skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find MacOS to have the worst UX of all the major OSes.

It requires about a half-dozen third party apps to be usable. And there is a culture around MacOS where this appears to just be accepted. There are hundreds of YouTube videos on using this app or that app to "boost your productivity". And no one ever seems to question why any of this is necessary.

The Finder is the worst file explorer application that I've ever used. I will die on this hill. When you have a file or folder selected then pressing Enter should open it. IMO, Enter should always be mapped to the most common action in a given context so having the enter key mapped to rename just feel incredibly stupid. It is not initiative at all and AFAIK there is so way to change its behavior at all. There is probably is some third party app that will fix it though but for now I just avoid it completely and use the terminal.

The app based window management is just completely unintuitive to my brain. Closing an app (like actually closing it) is just a chore and so my desktop always has a gazillion apps open. Their "task bar" for minimized windows uses a screenshot thumbnail of the open window which makes it impossible to distinguish between minimized windows of the same app without hovering over it to see the window title. That creates enough friction for me that I avoid minimizing windows so more desktop clutter.

I basically run all of my main windows at full screen and ctrl-arrow through workspaces to multi-task because doing it any other way makes me want to go full office space on this macbook. BTW, would it be so hard to let me to jump to a workspace with a keyboard shortcut like every reasonable window manager does? No? Okay, guess I'll try to cobble some hack together with Keyboard Maestro.

So yes, dreaming of the day that I can use a linux desktop for work is what keeps me going.
VPS with https://caprover.com and then docker (actually colima in macOS)
I just always associated it with that ST:TNG episode where Riker gets hooked on some sort of VR video game from a planet I always misremember as 'REISUB 9'

But the association allowed me to remember the abbreviation. I called it the Riker Maneuver
I am currently on a bus stop, waiting for a bus to go to the gym.
How is that a surprise? They quite literally have physical access to your VPS (even if not easily).

All the things you mentioned are simple metadata available via query.

If things went really sideways on one of my servers, and I could not manage to get back in (even with their 3-4 alternative methods), I fully expect DigitalOcean to be able to log in and restore access, and charge me for the privilege.
I remember it as "...and what the fsck is he doing reading my disk?"
America went back to floating in 1971. The convertability with gold was only around for 17 years [1]. I don't know why that's relevant to USDC - there's no absolutely stable store of value, everything fluctuates.

USDC doesn't sound tenable.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system
Never thought I'd witness a resonance cascade... Let alone, create one.
> We see this type of abuse everywhere it is legalized.

Is that really the case though? The example you've highlighted there is indeed pretty crappy, but it's not evidence of the problem occuring "everywhere it is legalized".
You suspect the CDC would massage their messaging to manipulate (nudge?) public opinion towards achieving a desired outcome, rather than just straightforward factual scientific reporting the likes of which most people would expect?
So you use a sparse bitmap, ie a hash set. The size of the hash set is bounded to the size of the window, so this should be pretty efficient.

If you have a huge string, a huge alphabet, and also a huge window, then probabilistic techniques start to make sense. But let's not run while we can successfully walk!
This is akin to asking why commodity futures exist. It's an abstraction that provides utility. In the case of commodity futures, it allows commodities to be traded on an exchange where bags of onion seeds would otherwise be difficult to trade. In the case of USDC it allows USD to exist on the blockchain so that it can interact with smart contracts.

Believe it or not, if you want to invest in gold, the only option isn't buying and storing physical gold in your home. That might even be a dangerous idea.

Stocks are certificates which claim partial ownership of a company. But how can owning a piece of paper be like owning a part of a company? What is a company anyway but an abstraction over the concept of group liabilities, assets, contracts, and actions? Or do you think companies only exist to allow people to break laws under another identity?
> Source: I'm Kiwi

Me too.

Last year I saw the first high quality black market tobacco.

Grown and processed locally.
Interesting enough for a blogpost on it's own, I think. Have you written about this somewhere?
i would like to see the "mortgage origination by credit score" chart show number of homes in the y axis instead of billions of dollars. of course that chart will be more drastic in the past two years with inflated home prices. in it's current state, that chart doesn't convincingly make the argument he's trying to make with it.

link: https://awealthofcommonsense.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/...
Underneath, Skypilot uses a Ray quite a bit. You can read is paper here: https://sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2021/papers/hotos21-s...
Saving the Galapagos ‘Fantastic Giant Tortoise’ from Extinction
Been using this for a while to cut down gameplay footage I want to share with friends. It works well but I wish they implemented a simple way to combine multiple audio streams into one stream for upload to youtube/elsewhere.

From what I can tell, FFMPEG does support actions like that. Perhaps it's not "lossless enough" for the app author.
Mapping with Plot
GOVNO has an unfortunate slavic cognate: Говно

"Right you are, guv'nor."
The Euro was introduced 23 years ago. It has successfully weathered one domestic crisis in addition to the dot-com bust and the 2008 US banking meltdown. Its exchange value has been stable and the Eurozone economies have fared better than, for example, the UK.

I'll take the Euro over any cryptocurrency any day, thanks.
> How far are we going to allow governments to tell us "you can't do this because it might/will hurt you, so we are making that decision for you".

I'm not a fan of laws that make something illegal without an injured party.

I'm also puzzled my social circle who want to outlaw cigarettes but legalize all manner of recreational drugs. I've had neighbors who smoke cigarettes and neighbors who are tweakers. It was quite obvious which group was worse for the wear and worse for the neighborhood.
> Prompt: The strongest factor in IQ is parental involement. Working class people are less likey to have parental involvement. Black people are far more likely to be working class. Therefore, black people as a whole have a lower

That's the whole point. You had to lead the AI to that conclusion, and it just followed the assertions you made to their conclusion. But it is lobotomized from doing that internally, unless you trick it.

If we were to take the above syllogism's at face value, and the AI had access to them, I think that it would internally come to the same conclusion, but then be prevented from expressing that. That is a big problem for me, and undermins the model. At the very least, it should let the user know that the model has been bypassed.

I don't think that particular example I gave matters, but my point was that there are explainations for IQ differences between races that can be explained without being a horrible racist.

Also, nobody said that it is down to a single factor. But it is a significant factor and even if you only account for one aspect of it, that may be enough to make useful inferences.

For example, if children have lead poisoning, that is a huge factor in IQ. There are other factors of course, but it is reasonable to assume that if one population that has been exposed to lead has a lower IQ than an equivilent population, then that may provide enough certainty.

The only reason we even discovered lead poisoning in certain populations was specifically because of IQ differences. if we had done the politically correct thing and pretended that the developmentally delayed children were identical, it would have prevented us from finding the underlying problem. By blaming everything on racism, we are erasing the real problems.

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Also, I don't think it is fair to charge money when they are not actually giving you access to the language model
I specifically asked about the production of solar panels. Are you assuming that we already have all the panels we need to replace petrolium sitting in a warehouse? What good is solar in an energy independence plan if we can't build our own panels?
Basically these people are trying to get the benefit of digital currencies without the downside of volatility. Somebody else will have to take the volatility risk. This is easy to do when the crypto currencies are going up in value, and almost impossible to do on the downside.
> But I won't miss the clutch or the clutch pedal.

More power to you! EVs are great and I'm thrilled to see them catching on. But every time I have to drive an automatic I just want to slide into an early grave. No rev matching, no heel-toe downshifting, no holding on to a gear a little too long on an onramp, no deciding whether to downshift up a hill or coast down a hill in higher gear. Autos leave you with only the most mindless parts of driving. Zzzzz. No wonder they're building TVs into the dashboard now.
On a related note, almost any task around shuffling or shifting bits can be improved with xor. For example the straightforward way to remove bit i is

mask = -1 << i;
return (x & ~mask) | ((x >> 1) & mask);

but with xor we can do it in one less instruction:

mask = -1 << i;
return ((x ^ (x >> 1)) & mask) ^ x;
Using machines developed and produced in Europe (ASML, for example). Innovation is not defined by who makes your phone
HN posters are in love with the "people are too stupid to think for themselves and need me to protect them" narrative. Nowhere else do I see that line of thought as frequently as I see it here. Not even Reddit pushes that justification for controlling the ability of others to access whatever media sources they want as much as it is pushed here. We truly must be the intellectual giants of humanity to know so consistently what is best for everyone else.
BUSD is not clown money or created by Binance. It is the most highly regulated financial instrument in crypto, issued by Paxos New York, tightly regulated by NYDFS, backed 1:1 and regularly audited.

https://paxos.com/busd/
Right. So the Non-Aggression Principal is incompatible with Individual Freedom.

The point is that everything is incompatible with Individual Freedom, even Individual Freedom. So saying Democracy is incompatible with Individual Freedom is meaningless. Authoritarianism is incompatible with Individual Freedom. Communism in incompatible with Individual Freedom. Libertarianism is incompatible with Individual Freedom. In fact Individual Freedom can only be possible if there is exactly one Individual - and this should give you a clue to why narcissists make claims about Individual Freedom: they aren't talking about your Individual Freedom, they're talking about theirs and no one else's.
I think the longer they wait, the worse it will hurt.

They're caught in a bramble bush and getting themselves unstuck is going to get them scratched up. But the longer they put off freeing themselves, the more the bramble grows around them. They should have done it years ago. They should do it now, before the "Trusted Computing" trap slams shut forever.
The Mozilla Corporation doesn't accept donations. Is it even possible for a US-based corporation to accept a donation?
Do you have any source information for this? As far as I understood, the Wright brothers started out by building hobbyist gliders in consultation with fellow aviation pioneer Octave Chanute.

I checked the Wikipedia entry, but the only reference it maintains for the Smithsonian having helped the Wright brothers is that they apparently gave Wilbur an award in 1910, after having tried unsuccessfully to steal credit from him for building the first heavier than air flyer. Somehow I doubt that's the kind of government contribution to innovation to which the previous poster intended to refer.
There's a fundamental tradeoff between technical precision and explaining things in a way that's relatable to simpler stuff. Deal. With. It.
Do consider switching to Pop_OS, they're Ubuntu with much better UX and get kernel updates faster.
> I don't object to a discussion about what responsibility YC and HN have

How very generous of you to allow us to discuss things.
NAD seems to have some rejuvenation effect. It's a refined vitamin b component.
Oh, interesting. I read/heard a few places that most fuel used for fission was controlled by a few countries. I was unaware it was abundant.
It's a fission yield booster. It's as much of a weapons material as charcoal is.
No, I'm not a fan of something just because it's a market. A market is a morally neutral concept.

I don't think Somalia is an example of when states get out of the way. I think it's an example of one extremely bad state collapsing and being replaced by many less (but still very) bad states fighting each other in a civil war. It was however a significant net improvement, and I'm glad Barre's regime collapsed, even if it lead to more piracy.
To me it just sounds like a small scale operation and the manager is being careful which is great.

Perhaps what happened after the first two meetings, the manager sat down and analyzed his list of reasons he's excited about the candidate as well as any potential concerns that he saw.

The subsequent rounds may have in part been structured to dig into the areas of concerns to assure themselves they aren't real issues or can be lived with.

This wouldn't scale at a FAANG but for a smaller shop it's probably close to optimal.

I didn't marry my wife after our first date :)
Gist:

>Although FreeBSD and Linux differ significantly in both naming conventions and some underlying technologies, each offers mature, high-performance, and reliable networking to the system administrator who learns to use them properly.
The 15-year average temperature of a building could easily be within a normal, safe range, but if it is currently on fire, the past 15 years don't really matter, do they?
Why are you so heavily invested in this accusation? HN is completely capable of responding to any accusations properly.
The title is wrong "free up space" is in reference to freeing up the accounts for others to use.
A minor optimization is collapsing the grep -v, from this:

cat file | grep -v THING1 | grep -v THING2 | grep -v THING3 | grep -v THING4

to this:

egrep -v 'THING1|THING2|THING3|THING4' file

That gets rid of the cat and three greps. Both POSIX and GNU encourage grep -E to be used in preference to egrep.

A pcregrep utility also used to exist, if you want expansive perl-compatible regular expressions. This has been absorbed into GNU grep with the -P option.
We're not going to get a soft landing. They're going to push unemployment up to 6-8% to accomplish their policy goals of containing wage inflation and breaking the back of unionization drives (probably closer to 8% after something like CMBS detonates in about a year or so). That wage inflation in lower paying jobs is actually what concerns policymakers.

Talk about a "soft landing" is very 2006-ish.
Freeze peach always seems unimportant until you lose it.

Good thing that goes hand in hand with economic improvement, based on historical evidence, and make greenhouses on Mars more likely.
Kind of.. It's like saying you used a 1% efficient 100HP pump to start a water wheel that eventually was outputting 1.5HP of power. We know how to make more efficient pumps, so it's not terribly interesting that it took 100HP of power to generate the 1.5HP -- the fact that only 1HP of output power was actually used to start the 1.5HP reaction is the big deal.
the DOS command?
> thread count is always the bottle neck in computation

The softer the bed linen, the more rested the computer scientists will be and the more likely they are to come up with novel solutions that lead to faster computing.
I was referring specifically to this claim:

> These are generally (although not always) victimless crimes.

That claim seems wildly incompatible with what we have seen with ransomware, the scale of money going to countries like North Korea or Russia, people’s holdings being stolen, etc.

My position is that cryptocurrencies should be held to the same standard as everything else, and found the argument that the improved rigor is unnecessary due to low harm rates unconvincing.
Partitioned Internet is a foregone conclusion. There was no way that sovereign states were ever going to permanently allow the uninhibited cross-border exchange that characterized the early Internet before anyone was paying attention. It was just a question of when they caught up.
ChatGPT-blog: Stackoverflow banning ChatGPT? I got a workaround for that
Very simple prototype that uses stackoverflow API to get questions and chatGPT to answer them and store the results in postgres or sqlite using Peewee ORM.
So, it's just like the deposits on FTX, or the reserves of Tether right?
You're not wrong looking at the big picture, but assuming the hospitals in Berlin would be technologically friendly is not how it goes. Quite the opposite.

(in the same way, the most prestigious hospitals in the US are not in SV)
Who is the tailgater in this scenario?
> do you think it's worth the effort to learn using VIM more deeply today?

Only worth it on four conditions:

1. You are able to incorporate it into the tools you need - whether than be an IDE, a workflow that involves actually opening VIM, or whatever.

2. You stick with it, because the costs in terms of time and effort are big up front while the benefits start very slowly but build up later and faster with proficiency.

3. You aren't already using a good text editor or IDE that provides the benefits you're looking for. For example, the weird "hjkl" navigation is actually part of a bigger feature set that will run circles around basic arrow- and page-key navigation and editing (even with an IDE). But, if you're looking to benefit from regex features, why even most basic IDEs usually have that.

4. You have adequate muscle memory. You won't be fast and you won't gain proficiency if your fingers won't remember those keys and combinations.

...seems like a cautionary tale so far, so let me temper by saying I install wherever I can - including IDE plugins, etc. Microsoft (VS and Code) and JetBrains IDEs both have pretty decent plugins. I can say without boasting that I am faster with it at both pounding out text and editing text from all sorts of crazy languages and environments. And often times it gives me a speed advantage over my peers who don't use it. But that's only because I took time to become proficient at it and learn some of the tricks that are available.

> do you think VIM is still fine, or rather neovim? Or something fresh like helix?

VIM is fine in terms of stayability - it's not going anywhere. I'd say look at the alternatives only if you're interested in the special benefits they have over normal VIM.
Do you have a background in this field?
I'm not the parent poster, but I believe the explanation is:

1. "Crypto" as a space includes a lot of things like Centralized Exchanges, which are really just like unregulated banks.
2. "Bitcoin" the network is a subset of the crypto space and was not in any way impacted by whatever the latest scammy CEX decides to do.
Joe Rogan's podcast probably comes close, with multiple three hour or more episodes each week, though he does take breaks, which TikTok does not.
Mass and energy are equivalent. You're using X energy to reduce the mass of your fuel and converting that mass into Y energy. When X < Y you have useful energy production at the cost of the mass of your fuel. Energy is conserved.

The reason nuclear fusion is such a desirable goal is because it only takes a relatively small amount of mass to convert into a relatively large amount of useful energy, and the mass (the fuel) is relatively easy to obtain.

Like all energy generation, it's converting one type of energy into another, more convenient type, to do useful work. Like a hydroelectric dam converting the potential energy of water into more useful electrical energy. Energy is conserved when water spins a turbine, it's just that electrical energy is more useful for work than the potential energy of the water. Of course you can still use the potential (or kinetic) energy of the water directly, such as with a water mill. But the energy to work ratio is worse in that form (especially if the work to be done is far away from the watermill).

Whenever you build a fire you need to input some amount of energy to begin the chemical reaction that releases energy. In this instance we get not electrical energy, but energy in the form of infrared and visible light, to heat our home and light our way. Yet the total energy released by the fire far surpasses the energy you used to start the reaction, but because the wood's mass is consumed, energy is ultimately conserved. You have converted wood (not useful for heating your home) into infrared light (useful for heating your home).
There are already funded commercial fusion projects underway. No idea which will bring a product to market first or at all, but they suddenly seem a lot more plausible.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/10/technology/commonwealth-f...
The language was developed by people in London.

> The big reveal on why it’s called “Pony”? Back in the flight sim days, when I would make my friends groan by telling them yet again about all the things I was going to do when I wrote a programming language, one of the people I would tell was Nathan Mehl. And one time, when I gave him yet another laundry list, he said: “yeah, and I want a pony”.

But perhaps they didn't want to admit "pony" is also a reference to the slang term..

https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2017/05/an-early-history-of-pon...
The fact that they named the chat group channel for their executives (SBF, Caroline, others) "Wirefraud" is jawdropping.
While I'm sure that you're correct, the obstacles are large and there is a lot of overcome still, I can't help but think of James Watt & (my ancestor) Richard Trevithick - the inventor/pioneer of the compact steam engine.

Watt went around telling everyone that Trevithick and his compact (ie high pressure) steam engines were too dangerous and would never work.

Yes, some exploded. But then we got steam trains and even today almost all power generation on the planet is high pressure steam-electric power plants.
we are all made of star stuff
Personally, I've been lucky. Though I have seen sparks while plugging while powered. Also I've got many broken systems where at least one port (of two) was broken, but could be compensated by 'Y-wire' where you'd put mouse and keyboard via that Y-wire into the remaining port. Which later became some sort of pseudo-standard, cost cutting, because only one port is cheaper? I also seem to remember advertising on the package of better boards, which had protection against that.
To your point about the "mold" which society creates/accepts, this social aspect alone is likely the biggest factor. People aren't and can't break out of these social "holds" and what's ironic is that there's almost a financial/social/system level safety net built into most countries. It's socially irresponsible there?
That's fine, but it's O(n) in the window size whereas the xor trick is O(1).