skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First and foremost, from the guidelines:

Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Nobody here that would otherwise just downvote will write a counterargument because you complained about it, keep the reddit bot downvote whining where it belongs.

> Crypto can be suborned into any existing ponzi scheme easily by allowing exchanges of these fiat assets and leverage from any of those fiat systems.

>Those crypto systems which have ballooned as a result of that would then accurately and appropriately be considered ponzi schemes, even though its just a small leg of the entire ponzi scheme.

This can happen to literally anything else that isn't prohibited from being traded using fiat currency.

>There is no effective way for an individual to tell inflows and outflows from the system, and any financial banker is aware of frauds that can create the illusion of price action through the use of leverage, and collusive wash-sale contracts (similar to options). That is how gold and metals commodities are largely suppressed.

I assume you're talking about the price in non-crypto currency that was paid for the crypto? if so yes, you can't really tell the inflows and outflows, but that is also true for everything that can also be traded outside centralized exchanges(including stocks), and commodities are even worse given most of them will be traded outside any exchange for industrial use and with even less transparency. I don't see the argument against crypto here inherently.

Yes, crypto can be used for scamming, this is a post discussing exactly one of those cases, but that's no different from anything else. It has a real tangible value in a world where you can be effectively cut off from global financial processing if 3-4 US companies -that got quite opinionated after the patriot act- decide they don't want to do business with you. Until payment processors aren't held to the standards of common carriers, crypto is imperative.
LOL @ people in collections "have to listen"
Do you think there are traces of this booking app ? even the name ?
Would be nice if our so called corporate overlords grew some morals for a change.
- Drink less

- Dress better, looking good makes you feel good

- Travel to new places

- Stress less, stress is always unnecessary

- Focus mostly on the positive sides

- Find a sustainable exercise routine

- Continue side projects

- Master reactjs!
Like SQLite, Fossil is an incredibly well-designed jewel of software craftsmanship. It’s unfortunate market dynamics led to git’s dominance instead.
“The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion” by Jonathan Haidt.
John Mashey on RISC/CISC (1991)
Lieutenant, if you go to that war, arm yourself with a more googlable name.

The phrase "War to Liberate Ideas" gets you nothing on google/bing/ddg, with or without quotes. I think I know what you are referring to, but others don't.
Looks interesting and I am totally behind this for exploring new design decisions.
Tailwind CSS in a Website
let's say I am using Tailwind CSS (licensed under MIT) in my website by using the npm package "tailwindcss" which on build creates a css file. According to MIT - "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.".

The css file that is created has a comment on top "/* ! tailwindcss v3.0.23 | MIT License | https://tailwindcss.com */"

Is that sufficient? or do I need to include the whole MIT text or do I need to make a /license page and write about it there "tailwindcss is used in this website, licensed under MIT - full MIT license here"? if not, how do I do it correctly?

I saw some sites like which seem to use tailwindcss but in the devtool sources only have the top line in the css "tailwindcss v3.0.23 | MIT License | https://tailwindcss.com" is that a violation of the MIT license?
Deep Biosphere
Gowns and face shields (and gloves) are extra layers of defense, but the masks provide almost all of the benefit. People aren't getting infected in substantial numbers through their eyes or ears or skin, although we couldn't be sure of that at first.
The Blessing of Humility by Jerry Bridges.

I've been a very prideful person nearly my entire life. This book really opened my eyes and also led me to Christian faith. I highly recommend it, even to children like my older son that also struggle with humility.

Also, of course, I'd recommend reading the New Testament, as it is the source for much of the material in Humility.
Interesting. That seem surprisingly far removed from physical reality. When a lion attacks a gazelle, is it the gazelle’s lion-hating ideology that makes it run away? Or is there in fact real-world danger? Absent of ideology.
The vegan leather made from India’s waste flowers
Thanks for sharing where you're coming from. My opinion comes from maintaining shell scripts either alone or in small teams of people who learn quickly. Perhaps the optimal solution is different when the team is large. I still think that manual error handling is best if you're disciplined enough to do it, but I'll make sure to qualify this view next time I'm talking about it.
I bet $1000000 that every dumbass would push that button.

Dumber people even quicker than others.
Cached Chrome Top Million Websites
The whole setup of expectations in tech is contrary to happiness for most people. The ideal of 'building the future' and other silly values such as 'change the world' are without content. Build which future? Change the world how? These empty values cannot hide the inherent meaningless of most tech jobs.

Moreover, the pace of innovation in tech can burn people out for sure; trying to upskill all the time is no way to live as your brain changes and family life competes for time and attention. But more than that, the constant mini-revolutions in tech shorten history and reveal to anyone who cares to look the graveyard of innovation in miniature. It takes a strong will to consider without flinching that years of effort, success, and failure were transient curiosities to the world.

In a tech career you must plan for your own obsolescence unless you move into the 'stable' trajectory of management. That's rough on the ego of any healthy person. That's not even to mention the challenges of soulless bureaucracies that constitute most of the job options these days. The solution is to find sources of power and leverage for oneself. This is admittedly hard to do in management-dominated jobs unless you also have the skills for management. If you have management skills, you can avoid burnout by avoiding notions of 'fixing organizations' or 'improving processes'. These are dead ends. Find opportunities of expanding the things you control and minimizing the things that control you. If you are a technician who is loath to become a manager, understand you also need to maximize your leverage. This comes with control through skill and ownership, not skill alone. People who want to see this advice as cynical are narrow-minded. Nothing about having leverage means you can't help people succeed, or be a team player, or be a 'good' person. In fact, unless you are a sociopath, you must have friends and allies and be committed to their well-being to be happy. What it does mean is you having the power to do all those things and not be helpless. Helplessness is the mind killer. The whole 'beginner mind' business is, paradoxically, a hack to put yourself back into an expansive state of power (the opposite of powerless). But it cannot last. Unless you are a happy hermit you will want to be in the world, with people, with organizations, with politics, with friends, with enemies, with family. Technical competence, among its many uses, is a kind of armor you put on to conquer, but it isn't terribly useful to hold on to what you've gained for long.
I exercised regularly, almost religiously, before I got Covid. Covid knocked me flat and I haven’t gotten back into my routine. Need to get back. Also, I need to get serious about finding a new job.
Well you're not really supposed to use the OS copy of msvcrt.dll
The difference is that you can be the lord by simply buying JP Morgan shares and enjoying the profits.
Check mate. /s
I've long wondered why we insist on modelling company structure as strict trees / hierarchies. Perhaps there are other classes of graphs which would be better suited in order to avoid such situations?
Elevator Database Wiki
A union provides a monopoly on labor. This is both the standard economic definition, the legal definition, and the practical definition. Without being a monopoly, the employers could simply hire outside or exclude the union workers. The law, explicitly stating the union is a monopoly, but exempt from antitrust laws, makes the employer accept the monopoly. And, like every monopoly, there are pros and cons. Every workers union tries to gain benefits for its members. Those gains don't happen in a vacuum. Empirically, as you can find on Google Scholar in decades of research literature, those costs fall back on society.

Feel free to cite otherwise.
Or you could just quit and keep your social network and business value intact.

Spreading poo-poo in the walls is for flat-squirrel eaters. Somebody will need to clean it and will not be Musk itself, so why would you want to made the morning of a coworker harder (and risk to be tagged as mentally unstable)?
If you shit on company time, do you really care about your company? /s
After looking at that website for like 3 minutes, I've reached the conclusion that I prefer my sex advice to come from someone who's not opposed to orgasms during sex.

It also doesn't help to see things like this on his Wikipedia without listing any sort of institution he was affiliated with:

> Wilson was born in Seattle and taught human pathology, anatomy, and physiology, and was especially interested in the neurochemistry of addiction.

The most reputable thing I could find about him is a TEDx talk, and criteria for giving one of those isn't really top-notch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Wilson_(author)
I love Rouille: https://docs.rs/rouille/latest/rouille/
For everyone else wondering. Prices adjusted for inflation:

$4,695 in 1993 is worth $9,682 today.

$47,995 is worth $98,982 today
Genetically Engineering Sex Selection
This is something I appreciate too, that's why I gradually moved toward lisp, sml, haskell and prolog. I find other languages just give me the wrong tools and setups and restrict my solution space and pace a lot.
Pope Benedict XVI Dies
No. You are focused too downstream and skipping the source of the problem. What should be illegal is the surrounding context that causes JP Morgan's decision to buy up units to be detrimental in the first place. This is zoning restrictions that block new unit construction.

Without such restrictions, JP Morgan buying up thousands of units does little to both rents and unit values in the long-run.
Jin Guantao and the Authentic Mind
Elon is making an arse of Twitter.
Fascinating... TIL.

There are catalyst coatings that split water directly from incident light, at (IIRC) 7-9% efficiency, avoiding need for the solar panels.

H2 is very insoluble in water; maybe dissolving something else helps retain it?

Do the microbes fix their own nitrogen? [...] They say they use a Xanthobacter strain; X. agilis eats hydrogen and fixes nitrogen... Looks like the variety they use produces carotenes and umami too.
It's what happens anytime money becomes the point. Call it extrinsic motivation if you prefer. The folks running the company no longer have nor engender a sense of mission; the folks flocking to your career are chasing dollars rather than love or mission. It feels soulless because it is soulless, and if you're one of the few who genuinely care/love, it's crushing.

It's hardly exclusive to programming. My father was a plumber in love with the craft and even the art of it, and by mid 90s the industry had crushed the love right out of him. Happens everywhere.
For anyone outside of Germany who's wondering, the introduction mostly has the function of explaining the setting and the key repeating line to people who might not be completely familiar with the English language. It's usually shown without subtitles.
Just to clarify, you were told that Dvorak was the dominant layout in Norway?

I'm curious because I (an American) have been using Dvorak for longer than I'd ever used qwerty, so I would find this pretty interesting.
How would you practically become a lord by buying public shares on a working class salary?
Not sure if it is a resolution, or maybe just some "New Years Cleaning", but I'm trying to curate my social media feeds a little more.

I have already done of good job of eliminating the toxic depressing people in years past, so that is not the problem.

But I now realize there is another type of person who affects how I feel in a negative way: the super-successful advice peddler.

I have recently unfollowed a handful of people on Twitter and LinkedIn who seem perfectly nice, yet give too much advice, or are always acting like they are trying to help me achieve their same level of success.

It feels good so far. It reset my mind so that I can focus on just being myself and forging my own path without worrying about what other people are doing or how I'm not as successful as so-and-so.

So I guess my New Years Resolution is to carry that forward. Do not consume content from people who humble-brag in the form of success advice.
In feudalism, all things being average, a vassal benefits from loyalty to a lord because the lord provides protection (because the lord considers the vassal's land ultimately theirs and the vassal primarily as a steward of it).

Corporations buying up and renting real estate is worse than feudalism because you're just paying them for the right to live in a place. Protection such as it is is "outsourced" to the police, but the police don't actually have a material incentive to keep the peace either because they get tax money one way or the other. If anything, some crime is good for business because it provides political leverage to call for more tax money.

So please, let's bring on feudalism because it would actually align incentives far better than what we have now.
> This casual cynicism regarding markets is dangerous and infectious because instead of focusing on fixing problems that have solutions via the levers of government, people give up completely and then nothing is ever made better.

I don't think this follows, and I think it's because you're missing a piece of what's going on here.

You seem to be coming to this from a perspective of "obviously, a healthy system has a market with sensible regulations on it."

That's a world away from where most people (or at least, the loudest people) who criticize regulations are coming from, which is basically, "Unregulated free markets solve all problems, and government only creates problems."

If you feel like you're seeing a lot of cynicism directed at "free markets", this is likely why: it's a reaction against these extremely vocal "drown-government-in-a-bathtub" types.

Thing is, there are generally two different things that people can mean when they say "free market":

1. A "market economy", as contrasted with a "command economy"—ie, more or less the way the US does things, as opposed to the way the Soviet Union did things.

2. An "ideal free market", as described by Adam Smith, which can, in theory, ensure that many systems find a stable, efficient equilibrium that balances consumer desires with producer desires.

The problem is that, however much many (particularly of the Libertarian bent) wish to believe in it, the latter is not real. It is a thought experiment, and it requires a bunch of conditions that don't always apply (eg, perfect information, commoditization, etc). The other problem, of course, is that as I said, the two are often called "free markets" interchangeably without clarification, which leads to much confusion.
I live near a lake and feel miserable every day because of noise pollution from motorboats etc. What a load of bull.
An excellent argument for further consolidation of every industry - now they are big enough to attract scrutiny! Look, less competition is actually better for consumers!

I mean, wow.
2022: The Year AI Art Went Mainstream
Individual experiences are anecdotal but here's a few of mine.

My Son lives in a "mega landlord" unit in Saskatoon (Canada) and it is well maintained and his rental fee is very reasonable.

My Son-in-law lives in a "mega landlord" unit in New Jersey (USA) and it is also in excellent condition.

I personally rented from a private individual in Connecticut for several years and it was a slumhouse.

Landlord was never around, no one to call when things didnt work. we actually had to fix the heating system in Jan because we were freezing cold and the owner was once again MIA.
Yes you just need money so you can make money, why can't the poor just figure this out? ...
Here are the games I've enjoyed in recent years: https://memex.marginalia.nu/good-video-games.gmi

Turns out to be mostly indie games. Feels like that's the only space that's actually experimenting and doing interesting things.

Heaven's Vault and Cruelty Squad stand out especially even though the latter is weird and has a fairly high bar to entry.
Nailed it. DarkReader did it. Ha!

Thank you.
One thing I think has become clear to investors is that the US Government will always "socialized the losses" for Housing. Which is to say that while such ventures could be considered risky investments (particularly during a downturn), the US Government has made clear that there's a floor on housing and that the money-gates will open if things turn bad.

So in essence the US government has created, for corporations, a nearly risk free investment. Highly profitable in the good years, and the bill picked up by all of us in the bad years.
The chip in TFA is definitely described as being a microcontroller (that's the MCU in the title after all).

Sure it's 32-bit and 300+ MHz but I don't think it runs SCB-level OSs like Linux. Didn't see any mention of an MMU.
You mean better lying than they already do by reclassifying everything as a "safety issue" to avoid paying out customers because they skipped on a lot of things already to increase "shareholder value" or other such garbage?

I just hope they don't drain additional time & people to check into each of these "safety issues" now, thinning out the crowd who will also check into actual incidents ...
This is rather interesting. Safe and reliable programming in the large is an important goal. Generics, sum types and typeclasses make different kinds of useful abstraction available from the get-go. I'm looking forward to progress on this.
Are you the dad from Elf?
Provided you quit.

If not, you will need to use that bathroom again. Why make it a mess for yourself and co-workers who did you no harm?
UTM is working fine for me, provided I'm using an arm distro. Chip emulation is a hard no.
So, yes, housing is artificially scarce because of "anti-development and NIMBY forces". But there are other forces at work, particularly good old market forces.

Corpos that compete with me when I am buying housing for my family can go suck a big fat dick.
How does it work? He was buying actual products using his personal credit card but he was modifying the actual price? So that he would pay almost nothing but still get the products? And then he supposedly threw away the products but instead could sell them for a profit?
> After looking at that website for like 3 minutes, I've reached the conclusion that

Three-minute conclusions are the best, and they can last for decades.
It could be the flight booking system described in Sictus Prolog's old homepage:

SICStus Prolog is a workhorse in the transport and logistics industries, running systems that handle a third of all airline tickets, and helping railways to operate their trains better.

“Most people probably have used SICStus Prolog without knowing it,” says Mats Carlsson, its lead developer. “One of our customers runs a flight booking system on SICStus which handles nearly a third of all airline tickets in the world.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20190203010151/https://www.sics....

The new homepage doesn't say anything about flight bookings and I can't find anything about it in the "Customers" page either:

https://sicstus.sics.se/customers.html

I have a sneaking suspicion that might mean the customer replaced Prolog with something else, possibly some kind of machine learning :P
I expect accountants get lied to more than dentists.
Likewise, never heard of it
in the past year after the COVIDicide i've traveled all over the US, and it's fuckin scary how many empty homes there are. owned property, but empty. no for sale signs. no occupants. why are these homes not selling? i will never rent a home! i've been renting for 30 years and it SUCKS. we have to live under the torment of never having a place to call home ever! the looming threat that when we lose our jobs because of pandemics or disasters, or economic turmoil, there's no guarantee that we'll ever not be homeless. ask me, i know from experience, i am a homeless programmer, living in a shelter, typing this from the public library. i lost my job in September, and my rental. i have no cash to drop money on rent now, so this is just one example of what's to come for the rest of you who don't own property. it's a LIVING HELL!
Love your book and everything you do !
chatbot search engines
I've had the same experience. Terrible treatment by large management companies. Moved as a result to a private landlord and they're fantastic.
Big prediction thread from a week ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34125628
This probably doesn't qualify for "taking my wife out to lunch".

A few years back in Lisbon I got a simple main dish for 3€ in a restaurant. That was surprisingly cheap, I guess this is not possible in Spain, also not in the cheapest regions.
The actual title of paper by Jin Guantao is "On the Origins of Contemporary Society’s Intellectual Crisis - The World of 2020". He makes an interesting connection between the epistemological uncertainty underlying 20th century's scientific results and the reactionary intellectual and political tendencies of 21st century. It's worth the read.

https://ccr.ubc.ca/jin-guantao/
It's the end of programming as we know it
I feel like a law of game theory is you can’t eliminate game theory. But, I think it needs to be minimised to such an extent that we don’t need to bring it up. And that, even if your vote doesn’t elect someone this election, it sends a powerful message (because it’s your honest genuine intention) for the next.

I don’t think it’s a losing battle. If anything the last Australian federal election showed not only how good Ranked Choice is at conveying voter intention, but that a meaningful number of us understand it.

The LNP stopped representing their base (perhaps in a similar way to the ALP with the Greens) which opened the door for the Teal independents.

As an outsider looking in to US politics it appears as though similar issues exist, but there are no viable alternatives. In a positive sign for democracy US voters largely rejected candidates who were sowing doubt about the elections.

Related this thread [0] is a nice dive into the changing political landscape around the world as we age. It’s not following the expected path, and I think a lot has to do with us being more educated than ever.

[0] https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1608746369505976323?...
Spectacular. Doing government as if it was a Sotheby’s auction. The law goes to the highest bidder.
Same here. It seems to get slightly better in light mode (at least the horizontal one), so it’s probably related to style calculations under various themes.

Luckily I’m confident it will be fixed pretty rapidly, judging by the steady release cycles and impressively pace of improvements by the author.