skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So, I’m saying “we’re all children”. If you want to complain about adults playing games and wearing bright colours, you also need to complain about adults using armies to take resources and businesses blocking others out of markets.

I feel the same, but, this is one of those all or nothing things, and the irony is that our own barbaric origins are holding us back from ‘evolving’ so to speak.

We have armies and nuclear armaments because, when it boils down; our species is full of agitated hungry animals, liars and cheats.

You’d need to organize a whole species around a single-world order if you ever wanted to stop wars and denuclearize.
I'm a big fan of Spark.

https://sparkjava.com/
Stop using Chrome
I don't know what you mean by "fintech" but from my experience, bank and other finance apps are usually not that great, neither are the websites. So maybe some parts of fintech are nice and clean, but the part that the end user faces, not so much.
This is how a lot of people talk, you're just focusing on the billionaire part.
Struck me as sincere
The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet's Time
Archived: https://archive.ph/wip/tmbk6
The UN has actually tried to address atrocities by the US, and as a result the UN isn't very popular with the sort of Americans that think the US has every right to commit those atrocities, but that has never had much chance because the US is too powerful and has veto power.

So does Russia, which is why the UN is also not much use at stopping Russia, but Russia currently occupies a seat that's technically not theirs, so it can be taken away.

But ideally, that veto power should never have been a thing.
Well, „Mastodon with a billion users“ probably. That would be nice.
Reminds me of:

> Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany - Norman Ohler

> [The book shows] how the entire Nazi regime was permeated with drugs - cocaine, heroin, morphine and methamphetamines, the last of these crucial to troops' resilience and partly explaining German victory in 1940.

> [The author] is explicit that drugs cannot explain Third Reich ideology, but their promiscuous use impaired and confused decision-making, with drastic effects on Hitler and his entourage, who, as the war turned against Germany, took refuge in ever more poorly understood cocktails of stimulants.
The issue is not whether gilts are risk free (they are for any country that controls its own fiat currency). The issue is that 1) they are only risk free if held to maturity and 2) they used this risk free asset as collateral so that they could lever up, and leverage is never risk free.

In order for pensions to meet mandates, central banks forced them to take on ever increasing risks as part of a 15 year period of relentless QE. The end of this story has been foretold by many people over the past decade, but as always the response was "it's different this time". It turns out it wasn't

You can blame the pension managers for taking on excessive risk, but if they didn't then their returns would not have met mandated targets and granny's pension would suffer. Instead blame central banks and electorate which applauded their moves. Most people did not complain as equity markets surged higher for a decade, and borrowing costs dropped to zero on a real basis driving their housing equity higher. Average people gobbled up stimmy checks and even now look to the government to cap utility bills and shield them from the realities of the world.

We have coddled ourselves into thinking that we can only have good times. But that's not how economies and markets work. They are cyclical: boom and bust. We have gotten better at smoothing some things out, but you can't prevent downturns in aggregate, which is what we've tried to do since 2008. All you do is compound the issues in the future, which will eventually come home to roost. This is what is happening now.
"Credit card companies are anti X" is an extremely worrying argument. Paying and being paid for legal goods and services should be a basic right.
Ukraine, Brexit, Arab spring have one source – prices, says sociologist
Pretty sure twitter was a mess before bitcoin became relevant
They have very questionable affidavits on their cyber and digital side

I don’t see the issue with this one to apply such a rigid stance
I have rewritten the blog, moving to an index-based layout, rather than the original single-page layout.

I've also moved the CSS link inline. There is no javascript, there are no cookies.

This has broken the link for this story. I added a redirect, but it does nothing. No errors, no logging, just... doesn't do anything. That's an experience I have to say I have had before, with Apache =-)

I've added a couple of words of explanation to the top of the index, and a link there to the blog post.
It seems like most of the commenters here are blindly choosing a side when the real answer is, it depends on your priorities. If you want statelessness and one fewer db calls at the expense of timely revocations, pick JWT’s. If you want instant revocation, then accept that you need to check a database every time and don’t use JWT’s. Both options are correct.

As an aside, if you do pick JWT’s, you could create a revocation queue, publish all revocations to that queue, and read that queue asynchronously in every server to keep a token blocklist. You lose statelessness but retain speed (no db call).
That borrowing was known well before the mini budget and didn't spook the markets. I don't think the tax cuts for the rich really bothered the market either (bad politics, but small amounts of money relatively).

The real issue as far as I can see was that none of it was costed and they had no analysis by the OBR. It just looked entirely shady and planned on a napkin.
Honestly? The Link Between Climate Change and Hurricanes Is Complicated
I woke up to ads in my new tab page in Firefox yesterday; sponsored links to Amazon and Nike.

Browsers don't seem to serve users anymore. They, like everything else, are mostly ad delivery mechanisms.
I see the ad, and I'm not amused. I would be more at ease if the line said "You know what? We need money after all this browser-making. Give us yours and we will let you go on with your day."
Nature has the advantage of self organisation and (partially because of that) parallelism, that's proved hard to mimic in man made devices. But on the other hand, nature also has obstacles such as energy consumption, procreation & development, and survival, that AI doesn't have to worry about.

I think finding a niche for humans has proved difficult especially because of those reasons, and AI can take those hurdles much easier.
Serbia is not in EU, but you probably are right.
The web's cruising at 13M new and nefarious domain names a month
I seem to recall that up to 2012 or so, the apple logo was printed alongside the looped square on the physical key. We used to refer to it as the “apple key” (2000s CS program anecdote) and I recall it taking a while to adjust to referring to it as the command key.

EDIT: now that I follow the link I see this information is in the first line. Oh well!
It’s not that hard. Dorsey was off being a Bitcoin evangelist and running Square (now Block) instead of focusing on Twitter. He’s a narcissist and egomaniac so of course his attitude is that this happened to him rather than the reality of this happened because of him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_(disk_utility) for example was first released in 1995
I don't find it hilarious. It is rather sad that stupid people who know nothing about physics, end up billionaires through tech companies/innocations, while physics genius like you remain anonymous on the internet.
My mother, mid 80's, had red-almond brown eyes most her life. After going through chemo treatment 4 years ago, her eyes became deep blue.

Likewise, my wife had green/grey/hazel eyes when we married, and now they are solid grey.
I wouldn't mind this, honestly. a game can be solid even on an old engine. just look at how long the Monster Hunter series had been on their old engine before overhauling with World.
> Bloomberg said

Irrelevant East Coast media company comments on Bitcoin lol
A programmer? The gp talked about promotion as an incentive. 15 or maybe 20 years ago people didn't go into programming as a profession so much as they got paid to do what they would have done anyway. That was after the first dotcom bust, so maybe some people before that were in it for the money. But the number of times I have had to apologize to the wife because I got lost in a problem and was late getting home is large. Heck on /. they would have questioned that I actually had a wife, because programmers don't date. The motivation of the people doing the job has changed now that it pays well. But also, the culture of "if you aren't working your backlog item you aren't working" is new. The scrum kanban thing is somewhat to blame. Waterfall was terrible, but everyone on a good team knew that and just did what made sense, which is kind of what the agile manifesto was about.
As well: Companies pay more for dev time than they ever have in the past. There are tonnes of stories of companies buying devs the best hardware so that they can program more effectively, and of course devs with the best hardware don’t even see a lot of performance issues.

Then on top of that, companies are making choices like “we could optimize X and Y, but that would take too much dev time. Let’s just (compromise somewhere/bump up the requirements)”
I believe it's because the children who manage society and business want their workers and citizens to take their bullshit seriously. So they shaped a false and convenient image of what it means to be an "adult", such as putting work above family and personal life.
Annoying, yes. But you can turn them off in the settings page.
also a lot of analysts have been predicting social discontent in germany during winter due to the gas situation. russia, i immagine, would have been hoping that societal pressures would force the german government to reconsider its position on nord stream ii. turning on the nord stream ii pipeline was a practical solution to a freezing problem in germany. after blowing up the pipeline this solution no longer exists (at least not in its simple form of "turn on the tap") thus also taking away a key possible demand for any potential protests
Cap Theorem – Two Decades and Few Clouds Later – [pdf]
"Mike Kowalski — CAP Theorem — two decades and few clouds later" - https://youtu.be/K3Ahfbn7tPk
Yes! I love this plan. The JWST is great, but it's fragile and a long way from home. I want to keep Hubble healthy, even just for planetary defense.
There are also a lot of HNers (myself included) who will upvote any comments they see that they think are unfairly downvoted, whether they agree or disagree with the comment. It creates a pretty good balancing effect. The end result is that comments that stay downvoted after having a decent number of eyeballs on them seem to usually deserve it.

A possible exception are hyper-contentious issues (Israel/Palestine for example), where the upvote/downvote count is just a reflection of which tribe has greater numbers on HN.
With texts like this being disclosed, I am surprised that any communications at this level are still happening over surveilled networks.
Musk and his team put together a fundraising deck and were actively looking for investors. It was never vanity for Musk. The deck was pretty clear about what Musk thought Twitter could become.
With a simple, public, open and stable in time hardware programing interface?

I mean not a scam.
More like complex organisms existing within and alongside other massive complex organisms. Nothing artificial about it?
Axe throwing, IPAs, cosplay outfits? Learn to play golf and drink scotch in your smoking jacket like an adult.
You can, but it's not about that. Ads don't belong in browser UI, full stop.
Funny you say that, I just opened Safari, no ads.
I love stuff like this. If you do too, then I highly recommend this incredible youtube video of the end of time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA&ab_channel=melod...
Don’t equate precedent with morals.
I used to run this on my home network. It was pleasant and occasionally useful. The code was pretty unstable though, and the project looks totally unmaintained now. E.g., the “news” link redirects to a vacant domain. Sourceforge complains about the code being in CVS and suggests migrating to Subversion.

Perhaps some HN visibility will encourage someone to adopt and resurrect it.
I hope this means that all the SEO bullshit will move to videos and the textual web will become usable again.
"Upvoting messages with currency" is literally describing what advertising is.
It’s so fucking nice to see a post like this coming from the top of an organization for once. Usually CEOs dance around this issue.
And it's turtles all the way down. Every single incentive and system is optimized for some goal like periodic revenue increase. It's not one personality type and the desire to buy a new car, it's the intentional structure of a public corporation. We have high minded ideas about sustainability and corporate citizenship, but those views don't drive decisions in the bear market.
Facebook’s role in the Rohingya crisis and implications for tech accountability
Yeah I reckon at Google, that came from above. That was Schmidt.

> "There is what I call the creepy line," he said, according to The Hill. "The Google policy on a lot of things is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it."
Project Lyra: Sending a Spacecraft to 1I/’Oumuamua [pdf]
Raptor Lake Review Kit Revealed, Includes Only Core I9-13900K and Core I5-13600K
I like the earth view one [0] and you get to keep your data with goog

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/earth-view-from-go...
Rest assured, it'll hurt both equally. Or do you think Google would treat content creators as equals?
I expect Netty to make the appropriate changes, but Helidon have a new server called Nima (https://medium.com/helidon/please-welcome-helidon-n%C3%ADma-...) that's been built from the ground up to be virtual-thread-friendly.
Google didn't tell developers that Stadia was shutting down
Everything is much easier with decent support network (grandparents, family, friends) that can help. Lacking that, things are much harder.

"I could not have done it without our family and their support!" is not without reason.
A bit intricate, but you should be able to open a bank account in Estonia. They offer digital citizenship, so-called e-residency (https://www.e-resident.gov.ee/) and for 350€ you can open a company there. I reckon it should also be possible to open a bank account there over the internet once you got your citizenship e-card?
https://nitter.net/techemails/status/1575588277700026368
I want to believe that physics R&D on quantum computers is a way to test quantum field theory, then may lead to really interesting results.
It is actually harder. The anime aesthetic was literally designed to facilitate easier 2D animation. Notwithstanding the aesthetic itself being very popular (and thus more familiar to designers), many "non-anime" v-tubers like Layna Lazar or Juniper Actias will tend to incorporate anime elements because it's what they know and it's easier to implement, even if they're not trying to follow the "virtual idol" model set by Hololive and the like.

Also, one has to consider that this is an entertainment market almost exclusively bound to Twitch and Youtube, and it's counterproductive having an avatar that isn't going to appeal visually to the masses, generate clips and be supported by the algorithm.
Human-machine interaction in general. Humans are incredibly attuned to subtle unexpected changes in routine noises, and "that didn't sound right" is usually the first sign that any equipment is starting to misbehave.
Ask HN: Europe: Are you preparing for electrical blackouts, how?
So, while "unlikely" (just as many things that happen all the time), we've been told here in Denmark, that we could expect unannounced 2-hour interruptions of electricity.

I'm seriously considering throwing money on a diesel generator with automatic start/switchover, while not a true UPS, it will at least reduce the service downtime, and then the battery UPS can catch the PC and network while the diesel starts.
This require me to rewire/rethink some of my electrical connections, but I figure I can make something managable that is not too permanent (basically, draw industrial extention cords to vital items like the boiler, circulation pumps, fridge/freezer, and luxury things like computer/network/tv.

Your thoughts and considerations ?
https://disq.us/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdigitalce.com%2Fblog%2...
The same level, more or less:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabian%E2%80%93led_in...
Anonymity is a design choice of HTTP. What if there were a different protocol where the users are never anonymous. You never have to transmit ID in that case because sockets are only established between trusted end points
I mean you joke, but a local sports good store has switched to using RFID tags for all their products. First time I went shopping after the change was rather startling. I dumped my purchases at the cash register and almost immediately the cashier read me the total.

I see no reason supermarkets couldn't do similar once this sort of tech gets prolific enough.
Ask HN: How to mitigate the impact of the incoming economic crisis in Europe?
It's not totally clear (at least to me) how serious this crisis is going to be. I don't know what to expect exactly, besides a big increase in bills and essential goods.

In this situation, what steps should one take to minimize the impact of this incoming recession? Both financially and otherwise.
There's an arXiv button at the top for me (7 hours later).
Agreed. He's milked this cow for a decade and now wants to pivot in to being one of the good guys (TM), and show us cool new things about decentralized computing, by ignoring all the projects out there 10 years in.
The NYT covered it yesterday

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/28/science/jaws-fish-fossils...

https://archive.ph/FlH5B
Except that you can limit to 1 upvote per account, and use (centralized) moderation to handle sybil attacks by removing upvotes with discretion.
Amazon Kindle Scribe–The First Kindle for Reading and Writing
Yes, appearance of a brown thin band in the perimeter of gray, green or blue pupils in adults is a known symptom of nerve disease.

Otherwise is genetic and fixed but some colors are more variable than other in different light levels. Green/grey seem to change a lot.
>I am pointing at Gab as an example of definite success

As far as I can tell, Gab is still losing money and not gaining users (100,000 estimated active as of now, despite 6 years of existence), so it's hard to call it a success. It, like previous alt-right responses to mainstream platforms such as Parler, will likely die the same death for the same reasons: not enough money or users to be sustainable.

>I absolutely loved your hate speech.

It's the opinion shared by a significant part of the population, and the content is crap. I tried each of the "alternative" platforms, and on each one am bombarded by the stupidest scams, "buy gold" idiots, and such ignorance and stupidity I dropped each one.

The userbase trends far-right so most people will never join unless the userbase is more central, which will not happen. The CEO has engaged in the most nonsensical anti-semitic screeds on Twitter and elsewhere, having to repeatedly delete his own content. It's no wonder people don't like the platform or it's content.

Researchers, analyzing random samples of millions of posts on the site, find many multiples of hate speech more than other platforms, find the majority of posts are political (and right leaning), that people moving to this site after being banned elsewhere increase in toxicity because Gab lets them (as long as they have the "right" viewpoint), and on and on. The academic literature on the platform content and behaviors is spot on in my opinion. These are empirical reasons that most people will not join. Want some good reading on what the site actually has? Look no further than Google Scholar [1]

If most people did not share the opinion that the content is bad, more people would use those platforms.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C15&q=gab...
or in the bull market. techies are greedy
From a google search:
„ Yes, Estonia has a system that enables you to open a bank account without residency and as an e-resident, and you can start the process online. Generally speaking, it is often possible to open an account with only your passport - depending on the country of your origin and the bank you chose.“
(Source: https://www.b2bpay.co/how-open-bank-account-estonia)
It's notoriously difficult to have a new tab page without ads/Google connections, but still keep the 8 thumbnails.
One can change the search engine and then an alternate new tab page appears which is the right one: Only thumbnails.
Unfortunately there is code in chrome to detect the search engine one confiured and activate the matching new tab page. I think they have one for ddg?

Even creating a custom search engine in chrome settings, pointing at google does not work, they detect the google url.

I have yet to create my own "search engine" url which would redirect to google, to put this search engine in the chrome settings!

It's very annoying, because despite it being Chrome from google, chrome is quite reasonable with data protection and settings in many areas and can be tamed with group policies.
In our company GPO we have to turn off the new tab page, but my goal is to have one without ads.
It's their own product ads though... It's not very problematic, you're using their product and they're announcing they have more products for you.
You mean Estonia ? I had heard of that but never completed the process; I'll definitely give it a look. Thank you
Is the work you do to your credit or your boss's? I fundamentally reject the argument that being financially invested in engineering projects makes him an engineer.
If twitter was a protocol, in all likelyhood he would not have become a multi millionaire let alone a millionaire.
And then, he returned a rocket from space and had it land vertically.
Heck he's doing it consistently, and even synchronized on occasion.

Musk is a flawed dude, but the physics behind space-x aren't his weak point.
It's also lazy because every spy agency is drawn to unrest in a rival country like a moth to a flame. Regardless of how pure a movement is, it will quickly attract foreign interest and influence as it grows. So this is ultimately just an easy way to dismiss any challenge to the status quo.
> Chrome [bias: I work on Chrome]: Gets the important bits right.

Sigh. Titlebar highjacked, no menubar, small scrollbars, gray on gray (this is a "modern UI" pandemic).
Firefox has ads too. At least you can turn them off, until they add another category and you have to go figure out how to turn off the new ones.
I agree that semantic mismatches are a worse problem than syntactic mismatches.

However in the case of Lua, because of dynamic typing and late binding, it would not be wise to not have unit tests and full test coverage. This mostly reduces semantic mistakes (indexing, 0-is-not-false, etc.) mostly to annoyances like syntax errors. "mostly" because some "stateful" operations need additional test efforts, and finding out why a test fails is not always straightforward.
The physics just isn't there yet.
And sadly this partly applies to RISC-V too. It only achieves competitive density with the (optional) instruction compression, which makes instructions vary in length. Not as big of a problem as on x86, but still a fundamental limitation.
If you’ve updated your phone’s OS since then, you now have additional services running in the background. Things like on-device face detection for photos, “suggest apps” functionality, and others.