skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah how dare they take down a site that offers illegal services
While I can see where you’re coming from, I don’t believe those around me or the community I live in see it as such a dire designation and of a disease. It’s a common term of phrase that doesn’t really need to be picked apart.
Layoffs aside, it's hard as an enthusiast consumer to get excited about RISC-V for the same reason it's hard to get excitrd about ARM. Availability is limited to prepackaged SBCs and tinkering-discouraged consumer products.

I'd be so excited if I could buy a chip and a motherboard and just drop them into a standard ATX case. But I don't think there exists a consumer-purchaseable RISC-V or ARM chip that isn't a whole system on a chip.
I still haven't yet figured out if anyone is actually switching any big platforms to RISC-V, or if everyone is just pretending to switch so they can get a free ARM license from ARM (which it seems you only get if you show a prototype of your stuff working on RISC-V and a few blog posts about how RISC-V is the future).
If they get rid of the silly crypto / bticoin elements then it may work (it needs to be more accessible imo)

Other than that Nostr is completely irrelevant.
It seems like he is talking about influencers, where there is a relationship that is based on abstract metrics like number of followers and unclear success. Here I use abstract and metrics together to convey the idea that the metrics does not give a real meaning. Obviously there are many people who perfectly deserves their "followers" but it is gamed by other people removing real meaning.
To get my point, imagine a laptop was delivered by an alien in the year 1900.

Now, try to take that seriously and think about the laptop as an actual object of experimental curiosity -- what exactly does science need to invent, discover, describe etc. to understand the operation of that laptop?

99.999% of that new knowledge has to be in physics and chemistry, before the tiny 0.0001% of theoretical csci knowlegde is brought to bare.

Consider how impossible it would be to apply any csci knowledge first: we do not even have the ability to measure the cpu state! So we could not even identify any part of the system with 0s, 1s, etc.

Now: that's a laptop!

Imagine now you're dealing with an animal.

Hopefully its now clear how ridiculous it is to describe basically any aspect of our mode of operation by starting with trivial little csci algorithms. It would be insane even with an actual electronic computer, let alone an organic system.

A system whereby clearly our organic properties are radically fundamental to our mode of operation
For me at least, there's a question as to, "which Jordan Peterson?"

There is the guy you just described, who existed before his year(s?) long struggle with addiction, and then there is the apparently (to me at least) bitter, resentful and angry man who returned after.

Since his return, his expressions, language, positions (and even clothing) have taken on a darker, angrier tone and there's a lot less hope in what I've seen.

For me, this makes this individual different from some others who may fade away over some of issues cited in the article, but remain essentially the same person.

His personality and message changed after a deep and difficult struggle.

I'm not trying to criticize or defend the man, just raising the issue that he may be different from some others in the list.
Ask HN: To what extent have digital payments replaced cash in your country?
I've been based in Vietnam for the past few years. This country seems to be relatively slow in adopting digital payment methods (which is just fine by me, btw.). Cash is still accepted anywhere and also still appears to be the most common payment method. When it comes to digital payments, regular bank transfers via bank apps seem to be the most popular option. I take it that the same is the case for other countries in the region, such as Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. But it does make me wonder, how is the situation in other places? Do people in your country still use cash on a daily basis? If not, what is the go-to payment method?
Popularity is not a good filter for importance, especially about future importance. In old times, editors would decide what gets popular, now algorithms do and they are quite dumb and don't take risks.
As they should. If a domain name changes hands, the previous owner should have its ownership verification revoked.
Honest question (I don't know much about about EXIF), but wouldn't the metadata be peanuts compared to the actual image data?
Technically so is autism if you want to go that route. It's something that is physically different in your brain, at least different enough that you can spot it with a scan.
Neanderthal Stone Tools Discovered in Poland
Also Fatal Insomnia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_insomnia .
Stuff of nightmares.
How do any of these work when everyone is cargo-cult "programming" AI by verbally asking nicely? Effectively no one but very few up there in OpenAI et al has any understanding, let alone have controls.
What your parents kept in the past was related to how difficulty it was to take in store the media. The ease of which we can take and store and save our images is making those memories cheaper and therefore less valuable. Photographs should trigger a memory, photographs shouldn’t be the memory.

Surely not every moment in your life can be as significant as that moment that your family was around the table talking about the news and the weather.

The best photo presentations I did for clients was when there were fewer photographs presented, not more.
The app sounds like Kramer's idea actually :)

KRAMER

(slides in to the Jerry's place)
(with the excited voice)

Jerry! I have an idea. An app that does nothing. (screams and shakes his head) NOTHING!
But that's a bit of a fallacy, as Proton just makes it possible to start Windows-targeting games on Linux. So you're still benefiting from a Microsoft-dominated gaming industry whether you like it or not.
Not sure how common knowledge this is, but there's a growing community of people using this for work from home gigs.
Easyblocks – a React framework for building custom visual page builders
Hey, founder of Easyblocks here!

The idea behind Easyblocks is quite simple. Today if you want to create a custom text editor for your product you have a lot of options with different abstraction levels: Slate, Lexical, CKEditor, TineMCE etc. But if you want to create a custom PAGE BUILDER there's not much to pick from. There are GrapeJS or WebStudio, but they're based on HTML/CSS (there's a HTML nodes panel on the left and CSS properties panel on the right), which is too hard for most people. There's no abstraction over the HTML/CSS that would make the experience simple and foolproof.

Easyblocks architecture is based on a novel concept called No-Code Components. I personally find it fascinating. No-Code Components are defined with code but are also visually editable. Each No-Code Component can have CUSTOM styling properties which makes it both visually flexible and not overwhelming for end-users (no CSS overhead). It's as if you could build your own visual blocks with Squarespace-level simplicity. You can build the most custom logic out there and yet leave the user with something super simple to use and customised.

Btw, it all started with Shopstory - a visual page builder for headless CMSes (https://www.shopstory.app/). We had a moderate success with it but during the journey we got asked by multiple software vendors if they could use Shopstory INSIDE of their products. Since we had quite an advanced editor and architecture behind Shopstory we thought that we should make it public for everyone.

High five!
Prior evidence suggests that sedentary behaviour increases blood biomarkers of cardiometabolic dysfunction.

They studied a hunter-gatherer tribe in Tanzania and found that despite having similar patterns of sedentary behaviour, their blood biomarkers of cardiometabolic dysfunction were much lower than those in industrialized nations. The authors posit that one reason for this is that sedentary behaviour in this group of individuals does not involve furniture -- rather, it usually involves a "deep squat", and the authors show that in this position the muscles are much more engaged than when someone sits in a chair.

This is consistent with evidence that breaking up periods of sitting with movement is good for you.

Their open-access paper talks about some evolutionary context for this hypothesis [1].

[1] 10.1073/pnas.1911868117
Layoffs followed by a round of hiring mean that a company thinks its engineers are making too much money and can be replaced by cheaper hires with the same level of skill.

This is one of many reasons why investment capitalism is a really poor method of technological development - a better option would be to reduce the control of external investors and adopt a more democratic internal hiring and promotion policy. Unfortunately four decades of neoliberal government and corporate policy has concentrated all the capital in a few hands, and the outsourcing of much of the hardware manufacturing base overseas has resulted in a decrepit technological base.

Thus, I imagine Chinese development of RISC-V is well ahead of whatever SiFive is up to and if they were directly competing, they'd be well behind the curve:

https://techwireasia.com/2023/10/do-risc-v-restrictions-sign...
That's the one I was more familiar with. (Is it the same name in some sense? On the one hand it rather looks like two different transcriptions of the same name; on the other hand Illich's father wasn't Russian and the names seem to be written differently in the Russian Wikipedia: Иллич, Ильич.)
Yes. But this is because we have organizations where people survive by placating the higher-ups instead of producing value to the product and their team. Hence, these people survive.

It's human nature to find the best way to survive so we can't really blame these PMs for doing what they need to keep their job. Suck up to the people that will ultimately give them their paycheck.

The issue isn't the PM or shitty employees that aren't producing actual value, the issue is with the ego of the higher ups that rather keep people that agree with them on all things than have people who will constantly challenge them.

I have seen many CxOs (that aren't founders) who are very good at befriending the founders and thus they are more prone to survive. They are not necessarily doing anything useful to move the needle though, so this gives people the impression that the best thing you can do to survive is just be liked by the higher ups. Telling founders that they are wrong on a day to day basis because you work so closely with users and the engineering team, is not a good way to keep your job. If you are very smart maybe you can navigate this in a way that works, for awhile.

If my point is muddled, I'm saying that if you have a shitty PM it's because of the organization that employs people and keeps people based on the wrong criteria. Good leaders aren't threatened by getting challenged or feel the need to constantly get their egos validated.

Or maybe I'm wrong there too and it's just human nature to want to keep people that you always get along with.
You clearly weren't paying attention in school then, because executive orders are most certainly taught in government classes.
> It's not sociopathy, it's more like 'wtf should I do'.

You're saying the difference is not in action but in intent.

I claim you can't truly know someone else's intent. Further, I don't think I'd trust a sociopath (ASPD) to tell me honestly what their intent is/was. So I don't understand the difference from an objective point of view.
Wow, that's interesting. It's curious how the 2 main demographics of individualists: the eusocial leadership group and people with autistic tendencies. There is obviously some spectrum overlap. It's probably unhelpful to automatically reduce people to stereotypes, but it helps to model and understand tendencies and behaviors.
I first heard about L-Systems a number of years ago in the context of an elective masters course on computer graphics, where we briefly touched on approaches for procedural geometry generation.

The way it was introduced to us, was to basically apply a parsing grammar backwards, IIRC using an iterative match-and-generate approach, to produce a command stream for a renderer.

I remember finding the idea of using a parsing grammar in this way quite interesting and wondered about other areas where this could be used. For some reason, programmable shell-completion came to my mind, i.e. encode a command line options for a program using a recursive grammar with "expand a file path here" or "call an external helper (e.g. git)" as terminal symbols. Throw in capture groups for terminals and this kills most use cases where the imperative approach in Bash gets very tedious.

I keep recalling that idea from the back of my mind every time I see L-Systems featured on HN. I guess/hope most newer shells learnt from Bash and already do something like this, but I honestly was just too lazy to investigate this any further (so far).
That is such a good way of putting it and I agree wholeheartedly. The body and mind are like the absolute foundation that you build other things on top of. If your mind and body are not sound, then what chance do the other things have?
The simulation hypothesis is in principle testable in that, if we were in a simulation, we may be able to find bugs in it, possibly even escape the sandbox. Right now, we don't have any "angle of attack", and nothing we could suspect of being a bug (which includes e.g. being able to perceive artifacts of some optimization in the simulation) - so there's no point in working oneself up about this, or assuming it's true. However, because this is testable in theory and there's a possibility it'll become testable in practice, it doesn't qualify as fundamentally "meaningless" in my book.
I don’t believe we could ever capture enough photographic and visual data to perfectly re-create the past.

So where do you personally stop? That’s the question I was asking. It’s sort of a future fear of missing out your suffering from.
Here in Switzerland mostly very old people are using cash. Me personally, I pay always through my phone. I don't even use cards anymore. I have them all in my digital wallet. I've noticed recently a couple of Crypto ATMs. Not 100% sure how they work and who uses them, but the tilt is towards digital here. There are very few vendors left who don't accept anything but cash.
In general, any consumption outside the home is more costly. Most costly to your wallet. Most costly to your health.

And yet, Americans struggle to make ends meets. Americans struggle with their waistline (and associated illillnesses).

We can't have it both ways. We can't "rebrand" citizens as consumers and expect positive outcomes.

As it is, the current (financial) system favors such misguided behaviour. Pressed for time, Mr Foo / Ms Bar grab a over-calorie'd "coffee" drink from Starbucks. It's paid for with a credit card that consistently carries a balance from month to month. Mr / Ms fight the calorie excess by stopping at the gym, or at least pay the membership and buy some workout clothes. Nonetheless, the weight adds up and trips to the doctor and prescribed meds become their norm.

Welcome to The Matrix. Consumers are merely expebdable pods that power the system.
EU-Japan agreement on cross-border data flows
Common Sense Questions That
“Are you prepared to put your common sense knowledge to the test? Common sense quiz questions? As adults, we’re often expected to have a solid grasp of everyday knowledge, and that’s where common sense questions come into play.
I've done this for https://www.nslookup.io. Downloaded a list of the 1 million most popular domain names, scraped TXT records for them, and mined common patterns to add formatting with logos to the TXT records section.

Here they are for the example OP gave: https://www.nslookup.io/domains/stripe.com/dns-records/

Looks like I need to rerun the script and add some logos (:
Indeed, anyone claming Arduino uses C, has not used the language in a very looong time.
I maintain my position that despite whatever moral or ethical quandaries you feel are being violated, “no one cares”.
It's also because the cost of making things reproducible is still too high.

We have the tooling, but it still takes a bit of effort from the developer's side to integrate those into their CI pipeline.

Eventually we will get to a place where this will be the default. It will be integrated into day-to-day tooling like `cargo release`, `npm publish`, ...
> Sorry, no, this things sell well, but usually not much over platforms. They would become tough for some in case of regulation.

Ok, I can see that as a possibility, though not one I could either confirm or refute so I'm still uncomfortable with it.

> It's besides the point anyway, as I was talking about forcing people into difficult to finance things, give up on the place, or distressed selling. Whether that is 100k or 50k or 500k that causes that doesn't really matter at that point.

Echt?

To my understanding, a stranded asset is one that cannot be sold for a positive number.

Surely if the cost is significantly smaller than the thing — and I'd expect that if you've got a building that could be mistaken for the apartment building I'm in due to its size, it's valuation is in the millions of euros — then it's still not stranded.

For example, if it costs 300k to fix the whole building, but the whole building is valued at 3M — why wouldn't banks be willing to loan that for the improvements to allow it to be sold?
Yah. This guy sends my bullshit detector into overdrive after just a few seconds.

Can't stand the smug certainty he throws off while describing some ridiculous molecular interaction that he clearly knows nothing about, because no one does.
Ass-in-seat mentality and the delusions of "innovation". Like layoffs are all about suppressing wages durning times of record profits, AISM is about compliance and control.
There's no point in arguing about these interpretations. Some people get convinced that "X with Y" means that X has Y, and since this is used in sentences like "X has cancer," autism is portrayed as a disease. There are other people who oppose the adjectival phrase for similar reasons.

IMO, the point in these cases is more that a certain phrase has obtained a negative connotation, and should be avoided, but it is framed in some Sapir-Whorf-like style.
If that was really true, it would be a competitive advantage of many companies. Unless they are hiding it. Desktop apps are easier to develop as there are way less moving parts.

There isn't nothing magical about VB6/Delphi, just a lot of work put there. Many JS developers are multiple times more productive than what was possible to accomplish with VB6/Delphi.
Since I got downvoted, anyone could explain what is incorrect with my statement?
Not surprising at all to me. One of my issues with Google in the past couple years is their super aggressive push for me to be part of the system, I am usually unconcerned with sharing my data but their tactic has gone from gentle nudges to bothersome.

1) Using a non-chrome browser to access gmail? At least once a week get a popup telling me the experience is better in Chrome and I should switch.

2) Not logged into google in safari on my phone. During a routine google search, telling me with a modal to login to improve the search experience.

Its exhausting and I started backing away from google because of it. Ok, tell me once or maybe tell me every few months thats fine...but every week the same darn message. Too much.
The SEC Burned LBRY to the Ground
I'd imagine the person walking his dog was making the area no less safe for anyone else. Maybe people might feel safer.

The rule, in the abstract, can be given some plausible 'social good' defense -- many rules can, even the most insidious. No doubt, on extreme averages, dogs being on leashes marginally improves the on-average saftey.

But this 'on-average' is a radical abstraction. What it says is that the dog's freedom, enjoyment, and that of their owner must be Brought Into Order to fit with a system of values which discounts that entirely.

The sign is a symptom of this system of disciplining people; it conscripts them into a value system which may routinely be against their benefit and that of many others.

The sign doesnt tell you this; the sign gives you no critical autonomy to engage with its system of values --- in the way a conversation would.

That is how I diagnose this commenter's issue: his critical faculties are not being triggered. Rather the sign is seen transparently as a command to be followed.

There are no Commands to be Followed. There are only people commanding, and following them is advised only if it is advised.
I'd say it was really a newbie post.
That looks like the driving adoption for now, the Bitcoin stuff is there but not required to interact at all, alternatives such as IRIS protocol and others use similar approach but didn't take off in any significant matter.
Unless the easement specifically says so, I don't see how that applies.

An easement granting public access to some land cannot possibly list all the rights that are usually allowed in public access that are retained in that case. If the easement doesn't explicitly say what clothes users of the land must wear, is the landowner allowed to exclude those not wearing a blue jumper? That would clearly be a violation of the right of access. How about excluding those that refuse to hop through on one leg? You could think of any number of other silly or more serious conditions that a landowner could arbitrarily impose. Why would saying that access is conditional on not taking photos, a right that is usually allowed on public and even private land (subject to being thrown off of it), not fall into that category?

[Edit: of course we have not seen the wording of the easement or even know for sure that it exists so this is all speculation.]
German Supermarket Chain exchanges NFTs for 10 euro fruit and veggies coupon
These are boards with 8K memory total, meaning the program in question would very likely fit on a single monitor screen. Dodging the debugging step and reaching for your one true hammer (Rust in this case) speaks more to me about the author's "pricipaled" engineering anything else in this post.
I have no idea. In any case the sodium chemistry is very similar.
Most countries are not like US, it can be any calculator.

The reason being a calculator instead of phones/tablets, is cheating, and programable calculators are already on the edge in some exams.
Hate to be another person with another anecdote.

But…

I manage several neurodivergent people and to be honest they are the best thing about our company.

They lead in areas that neurotypicals do not which often is being one of the few to speak out when something appears to be wrong or is wrong.

Specifically…

- issues that impact women, ethnic minorities & lgbtqia

- issues that impact healthcare coverage for pay

- issues that impact compensation for themselves and others

we about had a riot when they found out our org was not matching inflation.
Provides an answer, at least in this space, to "Is it better to ask for permission, or forgiveness?"
Your community may not be the problem. There are other communities (such as Autism Speaks) which do view it as a disease. And the popularity of this viewpoint is evident by the number of jigsaw puzzle piece bumper stickers around.
If you can, please link to it. I would like to read it. Because a prominent feature of dissidents in the USSR and Putin’s Russia is that they often retreated into private worlds (samizdat literature, organizing cultural events privately in their own flats, writing for their desk drawer) instead of overtly challenging the regime. To the point where such dissidents can be suspicious of those who are vocal: people who actually stand up against the regime are viewed as either fools or as possessing some ulterior motive.
If a dog bites someone, the dog will be killed.