skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big question with all these ideas is how to pay for it?

Economically it doesn't work in majority of the US. Some big cities might be able to pull it off - but even those often run at a loss and are subsidized by the city.

How does a small suburban area afford trains going all over?
Shut it down.

Can a couple of these people agree that a well-coordinated merge & release to sabotage proof of work is ethical.

https://github.com/orgs/bitcoin/people
I was questioning myself the same question, and imagined that would be a perfect application for a surveillance system with 3 satellite placed at L3, L4 and L5 Earth-Sun Lagrangian points and 3 placed 120° from each at a perpendicular orbit with respect to Earth orbital plane.
This is why polygamy is illegal... can you imagine three or four married developers living together?
Kadir beneath Mo Moteh.

Speaking of which, I wonder whether we'll program in Tamarian one day. Whether we'll be able to build functioning software from a really high-level abstractions, and perhaps not try to micromanage it too much.

(And then when something goes wrong, the program will simply say, "Shaka, when the walls fell.")
A lot of people fought for the confederacy, but their descendants still have representation in congress because peace was made and status restored. Also I don't think you can make a case that the Cherokee Nation was at war with the United States during that time, just because some of its citizens joined irregular militias.
it's cheaper to transfer Bitcoin and immediately convert to fiat than to do a wire transfer from overseas. Then you're using the home banking system like ACH in the US and SEPA in Europe

Wires cost me $50+ because of intermediary banks, even if I don't pay anything at my own bank, someone is getting a big cut.
I don't think any modern currency is really using Gold these days. The cost of creating dollars is basically the cost of the Fed signing a few papers. A lot of modern currency is fully virtual.

So I don't think "mining gold" is an appropriate analogy.

EDIT: Case in point: how much did it cost for Visa + Bank to increase a credit-card from $500 credit limit to $2000 credit limit? $1500 of credit appeared out of thin air.
Simply sorting by date doesn't really seem to be that useful either.

For example, the poster below showed the following link for the "ml" query: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

If you look at the results, the first 2 results only matched part of the poster's username and many of the top results here are empty threads which are not that useful since HN is mostly for discussions.

To be clear, I'm not saying it's all bad, just pointing out that there are low hanging fruits which can improve results quite a bit.

Also, Algolia seems misspelled in your query which is why it fails when reordering by date: https://imgur.com/a/pO9fBWr, it works otherwise. Although, it says the date is 1 day old when it's just 2 hours old.
This reminds me of this Vox video that talked about how "Instagram museums" are changing how traditional museums operate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx_r-dP22Ps
What right do astronomers have to clear skies for their specific purpose?

It is commonly argued that "everyone has a right to clean, affordable drinking water", and yet New York City and China and India and etc continuously pollute waterways because business has been prioritized instead, for better or for worse.
A bit of a tangent, but does anyone know how Netflix gets away with not doing in app payments?
You don't need an "absurd" amount of income to be in the top 1%.
They're missing that the reward has fallen below the cost of non-renewable energy, such that the only profitable way to mine Bitcoin now is with renewables. The only way to profitably mine Bitcoin with any country's electric grid would be if someone else is paying the electric bill for you.

> Electricity is probably a lot cheaper in China.

Specifically, miners in China are famous for colocating with overprovisioned excess hydroelectric power that is not transportable elsewhere via the grid.
>To even know if you’re buying a decent solution from Algolia or not, you’d already have to hire pretty much all the same staff you’d have to hire to more cost-effectively build it in-house.

You just have to pay Algolia, wire up the APIs, and then see if whatever stakeholder that was complaining about search stops complaining. If they do then it's good enough.
This isn’t really news. Just a numerological milestone. So more people are getting rich than ever. Hopefully we can make that number even higher.
OK, but are they a private business? Are they a small reservation only shop, preferably not located on commercially zoned land?
I prefer much more Algolia than Google for searching things in HN.

The customizable stuff are very helpful -- search by user, by type, order stories by popularity or date, etc.
Religion isn't intrinsic to the person but is a protected characteristic so in reality the line isn't where you claim it is.
Regardless of the model, how can optimizing two metrics ever yield an improvement in the first compared to just optimizing it alone?

Or is the idea that, because the old model sucks, we need to optimize this intermediary metric (diversity) in the interests of the ultimate goal of raising-the-bar?
Being a preacher does not feel like proselytizing. It feels like focusing people's attention on important issues, and working towards an inclusive* environment conductive to open talk about the most important of issues.

* - Inclusive environment obviously cannot include the people who hardened their hearts to God, and apostates who turned their back on the Word of God and only speak to poison the minds of good people.
Isn‘t that exactly what X is doing though? Waymo started as a project in 2009 I believe. It wasn‘t anything commercial until recently.
> As far as I can tell, the only place where a JD can teach in most universities is in the law school.

I don't understand what you're trying to say here. Assuming JD was universally acknowledged as a higher degree than PhD, this would still be true -- it's a subject matter restriction. if you have a PhD in history, you're probably stuck teaching in a history department -- it will not qualify you to teach in the math department, or in the law school.
Yep, you definitely don't want to be building on uniformly graded soils, especially not unconsolidated fine-grained soils.

Which is pretty much why we got "residential red zones"[1] in Kaiapoi and Christchurch in the 2010 Greendale earthquake and subsequent aftershocks - suburban areas built on large unconsolidated deposits of fine alluvial silts left by the Waimakariri River in its long wanderings across the Canterbury Plains[2] suffered massive liquefaction, repeatedly.

IIRC liquefaction has even been observed in uniform gravels.

[1]https://www.linz.govt.nz/crown-property/types-crown-property...

[2]https://www.ecan.govt.nz/get-involved/news-and-events/zone-n...
I looked it up and while worthwhile, I would need someone to explain how it applies to this specific comment section.
>Gives me confidence that I can rely on them even if I ever get into hot water politically.

Rely on them for what, exactly? What makes you think they would bend for you and not this other political entity that has you in hot water?
When natural habit is destroyed by human development, it is not replaced by something "better". It is replaced by something different, which benefits some species over others (mainly humans). Coastlines and wetlands are never "moved", they're simply destroyed. The life that was there dies and species go extinct, one after the other.

Sure, it's possible for people to create new and better habitat for endangered species. The problem is that we usually don't. The "make more land" article doesn't even offer that as a suggested environmental offset. I imagine that the cost of doing so in a way that would actually be beneficial to the environment would nullify any gains to the developers.

I agree that coastlines aren't fragile on geologic time scales. The living things which depend on them are. There are millions of species that we haven't even cataloged, so how many are going extinct because of human development? We'll never know.
I'm not "smart enough" to calculate that acurately, but if the "cost per transaction" is high enough to get a couple of articles written about it, I won't participate into that.

I'm more worried about humanity having a future.
Nah my friend.

I mean you have to physically mine anything you want to save into an archive of your own. Exploit.

Sorry if this seems cynical, but if anything on the Internet is worth referring back to, it’s worth making your own copy or you should just assume that at some point you’ll never see it again. Fortunately it’s just text and hyperlinks. Even screenshots work if you OCR them somewhere down the line, though I don’t employ that method.
Question is, did people get out of those buildings alive?
China’s Z-20 Helicopter Looks Awfully Familiar
Yeah, people have meetings. People go to lunch sometimes, or have appointments outside the workplace.

If it's "stop the world" important and absolutely needs to be dealt with right now, interrupt it, same as you would any other break. Otherwise, deal with it like you would any other situation.
Why is this why polygamy is illegal?
Monero nodes see IP addresses, but they do not see the sender's crypto address, and they do not see the receiver's crypto address.

So in its current state, ISPs would only know what someone has launched a Monero wallet at some point in time. Using Monero is completely benign.

In its also current but also upcoming state, Monero clients automatically connect to TOR or I2P. So a Monero node would not know your IP address and an ISP therefore would not either.

Monero exchanges are merely Monero clients, and a Monero client knows its own address, and it knows the address the sender told it to send to which would be the receiver. But neither of these addresses are ever seen on the blockchain, and the receiver's Monero client does not know which address sent to it.

Since the receiver's client doesn't reveal which address sent to it, and there is no passive blockchain sleuthing possible, and the nodes don't see any of this either, there is very little the FBI could do if users are following best practices which are the default behaviors of this network.

Non-default behavior would be users that rely on exchanges exclusively: they send their 2 Monero from one exchange to another exchange. Exchange 1 is an account that belongs to the user, and it knows the address of Exchange 2. Exchange 2 is an account that belongs to the user, and it only has the same balance and transaction id as Exchange 1's send. The FBI happened to have subpoena'd both exchanges and found the same transaction id. Improbable now, but it could happen anytime in the future.

When the user adds their own Monero client into the mix (exchange 1 - client - exchange 2, + time + different amounts), this gets exponentially more difficult as you already need access to the user, the subpoena, and their Monero client. There are many barriers to getting that, especially in the face of benign economic activity, and the blockchain itself doesn't help.

You also aren't supposed to re-use addresses. This is true for Bitcoin and all cryptocurrencies. It means that an exchange wouldn't even know if you were sending to yourself, one of your other wallets, to a vendor to pay someone, or what. With Monero none of those recipients know who sent to them.
what marketing firm do you work for? Oh you're literally the content marketer for gitlab lol (as per your comment history). you're literally getting paid to say this.
John Cleese from Monty Python made many years ago a presentation about open and closed mode of thinking which is similar and how it related to their work. https://youtu.be/Pb5oIIPO62g
It's a future-telling story on how computerized bureaucracies can create great troubles. But in real life, often the problems are not even caused by computers, but by government officials, humans, that fail the Turing Test.

I share the following story which is a typical occurrence in China, it's all folklore and unsourced, but certainly true and similar stories have happened for at least a hundred times:

One person went to the local government to correct the errors in family records in the government database for his mother. Then, the official asked, how do you prove that your mom is your mom? It turns out, in order to make a change, it's required to obtain a proof, and he is asked to obtain it from the police department. He went to the police for a proof, nevertheless, the officials here were only allowed to create a proof based on the information from the government database, and this was the very database that needs to be corrected, and he was suggested to go to the local government to correct this record. This process took years without progress, until he...

1. Use personal connections in his network to find a relative/colleague, who knew one official that workes inside the government, and passes his message and persuade that person to handle it, using the relative/colleague's personal relationship, or by sending gift or bribe, it's how the majority of issues were handled.

2. Reporte this incident to the upper bureaucrat. The upper bureaucrat would usually send orders down to the lower bureaucrat and ask them to handle this case. However, whether the order is executed or not would be a matter of the local bureaucrats. Refusing to handle it while attempting to stop you from doing it again is common (don't solve the problem, just solves the people who have problems).

3. Tell the story to the media, later, a journalist wrote a "How to Prove My Mom is my Mom" story and became national hit, and upper bureaucrat intervened and solved the problem. But hundred thousands of citizens have the same issue and nobody cared.

Bureaucrats don't argue. Bureaucrats with computers never argue. Same for private businesses, a common problem is, if the machine works, everything is perfect; if the machine doesn't work, no human is helpful.
What underlying tech does Algolia use? Elastic search?
Then why'd you link the slides?
Soft Conditional Computation
Hi David, this is Dylan, a co-founder. I'd love if you had the time to send me a screenshot of what you're seeing, with your Developer Tools Console open in Chrome, if you don't mind. It'd be a huge help!

dylan [at] pipedream [dot] com
> Is there any more to discuss on the topic of Bitcoin being outrageously wasteful?

The carbon estimate seems very poor.

> Since we know the average emission factor of the Chinese grid (around 700 grams of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt-hour), this can be used for a very rough approximation of the carbon intensity of the power used for Bitcoin mining.

The reason many miners are in China is that they can access cheap off-grid renewable sources of energy there, such as excess hydroelectric, so using an on-grid CO2 estimate doesn't work.
Data Driven Development is the single most impactful way to write performant code, if I had to single out some single thing. CPUs work on data, not a developer's abstractions about the data.

Everything from your structs and objects all the way up should be written with the data in mind.

Think about what pieces of data are needed at the same time, or in sequence, and not what classes you need to perform a certain action. Structuring your data types to keep pieces of data that will be operated on together, or read together alone can dramatically improve performance.

It's difficult for me to explain, and I'm confident once one sees examples that demonstrates the concept well, it will become clear pretty quickly.
RandAugment: Practical data augmentation with no separate search
The Worlds That AI Might Create
Depends on the hardware, mining difficulty, block reward. Right now? Something like 0.15 per kw/h is the break-even point, and if you're not getting below 0.10 you won't get the cost of your hardware back fast enough

In other words, you should mine if you're in China where you can get those rates
Yes but looking at the original post I was replying to "I have never understood the appeal of BitCoin as a means of purchasing or selling illegal materials. The entire transaction history is literally encoded in a public ledger!"
The point I was trying to get across is that with some effort bitcoin can be anonymous. Right now the machines don't require facial anything and I can tell you those machines are all over Vancouver. I did not mean walk in with a Halloween mask, although with Halloween coming it would be a fine time to go in to the machine and do such a thing with little people looking at you. Yes there are other risks of being caught, an adjacent store camera or cell tower pinging like you say so you would need to be aware of these and other risks and minimize as many as possible. This is a lot of effort for some people but for others the risk of being caught buying illegal items with cash is way to high. Also, where can you go and buy almost pure drugs, certainly not the streets of Vancouver. The dark net already has a reputation of selling better quality drugs as the sellers get rated on the dark markets. Also the availability of certain drugs just isn't there on the streets where on the darknet every thing imaginable is available. So that is why I believe bitcoin makes an appealing medium to purchase illegal materials. How the person selling these items gets their money I am not sure. Ordering drugs to your door always carries a risk but at least with everything for the payment separate you can deny it. Hand full of cash and drugs when the cops show up it is game over.
Court rules officer who ran and hid, while inmate raped a nurse, cannot be sued
Seriously... what's the difference between 'universe expansion' and 'travel'? A particle can't travel faster than c but it can effectively if the universe expands in addition to its travel speed? Are there any established sci-fi concepts that replace the concepts of wormholes with 'universe compression'?
I think its still fair to say that economics is not a science the way medicine is.
And this is a bad thing because...?
There's a lot of information in the world that isn't on a powerpoint slide.
Press 'F' to pay respects.
Don’t companies like TransferWise already do international payments electronically without the need for a blockchain? I definitely support lowering the amount of human labor required for payments, but I don’t see the need for many coal plants worth of computers randomly hashing a bunch of junk over and over again when a normal efficient server can do it.

Every bitcoin exchange I’ve used required me to physically write something on paper and show it to a human, so it seems like the human labor in the banking system is a regulatory issue, not a technical one.
The fact that the parent comment used Biweekly to mean 14 days seems to suggest that it's not unambiguous.
Man, I’m not going to play this game. This is /r/iamverysmart “ah, but you assumed” stuff, and I feel like you are easily smart enough to know that.

Perhaps, if you don’t want people to assume that you are advocating dumping people in the middle of nowhere without the protections of U.S. citizenship, you should not write in such a thuddingly absolutist manner that makes that assumption the apparently-obvious one, because there are plenty of internet edgelords who try to troll with exactly the half-a-position you led with--but hold only that half a position, ‘cause they’re as a general population racist pricks. I get that it requires some exercised empathy to critically read one's own stuff with an outsider lens, but if that's not something you can easily do you can also default to indicating that you have thought this through at more than the prima facie level that a normal-person reader would infer, to explicitly saying more than the barest minimum that invites misapprehension.

What I’m saying is that if you want to be afforded good faith, it helps to act like you deserve it and are giving it to others. But you write like you’re comfortable being perceived as a jerk, and that comes with some downsides, yeah? If you’d like to not be perceived as such, there are ways to work on more empathetic communication. Maybe try some?
UK's controversial 'porn blocker' plan dropped
Yeah, I agree funny how much better Visual Basic and Windows 95 contorls were even in this regards. I believe pretty much any UI experience was better as the "modern" one. I shouldn't have to wonder what control I can interact with and which one saves state immediately versus needing an explicit "apply" or save action. It's pretty messy and confusing.
> , or even software developers.

lol. really? what software devs are making 250k a year?
I highly recommend this, I found it on YouTube easily last time. It seemed to be a recording of the TV screen but picture quality wasn't too important for the subject.
I think Dapr compares to my Rxns framework for building vendor-agnostic microapps.

Because your front-end is also a micro-service.

https://github.com/captainjono/rxns/
Unrelated to the content itself, I like the inclusion and format of the Recommended Reading section, especially "If you find an article missing from this list please report it here, and it will be added as soon as possible."
You just wrote that I’m abusing customers and then say it’s not an attack.

S3 is blob storage. Dynamo is a key value store with support for additional indexes. Neither technologies are particularly novel today or provide specific features that would lock you in. You could use comparable technologies on Azure or Google Cloud. Like I said before, you can’t blame Amazon or any cloud provider for poor design/architecting on your end.

Your questions are written as sarcastic personal attacks, which you write instead of posting something of more substance. It seems like you’re just trying to incite a response from me aka trolling. I won’t engage with you anymore. Good luck.
And also because that all happened far away, and that would surely never happen here in the Land of the Free™, right?

That's not to say that a modern military couldn't and wouldn't curbstomp a bunch of civilians with small arms in this day and age, but an armed civilian is at least slightly harder to tyrannically subjugate than an unarmed one.
Ask HN: Search the web for pages without ads?
Is there a decent search engine or syntax which lets me limit results to pages that don't contain any advertising?
> Well, schools don't have "foot violence" drills, either.

No one has ever walked into a school and punched or kicked multiple people to death either. Why? Because you couldn't even if you wanted to. That's a completely illogical line of reasoning.
How far do you want to go? Should a company be forced to offer products to minorities? Say a comb maker who creates combs for the straight hair market should they be forced to offer hair picks? Not doing so leaves them ostracised.
Or you could say Bitcoin is wasteful because PoS accomplishes the same thing with 99.99% less energy.
I wouldn‘t say wearables. More like device-agnostic. You are giving commands to a system. That system might literally be your surroundings in the future. Wearables, like contact lenses, might be a part of it. But so could sensors in a road or a smart window you walk past.
Why is the preacher at my work? Right? Preacher is a title. Why is the preacher at my work and why are they not just my coworker.
> Spam

Spam, pornography, and profanity are not viewpoints. The problem with social media is not censorship of unwanted content that an ordinary person can identify without reference to viewpoint. What bothers civil libertarians, myself included, is censorship of specific points of view, even when these points of view are expressed in a calm and civil manner.

> Horrifying

Who gets to decide what's horrifying? You? Why?
What about the top 0.1%?
> So more people are getting rich than ever.

No, the top percentile is, not everyone. That's the problem. Income inequality is getting worse.