skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! All of those, in any combination. And new innovations on top.

Litterally anything is better than dragging conventions from the 1960s forward; from a time where ASCII was all that was available.

Use Whitespace, Try unicode glyphs for different syntactic functions, try to approximate natural language, TRY NEW THINGS FFS.
>The point is that there is always an elite or wealthy class, pick which group you like best.

Citations required

I do not agree whatsoever, just because you don't have the imagination to come up with a better system for organizing labor and resources doesn't mean it isn't possible
Thank you for your hard work. Here is your salary and hard earned pension.
Gold simply isn't actually useless though. Part of its value is derived from industrial processes-- how could it he otherwise when it is used for those things? To want to use something so expensive in price for industrial uses is pretty much by definition to value it-- at that same price-- for those uses. Why should anyone decide to use it when they say "but know, it is not worth nearly as much as that". To pay a given price for something when there are alternatives, however reluctantly and however much value & price are not quite the same thing, is to value it. No one would say "I don't value this thing and there are

Though I admit that a large portion of it's price is due to people valuing for it's properties as a financial instrument. The fact that the price would be lower if it did not have that purpose is irrelevant to valuing it at that price for other purposes. Otherwise you might say then precise thing about any other object with multiple purposes: "if not for oil being useful as fuels and instead only plastics and other pretro chemicals it's price would not be so high."

Further, I don't deny the potential for BTC or other cryptocurrencies to be used for similar financial purposes as gold, only that such uses remain theoretical, and it is uncertain whether-- given it's track record & the potential for governments to regulate it into something indistinguishable from traditional financial tools-- that it could ever achieve those uses on a wide scale. Certainly to date it has been completely useless for the financial purposes that gold currently fills. And, as this conversation started, unlike other traditional financial instruments it has absolutely no underlying asset for which it is an abstraction & which, no asset that, absent any specific financial instrument would still be utilized for its value.

It's current price is a function of two variables: 1) speculation that it's price will increase. 2) it's expected future value for the theoretical purposes already mentioned. These are abstract reasons in which it differs significantly from the concrete underlying value of traditional finance. I don't mean this as an insult. Playing video games for fun or reading books for pleasure doesn't have a separate value apart from the abstract reasons reasons for doing so either. But unlike legions of crypto advocates I don't insist on it.
Food is just part of the human consumption. Starting with the agrarian society, we as species are having it very easy TBH. Disasters happen and some places are chronically problematic but overall food is solved problem since many millenniums.

Thanks to the developments in the last century, incredibly small percentage of people directly produce the food. However this is due to paradigm shift, these people are capable to produce so much food is thanks to other people who produce their tools and resources used in production of food. Still huge number of people are working in feeding the population, just indirectly.
I don't think you've quite got it yet.
Who are you to tell everyone what their goals should be?
Founders Decide What They Should Get Paid
I mean, this ego might be warranted to some degree.

At least (and I don’t know if you would call this an ego-driven argument), consciousness is something I can be sure definitely exists, considering that anything one could call “reality” is only accessible via consciousness (and obviously tainted and possibly constructed to an unknowable extent by it).

So, I understand the reluctance to accept a philosophical position that downgrades consciousness to something illusory, as physicalist positions tend to. (If that’s what the comment I responded to expressed, then I’m the same in that regard.)

I just think that it’s easy to miss the availability of non-dualist takes that don’t require such a downgrade, and unless I missed something (am yet to read it carefully) this article doesn’t seem to require it either, which would be refreshing.
Bitcoin slumps below key $20k threshold
Show HN: ARElight – A Mass-Media Processing Application for Relation Extraction
I bet this is output of

% figlet -f small values:

I think the default font (standard) is more readable. But they state, taking part is not easy:)

% figlet values:
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\ \ / / _` | | | | |/ _ \/ __(_)
\ V / (_| | | |_| | __/\__ \_
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Anything that is lawful should be allowed.
I think it depends on the situation, but a single return statement per method does make it a bit easier to read a method and understand flow control.
Google made $72B in profits on $257B sales in 2021.[0] What was BTC’s earnings for 2021?

[0] https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2021Q4_alphabet_earnings...
Large financial firms that have a vested interest in the Twitter deal failing, or Teslas stock going down or other financial plays on this could be spending money on PR campaigns that create sentiment in their favor. Then other news agencies do their copy/paste “journalism” and you see a bunch of similar articles.

In my opinion for Elon/Tesla to get more credit for climate change they should be lowering prices and cutting into margins to win market share. They would be crushing it if they had more of a mass market car, no silly frills, just a good commuter car with 200-300mi range that wasn’t priced as a luxury car. I don’t know if they have manufacturing capacity to do that yet.

I don’t see Tesla actions that line up with having non-luxury segment products. The luxury segment in the US is 5% of automobile sales, putting a dent in climate change means sellable products in other car segments in mass volume. Nobody is doing that yet.
I don't see any difference between nationalizing failing private business and bailing out failing banks.

The government just injects cash in both cases.
> The impact Tesla has on climate change is so small as to be complete negligible

Agree, but before Tesla electric cars were quite niche, now they're mainstream. One could probably argue that this is unrelated but there seems to be some correlation at least,

That the cars themselves are negligible is a bit unfair, Electric cars allow you to use renewable energies instead of fossil fuels- its a huge amount of energy consumed by transportation. Demand for EV car infrastructure is higher now and once built benefits everyone.

Is public transport better- undoubtedly, but Americans have infrastructured their way into a corner- they seem to fundamentally require cars for day-to-day operations and continue to make choices that force car dependence.

Space travel (in a similar way) is still needed, not just to get off this planet when we kill it (which I don't agree is a goal based in reality) but because there's absurd amounts of resources in the universe and some of it wizzes by us constantly.
This is a point that many people seem to ignore

US foreign policy and actions of private companies have absolutely decimated other countries, cultures, and economies so now those countries are reliant on the income from rich US capitalists exploiting their populace's dire straights. That we placed them in.
People feel like they have a short learning curve and they master Go. Greenfield programming in Go is an amazingly empowering feeling. The issue is they don't see the issues they create until something implicit, a default value after a refactor or any of Go's paper cuts lead to a production issue.

One central issue is that anything touching concurrency and Go is a tangle of nastiness with implicit effects. But apparently Go is "natively concurrent" and everyone simply prays that the race detector is good enough.

https://eng.uber.com/data-race-patterns-in-go/
It's ok to be angry. It is a normal human emotion. Anyone who tells you different is selling you something.
Ultimately, you have to trust your clients to do the right thing.

The lockable server guarantees that e.g. if multiple /acquire requests come in for the same lock in a short time span, only one request will be successful. You are correct in that, without care, there can be pathological cases where a client may not realize their lease has expired.
I agree, it seems ridiculous to me as well, who has defended his labor practices on the notion he's a climate savior? Can you quote or provide an article link?
Maybe an AI processing Google Street View recordings. :)
right, it is nitworthy that Google guidlines are soecific to a code base within an organisation. There is quite some value in reading the rules and reasoning, but it isn't Gospel by any means.
Communists aren't crummy in the least, the ideas are important for developing new ideas that work better than our current system
That could fix a lot of issues if you just look at America in isolation. The truth is though, even with the insane wealth distribution in America, the middle class here still makes a good amount of money. I regularly see people on here scoff at low six figure salaries. Those salaries are virtually impossible in many parts of the world and the only reason they're so easy in America is because we are exploiting developing nations the same way the ultra wealthy here are exploiting us. If we actually tried to redistribute the wealth that the ultra wealthy has accumulated, it would go to developing nations and not the hackernews crowd.
The user could create software that thinks a resource is locked under their exclusive control, but is not. This can lead to data corruption, which could lead to even errors propagating throughout a system.
Isn't it funny that the woke cancer employees want to shed the woke label, despite their claim of being "woke."
Sometimes I think English language is not that great

EDIT: though I don't know if there's better alternative
> How is QE or low rates not money printing?

In any case, it is not the case here as private banks and bonds do not exist.
These work if you either have a master fed account or have credit with some bank that does. You can't settle instantly with an entity that is not already known in the system.
Aqua Tofana
Humans love to gossip.
Consider a light source (flashlight) pointed to a wall, it would be symmetrical (uniform)

But in case a crystal gets into the way, it won't be a uniform as a whole.

Similarly an event happening all the time or in some frequency, would be disrupted by a time crystal. (changing the frequency)
Everyone's going in that direction and scheduling the end of ICE sales. Tesla started first and they got lots of good press at the time. Now they aren't doing many new things in that area beyond fighting over the autopilot-that-isn't. They get noticed when they actually do something newsworthy https://thedriven.io/2022/05/11/musk-says-tesla-supercharger... but otherwise... what do you expect news outlets to care about? "Musk is still doing X after N years" is not great material.
So many new programming languages that there is a shortage of names ;-)

When I saw the title I thought it was another post for Vale, but no, it's Val!

* Yesterday post on Vale PL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31786487
That was scarily good. I didn’t laugh, but I was also telling myself “this is an AI and I’m not going to laugh.”

Excited and scared to see where this tech is going to be in 10 years.

What will the world be like with computer-generated novels and screenplays?
Now what?

It’s still a lot of money for a bunch of useless 1s and 0s…
Yes exactly. The symptoms are mainly causes by the posse of old timers in the leadership, which BTW remains after Whitehurst, the only hope of change, left. This was one of the motivators of me leaving as well, as I didn't see any chance of real change in the company.
The website has a menu which slides open blazingly fast. Perhaps someone should inform them that the menu can be rendered slower?
He's the richest man in the world, are you really worried that he's being treated unfairly? If he wants people to say nice things about him, he could hire entire countries to act as sockpuppets. Or, like, he could work on becoming a better person.

I also think that, while it's possible he genuinely set out to combat climate change, with what we know about him and his projects today, I think his efforts in that department have been ineffective, or even counterproductive.

First of all, SpaceX is making climate change worse. Their rockets spend a great deal of energy, much of it in the form of fossil fuels, polluting parts of the atmosphere that airplanes can't reach. Airplanes are very bad for the environment and we need to drastically reduce their use to avoid climate disaster. Rockets are worse. Their only advantage over airplanes is that there are far fewer of them launching less often, but SpaceX is working to change that. Counterproductive. (For an alternative that could theoretically use renewable energy, I'm optimistic about Spinlaunch.)

In retrospect, it's clear that the Hyperloop is an impractical boondoggle intended to sabotage real world high speed rail projects that might reduce the need for Teslas. Increasing the use of public transit and reducing airplanes and cars is crucial to addressing the climate crisis. Counterproductive.

The Boring Company could be developing cool tech, but it's being used to move Teslas through tunnels instead of trains, which is ludicrously inefficient. Counterproductive.

Tesla itself sounded like a good idea at first, and certainly cars need to be electrified to reduce emissions. Unfortunately, simply replacing every fossil fuel car on the road with an electric car would be woefully insufficient to address the climate crisis. They just use too much energy, require too many batteries, and encourage sprawl at a time when we need density to create walkable neighborhoods friendly to transit. (An alternative I love is velomobiles, but most Americans have never even seen one. https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2012/10/electric-velomobil... ) Like many incremental solutions at this late date where we need radical change, this could end up being counterproductive, especially if the world's richest man applies pressure to maintain our society's car dependency, which as I've suggested above, I believe he has.

I could go on about Elon's swing towards the right wing (which in the USA means supporting climate change deniers), etc., but this comment is already too long.

TL;DR: I think history may view Elon as sabotaging climate action more than he's helped it.
It also shows the importance of a laugh track. I think a lot of Seinfeld material would sound weird, even performed by Jerry himself, in the absence of audience laughter or other contextual background noise.
In recent years I have not seen it scheduled then delayed, only there was a long roadmap where progress was slow but ongoing, development is very transparent. And now that it’s ready and that the merge already happened in testnets it really looks like FUD to repeat that like we were in 2018.
Yeah, this got me:

> RESOURCE MINIMALISM. rawtext.club runs on a tiny cloud-based VPS with 1 GB of memory and a 25 GB disk.

Nothing "tiny" about this!
Is there a reason this url points exclusively at a second website (cleancss.com) for all the tools?
AWS recommends using dynamo and has a Java reference implementation. Afaik GCP doesn't support locks either. Azure supports locks on blob store (their object store service)
You can short Bitcoin in a variety of ways, CME offers micro BTC and BTC futures contracts which would be the safest way to short it (no counterparty risk due to the clearinghouse, and it’s cash settled so no stablecoin risk).

I’m sure crypto exchanges offer ways to short BTC as well, but the exchange itself probably handles settlement, so there is counterparty risk involved (among other risks inherent in unregulated exchanges).
Yeah but that's not even contended. In a hypothetical scenario where you didn't have to work to earn a certain quality of life (since, lets be honest, none of us have to "work to live"), would it be ideal to spend all of that time on passive, consumptive activities? Notwithstanding issues with life balance that are not endemic, I think work is good for people in most of its capacity. Coordinating with others and producing something of your labors, particularly that which others value, is validating and meaningful. You could quibble that some of that could be done at leisure, but things we take for granted won't. There's a lot of well compensated hard work out there that no one does for fun.

Leaving aside the question of the merit of work, I think a consistently low-productivity lifestyle leads to negative symptoms.
The US gov purchases the data that comes from the mass surveillance and they don't need a warrant to do so, essentially bypassing the constitution

By your interpretation this is okay because its done by a private industry. That makes no sense to me, can the cops now go pay some random thugs to break into my place and search it without a warrant too? Sorry, that's fucking insane just like being able yo purchase the surveiled data
What's an email to get in touch? Had some questions about PBM. Thanks!
"far-right ethno-nationalists"
When you see people you think are not as smart as you get rich via crypto, it is very natural to think that you should go at it, too. Fortunately, about 10-12 years of stock market investing showed me a lot of patterns. There will be stories, there will be wondrous companies that seem to grow magically and yet what lies beneath is most critical. Cash flow and the embedded estimate in the market cap vis-a-vis this cash flow (reverse DCF). W.r.t crypto, I never could fathom a cash flow or what a certain value for a bitcoin actually represented. I took a pass (probably my profits would have been 3x at max with BTC at $20k) , but useful to remember this when another new fangled thing makes others rich.
This made me think of Matt’s script archive for some reason.
I’ve bought several real ones over the years. They are great it isn’t worth wasting time with shitty debugging tools. They cost more than they used too sure but they are also massively useful and a great bargain for the features you get.
Single-celled life is complex. It has the same length of evolutionary time as multicellular life.

We know very little about modes of sentience with N=1. Perhaps life is generally mutualistic.
Show HN: Nimwave – build TUIs for the terminal, web, and desktop
Some people actually followed that idea through. A quick search yields a few results including this[0] 3-9K$ "product line".

[0]: https://bitcoinminingheater.com/
The Victoria line in London runs up to 34 trains per hour, using CBTC: https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2014/june/v...
Sure. But arguably, that's a lot of extra work, plus some arbitrary restrictions (tiles of single colour, scroll directions), for a system that, at worst case, is surely going to be doing at least a little bit more work than the simple optimal colour splat technique I described.

Whereas if one has a system where there is no worst-case because/and it runs in constant time, and is as optimal as possible (i.e. the fastest way of updating all the necessary data) — which requires no restraints on the graphics, can work no matter which way the games/player scrolls, doesn't require much extra work on other frames (i.e. when not updating the colour RAM), nor any extra work using custom-made external tooling — it would, with little argument from most folk, clearly seem to be the better choice.

There are reasons why simple solutions often win out over more complex ones.

Particularly when coding on limited hardware. Particularly when under time pressure to publish. Particularly when graphics designer's iteration time has a cost per hour.

> So unless you had a game so complex you absolutely had no choice but finding ways of cutting it down, it'd have made no sense.

I've worked on lots of games projects that never actually got published, some of them were because we came across a wall, and despite trying lots of novel solutions, often many of which were 'outside the box', those issues couldn't be overcome. These things are massive time sinks, and, often, solutions that seem like good ideas, simply aren't.

Sometimes one simply has to accept that you cannot squeeze an elephant into a matchbox! It becomes easier to spot when solutions might not work as one becomes more experienced. But sometimes one might still spend time trying to squeeze the elephant.

Solving the worst case, with the least restrictions, in both the simplest and the most optimal way, often gives one a sensible measure as to what is actually reasonably possible.

— If you can reduce the time needed to do a full-colour update when scrolling arbitrarily (including 8-ways), with unrestricted use of colour design on the maps/tiles, on the C64 platform, then I'm sure there's a reasonable handful of folk that would like to hear your suggestions. Otherwise, technically you're solving another problem, and it's not the one which we were dealing with back then.
A point that I made in a much longer comment is that Elon Musk seems to be applying pressure to maintain our society's car dependence. So it's not just him making the best of a bad infrastructure situation, he is contributing to keeping the infrastructure terrible.
> Error establishing a database connection

HN readers should slow down a bit and not do so much.
I was pretty impressed with it, honestly. But I understand what you're saying - a comedian's delivery is different from normal speech. It may be that GPT-3 just wasn't trained with enough standup routines.

(I dread to think what a Sam Kinison AI would be like)
Dev salaries in European countries is nowhere near compared to US salaries.

Even an average dev will feel the difference in lifestyle.
I highly recommend viewing this short Louis Rossman video on the real reason why employees are not returning to work. This is from a small business owner in expensive NYC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52HpzZ4HT4g

TL;DR - employers left the employees first. The first time economic uncertainty hit their business, they dropped as many people as possible. This led employees to reconsider their relationships to their employers and work, especially realizing they couldn't rely on a steady paycheck.
Building a Second Brain: An Interview with Tiago Forte
Gajim 1.4.4 has been released
This reminds me of a community of users that "tweet" by placing a line in a text file served at the root of their web servers. They follow by polling each other's text files.

Simple format, something like "RFC3339 <message>" and you can mention by doing @nick<their txt url> or something like that.

I forget the name and community though.
>If I could get 1/10 of what I earn but without having to perform all this theatre, it would be better for everyone.

What does this mean? You would take a 90% pay cut for 90% less work? Seems pretty doable
This is amazing, especially the punchline! Some of the Netflix specials I've watched had jokes that were not much better than this. I'm sure with a proper delivery (tone, pauses) it would get quite a few laughs if it was presented on the stage.