skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've made quite a few comments before on HN about how I have come to use RSS feeds- essentially as a way to distribute highlights rather than distributing entire articles or previews of entire articles with a meaningless blurb in the feed item body.

I curate RSS feeds on specific topics[1] and populate them with highlights from what I'm reading from across the internet- this can be a literal highlight from an article, a comment on HN, Reddit etc., a Kindle highlight from a book, anything really, as long as it is on-topic.

There is always a link back to the original context for subscribers to dig in deeper if they want to.

I think this is a real sweet spot. I cannot go back to feeds of anything and everything, a hodge-podge mixture of bad one-paragraph summaries or overwhelmingly long RSS item bodies.

I want to know what exactly grabbed somebody's attention that made them think that something was worth sharing, what gripped them about it, and if it also grips me, I'll gladly go to the original context and read further to my heart's content.

But I don't want a never ending queue of things that I have to put an outsized amount of effort into filtering through to even answer the question "is this something that interests me?"

With the explosion of Mastodon I also added the ability for my RSS subscribers to comment on RSS items from my feed using their Mastodon accounts. So far, so good!

[1]: https://notado.app/feeds/jado
SF de facto did. I used to live a couple blocks away from one. That said, they are now being shut down due to Federal liability reasons [0]

[0] - https://missionlocal.org/2022/12/san-francisco-fentanyl-tend...
You have compounding but also inflation. You need to slowly raise your draw to keep the same lifestyle.
> Edit: Also, technically reddit was using signed int32s. So they really only had 2^16 unique digits. If they used unsigned int32s, then that would have bought them a lot of time.

Signed integers have 2^31 positive values (well, just about). It doesn't take 16 bits to store the negative sign :-)
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I wondered for a moment if there is less denigrating, more technical word, but haven't found one.

The suckling reflex is obvious. But I didn't mean to say grow out of it. Just don't give in.
Why would someone with millions not at least have an ACA plan? Even the worst ACA plan has an out-of-pocket max of around $10K individual and $20K family.
What about it? It was wholly owned until Softbank decided to sell half of it in 2018. You can just google this. Now it's wholly owned again after the whole kerfuffle.
>It seems entirely arbitrary to me

I agree that the original press release flubbed the explanation. Here's how I think they should have presented it instead:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33971377#33977940
I haven't posted anything else than "here's my Mastodon handle" on Twitter since around that time either.
> Edit: Also, technically reddit was using signed int32s. So they really only had 2^16 unique digits. If they used unsigned int32s, then that would have bought them a lot of time.

Small correction: Signed int32s means you have 31 bits for the integer value (2^31 values), not 16 bits (2^16 values). There are 32 bits; 1 bit is used up for the sign, and 31 remain for the number.
Check the article, he addresses the question of error tolerance and it's a gentle read.
Perhaps we are both right. I usually think of the Word RAM Model in which W is assumed to be at least logn. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_RAM#Model

This is a nice model because you don't have to assume things like "infinite pointer sizes", and because the algorithms that work well in practice (such as using bit tricks) also work well in the theory.

If you don't work in the word ram model you also wouldn't be able to do things like hash maps with constant time queries, since that requires a hash function which can't be computed in O(1) bit operations.
Former FTX engineer quietly became multimillion-dollar Democratic donor
I think it is a horrible assumption to think that Reddit won't grow and will take exactly the same length of time to double the number of unique ids required.
But still 64 bits should be plenty for a while.
And presumably if it comes closer to using that many they'll have enough time to switch to 128
It is a good question. I assume FTX global and/or US has some cash reserves. At the very minimum they have been running a business that needs to pay cash salaries, rent, utilities, etc. Your question is partly answered by the 200K USD retainer" (no details provided). I assume that was paid upfront. He may refuse to continue work if paychecks do not arrive in a timely manner. This guy is very experienced cleaning up bankrupt companies. I'm sure he will get paid, or not work.
If you build a pond, wildlife will come.

I've done two small fish ponds using heavy duty rigid plastic liners expecting only the fish (koi and shubunkin) would enjoy it. We live less than ~10 miles/~15 km from downtown Boston.

We were surprised to see the second pond, which is next to the north side of our basement and on a small hill, gets all kinds of animals and birds coming to drink. Racoons, possum, fox, squirrels, and many types of small birds. Without fail, one or two tree frogs find it every summer and settle in on the water plant we put out there (taro) in a semi-submerged pot.

The frogs disappear in the early autumn. Before the first hard frost, we bring the taro plant inside in a bucket, and place it next to a sunny window for the next 5 or 6 months. By mid-December the pond freezes over except where we have a small pump running. The fish go dormant at the bottom, under the ice.

Then in spring it starts back up again. The ice melts, the fish come back to life, and the animals return to drink. We put the taro plant back out, and once again the pond is the center of life in our side yard.

Images:

https://www.instagram.com/p/4O0ZZGJJvH/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CiwTVBLOuUG/
It'll be a cold day in Hell when Americans value comprehensive public transit and walkable neighborhoods over driving an individual automobile long distances to every destination. I see this as an intractable problem until self-driving cars take away some of the risk.

The other option is for people to drink less and do fewer drugs, but that seems even more unlikely that a radical shift in favor of walking/transit.
I compare previous to current settings using a pattern like this.

# backup defaults to a file in the home directory with the current timestamp
alias backup.defaults='defaults read > ~/.backups/defaults_$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).txt'

# compare the most recent defaults backup file to the current defaults config
alias diff.defaults='diff -u <(cat ~/.backups/$(ls -1 ~/.backups | grep defaults | tail -1)) <(defaults read) | delta'
Mate Softdrinks are ubiquitous in Germany, it’s fueling the IT industry and students.
If the above examples are what you label "not aligned with leftist politics" then sure

Not sure why you would define not being a shitty human being as "leftist" but I guess the strength of language is its malleability so have at it
I think it’s just the modern fiscal policy adopted by the FED. They’ve learned to tame inflation and are more concerned with deflation. Not to mention the FED is controlled by politicians who are elected by the media who is owned by the wealthy who own stocks and want them going up.
Legislators can dress this however they'd like but there's no hiding who stands to benefit from this the most[1].

Also, be careful emitting hate for individuals or groups of people based on an identity. You would look very silly recorded on the internet being xenophobic and racist.

1: https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-st...
Exactly, and - assuming a mistake rather than maliciousness should have been the first take. There are 100's if not thousands of rules and regulations companies need to conform to and you should normally at a minimum give them a chance to fix this rather than to right away start yelling about them 'breaking the law', because no CEO that I'm aware of does so willingly (assuming they intend to stay in business and take their responsibilities somewhat seriously). This seems more like an exercise in grandstanding than actual concern.
With millions you buy health insurance.
No, FTX was off chain.
Not for most implementations, a signed 32 bit int goes from ~-2 billion to ~+2 billion, an unsigned from 0 to ~4 billion
Actually 83 KwH costs only about $20 in CA (avg $0.25 / KwH and probably LRL pays even less.
I mentioned in another post I added the ability to comment on my items from RSS feeds with Mastodon accounts recently. Sure, it's not part of the protocol, but it does the job without any fuss and people who want to interact with me (the majority of them are on Mastodon, I guess this is the key point) in the context of certain RSS feed items can do so very easily.
> Historically children were the retirement plan

They still are. It's just that the retirement plan has been socialized to the level of the nation state. The labor of the young takes care of the old. This is literally true in the case of social security which is funded by taxing current productive labor.

This isn't necessarily bad, because it's the way it's always been. But it is something like a multi-generational ponzi scheme. It can work for a very long time, but eventually, the last generation is left holding the bag with no one to pass it onto.
Shkreli got hard time even though investors didn't lose money due to his fraud.

There isn't a performance threshold beyond which fraud ceases to be criminal.
Fixing defects/gaps is improving.
The truth is that the address space is extremely sparse. Every ipv6 subnet is a /64 by default, yet I’m sure most of us have vastly fewer than 2^64 machines in our networks … at least for now
Have they not just spunked it into cryptocurrencies?
Make sure it’s in your profile or a pinned Tweet. https://movetodon.org
He undoubtedly had influence, but it would have been of two kinds: people who agreed with him, and tried to shape the EEC accordingly, and people who disagreed with him, and also tried to shape the EEC accordingly.

Almost anyone of an age to take a role in emerging pan-european political process in the early days of the EEC had experienced either the input conditions to the recent war, and then the war, or the war and immediate post-war period, or just the immediate post-war period (which included a significant series of economic booms)

And so the whole tenor of "his lived experience in 1930s informed this" feels to me like special pleading for a general case: Pretty much anyone of his generation experienced this, and not everyone became a Hayek.

Hayek is contentious in the UK both because of his looming presence in the LSE school and the downstream consequences, but also because of his influence on Thatcher.

Having sat in on one session of the OECD in Paris, I got told some stories by old hands of the tensions around the immediate post-war steel and coal industry which lie in the roots of why the OECD and the EEC emerged. It cannot be a coincidence that a post-war economic reconstruction concerned itself with heavy industry which underpins defence, as well as reconstruction and provision of utility services in the wide. the EEC was the glue to making a viable european industry in steel, in goods and services, in electricty bootstrap itself from the ashes of the bombing.

The Marshall plan pointed the way.
It's possible. "Active suppression" doesn't need to be "authoritarian rule" though. For the most part people who want to gain abusive power over other humans so so through the licit means our society provides, eg, they get into a position of authority and then be corrupt. Starving them of easily abused institutions would go along way.

If they try to form a mafia it'll need to be broken up through the most peaceful means available. The earlier you're able to intervene, the more peaceful the means you're able to use. So for instance of someone is having trouble managing their rage and depression, and their community recognizes this in their adolescence, there's a lot that can be done to help them. In our current society, these things generally go unnoticed and when they are noticed, it's treated as an individual failing, and you're more likely to be abandoned than offered empathy and assistance. In my experience, hurt people hurt people.

If a mature mafia forms and is causing a ruckus, we'll need to overwhelm them with numbers and strategy, abolish their mafia, and take measures to prevent them from doing more harm. I believe that this would be rare, however. People aren't generally cruel to each other, and when they are it's often because they've suffered abuse. So it's a virtuous cycle, as we eliminate sources of abuse, abuse becomes rarer. I don't pretend it'll disappear entirely, but all we need to do to form a good society is reduce it to a manageable level and constantly be improving. Perfection is impossible, but it is not required.

What about turning this criticism around? Some people desire to abuse other people and to have power over them. Okay. What does that say about the structure of our current society? If we take this to be true, doesn't that suggest we should reform or abolish institutions that enable people like that? What happens if we take that to it's logical conclusion?
You are not really questioning, as that would imply you are interested in and/or listening to answers.

It’s more accurate to say that you are “proclaiming”, which is perfectly fine, but doesn’t make for great conversation
I disagree with his opinion too, but he's not lying. The majority of the world has and still does hold those opinions. The world is still very anti-LGBT outside of the western culture bubble. And even in countries that are westernized, they are often still anti-LGBT even if their governments and media are pushing people not to be.

It's a very sad state of affairs. I mean, just 16 years ago I was marching for the right for gay people to get married in the US. We've come a long way but there is a long way to go.
Which is why Apple's plan is likely to move it to the MacOS model, ie. notarization and code signing is required. Honestly this is such a great middle ground despite the level of malware that exists and is targeted to small groups of users.
Brokers don't have to take on any margin lending risk at all if they don't want to. My 401(k) broker won't let me invest on margin. Brokers benefit from the increased percentage fees on trades so want to find the optimal risk/reward margin limits.

Maybe part of the problem is conflating brokers and exchanges in typical cryptocurrency setups. Brokers offer margin accounts and exchanges offer settlement between parties and take no real risk.
That's because it's really just the caffeine causing a small adrenaline release. A lot of people don't realize that, I suspect. It's also why it can make you have to take a dump immediately. Caffeine doesn't amp you up, it just causes your body to release a tiny bit of adrenaline which is what amps you up.

I have no clue what Mate does.
People need to understand that money is debt. That is the source of all currency (yes, even gold and other 'hard' currency). If people cannot freely create it, then it's useless. The key is that you ought to be able to gauge the money creator on their trustworthiness, which hopefully you know as a member of a small community. Or, if you are creating money on the open market to large numbers of people, often it's useful to make your case to a nexus of trust (i.e., a bank) so that more people will accept your money

Unfortunately what happened here is a fraudster latched on to a movement that decried centralized trust and said that he is trustworthy and, when asked, pointed to some code that no one could inspect or understand. Simpletons believed him because they believed in the 'trust the code' hype, and believed his money was real. They were wrong.

But at the end of the day, expecting code to replace the core human emotion of trust, the source of money, is ridiculous.
I think Club Mate Granat is an atrocity that tastes nothing like Mate.

But when it comes to mixing flavors, I think Mio Mio Ginger Mate is pretty great.

Or Lux Mate with mint - but I’m afraid they closed down.
how would they know it's explicitly criminal though? i doubt most devs have enough understanding of their business domain, much less the regulatory frameworks to be able to confidently refuse to implement something because it's illegal.
This proves nothing unless you run a stat analysis on his entire history of tweets to determine if this is an outlier
It's also just so weird to suggest that HN should be policing this. They're fixated on NYC's law, but NYC is more lenient, at least statutorily, than Colorado, which has had this rule for over a year. But NYC and Colorado have different disclosure requirements, as will California and Washington. That's not just down to who needs to disclose (if you have fewer than 5 NYC employees, for instance, you're apparently not obligated to report) but also what you have to disclose.

It's not reasonable to suggest that HN should also run an HR practice. Again: totally fair to be irritated at a YC company who lists a noncompliant job. Go report them!
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>If you could also replace Siri with a better assistant you might even get Apple putting some work in their apps and improve Siri.

This is actually part of the law. Apple have to allow 3rd party voice assistants.
People are making a lot of assumptions about the finances of the publishing deal with Kitfox
I think that the GPL philosophy is correct: if you modify an open source software you have to release the work you did back to the community. Without it Linux wouldn't be the thing that is today, rather there would be a ton of proprietary Linux variations, or at least a ton of proprietary Linux kernel modules, that the user cannot modify or inspect.

If we talk about FreeBSD, the reason why FreeBSD is not successful as Linux is... the fact that is not GPL licensed. Multiple companies (including Apple for OSX, Sony for the PlayStation OS, and many others) user FreeBSD in their products, but since the license allows them they do not release their improvement to the public. Meaning that the project evolves very slowly, or doesn't evolve at all.
2m each is not "Fuck you" money perhaps but it is enough to comfortably retire to the original post point. It depends on lifestyle you desire but if I could retire tomorrow, I would make that lifestyle work.
I feel most of the skeptics are forced to assume that position because they cannot say what they truly think:

“We will all be dead by the time it becomes serious enough to worry about it”

People don’t want to say that to pollsters and so they say they are skeptical about the warming and CO2 emissions being the culprit in the first place
They look like gremlins. And from her interview especially she talks about how life is better on drugs.
The employer also shouldn't take you up on the offer because now you are engaging in work without a contract, which opens up contract issues, probably breaks things like SOC compliance, etc.

I like your accountability, but it's sufficient to document the issue in code, open a jira (or equivalent) and move on.
It's easy to declare the destination. It's harder to plan the route.
Isn’t this sort of like saying that Apple is just dictating how developers should operate when creating apps for their phones? If developers don’t want to use the App Store, they are free to leave the market of Apple consumers.
Show HN: Vimium Everywhere
It was taken by an annoying domainer, he owns several hundred domains and resells then, no?
Hi HN,

this is an AutoHotkey script for Linux/Windows that works like the basics of Vimium [1], but everywhere. This means that upon pressing F, you'll see keyboard-activatable hints for all interactive elements on the current window (there's a gif in the Readme). I built this partly to showcase the recently added accessibility-related features of AHK_X11 0.4.0 [2], my AutoHotkey-for-Linux implementation. a11y on Linux is a mess [3], but IMO it mostly works, just needs a lot of tweaking [4]. Getting all relevant applications to work has been a huge patchwork effort though [5].

I hope I'm not being too impertinent reusing the name "Vimium"... but it's the best I could come up with, and this can probably never be a noteworthy competitor inside browsers anyways, as normal Vimium has the advantage of Browser APIs.

[1] https://github.com/philc/vimium
[2] https://github.com/phil294/AHK_X11/releases
[3] https://scribe.rip/@r.d.t.prater/linux-accessibility-an-unma...
[4] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Install_Arch_Linux_with_acc...
[5] https://github.com/phil294/AHK_X11/blob/4ff6e749f5f783471f3c...
Hm. I wonder why no one ever called you.
there are a lot of ('fun' in community parlance) rough edges, but just getting food and drink down isn't too difficult and unlocks about as much of the rest of the game as you want

that is, figuring out or looking up-

- how to get a small farm plot going ('plump helmet' is the staple food)

- how to brew drinks at a still (set it to repeat- brew-able plants will be used indiscriminately, generally plumphelmets, and seeds will be left behind for planting)

from there, you'll start to see messages about (cancelling the brew job due to) needing more barrels/rock pots, which aren't difficult, neither are beds and mugs, which you'll see dwarfs complaining about

oh and you'll obviously want to set up stockpiles, which will keep your workshops from getting all cluttered...

anyway, the new game-start options make it easy to turn off attackers, which should ease fortress-management enough to figure out any other features you want to work on:

-centralized job management with a 'manager' and an office, which will also let you schedule jobs to occur as needs arise

-getting charcoal and ores for forging is of course a big one

hopefully the new interface makes it even easier to see what is going wrong, things that you can get a head-start on the next time you start a fortress
OP run from this certified way to live your life. You'll fall into productivity self help trap
People should understand that it is all an energy problem, regardless of how that energy is currently delivered. Transportation can be (and, of course, is being electrified), most industrial processes and agriculture currently use fossil fuels as inputs because its the cheapest source of input.

For example, nitrogen fixation for fertilizer currently uses natural gas almost entirely for the source of hydrogen. Vastly cheaper energy means it would make much more sense to switch this to electricity, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenrg.2021.5808....

But I agree with your sentiment, there are a lot of engineering details to consider before one can shout "free energy".
I do! It had a great API, especially for 2004-2005. I remember after Yahoo! bought it, I went to SXSW and they were throwing an open bar somewhere and handing out Yahoo!, Upcoming, Flickr, and Del.icio.us swag. I still have and use a Flickr-themed travel microfiber cleaning cloth from that event.
things be whack
Yes. Even though RMS is the founder of the movement, I think it is fair to say most people who contribute to GPL code have a more pragmatic view. Linus Tovalds springs to mind and is the 'owner' of the particular OS the article's author was writing about. I would argue the author has a similarly silly attitude which is the GPL is so bad he won't even taint his machine with it.
I know a lot of people that are skeptical of climate change. Not a single one denies it. It's more a along the lines of 'how big a deal is this actually'?

They view a lot of messaging from the government and regulatory bodies as alarmist. Which honestly is fair given the fact that most of them have much bigger day to day problems with healthcare, economics, and housing playing out in the short term. It's all relative right?