skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I must confess that I just cringed incredibly hard at the thought of trying a 6000 km tour on a canadian tire bike. The budget of 3000 CAD for the bike itself before accessories is a possibility, but I advise you to get information from specialty bike shops that focus on road bikes, and ask them about good touring bikes.

for the americans: a bike sold at canadian tire is often a $195 "bicycle shaped object" similar to what you'd see for sale at walmart.

some useful info on touring bike frames and components:

https://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/how-to-choose-a-bike...

https://www.cyclingabout.com/best-touring-bikes-you-can-buy-...
It's a US military term; I've never heard it outside of a military context, but it's super common within a military context.
I think it's actually a political protest. Ukrainian more-or-less shares an alphabet with Russian. A number of former Soviet countries that in the past shared an alphabet with Russian have been abandoning Cyrillic and moving to the Latin alphabet. This software makes it possible for Ukrainians to transliterate text easily to Latin. I think people might want to do that because they are just so mad at Russia.

Of course, the Cyrillic alphabet was not invented for Russia, it was invented for all the Slavic languages. The reason Czech/Slovak/Polish use the Latin alphabet is because they are Catholic countries and the Pope at the time REQUIRED Catholic countries to use the Latin alphabet. This is the reason why Czech/Slovak/Polish are so hard to read to Western Europeans - they use the Latin alphabet in a very idiosyncratic way, with all sorts of di/tri/quadgraphs and diacritic marks to represent sounds that are very simply represented in Cyrillic.

I think Ukrainian is too connected with Cyrillic to switch to Latin, especially because of the religious and cultural roots - the Ukrainian orthodox church, like other Slavic orthodox churches, uses the Cyrillic alphabet natively. The Cyrillic alphabet does not belong to Russia. It was invented before Russia even existed. So I doubt Ukrainian will move away from Cyrillic like they are trying in Kazakhstan. But this software package makes it easier to see what it would feel like to move Ukrainian to Latin.
> I'm angry about this and I won't forgive and I won't forget.

Me neither. They attempted an unconstitutional mandate even after promising they wouldn't do it during the election.

I'll never forgive that or forget the social cruelty, scapegoating and illegal breach of limited governance.

I decided not to get the vaccine based on the data. Took me 2.5 years to finally get covid. It was 4 days of fever and feeling lame. I now have immunity based on the entire virus rather than a subunit of a protein that doesn't even exist anymore.

I also (rightly) assumed masks are not effective just observing the spread being very clearly seasonal. And that just being in open air would be far better than any mask could do. Completely disrupting normal life would cause far greater health consequences for general healthy people than covid itself. We ended up not saving the vulnerable and inflicting very real, unnecessary harm on the healthy - the worst of both worlds.
I think you can force close it using a GDPR request.
Someone robbed a bank. Gee, I guess the currency is not sound.
Still not worried lol
Mastodon is already not the only mainstream implementation. It wasn't even the first mainstream implementation. https://fediverse.party/ lists ten.
the UX is so messed up you have to put in significant effort to understand wtf any of this meant. Luckily, someone pieced together the actual conversation in 4 screenshots in the thread there. What a terrible app!
I e never heard anyone use the phrase ‘drive a bike’ before, always ‘ride a bike’, you use drive several times - is this a regional thing I’ve not come across before?
It is purely cosmetic in that the white and black pieces are wrong, but it's also kind of important.

Played a game, turns out I didn't castle--just moved my queen for no reason.
What?

How did any government fail in FTX, except in the sense that they don’t regulate exchanges like banks, which nobody in cry-to wants?
Thanks for sharing, I’ll have to check these out.
I just want to say that this attitude towards employment will likely be part of the eventual downfall of the USA.

The reason ? It's too risky to tell your boss the truth so when things are going bad so it's easier just not to say anything, I noticed my American colleagues will often not say anything to "the grand leader", they will maybe even encourage stupidity. Where as when I worked in Europe, that doesn't happen.

Not claiming those places are super powers, but I think this "shoot from the hip" American attitude towards staff will be it's undoing.
our mathematical approximation of reality is symmetric in time, hence its predictive power (up to a point), but reality is not.
This article is coming in for a great deal of criticism on cryptocurrency Twitter. Among many issues with it that stand out to me, the biggest is probably that they do not mention the balance sheet leak that precipitated the final loss of confidence in FTX. They make it sound as though it was kicked off by CZ dumping Binance's FTT stake in retaliation for SBF's actions on Capitol Hill. It's a very curious omission.
Makes sense. I'd seen Telum in the description, but I guess I was inferring too much from a note about 'changing workloads'.
> Even today I still receive emails

This folks is all you need to read from the above article.

Yes, I'm exaggerating a little bit, but we keep forgetting that federated systems have worked before and will continue to work. This is not some failed idea.
Lehman collapsed. Gee, we need to rethink banking and finance and invent algorithmic money.
From one of the screenshots in that post, Ellison says:

> (I'm not an expert on traditional finance but my impression is that it's a lot more boring; largely brokers will just try and have margin requirements conservative enough that it's very unlikely for you to
actually lose all your money.)

This person was managing all that money.
But will they know if you close the bank account that was previously verified?
Much like Clojure is lisp on the Java virtual machine, Hy is a lisp on Python. There are definitely plenty of ways in which lisps vary and I've heard Hy tends to follow some Pythonisms more closely than other lisps may follow their host languages.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everesting
And the very (mis)labelling of "depression" is part of the abusive
structure of consumerism to pathologise you as a way to sell you
solutions to your weakness against it :)

Overall this is a well written and cogent piece, although largely a
rehash of Erik Fromm's thoughts on reification from 60 years ago (the
author, Schumaker, acknowledges Fromm's "frame of orientation")

"unlike most forms of depression, demoralisation is a realistic
response to the circumstances impinging on the person’s life"

As Fromm put it, a sane reaction to an insane world.

Raoul Naroll's "Moral net" makes a refreshing appearance. I see the
destruction of support networks and moral vocabulary all around.
While Schumaker claims demoralisation was limited to extreme
situations, in my lifetime I have witnessed it as active anti-morale
attacks, first from advertising industry entirely designed around
sapping self-esteem, then an unholy alliance of "industry" and
education systems that profit from intellectual insecurity and most
recently from "social media" and big-tech domination of communication
channels hell-bent on corroding our sense of personal agency.

There is some redemption in making the battle against the ennui of
consumerism have meaning in itself, as the pursuit of cultural
deprogramming, Optimistically, the "moral net" can be restored, but
only by defeating its overt and very visible enemies.
You’d be doing well to drive a car 250k miles in a year, never mind ride a bike!
None of your arguments address his main claim which is that decentralisation should be considered a means to an end and not an end in itself.

Which makes sense to me, if you just use a system it can be hard to tell for sure if it is centralised or not, which makes it an implementation detail not a feature. Though there are definitely features that are easier to guarantee in a decentralised system, as well as features that are easier to guarantee in a centralised system, so it makes sense to look at it as a trade-off.
"May be higher" is a gross understatement. Is "provably much higher" is closer to the truth.
Several of my friends and coworkers do that. All of them have gotten covid. N95 masks reduce the risk of getting a respiratory disease, but they're nowhere close to foolproof.

A CDC study found that people who wore N95 masks were 83% less likely to get covid than people who wore no mask,[1] but that overstates their effectiveness. People who wear N95s tend to behave differently than people who don't wear masks. They get vaccinated more, avoid gatherings, and generally try to reduce their risk of infection in other ways. Also the timing of the study is important. It was conducted before more infectious variants such as omicron were around. And since it was conducted when California required masks indoors, only 5% of participants claimed no mask usage. So the study compared N95 people against the most hardcore anti-maskers, not the typical person who doesn't wear a mask these days.

It is for these reasons that I would bet that the real effectiveness of N95 masks is around 50%, not 83%. Useful, but not something that lets you go back to normal life risk-free.

1. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7106e1.htm
Switching back and forth between multiple apps is not very efficient, and you might have a hard time managing all your information when stuff's all over the place.

You can check it out to see if it's a good fit.

Cheers,
i have a desk, built about 1720, in PA i bought with quite a bit of filthy lucre from one of my IPOs. use it most days.
give it a month, if it's not bankrupt, they might start hiring some (good) people
A huge centralized platform is also a godsend for bad actors. You can game it and use large network effects for nefarious purposes. Also, risks (as with Musk's 8$ badges fiasco) are scaled too.
Anything for React (modern versions)?
> the majority of people's reaction to those complaining would be "just get yourself a gmail account".

That is the reaction now when issues with self-hosting email are brought up.
Nothing in his public behavior suggests he takes criticism or being shown up well. Remember the cave rescue in Thailand? A normal person would have said “this kids are safe, great!” but his ego was irreparably injured by the knowledge that he wasn’t the smartest guy in the room.

My guess is that he’s going in determined to be the alpha engineer[1], assuming everyone who isn’t “his man” is stupid, possibly a saboteur, but is still going by what trivia comes up in response to questions. Something like “when you load the app we do a GraphQL query which makes hundreds of requests to our microservices” was understood as “the client makes all of those requests one by one” and since he doesn’t respect his employees he doesn’t pause to ask whether they really wouldn’t have noticed a blindingly obvious problem like that.

1. No, he definitely doesn’t want to know that’s not even a real thing with wolves.
Ha, if I ever get my tiscali.co.uk back (I won’t) I’d have some great memories ! Did the same as you. This was all pre gmail and webmail providers were stingy.
Android 12 requires Linux 4.4 for proper networking and cgroup handling, which the Pixel 1 doesn't support. Skipping those requirements isn't a good idea.

p.s. status on this? thanks https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/issues/1...
> Community blocklists for misbehaving servers, IP reputation, ML spam detection…

Not really. Email and ActivityPub are radically different in one way that makes all the difference: AP is whitelist-based (follows).

> Federate with our servers and we’ll pay you 1c for every message you allow us to post to your users...

And this is a fine model - much better than all the power concentrated in one stagnant entity that forbids everyone else from participating, extending or improving.
The main focus of the draft RFC is to define a new "hl" hashlink URL scheme. This doesn't necessariy target browsers, though they could certainly choose to support that scheme. The URL-parameter encoding, which is not the recommended encoding, is merely for "existing applications utilizing historical URL schemes", which may or may notinclude browsers. The draft explicitly states: "Implementers should take note that the URL parameter-based encoding mechanism is application specific and SHOULD NOT be used unless the URL resolver for the application cannot be upgraded to support the RECOMMENDED encoding."
So now the answer to security is to trust one lone developer?

This is more of a statement to the shit show of modern Android. A company worth $1T+ can’t be bothered to figure out how to support devices more than a couple of years and it’s left up to a random developer.
Hi! I wrote the post. I was pleasantly surprised how widespread the pads for mechanical disc brakes are, the rotors, and a 10-speed chain. In general, a complete new 26" or 29" MTB wheel is going to be readily accessible.
What is this thing you call 'banking' and 'finance'? I suppose some pretend money is better than other pretend money, especially if you are close to the money fountain and have a big sack to stuff it into.

The entire point of this excercise is to not have banking and finance. Those who listen to middlemen who 'want to hold your wallet' will learn the same lesson over and over. Every centralized exchange will collapse or 'be hacked', as the founders like to call taking your money and moving it elsewhere.
> In the article itself, he points out that banking is decentralized and works wonderfully.

Except it isn't actually decentralized in the same sense as Mastodon is. You can't self-host a bank.

> He doesn't even mention email or phone service, both of which are decentralized and work well enough.

The same with phone service - it's not decentralized in this sense. You can't just run your own phone network, you can only choose from a single-digit number of major providers in your country, which are increasingly just multinationals.

The only reason banking and phone service may sometimes feel they're decentralized is because of the high interest governments have in them, and the copious amount of regulation in the industries that prevent the worst kinds of consolidation and abuse of power.

Email is, indeed, decentralized. And as many commenters already wrote, it's a disaster and a great example of how federated systems fail.
If your comment on something, which in turn was right or not ends having consequences then free speech doesn't apply at all.
>Does publicly correcting your boss count as "dunking on" them?

Only if you have a fragile ego that depends on being perceived as brilliant when that is clearly not the case
From the photo of the shoe, unless I'm wrong, this guy is using a crank brothers eggbeater system MTB shoe and cleat system which is very popular for hybrid road/touring/MTB purposes where you want a shoe you can walk in.

I've rarely seen 3-bolt full road cleat systems used for touring because the shoes designed for road cycling are not walkable at all.
Luckily I had once set up an automatic billing live test for a SaaS product that I no longer market. The auto-billing was to verify that the system was still working. To this day I still get a monthly 0.02 payment from me to myself.
If I'm reading this correctly, it's only for accounts with 12 months of inactivity. If you go for a year without logging into the service, then maybe you're not a Paypal customer anyway.

Note, Venmo is owned by Paypal.
At the low low price of $2k+ per month...
As someone who worked at America's only electric vehicle charging manufacturer, the average commute is about 30 miles. With EVs like the Bolt getting 3.9mi/kwh, that comes to 7.6kwh/day. At an average daily solar production of 5 hours at rated capacity, that's 1520wh of production capacity or about a hundred square feet; less than a third the surface area of a normal parking space.
This comparison of what it's like outside is not helping. People usually like to maintain and better their quality of life, and a drop in status hurts no matter where you are. People buy houses, pay mortgages, connect in social circles according to their financial status. No matter who you are, selling your house or not being able to hangout with friends doing the things you love sucks.

Even if it's true, a random statistic fact cannot make your situation better. For example, earning $32K puts you in the top 1% of the incomes across the world. Does it make you feel any better?
He fired another one:

https://twitter.com/sachee/status/1592308273071681536?s=46&t...

If he fires all the engineers with a bad attitude it’ll just be the product managers left.
How long is the half-life of architectural best practice?

It seems to me that after ~10 years, half the cargo-culted ideas that young developers go all in on fail. Perhaps that's just long enough for them to get older and gain experience.

Perhaps the real issue here is the "thought leaders" who should know better but are perfectly happy to sell their ideas as risk free, when in fact these things are incredibly context sensitive to the team, problem and company shape.

Nobody ever seems to say "Do you believe what you're saying, or are you simply collecting a speakers fee?".
Madoff was "Chairman of the NASDAQ" in 1990, 1991 and 1993.

You might expect him to have many contacts with SEC personnel during this period. Building his image along the way.
curious to read some figures about it though.
Recouping daily commutes with solar is trivial.
I started using python around 2005 and Nim does have that feel of early python. Nothing was set in stone and the fields were open. Lots of optimism.
Azerty layout could certainly map shift-space to unbreakable space too

But honestly, rather than changing keyboards (which is hard), why doesn't Google just pick a shorthand that doesn't break typography rules, like `@` instead of `:`
> Commenting for later. Wish you could "favorite" comments.

Or, you can upvote it (comment)
I have been traveling a lot this past year (a dozen flights), vigilantly wearing an N95 mask while indoors, and I've yet to get sick. Meanwhile, my slightly less vigilant travel companion got Covid during one of our flights, possibly from removing her mask to take a drink of water. Was it luck? Maybe to some extent, but I'm much more confident in the effectiveness of a well-sealed N95 than I was a year ago, that's for sure.
Yeah avoiding ad-blocking makes a lot of sense for sure
There is even L4, which is accessing the L3 of another drawer - which in some cases is faster than accessing DRAM in the same drawer!
Lots of folks pointing out the philosophy 101 nature of the post as PG appears to rediscover the basics of the free-will debate, but I think there's one interesting issue here:

>"How do you reconcile being a machine made of matter with the feeling that you're free to choose what you do?"

I think an interesting answer to this one is, you don't necessarily need to because a lot of intuitions we have about the nature of our own minds just kind of suck. Nick Chater wrote an interesting book a few years ago called The Mind is Flat in which he made the case that a lot of deep perceptions about ourselves are wrong. We literally just make most of it up as we go along. He went through lots of examples but one is this kind of thing[1]. How many dots are there on the grid? Weirdly enough more than you can see. When you see an entire image full of color turns out a good deal of that is also made up, as most of that visual perception only ever happens in the center, your brain filling in the rest.

Point being, perception is inherently constructed, and that probably does apply to perception of your own cognition. Elaborate notions of wants and free choice are likely rationalizations just as your mind goes along and does its thing. It puts a sort of empirical limit on your confidence which I think is more productive than these linguistic rabbit holes about wants of wants of wants.

[1]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/HermannG...
PayPal isn't a bank, folks. If you treat PayPal like a bank, you will have a bad time.

Almost all horror stories you hear about PayPal involve the user treating PayPal like they were a bank. Just do not store money in PayPal... sweep nightly if you use PayPal for business. They even provide tools to make this automated.

The reason this policy exists is likely to remove super old liabilities for long-dormant accounts that have been long forgotten about.

PayPal is not interested in storing funds forever... they want you to buy stuff with it or transfer it to your real bank account.

This policy seems aimed at convincing people to "move it or lose it"...
"no bs persona"? I guess you mean his style is "no BS" rather than the substance of what he says.

It's funny I see this applied to people who constantly BS as long as they are not nice to people or PC.
How do you spam on a whitelist-based system? Spammers simply... don't get followed...
it's hard to go wrong with TSMC, barring a PRC invasion.
Well, Elon just deleted his job.
In Ukrainian language words spell exactly how they are pronounced (unlike Russian, btw). It's very convenient. Every Ukrainian letter always corresponds to the same respective sound. You know exactly how to correctly pronounce any word, even if you see it for the first time.

I'm not sure if any of the proposed latinization variants would retain this feature.
oh come on though, eric was playing for a severance package.

If you're going to call out a sensitive ego in public, bring the facts up front.
If you want to use Python libs from CL, see py4cl: https://github.com/bendudson/py4cl the other way around, calling your efficient CL library from Python: https://github.com/marcoheisig/cl4py/ There might be more CL libraries than you think! https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl (or at least a project sufficiently advanced on your field to join forces ;) )
You should also bear in mind that English isn't quite that simple either. That г is a Greek gamma around here and hence "G". (it isn't really) Now it's funny you mention И -> y etc.

German and English and Dutch are often called Germanic languages. For example kirchegaard -> has an obvious route if you squint to: "church yard". Often y -> g or d -> g. So day becomes tag. The German word for (Eng) day is tag. "Guten tag" ... gooden dag/gudden tag and other spellings is middle english for "good day".

There is a town in England called Weybury. There is a town in Germany called Wegberg. G -> Y. Almost certainly that is bollocks but it makes a nice story. The burg and bury bit is probably right - a fortified town. Wey -> Weg is probably wrong even though way and weg (that means way in German too),

This will need a proper linguist to interject.
I think the fact that it's much easier to get diagnosed with covid than to get diagnosed with vaccine illness is working against us here. You can test for covid pretty accurately and cheaply. Then, if someone starts having symptoms, we can say it is covid. There is unfortunately no PCR test for vaccine illness. So if you have symptoms of it it's hard to say that it's the vaccine because there is no unique indicator we can test for.
Jonathan Clayden's "Organic Chemistry" is probably the best organic textbook I have ever read. It helped me a lot when I was first learning and I still flick back to it