skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slower-and-probably-not-what-the-programmer-meant-either code.
> Point 2 is strictly false, crypto can be exchanged for goods or services on its own.

In dreams, maybe. In reality there are vanishingly few goods or services that can be exchanged for crypto. For obvious reasons immediately obvious to anyone who could care to think about the supply chain for more than 30 seconds [2].

This is especially true for oppressive governments where the use of crypto is grounds for criminal persecution [1]

[1] E.g. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-journalists-alexei...

[2] Let's say you buy bread from a shop. That shop has to pay salaries, rent, pay suppliers of flour, spice, herbs. Those suppliers have to pay their salaries and their suppliers. The owner of the place who rents out to the shop needs to pay for his stuff.

Almost no one in this chain accepts payments in crypto. So even if the shop accepts payments in crypto, they need to convert it to fiat. So the shop's question becomes: is it worth the hassle? in the absolute vast majority of cases the answer is "no".
Your eigenstate may be my superposition though. If we are measuring in different bases.
Not sure what 'num' means in buzz exactly, but it could be something like a Haskell class, choosing the specific instance/implementation automatically, while also allowing explicit specialization if needed.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.17.0.0/docs/GHC-N...
What does "permissionless composability" in DeFi mean, if not this?

Sure, its very expensive presently under the Ethereum version of "DeFi". Just like the original motorcar was expensive and fragile, and would break your arm occasionally while you crank-started it.

Now, if the cost basis of each "DeFi" transaction is reduced by 5 orders of magnitude (see: Ethereum vs. Holochain) -- what are the potential outcomes of that?
> That seems to violate the idea that friendships are low-commitment and non-binding relationships.

Why is friendship low-commitment and non-binding. In the Western world, this is an aberration. For most of Western history, friendship was often considered more permanent and requiring more commitment than even marriage. It was seen as a life-long arrangement, with duties between friends, etc. Slighting one's friend was the start of many bitter bitter disputes that lasted generations.
I find it mildly concerning that fresh accounts with on here seem to be pushing alt-right conspiracy stuff.

My take on Douglas Murray: he didn't understand Foucault, got mad about it, and decided Foucault is an evil Marxist. It kind of rhymes with Jordan Peterson's sentiments about the boogeyman of postmodernism.
This could be used with Nostr[1] to add a ton of privacy! The added privacy would even be a reason to pay for using the server.

As of now, a lot of privacy is lost when you actually look at Nostr events. There are servers that check to see if a user has paid before they execute the request too[2].

1: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

2: https://github.com/fiatjaf/expensive-relay
Everything is a cult to some extent.

That how humans works. We need meaning and a group of people to share it with.

Be it progressivism, maga, HN, Catholic, etc.

If it’s a good one it’s not completely detached from reality and doesn’t shunt outsiders and outsides ideas too much.
What pure rubbish.

Self-proclaimed monopoly? Hardly. See https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2826.

The open root folks appear to have completely missed the IANA transition (for a European source: https://www.ripe.net/participate/internet-governance/interne...). The US Dept. of Commerce hasn't been involved with root zone changes for more than half a decade.

What a waste of time.
draw.io of course :)
Copilot. Nothing else comes close!
I agree with everything you wrote & don't think it is inconsistent with what I wrote. The "model-constructing machine" is itself purely an information-processing machine, so embedding it inside a Turing machine is no problem.
typedef int intpremium_mediocre_t;
This one is still so relevant: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/working_home
I clearly remember paying around $80 USD for a WholeTomato [1] license back in 2003 for C# when I first came out of University into my first job. And that was a glorified auto-completer.

Software has turned really cheap. The downside of is that it is almost a commodity, but the development effort has not really decreased correspondingly.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20030618043241/http://www.wholet...
Well, the comment up the chain implied that more demand for businesses would result in suburbs getting more walkable.

I was implying that the demand would likely be met with strip-malls and residents would still drive everywhere.
I agree, a lot of popular Twitter folks are Tumblr refugees after the great purge ("female presenting nipples"). It was always the policy that ruined Tumblr, the concept has a lot of potential
So they’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune, taking turns to act as a sort of executive-officer-for-the-week.
I used to work in drug delivery and many people joked about how smoking is a drug delivery system. There are of course asthma inhalers but those directly address the lungs themselves.

The only inhaled drug delivery system I know of was an insulin delivery system (Exubera) which AFAIK failed in the market for some reason.
Must be nice to own a place in Dumbo or Nassau County.

Out here, in the affordable section, it's not as easy.

When I lived in the DC suburbs, 32 years ago, I lived in Gaithersburg, MD. I worked in Rockville (1 exit south, on I-270). Six miles, as the crow flies.

My daily commute was 45 minutes.

I-270 is a charming bit of tarmac. It's a 12-lane parking lot, that stretches from Frederick, to the Beltway.

I have no idea where those stats come from, but they sure as hell don't reflect the reality, around here.

Reality has a nasty way of not caring what the stats say.
like displaying a series of characters on the screen - need to run 1000x more CPU instructions than yesterday's?

Because the users want those characters displayed in the font, size and colour of their choosing at a very high dpi, anti-aliased, in a semi-translucent terminal. They might also want the text parsed in real time so that it can be coloured, formatted and checked for spelling and grammar.
For better or worse, people tend to like doing mundane, repetitive tasks, if the stakes are low or non-existent. I enjoyed it quite a bit.
I took on 2 teams.

I had formed, recruited and managed a very successful team for a year or so, we worked great together, like clockwork. Nothing is perfect but it's the tightest team I've ever worked on to date. Another team was constantly causing issues for us and other teams, they were a problem. They let the manager of that team go (unsurprisingly) and so I offered to take over that team while they found a full-time replacement.

My thought was to make things better for my team and others by putting this team on the right path but it wasn't to be. The team needed to have some people replaced, but I was hesitant to do so right away as I was learning about their domain. Overall this just took time away from my main team. I eventually got completely burned out and was very stressed. So much so that I eventually decided to go back to being an individual contributor. Looking back, my greatest accomplishment of my career thus far has been forming that first team and leading it, we did some amazing high impact things.

So I guess, morale of the story is to not take on too much. Or think that you can always replicate success with a different group of folks.
You realize SMS is not E2E encrypted?
https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin/who-accepts/

Apparently, I must be dreaming this entire list. Now, to head off what will certainly be a response absolutely loaded with special pleading and/or strawmen, the claim was "crypto can be exchanged for goods and services on its own". Provided was a rather substantial, yet not exhaustive, list of merchants of various sizes which accept one kind of crypto in exchange for goods and services. QED.
Can the ffi be made more seamless? It's rather annoying doing it by hand.
That is trivially not true.
At that point Wales is probably ready to call it a day as well.

Part of the problem is as the empire is shrinking London and England becomes more dominating. Each piece leaving reinforces this so I think if Northern Ireland and Scotland leaves Wales will do so too. And perhaps even smaller pieces although that doesn’t look likely today.

Another factor is that Scotland stayed last time as border trade is the most important for Scotland. Not that UK is crashing it’s more likely they would leave.
Like:

. _amazing_ integration with Julia. The only reason why I used Jupyter notebooks was for the concept of cells. But VS Code does that better AND the code is valid Julia code (as opposed to when using a Jupyter notebook, where the thing generated is not valid Julia code). Same goes for python.

. I LOVE the "Remote SSH" extension. With zero effort, other than installing the extension on my local, I can run VS Code backend on a remote machine. This allows me to, again with zero effort, be able to work on a machine that might not be great (like my laptop) but point the backend to some big machine and do some serious data crunching with a frontend on my laptop.

. I really like the CTRL-SHIFT-P box (it's called the "command palette"). It's the ability to _search_ IDE commands/features from a search box. This is in contast to having to memorize a hotkey (like vim) or clicking around various dropdowns (like Microsoft-inspired stuff).

. Like it's not vim-fast, but the UI is still quite fast.

. You CAN customize, but on the other hand all defaults are quite good.

I've been a huge vim fan for a long as I can remember, but VS code has replaced it for all my coding. The only situation where I still use vim is if I need to open multi-Gb data/log files.

EDIT: As other people mention PyCharm - are you nuts? PyCharm is VERY sluggish. I hate it.
In the musical episode they have a song called everything comes down to poo.

https://youtu.be/2BDd0XseGtU
Never liked it. Takes an age to load up, but I guess once it's launched you can keep it open, so there is that. Then there's the MS telemetry to worry about, although VSCodium[0] addresses that.

[0] https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium
Missing "both are wrong" option.

For example, it's always incorrect to have clickable button without any kind of border and same color like background and it does it for "skip". It's just dark pattern to funnel people into clicking stuff you want with technically giving a choice.

It also have some slides where both have absolutely awful contrast and asks to pick "less wrong" option (HN also gets that terribly wrong, light gray text on lighter gray background).

A lot of it is also designer preferences like "SQUARE BAD"
It's funny, if you asked Jobs or even Ballmer where they would stand on in-desktop advertising 20 years ago, they probably would have laughed and explained the benefits of paying for a desktop operating system. Flash-forward to today, and both companies are exhuming their UIs to stuff in more-and-more promotional content.

Perhaps it's horribly ironic that the only OSes that don't advertise to you are the ones you can use Freely.
They simply need to record the location of the property markers. They could even use paper. The problem is that they don't have surveying equipment and the training to use it so all they have is the sticks.

As others have said, you can't (usefully) represent ownership in the blockchain because ownership can change or be made irrelevant outside of the blockchain.

While blockchain wouldn't be useful for this, a host of cryptographic tools would be.

If a country used signed survey data they could prevent a host of crimes and bugs changing boundaries, and if they issued signed land titled you could check their validity offline - helpful for remote areas. They could be tied together entry to entry, like a blockchain, to assure that no records "go missing". There could be a single-core proof of work stored regularly, checkpointing the data, to prevent the country's IT team from rewriting the whole database. It just doesn't need to be "a blockchain" because there is a centralized authority who we all follow, if not trust, so the decentralized thing isn't that important. And we don't need to limit publishing so we don't need a currency.
> The comments here to the effect of “everything’s a cult” and “startups are cults” and “HN is a cult” - oh gosh. Nothing could be further from the truth. HN is not a cult, folks.

While reading, I assumed they were talking about western civilization itself.
What replaced flowcharts? Um, pretty much nothing. We just quit making flowcharts, and we found that we could get by just fine without them. (In fairness, when structured programming replaced goto-based programming, we didn't need flowcharts nearly as often in order to keep track of what was going on.)

We mostly quit doing UML because for most people, most of the time, it mostly wasn't worth it. It didn't provide enough value to be worth the effort. So what replaced it was usually nothing.
Bedtime story for kids using GPT-3 and dalle-2
So you list a bunch of bad things that NXIVM did. How does labeling it a "cult" add or detract from that list of bad things?

Sure, it did bad things. If a member were a Christian, did it force them to denounce God or renounce their hope of salvation, or to otherwise accept heretical beliefs? I am not Christian; these are not things important to me, but they are part of the operational definition of a classical cult, which NXIVM is not, in that sense.

Why use the label cult? As a rhetorical device, that's fine, but don't present it to me as an absolute. Even the wikipedia article on NXIVM, for example, calls it a "personality cult", a term specifically invented to refer to a cult-like organization organized around a persona rather than a religious precept.

Language is free -- what I think subjectively is a cult and what you do are different, and usage will evolve as time goes on, and that's fine. I'm in general in favor of holding to a narrower definition because otherwise the semantic mismatch in discussing cults can get very broad, to the point where we're just talking about two different things and the connection from cult -> occult -> hidden knowledge has been completely lost. EDIT: And not stated here, but my main thrust, is that expanding the meaning because of poorly scoped definitions is the worst possible way to go about it because it's motivated by pseudo-logic rather than by organic usage.
I use it for nearly the same thing. It seems to me like the best solution to back up to rsync.net. Other tools that claimed to support rsync, like FolderSync, didn't actually work. It also helps that termux can avoid cron and instead uses termux-job-scheduler to get around power saving issues.[1]

[1] https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/2015
It is extensible, free, and frequently updated/well maintained. I'm not a MS fan, but they did a good job with this one.

Favorite extensions is a meaningless thing to ask for, it is entirely dependent on what you are using VSCode to make. But there are good extensions for TS/JS/React workflows.
You actually want them to use metric? Okay, comrade. /s

Edit: I'm being sarcastic and mocking anti-metrication...
Trust is arguably the most expensive thing in society.

For those looking for a fun read about trust read some Francis Fukuyama.
Happened to P&G back in the early 2010s with AG Laffley. I know because my parents were both executives who lived through it, and quite a few colorful thoughts about AG's replacement before the board dumped him and brought AG back.
Which RGB space?

8-bit? and then which bit-8? the "2 bits for blue" 8-bit?

Or 16-bit? 24-bit? 32-bit? Using floats or not?
Thank you [see what I did here :)] for pointing this out - I'm not native and on top of that used to learn german (never went anywhere with it, but the capitalization of every noun somehow stayed with me longer than necessary).

Add english oddities such as capitalizing first person pronoun (which I do, as you probably noticed) and it's kinda easy to be oblivious that I do this.
You're conflating the HN "hivemind" with the individual members. I doubt most HN users check all 4 boxes. E.g. I read Reddit and don't elevate startup founders to deity status. I'm also not ostracized for these views.
I wear my watches on either hand, depends on what the mood takes me. I've never understood why I should always wear it on the left hand just because I am right handed - my grandfather would balk at such a thing :D is it just because using the same hand you wear your watch on for everything might make it more likely to bash something with it?

(shrug)
Defi doesn't solve this at all. It is currently illegal for me and a lot of the world to buy software from Iran and Russia. Using blockchain to circumvent the law is the only use case people can scrape together.

It doesn't matter if blockchain allows you to break the law. You are still breaking the law and punishments exists outside of the chain.

Blockchain enthusiasts get confused between "a solution" and a "better solution". A car with an airplane propeller engine is technically a solution that solves a use case of getting a person from point a to point b, but is it the best solution when compared to current cars? Right now the crypto industry is slapping all sorts of stuff on and then just because their car makes it down the street, suddenly they think somebody in africa who never had a car before will want it.

The use case you describe has been beaten over and over in crypto over the past 5-7 years. DRM. Its old news. But no major company wants anything to do with it. Its a social problem not a technical one.

Blockchain is an engineers wet dream. Infinite solutions that make theoretical sense and the math works, but lack any way to solve the current problems better.
Building a Power Efficient Home Server
Depending upon your use-case, you can get pretty good results by using spaCy for named entity recognition then matching on the titles of Wikipedia articles that have coördinates.
Correct. iOS is one of the worst offenders in the category of operating systems pushing paid services on you.

Unfortunately, a lot of people here and elsewhere get really upset when you make the simple observation that iOS is adware.

Linux is the only modern OS that doesn't have ads. (Though Ubuntu is trying to change that...)
Wait until you see the photos of what goes on inside meat packing plants.

Just kidding, you won't. The political power of the meat industry is so significant in government that they actually made it a felony to record and publish what goes on inside hog confinement operations, meat packing plants, butchering, etc. https://aldf.org/issue/ag-gag/
I'm still looking for one that doesn't require a mobile phone at all. Let me know if you find one. :)

I love Discord, but you know... Discord isn't really... anything privacy at all.
Yea, where's the "outrage"? Need more outrage. I mean, by golly, I have these *kiddos* who need their dad 24/7! What's with these young people who want to go into the office?
So... It's a new driver. You don't say a program written days ago in C89 is 33 years old because the programs uses the c89 standard library.
I commute from a large-ish city to its suburb, my commute is 15-18 minutes. Anecdotes are not data... average commute in the US is like 20-30mins. I suspect most people who can be fully remote (i.e. are not in service industry) can afford to move instead of commuting 3 hours one way.
"Not if your country is under tyrannical or authoritarian rule and disallows access to basic financial services for some arbitrary reason." became "flee Brazil or Russia with financial assets".

Why is it that "we're providing basic financial services to the unwashed and huddled poor masses of the unbanked" always becomes "move large amounts of money from one jurisdiction to another without any government control look Russia Brazil" (but in reality international monetary fraud).
Peru. Japan. Berlin.
this is bad too
Would be interesting to see one for this

https://nipponcolors.com/
> You can be 100% sure that a python+numpy program won't.

It's possible to use a phyton+numpy program in 20 years, but you also have to save the entire environment and make sure that it works air-gapped (otherwise external dependencies would fail). One possiblity would be to store it as a qemu virtual machine. It's very possible today to boot up stuff as VMs that is 20 years and older (e.g. 20 year old Linux distros or Windows XP iso from early 2000s).
i agree with the comments about the kitchen timers. being able to set timers with out having to wash my hands or put down what i'm holding is so nice. but beyond that and play music, my siri sphere gets little use.
I'm confused and very far from an expert here. What is wrong with parsers, and what is the alternative?
Anecdote: 2 months ago I was in paris in Disneyland Paris. I have been to the US parks many times, the last one about 2018. The FastPass was free, you just pick them from the machines, and the last time (again 2018), you have them on your cellphone. Now in Paris, the Fast Pass was 720 euros per day for the fourth of us, 1440 for the two days we had tickets for the parks.
Does this refer to the same style as "Corporate Memphis"?
I don’t think you mean 80% right. You mean 100% right on the things you care about. If I need a widget that fits some size, is child-safe, doesn’t quickly break and costs less than $300 I can’t accept 80% right. Sure I don’t care about the color or brand but they weren’t criteria of mine to begin with.
Thousands of teachers still use a booking system I made 14 years ago, freeperiod.co.uk. I worked in a school and created a website to replace the booking sheet in the staffroom. This was at a time when teachers were being encouraged to bring their non-IT classes to the computer rooms

I can't remember how freeperiod became a thing that schools paid for. I think some other schools showed an interest and that's when I thought about charging. At that point I sent a letter out to lots of schools which bore some fruit and it grew from there.

There is something special about making something that goes on to shape your life. I still feel to shy to call myself a programmer. Or maybe too ashamed as I am sysadmin at heart ;-)

My advice would be don't assume the obvious. School's have timetables, why would they want a booking system? They want a booking system as historically timetables were for teachers and students, not for rooms.
It just works, fast enough, nice enough, has the addons I want.

It was fun toying around with emacs for 3 hours per day to install new shit and make it more useable back in uni but I actually have stuff to get done these days
Right but then we get back to the Turing completeness. You can do with any Turing machine whatever you can do with any other Turing machine. You just have to do it a little differently.

I'm not sure if
https://wiki.c2.com/?ClosuresAndObjectsAreEquivalent

gives us a constructive proof however. There is a poll in there. Let's vote if this is so, or not. :-)

Interesting discussion however in there.
Well, in my humble opinion, you got the order wrong then.

You need to start from the idea, the "how" comes later.