skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure what the culture is in Sweden but in America most kids get to school on their own, usually by walking. Also kids are off for the shortest days, so if they live at a high latitude they’ll only see maybe a couple weeks where they have to walk in the dark. Sure schools could start later, but it seems simpler to just get rid of DST, and if you shift start times by one hour you’re offsetting the hour head-start you were getting from DST.
That's what I've been thinking about for a while as well. Why live down the gravity well if you don't have to? Some might still choose it, much like some modern people choose to live in the forest. And in space, there is plenty of space for everyone.
... and an announcement like this is a fairly strong message of "assume you need to care"
How's this important for a project which is obviously an experiment in PLs field? You either interested in such things, or not, nothing else applies.
I don't know yet. I have issues with all of the well-known providers. I may need to just get comfortable with picking the least bad one.
We also lost GUI editing of interactive vector animation, as in Flash.
So the pilot seriously risked their life to save the government a few million $.
* The Frayed Atlantic Edge* by David Gange

A book about a kayak journey around the Atlantic coast of the UK and Ireland that the author undertook in 2016. Published in 2018. The author (who is a historian) develops essays about the history of the coastal communities with a lot of references to earlier work and current writers. There is a Web site with additional material. [1] The book starts off with the mechanics of kayaking through coastal waters and slowly edges into quite deep historical reflections.

I'm working my way around the Atlantic edge of the UK slowly as currently disrupted travel allows.

[1] https://frayedatlanticedge.wordpress.com/
I think that's his point. The point in life isn't to have money, it's to spend time on things you liked. Thus, trading time to save money is a bad trade, but trading money for time that you enjoy is what you should do. Which in his case means spending time on your phone instead of changing oil, but it might look different for you.
Don Norman has studied aesthetics and productivity quite a bit and come to a different conclusion — attractive things work better.
> What does that even mean?

if I'm being charitable, it means that Musk looked at the problem, saw that it was a terrible idea and pushed it to one side

If I'm not being charitable, he looked at the idea despite the previous experience of the blockchain being useless for all but a tiny application, and still forced people to debate the idea, despite it being patent bollocks
Clojure from a Schemer's Perspective (2021)
By now, you saying you're about to implement something yourself is probably an indicator for everyone else that they don't have to do it.

"We're good, everyone. Justine is on it."
My feeling on that is that unless you're a prolific reader, the annual best-of lists are a waste of time. If you want to read the best when you do, and that isn't much, then most years there isn't a single book published that you should ever read.

There are plenty of classics that people still recommend; I find they're generally a better read than anything current, and they have utility in exposing you to the context/background/meaning for things people reference from them.
The LVCC Loop started boring in 15 November 2020 and opened to the public on 15 April 2021 - so 5 months, for the 2.7km. The Channel tunnel began construction in June of 1988 and opened for freight trains in June of 1994, so 72 months for the 50.4km.

So, the LVCC was built at 0.54 km/month, while the Channel tunnel was buildlt at 0.7 km/month.

Which part is false?
Is this project also paid for by Protocol Labs, like the initial IPFS implementation? Or is it a completely separate organisation? Is n0 somehow receiving grants from Protocol Labs to fund this effort? If not, how is the organisation supposed to survive long-term?
Cosmos and The Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan. Sagan has many great books, but these two I read in 2022. I love the way he writes, and there's something so optimistic about it.

At the same time, it's saddening to see that important issues he's mentioning 40-50 years ago still not solved, such as climate change and the threat of nuclear warfare.
I personally keep a photo of my family on my desk as cue to moderate my instinct to rage quit when the latest nonsense flows downstream.

"You're doing it for them"

Nothing to do with aesthetics, although they are lovely.
Go Debian with KDE, or KDE neon (which KDE do themselves).
Space is an unfathomably unpleasant place to move to. Maybe advanced extra terrestrials understand that better than we do.
Related: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_tls.html

I will try this out next week to see I can get Apache to compile with mod_tls; should be interesting.
Why would I, as a publisher, pay for tweet futures, when I can just scrape them for free?

Why would I pay for futures on a platform that encourages people to make ill-informed context free pronouncements, with an incredibly short half life?
They say Chinese is a tonal language.

Could English be regarded as an apostrophe language?
I'm the author of the original tweet, and I made a video which answers a few of these questions.

https://youtu.be/OBs2-2KcN-w

Essentially, the biggest issue is with spot color channels in Photoshop files. If you don't have a license for the spot color used in the file, it goes black, with no clues other than the name left behind. If you can look it up somewhere, you'll be OK, but it's a real pain.
> Some level of intelligence is a prerequisite for experience of qualia.

How do you know that? It’s entirely possible that a rock has all sorts going on that we just can’t detect.

Which sounds facetious, but given that we can’t even detect consciousness in humans, it seems difficult to rule it out entirely.
Due to the fuel leaking they couldn't see how much of the wing was missing, they only found out after landing the plane.
The book Infrastructure, by Brian Hayes, seems similar to your description of Vaclav Smil's book. It's a big book filled with photos and explanations of various infrastructure (mines, factories, railroads, the electrical grid, waterworks and so on) that we keep seeing but don't quite understand what we see. It shows how much it really takes to keep the modern world functioning.
Reading this article made me want to listen to Eyeliner’s Larp of Luxury again.

My setup is my laptop on an Ikea Björkåsen (featuring cupholder with nifty notch for the mug handle) and my arse on a Poäng. If that’s not minimal I don’t know what is.
> A reference counter is arguably the slowest option, so Swift is out of the picture

It's not that simple. Obligate refcounting has lower throughput than obligate tracing GC but offsets that with more predictable latency, which might be good for the Swift use case. Rust uses a mix of stack-based allocation, manual heap allocation and RC - and the RC only needs to manage "owners" as determined via the borrowck, as opposed to ephemeral references. So is way more efficient than something like Swift ARC, where refcounting is essentially ubiquitous and any operations via references will incur slow atomic RC updates.
- Conquest: Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico by Hugh Thomas , because he brings history to life and the story of the Spanish and the Mexica is stranger than fiction, more subtle and terrible than you might think, and has many lessons on human behavior applicable to today.

- Ecclesiastes by Qoheleth: In my opinion, superior to Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. "Go, eat your bread with enjoyment, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already approved what you do. Let your garments be always white; let not oil be lacking on your head. Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life which he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun. Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going." (Eccles 9:11)

- Amusing ourselves to death by Neil Postman: We thought we had to worry about 1984 and big brother. We were wrong. We are living in Huxley's Brave New World where digital media has made us dumber, distracted and cut our connections with one other. Our smartphones substitute rosaries and entertainment becomes the dogma.

- Structure and Intepretation of Computer Programs by Hal Abelson and Gerlad J. Sussman: Need I say more? This books makes me fall in love all over again with programming every time I pick it up.

- Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle: What does it mean to live well? How can we be happy? Aristotle makes the striking claim that everyone knows how to be happy, but we have to create the habits that are in accord with reason and right judgement in order to get there. Also, happiness is not a state but rather the result of our active will and right ordering of desire. Required reading for any political leader.

- Theory of Computation by Michael Sipser: Javascript frameworks come and go, language standards change, Computer platforms rise and fall, but math and the underling concepts of computation stay the same. Knowing what computation is, what its properties are, etc. will not only make you a better programmer but a better thinker. Church-Turing Thesis essential reading for anyone serious about algorithm design and analysis.
Definitely looks interesting I've waiting for a laptop without a dedicated gpu, with USB 4 and a fast cpu
Interesting idea. Though maximally-simple claim doesn't look warranted to me. It feels more complex than most of Forth incarnations.
The Benefits of Tech in the Classroom Have Been Oversold
I've used it in the past to distribute updates to a cluster of servers sharing the same egress/ingress. At one point, the amount of servers made it so updating the software on the servers saturated the ingress and bottlenecked on bandwidth.

Used IPFS to distribute the updates in a P2P fashion instead so all the servers could share the data between themselves. Rolling out updates went from taking minutes to seconds.

Could have used torrents for the same effect basically, but felt for trying something novel and worked out fine in the end.
If you want to do this with a data structure instead of a database then discrete interval encoding trees solve this problem well. https://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/HTML/discretintrv.html
> Is USD a scam?

not really. unless you treat large parts of capitalism a scam. (thats rhetorical by the way)

Binance which lost $570M in one hack, knowingly promoted flawed investments and lied to regulators however, could be described as an unreliable finance partner.
I have a pretty good idea what nationality you meant, the 'an' in 'an [nationality]' removes a lot of entropy!
Google Web Designer which is closed source has Dreamweaver features including templates. see https://webdesigner.withgoogle.com/
Not tricky if you spend the time. I'm always speechless when people claim that lack of responsive screen adjustment was the death knell of Flash/AS3. Any language or stack is going to suck on some screens unless you test it on those screens and write code accordingly. Nothing had better performance in this than Flash, up until Google decided to stop letting Chrome fire off new window boundaries on resize until the click/drag was let up. I wrote practically a whole operating system with window managers and apps in a resizable browser window in 2008 using that tool in under 300k. And large portions of the graphical elements were done through the GUI. Do you realize how much more boring and time consuming it is to write every media size CSS subclass and have to test it compared with just drawing multiple sizes of things and changing their positions and filters?
You forgot the gorgeous hand-drawn illustrations. Maggie's website convinced me to make my own illustrations on my website too.
Frankly, it isn't weird to pay to access a scarce resource. Now we're paying with our personal details... paying with other means might turn out better for society.
Crypto"currencies" are a scam because they are a negative sum game.

Imagine an empty room. A few people come in with money in their pockets and play a few rounds of a card game. When they leave, since nothing was in the room before and nothing is in there after, it's obvious the total sum of money couldn't change. Some got richer, some got poorer but the total is the same.

If they decided to exchange money for plastic chips to be used during their games and exchange it for money at the end, the same is still true.

However, if someone takes a cut every time chips are moved then that person is guaranteed to win and the players in total are guaranteed to lose. If you have a game where you know who is the winner and who are the loser without knowing anything about the game, I believe it's fair to call that a scam.

No, stocks are not like this because they produce dividends and gold is not like this either because there are consumers (jewelers, electronics industry) who buy gold add value to it and only sell the value added product. With a crypto"currency" none of this happens. You buy coins, sell the same and they just rot ("HODL" in modern parlance) meanwhile. And you lose money on every transaction. Sure, the price change might mean you leave with a monetary profit but it only means a greater fool is now sitting on a larger loss.

This is a very novel scam for many obvious reasons but that doesn't mean it's not a scam.
Abstractly, a planet is just a really really big starship. With technological advances, we could even eventually theoretically move planets.

So phrased in another way, why would one choose to live their entire life in a small starship instead of a big one?
Clever answer! Yes, I remember those days. Sun was really ahead of its time.
How Corruption Destroys Armies – Theft, Graft, and Russian Failure in Ukraine
Firing her doesn't solve that. Who will challenge the ideological clone Elon inevitably replaces her with?
What do you mean with minium in this case? When I still had a job I used to make $28k/year pre-tax in Sweden as a junior developer (java + frontend). This was in line with my other junior colleagues.
FreeBSD kernel is still simple to configure and compile. At least last time I checked.
Sneaking into Black Hat (2019)
Teens turn to TikTok in search of a mental health diagnosis
Because its fucking impossible to escape the Suns Gravity well with all our stuff
The Bitcoin blockchain supports arbitrary data payloads (as do most blockchains), I've always wondered how they deal with that problem.
To "lose" 5% I imagine one has to only be "worse" than some other heuristic that they measured the results of.
For example BearSSL uses constant-time algorithms, openssl not.

BearSSL GHASH is still fast whilst secure, openssl AES not.
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo.

A beautifully written, immensely moving, very funny novel with a really nuanced but profoundly important message.

It’s essentially a call for empathy.

I thought of myself, a white male, as progressive and very aware already of the issues of gender and color in our societies’ power structures. This book made me very humble. It made me look at the place women, and women of colour in particular, have in today’s society in a completely different way.

Just give it a go guys, just the reading experience is worth it.
I agree that the shareholders would never actually all sell in unison without there being some motivating force for that to happen. But that doesn't seem relevant to the question at hand - whether the $650 billion was "literally lost".
The idea of a CEX directing this kind of engineering effort sounds like a nightmare.

Tangentially related, see below for a better idea of “Twitter on the blockchain”:

https://www.varunsrinivasan.com/2022/01/11/sufficient-decent...
Well-written scripts I've seen also contain the hash of binaries that are downloaded. So as long as the hash function is good, checking the hash of the script should still ensure that the binary downloaded is what you want.

> you have no idea what that binary does when you verify that the checksum is correct.

This isn't any different from using a package manager. You're still downloading a binary that could do anything and you have to have some level of trust in the source.
A chronicle of a death foretold
I used to make $28k/year pre-tax as a junior dev (java+frontend, quit job 2 years ago), so your recruiters aren't that wrong.
Probably some trains, planes and ships from the 90's. At least I remember Cory Doctorow describing airplanes as "flying Solaris boxen with badly-secured SCADA controllers" in his "The upcoming war on general purpose computation".
Google wants every account to use 2FA, starts auto-enrolling users (2021)
Removing big nav bars and moving their contents into drop-down menus is pretty much the standard way of handling resizes across the web. Same goes for multi-column layouts. It would be a horrible idea to keep those things on a phone, just like it's a horrible idea to scale up a phone interface to a desktop browser window.
And my point is if you pursue that thread too aggressively, without knowing what you want to do - and I’ve seen quite a few friends do this especially after moving to the valley and getting into ‘always be optimising’ mode - they don’t actually take the time to make mistakes
Show HN: A JavaScript test runner that works in any JavaScript runtime
Indeed - this is one of the positives of Go, as all the dependencies get linked statically, giving nice portable "single binary" solutions.

Grepping function names seems a reasonable approach, as long as you're not trying to detect something that is obfuscating its use of libssl (i.e. by mangling strings together).

It appears if you strip a binary, any definitive information about the libraries linked in statically is lost, beyond function names and argument combinations. I believe there are tools in IDA and similar, which can match functions based on their input argument types and name. That might help you match to a rough version of the upstream library, if parameters changed.
One of web's crowning achievements, flex, was available in Qt in early 00s, if memory serves me right.
Ah, thanks also for the confirmation that at least the Mac version doesn't have DRM, as Vicky3 is not on this list yet !

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_g...
The First Minute of Every Phone Call Is Torture Now
People who never wrote fluid designs are always the first to tell you it's never been done.
By the time we reach space, we won't need these bodies anymore.

Earth biology acutely fits to the gasses, minerals, and temperatures found here. It's not a great solution for space, but it's fantastic for exploiting Earth's energy.

Space distances are also not very compatible with human lifespan. The death thing is bad all around: spend a fourth of life learning and a fourth of life in decline, with no ability to share information directly outside of our slow communication and learning protocol.

The obvious answer is that AI and machines will take over from us and leave our planet in our stead. They won't have our limitations on lifespan and complex biological inputs. They won't take up space or get tired. They can copy and paste their knowledge and not need parents or growing up.

Without the limitations of biology, it won't be hard for them to expand to all corners of the galaxy. Despite Hollywood and Asimov trying to paint the picture of humans living amongst the stars, that's more of a fantasy than Middle Earth.

Where we're going we don't need humans or bodies.
I mean you could also lump nearly almost every single major investment bank and commercial bank in the category “unreliable finance partner”…
They already ask for mobile phone number, which in turn is a KYC’d service by a telco.
It’s definitely an interesting approach by Shopify and nice to see someone challenge the status quo.

What’s the downside though? Do you get the same dollar amount whether you choose RSU or cash? Does the comp compare favourably to the top of market companies who pay mostly RSUs? Can you potentially lock in a low strike price for your grant over four years or is it more like an ESPP? (Of course the last year showed this is not always a winning strategy lol).

My assumption is that paying employees in RSUs works out more favourable for the companies than paying all cash so I’d expect it to be lower if you take all cash (I have zero knowledge of accounting mind).
From previous searching on this topic, I think the main criticism is that he implies he's a conservator but he's actually a restorer. There's a big Reddit thread here[1] which covers some of the differences.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtConservation/comments/jnda7z/cri...
Binance sounds like the typical crypto investor: I don't know what it is but I'm gonna buy it anyway
Hi. I built a test runner that doesn't have a lot of the features other test runners have.

Why?

Most test runners include a lot of features and do a lot of magic.

They automatically (magically?):

- search and include test files

- run the tests for you

- inject test methods like `describe`/`it`

- add a hooks system for managing `before`/`after` events

- use cli's to manage the auto inclusion of the test runner

- use event systems for capturing when tests fail/succeed/finish

These features can create a great foundation for writing and running tests, but they also come with their own management and overhead.

This library aims to provide a bare bones test runner with zero magic.

As such, it can run in a web browser, nodejs, deno or any other javascript interpreter.

It's also pretty fast, small and has zero dependencies;
Scala is big in the financial sector, which means average salaries for Scala developers are going to trend higher.
I guess the problem is usually not about 1% throughput, but about where the 1% is and how it affects the latency. You can have the 1% overhead evenly distributed which is normally fine, but you can also have a latency spike for some operation (and I guess this is the case for barriers), which IMO really hurts in some cases.
Non-fiction: Disinformation, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa

Fiction: Dune and Asimov's The Last Question.
There’s a public appetite for all sorts of intellectual property. Popular music is funded by artists who sell parts of their rights to their profits from music and recordings.

As opposed to a patronage model, intellectual property allows for people to engage in the market with their published works.

Intellectual property has lots of problems of course but it is also the model that replaced patronage as we transitioned from the ancien regime into our contemporary politic-economic system.
The method to change a hostname in Solaris is more complicated but does not require reinstalling.

It's partially because more things such as the automounter and NIS were heavily used in the target of a corporate network.
Not enough to cover KYC legislation.
But would you spend $10 to say that? Or just register your own domain and say whatever you like forever :-)
Citation? Feels like he's got an aura of "genius" surrounding him so people think he's super clever. Meanwhile I wonder if he's just a tiny bit more smarter than Trump and he's been lucky in his whole career...
Ron Chernow is perhaps too reverential of Washington. Gore Vidal for example had a much more critical view of Washington. Some claim that the War of Independence streched out for many many years only because of Washington's incompetence.
Not every mobile phone numbers are KYC'd.
Would be useful to see/filter by drive type too i.e. exclude SMR, include NAS etc.
I usually reread both every few years.
The F15 is in the most optimized solution in tradeoffs in fighter jets.

If you take into account the time to market, cost of development, fighting record it's the the unicorn-sweetspot :)

a Very under rated(I couldn't bring myself to say under the radar, Im not that type of person) plane !