skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a) cool

b) looks actually well done

c) already found something i'd consider

d) Please do whatever you can to keep the "i made an amazon reseller blog site" type off of it. Every "buy my business" web site seems to devolve into hundreds of listings for those.
Why the West Rules for Now seemed to make a good case (by my reading) for geographical determinism (i.e. Jared Diamond's thesis) being part of the story but not all of it given the ups and downs of the western and eastern cores over the millennia. I'm not sure he really answered the question at the end of the day--beyond Europe was in the right place at the right time for the Industrial Revolution to happen--but maybe that's pretty much the reality.
> The author is an indie game dev

I wonder if this where the different perspective comes from. As a consumer I don't care very much if 95% of what the industry producers it's boring, not innovative or otherwise bad as long as there are enough games that fill my needs. Right now there is a unbelievable amount of games being released. As an adult with a job who has a variety of interests, I can't even play a fraction of the games I'm very interested in.
The fair price is where the curves of supply and demand meet.

That's what is "fair".

Otherwise we need to speak about "intrinsic value". And there's really no intrinsic value in Bitcoin, money doesn't have an "intrinsic value" against something else.

And if you want to argue that "but the technology!", then what can we talk about? Bitcoin's code is open source, if we launch our own coin does it have intrinsic value as well? Can we create endless new blockchains and create value out of thin air?

This is why I don't believe Bitcoin has a "fair" price, to have it, it would need to have a value and then the loop begins again.
It's even more similar to https://www.storj.io/
Modern travel trailers have also been equipped with a spacious living area, relaxing bedrooms, and a modern kitchen. With all of these modern amenities, you will always feel as if you are in a home away from home.
Wasn't even an audit.
>Online dating sucks. You’re much better off trying to meet people in real-life situations, where there is a more reasonable ratio of men and women

Online dating is a competition like anything else in life. I had some success at online dating and I am not the best looking guy, so it's possible.
I have a Turbo Graphics and had the Turbo Express Portable (blew it out with a variable voltage adapter accidentally set too high... Still have the TV tuner though). I blame the quality of games themselves, not the art work.

Aside from the slight novelty of Bonks Adventure or hype of R-type, the games we played on the TG16 were pretty generic platformers, side scrollers, shooters or adventure games. They just didn't have the library to compete with the NES. Walking down the video game aisle of Toys R Us you'd see 20 TG16 games and what felt like 100 NES games. I have no memory of great game play from the TG16 and I don't even think we tried beating Bonks adventure, let alone care about Keith Courage, Splatterhouse or a lame racing game, Monaco something I think. Maybe it had good games, but we never crossed paths with them.
I guess it's the hdd thats causing the problems. I guess your tablet has emmc flash storage causing it to be pretty responsive compared to my machine that's better spec and newer too........
> Simply modify the sentence to include the hash conversion.

You seem to be missing my point: that it's better to think about security issues in terms of the components and actions that actually exist in the implementation (e.g. "when the given password agrees with the stored hash, then XYZ"), rather than the real-world concepts they're crudely trying to approximate (e.g. "when the administrator is present, then XYZ").

If you want to use fingerprint scanners as part of a security system, that's fine; I really don't care. What I do care about is that "fingerprint scanner says yes" does not imply "Alice is currently holding her thumb against the phone screen", or other such real-world scenarios.

Alice holding her thumb against the screen might cause the fingerprint scanner to say yes; and it's perfectly fine to make that assumption when designing a UI (where failure is mostly an irritation). Yet security design should not make that assumption, since it may hide all sorts of vulnerabilities.

As an analogy: a "Keep off the grass" sign is not the same as there being nobody on the grass. It's good enough for something inconsequential, like turning on a sprinkler system (if you get wet, you should've followed the sign; similar to a UI breaking if the user doesn't use their phone in standard ways); yet it's not enough to, say, store our valuables on the grass, in the hope that nobody can get to them.
You grew up in the modern day priest class, not poor.
Everyone in the community who isn’t the 51% attacker would want to switch because a crypto that is vulnerable in this way has little value.
I don't have a strong opinion on the subject, but I believe/hope it should be possible to be accessible and entertaining while still being academically "acceptable" in terms of references (which doesn't need to be of the form 1 claim, 1 reference) and without taking misleading shortcuts or trying to sell your new universal theory of history, but sticking to consensual understandings and/or prefacing your novel ideas adequately.

I guess it sells better if you can make your audience believe that your theory explains "everything".
Having read the book, it's a better feeling to think that you now understand the gears of history through this new lens, rather than it being just a complex jumble of interconnected stories/phenomena.
>Could you explain what you mean?

Sure.

I realize I waste a lot of time in supermarkets, shops or online stores, browsing/walking around and comparing prices just to penny pinch on low value things, when the savings I would make would have no meaningful impact on my yearly net worth, but the time and mental energy wasted browsing/walking around comparing prices could have better return on investment if used on other things like learning a new skill, reading a book, etc.

I avoid any kind of subscription services (Netflix, Spotify, cloud-storage, phone contract, etc.) to the disbelief of my friends ("But it's only 10 Euros a month!, Why don't you have it?"), preffering instead to spend my time building my own self-hosted solutions for cheap, which probably explains how I got into tech in the first place.

I own a cheap old car and prefer to fix it myself if I can, rather than paying someone to do it, even though the time I spend learning how to fix it, buying the parts, then actually fixing it, is probably worth more than a professional would have cost.

I'm afraid to make investments fearing that the market could crash the second I enter it, and erase my money, leaving me vulnerable to being homeless or dependent on doing shitty jobs I hate just to stay afloat, so I just hoard cash like an idiot as that makes me feels safe and lets me sleep well at night.

I think I might not be good enough for some bold career steps, like giving up my tech job and risking everything to start my own business of a coffee cart in the city center or pivoting to something other than tech that's less well paid, like being a teacher.

I spent too much of my youth studying hard at useless subjects on the pressure from my parents that "education will get you far in life, so beat those books and get good grades", only to realize far too late in life that I could have gotten in the same spot with 20% of the effort, leaving me time to actually enjoy my youth.

Sure, I'm working my way out of these habits slowly, but the Pavlovian impulses are still in my brain. Complex things these minds of ours.
You're free to leave your job and go pick strawberries in 30 degree heat for a summer. You'd quickly see why no one wants to do such jobs. You speak like someone who has never worked in a factory or out in the fields. It's not glamorous, and there's a reason why these jobs are not desirable.
The Democrats appear to want high gasoline prices but not to be blamed for them. Biden discouraged oil and gas production from day 1 https://nypost.com/2022/03/09/why-biden-energy-policies-have..., and he has said that high gasoline prices will encourage a transition to electric vehicles. Now he is traveling to Saudi Arabia to beg them to produce more oil, and he has told Exxon to invest more. Yet "windfall" profits tax that Democratic Senator Wyden has proposed https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-14/biden-all... and which the White House has not disavowed would discourage energy production.
Even Factorio was too much like programming to me and I had to stop playing because it became too much like work. I can’t imagine a game where I actually have to write anything closer to software than that.
Depends on the project too.

Sometimes, writing up some code as a proof of concept is the best way to _inform_ the documentation, a way to gain clarity and understanding of the problem.

In other words, writing software doesn't have to be a linear process (rarely is). Sometimes you start with documentation if the problem is well understood. Sometimes you start with code to derisk the project. Most of the time, you bounce back and forth between the two.
Ask HN: Viable alternatives to Keybase for linking identities across services?
One of the best features from Keybase (personally), is the ability to link identities across multiple different web entities, being able to prove "diggan" on Hacker News is indeed the same as "victorb" on GitHub, for example.

Seemingly, we're getting closer and closer to Keybase shutting down, considering the non-activity since the Zoom acquisition.

Previous threads have mentions of services like https://keys.pub/ and alike, but AFAICT, it doesn't actually provide "cross-service" proofs like Keybase does, and is mainly about managing key signing and related use cases.

What alternatives are online and viable to use today, for the purpose of "proving" that identities across different web properties are the same?
I will show my age, but did you try core war [1, 2] ?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War
[2] https://www.corewar.io/
RetroRGB is far from blogspam. They do a lot of research into retro gaming (old consoles/devices, new tech related to them, etc.) and interviews with people currently working with them. I personally have learned a lot from their site and YouTube videos, and would recommend them to anyone looking to dip a toe into the hobby.
Are we done wasting resources on free speech? How about freedom in general?

Humanity will break free of tyranny. Bitcoin and the honest cryptos are a part of that. Sorry if you cannot see the value in financial instruments that cannot be controlled by corrupt intermediaries. In spite of the dollar pegged to these instruments, we need to exchange absent intermediaries more than ever.

Are we done wasting resources on parasitic intermediaries?
Wonder if we are at the point where rogue nation states start blackmailing other countries to not cause a climate catastrophe. A game of "chicken", but instead of nuclear weapons, pollution will be used. "Want me to stop polluting? Pay me or give me..."
Came to make a similar comment, except that my "IPV6 is just around the corner" in college moment came in 2000.

I personally don't understand the holdup... I've seen so many forced upgrades as a consumer, and even more as a technology developer, that it seems like by now some group should be able to pick a cut-over date. (Examples: the 3G shutdown, TurboTax told me that my computer won't be supported next year, VHS tapes no longer being made, ect.)
I've received feedback from some very smart people who laughed out loud and knew exactly what I meant by having a good look. Two of them are physicists and many more are engineers. They said they have found many metaphorical couches and there's a lot of nothing. They've also found quite a few interesting metaphorical paperclips and other debris. But that there's so many more places to look. They also think there's a bunch of metaphorical couches they still haven't found. Its especially hard to look under something when you can't even recognise what it is to look under. Thats part of the difficulty.

They've also assured me they'll let me know when they finally find another metaphorical tv remote.
I had to stop playing Factorio because I felt it was too much like work. The “obsessive refacoring and optimization” aspects of the game are like crack cocaine to me.
The issue for particle physics specifically, is that they _hope_ to find something that breaks the theory. But so far, only find confirmations of the current Standard Model. Succesful experiments, yeah, but doing little for pushing our understanding of the universe unfortunately.

The reason why they want to break the standard model is, simplified, two-fold:

1. While the theory is incredibly powerful in its domain, we have been unable to unify it with gravity and other theories of matter. This is a problem because it's supposed to be a theory summarizing the fundamental building blocks of the universe and it should therefore describe _everything_.

2. the theory is ugly. It's a mess with many parameters and weird interpretations all shoved together. Physicists don't like this. Not just for aesthetic reasons, but also out of experience. It reminds people of pre-relativity electrodynamics for example. Lorentz had what was essentially a working theory of relativity but it was a mess. People fear the standard model is the new lorentzian relativity, essentially correct but missing some key insight that is needed to fix it.

Finding something that breaks the standard model could go a huge way to solving both these issues. But the standard model just keeps getting confirmed at higher and higher resolution.

In software terms: it's like you know there's a 1/1000'000 bug _somewhere_ in the software but every single test you write to try and find it passes.
We can completely agree about the dangers of overtesting/diagnosing/testing (which occurs in all health settings), but it’s disingenuous to say that all private health care does. There are plenty of treatments and investigations that are too expensive so NHS doesn’t fund, or wants a trial of a objectively worse but cheaper alternative first to see if works because it’s cheaper and for no other reason. In those cases, they person harmed is the customers wallet, and that is their choice. I’m pro free treatment, but having private healthcare alongside a strong NHS is to my mind a benefit. I would be against private healthcare in situations where they influence the NHS, or NHS trust outsource whole departments to private (which is happening), but private healthcare isn’t always evil.
That sounds very similar to VizML (the visualization/data processing library underlying Tableau). That has been my big complaint about most visualization libraries - there is no sharing of the underlying data set for multiple projections across the same large data set. Grid/table libraries have the same issues
What's cooking on Sourcehut? June 2022
Not just men, no. Chastity insists women don't put out easily and vet beyond initial expectations, which is what you see in more traditional "no sex before marriage" type of relationships. Our more savage ancestors couldn't care less about that when they were in heat, be it men or women.

Monogamy isn't something you can attribute to just men either, when it requires women to be okay with sharing a guy (either active sharing or the guy monkey branching). Ever noted the stories of men in relationships/married tend to get more attention from women other than their partner than before? If you're going to actively flirt or seduce taken men, you're not just an idle player.

On top, women have a fairly large window they could have sex with anyone and be at incredibly low risk of getting impregnated. Even if female ancestor count is double that of male, that doesn't mean there wouldn't be women giving out pity sex for desperate men in exchange for other favors.

It takes two to tango chastity / monogamy, just like all (legal) things relationships.
or when HE has bad/broken routes...
Why is server capacity an issue? Isn't the video delivery p2p?
Slower or equal to IPv4
I am not going to jump through the hoop to read the article, but when it comes to youtube/twitch the biggest factor is not the game choice but the personality that is playing it. A powerwashing simulator stream is basically a longform improvised podcast with some white noise and a livechat.
>> Not all of science is interesting to the private sector.

> My research area is famously hard to fund even within academia, so I substantially changed the way that I frame my research and the type of work I was proposing.

I don't see the private sector funding ethnomusicology, philosophy, ecology, social history, ...
That is hugely optimistic. Rates could just as easily be 8% in 2-3 years
Directory of Royal Genealogical Data (2005)
Google's AI Is Selfaware?
Clearly greater than zero, if only for the novelty value. What are Zimbabwean $100trn bills going for on eBay these days?
you'd want a patch file instead may be? If something new was added to /etc, you'd not want to overwrite it
Well that's not the case though: you can upend the field with data from the LHC - after all Einstein didn't do the Michelson-Mauley (how I spelt that right) experiment himself, but Special Relativity was developed out of that result existing.
> I like building stuff that people use, not writing papers that mostly went unread.

Circa 2010, as I was finishing up my BS in CS, one of my professors asked me to have a meeting in his office. He was trying to recruit me into a graduate program under him, since he liked my performance in his class. I said I wasn't very interested, since I wanted to make things people will actually use. His response was there was a team in Utah that helped make part of the USB spec the decade previous. I was attending the University of Minnesota.

Yeah, no thanks.
> I do think that the problem with most surveys is that there will certainly be biases in self-reported answers.

Yeah and it's very typical with this question especially. You can't ask a woman what she values in a partner, because she will say whatever makes her look like a good person.

That's why so many girls list intelligence as an important thing in a man, and still the most intelligent guys get the least girls.

You need to look at how women actually choose their partners, not ask them how they would hypothetically choose. Look at the men that always have hot girlfriends and what they have in common, that's how you can make an empirical conclusion.
This is interesting, if bitcoin collapses there will be that much “extra” electrical power available in a world where Russia is conquering neighbors and distorting prices.
You and what 1,200 ft deep well? The aquifers are so depleted the land is sinking. It's just gone, and the rain isn't replenishing it fast enough. The water we're talking about is already more deep and less frequent.
Dart is also an option.

https://github.com/munificent/hauberk

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/category/roguelike/
I used to play a lot of Space Trader, so when I got interested in Palm programming, I worked with Pieter Spronck to write the expansion for version 1.2.0.
Teslas running Autopilot have been in 273 crashes in less than a year
>Ask why.

Why?
> You posit that humanity will never be able to extract more than a tiny bit of the satisfaction lots of people feel when they are useful to the community.

The abilities to feel satisfaction and be useful are not directly linked to eliminating friction.

I don't know anything about anarchist perspectives on smaller communities but I would actually hazard a guess that smaller communities would increase emotional friction but also the quality and sense of fulfillment that come from being deeply emotionally linked to others.

I don't dismiss the idea that work can be better but I think there's an average amount of friction in work that can't be reduced. And from my perspective it makes me feel like I gain strength, courage, and skill from working at something that is always going to be difficult in some way and to some degree.

To answer your original question as directly as possible: I think if an instance of friction disadvantages or oppresses someone or a group of people then we should seek to eliminate it.
Porting OpenBSD to RISC-V ISA [pdf] (2020)
It won't stop bots. Have you seen phone farms [1]? Attackers are getting clever (and lazy maybe). They use physical devices. Old ones are cheap, can have broken screens etc. And you can't lock out users with old devices.

We shouldn't fight bots. We should use trust instead. Not global trust, it must be subjective. I trust A, B, C. B trusts D, E. E trusts F. It should be weighted. There's small world effect [2]. There's just a few hops between any two people in the world. It solves SPAM, it solves reviews, scam, news and maybe politics. Somebody please get it done already.

1. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=phone+farm+bots&t=ffab&iar=images&...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_experiment
At least since 300 BCE, or before, according to the travels of Pytheas discovering (documenting) Bretannikē: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pytheas
While there might be overlap, the sims offered players status/career simulation, the option of mating and killing the sims, and a whole host of other things that represented departures from someone's actual life. I'd guess the appeal of the sims was more down to simulated optionality of lifestyles and relationships (+ obvious destructive fun through fires, grim reaper etc) than it was about doing one mundane task.
I remember feeling like I'd bought cheap shirts at my first job. I didn't want to spend £25-£100 on nice shirts when there were cheapass shirts you could buy for £10. Made me look cheap at a place where the bosses were driving Ferraris.

Also, not buying a holiday until well into my 20s. I still feel like it's mostly not worth it, even though I can pay for it and it's probably sensible to take a break from time to time.
A tad offtopic, but this article is really clearly written and looks really good, same with healthcare.gov and the Ohio BMV's site https://bmv.ohio.gov/ .

Am I strange for enjoying modern government website design?
No university class teaches modern compilers and the state of the art is in open source projects. If someone is interested in compilers, they don’t need to get a PhD in order to learn. Many major companies that maintain programming languages do not require PhDs in order to work on their compiler teams; they are willing to train you on the job. The supply of people interested is just low in general, and if you are biased towards people with PhDs and preexisting experience for junior hires, of course you will find a shortage of workers.
You're talking about displacing an incumbent, not competing technologies.

IPv6 will win, once people stop sitting on their hands. Companies now are being effectively forced to adopt it due to exhaustion of the range.. CGNAT is bigger than ever and is causing real issues so most phones are dual homed with IPv6 behind a v4 CGNAT.

Like climate change, its a "future problem" until its practically staring you in the face, at which point its too late or very painful to solve..

Nihlism isnt helping.
> Ian Morris on “Proto-Britain” Which Was Once Part of the European Continent (Literally)

Isn't Britain still part of the European continent?.

Even 10K years ago, Britain was 'connected by land' to the rest of the European continent.

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/doggerland
That's true of almost all computer UI (excepting 3D modeling). It's all just boxes and text.
> They would ask me what the minimal latency of the API I was creating would be, and how am I supposed to know that?

Isn’t that part of the job? When writing a technical document, you need to research things like dependencies, data storage, caching and estimate expected latency.
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