skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s no longer the lament of the snuffing out of the fire of journalism but the desperate search for any still warm embers. Journalism now is just ideologically driven clickbait that on one extreme inflames wounds so they never heal and pushes people to the opposite extreme when they inevitably see through the lies and misinformation. If it weren’t politically useful it’d be treated like enemy propaganda because it is the enemy to the common good.
> I don't buy it? Structurally, nothing has really stopped the social engineering and manipulation of cryptocurrency. The same principles that made cryptocurrency attractive for scamming still hold true, and the audience of potential legitimate users shrinks with each passing day.

Two things (excuse my curtness I think they are good points that can stand alone):

- social engineering and manipulation is present in all forms of money, investments, etc -- it's human nature. Crypto essentially democratized it much like MLMs do. So I wouldn't call this a failing of crypto necessarily, but crypto did amplify the effect greatly.

- I think "the audience of potential legitimate users shrinking every day passing day" will choke out scamming narrative along with the legitimate use narrative. Once this post-fire brush is cleared, new things (useful things with actual utility) may have a chance to grow.

> I hate echoing the comment above, but I've been hearing this argument since 2012. Cryptocurrency will not graduate from it's scam phase unless it has a centralized judicial body to punish and correct wrongdoings. If that ever happens, cryptocurrency will have no tangible benefits when compared to centralized alternatives.

It's a good argument (and it's not wrong either).

As far as the judicial bodies, I do think that they can be distributed/federated though, and that small networks can grow with trust as currency, anew. Right now the established systems have found one way to encode trust via contracts and implied/actual force, etc. I think that crypto might be able to offer a new way to enforce trust for less serious/lighter use cases.

I think of it this way -- do I need the full faith and credit of the united states government to buy a coffee? Maybe not. Also in making that statement I am fully aware that being money is one of the biggest failings of crypto so far, but I think PoS ETH2 + L2 + Sharding/rollups (future) will actually make it possible (in theory at least) to surpass VISA's transaction volume as a network.

Also, I think there's a huge way crypto might be better than the traditional alternatives -- it represents a chance to redraw the boundaries.

The current system is ossified -- even if crypto is simply a re-creation of the existing system with worse efficiency maybe it's similar to trying to change the engine in a moving plane/train/automobile. You build a second, possibly shittier engine which can be less tied to the mistakes of the first, switch to that, then maybe switch BACK to the original engine after upgrading/changing it.

Optimistic, but I think the current success of PoS ETH2 (and the fact literally anyone else can take it and run their own) warrants some optimism.
It's a Wired article.
As other people have noted, this seems like a criticism of expression-heavy languages. I'm not sure the working memory idea really is a good argument for short lines. Assembly language is entirely short statements, and has only a few operands per line, but is so tedious to read because of how much state/working memory is occupied. Complex expressions can actually reduce the mental overhead by reducing the number of used variables to a minimum.
I'm a CPA and I recommend my extremely small businesses clients use a single entry excel system. If they use debit for everything they can download the bank transactions in csv. Then use a deep downlist to categorize the transactions. Then a pivot table to display the year end or quarterly income statement. I usually send them the Excel with the pivot table and dropdown list.
> Real business folks have real world problems to solve. They don’t care whether you can reverse a binary tree.

I suppose it's all about the role you're applying for. There are "real business" where engineers are hired to solve technical challenges. Being able to solve simple algorithmic problems is a legitimate prerequisite for this type of role.
I just can't imagine how you would think that others will just ignore Google's history of violating it's privacy promises.

>In today's Big Tech antitrust hearing in front of a Congressional subcommittee, representative Val Demings questioned Google CEO Sundar Pichai about the company's merger with DoubleClick.

Specifically, the way Google combined data from the advertising company -- bought in 2007 -- with Google's own data. Founder Sergey Brin had told Congress it would not combine the personal information, but the company quietly did so in 2016 anyway.

https://www.engadget.com/google-antitrust-hearing-doubleclic...

>Google’s privacy policies as of March 1, 2012 established that no combination between DoubleClick’s advertising data and Google’s personally-identifiable information would take place without the prior consent of its users, but an updated version of those policies subtly allowed the integration of both databases regardless of prior consent of its users

https://www.promarket.org/2020/08/21/why-we-should-be-carefu...
I switched to gadgetbridge when fitbit was purchased by google and it has been mostly great.
And how does that same benchmark run on an apple M1 chip?
Until the Hindenburg crash, the safety record of passenger airships was superb; the Hindenburg crash wasn't due to heavy weather, and passenger airship service ended the next day. On what basis do you claim that it was dangerous and harsh in heavy weather?

State subsidies for the German airship industry began long before the NAZI takeover, but it's true that the NAZIS did continue them.
Yes. They’re saying that gas fired furnaces and water heaters must be replaced with something not gas fired - likely heat pumps.
By what measure? Are they actually performing electrical tests to determine minute clocking anomalies?
The magic rocks and other physical devices are old hat. For $60, you can just call Machina Dynamica's phone number, and they'll play a 20-second "series of mechanical pulses" which remotely transforms your phone onto exotic matter, thereby severing its quantum connection to the "cell phone information field" that would otherwise be degrading the quality of every audio/video device in your home.

http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina60.htm
> Sixt

Someone rented though them, but put in my email address. I get this a lot, so I just ignored it. Then they got in a crash, and I got stuff from Sixt about it. Then a collector email me. That's when I said they always had the wrong email address and they left me alone, but still.
Your recipe sound very similar to one of my favourites. https://www.forksoverknives.com/recipes/vegan-soups-stews/le...
My daily driver is a Thinkpad x230 running Linux and I also vehemently disagree with his author's claim. Yes, things are certainly better than they were 10 years ago, yet I still have a lengthy to-do list of things that are broken, but low-impact enough to work around that I don't want to waste the hours of dicking around with poor documentation, noxious forum threads and command line fiddling to sort them out. Circumstance do force me to finally tackle one of these issues regularly, yet the list never seems to get shorter...
>By running arbitrary code on your computer you are inherently trusting the author of the code to be a good actor.

While you may be running arbitrary code, there is only so much it can do from within the sandbox it is in. Because we can't stop 100% of bad actors that shouldn't mean we should give up on security.

>Tens of megabytes of bloat block pages from loading all the time.

That is a separate issue from web extensions. Just because X is slow, it doesn't mean we should not speed up Y.

>MV3 restricts the ability to block content

No, it does not. You just need to use a different API / give it permission to do so.

>It's not actually designed for privacy or whatever

That is one of the reasons Google provided, so yes it is.

>it's simply a way to gimp adblockers

Then why did Google work with adblock extension developers to improve the API by adding things like dynamic rules? The reason is that this is for improving privacy / performance as opposed to trying to kill off extensions.

>You must be really naive if you don't understand this simple concept.

If Google wanted to get rid of ad blockers they would make them against the rules in their extension store. You have to realize that Chrome is software that is used by billions of people and not just you. Google has a responsibility to protect people's privacy and there are engineers who want to be able to move metrics like the number of malicious extensions removed each month or p99 page load speed.
since computers are reliable, isnt a modern accountant just a tax code knower?
Having a tyranny-proof government undermines the purpose of government.
Not really.

Helium is extracted from natural gas fields. It is continuously produced inside Earth by the decay of Radon; the alpha particles from the decay become helium once they acquire 2 electrons. Since helium is light, it keeps seeping upwards. Geological formations that trap natural gas will also trap helium.

Some fields have a lot of helium. There's one in the US that has 7% of it, but that's an extreme case. There are plenty in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas with around 1-2% helium.

According to the US Geological Survey [1] the average price for private consumers for crude helium was less than $5 per cubic meter. The total reserves were a bit more than 20 billion m3, split into various levels of confidence (measured, probable, possible, speculative). You can read that to mean that essentially the reserves of helium are infinite.

Why? Oil and natural gas companies are all about reserves. Their reserves are the assets against which they raise debt, there's an entire finance area about oil and gas exploration and production. The best reserves are those that are producing right now. Below that are those other levels of reserves. The more certain a reserve is, the more money you can raise against it to finance your activities. But elevating a reserve from "speculative" to "possible" or "probable" is costly, and risky. Companies do that based on a long term plan.

But they do it. Journalists like to take the current level of reserves, divide by the current usage, and voila, the world has only x years of resource y left. Where generally x is a fairly small number, like 10. But years pass, and that x does not dwindle to zero. People think that somehow there were some new and unexpected discoveries, but otherwise, we'll still run out of the resource in a few years.

But it's not like that. The reserves get renewed as part of the normal business. Not "renewed" as in "renewable", but just as in elevating some reserves from possible to probable, some from speculative to possible, and finally expanding the speculative reserves too.

Anyway, even at the level of a few billion cubic meters of helium, we'd still have enough helium for a few thousand of these ginormous airships.

[1] https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2020/mcs2020-helium.pdf
I don't know how this is downvoted, other than people's reflexive distaste to being told they need to consume less. Say what you want, but you can't cheat science. The CO2 levels in the atmosphere are rising rapidly, and people are changing little in terms of the quantity they consume. Those goods are still being shipped around the world. It's simple math, if we consume roughly the same resources we will continue to produce the same amount of waste. Obviously technologies like nuclear power or widespread solar use would change this situation-- but adoption isn't fast enough to outrun global warming. People are desperately hoping for some revolutionary invention that will break this equation and allow us to consume without consequence. I hope so, but honestly there's a real chance that won't happen.
But the rate of these dumb things is simply unmatched, is it simply because TikTok is way more fast-pace than other social media?
The VMS filesystem aboslutely shit all over any offering from Unix (and still does with the exception of ZFS). The Vax FORTRAN compiler smoked everything on Unix until IBM put a good FORTRAN compiler on AIX. VMS systems had actual security that we still don't have nowadays. VMS systems could be used for real-time tasks (Intel's fab line ran on VMS for a very long time).

I can go on and on ...

Unix "won" by becoming the darling of the people not willing to pay money while Windows swept the field of those willing to cough up cash.

However, don't mistake the virality of Unix for it being "better" than VMS.
Was hoping to see the results, but the images were all blurry dummy placeholders (some sort of lazy loading for images?). The images had a text on "click here for preview", but when I clicked it, nothing happened (I have ad-blockers, maybe that's why some JS code was disabled).

But what the heck, this is not how wepages should work - click here to "unblur" the image? Why add such an extra step? To save bandwidth cost?
Html wouldn't be a Web standard if it were consistent across browsers.
That quantum tunneling is done by hand in California, using six-zeros volts of electricity. Pretty impressive.
Romania deprived 1,000s of babies of human contact. Here's what's become of them
No worries, I can see how you would read it that way.
Unofficial guide to Datomic internals (2014)
For step 5:

guix install foo --with-source=foo=yourfixedversion_src.tar.gz

Or:

guix install foo --with-patch=foo=yourpatch.patch

(note: usually packages are installed as regular user into your user profile)

See also section "Package Transformation Options" in "info guix".

For step 6, send a mail with the patch to the package definition (in an existing scm file in https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git ) to the guix-devel mailing list. But whatever you did manually to get yourfixedversion_src.tar.gz you now should automate by programming the patching process in Scheme instead--editing a guix checkout (usually just to add: (add-after 'unpack 'patch-problematic-stuff-4711 (lambda _ (substitute* "somefile" (("regex1") "replacement"))))). For more complicated fixes, add a patch to the guix checkout and make Guix use it in Scheme (and contribute it to the actual foo upstream project--which we usually do anyway).

See section "Contributing" in "info guix".

Further automation welcome-- and probably not that difficult to add. Just keep in mind that each package build is in its own container (it's kinda like Docker would be)--so no mixing text editor and building and weird user-defined pauses (for example there is no text editor in the build container).
>ublock is up there on the only extension in use

UBlock Origin is not the only extension that uses the webRequest API that people use. If that were the case they would not have removed it. Again ad / tracking blocking can still be done with the new API.
It doesn’t matter. When we talk about “having access to user data,” we’re talking about a humans being able to look at, I.e, the user logs of a former lover and doing something bad with it.

But that’s not the real danger of Google having this data. The danger is in ML. Google’s entire business model is predicated upon using information about you to change your behavior, and to sell on the market predictions of your future behavior.
I think the backstory of the Ringworld series was that a superconductor-eating microbe destroyed civilization on the Ringworld, and restarting it was impossible because there were no metals or fossil fuels to mine. On the plus side, on actual Earth, at least most of the metals are still in the landfills.
> the real reason to code in Fixed-Point HTML is simply the satisfaction of knowing that you and the browser are in total agreement about the HTML.

Interesting idea, I've been trying to achieve something similar but in reverse... rather than make my source match the browser, make the browser match my source by making it not ignore spacing.

i.e The basics being `white-space: pre;` on the body element, and fixed width and sized fonts. But I still want a HTML document so i can opt in to html where it matters. My reasons are to A) avoid a pre-processor and build toolchain complexity, stick to nice simple static files, and B) I get something similar to WYSIWYG but as source code. C) I like fixed width fonts and to plain text formatting (reducing decisions is helpful for focus).
I think you just articulated what my #1 blocker to mastering vim and/or emacs has been: they're both designed for the "mastery thorough thick manual" era. Dashing off to Google answers my immediate query, but often is far less instructive than a well-organized manual with an index at letting me discover the adjacent thing I actually need.

OK, that's my #2 blocker. My #1 blocker is that I am no longer 15 and have things to do other than just poke about until I master a new text editor.
Maybe relevant to this discussion, "A Historical Look at the VAX":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27527140

And also "The VAX":

https://yarchive.net/comp/vax.html

I don't really understand all of this, but the high level gist is that the VAX ISA was almost out of runway; it wasn't entirely that DEC made bad choices but also that they couldn't take VAX where it would need to go to remain competitive anyway.
See if you find this easier to read: https://github.com/mdaniel/langcc/blob/documentation/2209.08...
I can’t imagine not being in the “multi DPI” scenario though? It’s not some edge feature that affects a minority of power users, it’s just plugging an external display into a laptop. The DPIs almost never line up - not since high DPI displays became mainstream about 10 years ago.
The sort of article that ageists will be gleefully cite.

Have to question the objectivity of the research. Not that overall there is cognitive decline, this is undeniable, but you could also expect some type of advantage in the wiring being more integrated holistically and there being less rewiring. The tone of the article makes it seem like they did not consider any potential advantage.

I'm 44. I definitely see that my worldviews are much better formed than I was when I was 21 or something. And less interested in learning a new programming language every two years.

But I have concrete and integrated ideas and implementation plans for improving things now.

And I can certainly integrate new information as it comes in. For example I think that C++ and JavaScript are obsolescent, and things like Rust and TypeScript will replace them.

Also I wonder now with digital signatures being built in to browsers (Webauthn) and ipv6 deployment increasing, could some type of web-native cryptocurrency take over within a few years?
I bought a smartwatch specifically for freedom: the PineTime.
They do not specifically require a bank to snoop in the contents of a safety deposit box. What I believe they require is that the bank snoop on the customer in general as part of KYC. My understanding is that because of this, banks typically only offer a deposit box for established customers with a meaningful transaction history with the bank.
They’ll just push time-of-use charges and hope that people buy big batteries
Morpheus backwards is cool too:

https://rezmason.github.io/matrix/?version=morpheus&forwardS...
It makes me want a guitar and a C64!
Google search has stopped working for me for a long time.

I usually append "stackexchange", "quora", or "reddit" when searching to get useful answers. If you dont do that, you'll get SEOd garbage.
What China Can Teach Us About the Future of TikTok and Video Search
Thanks [I'm the author]. I tested with Chrome 105 on macOS and it succeeded. Possibly there are OS/plugin/etc issues?

Of course, I know there is no guarantee that every browsers innerHTML implementation will produce exactly the same result, but so far I haven't found any variation (Chrome, FF, Safari, Edge).
I would sort of agree. It looks like a regular bandits who after undergoing long evolution had came up with this genius idea that maybe getting taxes in the end is more profitable than outright robbery. Bud that ugly muzzle still shows up all the time.
Yes, they refer me to their corporate recruiter and what happens next is "sorry, that's how the process is, we can't change it" :-)
DST is (1) but synchronized. People could change their schedules to negate DST, and I'm sure some do.

Anyway, I don't want touch-grass time during my useless lunch hour, I want usable daylight hours after work during which to do outdoor things in the warmth of the sun. Where I am, people mostly seem to want year round DST (but of course it wouldn't be DST anymore, it would just be "the time").

Different places can and will do what suits their needs.
Selling the reserve for votes is just a play to lowering prices short term. It doesn't really matter who the buy is at that point since the market is so globalized.

There's also the potential that selling to China was a nice way to test the waters and see if that impacted Russian sales at all, but the reserve is auctioned off so that may not play a factor at all in the actual sale.
Correction: it was 1636 words. I regret the error.
Why would the state weaken itself? The FBI does exactly what it’s designed to do.
How would you mitigate the safety concerns of hydrogen gas?

Maybe surround the balloon with another balloon and fill the thin space between with an inert gas or helium? I guess you put some kind of gas sensor inside the baloon that would alert you to any oxygen getting in, but that would necessitate having electricity near the hydrogen, which is probably a no-no.
If you have a house that tight, you need to compensate by a certain number of minimum forced air changes per hour, on top proper ventilation in your bathrooms and kitchen. In fact, modern building code in the US, and likely throughout most developed countries, requires a tighter envelope than the minimum number of air changes per hour, thus requiring, intrinsically, that all houses have ERVs or HRVs. This is all a solved problem, and you are never going to need to dehumidify during the heating season if you are respecting the principles of building science. It is possible to build "too tight" by neglecting basic ventilation principles, but that is not what I would call "properly closed".