skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're conflating "readable" and "uncomplicated" with "familiar". I'm equally infuriated by OO code with dependency-injected-everything from some hidden framework configured by fourteen XML files somewhere in a different file tree, interfaces for every single class even if only instantiated once, factories to create builders that make adapters.

Maybe if I stared at it for twelve years it would become familiar and I would begin to think it was simple, readable and maintainable.
Most of the arguments against digital books, or files generally, seem to assume no one ever does the work to update the files. Bitrot, unsupported formats, etc.

This seems to be quickly followed by some pretty clear survivorship bias argument about paper. A touch of sun, a dab of moisture, poor quality materials, the family pet, fire, and a paper book is toast.

I have files, ebooks, images, documents dating back to the 1990s because they're important and I do the work every so often to refresh them and keep them stored safely. Same sort of work people do for paper books in places like libraries (personal or otherwise).

Neither seems to be more or less durable. Ones, shorter existence than the other doesn't lend aid to proof for either side of the argument.
As long as the leaker doesn't copy-paste the original and start replacing words. They'll have to clean up all the hidden chars and spaces too, then pull out the thesaurus as a last step.
Sounds cool and I'm not experienced in this area but I'd say watch out that it's not creating some kind of phobia or obsession with them thinking about scary invisible things in their mouth!
Isn't H2 energy density much better than Li-Ion batteries? I don't understand why it's not applicable to transport if so.
Google circa 2011~2012 used unicode homoglyphs in all-employee memos for the same purpose.
I develop w/ Firefox and our tester tests with Chrome. I use our product quite a bit with an iPad. If problems are reported with Safari we fix them.

I've also worked at places where our product was specified to work with Chrome, I would try to run it with Firefox and no dice and they would not accept any ticket to fix bugs in Firefox.

There's an assumption today that browsers get updated frequently. My work computer is a managed Windows machine that I had administrator access to, the one complaint I have is that the Firefox is a long-term support version which is often long as in "in the tooth". Bloomberg would complain about it incessantly until I got the new LTS version. Other than that I think browsers are usually up to date.
The fact that said car was used to break the law. Even if his actions were to be found illegal under current law, I'd say they should be explicitly allowed as a form of vigilantism.
Here's something related telegram users might appreciate:
https://github.com/lawxls/HackerNews-personalized

This is a telegram bot for managing personalized feed of stories from Hacker News. Just add keywords, and maybe set score threshold.

Was this a good self plug? :D
I was in a course for getting better at speaking and part of it involved spending 10 minutes each morning speaking your thoughts outloud and recording them.

I could have done this with my phone, but I like the single use device nature of the recorder and its nice that's its super small.
> This is logic straight out of the 16th century Medici papacy of Leo X. Maybe it's some kind of horrible drug interaction with Rationalism, or maybe EA is fundamentally Rationalist? Either way: when your logic has established that you can obtain moral superiority by literally buying indulgences, it has officially proven too much,

I think you're missing the point of that paragraph, or at least misrepresenting it here.

It's not saying that what SBF did was ok or that fraud is ok or any such thing. It's specifically trying to say that just because this happened with crypto, which might be a bubble, doesn't make it any different than normal everyday finance. You might or might not agree with that idea, or might or might agree that finance itself is good, but that's the point of this paragraph specifically. Here it is in full, note the first sentence:

> Even if cryptocurrency remains just a modern-day tulip bulb or Beanie Baby, though, it seems morally hard to distinguish a cryptocurrency trader from the millions who deal in options, bonds, and all manner of other speculative assets. And a traditional investor who made billions on successful gambles, or arbitrage, or creating liquidity, then gave virtually all of it away to effective charities, would seem, on net, way ahead of most of us morally.

Also, just a note on this:

> Either way: when your logic has established that you can obtain moral superiority by literally buying indulgences, it has officially proven too much,

The problem with indulgences wasn't just the idea of being able to offset moral harm with moral good. Firstly, that position itself is at odds with what most EA people say afaict.

Secondly, the problem of indulgences is also that they are not real. I think even a religious person will agree that the indulgences of the 16th century was just a con. An atheist will dismiss the whole idea entirely.

The underlying logic of someone who made and gave away billions being overall ahead of other people morally is sound, IMHO. That of course is not to say that this then "allows" them to go and do some evil or something - that's not at all what the EA movement is saying.
Why I Don't Do TDD
And that would be?

That Git is able to handle even completely weird requirements, like making history disappear?
I think the more realistic threat model is that people who disagree over issues vaguely related to 1 will be emboldened by filter bubbles from 2 and egged on by self interested subsets of 3 and 4 to get shooty with each other at scale.
It may be less intuitive that apps can run with few or no visual indicators.
I mean they could ADD it, just like nowadays individuals can choose to implement it themselves, but it wouldn't supersede any existing error / result implementations (success/error callbacks, throw/catch, promises which use both, etc).

To improve or change a language, I think you should get rid of another feature if it solves the same problem, instead of add another option.
> The thought of returning to corporate working kind of disgusts me. daily meetings, middle management bs, politics, bureaucracy... im sure your familiar with the typical complaints.

Have you considered working in a company that isn't like that?

Things to look for:

* Ownership: The owner should be the person running the business.

* Size: Fewer than 20 employees. Ideally two or three; consider being the first.

* Revenue: A reasonably stable revenue stream lets you take on mid-long term projects. Ad revenue from a niche content business is quite good here.
There was one of those near my house on our map when I was growing up. I though it was just a weird mistake until years later when I learned about this concept.
https://nitter.net/donie/status/1592859900941852674
> ends up becoming an obfuscated mess of wrapper functions and custom control flow

This right here is the reason I don't like pure functional programming. Any engineer should be able to pick up your code and understand it pretty close to immediately. And with pure FP, even when they understand functional programming, they end up wasting valuable time tracking down what it is you're trying to do.

* I guess I need to edit to say I mean pure FP in a language not explicitly built for pure FP. The article is about implementing in JS, this is what I'm addressing.
That is too funny. Reply all strikes again.
What if you're already paying around 50% in taxes, and benefiting of a nearly negligible part of what the government spends in?
Well that is just objectively false. The man was never "sentenced to 13 federal crimes, 50 years of imprisonment and one million dollars in fines". It is blatantly false.
OK, fair point, I keep forgetting that not everyone on the internet is a decent human being. :(

However I think that for entities which are not global network levels of population, a public moderation log is good. If there are abusers, banning them is probably not a difficult proposition among numbers counting into thousands or less.
Several of the things listed are false (like the lack of ability to open files with your keyboard, which you can do with cmd-⬇) and app window switching (cmd+~)
i actually build a device which is using both TTN and Helium exactly for that reason. https://notific.at/en
Very, very, very few people work in the cryptography or even blockchain aspects of any element of web3.

The overwhelming majority of dev in the space looks exactly like web2. You whip up an Express/Lambda/whatever API backend that (at it's most "blockchain") uses a library like web3.js to talk to a blockchain node from a commercial service provider via HTTP or websockets. More likely than that you go further up the stack and use a really easy to consume library[0] from your API provider and don't even really get exposed to the nitty-gritty blockchain methods exposed by a lower level library like web3.js. Literally import lib, provide your API key, and do things like:

const nftsForOwner = await alchemy.nft.getNftsForOwner("0xshah.eth");

I find it fascinating to meet devs in the space who say they're a "blockchain developer" and after a tiny amount of conversation you realize there's no difference whatsoever between what they're doing and wiring up a backend + frontend solution to something like Square (or whatever).

So I agree with you completely - when these crypto companies or whatever start laying off left and right you can be certain the vast majority of the devs in the space can use what they've learned anywhere.

[0] - https://docs.alchemy.com/reference/nft-api-quickstart#alchem...
> Margaret Thatcher did this in the 80’s to help identify who was leaking cabinet documents to the press.

Surely the extra whitespace would disappear in the DTP systems used by the press?
Cars require a large infrastructure to be in place. EVs use the power grid. Much faster and cost efficient to build large Solar+hydrogen power plants and drive EVs.
What would it make sensible to start researching the proliferation of black hole bombs, for you?
You have to deliver value to your customers/users. If doing hard engineering delivers value then you will get paid for it. If plumbing together open source components delivers value then you will get paid for that.

Users don’t care how your product works, they just care that it improves their life.
I was hoping the police would at least take a report. We had a description of the individuals, their vehicle, their MO, the location and time they carried out their attempted mugging. They rejected our detailed report, made an extremely lame attempt to contact us (only after our reinitiation) and then provided a dead end for follow-up. They're not even collecting data.
I don't mind if it's used to siphon off energy; basically make it a chemical battery that is easily stored, relatively. But I'd rather it be sipohoned off into more immediately usable and scalable storage, e.g. by pumping water up into reservoirs. And batteries, close to where it's being produced, but those are costly.
No, it's all the physical books in the library that are completely invisible. Because I'm not at the library.
What a way to justify a crime. "I don't like how they act, so I don't comply with their rules".

You pirate because you have no respect for law, because you are a entitled child or because you don't have enough money. Piracy isn't plain theft, but it's consuming a service without paying for it to its legimate owners. It's close, isn't it?

Would you sneak into a amusement park? Not pay for dinner if you found it not to your liking or if the brand don't meet your standards?

The reason you think piracy is ok is because you don't associate the crime with the victim.
Considering that malaria infestation has historically complicated making use of the land available to humans all over the world, we know that efforts towards managing and eradicating malaria improves the human condition. Resistance to malaria and other diseases was one of the reasons why humans were trafficked all over the world.
If you liked the first book for that reason in particular, I truly recommend the second title I also mentioned (The Taste of War). Collingham shows a completely new side of the war with enormous detail that's livened up by many, many fascinating personal narratives from different people in different belligerent countries during WWII. I almost can't recommend the book enough to anyone who wants to dig into WWII history from entirely new angles.
I had to stop the job interview when suddenly they said that I must use Mac. They ship MacBook to you and you have no choice of using Linux or anything else. Corporate policy. It's literally unusable for me after 15+ years on Linux with KDE (mostly). Tried Mac for 4 months at one of the previous jobs but escaped to a comfort zone. Sometimes habits are too strong, and alternative is not appealing enough.
> I think the OP is missing what those kids actually desire when they say web3 - self sovereignty.

You might be right, but do they actually achieve this?

> It's hosting your own website vs having a page on Facebook.

I mean, running your own E-Mail or Mastodon instance is self sourvereignty in the way you propose. But I've never heard anyone claiming this to be web3.
Deploying Ngrok in Production
I'd do a ~6 month stint at Twitter in a couple of months. Once he burns everything to the ground and realizes he needs bodies and has to pay for them. I'd go there, work as little as possible while pulling a paycheck, then go back to my regular type of job.
I love this story about Agloe, New York - a "copyright trap" that materialised into a real place:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agloe,_New_York

When another map maker put the actual settlement on their maps, the original publishers cried foul, but then discovered Agloe had become real!
The more people go work on cryptocurrency, the less competition for other tech jobs.
That's "hydrogen as storage", and as such it sits on the efficiency curve quite a bit below batteries and pumped hydro. It's something worth building out if we can find a way to make it work on a balance sheet, but right now we have cheaper ways to solve that problem.

Also, recognize that lots of grid load is more flexible than you think. Running smelters and foundries preferentially in the summer is a very doable thing.
I personally do not like using web apps and usually try to use desktop version whenever possible. Of these examples:

- Obsidian for note taking. Configured to sync with Obsidian Sync.

- OmniFocus as my personal GTD. Configured to sync with Omni Sync Server, and also sync to my phone (though on Linux I use OmniFocus for Web)

- Clockify (Desktop) for time tracking. Required for work.
The energy efficiency is so unbelievably terrible it’s a very poor option for balancing the grid even if it wasn’t also more expensive than batteries.

People talk about hydrogen for transportation because you can refuel quickly, using expensive fuels is already the norm, and it’s much lighter than batteries. But, it’s so expensive, inefficient, and difficult to store that there needs to be vast technical progresses before it’s viable. Hydrogen would be fairly viable if it was 1/4 as expensive, fuel cells cost 1/4th as much, and the energy density was 4x as high by volume. At which point we could start scaling producing, but batteries are viable today and we are already scaling production.
Well, on macOS, my note-taking, reminders and calendar apps all sync with my phone and tablet. Having it poll in the background means I don't need to wait for it to sync when I next open it.
Yes, it's fair to say SpaceX has done innovative work. It's not fair to compare the cost of something that is an incremental improvement on a huge body of engineering knowledge to what NASA is doing, here.

And this comparison always comes up in the context of "evil inefficient gubmint stealing our tax dollars versus awesome private corporation showing how it should be done".
From Wikipedia:

After a series of leaks at Tesla Motors in 2008, CEO Elon Musk reportedly sent slightly different versions of an e-mail to each employee in an attempt to reveal potential leakers. The e-mail was disguised as a request to employees to sign a new non-disclosure agreement. The plan was undermined when the company's general counsel forwarded his own unique version of the e-mail with the attached agreement. As a result, Musk's scheme was realized by employees who now had a safe copy to leak.[4
Parasocial Interaction
"your work" as in work that you did, not work that you own. a picasso painting is still a picasso painting even in a private collection. if your next line is "coding is just work and not art" then please tone down the capitalism.

if the "boss is always right or quit" thing is right then wouldn't hiring managers also have a problem if your boss publicly insults your work? you're doomed either way, self-defense or not! but so far what you're saying does not seem to hold true - replies to fired engineers are full of kindness and job offers.
> If apple.eth is held by a squatter, should courts be able to override the protocol to send it to trademark holder Apple?

If the holder is using it maliciously to scam people by tricking them into thinking it's the real Apple, then yes! In that situation, revoking their ability to use the domain is a much better outcome for everybody except the scammer.

> In the end this can get resolved by regular dispute mechanisms but without compromising decentralization and integrity of the protocol.

But the Ethereum Name Service does not have any such dispute mechanism, by design.
I also hate I absurd this argument is, we already have a GI, it's you, it's me, it's the exponentially growing humanity that we all live around and contribute to every single day.

Why are we so scared of an artificial brain when we have millions of living brains doing exactly what we are scared the artificial brains are going to do.

We are growing exponentially, and it almost all certainty these AGI, if they even become a worthwhile thing compared to non-general AI, are probably going to be human, but incredibly similar and it probably won't go exponentially out of control.

This idea that a computer could infinitely improve itself while sitting inside of a boxes absurd, do you know what would happen if you put a human thinker inside of a box for say 2 billion years for them to make theories and think about stuff? They eventually go mad and come out with some of the craziest theories in the world because they don't know what they're talking about because in order to learn you have to experiment and work with the world, not just sit in a box and make up theories.

Artificial intelligence is going to have the exact same access to resources and information as humanity does, if not less because there's only going to be a couple of AGI and was going to be billions of humans, and humans are out there reproducing like mad still, well a artificial intelligence needs to build itself for relatively rare and hard to source materials.

And if it was easy to self-improve and artificial intelligence, we would have figured it out, we'd be artificially improving ourselves by now, but we haven't, because it's not that easy, and for the most part we are probably limited by the laws of physics

People worry so much about HI because they assume Moore's law is just going to continue forever, and soon we're going to have the universe on a chip, but anyone saying that I don't think realizes what exponential growth typically ends in, and that is a plateau.

I'll tell you what's going to happen with this.

We're going to create AGI, and they're going to be different from us, they're going to be different from us in radical ways, but they're still going to have their own form of emotions, goals, desires, influences, and so on.

All of this fear is only going to cause us to delay and obstruct the eventual future where we adjust our own ideals of what is moral, what is good, to create a society that can incorporate these radically new beings.

These people are shooting ourselves in the foot, delaying the creation of a better society, on the basis of a fear that has no real basis.
Ask HN: What's the best gift you've ever given/received for less than $50?
A warning that while there's something called sysconfig that replaces distutils.sysconfig, it is not compatible:

https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/26940f64a740...
Yep. It was used in EVE: Online multiple times :)
Well, giving is by its nature optional, so you must fit it into your personal circumstances. I'm just pointing at a reasonable baseline that many people around the world have followed for generations.
The keyboard layout issue is very real!

If you do have a regular layout, the 2 ALTs are indeed supposed to work together.

I remember when I first used a Mac in like 2004 I thought this was fantastic. That’s because at the time Windows (or at least the machine I had windows on), was incapable of rendering individual windows when Alt+Tabbing… So you’d Alt+Tab and try and distinguish between the window you wanted by the name or just plain luck.

However, computers ar better now and are capable of showing little images of the windows in Alt+Tab. The MacOS style is strictly inferior at this point IMO.
> If you're comparing it to reddit or imgur I'd argue you probably don't use social media enough

On the scale of 1 ( social media) to 10 (watching TV), reddit/imgur are to the left of YouTube/tiktok.
Rats also ‘bop their heads’ when they listen to Queen
Your best bet is to do like many.. Pirate the content and pay for your 'digital content' to support the actors.

It seems almost every "cloud" based system has a built-in time bomb.

I'm now getting notices that Amazon is closing some of its services.

Once things are no longer profitable, or technology shifts your stuff is quickly abandoned.

Microsoft Groove Music anyone?
To power vehicles, you would need fuel stations all around the country with hydrogen-fuel equipment.

To power the grid from excess solar, you need a hydrogen-burning generator at the site of the electrolysis plant.
Genesis Suspending Client Withdrawals for Lending Arm Citing 'FTX Impact'
While I don't disagree with the general notion that ideally the "natural" speed of a road should match the intended target speed, especially in the case of existing infrastructure changing the road design isn't always possible easily and/or quickly, and yet there might still be good reasons for lowering the speed on a particular stretch of road. So I still disagree with a blanket "well, then never post a speed limit that's lower than what people would drive at naturally".
You rise interesting point. I'll turn it around slightly, I ask myself questions like this since quite a long time ago when I got an offer to work in tobacco industry. I have put some effort and figured tobacco is not good for human health and for that reason I don't want to contribute to this industry (and I accept there are other points of view). I guess everyone needs to do their own research and land at their own conclusions...
Are you in the US/Europe? Your job market in tech is utterly unbelievable for people outside those regions, even now. It simply rains (tech) jobs over there in biblical proportions.
If you equate "freedom of speech" with permission to spew "hate speech" unchecked then I'm afraid you also have a different definition of free speech than the rest of the civilized world.
AKA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_trap.