skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For faster sites going from 1s to 0.5s will be less impactful than going from 6s to 3s. So there are non-linear effects from a psychological perspective, but I think those are mostly relevant at faster timescales.

I don't see how you can dismiss the psychological perspective. These are real people using the websites. If it wasn't the premise wouldn't be raised in the first place.

> The only case where I have had things reach intolerable is when the network cannot actually send the data without faulting. Loading for 3 minutes is not actually intolerable.

What you've had? What perspective is this being raised from? What about SPAs where you aren't loading the whole website because of lazy loading, but that lazy loading has overheads that don't include network time.

> I don't think most single webpages will overload a low end systems RAM. I think the lowest system RAM you can have is ~0.5 gb usable and most sites fit within that.

Could you please clarify whether you mean 0.5GB total system ram, or 0.5GB left over after system overheads. Consider this: https://gadgets.ndtv.com/jio-phone-4255 or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_8110_4G Both have 0.5GB system ram, and I can say with high confidence, having the latter, that the main system is slow, I don't believe for a second that that is somehow only bogging CPU and not using RAM. In the developing world mobile systems are often the only computing device people have, which is why there is even a market for such a lackluster phone in the jio phone. The issue, as other commenters have pointed out, is not the core website, but rather the addons that are thrown in because every marketing department and their dog needs to have their own code run on the site. No matter how simply the site is built, optimised for UI, these things will cause problems.
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Probably right here, discussing the USA this time because that's the topic. It would probably not contribute to the discussion to drop references to China.
>While not outright stating it, this makes it sound as if Google admitted that listening regardless of whether the user said "OK Google".

What exactly is misleading? Sure they claim they weren't doing it intentionally [1], but it doesn't change the fact that there were instances of Google listening when the user hadn't said the phrase. Presumably the agency doesn't find that an adequate excuse.

[1] The sentence right after where you stopped quoting at:

>This means that there was some noise or words in the background that our software interpreted to be the hotword (like “Ok Google”).
On a related note, I was recently disgusted by Bunk1 [0], a SaaS for summer camps that allows parents to stay connected with their children, as it highlights "Facial Recognition" as one of its features on its homepage.

A friend's child is in a camp that unfortunately uses them, and "invited me" so that I could send a letter to the child (which is a useful feature). The URL of the child's photo is:

https://.../trained_face/image/...jpg

---

"Facial Recognition

When parents upload a photo of their camper, our facial recognition software scans each photo posted by camp and notifies parents when photos of their camper are available. Family members can easily see their camper in action without hunting through the camp’s entire gallery."

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> Not in my experience, people usually either just use the free version or use a youtube to mp3 converter and keep that version.

Consider that your experience may not be the norm. Spotify and apple music have a combined 170 million subscribers. Not to mention various other ways of consuming music by paying for it.

> That's the point, you shouldn't be

Then how do I make a living?

> I prefer ameteur art and believe it has more societal value.

And you're willing to decide that all of society must bow to your whims? Amateur artists are important, but almost by definition their products won't be as good as professional artists. They can't put in the same amount of practice.

> Sure, but you still need brand recognition and you still can't create counterfeits

Erm, why not? IP law is what prevents counter fitting. You've previously suggested that copying and reselling am artistic work is fine, so why couldn't I also copy and resell any other work or brand?

What's to prevent me from sticking the Gucci logo on a purse? Currently the answer is IP law.
> If there’s a reward for computing a VDF faster than everyone else

There's no direct reward for being a bit faster than everyone else. If you are much faster (say, 100x faster than the general public) then you may be able to bias the randomness, and therefore manipulate things like lotteries built on Ethereum.

> The article claims that proof of work is costing Ethereum hundreds of millions of dollars per year, but this VDF competition is also wasting millions of dollars in human capital

It's about orders of magnitude. Ethereum burns about $0.5B per year. The VDF project is about $15m, and the ASIC should last about 10 years.
I find it most fascinating looking for the locally maximal densities. Starting from N=2, some arrangements always fall in a "satisfying" pattern and a locally optimal maximum density is achieved.

"The sequence of N's that establish density records" link leads to an empty page, but this sequence is also known as OEIS A084644 "Best packings of m>1 equal circles into a larger circle setting a new density record", and starts with 2, 3, 4, 7, 19, 37, 55, 85, 121, 147, 148, 150, 151, 187. https://oeis.org/A084644

Look for example at N=1759: http://hydra.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/packing/cci/cci1759.html

Compare it with N=1758, which has a slight "imperfection": http://hydra.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/packing/cci/cci1758.html

Or with N=1760, which is too "tight" resulting in a worse density: http://hydra.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/packing/cci/cci1760.html
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You're not describing an advertisement, you're describing a listing in a business index like a phonebook or a classifieds section. You don't have to buy ads to show up in a Google search. You buy ads to float your Google search entry to the top so it's right in people's line of sight. If you want people who are looking for entertainment to find you, give pamphlets to your local tourism bureau or travel agencies and hotels to put in their lobbies so that when people are looking for things to do they find you. Advertisements don't provide information to people seeking it, they shove information down people's throats and try to convince them with messaging that people need what is being advertised.
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To each their own, but thanks for your advice. Will consider it for the next posting! Cheers
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Really pleased to finally see a possible alternative to the atrociously wasteful proof-of-work algorithms. Here's hoping bitcoin will switch, too.
My friends' band is in there as "Boston metal". Cool stuff!
Why shouldn’t police be providing a real-time feed of 911 data? It’s in the public interest, and arguably the data belongs to the public. The only issue is why not everyone has access to this data feed.
...well, Amazon just likes selling shovels to miners...
As danharaj mentioned, I'm a moderator of HN. "We" is me and the other mods. I didn't spell out what I was saying in detail because I don't want to embarrass a user unnecessarily. I know that's confusing, so maybe I'll make a general remark, not about anyone in particular.

Sometimes there are users who go rogue on a particular topic that for whatever reason they're obsessed with, and post way too many comments pushing an agenda on that point. This is bad for the site. If people overdo it repeatedly, we ask them to stop and ban them if they don't. Sometimes they create a series of accounts that we ban in succession. Eventually, sometimes, they manage to avoid the topic while participating on HN in other ways. In that case they're welcome here. But if we notice relapses, we remind them to stop and ban them if they don't. We do that because past experience teaches that going a little down that road usually ends in going the whole way.

In other words, this is a way to avoid banning a user by selectively banning only a (user, topic) pair instead. It's extra work, but it seems fair to allow someone to participate in the site as long as they avoid the destructive pattern.
Personally, Foodler had some nice features I like and Grubhub bought and killed them so I'm not going to be using Grubhub. Can't say I have a strong opinion among the others.
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This battle is also the subject of one of my favorite Sabaton songs.
I'm not sure how one would automatically detect such a thing as a browser extension changing hands. If you require signing extensions to make a release, there's nothing stopping a developer from selling their keys. And even without changing hands, the threat to users remains the same if the company just goes from "we'll give you $10k for your extension" to "we'll give you $10k to link this library into your extension and not ask what it does" (one might counter that an ethical developer could accept the former option while rejecting the latter, but it's hard to believe any developer willing to sell their extension in the first place isn't fully aware of what that means for the future of their users).
Yes, despite the title, the articles has better arguments against superdeterminism than for it.
Sorry, I don't work at NASA nor am I a scientist in this field, but it should be obvious there's more to their data and analysis than just what's found on that URL. If you can click around their page and site, you can find a layperson FAQ where they give a broad explanation of their methodology (if you don't want to click through to the cited research papers). Here's the FAQ question relevant to why the 1951-1980 period is chosen:

https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/faq/index.html#q102

> Q. Why does GISS stay with the 1951-1980 base period?

> A. The primary focus of the GISS analysis are long-term temperature changes over many decades and centuries, and a fixed base period yields anomalies that are consistent over time.
over 50% of society would die of starvation?
From the GISS FAQ:

https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/faq/index.html#q202

> Q. Why does GISS show no data from before 1880?

> A. The analysis is limited to the period since 1880 because of poor spatial coverage of stations and decreasing data quality prior to that time. Meteorological station data provide a useful indication of temperature change in the Northern Hemisphere extratropics for a few decades prior to 1880, and there are a small number of station records that extend back to previous centuries. However, we believe that analyses for these earlier years need to be carried out on a station by station basis with an attempt to discern the method and reliability of measurements at each station, a task beyond the scope of our analysis. Global studies of still earlier times depend upon incorporation of proxy measures of temperature change like tree rings, ice core data, etc.
Need to get a picture of everyone that has ever been in a law enforcement class. Then the drug cartels can weed out all the undercover agents.
Most of your recent comments link to your project's website. Please stop with the abusive promotion.
I agree with gp's sentiment, but I think police and prosecutors don't currently have enough resources to prosecute every infraction. I fear, however, that this is largely a function of technological advancement. China is already charging drivers for their traffic infractions by withdrawing the fine from their digital (WeChat?) wallets before they finish their commute.

I doubt there's a lawyer alive that has read all of the statutes that govern me in the jurisdictions I'm currently in (and all of the applicable caselaw that defines the jurisprudence and interpretation of those statutes).

You seem to be arguing the ability and likelihood of a guilty plea/verdict against someone winning in court (and the risk of the prosecutor's reputation for spending). That's a high burden compared to simply being objectively guilty (from a "God's eye view"). The difference is the gray area of interpretation, the burden of proof (especially when it comes to motives and state-of-mind).
Possibly. But the CO2 is the big deal. I don't have much issue with "stake"-based mining, i.e. if it's just burning abstract money, instead of burning physical commodities.
15 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After_Tomorrow
No less expensive, but composting seems to be a "cool and eco-friendly" way to bow out.

"...turn the bodies into about two wheelbarrows of soil within a month. Loved ones and families can keep the new material to spread or even use it to plant vegetables or a tree."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/washington-state-composting-bod...
From what you’re saying it seems like an “incentive cliff” at 100x the power of whatever the competition produces is being relied upon for the security of the currency, meaning there exists a strong incentive for someone to waste human capital computing a faster VDF if he thinks he can “hurdle” the incentive cliff of 100x the power of whatever the competition produces.

Given the competition is only a ~$15m investment in a group of hobbyists, and given we’ve already seen order of magnitude improvements over and over again with proof of work in Bitcoin once the incentives are there, why is it assumed that someone won’t mount a long range attack to break the system by engineering a 100x faster VDF? Moreover, how does the system recover if that were to happen?
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What could a high-functioning autistic adult gain from diagnosis and treatment, one who has managed to blend in well enough to go undiagnosed.
Sorry, should have just written the words and let people find their own link. Or be a less sucky curator.
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I started going through it, and thought it was nice until the author suggested using his parser combinator library.
https://eloquentjavascript.net/ , I love giving this to creative people who are interested in coding. The literary reflection of coding concepts is really great
A problem with multitasking is that people may choose to work on a project that is not the most important project for the company to complete.

Assume a company that has six projects, started but not finished, in its portfolio.

The value of those projects, when delivered, will not be equal. Some will likely be 10x or 20x the revenue of others in the portfolio.

If people are multitasking, they are jumping around from project to project. The most important project to complete (A, let's say) is standing still while people work on the other projects. Every so often, A gets some attention and so it makes some progress towards completion. But before too it has to wait again when less important projects are worked.

The company suffers because valuable projects take longer than they should to complete and begin earning money for the company. Sales that are not made because the product is not available for sale are never recovered. Developers are deprived of the satisfaction of completing projects frequently because projects always seem to take too long to finish.

Bottom line, cutting your work in process often brings dramatic improvements.

Thoughts?
You missed the point. The modern infrastructure's primary value is scalability. This number is of course bad, for the data. But this number will be more impressive when the data is million time bigger.
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No. It just doesn't work like this.

The idea is worthless until it meets customer feedback. We know this.

So the idea gets built, and the first customer arrives, and they say "hey wouldn't it be great if it did this instead?". And if the non-technical founder is worth their salt, they'll engage with the customer and find out what the customer actually needs, and then come back to the technical side of things and say "we need to change most of this".

And then what do you do? Because if you're not in the game with the founder, skin and all, then you need to charge them another ton of cash to make those changes.

I've worked in agencies and app development shops, and the business model just doesn't work for "helping make ideas come alive". Which is why non-tech founders get fleeced - someone has to pay the devs at the end of the day, whether the idea succeeds or not. No such thing as a free lunch.

You need someone on the actual founding team who knows how to build the product.

And tbh, if you're a non-technical founder who can't persuade or fund an engineer to build your idea, then maybe your idea isn't that great.
You have to be a merchant to receive any transactions.
I was going to say something like, "Or, if <X> is right about climate change, it's like 415 consecutive coin flips that are all heads", where <X> was one of the politicians or parties that claims the climate isn't warming, but thought that might get too political, so decided to leave that part of it implicit.
I use doordash 2-3 times a week. It's convenient and cheaper than Uber eats with dashpass. Just remember that if your too amount is less than 6$ it doesn't go to the drivers. It's better to too them with cash
Buy VT or a similar broadly diversified equity index fund, it can't get more passive than that. I have all my savings invested that way.
The AWS effect will make sure its concentrated on a few giant entities anyway.