skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm...not sure I understand the contradiction here?

You appear to be stating that cryptocurrencies could hypothetically exist and Do Things beyond fraud and speculation without many mainstream people using or caring about them.

While this is (again, hypothetically) true, I don't think it refutes my claim that the only reason cryptocurrency crashes don't affect the general economy is because most people don't use them (and the few uses they do have are almost entirely negatives). Indeed; I think what it does is posit a world where most people don't use cryptocurrencies...and crashes could still affect the general economy, through the medium of the (hypothetical) non-scammy, non-speculative uses of cryptocurrencies. Because unless you're proposing a system where people just keep trading around the same tokens, which have absolutely no ability to pay rent, buy food, or otherwise improve their lives outside of these very niche "P2P social media" areas, you're not talking about a currency. You're talking about some kind of a "social media score".
How get access to the Shell to validate the #DNS if it's working from #HomeAssistant OS
https://www.ernestech.com/articles/details/14353/how-to-get-...
Using a VM for Docker gives you the worst of both worlds.

You get all the downsides of a VM (persistent wasted RAM/disk space, awful disk IO performance, etc) AND all the downsides of containers (difficult to introspect when your minimal image has no shell, janky networking, etc).

On recent M1/M2 Macs you take the additional pain (and thus performance hit) of translation to x86 (because that's almost certainly what your containers are in.
The grand theme of the piece could be about keeping the lights on, and it could be about moral abdication, to be ruthless and a little underhanded, because the McKinsey guy told the CEO it was OK.
i just find the youtube login process terrible. my browser doesn’t persist cookies, so i have to re-login every day. not problematic for most sites that use a single login form (like HN) and play nice with a password manager.

but for Youtube its:

1. go to login page.

2. enter username, hit enter.

3. enter password, hit enter.

4. at the 2FA page hunt for the “other method” option and click it.

5. select “authenticate with Google Authenticator” (i.e. OTP).

6. enter TOTP code, hit enter

7. select either “use this method in the future” or “no” — they don’t take effect because no cookies.

sure, it’s self-inflicted on behalf of me not persisting cookies. but a 7 step login process? get real.

3rd party clients like this solve that. in theory i could also whitelist youtube cookies to be specifically persisted, but figuring out how to do that would be a lot more troublesome than just using a 3rd party client.
I've always wanted to play with an FPGA in this way, but I know too little to pick one that could be used to implement a CPU. They're all expensive ($50 or more) and have limits that I don't know how to interpret. For example, would this[0] be suitable for implementing a CPU soft-core? I've done some electronics before but never used an HDL and never dealt with FPGA dev boards.

[0]: https://www.ebay.com/itm/114058082998
Yep, Spotify immediately came to mind after reading the title. Happens on iOS too.
Are labour unions generally done one-off like this in the US? I keep reading stories where individual branches/locations make efforts to unionise, which the company fights off whack-a-mole style.

In my country the unions are fairly well-established and tend to sit across an entire sector, covering all businesses operating in it (workers individually choose whether or not to join, but the company isn't allowed to discriminate either way). Like there will be a Nurses union, a Teachers union, a Public Sector union, a Warehousing and Logistics union, a Port & Dockworkers union, a Retail Workers union... the list goes on. One US example I've heard of like this is in trucking (Teamsters union?), but I know little about the history of US labour relations generally. Could there be an Amazon Workers union that covers an entire state?

Employers of a certain size here are also obliged to provide registered unions with access to business premises, ability to hold certain (non-mandatory) union meetings during work hours, etc. Some industries have upwards of 20-30% of all employees joined to the union, a few even higher.
How do you feel about taking on a billion dollars of interest per year? Then fumbling new features to lose half the advertisers? What do you think of asking software engineers to bring screenshots of lines of code? It makes no sense.
Drop in the ocean. I recall reading an article several years ago on how they publically announced job openings at a US Airforce base for _1000_ people, and they made it clear that the job was to maintain and operate multiple online accounts and personas.
This is interesting. I've never given it much thought (and didn't know MEBT was a thing), but I've experienced the same discomfort while: SCUBA diving, skydiving, ordinary air flight descent, and even some hilly car driving.

Doc says there's nothing wrong or clogged etc about my eustachian tubes. It's easy enough to manage (except skydiving, where the pressure change is too fast and not under any meaningful control of mine!), but if pseudoephedrine would make things less distracting during SCUBA, I'm interested.

Thanks for the links!
Clickbait title. I suggest making the obvious change to "LM386".
> It isn't money.

And it is somehow 'money' only when it suits projects and places like HN. [0] I'm sure any of you would immediately rush to sell 299 Ethereum right now, even if it ran through a Tornado.cash mixer, otherwise you would leave it alone if you believe that it isn't money or worth anything.

> If something only has value because you think you can sell it to the next sucker for more, it is a ponzi scheme.

That is not what a ponzi scheme is.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32923693
The problem here is "network effect" leverage on society.

When you choose not to use Youtube, you are choosing to not be a part of a large part of society. This is isolating. Whether that isolation matters to the individual in question is highly variable.

You might be able to easily forego it. But a kid - ostensibly uninformed, not able to reason well enough and "not able to consent" - who's teacher sets an assignment to write about a youtube video has an overwhelming influence to "simply do it".

Should large parts of society including institutions know better and do better? Sure. But in practice they don't.
I would suggest that the enormous size of today's pages have taken us back to the behavior seen in the dial-up days.

Then: Page was slow because the delivery was via a 56k analog modem.

Today: Page is slow because the average page size is 2.2mb. Plus JavaScript parsing + execution time. Plus asynchronous calls to go load more stuff. Plus time to re-layout around the new stuff.
It is still done on GPU, you just don't use its builtin triangle rasterizer and do the rasterization yourself using "compute shaders" (programs that run on GPU). It doesn't mean they use CPU for rasterization.
I guess words don't mean anything any more.

No, the Roman fasces are not fascist. Imperial Roman power is not fascism, even if fascism tries to fashion itself to Imperial Rome. If A claims inspiration from B, it does not mean that they're the same thing nor interchangeable.

The difference between the two is 2000 years and one being an entire civilization that spanned hundreds of years, and the other a relatively short lived political ideology, based on reactionary nationalism, autarchy and later anti-semitism (racial purity was more a Hitler kinda thing).
Their software simulator was built to allow the porting process, but as far as I can tell, they did implement their design on a physical FPGA, yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_banking_and_finance

"Sharia prohibits riba, or usury, defined as interest paid on all loans of money"
I second this, Clojure gives you this both in memory and in the database via Datomic and reasoning about immutable data and pure functions is such a dream. Stateful programming is the worst, once you live in Clojure for a while everything else seems nuts trying to debug what got passed to what and when and what modified what. Such a disaster relatively speaking.
> "Hmm, maybe someone somewhere, maybe the EU, will make a big stink that we have not asked users to let us use cookies. Sounds like a good source of publicity until finally we end the stink explaining that we use no cookies and are not required to get approval for NOT using cookies!"

The EU does not require you to ask permission to use cookies if you do not use cookies. Encouraging web developers to not use cookies, and as a consequence have no banners, is one of the positive incentives of the cookie legislation.
Yes, you are correct. Thanks for the correction.
But without account on youtube.com you cannot subscribe to channels. With FreeTube you can. And also it is open-source[1]

[1] - https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube
What I was (poorly) trying to communicate is that no one side gets ownership to dictate how a symbol is interpreted by or affects others.

By that I mean that those who see it as a religious symbol and those who see it as a symbol of nazism need to be mindful of each other. Neither “group” has moral authority to tell the other that they’re wrong about the symbol’s meaning.
This comment is going to be controversial but hopefully we can have some genuine discussion about it. I am personally of the opinion that Covid isn't a big conspiracy from the elites but I am in the camp that believes it more likely than not came about as a lab accident. What worries me about China's zero covid policy, is that it doesn't really seem to have much benefit for the people in power. It doesn't benefit the CCP economically, it doesn't benefit them politically. So why are they persisting with it? I really, really hope it is because of internal reasons to do with Chinese culture and power structures that are non-obvious for outsiders looking in and not because the CCP has seen lab research and knows or strongly suspects something regarding the long term health implications of Covid infection that the West is currently oblivious to.
I love stuff like this. People sticking it to the man after being victims of abusive business tactics for years, if not decades.
#39 Principle of Humanity - reminds me of "The Egg" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI
WAAS (and other SBAS constellations) are used for RNAV/RNP LPV approaches indeed (for both lateral and vertical navigation), but WAAS is only used to obtain atmospheric corrections for the GPS signals, the WAAS ground stations do not transmit atmospheric pressure. Furthermore, unlike GBAS (Ground Based Augmentation Systems), SBAS ground stations are not located at the airport, they can be dozens or hundreds of kms away making the atmospheric pressure from there not very useful.

Good article on the topic by Airbus: https://aircraft.airbus.com/en/newsroom/news/2022-06-satelli...
GPS used in survey equipment is accurate to 2cm with ~5 second acquisition time.
I see the animation industry as being very similar to the VFX industry, and the famous case of Rhythm & Hue winning an Oscar award for what they did on the movie "Life of Pi" in the same year they went bankrupt and out of business.

The industry will still be there. But how much money you can make, and how many people you can afford to have on the payroll, that will diminish.

I think Corridor Crew is showing this effect with virtually every post to their YouTube channel.
You can still subscribe to channels and create playlists. All of this is stored locally without an account.
It actually isn't saying that. What do you think Python is made of, under the hood? It's C modules.

The argument is not that NumPy is written in C, but that it amortizes the cost of Python overhead over multiple data, rather than incur it on each datum.
I once glanced through some explanation of monads by Simon Peyton Jones. He said that in ALGOL specification, the semicolon operator is formally defined as taking the current state of the world, transforming it by the statements preceding the semicolon, and then arranging for the program to continue execution in this new world.

So John Backus not only suggested "Applicative State Transition" in his paper. He participated in ALGOL creation. Which influenced most contemporary languages.

We have this style of programming in our Pascal and Java programs.

Please no new names. Semicolon is semicolon.

Sorry, I can't find this blog or paper by Peyton Jones. Leaving that as an exercise for the reader :)
And of course, I can misremember something.
And until devs stop enabling them, it’ll continue happening.

“Just doing what we’re told” isn’t an excuse, and doesn’t obviate you of responsibility in perpetuating it.

“They’ll just get someone else to do it”, but if we collectively put our feet down about not implementing dark-patterns, that threat can no longer hold water, and we all have a bit less user-hostile software in the world.
How many times I haven't called the wrong number on iPhone. It somehow rearranges last called list exactly as my finger travels down to touch the screen.
When you will try to check back, content of the page will be generated on the spot to soothe your preconceived notions.
The more I read about Mastodon, the more I think wont' take off (unless a deep redesign will be done) and the more I think ActivityPub will succeed.

The problem with Twitter and Mastodon is that they both are based on poor abstractions of how humans communicate. They just don't model it well enough. For instance, they completely ignore the basic fact that one person can have multiple interests and communicates with different groups of people depending on interests. Humans are multifaceted things, after all.

Another problem is with monetization. There must be paid instances of Mastodon or whatever federated it will be replaced with. Techno-communizm won't work, we've seen it so many times. Yet, here we are again.
Thanks that makes sense. I reexamined it and missed the tiny text along that graphic that indicates licensed riders doubled during part of that time period and the number of deaths increased 140% during the longer period of the graph so maybe the rate of death didn't change so much as a non varying proportion of motorcyclists deaths per mile, it's hard to tell.
It's hardly just the US media.

It got shared, it got up votes, people are discussing it. The results speak for themselves.
A few issues with this article.

1. This is old news. Northern Laos has long been fighting against disuse of the local kip. There are three major towns in the north; the border itself (Boten); Udomxai ("Muang Sai") and Luang Namtha. AFAIK all of them had large banners hung to the effect "use local currency" for many years. This effort would include both USD and Vietnamese Dong as well as Chinese Yuan Renminbi.

2. The border town area is called Mohan on the Chinese side, and Boten on the Laos side. Some of the images shown appear to be the Chinese side.

3. The initial Chinese push was for a road down to Chian Saen in Thailand. This road was built allegedly against promises from Thailand to pay for or at least allow the bridge at the end of the road to cross the Mekong. Thailand apparently rescinded and declined the bridge after the road was built. Chinese logistic influence on far northern Thailand was thereby eclipsed. Note further this area of Thailand is a stronghold of Nationalist Chinese support.

4. Much cargo travels directly from Yunnan to Thailand via boat, not so much via road and Laos. Similarly, much Thai fruit comes north to China via the same route. The boat trip can be taken by individuals. I've done it a few times and can vouch that it used to be spectacular, but widespread deforestation for rubber plantations has drastically reduced the biodiversity along the river over the last 20 years.

5. The major Chinese gambling destination was not Laos, it was Kengtung in Burma's Shan State (accessed from Menghai rather than Mengla). This was long ago closed off (10+ years), although a limited amount of covert border crossing probably continues.

(Source: Previously lived in the area, transited many times.)
Sigh. And so the next battle in the war.

There is no way this doesn’t get abused, including, probably by the Company making it.

So, I’m dreading recaptcha v4

We may already be passing the captch event horizon where machines actually outperform humans on the damn things.
To me, it sounds a lot like the part of functional reactive programing that nobody bother to explain or specify.

But, well, I'm not really sure people mean that when they talk about it, because it's left unespecified. And when people implement FRP they always seem to take obvious "shortucts" with significant downsides and that avoid implementing something like this.
jfc yes
Absolutely agree. I think solutions will come, but they may well come as an extension or fork first until it's pointless for the core developers to resist.

It's particularly idiotic because the Activities in the export are all signed, so an importing server just need to do a webfinger and profile lookup, and can then validate all of the posts. Of course you can still fake them, but if you show a "moved from <origin instance>" on them, that's really all you need to do - moves from, say, mastodon.social would be trustworthy, moves from some small instance would not.

But even that can be fixed with tamper proof timestamps and signing the whole archive, and in any case you can validate this against the public API because it remains accessible on the origin server (at least for some time after the initial move, I don't know how long).
I have a mini-computer sitting next to my ISP modem (I plan to move to RISC-V).

The SMTP protocol was designed to work without DNS (sylware@[a.b.c.d] or sylware@[IPv6:...] if I recall properly). I have a fixed IPv6 and IPv4 from my ISP (no cost). No DNS mafia to pay.

I have a domain though. Something like a bit more than 1 buck each month. And I can renew/pay for it and configure it without a javascript-able browser (as it should be for most if not all services provided over the net). That said, if I recall properly my ISP does provide configure-able, stable, sub-domains for no cost (should check again that one day though).
Volcano eruptions are many orders of magnitude larger than the largest nuclear explosions humanity has ever managed to create. That is simple science fact.
Eh, i disagree. If i have the option to join a niche community or be external to it - i feel you just made an argument against federation. I should join the community, so that i'm not arbitrarily blocked for reasons out of my control. If i get kicked out at least i'll know, and it was likely due to my own actions.

Ie imagine mastodon.art has a good Blender community. I'm joining Mastodon for exactly that community. If i join mastodon.social, i may as well .. not. It's blocked by mastodon.art. It's not even worth my time signing up if my goal is to be part of a specific community.

I'm not trying to build a general audience or have my general posts heard by the public. I'm trying to be part of a specific community. Federation seems bad here, if the community you're interested in is not fully open at least. As mastodon.art most certainly is not.
In my experience, it was usually higher-ups and not the UX people who wanted to implement dark patterns. The UX people and devs wanted to make the enduser experience better (believe it or not), but were frequently overridden by some higher business priority (we NEED this popup as soon as the page loads! opt them in to all the newsletters by default! highlight the highest-margin products).

Some companies just don't respect their users or customers, and/or try to optimize for short-term metrics that make some individual or agency or department look good at the expense of long-term loyalty. But I've never seen a UX person willingly suggest a dark pattern... all the ones I've worked with were forced to implement them, despite much protest, because some manager wanted it there.
Hitler used a Hakenkreuz.

A hooked cross. I haven't seen it for myself but there are pictures floating around claiming it's visible in art in the Vatican.

It really infuriates Hindus and Buddhists to see this ancient symbol associated with that regime and its modern debris.
Robert Rosen’s Anticipatory Systems Theory: The Science of Life and Mind
Twitter vs. Mastodon
Nix builds native software for your platform reproducibly. There is no OCI image, no Docker, just a way to reliably install software, which is a great foundation for building per-project development environments.

(Aside: you can build oci images using nix, but that’s probably what you would use for building deployable artifacts for production, not for development).

I would not say it is comparable with a Dockerfile - a Dockerfile is closer to a shell script, with caching between each step. Credit to Dockerfile syntax for being very easy to grok, but it is inherently not reproducible.

The perceived reliability of docker for development probably comes from the fact that you can share a prebuilt image, but rebuilding might not always work.
Not lipstick, vermilion.
One of my first jobs as a front-end dev, I was told repeatedly if you released a site and had forgotten to put height, width on images, it was seen as a defect and would affect your year end metrics.

By my second or third job, nobody seemed to care about it and when I brought it up, it was brushed aside as a "browser issue" and not something we devs needed to worry about.

You make a great point, and something I'm seeing a lot more of now that I'm in accessibility.
Steam does this when you're going through the discovery queue and land on page with a "stream" or whatever going. You're about to click Next and then the Stream element loads and shifts the whole page down ~500px and then you click on something else.

It's absolutely infuriating!
As has been discussed to death at this point, reserves are only half the story. In order to get a sense of solvency, you'd need to understand what Binance's liabilities are. They only have calculated a tiny subset of this: user deposits.
Jira is basically a UX anti-goldmine... a single place to go to learn all the things NOT to do.
And if it's rendered at the table, you can validate the schema as it goes.
Oh yes, of course, it's others who are being political, obviously not me.
Is there a reason to prefer that the camera applies these effects at capture time, rather than doing it later in a photo management program like Lightroom or Apple Photos?
Death Under Computation. The long shadow of Soviet cybernetics
It's not, because the article is feeding several commands into the same RealWord value, before changing into the next, and feeding a lot of commands again.
I like Woit because he's skeptical of the same people as me, but the fact that he thinks

> Angular momentum is by definition the “infinitesimal generator” of the action of spatial rotations on the theory

Is an explanation... is the same as the reason why he hasn't succeeded in changing very many people's opinions on this stuff.
I also find e-ink devices a lot better for long reads.

Remarkable is more geared toward handwritten notetaking. If you don't need such features and just want to read stuff, the high price is not worth it.

kobo-elipsa (and the all-new kindle scribe) have a similar large size (+stylus writing) at a somewhat lesser price.

Most kindles/kobos (and others too) support koreader [1]. this "app-mod" has a superb pdf reflow [2] mode that makes reading pdfs a good experience even on smaller displays (and these come with an even lesser price tag)

So koreader is the short answer. If you already have a kindle, give it a try. It is open source and easy to set up.

[1] https://github.com/koreader/koreader
[2] pdf reflow is the pdf format equivalent to "responsive Web Design".
Now if we could only statically reason about updates to the world state...