skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a moderate Nix user/packager, I feel like the ideal model for ecosystem packaging in Nix is poetry2nix, where the existing lockfile hashes are able to be used directly to create pure Nix builds, with no need to generate code, pre-download anything, or have opaque "deps" blobs (like with Bazel).

As far as I can tell, all or most of these requirements are met by Cargo lockfiles as well, so what is the gap that makes Cargo/Rust difficult to do well in Nix?
Explain the difference between criminal use of cryptocurrency and criminal use of cryptography.
It's not because it has been done like this, that it should still be done like this.
If we're going with proportional voting, it should be based off the vote count and not just population count. A major issue I see is that most people just don't care or don't think their vote counts. These disconnected people make for a weak democracy where the people in power can basically use their indifference for the benefit of their power.
I work at Google and I agree with the poster that something significant is lost when you aren't physically present near each other.

But I am also fully remote at Google and I am never going back. Full remote is too valuable to me. I just think that it is useful to be honest about challenges that some people and teams face with remote work.
I wish we could have a conversation about smaller electric vehicles for the urban landscape rather than it be about bike vs large car, and bus vs large car, etc.

There is a middle ground for personal transportation that is hardly discussed. It's a chicken and egg issue. We need dedicated lanes for smaller, slower personal electronic vehicles.
I can feel the raw anger and exasperation. Well done.
Just a bit inconvenient when needing to go grocery shopping for more than two days supply, and when it rains, which happens very often in the NL.
They think they get to control who visits their website without putting up authentication controls, and choose to fight this battle by breaking Google's rules for deceptive websites (white text on white background).
Hey! Congrats on the launch! At a glance looks very cool and useful. One piece of feedback I might give would be to give the user a bit more upfront knowledge of how it works before signup. I personally usually click away once I get to a signup screen unless I already have a medium/high degree of buy-in.
Best of luck!
I think Rust should be bold and stop depending on C for anything. It's gaining enough momentum that eventually it should force kernels to be like Linux and adopt a stable ABI. In practice, most kernels have a "fairly stable" ABI just because coordinating kernel changes with userspace libc changes is tricky.
> and that I live alone with no kids

I live in Dublin, which is at least in Europe so better than many US cities, but certainly not very good on bike infra. I've never owned a car, and planned to keep it that way until... I got a (large) dog. Kids seem a reason many cite, but at least they're allowed on public transport, and the available child-carrying bike accessories are varied & plentiful. Large pets seem to be the seldom-talked about unsolved problem of a carless world - I was a bit shocked at myself at how many transport challenges I hadn't anticipated when we decided to get a dog.
The article devotes a paragraph to saying as much. This line of criticism reminds be a bit of the debacle around the I-enjoy-coffee-with-my-husband-in-the-garden tweet: https://www.insider.com/woman-shocked-accusations-privilege-...
Not trolling, political reality.

Speaking personally, I'm fine with nuclear power near me as a part of a grid — even despite the high monetary cost — because I'm satisfied of the safety and I think supply diversity is worth paying more.

But nuclear is a boogieman, and that means the reactors are slow and expensive to build.

The geopolitical risks also mean other countries may look at your reactors as an existential threat — this is also a thing the governments need to care about no matter how sure they are that they're the goodies and everyone else is being silly when raising such concerns.

And while an earthquake was the ultimate cause of the Fukushima incident, it wasn't the proximal cause: Germany does get floods from time to time.

Of course, if I get to ignore politics then my favourite is a global power grid energised by PV — the maths says that would be great, though it would take a while to build.
> a colleague was questioned for walking along the road

That scene in the first Rambo, when he gets "picked up" by the police while just walking along a road, is fairly realistic. You're not supposed to be walking along roads, if you do there must be something wrong with you.
Perhaps the wisdom of advising that is not a good idea. And also that young whippersnappers who think that that is what the majority of old people spend their time doing may not be paying much attention to the world.

Reaching old age is still an achievement, especially for young male motorcycle riders, and experience of society and its history always comes for free. The "locking away" stage is something old people generally try to actively avoid, and mostly generally for those with actual dementia in any case.
Hybrid combines the worst of office and remote work
Around 200 readings? Incredible.
You're right, it's a bit more nuanced. People I've met at Rust meetups have been great, and some of the prominent people in the community are wonderful (I really like Jon Gjengset's youtube streams for example). At the same time if you look at Rust discussions on twitter and reddit, I think they very often match what I'm describing. Sure, maybe twitter and reddit as platforms encourage some unhealthy patterns but twitter/reddit discussions for other languages aren't nearly as toxic as Rust's. So I still think there's something there.
Me neither: I have lived in 3 continents and about a dozen cities and never owned a car. The only time the idea of owning a car ever came to my mind was when I lived in a small town in the US with almost no public transport and where the nearest grocery store was 40 minutes cycling distance, but I got used to it pretty quickly.
They have already lost, but most users don't know it yet. The European Digital Market Act will force them to allow side loading.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-13/will-appl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

The news aren't that important to be honest.
> Don't get me wrong, I'm 100% in favour of active travel and being able to live without a car. I want to see governments invest in this properly. If you follow the money, however, governments invest massively in car infrastructure, so people, unfortunately, drive cars everywhere.

On the other end of it though wealthier people are designing boutique neighborhoods now.

This is just one example but I understand there's similar concepts going on elsewhere:

https://thehill.com/changing-america/524069-sprawling-city-g...

https://culdesac.com/

So maybe wealthy people wanting to live car free will push the design around more "closed" neighborhoods and limit the need for cars.

Regardless I agree with you and don't really yet see a way for (American here) placing enough incentives to promote car-less neighborhoods or at least, less cars. Outside of the U.S. maybe easier to shift that.

Something I've considered doing since I live in a relatively urban area is just using rental cars when I need to do a longer trip and leave getting things to delivery services when weather or time makes walking unfavorable.
Which, if those things combined is less than what I currently spend on having car should get me ahead.
ACK, calling libc is a feature, not a bug. I don't understand this obsession with trying to make direct syscalls for everything. The Redox example ("The Redox project had to write their own libc, in Rust, in order to solve that chicken and egg problem.") is pretty weird too — you're writing your own OS, how is this a chicken and egg problem? My expectation would've been to write a custom "std" regardless? There's some misunderstanding buried there somewhere…
> > But if a sample is random and representative, you could estimate population statistics of millions (or even infinite) with a sample of just 30 or so.

> While that statement is technically correct, it is useless in practice.

I don't really follow your argument for small sample sizes being useless in practice.

Isn't the whole point of things like confidence/credible intervals, the bootstrap, and other common statistical methods, to quantify the uncertainty of estimates due to the sampling procedure, including sample size and the possibility of outliers? And, while we may not know that our sample is representative, isn't random sampling from the population of interest a method that will generate a sample that is representative with high probability?

That these methods are well known in statistical practice suggests that samples are generally useful, even when they are not large. The existence of pathological distributions where we might get misleading results (e.g., the classical "wealth over the people in a room if you throw Bill Gates in there") doesn't make these methods useless, does it?
It's always an s-curve eventually. The question is, how far off is the point where it quits being exponential? If it's far enough off, "it's an s-curve eventually" doesn't matter - or at least doesn't matter now.
After everything that's happened in this space, the number of "true believers" I'm seeing here is astounding to me.

After a decade of use the tech hasn't found many real world uses beyond gambling, drugs, confidence schemes, money laundering, tax evasion, and other financial criminality. This is 100% the community's fault, as they're the ones burning a lot of real world capital to build this stuff but have very little real value to show for it at the end of the day. I believe in creative destruction, this is just destructive destruction of capital.

Meanwhile the rest of the world is rapidly catching up. I have no trouble sending fiat money where I need to at the click of a button, with fraud and clawback protections in place. No chance of accidentally losing my savings, etc.

I don't understand how intelligent people can continue to believe this stuff is the future of finance. All signs point to this being a big nothingburger, crypto utopianism works great in theory but not in practice. The sooner this dream dies the better.

I guess it's something something human nature. I guess it's why we can't have nice things as a species. sigh
> It’s getting those people to put them on beyond the initial honeymoon period that’s seemingly the issue

And that's a huge issue because it means they're likely never going to buy a face computer again until the form factor dramatically changes. Which suggests that the primary target audience for the new Apple headset has already left the market.

From Meta's perspective, 20 million devices sitting in a closet generating zero future revenue is not a success.
Are you seriously suggesting that the indigenous were practising controlled burns over millions of hectares of boreal forest?

I find this 'sweep your floors' meme a bit of an oddity:

1. It involves conservatives casting native americans in a good light. Who's going to argue with that?

2. It contains a false epiphany which just feels right (the solution to forest fires is...fires)

3. It contains a grain of truth. Native americans did perform controlled burns, and in the NW they did take care of salmon streams etc, but not on a scale that would prevent today's wildfires.

It's a classic diversion from climate change, and our terrible 'foresty' practices of cutting down forests and planting monocrops of high resin species all packed together and calling it reforestation and finally, spraying entire valleys with roundup (often where indigenous people live of course)
Why should everyone bear the consequences of you living extremely remotely? By consequences I mean support costs of roads, congestion in the city by people outside driving in, noise, pollution, huge amount of area being wasted etc.
I don't buy the website equals house analogy. But if I did, redirecting to Google is like sending me to the landfill instead of locking the door and putting up a sign.
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Researchers build bee robot that can twist
In a lot of applications, there is no need to signal readiness. You can simply start processing the input at once, and display it continuously, from the first character or number that is entered. This is true for most applications that run client side. We're talking everything from small calculators to text processing. In most cases the "OK" button can be completely omitted. It's of course a different matter if you need to digest it remotely.
You can live in London and never miss a car, but try it anywhere outside of big cities and it’ll be a different story. Not to mention the brutal train ticket prices.
Erdős Problem 166 has fallen
Life Is Short. Indexes Are Necessary.
Review of Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age by Dennis Duncan
I have a hard time buying the convenience aspect unless you have taxis driving by your front door regularly. Having to call or use an app to schedule a ride is tedious, and occasionally I’ve had taxis and rideshare blow me off for a better fare. Owning a car is an expense, but it’s much more convenient than the alternatives IMHO.
Only because it's legally necessary. If it wasn't, companies would be nowhere near so well behaved.

Not complaining of course, this form of better behaviour is hugely preferable! But I think it's fear/loss-aversion, not kindness, driving it!
> but I managed to ride with the temperature as low as 17 F in pretty much normal (old) street clothes, added a heavy pair of pants, scarf, and knit cap

> but I had to check 3 of them each morning to be certain of avoiding a wetting (I'd drive the truck when it rained)

You were just 1 step away of discovering the magic of weatherproof clothes for biking, feeling impervious to the elements just because you got the right set of clothes is quasi magical, you simply don't care if it's raining or not, you can bike and not get wet.

Completely recommend if you ever get the chance to go back to biking as a day-to-day commute activity :)
Because humans aren’t atomized individuals, and instead belong to communities that themselves have a political identity. Therefore there’s a multi-dimensional optimization space, which involves not just how to make the decision (majority vote, etc.) but where to make the decision. For example, if you had a national majority vote to decide Puerto Rico’s political status (independence or statehood), Puerto Ricans probably wouldn’t be happy about that.

There is a reason that virtually every country has some form of multi-level government. And in a multi-level government, non-majoritarian voting at higher levels can help protect the integrity of the multi-level system.
Yeah it’s an interesting choice. I’ve not been to a conference in forever and have lost touch of what the norm is. I wonder whether the policy is a net up/downside as they try to build interest and get the thing established. My hunch is that it hurts them in attendance, but idk.
Archived: https://archive.ph/09fFa
Thank you for saying those nice things! I am not really on any social media platforms at the moment. I used to post updates to that blog I linked but it’s been a long time since I could work on that project. Hopefully someday I will have a playable level to release. There is a demo available at the bottom of that page if you are interested. Anyway, thanks!
Congratulations on the Beta and thank you for creating Monica.

It states it(Chandler) does not have Import from existing Monica yet. Just wanted to get clarity on: will it get the Import option in future?
I would argue it's even worse than that. Spoof your UA string or other behavior to achieve the best user experience, then find yourself blocked by 50K Cloudflare sites for spoofing:

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/browser-integrity-check-b...

It's ridiculous, but we need a regulation stating that web sites designed for use by the public need to be accessible by the public. Of course I don't mean performing compatibility checks with the last 5 editions of three dozen different browsers, but simply avoiding situations that lead directly or indirectly to

if browser$ == a {render site}

if browser$ == b {render site}

if browser$ == c {render site}

if browser$ == d {render site}

else {echo "go away"}

Yes, IMHO it is the the old browser wars resurfaced and I don't really understand why. Arrogance cloaked by the veil of security? We've learned nothing. At worst I consider this a corollary to net neutrality...and we know where that currently stands. I would love for the EU to take notice, but they seem so obsessed with cookies. I briefly tried getting the EFF to take a stance, but don't think they bit. Maybe it's because everybody IS using Chrome?
I generally agree.

"Weak institutions and weak parties will probably result in complete indecisiveness."

The other option is that they learn to work together for decent compromises. It's also possible that slow legislation is not a design flaw but rather a feature. The way it is now is mostly stalemates, virtue signaling (passing bills they know will be vetoed), and jamming laws through as fast as possible without any true debate.
Engineering is so much more than code. Yes, managers need to have some part of their work in the trenches but it really is the case that many serious engineering problems are best tackled through meetings and documents rather than sitting down and sending PRs.
the mental gymnastics people are using to justify dropping $3500 on this is amazing
Hard disagree on this take.

Working remote allows me to finish my thoughts, finish the task at hand or just take a breather when I need to. I think that’s the same for those who prefer remote work.

Async communication is far better for a team that needs to get through a never shrinking pile of work.

Remote work isn’t for everyone. It’s a preference, with zero impact on productivity or efficiency for those that prefer it.

I will admit one major downside. It’s easier to move one’s career forward, especially in management if you’re able to chat with higher level decision-makers as-hoc and in person. For those that thrive off of connections to climb the ladder, remote is a much harder climb.
I couldn't understand why an article (that I posted) about the decline in popularity of British curry houses would be flagged until I read the comments and realised what an idiot I was to not see the opportunity for a political flamewar over a bit of takeaway.

Good job HN. Next time, let's make toilet paper orientation an issue of identity politics.
Well: don't be humans then.
> then they essentially bootstrapped a foolproof, checksummed machine-code editor

I remember that I copied a short program in BASIC that you had to run in order to type in the machine code part of the main program you were typing. It would sound a bell if the checksum had no error, otherwise you would hear a buzz sound.

> and, somewhat regrettably, cut out the source-code middleman.

The programs I typed in had parts in BASIC and other in machine code. I just wish the machine code parts used the instruction mnemonics instead of the actual instruction byte code. It definitely would have been more educational to see instructions like LDA, SDA, CMP, JSR, etc instead of the actual number values.
Beer has been a thing for ~5,000 years but we've only had beer hats for the last 28. Our society could benefit from extensive investment into ongoing research and development of beer hat related industries, as we clearly haven't had enough time to determine if they're bullshit novelty garments.
Hmmm. It is really good to know that this has nothing at all to do with crypto, and that it is just a coincidence that this Mt. Gox, FTX et al. are crypto companies. I am completely reassured. Thank you.
And yet there are alternatives and people still buy them.

I don’t know that people care, sadly.
Twitter thread by Tim Gowers:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/Chartter/1666724186117533703.svg

The nodes are clickable, but here's a direct link:

https://twitter.com/wtgowers/status/1666724170783244288
Communities exist everywhere that accommodate the golf cart. Are you forbidden from driving one where you live?
Just learn from Theranos being misled by Elizabeth Holmes and her "lack" of mockups.
The problem is solved, barring serious complications with your home's envelope, with mechanical ventilation systems that give you control over how and where air is being exchanged in your house, while filtering it as well. That's assuming your building envelope doesn't have any serious issues; if water is leaking into wall assembly because of a poorly installed roof or gutter system, for example, no amount of ventilation is going to keep things from rotting away in a few years.

Anyhow, although leaky houses can help deal with moisture, that's pretty much an incidental effect. Leaky homes also comes with significant expense in the form of heat loss, worsened indoor air quality, pathways for bugs to enter the home, etc. There's a reason why we've been moving towards ever-tighter houses, even with the upfront costs and effort required for air sealing, insulation, and mechanical ventilation.

In the GP's tropical climate, I'd expect that humid air leaking into the house does very little to actually dry out the wall cavities; if anything, there's a good chance that those leaks would do the opposite and support any mold growth.
The best part of this link was learning about Reuters saying Queen Elizabeth lays 2000 eggs per day.
Why should I have to pay a huge amount of stamp duty tax to move closer to work[1]? Why should I get punished by a huge mortgage to do so because of a dysfunctional housing market[2]? For that matter, and actually I don't really think this one, I pay taxes willingly build this stuff, why should I pay for central-city public transport when I don't even commute from or to a central urban area[3]? Anyone can say things like that.

If move if I could, and originally planned to when I took the job. I can't afford it now. I'd cycle if I could (and I used to, for years, at a different job, over 20 miles a day). I'd take public transport if I could. In fact, a promised train timetable cadence increase factored into moving into where I live now. It was quietly cancelled years ago.

[1]: while I think stamp duty is a regressive tax that also prevents labour mobility and is in general a bad idea, it's especially bad when combined with inflating house prices (price to earnings ratio is now the highest in recorded history) that push everything around into higher bands.

[2]: I actually don't really think the current interest rates themselves are necessarily bad, there are benefits to higher rates. But housing being so incredibly expensive makes such rates punishing. 6% on 100k is one thing. 6% on 250k is very different.

[3]: funnily enough, though my current commute passes only a couple of miles of suburbs and the rest of it is motorway ending in an extra-urban business park, the public transport option involves trains going directly through urban cores of two cities and past rather a lot more houses. In fact, a different rail line goes within 100m of me: so why do I need to listen to those commuters? (Again, I don't actually think this).
Note winapi is the only widely adopted stable cross-platform api. They’ve clearly done something right.

It took a while to implement it on non-Windows oses, but that reality is now here: if you want to run an executable on basically any modern OS and hardware, use the win64 build.
The Kia Boys will steal your car for clout
> send an IM asking if someone if they were available before interrupting them with your physical presence

Unless someone ignores IM (not even seeing notifications), sending a message is also interrupting…