skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say a consensus arises among academics that Bitcoin will not be stable w/o the block reward. Will Bitcoin developers actually change the protocol before the block reward becomes smaller than tx fees (say 2050)? My impression is that they are very conservative, and resistant to making the sort of big change that this would involve
1. Lots of storage

2. forever beta stage, requiring phone number. this made it more exclusive.
NFTs are dead. Long live digital collectibles
Catching fish while watching a movie; less common these days [1] but not at all uncommon when my parents generation went to the movies [2].

Seeing a local stage play open in a theatre [3] before it tours globally is pretty special, as is seeing the premeire of a film adaption in the same theatre [4] 20 years later.

I'm still fond of outdoor "walkies" (like an open air drive in but with no cars, just sling back canvas seating) fully open in a desert - it's a total bonus when you get both a great film and a kick ass meteor shower on the same night.

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-31/flood-warnings-as-bro...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Picture_Gardens

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bran_Nue_Dae

[4] https://www.google.com/search?q=sun+pictures+broome&tbm=isch
Paid advertisment means these things are allowed in promoted tweets.
Ha ha ha. It's a deliberate decision and its my very humble hat-tip to one of my heroes, Simon Peyton Jones.

"This is a very funny question, why I use Comic Sans. So. All my talks use Comic Sans, and I frequently see little remarks, “Simon Peyton Jones, great talk about Haskell, but why did he use Comic Sans?” But nobody’s ever been able to tell me what’s wrong with it. I think it’s a nice, legible font, I like it. So until someone explains to me — I understand that it’s meant to be naff, but I don't care about naff stuff, it’s meant to be able to read it. So if you’ve got some rational reasons why I should not, then I’ll listen to them. But just being unfashionable, I don’t care."
One of the reasons we developed devpods was because our setup scripts were unmanageable.

Instructions to new employees would say things like "run this thing, scroll up past dozens of pages of stdout noise and manually deal w/ the errors buried therein by looking up relevant FAQs in some doc somewhere"

The scripts would touch every technology imaginable, from brew to npm to arc (phabricator's cli) to proprietary tools and no single person understands how setup scripts work in their entirety.

One exercise we'd get new employees to run through was get them to brainstorm about how some system ought to work. The lesson was that just about any idea they could come up with would have already been tried (and failed).

I'm told that devpods aren't even the first time we tried cloud dev envs. Presumably lots of lessons were learned from previous attempts at improving dev envs.
have you really bought it, in terms of paying extra money besides the prime costs just for the show? Or just subscribed to prime? Since you put "bought" in quotes I guess it could mean both. And I think LeoPanthera was referring to that things that are payed extra for shouldn't vanish - which would also have been my understanding. So far everything payed extra for is still there - but it's a sample size of 2 mainstream movies, so it probably doesn't tell much.
Yes ofcourse, that side project I haven't touched for 3 years now obviously needs a full rewrite in the new language/framework I've been learning.
Charts that show the economy is kind of a mess
> The company always to prefers to pocket your dollars as profit. If you send them a check or something, that's what they'll do.

And I'm free to stop subscribing if the service gets worse (or doesn't get better as fast as I'd like).
wow that was fast
It comes from the phrase association football. You're just ignorant it's a term that's from the same place where football was created
The comparison is apt[1]!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst
So did Martin Luther King Jr and the founding fathers. There is no moral duty to obey arbitrary bullshit. Good on you!
From my perspective, ontologies serve 2 main purposes:
1. Providing an overview of the structure of a large body of content (e.g. a wiki).
2. Measuring, and understanding the change in the same corpus.

There used to be fancier applications to ontologies, like question answering, but I agree with the author that LLM could replace most of them. The more interesting question is how to auto-generate ontologies?
... I fear then that Lisp (especially Common Lisp) is that insane custom-programmed set of 6dof robots with tool changers.
And yet you don't know that the term soccer comes from association football and was coined by the English
The billions run up quickly.. you have 1,000,000 people pay one dollar for a coin. And one person pay 10,000, suddenly it’s a $10bil scandal. Just because one person paid the final value doesn’t mean there is a bil in value. Technically 100 people can exit at 10k, then the pool is empty. That’s the story of crypto over and over.
Unless you have data in the service in some proprietary format, say.
I feel bad because by asking I'm giving you the platform you so desperately want. But care to offer some explanation as to what homosexuality has to do with psychiatry? Or how there are plenty of non-autistic people that associate with a gender different to the one they're born with?
Totally agree with this. I have been advocating this since 2014 and points to my article whenever someone asks me. It needs an update but the general idea is still valid. I do have notifications for some key specific events such as Health, timed events in the calendar, and selected people who can call, etc but otherwise it is pretty quite almost all the time.

https://brajeshwar.com/2014/missing-step-productivity-activi...
Hi, I'm the project author. It's cool to see so many people suddenly take interest in this project. I haven't touched it for a while, but seeing such support has restored my desire to work on it. I would love to hear your thoughts and would be happy to respond to any questions!
residuals for streaming are not based on viewership (because the streamers won’t release actual streaming numbers to the unions)
Nobody wants to fiddle with Windows to make it not spy on you. It's over.
What Would Plato Say About ChatGPT? (Zeynep Tufekci)
One issue is that when you build on someone else's platform (Chrome Webstore, iOS App Store, etc.), you have to periodically make updates just to stay in the store. Sometimes these are very large changes, like with MV3.

If I sold my software one-off, I could charge people again for an MV3-compatible version to cover the cost of the transition. But many/most people wouldn't understand what was happening, and there would probably be a lot of confusion/unhappiness with having to pay again just to maintain the same feature set.

People are used to buying subscriptions, and part of the reason why is that developers are constantly having to update their software just to stay 'alive' in the app stores. I do long for the days of purchasing software versions and upgrading when needed. But those days are fading into the rear view mirror, it would seem.
The problem is the definition of level 5 is amorphous.

That is, "everywhere in all conditions" exceeds what any human will do. If I won't drive in a blizzard or specific cities, does it make a car level 4 if it punts under these conditions?

I think we need a better definition that encompasses the different capabilities of things calling themselves level 4, and avoids an impossible standard for level 5.
You have to be pretty determined and somewhat tech-savvy to find them. For most people, if it doesn't show up in the HBO/Netflix/Amazon/iTunes list, it doesn't exist. There are a lot of shows that were on Netflix years ago that I'd like to see again, but they are gone. However I'm not motivated enough to go figure out how to download them from some pirate site.
I've been of this opinion for essentially all consumer grade items since the beginning of the trend years ago. For Enterprise software I'm squishier because I have to bear in mind a bunch of things where long cycles and certain guarantees are contractually baked in that aren't as easy to weasel out of.
Fantastic. Jotted those two down. Thanks for the input -- I really appreciate it.
> You'll own nothing and be happy.
Makes even more sense if you treat it as a foreign hostile takeover.

A quick look at some of the funding sources for the $44b, and the distinct direction Twitter took post-acquisition suggest (to me at least - personal opinion) that Musk is promoting certain (alt-right) agendas. It could also be that the goal is to burn Twitter to the ground, as it has been touted by the US government as a “freedom tool”.

I can easily imagine Mohammed Bone Saw solving potential outcries of future heinous acts, by making sure there’s no outlet to discuss them.

Again, just my private opinion.
See games for where this is going.

Upfront payment to buy the product + season pass (subscription) + micro transactions. 2 years later it's the end of the product and the cycle begins anew with the major version number incremented by one.
Related link advocating for the same thing: https://runyourown.social/
Copy Semantics, per Plato’s Sophist
There are probably way more NEXRAD sites than there are SSN radar sites. Also this is using infrastructure that already exists.
Also, Hotmail was actively decreasing the amount of storage it offered, trying to get people to pay for more. I think it was just 5 or 20 megabytes.

It was common to ask people to not include a copy of email they were replying to, to save on space.

Needless to say, I hopped on gmail in an instant. And I felt like a kingmaker as I doled out my limited invites.
There's a down vote? I'm only aware of the up arrow and the minus sign.
One of the reasons that might have happened is that a lot of OTC melatonin is actually way too high of a dose. You need like a .5mg dose, but most of it that I have seen in stores is in the 3-5mg range, which is quite a bit more than what you need.
HRVs/ERVs are not specialized knowledge, they are just uncommon knowledge at the moment. They are even simpler to install than heating/cooling systems, as there is no fuel or refrigerant to deal with. Many are even DIYable.
Xanadu Hypertext Documents Specification (1984) [pdf]
Death to the Line of Death
Are you sure you interpreted this number correctly? Seems like EV sales (83%) are growing faster than Hybrid (76%) sales. So no, hybrids are very much a temporary stop gap solution. EV will overtake Hybrids soon; possibly in 2 years.
I meant compared to normal comments, not compared to downvoted comments.
Nostalgia - I missed so much stuff forever as a kid because I had to eat dinner right that damn second, for some reason it was not possible to eat dinner five minutes later, at the commercial, while watching something that there would never be an opportunity to watch again. It took my parents forty years to loosen up on their dinner time schedule - these days they are perfectly happy to watch TV during dinner, next to their grandchildren.

Though it is still an occasional pain when a show like Firefly or Stargate Universe gets canceled before it’s time. Whatever happened to “Er ist wieder da”? It seemed to disappear everywhere overnight.
this is how it works and what matters to apple is huge $ nothing else.
1. people like apple
2. they use it
3. they become part of an apple cult
4. apple makes products worse and worse yet more expensive
5. the zombies still uses and pays, small% will complain, rest not even that

...for example, apple mouse is the worst product on the market. But nooo.. apple zombies won't even think of using anything else
....does the iphone video/cam recorder even in the 2022 have a pause button? i remember it did not have it in 2020 yet in all other phones had it 10 years because you need it
Crazy that there was a 99 Percent Invisible episode about him just a few weeks ago.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/cougar-town/
That's just not going to happen. You could put 5x panels on the ground plus batteries and still have budget left over compared to launching it into orbit.
It is already failing as the ever increasing purity tests march on and servers ban each other for hair splitting differences in leftist ideology.

There is also no opposition to their conspiratorial nonsense and there is nothing leftists hate more than not antagonising their political opponents.

I ran the experiment where I watched 40 accounts claim they were leaving twitter and only 1 is now not continuing to post regularly. I am very confident these results are repeatable.

Nobody would love to see these social media companies crumble more than me, but I can be absolutely certain it will not be because of mastodon.
How many computers are in your computer? (2021)
Intriguing story, so I did a bit of genealogical research on him this evening using various online databases. Here's what I found:

- In March 1940, he filed for social security using the given name ROBERT GOLDSTEIN, birth date 27 Sep 1883 in San Francisco, CA, son of Simon Goldstein and Margret (sic) Moran. We know both from earlier US Federal Censuses and other official records that that was indeed him.

- His confirmed whereabouts were unknown after that. There's nothing in any scanned historic newspapers about him through 1990, though his younger brother's, Louis Stanislaus Goldstein, obit appeared in the LA Times on Apr 27, 1950. There's no mention of Robert in the obit.

- I ran a quick check of the Social Security Death Index for Robert's SSN and nothing was reported. Odd, but not completely unusual if his death wasn't reported to the Social Security Administration - perhaps he was destitute? Or...

Things get interesting when you start combing through other contemporary records:

- In the 1940 US Federal Census of Rikers Island Penitentiary (conducted on April 13th of that year), there is an inmate by the name of Robert Goldstein, aged 54, born in California. Though "our" Robert would have 56 at that point in time, inaccurate ages in US Censuses are very common, even into the modern era.

- In the 1950 US Federal Census of Willard State Hospital for the Insane, Romulus, NY, conudcted on Apr 1, 1950, we find another Robert Goldstein, also born in California, an aged 67 inmate. Sixty-seven puts his estimated birth date in 1882-1883.

- The 1960 US Federal Census records won't be available until at least 2030 so any newer information in that regard requires a lengthy wait.

---

Info on Willard State Hospital: https://homeinthefingerlakes.com/willard-asylum-ovid-ny/.

And, apparently Willard had its own inmate cemetery: https://inmatesofwillard.com/about/. Sadly, as of 2012, public access to its burial records was still not available.

Though this later evidence is circumstantial, I suspect that this Robert Goldstein may be the one convicted for his film. If so, a sad end to a long sad life.
If we had the political will to make sure poor people could eat, we could just redirect some of the subsidy money.
That was easy -- eventually. One only has to believe what the micropython manual says and not watch any instructables-videos.

>>> os.mount(machine.SDCard(slot=2),"/sd")
>>> os.listdir('/sd')
['DCIM', 'VIDEO', 'PHOTO']
Same. I'm considering using a flatpak for this as it seems to have an interesting feature set to build a pre-setup development environment on top of. Just want my shell setup, tooling configs and a few other things bundled up in an easy to use fashion.

Currently I just have a git repo with my setup mostly in it (sans executables) with a way to get it going on a new machine. It works but is rather hackish and requires a bit of work to keep in sync.
Gmail was the only freemail service with pop+imap support.

In Germany it got rapidly adopted because the competition (web.de and gmx.net, both from 1und1) had less than 10MB space and had a hard limit of 100 mails, no matter their size. And more importantly: no way to download the emails and to archive them.

The most ironic thing was the animation of the storage size on Gmail at the time, because it was growing daily, and they made a counter animation that was increasing storage size (e.g. 1.12345 gigabytes and growing) due to them heavily investing in data centers at the time.
I thought it has something in common with the Spotify.
What I'm personally annoyed about is the "but what about..." conversations. To me these are quite annoying and derail the conversation. There are proper ways to bring up comparisons. For example "I wonder if other countries have similarly low passport rates?" There's also the aspect that a lot of conversations end up being particularly Americentric. But let's remember that America doesn't have to be brought into every conversation. It isn't helpful. In particular here it just seemed like you wanted to shit on America. There's plenty of reasons to do so, but this was just out of the blue. It is common, but that doesn't mean it is acceptable behavior.
I mean specifically paid to "buy" that movie and/or TV show. As opposed to either renting it, or it coming with the service subscription. I put "buy" in quotes because in hindsight, that's clearly not what happened.
3/4th of developers are willing to quit for a new job
Yes. You just don't see it because you don't have enough karma for it yet.
I am getting bored of this childish man needing to be top of the news 24/7/366. Seriously a 1:1 copy of Trump in terms of narcissistic behaviour.
Always felt like SF politicians and many non-tech citizens were way too anti-tech. They wanted tech companies to leave. Now they know what it's like without them. Crime. Drugs. Break ins. Local businesses suffer. Lower tax revenue for the city politicians to waste.

San Francisco needs to go back to the Ed Lee days. It needs to be a lot more business friendly.
That's going to make certain old optimizations broken, I guess. But I hope to avoid arm64 macs (kinda campaigning to get linux machines at work) so it may remain only theoretical.
Looks like a “fun” one but in all seriousness: self-control2 do the same thing except you have to feed it the list of blocked website.

Then technically it’s harder to circonvent. ( it’s at the /host file level I think. I don’t really wanna know so i cannot work around it.
Very off topic, but... Most presidential speeches are written by a speech writer & displayed on the teleprompter, not ad libbed on the spot. The "uuuuhs" were an intentional mannerism.
Wish people would pronounce regex with the same logic
Hybrids have the hidden/extra cost of getting your Catalytic Converter stolen which should be tacked on to maintenance.
There's at least one good commercial solution that basically does the same thing the blog describes [1]. Working well for us so far.

[1] https://www.gitpod.io
Conmen and conwomen. Just search for "female influencers anavar". A lot of "Girlswhosquat" or gym bunnies are juiced to the gills too.
IIRC every RC disk had alpha binaries, only the RTM and later doesn't - because Alpha getting canned was declared in the short window between last RC and RTM, in a rather abrupt manner to everyone involved on the project.
My main issue with Saas tools is they keep changing and it's not always clear why or that there are any benefits. Many of the changes feel like they were resume driven. Case in point, Dropbox.

Many years ago they were awesome. Now they've added a much heavier client UI client. I stopped using them because of that and also I just noticed a huge uptick in resource usage.
This is just beginning.

Look at all the money that's been going into making phones compelling substitutes for professional cameras. And camera tech is still evolving. Consumer audio devices will get the same attention and investment.

We'll eventually have models for audio signals in all sorts of distorted and noisy environments. I'd bet that in ten years a cellphone microphone can duplicate a professional audio setup in 90% of circumstances.
Have you tried XML output? (-oX)
That is simple. Just keep your control key and map caps lock to control also. That way you are never out of control.
The pretend industry like this exists in EU for 15 years or so already.
Yah. Oh god am I confortable in my golden cage with a team of Ux people responsible for that …
Wanted to share this with the team, but I noticed the social cards aren't loading (at least not on slack). It's probably due to the fact that your social images are not on HTTPS:

```html
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Productivity Blocker"/>
(...)
<meta property="og:image" content="http://static1.squarespace.com/static/61e76afa9e2d33114d3da2...
(...)
<meta itemprop="thumbnailUrl" content="http://static1.squarespace.com/static/61e76afa9e2d33114d3da2...
<link rel="image_src" href="http://static1.squarespace.com/static/61e76afa9e2d33114d3da2..." />
<meta itemprop="image" content="http://static1.squarespace.com/static/61e76afa9e2d33114d3da2...
(...)
<meta name="twitter:image" content="http://static1.squarespace.com/static/61e76afa9e2d33114d3da2...
```

Love it though! :)
Right. But at least they'd have to stop with the superlatives.

I don't know if Messi is greater than Pelé or Maradona. Or if Muhammed Ali was greater than Joe Louis. They're all great.
"Considering the film's budget and marketing costs, Variety stated that the film will need to gross at least $400 million worldwide to make a profit."

Universal agreed to give Nolan a production budget of $100 million and an equal marketing budget, a theatrical window of at least 100 days, 20 percent of the film's first-dollar gross, and a three-week period before and after the film's release in which Universal could not release another new film.
He could hardly do a better job if he tried. Which kind of makes me wonder, is he trying?
Seems like very critical article about Amazon in Post:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/a...
The employees and the internal working group that reported on the state of Twitter's ability to shutdown exploitive content and made recommendations that weren't followed through on.

> Employees say that Twitter’s executives know about the problem, but the company has repeatedly failed to act.
On linux it depends on a sysctl parameter, and on 4kB platforms some runtimes used the fact that it was set to "one page" as a method to have very short pointers starting at address 4097 for things very often references (and which might need guard page, like NULL value).

Made for some borked code with Clozure Common Lisp when people started running 64kB pagesize on PPC64, and that meant that even with minimal zero page it still was too big to map the "low memory" where CCL stuck it's NULL definition.
Not watching it?
No, I think the thing that really changed things was when Canada and Mexico started requiring passports for US Citizens. Before that, Americans could just drive across the border. Lots of Americans don't travel overseas, but go to Canada/Mexico frequently, especially if they live near the border.
Many years ago I read a story, that I took as potential fiction, about a very rich man in Eastern Europe who hired warez scene kids to digitize all the movies, TV shows, and music they could. There were financial incentives involved and the files could be shared freely, as long as he had copies.

The idea that, somewhere out there, is a man sitting on petabytes of digital media, like a James Bond villain, makes me smile.
This, im still using a jetbrains php 2017...i don't really do stuff in PHP anymore but i have a couple old projects where i used it and just maintain them in phpstorm and its still working great. If i was still doing PHP i would easily upgrade it. Its the better model for software.