skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crsql – Multi-writer and CRDT support for SQLite
I second that notion. I had close to a thousand dollars in there, which I can no longer access because they have the wrong phone number on file. I can change my password, get confirmation email, etc., everything except actually access my account to enter the correct number.

By accident I found that for some payments they don't require the phone number (for 2FA which I never enabled/activated) - so I'm slowly "withdrawing" by searching for vendors that accept this method of payments. WTF, give me my money back, PayPal!
When Gnome is so bad, even its creators won't dogfood it. :) /s
> so going from 6% to 10% isn’t exactly a massive change.

It is if made overnight!
And now it will also be ruined if you live in nature. That's an awful attempt at an excuse that doesn't solve anything. We should be fighting to improve this situation, not be complacent and allow it to get worse.
you can get them brand new delivered on site for 2-3k last I looked into it.
I have heard of the camino de Santiago from someone planning to do it. I just looked it up and it says you can choose one of many routes. Camino Frances being the most popular. Feel like this will be on my bucket list if I can ever get that fit :-).
Everyone is now saying "wow that article was tone-deaf before, now it is ridiculous".

But where are all the criticisms from before? While FTX was a multi-billion business, seemingly everyone kept quiet. Only when they went tits up suddenly everyone remembered how it was always a bad article.
It's not about whether it is true or not.

Requesting a license change from a project that you are not a primary maintainer is more than a little rude.

However, continuing to request a license change even after the owners have explained why they chose the license is an astonishing level of entitlement.

If you don't like the license, don't use the project. That's the deal--take it or leave it.
Ah this makes sense after reading about the significance of the date November 15

> The world’s population is projected to reach 8 billion on 15 November 2022.

https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/sites/www.un.org.deve...
OOP does not make sense to me. I understand it, I use it when I have to, but things like encapsulation and inheritance don't make sense to me. In my experience they tend to over complicate things, spread state in multiple places so it becomes hard to follow and make the software more brittle.

If null was 1 billion dollars mistake, to paraphrase Tony Hoare, OOP was at least 2 billion dollars mistake.
There has been one for years: http://20q.net/
In europe, Paypal is a Luxembourg-based bank
The great thing about cycling is that it's low impact so it's a good way to get back into exercise. If you can't walk well, aging is going to be even more unpleasant than it has to be so I'd recommend working on strengthening your body so that it can handle walking again. Cycling is far better than not exercising at all, but I would recommend walking to anyone over cycling if possible.

For many years, I cycled > 10 hours per week. But these days I only walk and haven't ridden a bike in over a year. Even though cycling can be a lot of fun, I don't really miss it. When walking you have a different relationship with the environment. You feel like a part of it. Cycling is much closer to driving than walking. You are just passing through. It's also far more dangerous so you have to focus more on the road which allows your mind to wander less than you can while walking. There are things that you notice while walking that you would never see on a bike. I once watched an epic battle between a caterpillar and a wasp. You realize there is so much more going on in the world than what we tend to focus on.
Better still, why not abandon the space as a character, and render the colon with extra space to the left when locale is French?
What a strange idea to build an el camino (unibody pickup) for a flagman ev by a company... It is not a good pickup. It is not a good SUV. Why? Because Ford sells a lot of pickups? But Ford pickups are actually useful as pickups, Rivian is not.
That's how people who haven't previously been investors through a crisis think stop losses work.
Are there many CEO's who wouldn't do this?
Ideally a CEO will create an environment where constructive criticism is allowed and encouraged internally (but not continuous whining), which I'm guessing Musk isn't good at.

However, criticism of previous employers in interviews is usually a red flag, but doing so in public to your existing one, however strongly you feel and ridiculous the statement of the CEO does seem to cross a line.
That's something that's done purely client side. Either modifying in devtools or using ublock origin's zapper tool lets you hide that. There are 3 or 4 elements needed to be erased to make everything work properly after the popup appears.
Twitter itself pre-Musk started killing the meaning of bluechecks back in 2017, where they officially changed their rules from "this person is who he says he is" to "this person is who he says he is, and is politically correct". It was a controversy at the time: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/twitt...

I'm amazed that people have already forgotten this.
Direct Deposit Account ?
I am lifting weights to help combat fatigue so I sort of "have to" do it as a medicine. I treat it like a time to chill out. At least half the time is resting, and I only use the phone to check the time. Get some good music going and it is a fun way to relax and not think of much.

I also refuse to be there much more than 1 hour. Years ago I used to have these 2 hour sessions of all kinds of stuff with half hour treadmill at the end, and you know what ... it gets boring and I give up. Better to do an hour 2-3 times a week for life than a ambitious thing that I give up.
Lisp is absolutely superior and you should absolutely learn it but you'll never get concise examples as to why. Only jokes and anecdotes.

How do you fix a waterlogged smartphone? Put out a bowl of rice, which attracts an Asian guy who will repair it for you.

Languages have pedigrees. If you pretend like your company is enamored with javascript you'll get people who love fedoras and call themselves Ninjas. Big teams, single function libraries, lots of code shipped - move fast and break things. Cats pawing at Macbook keyboards. Mumble rap.

If you pretend you love Haskell you'll attract mathematicians in elbow patches. Great stable code will sporadically appear once every couple of years seemingly at random. Genius solutions to neat problems that have nothing to do with what the company is actually trying to accomplish. Ents. Classical music.

If you pretend to love lisp you'll attract people who read PG essays and will quit to start their own companies. Maybe they'll help you close out some tickets in Jira before they bounce if they can get your Rube Goldberg monstrosity working on their laptop. Honey badgers and hamsters. U2.

If you pretend to love latin you might get elected PM.

If you actually learn a few orthogonal languages to cover the very finite amount of paradigms you'll eventually come to realize they are all crap.

If you want to code, code. Don't talk.

{ ⊃ 1 ω ∨ . ∧ 3 4 = +/ +⌿ 1 0 ‾1 ∘.θ 1 - ‾1 Φ″ ⊂ ω }
Also in a related field (cognitive and neural linguistics) and I 100% agree. Elon read too much science fiction and doesn't understand the full stack. The results from automated statistics (I hate calling it machine learning) is amazing - but it amounts to really good pattern matching.

Which is why Tesla Autopilot struggles with left turns and has been stuck at SAE level two after a decade of work. Hell, Tesla Inc failed to automate their factories much beyond what other automakers already accomplished and that is for single-purpose robots in fixed operating environments. Yet Elon is busy selling shareholders on humanoid Tesla Bots that will be capable of running to the grocery store and getting items off the shelf ... someday.

People with a background in the hard sciences just don't do well when grappling with the soft sciences .
Well yes, although I would reorder in terms of support/completeness:

mobile/desktop/web/embedded
If in Europe, you can have look at Blablacar.
Is Esperanto clear of exceptions and illogicalisms?
It's "not even wrong". It's gibberish and/or internally inconsistent and/or fundamentally unprovable. It's a waste of time to read or comment on, much less correct.
> As an aside, I do not think many people who speak english would even notice a lack of

English
Thanks! :), I am betting you might have an ad blocker?

Very cool, where did it recommend The Little Engine That Could via the Hobbit? Very curious :)
You'd certainly be corrected in the UK and would count as a regular spelling mistake.
Fraudsters are trying to access bank accounts of FTX US users
Is there a list of criteria for demoralization, hopefully written in the same form as the DSM4 criteria https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK36406/table/ch1.t1/ for depression? It seems this would have been the 4th paragraph in his article if he was really trying to make his case for the misuse of these. I did some searching and didn't find this. Perhaps related, I've been in contact with people labeled depressed and some seemed more frustrated, angry and bitter rather than having just given up, but those don't seem to be any better match for demoralized or depressed. Maybe a distinction is "what goes on inside your head" versus "dealing with other people and economics and you can't make them do or give you what you want."
I remember seeing this implemented a ways back called RTChess

http://rtchess.deapthoughts.com/
thanks :), it has been a joy to build and work on. We are getting close to more base features in place and then I can start on the more unique approaches. I should have genres and age groups added this winter, then book series data, and slowly working toward a personalized book recommendation newsletter based on what books and authors you love.
From tweets Elon made before becoming the CEO of twitter, it seemed this was the approach he was aiming for.

I can only speculate that he dropped the identity verification part to get this to market quicker as this is the part which would have required new investment/systems/vendors.

I speculate taking a payment would have been relatively low complexity for Twitter to implement and possibly could have leveraged existing internal systems.

I wouldn't be surprised if one day Elon suddenly announces everybody paying $8/mth now needs to submit identity docs to continue to use service.
To the point where it feels like they have pretty obviously intentionally gimped the mobile website to drive you to the app - which just makes me way less likely to install it. Page loads take absolutely forever, videos almost never work first try, their image galleries are essentially unusable... None of these are issues on desktop web (on the same network).
I don't particularly like tesla, much less musk, but this just seems like a win-win. Dealerships are a middleman much more deserving to be ruthlessly demolished by "tech disruption" than, say, journalism. It's fascinating, and frankly suspicious, that they're still in business and thriving, given their value proposition in today's world.
Yea, I really need to get back into, especially as I am not getting any younger and working from has really dampered my physical activity. I still won't like it. Never did, even when I was in peak condition.
I wouldn't trust calculators, I'd compare on reddit just start or just test them.
12 montsh is suspiciously short. maybe it's a marketing trick -- "we ll threaten them to make some transactions, then we will say we are sorry and remove the clause"
If you tap it it becomes colour coded. Your wish is granted.
"Just need to borrow the particle physicist's budget for a second."

I don't think thats enough and I also don't think the market for Helium-3 is that lucrative, since comercial fusion is for some reasons still not in sight.
Do you think we’ve been ground down sufficiently by corrupt wholly self interested politicians, so just feel resigned to something like this? When we’ve fucked our biosphere with CO2, a much more dangerous issue we’ve failed to solve?
Is there a second paper about showering?
"Fit" in "survival of the fittest" was never about strength or health, but about fit as "to be adapted to a situation". This is a misunderstanding that I know is very common in the German speaking world where "fit" only means physically or mentally strong.
The classic joke is to make (3) off-by-one errors
I listen to audiobooks while walking and it makes it easier to focus and overall more enjoyable.

I also discovered that human memory is weird as heck. When I walk my mind is somehow mapping my physical location in the world to the content, down to the sentence. If I rewind an audio book I can fairly often remember where exactly I heard a particular sentence. The precise street corner or park trail I was on, to like a 10 feet precision. I do not otherwise have strong memory. WTF brain.

Does anyone else have this experience? I guess this is a peak into how 'memory palaces' work and how people memorize huge volumes of information?

I spend most of day in a single location and it really makes me want to try and change that. If my brain is spending all this freaking effort maintaining an index of knowledge mapped to GPS coordinates anyway, probably I should try to leverage some of this indexing.

I wonder if this applies on different levels. Is a one-classroom school possibly less effective than a school where each subject is learned in a different room, for example? If it is, what if you amped this up and had very fine-grained physical location changes. Alternatively does it actually need to be a different location? If I had projectors on all the walls in my room so it felt like a different location, could there be a similar effect? Or what about studying in a VR environment, a virtual walk?
Well, both my 'traditional' banks charge me a monthly fee regardless if my account was active or not, so PayPal isn't all that bad.
Also, to chime in with another site I run -> https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

Ads pay for everything there even though something like 55% of people use an ad blocker. My partner has been really improving it and adding user reported issues and slowly going to get more data into the pages.
whats your etc.? in common lisp i can pretty much redefine the WHOLE compiled program at runtime. boasting about redifining variables to someone using lisp is a big LOL moment. as far as interactivity and debugging is concerned, besides smalltalk, its not nearly as good in any other language as it is in common lisp
I use my no-fees credit card as if it's a charge card, clearing it every month.
Real-Time Immersive Stable Diffusion VR
Since the central bank controls the unit of account value and can always devalue and print itself out of any sticky situation, the only meaningful way it can go "bankrupt" is to lose the ability to appreciate the currency. I agree it's a stretch.

The notion that the central bank can conjure pure profits out of thin air and has no liability against its issued currency is fantastical, it would suggest a perpetual profit machine. In reality, any issued currency comes with a strong liability to buy it back in inflationary times, so it's clearly an external debt from the CB's perspective, this is a well established notion.

This has origin in the pre-modern, free banking era, where competing private banks issued "bank notes" attesting their demand deposits, and which in time became widely accepted. This is basically the exact thing a central bank does, with a state granted monopoly, and no link to the gold and silver the bank "owes" for the notes.
I’m assuming DDA stands for demand/direct deposit account. Keeping a separate one with a low balance for internet accounts can help keep a primary account unaffected if paypal or other internet services initiate a transfer without your permission (could also be due to a compromised paypal account).
Twenty Questions metaphor on understanding Quantum Mechanics by Phillip Ball

Quantum Mechanics Isn’t Weird, We’re Just Too Big by Phillip Ball

https://youtu.be/q1O11kP6x1k?t=2366

Short thesis :
According to quantum mechanics, the universe doesn't make up its mind till you ask it to.
Not equivalent. If you want to insert an intermediary processing stage between the input file and the grep, the initial cat makes that a mechanical insertion, mirroring the intention in syntax. Without the cat, it's a more complex transformation.
I gave this a test a few months back on some 40 popular websites and found only a few using relative units, and several had severe visual issues from changed base font sizes.

Browser zoom scaling seems to be the “much more adaptable” solution to me.
Can’t help but think this is what Elon Musk is facing at Twitter where he’s looking to cut the ‘microservices bloat’ [0] but the complexity of a 1000+ microservice architecture if not built properly, turning off a seemingly innocuous microservice can cause cascading issues and outages. Not to mention he fired a bunch of folks - some of those microservices are likely to not have owners anymore

[0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592177471654604800
There's a Chrome extension for a Flash player, so it may be possible to bundle it and enable by default in an Electron app.
Nothing better than a legal moat around your business model.
In the future, someone will write an excellent recap off all these VC-funded bullshit tech disrupter companies that failed.

It truly seems that the worlds wealth has been sucked up by a handful of playboys who treat it as nothing but numbers on a screen. The money being pumped into these useless companies could change the world for the better. But they’d rather play games.
Is anything fictional tangible?
Please leave your commentary for a comment on the article and use the original article title, as per HN guidelines.
you are overestimating the damage caused by higher sea level and severely underestimating the damage caused by moving the freshwater saltwater line. I live in the Netherlands where we're basacally set up for sea level rises and severe storms that could happen once every 10000 years. so we have plenty of margin.

But the movenement of the freshwater/saltwater line is something we cannot control and it has severe impacts on fishing and the ecosystem now.
There's really not much an individual can do about this. Fighting a powerful corporation is hopeless, and governments won't make them change if it benefits them, and there is no collective push back from citizens.

Besides, this is a global problem, and people from different countries have even less leverage to trigger a change.
Viv… eat the telly
The goal of the lockdown is to contains spreads and reduce death, reduce the chance of giving the virus an open field to mutate and yield new variants. Of course it’s never going to be zero death, but their numbers fared better than even smaller nations https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/china/
It depends on the website and what you are trying to achieve :)

I run https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ with a friend; it takes a lot of her time to code it, and make sure it is working efficiently, and can scale during big outages on the net. Plus, expand it to offer more data on where outages are happening and what they are. She is a senior dev ops so it needs to be worth her time. I spend my time building out new sites to check, adding FAQ items, and generally all odds and ends to keep it going. My time isn't cheap either.

I run https://shepherd.com/ which is a new site trying to help readers explore and discover books while helping authors connect with new readers. It is not cheap to build, the backend is Django/Python and custom, so I have an amazing part-time freelance developer I work with, a fantastic designer I work with part-time, a part-time editor to do editing with authors on each submission, a full-time person to help me with emails and keep on track of things, and several people helping with data on the books.

Does that help illustrate?
Thank you, this made me start my day with roaring laughter.
Isn't using em for font sizes almost always a bad idea? You get the compounding problem that way.
Wow, 8bn icons on a webpage and it doesn't lag. Is this normal?
Same here. I mostly work while walking.

But, I do have a family and meetings for my clients.
What does Chrome do with ctrl+f and why? It’s been widely accepted that it’s used for search so why would you steer away from that?
I think it is more likely living in a bubble of people who affirm whatever you do.
Collective action can help, but at an industrial scale, a functioning democracy is necessary to mitigate the tragedy of the commons. A functioning democracy requires an empowered and informed voting population. Corruption from industry seeks to minimise both. People need to fight for stronger democratic institutions if they believe the priorities of the majority should come first. And I’m betting the majority want to look up and see real stars
That was the later term, once "blog" became a thing :)
Surprisingly, no. For example, even though every whole number is also a rational number, mathematicians would say the size (or more accurately, the cardinality) of the set of whole numbers is the same as that of the set of rational numbers.

I'm personally a fan of the Infinite Hotel Paradox as an introduction to the subject.
What a unique combination of incompetence, hubris and an utterly despicable personality.
The global impact is even worse than dealing with it responsibly locally, often severely so.
Norml
I don't think you're likely to see zero overhead decorators any more than "zero overhead software" in general.

Take dataclasses: it adds a bunch of synthesized methods to a class, and needs to use "exec" to create them. How could that be zero overhead?

To help with this, I've proposed moving knowledge of dataclasses into the Python compiler, but even I don't think it's a great idea. For example, it would leave attrs in a disadvantaged position, and I don't want to do that.

Another option would be to move dataclasses before the code generator. Syntactic macros are one way to do that. Then there really would be zero overhead when loading the cached .pyc files. That's their appeal to me. Of course there are lots of other things that could be done with syntactic macros, which is both good and bad.
That's a polite way of putting it.
Or, they will just book a space trip, to get the slightly more intense experience.

Also there is hopefully a good chance, that since most people have then their advertisement integrated in their VR implant, there is no more need to pollute the skies.

Unless of course we overcome advertisement one bright day.

Till then, I probably make vacation again, or even move to La Palma, a island with lots of telescopes and a ban on all bright lights and advertisements.
Right but you didn't say you were the project author anywhere so how would they have known that?
I'm looking forward to that scenario. Let them burn. What a wonderful sight that will be.
Probably was even true for whale oil when people moved to kerosene out of price and availability. It was because nobody was buying, but still a glut.
> I just looked it up and it says you can choose one of many routes.

Yes, I've done small parts of the route on two different occasions. First time I quit due to problems with my feet, the second time I quit after problems with the heat :-)

I never planned to go the full camino, as most of these routes are quite long. The one that starts in France is about 800 km (500 miles) I think, so that will be a full summer holiday and probably a few weeks off work at best. Not ideal to walk during the height of summer either, as the heat can be brutal.
rem for the stuff you want to scale by base font size. px for everything else.

> use ch for setting text paragraph widths

I don’t know how much utility there is in estimating width with the size of the 0 character, unless you’re using a monospaced font.