skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about IQ (whatever that might really be), but I do know that the whole concept of high school has changed since the 50s and 60s. Back then the intent was that the degree should prepare you to be a fully functioning adult and citizen. I read that a majority of big company CEOs in the 50s did not attend college, but can't find a confirming link for this comment. Certainly few people went to university back then, yet society functioned just fine, for the majority at least.

Now much of the first year of college in the US seems to be "leveling up" on stuff that should have been in high school, like writing (source: discussions with friends who teach University). Certainly you see this with California high schoolers, where despite its riches the schools are in a parlous state.
Would a person selling shares of themselves owe a fiduciary duty to the shareholders? That could get a little awkward if someone were to come along and offer to buy for more than the current market cap. You'd kind of be obligated to sell. I think there's a word for that.
>The human mind acclimates to improvements remarkably fast

I bought a Fitorch P25 last November. A LED flashlight, runs on a single li-ion cell, costs about $70. Fits in the palm of your hand. It has a light output of three thousand lumens! (A T8 florescent tube, which is four feet long and runs on mains power, does about 2600 lumens.)

It's got a couple brightness modes, which it makes you step through in series, for safety. At full grunt, if you hold your hand in the beam you have to squint against the glare and you can feel heat on your hand-- all from visible-spectrum photons only, no infrared! It's bright! Of the many warnings silkscreened onto the tube, one needs to be "do not look into flashlight with remaining eye".

I keep it on my desk, to keep me humble. I remember incandescent flashlights, and I remember alkaline batteries. Will my children remember them? Of course not.
Yes, because natural gas is cheaper.

Amazing.

When people said we'd be using renewables I somehow didn't think dinosaur farts would be the largest slice of the pie.
Back in the 90s I wrote code for an x86 floppy bootsector to produce a little graphical display— a gradient background in VGA mode 13h with some text. Nothing too fancy.

I’d set the direction flag as part of programming the palette registers and forgot to clear it before the loop that displayed the text.

As a result of the “wrong” direction flag all my text appeared backwards.

I added a CLD instruction to clear the direction flag, “costing” one byte, reassembled and re-ran the code and found that it worked as-expected.

Then I got the idea to go remove the CLD (getting my byte back) and just reversed the text strings in the source. Then, when displayed with the “wrong” direction flag the text appeared “right”.

I still giggle about the simple pleasure that brought me, 26 years later.
This is pure ignorance. Care to elaborate so people can explain why you're wrong?
If NYT was a well funded propaganda organ of an armed organization that was explicitly intent on causing harm to a nation state, it absolutely would be restricted in many nation states.

This is the special privilege autocracies get, being hostile while also being allowed to speak.
Then don't tax unrealized gains but also don't have loopholes that allow the untaxed use of unrealized gains (collateralized loans) or that eliminate unrealized gains like the stepped up basis.
Our node docker images are 600-1000 MB for relatively simple website (backend and frontend). 25 MB would be so good and lightweight.
Yeah, I switched completely to nix after being frustrated with homebrew constantly breaking things (any time I installed something. (Usually involving libicu being replaced with a different version.) And then had to pick up homebrew again for a couple of things.

I _really_ like being able to drop into a shell with a few additional packages installed. But nix does have a learning curve and some rough edges. I found it tricky to use things like libraries outside of nix's build process. And there is a bit of an impedance mismatch when trying to use languages that have their own package management.

So I've got nix for a bunch of software, a couple of libraries in homebrew, and native package management for various languages (cargo, ghcup, lake, idris).

I also reluctantly installed agda via homebrew because I can't get it to build. (Haskell mostly works on M1).
People say that but yet nobody linked to a post explaining the “right way” of using nix on macOS
You say this as if there's some other kind
easy way to tell: does it happen with other Javascript frameworks?
Thanks for compiling and sharing these :)
Ha, cool! I also tried to copy Turbo Vision[1]. And unsuccessfully tried to create a library for a UI like Universal Improved Patcher[2] (you can run it in the DOS emulator).

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

[2] https://defacto2.net/f/ab1f8e4?dosspeed=auto#emulator
This looks nothing like Mithril.js outside of the superficial comparison of the hyperscript helper using `m` instead of `h`, but almost every popular reactive front-end lib has a hyperscript-like API.
You're missing secondary reflections.
Meaningless for who? You or the people your paying respect to?

Is it meaningless to take a minute silence for fallen humans in a war? Is it meaningless to pay respects to your close ancestors?

Maybe! Maybe not. I know which side my soul falls on.
This is a topic that I think requires a more in depth article, but I'll attempt to justify myself as best I can in the limited space of a comment.

In most languages, related data is generally represented by some manner of closed record, struct or object. In Clojure, this data is represented by open maps instead.

This distinction may seem minor or even irrelevant, but in my view it's the key difference between Clojure and other languages, and the reason why the MVC pattern has never quite fit comfortably in Clojure.

In a language that uses closed records, complex data tends to align itself in terms of fixed hierarchies. Think of how the models in Rails are typically laid out. You have a few dozen models, with a handful of fields each, arranged in some sort of static tree or graph.

In Clojure, data doesn't tend to align itself in the same way. Data doesn't need to be artificially grouped if there's no benefit in doing so; its structure can be much more amorphous.

There's a similar problem at the "view" end. REST tends to assume a hierarchy of resources, when that may not be the best way for the client to get the data it wants, or for the server to represent the data.
Public opinion does not drive. Cost drives.

Nukes have only ever been built where the cost was substantially or completely absorbed off-budget, typically by taxpayers.
Yes! Looks like I'll only need to be on HN for another 21 years to become HN famous! ;)

Purusing these personel pages are fun. I also have an idle curiosity if these top accounts get karma mainly from comments or submits? As in are comments or stories are the driving portion of the HN karma system?
But if you could pay them in USD or pesos, you would? Can't you see how the government would take an issue with that, the very same issue that they have with USD or pesos?
Too late to edit, but related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27089184, immutable pointer aliasing, https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/4021.
There was scarcely any financial incentive to address the grid scale energy storage problem until like two or three years ago. There are a half dozen startups working on it now.

My vote is to rapidly install renewables while we have the natural gas backstop, and give the storage startups a few years to make it happen. Energy Dome, Hydrostor, and Form Energy all look promising.

And if new nuclear turns out to be less expensive than expected, great.
Yes, it does, although karma on any individual comment is capped at -4 and if you keep posting them you may have moderation action taken against you.
I’m looking at nix-darwin but there is no explanation on what it actually does

https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin
Argentina does look like the most interesting country to dig deeper into here.

As always with crypto stuff, a big challenge is finding trustworthy news outlets. I generally don't trust stories from the crypto press.

Found this on the BBC from one of their foreign correspondents (hence someone who will be held to BBC editorial and conflict-of-interest standards): https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60912789

It does note that: "So far it is the preserve of a minority - largely a young, male, tech-savvy, and relatively affluent population. It's tech workers, not farmers, who are being paid in Bitcoin."

That story is also from April. I'd like to see updated coverage now that the crypto market has crashed. How many people in Argentina got burned badly by that?
Search for Cal Newport’s books and ignore most advice you receive here, including this one.

And, trust yourself.
Could you elaborate on what broke when you updated macOS? Granted, my Nix installation is a single-user installation (so it doesn't have the edited /etc/bashrc and /etc/zshrc that get overridden), but it worked without any issues after I updated from Big Sur to Monterey, so I'm curious about your experience.

The only things that broke for me after the update were the xcode command-line tools, which break for everyone[1].

[1](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32893412/command-line-to...)
ya,. developer experience. thought it was kind of a lame term and first but now i kinda love it. dx all the way. aint using no framework i have to fight with even if it produces optimal ux. sorry users, i love me more than you
The problem with that approach is that the microdot pattern has to be fixed. SFM type approaches work by doing feature matching between images to determine the correspondence between images. If the microdot pattern changes for each image, the correlation fails.

AIUI, the kinect and similar tools don't do SFM, but rather measure depth by looking at how the micro-dot pattern is distorted.
I checked your submissions and you have three from twitter. They said they filtered out users with too many Twitter submissions. I really don't see the problem with Twitter submissions. Sometimes people Tweet interesting things with links in the Tweet.
This prompted me to look. Could not find too much though I found this post suggesting that it can go negative.
I would assume at a certain point your account would be banned so maybe there is a cap. Personally I would be surprised if these folks had websites.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9179609
I think that what is needed is an extra sentence two:

" ... or at least, it was their land, until we, colonizers from overseas, won a war against them, or at least left them them so powerless that it is now left to us to say these meaningless platitudes to remind people, without reminding them of the violence, genocide and destruction that we rained down on the original inhabitants."
I taught my kids how to dodge and block various physical attacks and that if anyone tries to hit them they should extract themselves from the situation and retreat to a safe place.
I just started with GM's OnStar. Here's an ominous paragraph in [1]:

If you sell or otherwise transfer your vehicle, it is your responsibility to delete all information (such as contacts, address look-ups, saved map addresses, or preferences) from the vehicle and contact us to transfer or cancel your account. If you do not delete this information, it may remain in the vehicle and may be accessible to future users of the vehicle. For instructions on how to delete information from your vehicle, please refer to your vehicle owner’s manual.

So apparently, if you look a place up (say, the motel where you and your extramarital partner meet), it stays with the car and/or your OnStar account.

[1] https://www.onstar.com/us/en/privacy_statement
Says the only person using vim
It’s not tied to React at all. JSX is (intentionally) designed to have unspecified semantics, and be used as a compiler mechanism to implement arbitrary semantics. Most usage compiles to something resembling a function call or a memo of same. AFAIK all VDOMs use that approach.

Some non-VDOM JSX libraries like Solid use it as a static analysis target for optimal output.

Some libraries including React use it to target non-browser render targets. Yes, React is designed to render to arbitrary views or even non-views. It’s used for rendering WebGL, native mobile apps, TV interfaces, CLIs, PDFs and probably a lot else.

As far as what’s described here, “that’s fast” is meant as “which is fast”, it’s distinguishing itself from slower VDOMs (such as React, which is exceedingly well engineered but seldom wins performance contests in recent years).
First of all left vs right has always been a spectrum of issues, with economics only being one.

That said, the move leftward has been much sharper on race and sexual minorities. But not non-existent for economics. Particularly when it comes to social justice.

For example, Bill Clinton signed into law a bill that pushes people off of welfare and into work, or simply dumps them into severe policy. This disproportionately made single mothers and blacks worse off. His position was slightly to the right of most Democrats at the time. But the Democratic party today is strongly for increased access to a wide variety of assistance programs for those in need. And programs that disproportionately hit the economically needy would not be supported by major Democrats today.
One example would be a browser game where left click places a block and right click removes a block. You wouldn't want the default context menu appearing every time you right-clicked.
Is temperature really a big problem? It’s pretty easy to generate heat with electricity and I assume the near total lack of an atmosphere on the surface of the moon makes insulation straightforward.
> did you even read the moneygram PR?

First of all, I hope you read the guidelines. [0]

Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

> So the real world use-case for Moneygram is to exchange cryptocurrency for cash and vice versa. How exactly does this refute his point?

Whilst you were reading it, Did you ignore this?

>> The partnership focuses on delivering a service that revolutionizes the settlement process. For the first time, settlement with MoneyGram will occur in near-real-time using USDC, one of the world's fastest growing dollar digital currencies. This enables an accelerated collection of funds, improving efficiencies and reducing risks.

The claim: "Money transfer use-cases would fall directly in the category of “crypto-only”. For as long as Bitcoin has existed, this has been touted as a great use-case — but it never really materialized."

Indeed, Bitcoin cannot be used for that use case for a number of obvious reasons and it seems that Moneygram, Stellar, etc partnered for that use-case, otherwise that solution would not exist. The author seems to be trying their hardest to narrow the goal post for this one.

> And having blockchain domains that can only be accessed using a particular dns, a VPN service, certain browsers or having to install an extension is hilarious.

So that means you can't use it today and it is 'not a use case'? Perhaps it's 'hilarious' for users today especially those in either Russia or Ukraine to download a specific browser or extension to access the Tor Network or .onion links. Seems like all these users defending it don't see that as a problem? [1]. Beacon browser (Chromium derivative) does the same thing for Handshake, ENS domains: https://impervious.com/beacon

Assuming you have read the whole article in [2]:

Can you seize a Handshake / ETH domain away just like a private equity attempted to do for a .org domain? Surely they [3] saw that as a problem and were crying about it.

> "Handshake domain names provide true ownership. Which means there are yearly renewal fees"

The mining fees for a TLD are biannual and are for every 2 years and are 100,000x times cheaper compared to ICANN which is $180,000 per TLD filed for application + $5,000. But I thought you read the whole article from [2] which you failed to cite this. Clearly you did not.

If you want 'true' ownership, you will also find that in [4] that a Handshake TLD can be locked and verified in a decentralised registry forever [3] which has virtually zero renewal fees.

So once again, there's seems to be a valid use case in blockchain domains. Especially with the use-case in payments directly to readable names rather than unreadable addresses.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32288058

[2] https://learn.namebase.io/about-handshake/about-handshake

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21611677

[4] https://registry.impervious.com
Materialism is a bore. Focus on spiritual richness #FTW.
Idle curiosity: which users have the most karma per comment?

And most karma per comment if you filter out "politics" (although that is hard and vague) ?

How many high karma users are inactive? pg (creator of the site) seems to be one: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg

FWIW here is the leaderboard: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

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Also my impression is that this list is overwhelmingly male, although I guess that's not too surprising
> people in all seriousness suggest Spivak, or Rudin

What's wrong with them?
I have no idea what current legal thought is, but I would hope that it factors in how data is collected. There is a world of difference between observing someone in a public space and using a device attached to private property to collect data. Likewise, there is a difference between passive observations and what is effectively stalking someone.

As for photographer's rights, I work in a public space. I don't care whether people photograph me unless it crosses the line of harassment. Likewise, if I notice someone taking photographs of other people's children, I will do my best to make them feel uncomfortable with their actions. Context is always important.

The idea of what is public and private data is also constantly changing. I recall governments making public data available online in the mid to late 1990's. Records that you could visit government offices for in prior decades (e.g. certain types of property records) were viewed in a very different light once they became easily accessible. These changes will continue to handle, in part to balance rights but also because we need to address an imbalance of power due to an imbalance in access to information.
This chart is kind of dated and misleading at the moment.

1) You don't need an archive node to fully verify the current state of the chain. A full geth node in full sync mode (about 600gb) will process every transaction of every block and get you the current state. You only need an archive node if you want the history of each account and contract separately indexed.

2) Folks that do want an archive node can now use much more space efficient clients then geth such as erigon (1.4tb) or besu (1.2 tb) if they want to run a block explorer or query the state of an account in the past.
I think this means I spend too much time on HN.
There were actually blockchain updates proposed that didn't store transactions (see mimblewimble) but they had other issues so were not used
Most, but not all, people on the leaderboard are prolific commenters. I have heard (but cannot confirm personally :P) that posting a lot of interesting content can get you karma pretty quickly, but most of the people who do that seem to churn off the site eventually? I can only think of a handful of people who still do this regularly and don't comment.
Million was originally created as a Virtual DOM -- and still ships as a Virtual DOM. More recently, Million added an optional react compat library in order to make it easier for users to learn about Million.

I'm open to different ways to market Million if there is a specific tagline you have in mind
Whatever the audited data might be, there is a significant population of people in many countries around the world using crypto as a currency, not as an investment. At the end of the day, that may be its true value/demand. I have no doubt that regulators will do their best to make that more and more difficult, but the net effect of that seems to only enhance its value as a currency.
great, i hope it does well :)
I’ve been in this space for a long time, know a lot of people. Lebanon is another country that is heavily using crypto. You will see a lot of countries with corrupt governments and central banks become bottom-up crypto centric, but this won’t be reported for a long time until suddenly the NYT will release an article and only then it is “actually” happening.

Here’s an informative episode on a podcast if you actually care https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bitcoin-standard-p...
Huh? Only one of those subs had issues with its nuclear reactor, but there was no "disaster": it was scuttled in a controlled manner (though unfortunately in a location that the IAEA disagreed with).

All the other incidents listed had nothing to do with their nuclear reactors; they would have all sunk just the same had they been powered by diesel fuel.

I'm not sure what you mean by the US Navy sinking two "catastrophically": none of the deaths listed on the page you link have anything to do with the fact that nuclear power was used.

However, you probably should have linked this section of the overall article on nuclear submarines:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_submarine#Reactor_acci...

It's weird that the section starts off with "Some of the most serious nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll in the world have involved nuclear submarine mishaps", as the following list doesn't seem to support that, only cataloguing 28 deaths and 162 cases that probably included lifelong health problems. (These numbers are not great, but still not as bad as for land-based reactor incidents, and tiny compared to deaths and health problems caused by burning fossil fuels.) They do claim "substantial radioactivity released" in several of the incidents, but don't quantify the effects, or what the effects would have been if it had been a land-based reactor (so maybe very bad!).

I hesitate to mention this (as I don't want to sound dismissive), but it might be notable to consider that all of these incidents occurred on Soviet subs, and that there hasn't been an incident since 1989. The navies of the US, UK, France, China, India, and post-Soviet Russia have never (at least as far as we know) had a reactor incident with their nuclear-powered subs.
I just broke 10k a few weeks ago, so I guess I'm famous now. AMA!
I don’t see how we get there though because all it takes is one defector to steamroll everyone else who refuses to use violence to defend themselves.
>You're so against people hoarding, i.e. saving money?

The problem with this kind of system: It's not just about saving. What's actually happening is those who have saved more are accumulating even more money by doing nothing, and everyone else who needs to spend it to buy food and shelter is suddenly losing more and more of their money. When it starts happening at a faster rate than the economy is producing actual value then you hit hyperdeflation and the economy spirals.
I don't want an existing object? You seem to be having a lot of trouble with this very basic idea. Objects do not necessarily need distinct addresses. "But that's how C++ works" is just a fact about how C++ works, it has no larger significance, and where it conflicts with the sensible way to do things it's actually a defect.
Speedbump: TCP proxy for simulating variable, yet predictable network latency
They will use crypto because it’s far more difficult to censor. The governments have been able to prevent individuals from storing and saving wealth, but this is becoming a lot harder and will continue to be ever harder.