skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> American males in their 30s and 40s who don't understand the value proposition because they never had to deal with malicious governments, banks, or hyperinflation in their lifetime.

While not American, I can fully understand the promises (but not guarantees) of DeFi and cryptocurrencies but, I prefer to invest in popcorn futures, for now.

Because, by sheer luck I know a lot of people who worked in TradFi, and I've seen its insides and how mature it is. It's not perfect, it's not fair in some places, but it's rooted and mature. You can see the direction of it, and be prepared if you watch for the signs.

I'm investing in popcorn futures, not because I believe DeFi will fail, but watching the evangelists think that they can change a centuries old system in a decade flat.

DeFi and TradFi will merge. The end will look like TradFi, but the inner working will be a lot (but not completely) different. Believe or not, but most of the TradFi regulations are there to prevent these kinds of free falls and screw-overs.
I use an app with 3 different SQLite databases, but since I never have to join tables from different files, I haven't found a downside.
> Theoretically, there could be a harmless person on the list that was put by an opponent to destroy them.

Thats exactly why you dont leak the list. Furthermore, making the list public increases the incitaments for adding innocents to it.
Yup. I have an archival account and none of my archived articles work. Some of them show an error, I hit the button to recrawl, but that just results in the error reappearing after a while. Others don’t show an error, but when I want to view the archived version, it says it didn’t find it. So I have a bunch of links in there, which already link-rotted, and weren’t successfully archived by Pinboard.

I’m considering moving to just using the SavePage (or whatever it was called) browser extension with a text file for the metadata (url, tags, titles, notes) on a NAS.
I’m partial to LZ77 so simple and elegant and skiplist: simple but powerful
https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/
You tell me!

So, there is no interesting lore behind it?
They are in this situation because Elon Musk keeps haphazardly pulling the ground under them. There is no larger purpose other than an incompetent, vindictive billionaire trying to save money after buying something he didn't want. Like driving these people to the wall will do anything for Twitter. The people needed for running the platform were either fired or quit. They deployed Twitter Blue without a proper privacy review, potentially in violation of FTC's consent order, which can even land people in jail.
> A large and growing group of mostly rich countries has severed the link between economic growth and rising emissions of greenhouse gases

so they outsourced production to the poor countries.
What do you mean by "Decentralized exchanges"? If decentralization ever worked, I don't believe exchanges would be necessary.
For comparison on the cost question:

I received conventional, pre-CAR-T treatment for ALL Leukemia about 9 years ago. That consisted of chemo, total body irradiation and a successful bone marrow transplant. Cost was $300,000.
The hype and drama kind of drowns out all the great progress these past few years and there's been plenty. Programmable money is a cool and obvious thing that's not going anywhere no matter all the scams and bad actors. In this case a centralized exchange much closer to lehman brothers than crypto. It's like saying houses doesn't work or have value because of the ponzi's you can build on top of it.

The basic ability to transfer funds instantly has already been working flawlessly since inception. That's a real problem, buying a hotdog with bitcoin, less so.

Dunno, top voted comment didn't take a look before dismissing? Sounds like yc alright.
Thanks. Paragraphs you quoted are not a part of my answer.
Maybe the constant disappointment of having all your favourite software constantly degrading/changing do wonder for our brain plasticity!
- only Linux in my home network (which I prefer either way)

- only using my own cloud (NAS, Home Automation)

- heavily filtering internet (Pi-Hole or AdGuard + ublock when possible)

- no public social media (FB, Twitter, discord, whatever)

- Only throwaway accounts on some social media

- Not having a real phone number

- Using rented throwaway phone numbers when necessary

- Only use credit card for a few trusted services.

- Avoid services with questionable business practice (Forced 2fa over SMS being one common reason) but also things like Amazon, Microsoft, ..
Gox was always dodgy as shit, and FTX felt even more dodgy. Especially its bossman having a raging hardon for tradfi regulations.

> His big political donations, sports sponsorships, philanthropic funds. It looked to me like a person who believed in the idealism of crypto was fitting himself into the old world, and all of this lended credence to FTX being trustworthy.

All of that made FTX seem even less trustworthy to me tbh. Much, much less trustworthy.
### Applications and operating systems

- Brave browser

Privacy by default

-- Brave Search / SearXNG

- Pi-hole

Block trackers and ads network wide

- ProtonVPN

I use this to route connections through z morf private country with stricter data laws like the GDPR for example.

- Gnu/Linux

A system that I can trust, and isn't motivated by stocks but rather value.

I won't say its perfect, its not, but it works for me.

- CalyxOS

I also run CalyxOS, a privacy focused OS that is actually usable, and supports SafetyNet, its a very normal experience, apart from the complications of using a work profile for closed source apps(which I'm thinking of removing because its just annoying).

Its of course very important to me not to get stalked by for profit companies.

Privacy is a human right.

### Online storage

I mainly use a local Nextcloud server for this.

The upload speeds are great because its local, and I'm working on backing it up to object storage like R2 or scaleway archive.

Another option is using privacy cloud like ProtonDrive or Mega.

### social media

I don't avoid it fully, and unlike others I personally think HN is a form of social media, maybe more accurately a social network.

I used to use Reddit a lot, but its honestly a crappy platform with tons of negativity and anything inevitability turns to NSFW.

I liked the tech communities on it, so I replaced it with HN.

I also use Twitter, which I think is(was) the best mainstream social media.

Probably gonna setup a mastodon account soon.

No other social media other than these.

Also, not using my public name everywhere.
Where possible I use a random username.
2013, Schmidt: Do you get more than one answer? Well, that's a bug. (30 sec vid)
These two, together:

https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe

https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect

Sounds like the changes you want should be possible to add to NewPipe.
What about taking away the ability of a corporation to offer them contracts? I hesitate to call that a "right".
> Or get told “I just don’t get it” or “have fun staying poor”.

Most moonboys or people on the inside are in absolute denial. Don't take it personally. I have an acquaintance who is a "DeFi" investor, you wouldn't believe how much incredibly, utterly stupid "projects" this rather smart intelligent man "invests" in. 95% of DeFi are simply cash grabs, and I have not yet seen ONE project that actually profits off being on a blockchain or would be worse off not being on one. It is absolute insanity and like the Dotcom bubble all over again, and the pop is going to hurt like never before.
> accusation = guilt

We've been through months of "evidence=impunity". Partygate. Braverman getting sacked over a "but her emails" incident of deliberately leaking classified material and then getting reinstated six days later. Gavin Williamson. And much of the misconduct isn't actually illegal! It's just misconduct and intra-party bullying.

The problem is there's no "adults outside the room" you can call on to make a determination. It's only a political system, a set of interlocking popularity contests.
Sorry, but getting a versatile and properly balanced font family to work takes far more than 3 hours; months, years even. If anything those relationships are flipped - surely there are teams at GitHub capable of putting together a website like that in 3 hours.
I obviously don't think anyone should be the subject of violence, let alone rape.

I can understand however, that in a society where the truth is seen as a negative, why more than a person and their potential bestie is needed to testify against anyone for anything major.

More so when the laws against perjury are more often used in a dishonest way to take the truth and silence it. We have a serious problem with honesty.
But you would also talk about the contents with your professor, even just in rough strokes.

It seems extremely strange to me that in the months it has to have taken to write the thesis none of this came up between student and professor.
It's not really the case that only the Senate can - it's just that the consequences for the House doing so are unambiguous and well-known, whereas in the case of the Senate convention was that it would not do so, so the consequences were unknown.

The traditional way for a lower house to register a lack of confidence in the government is in fact to amend the appropriation bills to appropriate one additional dollar from the treasury. A government that no longer controls the treasury must resign or call an election.
Don't even bother, you only have to look at how often youtube-dl has to change to keep up with Google's infinite breaking UI changes. There's so many other open source projects that would benefit from your efforts that don't feed the Google machine.
Indeed: "<em>What is this writer talking about, anyway?</em>". I don't find that ironic, though; I think it bespeaks the carelessness with which the HTML "standard" is being jerked around by various unaccountable pressure groups.
This means your devices and infrastructure outside of AWS, such as IOT devices and on-premises infrastructure, can synchronize to the same highly available time sources that were previously accessible only from within our data centers.

If nothing else they can use it for all the Alexas and Kindles they sell and what not. There's no reason for them not to offer it as a public service, not necessarily nefarious. There's also no real reason for anybody else to use it as far as I can tell.
I really <3 the fork with sponsorblock support: https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe/

and I don't get why the NewPipe devs are against upstreaming it... kudos to polymorphicshade, updates in NewPipe get handed over pretty fast.
A Fire Upon the Deep (1992)
The problem is not the secure boot itself, but how the designer, primary enforcer, primary CA and key control authority of said system is the worst imaginable candidate on the whole universe (and possibly beyond).
> Without them, there's no way for people to buy into the system with real money in the first place!

Of course there is: mining. It's a very simple proceds: fiat => energy => processor => cryptocurrency.

Yet another thing that failed. Everyone was supposed to be able to mine cryptocurrency using their own computers. Instead things got so competitive that massive centralized operations using specialized hardware became the norm.
Rather late for the Economist to discover that the west imports its manufactured goods.
Yes! https://votesfromabroad.com/
I have used it in multiple production systems, even fairly complicated ML-based ones. But also to verify integrity of low-level components that have complex performance optimisations. It has only been met with positive feedback, of the "what a clever way to generate test cases" kind.

The difficult bit is finding invariants or approximations, but doing so is half of what makes the code more robust anyway!

The operational problem is that the tests sometimes take a little longer to run, so sometimes they have to be in a low-prio suite.
I probably watch most videos on 720p, many on 480p. Maybe once a week or less I switch to 1080p.
Director = 1 milli a year total comp

I’d switch positions in a heartbeat, and I have good work like balance but only make a fifth of that. Cry me a river.
> In the event of a leap second, the Amazon Time Sync service automatically handles this for you by smoothing out the addition, or removal, of the leap second with a 24-hour linear smear from noon to noon UTC.

No, wrong!

Setting your system clock to use smeared time is legitimate. Doing this across a large fleet is even reasonable. But this is a policy decision, and it is not UTC. If a fleet wants shaded time, it should be explicit in the protocol or current configuration.

Smearing time by having a server that claims to be NTP doing the smearing is simply a lie, and will confuse clients who expect the server to tell the actual time. Even chrony’s leapsecmode=slew option expects the upstream server to report the leap second.

Last time there was a leap second, some smeared servers got into the NTP pool, and the result was a mess.
Pretty sure they would not be allowed to join the pool because they use leap second smearing.
> That's also why I shy away from getting a job.

What's your source of income then? I guess being a freelancer with somewhat flexible clients would work, is that the case?
It's not really, the service is designed to make money, it makes money from ads, it can only do this if the eyeballs stay on the service. If you can go from start to finish you might leave when you're done. Hard to leave when you only have a scatter gun way to view the content.
Elizabeth Holmes Asks for a Lenient 18-Month Sentence at Home
We also have the Tom Watson scandal, where an MP tried to weaponise barely-believable claims of paedophilia for political ends.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Watson_(Labour_politician)...
May be a paid feature in the future, seeing videos older than x years.
> And there's no such thing as "semantic CSS".

I think the parent meant “[semantic HTML] and CSS”, not “semantic [HTML and CSS]”.
It’s a self-solving problem over long enough timescales.

There’s a reason YCombinator (as an example) insists on at least one strongly technical founder.

Bean counters rot companies by not seeing the wood for the trees.

The same applies to MBAs (no offence to anyone that has one). Engineering companies need to either be led by people the engineers respect, which means an engineer - or at the very least someone who understands the engineering thoroughly enough to get out of the way.
These servers are not in the NTP pool so that concern does not apply. I'm pretty sure most cloud providers use smearing at the NTP level.
"Let's move on to the next question... how would you design a sort-by-date feature for a video streaming service? We have 15 minutes before the next interviewer comes in, so get started."
Youtube wants to be much like Tiktok, barely any search capability, just a stream of ML generated OR recommended videos, anything else outside of a constant, continuous video stream generated based on your metadata and other PII is considered "overhead" by these cyborgs, search for relevant videos? overhead, sorting videos? overhead, let the algo do.

These changes also render the site nearly unusable if you have a triple digit iq.

p.s. Youtube's search, much like Gooogle's, is pure dog shit by the way. Neither of them fill the function of a search at this point, you'd have to remove SEO and ML optimizations from them to get them working again. I search for "X" in youtube, I get 2-3 videos vaguely related to it, and then like 50 "videos you watched", "videos others searching for X watched". It's so fucking bad its unreal, makes me think what kind of a brain dead adderall crack addict they have QA testing this there.
Try https://purse.io with paying Bitcoin Cash (BCH) after using CoinShuffle. Purse.io uses Amazon to fulfil your orders. And you get a nice discount.
Its not like US is the only manufacturer of medical tools which and treatments for the only way to pay is via that ridiculous medical system they have there. Thats a nice fable that US pharma would like you to believe since they profit from it generously.

Those items are done all around the world, ie in Switzerland. And a lot of tools come from ie Germany (Siemens), Netherlands (Philips) etc.
> I will either visit HN, Reddit, some game

Do your work on a computer that is not connected to the internet, and does not have "some game" installed.
Frontend developers do not know how to test for performance and do not value performance at all. It’s both equally frustrating and baffling. So much so that I have this growing voice in my head telling me to quit my job and found a performance based consultancy.

My observations contributing to the frustration:

* Developers believe performance is speed. It isn’t. Performance is a difference in measure between two (or more) competing qualities, the performance gap measured in either duration or frequency.

* Developers will double down on the prior mistake by making anecdotal observations without any forms of measurement and will vehemently argue their position in the form of a logic based value proposition. Example: X must be fast because Y and Z appear fast.

* Developers will further hold their unmeasured position by isolating their observations from how things actually work. Software is a complex system of many instructions. Except for the most trivial of toy scripts nothing executes in isolation. For example developers follow the value proposition that a grain of sand is tiny and weighs little, so therefore does not contribute to the weight or size of the beach. An example is that developers will argue to the death using querySelectors to avoid walking the DOM but in Firefox DOM walking can be as fast as 250000x faster than querySelectorAll, which is indeed significant.

I suspect there exist a variety motives for why developers reason things in this way, but from the outside it looks like a house of cards based upon argument from ignorance fallacies outputting really slow software by really defensive people.
Malmo is barely Sweden, anyway :P
Can't be very far left if you think Musk is anything but human garbage.
What do you mean by "not having a real phone number"?
I would go a step further and argue that markets optimize for institutions that will seek to consolidate monopoly power and destroy the freedom of the market in which they formed. They specifically optimize for unethical behavior, as a natural consequence of the incentive systems in place. I argue that this is true even if there is not a large bureaucratic government to take advantage of for regulatory capture.

Basically, classical economics is predicated on a knife-edge equilibrium that ironically needs government intervention in order to prevent people from deviating.
OLED screens are inherently flexible.
> 1) Being able to rapidly sequence the genomes of cancer cells to detect common mutations

Only of the cancer cells? How are mutations detected in the 0.4% of the DNA that differs in different human beings? Can't there be non-cancerous changes in the other 99.6% that are present in all cells? Is it just a matter of cost, sequencing both too expensive?
Getting them all into a single room with free alcohol would be my secret life project.
Been there, done that.

One of the best places to sleep is in the server room, the white noise from all the fans is quite soothing.
Or taking away telemetry from other providers. If no other devices use this, Amazon devices would.
Just because you don't perceive justice to have been done is some other situations doesn't mean we should abandon any attempt at it in others.
I'd just recommend using newpipe, piped, or invidious, although, I guess they don't have sort by oldest, just by newest
Hypercard was the way that I learned visual programming when I was young. For years, I've wondered why nobody had created anything similar. This is a wonderful modernization of the Hypercard idea and a love letter to the original software.
Advent of Code 2022
From TFA:

"Strikingly, consumption emissions, which include a measure of the carbon embedded in imports, have fallen by 15% over the same period."
Obligatory Ryan George video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8fJPvXyfc0
Are you saying hospitalization isnt that expensive to the patient or where its socialized medicine the overall cost?
How did I not know about this :D
Stupid than the average person in making a purchasing decision
It's still impossible to search by oldest first though.

There are popular channels with well over 10,000 videos - if I want to go back and watch their early videos what am I meant to do? Leave a brick on my mouse and wait for 3 hours for the feed to scroll to the end? No doubt it would crash before then anyway.
My theory is they want to move old videos to glacial/cheap storage and make them essentially unavailable. It makes sense, to be fair. There's probably 100 videos uploaded every day about how to put up a shelf, but we only really need one.
It's so weird. So many videos talk about "in my last video", yet Youtube is hellbent on you not going there. The same for "this is part one of 2".

If 10 videos has been uploaded since then, Youtube _really_ don't want you to go see part 2. It is so difficult to see the chronology around the current video.

Since I am ranting, I'll also mention how weird the recommendation engine is for not suggesting music videos related to the current video. If you are watching a 30 minute documentary on how "Bohemian Rhapsody" was recorded, the video itself will contain no audio from the song because that will demonetize the video, but there are also no links pointing to the music video anywhere.
Similar approach here. Adblockers and permissive loading of JS by domain are the only steps I bother with. Anything else is coincidental or done for security/peace of mind.
> You expect politicians to be brave, fearless and know how to use power

No, I expect them to be complete incompetent fools. Most of the time I find out this is not wrong.
Aliexpress AdBlue "emulators" to the rescue. 4 wires to hook up and you are good to go.
> If you're a person who prioritizes "actual innovation," why are you spending so much time complaining about a fucking logo redesign

Because that logo redesign does not produce any actual innovation.

> Heck, they even created custom fonts for their blog posts.

These companies have lots of money, lots of managers, lots of designers. Those people would have nothing to do if they don't rebrand, create new fonts etc. They can't just sit idle in office and take salary. If those fonts were not made, nothing would have changed right now, the company would not have any less progress in any way.

People also do these to have something big on their resume, to get promotion. This is what lots of humans do now, bullshit jobs even though there are much bigger problems to fix in the world.
Still not what it's about
There are different kinds of lists for different behaviour and different victims.

When I was in university, there was a women's bathroom in one of the buildings that was noted to have a list of alleged rapists (students and professors) written on the walls. The cleaners intentionally never removed it.
How to Enjoy Your Life After the Fed Ruins the World
The real problem is that people are usually blind: almost nobody reasons about philosophic implications of induction. What I mean is this: can we know that in the portion of knowledge we don't know there isn't an even worse problem? In general we can't know the unknown, but we should at least try to look
Great name, cant wait to search for arbitrary rust /s

Just wondering, is there a reason for not having more specific names in rs projects?
They probably asked the users. The users said, "yeah, we like sorting by oldest".

Some design lead takes this opportunity to remind the team that users often don't know what they want. Everyone nods in agreement.

Bye-bye sorting.
Another thing along the 'not allowed to right click & save BS' track of unwarranted change to function