skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Under certain conditions HODLing can be an ok strategy. Assuming my investments are diversified enough and Bitcoin is only a small percentage of my overall net worth, why deal with the stress of active investing and trying to time the market?

I can totally understand the mindset of investing some amount today but not wanting to have to care about that investment for the next X years. Especially with the high volatility of crypto currencies.
You can go half way and just use micro organisms like algae. Those are very easy to keep alive, they really just need sun and CO2. Then you can use the sugars and lipids as feed stock for the next step.
Is there a point at which it's not worth the electricity to keep bitcoin going?
Many years ago (in the mid to late 90s), I developed carpal tunnel syndrome. The problem turned out to be the mouse. I tried lots of alternative solutions, and some of them helped, but nothing I tried really solved the problem.

When I started using laptops more frequently (because by then I was doing a lot of consulting, and therefore using laptops), my CTS went away. I figured out it was because of the trackpad.

When I went back to more static computer use with an external monitor, I also made sure to have an external trackpad, and my CTS still has not returned.

These days, I do have a bit of pain issues with my right thumb, and the wrist braces for De Quervain's tenosynovitis are the main thing I have found that will help. But to be honest, at my age, it could just as easily be arthritis. I will check this out with my orthopedist to be sure, but for now the wrist braces work when I have pain.

So, yes -- the Magic Trackpad in particular is a key part of what allows me to continue to work and be a contributing member of society.
Both static and dynamic linking to a newer runtime (as they are versioned) will break backwards compatibility. For newer OS features you need, you can always GetProcAddress() the needed functions at runtime instead. The real downside to staying on VC6 is all the compilers' ancient optimizations, or lack thereof.
I've heard SF, SanFran, Frisco, and Cisco.
> (essentially knowledge obtained from a google search)

It would be cool to have tools that would take web browsing and incorporate it into the source control history of the code, probably best presented as a wiki. Make it work for the whole team at once and it should be an easy sell, even if it did wind up being just the portion of StackOverflow that was actually useful!
My issue with the 260 character limit is that it can easily be reached through normal usage, and can lead to some really strange behavior.

* File cannot be moved into a subfolder.

* Folder can be renamed, after which a file contained within it is inaccessible.

* File on a network drive may be accessible by some users, but not others. For example, one user may access the drive with the longer network name, while another has mapped the network drive as Z:\. A filename may exceed the 260 character limit for the first user, but not for the second.

* Cannot delete a folder, because it contains a file with a long name.

My experience may be biased due to using a program that recorded metadata in a filename, taking the majority of the 260 characters available in just the filename, but with the number of failure modes, I still don't think it is reasonable to have such a small limit.
Instead of elaborate carbon capture infrastructure, it seems more straightforward to just use photosynthetic organisms like algae. Either engineer algae to make the proteins you want, or engineer yeast or some other microbe that can take the products of algae and convert to these proteins.

Honestly it sounds like a needless and impractical gimmick.
Plants have been doing a pretty good job of sustainably capturing carbon dioxide for something like three billion years. Is there any direct air capture technology that’s remotely as reliable and low maintenance?
That never made sense to me until I really learned about bit flips, and how the smaller the process node, the more susceptible it is.

They are at least up to PowerPC with the most recent Mars missions, probably not a terrible tradeoff of computing power vs. radiation vulnerability.

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/03/02/nasa-mars-perseverance-...
Peoples greed, and others readiness to exploit that never changes.
My first diagnosis of OCD was around that age. A few years later it was Delusional Disorder. At 42 now the diagnosis has changed to Schizophrenia.
> Why do you think human children play with dolls?

Do children "play" with dolls? I don't think that is a slam-dunk. As far as we know, children may be mindless automata and what we call "doll-play" may be unfeeling mirroring of adult anthropomorphizing behavior absorbed through something like blindsight.

> You're kind of making my point for me here.

Not at all. My point was that calling a puddle "melted ice" has nothing to do with mistaking it for any kind of ice or ascribing characteristics of ice to it. Likewise with "dead people".

> A baby's response to pain is all but indistinguishable from its being, say, hungry, or just in a bad mood

That's simply untrue, even in neonates (not to mention babies several months older). Look into the abundant research applying the Facial Action Coding System and derived systems to infants and their pain vs. other distress responses.

> You can't conclude anything about subjective experience from I/O behavior alone.

This is a denkverbot, not productive skepticism. We can draw robust, valuable conclusions about subjective states without enjoying deductive certainty.
Recent and related:

Diablo Immortal won't release in the Netherlands and Belgium due to loot box law - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31662430 - June 2022 (129 comments)

It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31628848 - June 2022 (735 comments)
It's funny that so many startups are led to thinking that they "need" K8s
How do you solve decentralized store of value without random people competing for its legitimacy?
I fixed the mobile layout, now the site looks good on mobile.
Anecdotal, but at least for me, they seem to. No covid for me.

I've done quite a bit of long distance airplane travel, taken public transit in major cities, gone out in crowded places. I've been vaccinated 3 times and religiously wear a N95 quality mask any time I'm in closed places around people. I'd like to believe that some sort of filter on my face is blocking at least enough of the virus to prevent me from getting sick.

My guess is that in the housing buildings, it is traveling through the sewer system. Having lived in Vietnam and seen construction quality there, I can only imagine that China construction quality is similar or worse... they probably don't have U bends in the pipes to block airflow and stuff is just traveling right through the building. If you're locked inside 24/7, even worse.
If you're truly interested in being enlightened then do the work. It's not up to internet strangers to refute your painfully uninformed assertions in detail. That's what education and work experience are for. You simply can't cover it in a comment.

I wrote my comment to make it clear for anyone else who doesn't work in this area that what you said is utterly wrong. HN typically has well informed comments so people take it a little more seriously than other places. The thread is also old enough now that no one except you will probably read it.

I'll at least give you something so that you're not left holding nothing but a mean internet comment.

First: If you were to rank the hardest technical challenges in modern computing then UI architecture is easily in the top 5, if not #1. In that same list you have distributed (as in networks) computing. It's an incredibly difficult problem with an endless pit of depth. UI IS HARD. If your next question is "what makes UI hard?" then - good! - you're curious. Take some courses or something. Try building a great UI for non trivial use cases. Educate yourself by doing!

Second: A computer drawing "hundreds of of complex 3d objects 120 times a second" has absolutely nothing to do with complexity of UI. The challenges in UI are not strictly a matter of drawing dots on the screen! The two things are orthogonal! Game engine renderers are solving a very constrained problem whereas UI architecture is totally unconstrained.

Third: Game GUIs have a TINY fraction of the UI components you'd need to support a sophisticated modern day business application (think Salesforce). Someone else mentioned accessibility but that's just the tip of the iceberg. The sheer number of UI components in business applications dwarfs what you see in games. Not only that but the UI components I'm talking about need to be assembled in an uncountable number of ways. And they're constantly being updated/tweaked.

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There are many people who have devoted their entire life to finding a general purpose way to build great UI. No one has cracked it yet and it's not because people are stupid or don't want to. It's HARD. But also a lot of fun if it's something you enjoy doing.
nope, it still requires at least the glibc version that the appimage was compiled against. snaps, flatpaks nor appimage solve the long-standing glibc versioning issue that plagues portable Linux binaries. the closest I've seen to fixing this issue is https://github.com/wheybags/glibc_version_header
Which providers are these?
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)[1] can be compiled[2] for Linux if that's any help. I use that to prepare the install .exe package for a Java based program for one of my clients.

[1] https://nsis.sourceforge.io/Main_Page

[2] E.g.: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nsis / https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=nsis
> Global meat consumption, meanwhile, has dramatically increased over the last few decades and is still on the rise, projected to grow by about 14 percent by the end of this decade.

Translation: people all over the world who were previously too poor to afford meat can now afford it.

Travelling or opening a history book will reveal quickly that only rich people eat meat routinely.
Ooooooo what I really hate about this is that a remote API is called to do this.

It would be considerably less terrifying if this was just canbus messages.

BIG YIKES
Hedge funds have been using crypto for a long time to transfer money from retail investors into their pockets.
It's very accessible. If you can grok the first 30 minutes of this talk you can grok the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdqhHKjepiE

Strong recommend, if only to understand how RimWorld was designed and built.
Theoretically, a single Raspberry Pi can run the entire blockchain without breaking a sweat (difficulty bomb aside), if that‘s all the aggregate demand for new coins and transaction fees can withstand.
Why do people compare spy with bitcoin? You could say GME blows BTC out of the water for instance.
Ability to sterilize a planetary system from 500 light years away from just a readjustment.

Really, the sooner we can get clear of the galaxy, the safer we will be.
Neither does living in Scandinavia but technology can conquer a lot.
they knew they would and they advertised that fact, and made blog and content owners migrate their stuff if they wanted it kept. many chose not to. those are the people you should be angry with.
> heuristics with some calls to random() thrown in

I've come to see one aspect of game design as "shaping randomness into more interesting and artistic forms". Just a plain rand() call is sort of interesting, you never know exactly what you're going to get, but with some art and careful shaping it can be made much more interesting.
If your house loses its value to zero as you suggest Bitcoin to become a random number, your house is in a terrible condition that no one can live.
I presume these exist in every galaxy. Unless you’re suggesting we live in ships in the space between galaxies.
That would be for removing the 260 character limit, not for enabling of symlinks.
I vaguely remember the character lead coming up with a slightly more salacious version of the Amazon initially and it was toned down with a skirt and more clothing I think, we only had one woman on staff at that time, also have a very hazy recollection that the guys all asked their wives for their opinion.
Bitcoin would continue to operate even if miners used no electricity. The real question is whether or not the network can function with no block reward (solely off fees)
I mostly agree on the VSCode part. They should put it up front in the README, homepage and maybe a info modal/badge whenever a user installs said extension.

But genuinely asking, how else would you 'label' VSCode?

"A free and open-source code editor with some optional components that are proprietary"?
Without going full conspiracy, is there any chance this was a pre Koch brothers example of industry undermining government authority until it gets the government it wants?
Never once in my life did I ever connect 'political correctness' to the Diablo franchise.

I just clicked on skeletons until they died and then picked up the shiny things they dropped over and over.

You're really overthinking the game man.
Properties of Metals Used for RF Shielding (1993) [pdf]
I thought Telltale went bust?
> Why in the world do competitors of this programming language insist on dragging out evaluations from 3 years ago...

This question is answered in the comment you just replied to:

> She doesn't pull any punches, but I think she was quite prescient in capturing the vibe of the project.
We've banned this account for using HN primarily (exclusively?) for flamewar and ideological battle. That's not allowed here, regardless of ideology, because it destroys what this site is supposed to be for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It’s EXTREMELY different to talk about possibility of your investment in highly speculative asset going down, vs actually experiencing it and seeing your money disappear.
On that same note, they tend to underestimate the time it takes to develop a good complex simulation, like DF, when it has taken like 10 to 15 years to get to the level of detail DF has. One developer isn’t usually going to be able to develop that much complexity in a few years or something, it’s gonna take a while.
Banks is credited with good warship names, but it was Eoin Colfer who came up with "Business End", which knocks them all into a cocked hat.
So, what Whole Foods did was not recognize any Federal Holidays. They give you a number of paid holidays you can take off each year, plus a certain amount of PTO for you to use as you like (which includes sick leave), and that's about it.

The idea is that they are a commercial company supporting 500+ stores around the country, and those days tend to be their busiest. So, corporate shouldn't be getting days off when the people on the ground running the stores don't get the day off.
It has a few old things unique to it in our support matrix. It's the only distro with openssl 1.0 so a bunch of API and related things are different. It's also the only distro where systemd socket activation doesn't work if your service has more than one socket, because its version of systemd predates the LISTEN_FDNAMES env var.

Also, it is old enough that it's going out of LTS soon.
I really hope so... my iMac is starting to age and depending on what products get announced in the next year or so I may end up replacing it with a Mac Studio. If there are other displays to compete with the Studio Display I'd happily look at them to save some cash.
> We have no physical adaptations to eating meat.

How curious that we are so perfectly able to digest it and thrive from it! I wonder why so many other herbivores didn't get so lucky.

> Plant-based foods are naturally low in fat, which is calorie dense, so such a diet is in fact ideal for weight loss.

Yes, of course a low calorie diet is ideal for weight loss. What does this have to do with cows milk yogurt? Are you an obese diabetic? If not, I don't see the relevance between your links and the avoidance of milk.
I think we agree. One you have prokaryote it's probably easy to get multi cellular prokaryotes.

My guess is that the transition form eukaryotes to prokaryotes in the hard step.

Also, photosynthesis seams to be more complicated than what I expected. Perhaps that is the hardest step. (It's an indirect step to intelligent life, but perhaps a lot of free oxygen to burn food efficiently is necessary for intelligent life.)
I think the state of things is pretty good overall. most of my anxiety comes from this fear that I'm not gonna be an owner of what we've built if they're the one making all the decisions. it's silly, but letting go of that isn't easy. 'preciate the thoughts.
We've just transitioned from using submodules at work to subtrees.

I hate them slightly more than submodules. Git describe? Totally broken. Everything else is a tangled mess of junk.

But what armchairhacker says is SPOT ON.
Flamewar comments like this are obviously completely unacceptable and will get you banned here. I'm not going to ban you right now, because you haven't been using HN primarily for this. Please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes. Ability to sterilize the whole solar system from 500 light years away is scarier.
Hard to imagine someone who is conscripted, goes through training, now living under a military command structure is making much of a free choice when officers tell them they should sign up to go to Ukraine…
The presence or absence of a compilation stage has nothing to do with static typing. Flow.js is static typing. MyPy is static typing. It sounds like your JSDoc comments are static typing, if your IDE ends up passing them through the TypeScript type checker in JS mode.

It may not be very comprehensive static typing but it is static typing none-the-less.
Understanding Central Limit Theorem and t-test
Let’s be fair: Apple has had sufficient time to revise all of these post-Jobs Ive-era designs. Ive himself was still in charge when the trash can hit the bin, and they’ve more or less fixed the port situation on most of their models (I still have disagreements with some of their choices but we can at least say they’re debatable now).

But they just released a revision of the 13” MacBook Pro with the touchbar. And while I know they have a hard time course-correcting bad design choices on their biggest product lines, there’s no excuse for not having revised the Magic Mouse 2 by this point.

Also while this discussion has been mostly focused on hardware, let’s not forget that Apple is selling 6K displays while displaying all the signs and symptoms of an organization absolutely allergic to on-screen chrome in every release of Mac OS X for the past few years as well as the next major revision they just announced.

I’ll put a lot at Ive’s feet, but only for the time he was actually there and in charge of design.
On a close listen, you find out that the "electric outdoor barbecue" is electric by dint of electric starter and electric motorized rotisserie. Sounds like even the "electric barbecue" runs on charcoal or gas.
Because a well diversified portfolio is a good comparison/reference for individual investments. A better choice than S&P 500 would probably be the FTSE Global All Cap Index.
You actually can if you get the stick on variety. They don't last as long, etc, etc. But they do exist and have their uses.
It's against the site guidelines to post like this. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting to HN, we'd appreciate it.

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I've looked before, and have never found a definitive answer from Microsoft. I've heard some speculation that it the nebulous security issues would be from a program that checks the permissions of a symlink's target, then opens the symlink. An attacker could then modify the symlink after the permission check but before the file is opened, escalating access by pointing to a restricted file.
For reference, here’s what we have: 36KBTU AIRHANDLER/HEATPUMP HI-STATIC M SERIES DUCTED SYSTEM
INDOOR MOD# SVZ-KP36NA
OUTDOOR MOD# SUZ-KA36NA2

It’s a slightly older model as we had height restrictions to work around. This prevented us from getting a newer or hyper heat model. IIRC ours had good efficiency into the 20F range which was plenty for us.

In comparison, the Trane dropped efficiency at 50F and needed heat strips at that temp (so pretty crap).
the only people who think Diablo 3 looked like a Saturday morning cartoon are those who have either never seen a Saturday morning cartoon or have never played Diablo 3.
TokenCut: Self-Supervised Transformers for Unsupervised Object Discovery
>That post by Scott Hunter was a way to save face after Liuson backed down

That disappoints me. I would prefer if they would just be honest and say that for the time being they would only support it in Visual Studio.

>to endorse a very critical take at odds with the public one

Interestingly enough the article mentions that Microsoft has been underfunding Omnisharp and VSCode has poor C# support. The first link you gave talks about how Microsoft is now working with Omnisharp to improve C# support.
Thanks for sharing! Which startup / what was the problem / solution?
I don't understand

> listen on one port ... which isn't listening on that interface anyway

Would you mind please elaborating, here? And which interface does sshd not listen on?
Possibly people are richer than in Reddit and got burned more heavily in the past buying at the wrong time?
Why pick Jan 1 2020 instead of using the YTD? Seems arbitrary to suit your agenda, whatever it is. Might as well use Jan 1 2021
mccartney wrote most of the great ones though ;-)

but, the beatles worked because they didn't have such big egos, at least with each other.

I really do care about making the team successful, way more than my own contributions. it'll take time to let go of the BS in my subconciousness.
Tether Suffers DDoS Attack
Save links from Hacker News via Chrome extension
This is absolutely a 'do not trust these claims without seeing peer-reviewed publication in a reputable journal' territory. For one thing, this is likely to be a slow method of capturing CO2 (H2-powered CO2-capture metabolism, called 'chemoautotrophy' is almost certainly going to be much slower than green plant photosynthetic capture rates). Maybe you could speed it up by adding enough hydrogen at optimal rates, but that's not free either.

I don't know a lot about current lab-grown meat approaches, and all the outfits involved seem hush-hush about the main issue, the feedstock (what kind of specific blend of nutrients/growth factors needs to be fed to the cultured muscle cells for optimal growth), but I don't see how chemoautrophic microbial goop becomes 'meat' by any similar process.

There's a lot of hype about carbon capture and reduction to fuel/food/material it seems, but the only proven industrial approach is something like modified Fischer-Tropsch, based on the nitrogen-to-ammonia Haber-Bosch process, which involves taking pure CO2 and H2 feedstocks, converting the CO2 to carbon monoxide, and then reacting the CO with H2 at high pressure and temperature with a suitable catalyst to make a variety of long-chain hydrocarbon fuels. This has been done at scale using coal-sourced CO and natural-gas sourced H2 very successfully, so that's where you'd want to start if you were serious about it. Occidental seems to be getting into it for example, which is sort of what you'd expect, as it's basically just like large-scale petrochemistry.

Lots of Theranos vibes around the whole business though, I'm afraid to say.
Takes a long time to get here, but this is the money quote:

Conclusions
Using a network-based machine learning method, we have shown that plant-based foods such as tea, carrot, celery, orange, grape, coriander, cabbage and dill contain the largest number of molecules with high anti-cancer likeness through exerting influence on molecular networks in a similar fashion to existing therapeutics.