skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They aren't trying, they are latching into anything that gives their belowed crypto credibility. Carbon offsets aren't working, crypto isn't working, and crypto carbon offsets is something only The Onion should suggest seriously.

The article is too kind for suggesting that there are roadblocks ahead. Roadblocks is all crypto ever had, but the joke is that nobody is clearing them, because the point of crypto is pumping and dumping shitcoins. Crypto is nothing, but those old Ponzi-schemes dressed up as a technological utopia with millions of promises and zero intention to follow any of them through. The people running these crypto projects are fishing for suckers.
These two were Luzerne County, PA judges, so the County or Pennsylvania jailed the kids, not the US federal government.
I have a colleague who was on the on-call rotation for some of our systems hosted in a datacenter our company owned. During this rotation he got unlucky in that the datacenter detected fire and decided to disperse gas that displaces oxygen (I think it was Halon gas?). Those systems are no joke - you have a short warning before you are supposed to put on a mask or get out of the server room otherwise you will just suffocate.

Anyways, no fire damage was detected but oh boy... he had to run around various tech stores left and right to buy about 50-100 enterprise grade spinning disks before returning to the site. The fire suppression system somehow broke most of the hard drives in the server room.

This was more than a decade ago, however. Most of the disks are replaced with SSDs and so far they seem to be much more resilient than the spinning ones.
I'm for banning private prisons.

But you can, theoretically, have private prisons without perverse incentives - just like you can have private grid operators and power plants without perverse incentives.

It just requires regulation.

Pretty much everything does.

We can't even have medicine without regulation to make sure people aren't filling pills up with nothing (or toxins) just to make an extra couple percentage points.

We don't have private justice, or private law enforcement. Why private prisons?
https://archive.ph/ktjOf
Does the sibling comment by phkahler cresolve your doubt?
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32514107)
I don't know. I am a layman. There is clearly a conflict of interest when a person who has the power to kill competition via regulation, or give corporate handouts via incentives and subsidies can invest in those very same companies.

I was wrong to state trading with insider information (although knowing what regulation will happen certainly seems like a form of privileged information) was the root problem here. The conflict of interest is what is corrosive to society.
I was always under the impression that the GOP claimed the title "rule of law party"

Also, your paraphrasing of her quote is uncharitable at best. I believe she said “We are a free-market economy. [Congress] should be able to participate in that”
No one other than _why can say what their intentions and desires for their works are.

The exact same argument you're making is what someone who would steal _why's work and charge money to republish it would make. Imagine if someone ganked the poignant guide to ruby and it became a NYT bestseller... can they just say "oh this is what _why would have wanted, for more people to read this" and walk away with all the profits?

Copyright is there for a reason, to protect the owner of a work. If _why chooses to do so they can go after anyone republishing their work for money or not.
Because they are among the most popular sources thus it’s useful to see how they differ.

Similarly, knowing how different sources cover things presumably is part of the criteria one would use to qualify/disqualify them for personal consumption.
Yeah Bootstrap is great for having component classes for most things normal webapps need, and having enough utility classes for the more custom things. Love that you can use it in apps that are a mix of technologies as well, and good component support in React, Svelte, HTML, etc.

Tailwind is neat but the lack of component class names means you have to roll your own or embed very specific style classes like shadows, borders, etc in to every component.
And if they were elected. I'm also all for throwing every voter in with the rest.
Why do you feel a need to emphasize the number keys and the section sign by giving their characters such a disproportionately large size than other keys? And why do you feel a need to deemphasize the function keys by giving them such a small font size? I very much dislike these choices.

I can't really tell if the numbers are in a different font than the rest of the keys, but if they are, I'd dislike that too. Please use a single font for the whole keyboard.

Aesthetics are a major selling point for your keyboard, so I think you need to spend more time and get expert advice about the fonts.

Finally, this is evidently a Mac-oriented keyboard, given how the control keys are labeled. If you plan to target the Windows market, you may wish to provide layouts with Windows-oriented control keys that are labeled as such (namely Ctrl, Alt, and the Windows key, or something that looks like the Windows key.)
Have you seen this, and do you have a perspective on it? https://www.remobjects.com/elements/gold/
The two judges were sentenced to 28 years and 17.5 years in prison, so it is more than just the cost of doing business they ended up facing.
It's disappointing, but just a fact of life now, that people will see the world so differently. People have always had differing politics, but there was a semblance of a baseline. I feel like we need a generation that strikes out against the notion of identity altogether (as I think identity is a core part of the issue), but that already feels like an identity in itself.
Awesome web design, for real; the style fits the product perfectly!
Hi Joost, LearnMYOG is my site. Never imagined seeing HN community be interested :) FreeSewing.org is an amazing project and its really impressive how you're using javascript to create adaptable patterns. Many of my community have experimented with your patterns as well!
>60% of Republicans turn to Fox News for political news and 53% of Democrats turn to CNN

It'd be nice to see comparisons of all the news networks, but if you're going to start somewhere it seems like the two which have the majority of viewers seems appropriate.
> It's also taking away the possibilities of the user entering numbers incorrectly (TOTP for example).

Awfully weak.

> Some countries have started introducing rules for certain industries where they're not allowed to switch between apps on a mobile phone. For example when trying to find their Authenticator app or checking their SMS/email for a TOTP.

Which countries are these?

> And finally, it is phishing resistant. You can phish for a users TOTP. You can't with a data connection the mobile device itself has to make over cellular data to the mobile network operator directly.

What if the user is using a VPN?
Subscribe to Netflix to find out more about it. You really can't get away from it.
> Self-service tax prep is in a much better place than it was 15 years ago because of the efforts of those private companies.

I guess, if you're only looking at the US. My understanding of the history is very different. In 2001-2002, the US was already behind other countries since it had no e-file option. The IRS was considering an official tax prep service. Because Bush was in office and there was huge pushback from the tax prep industry, it was pitched that a public/private partnership would be the fastest way to "catch up."

In 2019, ProPublica runs a story about TurboTax's shady behaviors hiding and up charging for what was agreed to be a free service. It should cover 70% of tax payers, but in practice is only used by 2-3%.

To me, this looks like an example where the government explicitly tried not to replace a large, private industry and the result could only possibly benefit 30% of people (likely significantly fewer since much of that 30% will still require personal tax prep). Even after 20 years of fallout and very explicit bad-faith behavior, the threshold for change hasn't been crossed.
The internet is no different than any other public domain. If you send nude pictures to your partner and they leak it, there is an implicit understanding that it is intended to be private and they can be held liable.

However, the platforms and websites that publish that leak cannot be held accountable nor are they beholden to any agreement between you and your partner. Simply because there is no explicit /implicit agreement outside those two parties.

The same logic applies to whatever material you publish on the web. Once it enters public domain, you've relinquished the control over its distribution. The principle here is that once you publish to a public domain and while you can claim copyright and take down the material using DMCA, as long as the platform complies they are granted safe harbour and you are not going to be able to claim damages especially if you did not commercialize it. Even if a game you were selling were distributed online, it would be very tough to stop or go after platforms that hosted it.

Following the "partner leaked pictures" scenario, the opinion of courts with precedent ruling is that it demonstrates an explicit boundary between the parties involved in the original leak of the picture who are known to each other vs third parties that consume it who have no idea what agreements took place between them. Damages to the partner that leaked it can be held responsible but neither the platform or its audience. Even if they monetized the content, they would not be at fault because there is no implicit/explicit agreement once those leaks enter the public domain.

I don't know why we are getting side tracked with leaked nudes scenario but the gist of it is that only your partner that leaked your nudes are liable. If he/she uploads and it enters public domain and is shared amongst the entire cities spanning the globe the platform and its audience cannot be held responsible because of the lack of implicit/explicit agreement between the subject in the photo and the original distributor.

> it remains a violation of copyright for him or anyone else to post them without your permission, and damages can be claimed.

You can file DMCA to take down the photos and you can claim damages from the leaker, not the people who distributed it after the fact and the platforms that monetized and hosted the content.

Otherwise we would not be able to enjoy websites like xvideos or pornhub, who would take down the photos/videos if requested through DMCA but would not be liable for further dissemination nor will its audience.

Simply said and put: Once you put out content in the public domain or view, you lose control of it, and you cannot put the cat back in the bag. Copyright laws and right to privacy IS NOT going to change this principle.
>So...I should try more

Yes. You're replying to the meme comment: "We tried nothing and we're all out of ideas." and you're literally saying you're out of ideas.

>by doing what, exactly?

You've already mentioned you have a 30 minute commute. What could you do to reduce that? Maybe your SO has better options for public transportation to their work than you do and you could move to take advantage of that while giving you a commute close enough to bike. You could car pool. You could work with your local government to increase public transit options. Get an E-bike and take that to the faster public transportation routes instead of waiting 2 hours on the bus. You could just take the bus.
Oh and this Noam Chomsky thought...
"When the corporatization of the state capitalist societies took place a century ago, in part in reaction to massive market failures, conservatives – a breed that now scarcely exists– objected to this attack on the fundamental principles of classical liberalism. And rightly so. One may recall Adam Smith's critique of the "joint stock companies" of his day, particularly if management is granted a degree of independence; and his attitude toward the inherent corruption of private power, probably a "conspiracy against the public" when businessmen meet for lunch, in his acid view, let alone when they form collectivist legal entities and alliances among them, with extraordinary rights granted, backed, and enhanced by state power."
— Noam Chomsky
Thanks for this clarification. I had a hunch it was a weird mix of the two. In reality I'm glad congresspeople don't have a lens into the money printing business.
It's not disrespectful to argue that putting something on the internet doesn't make it public domain, no matter what _why thought or thinks. If _why doesn't want it taken down, he won't ask them to take it down. That doesn't mean that conversations about whether things put the internet become publicly owned, even sparked by someone bootlegging a defunct site under the original domain name, have to hinge on what _why thinks.

Or whether things put on the internet are any more publicly owned than books, television shows, or movies, which can all easily be put on the internet (and which everybody agrees is extremely problematic irt the law.)

edit: also, this really reeks of weird parasocial hero worship unless you know the man and have asked him about it.
As usual from Chrome, 100% ignores the fact that developers have wanted to use fetch to be able to reactively hear of resources coming in, & chrome has (largely) ignored these pleas. The post focuses only around the most boring & basic capability of webpage loading, since that was the only capability developers ever got.

The article talks about Jake Archibald enumerating some problems with PUSH. Well, Jake was also author to a mini-proposal to add Push support to fetch so developers could try out other uses for push. Seemingly ignored by chrome.

https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/607

Having the browser be a minimalist, picky implementation of http protocols is hard for me to reconcile & be ok with. There's well over a half decade of neglect & plugging their ears on Chrome's side around Push, not listening to users, not delivering us low-level extensibility manifesto capable apis, and this pulling the plug is sad and sorely premature.

We are stuck forever inventing new non-http transports, over SSE, over websockets/webtransport, over long polling, becayse Chrome systematically ignored the one thing that would have made http capable of satisfying many of the desires of the old HybridBidirectional working group, & has kept the page unable to understand & recieve resources coming to it. What a blasted shame.
Have you heard of the STOCK Act?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act
I think I’m more intrigued by topics that are suspiciously absent from BOTH sources.

E.g. it is surprisingly difficult to find any TV news coverage of the wild macroeconomic trends going on with China’s banking and real-estate sector at the moment.

Also: Epstein trial follow-ups; Ghislaine Maxwell living it up after a guilty verdict. Remember when Bill Gates and many other leaders/ politicians were found to have a _paper trail_ of their involvement with Epstein??
> tries and fails to develop a sudoku solver and keeps failing at it

But that's because he deliberately does it in a stupid way to make TDD look bad, just like the linked article does with his "quicksort test". But that's beside the point - of course a stupid person would write a stupid test, but that same stupid person would write a stupid implementation, too... but at least there would be a test for it.
> If we only have so much agency to make a difference in the world, how much should we beat ourselves up over the inability to change it?

Definitely something to consider. For a long time, I justified my actions with a combination of "well, I'm doing good with the money", "if I didn't do this, someone else would so quitting doesn't accomplish anything", and "unlike a narrative protagonist, I don't have the capability to change the world".
Because they're the two biggest news sources?
America's Affordable Housing Problem
Top-most comment to the link you provided pretty much explains the situation. TDD is a software development method, not a generic problem solving method. If one doesn’t know how a Sudoku solver works, applying TDD or any other software development method won’t help.
Depends where/how you want to live.

Retiring at 35 you should be able to get away with a 3.25% SWR [0], which'd give $65k/yr from $2M. But a) that'd be mostly long-term capital gains, which have lower taxes than regular income and b) you wouldn't have to save for retirement. So you'd probably end up with the spending power of someone making ~$80k salary

[0] https://earlyretirementnow.com/2016/12/14/the-ultimate-guide...
What are good news sources? I guarantee you that for any news source you pick, there are people who will argue that it is crappy and/or biased.
The point is that they are both very popular [1] (and hence influential), no matter our opinion about them.

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/373814/cable-news-networ...
That’s cute. No interest in being “repaired” by someone who can’t see the obvious difference between a democracy and a dictatorship, and the clear fact that even identical actions done by the two are not equally legitimate.
Well and unscrupulous foreign actors exacerbating a situation for their own ends.
I've just published a feedback article on Nixpacks since I experimented it 2 months ago. https://www.qovery.com/blog/my-feedback-about-nixpacks-an-al...

TLDR; it's promising
LISPs all seem tremendously resilient.

I wonder what intrinsic quality makes a language long lived, rather
than blame communities and whatnot.

Another stalwart is Pure Data, the DSP language I am very fond
of. It's based on atomic principles. Indeed the primitive processing
elements are called Atoms, being irreducible ops like multiply, add,
sin and cos. There really isn't much that can change. For C as for
LISP, especially Scheme, it's hard to break them down any further, yet
they are high enough level to be useful for programming. There's some
sweet-spot to be found.
The few interested are already willing to go through the trouble of setting up a VM with an ancient OS. Presumably they could find some old database or virtualize a mail server for it or some other workaround I'm not imagining.

I doubt anyone is going to read that and say "what a good idea, let's install Windows 98 on my hardware and muck about."
This has the potential to be a major problem for the upcoming merge. If OFAC regulations hit major public companies like Coinbase & LIDO etc., they may start censoring transaction at the base layer (not in a DAPP). And given that they represent the majority of stake currently, ETH would effectively no longer be a decentralized project.
once your kids are a little older you’ll have plenty of time to mid life crisis (just in your 50s instead)
There is no need for batteries to "replace fuels". Batteries are useful in places, but fuels, soon sythetic fuels, will continue to be used, particularly for shipping and aviation. There is no need for pumped hydro to "beat batteries". Both will be used.

There is no shortage of land to use for elevated reservoirs, and (again) no implied threat to watersheds in building them. There is no need for "at least 20 kWh/m^2". Reservoirs have many uses that all add value. They may store energy and water, provide recreation, habitat, irrigation, and a site for solar, all at once. There is no need for them to store 2 months' power. There is very little economy of scale: a dozen reservoirs are as good as one. Construction cost is not proportional to capacity. At worst, it goes as the square root, to build the perimeter dike.

Extraction rate is a question of how big and how many Pelton wheels attached to generation equipment you care to install.

And, as always, immediate and local cost will dictate choice. There is no need for universal numbers or a single answer for everybody.
I'm glad these guys are being punished for their actions, but the wildest part to me is that if they hadn't been taking kickbacks - if they were just Law and Order types who thought sending a 14 year old to boarding school for 9 months was an appropriate punishment for stealing change from unlocked cars, or that sending a 15 year old to wilderness camp for mocking an assistant principal on MySpace - then nothing would have happened and it would still be business as usual. In other words, the issue wasn't wildly punitive sentences for minors committing trivial crimes (or non-crimes); it was that they got paid outside the confines of the system.
How certain can we be that that's the case? Seems like thermo-regulation and burrowing in particular could have been helpful traits in the immediate and long-term aftermath of the asteroid impact
> I don't know what kind of programming you do, but the idea that a wrong function becomes inconsequential in a larger system... I feel like that just never happens unless the function was redundant and unnecessary in the first place. A wrong function brings down the larger system feels like the only kind of programming I've ever seen.

I think we’re talking extremes here. An egregiously wrong function can bring down a system if it’s wrong in just the right ways and it’s a critical dependency.

But if you look at most code bases, many have untested corner cases (which they’re likely not handling) but the code base keeps chugging along.

Many codebases are probably doing something wrong today (hence GitHub issues). But to catastrophize that seems hyperbolic to me. Most software with mistakes still work. Many GitHub issues aren’t resolved but the program still runs. Good designs have redundancy and resilience.
I think there was something like a package manager.

Tbh, I wish we lived in an alternative reality where SML won over JS and we had it running on every major browser.
It's owned by a few of them and then partnered with the rest of them.
What's the expected incident rate? And is this far outside the probability of random clustering?
> These results can be verified by performing the experiment with an actual light meter — the meter should show about twice as strong a reading in the Figure 1 arrangement as it does in the Figure 3 arrangement.

Quantum mechanics predicts that the difference is a factor of 4, not a factor of 2.
They already aren't very concerned about their well-being... not sure how it would make it any worst...
Do these studies explain why ICE cars and hybrids and "Neighborhood Electric Vehicles" that are similarly quiet do not have to have noisemakers? Or would you prefer we ask the GM lobbyist to explain it to us?
How else will I set myself apart from other people while also showing that any people are on my side?
Todoist - such a great idea, thanks alexdh. Combining it with the comment below by rawgabbit[1] about time blocking, what tools exist which can automatically time block tasks, and make a holistic schedule. For example, if the advice says “visualize your dream for 10 minutes”, do yoga every morning, “write 1 page every day”, “drink X glasses of water a day”, and so on - is there a tool which can take all of these tasks, and automatically build out a 2 week schedule? Right now, I’m imagining manually time blocking, shifting & stretching events in Google Calendar, manually linking Todo’ist to the calendar invite, and linking the checklist from the calendar invite. A bit unwieldy…

I would love to have a system which sets out to have a “perfect” month - all the various habits and to-dos are dialed in & time blocked, logically ordered (eg certain errands are logically grouped together, perhaps based on tool and location), but is flexible to adapt to real life stuff.

“Yes you wanted to do yoga today, but turns out the dog’s gotta go to the vet, etc. But don’t worry, the “system” will automatically shuffle your schedule to get you back on track…”

Have you come across something like that?

* [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32513380