skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This is 100% believable to me. I don't think people quite understand how bad it is until they actually see academia from the inside

Why don't academics start their own university? There should be enough billionaires like Cowen who could come together and fund the infrastructure for laboratories and lecture halls.

I would be surprised if there were not more than enough idealistic scientists who would join the university if you offer academics a place to do research unobstructedly. Likewise, there should be more than enough students who would love to join a no-bullshit university to join the scientists and make it a self-sustaining system.

And yet, there is no such university. What's the main obstacle?
Thanks for pointing this out. I had forgotten that before the advent of cable news, social unrest didn't exist. /s
Show HN: "The Roots of Lisp" Interpreter
This is the Lisp interpreter in Typescript, as described in "The Roots of Lisp" article.
Rich people from Germany come to vacation/retire in Spain and spend money there.
They are not trying to design an algorithm, they are trying to make an entire browser safer.
Buy the dip! Buy the dip! ;-)
Standard journalism is often lacking in details.
I don't think they're worth a subscription.

I think you'll get more in depth news by subscribing to politicised commentators, possibly on both sides of the spectrum.

You'll get way more focus on different details (of course to support their point of view) and you'll actually get to experience what newspapers felt like in the 90s, before they turned into left wing outrage and ad click machines.

I think this would help you understand where your values lie on any issue and will reduce polarization.
Elon Musk's SpaceX fires at least five over critical letter
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You can, but the market will reach negative interest rates and then everyone starts hoarding cash because the returns in the real economy are lower than the returns in the financial economy. When people abandon the real economy there will be unemployment and eventually countries go to war or alternatively think of peaceful ways to pointlessly employ their people. Pointless savings lead to pointless investments which lead to pointless jobs.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j5l_Oeg6kMo
Wish it would die already tbh

Although HN is social media right? So maybe not
do you have any papers or keywords you recommend?
Yes but in a tilling setting, a new window (say Thunar), right beside your main app is just a single key-combination away. And it places the window correctly too. So you can drag-drop the file and close the auxiliary window.

Also, since a twm is not tied to a DE, you can pick KDE set of apps for example in i3. Then you'd have a file picker with thumbnails.

That said, I do neither of those things and I suffer from this bug. So you are right in a sense.
I did a napkin math a while back: the standard for 20/20 vision or 1.0 acuity scale equals to 1 arc minute resolution, or 1MOA, or an Euclidean angle of 1/60th degree.

A spherical VR image that resolves to 20/20 acuity is as large as (60 x 360, 60 x 180) = (21600, 10800)px before requisite oversampling, and that’s kind of hard. Then of course those fighter guys has/need better visibility than 20/20 which only makes it harder.

And by the way modern digital image pipelines buffer and delay transfers, sometimes as much as 200ms, which is absurd considering the CPU runs at literally millions of times better clock frequencies and latencies, but that’s what readily available implementations are.

These mean that we are still some time away until such “local remote driving” not just complements but totally replace heat formed and dielectric coated pane of plexiglass.

I guess it eventually will beyond upper edge of atmosphere as glasses don’t work well and vision required surpass human eyeballs, i.e. in interstellar settler’s carriages and planetary orbital fighter jets, but for now and for forward windscreen applications, it makes more sense to just put on panes of plain old transparent aluminum.
Ukraine is in a place in which an army is required for survival. But does a peaceful country surrounded by an ocean or by peaceful countries — say, Iceland or Austria — need a large army?
I get the influence of 'mind' over perception of reality but OP seemed to have a better time than the best coke newbie ever. His word are describing some golden dream of all people after 30, not just "it made me healthier".
I wouldn't take FEMA as the standard. Thankfully, it does not have enough incidents a year to facilitate experience. Instead look for organizations that practice the methods daily even without experiencing catastrophic incident.

A good example is how Walmart was among the first to bring water during Katrina:

https://youtu.be/_djmIfcLTBQ
Petrol profiteering? ‘I’m not robbing motorists, I’m only making 2-3p a litre’
OP here. It is true, and a missing part of the article. Took note of it, thanks.
In capitalism profits are given to the capitalist i.e. owners of capital... This model is not simulating capitalism.
They should teach this lesson at school, but instead they reinforce the opposite.
The utility of crypto is to transact without restrictions yes.
Plenty of people still use QWidgets.

For 99% who want to ship something and are not hipsters, QWidgets is enough.

Personally I don't even build QML
Sure, once world emissions are zero, this could be zero emission. Before it obviously comes at the expense of something else.
CNN, like Fox News and every other news organisation, are entertainment channels giving the public what they want.

This is like blaming your alcoholism on Budweiser or your obesity on McDonalds. Sure, it’s certainly part of the problem, but it’s hardly the primary cause.

People are lazy, and learning the truth about complicated things is harder than just making your mind up quickly based on garbage information.
This is ridiculous in the context how they promote their gear among students with competitions and giveaways.
You have bindings in rust or python or other languages
Under $19k now, and ETH is under $1000
I will thank you later.
When you say there's 2-3 devs who can actually fix issues, is that because there are only 2-3 devs, or do you have more people available but they don't know how to fix?

Assuming the latter, my suggestion would be:

1) Setup a weekly on-call rotation, where one of the 3 people who can fix issues is dedicated on-call (this means the other 2 can properly switch off)
2) Find some other folks who might not be able to support immediately, but are happy to learn.
3) Configure a shadow rotation so there's always a primary responder who know what they're doing and a shadow responder who can learn on the job.
4) Make it clear the shadow person has the same expectations in terms of turning up, but their job is to ask questions, write things down, etc.

I did this in a former job (and wrote about it here https://monzo.com/blog/2018/09/20/on-call) and it worked pretty well. After a few months we had a healthy rotation of 8 on-callers, and a waitlist of shadow folks who wanted to join too.

This advice obviously came from a point of near-zero context, so if you'd like to chat more I'd be happy to!
For the general use case, of course.

There's a good argument to be made for a special checkbox / button that you press infrequently as a reward for completing an activity for a habit you are building.
Bypass Paywalls Clean takes care of it!

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Chromium: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

Saves me a lot of hassle.
Social instability and riots - I assume you are referring to Black Lives Matter - did not happen due to "too much free time", JFC. They happened because police were routinely murdering Black people and there was/is a massive disparity in wealth.
> It is clearly imaginable that a very intelligent agent could end humanity if its objective would require so.

This is quite possible. Indeed, I don't believe this is exclusive to superintelligence or requires it at all. Compare to the closest thing we have to "inventing AGI" - having babies. People do that all the time and there isn't a mathematical guarantee that baby won't end humanity, but we don't do much to stop it, and that's not considered a problem. Mainly, why would it want to?

https://twitter.com/thejadedguy/status/844352570470645760?la...

I don't think superintelligence even gives them much advantage if they wanted to. Being able to imagine a virus real good doesn't actually have much to do with the ability to create one, since plans tend to fail for surprising reasons in the real world once you start trying to follow them. Unless you define superintelligence as "it's right about everything all the time", but that seems like a magical power, not something we can invent.

> How exactly is "perpetual motion machines can't exist" related to this?

It wouldn't be able to do the particular kind of ending humanity where you turn them all into paperclips, though it could do other things. There's plenty of ways to do it that reduce entropy rather than increase it - nuclear winter is one.
OP Here. The legal part is important, but you don't have to make it easy. GDPR was a good step forward if not in the way people think about the subject. It would be great to see other countries follow this.
I'm sure the fact that the US seized the Russian central banks dollar reserves will do wonders for the adoption of a US CBDC
There are tons of other options.

My favourite alternative is probably https://crates.io/crates/conrod-core

That said you generally want widgets that look native in your platform, not some gui that feels like it's been taken out of a videogame.
OP Here. I'm interested in the balance you found. Happy to include it in the part 2 and reference you.
I agree, it's almost a no-brainer to install solar on your roof, and storage and long-distance DC distribution are increasingly viable, and your electric car can potentially be used for storage too.
So what you're saying is that statement you negate is based on your opinion and not on any factual information?
Ask HN: Is there professional SaaS feasibility analysis services?
Hey HN

When looking to start up some sort of business or startup, one thing that comes up is to do a "feasibility analysis" before you invest heavily in making the business go: that is, how feasible is the business? how profitable could it be? how many people are looking for this type of product.. etc.

When I look on google for "SaaS feasibility analysis", I can see many results on conducting one yourself, but is there anyone that can do this as a service that I can pay for? Not only do I feel like I could easily fall victim of my own confirmation bias, but I also want to save a little bit of my own time, and be able to write down some ideas to send them off and a get a report that I can reflect upon later.

I've recently been reading "start small stay small" by Rob Walling, and he suggests at minimum doing some search terms and keyword analysis to see how often other people google for these type of things, and how you could show up on the web easier in a niche; there's software that can do this for you, or you can spreadsheet this up yourself. Many of the software items seem either abandonware or be wanting to tie in to an already running business..

Is setting some tracking analytics on a landing page and email lists the only way to do a feasibility analysis for SaaS ? is it possible to find a professional service that can really do a deep dive on the idea for me?
As it turns out you and Haskell are wrong with regards to that naming while this language is correct.
You must be joking. Free time caused riots and protests? Even the device you are using to view this post is a result of people having free time from having to farm and hunt between burying others due to preventable illness.

An argument can even be made that much of the success of america and the west is the result of free time gained by slavery, colonialism and armed robbery of land.

"Cops should stop killing us" vs "no, cops are great" and you look at that and say "you guys have too much free time, you wouldn't care otherwise"? I smell ulterior motive here.
You don't believe she's pregnant even though she has a doctor's note saying she is? Do you think the doctor is lying, or she tricked the doctor?
The article is not talking about a regular checkbox that you would use on some web form. It's a special checkbox that you click infrequently, as a reward when you do something for a habit you are building.

A lot of commenters seem to have overlooked this... C'mon people, use your brain.

I don't think one can honestly give a harsh critique without trying it, in this case. It's a very specific use case. I haven't tried it myself, so I don't actually know if it is any good. But the vision they had when designing it does seem good for this use case. I'm a sucker for the feeling I get when I cross something off a list with pen and paper. I may actually download the app just to try it :)
1 year ago I said...

> 'I hope you didn't buy BTC at >$60K.' [0]

Michael Saylor and Nayib Bukele (El Salvador's President), etc are all HODLing in drawdown again after buying in at >$40K.

They and many others have bought in during the peak mania and the crypto hype of last year which in the case for Bitcoin it really is the wrong time to buy in and is actually the best time to sell.

Still has a long way down to go, especially even when regulations will soon come along and the full unveiling of the Tether scam.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27206314
I'm almost certain this policy will do a great job of making everyone try to hide office politics from the founders× while doing little to actually change the nature of politics.

× and even then only hide the kinds of politics the founders _don't_ like
Sorry but I don't quite get it. It seems that generational reference is a way of memory tagging that avoids users from use-after-free, while reference counting is a way of tracking the number of references to an object and free it when it is no longer reachable.

It seems to me that generational reference isn't replacing reference counting as it is not deciding when to free the object? Perhaps this is more like a weak reference or something?
OP Here. I'm arguing the *why* you should care and *what* can happen. The article is a reflection on how I can explain my mother that she should care.
Going invisible online doesn't mean you have to limit your presence - it really depends. That's why I think there are some fair criticism about the last paragraph of the article, that really doesn't tell you what to do.
>Eg. on why any amount of money is always sufficient for any society (assuming it has at least enough precision for the basic needs of the agents).

Until the interest rate on capital falls negative and people start wars. Austrian economists start world wars for sport.
The problem is not a shortage of food. The problem is its distribution. Like many things.
You may also enjoy https://www.reddit.com/r/desirepath
There you go again, doing the naughty thing. Thinking critically to trash our sacred cows. The world has to be divvied up into good and evil, right? And if we can't do that, if we start to see everything as complicated systems with layers of history and context, then there are no heroes, and part of my identity is lost.
There is a group of programming language enthusiasts that would be interested in all sorts of languages.

Then there are people who will criticize just about anything for the sake of doing it. Just ignore those people and make a day more interesting for the people who share your passions.
Too much free time can be as bad as little free time (). In another thread from today there is a game for simulating an economic model, I wonder if in that model they consider the amount of free time as an important nonlinear variable.

() https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2021/09/too-much-fre...
I think when you say people you mean “builders.” I think people, I.e., the people who actually live in the homes, prefer quiet.
You can't in this game, that was my point. In the real world of course none of these absurdities you mention would happen.
This has to be a best case, and I'll bet that if something with the UI broke, or the motor inverter controller, you'd be looking at replacing the entire proprietary board of electronics, at probably nearly the cost of a new appliance.
That is not, thankfully, how that works ...

There are, indeed, non-mobile numbers and they are second class citizens with regard to shortcodes and SMS 2FA, etc. You will have difficulties, for instance, if you try to adopt a Twilio number (or similar) as your primary phone number.

But it has nothing to do with identification, per se - the most anonymous, cash-bought, found on the street SIM card is a real mobile number and will work perfectly ...

... and the most fully ID checked, personally identifiable VOIP number will work very poorly with 2FA (and not work at all with shortcodes).

I am not sure about your specific anecdote - what carrier are you using and is your "number" the number on your physical SIM card ?
Experimentation when you can't A/B Test – Beyond A/B Testing
I don't think it's about banning words at all. It's about words making sense.

"What's cheaper? The price is." Now that just doesn't make any sense, since a price isn't cheap or expensive, it's high or low. The thing that is priced can be cheap or expensive, but that's not what's being said.

"What's faster? The speed is." Doesn't make sense either. Speed isn't fast, the speedy thing is. However, "What's faster? The acceleration is." is fine, because you can have slow or fast acceleration (I think?).

I'm an ESL speaker, so please do tell me if I'm wrong and how.
> it's just the hangover from covid and the war in Ukraine*

No way. COVID and the war are just the straws that broke the camel's back, they just helped bring down this house of cards that was the bubble economy the Fed created purely out of cheap money I'm the last decade, and overinflated in the last 2 years.

COVID and the supply chain disruptions it caused, was the perfect wake-up call to parachute the economy back down to earth, but instead they just kept the money printer running at full speed until the war came.

How is COVID and the war to blame that the Fed quadroupled the money supply in just 2 years? How was that house of cards ever going to be sustainable?

Of course the war brought it down. And if the war wouldn't have happened, something else would have brought it down instead. It was just not sustainable.
It was a mistake to write off the Russians: Neil MacFarlane takes a long view
Right, it was "the media"'s fault. New "devil made me so it"? I suppose the cops killing unarmed people and maiming journalists also did it because of the media and free time.

What are your views on the cause of the american civil war and war of independence? Did the papers back then cause it all?

I can't believe how fast casual racism is regressing.
How do you ensure that a lock isn't acquired by two requests? Do you use atomic compare and set?

How do you release a lock reliably? How do you solve the problem of releasing accidentally while using a resource?

Can the lock jam locked if the process dies?

I would use Consul for this or I would try avoid needing to lock to begin with.

Even better is to use a language such as bloom Lang.
Ambitious, safe, responsible: delivery of AI-enabled capability in Defence
Considering that the values constantly change (and the graphs being canvas elements), how would someone go about to play this game without being able to see/hear the values clearly (and therefore being able to see that the buttons are buttons, even if they are `div`s) as they change?
OP Here. Don't forget the great majority of data breaches are due to very basic issues i.e. unsecure passwords, shared credentials, unsecure API endpoints, etc. When hackers try to find their target, unless very specific cases, they start with the easiest path. This is where you have a word to say.
They may come for you, but with the right settings, it might not be worth the hassle.
The Wall Street Journal _used_ to be a good financial reporting paper. The editorial page has always been hard-right (varying between mercantilism to straight-up fascism depending on the era) but the general reporting was solid and you could depend on it to tell you the truth with as little spin as possible. This was very important when it was the primary source of business and financial news in the US. By the time Murdoch bought it things had started to slip a little because Bloomberg had eaten a large chunk of the 'deliver fact-based news I can use to make trading decisions' mandate and as you would expect, everything Murdoch touches turns to shit. The current WSJ is now basically a print version of Fox Business News and will never regain the trust and reputation it once commanded.
And there was a related thread on HN yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31772211
Still priced 20k above it's value.
That's... Absolutely not how TV works. They don't create an endless series of alternative formats and beta test them. They ape existing formats for the biggest slice of the same pool of already addicted viewers. So over time, a local maxima is achieved - serving eye catching 'hot' stimuli, violence primary (due to American cultural prohibitions around sex). Since there's little choice (red or blue essentially) the public can't express their preference for an alternative through anything other than switching mediums. And in a more democratic medium - youtube, facebook etc - you don't see the same level of artifice, bombasticism, violence etc, in the most popular videos.
Vice-Chancellor warns of 'brain drain' sparked by EU row during annual lecture
Inverse Finance stung for $1.2M via flash loan attack
Yup. She faked figures in the reports.
Recommendation System with Graphs at ECommerce and Foodtech
Nobody is printing money.

Either you have this naive understanding that government is secretly printing money and hiding it from the auditors, in which case you are simply wrong.

Or you could have the more sophisticated opinion that, "yeah, I know that the so-called freshly printed money is actually already circulating money that government convinced people to give them in return for a promise in the form of a bond. But that's practically the same as printing money!"

But if you take that perspective, then crypto bros are ALSO printing money at a furious pace.
Thank you kind sir/madam.
Keysight and their distributors will not sell to you if you are a hobbyist, they require that you show proof that you are a business:

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/keysight-officially-l...
Big Tech must deal with disinformation or face fines, says EU
Semi related - does Gmail have a way to hit unsubscribes en masse?

At the moment it is possible if you select many emails and “Report as Spam”, if there is an unsub link you can also unsub at the same time, but this feels kind of punitive to report something as spam that I once signed up for and no longer want to see. At the same time going through emails one by one to find the unsub links is SO tedious.
Have you considered a version that holds a lock as long as it maintains an HTTP connection (with periodic data sent to keep the connection alive), and when the connection closes, the lock is released? That would help prevent the lock from staying held.
"Their own JavaScript engine" is Mozilla SpiderMonkey 91.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs/blob/master/doc/Home.md

It appears to be broadly competitive with V8.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16078/the-2020-browser-battle...