jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Looks like a ZCash clone with shielded outputs only (like Pirate coin), much faster blocks (15s like Ethereum), a reward dropping ~5% per year, and a 16.3% premine (where ZCash has a 20% dev tax over the first 8 years of emission. at least they developed new privacy tech).

Strange for a new chain to still rely on trusted setup while ZCash is moving away from it with their future Halo2 protocol.
Both of these issues are good candidates for https://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com
What test was it? I have only taken one test (WAIS and WISC, which are more or less the same but for adults and children respectively). It takes about 1 to 1.5 hours and is done alone with the psychologist that administers it.
That inadvertently proves my point. ALL cars using that turnpike could be refueled, because they all used a common way of getting a source of energy using a standardised strength and type of fuel.

Now imagine that same turnpike today and you only allow Tesla chargers to exist. What happens with the other brands of EVs?
Folks, the OP was asking for alternatives to Raspberry Pi, but everyone keeps saying just use Raspberry Pi with a USB hard drive or get some obscure second hand hardware.

I think the best alternative, while staying in the SBC realm, is a RockPro64 by Pine64. These boards have PCI-e slots and very cheap SATA & NVMe attachments. That way you get full performance from your SSD, versus a USB connection. And the boards have a huge number of community supported OS builds available. They are simple to install in a few clicks, with the official Pine64 installer.

The RockPro64 is highly underrated in my opinion. Especially when you consider the flexibility, available attachments & accessories, and wide range of use cases and OS options. A brand new board with 4GB RAM, power supply, and SSD PCI-e interface will run you only around $100 before shipping. Check them out. I have had one for a couple years and I'm super happy with it!

Boards: https://pine64.com/product-category/rockpro64/?v=0446c16e2e6...

Accessories: https://pine64.com/product-category/rockpro64-accessories/?v...
I'm the author of the blog post!

As someone who has never messed around with Libc-level programming, it was surprisingly straightforward (and exciting!) to compile Lua all the way.

Cosmopolitan is incredible, thank you so much.
Small nitpick: I believe these are items/prices for the in-game currency, not micro-transactions.

You can buy in-game currency for real world money tho: https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Cash_Cards

Not 100% sure, never bought anything.
Let's say that JSON parser is used in so many other places and we are afraid of regression. Guess what? We can make a new one. Let's call it newImprovedJsonParser(). Use that only at this spot, and you have fixed the issue without breaking other parts. You can then replace the other's once you vet that they are compatible.
First, it would be interesting to know how much money the average police officer's union has for settlements, and how much settlements tend to be. I'm guessing not every union has a $50B pension fund, so the impact may be larger elsewhere.

Second, it would be interesting to know if money from the pension fund can be used to pay settlements. Until you said something here I had assumed that paying for settlements would come from the union's annual budget, and not from a pension fund which had been funded earlier (but I could be wrong).

Regardless - I think the idea of aligning the incentives of the officers themselves (through their union) and the citizens who are being policed is a good idea.
I am fortunate to have my life partner and dog pack, but I have been thinking about churches in general as possibly being a legitimate construct in humanity. I don't mean to phrase that offensively, "maybe there is something here" is a compliment to my mind, and not a slight to you. It's a step toward.

This comment caused me to reach out to a UU congregation leader friend of mine always inviting me. Not necessarily to visit, but to understand... What does UU mean in practice? You describe an environment that should be great, but then I think... What else is going on there?

If you would like to follow up to your post with why UU vs. elsewhere FOR YOU, I would be interested to hear. I am ignostic and shamanic personally.
I think those two theories might be considered as two factors promoting altruism and their should be tested in (unrealistic) simulations to find out how powerful they are in causing altruism.

Realistic, natural scenarios are not good for spotting significance of multiple factors. As with the bike, natural realistic bike just does not fall, and why is that is left for discussion, but when somebody builds a bike that nullifies some probable cause then it can be plainly seen that other factors also might have significant role.
this gets at something i am working on right now
This.

Since I started watching Day[9], I've figured out why I'm losing to Gold level players.
That really bugged me while reading the post, and doubly so when he didn't capitalize the M in FutureMe, which arguably deserves it.

Incidentally, there is already a site/service called FutureMe (http://www.futureme.org/). It's for sending yourself emails way off in the future. I used it once in 2006 and got the email a year later. The future wasn't at all what I had expected. Not even close.
I think experts are people who know they don't know much.
Humility.
I don't know, maybe it's just me but I've never gone into business with someone that I don't trust. It's one thing to build a partnership, it's a whole other to put all this time and effort into a business you don't even own in the hopes that someone else will give you a piece of it. Jason shouldn't be mad at Mike, he should be mad at himself for being arrogant enough to think he didn't have to be careful about this. I like Calacanis at times, but other times he seems more pomp then circumstance and I don't know which is the real him?
An engineer is certainly not a good person to make such claims. A director or an executive, yes.

Regardless, what I've observed is that a lot of Googlers interview around, get an offer from a company and then they use that as leverage to get pay raises at Google because promotions are extremely competitive and scarce.

And it works great.
I suspect that, had the car industry been encumbered with IP we would have been driving Model-T's for a lot longer than we did.
Actually the Flash version is done by drawing at a pixel level too (although some of the filter effects are indeed done by the player). The source is here: http://code.google.com/p/in-spirit/source/browse/#svn/trunk/...

From my experiences with canvas it seems the calling the drawing methods is the major bottleneck for this sort of thing. Minus the visuals I would guess the JS on V8 would run comparably to the AS3.
http://www.neilpoulton.com/
It is quite obvious, at least from outside of USA, that “net neutrality” there is how certain group of corporations has been trying to lobby the codification of rules preferential to them to use in battle with other group of corporations.

Anywhere in the world there are local and global popular services that generate high volumes of traffic. Providers naturally care about getting shortest paths to them, plan in advance, join local exchanges, and so on, even if they don't have any direct agreements. For starters, it might lower your traffic costs. In some locations there are mid-tier ISPs offering just good connectivity with all locally popular networks; they offer the solution for low-tier ISPs for some extra coins. However, it is hard to imagine that some ISP would try to make the big source of traffic pay for what has already been paid by customers.
> Can you VC fund something loss making long enough so that it corners the market somehow / gains some other crushing advantage.

This is Uber's model. This is not every VC-funded company's model.

Google was a money-loser for quite some time, but each additional search gave positive returns. There's just so much other fixed-cost overhead that you really need to expand the business massively so that you can "make it up in volume". This is the most common "tech startup" model - very high startup and fixed cost which takes years to build a large enough customer base to overcome.

As far as I understand it, Uber for many years lost more money with each additional trip. This is the "selling $10 bills for $5" model. Which certainly lets you grow your market and hope for a future where you have pricing power and can raise prices. This is your "crushing advantage" model.
I don't understand the mindset that losses aren't real until you convert them back into cash. If you had turned your money into casino chips and were sitting at a poker table, and had just lost 30% of your chips, would you consider that your losses weren't real until you cashed out your chips? Of course, you might win your money back, and if you were a good poker player who usually came up net-positive from situations like this, you'd be well advised to keep playing.

I'm not giving you financial advice - I don't know anything about you or your investment. It just seems fundamentally wrong to me to consider different forms of money (cash, shares of an investment fund, casino chips, etc) as being distinct. Changing forms may have tax implications but it's not like the form protects you from loses in some way. If you keep your money in an underperforming investment it should be because you expect it to go up in the future, not because you are afraid of realizing a loss (which you have already suffered).
Wow! Hackers (1995)!! No one else mentioned it.

What context is the use in "hacker news"? We see news of security research and attacks but also peope findinf ways to use technology in an unintended or non-obvious way.

The first movie (only?) that I have heard them mention the hacker manifesto is there. Nothing else comes close in spirit (although some do better in technical detail or good plotline).

I thought I won this argument with everyone a long time ago, I see there are those of you I have yet to convert.
I wrote mine down and put it in an envelope containing a few other secrets in a small fire-resistant, waterproof safe which my wife knows how to open.
What is the background of this project? Is it a learning exercise or aiming for some functional benefit?
> Check back on HN in 20 years.

I'm sure the time period matters, rather whether it's still owned and stewarded by YCombinator, with someone like Dang actively moderating it.
I don't think one's ability to do math is a great indicator of how effective they function in day to day life.
The word is 'inflation' is overloaded to mean both depending on the context.

It can mean inflation of the price of things, which may be driven by supply constraints OR demand changes OR currency debasement. This is notoriously difficult to calculate a single value for, because all goods and services can oscillate wildly in prices in both direction. Electronics and mass produced things are a strongly deflationary good because they're constantly becoming less scarce while food, education, health care, and housing are significantly inflationary in price, because they're not getting less scarce at faster than demand.

It's impossible to give single CPI style inflation number that isn't deceptive in some way, because to do so, you have to put every person in a box and declare a "standard" basket of goods that everyone is expected to consume. But reality is messy, so my basket of good is likely going to be quite different from yours. Everything from diets, the types of education and housing we choose, the transportation choices available to us, our reproductive choices, and the hobbies we pursue can be radically different, which can mean that your "true price inflation" can be radically different from my "true price inflation" and both radically different from official and heavily manipulated government CPI numbers.

Inflation can also mean the inflation of the currency supply. This is the more traditional definition, and it gives a simpler way to understand whether prices for goods and services are rising because of changes to supply and demand, or if the prices of goods are rising because there's suddenly a lot more units of currency available to chase those scare real things. And of course, when it becomes clear that it's the currency getting rapidly debased, people start hoarding the actually scarce goods and resources, because the money is becoming toilet paper, and that's bad for all of us, because hoarding scarce real world resources that we don't need right now is bad for all of civilization.
I think you're equating "mathematician" with "Fields-medallist-adjacent"? As such, I think you'd need to equate such a mathematician to the list of "greatest of all time" in basketball, who are still alive. I suspect those numbers would still tilt in favor of there being more mathematicians than NBA players.

On the other hand, I think this is a great way for us science-y types to get a good handle on how hard being an NBA player is: NBA players are the moral equivalent of near-Fields-medallists; that's how good they are compared to the rest of us.

I'm no mathematical slouch — I've done grad work in Math, taught myself differential geometry, etc.; but it'd be fruitless to compare me to Terry Tao. There's really no reference for how good he is at math compared to me. I think, analogously, you wouldn't be able to compare a college-level basketball player to, say, Michael Jordan.
Rails very much was a commercial open source enterprise when it started out.

It's just that the enterprise was Basecamp and the other 37 Signals apps. They benefited enormously from the extra eyeballs on their framework, not least during the infamous "hey, we built this massive web framework in part around the incorrect assumption that GET requests don't need to be idempotent and then encouraged everyone to use it" time.

They had no services to sell but they had a keen commercial imperative.
That's an interesting claim "permanently"

> protocol matches people who have hard drive space to spare
Why not having clients and local services meet on a Wireguard concentrator on VPs? Thus no need for Apache reverse proxy.

Problem is, 3.5$/month has only 500MB RAM which is very little to run Apache + other services.
Currently not, but nothing prevents Amazon from implementing it. It is actually very simple, when the user clicks on Install button on the Android Market web, it then sends c2dm [1] message to your device and the localy installed Android Market app pulls the installation file.

Amazon is free to do the same thing.

[1] http://code.google.com/android/c2dm/index.html
You're misremembering. The primary educational effort of the Liberty Dollar focused on, whenever someone asked what it was, or you offered it, making clear that it wasn't US currency. Nobody associated with the Liberty Dollar in any official capacity would call it "a new dollar coin" and as the word "coin" is one of the magic ones that denotes government money. They might say "its 20 dollars in silver" or "a silver piece". And if asked if it was "real" or "genuine" they were told to say "It is not government money, its better" or "its genuine silver, but it is not made by the US government".

They were very careful because passing it off as if it were government money would be a crime. Despite not doing this, they have been lied about to the point that even you are misremembering.

There are many reasons to decide to not be involved with the liberty dollar-- not the least of which is the indoctrination that "money" must come from the government, something I had to overcome myself. But the claim that they were pretending it was government money is not one of them.

The entire point of NORFED-- the National Organization for the Repeal of the FEDeral reserve-- was that government money was not as good as silver rounds.
Visa is a currency. So are travellers checks and regular old checking checks and coupons

If you were to take some time to study the laws--or high school economics--or the cardholder agreement you sign when you apply for a Visa card--you'd know this is incorrect.

I bet you have "research" that tells you that credit cards are currency or something, contrary to very basic legal and economic interpretations of the word. One of the signs you're dealing with a nut is that the knowledge he thinks he has allows him to accept or reject facts as he so chooses.
This is obviously a book about how Steve's small business succeeded in one small niche industry -- but a lot of the advice here is more general.

For those interested in his niche market, there's also interesting stuff here about entertainment franchise licensing, SFG's switch from big print runs to in-house print-on-demand, and more.
Not in the US, and these are US domain names.
And with consumer software, it's called "shareware."
The article seems to say that the only extra control is over governmental "cybersecurity", whatever that is.

Still, this seems like a mistake, given DHS' love of rules and procedures, coupled with its inability to perform any process more elaborate than closing a door. Perhaps DHS own "Blogger Bob" could explain this move in a way that won't draw any reports of simple logical errors.
Related reading for those living with us nerds:
http://viewtext.org/article?url=http%3A%2F%2Frandsinrepose.c...
From my experience, and I may be incorrect, if you invite someone from Gmail they do not need to verify the account via an SMS message.
Topfunky's report is a fork of technomancy's. Eschulte's fork contains modes for most programming languages. Both topfunky's and eschulte's fork contain a lot of modes and are well maintained.

I use the topfunky fork. These starterkits contain instructions on how to add more modes so just choose something that has most you want and the rest :)

Welcome to emacs.
Perhaps a more important reason to dislike it is that he ran the guitar output into a DAW, and then into an amp. Guitar pickups are very sensitive to impedance loading.
Recent and related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21589204
>I mean actual free speech would just be an endless collection of penis videos.

It is the oldest problem in the book; how do i get free expression, while forcing everyone one else to agree with me?
I did try TopoR back in the day, but the lack of integrations was IIRC a PITN.

I've not tried Toporouter and will go paly with it, thanks for the pointer.
I agree. If website presents one content to Google and another to anonymous user, it's scam. Actually Google is known to punish that behaviour and ban those websites. Probably Quora is considered too big to fail.
>Creators need to figure out how to get paid before the work is created. They need to get paid for the work of creating

This has downsides too. After all, what are those paying for the creation getting in return?

I imagine creators, such as musicians, already get paid for the work of creating... In the form of embedded advertising.

Listen to any top song and you'll be barraged by the names of luxury brands.

Is this really the ideal world of music?
My comment is on andrepd's meta topic of: “I don't like that HNers tend to focus on negative or critical things about China, Russia, or Africa when these topics arise.”.

My comment is "new" in that, in this thread, what I've said was not yet said in response to this specific complaint. My comment is related to the thread, and not generic (it mentions the characters introduced by the parent thread [China, Africa, criticism thereof] by name). My basic point is that it's not surprising that HNers recall an apparent genocide in progress when talking about its location.

I have read those guidelines front to back at least ten times, Dan. I still can't predict how to predict what passes and what doesn't.

When people hurl personal abuse at me; they emerge unscathed.

When I criticize a political party's policy of genocidal prison camps, without criticizing any nation/people; it's deemed to contribute to "nationalistic flamewar". I take special care not to make a value judgement about any nations, and it's deemed to contribute to "nationalistic flamewar".

Strictly speaking, given that most things that people do occur inside, or relating to, nations: what criticism or affirmation of anything doesn't contribute to "nationalistic flamewar"?
All true. Point is that it used to be that a key piece of intrastructure was based on "open", general tech, and now it's not, and that's regrettable.
I can see AD publishers offering CDN like services to help them get around blockage.

Only solution is criminalizing this behavior. In no other context is stalking a person against their will and consent permissible in a "free" society.
I've seen that too, but it's really only a big deal if you're doing something else smelly: Carrying the codegen'd proto objects throughout your application. Better to handle proto messages the same way you should be handling any interface with the outside world: Translate it into your code's own domain model, which can (and should) follow any idiom you like ASAP, and get on with your day.
It should be up to German and French citizens to decide if they are fine without Facebook.
I keep saying it again and again: Dependencies strangle dev teams to death. A massive framework tangle of interlocking dependencies is enough to default most teams to never-never-upgrade-land, even when struggling to compensate for a too-early release's flaws.

And I'll add that a lot of frameworks (I'm thinking of Spring here) devote most of their effort to creating "value add" wrappers around technologies that work more than well enough without, and that create even more problems for a dev who now has to understand both original and wrapper's attempt at enhancement. Enough wrapping! Create something real, just once.
Hardening civilian infrastructure?
In the example there is one technology briefly reffered to and then ignored - desktop apps. For recording and editing music why limit yourself to a browser or browser plug-in?
In my experience: Hurt them once, they move on. (I was picked on a lot when young (I was freakishly tall for my age, like 8-12 inches taller than anyone else)). I had several prolonged bullying experiences finally curtailed by eventual violence in the end. I usually got in trouble for it too. I have no clue today if they did. I do know: they stopped.

Bullying isn't about you to the bully. Its about them, and picking on someone. The someone isn't that important, and when you become the someone who is more expensive to screw with, they leave you alone usually.

(And I think this sort of thing as an adult is stupid and a good way to go to jail, but at 10, it works fine).
Maybe it's just gonna be the 90 second previews like they were talking about.
What becomes of the iPod under this scenario? Has anyone thought that through?
This type of submission.
So stop reading them. Problem solved.

The internet isn't something that needs to be tamed. You don't have to quiet all the people who have opinions. You don't need to correct people when you think they are wrong. Have strength and just walk away.
Are you crazy? That would be risking rejection.
>A 10 year old Mercedes in great shape is probably worth about 15-20K.

Not even close. The three Kompressor models in '03 were the C230, C32 AMG and SLK32 AMG. KBB trade-in values for those cars are about $3k, $5k, and $10k respectively and it is likely they had the C230 otherwise the author would have called it their Mercedes AMG.

Luxury cars are terrible at retaining their value. If you want that, buy a Honda Accord or Toyota Corolla.
My personal reaction to this statement in the article was that it seemed like an overreaching assumption. The map could have been a land separation agreement between two sheep herders, or something else similarly prosaic. Not sure why we need to ascribe great importance to items that don't present any evidence of such.
If it's a civil rights case and there's merit to your claims, you might be able to find public interest lawyers to help out for much less than that. Call around, there are firms in most large cities.