skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Betteridge's Law of Headlines remains steady. Crypto goes through boom/bust cycles, and in every bust, people predict that crypto is over, yet mysteriously it keeps coming back. Why?

Crypto has value. Not "value" in the sense of it's actually good for anything--I'd argue it has some of that, but not nearly enough to justify the hype and price. But I'd also argue that the destructive potential of it more than outweighs that value.

No, what I'm talking about here is the term "value" in the capitalist sense, i.e. if someone is willing to pay for something, it has value, even if it's snake oil. The number of people involved in crypto clearly hasn't maxed out yet. Talk to 10 random friends outside a silicon valley bubble, and most of them won't have ever had any involvement in crypto. But, a lot of those people will say they've been meaning to get involved, or are interested. People cite fear as a reason they haven't gotten involved, but as crypto gets easier to use and more accessible, those fears will go away, and those people are going to get involved.

That's probably a bad thing for those people. Ease of getting into crypto isn't equivalent to financial literacy, and there's a culture around crypto that's openly hostile to applying financial principles to cryptocurrency, which opens those users up to scams and losing money on things that aren't intended to be scams. I spent a bunch of time trying to educate people about OHM/TIME back when those were on the upswing--a rudimentary understanding of economics should have made their inevitable crash obvious. But for every person like me, there were 100 true believers who wouldn't be swayed, spouting nonsense. I'm not sure I actually helped anyone.

I don't have a systemic solution. Regulation can limit the scope of some of the biggest issues (i.e. prevent pension funds and mutual funds from investing in the most obvious crypto scams) but ultimately I don't think it will be possible to protect individuals who want to invest in crypto even though they don't know how to do it safely. You can provide education but a lot of people simply won't accept it.
Meta’s Metaverse Is Doomed
Started exercising most days, at least 15 minutes high intensity a day. My blood pressure and anxiety have really improved since making it a daily habit.

I’ve also started writing down my daily to-do list and kept my notes in a big writing pad. So far it’s working a lot better than a collection of index cards I used to use.
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The hilarious thing about people who defend TikTok with personal anecdotes is that for every person whose timeline is “educational and insightful short clips of woodworking and the migration of sea cows in Norway” there are hundreds of thousands of other people who are sucked into…whatever it is that the author of this article is fascinated by and much more. These types of viewers are essentially no different from each other..it’s already been described better than I can put it; the passive consumption of information that is interesting to us (and algorithmically tailored) and mimics the feeling of joyfulness or whatever emotion used to justify the action.

In truth, I bargain that no one on the internet is exempt from this, except for people who use computers like they are DARPA interns (which I think is the best way to go about it these days).

TikTok is appealing to people because it appeals directly to their desire for mindless consumption (mindless as in engagement, not necessarily always in content, for the “I learned how to book bind on TikTok!” crowd), whether they are aware of it or not. People have been using social media for some decades now, you think the average person can tell that’s what they’re after these days? “I want to simulate the feeling of enlightenment but I don’t want to it in any effort”.

The people who say, “But they said bad things about TV and radio and…” are missing the point. Because those suck too and were precursors to the shenanigans that resulted in TikTok…TikTok…TikTok…we’re wasting our time.
Keynes Predicted We Would Be Working 15-Hour Weeks.

https://www.npr.org/2015/08/13/432122637/keynes-predicted-we...

Keynes is right, we should be at around 15 hours per week right now. It's not even a nostradamus prediction, it should have happened. The division of labour, specialization of production and dexterity, and technology has greatly increased productivity.

The answer is globalization, something Keynes didn't think could happen due to diplomacy of his time. So the 'western' world could be at 15 hour weeks but globalization has kept us up high. As these other countries have developed and are starting to industrialize. Pulling people out of poverty and greatly increasing quality of life has been great. It's making us wealthier than ever. We live in a time of abundance.

Shouldn't it be possible to live a life on fewer hours?
Not sure how “completed” it is, but it already produced Model Y, right?

Compare that with VW, how many electric cars they are making, and how long did the biggest auto-manufacter in Germany (not a bad country for Engineering standards) took to get factories ready for EVs?
I started using it around 2008 on the recommendation of a co-worker. I already had a lot of experience with RCS, CVS, and SVN. I understood the problems and frustrations caused by those tools, because I suffered with them for years. After reading the Git documentation I immediately understood how Git solved those problems. Then I just started using it exclusively. The end.
> China's

Tiktok is not China, Tiktok is owned by a private company

All the arguments that you are using can be successful leveraged against any Inqtel funded private company (of which there are plenty), so I'd recommend you to speak in a measured way
It would have cost him "only" a $B to weasel out, much less than expected losses. So it has value to him greater than those losses. Would be unsurprising if he used it for political leverage. I don't think he is allowed to run for the presidency, but he can probably seat his choice.
I'm going the way Twitter used to be going towards, that is, enforcing good social behavior. I'm specifically going to work on identifying unjustifiable hate/bullying and moderating/banning those users. That will be the killer feature, and part of that will be in the techniques to do so efficiently and justly.

Like yours, mine is also a social experiment, but I don't care if not everyone wants a place like that. I know that at the very least a lot of people do. Still, without enough users it would die.

Right now this isn't a priority for me to build, but the code could be useful for other projects too, so why not.
I'm much more concerned about WeChat.
I would say a bit more about my position rather than just make the claim that the US has a long and proud(?) history of protectionism. The US had and still has protectionist policies. Interestingly, the trade war was not so much protectionist as anti-China. The difference being that the US would rather buy from somewhere else, and if from China then it will be taxed. But protectionism means to protect a countries businesses. There were of course protectionist elements but in my opinion that was not the focus. A famous example of US protectionism was the Japan situation in the 1980s where Reagan forced Japan to limit their output to the US market.

Speaking of Japan, it, from 1930 until about 1970, was a great example of protectionism. No foreign companies were allowed to operate in Japan until 1960, and even then it was only in uninmportant low-margin industries. Imports were completely controlled by the Japanese government, which imported _everything_ based on what they thought was needed: automobiles are something that were almost never imported, for example. China today is less protectionist than Japan at it's peak but still many factors more protectionist than the US. For example, one cannot directly open a foreign business in China. They must work with a domestic company that takes half their profits.

All this isn't to say that the US isn't protectionist, or that protectionism is even bad. But your claim that "The U.S. has a long, proud history of protectionism" really has no qualifying element, and in fact all the qualifiers seem to go in the opposite direct that they should.
Anything Trump did was an unpopular decision. If this starts to move forward under the current administration people would be more receptive to it purely based on the fact that it's the other side now.
> in the UK you dig a hole with a hoe

(Pedantic Brit here) I think most Brits would say 'with a spade' if asked how to dig a hole and would use a hoe to break up soil, disrupt weeds, harvest roots, etc [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoe_(tool)
The checkmark was, and was always supposed to be, a mark of identity. And we know it was needed because the instant they rolled it back a flood of fake "verified" accounts rushed in to demonstrate the need (c.f. what happened to LLY stock).

And it's useful to put it on journalists for the same reason. The fact that you personally dislike these people doesn't speak to the need for those of us who don't to know who we're reading.
Not everything is rooted in racism... If Bytedance was a company from any of the Asian allies to the US, it would likely not be much of an issue.
> There's definitely space for bigger conversations but we should be much more careful with the way we do activism.

Where is that space and who is occupying it? What conversation do you think belongs there? I’m just not sure what this last paragraph is intended to convey.

At the heart of all this I feel sorry for the minks, and sorry even more for the psychological damage that humans, usually poor, have to endure to feed an absolutely horrific industry.

Having said that, if the perpetrators of this vandalism are caught, I’ll contribute to their legal fund. Love me some ALF chaos.
This is really awesome.

As someone who writes simulation code, I am excited to see simulations to become more ubiquitous.

For people looking at cloud-based simulations: simscale might be a good start as well.
Yeah read that, it's pretty horrific. I figured they'd probably manage to hold off now that the eyes of the world are on them - or I hoped at least.
> Linux was written from day 1 in "ANSI C", which is C89.

Actually, Linux was written from day 1 in the GCC dialect of C (that is, "gnu89"), using GCC extensions without worry. Compiling the kernel with clang only became possible after clang implemented nearly all GCC extensions the kernel used.
I started eating vegan every other day for almost the whole year now
I said

> upgrading to a new edition of C OR version of gcc

the latter absolutely does happen every few years. Maybe I shouldn't have lumped the C thing in with it, but whatever.
There is less crime in finland. Why?

You said "Different people, values, principles, ethics, concerns; all of which echo in life choices"

Isn't crime mostly connected to economic situations? Doesn't Finland have more social services than the US. Doesn't UBI help people who might otherwise turn to crime
Ahh. Yeah, the band's not really about horror, so much as romantic melancholy.
Oh, sorry. I read your post originally as in-country meaning not cumbersome, as opposed to potentially cumbersome but less so than having to go to Estonia in person. Yes, New York and San Francisco are domestic for US folks obviously.
I wrote mostly Perl for nearly ten years of my career and I miss it. It was so easy to transition between writing big codebases and doing little command line stuff. The super power was how easy it was to write little command line stuff that could quickly include all the enterprise libraries.
> A little copying is better than a little dependency.

Go takes this to an extreme, though. Generics helps, but the implementation is so limiting that it doesn't help much.

> The general rule of thumb is that the length of a name should be proportional to the size of its scope and inversely proportional to the number of times that it is used within that scope.

Some (most) of the go code I've seen where I work suffers from Enterprise Java style identifiers. That is, TheyAreGenerallyTooLongAndIHateThemAll.
I quit porn.
> engineering solutions to, for example, stop the spread misinformation without censorship.

I really don't think this is an engineering problem. If I was a tech lead and a product manager came up to me with this, I'd tell them they need to figure out what they mean before they start talking to engineers. Software-Development is not concerned with the nature of truth and misinformation, it is concerned with what works given precise goals.
Nobody in engineering school or at an engineering job gets taught or learns what counts as misinformation and how to assess it: you need people with humanities expertise for this.

The "Do you want to read..." prompts are actually a good example of what I mean, because the engineering that goes into making those is quite trivial. But the idea of using them, trying to make them effective at their goal, and determining how much they're working, these are all things that fall outside of engineering, and have more to do with product-design and sociology.

Creating a feature is not as important as getting people to use it, and use it the right way.

Based on the features Elon has rolled out so far (Twitter Blue), it seems to me they're putting more emphasis on just building it, rather than figuring out how people will use it and whether it will be beneficial
I've thought for a long time that this is why you see so much innovation during wartime. War overrides conservatism and gets risky things funded.

The same can apply to war-like scenarios. A lot of novel biological research got funded during COVID. We should expect to see a burst in advancement in biomedical technology as it bears fruit over the next 5-10 years.

The core problem is probably that conservatism makes the most sense at the individual level for most people. Even if you had a casino whose net payout was positive, it still may not make sense individually to gamble. If individual rewards are sporadic and concentrated on a power law distribution then statistically most players will lose.

An obvious solution is a less power-law type distribution, which tends toward some kind of socialism, but that has its own problems. Nobody's figured out yet how to provide a productive channel in a socialist system for humans' totally normal drives to compete and maximize individual outcome. Trying to suppress it doesn't work; it's like trying to totally suppress sexuality. Extreme socialist societies (e.g. Soviet Communism) often evolve into totalitarian mafia states because if there is no positive outlet for those urges they drive people into crime. Eventually you get a meritocracy concentrated in crime and the mob takes over everything.
I went from sleeping 4h a day, eating junk food and living a pretty much sedentary lifestyle, to sleeping 8h minimum, counting my macros and calories daily, and exercising 6 days a week.

During the summer I read "Why We Sleep" and thought "damn... maybe I should change my lifestyle". So I went 0 to 100 in no time.

It's been almost 5 months of consistency and I've never felt better and now I can't see myself going back to the way I was.
That’s impressive! Well done!

I’m slowly working my way there, 2-3 times a week I do 3-5km, lost 10kg so far
Market segmentation to make more money (it needs to be configurable to lock if 'off'), and configurable with default 'off': older platforms and software was really bad at dealing with virtualisation. Only years after the likes of the Q35 and Q45 chipsets did it get better. It was so bad that up to a point you were better off disabling it and using paravirtualisation instead. The same happened during the Vt-d introduction btw.
Level 0: Bullshit busy.

How's it going?

So busy.

When you have that conversation the level they are refering to is Level 0.
Japan's federal reserve (the "Bank of Japan") has been trying to increase inflation for decades.

They must be jumping for joy. Now they must be thinking, ok let's never go back to deflation but somehow land near 2% annual.
Is Y a Vowel or Consonant?
They European Union still does not have a single 230V power plug, decades after being founded. The industry has been asking for it since forever. You, sir, are an optimist.
Generative Art, Graphs and Datalog QL (In Common Lisp)
WinkNLP benchmarked on browsers, delivers: 600k tokens/second (MBP M1)
I was once walking through a graveyard and someone asked me if the path had a different exit to the one they had entered by. I replied, "No, it's a dead end"
I hope you don't end up in a job where someone left on cert calendar reminder.
Hot Damn!

I wonder how they're planning on tackling the graphics driver.

Maybe they'll be adding Rust support to that KPI layer sooner that I guessed.
Show HN: YouTube/Twitter-like app for capturing insightful moments from YouTube
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This is the Emperors New Clothes [0] all over again, no-one wants to say straight up that based on what they've observed that Elon's a complete moron, so it's always got to be some kind of 'genius' that the rest of us can't see.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes
Rightly or wrongly, Twitter decided that there were certain classes of people--the mainstream famous, big media journalists, politicians--for whom it was important to know if tweets were really from that person or not. Not even past impersonation attempts were taken into account. However, as you say, it became a status thing with even people well-known in various communities with thousands of followers being algorithmically denied checks and taking it as a personal slight.
Wow the comments here are very bitter. What do people have against people wanting to be verified for who they really are? For press this is important, so you know you're talking to the right person.

Was always surprised there was no independent website/source for this (Hey, my name is X, my details are at example.com/1234 if you want to find how to contact me).
Regarding climate, I've found this really depends on how much you like auto. I'm fine with auto most of the time, so I haven't had an issue. Even the auto seat warmers actually work pretty well for me. They barely get warm and then turn off on their own, which is really what I prefer.

Also, you can put the seat warmer icon on the bottom bar, so its just one tap to toggle off/levels 1-3/auto.

I'm not sure what you mean about the map. Every car that I've used has that to the right in a similar position. The tesla layout seems fine to me.

The glovebox is my biggest annoyance, in general. I wish there was a button somewhere.
The "once they start trying to change things" aspect is where I'm most keen to watch.

Surely we have all been involved with large-to-small systems where we were curious how well/long they would stand up on their own without intervention. It's kind of fascinating to watch a real-world example, even though we likely won't get a lot of detail. But still, :popcorn_emoji:.

But what's getting somewhat-ignored in this discourse is they aren't changing anything. All deploys are frozen. And the new CEO has made a ton of promises about new features and policies. Eventually they need to roll those out, and once they do, damn... Even if they have strong automated tests, those generally only tell you that new code is functionally ok. Anything that crosses interfaces, deals with end-to-end integration, or adds new tables/dbs/jobs/etc that would eventually hit their scaling solutions - all could have catastrophic effects.

(And that ignores the consent decree stuff on changes too.)
On windows pro/education/enterprise there is windows sandbox, available almost out of the box:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pr...
Leetcoding and study, further reduction in social media time, and working outside the house at least once a week. I already eat healthy, but have had stops and starts with exercise this year after a few life events. My winter exercise habit is to skip rope and shadow box, and lift weights. I "journal" most mornings by writing text into the ether and not saving it, except for important notes that come to me.
I'm currently passionate about the journey of becoming a full-time blogger. I was tired of working as a Head of Marketing for several years and wanted freedom of my time.

While I know how to generate relevant traffic, one of the top challenges that I've been tackling over the last couple of months is monetising the traffic. I've tried selling courses, ebooks, SaaS products through my content but I'm getting unpredictable sales once in a while. It's not been an easy journey, but it's so full-filling when I get a sale through my content. Highest of highs as well as lowest of lows. Right now, I'm just grinding with faith - this will work. 3 articles/week, non-negotiable.

Perhaps one day I will have a revenue-generating blog that surpasses my monthly salary when I was a Head of Marketing :)
First we should ask if Finland has a history of racial segregation and oppressing people with a certain skin color
Trim and lineup my beard every morning. Small thing but feel and look more put together every day.

Also started making my bed every morning—takes 30 seconds and if I don't have the discipline for that then that's a bad sign.
My friend lives and works there (not at FTX), he said he saw him walking around yesterday without personal security but with federal escorts.
> by upgrading to a new edition of C

It's done that once, in 30 years.
This is so cool. Might steal this idea
Curious: were you sleeping 4 hrs a day intentionally? Did you use an alarm? Or did you have a hard time sleeping more and figured that out?
By that logic paintings aren't art because the Soviets made some for propaganda purposes.
Maybe you missed it, but I'd ask you again to explain how the author's complaint of traditional Alt-Tab (as described in my comment) missing is "false"
Awesome question! Thanks for answering that for Japanese.

My experience is German and it's the same as in English. Boilerplate bullshit is everywhere.

I am too young to remember the real small web but in the early to mid-2000s the web was a great resource for tech/nerds. The easier got to participate, the worse it's got. I still think traditional bullet-in boards were a great concept. Unfortunately, most were quite toxic as well, but that's more an issue of moderation than the board itself.
Its useful for things like valet mode. You can also have separate passcodes for the glovebox vs regular driving.
also he is presumably not a citizen.
But most working-age people in the top four quintiles of income don't get any forms of welfare spending, which is directed almost entirely to the poor or the elderly; and overheads are actually a pretty tiny fraction of the social spending in the U.S. (e.g. Social Security has only something like 0.6% administrative overhead).

So unless you propose to reduce funding for the poor or elderly, where exactly does this get funded from?