skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s like saying men don’t have more muscle mass because of the few examples of weak men and strong women.

You’d think that’s absurd, but back when I took a feminism course at Stanford (that was a long time ago), that bit about strength, as well as height, was literally part of required reading and “discussed” in class (discussed is in quotes because no one was willing to discuss when I brought up statistics). There’s no arguing with those people.
Some societies allow this, maybe we should ask them?
Everybody just became whipped creme producers.

Sorry copper, I like whipped cream to go with my 4am coffee at the rave. Legitmate use and all that.
Because the whole point of the linked article is that they're making it part of the Open Compute Project, whose entire existence is devoted to making sure things are compatible with other things.
My company just came out the other side of this.

Only the high performers still have jobs.
Agreed. Can someone do Garry Tan next?
In those days MS-DOS, Linux was barely usable, when Linux became usable Windows 95 was already around, without those limitations.

My first kernel was 1.0.9 released alongside Slackware 2.0, offering initial support for IDE CD-ROM drives and experimental support for ELF files, by the way.
Managers, meet Emails.
> I don't think this system would be worse in that sense, probably roughly equivalent. But it makes sense to at least attempt to tax undeveloped and under-developed land at high enough rates to encourage at least some healthy amount of development. It won't be perfect, but it shouldn't be worse either.

I don't see how it can't not be much worse.

If the tax is based on the actual value of the property, there are two important factors:

1- You can easily prove or disprove whether the valuation makes sense. Just look at comparable sales nearby. If in a neighborhood of similar houses, ten have been sold in the past year for 200K and your very similar house receives a tax bill saying it's worth 2M, you can easily protest and win since the sales records show it's only worth +/- 200K.

2- If it really is worth 2M based on comparable sales, in worst case you can then sell it for 2M. While it's terrible to kick people out of their homes via property taxes, at least the consolation is that it's actually worth that. So you don't go bankrupt, you can sell it for that price.

With LVT the tax is supposed to be based on some theoretical projection of what it might be worth if a non-existing structure were to be there. What prevents the county from telling you that if only you built a ten story highrise there, it would be worth 10M? So now you have to pay tax on 10M.

You can't easily disprove it because, well perhaps maybe it's true that if the highrise was there it might be worth 10M. But of course the building doesn't exist so it's all speculation. Also, since the building doesn't actually exist, you can't sell the property for 10M to pay the tax bill.
Not 100% of people support Putin either - should we allow Russia to attack Ukraine?
I suppose the usual legal argument of no expectation of privacy in a public space applies.

However the less formal court of public opinion, social pressure, business policies etc will hopefully make these socially unacceptable in enough places as to not be worth it.

Certainly I expect I'd ask anyone to take such devices off if they enter my home or engage with me.

I encountered Google glass once in public and moved from where I was sitting, my dirty look to the wearer as I did so hopefully making them think twice before brandishing a camera in a stranger's direction.
One thing that really annoys me is youtube translating video titles - why would I ever want the title of an english language video to be translated?
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I can tell by the title what it's all about. Paul's essays are always like this.
As other people have said, it's a shame that so much of psytrance relegates itself to being "electronic dance music", playing off the same clichés and subdividing itself so much such that the most minute production details are catalogued. While you could reasonably say that about any electronic genre, Psytrance really ups the level of having any given median track sounding indistinguishable. Yeah, the sound design experimentations are cool; yeah, it's a good sound... but I wish I would actually remember it for _something_ specific it does well.

In general, I think I miss the songwriting aspect most. Infected Mushroom really nailed it, which is why they're so popular. Nowadays, I can only find the Japanese doujin music scene among those that regularly mix and match psytrance with various other genres.

A few other recs going more in that direction:

- Talpa (https://sundancerecords.bandcamp.com/album/when-the-somberne...)

- Jerico's Law (https://juno909.bandcamp.com/album/another-law)

- Migma Shelter (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l3dfWAOgloDDde... -- j-pop psytrance!)

- Hilight Tribe (https://hilighttribe.bandcamp.com/album/temple-of-light)

- Koxbox (https://koxboxmemo604.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-unknown)

- Hallucinogen (https://hallucinogenmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-lone-derang...)

- And finally, the best hi-tech work I've ever heard. Sephax - Electric Currents (https://alice-drecords.bandcamp.com/album/sephax-electric-cu...)
It's not hard at all, the localization team just made a mistake.

The solution is to not localize for Americans.
BastionZero's Multi Root Zero-Trust Access Protocol (MrZAP)
Me too saw this first in The Shadow, thought that it was made up, until few years later came across the fact that they actually existed.
Religions were created by natural selection through thousands of year; and they made it through multiple empires, times and even today. This might be very important to understand and recognize why they are very powerful if you are not religious.
A length can be measured from an arbitrary point too, no? And in some cases must be.

The perimeter of a circle for example.

- - -

Further, Radians is another measurement of angle, but it is not "degrees radian"
It's been done. There's XNS, and there's QNX networking over raw Ethernet. Both worked well. Look them up. You probably don't want to go that route, but it is technically possible on a LAN.
We can all have good things right now, including climate remediation if there weren't an extreme concentration of wealth.Trickle down is proven bogus. Wealth is hoarded and locked up to a great extent .

Take a comfortable and consumable share, Marc and others. The rest is merely symbolic.
I've used it several times to crash the program, with cleaner stack trace than the abort() library function.
email? They’re sweeping up an incredible amount of data, basically every window you open.
I've never heard of him and I'm curious to learn more but two big problems. One, it seems his Gitlab instance has received the HN hug of death and couldn't handle it. Two, it seems he is trash talking open source software and using that to justify his own proprietary monopoly software.

Ironically one of the great things about open source licenses is that when a guy can't keep his website online we can fork it and someone more competent can become the maintainer of the project. Of course Louis Rossman wouldn't profit from that.

So from what I am seeing so far I am thinking fuck this guy. The GPL, similar licenses, and user freedom are all way more important than him, whoever he is. Huge negative marks to this guy for attacking free software. We have seen a long string of these exploitative software vendors come and go. He seems to be establishing that he's just another one of the vendors who wants to exploit his users.
There's a new Frasier show on paramount+ whatever that is:

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt14124236/
I believe Musk's attempt to deal with bots comes from genuine motives but every move so far has been bungled, with this the latest example. The only way to mitigate bots is true verified ID, but that is a nettle Musk will not grasp, hence flailing away with half baked ideas like this.
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Show HN: Compare and find overlap in time zones
> Indeed and it hasn't seen any traction on HN, which really surprises me.

There are many 3 letter agencies employees and sympatizers on HN.
There are a lot of stories like these which get flagged quicjly or downvoted.
Syntactic sugar is powerful.

There was a time the China accepted calculus, but rejected Leibniz notations.

It looks this like: https://i.imgur.com/foUem6w.png

Edit: Technically this is still Leibniz notation.
It will be like that episode of Star Trek the next generation called darmok.
https://archive.ph/2SlTq
That's a very polite way of saying it.
No Niles or Daphne?
It really is incredible how many translated apps/websites talk like a drunken finn, when i set language to finnish. Only the things made by native finns seem to have good Finnish on them.
IMO the worst is that cal starts weeks on Sundays for some weird reason.
I looked at the patches.md write up and did not see anything about page content access. DOM access in Chrome is less than half as fast as it used to be 5 or more years ago. Chrome is sacrificing page access speed to improve querySelector parsing performance at great penalty to execution speed. As a point of comparison Firefox performance on this item has not changed over this timeframe and is now a couple of order of magnitudes faster.
Yeah it's wild that you have to calculate your own bill to the government. Just tell me the amount and I'll pay it.
https://archive.ph/pLyjp

> The Sinaloa cartel, the leading exporter of fentanyl to the U.S., is prohibiting the production and trafficking of the illegal opioid in its territory after coming under increasing pressure from U.S. law enforcement, cartel members say. …

> A midlevel Sinaloa cartel operative, who used to deal in chemical precursors needed to make the synthetic opioid, said the Chapitos are leaving the business in part because they wanted the U.S. to shift its crackdown efforts to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, their chief rival and another leading fentanyl producer.
Nice to hear of a fund that is reviving a beloved brand and not raiding it in this cynical world.
Linking to your service https://www.heystage.com/ for reference.
I too consider myself a techno-optimist.

But how do you get from "technology solves problems" to:

> We believe free markets are the most effective way to organize a technological economy.

> The market naturally disciplines

> Markets prevent monopolies and cartels.
I wish they served beer and wine there.
It’s full of BS like "We had a problem of starvation [and] poverty." How can he be so delusional?
That’s an interesting approach, but what’s the use case you’re thinking of? There’s no correlation of UUIDs across nodes like there is with something like UUIDv7 or ULIDs.

I guess you’ll still have batches of locality depending on the uptime of the server which might be useful and generation would of course be significantly faster although I doubt many applications are really bottlenecks by UUID generation speed.
Garry actually sounds reasonable (sometimes) compared to some of the classics like pg or sama nowadays

pg is unglued from the real world, not as much as Andreessen but still. Source: Twitter/X

sama is straight up building a cyberpunk dystopia. At least puts his money where his mouth is
The annual fee is a good idea I think, but $1 is way too low, and really sounds ridiculous for a whole year; processing fees will use up much of it. They should make it (USD)$1000/year instead, so that only people really serious about using Twitter/X can view posts on the service. This should also be done worldwide, without any pricing differential for different markets.
It'll get better and will be able to answer more questions based on sourcecode and documentation?
Looks good - but why limit it to macos only? Linux support would ve great, potentially packaged as an appimage.
I've seen a compiler that has an alternative null pointer address, but I couldn't find it again.
I'm Italian and I have the same problem. You just have to set the system to English (UK) and all your problems will be fixed :)
That may or may not be a correct assessment but you will have a hard time convincing anyone, moronic or non-moronic, without any real arguments and counter-examples.

I for one would have loved some more substance to your post...
> Everyone who does serious work on consciousness defines it that way.

What? As "experiencing bits of data"? That's ridiculous, a stone experiences bits of data as scratches on its surface. You could say that it "experiences its environment", but that's semantics and has almost nothing to do with human consciousness - or at least with the interesting parts of it.
Even seated you would make these psssshhht sounds of pushing air out, you would end up sweating from a meditation session because your muscles would also be contracted as you focus on the hand position in your chest... In your mind you have to visualize words backwards and breath them out letter by letter... I still laugh at the "so be it" that has to be said with absolute certainty for your wishes to come true
> I'm certain there are reasons IP came to live alongside/on top of MAC

There were different teams/universities working on what today we would call LAN and WAN. I forget the details and history (I'm sure someone here, who was involved, could chime in, hah) and might have this wrong, but the result is LAN networking is MAC based while WAN networking is IP based.

It's one of those accidents of history that things are just the way they are and many don't question it. I run into it a lot describing basic networking concepts or early cisco material when people ask _why_ both MACs and IP addresses exist and its just... not always the correct time to explain those details to them.
This sounds suspiciously close to re-inventing ARP and IP.
It says 20C for me and I’m in the US/have everything set to US English. Is my browser telling it I prefer Celsius somehow (I do have the weather app on my phone set to Celsius) or did they change it to Celsius for everyone?
In a bit more useful form

https://ibb.co/86J5rBr

https://imgur.com/a/nS1pwSu

It's easier to see here what you can cap to 20W without a performance sacrifice (13% takes 7.8s per minute or 1 additional minute per each 10 minutes of 100% load all this time) and if you don't need multi-core performance much then you can go even gor 15W.
Yep yep. IMHO - balance comes from forces in opposition. If - as you point out - everyone around you is a yesman, you’ve got no opposing forces and cannot be balanced.
I’m a millennial, and I too just turn up and do only what I’m paid for in fact, my employer will use money to bribe me into staying an extra hour or too some times.
My fave was when I was having a day off, and they rang me and asked me if I could come in for the day, and I said no, they called me back an hour later, and asked me if I’d come in for 1.5hrs later in the day, for 8 hours pay, a free day of annual leave, travel costs and a free meal. Then I said yes.
Tell HN: Wise froze $40k+ in funds for 10 days and counting
So I know there are a lot of stories like this and this is not the first or the last one, but Wise, my bank, froze all our main operational bank accounts last Monday. They want proof of 'the source of my funds'. I have been a client with them for over three years but apparently that does not count for anything.

I've done everything they want but their verification team is "busy" and needs "5 working days" to check what I submitted. That was 10 days ago - I'm not sure how many days per week they regard as working days.

Luckily, because I have heard of Wise, Stripe, etc doing this on a regular basis I very strictly transfer any excess funds to a real brick-and-mortar bank, but this could easily have caused huge cashflow problems if I hadn't. As it is, it's pretty hard to set up an alternative, pay contractors etc etc, but I figured it's a good reminder for others who might be going "Surely if I don't do anything wrong they won't do anything bad to me right?"

Some of the other stories have been from people who turned out to be doing things - e.g. cryptocurrency trading - where I can kind of see why their finance providers would maybe get suspicious of illegal activity. We (Ritza) just offer technical writing services, which means we get paid by a few customers around the world every month and pay out contractors also around the world. We're headquartered in the Netherlands, not Cayman Islands or Mauritius or anything dodgy, and we pay out to people mainly in South Africa.

Posting as a warning to others, but also if you know of any alternatives to Wise that serve EU businesses I am all ears. I tried Revolut Business and Airwallex and got a generic "We can't offer you services at this time and you can't appeal and we can't tell you why" rejection from both of them. I would love to know if I'm on some kind of list and how I got there if I am.

https://x.com/sixhobbits/status/1714531389326979112?s=20

https://x.com/sixhobbits/status/1713084385585504359
Scrum Sucks
Not even a clickbait, 100% true
Everyone blaming GPT but I have found StackOverflow become less useful recently. I blame the hostile mods and downvoters.
Yes, it's normal. We're not machines, meant to operate in exactly the same manner day after day.
I didn’t notice any performance regressions - are you sure it’s not some rogue plugin, or misconfigured?
A functioning regulator would tax their wealth, but there doesn’t seem to be a legal way to do that properly
Widely covered over the last few days. Use search below.
Yes just ignore the vast majority of native English speakers. I wonder why an English-language newspaper (which heavily markets itself outside the UK) didn’t think of that.
Imagine designing and building an aqueduct with Roman numerals.
Almost feel embarrassed for the guy
Where is Underworld on music map in relation to this genre?
That exchange reminds me of a group of russians making an OS with a browser that is a mail client, irc client, rss reader, news reader, calendar and a few other things I forget.

But again no workflow. A good client understands and if necessary forces you to do the next thing. Say a mail has a web link. The sensible thing to do would be to store a fullpage screenshot with the email because web pages evaporate. Doing this with tools not designed for that specifically is so much work you shouldn't even bother to try it.

You want to reply? NO, YES, YES but not now. Then it should show up in the todo list. If the todo item only lives in "draft emails" it will get lost.
Something strange is how prevalent listening to trance music seems to be amongst people doing deep work or study. I personally get my best work done when there's a good trance mix and no voice/intelligible conversation. I almost can't solve the harder types of problems if I'm not listening to trance.
Agreed. Unless you are doing psychedelics. In which case it acts as a catalyst.

Interestingly, part of the reason it is still used is because it allows for a reduction in dosage for other things are also used as part of the cocktail prescribed for modern anasthesia.

I was curious so I went and looked. I will definitely be reducing my usage of it to only when I do psychedelics.

https://clinicalview.gehealthcare.com/article/use-or-not-use...
Does it solve the DDoS problem? I haven't checked the state-of-the-art in mesh networks for a while, but when I was actively interested in this area, it was either:

1. Centralized device management, so that each device has a unique "permit" from some kind of a central authority.

2. Be susceptible to DDoS where rogue devices can easily saturate the network.
Another good read/listen is this gastropod episode (https://gastropod.com/secrets-of-sourdough/) which features cool projects like a global sourdough sequencing project (http://robdunnlab.com/projects/sourdough/), a sourdough library (https://www.puratos.com/campaigns/the-lab---18th-of-october), and it's caretaker (https://www.instagram.com/sourdough_librarian/)/

They did an experiment with bakers from around the world making starters with the same flour, bringing them together and looking at what was in them. From the transcript:

DUNN: When we looked at the bakers’ hands, their skin bacteria on their hands was about half sourdough bacteria. And so they, like, have sourdough paws.

DUNN: We’ve looked at zillions of hands. We’ve never seen anything like this. And so the first result is that the bakers themselves have changed in response to their occupation.

TWILLEY: Normal hands like mine and Cynthia’s and Rob’s—they are something like 2 to 4 percent Lactobacillus.

DUNN: On the hands of the bakers, it is like it’s the star of the show. It’s wild. I mean, if it’s right, you should be able to put flour and water on a baker’s hand and it should start to ferment immediately and become acidic.

GRABER: Working with sourdough has entirely changed the microbial environment on the bakers’ skin. They’ve been colonized by their pets! Rob wonders if the bakers spend so much time with their hands in acidic dough that the sourdough Lactobacillus microbes end up with a competitive advantage over normal skin microbes.
To downvoters - look up tweaking in urban dictionary and imagine something worse before clicking that arrow.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tweaking
Both of your comments have described concepts that are very important to understand when discussing medical interventions, especially at the population level. Your reasoning is correct, I just wanted to add the terminology we use:

Absolute risk reduction (ARR), relative risk reduction (RRR), number needed to treat (NNT), number needed to harm (NNH).

Reading about these is a good starting point for anyone wanting to understand more about the decision making process.
Can anyone recommend something similar for Linux?
But it's all taking place in a sewer which inexplicably contains advertising billboards in central places. You'd rather be wherever turtles normally live.
Most people believe they are in the right. And if they know they aren't they most likely will be able to explain to you why they were forced to do the wrong thing.

The reason why he "writes that shit without prompt" is because he deep down he feels a friction between the current state of the world, his role in said world and his self-image as a good guy.
That post is an attempt to tell himself (and the world) a story in which that friction is reduced.

From the outside it is of course completely and utterly ridiculous — I guess even 14 year old me would have been able to figure out that there is no meat on what passes as bones in his story.
The issue is not about "paid", OSS can be paid, but it doesn't meet other freedoms of the Open Source Definition https://opensource.org/osd/
Vscode is a code editor, not an idea. Everything you write is just as true for vim.

But some people do prefer an actual IDE, as it can give a huge benefit.
No, I will repeat this again and again, dividing people to helfpul and not helpful is immoral. Of course it's not obvious who is who! How can you boldly proclaim that while we have pandemic of invisible mental illnesses, drug abuse and long covid? Even many people with obvious and surmountable disabilities are neglected and gave up trying to do anything valuable.

If you let them perish that ends up more expensive for whole society than supporting them all, and enabling at least some of them to be, as you say "helpful". You can't sort them out in advance, that's why everyone should be supported equally.
> The key irony is that the empowerment of ambitious individuals that he praises is only possible in an institutional framework that makes it possible.

That's the pretty consistent blindspot I've found in people who strongly promote that view - they are almost always blind to the institutions that are required to support someone "being independent".
We need to go faster ...