skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few that come to mind..

Hand-written compiler for WebAssembly Text format to binary - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stagas/wat-compiler/main/s...

Gameboy emulator implemented in C, that also runs in the browser - https://github.com/binji/binjgb

QuickJS Javascript Engine - https://github.com/bellard/quickjs

The TypeScript language and compiler - https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript
If you like those things then a union contract can keep them that way.
Ask HN: What Shopify apps are you using?
Shopify dev agency here. What apps can't you live without, any why? Founders of apps, feel free to plug your own stuff. We try to keep our app stacks pretty lean, but we're always looking to expand them if there's a good case for it.
They're secure enough when layered appropriately (https, quic, dtls, etc)
TLDR; author doesn't find the numbers shared in some Twitter gossip as plausible, but has no better data than their own gut feeling from being in the industry.

There doesn't seem to be much to take home here, other than that the original tweet isn't clear about its own denotation or veracity.
This is the compiler writer equivalent of parsing HTML with regex:

It is technically wrong - it isn't a sufficiently rich and powerful approach to handle all JS (HTML) that you might throw at it. It'll work for a while until it eventually barfs when you least expect it.

EXCEPT that if the inputs you are giving it come from some understood source(s) that aren't likely to change, then a simpler approach to the "all singing all dancing" correct may be appropriate and justified. E.g. because it might be easier to write, easier to maintain and/or less attack surface etc.
How to understand central banking and the fiat currency system:

All money is a coin created by a national government. USD is America Coin, Sterling is UK coin, Yen is Japan coin, etc.

Within the boundaries of the nation, everyone uses the national coin.

All goods and services are produced somewhere. If produced and consumed in the same nation, the same coin is used.

Things get interesting with international trade. All countries cannot produce every single last thing they want. So they have to purchase from other countries. And the other countries require the use of their own coin when buying their goods and services.

Exporters get paid in their nation’s coin, which becomes an important source of foreign currency for the central bank / government. More exports = more conversion into the nation’s coin = more forex. If a car exporter sells cars, the central bank will facilitate payment to them in local coin, but the central bank will take and store the forex.

Things get very interesting (and corrupt) with imports. In any given nation, there is only so much forex. If you try to acquire more forex (like USD) by printing more local coin and then trading it for USD, you will get inflation. So countries with well managed central banks try and avoid this. So who can use the limited USD to import what they want becomes subject to political will. Often politically favored firms get access to the USD to buy the goods and materials they need, which they then sell locally. If there simply isn’t any more USD to buy stuff, competitors can’t enter to be an importer.

As the most important good in the entire world - oil - is traded almost exclusively in USD, every country has an everlasting and unquenching thirst for USD. This gives the US enormous power, as it can print more money with way less risk of inflation than other countries can. It also lets the US get ever cheaper goods and services from abroad with such demand for a good that takes a mouse click to produce (USD).

Bitcoin (and other cryptos if they can be successful) is extremely dangerous to this model because it is not controlled by any government. It is exactly like the old gold system, except way better because you don’t need to protect the gold with soldiers and vaults, move it with huge ships, and so on. It’s gold on the internet.

If goods start being priced in Bitcoin directly, it will be akin to the old global system of everything being priced in gold.

But in general, think of fiat money like coins and central banks as a single centralized validator node that has sole authority to mint new coins.
> I think they ought to spend more on engineering.

Inevitably, yes.

But the fact that they can even be competitive at so many things:

Webmail, calendar, office, CRM, remote support, meet, chat, etc.

... and be among the cheapest total solution out there, justifies that they're not the best at any one thing.
It is sad when people die, and I'm feeling guilty laughing at people fighting for the right to write history at the same speed it happens.
I really don't like "fact-checking" articles like this which don't contain many useful facts, only pedantry. The first comment (by Kristen McLean from NPD BookScan) is much more interesting than the article itself:

>>>0.4% or 163 books sold 100,000 copies or more

>>>0.7% or 320 books sold between 50,000-99,999 copies

>>>2.2% or 1,015 books sold between 20,000-49,999 copies

>>>3.4% or 1,572 books sold between 10,000-19,999 copies

>>>5.5% or 2,518 books sold between 5,000-9,999 copies

>>>21.6% or 9,863 books sold between 1,000-4,999 copies

>>>51.4% or 23,419 sold between 12-999 copies

>>>14.7% or 6,701 books sold under 12 copies

So, ~66.1% or 2/3 of books in their dataset sell under a thousand copies.
> Didn't the EU leaders botch the most recent global crisis, the Covid pandemic?

I would not say so. Compared to most other countries the EU did very well:

- Got the best vaccines with the 2nd fastest (USA was better because the EU did not mandate Pfizer to build a factory in the EU, thus Trump could block most of the vaccine exports for a few months until the USA was mostly vaccinated). Compare this to e.g. China where they still have to do lockdowns, likely because of their subpar vaccine that is ineffective in the elderly. Or to Japan where like 2% of the population was vaccinated by the time of the olympics.

- Was among the best for keeping the virus under control until it was not necessary with the right amount of lockdowns. For bad examples see Russia where lockdowns were not enforced/declared too late or Brazil where they declared it a hoax.

So who did better?

- Israel with securing the very first batch for a price of playing guinea pigs, which was a big gamble.

- Island states like New Zealand or Australia because they can just lock down airports and ports to prevent spread. EU could not do this, too many land borders.

Compared to some ideal world where we would have a global lockdown for 2 weeks and the virus is gone everyone was doing pretty shitty of course. But compared to other countries EU was among the best.
If you have a web browser with "jar:" URI scheme, it can also display EPUB files, although not the table of contents list. You will have to write "jar:" before the URL and "!/" after the URL, to make a directory listing of the file. (It also displays Gempub files OK, with the additional code that I have added to support Gemini file format)

Some other features such as "last paragraph", accessibility, annotations, etc, could be made to be supported even for any HTML file (in some cases, only for local files), even if it is not EPUB. (Since, EPUB is already HTML, anyways)
I like Piumarta's code https://piumarta.com/software/maru/maru-2.4/

bsd code is clean

minikanren

some old lisp (le lisp or eulisp I forgot)
Anecdotally I have always paid cash. I show my ID to get the military veteran discount but they don't write anything down. I would be curious if the online ammo sites will give people warnings. I also assume the firearm youtubers will be talking about this.
We don't know either way, but a standard Postgres install doesn't let remote connections do much. You still have to authenticate before anything is allowed. It's not much different to sshd in this regard. A typical web server is far more promiscuous, with a massive surface area exposed to unauthenticated connections. There have been way more disasters from buggy web frameworks/apps that get systematically popped by crawlers, than from people running RDBMS.
Don't know about their trade deficit, but I talked to a few people living there and they said, crypto is the only way for them.

Their own currency is unusable, and the government limits how much dollar they buy.
You can expect negative results in the short term and be more optimistic about succeeding over the long term. I think you understand this quite well, here on this news site run by ycombinator, a technology incubator.
I agree. This is how I describe KGF

Part 1 has shot / camera angle changing every 2 seconds, like an American music video (movie is not musical just talking about the video)

Part 2 is more traditional with the camera angle / shot changing every 4 seconds.

And then there is some story to fill these few thousand camera shots, but your head hurts so much from the very changing screen visuals … maybe it is my age :)
I'd say get something written down, with a date and signature. It doesn't have to be fancy, it can be 1-2 sentences only. It should make clear what assets/rights are given up and that he made the decision with prior thinking about it. I don't think he'd claim the existing text messages are fake later but might claim it was meant differently, under influence (drunk) or pressured.

If the company is big in the future such a (former) founder can stirr up just enough hassle and doubt to look for some kind of payout, deserved or (more likely) not.

I've been in a similar situation (a company wasn't incorporated yet) but I got a nice signed letter. That gave me confidence I own assets, e.g. the logo, even though the other project person paid for it with his own money. I guess that also something to watch out for: did your co-founder pay for anything that isn't owned by company yet (e.g. domain registration).
But why do I care about additional employees? It isn't a benefit to me whatsoever to have my employer hire another 50% more people.
It is not just big banks that work like this but other big companies.

When I was young, I worked for a big auto company with a household name.

I had the same offer for almost the same amounts and I chose the title rather than the increased base. I never regretted it.

Sure, base is important, but the title came with a car, an executive bonus structure that dwarfed the difference in base compensation and most importantly, access to the executive retreates that launched my career.
Irrespective of rights and wrongs, how can Oberlin pay the amount of $36M and survive financially?

Parting with coffers to the tune of $36M would bankrupt many similar institutions.
DAI and USDC are pretty stable, especially if in the face of the recent crashes that took BTC and ETH down.
I don't know what's quiet about it. Every day, every week, every month, every quarter, every half, every year everybody wants progress from advancing productivity of their employees. New processes, new systems, new terms, new bullshit shoveled on people faster than they can join their next zoom. It's to the point where most people are just trying to keep their heads above water with constant meetings, 24x7 if they want. It's been out of control for a while now. People are not quietly quitting, they are suffering in silence and being overrun by their middle manager slave drivers. Fleecing is a nice way to put it. It's more like child abuse if you ask me.
Action starts before 3 hours; they don't change subjects until after 3 hours.
Relevant Onion parody:

https://www.theonion.com/note-do-not-run-until-fucking-queen...

> LONDON—After 70[?] years as the ruling monarch of the United Kingdom and [CHECK HOW MANY COUNTRIES SHE’S IN CHARGE OF OR ELSE TWITTER PEDANTS WILL GET MAD] Queen Elizabeth died [PEACEFULLY OR PAINFULLY—COPY WHATEVER BBC OBIT SAYS] in [TK LOCATION] at the age of 89
Ahead in what? Money they fleeced from US market? Core fanbase satisfaction? I don't think they were technologically ahead in anything in a decade or so. Unless you count inventing new charging ports and removing headphone jack or discovering that screen can have notches and customers still buy it.
Florida doesn’t spell out an exact curriculum at the state level for sex Ed, it’s explicitly left to local school districts to do that. All the law in question is saying is that when those rules are developed they still have to abide by those general standards referenced above. Seems like standard legalese and I don’t think it’s much more complicated than that.
> Because this is clearly a slice, and most likely provided by one of the parties to the suit, I decided to limit my data to the frontlist sales for the top 10 publishers by unit volume in the U.S. Trade market. My ISBN list is a little smaller than the one quoted in the DOJ, but the principals will be the same.

> The data below includes frontlist titles from Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Scholastic, Disney, Macmillan, Abrams, Sourcebooks, and John Wiley. The figures below only include books published by these publishers themselves, not pubishers they distribute.
You're lying though.

If you have $200 in your pocket for heating and natural gas heating costs $190 (because you have an equal share if the rebate but a smaller than equal share of the tax burden), you're far better off than if you have $100 in your pocket and it costs $100. If there are other options that cost $150, you now have the freedom to choose them when previously your only choice was gas.
Offset enough carbon from deeply buried fossil fuel by capturing it and spreading it in a thin layer over farm land, what could go wrong.
Code has an internal quality and an external market fit. I'm referring to the internal quality only. In terms of the specific term "terrible code", I think we've all seen it - it's the opposite of good code.

I'm not familiar with Magneto but I don't feel that Wordpress is a great product, there is a cruftiness that I can feel from the outside.
There also was a checkers program for the IBM 701 in 1952 (https://history-computer.com/arthur-samuel-biography-history...)

That wasn’t a video game, though. The 701 didn’t have a CRT until 1954, and that was used in a printer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_740)

So, did they ever play each other? Or do we have the programs so that we could let them play each other?
Not on an iPad it doesn't.
It'd be interesting if Wikipedia had a git-style interface where someone can just "git push" and hundreds of articles get updated (any one that mentions The Queen, Prince Charles, even Harry's children now get Prince and Princess titles.
I think it would work, but for practical purposes it isn't different from picking which fleet will commit to which plan in advance, sealing it to an envelope and opening it at the agreed time.

Your use case fails to take advantage of the fact that the quantum states collapse at the time of reading.
For a lot of games, it won’t really matter anyway. The game is the multi player experience. If the users are gone, a core part of the game is missing regardless of if it’s possible to run anymore.
I think you are making statements that are stronger than reality.

Cloudflare censors content they don't agree with? I would guess they actually protect a huge volume of content they don't agree with.

And I don't think they have suppressed those sites or gone out of their way to take action against those sites beyond terminating Cloudflare protections. So, to me at least, that doesn't rise to the definition of "censorship".

Just because you state it is a fact doesn't actually make it factual.
AOL chatbot? Haha is that you?
This essay was previously published elsewhere on 8/13: https://www.freethink.com/technology/crypto-argentina-black-...
Tracking apps and phones in general don't rely purely on GPS/GNSS. WiFi and Bluetooth-based positioning systems have been used in tandem with satellite positioning for years now. This won't change much, except for having better positioning in the middle of nowhere.
The Animate and the Inanimate – William J Sidis [pdf]
I was in a similar situation, and found a solution that works for me! TDLR; Topre’s feel is still best, but Cherry SILENT Red (not to be confused with Cherry Red) is “close enough”, while opening the door to the larger world of custom and specialized ergonomic keyboards.

Like you, I prefer the sensation of typing with Topre switches. But I cannot escape the fact that ergonomics is by far the most important factor for my health — and as you know, there are sadly few keyboards on the market with Topre switches, let alone those focused on extreme ergonomics. (Again to emphasize the importance of ergonomics; as pleasing as aesthetics and sound and feel can be, they do not cancel out RSI).

Fortunately, I found a keyboard (and switch) with incredible ergonomics, aesthetics, AND great tactile and auditory sensation! Specifically, I use the ZSA Moonlander with Cherry MX Silent Red switches. I’ll spare you the rant about how amazing the ZSA Moonlander keyboard is with its ergonomics and firmware customizability, and explain Cherry Silent Red versus Topre.

The main problem I have with most mechanical “spring” key switches is the jarring nature when they bottom-out (as well as the loud click of some, which I personally hate); it’s very clear when the switch bottoms out abruptly and violently and makes a “clack” sound (not to be confused with the loud “click” sound that clicky switches like Cherry Blue make that some people like). I prefer a smoother sound and feel.

Unlike any other Cherry switch (or any others I’m aware of), the Cherry Silent Red has effectively a rubber pad on both the downstroke and the upstroke, avoiding the harshest “clacking” you get from mechanical spring switches that also is shared by Topre.

Now with that said, Topre still has an overall smoother and more graceful “force curve” than any “linear” spring switch will provide. But the rubber padding makes a huge difference and is (at least for me) good enough.
While that is a nice story, there are apparently not many actual records supporting this. https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/43461/is-there-a...
cperciva writes easily the most approachable, understandable code I’ve ever come across, e.g.:

https://github.com/tarsnap/kivaloo
> the most important good in the entire world - oil - is traded almost exclusively in USD

This isn’t true and hasn’t been for decades. Oil is just a special case of the far larger American import wallet, the real underpinning—together with its capital markets’ strength [1]—of U.S. dollar hegemony.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-03-16/saudi-...
DAI is imminently dead by .gov pulling a Tornado Cash on all the underlying centralized collateral locked up in DAI.
I think this is an important idea, not new but probably not widespread or well understood enough.

One specific map that I think can lead to some reasoning errors is the way we abstract numbers.

Our most common and widely used abstraction of numbers has infinite at both ends, and this is a perfectly valid, practical and coherent way to represent real numbers, as long as we stay in the realm of the abstraction.

But real things like particles or planets might not be perfectly abstracted by this model.

Reasoning about real things with this model in mind (especially infinity) can lead to weird conclusions, like the 100% likelihood that we live in a simulation.
This was supposedly done to improve loads on hard drives by keeping resources physically close.
>> I vaguely recall

> Why are you outraged

:-D

I'm not outraged. I said I vaguely recall.

But I'll bait. There is a difference between passive advertising that blends into the background and multiple people walking up and down the isle literally waving scratch cards while another person is drawing attention to them with a loudspeaker. I'm not outraged because of how wrong that is. I recall it because there is a degree of vulgarity to it.

Just like there is a difference between knowing where to go to buy drugs, seeing a drug dealer on the corner, having that drug dealer casually say "drugs?" as you walk by, having the drug dealer put ads in your mailbox, and having them knock on your door and ask if you want to buy drugs.
How is svelte? Heard someone give a talk about it a few years back, sounded like it was pared down/elegant. I wrote a project in Angular back when I was using it in my day job and shudder now looking back at the code. It's so bloated by default!
A decentralized economy has shown superior to a centralized economy over time.
I confirm that it doesn't work on Firefox Android.

H5 should have a dark mode. I'm reading at night in my bed and the screen is white. The ebook reader I use (Cool Reader) lets me switch to a black backgroud.
Sorry, I can't remember exactly how I imported the key, but what I did was generate new SSH ed25519 keypair, uploaded the public key as a deploy key to github, and then I think I copied the private key to iCloud and then accessed it that way.
I've read books whose gist is the same point this author makes, and I agree it's such a freeing realization.

Out of the estimated 117 billion[1] humans who have walked the Earth, how many who have died can we actually name off the top of our heads? A few hundred at best? Maybe a few thousand if you're a history buff? And of that group, how many will still be remembered at the heat death of the universe? I'd bet money that the answer is "none of them".

So what's the point of trying to be remembered or leave a legacy? It's a game that we're destined to lose, so why play? Personally, I don't care how big my gravestone is, or whether I have my name on the side of a building, or whether I have an element in the periodic table named after me. Because it'll all come crumbling down in the end. This too shall pass.

And rather than being depressing, it's actually liberating. It means I'm done climbing the corporate ladder. It means I can work just hard enough to pay the bills at my day job, while leaving ample free time to engage with creative pursuits that satisfy me. It means I can have kids if it makes me happy, but I don't feel pressured to out of a sense of "continuing the family line" or some other bullshit.

No matter how hard I try, literally nothing you or I do will be remembered on a long enough timespan. Hell, I don't even know the names of my great-grandparents, and chances are that, if I ever have kids, my great-grandkids won't remember mine. It's like Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" quote[2]. I don't know what the meaning of life is, but I'm pretty sure it's not "try to wrest some sort of immortality by being remembered after you're gone".

1. https://www.prb.org/articles/how-many-people-have-ever-lived....

2. https://www.planetary.org/worlds/pale-blue-dot
How do you get that impression? His 2003 work talks about his fascination of propaganda and how it might be unethical to persuade someone using technology for malicious purposes. He also has old lecture videos that give the same impression in a more academic-neutral light:

https://vimeo.com/117427520

It's been well over 20 years since his work started was published. That's a full generation to see the effects of technology and mainstream adoption while comparing it to your life's work. I think it's fair to see someone decry the state of affairs when they were already on that side of the fence. It's quite unfair to attribute his involvement as something malicious though. Behavior science itself is already an ethical dilemma.

Maybe the 2007 book has something else in it, but I always got the opinion that famous founders simply attended the class and may/may not have used what they learned in it. Not that he was involved outside of it. But who knows who is in each other's pocket. I still like the guy as his message hasn't really changed.
Only if those credits come from an emission reducing activity and not, say, burning old growth tasmanian forest for energy.
If ever there was a place to practice Regenerative Agriculture [1] this is it

[1] https://regenerationinternational.org/why-regenerative-agric...