skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice. Yeah, the numbers in press articles are basically always wrong; it's just a question of whether you can notice the error.

https://climateer.substack.com/p/numbers
Minor nitpick: The "Alto GUI" is really Smalltalk, there was no such thing as a general GUI for the Alto. Also, image 10/10 is a screenshot of the Xerox Star.

(The merits of Xerox SDD in turning the experimental odds and ends of Alto developments into a consistent user interface are generally underappreciated.)
The engineering requirements for successful micropayments are, in my view:

* support for millions of transactions per second

* very fast, basically instantaneous

* if a small fraction of transactions is dropped randomly, no big deal

* easy, simple, cheap on- and off-ramps

* support for anonymity

* good customer support (lost password, lost device, maybe chargebacks)

* support for local currency

* compatible with local law

* very simple API, easily integrated into browser or other devices

* energy efficient

For those requirements blockchain is a terrible solution.

But sure, you can use a helicopter to open a beer bottle, go ahead.
no it was not taxation but legal reasons. as it takes years in italy to get a decision from judges.
Well I guess since community always matters, and the communities behind languages are never equal, then Paul Graham's advice never applies
I can't think of an example where

let x = <something>;

compiles but

<something>;

does not compile. I think all expressions are statements.
Mentioning the debt without any figures is at least... superficial.

Article does not mention how much sleep daily is considered sufficient (I'm aware it is individual matter). Also, if naps help or not.
I'm suggesting all of this is just finetuning a very generic and powerful object recognition and tracking ability of the brain
Notes on Gitlab’s Postgres Schema Design
Let's plug one of my "joke" domains:

http://amibehindacaptiveportal.com

If you get any response other than "No" then you're behind a captive portal.
Selfish personalities influencing startup intention and motivation in Vietnam
I think practicing design is difficult because of one major issue: how will you know if you got it right? I think the only way is to actually implement the design, and learn what works and what doesn't (and, crucially, why).

It's essentially an apprenticeship: you work in teams and as you gain experience, you contribute progressively more and bigger ideas. One day, you get a job where the design is your responsibility.
I really miss Windows 95/98 era UIs. They were so much more practical and less noisy than current generation UIs.

Opening the start bar on my Windows 11 I literally have no idea what's going on.

All the "apps" at the top of my start bar are things I've never used and I don't think I've ever even installed. Stuff like Tiktok and XBox.

Then below that I get recommendations, but I don't want recommendations, I just want to find the programs and settings I'm looking for.

I'm not even sure if can get to setting from the start bar anymore, and if I'm looking for the programs I've installed it's behind another click.

I guess it looks nice with all the tiles and transition effects though.
It seems, so, that a lot of those legitimate reasons come down, in practical terms, to actually pulling a scam on retail investors.
https://archive.ph/f6EmC
The spiral for me is that as I get sleep deprived, I get more vivid dreams which wake me up. A good night sleep is one in which I wake up having not remembered any dreams.
Rust has a fairly powerful incremental compilation engine, so it tries to avoid re-computing checks if the relevant code hasn't changed. In practice it still recomputes a lot of stuff though.

It's not that relevant though, because the longest part of any Rust build is the dependencies, and those are never recompiled. Most projects compile relatively fast once you've built them once.
Didn't watch the video, but is the inner Doom using the same engine and resources as the outer one? Would be really cool if it did. In that case yes, you can have infinitely nested Dooms within Dooms, though you'd probably see a slowdown too.
Actually their only primary fuel is deuterium. The fusion reactions are 2/3 of D+D and 1/3 of D+He3

D+D fusion reaction yields 50% of T+p (tritium and a proton) and 50% of He3 + neutron

So in total their fusion reaction does not consume He3. He3 is here like a catalyzer.

They still need some He3. The D-D reaction produces tritium, and the tritium decays into He3. Half life of T is 12.5 years.

Done, no issues with the helium 3.

Actually they will probably produce T in excess and could sell it.
James Webb's record-breaking first science image: explained
Whatdo you use instead of milk?
> In some places, criminals are killed much more quickly as punishment. Should we do that instead, because some countries do it?

You do. USA is a world leader in killing criminals. Only China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt kill more per year.

> Or maybe we should figure out what we want to do by argument and consensus, instead of blindly following the old colonialists and ex-fascists in Europe?

You don't do that. You blindly follow some 20yr old colonials who scribbled out a constitution 200 years ago.
Problem is most of the world was in "just in time manufacturing" and having no inventory.

Then there were supply issues, and everybody is not only trying to get their hand on the parts they need, but they also try to stockpile some components just in case.

Essentially marked changed completely, and is throwing off all kinds of estimates and people are still trying to figure out what is what.
Buyers are trying to stockpile as much as they can get, I know at least one company that bought run of 50k stm micros, not for any particular project, just in case they will need them.
Hardware companies are claiming they are increasing capacity, but are doing it reluctantly, because they think it will be blown over, and they will have a lot of extra capacity, that they wont be able to sell.
The Curse of the Hasselblad XPan
While those TOS button captive portals are definitely annoying, there are cases where this can be useful - for example, to enroll users for 802.1x certificates.
> both parties to dislike him at the same percentage

That's not true at all. The percentage of Democrats who dislike him is much higher.

The number of Democrats who started disliking him during the Twitter acquisition is much higher.

And the percentage of Democrats who started disliking him during the Twitter acquisition (as a percentage of the party) is also much higher.

As GP said, percentage growth in the percent who dislike him in each party is not a useful thing to compare. Doubling a side business from $100/month to $200/month is not comparable to doubling from $1M/month to $2M/month.
But the start bar is completely customizable...

You can turn off recommendations, remove the default apps, add any other app including settings, set the size, etc.

Once you spend a couple minutes setting it up, it's less cluttered than any previous Windows OS.
It was written using emacs org-mode[0] and was exported from emacs org-mode to HTML.

[0] - https://github.com/protesilaos/denote/blob/main/README.org
I would recommend the courses from Paolo Perrotta on Pluralsight - I've learned a ton:

https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/git-big-picture/...

https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/how-git-works/ta...

https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/master-git/table...
Sleep deprivation, GPE, and college graduation
First-ever Gitea pull request from a remote instance
The Unwelcome Return of “Best Viewed with Internet Explorer” (2010)
Submitted because of this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32093987

"GoDaddy locks out most browsers, even derivatives of Chrome"
I'm reminded of this:

https://www.technologizer.com/2010/09/16/the-unwelcome-retur...

Also submitted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32094029
That's interesting, I took the opposite approach when realizing how bad label quality can be and built a site where everything is manually checked by moderators.
Being this immovable is childish and intellectually lazy.
Works fine with Waterfox (with uBlock)
"Your browser is a bit unusual".

Why, yes. Thank you for noticing. That is entirely intentional.

Welcome to the web.
Out of the world's five largest lithium producing countries, the largest one by far is Australia, only China is in Asia, and half the world's reserves are in South America anyway.

The US will simply do whatever it always did and, should the need arise, simply putsch away whoever governs these reserves.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_lithium_p...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_Triangle
Problem with cloud encryption is, when you need share files. For example I use OneDrive for send photographs/videos for my clients. But with encryption, I cannot send them anything.

Well... 99% clients wont install thirdparty software to decrypt shared files.
The practice of public companies appealing every single court ruling out of duty to their shareholders seems to have been taken to another level. Now they actively try to avoid paying to invest in their own infrastructure.

ISP's as common carriers and infrastructure providers willingly put themselves in a position that demands a level of altruism beyond your average private corporation - and that's really not asking for much. For many their primary goal is to enrich themselves to the detriment of building the best network for end users. This sort of wailing and thrashing from broadband providers really needs regulation, but competition and financials mean that it's always going to be in the interests of less scrupulous companies to make every attempt possible to enrich themselves or push costs elsewhere, even if that screws up what is quite a delicate balance of legislature, technology and public and private interests.

"So you're saying, governments want fast internet access for a productive, modern economy, but our anticompetitive practices and lack of investment have come back to bite us? Can't let shareholder dividends be affected by that, it's clearly Netflix/YouTube/whoever's fault for providing content consumers want!"

Make that statement enough times in front of enough uninformed/bought legislatures and sooner or later you'll start pushing slowly towards your goal.

Not to mention that this conveniently ignoring the fact that Netflix/YouTube and the likes provide caches colocated inside of ISP data centres as well as upstream [1] in an attempt to avoid the costs of peering. But nothing will ever be enough.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/why-y...
You can have negative experiences, but this has not been noticed yet by PR heads.
The core of the problem is unsolvable, since any automated system can be defeated by a sufficiently motivated human.
The start menu is an ad platform now. No business looking for useful programs there.
> because of a kickback scheme my employer was pulling off in my project, despite promising me to not do it

So you were involved in a business that you found out was slightly shady ?
And you opted out the moment you found out ?
> Do you extend the same reasoning to fiat?

We are talking bout fiat? No.

> So I guess your question is, what are the advantages of BTC over a fiat currency like USD.

No. The question is: what does the trustless blockchain offer when you still have to rely on a centralised trusted entity.

> BTC has a predictable money supply. Fiat currency doesn't: money supply can be arbitrarily inflated.

Which immediately means that whoever got in early and got the first initial supply is at great advantage compared to anyone who got in later. For example compared to any people born 20 years from now.

> You could also build a dispute

Could. Maybe. Should. Perhaps. That's all you can ever hear from crypto proponents.
See also : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)
Ask HN: Looking for a back end service to manage work computers
Hello, I recently joined a new startup and I am new to the IT field. I am tasked to look for a service which has backend access to all the laptops given to our employees. If someone installs anything even remotely suspicious I should know about it. All the laptops are running Ubuntu. I am okay if it's a paid service. Any suggestions?
Someone else already mentioned guidebookgallery.org, so I’ll just also mention the Museum of UI: https://ui.codexpanse.com/
What does OC mean?

Thanks for writing about all this and warning people :-)

I wonder how much the actions Kapwing took has reduced the amount of scam attempts -- if you happen to know? Maybe hard to measure
Seems to still work with Ungoogled Chromium.

Edit: Or do you need to try to log in to get this message? (That's what the screenshot suggests.)
Nuclear power also have calm spells. France is enduring one, with over 50% of their nuclear capacity stopped due to manteinance and other issues (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/19/business/a-french-nuclear...), and are expecting blackouts in the next winter if neighbors cannot provide.
Talk about a bleeding edge feature
I've been getting that message for over a year. I don't think it's browser related. I tried pretty much every browser.

I can't log in at home, but it works fine at work.

Whatever it is, I'm never using godaddy again.
Late 80s / early 90s Mac OS was a sweet spot too - simple, clean, interfaces.

Actually using it was a pain because it was so unstable, if only it had been combined with a proper preemptive multitasking OS.
As a programming teacher I think this is quite a fundamental thing to learn for new programmers. Even though lots of tutorials and books don't mention this explicitly people usually get an intuition for the difference after a while.

But in the beginning it's hard for people to grok an expression with a couple of nested expressions in it. Especially if there's some functions calls in there as well.

Axel Rauschmayer has a good page (1) on this topic as well. Quite dry, so less beginner friendly.

So what I like about Josh W Comeau's article is that it's easy to read with lots of examples and even an interactive widget.

Oh and about interactive visualization of expression evaluation: Thonny (2) does this real nicely for Python code. Excellent for beginners imo.

[1] https://2ality.com/2012/09/expressions-vs-statements.html

[2] https://thonny.org/
> none of us are consciously aware of our gut micro biome

The chronically ill are. I know people who feel when they don't have their Danone.
> but can output binaries for win/mac/linux

I took a cursory look and I don't think it supports Apple silicon out of the box. Considering that Intel Macs are dead end it't not too encouraging.
It also misses all the "text GUI" interfaces found on eg. MS-DOS and mainframes. These are super-efficient to navigate and use using just a keyboard, and extremely fast for data entry in comparison to modern systems.
My partner works in cognitive psychology. Your experience matches exactly what scientific research also found ("attentional capacity"). Funny coincidence :)
Many providers offer postgres as a service.
I couldn't disagree more on Flash Boys. After reading it, it was clear that Michael Lewis did not understand the microstructure of markets. He collected a bunch of stories from his hedge fund buddies about how the people who were eating their lunch were somehow "front-running" them (which they are not), "distorting the market" (pushing off-exchange trading to legitimately established dark pools rather than your circle of golf buddies), and "breaking the rules" (without citing any exchange rules).

From someone who used to be in the industry, there are lots of things to complain about, and HFTs engage in lots of unfair practices (eg PFOF). Michael Lewis doesn't understand them or what they are.
Cooking greatly reduces oxalate content. In Indian cuisine, greens are generally cooked, not served raw.
But it also applies to the model. If you label data taking into account the context (which subreddit this was posted), your model also must take this into account, or it will be wrong as well. If the same sentence can be labeled two different ways depending on the source, then, the model must also know the source or it won't know what to do. But then you didn't create a general language model, you created a reddit language model.
IIRC there was a presentation from Karpathy talking about the challenges with sensor fusion, particular in resolving divergence between e.g. the vision and the radar stack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSDTZQdo6H8&t=1949s

My background is in physics, but I find myself having a growing appreciate for the vision-only stack. It's really challenging building a formal understanding of the world that is robust to outliers that are so numerous as navigating in an urban environment. With vision, you have multiple kinds of information that are highly correlated (colour, spatial distribution, depth, etc) that are self-consistent. Whereas, fusing radar with vision, where object responses to radar are highly geometry & material dependent, is a much harder task.

I'm really not an expert, so this reads more as an opinion than an experienced view, but I can see the merits in doubling down on vision.
Why can't synths be fully emulated in software?
Had a colleague who was sleep deprived. He started behaving very wierdly and we came to know that he had cut himself, send lewd texts to women and later had to go seek serious help.
It's a proposal, in a very early stage. There are lots of steps before any proposal can become a law. It's already strongly opposed, so it's very unlikely to go anywhere. It looks like the system is working fine.

This proposal is pretty tame compared to proposals coming from the QAnon branch of the US government.
Yeah those numbers don't make sense, 300W should fit on a van but wouldn't power very much. Wonder how much sunshine they get up there.
If you're only safe if someone's bot doesn't choose you, you're not safe.

GrapheneOS.org
CalyxOS.org
This is why software engineers shouldn't handle this type of work, and why DevOps came to existence.
How exactly is this article painting the EU in a bad light?

The Commission has proposed something that MEPs have pushed back against. Is that not democracy working?

This is probably not the first stupid thing the Commission has proposed that MEPs have rejected.

If anything the worst thing about the EU is that EU citizens generally can't be bothered to engage with that level of politics; this is how UKIP managed to appear like a real political party because they required relatively little support to get elected to the EU Parliament.
> The idea is that since data on a blockchain can't be modified on a whim without that change being observed, it protects the integrity of the data being stored.

Audit logs are not a new thing. Immutable data stores are not a new thing. This can be done in any number ways, each of them more efficient.

Moreover, it doesn't help with data entry. Yes, data cannot be modified. And still someone orders bananas and ends up with mouldy tomatoes.

> S&P Global and Walmart, who use it

I very much doubt they use it. All these "use cases" fall apart within a year or two after initial starry-eyed announcements

> Basically it is being treated as a sort of database.

Indeed. Treated like a database. When people treat Kafka as a database, those people are derided and there are entire articles on why you shouldn't treat a read-only append-only log as a database. But sure. Once it's blockchain, it's amazing and the bee's knees.
Think that might have been their polite (although not very polite) way of saying they don't care about your sleep interruptions.
Landscape [0] might be thing you're looking for.

[0]: https://landscape.canonical.com/
Could you elaborate on what's wrong with payment for order flow? It seems to enable zero commission brokers with prices (bid-ask spreads) that are reasonable, and at any rate better than the national best bid offer, as required by law.
Note that if you delete entries in non sequential order (aka not at the start-only or the end-only) and continue inserting, BRIN index becomes much less effective. Its very much predicated upon the concept of append-only, as postgres filling deleted rows with new rows throws off the physical layout part of how BRIN works
You should watch the video! It is really informative, well-made and even funny. But to answer your question: no, it boots a completely separate instance of Doom.
Not quite what I expected, the recommendations are more high level. For a more "operational" perspective, I highly recommend "Financial Shenanigans" which covers different ways to manipulate financial statements. "Quality of Earnings" is a good complement to that.
You are conveniently omitting any form of systemic risk around nuclear.
Is there any organiser software that handles a multitude of data formats (images, documents, audio, video, etc.)?
This is brilliant. Highly recommend watching the video - it is well-made and funny.
>Is that because it's has 'Scarcity'? People will pay more for it in the future?

What did they do to deserve that? Watch everyone else create the wealth they take for granted?

>If that case is so soundly put why would you not buy as much btc as possible?

Because most people barely have enough money for their basic needs as they have to pay interest to financial capitalists and ground rent to land owners. They have no surplus to speak of that they could possibly spend on a deflationary currency. They are the losers of this system even though they are the ones who are doing the work.
Why every time?

What about forcing usage of USB-C - this one is good, it lacks debth (e.g. I would extend it to e.g. trimmers)
What about forcing Apple to open up to other payment providers and other app stores?

What about slamming Google for anti competitive behavior (e.g forcing their product comparison)?

What about slamming MS (and Google) for forcing preinstall of single browser?

List goes on and on.
Money isn't what gets people motivated most of the time. This job is boring and unfulfilling, you'll get poor results unless you're offering a life changing amount of money.
> Why is it every time I see "EU" anywhere in the title here on HN, it's them doing something really bad.. again.

Except this is not the EU doing something bad, but preventing something bad from happening.
When everyone becomes adept at changing their user agent to beat these filters, what so these whiz kids do?
It's not clear whether this concerns Matrix-the-protocol or Element-the-client. The page itself seems to be about the client. Maybe this can be cleared up in the submission title.

I'm using an alternative client, but I see that that space is nowhere near keeping up with the features Element are pushing out. Mine doesn't even support spaces yet. I'd like to use a 'native' client (Linux/KDE person here), but there's not much choice (I never got the Neochat flatpak to work reliable for instance, on a variety of distros). So, one must basically go with the Element (web) client, which is not very light.

I have nothing but good words for the project btw, thanks and keep it up :)
I'm actually not even eligible for a mortgage any more considering that interest rates around here are at 6,50%, which is more than the 30-year average.
Plus messing up astronomy and maybe helping bring about Kessler syndrome. Good point about overhead electrical.
Is this something that is built into Matrix somehow now or is really specific to Element?
Bury the wood is one idea. I've recently heard that salt water is also good for this. This is why mangrove forests are 4 or 5 times better carbon sinks than rainforests.
The article left me more confused than enlightened.

My understanding is this; Expressions return a value, statements on the other hand are actions, commands, definitions, declarations, assignments, and control structures.
If it’s slow and resource heavy it’s consistent with every other competing app at least.
Agreed. Also the cropping of image previews to square format. You literally can't see the portrait orientation of the Xero Alto monitor. Argh.