skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading this through my own musician lens made me simultaneously glad for the author, and a bit disappointed too.

There are aspects of the post I definitely relate to, including the title itself. Although I framed the “chore” as practice and routine. Even so, most of my breakthroughs as a musician have been either aided or directly propelled by time away from the “chore” or even playing at all.

Motivation to be prolific has all but once[1] come from internal bursts of creativity, and artificially motivating that way has generally been creatively stifling. Maybe the music I could have created would eventually overcome that, but I didn’t like the feeling that I was pushing myself to create something that felt dead as soon as I’d created it. I’d rather go years without touching an instrument and feel like what happens when I find my way back has the life I’m ready to bring to it and the motivation I feel then when I do.

So my SoundCloud[2] is pretty sparse and doesn’t even include many things I’ve recorded in previous bursts. I’m certainly not a musician in the sense that I’m actively producing works for a hoped-for audience but as a person who likes to play music and sometimes record it, I’m glad the way I’ve treated music as a chore is to devote myself to the music that feels like it’s ready to come out of me rather than trying to force something out that isn’t there.

1: The exception was I decided one time to participate in the prompt (“challenge”) to record an album in one month. I actually took the “challenge” further, to record a track per day for that month. Only got 12 tracks in, but it went better than I expected.

2: Same handle as here
In college I got to spend a day at a cadaver lab, where the pre-meds taking that class acted as tour guides. It was one of the more meaningful experiences of my education such that I feel everyone should have the opportunity. I learned more about mammalian anatomy in that single experience than from any of the biology labs in which I'd been a student.
I've recieved.

But I'm also the crazy person who uses an 8 wide indent anyway
An Antarctic Neutrino Telescope Has Detected a Signal from the Heart of a Nearby
“just a dash of” css would help the user not have to stretch-zoom the website, and then have to pan left and right because the text doesn’t dynamically wrap?
My prediction is that a large number of comments on this post will be programmers desperate to justify writing more code.

I'm not a good programmer, but the one thing I think I have over bad programmers is the awareness that adding more code is never the solution.
> Oh, you sweet child

No swipes, please. Your comment would be fine without that bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There is also https://thisissand.com/ - very good for long telephone conferences :-)
All coins are scams? Wow that's quite a bold statement and clearly from someone who has researched all the top 500 projects in the space and clearly not some1 who is bitter they didnt get in at the beginning despite being there and not pulling the trigger.
Slater, whar is the deal with https://hnminus.com IP being blocked?
Yes. I was surprised to find out during open enrollment this year that my premium costs would stay FLAT! First time in years this has been the case.
Destroying Tether would trigger a crash that benefits no one in crypto.
1. They can see an order match for a limit order and preempt it with a better offer before pushing it through by a micro-fraction of a penny

2. They can run trading bots on all major exchanges to keep USDT pegged —- while not foolproof it will hold in most situations provided there is enough liquidity in their accounts on every exchange.
Presumably by going towards http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ rather than the current https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ aesthetic.
Not only is that adjacent to, but itself, a wrong statement, what does it even have to do with anything?
> But it is absolutely not fine for those who desirer Mastodon to function as a legitimate Twitter replacement.

You know who wants to see Mastodon as a Twitter replacement ? Not Mastodon users, and not fediverse inhabitants. It's all the Twitter serfs who want to find a new place where they will be taken care of. Except that place doesn't exist in the Fediverse.

For some reason people keep complaining about Mastodon not being easy enough, but it's the same people who believe they are expert enough to speak in the name of non-experts. It gets tiring to hear them.
Another Markdown implementation in Go (src.elv.sh/pkg/md)
Why do people do this? I can’t think how it’s accidentally introduced, it has to be on purpose but why
Why is this called misanthropy? Before there were big establishments, there were already people.
Yes. Particularly in any topic that has been politicized. Covid related posts are filled with Reddit-tier comments. It might be interesting to have something like RES for HN.
I feel like you skipped the core of his message and replied to something else entirely. It's the second sentence.
That article seems kind of suspect. They say themselves that the price stayed high after it became clear it was an error, and it was just a ~1% increase. Seems like they are just attaching causality to this for no justified reason
I've met plenty of small business owners who started with essentially zero money or connections. It doesn't take much to start a landscaping service, just an old pickup truck and a few tools. Those people had nothing to start with so they had nothing to lose, which makes the concept of being risk-averse kind of meaningless.
The thread was started by Lars who wrote a book on LVT recently but apparently did not want to mention it :D

https://twitter.com/larsiusprime/status/1571947781874454533
And none of that matters? As a product to do basic things like 'turn off lights' and 'whats the temperature' and such it fails horribly, while alexa and co at least are very reliable on the basics.
You still need to explain why Mastodon should cater to people who want the Twitter experience and nothing else.
Crypto's mostly gamed and fanciful market cap is still smaller than Apple's actual market cap.
> The most wild thing about the great lakes for me, is that there's enormous islands in the middle which you can visit.

On the largest island, in the largest lake in the world, there are multiple lakes. The largest of the lakes has multiple islands.

It is possible to go camping on the largest island in the largest lake in the largest island in the largest lake int he world.

https://www.google.com/maps/@48.0097822,-88.7714891,461m/dat...

Note that there is no lake on Ryan Island and the Moose Boulder doesn't exist. https://www.npr.org/2020/03/13/815546895/the-lonely-non-isla...

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Mackinac island is known for its rock skipping tournament. ... and the former Vice President had an eight car motorcade there. https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-pence-car-free-mackinac...
What about Primecoin? Finds new prime numbers all the time. Filecoin pays and gets paid for server storage space. How in any way are these projects scams? There are dozens of projects that utlize the blockchain and have a token and are not scams. The fukk outa here with this oh everything crypto is a scam. Bitter, you are.
I've always feared I'd have some repercussions for my bad sleep. I suffer from night terrors and sleepwalking. I've regimented myself down to very specific sleep patterns where I turn off my lights, take a shower, and abstain from any phone or screen. I sleep about 7 hours, but if you look at a smartwatch, I end up walking around incessantly about every hour. It's super annoying.
Person appears to be super-smart.
> Google will not be the default search engine for iOS by 2030.

Definitely going to put this on my quote wall for later, thank you! I love seeing inspiring confidence.
> I get 5-8% interest on it and hasn't had an issue for its handful of years of being issued.

I agree that GUSD is a good, low risk stablecoin choice, but that's only if you directly hold it. If you're depositing it into an interest earning account, note that you're taking on additional lending risk (which I'd highly recommend against right now).
Hey now! Absolutely do sell to me, there is definitely enough to go around in this case!

(Sounds like you have a very cool collection, by the way!)
> Does the number of bugs grow linearly with code size? Sub-linearly? Super-linearly? My gut feeling still says “sub-linear”.

Depends on whay you're doing; are you implementing features, refactoring, or fixing bugs?

Generally, I'm guessing that the number of bugs will be linear, but the number of bugs in common code paths will be logarithmic.

Or perhaps that the likelyhood of a bug in a given piece of code decays exponentially with the age of that code.

There's also the issue of developer familiarity with the code base, and where in the code base the changes are occurring.
Definitely feels like modernity fights quality sleep way too much.
I wonder if this depends on the tempo?

I can't really dance, but if I try to twitch or spasm in my seat in time with the music I find that I'm most conformable doing one movement per quarter note. The tempo is fast enough that I can't really keep up if I try to do a movement per eighth note.

With the swing ratio set to 1 I find it easy to get out of phase in those sections where it has a bunch of consecutive eighth notes. The tempo is fast enough that I can't dance and count reliably at the same time, so if I get out of phase I'm stuck that way until it hits a section with longer notes.

There's no way to tell if a given eighth note is the downbeat or not just from its relation to the preceding or following notes so I can't reorient myself.

With higher swing ratios the downbeat note and the preceding note are grouped, and the gap between these groups is larger than the gap in the group. I can't get lost in that.

If the tempo was slower, I could either count while dancing or dance to eight notes and would be fine with a swing ratio of 1.
The way I remember it, Windows 95 wasn't all that responsive on typical hardware of the day.

I don't have access to a windows machine right now, but if nothing else I'd bet there's just a lot more things trying to run at the same time, and it's not that the UI is slower, it's that the OS is doing more things.
> If a private company wants to dilute its profit by keeping on a bunch of unproductive or outright parasitic employees, then it is entitled to do so. It is competing in the market and this behaviour will be punished overtime.

That's one option but it's far from the only one. Market pressure only works in markets where there's an efficient feedback mechanism for this kind of thing.
That doesn't work very effectively if there are barriers to switch (many ISP customers) or the only choices are very comparable in price and quality (most of the other ISP customers). They might also work to increase the difficulty of switching or rely on their ability to get customers because nobody else can claim to offer all of the things certain buyers need (tons of enterprise software of the Oracle/SAP/etc. persuasion).

Most commonly, this is a problem but it'll stay below the threshold of being fatal. A company with a really profitable core business can tolerate staggering amounts of inefficiency everywhere else as long as it doesn't get core customers to leave (e.g. Google). Value generated isn't always equal, either — many organizations with some kind of seasonal component might have to tolerate periods of higher and lower utilization if it's not trivial to rehire because they need to staff for peak demand. You can hire workers in the summer and drop them in the fall if you run a hotdog stand but if you need specialized workers or have a lot of internal business process to train them on that doesn't work so well.

My point was simply that there's a big tendency to blame workers rather than the senior level managers whose policies those workers are following. In the case of governments, you don't have the same kind of market feedback as a commercial entity but you do have public oversight to a degree most companies do not and frequently things like caps on how much money can be paid to employees, etc. which would never fly in the private sector. In all cases, you can find examples which are good or bad (e.g. compare the government of Norway to Saudi Arabia, or Apple to Comcast) so rather than observing that your apples and oranges aren't the same it's usually more interesting to ask how you could get the ones from Denmark instead of the Belarusian equivalents.
I was also surprised the first time! I've got nothing to sell here, that's just my experience.

I've had delicious rich chocolate cake and delicious rich spirulina, on a spirulina farm, that I had harvested earlier in the day. I spent several years studying microalgae & running bioreactors, until the pandemic threw a wrench into things.
No, you're thinking of Kraken, which has been doing this for years (not an endorsement!). Binance just did it, by revealing their wallet addresses, and promised more in future.

Two important points:
1. Generally Proof of Reserves is a term where all holders can validate cryptographically that their funds are accounted for. This is harder because it's natural and efficient for an exchange to co-mingle multiple customers.
2. Doesn't mean they're solvent! They might owe customers $100bn for all anyone knows.

It's still far better than nothing, but FWIW their history of lying about their home jurisdiction, and massive "out of nowhere" growth is a huge red flag that you should be aware of (FTX did the latter even faster, of course, being founded in 2019!).
Capitalism is just as often not the meritocracy you think it is, but just capital buying up production...

Not sure what you're getting at with the Gates foundation. Throw enough money and good people at a problem and chances are they'll eventually arrive at a solution. National Parks, Manhattan Project, Apollo, Interstates, dams, the B52 or F22, darpanet, etc. Republicans starving the beast is what kills government. It works fine in many other countries or even ours in past decades.
In New Zealand, most fund platforms have a custodian - an entity that holds the assets you buy on the platform. If the platform busts, you’re safe because your assets are held with the custodian and not the platform.

But that then begs the question, what happens if the custodian goes bust? Well custodians also have a custodian, diversifying the risk one step further (but not completely). Custodian inception!

Further on this here:

https://moneykingnz.com/what-happens-to-your-money-if-invest...
What is the method of dealing with latency called?
Taken literally - "why on Earth", as in, in nature - it becomes a matter of timescale. Something we seem to be only fully realizing now - ecosystems and climate are in constant flux; they may look stable on a timescale of a human lifetime, or the lifetime of a society, but at the scale of several centuries or more, they're chaotic.
Those metrics are deceptive, because tesla has consistently working chargers while the other ones tend to be broken at a way higher rate.
"prosto" means "simply" in several Slavic languages so I read it as "simply Alex" or "just Alex"
> In the general case I think you underestimate how performant JavaScript JITs are these days.

No, I'm well aware of JS and WASM performance, internals, and pitfalls.

> For 99.9% of use cases the performance is enough.

Again, it depends on your perspective and requirements.
Statistically, PHP is enough for most people so why use TypeScript?
At the edges of the resources bell curve however the details do matter.
It's not enough to say that for those concerns you must use different language and potentially a whole different set of semantics, intricacies, libraries and workflows.

> I think we need to think bigger. Embedded is far too small a niche to be considered to be Nim's killer feature

That wasn't my point, and ironically you might be underestimating how much minimising power and resource usage drives much of the modern world.
Memory/storage + CPU ticks == money.

My point is that a language that can act as a universal tool without sacrificing efficiency, productivity, or extensibility (via AST macros), is itself a 'killer feature'. Nim hits that sweet spot of being easy to read and write as well as 'close to the metal'. It lets me target JS, embedded, and natively interface with C and C++ ABI. That gives me a lot of options with one language. There are other languages that have some of these traits, but not all together in a nice package IMO.

> especially when this space is already dominated by Rust

You mean C?
It might be a good time to revisit the commenting guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I hope you have a nice weekend.
Improve the experience reading the website on a small screen?
At any moment they can see the order book size in btc and the prices so if they buy btc with USDT they can safely hold the Bitcoin provided they are monitoring the order book. If a big sell order comes in or someone tries to cancel a buy order they can preempt it with a sell from their holdings to make sure they don’t end up in the red.

Bottom line if you can freely frontrun an order book you can make a lot of money. USDT provides the liquidity to do that.
Elon Is Wrecking the Musk Aura That Fueled Tesla.
Why would a weighted coin have 50-50 odds? That sounds like a fair coin, and miscalculated odds.
involved... you're talking like you worked on the IAM team yourself :P

thanks for the great post
> If someone doesn’t sell then it’s clearly worth enough to pay the taxes on it.

That's not a good argument. People don't sell the clothes they have in their closet when they're not using it and it would be laughable to argue for an annual tax on one's closet. Why should this be any different for land? Monetary value isn't the same as worth. There's much more to ownership of land that isn't reflected in "market worth" (however that would be assessed in the cases of purchased land).

> For a single property it doesn’t give much information, but across a city the market is providing a great deal of information.

Cities are few and far between. That wouldn't apply to someone who built a house in the middle of Montana or decided to squat in a ghost town.
>knows exactly how mortgage leverage can work on the downside.

Sorta... Usually when people talk about that, it's mostly in the context of balloon payments and variable rate mortgages where the value of your house dropping coincided with sudden increases to your monthly mortgage payment or large bills coming due.
Doing a full reload of the system once in a while (especially after large changes) also helps.

Just because you can keep a REPL open for days doesn't mean that's always the best idea.
Everyone knows how Tether works. I bought some after the de-peg before the most recent one anyway because I needed something worth about $1 USD to buy Monero. And I'd still be happy to point out that USDT is unbacked and extremely risky (ie, going to collapse eventually by design).

It is obvious that the people who own "wealth" in Tether will lose it sooner or later. If there are a large pool of people who believe Tether is 1:1 backed they:

1. Haven't read any news about Tether.

2. Haven't researched it at all.

3. Aren't a member of any social network like HN where Tether's flaws are trumpeted.

4. Are quite gullible.

EDIT 5. Haven't looked at a price chart of Tether showing it's regular de-pegs.

Such a person will fall for any scam, Crypto-related or otherwise. Regulated industries will still have people willing to take all their money since they aren't financially literate.

> The Federal Reserve also manipulates supply to try to keep prices stable.

Prices rise continuously, that isn't stable. The Fed tries to keep the rate that the US dollar loses value stable. The backers of Tether are making better guarantees than the Fed are - actual stability. They have less power to force people to go along with them though.
There are specific courses for blood and needle phobias for medical students.

From my understanding they’re mostly exposure therapy. Perhaps also some additional teaching about what be actual (low) risks with exposure are.
I’m saying you could encourage more people to become trans, thereby increasing the pool of available subscribers.
> “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard”

No, it's not a plea but the manual for the tool. All you young coders better start documenting your code - 4000 years later, we still aren't learning (or care enough) to preserve our knowledge and technology ...
This is why it switched to KMail. Thunderbird search is really, really slow, and I had to use notmuch whenever I had to search for keywords. KMail is on par with notmuch in terms of search performance.
I liked the article! Thanks
That's hyperbole. The US isn't alone in not letting women vote, non-landholders, certain minorities.
WIP Google OnHub OpenWrt Port
Enlightening, prosto thank you.
> The fact that software can be developed once and sold indefinitely means the marginal cost is near zero. That is an unbelievably huge economy of scale that would dwarf many other superlinear problems.

I'd propose a slight revision: "software can be developed once and used indefinitely." I would bet that most code nowdays is written inside organizations and never directly "sold" over and over again to a customer. But even that tends to result in those organizations wanting more and more, because even a buggy one tends to save people time compared to doing the process manually, and then there's another process they want to automate next, etc...
Hmm, I wasn’t thinking of implementing it as an undo stack at all. Anyway, the main difference I’m thinking of is UI and mental model we present, which I think could be a lot simpler here.
The best part is I'm getting downvoted for calling it out. Apparently some people actually bought into it.
I think the adults are the investors who are just older versions of these people that made billions selling some random website to Yahoo in the dot com bubble days.
My favorite example of this is Donald Rumsfeld. Based on his writings, he was probably one of the smartest people who ever worked in government. But as Defense Secretary before and during the Iraq war he made catastrophically bad decisions which are still impacting our national security today.

Beyond a certain minimal level, IQ is meaningless for making good decisions.
It's really easy to see how big an impact iOS low power mode has in the framerate of something like this.
Oklab - https://bottosson.github.io/posts/oklab/

The dude's blog has a few more posts about colour in software: https://bottosson.github.io/

The gamut clipping post is quite interesting - https://bottosson.github.io/posts/gamutclipping/
Sure, but clearly the demand is still there despite the alternatives!
I'd count Townscaper as a toy as well.

https://oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper
"... the rates were driven by actual borrow demand from other people..."

Or, alternatively, the rates were artificially inflated by a ponzi operator interested in getting more and more people joining the pyramid. Just like Coinbase, FTX was, with 99% certainty, not profitable. Of course, the creators of the pyramid WILL profit and take resources for themselves to buy things like, let's say, a 10% stake on Robinhood, or invest in many real state properties around the world, a la Do Kwon. People are just gullible, anyone who believed on those "crypto earn" vehycles, paying 5 to 10 times the market interest rates, is probably the same people that would buy magic beans from a random dude in Times Square.
What size company are you looking for?
Show HN: Wa-tunnel – HTTP Tunneling through Whatsapp
Side project tunneling a TCP port through WhatsApp, can be useful on airplanes or any WiFi/carrier that has unlimited social network data limits. Appreciate feedback :)
North Korea has been printing US banknotes of indistinguishable quality for decades. There is a huge volume of counterfeit money and of black market money.