skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people are grossly incompetent at existing, and a substantial portion of the grief they experience in life is self-inflicted. 60% of the population couldn't afford an emergency $500 expense and 50% of millennials earning six figures live paycheck to paycheck.

Whether most people even understand (let alone value) something as abstract as monetary autonomy (to say nothing of financial privacy, transaction irrepudiation, resistance to censorship, resistance to confiscation [for the competent], deflationary nature, the resilient distributed architecture, etc) is no indicator of the actual utility of said thing.

The things most people do care about (sports, "reality" TV, which carcinogenic cognition-degrading beverage to consume [and which one to fire live ammunition at], parasocial relationships with celebrities, astrology, and other such nonsense) should clear up any confusion about the value of public opinion.

To be clear: I'm not advocating for public adoption of crypto - quite the opposite - the public, writ large, is simultaneously too incompetent to perform key management, while also being too incompetent to manage counterparty risk. Centralized exchanges shouldn't even exist, but that's not an argument against the existence or utility of cryptocurrency itself, it's an argument against enabling idiots to harm themselves.

FIAT and Crypto are both products of the human imagination, true. The difference is that one exists within an ecosystem tailor-made for restricting freedom through surveillance, control, rampant inflation (USD has lost >97% of value since inception), and the other in an ecosystem that allows for absolute privacy, full control, and deflation, which incentivizes rather than punishes savers.

You might not care about any of those properties. The public might not even understand half of them. That doesn't mean those properties in a monetary system have no value to anyone.
A little bit.

It's not like an accusation of hypocrisy is automatically wrong, or anything.

It really confuses me why you think such a mundane political statement is a reddit thing. Especially if you think the rent free thing isn't reddity, in which case you're not drawing with a super broad brush in a way I could at least understand.
Well, we also know they didn't crack a random 20 character password. But some people appear to be panicking as if they did.
The same purpose as the grain of sand on the beach under the one on top of it, on top of the one below it. The grain is where it is after it found a solid foundation for it to rest on. The grain on top of it in turn rests on the ones below, and so forth - it is grains of sand all the way down and up.
Why Are We So Afraid of Nuclear Power?
Push notifications are now available in iOS.

And so I will be looking forward to the magical era of PWAs replacing all mobile applications because clearly push notifications was what was holding them back all these years.

Even though a tiny fraction of mobile apps use them but I guess we will ignore that.
I think it's highly subjective what's easier for humans to read/write.

Personally, I much prefer the latter of these two:

JSON:

[
{
"id":"0003",
"type":"donut",
"name":"Old Fashioned",
"ppu":0.55,
"batters":{
"batter":[
{
"id":"1001",
"type":"Regular"
}
]
},
"topping":[
{
"id":"5004",
"type":"Maple"
}
]
}
]

EDN

[{"id" "0003"
"type" "donut"
"name" "Old Fashioned"
"ppu" 0.55
"batters" {"batter" [{"id" "1001"
"type" "Regular"}]}
"topping" [{"id" "5004"
"type" "Maple"}]}]

Strings (like `"id"`) are usually keywords (like `:id`) in EDN, but I still find it much easier to parse and understand. I've read a lot more JSON over the years than I've read EDN, so I don't think it's a "used to" feeling I have either.
> You have a gift of your own. To not be able to trip from psychedelics is a super power. You are just as much a genetic freak as I am.

Weeeellll... I totally can trip. I actually have been, for around the past 7 hours or so. I find it just as wonderful as any other to get lost in pretty art <3

I just don't experience any psychosis or schizophrenia symptoms. And I don't trip for that purpose, but psychedelics just happen to be a thing I've tried that doesn't result in any of those symptoms.

Oh well~
I thought community colleges were just a fraction of the cost of 4 year colleges? In my state at least CC are free to local HS grads. I think in a lot of cases you would have to do it out of a desire to teach rather than as an profit maximizer.
There is not enough hatred in the world for the people who keep proliferating these.
I was thinking redis would be excellent for this usecase
Hold on, Cloudflare building a tool that respects users?

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> You need a consent popup to embed YouTube or Twitter

Not really, since embedding YouTube and Twitter should work even if the consent for tracking is refused (under GDPR consent inherently is opt-in, not opt-out; and consent is valid only if it is freely given, i.e. if you don't refuse service to those who refuse consent), and for that you don't necessarily need a popup, because you're free to assume that noone opts in to anything where a choice is provided - if you just treat everyone as if they clicked 'I refuse any optional consent', you don't need to ask that question.
You think the Steve Jobs, worth more than a billion dollars, died of cancer due to exposure to toxic waste?
I've lost track of the amount of times I accidentally deleted a file I shouldn't have or messed up a git project in a way it'd have taken ages to untangle, said oops, remembered I have hourly snapper snapshots set up and just copied the previous state over. It's been a massive time- and occasionally lifesaver for me.
The “risk” may just be not getting back in the treadmill. The risk of marketable skills and your network deteriorating is real. But with years or decades of savings, “taking a risk” may just be pursuing an idea. Doesn’t necessarily mean spend a big chunk of savings.
Xbox owners can no longer upload content to Twitter from their console
Uh, I might have a language barrier here. Doesn't predominate imply a majority?

But besides this I do see your point. Mechanical interaction with buttons, switches, dials and the like offer a great interface and they haven't been universally replaced by touch screens for a reason.

I was thinking more of the ubiquity of specialised phone apps. I checked my phone just now and I have apps for public transport (i.e. train tickets and routes), taxis/ubers, multiple apps for ordering food, fitness/workout tracking, todo apps, calendars, smart home control, weather, general search, news and lots more.
I'd say that most uses of most of those apps would be more convenient through a single chat like interface.
Encrypting something well is so easy. If your encryption scheme fails at 8 million in compute cost something is horribly wrong.
+1 for this. It makes my Amazfit watch from a privacy nightmare into a great cheap privacy conscious watch.

I just wish it could export SpO2 values and update the AGPS almanac. Because of this a GPS lock takes very long.
I agree with taking this with a grain of salt, but i'm not sure how "this clearly hints at an evil maid attack". At this point anything is pure speculation: evil maid or other pre-seizure compromise, some amount of password guessing, exploit in some of the software, secret extraction from hardware, ...
From the repo:

> Note the following advantages of RON over JSON:

>trailing commas allowed

>single- and multi-line comments

>field names aren't quoted, so it's less verbose

>optional struct names improve readability

>enums are supported (and less verbose than their JSON representation)

I’m no fan of JSON but honestly, I think this is a very weak list of benefits if you’re trying to convince someone to switch.
Kill on sight. But he loves my sister.

We think it’s because he first met my sister as a baby and only met my mom when he was older. Although it’s been a while for pandemic reasons so I don’t have any recent data.
In my experience, it's usually the capacitor that pops, but my experience is mostly with GU10 form factor bulbs, which have the downside of being very compact and fitted in fittings that don't have good heat reduction properties resulting in everything running hot, even in a LED bulb that should be cool. Even the cheapest LEDs last longer than standard halogen GU10 bulbs though, so there's that.
Not exactly sure how the desktop Linux boot process is structured, but on windows with bitlocker the boot partition isn't encrypted either. UEFI has to be able to load a boot manager somehow, and unless you're going to splice in a DXE driver to your mobo's fw, which has the risk of bricking, to decrypt a partition, then you're always going to need a cleartext partition somewhere.

On windows the default way it's set up when you have a TPM though is that it locks the decryption keys against a hash of all of the code that has run during the boot process.
Every single airline app on my phone is there only because of push notifications (which work more reliably than texts when traveling internationally with different SIMs). The same goes for most food delivery apps.
That one line made me question all the facts presented in this article. Might be unfair, but according to wikipedia[1] - total gold ever is ~ 250k tons

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_reserve
>> I think "pragmatic therefore non-logical" versus "ivory tower therefore useless" is a false dichotomy. In my experience it's nearly impossible to make green cuts, and once you know a few tricks and rules of thumb, you can get pretty far writing logical code.

I don't agree that it's hard to make green cuts. The standard ones are, in recursive programs, one in the terminating condition of a recursive program and one in every recursive clause after the last. Ideally those should be placed immediately after the goal in the relevant clause acting as a "test" to select the clause, as advised by Covington et al (https://www.covingtoninnovations.com/mc/plcoding.pdf; much sensible advise on using the cut there, too).

Those cuts are "green" as a rule (there will be exceptions) in that they avoid unnecessary backtracking after a condition is met for selecting the clause. But of course those cuts can be misused to hide a programming error. That is something the programmer must learn to avoid, but I really don't see that as an insurmountable obstacle. To come back to Covington et al:

5.5 Never add a cut to correct an unknown problem

A common type of Prolog programing error is manifested in a predicate that yields
the right result on the first try but goes wrong upon backtracking. Rather than add
a cut to eliminate the backtracking, investigate what went wrong with the logic.
There is a real risk that if the problem is cured by adding the cut, the cut will be far
away from the actual error (even in a different predicate), which will remain present
to cause other problems later.

And btw, "pragmatic" doesn't have to be "non-logical". I'm not arguing about that. I'm claiming that the purity of FOL is unreachable in the real world and concessions have to be made. At the end of the day, sloppy coding is sloppy coding, whether it's pragmatic, or pure, or declarative, or whatever and I'm definitely not advocating for writing code in any old way.
FTA: But what sets Community apart is the dialogue that celebrities and brands have with their customers, who provide troves of information about themselves, which the brand owns and isn’t shared with Community’s other clients.

Oseary was originally drawn to Community because of his role as a music manager, he said.

“I have no way to know who came to the concert tonight. I have no way to speak to them again once they leave the concert. I have no way to know who bought the album,” he said. “With Community, once they text the number, we now have a way to stay in touch directly. And that information is not owned by anyone but the artist, the talent or the person who’s building a business.”

And SMS solves this because…the user took an action by accepting text? What?

I think this is fascinating, another ‘social media’ company, now with some serious management that is focused on celebrities and brands. This sounds super faddish. But I guess I will have “Ashton Kutcher’s” phone number in my contacts now, so…I’m cool! Hold up gotta text McDonald’s back…I can see ChatGPT used here…
if there is a bash script that does not start with #!/bin/bash where the instructions say to run it in bash, then it can be run as bash scriptfile; or cat scriptfile | bash;. both these forms work from any commandline shell
That's not true, Bitlocker offers the option to save the encryption keys. It's your choice and it's clearly labeled:
https://www.top-password.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/10...

Besides, the user also had a Windows laptop encrypted with Bitlocker, and the police failed to crack that one (see top comment).
> Flipping doesn’t “just” happen, that’s a huge morphological change.

In some primitive ancestor, it might have 'just' happened randomly. Some mutations that are small in genetic code terms can have huge effects on body structure.
Wait till they find out about unikernels!
“The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race…”
iOS 16.4 added notification support for websites added to the home screen, does Microsoft need to make a change to use it?
The irony being I know lecturers who teach at actually prestigious universities and make decent money and have none of the useless requirements satisfied.
Let's not forget KDL! : https://kdl.dev/
Not the nice in-store video, but a page from an Allkauf Supermarket ad in 1995, with some of the computers on sale. No Amigas, though: https://youtu.be/z9Rb0L-xK8w?t=27
It won't work because the lawyers will just argue that you are "buying" semi perpetual rights to play the game.

You instead need a judge or jury or law that says: "No, fuck you, this is confusing and we don't care what's in your ToS, you will treat this as a product which has had its ownership changed in return for money".
Point is that we move the bar every time computers reach it. At least in part because we want to keep feeling special. And in part because we go “Well that can’t have been the bar then”

I suspect even full AGI will be considered “just a machine” for many decades, even centuries, before it gains the same rights as humans. We love to find reasons we’re special. Look how long it took us to admit animals are intelligent.

For many humans, computers definitionally can’t be intelligent. It’s important to recognize that.
People are dumber than you think.

Remember all the mistakes DPR did and commenters were like "a criminal mastermind creating the Amazon of drugs couldn't have possibly asked on StackOverflow using his real identity how to build that".
I smell the spoiled inside the fresh milk. Somehow. Like, I'm detecting whatever ingredient causes spoiledness, far before the milk has actually spoiled, but it just smells/tastes like the exact pure concept of spoil.
This actually sounds like respecting DNT. If a site turns on the captcha feature and you have DNT then anything they do to mark your session as "person who did the captcha" is tracking.
Just a word salad to name drop some of their portfolio companies
I would love an option that allows me to set defaults for all websites that I visit. Such as to reject marketing and tracking cookies and other mechanisms used for that purpose globally and to allow me to fine tune functional stuff on a per-site basis.
Well, I was expecting that mapping the rules of grammar would comprise more than just assigning part of speech tags.
Use bass to drop down to bash from fish :)

https://github.com/edc/bass
Because of the time it made 150 square kilometers of Japan uninhabitable?
And then you get a hard drive for each game and use them like nintendo carts!
LMFlow updates 23 Apr 2023
Support streaming output and ChatGLM inference! Updated the Robin-7B model based on LLaMA-7B training! Two commercially viable models: Parakeets-2.7B (based on GPT-NEO-2.7B) and Cokatoo-7B (based on StableLM-7B)!
https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/how-far-from-earth-could-...

Strongest radar we have ever made could do perhaps a few hundred light years? The Milky Way is 100,000 light years across and there are only about 59,000 stars visible with a telescope within 100 light years of earth. I think it would take a very charitable reading of the Drake equation to believe our signals even met intelligent life capable of receiving them.
No, you're the one misunderstanding the physics. The reflected radiation is in a different spectrum than greenhouse gas absorption spectrum. The greenhouse effect is supposed to be about the difference in thermal radiation absorption frequencies, not sunlight absorption frequencies. You can read again about greenhouse effect to see that you misunderstood it. CO2 is the same as air in sunlight spectrum, which is the reflected radiation. Both are negligible. The entire argument rests on thermal radiation absorption, not sunlight absorption.

Do you have any background in physics at all? Seems like you don't really understand physics.

Here, wikipedia's entry:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect

The warm surface emits thermal radiation in IR, which is what is absorbed by greenhouse gases.

That's not your fault, their explanation is extremely misleading, like I have said.
It's not really "help". Musk is not an agent - he is a useful idiot. The goal of these "libertarians" is to subvert and sabotage democracy here at home. The way it is right now, the system is not working - they are not respected or loved enough. Therefore, the country is broken.
Nitpick: Countdown was the first show broadcast on Channel 4, which launched in 1982.
Seems unlikely, that never worked in the past. And humans don't actually use logic (especially formal logic) to come up with anything. They just use it to justify what they came up with.

Not even mathematicians think in terms of logic when trying to solve problems.
ChromeOS supports various kinds of Linux apps. Including normal desktop & cli apps in the Crostini developer oriented environment, and Android apps out of the box.
They were professional workshops. Your employer and your kids are equally irrelevant to the conversation.
I think it’s just a typo, the chart above says 70 metric tons, not 70 million!
Poll: Do you have technical skills?
Over the years HN has undoubtedly shifted more mainstream and I'm kind of curious how far we have now shifted. So hence my question: are you 'just' a user of technology or do you have technical skills yourself?
don't have technical skills
have some technical skills
have lots of technical skills
The New Yorker does come off a bit odd because it's a middle-brow publication aimed at a mass audience and sold as 'what high society reads', hence it's motivated to try to look 'intellectual' while being as unsophisticated as possible to maintain a high school, or nowadays middle school, reading level. Since people are most comfortable at a few grades below their actual reading level.

It's a common paradigm for many 'intellectual' publications

Actual high-brow literature, such as the Physical Review Letters or the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, have no need to pretend but then they assume a bare minimum of a college graduate reading level, plus specialized knowledge on top of that for their niche. Hence they're impenetrable for the vast majority.
The biggest problems are developer skills, and the perception only C with tons of inline Assembly goes.

Even Unreal ships a GC.
Naked-Eye Double Stars
A quantitative analysis of visual acuity accompanies the article.
That personal accountability for ones actions is key to personal growth and development.

Blaming other people for my shortfalls only does a disservice to myself.
That's good and all but when can we expect such a revolutionary feature as listening to two apps at the same time? Or at least not having the Podcasts app stop because some video autoplays in the browser. The fact that Apple still stubbornly calls this 30% fee-generator pretext an "operating system", shameless. (Been using an iPhone only for 3-5 core apps, Phone/messaging, Camera, browser, Podcasts, for a decade)
I thought that because the C standard requires sizeof(char) to be 1, CHAR_BIT cannot be anything other than 8, unless the architecture is redefining what 'byte' means.
If the government is holding the gear for your show in customs, and is going to hold it for 3 months, but with a payment it can be released next week and your show can happen and you make a lot of money from ticket sales, that sounds very much like a business interest, and thus a bribe according to the FCPA. That the "gear" is a live cat in my ludicrous example seems immaterial of it's a bribe or not.
Text on the Internet isn't just tainted by the output of recent relatively smart models.

We had computers spit out text (especially spam) for ages now. You'd have to filter those out, too, if tainting actually was a problem.
Micro- and nanoplastics breach the blood–brain barrier in mice
Yeah, that's where I got this stuff from. I'm debating re-reading it now that I know something about this stuff: I originally looked at it as a clueless undergrad.
Hundreds of millions of Asians are vegetarian or vegan. It's not like these diets were invented yesterday.
Um, really? You think your average 'growth hacker' who is using ChatGPT to exponentially increase the amount of SEO junk they can churn out is checking each answer before they press publish?

Purity, accuracy and relevance of data collected from the internet is going to a very hard problem.
You can also gather arbitrarily more video data by just turning on some webcams and pointing them at the world.

In addition you can also feed your system from video games.
> Why should it be a website as opposed to an app?

Is this a serious question at all?

For starters, websites provide the lowest barriers to entry, and don't expect users to grant intrusive access to their personal systems.
> rather than as an profit maximizer

We're not talking about profit MAXIMIZING, this is planning your own exploitation.

You would have to be supported by someone else or be independently wealthy to take typical CC jobs.

In the US in my area, I'm pretty sure you'd be better teaching K-12 because the unions are bigger / stronger and hence the benefits and job security are greater.
There are already tons of systems (for example Google Translate) that combine rule-based reasoning with probabilistic reasoning. Looks to be working to me.
The director of nasa calls this a great success. So does a former astronaut.

> Thursday's launch was hailed as "a real accomplishment" and "so successful" by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and retired International Space Station Commander Chris Hadfield, respectively. SpaceX agreed.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/21/1171202753/spacex-starship-la...
Horseflies seem to dig in when your skin is wet (and I assume more supple).

This experience has made me more aware of the insects around me if I am swimming at a beach.
See the thing is the coinbase is lying to you. They know exactly what the problem is and so does anyone who is following this

They are selling unregistered securities.

They can argue that they are not selling securities, but that's what the wells notices is for. Things are playing out exactly as they should.

The fact that they are misleading the uninformed public is what I have a problem with, most people have no idea what the SEC does or how it works so this all seems foreign to them when it's actually perfectly normal.
I’ve always seen these jobs as targeting people who could be retired but want something to do. Pay isn’t great, but they offer very flexible hours for straightforward work. It engages you mentally (which the older you get, the more you’ll appreciate).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Apps_Script