skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have it too. I'm not entirely sure where it comes from, but some significant factors are:

1) Proof-of-work systems are pure, unadulterated energy waste (and an ecological disaster as long as we depend on fossil fuels). They cannot, ever, be allowed to become significant in the economy, lest our future will be building a Dyson sphere around the Sun just to power everyone's ability to pay for a hot dog on their way to work.

2) There are a lot of naive ideas about how economy and society works surrounding major cryptocurrencies.

3) The main users of cryptocurrencies are (AFAIK) criminals and amateur financial speculators.

4) Statistically, you can expect any random startup in this space to be a scam.

It's a wild west. Trading unregulated money tends to disproportionately attract the worst kind of people.
I use this all the time, everywhere I can.

The worst example of "we know what are valid email addresses better than anyone" case was when adidas.com decided that they'd redesign their registration flow and in the process disabled logins with "invalid" email addresses when they previously had accepted registrations and logins with email addresses tagged with + for years. That was genius.
The median salary in the UK is £24,400 (ONS, 2018)

+£2,033 paid per month
-£ 149 national insurance (healthcare, welfare, etc.)
-£ 198 income tax
=£1,686 take home pay (=$2,224)

The median salary in the US is $49,764 (BLS, 2020)

+$4,148 paid per month
-$ 317 social security
-$ 357 federal tax
=$3,474 take home pay

=$1250 per month in favour of the US median earner.

$1250 per month should go a fair way to covering health insurance premium, deductible, co-pays & drugs (these are all £0 in scotland)
Hmm, okay, but what is it?
Unsure, but I think that's the implication of this bit in the OP:

"The same effect was documented with some of the most popular mathematical software packages, including Mathematica, Mathcad, and Matlab."
Of all the things about this, the fact that the Fortnite competitor PUBG is now being “featured” by Apple just ticks me off so much. Talk about being petty. Are there school-aged children running the App Store now (or the executive suite?).

I realize Apple has the right to decide who they feature but come on. Being featured is important, it’s a big deal and it can make a serious difference to any developer’s income and notoriety. The fact that Apple can just deposit something at the top of the list because they’re in a bad mood really says something about Apple: I don’t know, maybe that they’re a bit isolated and immature about this whole thing?
Good point but it won’t stop DeFi’s growth. In my opinion, such risks shouldn’t stop DeFi’s growth neither. Similar risks have been present in conventional finance and economy too. Relevant: https://youtu.be/ed2FWNWwE3I

Instead of fearing from the risks we should quantify and analyze them.
It's a bit silly to emphasize specific communities if this results in a ban of the entire app or network. ~all apps and networks have some communities like that. I don't think this is a complex question at all, this is just bad.
With the amount of memes used throughout and constant informal langauge i'm not sure if this is a serious post or if i'm missing out on a joke. Not really sure if it was trying to put specific point across either
Yes, absolutely. Good point. Though one would still need to describe the pattern and how it was helpful as a memory aid... None of the proposals I've seen are simple enough that they seem useful for that purpose. But I'm admittedly from a different culture and time, so maybe what was obvious to them isn't obvious to me/us.
I think there's lots of studios just as competent or more competent than Riot. They've made so few games, it's hard to compare them to other studios in that way.
>"I'll be a GM they don't even need to pay me"

Is that Tibia reference?
All modern browsers have done GPU compositing for a while now, so if anything GPU decode to a texture is the nicer path anyway.

As for HTML5 video allowing JS to get individual pixels: no one made any performance guarantees. The expectation is if you use these APIs (don't!) that you will incur at minimum a full framebuffer copy into a CPU shadow buffer, and likely hog your AVX-esque units that have to decode from some GPU-specific format into raster or do colorspace stuff.

Note that in this thread we equate hardware video decoding with GPU, but on mobile or mobile-derived hardware this is not at all the case. Your hardware video decoder is likely separate silicon that prefers to decode into its own YUV-happy format, and that format is in turn more or less only guaranteed to be understood by the hardware compositor - the GPU might not be able to share it. So if you start trying to do anything with video beyond displaying it in it's own plane, you can very easily force the hardware into a path that will be slow and energy consuming. This is well understood by the people that build Android and iOS, not so much web developers.
I like this train of thought.

It's actually the same as Douglas Adams'. Now we know the answer is 42 and now we need to solve what the question really was :)

I think it's ironic how he foresaw the problem we are experiencing with AI right now.
How much do you pay per month for health insurance where you live? (Or if you don't know, how much does your country spend per capita on healthcare?)

My wife and I pay way less than $500/month, but her employer pays some of it so I'm not sure what the total cost is. When I was looking for it on my state's healthcare exchange it was also considerably cheaper than $500/month, but then since I was unemployed at the time, it ended up being free.

Healthcare in the US is a real problem that needs to be resolved, but it's not a simple situation.
Wow. How is this not a lawsuit happening already?
I think the "fully automated gay space luxury communism" depicted in the Culture series is the best future we can hope for. I wouldn't mind welcoming new robot overlords if it makes that possible.
Under the ACA, out of pocket maximums are ~$8000 or $16,000 (individual/family).

That leaves care that doesn't get covered by insurance of course, but people aren't on the hook for 20% of the bill that insurance covers.
It does matter because I would like to avoid said groups.
IMO this is why anyone dumb enough to spend time building trading algos for crypto should really just use that time looking for vulnerable smart-contracts / projects if they actually want to see returns LMAO.

I used to work in the space in the blockchain tracing space - I helped build one of the first intelligent tracing systems that could handle tokenized assets on ETH.

I have zero regrets leaving the space...
There's a 600 acre plot of relatively cheap land near me that I 2/3rds joking suggest me and friends should go in on together and start a hi tech commune. So far plenty of interest but no commitments. :(
The feeling is common and here is a justification for you. The bitcoin network now takes 7 nuclear power plants to run [1]. Last year it was responsible for 0.21% of the worlds supply of energy [2]. Whatever benefits it brings (are there any?) I don't think it justifies the environmental cost even if some of the energy used is renewable and close to the source.

Also think what all those engineers could do with all that effort.

[1]: https://news.bitcoin.com/the-bitcoin-network-now-consumes-7-...
[2]: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48853230
Wow you are using Hey.com, cool!
Out of curiosity, what would a "fix" look like?
He didn't need permission: "Code Is Law"
Neither your eyes nor your brain would be capable to cope with that.
A lot of this DeFi stuff is about people getting returns by providing liquidity to financial instruments that would have been done by centralized exchanges otherwise. So, still speculation driven ultimately, but not totally useless.
I'm a big fan of jitsi, but I think it's a bit less efficient on resources, particularly with meetings with a lot of participants, although I haven't tried this personally.

Also, Zoom's network effect. A lot of people simply aren't aware of jitsi.
Bug introduced in May 2020 update (Version 2004). Unfortunately, Microsoft's QA strategy today is testing on Home SKU users as guinea pigs. I use Windows 10 Pro and delay feature updates by 180 days at least.

You can do this for Home versions too, by using regedit.[1]

[1] https://www.ghacks.net/2018/09/27/how-to-delay-feature-updat...
Glad to know I'm not alone in being a john.smith@gmail.com and receiving emails for johnsmith@gmail.com. For a while I was concerned there was some issue where there was an existing johnsmith@gmail.com before I created mine and gmail just fused them. But it seems more likely whoever this other johnsmith is, they just think they have this email.
Saint Augustine's Secularization of Rome
> For network communications (IP), practically any two machines can communicate with each other, which opens up a number of serious security risks.

This isn't quite a correct characterization of the problem. The problem - rather in the style of your previous post - is that a given machine will listen to communications from any other machine, and often react to them. My usual go-to example is that most web browsers will happily execute completely arbitrary code from any random website they happen to stumble across.

There are practical reasons (eg opprotunistic scans for exploitable vulnerabilities) to keep machines isolated, but the root problem is not that your machines can send and recieve communications with arbitrary others, but that they choose to.

> How do I find people I like or trust?

I don't have a general solution to this one even in principle, but I've found it helps if you don't need to trust them. Proper anonymity or pseudonymity means I can have a perfectly comfortable conversation even in the depths of 4chan, and laugh in the faces of anyone who tries to threaten me.
> The industrial revolution and all of its consequences may not have been exclusively a disaster for the human race

for those unaware, this is based from the first line from Ted Kaczynski's "Unabomber Manifesto", which starts with "The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race".

It's actually an interesting read, that is... as long as you don't feel hostility towards rebelious literature: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unab...
The data here may not be totally accurate, but the sentiment is right. For my local school it's showing the marginal cost of the first credit hour, but the average cost per credit hour is substantially lower once you get to the minimum number of credit hours to qualify for insurance. After correcting for that mistake it cut the monthly cost for tuition+insurance for my local school in half. In addition, some schools offer insurance for spouses and children as well, which usually drives the cost per person down even further. For our situation, the total cost of tuition (9 credit hours per semester) plus insurance (2 people) is about $870 per month. A comparable ACA-compliant insurance plan would be about $1,000 per month.

Even with a "gold level" insurance plan we ended up spending around $4,000 for an accident that occurred on campus that required an ambulance to the University hospital (1 mile away) and about 4 hours in the emergency room to get stitches and confirm that a head injury was not a concussion. It's hard to visualize how much money has been legally stolen from the American people over the last few decades due to the giant scam that is the health insurance industry. The combined salaries of every single doctor in America could be paid for with 8% of what we spend on healthcare every year. If you add in the salaries of nurses, pharmacists, drug researchers, etc. it's probably under 25% of what we pay. Unfortunately there are literally millions of middlemen and unnecessary administrators who soak up a very large percentage of healthcare spending without really doing anything.

Canada and Australia spend less than half as much per capita as we do on healthcare despite having similar levels of GDP per capita and better average life expectancies. If the US could save 50% on healthcare we could probably solve climate change single-handedly. This is not even an exaggeration, it's an illustration of just how much we spend on healthcare.
You’ve quoted google’s write up, but surely they made a mistake - the year should be “1844”, no?

https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-alexandre-dumas
Earlier this year, the network (critical mass of users) adopted Zoom quite quickly. If Zoom were to fail, I don't think it's a stretch to imagine that networks or groups of users could start using some other video conference system in a similarly short time-frame. I'm not inclined to share the same level of concern as the original article.
I'm working on one microstartup at a time, then after growing one, I try to fully automate it and start building a new one.
I would say its a measure of maturity as a developer if you have no interest in touching something that has no use and is 99% hype. I would not have a problem of working on a useful blockchain in my job, however it remains to be seen if there is such a thing.

Blockchain is like a solution without a problem. The only thing that can be done with blockchain that can't be done without (i.e. decentralization) is something that mostly has no application in the real world. And there is no need for it because the technology for that exists since over 2000 years. If it was needed, someone would have done it already long ago.

But who knows, perhaps at some point in the future a use case will emerge.
I was aware of that, and it's exactly backwards. Google is punishing sites for having low-quality sites point to them (even if they have no control of them). What I'm suggesting is the opposite, that a site be punished for its outward links, if they point to low-quality sites.

(One could do this separately for various kinds of undesirable content and let the users choose whether they want to avoid spam, hate speech, plagiarized content, nsfw content, misinformation, Rick Astley videos, and so on.)
Playing Forza Horizon with a Modified RC Controller
cool so johnsmith@gmailcom works? nice!
For me, NewPipe got a lot better when I added it's repository to f-droid, rather than using the version in the official f-droid repository.

https://archive.newpipe.net/fdroid/repo?fingerprint=E2402C78...
For comparison purposes, it's useful to think of things like retirement contributions and healthcare premiums as taxes, even if they're not formally taxes. There is an article comparing this across countries that argues that if you take this view, US taxes are actually pretty high, because our health insurance is so expensive. https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2019/04/08/us-workers-a...
that's a fantastic outage :)
Well, all this exploits should make the system more resilient in the long run (as they are fixed) no?
It seems like the obvious answer is modernized competitive market laws that prevent companies from leaving competition-mode and entering castle building-mode.
It's a logic trap: an intellectually complex toy with the promise of access to untold riches to those "smart enough". It's a trap.
Well, maybe it actually is easier than I thought to bundle everything into a single html file (I thought you couldn't embed fonts into html, but apparently you can [1]).

Anyways, in case of this application, all visualizations together are like 20MB (the monaco editor is a significant part of it). Having them split up and only loading things one demand significantly increases startup time.

Also, base64-encoding all the binary resources is a little bit inefficient.

[1] https://www.mediaevent.de/font-in-css-einbetten/
I pick the problems I faced personally to solve and that has been very successful.
(Riot's less than stellar history aside) I see these takes on game design a lot, and they're interesting to see because everyone takes their own stance on how to construct a fun game from distinct smaller concepts. Yahtzee’s Dev Diary [0] talks a lot about loops (And I give it a watch recommendation), while at your average GDC talk you hear about the concept of pillars [1] and their role in shaping games. I'm interested to hear if anyone else has resources on other game design takes.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbArC2mvokQ

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzQDVtysXjA
It is pretty common, and substantiated by the scam networks that surround "coins" based on ethereum contracts, the fact that anyone with enough computers and bandwidth can have a majority of votes in any publically available block chain and that contract authors are fallible.
The Jellyfish Problem
The seminal "cyberpunk" novel is The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner, from 1975. He didn't use the term, but all the key themes are there.
A much better reason to get rid of equal time policies is because on the Internet, spectrum is effectively unlimited.

On TV or radio, you can only have so many stations. But with the internet, people can make a new web site and publish there, they're not limited by the available spectrum. Therefore, the kind of regulation that was needed in a constrained environment (broadcasted TV/Radio), does not really make sense when those constraints are lifted.
> Except dentistry. For some reason that is separate.

Would the reason be that British teeth are maintained like American waistlines?
You'll see this in almost every MMORPG (I segment out RPG because it's the most likely to get these - a MMOFPS like Destiny 2 generally just gets by with a few support tickets; people get isolated into clusters or small parties so it doesn't end up as obvious or exposed).

I do miss Tibia though :)
> Proof-of-work systems are pure, unadulterated energy waste

The more you pollute, the richer you get. I can't understand why nobody talks about this.
>> each exploit and oops only improves the system

This is not necessarily true. If the system architecture is highly complex and poorly designed, each exploit will result in a patch which will only make the system more complex and more brittle.
IMO this is exactly what is happening with Ethereum.
That seems like a pretty restrictive definition of the word database. To me, redis is absolutely a database, just one with a very different model than the more common databases.
It nets out as a win for enthusiasts in the end. Electric cars have better torque, and engineers shine when faced with constraints. Safer cars are also safer to drive "fun". I'm really really glad we aren't all still driving 8mpg 500ci 14 foot long boats.
Full writeup can be found here: https://www.partsnotincluded.com/modifying-an-rc-controller-...
> For lots of the fundamental Go words, they'd need a new English word coined anyway or an imperfect metaphor.

This. Even the chess words that are anglicised have special meanings in chess. Being a native speaker of English doesn't help you understand what a "Bishop" is or what is "Checkmate" (OK, that's an anglicised Persian word) or the difference between a "Pin" and a "Skewer".

Also, most of the Japanese terms don't have a meaning outside Go, so it's not like Japanese people get a leg up there.
So they're a mature, profitable company going public and that's a "Yes, but..."?
At some point, you have to trust some software. Even if it's just the sandbox maker.

We can go two ways with this:

1. We teach users how to use computers so they don't hurt themselves. Some still will, because they don't get it.

2. We clamp down on all uses of computers so that they're safe for uneducated users to use. Only authorised corporate programmers are allowed to create applications. Users are "safe", but treated badly by their corporate overlords.

I want scenario 1 (with no sandbox and the freedom to install whatever I like). Scenario 2 is where Apple is headed.
Fastest consumer ones seem to max out at 360hz right now;

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/asus-rog-swift-360hz...
That's very fair

The way they do esport is huge part of their success
I was blocked from my gmail account for attempting to log in without the dot.
My address is firstname.lastname@gmail. Had it for years. When I learned that dots don't matter I tried to log in without the dot and was immediately blocked for suspicious behavior. Luckily it wasn't used for anything important. Few months later the block was removed. Never tried to play with the dots again since.
On Functional Decision Theory
> other extreme is the absolute censorship of someplace like China, where only permitted thoughts and expressions can be posted. The US and most of the rest of the world tends to fall somewhere in the middle.

It's like other countries only exist as rhetorical devices for most of HN. If you actually used the fediverse you'll see that there are plenty of Chinese users on it criticizing the state. It's the Western fediverse users being censored for wrongthink this time. Even the creator of Mastodon straight up doesn't believe in free speech wrt. to certain far right beliefs.
If Terrapower can hit those costs, it would be completely revolutionary for nuclear. It's a huuuuuge change from current costs.

Meanwhile off shore wind (which is typically steadier than onshore), continues to fall In cost at a fairly quick pace.

There's a recent Dogger Bank contract for 3.6GW at $9B [1], which is about $2500/kW compared to $5200kW for the Walney project you link, and $2900 for Terrapower's plans. Of course, a wind kW of capacity is not equivalent to a kW of nuclear, but with another 10 years of development I wonder just how cheap offshore wind will be if in 5-10 years it has already fallen by 50% in cost.

[1] https://www.renewablesnow.com/news/sse-equinor-eye-fid-for-3...
^^^ can't emphasize this enough. please don't buy from amazon if you have the means to afford the list price for a book. amazon isn't good for the ecosystem of books for a lot of reasons, but in this instance amazon makes publishers lose money. unfortunately publishers have no choice but to sell on amazon. you gotta vote with your dollars here to help sustain quality publishing.
or just add a https proxy before it before it..., even better, use a https tunnel service like ngrok to allow automating stuff from anywhere not only from your local LAN.
To be honest Apple has to feature PUBG, because this fight with Epic is hugely damaging to their reputation with the next generation of kids who want devices.

The message that young preteens and teens are hearing is "iPhones and iPads are wack because they don't have the cool game". They don't care about the cost of v-bucks and who gets what percentage of the money. They just care that they can't play a game but their friend at school who has an Android can.

Apple has to feature PUBG because they have to show their customers that they still have cool games to play. Otherwise they run the risk of killing their iPhone gaming market just like they did the Mac gaming market. When you think desktop gaming its pretty likely that you think Windows first, because Mac has a really weak selection of games and many of the biggest titles are Windows only.

That's what Apple is now desperately trying to avoid happening to iOS as well.
Despite thinking Riot has excellent insight into competitive game development, I'm pretty cynical about their recent wave of sharing since it wreaks of image repair. It doesn't matter what there is to learn from Riot if the culture is poisonous, and I don't believe it's changed much since the last wave of allegations. It's a shame, since this looks pretty substantive, but I'd rather learn this elsewhere.
Spontaneous remission of dementia before death: Study on paradoxical lucidity
Even stranger - no one involved in the mission even knew any miners???
I find it uninteresting because it still looks like an overcomplicated solution in search of a problem.