skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When it came back I had 2-4 more followers that I lost in days prior.

I'm no rocket scientist, but that indicates to me that they might have restored something from a backup volume.

Followers on Twitter and interactions have been stagnant for ages in my experience there, actually having followers probably makes no sense on most of these social accounts any more, as they are throttling how users see content so much to drive ad sales.

If you really look at what goes viral on Twitter daily, and what trends constantly, it becomes very apparent that the entire experience is carefully managed by moderation and marketing that constantly leans towards sensational and controversial news... It's torturous to use Twitter now compared to years past, and they just don't care to change the user experience. I envision that most of the real people on the platform now only use it in small doses.
For those in Canada, the banks and telephone lines were all down at one point. Even if you were on a different internet provider that was up, you bank would still be down.

So the 'call my bank' option won't work here and wire transfer is no different to transferring money in crypto as they are both irreversible.

But I don't know how entering a .eth/.sol/etc address or scanning a QR code to send USDC over is harder than typing in the sort code, account number, IBAN number, etc to do a wire transfer.
and the reason we burned fossil fuels for the last 70 years is fear of nuclear power
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I looked it up but couldn't really find information, what would you say is the difference between a "message queue", a "job queue" and a "message bus"?
It’s definitely a commercial generosity, but I think it differs.

Mr. Beast’s brand, and presumably identity, centers around a Calvinist ethic that hard work is a virtue even when exerted to meaningless ends. There’s a ‘don’t act too big for your britches’ undercurrent as well, flashy cars are props returned at the end of the day, not the spoils. He trades a lot of the mawkish sentimentality for self-deprecation.

Another practical difference is that giving strangers money provides more actual utility vs a bouquet of flowers. His targets for interaction are usually more appropriate, often people he has a reason to interact with or where he asks for participation.
No one forces you to do that.
> I’m still shocked how low the quality of Mechanical Turk was for just sentiment

Given that MT workers earn based on how quickly they complete a task, and not how accurate. I'm struggling to understand how anyone would expect quality.
Just because rclone is more completely documented doesn't mean it's harder to use. rclone has a wizard that quickly guides you through the steps, has secure defaults (e.g., generates secure password), and readily expands to other remote types once you've done one.
Besides being an appeal to authority, this is directly addressed in the piece: https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/#appendix-common-object...

> ...it was read by hundreds of psychologists and neuroscientists who – I believe – also failed to find any serious issues [...] Some of the scientists wrote to me directly [including] a sleep scientist with >50 h-index who studied sleep for more than 40 years
Same in Estonia, "hapukurgihooaeg". Literal translation of the German "Sauregurkenzeit".
Also look how rich people who work for us are
You're telling me those buildings are own and run by the government? Those look like mandatory "affordable units" that by law must be built by private developers in new buildings.
> the number of people the Greens killed

citation needed
150k is nothing for NYC
I don't think anyone should have to be subjected to that type of treatment.
Buy VT instead. If thirty years from now the value of every meaningful company on Earth is inflation adjusted worth less than it is now, bullets and farm land would have been the only viable investment.
Please be more empathetic to people who beg for money.
That depends on the type and scope of "negative externalities", and not all libertarian philosophies agree on the where to draw that line.

Some would say a negative exernality like CO2 emissions would raise to the level for government regulations (violating NAP) , other libertarian philosophies would not, viewing it a totalitarian control as human breath expeals CO2 so if the government can regulate it then there are no limits on government at all.

I dont know if I have a good answer
James Webb Space Telescope: An astronomer explains newly released first images
Ask HN: AI Improve Lawmaking and Justice?
We hear of algorithms handing down sentencing guidelines. On the other spectrum it is more apparent that the Supreme Court in the US is political and biased.

Politicians pass huge bills they likely have not read.

How could the current state of art AI/ML improve things in these areas?
Just like OS dark mode settings, have a toggle for animations too.

Then let the developers and designers use the switch if they care.
To be clear, I'm not disagreeing with the intent behind the article, I just think the execution is exceptionally poor. If you're going to argue against something, make your arguments compelling (your comment's first point is, the author's wasn't).

On your second & third points:

2: Improving tech over time is good. Creating perfect tech on day 1 isn't realistic. The early internet was built on a lot of tech we no longer use (or are a attempting to move away from)

3: The "I already have gold but no bitcoin in a time of crisis" qualifier seems odd and contrived. Gold is a resource valued for its scarcity, Bitcoin is an attempt to move away from artificial scarcity of fiat to mathematically guaranteed scarcity. Ultimately they share problems: mining of physical goods is environmentally destructive and tying economic prosperity to inflating resource value based on scarcity instead of utility is also ultimately problematic for society in the long term. So the analogy does work -they're fundamentally very comparable. The primary differentiators are (a) the scale of cryptomining is greater per-unit than for physical resources (+ transactional impact), and (b) Bitcoin's got a whole load of extra bad problems that gold doesn't: e.g. instability.
Small nitpick but those are CGA colors.
This seems too pessimistic without knowing specifics about the original commenter’s situation.

I have no debt, a fully paid off house, and plenty of cash which has left me feeling confident about any upcoming recession.

Could I get fired from my well-paying job tomorrow, the recession lasts for 5 years, and the food supply runs out so we all starve to death? Sure, but it’s probably not worth calling out.

I was in college during the 2008 recession and fully supporting myself. I was able to get by with less than I have now because I didn’t have a ton of debt.
I was logged out of Twitter. Should I change my password?
No, I answered your question before you edited it. You asked something to the effect of "How does the 13th amendment codify slavery?". This is Section 1 of the 13th amendment, that has an explicit exemption under which slavery is not unconstitutional.
As far as I understood it, they weren't torn down as much as the contract was cancelled and more weren't built.

I live in Windsor-Essex and still see new windmill projects going up all the time.
I don't know how to say this politely, but simply put: No.

You can never, ever rely on people being infinitely knowledgeable and vigilant. Any attempt to do so is simply showing ignorance and indifference by yourself.

An unmarked pit in the middle of the road is a hazard. Sure, drivers in theory ought to be vigilant of such things, but fundamentally the fault is with the construction crew for not leaving out bright orange markers.

The default should be safe. The default should not be to optimised to win benchmarks to benefit the few, but to provide guarantees to provide for the many.

But the few have power, and power corrupts.
Wait, are you the mrman ?

As in, Houston / 927 / defcon / teeletons friend ?
My loathing for TikTok knows no bounds. It's always the most vapid, narcissistic stuff, like a modern-day Tumblr but with sound. All of the uninformed bad takes of Twitter and Reddit, but as dance videos.

This is the Bad Place, frens.
#embed coming to c distributions near you in 2023 [0]

[0] https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3017.htm
What they are intendet to do, is generate views and likes for the owner(s) of the channel.
Actually, some of the problem may be with C++ itself. When the C preprocessor is used in a more flexible, dynamic language, you can do surprising things.

In the cppawk project, which combines the preprocessor with Awk, I used the preprocessor to create an iteration syntax with a vocabulary of useful clauses that combine together for parallel or cross-product iteration.

Furthermore, the clauses are user-definable.

https://www.kylheku.com/cgit/cppawk/about/

What helps is that you don't have to deal with types and declaration syntax. So many of the ideas in cppawk will not translate back to C or C++, or not without wrecking the syntax with additional arguments and whatnot.

The man page for the <iter.h> header has a section on defining a clause; I provided an example of defining a clause that iterates on alpha-numeric string ranges like from "A00" to "Z99".

As an experienced Lisp programmer (and implementor), I had to rub my eyes several times to believe I had such a thing working, under such a universally maligned and reviled preprocessor.
I resent news media relying heavily on clicks. Simultaneously, I understand that news organizations must generate profit somehow, and that many people are unwilling to pay for news.

The problem, as I see it: I pay for a news subscription. News Organization continues to produce low-quality content because they continue to rely on advertising. So, I am paying for the same quality of content as when I did not pay; I am wasting money.

Theoretically, if everyone paid for a news subscription, then News Organization could afford to produce content that relies less, or ideally not at all, on advertising. However, as it stands, I do not trust the quality of News Organization, because it currently relies on advertising, and consequently does not optimize for quality: accuracy, timeliness, transparency and newsworthiness.
Yeah, well if they shut down the nuclear plants, they'll be generating 0.

So they need to either build a lot of nuclear or build a lot of wind.

One of these is cheap, easy and fast, one is hard, expensive and slow.

3-4 years of German rollout of onshore wind would probably do the job.
Yes I can see that (not sure if it's because I have `showdead` enabled or not, who knows). My point stands, I think.
It was supposed to be 8 hour days ... maybe I messed up the calculation. Either way, even if it's ten-fold: it's really not all that much money for a company Google's size, especially considering the "cheap" alternative gives poor results (which also translate to monetary costs).
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I disagree. I used to keep $10,000 cash in my apartment in case of an emergency. I earned it all from my job, but would I be able to prove that I had taken money out of particular paychecks and set it aside for my emergency fund? No, I would not have been able to.
But that's the point, crypto is a coordination mechanism that in most cases serves as an alternative when you don't have effective and trustworthy centralized institutions. It's pretty clear that (in this case) European financial regulators did a good job coordinating an effective and efficient electronic money transmission system.

But the whole world is not Sweden. Even in America, which is relatively first world with relatively decent institutions, our regulators failed to coordinate a decent electronic money transmission system. Now imagine being in Turkey or LatAm or Sri Lanka. (Or even just being in Europe and needing to interface with anywhere outside the European utopia.) Agree that decentralized protocols come with many inherent inefficiencies and frictions. But when institutions fail, the only alternative are decentralized protocols.

In many ways I see the pro- vs. anti- crypto division coming down to how much people believe in institutions. Most crypto criticisms come down to an appeal to just focus on building better institutions rather than waste mountains of talent on overly complex decentralized protocols. "Instead of all this on-chain stablecoin nonsense, why don't we focus our efforts on electing better financial regulators, who can bring European like money transfers to North America and eventually the globe?"

Whereas I think pro-crypto people (myself included), tend to think of any attempts to change public policy as /dev/null. Most of the world is saddled with horribly dysfunctional institutions, and it's not easy to fix. I have much more confidence in our ability to engineer solutions than mustering the necessary political and social coordination necessary to fix governments, policy, regulators and institutions.
Some of my video content is still missing...

We should run a bet pool on the root cause of the outage... (just kidding, we'll never know the real cause).
Infinite growth forever is a truism that isn't very useful.

Growth can continue indefinitely, but we will hit limiting factors relating to how we structured our economy.
Research brings better understanding of the stability of old groundwater
You can create links up to 500m under fields now.

Maybe you need to play the game of being friendly with the people who permafield you and convincing them not to. Or being friendly with people who can stop them

Not really high level play, just high don't-care-about-anyone-else play
Hmm, they mention it at the top of their Mac portal (https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Portal:Mac) but I don't see it anywhere else.

Emulation works pretty well from what I hear, is the lack of support that big of a deal right now?
thats why if you have reserve funds they need to not be in us banks, they can close down and go out of business in a recession.

Take physical wealth and move somewhere else if a really bad one happens.
Understand where you are coming from, but given the nature of C, what is the compiler to do with something like:

1 2 3

which are three expressions, and probably the programmer meant "123". Of course:

1; 2; 3;

is OK.
And tunnel them over https for security! ;)
I'm yet to ever see what TikTok looks like.
Microsoft releases open source toolkit for generating SBOMs
Oops! No idea what happened there... Was meant to link to this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWGaj6E08ks) but have resubmitted now (I can't see how to delete a submission?)
> Here's the issue with central planning. How does the government know which services residents will find desirable? I don't drink alcohol; why should my taxes pay for bars, which contribute to the death of >100k Americans a year? This difficulty is known as the local information problem.

I didn't say that government runs the bussiness. The public hoosuing buildings have space at ground level that is rented for businesses.

In many european contries you have supermarkets for the neighborhood in those spaces.

This is not public housing, but the lowest income neighborhood in my city, serves as example of where bussineses can be located.
https://www.google.es/maps/place/Gadis/@43.3576146,-8.416073...

Another example: https://www.google.es/maps/place/Eroski+Center/@43.3754534,-...
You may be in a neurodiverse relationship
Many governments are working on central bank digital currencies [0]. ERC20 tokens directly issued by the government onto crypto networks (such as Ethereum). Most assume they will be traceable and accounts will be KYC'd but there's hope that some governments will be better.

This will encourage most banks to support these same crypto rails via their apps making sending the currency as easy as cash or you could hold it in your own wallet on your phone for self-custody.

Once they are out there and on-chain it should be fairly easy for anyone to use them for payments if they don't care about privacy, or switch to another more private stablecoin if they do.

Future wallets will allow seamless conversion between any of these coins and automatic bridging between any network.

0: - UK: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/research/digital-currencies

- Australia: https://www.rba.gov.au/payments-and-infrastructure/central-b...
My favorite of the Doom efforts was as an interface for process management:
https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/chi/chi.html
Meryl Streep’s One Weird Trick
As CUDA Is to GPU, QODA Is to Quantum Compute
I looked into the comments posted on Video. It went viral because kids thought she cried and was lonely (something that many teens have in common, and with many comments, likes and shares, it went viral). The video title said, "I hope this made her day better". So basically, he tricked her, and the Video cuts at the right time with clever video editing, giving a false sense to the viewer that he was kind to her. It is about pumping numbers to get sponsorship while exploiting people's personal lives. The Video is still up and counting. He could have taken it down, but fame is more important than helping a fellow person who is his grandma's age.

The battle for privacy was lost a long time ago :(
OK, so I didn't make the original S&P market argument, I think they should go bigger and focus on globally diversified broad market funds, but, to get back to my original point, what's the alternative here?
Honestly I don't think the issue is that another recession is coming. It's going to be the fourth or fifth serious economic crisis I've experienced in my lifetime. What worries me is that the quality of our political leadership and in general our ability to diagnose and address complex issues is, in my view, at an all-time low.
If you're in Cobb I'm going to laugh my ass off. No wonder you're averse to public transit (can't have those "undesirables" coming in).

Unless you mean you're actually out near cummings or something and just claim it's Atlanta still. In which case... maybe - I don't really head up near Lake Lanier all that often.

Otherwise... plenty of delivery in brookhaven/perimeter/roswell. Honestly, you probably have more options for local delivery than we have across all of these services.

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> If these companies aren't making money, how are they "swindling" anyone?

Well - outside of the obvious damage discussed in the article, a simple answer might be that it's entirely unsustainable, and you're making long term plans based on services that won't exist in a year or two if interest rates keep climbing (even the CEO of grubhub calls food delivery a "crummy" business and wants to pivot to handling the advertising while kicking the delivery service back to the individual restaurants).

In the mean time you're not doing anything to address the real problems with transportation in that area, and you continue to live in an area that's extremely hostile to your long terms goals of being a "digital nomad".

Further... even though these companies aren't making money, it's cheaper to order your food for pickup and pay someone on taskrabbit $18/hour to go get it for you rather than add $3-$5 to every item, a $5-$10 delivery fee, and tip on that new inflated price. So yes - I'd say you're getting swindled still.
"At age 93, Frank Gehry, the original starchitect"

Nitpicking, but surely this title must go to Frank Lloyd Wright[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMXK_KtUVm4
That represents like a half million tenants. “Nothing” isn’t how I would describe it!
You might be taking this a little bit far. What Madoff was doing was plainly, and blatantly criminal. There really wasn't a business at all. I don't know how he'd "scale up" without imploding, and am skeptical that people would intentionally ignore and obvious Ponzi scheme.

So I guess another way to put it is that Madoff really didn't pretend to be legit, at least when you popped the hood. Honestly, I'll admit that I know less about the criminal side of the housing crisis (vs. Madoff), but I think even after the fact, stakeholders where claiming "nothing to see here, I did nothing wrong"; this is a much harder case to make when all you're doing is stealing people's money.

The analogy might work if he was actually doing some investment, misrepresenting these investments to the customer, but wound up doing really well anyway, and getting big. This is more like what Shkreli got busted for. Of course, he didn't get away with it, but that could be because of his notoriety.
You desolder to avoid 1, 2, and 3. That's why it makes sense. Washing machine has the stupid microcontroller you need and costs half of scalper prices? Washing machine it is.

Obviously the economics only work in low volume / high NRE sectors -- like semiconductor tooling.
I miss dyn.com. They were my registrar for over a decade before Oracle bought then and made them suck. They were the one registrer where you felt like you were dealing with a professional company, not "Crazy Eddie's discount Domains". When Oracle closed them down, I moved to namecheap, which is pretty good overall.
A failed algo update?

Looks like the site was rolled back somehow, I got a few followers back that I previously lost, and others are complaining on there that they lost followers unexpectedly.
I've been waiting for years for the emergence of the original Web 3.0 - the semantic web [1]. A web of machine readable data based on ontologies. How did it get redefined as a web on top of append-only blockchains?

[1] https://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/
> it was evident that it was going to change the world

That's easy to say in hindsight, but the utility of the internet was debated as hotly back then as the utility of cryptocurrency is today.

> By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/paul-krugman-internets-eff...
Yes, as opposed to any other strategy which will unwind even harder.
Ask HN: No-Code SaaS for parsing files
HI! Looking for a no-code SaaS solution with really good UI for a non-technical person to upload a file and extract structured data. The files are likely to be in TXT, CSV, or Excel format. Files will yield multiple rows of data, so the UI should make it relatively easy to identify the pattern/structure of fields, and then allow the user execute parsing, compare the resulting structured data against what the user sees, and iterate until it's solid.

I swear in the last month or so that such a product appeared on HN, but I've spent an hour combing thru browser history and searching HN, with no luck. I think I saw it on my phone using one of the popular HN apps that uses an embedded web browser, so there is no "history" feature.
I live in the hotbed of Ontario wind power, the intersection of Chatham-Kent and Windsor-Essex, and if all those windmills only account for 140MW I am very curious where the space would come from to even reach 1000MW. It already feels like they're everywhere.