skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an insider in Web3, the reality of blockchain platforms/foundations is that, majorly, they benefit a very specific group of investors, incumbents, and the governance is super centralized. Basic cronysm hidden beyond the decentralization placeholder, building super-advanced technologies that almost always has some more milestone to be delivered or adopted. Hundreds of similar ZK*, VMs, etc.

I don'like to like the SEC and I think a confrontation between the SEC, Coinbase, and other incumbents is positive. On the other hand I know that majorly the decentralization blah blah blah is just a distraction trick, that fraudsters execute faster than entrepreneurs in this space.

Finally, the real winner for transactions right now is Tether, the top used centralized stable coin in the ecosystem which volume greatly surpasses the top cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. This is a fact.
Because summaries like this still stand up as of today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8998290

> XMPP is great for what it was designed for. It doesn't work well with mobile, high packet loss & high latency connections. XMPP is talkative and bandwidth intensive - bad for limited data/battery applications. It also wasn't designed for today's 1 person multiple devices reality. Most XMPP servers let you log in multiple times but messages don't sync between clients and sometimes get delivered to the client the user isnt currently in front of.

> Also, sending files over XMPP has pretty much always sucked - there are a bunch of incompatible ways to do it and it's always been hit and miss depending on which client your chat partner was using, network topography, etc.

Also, overload of XEPs doesn't help the ecosystem. Too many optional extensions hinders interop. People expect more features in modern chat experiences than what XMPP was designed for, and that's what XEPs have tried to fix as a bandaid, with mixed results.

On top of that, the technology choices are par of the course for the time it was designed, and nowadays there are arguably better things. Devs are naturally driven to choose tech that makes their work nicer, if they enjoy it, so that means more stuff gets done for the newer platform, in this case. As an example, coincidentally, another HN post today was touching on one of those points - the need for a very advanced XML parser, as a typical one apparently wouldn't be enough:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36930196
High-functioning LGBT for sure
I understand you, but at the same time, an individual beaver has far more environmental impact than an individual human.

For example, it is very hard to build these days, without environmental assessments. The days are long gone, at least where I am, where you can build waterfront property and clear the shoreline of reeds and such.

Which is fine!

But my point is, a beaver colony turns a river into a marsh, kills grassland, endless trees both due to flooding and feeding, prevents water from flowing downstream, stops fish from spawning, utterly changing the landscape.

If left unchallenged, they would do as goats do, destroy.

People get upset if we remove one ecosystem for another, yet that's just what beavers do.

All animals, including humans, are destructive. Some more than others.

Life, other than humans, has shaped the environment more than we ever have. We didn't used to have o2 in the air before, and its addition caused mass extinction at the time!

(note: I like living, and like my fellow humans, so want to stop large scale climate change... but I think we all need a bigger view sometimes)
That's true. I switched to Linux Mint on my Latitude E7450 and the experience so far has been great. The only downside is that I cannot hibernate the system, which means I have to shut down every damn time.
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I don't want them to ignore laws; I'm just asking out of curiosity, and given Meta being who they are.

As a purely business move, can Meta increase brand goodwill by publicly resisting for awhile?
Someone on Twitter spoke on this, so I cant' confirm its accuracy.
They said that the reagents for this are usually made in China. As soon as this paper was published, labs in China bought out the reserves and they became hard to source in the West.
Done: https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems/blob/master...

You would need a warrant to extract the messages/identity directly from a person's computer as there is nothing otherwise to obtain.
Just fyi, "endemic" doesn't mean in humans specifically, it is being spread via zoonotic transmission, and it is endemic in certain animal populations in the southeast. The title is accurate.
Why does China alone have so many reproduction attemps? I assumed it would be tried everywhere.
Typing something like "SD Card" takes too much time in comparison with launching an application from a hierarchical menu using less key presses (or mouse movements/clicks).

In most cases, when you have to type something longer than "SD Card", the difference in launching speed is even greater.
Thanks! Yeah, I totally missed that. :)
Well as he said, that’s not your property… or at least it only exist on humans law.
Well there's plenty of platforms like that, but they're often used by people with shady intents. Anonymity has a tradeoff like that.
This type of instictive negative reaction to prediction markets is, unfortunately, common, but, I think, misguided.

Prediction markets are one of the (or just, the?) best ways of aggregating knowledge from multiple sources and producing the best predictions. Having good legible predictions of impactful events such as LK-99 replication is extremely useful for society - it would be an invaluable input for a savvy policy maker for instance.

What I think is silly is that vastly bigger amounts of money are put in betting markets for any mildly important sportsball game. Meanwhile, markets on LK99 replication, one of the most potentially important possibilities in the world right now have only on the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars in them.

And there is no scamming involved. If you are participating in a prediction market, either you have some reason you believe you know something the market does not or you should expect you are simply subsidizing those with better information. The latter is a perfectly reasonable thing to do - it's not easy for an average person to "pay off some lab", but if they provide liquidity to the prediction market they are giving an explicit subsidy for anyone that can answer the question.
I've used Conduit for about a year now with bridges and it works flawlessly. It doesn't have all features but a recent release added Spaces and end-to-bridge encryption (not as big of a deal when selfhosting server + bridges, but great nonetheless), so I'm not even sure what is still missing.
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For anybody who has doubted that history can be a science, consider the issue firmly resolved.
hitting each other with every other available substance?
> I think it's more about an arbitrary decision causing extra work and costs to a business owner who isn't being compensated for it.

This sounds a lot like the grumpy old people who got my local downtown bike race cancelled because customers had to park a couple minutes away from their store. The entire event lasts less than half a day. For a single day of the year…

And we wonder why it costs so much to do anything at all these days. Grumpy people just don’t want to let others have nice things.
> Even if it's a success, the likes of DuoLingo can copy that in a month and have so much more marketing and money to win the market

Only theoretically; in practice, Duolingo have a specific brand — IMO aimed at helping younger kids with schoolwork — they don't want to risk damaging, so if you target your language course at people who chafe at the style of art, animation, voice, and/or content of Duolingo[0], you still have a business opportunity even though Duolingo is also already working with GPT-4.

[0] This is why I've stopped using Duolingo entirely, while also having paid versions of Clozemaster and Babbel, which are also very different from each other.
Dino and Gajim both crash frequently on Wayland (Sway in particular) due to GTK issues that I'm not expecting to be fixed any time soon. Gajim also gets very slow the longer it's open, can't recall if Dino was the same. Dino also has the usual GNOME-y issues of being over-simplified and lacking in customization and features. When I changed from Dino to Gajim I was shocked at all the stuff I could suddenly do, was weird to think both were XMPP clients.

Something with Gajim's features but using Qt would be pretty great potentially. GTK stuff also often has this horrible thing where it fades the window when unfocused, which gets really awful and unresponsive when things get laggy, also ruins screenshots. Never figured out how to turn it off. Part of the theme apparently, but GNOME also doesn't want you customizing/changing your theme. I'm just using Adwaita-dark usually.

Matrix clients aren't great either, but overall Nheko gives me less trouble and pain than Gajim, using both daily. irssi (IRC client) is kind of my gold standard for stability/performance/features with weechat being mostly okay too.
I wonder what the use case for this is, when every shell already offers parameter expansion of some kind. Is it so that you can write Curl command lines that work in any shell identically, once properly quoted?
No synthesis. Less critical current than YBCO. Lame.
The inability to monitor all illegal activity is a trade-off we accept as a society to maintain the right to anonymity. You'd rather we sign that right away for some supposed guarantee of safety? A guarantee made by the synthesis of your government and your corporations?
Billions of people are online often showing the worst versions of themselves. That doesn't make it ok but chasing down every potential slanderer on Facebook just seems like something that should be very low priority for the courts in question.
I found Transport Fever 2 very disappointing. It dumbed down the economic model: businesses turn out cargoes even if you don’t carry them to market. It reduced supply chain challenges: the first game has interesting twists, like businesses whose output was halved if you didn’t carry less-desirable byproducts away. The second game simply eliminated this.

It also didn’t make any huge improvements otherwise and was really more like a 1.5. I recommend the first game over the second.
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How does it compare to a simple IRC server?
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtfUeip4vyA&t=335s
Not to minimise your dilemma it's no different to other risky and tricky questions about succession planning in Farming.

It's no coincidence that alongside commercial fishing, farming has a horrendous accident rate.

If e.g. you have any livestock much over the size of a chicken your near 80yo parent could be at significant risk from unexpected animal behaviour. Cattle yards cause horrific crush injury.
I think there's also an aspect of doing it and presenting it in an unusually attention-grabbing way.
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Given that human flight and putting things in space rely on Aluminium, I think that's worth a mention too.
At least on Conduit and Dendrite that is the case iirc, but it's easy to forget to disable it once you register an account.
There was a recent thread with twitter clips showing old Windows vs. new Windows and how old Windows opened its programs noticeably faster.

https://twitter.com/jmmv/status/1671670996921896960?s=20

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36503983
Quite a lot of the plot depends on Raskolnikov being sickly and fainting at inopportune moments. In modern fiction, this would be considered contrived. It's also not just a case of modern expectations being shaped by influential novels from the past because older literature avoids the same problem.

I get that it's not really 'the point' and not why people love Crime and Punishment but it is a barrier to appreciating it.

I preferred & loved The Brothers Karamazov but it suffers from a similar, more justified problem: critiques on the Russian Orthodox church and prophet worship don't have much relevancy to a modern, western, atheistic audience.
Libel - Another legal concept that varies dramatically by region.

In America, proving libel is extremely difficult and requires you to demonstrate real damages.

So in this case if it were American, unless the aggrieved party can demonstrate monetary damages, under American law there is no libel as we do not consider "hurt feelings" or "damaged reputation" to be libel. So in America we would demand that the offended party demonstrate that they have been financially harmed before we unmask the anonymous individual to fully investigate and adjudicate the claim.

If you're discussing libel under a EU or European nations context, it could be helpful to identify which version of libel law you are referencing, because this case from an American's perspective is no where near our extremely high bar. (And, as a side note, under American law all international libel convictions are automatically unenforceable here, to prevent tourism to areas who do not require sufficiently high bar)
> However, anything that does not bring obvious value (bug fixing, refactoring) should be counted out of output in terms of productivity

Not counting refactoring as output makes sense, because it's more of repositioning for future output, and/or recreation.

But if fixing bugs doesn't bring value, why do you do it?
Court case here: https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/#!/details?id=ECLI:NL:RBDH...

I find court summaries of the Dutch courts to be quite readable. Google translate also seems to work quite well.

It should be noted that this is a "kort geding", which i believe translates to a "preliminary injunction" but I don't have the legal education to say what the differences between the two may be.

Some anonymous user claims that the person who started legal action committed gross sexual misconduct. The judge ruled that there's little evidence to back these claims and that the plaintiff is suffering an impact significant enough to warrant further action.

It should also be noted that Dutch law considers defamation to be a crime (as in, illegal under criminal law), not a civil law issue.

This isn't the first time a company has had to hand over subscriber information because of libel or slander either. I don't really see what the big deal is.
There is no right to anonymity. The government requires every citizen to identify themselves in various ways for paying taxes, voting, receiving benefits, registering for the draft, etc.
Just last week I had to parse arguments again after a long time in a script of mine.

After some googling, getopt was chosen due to it's simplicity.
I like that that website seems to use just smallish penny amounts, no big betting amounts. And that it's a simple formula; if you're right, you win $1 per share, if you lose, you get nothing. There's one about whether Trump wins the election with everyone voting 'no', so the winners will gain fractions of pennies on their bet. But if he does win, those voting 'yes' can gain 99% of their bet.
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For years, I had a PCP who was a D.O. (osteopath), and he was really good, in terms of conservative treatment decisions, rapport, medical knowledge, good office staff, etc.

However, his office moved around a lot, probably 3 times in 15 years. His practice, previously independent, was acquired by a medical group. Shortly after that acquisition, he carried a new notebook computer around, and he sincerely apologized to me, saying that he would be forced to look mostly at the computer and not at me. Do you see how important this person-to-person rapport was to both of us? He always called me "my friend" and he was an expert chess player.

I will miss him, especially this week, as I visit a PCP of the opposite sex, who is not a physician, who recently disavowed ever meeting me before, and argues about every detail of my treatment.

Ted Kaczinski wasn't wrong.
I don't get why a wireguard vpn to connect to ssh would be any better than just ssh directly (assuming reasonable ssh config)
In one of the notes it says

> Red phosphorus cannot be obtained on short notice from a new customer in the USA due to DEA restrictions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Oder_environmental_disast...
Do you believe that you can pay $100k to ignore any further punishment?
> making a bet does not really spend the money, it will just change hands

Pretty sure most people would call the money changing hands "spending" that money.
A_D_E_P_T suggested companies should "hire decent and engaging writers", and nocoiner supplied an example of a company doing that successfully.
Does your wife have to wait for you to fall asleep before she does something she wants to do but you have little interest in? You could just watch these lectures together - instead of, say, watching the news.
Another https://dagger.io fan here. Have been using it since late 2021 to continuously deploy a Phoenix app to Fly.io: https://github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com/pull/395. Every commit goes into production.

This is what the GHA workflow currently looks like: https://github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com/blob/c7b8a57b2...

FWIW, you can see how everything fits together in this architecture diagram: https://github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com/blob/master/IN...
May be he believes that his date went well and so the person who posted those comments could not have been the same person that went on the date with him.

He might be trying to figure out who else is making those comments.
TL;DR:

1. Voyager 2 has been pointing 2 degrees off from Earth

2. Been that way for a while and nobody noticed because very old computers.

3. Meaning that the probe has gone dark (ingress and egress comms are not possible)

4. However, both Voyager probes have software that tells them to routinely calibrate themselves every few months

5. Meaning that it should point at Earth in the next few months (most likely).
You are thinking mojo [1] that's claims full python compatibility but can be extended for static typing and high performance scenarios

[1] https://www.modular.com/mojo
pfft, val is the new hotness
Thanks for the info. I don't use Windows anymore, but people make the same argument on Mac; I don't see any description field there, and searches can fail even when you use a word contained in the program title.

Even if such a field is 100% accurately and adequately populated for every application (which I doubt), I don't want to invoke a text-based search and have to start typing a query.
While I cannot offer concrete evidence, it's fairly easy to see that this could happen for Russian nationals or similar.
Being in the wrong place, at the wrong time. ;)
That's not all that different from how the financial crisis came to be: derivatives on top of bad loans. Here it is bad bets on top of a possible phenomenon that probably none of the participants in the bets have any insight in.
Practically speaking, it can depend on garden design; fill it with concrete / slabs or fake grass will discourage any nature, but plants and healthy soil will encourage it. We went from a green-looking (ivy walls) but ultimately desert-like back yard to a pretty lush haven for birds, bugs, bees and butterflies. And the occasional mouse or frog, but I think the cats bring those in.
> under surveillance 100% of the time just in case

No, but this seems completely tangential to what is discussed in the article. If understand it correctly:

- Person A anonymously published some supposedly defamatory information about person B on platform X

- Platform X knows who person B is

- While it's not determined that the information was indeed slanderous* the court compels platform X to reveal the identity of person A.

- Person A sues person B in civil court etc.

This does not seem to be at all unreasonable to me.

*only thing I'm really concerned about is that while obviously (given how legal systems work) you can't determine whether it was slander or not without both parties, the court should still try to determine whether the accusation is at least somewhat valid before compelling the platform to reveal that person's identity.

Of course some could say that eventually this might lead to situations where governments would restrict/ban any platform which allows users to post without revealing their person details to the platform (and well Facebook already does that on their own). That would of course be terrible..
Assuming that the regulated entities wouldn’t just move to the hinterlands and edge cases of that newly simplified/clarified/substantiated law in order to skirt it.

Which, of course they would, and would go so far as to create new forms of currency to try to do it.
It depends. In this case, wouldn't the beavers have settled there organically if it wasn't for human intervention? Would the water level be higher or lower?
Yes, like bash, Python is a language that exists mainly as glue for code written in other languages. Do you think we need to add multithreading to bash?
> I don't need studies to validate the hundreds of incredible results I've seen within the population I have direct access to

We certainly wouldn’t want data to get in the way of our confirmation bias.
For such an important discovery (if it is real), that seems it could be replicated in a few days, if I were the team that did the discovery, I would create a video recording of the whole process and all the measurements and share it with the textual article. It sounds like that would provide for an easier way to replicate plus more proofs of the discovery.
Him being a game developer, saying that game development will survive, while web programming will die, definitely does project some bias. But I would like to make the argument that web-development as we know it will collapse in the future. Not too far from here, it won't be necessary to have specialized knowledge of languages and frameworks to create applications. You just need to know how to throw configs together. This predates even AI, where its already possible with no-code and low-code platforms to build stuff.

I'm sure that there will be a place for web-development as we know it today, but it probably will not as popular, neither as much of a lever when it comes to building applications and services on the internet. I feel like we were on this path already before AI (no-code, low-code, etc). But with AI it feels like we are on an even faster projection of abstracting most code away behind building blocks. Give it a few years.
It is very important for billionaires to be able to do whatever they want without any repercussions. The dastardly criminals who are in charge of policing public advertisement and light pollution must have their conspiracies toppled. We must ferret out this corruption of Bay Area children who should only see blinding and strobing lights at night, as God has intended. I commend the vigilance of Elon Musks fans who are making it safer every day for men and women of good will to live lives of peace without restful sleep to defile their sacred advertisement space.
That sounds like they're saying, "if you get a tool that makes you twice as productive, you didn't double the production, the tool did, so the tool owner should get the additional proceeds".

Total braindead understanding of how productivity and labor works, but it sounds great if you own the tools.
Your memory is serving you very ill. These various symbols were standardized in 1973. The one that you are searching for a name for is the standby symbol. Standby buttons do not actually power computers off. (Circuitry that handles waking up from standby is, of course, still powered on.)

https://www.iso.org/obp/ui#iec:grs:60417:5009