skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno, I'm gonna try writing a pattern language to avoid getting tied up with one specific area. Friends can fill in the blanks. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language
It's bit like "shrinkflation" where you get less for the same cost because that reduces producers' expenses.

In software we get the same functionality as 20 years before on similarly priced hardware. But we don't get the speed-benefits we could and should expect.

This may be because software producers prefer making things easy for themselves by using ever larger libraries. It reduces their costs but makes software slower?
I have the Opal C1. It's trying to be better than a normal webcam. I'm not in love with it but might work for you: https://opalcamera.com/
That was the strangest thing for me. He didn't interact with them while they were coding, or even watch them do it:

> I gave tasks and a computer to a candidate and left them for half an hour to an hour.
Hey, at least we have a good example of what "voting with your wallet" actually looks like if brought to it's logical conclusion.
Placement, I perch my C920 on top of the 4k 32” monitor, ergonomically at eye height, but that means it’s far too high for a webcam.

I’ve been thinking of having a little sling to hold an iPhone in the right place but of course that obscures the screen.

Perhaps several cameras that could simulate the image from a camera in the centre of a screen is one option, a bit daft, but how else.
The author certainly does try to frame oil production as being low impact, ignoring all the abandoned, leaking wells that pock mark our landscape.

I bet he hasn't had to live adjacent refineries like what we have in Anacortes...

Speaking in broad strokes about the power grid is also a great way to ignore your local reality. Using more power locally for transport can be quite a bit better, both cost wise and environmentally than using oil due to our power grid economics.

There are multiple separate grids here in the US, and the energy makeup of your section of the grid your on can be far different than what supplies the power in a section a few hundred miles away. Only a small portion of the large quantity of power generated in the Pacific Northwest can be moved from the dams in Washington, Oregon & BC (where power is $0.07kWh to $0.12kWh) to Southern California where retail rates are triple to quadruple the price.
> You're using it wrong.

You like cheese, I get it. Care to elaborate?

> So plants are not enough?

Yes, they are. See my other comment to you in this discussion (I've even listed some numbers for you). But I've got a hunch not even that will be enough for you.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcN7SGGoCNI - Dairy is scary !
So ice cream isn't the ultimate comfort food because of lactose intolerance but that's a factor in 3 of the 4 other foods you mentioned.

You also say an "unednding desire for calories and protein". *Protein?" Where? Even with metaballs you're not really eating that much meat (aka protein). Did you mean fat?

It's kind of a weird take overall. Ice cream clearly has huge cultural significance in the US as a comfort food.
"ok boomer" is also broken, particularly since it neglects to address the ways that younger generations are all equally narcissistic, just in different ways (plus it's the wrong generation).

and its not "fitting" it is just another useless "zinger" that suppresses thought.

yes, i'm suggesting that the human race attempt to evolve past the use of language constructs that shut down thought.

yes, i'm aware that i'm just yelling at clouds for all the good it'll do.

and actually i'm suggesting that language DOES evolve, but do it into something better. not just every generation inventing its own thoughtless zingers, which is just masturbation applied to evolution of language and thought.
> if a body could run itself more efficiently then it would by default

Don't suppose you see the article you're commenting on.
> I don't blame the journalists,

writing and publishing four articles a day with only cursory review/editorial oversight, if any, isn't journalism at all, it's a content mill
Yeah it’s wild how much of a vacuum exists in this market and how bad it is.

I have the same webcam I also bought the lg meetup for a larger room and it sucks - it especially sucks considering the price.

The Opal is a weak attempt to improve this, but includes a mic I don’t want (lots of decent separate mics exist). The mirrorless setup looks great, but with latency, capture cards, over heating, external battery packs, required camera arms etc. just a huge pain.

I wish apple would just make a good one again since nobody else seems capable of it.
> Furthermore, there will be lots of people with either limited knowledge or limited interest in learning new things.

cries

> Many out there will also be perfectly fine with writing apps like they had 20 years ago

seen this many times

> Unless you are very selective in your hiring, plan for people like that also being present.

Hiring is everything. All issues you have listed would be solved just by having a senior (with real senior experience, not 10+ years written in their CV) in the team.
So what is the downside of crypto? All the furor seems to be about how the whale's funds were seized. But there is no evidence to the contrary that this won't happen in day to day Wall Street banking.

From patio11's

> When we say “crypto is speedrunning learning what finance already knows” sometimes it is about attacks but sometimes it is about quotidian topics like “Can you adversarially blow your clients out of trades which you think imperil your firm or other clients?”

Answer in traditional finance by the way: yes you absolutely can. Your lawyers have long since thought of that and put that language in your contracts, making it very explicit that if you trigger it you don’t need a vote on Discord to do so.

There is nothing that proves that traditional finance is any better than crypto. Though I do not recall the British government arresting Soros when he broke the pound.
Stop. Stop it. This is such an unproductive reply
I'm a designer who codes in this way. I can mock out a bells and whistles prototype that appears to work splendidly enough to test with users, but in reality I'm just hooking together libraries and pasted code. I have been doing this for 10 years, enough debugging savvy to "learn" React in 2 weeks but do I actually know how any of it works on a deeper level? Heck no.
Note that going that cheap on a lavalier only works if it is hard wired. If you are going wireless you are easily busting $150.
Seems pretty unlikely that Aristotle said anything like that; all these epigrams are kind of silly, in that they're all stemming from something a fictional character said (or wrote) in a play.

But I agree, it's cringe-y to see people try to dunk on teachers like this. There are good teachers and bad teachers like there are good and bad everythings; if you've had a good teacher for something before, it's hard for me to imagine that you'd take Shaw's character seriously with the "those who can" stuff.
> "In the murky world of crypto DeFi, it’s hard to know who provides money for loans, where the money flows, or how easy it is to trigger currency meltdowns. There are no standards for risk management or capital reserves. There are no transparency requirements. Investors often don’t know how their money is being handled. Deposits are not insured."

This should be a red flag for any investor.
Given these features (and their desire to keep Telegram free), I view these as "donation bonuses", not features to pay for. Although Discord has a similar monetization strategy and people seem to not mind it, so maybe it's just us being out of touch.
The textbook ‘How to prove it’ by Velleman is in my opinion the best introduction to learning to read and write proofs.
Might be worth checking out libredirect [1] which I use on desktop and mobile to automatically redirect reddit links to privacy-respecting front-ends like libreddit and teddit. Also since I have it on my default browser on Android, even if I open a reddit link from, say, a hackernews app, the popup webview will use my default browser which will in turn automatically redirect to libreddit/teddit. I never have to worry about seeing reddit's annoying web app, never have to worry about giving reddit my data.

(old.reddit.com still does give reddit data, and from my experience Reddit does a lot of tracking IPs + working with google + traffic correlation to figure out what stuff you browse. However if you still prefer old reddit, libredirect does provide an option to automatically redirect to old.reddit.com instead of libreddit or teddit)

[1]: https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect
> Because that is the definition of a natural language. All human languages exhibit these features (except debatably Pirahã, but that's a weird case and is literally the only known example out of ~7000 languages).

I am no linguists, my question was genuine curiosity, sorry if I sounded argumentative.

> This is the same with human language and animal communication. Animal brains are fundamentally incapable of grasping these concepts.

I agree with it on a fundamental level (with perhaps the exception of chimpanzees? I would not be surprised if they could get closer to us. It probably depends on whether language is the fundamental distinctive feature of intelligence or not).

Regarding bag of words, I meant to use word as combinations of characters (including whitespace), so an English sentence would be a “word” in the English language with this definition. And yeah, just because it is not a formal language, doesn’t mean it doesn’t have other sort of structure.
Not saying public bug-bounty programs such as this are perfect. Those around a certain date in the past remember strongly when the situation with public research was more precarious and Sony attempting lawsuits, prosecutions and other utterly horrible attempts at 'damage-control' with the PS3. In that light and with the researcher being able to disclose his research after public security-patch it does appear more amicable.
Not government control, more regulation in the form of transparencies towards what gets reported and what does not, protections for investigative news journalists and whistleblowers, and no more masquerading entertainment as news journalism. Just as cigarettes have warnings about lung health, Fox News should have warnings about "not journalism, entertainment and the political opinion of Robert Murdoch".
I like the camera. Any chance of the AI software becoming available on Linux?
Yes, if there was no positive impact then basically no one new would start using meth and the meth user population would eventually die out.

If you had an addictive drug and all it did was make all your teeth fall out with no extra side effects almost no one would take it.

While yes, Meth is dangerous and addictive I don't think what Google and Facebook are doing is bad. How is Google giving people access to the world's data or Facebook connecting the world a bad thing? They are trying to do good things and are constantly trying to reduce the harm their services bring to people. They have entire organizations within these companies for doing so.
All of those things are contingent on perfect scenarios. As in, bug free contracts; which not to even mention the human willful engineering part of manipulating trust. Many people confuse permission and trust.

The things you outline are optimistic visions for what cryptocurrencies can offer as an alternative to the "root" financial system; however it is certainly not better in every case, and only maybe better in some very specific cases. Perhaps this will change overtime, but one thing I know for sure.... every piece of software ever written and every piece of hardware ever built has bugs and has been hacked. The human is even weaker to exploitation, so... without middle-men to act as a safety net, lawlessness and ill incentive can run rampant. Unfortunately the human condition optimizes for this opportunity if it shows itself.

You do admit there are cons, and I appreciate that. I think anyone who has some technical know-how should do what they can to at least point out any dogma. Dogma has clearly ruined a lot of the cool things about the technology.
We're not talking about people getting struck by lightning here, we're talking about an intentionally built and voluntarily used computer system. If you don't understand the risk, don't invest.
I use Discord for public communications and I don't mind plaintext storage at all - on the contrary, on public chats, I personally value public history.

The last time I've used Matrix actually, usability was a disaster; took me a while to figure out even just how to login, and that wasn't the only problem.
I also dual call into many meetings. For these, I use my phone to see how my screen sharing is working. I have to do a lot of screen sharing presentations to present data (tables, figures, etc). With this use-case, it’s very helpful to have a second login to be able to see what everyone else is.
> I don't know what a BSP is, but why can I update linux (or indeed almost any OS) on my PC without any support from the motherboard vendor? What OS features need SoC support, and why can the OS not live without them, when it was previously able to do so?

Basically, PCs have 2 things going for them:

First, they use standardized, enumerable interfaces. You can boot an arbitrary Linux-based system and the kernel can ask the PCI bus "what hardware is installed?" using the same query on every machine, and get back an answer in the same format. "Embedded" devices don't have that, generally (ARM ServerReady does add this, and does create ARM-based hardware where you just stick in a random distro's USB stick and boot and it works).

Second, Linux on PCs tends to use upstream drivers. When you run ex. Ubuntu on a laptop, it talks to your ex. graphics card using a driver that's in Torvald's official tree. For... reasons... that I don't claim to understand but that probably involve cost-cutting, Android phones rely on drivers that are written by hardware vendors and then abandoned without any effort to get included upstream.

So the result is that in many cases you can boot vanilla Linux on an arbitrary phone or whatever, but it'll come up with access to the CPU, RAM, and USB (because that is still an enumerable bus using a standard interface), but it will have no idea how to query the rest of the hardware and if it did it wouldn't have any drivers to talk to that hardware with.

Edit: I should mention, a BSP is the ... "solution" that vendors use to pretend this whole thing is workable. It stands for board support package, which is a giant blob of source code that includes at minimum a copy of Linux with all their delightfully buggy custom drivers included and all the necessary hardware devices hard-coded so the system can find the hardware when it boots. And by find, of course, I mean "blindly assume it's there". On a good day this data is encoded in a device tree, which is a file format for "here's what hardware is in this system and how to talk to it (ports, memory addresses, whatever) ".
As far as I know this is in line with the definition of a formal languages (of which human languages should be the subset of).
I use Tor and a text based client for web browsing for better
privacy. That also means I do not allow javascript. Some sites are not
usable. About a quarter of those that will not work require javascript
(they won't work at all with it disabled). Most sites do work fine
without javascript. Since I don't use "social media" only about five
percent of all websites fail because of javascript.

Of the remaining three quarters that don't work, they fall into two
categories. Those that gatekeep using CAPTCHAs are inaccessible using
a text based browser, so I skip those. The remainder just block my
requests. About half of all those are Cloudflare.

While I constantly curse Cloudflare and consider them an "enemy" of
ordinary web users who just want to browse with the dignity we have a
right to, they are not the only bad guys in town by a long shot.

They are just one more sign of an increasingly hostile web. Google,
Twitter, and some parts of the Apple and Microsoft estates are hostile
to privacy conscious users too.

For the most-part I consider these self-excluding barriers a kind of
feature to stop me wasting time on creators and services that are
ambivalent or ignorant about how to present themselves accessibly on
the web.
They can and should. That's the sign of a happening place. When reconstruction and replacement stops, it's a sign of decline
This is simply not factual, it is an information availability bias. America is one of the most publicized nations, and sunlight is one of the best disinfectants. By any academically rigorous measure, the US ranks high in ethics, along with most other western style democratic systems.
This is a good point. I would say we shouldn’t make it easy for the governments to access the data as well as private interest or companies. These are not mutually exclusive.

EU privacy laws are a step in the right direction. It’s progress. We can build on it.
That's fair, the current iMac is only 1.15cm thick but that's much thicker than an iPhone

They did put a much better camera in the Studio Display but it's significantly thicker than the iMac; I don't know how thick it is without stand/mounting hardware but the VESA mount version is 3.1cm thick so the Display itself much be at least 2cm.
Your suggestion is just nonsense that you haven't bothered to think through at all. You'll find the most traffic lights down arterials, but all the side roads feeding into the arterial will have stop signs so that the arterial can move faster.

Dunno why you're talking about cars driving on sidewalks. I was talking about when I bike I sometimes do use the sidewalk when the street is a mess. You also have to bike the whole way at not much more than walking speed.

Which I think is your preferred solution. Get all the bikes onto the sidewalks and make them go as slow as pedestrians and then people won't use bikes and you'll never have to negotiate passing one on the road. Which is all about your convenience, and the opposite of bicycle safety.
> George Bernard Shaw put those words deliberately into the mouth of a character you in particular would find absolutely insufferable.

Akin to Shakespeare having the evil Dick the Butcher saying, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_kill_all_the_lawyers
I'm starting to feel spammy because I say that everytime it comes up, but have a look at hetzner.de or sth. alike.

Their smallest webhosting package is 1,90 €/month and comes with your own domain. Configuration is done through their web-based interface, so no CLI fiddling and nothing.

I think that's a good deal, you could even run your own NextCloud on that package, if you want to. That way you get a CalDav server, so you can ditch Google Calendar and Contacts, if you want to.
It seems there are only two ways to assure this - stainless steel or cast iron.

Every other bit of cookware seems to be suspect.
Here's a dude climbing Ventoux on a single speed Dutch bike (subtitles available): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvDp5uCD0Kk

He also did it on a kids bike the year before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49V4P_wkKTU

I should mention he currently rides for a UCI ProTeam, which is one tier away from the highest level in the world.
Would these regulations prevent something like offshore merchants selling goods, perhaps gold bars or something, for crypto and converting into fiat?
There are so many dairy free options nowadays, I hardly feel the inconvenience of lactose intolerance. Including on ice cream.
What is a refeed?
The existence of Gatekeeper already causes a huge privacy violation by “requiring” my computer to phone home to verify the signature the first time it launches an application. Everyone should have realized this when Apple’s OCSP responder went down in November 2020 and nobody could launch anything that wasn’t built in to the OS.

According to TFA this kind of verification will now occur every time an application is launched to deter post-verification “tampering” by you, the user. How big of a privacy violation would it have to become to bother you, out of curiosity? If we let this continue we will end up in a future where full “Remote Attestation” of every hardware and software component is required to participate in the Internet. This isn’t hypothetical doom-saying, either: game consoles already work like this. I remember my XBOX360 could detect modified DVD drive firmware, launches of individual pieces of software (e.g. Halo 3 Delta leak), and other types of system modifications, then it would permanently ban that machine from XBOX LIVE. And that was all 15+ years ago.

Just imagine what a gift this will be to law enforcement, for example, once they can go to Apple all like “Hey, Siri, show me all users of Tor Browser around the time of ${BITCOIN_TRANSACTION_ID}”.
Let me get this straight. They used the majority voting power of a DAO whale, to seize the funds of a user whale?

Irony at its finest.
> Despite the bias in their funding source (~90% left-leaning donors)

Despite? Or because of it? Left leaning politics need trust worthy news to advance, right leaning politics don't as their goal is to maintain tradition and the status quo. If nobody mobilises the right wing polices win by default, noise instead of news helps to create apathy, apathy is the bread of the status quo.
Tell HN: Do you realize facetime is johnny mnemonic calls IRL?
It's pretty wild. In the movie it feels so futuristic and unreal how you can call someone and see them in real time. Video.

Today with an iphone you can video call anyone in the world. It's pretty wild!

Any other cyberpunk tech a reality today?
Yes, see Matrix. And imo generally better UX than Telegram on account of having a large selection of clients.
If we look away from the time zone difference, I just don't see how the US-based programmers will be able to compete against - say - European programmers, if the WFH trend continues. If WFH is truly here to stay, then that's one protective barrier down. The language barrier is almost non-existent these days, as most European devs can communicate just fine. The time zone is another, which I think is harder to overcome...but it's usually worse for the Europeans. At least with one European MS office, meetings would have to follow Seattle time.

I'm not saying this to put down all the excellent US devs and engineers - but when total compensation in the US can be 2-4 times higher than in very comparable European countries, at least you know there are many European devs that would grab the chance even at a steep discount. US(ish) salaries without having to move to the US is a very nice situation for devs in various European countries.

But all in all, I'm really excited to see what the WFH trend will bring us on a global level.
> Linux kills random processes by design

Linux will only kill processes if there are no swap left. So always have swap. You can also configure what Linux should do when there are no memory left.
an iPhone is much much smaller than a macbook lid is it not?
> a software engineer knows as much about cloud architecture as a fine woodworker knows about framing

A mobile or frontend engineer, perhaps. But the idea that implementing and architecting the same type of object (backend services) are mutually exclusive skillsets strikes me as ridiculous. Since architecture decisions are by definition highly consequential and difficult to back out of, you want your most skilled and experienced software engineers making them, but it is precisely their software engineering experience that makes them qualified to do architecture. I would never trust a so-called "cloud architect" who is not also a first-rate backend engineer.
Is that a lifetime of upgrades or is it merely a perpetual license that doesn't stop working simply because your subscription ran out?