skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone explain why TikTok needs a virtual machine? What are they doing with it that can't be done with a normal web app?
There is no free speech without privacy.
If you could somehow get access to tay from microsoft with its post twitter knowledge base, really complete the nightmare.

Additionally, you could hook it up to a speech to text and visa-versa for another type of hell.
Just print-screen it and you've always a permanent record of it.

(I understand the problem, I've had a score of 27 straight wins and no losses at solitaire on my phone for months and I'm not game to go any further—yes, I've a print-screen of the score).
And that is why I don't go near any crypto. Don't get me wrong I love the idea but I don't like volatility. I can't wait until a stable DeFi is established. for international transactions this will be a dream.

If it's up over 10 fold in 3 years then I don't see why it couldn't drop 3 fold in the next 3. I like simple investments where the value is obvious and a simpleton like me can guess if the price matches the underlying value.
Yep I got an Amber monitor with my Franklin Apple clone December 1982. So definitely not just a few years in the late 80s. They were never common green much more widespread.
Apple rolls out AI-narrated audiobooks
Miele is a well-known up-market household appliances and devices manufacturer from Germany. Generally Miele is considered to last a lifetime, though their first few wifi enabled appliances and devices were horrible.
Home Manager – Manage a user environment using Nix
All phony means is there’s no output file. And frankly, it works fine without phony, unless you accidentally create that file.

Make’s built around creating files. Phony works around that.
Chunk of gold - go down to the local gold broker pay a fee to get dollars. Bitcoin - pay a fee to get it exchanged for dollars so that you can buy something before it loses it's value ($60K -> $17K).

Or just use dollars.
Why did this disappear from the front page?
> At any distance you can't see the road in front of the car in front of you (assuming equal height cars).

Which is exactly why you should leave enough stopping distance.

> "One of those boulders that hit his tires flies off towards us, but luckily we veer and it misses." - this could happen no matter how far away you are.

It could, but you should be driving slowly enough and leaving enough space that you have time to react to it.
I agree. No need to over-complicate pouring water into a cone.

As an added benefit, I don’t have to spend my morning participating in technology and the occasional associated frustrations. I can save that for later in my day, after I’ve had my cup of coffee.
Unlike OP, I get the impression you’re referring to the good faith clause. I think they did that admirably, balancing a stated assumption that the intent was well meaning and knowledgeable jest with a friendly and informative rebuttal clearly intended to be helpful if their assumption was flawed.

But you could be referencing any number of other things in the guidelines. It would be incredibly helpful if people on HN who engage in community moderation actually explain their reasoning. Here I’ll help:

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

If you’re bothered enough by someone’s comments to link the guidelines, sharing a thought about which part of them is pertinent would be more thoughtful and would facilitate a healthier discussion.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals […] A good critical comment teaches us something.

This is one I’m working on too. If it’s worth challenging something, it’s probably worth challenging it with some proverbial meat. It might seem obviously wrong to you, or to me, but it doesn’t always seem that obvious to everyone else.

I’m certain you meant well with this, but I also think OP would benefit from clarification. I know I would too, and I expect the discussion would benefit as well.
It would be foolish to assume your tires and brakes and reaction time are all functioning at peak capability all the time.
> The problem, in a nutshell, is that for Bitcoin and other digital assets to have any chance of becoming mainstream, banks—with their access to deep sources of liquidity and experience in facilitating payments—will have to be on board. For the time being, they’re running in the opposite direction.

What does Bitcoin "becoming mainstream" look like specifically? The article doesn't offer anything - not even a link.

Let's say it's 1974 and you're writing an article about the desktop computer "becoming mainstream". What does that look like exactly to you? I'm guessing it doesn't look anything like the last 30 years. Not even close.

So how can the author be so confident in asserting that banks must be "on board" for this mainstreaming to happen?

The desktop computer was an attack from below, in the Christenson Innovator's Dilemma sense. It looked and acted exactly like a toy for the first decade of its existence. Most incumbents who saw through that surface illusion were powerless to do anything about it. The one that did (IBM) tried, briefly succeeded, then lost the entire thing.

Banks with their highly touted "experience in facilitating payments" are the very thing Bitcoin has in the crosshairs. Banks losing interest now that the Bitcoin FOMO is gone? Good riddance to them and their AML/KYC bootlicking.
> Let's compare a highly valuable and needed metal with 6000+ years of history as a solid investment

Hi, I've worked in the global mineral exploration industry for decades, both as a mine worker, an exploration geophysicist, and as a compiler of a global DB that now backends the S&P mineral intelligence division.

Let's clear up some things about gold.

1) It's valuable because it's valued ..

That's pretty much it, it's kind of rare, its shiny, it "stands alone" as a noble metal that doesn't easily react.

2) Much needed - it's used in jewellry, it's essential in high end long life zero maintaince space electronics ... a great deal of other uses (Gold Speaker Cables!!) are just pure performative BD (ie. it's not "essential") - other metals are in the same ballpark for conductivity, etc.

3) The greatest single application for gold, once mined at great expense, is to be formed into ingots and sit about as bullion as "proof" of work (digging a super pit and spending > billion to recover it per annum) and proof of wealth.

It's more or less solid crypto that persists after the power goes out, can be worn as shiny jewellery, and has some neat niche applications that it is essential for.

I'm not a huge cyrpto fan, although I did hang on the cypher punk boards where the bitcoin paper was first announced (as I have a math background) - I'm no fan of the vast amount of energy wasted (IMHO) on both gold extraction and bitcoin mining.
Make also has a windows version, it just needs to be installed, just like Just.
>Pandemic? State must sort it out. Bad parents? State. Interpersonal violence? State. Crime? State. Infrastructure needed? State. Children are hungry? State.

> For better or ill (and I'd say better) 40% taxation is here to stay, since we have all become left wing, now.

I think it's largely better, because people who are impacted by those incidents in an outsized way often become revolutionaries, or radicals, and they tear down the state that has failed to support them. I'd rather pay 30-40% tax and have a stable government and a low-crime society than a 15-20% one and have to pay for my own personal security and to worry if the next government is going to decide that my property is to be seized.
> The fact that you can't drag windows if their draggable parts are offscreen

Doesn't holding down ALT turns the entire window into a draggable part?
I do but this plugin is a vim one. Both my vim and zsh start instantly (<100ms).
How do products like this monetize? Seems like a trap to a user that's conditioned to "if something is free you're the product". Extensions like this generally request the total access permission in order to change page content. Are they selling information about your browsing habits I guess?
There is no reason to be invested in crypto. It is no more valuable than a trading card and the volatile nature of trading cards are equal part. Noone also needs to invest in something that has an unsure future. While people would argue that it is like investing in stocks that crypto is the new Apple stocks of 80s. It simply isn't that stocks come with volatility but you own a share of the company as in you own that percentage.
>First, you bought that over-complicated appliance for the same reason everyone else does: it has more features, and you like features. Everyone wants features. If you want to sell an appliance today, you have to cram in more features, and do it more cheaply than the competition.

I'm in retail (e-commerce, selling retro video games), and this is 100% my experience.

There is a certain type of customer who is prepared to pay extra for quality and durability, but they are swamped by the overwhelming majority of the market who try to optimise for features and price.

It's reached the stage now where we no longer even bother bundling official accessories with many consoles we sell, as the overwhelming majority of people will not just prefer but pay extra to get bigger bundles containing multiple third-party controllers, ludicrously large Alibaba memory cards and "free" copies of FIFA/Assassin's Creed (which are otherwise so low-value we actually gut them to re-use the case).

The same market will also pay an extra $40 or so to get a 1TB HDD installed in their PS3s, even though the average person probably only uses 10-20GB (it reached the point where we always upgrade anything smaller than 500GB as it doesn't make economic sense to do otherwise).

It really is understated how badly people want features, even ones they'll never use or get in the way of their enjoyment of the product.
Why would they buy such a problematic platform?

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/01/04/failing-f-35-gr...
There's a pretty big difference between "can't get above 10 Mbps down", which is pretty bad and "can't get above 10 Mbps up), which is not nearly as bad. Most people's internet usage is highly download-heavy!

Pre-video conferencing there wasn't a whole lot that would use upload at all (outside of niche use cases like torrenting). Hard to blame the cable companies for prioritizing download bandwidth. I lived through covid on a normal cable plan of 200/10 and never ran into major issues.
> Let's say it's 1974 and you're writing an article about the desktop computer "becoming mainstream". What does that look like exactly to you? I'm guessing it doesn't look anything like the last 30 years. Not even close.

Sure it does. Read Alan Kay's "Personal Dynamic Media". His vision of the ultimate personal computer was what today we'd consider a very bulky laptop.
we used to joke about LISP source code contains mostly brackets.

There was a programming language in the 1970's called SAM76 that didn't care how many closing parentheses you had, as long as it was more than the number of opening parentheses.

So, something like this was perfectly valid:

a(1+r(em(2)))))))))))))))))))
I think he means the compelling aspect is its fixed monetary policy. Gold deposits can be discovered (Uganda) or asteroids mined. Governments actively change their monetary policy. But bitcoin, for the first time in history, sets monetary policy in stone and gives all participants perfect information (in the game theoretic sense). I'm not saying that's overall good or bad, but it certainly makes predicting the future easier!
Right, but having them all be the same is what people are joking about :) Although I might check the lisp/clojure vs java code on techempower or another rosetta stone like example.
50 times a second is hyperbole. Your heart cannot beat that fast because there is a refractory period between one contraction and the next. Before that could actually take place your heart would go into ventricular fibrillation, a disorganized electrical depolarization of heart muscle where many small electrical impulses cause chaotic and ineffective contractions of correspondingly tiny and disparate parts of the heart muscle.

I've heard this idea before, that you can die hours or days after an electric shock without realizing anything is wrong, but I think it is very rare.

An electrical injury can certainly trigger an abnormal heart rhythm, but you would probably notice most of those and, hopefully, go get a cardiogram.

If you felt normal, but had a serious electrical injury to the heart that would later lead to fibrillation, one would have to postulate some sort of abnormal re-entrant (sort-of circular) depolarization current in the heart muscle that was very regular, say 60 beats per minute, but that was prone to deteriorate into fibrillation over time.

That is what I recall about the matter, off the top of my head.
Make is firmly in a category of 'better the devil you know' for me. Not that I deeply know it, I use just a subset of it anyway and for that it's fine.

If there's was a short Make: The Good Parts O'Reilly book, then I would probably read it.
Thanks for your detailed response, it's excellent and so kind of you to give me such detailed suggestions. I feel I have to check out every single one of these systems. I only knew Pathfinder and Dungeon World.

I like the idea of the OSR systems with small rulesets. So I'll check The Black Hack first. Do you know about any systems like this one that have been published under the Creative Commons license?
To give you an idea of how wide the gap is, my issue is not that I want the interaction to be ill-defined. I never ever want to have to think about the interactions between named spells in a fight. That’s a narratively uninteresting part of the situation. If there is to be a fight between people with fantastical powers, I want the rules to solve the thing quickly without unnecessary fuss so we can get back to what matters. Your two last paragraphs are just tedium from my point of view which is why I dislike D&D so much I guess.
I have no idea what a common sense interpretation of QM would be.

I'm having trouble locating what I'm thinking of but I thought it had been established that at least one of three very non-common-sense interpretations of QM had to hold at this point.
I was going to link some related work here, then saw they did a better than usual job of covering that: https://www.nongnu.org/skribilo/index.html#related
UPS has not kept up with the modern concept of B2C shipping (I'm in Canada, maybe it's different elsewhere). If I understand correctly, legacy shippers like them and fedex have global networks and are well positioned to ship spoke to spoke if you can call it that. But they're getting their grass cut by the amazon centric couriers (ours is called intelecom) that focus on hub to home delivery.

I've had nothing but problems with UPS actually delivering stuff to my house, and the idea of driving to an industrial park to pick up a package at a shipping center is a joke. I've had no problems with the amazon couriers.

I assume this is on the back of the employees. And I support a model where I pay the true cost of delivering stuff, meaning appropriate pay for delivery workers.

But I think the writing is on the wall for UPS and other legacy carriers, and a strike is only going to accelerate that. They've already lost the goodwill of the public. Most won't even notice if the rest of their business goes to the Amazon focused couriers.

The problem is what it will do to the broader shipping networks. Presumably without ups, shipping will get even more expensive and have worse service for smaller businesses
Agreed. Just remodeled my entire kitchen and the only thing I kept was the gas Viking range and ovens. When the best restaurants have been using these across the board for decades I might consider it but I’ll be dead then.
I've been there once almost 10 years ago. It was really nice. For me the highlight was the enormous palm trees and the massive lily pads.
> if I were a bank, bitcoin presents a compelling argument.

Banks don't make money by owning assets. That's not their business model.
The NHTSA opened an investigation on sticky pedals in Toyota vehicles after three crashes. 36 crashes caused by a defect is comparatively enormous.
eval() is banned on Firefox Addon, that could be a reason why they stop using.
Anyone who enjoys living on a habitable planet has a vested interest in the fail of crypto.
Did they remove it already? The only relevant thing I see is a list of apps for generating TOTP codes based on their popularity.
[Vimium] [link hints] support opening links in new (background) tabs with one hand (and no mouse/trackpad!)

I forget if it's the default, but my Vimium is configured so f opens a link in the background, and F opens a link in the foreground. You can also choose the current tab.

[Vimium]: https://vimium.github.io/

[link hints]: https://github.com/philc/vimium/wiki/Using-Link-Hints
The only reason I can think of is that Stripe (and Paypal) have much lower credit standards for merchant, making it easier to sign up for. In addition, they have more marketing in the consumer space, and have done a lot of work to make it easy to integrate with online tools.

Most credible merchants would do better with a bank or similar processor, assuming they have some experience in programming interfaces (or at least troubleshooting them).
> What does Bitcoin "becoming mainstream" look like specifically?

Just like your desktop computer analogy, it looks like Grandma using Bitcoin in an everyday, mundane way like paying the electric bill.
thank you.

there is always a car in front of you. always, unless you are the very first driver on the brand new road. keep enough distance from the car ahead of you that you can see the road surface far enough ahead that you can stop.

if you need to see in front of the car ahead of you to have enough stopping time, you are following far too closely.
Non-leading questions: are there articles like this for basically all major military procurements? Or are there examples of big spends where basically everyone’s delighted by the project, timeline, and deliverable?
We are much of the same mind. The organ may be the queen of the instruments, but the human voice is king, and I much prefer singing without distracting organ accompaniments.

That being said, I don't think you can get a full picture of Bach's achievements without having some appreciation for his organ work, particularly the chorale preludes. Those are some of the most magnificent pieces he ever wrote, and I adore them despite my ambivalence towards the sound of the organs.
1 year ago it was $3000.
Water isn't very conductive, either, unless it has a lot of dissolved salts.
And sometimes heavy involvement with a Therapist later as an adult.
Do they actually address how it’s going to be “cheap”? Stopped reading because I couldn’t find it and given it’s the big issue you’d think they’d put it front and center.
John Sculley on How Steve Jobs Got Fired from Apple (2013)
Gee. All they had to do was just ignore this for two weeks and the whole world would move on. Who made this decision?
What are they gonna do, sue you, and offer you a chance to testify? I wonder if this has been tested
Nice, do you have any recommendations for non-fiction? TIA.
> It just shows that life is a long sequence of being lucky. It bet during the course of a week everybody does something that may get them killed if unlucky. Most people are lucky but a few aren’t.

That kind of thinking makes people resist taking reasonable safety precautions. The reality is that risk varies a lot; while there's no such thing as perfectly safe, there are things you can do that substantially reduce your risk of dying young, such as driving less.
>How can I find a washing machine that will last for 20 years?

In all seriousness, check second hand sites like Facebook Marketplace.

The price of an item new in the shops often has low correlation with its quality, but second-hand markets are ridiculously frugal and rational.

Even if you don't want to buy used goods, the fact that an item which cost $499 ten years ago still sells for $300 used is a real testament to the quality of the brand.

Low quality crap will usually lose at least 50% of its value once you've opened the box, and another 50% yet again after just a couple of years' use.
In a similar vein, I've long been a fan of Kayak's URL structure.[1]

[1]: https://www.kayak.com/flights/SEA-IND/2023-01-10/2023-01-14?...
maybe the guy in charge of the buying decisions and the guy in charge of sales are buds
IIRC Sweden (or one of the scandis) does exactly that, a parking ticket is based on a percentage of your gross yearly wage (or something to that effect, maybe the sticker price of the car?) rather than being a set cost, since otherwise those kinds of fines disproportionally target lower income individuals while it becomes a small hassle that the wealthy pay off and forget about.

Corporate fines should work similarly, any infraction no matter how small should be fined at a % of their cashflow. I think Apple, with their 2 Trillion(!!!!) Dollars can hire a lawyer or two to make sure they're not breaking any silly privacy laws, after all :)
Nice link, I wasn't aware of Bayenism. As to why people worship neural networks "AI" I think they like it because they are lonely. It gives them hope that there could be a machine they could talk to and the machine would understand and offer comfort and advice. I think it will, to many people, if they juts believe in it. A bit like placebo which works as well. Cargo cult, religion. "AI" will be our savior they think.
I agree. Similarly to you I started about 15 years ago with 3.5 and I am pretty satisfied with 5e.

I think the issue is for better or worse D&D is more or less synonymous with Tabletop roleplaying games, especially when you are talking to people outside of the space.

So many of the concepts from D&D from the attribute system (Strength, dexterity Constitution etc.) To the classes (Fighter, Ranger, Paladin and so on) show up all over the place in things like video games etc. At this point I think it's very hard to come up with a fantasy setting and not have it look like somewhat of a D&D clone.

Outside the D&D D20 system I really like the World of Darkness system which is D10 based. I don't think it especially popular though.
Assuming you're in the US - At the current dividend yield rate, save up about $350,000 in Vanguard VYM for $10k/year paid quarterly. If I recall correctly, if that's your only income and it's all dividends, you will pay minimal federal taxes (check with a tax pro though).
In my experience computers last longer when cool, and even more important is a minimum number of heat cycles. Things like capacitors on motherboards use chemicals that break down over time, and more quickly if they are hotter. Sure you can buy capacitors that will last 10 years in challenging conditions, but I doubt any consumer motherboards do.

Ideally my desktop lasts 10 years, even if it ends up in some kind of secondary usage scenario. To that end I want it silent, well cooled, and to experience minimum temperature swings.

I usually end up with 2x 140mm intake fans, a 120mm fan on top of the CPU, and one of the decent PSUs that go to zero RPM when at low loads. In a case like this a 65w TDP CPU (that's normally going to idle at way less) is MUCH easier to cool than a 150w-300w (the common range for the alder lake Intel chips). No exotic cooling (water, water blocks, piping, reservoir, pump, etc) needed, and not a big deal if the bearings loose some lubrication or dust accumulates on a filter.

Sure would some CPU intensive workloads go 10-20% faster at 2x-3x the power? Sure. Do I care, no. I'd rather spend the extra purchase price, cost of electricity, cost of cooling, and related on ECC memory. I don't really want to be able to hear when my desktop is busy, should be silent all the time.
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