skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're a front-end developer, it shouldn't take long to research the differences between modern front end frameworks. If you don't have any existing front-end skills, you won't have the ability to know what to dive into. True beginners need a solid foundation to build on, but once you have that foundation you should be able to adapt it to new and changing technology very easily. Once you have the foundation, you can dive as deep as you need into specific specialties and jump back out quite easily.

Learning your first programming language is hard. There's a lot of details and idiosyncrasies. The second is a bit easier because you have a base of experience to reference it against. By the time you're picking up your sixth language or front end framework or node API framework, you should be able to much more quickly assimilate the details because you've got so much more experience to draw on.
I am always frowned upon when I describe our product as a monolith with network hops. These just add more network hops, complexity, latency and projects to upgrade every 30 seconds.
It was psytrance (Infected Mushroom) that led to the purchase of my first synth. I’m no longer big on psytrance, but it has a special place in my heart.
I don’t condone or defend anything he did, but following some of those links back, there seems to be a game of telephone, inflating the claims slightly each time. Munger for example seems to have said he was flirty with his students wives, but not actually sleeping with them. The nude drawings of students appears to have been in the context of an official art class, and not his students.

Regardless, this behavior was clearly inappropriate and should not be tolerated at a university. It does not appear to be actually criminal or predatory, unless I am still missing something.
Do you think it is possible that—despite the name having the word “currency” in it—the technology might just be poorly matched to what most people expect and need from a currency?

That might explain its almost complete lack of real world use as a currency outside of a few scenarios of economic collapse.
It doesn't help that the most popular cryptocurrency is intentionally deflationary. Deflationary currencies are terrible units of exchange.
Then there wouldn't be a circular dependency. If the parent is in a library and was written independently of the child, then the parent could not possibly import the child.
I would guess spectral analysis of the light coming from the planet's star. Look at the spectrum when the planet is behind the start, look at the spectrum when the planet is in front of the star (in which case part of the light passes through the planet's atmosphere). The difference between the two indicates which frequencies are absorbed by the planet's atmosphere, from which its composition can be determined. Don't take my word for it though, I'm not an astrophysicist.

In any case it boggles my mind that we can do things like that for planets thousands of light-years away from us.
NFTs. It's like Steam's marketplace, but without having to have one company have control to ban anyone. It lets you safely make trades without having to pass your items to sites for them to hold on to your items for you.
> his core value are "we market towards what will make us money"

That's exactly what "make something people love" means. To love a product means to pay money for it.
Word of warning... You'd be wise to take some precautionary measures to protect the email reputation of your domains.

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/dns-records/protect-...
My 2008 Philips 1080p LCD TV. I won't change it until it dies. All my friends are saying picture looks like crap but I love how natural it looks compared to theirs. New TVs all being smart doesn't help on my will to switch
"Life in other places might be radically different from our own, and we might be looking for the wrong things"

Very possible. Something behind our imagination (e.g. Energy, Light based life forms etc.). But it is not unreasonable to expect something similar, based out of Carbon or Si that has a metabolism and senses.

Once I read a suggestion to look for life: look for an entropy source.
For those logged out of Twitter, you lose the context:

https://nitter.net/0xFrancis/status/1633240872098643970
I don’t think they have a compliance desk (i.e. there is no one whose sole job is compliance and probably no one who dedicates any reasonable amount of time to compliance). These companies are probably a lot smaller than you think - that probably goes for those who aren’t listed in the news article too. The president, secretary, treasurer and director of Computer Integrated Solutions, for example, are all the same person. They probably don’t have the wherewithal to do the work necessary to comply.
The problem is caller ID spoofing. When you start getting billed for calls you "made" (but didn't) you won't like this "fix".
A normal light switch is not an outdated tech by any stretch of imagination.
It is perfect for laundering large amounts of value, transacting in business that might not be legal but is between consenting adults (sex work and all the shades of that, pharma/recreational drugs), or for storing your value somewhere that can't be confiscated or inflated away by your local government. You might be willing to tolerate some loss if these are your threat models or use cases (versus being wholly unable to transact).

Everyone else is better served by instant payments with utility pricing provided by a neutral party, such as a central bank or their delegate responsible for implementation and ongoing operations of the system.
The BBC came out on the wrong side of this initially and are now pretending that the proximate cause is harder to determine than it is.
Mostly because the similarity is implied.
Wer Visionen hat, soll zum Arzt gehen.
I still use a 2013 MacBook Pro. Emacs, my favorite editor, is simultaneously outdated and light years into the future
Impersonating a police officer?
Where...?
The insurance policy would be made with an insurance company by the employer. NASA being dissolved wouldn’t affect the payout.

In the 1960s insurance companies loved offering life insurance policies to federal employees. Federal employees were young, well educated, and in good enough health to work.

These policies excluded extremely dangerous activities (like going to war).
> drop the macron

Sorry, I don't quite follow what you are referring to.
But cryptocurrencies were designed to be deflationary which makes them shitty currencies. There's no point in spending a cryptocoin today when its value will be higher tomorrow.
The render resolution is 4K, but the subjective image quality and sharpness is not quite up to what you would expect for 4K.
DS9 was both darker and more serialized than the other Trek shows. Like TNG (although perhaps not as extremely so) it also didn't really have the strongest start. Personally I think it's in the top one or two Trek series overall but it is distinct from the others.
The actual tax code is still hellish. Physically filling out the forms is the easiest part. Figuring out what to put in the forms is all the effort. Each page of form usually has many pages of instructions, which are long and complicated because the tax code is long and complicated.

If you are a typical tech employee and have highish income, incentive stock options, interest, dividends, capital gains, etc. don't think you can use freefillableforms to do your taxes in a couple hours.
Blockchain tech isn't 14 years old, it's 30 years old, or even 40 if you want to go back to the '82 paper. Still no world-changing tech has come from it, aside from monopoly money.
I agree, thanks for your thoughts!
Prefab concrete was popular in some areas of western Europe too, but fell out of fashion for housing probably partly because of its association with drab, dull public housing projects.
Yeah, I love when a naive dev helpfully replaces the tabs because their VSCode is setup that way.

(Make syntax requires tabs)
It may come as a surprise then that we already use molecular tools to fight bacteria.
That's what antibiotics are - fairly small, relatively simple molecules.

The problem with bacteria is they are a moving target - it's not as if they aren't constantly under attack from all sides already.

Bacteriophage ( viruses that target bacteria ) are ubiquitous, there is bacteria on bacteria action ( in fact most current antibiotics are molecules one bacteria or fungi developed to kill another ), and organisms like us - are constantly trying to kill bacteria through multiple mechanisms.
Government-backed actors exploiting WinRAR vulnerability
How could you shaman shame?
Arpanet started at 1969 and it was not immediately labed with certain groups as a scam, like here for years. That literally blocks the perception. So 2007-1969 is 38 years and not 14.
Huge fan of used equipment, and live in a great country to simply acquire 'peoples old stuff', to upgrade my even older stuff on the cheap.

1) pixel 3 -- Actually bought this new. It's in mint shape, and just had battery #3 placed in it. It does all the things I need it to do, and minus it's lackluster battery life from design onward, perfect. AND fits in a pocket, and allows your leg to still move without snapping it!

2) Every household appliance I have: Dishwasher, Fridge, washer/dryer -- These are all likely from the early 2000's and are of the most simple design. None of the devices have a screen or a 'digital' input mechanism. They are the opposite of fancy, but just do their job, on the daily.

3) Titan 440x paint sprayer -- Acquired this years ago now and have run a serious amount of paint through it. It's probably 15-20 years old. Again, it's not fancy. When you adjust the pressure, you turn a knob. You have no idea what value you are actually at. Need more pressure? Crank it right. Need less? Left. It's perfect.

4) Every car I've ever owned has been at least 8 years old, typically in the 10-12 year range. Always over 100k; Generally nearing 200k. -- I'm sure we're all 'handy' in one way or another here, and are generally able to figure out and be handy in the ways we have yet to learn. Being able to fix most things wrong with a car allows one to more calmly purchase what can turn into really solid purchases with a bit of love and well, luck. Everything is modern enough that 'high milage' isn't as much of a worry as to perceived and actual maintenance done before purchase. Keypoint: Always, always, own at least 2 if you go this route. Things will break, but as long as you can 'take the other one' for a few days/week life's schedule can be continued with 'fix car' / 'send car to get fixed' additions.

5) Woodstove. I live in Maine. It makes 110% sense to have a woodstove here. It's nice to know that as long as I have something to burn, the house will have heat, we can heat water, and we can cook food. The lax definition of input required vs all of the gains of the output it provides have a woodstove, certainly old tech, at the absolute top of perfectly happy with. Currently now heat with heat pumps for general 'fill heat' and the woodstove to raise from that to 'comfortable'.

I'm sure this list could go on forever. I find myself to like simple things that do their job. I like new simple things, that do their job, too. These days, it's seems however that the simple things are often not so simple, but 'smart' and with a feature-set that I really don't need, but often becomes the failure point.

I like the 'click' of the can opener when you squeeze it through the lid. If it fails, you can see why, and address the issue. I'd rather not abstract life away, but use tools that help free time.
Using a terminal as a full-blown IDE probably is.
Winter is coming, but climate change currently works against Russian blackmail attempts.

The Ukrainians could blow off or simply close the Druzhba pipeline or any other pipeline going to Europe through their territory. But they don't.
- My automatic (non quartz) watch. Another watch that’s hybrid - has a battery reserve and charges by solar and hand movement.

The only time I don’t wear them is when I shower.

No charging, no updates, no BS. Works 100% of the time while being stylish.

- 2011 MacBook Air. Replaced the battery last year. Still going strong.
I know at least the Thai community calls it San Fran. For example, the "San Fran Dhammaram Temple"
https://maps.google.com/?cid=6890710206950349018&entry=gps
I saw this article on Nature and thought of you: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03244-7
I think the 'drying up' only applies to OpenAI, the capital is still there it is just being spread around to a larger number of players than a few months ago when the boom began.
I’d been suffering from some “depression lite” symptoms, mostly generalized anxiety since 2020, maybe long covid, who knows, and a reasonably small prescription of Xoloft has had a huge change in my mood/life.
People get tossed out of their seats every other episode in star trek. I'm sure I've seen multiple "medical team to the bridge"s due to someone getting knocked loose by the ship shaking and hitting their head on a console.
New pill helps Covid smell and taste loss fade quickly
Love Shpongle, saw him for the first time last year (as Simon Posford live) and it blew my mind.

He's playing in Denver for 2 shows on Halloween weekend btw! I'd catch him since he's technically "retired"
What about webmin?

I used it in the past, it has plenty of modules and parse config, so you can edit them by hand too.

https://webmin.com/
> Cryptocurrency was (and still is to an extent) a really interesting idea that has a ton of real world utility, especially as government surveillance continues its march towards panopticon.

Cryptocurrency not only doesn't help much, but even goes backwards there. You think the government is bad? Imagine life in NFT land. Your gym ticket is a NFT. Your movie ticket is a NFT. Your house deed is a NFT.

So everyone you interact with knows where you work, how much you earn, what you own, where's your house, what you buy, what groups you belong to... and they can keep tracking you forever if you tell them who you are just once.

They can treat you preferentially or charge you more or ban you depending on your past history.

Sure, there's Monero, but nobody seems to really care about that one.

> It's a shame that the "get rich quick" grifters and speculators took ahold of it and have killed any chance of normal people adopting it as a regular form of payment.

It's built into the system. The early makers like Satoshi wanted a deflationary system. A deflationary system is inherently undesirable for usage as a currency, and makes it just the thing for HODLing and speculation.

You could have inflation, but who controls it? There are no good answers.
This is one of those Richard Feynman moments where perhaps it's more useful to consider the properties of the bird than its name. The technology doesn't have a soul, it's up to us to decide when and where to use it regardless of taxonomy.
Separate services helps a lot with bigger teams. No matter how much you modularize code -- which will gradually fall apart anyway unless you have custom tooling that enforces API boundaries programmatically -- you're still tying people to the same runtime environment, which means you're tying people to the same libraries and underlying framework/operating system. Which means major library upgrades become nonstarters (too much code to test/change), and runtime upgrades are rare and challenging (hello, enterprises still running Java 6/7).

There's a balance and the "every function should be a microservice" approach is kind of insane, but "just use a monolith for everything" falls apart pretty quickly at larger team sizes.
This just seems like FUD. Either she's suitable for the role or she's not, and the measure of that isn't the presence or absence of shamanism in the resume, but what she's able to do. The proof is in the pudding.
I have always thought that instrumentation alone would be a better classification than genre.
Thanks for pointing me to that comment so I could upvote it. His comment is not accurate in that there are plenty of theories, but the general idea behind the claim is far more accurate than what probably many that frequent HN believe about long COVID. Long COVID is poorly understood and the research around it has overall been inconclusive, and much of it very low-quality:

https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/long-covid-kills-sad...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqAjrMNN-Vs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4NqsU-Dk9A

https://www.dailywire.com/news/taxpayer-funded-1-billion-lon...

Even the linked article has a bunch of caveats like:

Joanna Hellmuth, a cognitive neurologist and clinical researcher at UC, San Francisco, who has collaborated with some of the authors but was not involved in the current study, questions the paper’s focus on the hippocampus. She notes there’s currently little evidence the typical cognitive symptoms of Long Covid are linked to memory encoding in this brain region. Although the results are interesting, in her view, “the model they’re testing doesn’t reflect the clinical condition.”
The interesting bit is that it's feasible to render in realtime. We have plenty of ways to render a 3D scene if render time is not an issue.
This was unexpectedly fascinating.
Richard Nixons speechwriter prepared a packet to be opened if the astronauts were stuck on the moon.

It contains the most beautiful speech never given.

http://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/events/centen...
Uniform over the real numbers.
1password version 6.8.9
What's DSA?

Take this with a grain of salt, but you might consider trying to find a particular problem or type of problem that you are interested in solving. That could help you pick the area of study, by working backwards.
I bought a Pixel 3A phone shortly after it was released in 2019.

Since then, there have been 5 additional Pixel releases, each with shiny new features, and about a year ago I received an offer to trade in my Pixel 3A for the latest model at basically no cost.

Wait, what? Why would Google be willing to hand me a new phone that's four model years newer as if it's an even exchange for my old phone?

Well, it's because the Pixel 3A had an amazing feature that newer phones in the line no longer have: free unlimited storage in Google Photos.

Owners of newer models instead have to pay at least $2 a month for the most basic Google One data storage plan, and if you take a lot of photos and video, you likely have to upgrade to their higher-storage plans.

No thanks, I'm perfectly content with my older-model Pixel, and I will likely run it into the ground. Photo quality is still very good, especially for low-light photography, and there is nothing else about the phone that feels laggy.
> government surveillance continues its march towards panopticon
The entire notion of crypto is that you can track a block over every transaction and that the transaction history creates the whole. Most Exchanges are forced to report who opened a wallet.
Compared to cash/gift cards or many other payment forms, Crypto is the government surveillance DREAM.
I also used feel bad about my unused domains. So I started not renewing some, and now I feel bad about having the perfect use case for the ones I no longer own.

Now I'll have the ones I own until the day I die.
Africanized Orcas...
What changes made the language worse? I use both for my job and find php 8 way more pleasant.
Feels like it would be a big risk developing this for iOS when it seems likely Apple would not be keen on allowing something like this on their store, regardless of how payments work.
You're telling me you've got better ideas?
This is a fun tech demo but it's a terrible experience for a quiz (dragging around, not being able to see the keys on the other face, having to mouse over to reveal the important details)
Some schools are more practical/focused than others.
I had a 2013 MBP and only upgraded this year, earlier in 2023.
What makes you think that the world is moving towards cryptocurrencies in any significant way?
Shaman is what autocorrect turns "systemctl" into. It's not that complicated.
You're right, I didn't give any numbers. IMO for every dozen engineers you are allowed one monolith (but now you call it a service).
> to do the currency conversion

from what to what?

BTC to USDT to USD?
> It's like Steam's marketplace, but without having to have one company have control

...and without payment processing, fraud detection, customer service, moderation tools, user reviews or a refund policy.
I never said anything about forcing people to get vaccinated. I was simply arguing that getting vaccinated is wise and considerate.

"Your own personal chance of death is not all that matters" is just a fact. There are outcomes other than your death that should influence your decisions.
This generation's demoscene is very much alive and existing entirely within social VR. It's not well known about outside and often the participants learned to code shaders for VR as their first experience of programming. The technical skill there is stunning

If you have PC VR at home, here's how you can start the rabbit hole
https://vrchat.com/home/launch?worldId=wrld_f5a298f6-83e6-45...

Feel free to reach out to me for more, I'd love to show you around
You can withdraw USDC, USDT, etc. But you can't have Binance send you actual USD to your bank account. You will have to find somewhere else who will send you real money for your stablecoins.
I finally broke down and pay the $5 a year for AdGuard on iOS. Even blocks YouTube ads and haven’t gotten the “three strikes and you’re out” notice on that yet so I’ll keep using it as long as it works. I basically never see ads.
Or look at much newer LLMs, or even Gaussian Splatting. Clear use cases, rapid innovation, certain impact.

Cryptocurrency has two main applications: illegal transactions, and speculation. It's high time to stop pretending it got popular for any other reason.
This is a great time for Atlassian to be revoking self-hosting for the masses.

The cloud is someone else's computer, not secured how you might, and not out of the way.
Your argument ignores that changes to neighbors' property would then cause an increased burden to a land owner. This would not seem to be an improvement for freedom
The Power of Designing for a Single User
Did they give up on ONE?
That's an entirely separate issue.

As an aside, I always wondered if that was asked more pointedly. Had Babbage said it would eliminate errors and the MP was making a point that you still need to check things?
Books. I love the tactile feel, I love being able to find what I need by physically navigating my library instead of my filesystem, I love being able to flip to a general section of a book that I'm familiar with and the serendipity of flipping to a random page in an unknown book.

I also love libgen and my digital collection is easily 10-100x larger than my physical, but physical books is where it's at.
Yes that's one of its problems unfortunately.

The radio seems to be an afterthought, with their main focus being on their Second Life (yes apparently it still exists) clubs.

Anyhow, from Dj Puddles' YouTube videos ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz1rM6EhFvoqq6WC3f9fSwQ ) it looks like the track is shown in the Second Life's clubs (the videos are often marred by the dj's unbearable distorted voice...).

Furthermore, many of the mixes are published on mixcloud (https://www.mixcloud.com/DJBabeBPM , https://www.mixcloud.com/DJ_Gadget ), but you need to have a subscription to see the trackslist?? :facepalm:

All in all, there seems to be an incredible effort on the music, the Second Life part and a lot more but the web side is definitely stuck in the 90s, disgracefully...

They probably don't realize what they could be if they looked outside Second Life...
Make is still the only build automation tool specified under POSIX standard.
Also, makefiles never went anywhere because CMake emitted them.