skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The opposite situation would be where we'd redirect excess nuclear energy (or other energy that can't be throttled easily) to mining BTC. That would be pretty OK in my opinion. Though I hope that future of crypto is more energy-efficient consesus mechanisms. As far as redirecting excess energy goes, there are surely better uses too.
Definitely suicide.
I was thinking about writing an email based platform for that. Idea being, you can send an email with whatever content to an unique email address and some time in the future, e.g. determined by a phrase in the subject, it is sent back to you. With that, I would manage articles to read, have a way to quickly note ideas and so forth.

Haven’t had the time to write it, though.
We cant blame people who don't understand how it works for supporting this scheme. Programmers burning themselves on the corporate altar deserve blame for helping with the promotion of such a platform.

Until developers stop pushing this garbage on the rest of humanity Apple is completely right to make their things as Orwellian as they can.

I'm not laughing.
When a Virus Spreads Exponentially
This will inevitably be compared to different approaches taken by RISC-V projects. IMHO, Only real world tests at scale can show, if it can live upto its universal processor claims.
> I'm hoping there's a future the web can win. With WASM and full access to native APIs, we can build and distribute truly free apps without being overloarded by these giant monopolies trying to bleed us dry.

I'm hopeful about this too, but it seems Apple is consciously avoiding cannibalizing their developer program by giving too much API access. For example, despite Web Push being a standard for years now and supported by desktop Safari, not only is it not implemented on iOS Safari, other browsers are seemingly prevented from implementing it. Whole classes of PWA are eliminated by not having notification access (e.g. turn-based games).
It might seem a bit exaggerated, but I'd expect that's because he's comparing it to growing up in a generic suburb where going on simple errands likely requires a car, and anything other than rows of similar looking houses can be miles away. So, the pastry shop on the corner/ supermarket down the street that the author mentioned are likely inaccessible to those in their childhood days.

That might not immediately seem so bad, but imagine that you didn't own a car (due to being too young or too poor). Then, suburban life may start to feel positively suffocating.
Compressed Sensing (2016)
We’re not trying to safely deploy a nuclear reactor here.

Redirecting out of some vague appeal to authority over English, gaps native readers can “ paper over” cognitively and non native readers won’t even know is a rule is low effort attention seeking.

You are not the topic here.
An entertaining, informative read, and I agree with 60+% of it. I'm still going to nitpick the stuff that I don't think is correct. Also I read the piece on his front page via HN last year, about how it's literally impossible to scale a consulting business past a size of 1 employee, and thought- good, entertaining writer but a bit of an exaggerator:

I don't believe that overall US tax rates are the same as Western Europe, sorry, especially as he seems to add in every line item that he can find (excise tax, etc.) Aside from the fact that European income tax rates are consistently described as significantly higher- there's a 20-25% VAT to consider, yes? To be fair if he lives in California I can see how it's approaching European rates. I also do agree we get less for what we pay for.

The US does have a huge problem with most of the best jobs & human capital being concentrated in a very small number of cities, and I agree that this does contribute to high rent/real estate prices. (And some people are determined to maintain this system because of some handwavey idea that this is a desirable state of affairs). But you can definitely have a quality lifestyle in a tier 2 US city with a professional career, and I'd suggest everyone- immigrant or native- who thinks the Bay Area/LA/NYC/Seattle/Boston/DC are too expensive to move. You don't have to live in an area where the average house price is $1-2 million.

Suburbia is dreadful and has been criticized in the US for decades & decades now, but it is definitely not true that the vast majority of Americans live in a suburb. I share his desire for walkable, medium-density cities.

The US legal system is also extremely bad/overly punitive, but I philosophically disagree with whatever he's trying to say that judges or prosecutors should have more discretion in the interests of a higher ideal of 'justice'. Way too much to fit into an HN comment, but rule of law societies should be procedural/formal/rigid- when we give government functionaries broad discretion to use their subjective 'judgement', they're just or more likely to abuse it and be unfair, racist, even more punitive, etc. (This is in no way a defense of how over-criminalized the US is, but the solution is to change the laws- not gives judges & prosecutors more arbitrary, discretionary power and hope that they choose to be nicer with it)
Reminder: not all cryptocurrencies are this wasteful. Don’t disregard cryptos in general for the pitfalls of the first one.
Class-action lawsuits served against 11 Bitcoin companies yesterday
Hopefully this is better for people who don't browse the web while logged into their Google accounts.
Most people still think email is private for whatever reason.

City and other government contact pages should have big red flags making it clear that your correspondence could be made public at any time.

Even the record of correspondence with a government agency should be considered PII and/or sensitive, depending on the agency and subject matter.
In general, any thermally-conducting path from outside to inside will reduce the insulating value of the wall by a lot. The standard framing method used in American houses is described in basic terms here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_(construction)#Balloon...

(Platform framing is different from balloon framing in some details, but that's not important for our purposes.) The gaps between the vertical "studs" allow insulation to be put in, covering ~90% of the surface area. I forget the details, but there are code and construction-method developments that are working to raise this figure closer to 100%.

The final wall would then be a roughly 7" sandwich. Details vary, but perhaps 1" exterior cladding - stucco, siding, etc., 5.5" of insulation where the frame is, 0.75" of interior wallboard ("drywall"). In older homes, alas, the insulation is thinner than 5.5".

The brick, concrete, concrete-block, and stone construction methods I know about do not allow such a thick layer of insulation. I know there are products available to get higher insulating value in less thickness, thus allowing for 3" of brick + 3" of rigid foam, but of course these are applicable to both methods.

And, as I've tried to clarify, the concrete-block methods I know about have areas where there is a non-insulating path through the concrete.

Perhaps there are other concrete or brick methods that provide significant insulating value, that I'm not aware of, that are realistic for single-family homes?
Come on. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/06/12/click/
>> The problem is more insidious, though; the way that we build our settlements has deep implications for our civic life, our communities, our patterns of interaction, the relationships we form, the company we keep, and ultimately, the purpose and meaning we find in our lives.

I've been waiting for this view to be shared by anyone else. I've been in the US for 20 years, since I was 11 years old.

Midwest -> West Coast -> Midwest.

In the Midwest, it's hard to live anywhere but suburbia. Five years in California, and the best time I had was two years in a 300 sq ft in-law apartment in Berkeley, squashed in between friendly neighbors, cousins and frequent visitors.

I've lived in India, China and traveled many other developing nations including Brazil and parts of Africa. The stark difference to mental and emotional well-being is scary. At this time, I don't know if the conveniences of American life are worth the hit.

Suburbia is harmful to mental and emotional well-being and it's unavoidable for the vast majority of Americans.
There is no such thing as post-mortem privacy, and this is especially true in cases of high profile or public figures death.

I’m not saying this is good or bad, I’m just stating a fact.
I mention this correction only because it remains surprisingly significant in todays world: Most new authors have zero influence on the headlines. This is (partly) why you see so many headlines that are clearly contradicted by the associated article.
Pipes tend to be exposed in brick houses so you don’t need to tear the wall down when you have a leak.
I don't know how he does it, but you can use tags for projects.
That's why I prefer the Svelte way of doing things. It compiles down to code that directly changes the DOM, but only the parts that need to be updated.
That figure is debateable. Citylab raises three issues:

1. American commutes tend to be by car. Other countries have more walking, biking and transit commutes. (Note that foreign transit tends to be more relaxing than American transit). And a walk or bike commute is exercise, which americans have to go to the gym to do.
2. In cities, American commutes are much longer than average. The article was talking about urban centers where immigrants go, so it would be instructive to compare to foreign city commutes.
3. Other datasets show the US having longer relative commute times.

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2011/10/american-comm...
Personal Non-Standard Precautions Against Covid-19?
what I've done:

A decade ago I stockpiled food, high-quality surgical masks, antibiotics, pre-antibiotics BHT and some strong herbal remedies, vitamins and minerals. I knew that in a pandemic only doctors would get the good stuff and there would be supply line shortages.

Last week I began with weak cinchona tea, 25 mg zinc tablet twice daily and two zinc lozenges morning and night to coat the passages of my nose, throat, sinuses et al. All as a prophylactic measure. [Plz no alarmist warnings about cinchonism].

Yesterday morning I woke with the bad feeling of flu. No cough, no fever, no lung soreness. I took BHT 250 mg for the first time and went out gardening anyway. The feeling passed in an hour, leaving me a little tired, so I took a nap.

Today I woke to a sharp needle-like pain (like _one_ needle, literally) in my left chest that immediately went away. I thought "So that's what it's like!" Got up, took another BHT and continued the day. Still no cough, no fever, no lung soreness.

Of course if this gets serious I'll be in the doctor's office as fast as anyone but... I also know there are all kinds of people trying all kinds of "solutions", so....

what is your Personal Non-Standard Precaution against Covid-19?
Are you talking about the legal situation and public record?

I'm talking about manners.
But some things got more expensive over time. Human labor, manufacture, handicraft.
Apple is so due for antitrust it’s ridiculous. Google too.
What are you saying is wrong specifically? Even that bad-example video someone linked of directly grabbing the filter should not be a problem if you wash your hands afterwards. FWIW I use a 3M 7503 with discrete filters so there is a mask body to grab that is not the filter. Obviously other PPE (eg gloves) requires appropriate interleaving, but we're just focusing on masks here.

What "clear science" are you referencing? I have not seen data demonstrating that individual mask use increases the chance of infection, which would be necessary to argue against individuals wearing masks on its own merits. Please share if you have it.

In general, calling something a "conspiracy theory" is fallacious. From what I've seen, the intellectual argument underlying the "no masks" narrative is that individual mask use will "take away" from hospitals. When compared to other countries (eg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22776614), this is patently ridiculous.
Apples standards are my standards. If that stops being the case, I’ll stop being a customer.

Sure. I’m smart enough to dig through the bargain bin of Google Play apps to find the ones that work with my device, don’t have ads, and have the appropriate level of functionality and polish. I just don’t want to. I’d rather pay a premium for a company to do it for me.

Same goes for the Internet.
No friend you are not .. i sit here, childless, family-less, and share the same values, and honestly wishing you the best.

Currently broken (illness, but i work on), probably like your young friends .. if i am lucky some day, I hope to have a family of my own, and be able to simply sit ...

Tired of the rat race, if i could, i would simply travel to thailand, and live in a hut.

More power to you and yours, stay safe <3
It’s not a tax, it’s like a rent. They built and run the ecosystem, you don’t have to be part of it if you don’t like it, it’s completely voluntary, unlike a tax.
Great question.

"Legal system" is about the letter of the law. Which means that written law has to be precise in dictating exact steps. Failure to adhere to those steps is automatically non-abiding.

"Justice system" is about the spirit of the law. Which means that written law is a guideline for judges to use, often strictly. However, judges have room and freedom to make decisions based on individual cases and circumstances.

A simple example is alimony. In most states in the US, the spouse making more income the last year is supposed to maintain alimony payments to the spouse with lesser income, often for an unduly long duration. This is letter of the law.

In this letter of the law, it missed circumstances that led to one spouse having higher income. An example is, maybe one spouse was a student with paltry income last year. If they get divorced now, letter of law dictates that the current spouse making higher income pays alimony. But maybe in 2 years from the divorce the student graduates and earns $300k a year because they were studying neuroscience. This is not entertained in letter of the law (unless the law is changed with specific handling of all such cases, which is infinite)

No exceptions and circumstances are entertained and following letter of the law yields just one kind of result. This often leads to patchwork laws where amendments are appended constantly trying to cover every corner case as an after thought.

In a justice system, the judge takes circumstances into account. For instance, in the above example, the judge could allow only 2 years of alimony payment. An example of this is in Singapore. Try to read it with not a letter-of-the-law eyes and you'll see that the Judge has the ability to make independent decisions: https://blog.moneysmart.sg/family/divorce-ex-wife-money/

No country has a perfect justice system but the difference in approach defines how the society will ultimately be like to live in.
Is there a robust but economical alternative to our current supply chain?

I've been looking at local CSAs and most seem to be doing fine right now, but the pricing is way higher than in the supermarket (even comparing it to organic, grass fed to grass feed, etc.).

Are the economies of scale so large, or is it more of a segmentation issue? If CSAs weren't such a niche would it be feasible to bring costs closer to supermarket levels?
Due to lockdown in India, people witness distant mountain ranges after decades
First of all, thanks for posting this - it's very impressive! Do you have any resource to suggest for digging a bit more in this topic?
I recently enjoyed listening to this interview with someone who knew Grothendieck. It takes a while to get going, but some of the stories are quite gripping.

https://youtu.be/L--9bJApz_A
Bitcoin hardly created the perverse incentive; pollution has always been an externalized cost in most parts of the world. We really need a carbon tax (or similar) so that pollution costs aren't externalized.
If its something requested, the user can always re-request it. If it not something requested like news, use two different providers to send 2 messages. One the actual content, and then a minute later, a different smaller message saying "This message brought to you buy MyCompany. Please text back STOP to stop messages or AGAIN to get the latest alert again." Some end users might get better delivery results with a specific texting service, so it might be useful to set service affinities on a user specific basis.
Wouldn't the same be true of eliminating anything in society? If we all went to electric cars, those in the petro industry would suffer. After all, I don't hear anyone in the Bitcoin community decrying the bank jobs when they wax poetic about putting the banks out of business.
Some other Git features that I find super useful, which past colleagues of mine haven't known about (which maybe suggests they are not universally known).

git rev-parse branch-name: gets the hash of a branch name, useful for verifying two branches are at the same place (so "git rev-parse HEAD" gets the current hash)

The ^ and ~ notations for navigating commits: my_branch^ points to the commit 1 before my_branch, and can be repeated multiple times, ie. my_branch^^^ to get the commit 3 from the top. Likewise the tilda notation allows one to jump a fixed number of commits up: my_branch~10 is the commit 10 above my_branch.

git rebase -i HEAD~10: interactively rebase the last 10 commits. Easy way to re-order, squash, drop, and/or edit the commit messages of recent history in a single git command.
I don't think the post was intended to be a boast about how many messages they send.

I think it was intended to be a description of how it's sensible to set things up at the scale they happen to have.
Why do people find it necessary to argue like this? As if we can't solve ANY problems until every single problem is solved.
This one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(novel)
> This isn't power that would otherwise be wasted: they are emitting more pollution and greenhouse gasses

This isn't obvious to me. Natural gas is often a byproduct of extracting other resources like oil, coal etc. If it isn't used for electricity, heat, chemical feedstocks etc. it either gets flared (resulting in zero revenue) or else ends up in the atmosphere as such, with a vastly higher GHG potential compared to the CO2 equivalent.
Show HN: A site to keep track of critters you can catch in Animal Crossing
Why Russia fears Sweden’s submarines
There might not be food shortages, but something hinky is definitely going on with the paper product supply chain. I have not seen a single roll of TP or paper towels on a shelf anywhere in my area (San Francisco Peninsula) since we went on lockdown on March 16.
Early in my PhD we used Galaxy, which was a very popular platform to do bioinformatics/computational biology research.
It enabled biologists with some basic programming knowledge to conduct relatively complex analysis and share them with colleagues. Definitely a huge contribution to the field.
He's also involved in one of the biggest genomics projects in the past two decade, ENCODE and pretty much everyone in the field used some of its data in their research.
Even logged in looking at photos on a PC is utterly horrible, especially on a monitor with higher than HD resolution.
Information is such a powerful commodity these days, and this dude probably had plenty of it. Have to wonder if this was ordinary suicide, or the Gary Webb two-bullet variety.

ps> suicide as safe guess
Thank you for the questions, I would suggest you a couple of really good resources on YouTube that makes learning this kind of notions quite enjoyable and profitable.

If you already have some basics of electronics and you want to deepen the computational aspect, Ben Eater did an exceptional video series on how to build a Computer on a breadboard. You can check it out here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowKtXNTBypGqImE405J2...

and here: https://eater.net/.

He goes through the definition of a logic gate, on how to build each module of the Computer, up to the meaning of computation and Turing completeness.

If you're more concerned on the electronic side you here are a couple of very good channels to start with:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi4UZoZM0Iw9_tTeRjZd_bA

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCosnWgi3eorc1klEQ8pIgJQ
LOL, agree, from all the examples he could give, he chose the worst one. That has not changed at all.
What is the matter with losing a little bit of privacy? You have nothing to hide, don't you? /s
> What if I told you that you can use this "useless" BTC to purchase carbon offsets, invest in renewable energy (which otherwise would have no funding), etc?

Unless they actually are using it to purchase carbon offsets, I don't see what's the point of this hypothetical?

> Also, people don't understand what Bitcoin mining in wholistic sense is.

Sure, some Bitcoin critics don't understand it well, but don't paint us all with that brush. Some of us have a very good understanding of what Bitcoin mining is and still find it tremendously wasteful.
The author treats the European way of life as the gold standard that shouldn’t be questioned and then chastises the US for not being a part of the same group think.

Typically one tries to understand before critiquing but the author has clearly not bothered to do so. Their description of American life in their short amount of time here is so vastly different than my lifetime of experience here.
like the Penguin, would make the point viscerally

Isn't an important part of the argument that the point the penguin 'makes viscerally' is actually an extremely narrow, relatively uninteresting one? It tells you something like 'certain types of synthetic images represented entirely uncompressed in the spatial domain are obviously super leaky when ECB-mode encrypted'. Which, you know, neat but nobody does that.

It seems extra-uninteresting compared to things like 'plaintext can be recovered from encrypted realtime VBR-encoded audio'.

In that context 'I-frames might be both identical and magically align' seems even more contrived than the already more-famous-than-informative penguin.