skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the Gates Foundation does good work, but the cynical "so what?" is that creating a structure like this to "give away most of his $124bn (£107bn) fortune during his lifetime" (RE the linked article about Bezos) is a ruse to maintain control over the money without paying taxes - while also producing some good PR.

If they truly wanted to just give it away, Chuck Feeney offer a straight forward model for doing so. You just do it. If "giving it away" merely means putting it into a foundation you control, many people would feel that little has, in fact, been given away.
I'm not sure if it is a general standpoint or if it is related specifically to this post, but I personally didn't post this thinking it was a brand new concept.

I was just glad to see that some efforts are made in order to "facilitate" algorithms understanding "by everyone".

Of course that is the debatable part. If know where this kind of thing has been attempted before (and how it ended up?), don't hesitate to share some links, I would be curious to know more!
The road to a more standards-compliant Workers API
Has anyone tried it on an Intel Joule? Honest question about running on actual metal, Atom, etc.
By what logic would one need to be a socialist in order to oppose opaque corporate structures that obscure the market and thereby make it harder for consumers to make more informed judgments? Companies don't need to own other companies to make markets work. Is it "socialist" to be pro-transparency?
Usually those are paid for by webmasters, such as with linkfarm.net
I'd upvote for the first part of the second sentence, but downvote for the second part of the second sentence.

Typographically speaking English language text should have a wide space following a sentence-ending period [that isn't also a paragraph-ending period]. However, because wide spaces are not easy to type on normal keyboard layouts, the simplest thing to do is to type two spaces after sentence-ending periods and let the word processor change those to wide spaces when using a proportional font. When using a fixed-width font, however, it should always be two spaces after a sentence-ending period for two reasons: to disambiguate non-sentence-ending periods, and to make it easier to read. Coders write a lot of text in fixed-width fonts, so we should write two spaces after sentence-ending periods in, e.g., code comment blocks.
BlockFi acknowledges a “significant” FTX Exposure
I'm not sure what this comment is getting at to be honest. That is the benefit: that you can do macros and manipulate out the syntax in a way you never could in Python.
Isn’t this a take on fuels for the sacrificial/temple fire?
this is a really entertaining and descriptive summary of the nuts and bolts of bike touring through south america written by a friend of mine. i recommend the whole blog!
> A webring was prided on offering a free and decentralized experience.

Sounds great, and I imagine they were useful for the 90's web to jump from one Star Wars fansite to the next (which would have been much harder to find otherwise), but frankly, I didn't feel a great desire to see them now. I guess that mode of browsing is simply not how I use the web nowadays, nor I imagine many other people.
Thank you for your super practical list! Going to go through all of those books over the next few months.
Woke Language Distorts the World
On the other hand, the world is jumping to conclusions on the Twitter purchase. It's supposedly failed already while the author continues to use it, and cites a /tweet/ as being the first domino to fall on FTX. Don’t give Musk a pass, but don’t write the book on the Twitter purchase after a couple weeks either.

The author also thinks twitter can’t advertise because of a non relaxed posture while tweeting. In my experience twitter ads get more interaction because people see an ad and jump to comment on it. The typing “posture” in this case can be a benefit.

The negative is that some want to criticize the company instead of buying anything. Electric cars get comments about how it can’t tow a boat 600 miles and gas cars get comments about how they’re ruining the planet.
Apimation, a CLI API test automation tool
So is machinery in an industrial company. The notion that a depreciating asset does not make money is pedantic and better left to classroom settings.
When batteries were removable, removing them was the standard way to make unattended, ringing cell-phones stop.
> You're trying to place blame on drivers of certain types of vehicles, and make a distinction between the behavior of those drivers and the "rest of us", putting them in an "other" category.

The behaviour of SUV drivers and non-SUV drivers can be exactly the same, but because of the sizes and masses involved with SUVs, the same event can cause much more damage when an SUV is involved.

* https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/new-study-suggests-todays-s...

* https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00224...

> When car accidents […]

The word "accident" has the connotation that the event(s) couldn't be helped but ((almost) had to) happen. There is growing evidence that this is false:

* https://www.vox.com/23016529/there-are-no-accidents-jessie-s...

Do a search on the phrase "crash not accident" for more on this.
When you can't manually handle the updates.

Put a link to advertise here and manually manage it until you have too many ads to manage yourself.
There is an "urban redesign" going on - it has started in places like Barcelona (or maybe Amsterdam) and is (slowly) spreading out.

It has three or so basic precepts

- car centric as opposed to people centric is not building economic or pleasent places to be

- denser living is more efficient - even if it's hard to rub shoulders with, you
know, other smelly people. You need more apartments / condos and less gardens.

- if you live dense enough to have viable public transport, then you live dense enough to share other public amenities like libraries, schools, hospitals, streets, toilets cafes. getting along with people you don't like is a social necessity.

It turns out not many people like these implications.

The turning down the dial on car-first urban design has lots of implications - some of it looks like enforcing speed limits (yes this whole article is about enforcing - speed cameras can happily work along vast swathes of modern roads.

Imagine speed cameras on every motorway or highway that automatically pumped out fines as you went over the limits. yes annoying and expensive but also suddenly that 45 minutes commute takes 1.5 hours and the train looks a good option. As does the coach.

Just enforcing the current rules will probably have 50% of the effect desired.
Sure that's one possible outcome if that developer is a poor leader.

The other outcome if that developer is a good leader and interested in developing a community is that a community builds around the core foundation that was laid and begins to take a life of its own.

Look at React. Started by a single opinionated developer who laid the foundations and built a prototype. From there it's taken on a life of its own and evolved. It was not designed/built by committee from day 1.

Or python for that matter.
Ask HN: Why are websites so insistent on you using their mobile app?
For example both Reddit/Twitter have big annoying reminders to use the mobile app

What is it about using a mobile app vs. mobile website that is so beneficial for a company?
https://blog.jcoglan.com/2011/03/05/translation-from-haskell...

Monads in JavaScript.
They should abandon out of date typographic rules though. As a French speaker, I want to.
I have a 14" M1 MacBook Pro. The keyboard is "ok" but not great. It occasionally misses keypresses when I'm typing fast or hit the edge of a key.

Also I never really got on with the keyboard layout. Some things are just better on other platforms like position of hash, usage of meta-keys and discoverability. I find, despite rarely using it, that I can navigate around windows 10 better on a keyboard than I can on a mac.

I mostly use my mac in "desktop mode" with an Apple studio display (that's the most difficult thing to give up) and a TKL Durgod K320 cherry MX red mechanical keyboard so I will reuse the keyboard for "the other platform"
You know you're old when...your reaction to that headline is "In other news, water was a major factor in World War II".
> Why would anyone pretend to program in Lisp without any benefit?

Because it is superior way of writing a program. Pure, consistent and unambiguous.
There will be nothing left to sell. If the destruction of Twitter is not intentional, Elon is truly among the most incompetent business owners I can think of.
Musk tells Twitter employees they can still receive stock
What am I looking at here? And what is it for?
And it was down quick after that, but right now it is accessible in some countries.

This saga has really muddled up responsibilities of different parts of the chain that makes the internet, where companies that should not be filtering traffic are doing exactly that.
What data do you base this on? According to QCovid.org, a 19yo old white male had annualized odds of hospitalization of less than 1 in 10,000 given the prevalence of the third and second COVID waves in the UK. That is less than the incidence of Myocarditis from the vaccine in that age group.
A "Ponzi Scheme" is just about timing and perspective. A government may seem like a stable entity until it inevitably crumbles and looks like a Ponzi scheme. You just have to exit or shut it down before something bad happens to prevent anything into becoming a Ponzi scheme.
PG is more and more like a reputation-building farm these days, churning garbage at an impressive rate lol
It's the new right wing boogeyman - crypto and Dem evil! Collusion!
In French it's a typographic rule become an orthographic rule. It doesn't have to be that way.
FührerBunker vibes. I guess Steiner is now in charge of the Android division?

EDIT: For those who have not seen the movie, watch "The Downfall" (2004) for a peek at what might be going on in the Trump/Musk/Putin camp right now. Applies to anyone who has a NPD really
> A lot of requests don’t make sense, because people have not yet learned about the platform. Like “Why isn’t Mastodon a single server?” We're not going to jump on the opportunity to undo all of the decentralization.

The word "decentralization" pops up a lot connection with Mastodon. Yet it's not always clear to what end.

One selling point appears to be moderation, something the article echoes. Distributing the moderation function gives users choices about the incidental messages they'll be exposed to. They choose the server whose moderation policies they agree with. In principle this breaks the difficult global moderation problem into many smaller moderation problems.

But is that really what people are "hiring" something like Twitter for? Isn't one of the driving factors to be able to distribute a message as widely as possible? Doesn't the fediverse ultimately lead to people becoming more isolated than they already were?
Unfortunately if the only source is this 3 hour podcast, you are going to have trouble convincing anyone.
Its pretty clear by the sidestepping and bad calculations in your responses.

There has been no sidestepping, I showed you real numbers and evidence, you showed me nothing.

We were talking about spinning new nodes, why move the goal posts to make yourself sound reasonable? 10-100x the time it takes to download and fully validate 700,000 blocks in the big block world you want.

No, you keep harping on that even though it has no impact on decentralization. This one of the many weird talking points you keep lumping together without understanding what matters. If you have ever synced with the chain yourself you would know that CPU usage is practically nothing overall.

Again, other currencies already deal with and have tested this stuff out. It's trivial.

Cloud hosting 10-100x (5-50TB) is not a one time $70 cost, not even close. Youre doing bad math.

It's silly and we havent even touched the hardware update frequency required to store the volume of onchain spam this would introduce.

This are predictions of a future that is already here for everyone else. You originally said it was all about bandwidth before being proved wrong with how absurd that idea is. Now it's "cloud hosting" even though people are running nodes off of raspberry pis and cable modems.

Also you still haven't acknowledged all the other points, like how satoshi envisioned miners mostly running large nodes themselves.

It's silly and we havent even touched the hardware update frequency required to store the volume of onchain spam this would introduce.

This doesn't mean anything, and is just gish galloping.

You may be out of your depth in this discussion. High degree of node centralization would be the outcome of the parameters you are proposing. I'm not surprised your posts get deleted from subreddits. Based on your description, the admins seem to expect users to think about 2nd order effects before posting.

This has been the line for almost 10 years now. Every other cryptocurrency has proved this wrong over and over. Why do you believe this in the face of overwhelming evidence and why do you even think non mining nodes matter? It's clear from your other messages that you don't understand the difference between non mining nodes and mining nodes.

Here is the most important question though - where are you getting your information? I know you didn't come to these conclusions yourself, because you say the exact same ridiculous things as anyone who only reads /r/bitcoin. If it isn't from there where is it and why won't you link it?
Just compare the numbers of speed realted deaths between countries with good and bad roads.

People like to drive fast, no matter the environment.

The main thing that changed the death rates was progress in car safety.

Just look at the begin of car history. Bad roads, unsafe vehicles, lots of deaths.
Which countries do not have excess deaths 2020-20201? China, Australia, NZ might be on that list as they were pretty good about keeping the virus out but I'm curious if you know of any others. That's a wide claim, that not all countries have excess deaths
I still have doubts that regulators will step in and take decisive action to prevent this kind of thing happening again. Is fraud basically legal now?
My main question is if the vaccine side effects are just a much milder version of what would happen if you got COVID as opposed to something vaccine specific.

If that's the case, then there would be more myocarditis issues from people not vaccinating. I haven't received a straight answer on this.
Most Apps can make sure you have to view ads, because there are no simple ad-blocking solutions on native, and apps can use additional income methods such as micro transactions or similar.
Every quarter someone comments that next quarter will be better.
The Insurgent Architect
Nvidia, Lockheed team to build digital twin of the Earth for climate researchers
Nothing is without the cons. I would say:

* Libraries: there is no NPM ecosystem to get anything you need.

* Stack-overflow: If you looking for a aswers there might not be anyone who encounters it before. You might have to dig really deep to find some thing.

* Some times you might run into a compiler bug usually related with performance of the generated code. Like it generates correct code bug it's slow for no reason and minor changes to the code make it fast again.

* Relying on OpenSSL especially v3 especially on windows is a big problem, but thats more on openSSL i think. I actually wrote a library around this that uses platforms HTTP/SSL instead: https://github.com/treeform/puppy

* Not having HTTP gzip support in standard library. You can always work around with zippy though: https://github.com/guzba/zippy

* async stack traces are really hard to read.

* not enough docs around the different ways to do threading. There is no one solution some times you want a quick thing, some times you are doing CPU tasks other times you are doing network tasks (where async is better). But many big languages struggle here, there is no one fits all threading solution.

It's definitely not style case insensitivity which everyone loves to bike-shed about.
I have a friend in the same situation, I think his account was blocked in the last days of October.

He is also a photographer. He couldn't get in touch with a human unfortunately.
Whenever I think about the universe being deterministic, I get caught up on things like the Monorail episode of The Simpsons. For some reason, that's always the specific example that pops into my mind when I think "does it make sense that the initial position of atoms in the universe would lead ineluctably to the exact state of the world today, without anyone making choices about it?"

The idea that a materialistic universe made of unthinking, unchoosing matter bumping into each other would create the "Monorail" song, with all the specific cultural assumptions built into it, is just so much less likely to me than the alternative that I end up just siding with free will by default.

Neither the free will argument, nor determinism, nor any attempted unification of the two that I'm aware of are fully satisfying. But, the idea that we're just atoms that, for no particular reason, happen to write the words "I call the big one Bitey", and then just happen to create the infrastructure to broadcast that out, and view it, seems like the more absurd of the available options.
> So if for instance some company creates a token, and says that there can be 10 billion of the token, and reserves them all for itself, and then sells 1 million of them to outside investors for $1 each, then the market cap of that token is $1 million ($1 times 1 million circulating tokens), while the fully diluted market cap is $10 billion ($1 times 10 billion total tokens), and the issuer’s 9,999,000,000 remaining tokens have a value, on this math, of $9.999 billion.

I have had for a while this secret plan to become the richest person in the world by a wide margin. Because I seem to be too lazy to actually execute it, I think it is better to just publish it for the hope that someone else does it:

So, the plan is to create a new cryptocurrency called Googolcoin (GGC). The supply of the coin would be - as the name implies, 10^100 GGC. I would pre-mine all but say 1000 of them for myself and leave the rest for miners. Then I would start making the market and put all of my GGC for sale, at a price of $1/GGC. Of course, I would also put offer to buy as many GGC as anyone wants to sell at say $0.7/GGC. Then I would go and bribe someone and buy one GGC from me. And there you have it. My net worth would be orders of magnitude greater than all other wealth in the earth combined! Take that, Elon.

(If my reader at this point has not realized that the concept of market cap for cryptocurrencies is stupidest thing since... well previous stupidest thing, I would recommend selling your crypto ASAP.)
Very interesting article, quite surprising to see how Microsoft managed to get such good results.
For some definitions of fine, sure. I run my own mail, and relay it through an AWS EC2 instance that I've used on the same IP for over 5 years. It took an exceptional effort over many months to get off the Hotmail blacklist a while back. I still wonder when emailing someone I've never emailed before if that message will go do a Junk folder, or be delivered.

The benefits outweigh the costs, but it is not easy, and you can start having problems that are very hard to solve.
I keep my editor (emacs) window open for my LaTeX document, a second separate terminal window to compile my .tex document and see any errors that crop up, and a third window with Zathura to view the newly compiled document as it automatically reloads upon a successful compilation. I think that may cover what you're looking for?
SpaceX just bought a bunch of ads on Twitter.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/14/spacex-just-bought-a-big-ad-...
Ask HN: What is your oldest possession?
I'm having flashbacks to a number of basically interminable debates in computing : big-endian vs little-endian, thin clients vs thick, windows vs mac, framework vs no-framework, functional vs imperative, monolithic kernels vs microkernels, emacs vs vi . . .

In none of these cases is the debate resolved by asking: "What problem are we trying to solve?"

(edited for clarity)
I don't understand the design decision of MIT Open Access for splitting the chapters into separate PDFs. Is it because they assign each section as a part of courseware?

It's a bit annoying to merge them together and hope that any hyperlinks (if they exist in the book) still work.
Objectively, the vaccine is extremely low risk, and the benefit is orders of magnitude larger than the risk for almost all groups.

I understand that some people have an irrational fear of the vaccine, and I can even try to empathize with them to that extent. However, it still is very difficult to understand the level of opposition to something which is so simple (just two painless injections, each taking seconds to administer) and so overwhelmingly positive (a 90+% reduction in the chance of serious disease, in exchange for a vanishingly small risk).

Public health messaging in the US was terrible, but US public health agencies were extremely cautious with the vaccines. If they hadn't cared about testing the vaccines, the vaccines could have been rolled out by mid-2020. After all, the vaccines were formulated all the way back in January 2020, pretty much as soon as the viral RNA sequence was published. I think it's sad that people have the impression that the vaccines were not thoroughly tested, because they were actually subjected to an extremely high level of scrutiny. They weren't approved until full-scale phase-3 trials with tens of thousands of participants had shown that the risk of severe side-effects was minuscule (i.e., as low as in other approved, safe vaccines).

The vaccine saved on the order of a million lives in the US. It's one of the most unambiguously positive things developed by humankind. That's why the strident opposition is so difficult to understand - it points to something very wrong in society.
And even there was a "real" airport - you'd face considerations like "Theseus ship"
> It's hardly the entire ecosystem, which is my point.

It is, de facto, the entire ecosystem. Everything's on PyPI, and if your package can't interoperate with PyPI then it will wither away very quickly.
Perhaps they help us compress complex memories into compact narratives?
I've known someone who did this, they created a website (niche industry, offering docs, and tools), took years for it to gain anything meaningful in terms of ad revenue then one day out of the blue Google just killed their ad account and kept the money still in it. All they got was a "You violated the terms of service" without specifying how, what part, or giving the opportunity to appeal it. It was a boring website, in a boring field, and nobody took an interest until the revenue was even a little high (I believe it was the low 1,000s when it was killed).

Luckily the revenue wasn't enough for them to quit their job and do it full time, but it was still a financial blow.

I guess my point is: Ad supported is a nice idea, but it makes you very vulnerable to the big ad network(s). Even if you do everything right, if some automated system decides you did something wrong, click, you're gone. I've read stories about competitors hiring click-bots to click on ads until you get banned, and while I don't think that is what happened in the above case, it is another thing to be paranoid about.
Earlier today my child was bemoaning the lack of practical skills in education. No education about filling out taxes, dealing with bank accounts, courts, etc. has been given at school.

I'll rectify those deficits soon.
> My original vision of a personal computer on every desk and every home will take more than 15 years to achieve.

1993+15 = 2008.

He was correct but I think he was off by at least 7-8 years..