skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Two things can be true at the same time

Yes, but it is not possible to assert that both are true at the same time with full certainty.
I find it a little sad that in order to disagree with me you have to be mean about it.

There are plenty of reasons why a subreddit like r/science is fine for people, not just the fact that they have a "very narrow Overton window". Maybe it's because we understand that this particular subreddit does not conform to the usual agora of discussion that reddit is known for and just shows a list of maybe interesting science papers/articles and clarifications on them from people in the domain. I may disagree with some of the ideas put forward but I can be an adult about it and not jump to the conclusion that there's a cabal of "big science" that is trying to brainwash me.
> This article rant on the imperfect nature of our current solutions for plastic, ignore part of the problems (like the floating island of plastics...) and doesn't provide any alternative solution.

The article focused on fundamental problems with plastic recycling and specifically focused on the root causes of the floating island of plastics. Rant is an unusual term to apply to a rational, reasoned, and thoughtful analysis of a hard problem where the superficially "obvious" solutions are demonstrably ineffective and counter effective.
What would one do with a mass-produced model and accompanying mass-produced NFT? What could the relationship possibly be between an action figure and a unique number?

This is NFT in the guise of a collectible's CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY. And maybe also in the function of a KEY to access fungible digital assets.

In either case, the NFT is an object that must be indefinitely maintained: there is a cost-of-upkeep in the form of network transaction costs. A certificate or a key also have associated cost-of-upkeep, however this cost is not fixed and falls quickly. Is this a wise trade-off, profit-wise?
While there is no strict need, sometimes assertions logically belong together.
Yes, Intel is letting customers use their IP. Up to and including their CPU cores.
For signal - phone numbers as IDs allow them to retain no other info on their servers. They don’t have your phone book (though if someone gets your device and forced you to unlock it that’s different, but then they’d have your contacts anyway). There’s a reasonable tradeoff here imo to retain as little as possible server side. Signal is also working on a non phone ID option iirc.
Sorry, I re-read it with that perspective and I see how it could come off that way.

I am actually empathetic to children raised with dumb parents and yuppies who were grifted into selling their belongings to follow the tiny life trend.
> No one wants to be in a group where people share opinions that they dislike.

The relevance of this is way overstated. Most people haven't formed opinions on most topics and just want to hear different viewpoints so they can form an opinion.

> It’s just human nature. Why do you think private Facebook groups are so popular?

Because people have specific interests they want to pursue and engage with other enthusiasts, without being inundated with other crap. Might as well ask why subreddits are popular.
I looked around at several ELI5-type sources and honestly the Wikipedia one is the best I came across.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafer_fabrication

Here is ASML specifically, in a very slow slideshow format, representing our finest web technology.

https://www.asml.com/en/technology/all-about-microchips/how-...
That can be considered one logical assertion though. You're asserting the size of the rectangle. You can even extract an assert helper function AssertRectangleSize(20,10)
Agreed...also don't get me started on when ppl start to post highly political or controversial topics. I typically remove them from my network immediately.

It's a professional network...act accordingly?
Doesn't he say just to burn it in the early part of the article?
The grift I'm talking about is not the up-front price of the van, but the price of the lifestyle.
If the world did not exist outside your echo chamber, then it wouldn't be a problem.

The problem with echo chambers is they trend away from information and knowledge and toward whatever is most often repeated. Add some malicious disinformation providers to the chamber, and like a capitalist monopoly you find yourself in a much worse situation down the road.

Replying to your specific items:

1. Indeed, and this can limit our opportunities and make our lives worse. A very simple example is land management. Still in some parts of the world it is common to pour things into the soil or water which are harmful to the environment... the environment that the same people live in. Sooner or later this results in harm for the people living there. But their echo chamber, so to speak, knows that the way to dispose of something you no longer want is to throw it into the lake or canal. Unfortunately, that was also their source of water and possibly food. People get sick more often and die younger because they have remained ignorant.

2. See #1

3. People may not seek out confrontational meetings, but just by leaving your house you have natural opportunities to encounter people with different opinions.

4. True, but that has as much to do with limited time than having a predisposition against a book. If you were stuck in prison with nothing but books, you would probably read every book you could get your hands on, regardless of whether you thought you might disagree with it.

5. See #4. People have limited time. But there are occasions where a leader of a group may suggest people go explore alternatives (usually with the assumption that they will return with a stronger support of the original group and its ideas). One example of this is the Amish Rumspringa - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumspringa.

6. How do you know this? Do you know every athiest influencer? Also, is "athiest influencer" a thing!?

This expression of "echo chamber" is probably more recent in human history because we now are able to easily travel outside our original bubble, and of course because we have the internet. You didn't know you were in a bubble when neither you nor anyone you knew had ever been out of the bubble.

One could argue that school is bad because it teaches things that we don't need... because "obviously" anything we need could be taught to us by our parents or village leaders. See #1.
I thought health care was free in most of europe.

Ambulances can be private. In Spain, if you contact the Social Security and it's them that send the ambulance, I understand it will be free. But if you call a private service, they will charge.

In a case like that, I would have called police instead. It's the safest option.
In fairness, American political culture does leak and infect the rest of the English-speaking cultural sphere, so we do have an interest in it.

For example, when Americans went nuts and tried to remove/deface historical statues, here in Finland local Leftist party's youth group suggested removing a statue of Mannerheim. Mannerheim was a war leader during the Finnish Civil War and led the Finnish defense against Russia during WW2.

He's literally one of the primary reasons those Leftist youth organization chucklefucks' parents didn't grow up behind the Iron Curtain, yet they wanted his statue removed. They definitely got the idea from the US.
Can we agree that hundreds of meme posts and hundreds of "That's what she said" posts are not helpful? You see that behavior on tons of popular subreddits that are less moderated. That the conversation looks like a copy of most of the other threads in the sub because of the low quality recycled posts.

If we did that on HN our posts would be flagged here too. We do need to separate out how much 'garbage' gets filtered from the ideas that are controversial opinions.
Which is a niche need. The world wide web is for everyone, not only for people that share your hobby.

> privacy

The price of that privacy is that no one can help you when a pesky smart contract self activates when you open your wallet and it gets emptied.
What happens if someone poops in the bottle and then recycles it. I guess that's just the American in me probably. Probably why those efforts die here.
The New Oil: Beginners Guide to Data Privacy and Cybersecurity
> Raymarching is costly and rarely used in realtime engines but Blender isn't realtime so rendering SDFs directly would probably be viable.

The viewport still needs to update in real time for it to be a viable modeling workflow, though, right?
I think this makes the same mistake that has always been made with respect to plastic -- it assumes the responsibility of making recycling work should fall to the consumer, when it should really be imposed on the producer. If the responsibility and cost were imposed on the packaging manufacturers to make sure that most of the packaging they produce get recycled, they would be forced to find a solution. They could then respond to this by choosing to move away from plastic altogether, or choosing materials that are easier to recycle, or raising prices and using the proceeds to pay for effective collection efforts and so forth. As it stands, the packagers' incentives are all aligned with plastic packaging -- it is cheaper to produce, cheaper to transport, and more versatile than other materials. As it stands, all of the costs of the waste stream from plastics are borne by consumers and the environment.
I worked with IBM in the early 2000s porting some IP to their processes and what was so difficult was that everything was proprietary to IBM. From the nomenclature, to the tools, to the models, etc. That was great when they were on top, but the world passed them by and there was no hope of converting them over. I never worked with Intel the same way, but some close friends did and it sounds exactly the same. They are proprietary and very inefficient. A block that would normally be laid out in two days, Intel would spend two weeks on. Their process design rules were super restrictive and their tooling just isn't efficient compared to the what the rest of the industry now uses. Unique, strict and obnoxious design rules might be OK when you are designing a high-volume processor like Intel, but that is not the kind of process you want for a foundry.

I fear it is not in Intel's DNA to make this switch.
Yeah, but that does nothing on Reddit. Those "politician-style vacuous/feel-good statements" are already highly upvoted there.
> He says he is getting 20 hours a day of electricity at old pre-inflationary rates.

This is quite common. [Hi from Argentina!] The government doesn't want to recognize the inflation, so they keep the electricity bill artificially low, and that's good for a BTC farm. The problem is that someone has to pay the bill anyway, so it creates more inflation.

> Azzi dubbed this new form of money “lollars,” referring to U.S. dollars deposited into the Lebanese banking system before 2019. Today, withdrawals of lollars are capped, and each lollar is paid out at a rate worth about 15% of its actual value, according to estimates from multiple locals and experts living across Lebanon.

We had something similar in 2001, but the government officially changed the dollars in the bank to long term bonds (10 years?). Or you could retire some of them converted to pesos with a haircut (20%?). [Some details are complicated, because all off that happened during 3 months, and the restrictions changed each day. We call that it "corralito" (baby play pen) and "corralón" (baby big play pen). There is more info in the Spanish version of the article in Wikipedia https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corralito autotranslation https://es-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Corralito?_x_... )
Short of nationalizing the entire petrochemical industry how do you propose stopping them from just making something else with the current plastic by-products?
I think you understood the use, but value the safety less than I do:

> maybe only your EmailBlaster cares, where it's like a privilege: some can send to unverified emails and some can't

A boolean flag is strictly inferior, because it is a runtime check. You can only ever be sure that you're processing verified emails at runtime, and there's no way to require that the code guards against that in all places. If they're different types, you can't even pass an unverified email to code that needs verified emails, so you eliminate the entire possibility at compile-time.
type VerifiedEmailOptedOutOfMarketing = { email: string; is_verified: true; is_opted_out: true; };
The only truth is in personal hedonism I am convinced.
I just skimmed this and I never worked in FEM but this really brought me back. I had the pleasure of meeting several of the people in the article (Hughes, Oden, Babuska, Demkowicz) and couldn’t help feeling some nostalgia as well.
No.

(This is a joke about prolog error handling)
If you had the requisite optics, perhaps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_optics
Here are some of the fact checks (login required): https://twitter.com/i/birdwatch/rated_helpful
They don't have to be given equal treatmet, the idea is only that we should not normalize suppressing things that are "distasteful", because that is easily abused by people with power to oppress those without. Speaking truth to power is not possible if arbitrary and capricious rules prevent you from speaking.
My favorite of hers: "D'un vieux jardin" (https://youtu.be/VdmyYG_1F84). So elegantly crunchy!
What caused the doubling in Mastodon usage in May 2022?
The current push to Mastodon made me look up their historical stats.

This site was the only one I found. Is it reliable?

If it is, there has been another a doubling in usage around May this year.

Any ideas what caused it?
Plan what happens to your data if you can’t use your Google Account anymore
> I've never seen a case where it would be hard to tell which assertion failed.

There are a set of unit testing frameworks that do everything they can to hide test output (junit), or vomit multiple screens of binary control code emoji soup to stdout (ginkgo), or just hide the actual stdout behind an authwall in a uuid named s3 object (code build).

Sadly, the people with the strongest opinions about using a "proper" unit test framework with lots of third party tooling integrations flock to such systems, then stack them.

I once saw a dozen-person team's productivity drop to zero for a quarter because junit broke backwards compatibility.

Instead of porting ~ 100,000 legacy (spaghetti) tests, I suggested forking + recompiling the old version for the new jdk. This was apparently heresey.
Download is working for me
Our drummer hits hard. I don’t complain much, as I then can turn up the volume on my bass amp. You really feel the notes in your body. (Just don’t forget the hearing protection.)
> Moss is ancient, and grows at a glacial pace

It doesn't grow at a glacial pace though. Common misconception. That's lichen above the polar circle.
I think that posses the credentials to show that are not "morons" can get verified in the subreddit and will not have their comments removed.
The alternative is not using the platform's voice to privilege viewpoints at all.
How much of that size is cryo-equipment though?
That test seems to be testing whether or not the library used to deserialize json works. I don’t think that’s valid unless the code base you are working on is Gson or Jackson or the like.

Assuming that’s not the case and you’re interested in the state of two object graphs then you just compare those, not the json string they deserialize to.
I think the most realistic goal was always a main-frame type computer that could perform computations for special purposes. Not necessarily to shrink it down to phone-size or even a desktop. But maybe the marketing did really have this objective.
Even if the framework is fine, you can see something like an elaborate if-else tree, or even a try-catch block, and after it's all done, there's a condition check with `fail()`. So the point of failure could be manually detached from the actual point of failure.

Granted, this is not the way to do things. But it happens anyway.
No, it's just hard to advertise them. Groups often offshoot specifically because they disagreed with moderators of the previous group. The new group will want to attract users from the old group, but the old group's moderators set up bots to auto-remove any attempts at sharing the new group.

I linked the point in the talk where I discuss this, but I can share an example here too. r/LibertarianUncensored is 2,000 members and stickied this post [1] explaining shadow removals occurring on r/Libertarian which has 500,000 members.

If you bring this up on r/Libertarian your commentary will be removed and you'll either be banned or shadow banned. Both make it impossible for you to share what's going on with users in r/Libertarian. Meanwhile, moderators there publicly deny that anything untoward is happening [2].

Maybe some day r/LibertarianUncensored can overcome its userbase deficit of half a percent, but it's obvious that shadow moderation is helping to maintain r/Libertarian's domination.

Other groups that skew younger, for example r/Overwatch, may already be familiar with Reveddit and thus have a better chance at challenging mod biases [3].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/LibertarianUncensored/comments/uotv...

[2] https://archive.ph/O0GN8

[3] https://old.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/ye16uv/this_subr...
Knowing the Germans, it's a law.
Ask HN: Remote or Cloud Hosted Macs?
Does anyone have recent experience with remote or cloud hosted Macs?

There are some companies which provide remote Mac desktops, such as macincloud, macstadium, and more. They probably each have their fortes or best use cases.

Perhaps some of you have experience with these and would care to share you thoughts.
And this is just Part 1
Yes, and you can test it yourself on already consumer available quantum hardware via AWS.
Depends how you define "consensus". If two people who disagree on most things agree on X, then arguably we can have more confidence that X is true. There is no left-right divide on whether the sky is blue, for instance.
AsciiDoc may have a naming issue. I'm speculating that it's not restricted to the ASCII character set but the immediate question that comes to mind is what is restricted to ASCII and if it can support Unicode or even ISO 8859.
Breaking RSA and ECC is commercially relevant.
The Inflation Rate for People Your Age
If moderation isn’t silent then r/silence becomes “r/hey why has my comment been moderated, this is bullshit”. Same result as not moderating - The conversation about science gets diluted by the noise people lacking the basic skill level make.
This has to be the most simplistically silly interpretation of liberty ive ever seen.
> An adversarial person can flood people with rethoric of issues, corruption, crime, against all established political powers and institutions, and position themselves as the solution to all those ilks.

> They can do that by flooding the public square of free opinions (the internet), with disinformation, fake data, lies of omissions, lack of contextualization, attacking all others personally, ridiculing them, etc.

> They can do that because they are free to do it.

> Then they can gain the political power from it, and slowly replace institutional power with loyalists working for them.

> Once they've managed to get enough loyalist in place through this method, they can remove the right to free speech and take over as a fascist or dictator, or other more authoritarian measures.

This is more or less what the woke left has done to a lot of cultural institutions, with universities requiring political loyalty oaths. They just don't rely on a strongman to enforce their will the way populist movements do since wokeness is a distinctly professional-managerical class movement. But they've systematically taken control of most places of cultural power in the US.
I love Mathematica, though I don't use it today.

Free tools have taken over programming, and I doubt that cost is the main reason. I don't know if there are any proprietary programming tools in widespread use any more. The same benefits might apply to software for "the rest of us."

Outside of truly enlightened organizations, the cost ends up being just high enough to trigger all sorts of wasteful habits such as: Management approval, dealing with the purchasing department (on a recurring basis these days), using outdated versions, shared licenses, centralized installations, node locking, separate "development" and "run-time" environments, and so forth.

For one specialized app that I use at my workplace, it costs a few man-hours per year to renew the subscription. The license server is on a firewalled domain, maintained by IT, so I can't use the software at home unless I carry a computer back and forth every day. On my bike.

Use of that software tacitly assumes certain work habits such as doing your work mostly in one place.

The cost frustrates sharing. If you want to share something you made, your victim has to buy their own license to use it.

In the time that it takes to hash out the purchase of software X, I can have my entire toolchain (Python, Arduino, WxMaxima, etc) on every computer that I touch: In my office, the labs, and at home. This has radically changed how I incorporate (mostly) Python into my life at work and at home.
Yet still more difficult than having a direct login for government to come in and censor things, the existence of which leaked a few weeks ago.
If you live somewhere with a reasonably non-corrupt and functioning waste disposal industry, the waste plastics are dumped into adequately well-managed landfills and don’t contribute to the floating island of plastics. If you live somewhere where the mafia dumps garbage into the sea, reducing plastic waste is neither necessary nor sufficient to address the problem.
Open source software doesnt have to be free as in beer. I actually make a decent living off writing oss software. For the most part the work is like consultancy (we have paying clients request features). Despite being an oss dev I do actually pay for software I think is worth it. I think the major issue with mathematica is that it is _really_ pricy for paid software (and not great at that, ive run into many bugs with it).
It's not so much that internet protocols are hostile as cellular internet connections are bad (random round trip time leads to TCP back-off, often no ipv4) and smart phones are energy limited re: radio modem activity (can't hold open a TCP connection).

They require crutches and compromises to be made to participate in the internet. Usually this is in the form of a incorporated entity doing the hand holding.
Ask HN: What's the best technology for a CRUD website to minimize maintenance
The first website I ever built (CodeQuizzes) still has some users and I'd like to migrate it to a tech stack that's easier to maintain: https://www.codequizzes.com/

It's a Rails app that's hosted on Heroku. It's a simple CRUD app that's backed by a Postgres database, only a few lines of JavaScript. I am a data engineer and don't have the time to keep up with the constantly evolving Rails ecosystem. I don't need a web framework that makes breaking changes to add new features.

* I know Python, but guess that Django is a constant maintenance effort after looking at all the releases

* I also know Scala, but find it really difficult to maintain, as I noted in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26539508

* I'm working on a Node / React app right now and it seems it will also require constant maintenance

I'm leaning towards Go. From what I understand, Go really cares about backwards compatibility and lets you build a CRUD app that'll continue to work with minimal maintenance. Interested in thoughts on the best technology for this.
This particular subreddit is not for actual debates. Everyone in this thread seems to forget about that.
Yes: Linux macOS
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