skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
is this guy a troll? so he's playing a character? i know he's very smart and talented, but i can't tell if he's serious on twitter or a troll in his thoughts.
I skipped the iPad and settled on an HP Elite X2 G4 tablet which runs linux quite well, and am hoping either better support for newer Surface devices or other tablets (e.g. rog flow z13) improve.

My real reason for doing this was ergonomics: https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMobileComputers/comments/vzs8mm... , but vented my ipad frustrations for a while (
https://imgur.com/a/CQwApt8 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31648704 )

Gnome has really made strides in the past couple years of having something fairly tablet friendly.
Sure, this is what that Wikipedia page says:

> As of 22 June 2005, Gmail's canonical URI changed from http://gmail.google.com/gmail/ to http://mail.google.com/mail/.

As you can see from your own source, the canonical URL has always been under google.com, not under gmail.com.

Edit: the parent post was originally linking to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Gmail, before being edited
There's a button for this.
Strongly agree. The main reason we got so much out of physics and chemistry has little to do with the statistical methods and peer review they employed, and much more with how obviously some things were repeatable when found. You need basically 100% reproduction rates to be able to do something truly useful and that's a bar you just can't hit with some fields
Whatever it is, I'm sure it's orders of magnitude more sustainable per transaction than the mighty 7 transaction per seconds of Bitcoin.
Nissan(in recent years after quietly selling the company) and Kia are crap tier auto makers, nothing like Toyota and Honda. As someone who has two Nissans right now, both of them with CVTs prone to break in under 100k miles, it pains me to hear them called actual auto makers that know better.
Life today is immensely more complex than it was in the past, and you need to pass new laws (and amend the older ones) to keep up with it.
I don’t mean in terms of the value of the coin - I mean that if mining activity increases, power consumption goes up but coins produced remains static.

More mining does not provide more coins, only increased fuel burnt per coin.

So in total for society, we are burning fuel for nothing in return in aggregate. And let’s be honest - a majority of these coins aren’t going to “citizen crypto miners”, they are typically going to huge scale crypto farms so it’s hardly spreading the wealth.
Unhinged tweeting at odd hours, erratic decisions, irritability, lack of sleep, extreme defensiveness, vengefulness ("let's shame the advertisers"!), demands for unquestioned loyalty. Where have we seen this before?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/business/elon-musk-interv...

"But this has worried some board members, who have noted that sometimes the drug [Ambien] does not put Mr. Musk to sleep but instead contributes to late-night Twitter sessions, according to a person familiar with the board’s thinking."

This man is a walking zombie on no sleep. I just wonder if he is naturally this wired or he is crashing on upper/downer pills, like Trump did.
For spare / repair parts aliexpress unfortunately is still the heaven. Sure you have to be really careful who you order from, but sadly the modern world hates selling spare parts and loves e-waste (especially for smartphones, it used to be different before ...).
Dutch ovens also make great bread.
That's a good point. Teslas might be significantly less "cool" this time next year.

Might bring some solace to competitors who badly underestimated Tesla four or five years ago.
There's a famous Austrian philosopher named Karl Popper, who saw the rise of the Nazis, how they abused the freedoms extended to them and what horrors that brought.

Shortly after the end of WW2, he came to this conclusion:

> Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.

[...]

> We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.

Personally, I agree with this logic. Uncurtailed freedom only works as long as people don't use it to curtail the freedoms of others and that sort of abuse has to be stopped in the interest of freedom.
I work on 2 $100k ideas

Bear Blog (https://bearblog.dev)
JustSketchMe (https://justsketch.me)

Both are profitable enough to keep me quite comfortable while being niche enough to not appeal to any company with VC funding.
I understand why the bug IDs are hashes, but that's going to be pretty inconvenient for practical use. Yes I know we manage it with Git commit names, but bug IDs are printed and spoken much more than commits, e.g. when communicating with a test team, management, or even in release notes.

I wonder if we could use some sort of distributed naming scheme for this, similar to Blockchain DNS?
Well then, is the Governor acting on behalf of the Federal Reserve? Why is this reason not mentioned, and instead, environmental issues are raised?
People “usually don’t” get arrested for possession of a small amount of cocaine; but I sure wouldn’t want to be one of those obscure cases. I agree ‘usually’ is almost never good enough when personal risk is involved.
Here is a bookmarklet that does TTS: https://locserendipity.com/Speaker.html

Also: https://www.locserendipity.com/TTS.html
> What’s the fossil fuel burn of Bank of America’a entire IT and anti-fraud department?

That brings quite a value. Without anti-fraud measures, you wouldn't have a monetary system.
How to Build Your Own Analog Phone Network
Cost neutral to user maybe but still wasting power... typical crypto short-sighteness.

Install a heat pump instead, you will save both power and money on heating.
This is why now instead of taking notes, I only take voice notes. Each time I need to think about something, to clarify in my mind, I launch Voice Memos on my iOS device and record my thoughts.

It immensely helped me to structure my mind and be more clear about my ideas. I highly recommend that to anyone.
There is family library sharing: https://store.steampowered.com/sharing/
Indeed. If you use Chrome, you should just assume that your location is shared with Google at all times, since they likely collect it via telemetry anyway.

If you use Firefox, assume your location is always shared with Mozilla via telemetry... and likely indirectly to Google as well, since they use Google Analytics for so much of their infra.

Likewise for Apple/Google/Microsoft collecting data from iOS/macOS/Android/Windows. And of course your cellular provider.

As far as I know the only way to ensure your personal data isn't shared with your browser publisher is to use a verifiable, open source browser that has telemetry disabled, like Iceweasel or Librewolf. And an open source, verifiable OS with telemetry disabled, like... Fedora, maybe? Manjaro? But you're being spied on by your ISP or cellular provider anyway, and the US government indirectly through your ISP and cell provider. And let's be honest, foreign governments through some combination of ISP/cellular provider/govt backdoors.

Oh, and if you've read "Trusting Trust" you'll know that even OSS isn't necessarily verifiable unless you wrote the compiler yourself from scratch.

So I'm not sure there's much benefit to any of it?
Did you read the linked letter? It says the ban is specifically on crypto-mining that uses fossil fuel power plants but allows it using other power plants.
I've got a whole bag full of em:

https://unvalidatedideas.com/archive

The only problem is I can't tell you which ones are the 100k ones...

I've got a hunch that this one is solidly 100k and not million+:

https://unvalidatedideas.com/editions/11

Got all the hallmarks of an idea that is hard to profit/scale:

- selling to developers

- content-based (so often very manual at the beginning)

- absolutely boring (to some people) niche

[EDIT] - wait no I could see this one possibly getting big, if you strike the right "compliance and security posture" tone.
And they don’t care about the paid reviews either. I contacted them saying a seller mailed me offering $50 cash via PayPal for a 5 star review. The chat agent replied with the “contact seller” link since I was unhappy. They had no interest in the photo of the bribe sent to me. I don’t even know why the seller has my contact info since the item was shipped by Amazon.
Lotteries and Casinos are also heavily regulated
Isn't simpler to use perl?

Perl -pe 's/.(capture this)./$1/'

That way, you can capture multiple groups, and change the format in the output. You can also do simple calculations if you capture numbers
Faced with energy crisis, Germans agonize over Autobahn speed limits
> This already happened

Well it’s illegal for starters.

Same reason they shipped terrorism suspects to Cubs and tortured them there. It would be illegal to do that in the US. Obviously it’s a bit weird that government officials/military can do all sorts of things overseas that would be illegal back home. It’s not something new though, US has been doing this since it first started intervening in other countries back in the 19th century.
> Amazon is unusable at this point, and I don’t get how they have so many customers. Free and fast shipping is no longer exclusive to them, and there are others out there with far nicer websites and no shitty ad listings.

I only started using them in 2017 and I still do use them sparingly. But typically only for stuff I buy directly from the brand's store on Amazon.

There are a few brands I still trust. They may all be going downhill at some point and the "official store" may actually be some front for cheap copies that stole the brand name, I don't know... But so far it looks okay to me.

Anker, Osram, Makita, S.T. Dupont (for refills), etc.

Last thing I bought from Amazon from some random brand was a box of 200 firelighters, supposedly ecological. I don't know if the brand is "true" or not, I don't know if they're actually ecological or not (they look like but it may all be a scam) but... They were cheap and they do actually help greatly lighting the fireplace.

So far Anker stuff looks like it's actually Anker stuff. Makita tools do look and feels like Makita tools, etc.

That's why I keep using them.

Now I do find the experience painful and I'm 100% sure that all these identical products but branded different when I search on Amazon for, say, 316L stainless steel are stuff that are going to rust in six months.

So I'd say that people using it because even if Amazon broken, it's still convenient to find all your usual brands in one place.
> Because Musk overpaid by so much, there is zero path to success. Now he's just trying to stave off bankruptcy which seems inevitable.

That's what it looks like from outside looking in. But it also exposes him as a loudmouth talking out of his ass for cheap PR. The whole Twitter mess is a result of an ego trip/PR stunts he thought he could get out of for free.
oh. that was the first DEC I used- remember it from my childhood. It was replaced shortly after with a VAX/VMS machine. I fled to UNIX shortly after.
People will go to jail.
Cannot install git-lfs: packagecloud.io/github unavailable
That's like saying that obtaining the On the Origin of Species or Linux kernel will be harder in future. If anything the SD weights will be increasingly ubiquitous as they start embedding it into consumer electronics.
I keep considering writing a `unique_span` and `shared_span`. Really `span` or (a type it’s based on) should have been templated on the pointer type, so a `span<shared_ptr<const T[]>>` for example.
yup, good point. i think they should just let us choose.
We must say no to these people
Its apparently not enough for a business this size to just sell products with good customer service any more. The customer service is long gone replaced by the computer saying no. The product listings are just ads and the reviews are all fake.
This is an interesting discovery
AI: Startup vs. Incumbent Value
Termux on my $95 Kindle Fire is more useful than anything I’ve yet encountered on iPadOS simply because of the execrable keyboard options available on the iPad.

There are great prices on wonderful M1 iPads right now, and I love my MacBook Air, so I got this year’s iPad Air.

You must be joking.

After hours of futility, I am forced to accept that Apple still has no API for adding Control Escape arrow keys to keyboard apps.

While I can use the hard coded keyboard option in the great a-Shell app, I can’t customize it. And I can’t use its keyboard in Safari for online Visual Studio Code or Colab notebooks.

With Termux, I set up a keyboard via a simple text config file. Done. And for a general system keyboard, in a pinch I can use a the “Hacker Keyboard” keyboard app. It’s ugly but it works.

Please tell me I’m taking crazy pills and that there’s a keyboard app that solves this.

No, I can’t use a hardware external keyboard in this use case.

- https://termux.dev/en/

- https://holzschu.github.io/a-Shell_iOS/
Gamblers have always liked to gamble, however from time to time we have banned certain venues of gambling when we have deemed the "value" it provides those certain gamblers do not exceed the social cost of that particular venue of gambling.
Great work! I'm testing if I could use it in my project. It would be good to be able to just paste some text.
Are you ready for workplace brain scanning?
Is there actually? In Germany I have heard of people getting served with fines for downloading torrents, as sharing a torrent identifies you through your IP. I've never heard of anyone getting into trouble for streaming or downloading a file, and I'm not sure how it could realistically be detected.
To my phone, specifically to standard apps so I could make a server that does what they cannot.

For example, I could send usage reports sms to my gas provider from a home dashboard. Auto-check incoming calls with few web services and block them. Parse notifications and delete irrelevant ones. Add reminders via simpler ui or parse from notes.

In the end I’d probably end up with my own phone-control webapp and would rarely visit standard apps.
It has absolutely gotten out of hand lately. 2 sponsored product, 3 regular listed, 2 sponsored product, continued perpetually. Walmart has been pulling the same stuff lately and it’s infuriating.
It might work on windows but I haven't tested it there.
Thoughts on building an open source software company in the current economy
I’m the guy that opened that issue. To be clear, I’m NOT affiliated with datadog. I am co-founder of a software supply chain company https://phylum.io.

We scan all the open source packages as they’re published, and got a hit for this pretty much right away. The volume of packages that get published that are malware is astonishing…

Kind of unfortunate that these guys just closed the issue, if they aren’t malicious actors. I suspect that this is a fake account, and not an account compromise, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeping_up_with_the_Joneses

I think it's become a matter of pluralistic ignorance [0], especially in the last few decades. Norms have a way of sticking around longer than the social consequences for not following them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralistic_ignorance
https://www.espressif.com/en/news/news/ESP32-Powered_PDP-11
Cryptocurrency isn't very useful as a currency, so it doesn't compete with fiat currencies. You can't use it to buy things, apart from illegal things. The exceptions are fringe uses only.
This article is not about one specific service and how an alternative can solve the problem.

It is an example of how companies are dying to permission to track is.
>> Any surplus presumably gets exported downstate, and to the rest of the Eastern grid surely? At least if it is anything like how it works in Scotland.

> Nope, we don’t have enough transmission capacity to the NYC area — proposals to build transmission capability have been blocked by the Sierra Club. NYC is almost exclusively powered by natural gas after the closure of our sole nuclear plant.

That NYC doesn't have a great amount of national grid connectivity seems surprising.
This skit represents the experience quite well: https://youtu.be/nQpxAvjD_30?t=4s
While unrelated to this, I would like browsers to suspend background tabs and maybe even compress their data and unload information that can be restored later (for example, unload images from memory, drop JS bytecode and JIT caches). Majority of websites have no need to do anything when I am not watching them.

Of course there are cases when you need some background activity, for example if you are listening to music or running a program. As I understand, it is extremely difficult do distuinguish between tabs doing useful work and not doing. I would be fine with a manual switch to allow site run in background.
I was thinking, why did they give the first round 3 months and this time only 1? Why didn't they give the first round 1 month? Only thing I could come up with is that more people who were on the fence for the first round might have stayed, so giving them 3 months encouraged more people to leave, which is the ultimate goal, to save money.

This is why not getting to review severance (if leaving) and employment contracts (if staying) before having to make the "commit to hardcore" decision was unreasonable.
Because pollution is an easy way to jam through otherwise onerous regulation.
I heard that if you return too many items, they threaten to prevent future purchases. Has anyone hit this? What is the return/purchase ratio?
Yeah, King for entry level is great, Suehiro Cerax is a mid level upgrade to it.

IMO 6000 is too fine for majority of Western kitchen knifes and most non-expensive Japanese knifes. I would go with 1000 and 3000-4000.
Photography is simply writing with light. It is whatever you wish it to be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
If this is your best argument for burning $1 of (subsidized) fossil fuels so you can get $1.05 of crypto you need to reevaluate what you're spending your time on.
The users and buyers of cryptocurrency sponsor that spending, and find it worthwhile.

Who is the government to say otherwise?
Chrome users are probably okay with tracking anyway, but Firefox, Brave, Vivaldi, etc could implement more fine grained controls. Not only for geolocation.
While I agree with you, FSD is already safer than human drivers in some cases. Safer is not yet a quantifiable metric.

My guess is that FSD will be in Beta until such metric is defined, measured, and indeed FSD comes ahead of humans.
What I do sometimes is search the websites of the manufacturers of the product. Like for SD cards I'll search samsung.com, for hard drives westerndigital.com, for light bulbs maybe creelighting.com, etc.
https://github.com/ellie/atuin is a TUI with the added option of syncing history between shells and machines.
Been using Pop OS for a while for the It Just Works(tm) experience, but I'm missing Arch more and more.

Mainstream Linux distros feel a lot more like Windows these days. Sure they require less condiguration, but they're also mich harder to mess around with. Starting up htop reveals a jungle of daemons and weird systemd shit I don't even know what does. Systemd is a terribly documented nightmare to configure, etc.

It's so nice in Arch to know pretty much know what everything is for because I was the one who installed it. And to have documentation that isn't infuriating to navigate.
Sitting back for the ride to see how this ends
Problem is that usefulness is not universal past essential things. I’m sure we can find many things you find wasteful that I consider useful and vice-versa.
Well then ban it under a gambling argument, not an environmental one.
Dont you support the troops?
> it's only wrong due to being a by-product of the original policy of colonialism

Only or not only, it's wrong.

> assuming that Mauritius would not have wanted to support the unemployed population

As they say, "when you assume you make etc etc..."

It's a silly assumption.
The problem isn't the perfect regulation, the problem is enforcement. Without a grid so smart that the meter knows that a plugged in device is mining specific types of cryptocurrency, the regulation is worthless.

A blanket ban is much easier to enforce, even if "easy" in this context is basically impossible.
Normally the government steps in when environmental protections are needed.
Back when broadcast TV was a thing, I cut short an interview with a TV exec as soon as he mentioned "loyalty". I've been out of the SW game for a while, so serious question: are there actually any examples of technical companies where personal loyalties are considered a positive input?
He seems to have a very high opinion of himself, based on my observations of literally any time he speaks!

Reading some older articles about him, he has been pampered and told he was so smart from a young age.
Doesn't your argument in the first paragraph assume that the methods by which humans derive new works from past experiences is equivalent to the way statistical models iteratively remove noise from images based on a set of abstract features derived from an input prompt?

That seems to be the core of the issue, and a much more interesting conversation to have. So why do I keep seeing a version of your first paragraph everywhere and not an explanation on why the assumption can be made?
Gone in 9 minutes: How a Celtic gold heist unfolded in Germany
Apple Patent: Divers to take Photos and Videos with iPhone underwater (2021)
Amazon is awful to shop at. I accidentally bought the wrong article twice already because i was searching for something and it showed me something else and i wasn't paying super close attention. It must be contributing to a lot of returns.

These days when i buy something at Amazon it's because i found out elsewhere that one particular product is being offered at a good price there.
Denying your competition human resources you don't really need yourself is a strategy I've seen in real life. Can't comment on the other points.
Loss aversion is strong in humans.
For those unfamiliar with the background, this is squarely pointed at operations such as greenridge: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/crypto/new-york-state-denies-ai...
Unfortunately, an apt description for people shilling alternate monetary systems that I once read was: "For them, the largest problem with the banking crisis of 2008 was that they didn't have a finger in the pie." I often think the lack of anti-fraud features may be a feature and not a bug.
Just imagine: the day after the new search feature goes live, the product manager comes to you and asks where the user profiles have gone. You say, "oh, I removed them - I think it's a good idea to remove an existing feature after adding a new one! Complexity, after all, is bad!"
Vos chirurgies en toute sécurité avec Tunisie Esthetic
Just because you don’t realize something gave you cancer doesn’t mean you can safely ignore the cancer.

Feeling like you got ripped off is one thing, having your house burn down from faulty electronics is much worse etc etc.
I'm building a gaming development platform for people who can't code and without design skills. Using different ML models including stable diffusion and Dall-e
To be fair, the ban is for crypto mining that uses fossil fuels only. But I completely agree with your point that it should just be a ban on fossil fuels.

More generally it is troubling that the ban implicitly is an attack against general purpose computing. There is a policy that only certain programs get to use energy sources. Even those who want to kill crypto currencies should think about the downstream consequences of this policy, and what else it could be applied to next.