skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The big (legitimate) use for Bitcoin international money transfers is dodging capital controls imposed by illegitimate governments, e.g., you're in Venezuela and you want to send money to your family in Colombia/Brazil/US.

Exactly. I wish this was possible in China - but as a foreigner, you can't use RMB to buy Bitcoin (or other coins) on any of the big exchanges. The only option is to use localbitcoins.com and pay person to person, but the conversion rates are usually not too good, so you end up having to use wire transfers.
I'm surprised at the US number of trackers count - I would have expected some degree of free rider benefit for US based consumers. Otherwise, the numbers seem to bear out some consolidation, with web pages giving up trackers but more likely to hold onto boutique solutions (the ranked <150 group) for specialized needs.
The unofficial HN mobile app "Materialistic" does something similar to this.
The largest 15 cargo ships emit more sulphuric dioxide than all the cars on the road combined. That is not a greenhouse gas, and actually has a cooling effect, although it’s not healthy locally.
And six months after it was released I joined, coming in from a google search "startup advice", I think.

Twelve years. Wow.

Dang some of these other guys are old.
There's a good Planet Money podcast all about the Jones Act: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/08/05/488869138/epis...
Please start using Solar and wind as much as possible. We have amazing products available now. I have fiur solar lanterns, one flashlight, a 20k mah powerbank and a 14w suaoki foldable solar panel

In a few years ehen I buy a vehicle, I'll buy an electric moped, a 60w suoaki solar charger and a 150wh suoaki power generator. That way, I will be using my vehicle on renewable energy at all times.

We need to do this and fast.
The Battle for the Home
Agreed, the "red envelope" of reddit is designed to elicit a visceral reaction.
libpam should be part of the base system, obviously. Like the widget library, ssl, and the display server. It's only really in UNIX world that this separation between "system" and "application" doesn't exist.
This, please. I switched to Firefox mobile and now can't even click the link without zooming in.
OptaPlanner (Apache license, 100% Java) is a constraint solver. MiniZinc (MPL, C++) is a modeling language for other constraint solvers.
Both are used for similar use cases - Vehicle Routing Problem, employee rostering, task assignment, ....

OptaPlanner uses metaheuristics and construction heuristics, java objects as input & output (not just arrays of integers and floating point numbers), constraints that can call any java code, supports multithreaded incremental solving, etc.
It currently has no Minizinc adaptor or JSR-331 (a similar initiative) adaptor. If there's more demand for that, it would be considered.
It seeems like that’s an intellectually dishonest response. It’s clear that’s not what OP meant. That type of argument is lazy and doesn’t belong on HN. OP was pretty clearly talking about manufacturing defects and other issue, not damage caused by the consumer.
Amazon and ebay are good examples of sites that have made very slow, incremental changes over the years.
I love #10, especially the last part. I would argue that even primary/secondary education is better served in this fashion.

Relevant to a recent Joe Rogan podcast with Neil Degrasse Tyson on how many teachers in your life inspired you. Not as much about the transfer of information, especially today, it's about the excitement and inspiration around the topics you are presenting.
You really don’t think having a data protection officer (even if not a dedicated one) isn’t a significant burden to a tiny business?
How smart should a contract really be though? It seems like a feature rather than a bug that there are limits.
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I think we can at least reduce that number down to 2 out of 5 without much cost or intervention.
What happens if I sign up and then decide later I want to disconnect your service?
When you'd load the page, you'd see blank, gray bars where the text should go while a "now loading" icon spins for a good 5 seconds, slowly feeding in the text. On mobile, text would be so big it only fits 7 lines on screen, 5 words on each. The menu bar at the top would stay up there as you scroll and eat a good 20% of vertical space at all times. Articles would load in thumbnail images that sometimes break and push the text outside the window and you couldn't scroll to read it because that's disabled for some CSS hack.
We Believe Survivors

Well, I believe evidence-based allegations.

To really understand the environment here in the US, think about the Salem Witch Trials in the 1690s. Mass hysteria, rules of evidence suspended, sentences mandated before trials took place, the rights of defendants to face their accusers denied.

The judge's fate will be determined by the prejudice each of us brings to his "case" and our subjective reaction to which of the two parties is the more "believable" -- by which we mean that party that most accords with our prejudices. Judge Kavenaugh's fate will, thus, be decided by a popularity contest held during an era of feminine triumphalism.
I’ve been here for awhile (just about eight years), and the single biggest change I’ve noticed is the increasing presence of what I’ll call a “bourgeois tech monoculture.”

This place used to be weirder, with more obscure links and discussions filled with academics and hackers. If you search the older archives, there are some really incredible conversations. Now it mostly seems to be nytimes articles commented on by upper-middle class engineers.
I'd like to agree, but numbers don't add up. All the solar their is, amounts to 1% of energy use. Its not about mopeds, its about steel plants and oil refineries and shipping and heating and cooling. We're talking Terawatts, not Watts.
not sure, but I guess that process is to make sure Emacs can be built from scratch, ie without relying on proprietary software.
spotify also opens up the API for third party media players if you have a premium account
> I've done a different timer thing, where I start a timer and tell myself I have to stop the timer any time I stop working.

This is a great trick... also informing yourself honestly how many 'productive' hours you had at the end of a day. With all kinds of interruptions (many of those self-inflicted) some days the timer registered less than 3 hours when I was studying in university.

That realization prompted me to stop studying at home, and travel to the university library daily. There my pattern was similar to 50 minute periods of work (before Pomodoros were a thing) followed by 10 minute breaks. After that, I easily clocked 6 hours of real work daily.
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

Which is exactly what I see here. Many of the brightest people gathered together in one place on the internet. Working in an industry that is scary good at creating products that change behavior and even culture. Together creating all manner of logical loops and justifications, "this is why I don't really need to change anything personally" or "I've made this symbolic change, so I've done my part."

Every one of us could begin donating a significant portion of our revenue to climate change lobbying. We could work for existing climate advocacy organizations. We could found new organisations. We could take every lesson learned in the rush to get users to click on more ads and apply it to climate advocacy. American politics and policy is absolutely for sale. We could buy it.

Shame on us all. Will that money bring you comfort while the world burns?
In my experience with HDD warranty you get "refurbished", "recertified" drives that break again within a month.
Copyright is a scam from a previous world. Go get it bois:

NewPipe (A free lightweight YouTube frontend for Android.) - https://f-droid.org/app/org.schabi.newpipe
direct quote from him: "There are plenty of consensus protocols that don't waste energy"

i'm not entirely sure what do you consider inefficiencies in PoW, it is by design supposed to convert energy into a proof that similar amount of energy was spent producing the proof. the only inefficiency involved is how far we are from Landauer limit.

ultimately i don't think it matters which specific hashing algo is used - there will simply be more or fewer iterations per block, but for the same level of security as bitcoin provides, similar amount of electricity would be consumed.

saying that PoW has high economic cost is pretty much a truism. PoW produces very real economic value, so of course it will have a similar economic cost. if the value wasn't matching the cost - there would be more/less of PoW going on and that's exactly what the hashrate chart shows over the last 8 years of price discovery.
> When it is the right tool for the job?

Anytime you need a simple web app.

Writing powerful CLI tools. Take a look at AWS's Python API.

Data wrangling -- it has libraries for handling so many data formats.

Quick and dirty scripts. I've used it for many one-time scripts that need a bit more than regex.

Data science / analysis -- it has so many great libraries for math and data wrangling.

The biggest pain-point I have with it is around module handling. I'll often run into issues the first time I'm deploying a new pycharm project. The second biggest pain-point I have is around concurrency/multi-threading, but I think the concurrent.futures module might provide a decent solution.
There's a lot of casual elitism in many threads. However, I've not found anywhere else on the internet with such a high quality level of discourse so it doesn't bother me too much.
Stealing is the right word. You can spin it any way you like, but taking something that's for sale, without paying for it, is the definition of stealing.

To further my point: not every artist is a mega-millionaire. There are countless small bands/artists where every sale counts towards them actually earning a living off of music.
I'd be happy to. Can you send me an e-mail?
The Reddit redesign has been a turn off.
That is somewhat unfortunate, but if I take a bit of time to think about it, it seems like a necessary consequence of a successful open source project/movement. Perhaps, in cases like those, you could find a way to split the base project into two or more modules, making it possible to share code with the new fork, but such splitting has non-negligable cost in terms of ossification of internal APIs and maintenance overhead.
Well the common technical problem is that of representing program fragments along with their equalities so that they can be utilized in the case I linked, and pruned in the case you suggested. It's just a musing though. I look forward to reading up on PBE in depth.
You sure still post job ads on this "bastion of toxicity" though.
Are there any other communities that have a feel similar to the old HN, in your opinion?
Of course, that is very damning for the fire investigator. Maybe he is the one who should be behind bars for willfully ignoring evidence.
Yep, just diagnosed a week ago at age 38. If you did well enough in school, and have the inattentive-type ADHD, it's really easy for it to get missed in childhood.

If you were smart enough to coast through school despite your procrastination and attention issues, definitely go see a psych for an evaluation.
One server, probably < $100/month
You mean we're going to get assaulted by bots spinning, rolling, and flipping all over the place? That sounds vaguely terrifying...
Customers have pretty overwhelmingly decided they don't want that, as a whole.
Any estimate on which version of Java will get Value Types?
Not sure. Malicious ISP can forge DNS answers [0], the purpose of DNSSEC is to catch that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_hijacking#Manipulation_by_...
I disagree. Apple supports older products for longer and repairs them unlike their competition. I still have an iPhone 6 and had its camera fixed at an Apple store recently for like $60. I also had them fix an issue with a 6 year old MacBook Pro. Thats pretty reasonable in my opinion. I think people get hyperbolic over this stuff and lose credibility. I can’t imagine Dell, HP, or anyone supporting a laptop for 6+ years and if I break an Android there’s no where to get it repaired officially. Apple has its problems, but let’s not be hysterical about the issue and distort the reality.
Just my two cents, but I always thought the 'texture' argument was more like an excuse. Many people don't like the texture of oysters of snails but eat them anyway because they really like the taste. When someone says 'I don't like the texture of this', I understand it more like 'I don't like the taste enough to not care about the texture'...
This is not something I’d do on master, of course -- just on my own branch while working on stuff that will eventually become a single PR.

I like to curate my commit(s) as I go, so that the final PR is easy to understand.
>> (I delayed launching it till Feb 07, IIRC because the Reddits worried it would mess up their acquisition by Conde Nast.)

Did they think it was a competitor or something?
One of the nice things about DNSSEC is that it is both optional and it actually works.

It being optional means that everybody who doesn't like DNSSEC can just ignore it. Just don't sign your zones, don't run a validating resolver. DNSSEC doesn't get in the way.

At the same time, because Google's public resolvers have been validating DNSSEC for quite a long time, it is safe to run a validating resolver. Anybody who signs a zone is forced to do it correctly, otherwise the zone will be unreachable for a significant fraction of the people on the the internet.
And this immunity was created out of nothing, backed by nothing. One of the front runners for president in 2020 literally argued in an appeals court that her prosecutors should have been allowed to fabricate and withhold evidence during prosecutions. Instead of being a pariah and banished from public life, there's a decent chance she'll bring this same mentality to the presidency.
Relevant technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkySails
I think the article was suggesting that they would just give the customer a new phone and trash/send the broken one out for repairs.
Christian bakery owners win appeal in 'gay cake' case
There's a button at the bottom of each email to unsubscribe.
I think there’s societal level value in having normal workers with a better appreciation for and understanding of science. Something like at a particular saturation level: +10% bonus to research lab output, 25% reduction of policy update costs with presence of overwhelming scientific evidence (stacks), bonuses to population health improvement with Medical Lifestyle Research unlocks, 25% reduction of knowledge rust, 5% reduction in knowledge related production costs, faster to upgrade to scientist, 2% chance that a normal worker will automatically upgrade to a scientist worker, etc. Obviously there are opportunity costs.
I think the “threads” page fulfils that purpose.
In some places, you can buy Google Play Store credit in shops. Perhaps you could pay with cash too (my preference). I suppose that could help if such an option exists around where you live.
Yep the Leo Laporte podcast Valley of Genius.
It all sounds great, except for:

1) We don't have enough time to wait for those solutions to be implemented.

2) Climate lag. We're now only seeing the consequences from the emissions from the 80s. Since then we've emitted a lot more CO2. Not only we need to reach zero emissions asap, as in in the next decade, but we also need to reach strong negative emissions very soon.

Don't get me wrong. I think if all humanity was focused working towards that goal it might be possible to get a shot at this, but I don't see that happening anytime soon.
So I looked into this more and you're right that it's sulphuric dioxide that I was thinking of. CO2 emissions from shipping are 800m tons per year and, if taken alone, would constitute the 6th heaviest source of carbon emissions in the world.
Unfortunately no, I think this sort of trend has essentially eaten most major communication channels. Even reddit is 10x more tame, “middle class average” and predictably corporate than the forum culture the internet had ~1995-2010, before winner-take-all social media sites ate everything.
> Some people feel sick working out first thing in the morning

I am and have always been one of those people. Even as an athlete in college (I rowed crew for a while) I absolutely had to eat something semi-substantial before morning practices. Which could be tough when we had to be on the water before sunrise.
Huh? How is an avatar different from a username in that regard?

Maybe you're referring to Gravatars?
The music labels who decide the terms of sale didn't create the music. They're rent seeking corporations who seek to increase their profits in any way possible and bribe politicians to create artificial barriers through which they can create toll gates.

And their control is expanding. Older works that should (by historical precedent) be part of the commons remain copyrighted because of endless extensions. Practices that were once legal and common become illegal (like copying tapes vs copying CDs) or technically difficult (like recording music off the radio vs recording music off the Internet).

Fighting back and "lowering the price everyone is willing to pay" doesn't sound like a bad thing to me.
I realize you got down voted to hell but that sentence explains so much. I think that one of the bigger problems when people talk about climate or any number of different things they don't appreciate wealth. There's a group of people who look at money in a bank account as just a bunch of numbers. That there's nothing "real" behind those numbers.
Sure.

What about industrial civilization?
It depends. As soon as something happens to the screen, they charge ridiculous money for repair. Went through that with an iPad pro. 3rd party repair with (a different) screen was a small fraction of the cost
> ... might be highly successful.

Only in the context of the disastrous relevance of tracking.

Does tracking earn companies more than it costs users in added electricity? I doubt it.
>So no, we dont need "problems dealt with at zero monetary cost", we need hardware we can fix ourself. If you dont have a right to repair it yourself, you're at the mercy of the hardware provider, even if the screen only costs 1/10th of the quoted price, and you could do it yourself.

I made an edit, I think I misunderstood you and I apologize. It may be for example that there should be provisions requiring that accidents are still covered within a time period "at cost" though not for free.

But if you want "hardware you can fix yourself" as a feature in and of itself, then I think you should just be asking that of the market and buying accordingly, I don't think it's a universal. And I want the option to sacrifice that for other values when I deem it appropriate. For example, I use my smartphone for significant amounts of financial transactions, administrative access, and it has an enormous amount of highly personal information as well. I value it being highly sealed off (and would like it to be even more so, I'd be happy with a phone that's not just IP68 but good to 10 or 20 ATM too). How do you propose to legislatively require a "right to repair" there while not having that break the hardware trust chain? How does it interact with value of sealing and form factor? It seems to me that everyone has different needs there, which in turn suggests to me that it's not something to legislatively require but rather leave it up to the market. On the other hand that someone should be able to buy something and have it last a reasonable time period and if broken it should be replaceable/repairable at cost seems like it should be part of the price. Am I totally off on that to you?

FWIW I don't think the same applies to software, in that case I think it should be required by law that owners may load their own private keys in addition to whatever the manufacturer offers. But right now I really think the option to buy into features like a hardware trust chain where I need never worry about anyone but the minimum of the original manufacturer (who is part of that by definition anyway) is desirable. I don't see how to avoid that meaning that 3rd party unauthorized repairs get closed off in turn. It's a tradeoff.
Webm support in safari
anyone knows if apple has a plan to support for webm in safari? as h264 doesn't support alpha channel, only way to use transparent video is webm atm.
I was hoping for something like "don't use an AP NoSQL database for storing your financial transactions". I've always wondered how and why they chose MongoDB.
Interesting you say so, in one particular project this has become such a problem that I have indeed been thinking along those lines.. of breaking it up into more than one repository so that people can just build their own extensions and I would just maintain a kind of "kernel interface". I do think it's a useful way to go, but it does take some time to redesign with that in mind. It's hard to know when it's "time" to do it, because it's usually only after a project gets to a certain size and has some popularity that it becomes simultaneously difficult to (a) integrate external work and (b) to rewrite the project to make (a) easier. The only answer in some cases seems to be to start a parallel project, but then you're back to the problem of whether this gets any traction in the community, or is seen as "hostile" somehow.
Really, Google tracks me while I'm visiting a non-Google website (!!!), and they expect to be protected as having a "legitimate interest exception"?

Unless Google can successfully argue that every action, every step, every breath I take, is now a business transaction with them because I made a google account, then they don't have a "legitimate interest exception" for jack shit.
Here you go: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/24/sites-blo...

First hit from a google search for “GDPR shut down”.