skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a strictly finite value base - assets, economic output, etc - to all fiat money supply. It's the underlying value, things priced and transacted in the fiat currency, that make it valuable. You can easily spook the confidence in fiat by doing stupid things to an economy.

Otherwise Venezuela would be the richest country in world history right about now, given their inflation rate.

It works identical to mathematical halving in concept. Yes you can keep going, and no you'll never reach zero. However every time you debase the currency to pay for something beyond your budget, you destroy some of the value underpinning it. You make the assets and transactions in that currency less valuable. You can infinitely subdivide the currency, and each time you do it, you destroy more of the value base. Eventually you're splitting pennies, so to speak. This is especially true in cases where you're printing to pay for something you can't afford (almost always the reason for such printing), so what you're really doing is eating the nation's asset base through the currency debasement.

Just ask Japan, they sliced more than 1/3 off their standard of living by debasing the Yen over the past decade. They had no choice due to their debt situation (they needed to stealth default), however it reduces the value of the assets that are held in Yen, making it easier to eg use dollars (or gold) to buy those assets (whether businesses or real-estate and so on).

So sure, in theory can you infinitely print currency. In practical application, you destroy the value of the things that underpin the currency and the whole scheme self-destructs given enough time and 'printing.' That puts a more realistic cap on actual potential money supply. The fact is, it inherently must be finite. Eventually your money is not worth anything, as you destroy the assets under it. As that happens, people stop accepting the worthless currency, it becomes too expensive to 'print' it and support it, and it becomes a self correcting system, in all cases and without exception.
Is blind faith the only way to build an idea?
I've been building www.nextcept.com over the last couple of months to help early stage ventures (largely Denver and Boulder) come together. The focus is on off the wall questions to elicit honest responses. Our theory was that the questions would make people think about their answers and share more about themselves and users seem very enthusiastic.

Ideally the network would be larger though (1-2k+) to really see true benefits. Sites these days seem to really restrict "self promotion", and I'm curious about how to grow this network without much money - I'm building this because I enjoy helping and working on news ideas/startups. Thanks for any thoughts.
That's.. disingenuous. Because if he wanted to make a big deal about job creation, he could have gone with minimum wage call center employees and said that it'd be the equivalent of 30,000 jobs and sounded even more impressive.

But no, he called out a specific job, specific responsibilities and specific pay.
Farmers in the US have been using it for years as well. We have much better data on them. While farmers cancer numbers are not the same as the general US population, when you control for other known differences in farmer behavior roundup isn't an issue.
There are bare metal "cloud" providers such as Packet.net where you get the click n deploy convenience of the cloud but a physical machine. They have quite small machines in the inventory that are close to price competitive with VMs. Even Amazon has this bare metal capability FWIW, but afaik only for big expensive machines.
The article is written as if YouTube started the trend of "Let's Plays", and that it's the only place you'll find them. As far as I know it really started with the "Let's Play!" subforum on forums.somethingawful.com, many of which are now archived outside of the forums at lparchive.org.
Free markets and democracies are good at a lot of things, but self preservation is NOT one of them -- in fact, if practiced at the extreme, it is basically guaranteed that a sufficiently large winner-takes-it-all will take over {free-market,democracy} and dismantle it.

That's why you need all kinds of checks and balances and regulations.
Take a look at the 2nd result and all below.

Try removing any of the words in the search query and it performs as you would expect.
This is an important point that I noticed around the time of Spectre/Meltdown as well. The mitigation for those bugs caused an average of 30% CPU slowdown, meaning it took 30% more CPU cycles to perform the same work as it did prior to the mitigation. If a cloud provider rolls that out to every server, then every customer's bill for CPU usage should increase by roughly 30%.

Am I totally misunderstanding this? Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
Ok but why not fix the engineering flaw so so it isn't a $2,700 fix? This seems like doing a software fix, where you add buffering to your logging writes, would go a long way to fixing this.
If it turns out that most of petty crime is committed by “disadvantaged” (whatever that means) populations, then the enforcement will necessarily also impact the “disadvantaged” populations the most, and some people don’t like the idea.
Uber's Day One Flop Shows a New Silicon Valley Stock Exchange May Have a Point
Well, it has a place in the energy mix because modern gas power plants are incredibly fast to ramp up. So they are perfect to quickly stabilize the grid. As a base supplier not so much.
Why Spotify Sees Potential in Podcasts
Instead of banning a particular avenue of advertising, which moves the advertising spend to somewhere else, why not have a broad-based tax on advertising spending?

We've seen how ineffective things like banning advertising to children were on reducing smoking, while raising taxes on cigarettes was quite effective at reducing smoking levels. And some advertising is useful. I don't need no advertising in my life, I just need less of it. Taxes would reduce the "arm's race" effect where companies need to advertise because their competitors are advertising. I suspect that the quality of advertising would go up if it were more expensive, as well.

Perhaps at some point in the future, we will have too little advertising and there will need to be a debate on how we should reduce the advertising tax. I long for this day.
The problem is that is a huge number of strings that becomes a hash.

Each SHA-256 hash has 2^(8 * 1024 - 256) = 10^2389 possible 1KB inputs.

So...perhaps it could be done, but the quantum computer would have programmed with a very good selection criteria.
> Currently Tesla just replaces the entire media unit when this happens, which is extremely expensive for them. In reality they only need to replace a tiny part instead of tossing entire boards.

Am I the only one thinking about the recycling and cost implications of doing this?
Calling Core duo a Pentium III core, esp. when talking about microarchs, is a slight misrepresentation. Of course it was way closer and more of a derivative of the PPro descendants. But P6 did not vary a lot between PPro and P III, while before reaching Core Duo it went through Pentium M, and then enhanced. So yeah, it looks like more a Pentium III than a Pentium 4, but it was certainly not just a "hack [gluing] pentium 3 cores together"

Also Netburst was not that bad. It was a dead-end, yes, but on some markets it could compete with what AMD had.

Plus implementing SMT is not necessarily extremely easy compared to SMP, especially when you evolve designs.

And anyway, Intel shipped HT way before AMD shipped the Athlon 64 x2...
Yep, that one!
> Emulating games is not really preserving them in a sense, because it can't reproduce the hardware or experience as it actually was very well.

To a lesser extent, the same goes for cinema, but there's no question that we're preserving cinematic history by continuing to make Citizen Kane available.
I use Lubuntu and try to keep external apps to a minimum.

Web Browser: Firefox

Terminal: LXTerminal

IDE: LXTerminal

File manager: PCManFM

Basic Text Editor: Vim

PDF Reader: Xournal - http://xournal.sourceforge.net/ (useful for annotating PDFs also)

Office Suite: LibreOffice

Video Player: VLC Player

Music Player: cmus - https://cmus.github.io/

Photo Viewer: Image Viewer

Screen recording: Simple Screen Recorder - https://www.maartenbaert.be/simplescreenrecorder/
I've been to SF several times, always staying near downtown and the homeless population didn't feel any larger than Berlin's.
Related: Our first instinct is far too often wrong (finantial times, 10 May 2019, Tim harford, pay walled article).

Another related article:
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness
Steven D. Levitt https://www.nber.org/papers/w22487
According to the video, the log is not used for anything and is basically unnecessary for the most part.

Why a full memory chip logging data which is never used should brick a car is simply price gouging.

There is no need for it whatsoever.

Thousands of dollars to replace a board because of a full memory chip? That is even worse than Apples repair racket, at least in Apple's case some other circuitry besides memory is faulty - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yJKix17yYE
I'm sure that AT&T will helpfully explain that they hired 7,000 people and laid off 30,000 people for totally unrelated reasons.
Did Adobe acquire a license for end-users to use dolby technologies or a license for Adobe to distribute dolby technologies? It seems weird that there would be a time limit on a license to use features, whereas time limits on distribution is common.
I am not sure it is a good idea to trust the server to decide what is more important. I can easily imagine ads taking higher priority than actual content, just look at the pop-ups that interrupt reading.

Browsers and protocol should start concentrating on how to secure users from the very sites they visit.
If that's your goal, wouldn't it be better to just pause the TV every 10 minutes or so for a few minutes at a time? That would have the same effect in terms of delaying gratification, and it's strictly better because you're not exposing your child to commercials.
I don't see the public interest angle here. This is merely entertainment. If even entertainment is something the government should be butting into because of unspecified "public interest" considerations, then what is outside the government's role?

Goodfellas, Dances with Wolves, Edward Scissorhands, Total Recall, Ghost, the Hunt for Red October, Back to the Future III, Pretty Woman, and the Godfather Part III were all released in 1990, 29 years ago. These were all created by a group of individuals, and studios spent millions of dollars paying those people to make those movies. The government had nothing to do with creating any of those movies. Why should the government be able to take those movies and release them for free?
Close to 735K Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Have Been Uncovered and Revoked
Impacts of Chinese tariffs on the US Economy [pdf]
Can you even define productivity? On the surface it appears as easy as getting work done, which if only a single person is on the team that may be enough. But once you add a group of people together, mapping a teams productivity to a single metric that can be applied to each individual becomes much harder if not impossible.

Basketball has had this problem for a long time. The plus/minus metric was invented as an attempt to address all the things players do while on the floor, but do not directly relate to an easy to capture metric. It also tries to address players who put their own personal productivity over that of the team.
When I read this, I can't tell the difference between "crackpot" and "maybe great idea". I guess I lean toward "maybe great idea", but the page gives off a definite "crackpot" vibe.

Why? Too much self-promotion. No references. (Yeah, there are quotes from people. There are no papers cited that I saw. And one of the people says how great the author is, not how great the idea is.)
I love Hemingway App and believe it actually did improve my writing. It's like Grammarly, though, where you have to pay attention to what it wants to do. Extremely helpful tool.
How Do Traffic Signals Work? [video]
IIRC the best quantum attack against SHA256 clocked in at about 2^85 cost. It's still not practical for most modern hash functions.
Critics quoted in this article and many others I’ve read argue that the technology is deeply flawed, highly inaccurate. Does anyone have actual stats on this? Furthermore, does anyone working in the field have any facts or opinions about the rate at which the technology is improving? Left unchecked, how far off is the day when a city could implement widespread facial recognition that has terrifying accuracy?
The way blockchain is currently implemented, a distributed ledger for currency necessitates having a chain that grows bigger and bigger. But one could have a distributed ledger which doesn't keep a record since the beginning of time. The ledger could only be valid for, let's say a week, and everything before then is just lopped off. It would still be large, but it wouldn't be gigantic.
komali2's comment is accurate.

That's exactly what Tim was talking about in sections of his book, negotiating reduced hours as an employee with existing employers.

I'm not even sure "start your own business" was the main point of 4HWW, so much as it was "Work yourself less on tedium".
With significantly fewer people, most of whom (on a global scale) lived significantly worse and shorter lives. Like it or not, the modern world is built on plastics, and undoing that will require either major technological jumps from what we have now, or a LOT of people dying.
> can we leave it with the "just did x" titles

Agree. It's a writing anti-pattern with clickbait origins.
I’m not sure what you mean here. The GPU is a specialized parallel compute element, it doesn’t do general purpose calculations with complex branch conditions very well. That’s why it can be so massively parallel. The CPU conversely does comparatively well with branching and arbitrary memory loads.

The examples you give are gaming machines, so the programs on the CPU, especially on older machines, are based around video interrupts to facilitate smooth graphics. It’s a program choice on the CPU.
I don't see anybody rushing to move back to Chernobyl. There's more damage than immediate death. That environment is lost. It contaminates ground water, soil, the wildlife, the air. You're willfully ignoring the reality and taking the hopeful ideals.
Most hardware doesn't have it's own MMU like most GPUs have had for over a decade. That lets GPUs run most of the data plane in user mode right next to the code calling into OpenGL/CUDA/Vulkan/etc.
You can run Android and Linux apps on ChromeOS. And with PWA‘s and WebAssembly maturing the difference between native app and web app is getting smaller and smaller. Many developers use it for work. A lot of dev work in the enterprise isn‘t done locally anyway.
I've never seen or heard of that documentary and probably neither have my kids, but we seem to get along just fine without it.

Also we don't have TV and less than a year ago got rid of Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, our home internet connection, our mobile internet connections, and our landline telephone.

I find that now we read a lot more books and talk a lot more and explore the world around us more often and more actively. And we all like to share the exciting new things we learn about, them from school and us from reading at home. So there's no shortage of learning from lack of TV.
The reactor in Chernobyl was a soviet RBMK-type reactor. These haven't been built anywhere for many decades and I don't think even a single one was ever built anywhere in the West.

Nuclear plants do not "blow up".
I like being able to browse answers by the OP. Using your tool I found the OP name in the Top Poster's section and clicked that name.

I then wanted to see the context for a specific comment so I clicked on it. Great that worked!

Then I wanted to go back to where I was in the list of comments by the OP. I clicked the back button ... that didn't work.

Ideally either the back button would work (each state has an equivalent URL) or the UI provides a way to return to the last state.

Thanks for the interesting tool!
Wait - so if a person runs a red light and crashes into my car, I can't use dashcam footage from my car showing that I had a green light and the other drive ran the red light?
funny that you don't see their email address for contact if you don't have javascript running, which is exactly one of the doors for this kind of vulnerability as they mention on their site
Compressing Pcap Network Traces
It can be difficult to predict whether a given research topic will be useful or not in the future. It's easy when something is developed with an application in mind. It can be far more difficult for "pure math". There are plenty of examples of math that we don't have an application for today becoming very relevant in the future. For example:

- Fast Fourier transform (Gauss discovered and didn't publish it b/c he thought it wasn't very useful. Others rediscovered it later.)
- Number theory was considered useless for a long time, now it's used for cryptography
> AMD are not better. They’re probably worse.

This argument makes zero sense and fails real world inspection. You see, researchers did publish the fact that it affected AMD on Spectre.

For this vulnerability, they were unable to reproduce the bug on AMD (their words). Which means that they tried.
Very interesting! How did you come to your pricing model? To me (not intended audience), it seems really expensive for a 1-time report. Is this due to market analysis or fixed costs or is it kind of a shot in the dark?
Ye, but I didn't understand how this was different than Spectre, except with different caches.

Still it's fine with no JS and no shared processor time, right?
Ask HN: Why do companies still not let you choose your security questions?
Like for example, Apple with their Apple ID setup? These old cliched questions don't help anything, and are stupidly easy to defeat for anyone wanting to socially engineer your account details.

So why don't these companies just give you a few text boxes and let you set them yourself? That way, they'd at least be somewhat secure for thos who know what you're doing, and those who use them for impromptu passwords could just use them as that.

P.S. Why do we still have these silly things in general?
That's AMD's current model. There's both community open drivers and closed vendor drivers sharing an open and upstreamed kernel module.
Larger market of average, undemanding home users for external hard drives.

Smaller market of more demanding enthusiast users for internal drives. (Larger businesses aren't sourcing drives from Amazon or Newegg, unless the company is called Backblaze.)

Latter costs more to support and as niche users generally pay more. (The more price conscious resort to shucking external drives.)

At least, that's how it's been explained to me. I don't know if that's the entire story though it sounds reasonable enough.
I have no doubt technology can solve that problem, but hence the rest of my comment.
Those don't look like ads from the 90s.
I guess it just seems odd that we'd support actively limiting technological capability, rather than focusing on laws and policies that law enforcement should obey. It reminds me of the law in California that prevents police from using automated speed traps, so officers need to spend all this time and expense pulling people over for speeding, which leads to subjectivity, and ends up just being a waste of everyones time. If people really don't want speed limits, they should be raised or abolished.
Ad blockers effectively block Google ads on desktops and iOS - including third party apps like Feedly that use the SafariViewController.
Reverse the cause and effect. I am not saying "minorities are less genetically able to do certain jobs". Rather, I (and Charles Darwin) are saying "people less genetically able to do certain jobs tend to become minorities". That's Biology 101, or it would be if there was less politicization of science!
this is one thing i hate about hacker news' policy of editing (and thus editorializing) titles and links. for one, nobody knows what you two are discussing because no one knows what the original title was, what the original change was, and how those differ from the current title. it just confuses things. and more often i can't find articles i had read earlier in the day because the title and maybe even link has changed. and all that ignores the possibility of editorializing an article's title. to me, the original title, regardless of its provocativeness, is always preferred. if there is a need to update the link, then that should be in a comment and stickied if hacker news had that feature.
because we, as progressive city, shouldn't hurt criminal's feelings, they are people too. Also what's with this gestapo idea of telling other people what they cannot do at their wish in public? /s

Sarcasm aside - only that much can be done by the police if there is no point in doing it. Let's not forget about DA office with revolving door, making sure anyone apprehended will be released and at the same place tomorrow without any consequences to their actions.
One other thing, is that it's really really easy to get suckered into cost estimates for nuclear that are 3x lower than true costs. For example, in "Without the Hot Air" the Plan M has 45GW for £60B, based on the Finnish Olkiluoto plant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant

This plant is a good example of a typical nuclear project. It was slated to be open in 2009, within the scope of HotAir's publication, but instead, it's now more than 10 years late, 3x over budget, and "expected" to open in 2020, but who knows how much that will get delayed.

The UK has tried to build a few more reactors, starting with Hinkley but also more planned. Hinkely is turning into a disaster, and for the further plans they can't even find any contractors that are willing to build nuclear anymore. It's failing from all sides, even when governments are eager to write checks.

This is endemic with all nuclear construction, and why nuclear will play nearly no role at all in mitigating climate change. Not because it's stopped by fear and public panic, but because those who try to build nuclear fail and cause massive financial losses.

If we could build nuclear like we have in the past, it wouldn't necessarily be much better. There's a survivor bias about the reactors that did get built, and for every success there's enough failure that discourages new attempts. I always hear France and South Korea cited as outliers, but South Korea's success is turning out to be a story of deception and corruption, and I've never had a chance to fully investigate France. Nuclear succeeds when the government needs to build nuclear weapons, and has massive government backing; when nuclear is on its own in the marketplace it doesn't do so well.

Meanwhile, the alternatives to nuclear are getting cheaper, faster to deploy, and can be scaled large or small. They will allow developing countries to deploy electricity without having to build massively expensive transmission grids, so it's likely that large parts of the world will leapfrog like they have with wireless cell phone technology.
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