skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll have a go at sketching a simple explanation (feel free to correct):

Light has some intrinsic properties, one of those is a repeating quantity called phase. Simply, think of a number going 012301230123...

By sending two identical beams of light out at source A, and reading at sink B then the phase should be identical at B. Since the phase has changed the same number of times for both.

But if one of those beams has travelled further, it will be out of phase,

eg., A1 = 01230123012, A2 = 012301230123

Imagine taking a difference of that last reading: 3 - 2.

That difference is then a measure of how further A2 travelled than A1.

By keeping all conditions equal along the paths of these beams except for one, you can measure the impact of the difference of that one condition.

Eg., with gravity, we take such differences to be a kind of "mapping of space", since it is gravity which causes one to have travelled further, and gravity is really more-or-less just another name for "the geometry of space as determined by mass".
Why this universe? New calculation suggests our cosmos is typical
> Edit: from a purely financial point of view, you can make the same argument for companies that do not pay dividends/share repo. Until they actually pay you for your shares, you’re effectively invested in a ponzi scheme.

A corporation still has assets you know. As a shareholder you own a share of them. That said, no one is arguing in support of non-dividend paying stocks here, so what is your point?
Maybe it appears careless from the outside looking in but could there be a chance that these are his tactics to turn a large ship around in a short time?

(Not a fan of Musk, just playing devil's advocate because I enjoy exploring other perspectives)
Because legislatures are incredibly short sighted and ignorant when it comes to technology. ("Would you like to accept cookies on this site you chose to visit, if not it won't work and you should probably leave")
The FBI alleges TikTok poses national security concerns
Scams and get-rich-quick schemes are not new, they seem to have existed for centuries.
People get burned, then learn, but their children and grandchildren don't.

Generational knowledge loss is something that is widely underappreciated.

Of course, newcomers don't listen, it is always a new thing, new words, surfing on the latest cultural trends and technologies.

At some point, crypto/blockchain based scams will stop working, when the current generation will be tired of it.

Is there a way to stabilize global knowledge around this?
Hey, author here!

I agree that objectively, it’s not much work to maintain the Synology NAS once everything is correctly set up. But I personally just got tired after attempting to configure the network access alone for the nth time. My goal was to make the NAS accessible remotely (i.e. from outside my home network) and I felt like that was already a big task (comparing different DynDNS providers, port forwarding, asking my internet provider for a static IP address). And the recurring tasks (mostly renewing certificates for the , as far as I remember) would annoy me every year or so.

And I agree with the advantages you listed about a NAS setup! That’s why I tried one out, after all. I did run into some scary security situations (once the DynDNS was set up, someone was immediately trying to log in via brute force), but nothing too major, fortunately. And I never got the network setup right (e.g. to use the local network speed when I’m home and still access my files the same way when I’m away via the internet). So, these were only theoretical advantages that I could never really get to myself (I’m sure other people figured it out, but I didn’t exactly find good documentation on these things online either).

And regarding your last point, I also generally agree! Although it feels silly to me to have a NAS at home and then still do regular backups via another storage/backup service elsewhere. I wouldn’t want to back up 1+ TB of files every day or even week, although there might be diffing solutions for that.

Anyway, I hope this answer makes it clearer why I decided against a (Synology) NAS in the end. I’m sure other peeps figured it out and are happy with their Synology setup, but for my purposes I’ve never really gotten there.
There are a lot of people who have bet their resumes on crypto. Easy money put cash in their accounts. Until that’s depleted we’ll be stuck with this side show, a reality unlikely to rear for at least another decade (barring a deep recession).
what you conveniently leave out, of course, is all the other quack science that did, in fact, turn out to be harmful. this wasn’t "don’t tell them about the vitamin d!", this was "don’t make unsubstantiated claims". the claim is substantiated now.

In 2020 virtually everything was someone’s secret solution to covid that the man was suppressing.
A casino is an analogue to crypto.

The house takes in money, and produces entertainment. Some people also leave with more money than they go in, but most lose it all.
PDF has a load of advanced features - 3D models, video, Flash. Basically only Adobe supports any of it though.

I wish more readers supported video but IIRC the standard doesn't actually support a normal modern format.
The issue is they have done this at the very last minute, when alcohol sponsorship deals were already in place and many people have already bought tickets, hotels, etc. with clear messaging from the Qatari government and FIFA that alcohol would be sold at games. It's absolutely fine to ban alcohol, but they should have done it from the very start. They didn't because they knew they would struggle to fill seats. They have very clearly been dishonest.

They are further angering people as the ban doesn't extend to VIP's, who will be able to consume as much alcohol as they want from their VIP boxes and seats.
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As a beginner - each of stash, branch, staged and remote is just a swimlane, kinda like illustration here: https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ but can't remember where did I read it initially
There are benefits from moving from a horse to a car. What are the benefits for moving insurance onto a blockchain?
Key changes are very popular in song contests because they allow the (live) singer to show off their skills.

But key changes are not popular in popular (sic) songs. Very few EuroVision songs transition to the radio/....

You can easily tell which songs were mostly influenced by a singer (made for them) or by a producer (made for plays/profit). Stuff which is popular with singer, elaborate vocal constructions don't typically make for a good song.

Which is why you need a producer to say NO to the singer if you want a popular song. Of course, the singer can be the producer, but it's a different skill set.
6d? Those are rookie numbers!
Never a dull moment with drama queen Elon at the helm.
So why didn't Elon just start a new company - sorry story doesn't add up.
Nothing, I keep using it as if it was Subversion.

With the help of IDE tooling and TortoiseGit, the command line basic stuff for workflows that might not be exposed on the graphic tools.

If the repo gets corrupted, I delete it and do a fresh clone.

Life is too short to bother going deeper than that.
I think contracts aren't enforceable unless both sides get something.
Jimmy Swaggart wants a word with you.
With the upcoming vermogensaanwasbelasting they'll tax actual gains on stock appreciation.
If speed is the primary advantage of a car to a horse, what is the primary advantage of an insurance DAO to mutual insurance?
First, you are confusing market cap with "value" or some other concept. Market cap is price of the last sale multiplied by stock. So every asset has it by definition.

Second, how do you back up that statement of not being able to sell it? How do you know you couldn't sell those Bitcoins back to the market?

Would you think the same about buying up all gold?
Nvidia Grace Hopper Superchip Architecture In-Depth – Nvidia Technical Blog
In Europe, the SEPA network, this has been the case for the past years. Just that it is free – and this is across countries.

The American banking system is currently in a bad, insecure, and expensive state.
> Build a More Secure Web Using NPM with Deno

Did they fixed npm ? Some time ago someone pushed a package which will delete files.
Very cool article, I hope he can rig up a way to dump the raw disc contents and poke around them at some point

Maybe there's something interesting in there..
Maybe Elon Musk is secretly plotting to destroy Twitter?

Hard to say if I like this idea or not...
I think hosting the world cup in Qatar is questionable.
Next to the known issues that arose in the past years, even ex-ante Qatar is not a country with a meaningful cultural connection to Football as a sport. Of course hosting the world cup there is a farce from that standpoint. Football world cups should be hosted in countries where it's a cultural fixture and popular sport.

HOWEVER, if you - as FIFA - decide to host the world cup in Qatar regardless, then you should absolutely conform to Qatar's local customs and laws.

Qatar is a country where public displays of alcohol consumption, especially as practiced in European stadiums, are morally and legally not okay. It is up to FIFA, the sponsors and the guests to conform to that - as guests in said country.

FIFA is free to hold the world cup in a different country.
I guess you have to make “working on legacy code” sound more appealing somehow…
> Why would anyone stay? “Hey, do you want to work triple the amount of hours for me for the same pay?”

Probably even less pay. No more stocks (and if: limited ways of selling ... unless Musk manages to execute a massive pivot and then go public again)
Ask HN: Why isn't anyone creating or promoting an alternative to Twitter?
In the midst of various problems faced by Twitter, an alternative application for Twitter has a great opportunity. As has happened during the migration of users from Digg to Reddit or from Yahoo to Google. But I don't see any Twitter alternatives popping up.
So we’re back to the arguments against weapons generally. Yes, you can use a weapon for bad things.
> By the same token, standardized power outlets would be an affront to the free market and an impediment to progress.

if only it was this simple.

1. usually power outlets are standardised across countries (but there are countries where this is not the case and you'll find different plugs in the same country). two countries that share a border can have two or more completely different outlets/plugs.

2. power outlets are very simple devices. especially compared to usb-c.

3. but the G Plug is known to be one of the best, if not the best electrical plug. even so i think the chance of, for example, Denmark adopting this plug are close to zero.

so it's all very grey.
I'm concerned about how much regulations we are introducing
oh yes, the dual tongues!

to add, how many of the domestic terrorists killing children in schools with guns did buy them legally? vs illegally? and how many homicides were done with legal guns? vs illegal guns? and suicides?
For some reason I thought Brooks had already died some years ago, but then I remembered that what I had previously read was the comment thread on the announcement of his retirement in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11257437
Steam engines were not designed to supplant horses as transportation, they were designed to supplant horses for work. In that regard there was effectively no lag time between their invention and their usefulness. What is it with people defending crypto with terrible metaphors?
Not really true, tailscale clients do allow you to point to different control servers and open source implementations do exist[1] and are thriving. The clients are also open source and you can even create one yourself if you are willing to.

The thing is, what makes tailscale works really well as a "central" control server is that it makes a lot easier to connect your personal machines. You don't need to deploy your own server, or mess with networking stuff. You just download it, log-in and there you go. I myself have invited some non-tech friends to my network for playing lan games from time time and they find pretty easy to setup tailscale on their side.

[1]: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale
That's obvious, if you know little more, than your keyboard and monitor, that it is very convenient and comparable safe, to use very populated and civilized path through line of islands, where you could meet lot of small ships, small planes, even helicopters, than go through open ocean.
Obviously compared to any other ALU operation, except the most basic binary ops. It is just a parity of 8 bits, so even in a straightforward implementation you only have three levels of XOR, it is not completely serial, you do get to parallelize some. I do agree that it is not free on an 8080, but it is still a lot cheaper than add or sub.
As far as perf goes, a callee raising an exception is never the answer.

The perf arguments are a sham imo.

A callee cannot know how many times it is going to be called, only a caller, or a caller's caller, etc, can know that.
Cory Doctorow, activist: 'Musk is an overconfident buffoon'
Not relate with the post but a rant against OneDrive a couple of weeks ago came to my mind:

My partner uses Windows 11. She works and also studies in college. In both places they use Office360 so, she has her laptop set up with her Microsoft accounts and switches between college one and work when needs it. The other day, she came for help asking why the college OneDrive was getting full when she only has documents. Turns out that the fucking OneDrive decided to synchronize the whole user personal folder (where she has very personal stuff) into the college's OneDrive. Surprisingly, disabling such a wrong behavior was not straight forward as I expected. Microsoft has managed to make it ambiguous enough for having to spend a fair amount of time on such a simple thing.

I don't know it's just another example of them trying to shovel down your throat their cloud services or just some obscure plan to simply have access to all your very personal data (or both).
Massively so.

Gox wasn't far off the entire market. We had BTC-E, stamp, gox. Probably some smaller players that I'm forgetting but whatever.

Oh, and there was basically only BTC and LTC. Other coins either didn't exist or were just traded for each other, very little value, etc.

When Gox went under there wasn't even really a proper market price for Bitcoin for a significant period. We had goxbucks and goxbtc.

Even if Coinbase went down now it'd be less of a big deal than Gox was back in the day.
We’re going to dream a little less, Sequoia’s Leone on fallout from FTX collapse
I've always wanted to go to a world cup and this might be my chance.

Cause I'm not seeing this will be a popular event.

For what it's worth I have absolutely no problem with Qatar saying no stadium alcohol.

There'll be booze at the festival, on hotels.

Alcohol is possibly the worst aspect of football. Worse than the silly diving.

Qatar is the most viable (money meets opportunity, meets safety) option and will give the middle east access to the world cup which would not really be possible.
Tsundoku notwithstanding, I guess.
computers in general–this book opened my eyes to how everything actually works... mostly :)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Sof...
Well, he is on the spectrum. Social behaviors aren't really a thing for him.
So apple doesnt have to change because their ports are already better?
Google term: central bank digital currency

For example, Sweden: https://www.riksbank.se/sv/betalningar--kontanter/e-krona/
Imagine the relief of not filling out dozens of useless forms for five layers of management that do not really understand what you do anyway. One could really GSD at that point.
But probably 50% of the global population listens to US music.
What a strange coincidence, I was just looking at an old Aspire ZG5 that was sitting in a box of old laptops I've been hoarding, and thought to myself that it was a cool form factor too bad it's so ridiculously underpowered to be useful for anything.

I don't think I'll be doing this, nor, as I briefly considered, trying to wedge a raspberry pi in the case. Cute machine though.
Relieved this wasn’t another Medium think-piece on SBF
Why is this downvoted?

Why do we see this bifurcation on HackerNews whenever this topic comes up?
The Utah laws you quote are from after the 2002 Olympic Winter Games.

I was there a few years before that, you could buy 3.2% beer in a supermarket but for anything stronger needed to go to a State Liquor Store. The only State Liquor Stores that I saw were built like WWII Normandy bunkers, just to make it clear that you were doing something really bad by going there. From memory, you needed to get "membership" of any bar to drink there.
> one bad player, Apple, to do the right thing

very strange reading this since i still buy electrical devices produced in 2022 with micro-usb, custom plugs, or whatever was cheapest when they assembled the device.
I am afraid Apple is more likely to remove wired charging altogether than to introduce USB in iPhone, this may be enough to game the law which explicitly says only "devices which support wired charging" have to comply. I just hope the EU lawyers will notice "wireless" MagSafe only replaces the connection interface (which should be USB-C) while still using a wire.
Nah not really. If you're going to host the World Cup you know that you have to cater for the visiting fans, the majority of whom are from countries where alcohol is no big deal. Qatar knew this, agreed to make some concessions to allow the sale of beer ... and then reversed. To be honest it's a clever move to do this at last minute because it's not like FIFA are going to halt it.

I don't personally care what they do, I'll be watching in a Czech pub, drinking beer that's orders of magnitude better than Budweiser (likely Polička or Pilsner Urquell) and cheaper too ($12 @ World Cup vs ~$2.10-2.50) :)
Billionires preaching to me about morality, because I'm supporting decentralized solutions? Who could take this seriously?
One should also note that while Java famously takes the blame, checked exceptions appeared in CLU, were adopted by Modula-2+, Modula-3 and C++, before landing into Java's design.

And while C++ has moved away from its original design, it kept the variant of "no exceptions" or "expect any kind of exceptions", and still there are ongoing discussions of eventually getting something similar to Swift's model.
Obviously there is a contract, if you have it written down or not is not decisive.
I'm ambivalent about the world cup in Qatar.

I think it will be positive in encouraging loosening of the oppressive regime there.

It's also unfortunately one of the more viable options in the middle east where football is THE sport of the people.*

If no booze is served all that means is Muslims may be more comfortable attending.

Who cares about alcohol anyways.

* where else? Saudi? That'd be even worse. Turkey is ideal, but really cant afford it as inflation hits 85+%. Israel would be good but unfortunately most Arabs would struggle to travel there nor is it safe. Dubai/UAE might work, but ultimately have same issues.
Because it's already been here since 2016: Mastodon.
Don't blame the legislators for malicious compliance. Don't set cookies (which is the perfectly reasonable thing to do for read-only visitors of many sites) and no consent is required.

And if the user registers for an account then they can be informed as part of the signup because it's a technical necessity to maintain a login, again no banner needed.
"clicking on the "X" at the top right of the last visible application window will exit the application for the vast majority of applications."

It used to be like you describe, but this is a disappearing rule. An increasing amount of companies build apps designed in a way that you need to have sysadmin skills to actually terminate the program for real.

We can't expect Microsoft to require developers to implement this 'X' correctly because Microsoft itself is exploiting this loophole by keeping some of its apps alive when the user clicks the 'x' button.

This is a common trend I already mentioned here several years ago initiated by GAFAM companies to subversively rewrite the signification of common concepts that they disagree with:
- "no/decline" -> maybe later
- "no/decline" -> skip for now
- "no/decline" -> remind me later
- "close" -> sleep" / run into background
- "delete data" -> hide/hide temporarily
- "delete account" -> deactivate (but keep everything)
- "somebody" -> best friend
- "buy/pay" -> rent
- "configure" -> submit your preferences, we will take that into account
etc.

All these concepts are being actively stolen from the population and I am terribly saddened to see the vast majority of our regulators have absolutely no clue about the long-term consequences of this concepts being stolen/rewritten without tacit consent.

So, yes, Discord rewrote the 'x' button but to be honest: who cares? Apparently only too few.
If you could pay $300bn today, you wouldn't be able to possess all bitcoins.
The point of a lot of legacy finance is speculation. We could argue about whether that's a good thing, but it's not unique to crypto.

But Ethereum and probably other smart contract blockchains have decentralized exchanges, where you can trade tokens around without trusting anyone to hold them for you. That stuff is working just fine.

Obviously we do need legacy systems to trade with fiat. But we don't need to trust those system to hold crypto for any longer than it takes to make that trade. "Not your keys, not your coins" has been a rallying cry of the crypto community ever since Mt. Gox failed eight years ago, but the big brains running hedge funds don't think that way.
Bahamas GOVERNMENT ordered crypto CEO Sam Bankman-Fried to hack FTX systems
I mean FGM is an extreme example. If it was just that, it wouldn’t come across as so disingenuous. But in practice it seems to reduce to dicing up a foreign culture and embracing only the parts that are consistent with your own. This is especially apparent with Islam, where some westerners claim to embrace it, but really only a Disney-fied version where e.g. hijab is a fashion statement rather than a symbol of submission. That attitude really stands out when confronted with Muslims who believe what Muslims believe, whether about intoxicants or gender roles or whatever else.

Of course, zooming out, most people are ethnocentric and think their culture is better than other people’s culture. Most Qataris would say that about New York City. The difference is they don’t pretend like it’s otherwise.
It doesn’t matter. They aren’t public anymore and Elon Musk has tons of finance and tax people across his business empire. You think a guy worth hundreds of billions doesn’t have a team of finance people?
Agreed, though you do have to export your photos and videos to another folder before you can sync them. I do that weekly.
Nubank, which went public late last year, counts famed investor Warren Buffett among its roster of backers. Buffett’s firm Berkshire Hathaway took a $500 million stake in Nubank in June 2021. The company is valued by the stock market at $20.4 billion, roughly half what it was worth in its December 2021 debut.

The title is an exaggeration. Buffet owns less than 3% of the bank. He has no control on their initiatives...
I don't know if it would help, but I have this filter for uBlockOrigin to remove shorts from the website, not because I'm additect but because I don't like them
https://pastebin.com/kHejdCqC
> Would you like to accept cookies on this site you chose to visit, if not it won't work and you should probably leave")

Literally not what the law says.
It’s very strange. I suppose he must be at least mildly autistic, because he certainly doesn’t seem to understand regular people.