skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can assure you that most developers from the former Soviet Union would prefer USDC over their fake local currencies any day of the week.
I feel that the genre of audio documentaries didn't catch up all that much. At least to my opinion, because I never listened to anyone. Maybe that genre is in decline? The long form discussion podcasts to my opinion are going better and better. To me, the unedited long discussions between people, or even monologues, is podcasting.
Even if that interpretation was correct in a broader sense, which I don't believe it is, certainly in this context of e2ee it isn't correct.

The more obvious explanation is that before or after the e2ee (i.e within the app itself), an algorithm scans the content, categorizes it and sends this to Meta/Facebook.

In this scenario, *Nobody* has read the content other than the person you're communicating with.
I use the "I’m really lazy" method:
Boil water, just before boiling, grind beans. Pour in beans, add water. Wait 4 minutes. Press down.

I tried the hoffman method, it tasted the same to me, was a lot more work and the only advantage was fewer grounds in the cup, but I don’t mind those (barely any).

But yeah, I always drink coffee at home and if I’m somewhere else, I hope they have a french press as it is by far my preferred taste.
That's a false dichotomy for me. If I am near my french press, I will never pay for a cup of coffee. However, if I am not near an available french press, i.e. on the road, I have no other choice than to buy a cup of coffee, unless I pass on coffee entirely. But since I can't really whip out my french press in an airport, I still occasionally pay too much for mediocre coffee.
Similar for:

the 1541 disk drive that you would pair with a Commodore 64. It had a 6502 CPU in it, and was clocked a little faster than the 6510 CPU in the C64 itself.

The Apple LaserWriter'ss 68k cpu was clocked at 12Mhz, intended to be used with Macs having a 68k CPU clocked around 7.8Mhz.
Cell towers are not a replacement for wired connections. There's only so much data rate you can have for a given frequency bandwidth[1]. Wires (or fibers) work around this because the medium isn't shared. Each wire has the entire spectrum for itself.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theo...
The New Sport of Misrepresenting AI Criticism
I was so excited when I saw the Allegro library in the 90s! I lost track of it later and believed it was dead (I believe the author went to Microsoft to work on DirectX). But lo and behold, I've just checked what libraries the Factorio guys used - and what a pleasant surprise!
Even 'bad' coffee is now bad. I have a Krispy Kreme and Dunkin 5 minutes from my house and the quality has hit rock bottom since 2020. It's not even that cheap!
No, c'mon. I still remember how it took ages for my old Windows to boot up and even get to the desktop. Maybe DOS was faster without GUI but it was god damn slow at one point. And all that weird noise your PC would make while reading from the disk non-withstanding the dance with the modem. With my current Mac I'd say it takes about 15s to open Docs.
Agreed, but the new government is still pushing for constitutional reform.
> Doomsday predictions about millions dying in India is an age old trope since 1947

I agree a lot of these scenarios are 'doomsday', but the risk is real and hard to plan for / budget.

You're effectively fighting history (Indus Valley and its history with climate change), and human biology -- you cannot be outside when wet bulb > 35 C even if you're fully healthy. For older / less-well people, > wet bulb 31 C can be a problem. And India will be very middle-aged by 2040 with an increasing older population.

You're also fighting greed. Bangalore was told, repeatedly, that building apartments in flood plains wasn't smart. The message was ignored. Heck, even after the recent floods, it's unlikely this policy will change. India has a construction boom right now -- this is happening elsewhere too.

Managing these within budgetary constraints and the large population impacted will be challenging. It's not doomsday by any means -- e.g. the Konkan coast will probably be fine. But what happens when Vidarbha (already relatively poor and home to extremely cruel summers) gets worse -- can we stop people from migrating en masse? How will you stop millions of people internally migrating in a country with no border controls?

How this gets worse: Forget about en masse migrations. That's doomsday you say. Okay. But even a small uptick in migration figures will have massive consequences for already-overstretched Indian cities.

> I have faith in science, human resilience and ingenuity and I tend to believe that the future doesn't have to be so grim and humans will find a way.

Faith is great, but India hasn't invested in good urban planning or healthcare (the scenes in small-town India in early 2021 come to mind). To be fair, many other countries haven't either.

So the pessimist in me says that a Katrina-style or 2022 Pakistan-style floods event can be especially traumatic for such countries.
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I agree, but the success of the Bateman-Arnett-whatshisname podcast would suggest that we are both wrong.
The reason for the high price of a cup of coffee (compared to its "production" costs) is that there's no other way to keep the business afloat. Almost no specialty coffee shop makes its money out of selling pastries or even "hipsterish" breakfasts (no matter how good, and some of them are really excellent), but out of selling coffee at many times said "production" costs.

If you don't do that you can't pay the high rent (because you need to open the place where people would come, not in the middle of nowhere), and then you can't pay salaries. In that order. Paying for the product that you're actually selling is the least of one's worries, so in that respect I can't actually understand that nickel-and-diming about buying the cheapest possible coffee the author mentions, but most probably those people have run their numbers, so they must be right. I'd say those coffee cups sellers managed to save a lot more money by doing business out of those trailer-like thingies (of which the article has a photo of) instead of renting a real coffee shop location.

And last but not least, good coffee culture is (happily) still alive and well over most of Eastern and Central Europe capitals and big-ish cities, I highly recommend the area for those crazy enough to visit some place just to drink good coffee. Bucharest (from I'm from), Bratislava, Prague with its Vinohrady area (excellent breakfasts on top of the good coffee, just excellent), Vienna, Cluj, Budapest (I've not yet been there, but I've heard very nice things about the coffee they sell) are just excellent places to visit if one's into that.

For comparison, in most of Western Europe capitals you have to hunt like a coffee-obsessed crazy person until you get to anywhere that is serving anything other than Lavazza (with Madrid and its Chamberi area a nice exception).
Yeah, I've had a Silverstone Raven for 10+ years, so I'm not sure why those types of cases haven't become the standard. They have their flaws, like it being awkward to route your cables into the top area, and needing good airspace underneath the case. But it's balanced out by being able to easily plug stuff into the top when you don't care about pretty cable routing, a focus on powerful, adjustable airflow, and less need for space on the sides. I'm guessing vertical space is the main problem for people.
People expect more from everything as time goes on. I remember the days when In N' Out was unanimously considered one of the best fast food chain burgers. Though they still get long lines, I've polled people recently about it, and most seem to think that In N' Out is somewhat beneath them because so many places sell "gourmet" burgers now.

I try to enjoy the simple things in life because snobbery, while a bit of it is not necessarily a bad thing, isn't sustainable.
> somewhere out there, i'd bet, there is a coffee shop making coffee as good or even better than your own.

I doubt the "better" part for people preferring the french press. It is not a complicated method. Now there might be one with better beans, but that’s always the case.

> a least half the pleasure in going to a coffee shop is going to the coffee shop.

Heh, depends, for me that does not sound like pleasure at all ;)
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> Puzzles have a single, usually somewhat tortured solution

Potential spoiler alert… the forklift elevator puzzle in Grim Fandango springs to mind. It’s so unintuitive and a disappointing part of what is otherwise an incredible game.

When I play these types of games, I’ll only bang my head against the wall for so long before I give up and Google the answer.

If, upon learning the solution, I realize I should have been able to figure it out myself, I’ll feel bad for not trying longer. But sometimes, I’ll read the solution and say: “That’s what you wanted me to do?!” and be glad I didn’t spend all day trying to crack their impossible code.
Doesn't confirm the "Because of this phrase" part of the claim.
Starbucks makes delicious cappuccinos and mocha espressos probably by dumping a month's worth of recommended daily allowances of sugar in them. But they are yummie.

Their house blend drip coffee of various roasts, however, is burnt. Starbuck's signature flavor for their drip coffee is burned coffee. I don't know how Starbucks thought that burning their coffee was a novel idea, and I don't know how anyone can drink it.
Good coffee is good business.

It is in the best interest of a gas station to serve good coffee because it keeps customers coming back to buy other things. Coffee is so profitable they can afford to use good beans. Not every gas station has good coffee (the 7/11 downtown is awful), but the one nearest to me is pretty good.

As for Starbucks they closed the store near my office to spite the union. Before that they had the strange policy that you couldn’t walk in and order a coffee but instead had to order ahead on a mobile app which turned me off. That area is a ‘coffee desert’ the way Manhattan was in the 1990s.

Back then there seemed to be 2 or 3 Starbucks on every block, I think they were trying to fool financial people into thinking that the whole country was full of Starbucks. Independent coffee shops were driven out of business and you could not get a good cup of coffee anywhere in Manhattan.

At that time, however, you could already find a decent espresso bar in a one horse town in a flyover state, even if getting any food other than pizza, subs, and greasy Chinese food was a struggle.
In a world where you are trying to cover the last few percent of zero carbon generation, green hydrogen wil be cheap enough to be used to make alcohol, plastics and a bunch of other things just because it's cheaper than natural gas or other feedstocks. So it's not really a worry, prices for grey/blue and green hydrogen should crossover this decade.
>interview style episodes on niche topics is flourishing

One key reason is that, so long as you're in a position to get interesting guests, a 30 minute interview (which is my preferred target length), given some prep and a reasonable standard of care on the technical aspects--which doesn't need to go crazy on microphones etc.--it's not a huge amount of work to create a good episode. And I never bothered with sponsors etc.

It's also pretty cheap and easy to get a transcript made.
I appreciate your personal account about where society is heading related to the Internet.

I avoid for-profit social networking websites because for the free flow of information because I realize that these sites only represent a small portion of what the web is about. I know the Internet is really best when I read from people that self-publish. I also publish articles on interpersonal work and the state of technology myself. As a "principal product manager in Microsoft working on tooling to enable people to do more on the web." I wonder what you think about Microsoft and Apple creating walled gardens in there respective OS's? I recently switched to Linux and [wrote](https://www.scottrlarson.com/publications/publication-transi...) about why I think the biggest threat to the free flowing information of the net has to do with how we allow our technology that connects to the net to become restricted.
The application processing the message for the purpose of displaying it is clear.

But if the message is copied, read, analyzed and sent further on behalf of a third party before encryption, then that puts that third party in the middle between the sender and the recipient. A man in the middle directly undermines e2ee: "no one else reads your message".

It doesn't matter if the third party made the messaging app or not. What matters is whether information in your messages is accessible to anyone besides you and the recipient.
Love this, including the music, but here's an old favorite track of mine that would also fit: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=zkQaLv7mEcI&feature=share
Im not sure the cars and lights need to be anymore than floating orbs, its quite a nice minimalist aesthetic with just the lights. I'm not sure it needs to be a game either, maybe the ability to steer the car would be good but any more than that might seem forced (and I'm not even sure it needs that). The only real problem I see is that cars pass through you from behind (the only time the floating orbs effect becomes an issue), but even that seems minor for what it is.
I have been outside the UK for more than 8 years but I still get approached by UK recruiters offering contracting gigs. 7 out of 10 of them always write "Outside IR35" and I never really grasped what it meant exactly, can any UK contractors ELI5?
If you are contractor then you are a business owner, and you should bear responsibility for your own taxes.

The upside of this liability shift is that your customers will be more willing to negotiate with you. Right now some of them are assuming very defensive positions, like treating all contractors as being inside IRS35, because claiming that you're outside is a risk for them.
I'm not sure I agree. In the UK we kind of have that: 16-18 you can drop all but 3-4 subjects, with no restrictions. But as university courses often have specific requirements, that means you're pretty much deciding on your degree area at 16. That's a lot to decide so young.
> Really hard to get around wind resistance being a square of velocity.

That's a common misunderstanding. Very common.

In cruise mode Concorde was as efficient as a Boeing 747.

When you go faster, you do two things: 1. reduce the angle of attack, 2. fly higher. Concorde was flying twice as high as subsonic jets. The end result is that you still get increased drag, but much less than the square (or cube) of velocity would suggest.

Ok, but increased drag it is, right? Right, but you go faster. If your drag goes up by a factor of 2, but your speed by a factor of 4, then in the end you burn less fuel. It so happens that Concorde's drag went up virtually by the same factor as its speed.

The problem with Concorde was that it was horrible aerodynamics during the takeoff stage. At that point the plane is the heaviest (its has full fuel tanks), so the problem was compounded by some sort of "tyranny of the rocket equation".

Can Boom solve this problem? My guess is that this was their pitch to investors. In the 50+ years since Concorde was designed, both computers and computational fluid dynamics experienced huge advances. The computer I'm writing this on has probably performed more flops since I started writing this comment than the entire computational modeling for Concorde in its decade-long work.

As for military engines (and their maintenance) being expensive. F-35 is like a Formula 1 car, as USAF general Charles Brown once said. Its engines are pushed to the limit on a constant basis. A commercial jet is very different. It does not need to pull huge Gs. Its trajectory is very, very predictable. I'm sure a company like GE could make a very cost efficient jet engine for Boom. It's just that they have much better ROI if they build engines for F-35.
It's messed up that the UK has such differential tax rates between employment and self employment that this matters at all.
The 7/11 across from where the Starbucks used to be is worse.
don't die on this hill, it's all arbitrary and won't make a difference
Your second paragraph is basically what I meant: The complexity is just too high. This is especially true when downloading data from the internet is involved.

But the first example, git housekeeping, depends only on information readily available locally. git could just give this information to any calling program that needs it, but my guess is that nobody thinks that progress bars are worth it.

Actually, in today's world, I'd be happy if progress bars (or even indefinite loading indicators) would even show me when the process has crashed and won't ever finish, but they'll happily show "progress" that will never finish.
Theres this Orwell piece that just absolutely resonates with me.

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...

My favourite bit in there is:

> All the organs of his body were working –bowels digesting food, skin renewing itself, nails growing, tissues forming–all toiling away in solemn foolery. His nails would still be growing when he stood on the drop, when he was falling through the air with a tenth of a second to live.

I'm not the type to turn away from a nice, refined experience; provided it isn't so expensive as to lead me to feel bad about the economics of it all. So I like a wonderful coffee bean, a nice pull, and all that jazz.

But across the vast expanse that is human existence, I really do not understand snobbery when it comes to the trivialities in life. That guy Orwell was writing about, moments before his hanging was complete, I don't think he or anyone around him cared too much about where they got their coffee that morning.

There are more important things to life.
If specialty coffee stops being "different", then it's no longer specialty - it's a commodity.

I'm reading the "Best of Jimseven 2004-2015" [1] book, where then-blogger, now-Youtuber [2] James Hoffman explores his own journey starting a cafe. And, in it he talks about the original marketing challenges of positioning a specialty cafe:

> What those of us in specialty coffee offer isn’t necessarily unilaterally better coffee, but among our offerings are different lots of coffee someone will probably enjoy more than what they’re drinking

> My concern is that when our tone implies we have something better, because we think what they are drinking is terrible, then we're likely to have them become closed rather than open to trying something new and better.

James concludes that calling specialty coffee "better" is counter-productive, and that specialty coffee should instead market a "diversity" of experiences.

As nondescript cafes like Blank Street rise in prominence - that means that baseline coffee expectations of society have increased, from gas station sludge to robot-brown-water. But, "better" doesn't mean "specialty."

There's still room for cafes that offer different experiences - like a nice Sey roast. Specialty is best defined by "different" or "unique". And, what qualifies as "different" may be a moving target. And, that's ok - not every cafe can maintain a unique experience and not every customer wants a challenging cup of coffee.

You can have a great cafe without superlative-inspiring brew. Let's face it - the customer service of a local cafe impacts people's experiences far more than the particular coffee they're served.

[1] https://tenshundredsthousands.com/products/the-best-of-jimse...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMb0O2CdPBNi-QqPk5T3gsQ
I think the author misses the magic feeling of the early internet and is trying to rationalize their feelings, but hasn't quite figured out the real explanation. I really doubt that their inability to find old news is the source of their troubles; in fact, I doubt that they've struggled to find old news at all. It's not very hard to find. More likely, the author is facing the same issue as everyone else; it's harder to find or create something on the internet that feels really special, because everyone's already seen it all.
I don’t coffee but I took it as “you used to be able to go to small shop and pay more and get good coffee, but now everything is better across the board and Dunkin’s has decent coffee and many small shops are no better”.

Which happens all the time when the (hipster/prosumer/whatever) takes off.

Same thing with cameras - any standalone camera used to be better than a phone camera, but the phone cameras got better.
> Of course everyones adult life is different but if you have a decent job you generally never have to worry about money, unless you spend it on unneeded stuff(I admit this assumes a western country). That doesn't mean it matches your experience, but an outlier doesn't invalidate the general point I made.

You grew up middle or upper class and the person you’re responding to didn’t, or had no or very bad relations with their family such that they didn’t or couldn’t help.

Don’t forget that school is the most orderly environment lots of children experience, the one where they’re most likely to be around educated people, intellectual stimulation, the least violent, the one where they’re reliably fed. Without the pretense that it’s about education that would be hard to keep up.
About damn time, luckily i've not been a contractor for some years now and have missed the IR35 shitshow of recent years. Having a client offering a contract having to determine if my company is an actual business or i'm just a disguised employee is a ridiculous way of doing it. Sorry but when i was contracting i was also taking on other freelance work, had long standing retainers for maintance for past clients and having junior developers working in my company doing the grunt work, thats a business, i'm not a disguised employee.

The responsiblity should be on the person to argue with HMRC that they are a business and for those legitimately operating as such, then its not at all difficult.
> The vast majority of postmortems I read of COVID assume knowledge today was avaialble then

Eh? I remember vividly thinking about a month or so into the first lockdown in the UK that we need to open up now.

Sure, we didn't know immediately before we even did anything, but after March/April/May we had very solid statistical data.

We have different approaches _even now_. That's not based on a lack of data, it's based on different value systems. Japan, Taiwan, obviously China etc are all still gung-ho on masks (and from what I can tell parts of the US are as well - super weird watching videos of conferences).
Can Private Access Tokens be used to track a user/device?

If not, what stops someone from setting up a system which generates lots of PAT’s from a small number of devices and sending those as fake PAT’s from other devices?

If it’s private, it shouldn’t allow anyone to associate my PAT with my device. If it’s private, how does the server know a PAT was generated by the device that is sending it?
So are boomers really the start of everything wrong with today? What their parents did was actually pretty cool. Or is that just because I'm genx and people always think their grandparents are cooler than their parents?
In Europe this sort of shenanigans would be illegal. You'd have to make the employees redundant with some kind of pay out, and couldn't hire others into similar roles.

I do think it's quite funny that the crowdsourced opinion that the metaverse is a stupid, money losing idea has proven to be correct.
That was ever the case in the past though, and previously dealt with by means of a well written contract and appropriate working arrangements. The alternative (status determination by client/'employer') meant an instant ~15% pay cut for anyone unable to negotiate a rate increase to cover the additonal tax burden.
What’s the difference between Pom and saber?