Every siri conversation you have

Just like Windows, you can opt out with some shenanigans.
My own pet theory, based on absolutely no inside knowledge, is that MS doesn’t want to have Windows on M1+ until other CPU makers have caught up to Apple. It would be a huge embarrassment to have Apple hardware running Windows that much better than all the native PCs. All the PC OEMs would slash Nadella’s tires.
I think it’s cool but with payments you’ll have to address security considerations. How can you prevent someone from spoofing a transaction or spoofing audio for payments?
Not a book, But if you'd like an occasional(non-regular) but high quality newsletter serving the same purpose then checkout - https://www.clearerthinking.org/blog .

P.S. Not affiliated to them in any way, Just a subscriber.
Issue #51: Understanding Balance Sheet Capacity
From Memory Alpha:

'According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia (2nd ed., p. 205), inertial dampers were "invented" by Star Trek writers to explain how the crew avoided becoming "chunky salsa" when starships accelerated or decelerated. ' [1]

and further list them as a requirement to achieve warp. I would imagine that "merely" instantly decelerating from 0.25c to a dead stop would be trivial in comparison.

[1] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Inertial_damping_system
Would be enough to simulate ant level AI to be revolutionary, and at least that would probably be fine on a modern GPU. Their brains are a million times smaller than ours, so should take a million times less compute to do.
I started a company called "EmbodiedAI" because I believed this. That company is now defunct and so is my belief in the idea you need to interact with the physical world.

I'm still in agreement with the author that much of intelligence has to do with motor control, but I've built robots and I've built sims and sims are much better for trying to create even halfway general intelligence. And I say "better" from a purely practical point of view. Faster, cheaper, less dangerous, more flexible. There are simply too many advantages and in the last couple of years those advantages have only grown. You can now run excellent sims in massive parallelism on GPU (previously this was hard) and it's only getting better. NVIDIA is investing heavily in this and has picked up some really top names recently (e.g. Erwin Coumins).

Anyway, yes to "bodies" no to physical forms. Sim2Null4Ever.
Appears there were toxic gases in the caves. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/greece-de...
> FSF-compatible licenses absolutely can exclude commercial usage

Can they? The FSF seems pretty strict on saying that commercial usage cannot be excluded.

> “Free software” does not mean “noncommercial.” On the contrary, a free program must be available for commercial use, commercial development, and commercial distribution. This policy is of fundamental importance—without this, free software could not achieve its aims.

From https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
It looks like janet supports great interop with c, so in theory it isn't much of a stretch to connect to other databases. I had the same question and came across this: https://github.com/newhook/janet-mysql

I know this is probably not for PROD but its a lot of fun to look at a nice clean database driver. I've been working with mysql off and on for ~13 years and never have really looked at the source of a client.
Tell other people that you care about your intentions to quit social media. Might give you some motivation to not end up doing what you said you wouldn't do.

Since it's HN, here's a technical solution. Make it a bit difficult to access social media, enough for it to be a pain in the ass.

Use a PiHole and block the domains on your network, and in your hosts files. AdGuard Home ships with a toggle dashboard for dozens of social media sites, too. Go a step further and either use a DNS blocker on your phone, or VPN into a network with a PiHole.

There are apps for Android and iOS that let you do this, as well, and there are plugins for desktop browsers. Mobile browsers also have similar plugins, and I think you can block specific websites if you dig around the OS or browser settings, too. You can further block the domains with browser ad blockers like uMatrix or NoScript.

Also use 2-factor authentication via an authenticator app on an old phone or tablet, and put it somewhere inconvenient.

If you want to go on Facebook, you'll have to disable your browser blocking settings, disable your ad blocker, then edit your hosts file, and then log into your DNS server and change its settings, etc.

If you end up actually going on it, log in with a private browser window so you can't rely on cookies to get you back in easily.
> It isn’t “designed” or “used” to racially discriminate if it’s not intended.

You are trying to read the qualifications other than “intended“ in 703h into surplusage, since despite the “or”, “intended” would be the one and only consideration in your reading.

> The word “Intententionally,” specifically, is present in section 706(g) to expressly prevent accidental discrimination from violating Title VII.

706(g) of the Act, 42 USC 2000e-5(g), deals with the terms for equitable relief (injunctions, focus mostly specifically on injunctions for rehiring with back pay ), which, as is often the case with equitable relief, have higher standards than for legal relief (damages). In it, “intentionally” modifies “engaged in an unlawful employment practice”, which acknowledges that an employment practice may be umlawful without being engaged in intentionally (in which case, the type of remedies in 706(g) are not available, but compensatory damages remain available.)
Was it ever relevant? The only person I know that achieved the 4 hr work week was Tim Ferris.
Maybe run in a matter of days or weeks or months, but people often want the results faster than that, especially if there will be a 2nd set of analyses or a conference is coming up.
Two things. First:

> Bitcoin's price, yes, but not the actual currency itself.

Again, as a user, who the heck cares? The Bitcoin in your wallet changes how much it's worth, it's the same outcome as normal currency manipulation. If the effects are the same, and the changes to the value of the currency are the same, then the specific details about how that effect was caused don't matter to end users.

Second:

> That will be the major psychological void to fill in for people: thinking about Bitcoin as a currency, not an investment or gambling device.

I just finished talking to someone a day ago on this very site who argued with me for ages that Bitcoin was a store of value and shouldn't be thought of a currency and accused me of not understanding the history of the coin because I pointed out correctly that many early proponents of Bitcoin were pushing it as a currency for regular everyday transactions.

And I am so not willing to have the same exact conversation a second time just with the the details and direction swapped out. All of these arguments always being with, "hah, people should research Bitcoin more before criticizing it", even though everyone in the community who says that is constantly making contradictory claims while arguing that they represent some kind of community consensus or coordinated effort.

But to summarize the problems with the specific claim being made this time around:

Bitcoin is bad at everyday transactions for a dozen reasons that have been already explored in depth over and over again in the past and that are easy to research. If your goal is to make an everyday transactable currency, Bitcoin is a bad choice for that, for obvious reasons -- even without getting into the technical reasons why a deflationary asset is in general a bad fit for transactions, all you need to do is look at the history of Bitcoin's price; that's not a chart that indicates a healthy currency intended to be used for normal purchases. Honestly, the characterization of Bitcoin as a rarely-transferred store of value is a stronger argument, and even that isn't a particularly strong argument.
You weren't wrong! Reminds me a lot of Gwern's website (https://gwern.net/)
> JSON is so bad it is on the standard library of all major languages, natively supported by php, python, nodejs, javascript, ruby and many others

Pretty sure that "all" isn't correct here. Or we have different lists of major languages.
F# and ocaml does that all the time using type inference.
CUE's type system is also its validation system. It's extremely flexible. You can define custom types and your own constraints on those types. It allows for disjunctive constraints (e.g. this value must be an integer > 0 or the string value "none"). The types compose well together. I'd highly recommend reading through the docs - they're great.
One of my all-time favorites also :). Technically a hidden object puzzle game not a point and click adventure. While not for most young children I remembered Rakuen by Laura Shigihara. There is some volence in the stories (not on camera IIRC) and death is a theme.

https://www.polygon.com/2017/5/12/15632474/rakuen-review

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/rakuen
This made me wonder, money has been around for a long time, so it's hard to ask about a specific event, but say the first minting of USD, was there ... a line to get it? Did the fed just dump huge sacks of the stuff at post offices with a note saying "you can use this instead of doubloons"?

Guess I am just curious if the same kind of effect was observed, I suppose banks would have been trying to "secure their spot" for some first release of $CURRENCY notes/coins? Hard to imagine Joe Homesteader lining up at 9AM.
This is simple economics.

If benefits of non compliance > consequences, don’t comply, else, comply.

That simple, and applies to tech companies as well.

At the end of the day who’s policing this stuff anyway? People only find out when there’s a leak.
That’s why OP said you will need to explain it well… What you have listed are all perfectly valid explanations.
Same here. The advantage is that it works in any language.
You should add an ability to turn off tor access if you don’t currently have it for sure. But why make it opt-in?
Paper money that doesn’t work without computers seems like 2 SPOFs rather than one.
I know this from experience that when we switched from leaded to unleaded gas in the 70’s for a fleet of 50 cars, it caused spark plug fowling in every one of them due to flakes of carbon coming off piston heads. I don’t think you want spark plug fowling at 12,000 feet.
Ah, it looks like the repo linked in the article should actually be from their personal account, not their stripe account [0].

It also looks like one of the key components is the `quiet.js` library [1] which itself is an emscriptem port of `libquiet` [2].

[0] https://github.com/charliegerard/ultrasonic-payments

[1] https://github.com/quiet/quiet-js/

[2] https://github.com/quiet/quiet
james gurney wrote a fantastic book on precisely this subject

>https://jamesgurney.com/products/imaginative-realism-how-to-...
And when the cartels alter the deal?
What’s new in Safari and WebKit
Making sure that windows works properly and keeping it working for however long they want to support it has got to cost a bunch of money. The question is, will they ever sell enough Windows licenses for M1(/2/3/etc.) Macs to make up for that investment, let alone profit?

I kind of doubt it.
I find these articles lacking any nuance.

“CEOs pandemic greed grab has sparked outrage among Americans across the political spectrum”

Guess what the wage gap is between a software engineer in the US and the average worker in Cambodia? About 100x. The average salary in Cambodia is about $2000 per year.

Is that wrong? Are engineers too greedy? No. Supply & demand for specific skills drive the rates in each market.

* https://ips-cambodia.com/cambodia-average-salaries-2022/
ARM Windows (it was actually always THUMB2 Windows) was officially discontinued as of RT, without ever getting the x86_32 emulator let alone the x86_64 one.

But unoffically, there is a leaked build of Windows 10 15035 for ARM32, and it's possible to sideload it onto an original Windows RT device.

The x86_32 emulator was present in the ARM64 Windows release by this point, but, i don't know if the leaked ARM32 release includes an ARM32 version of the x86_32 emulator.
Not a researcher, but have worked closely with them on data sharing.

I think there's a variant of getting scooped worth pointing out, which is that in some fields people are scared of being scooped by a low quality lab that fakes the results.

I had a very senior materials science researcher describe what he thought was a promising line of study get shut down because a low quality lab in china scooped him with results good enough for publication but not good enough that people would want to replicate. He was 100% confident their data was faked but getting grant money once that experiment was done was like pulling teeth and so he abandoned the route for other ideas.
Modern Ferraris are actually pretty reliable as supercars go. A few years ago Ferrari started included free maintenance for any new Ferrari for 7 years, so most owners are only really paying for tires and gas.

Not to say the cars are perfect, but most owners end up with relatively hassle-free ownership experiences these days.
> FSF-compatible licenses absolutely can exclude commercial usage

No, they can't, use-restricted licenses are non-free, by the FSF definition.

> software can be made simultaneously available under a separate (paid) commercial license if the authors wish.

This is true, but the Free license cannot be use-restricted, or it ceases to be a Free license (if the copyright owner, owing no obligation to any upstream licensor, does it, they could add the use restriction to a Free license, but it would by that act cease to be a free license; that violates Freedom 0.)
I am willing to risk some deaths in exchange for technological improvements.
Still plenty of June bugs in central Kansas. They showed up mid May this year.
All the time. For example, Garmin created the ANT+ protocol for wirelessly communicating sensor data, such as with bicycle electronics. ANT+ is the standard because Garmin actively promoted it as an open standard and encouraged competitors to adopt it.
Kids in the Hall nailed it in 1994

"The Kids in the Hall" Episode #4.19"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1tFbZ5kaY8&t=94s

But do watch the whole sketch.
https://strawpoll.com/polls/PbZqo9wRenN

A clickable link to save a few seconds on mobile
I find it all fascinating, but at the same time, a bit sad that we must resort to such hacks in order to have an interoperable medium.

It should be easy to send packages wirelessly across devices of different platforms in 2022.