skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Another lesson from that era is that it's in everyone's interest to cooperate. If half a dozen bitterly opposed vendors could cooperate to create CDE, how come now each major Linux distro has a dozen very similar desktops? Especially since most of them are, to say the least, visibly inspired by Windows."

I have wondered this many times. Take your pick (I personally would pick Xfce) of desktops but if the distros could "Unite the clans" and collaborate on one desktop to rule them all I think it would help. Yes, I realize that everyone wants slightly different features and the one selected might not be the most perfectest choice but Windows proved that an inferior product didn't stop people from getting productive work done.

(And then after that we find a way to agree on a singular package manager?)
Are there negatives effects on the liver from consuming mate?
Showing you belong without saying who you are
Reminder: Inflation is a vector, not a scalar. Ignore the abstraction at your own risk.

Inflation is the rise in price of every single item for sale across a market, not just the "basket" of goods selected to be a good example, and subject to adjustment and correction over time.

It is entirely possible that inflation that averages out to 10% for a year may double the cost of living for some people, and actually make things cheaper for others.
Pony actors:

1. Have a typed, nominal interface (called behaviors)

2. Have state

Those are probably the main differences, just with regards to actors.
It's certainly not the fault of libertarians that none of that is happening now, and we have huge governments.
SBF is a self entitled, privileged prick. He has no concept of infallibility. He is smart and rich so he thinks he will be given a pass
7. It doesn't matter, even if renewables were free. They is no way to store energy from intermittent sources that will allow to power human civilization. You are going to end up like Germany, replacing nuclear power with coal and gas.
As they said in the press conference, the lasers weren’t designed with efficiency in mind, because it is not the goal of the experiment.
My Dinner with ChatGPT
It's actually nuanced, deflation CAN be bad, but most people seem to interpret that as ALL deflation is bad.
Moderna cancer vaccine reduces melanoma’s return by 44%
Perhaps for businesses this may be true. It's hard to imagine for a consumer. I'm not going to delay the purchase of groceries, a fridge, a new roof or (if I'm feeling rich) a new car just because they may be 3% cheaper next year.

I'm not saying this conventional wisdom is wrong, but it's not obviously right.
You could say the same thing about Eurodollars-- "US Dollar" denominated assets that are held in banks outside the United States and not subject to US Bank regulations. The size of this market is more than 10x all of crypto.
If git annex stores large files uncompressed you could use filesystem bl9ck level deduplication in combination with it.
Lol almost no one in South America is laughing at USD. I've been to 3 of the 4 continents you mention and spent USD directly in all of them but Europe. Hello in many south america countries you get better prices even adjusted for true exchange rate because no one wants dog-shit <national currency> and it saves them a trip to the money-trader before their money turns into kindling.
Wait...they're refusing to allow on-chain transfer of USDC from their custodial account to a customer's wallet? I assumed this was about exchange of USDC to fiat, hence the hand waving about banks.
This is unlike an EUV light source in that once the fusion begins, ideally you don't even need the lasers any more; the fusion from pellet (n) ignites pellet (n+1). Getting that to work is probably orders of magnitude more difficult than what just happened.
Just run “npm ci” next time.
Frigate NVR: Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI
I know HN wants to see crypto die in a giant ball of flaming fire,

Or maybe crypto has always been a "giant ball of flaming fire" and HN is just trying to discourage people from throwing real money into it.
0% inflation would mean there is no penalty for sitting on your money. People putting their cash under their mattress instead of in savings accounts, CDs, bonds, and the like is bad for the economy. That is why economists generally prefer a small positive rate of inflation. It adds more incentive to both spend and invest.
> The human brain, impressive as it is, grinds to a halt when parsing with double negatives.

Things like this sound like: "I have this characteristic, therefore everyone has this characteristic."

Some of us ain't got no problem with double negatives, and often find that "unless" tightens up code nicely, especially for single negatives.
When I see unless in the prefix position (unless x then y) I have mentally read it twice. I reread it as `if not` because otherwise my brain can’t grok it. But if it is in the postfix position (y unless x) then it is super easy for me to grok. I think that is because how we would use it in natural language.
> A single day of delay in response causes 28% of candidates to become unresponsive to recruiters (this is from our company's research). It drops to 51% become unresponsive 48 hours later.

I've noticed my interest in a job tends to drop consistently the longer it takes for a response. This isn't surprising at all. I don't think it's because we're fickle, it's more that right when you apply you can picture what it might be like to start working for the company and start to identify with that future. As the days drag on, that picture seems less and less likely to happen.
It's kind of a harm reduction-style argument. The premise here is that banning smoking for a group more likely to already be addicted might be a non-starter, so let's at least reduce harm where we can.

A fairer way might be to say "people that don't already have an established history of smoking can never buy cigarettes going forward", but that immediately creates an unhealthy incentive for everyone to go out and buy their first pack right now.
> i mean it's nice to get a response as soon as possible but this seems completely unrealistic

If you run recruiting like it is important, making sure recruiters and hiring managers have the tools and time to talk to candidates quickly is really easy to do. A lot of companies run recruiting like it's a surprise when they have to hire or view it as less important than other functions... and then put lines like "our people are our greatest assets" on their careers page.
Reminds me of someone or other who committed voting fraud, to prove that it's easy to get away with committing voting fraud, and immediately got caught.
Do we have some examples of people who have amassed great real or perceived fortunes (and power) that have not become drunk on it?

Musk on stage with Chapelle last night, Elizabeth Holmes, or SBF’s whole schtick, who are the ones who have kept their feet on the ground?

What are the attributes of these others who don’t lose themselves in fawning attention and (sometimes short-lived) mountains of capital?
The last thing a bureaucracy built to solve a problem wants to do is solve the problem.
Well, it used to be "Abort, Retry, Ignore", an error message which was displayed by (MS|PC)-DOS upon I/O errors.

Abort: kill the requesting process. Retry: jump back to the entry point. Ignore: return as if the request was OK.

Later DOS versions added the "Fail" option, which was like "Ignore", but returned an actual error code. But since most applications were not aware of that, "Fail" was pretty much equivalent to "Ignore" for a long time.

A common third-party TSR at the time was PC Magazine's SAFARI: "Stay Away From Abort, Retry, Ignore". It would retry a few times, then ignore and/or fail depending on OS capabilities.

"Abort, Retry, Ignore (and/or Fail)" was pretty much the "BSOD" of the DOS generation: misunderstood, yet useful for those who understood its code.
I don't think the parent comment was referring to buying an ice cream cone, but rather things traded on the open market.
I think a related joke was "Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my harddisk?"
New shiny!
What do you think about giving individual users more power to moderate amongst themselves rather than having server admins do it? For example, a much more powerful "blocklist" type feature that you can share with others? So a could spend a bunch of time doing moderation, and publish a "blocklist" that other users could then install on their account so they don't see some set of people / content.
The Hill of Dreams is a great recommendation, it doesn't get mentioned often enough (or at all :-) I think. I think his The Three Impostors is even better.

If you like this sort of weird early 1900's mystic book, be sure to also check out David Lindsay's Voyage to Arcturus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Voyage_to_Arcturus).
If I had to "version control" a 1 TB large repo - and assuming I wouldn't quit in anger - I would use a tool which is built for this kind of need and has been used in the industry for decades: Perforce.
Any credence to it's better to prevent someone from starting than trying to get someone to stop? Trying to find a way to see this from a positive view than the super cynical way it comes across. I know I'm stretching for it, and it kind of hurts.
I assumed it was just poor kerning.
> if they use an overblown framework for something as simple as a switch on a website and thereby destroy normal browser functionality

Likely not what you meant, but FYI there is no native "switch" control in HTML - you do need to use a CSS or JS framework if you want something like iOS switch control. QED
The credit card companies have built trust with merchants around the world that they'll settle up eventually, and that anyone (or most people) carrying their cards will pay their bills. If a cryptocurrency system were to try to supplant that, it'd need a form of revolving credit. I want to pay my bills at the end of the month, not immediately.
Remember it? Yes.

I use a UI with the option to cancel a workflow and when you select 'cancel' it comes up with a modal 'ok' or 'cancel'. Does cancel cancel the cancel? Or is it ok to cancel? WE CAN USE MORE THAN ONE WORD PEOPLE. We have the bytes!
you'd think it's on the person making the statement about IT hiring numbers to do the diving.
Prices on most goods, services and wages are fairly sticky for psychological reasons. So suboptimal prices are likely to persist longer than they should. Inflation provides a mechanism for price movement by making the real price of a "constant" price continuously decrease. If that's the right direction it's an invisible helper, if it's the wrong direction it forces the increase to happen more regularly.
... why do you have 1TB of source code (you don't! mandatory hacker snark)
Is git really supposed to be used for data?
Or is this just a git-like interface for source control on data?
You could an you'd be right. Although, then you are trading one regulatory body for another, which you can do pretty freely with currency trading.

Crypto is where you go if you don't want any regulatory bodies at all.
It doesn't, if I give exchange a coin, no matter it's relative value fluctuations to other assets I should still be able to withdraw the same coin back.
Both of his parents are in law too. Like, you'd think he'd know enough to not say anything.
Rich people won’t be getting as rich, they’ve spent a lot of money and time convincing people that that would be bad for everyone. Also they pay for the media and politicians who decide which economists get attention. As far as they’re concerned inflations is only a problem when wages are going up (their input cost) at which point the media and establishment screams bloody murder.
Wright brothers make a first flight and people are like, can your airplane carry one hundred people to the other side of the Atlantic? No? Meh.
How does this relate to Free Markets? Or is this sarcasm?
Samplebrain – A custom sample mashing app designed by Aphex Twin
> Emacs may serve for OP but I always forget how to exit it so I wanted something with a clickable "close" button in the top right.

That's the cool part, you don't!

Jokes aside:

- Every emacs install i've ever done had the familiar X at the top right to close it. How did you install?

- Related to the joke, running emacs as a server is quite nice
Are the companies indeed inflicting self harm?
They might get less applications that way, but posting salary ranges for new employees has other downsides - e.g. it might tilt existing employees.

Another downside is that it's easy to scrap and collect this data and companies might not like candidates or employees easily accessing historical data.

Sharing salary range basically reduces the knowledge advantage of a company in many ways.

It's surely great for candidates and existing employees.
Classic multiplayer world problem - I want to give you 10 monies for your rare sword. At no point, from any view should I have 10 monies and the sword, nor you the sword and 10 monies, and especially bad is if neither of us have either. Also, it shouldn't be possible for someone to lure a goblin over to stab me forcing me to cancel the trade because I died and warped back home. Also it needs to happen within like 200ms because otherwise people will leave for a less laggy game.
This is an incredibly well written piece. So much so that (in classic HN style of the first comment going on a complete tangent), I’m almost more interested in the form than the content. It’s got me thinking about persuasive writing in general and how far AI language models are from something like this.

Since I’m already on such a tangent, anyone have pointers on how to take my writing to that next level? Like, any educated writer can do the research and come up with all the points this article makes, and could then put them into prose that’s less… well… captivating. For example, if there are any professional authors of things like this reading, what kinds of questions do you ask yourself in the editing stage once you have the logic aspects of the content down or even the full first draft down?
For anyone who drinks yerba mate, the throat cancer incidence [0] is likely due to consumption of benzenes produced when smoking the leaves. You can buy unsmoked leaves in bulk.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19695149/
What? Why have the past few years taught you that at all?
Hah, that's really great! Does that mean they used that to switch it into a test mode during development?
The law states:

> employers advertising jobs in New York City must include a good faith salary range for every job, promotion, and transfer opportunity advertised

I think the question is what is "good faith" and what is the legal test (if there is one) for such a description. I'd love it if a lawyer could pontificate on this.
Yeah, this is almost certainly what's going on. Lower inflation has juiced up its price in the past, same with stocks.

Several of my stock holdings are up the same amount as Bitcoin is today.
This does not matter. PHP always starts, then exists immediately. This means you cant run something trivial as a websocket server in traditional PHP.

I know theres some caching, but each request needs "the entire state" of the PHP app, and some frameworks like laravel or symfony are huge, and this is clearly visible when you notice how poor PHP performance is in basic req/sec benchmarks.
Is Europe just not good at innovating?
Children usually don't think of consequences. It's why they're bad at decision making and need an education. It's why we don't let them vote (or don't seriously talk about it).

Middle-schoolers and high-schoolers are still children. They're just less bad at decision making than, say, 5-year-olds. But their brains still don't work like someone over the age of 25.
NIFs purpose is to validate simulations of thermonuclear weapon detonations. The default is going to be classified, it's making something public that would have to be justified.
Yeah, I mean it's like saying watching a street performer is exploitative, I think -- people are streaming because they want to be seen ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So sorry to hear this. What a legacy of music he left us! For anyone who hasn't heard the music from Twin Peaks lately (or even never) listen to it today. It completely stands the test of time and is still one of my favorite albums. It is just so iconic - nothing else quite like it. RIP Angelo.
Because older people already got addicted while it was legal

seems like a pragmatic decision

(and... "sets a horrible precedent" for what?)
Just how old is everyone here? I'm 59, and MS-DOS didn't come along until much later than my first computer use.
> Alcohol is also objectively bad, why not implement this for alchohol?

Well we both know that will never happen. But yes, alcohol is harmful but I think smoking is even more so.

If Cost is NZ only concern, they can always charge more for healthcare for people who drink/smoke, price depends upon length of use. But we all know that will never work. Where I work, just about everyone when signing up for healthcare always ticks the "I do not smoke" box to get a cheaper rate. And I doubt there is a sure fire way to verify how much people smoke or imbibe over their lifetime.
They are one of the exchanges prominently listed by Circle as part of its ecosystem. Of course the fine print says that they don't endorse any of the companies they list, but what does it say about the ecosystem if they can't even list one trustworthy partner and instead list groups they explicitly don't trust themselves?

Honest coin salesman: Look you want to trade honest coins? Down that alley is seedy Joe he is one of the local traders, on a good day there is only a 50% chance that he will mug you.
Note that for enumerable domains of less than 64, using a long plus bit ops has been a standard Set implementation for quite a while. For example, Java's EnumSet uses a long if the enum has less than 64 values:

https://github.com/frohoff/jdk8u-jdk/blob/master/src/share/c...

Where add() uses `|= bitmask`, remove() uses `&= ~bitmask`, and size() uses a count of the 1's in the long.

Adding XOR as an efficient toggle would be interesting, but unnecessary to keep this O(n), if I understand correctly. It's just toggling the value, so (albeit with an extra branch), you could implement it as:

if (!set.contains(val)) {
set.add(val);
} else {
set.remove(val);
}
>Everyone knows because they are pretty much the sole serious contributors to it

You haven't even looked at the list have you?
sure. this seems to be a one passionate guy operation so its only so much the guy can do.

i literally remember this guy coming on peertube github and reading about him explaining how he was planning to set up a educational instance.

anyway, as i said, this is an experiment supposed to urge more people to take the plunge into becoming hosts and managing their communities. If there is a bad apple down the road, the community can self adjust accordingly.

the point is, people need to be aware about choice. this is doing a good job
CheckBox is a native HTML switch control.

Change my mind.jpg
Working now, I didn't change anything ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Its an amazing book. The author, Svetlana Alexievich, won the Nobel Price for literature a few years ago, the only journalist that has ever won it. The book consists entirely of interviews, and opens with an interview with the wife of the firefighter depicted in the beginning of the series.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rferl.org/amp/belarusian-no...
Ehh, there are a lot of people who really like to smoke and are filly aware of COPD and emphysema etc.

One thing I suspect is potentially operative is that the long term health of people in general is much better.

Previous generations could happily write off the last 5 or 10 years of their life, and that's just not as true today.
Again, are you sure you're replying to the right person? The one saying this happened is not me. I'm replying to a specific point about the extent to which YC would want to prevent this from happening.

I'll also note that the person who did post about this perhaps left the company names out because they were being considerate, not wanting to invite trouble for people who could be entirely well meaning when they are just examples of a broader problem. So as long as you're arguing for assuming good intent, maybe you could try that yourself?
Illegal cigarettes are something deeply ingrained in my mind as part of the trade from the mafia. I'm now imagining guido looking men with kiwi accents.
> The new legislation does not ban vape products, which have become far more popular among younger generations than cigarettes.
I'm not sure I buy (heh) into this. I usually buy things because I need them, or want them in the moment. I'm not gonna postpone buying a washing machine because it might be cheaper next month. I'm not gonna pass on getting wasted because drinks are cheaper next month. I'm not gonna starve myself because food might be cheaper next week.
>0% inflation would mean there is no penalty for sitting on your money. People putting their cash under their mattress instead of

This is an absurd claim. Nobody seriously considering mattress vs CD (or bonds in a low rate environment like we had 2008-2020) is swayed by a return of less than a couple percent. It is a security vs liquidity vs trust calculation, not a return based one.

Furthermore, as the other commenter points out, rates are correlated but not necessarily in lock step with inflation. The rate on your savings account is probably still sub 1% (although bonds have gone up).
I don't know about everyone else, but I'm taking this particular moment just to swell with pride and excitement for this achievement by science and forget about the details of how much more needs to be done to create the first power plant. I'm remembering when I first learned about fusion energy development, how distant and unfeasible it seemed, and regardless of how long the road ahead still is it's incredible how far we've come.

Happy Ignition Day everyone. I can hardly believe we really made it here.
First, I completely agree.

I think this is where a lot of IP proponents would argue that IP is a way to form capital where it doesn't exist - around formalizing ideas and processes into something that you are legally entitled to rent. I think this really dangerously damages ideas that can help people and I think that it's a terrible crutch for a bad system.
> At the moment fuel costs in fission are like 5-10% of total costs for a fission fleet.

Yeah and with a breeder fission reactor we could reduce this to below 1% probably. With a thorium breeder the fuel cost might be essentially 0%. In the vision of Alvin Weinberg you literally just drop some thorium into the fuel salt every once in a while.

But the real issue for nuclear energy is currently capital cost and time not fuel cost. And capital cost can go down massively with GenIV reactors as well.

So I don't see how fusion will be cheaper.

> In fusion it could be lower

But eventually you have to start breeding tritium, so wouldn't that make it more expensive.

> Disclaimer: I switched from studying fusion energy to advanced fission 16 years ago.

Awesome, we desperately need GenIV reactors (even if I dislike that term).
The next step is rep-rate, which a lot of the field has neglected, while some people (tooting my horn, my lab) were amongst the few pushing it. The thing is people couldn't even achieve the result with one shot, but now that it seems feasible now, hopefully scientists (and more importantly funders) will start to care about increasing rep-rate.
why does not having any nyc employees yet exempt them if they are hiring nyc-based people?
Came here to say this also, couldn't find any code samples after 5 clicks and gave up.
Well I dislike Firefox (just less than the alternatives), but credit where it's due; these are mostly nice features.