skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well then I think GP is actually agreeing with you but you are correcting their definition of economic sense. Which is great, but not sure why you had to snark them with the “meanwhile, economists think humans are rational” joke
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Great so let’s just dial it up! Easy! When does it take effect? Right yeah, it doesn’t, and it won’t for all the same reasons it hasn’t yet. Including ideological zealotry about how you should be able to download the entire blockchain onto a USB drive. Among many other reasons.
> Meanwhile OpenCL is falling apart and sees less and less support and updates.

I think this view is too pessimistic. In fact, support either gets better (Intel oneAPI, Microsoft CLonD3D12, AMD ROCm, Mesa NIR-clover, …) or is unchanged but still maintained (NVIDIA). Moreover, Khronos noticed that OpenCL 2.x was a dead end and was to start over from a point that all vendors could agree on.
The mempool is pretty empty, transactions costs are very low at the moment. I think there was a brief spike in mempool usage and fees around the time paypal announced their bitcoin option, but that didn't last.
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Delay loading everything until needed
Fascinating - thanks for mentioning this work at Microsoft Research.

> [A Static TypeScript] program is compiled to machine code in the browser and linked against a precompiled C++ runtime, producing an executable that is more efficient than the prevalent embedded interpreter approach, extending battery life and making it possible to run on devices with as little as 16 kB of RAM (such as the BBC micro:bit).
Agreed, I find per-parameter docs useful in dynamic languages such as python, or to a lesser extent useful when the type system is weaker (in C), but in Rust I seldom find them useful. This can be useful to express constraints not present in the type system, for instance `fn matmul(a: Matrix<f64>, b: Matrix<f64>) -> Matrix<f64>` will benefit from a documentation describing the constraints and guarantees on the number of rows and cols of each matrix, since this cannot be expressed in the type system (yet).
Yup, imagine a world where a Tesla would be so backwards-compatible you could shove coal into its furnace to power a steam turbine that charges its batteries to drive its motors.

That’s Windows :D
That idea needs a bit more baking IMO. It seems obvious to me that the immediate consequence of this would be that we'd be rewarding trivial but widely used packages like left-pad[0], and thereby incentivizing the creation of a hundred clones of every trivial feature.

0: https://www.npmjs.com/package/left-pad
More people gambling money, right. It’s 2017-2018 all over again.

Still, the energy waste because of mining is mind boggling. And what do our societies get back for it?

I can’t tell.

People have vague stories about ‘decentralized’ and boohoo government. Most of those stories are just excuses to gamble for lambo money.

Bitcoin does not add any value to society. It subtracts only, as far as I can tell.

It made Silk Road possible, but that doesn’t make a good case now, does it?

I’m sorry for all the people who are going to lose money in this thing again.

https://louwrentius.com/cryptocurrencies-are-detrimental-to-...
Go standard library benchmarks – Intel vs. M1
That was a blast from the past. I can’t remember exactly but I think I went Frontpage -> Dreamweaver -> Notepad++ -> Sublime -> VSCode and obviously the other tooling only grew to be more complex (whilst improving sanity). I’m not sure I long for the days of plesk + cPanel etc but I hadn’t thought of all of that nonsense for years. A very different time!
Fee rates over the past week: https://mempool.space/graphs#1w
Think of it as gold. Almost nobody uses it as a currency. It's an investment whose value will hopefully rise, at which point you're just gonna convert it for a "real" currency.
If you wanted to transfer 100k between two banks in, say, 1900 via $5000 bank notes, how much do you suppose it would have cost you? Based on that cost would you say the dollar was failing as a currency in 1900?
Biochemical Pathways provide an overview of the chemical reactions of cells in various species and organs. Dr. Michal first compiled the Pathways Chart in 1965 and has been fine-tuning it ever since. Today, and with the collaboration of Roche, the two enormous posters can be found hanging in just about every research institute from Argentina to New Zealand.
Unfortunately it looks like Apple have taken this opportunity to drop support for alternative OSes entirely.

Turns out this isn't true.

They showed Debian running in a VM on a prototype Apple Silicon Mac hardware in June at WWDC. My guess is that Apple will provide access to enough hardware features of the M1 Macs via their hypervisor framework, to enable alternative operating systems to run ok. Docker for M1 Macs is going to use Apple's hypervisor as well.

Apple supports disabling their security that would allow a different operating system to be installed but there would be no driver support, so there's that.
Slack is a messy one page app developed by PHP programmers and vscode is open source and actually made by competent people.
Libel exists so I'd imagine some sort of legal consequence could be supported if you are spouting lies you know to be lies.

It is a slippery slope though. I was just reading something recently about how the espionage act was used to jail people protesting war. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917

It feels like we are getting close to "shouting fire in a crowded theater" but at the same time this could be another weapon to squash dissent.
Of course it's Yusuke Endoh. :)
https://bitcointreasuries.org/
> essentially free to store

Ha, no. Theres a thing called "security" and if you don't pay for it your gold evaporates or walks away.
The alternative is Rosetta mode. It's not like Slack is going to write a native app all of a sudden.
Its not as simple as increasing telomere length.

https://sens.org
It's sad that open-source player Gnash[1] is abandoned.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
I don't think this chart really tell much because most services are hosted in the US which some of these country have small or no direct link to (e.g. Thailand is 6th fastest in APAC on average speed, but the whole country has total of 30Gbps direct link to the US and pretty much have to route everything via HK or SG) which sometimes result in horrendous latency (~500ms) or speed (< 1 Mbps). It's fast at CDN edge where these surveys are taken, but page sizes still matter a lot.
> Mind you, most people don't do that, but it takes only a few bad apples.

Agreed. Frankly OSS wouldn't have gotten this far if that wasn't the case.
Now if we could have Node.js for ARM separately, that would be nice.
Apples to oranges comparison. VS Code is a text editor whereas Xcode and Jetbrains are IDEs. The real comparison should be with Sublime Text vs VS Code. Sublime Text blows VSCode out of water while opening the same project folder.

Here's a naive comparison

~/workspace/iOS Project(develop)
time subl .

________________________________________________________
Executed in 75.46 millis fish external
usr time 21.45 millis 106.00 micros 21.34 millis
sys time 14.84 millis 659.00 micros 14.18 millis

~/workspace/iOS Project(develop)
time code .

________________________________________________________
Executed in 4.18 secs fish external
usr time 123.39 millis 99.00 micros 123.29 millis
sys time 175.07 millis 585.00 micros 174.49 millis
Linux Foundation, IBM, Cisco and Others Back ‘Inclusive Naming Initiative’
you could just run vim in eshell
What

It’s 2020 an ACH transfer costs in bulk about 1/10th of a cent and has no practical cap.
I tried commercial FOSS development. An older version was available at no cost, the newest version cost money. Both were MIT licensed.

If you were a company, and wanted to pay me, it was easy - send me a PO and you would get the source code to the newer, faster, more capable version.

Nothing in that looks like a donation.

I did it this way precisely because giving someone money for being "super nice" and distributing no-cost FOSS software DOES NOT FIT with the accounting mechanisms of most companies.

Even with this, I was at one pro-FOSS workshop. One of the presenters described how they used my no-cost version and how great it was. (Did I know they used the software? Not until that day.) I pointed out that many FOSS projects are underfunded. Their response was that it was so hard to get their company to fund FOSS projects (along lines that cageface observed).

I pointed out that it's really easy to pay for my project.

They still never bought a copy or support contract.

I came out of that workshop convinced that the primary reason companies like FOSS is because it's generally available at no cost. Not because it reduces long-term dependencies on external parties, not because it improves software development methodologies, and not because it's an essential liberty. But simply because of the cost.
I'm on Firefox with uBlock origin, nothing to complain about. Out of curiosity what adblocker / browser are you using?
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What's misleading about this is that the electricity is not consumed per transaction. The amount of electricity miners buy is proportional only to the block reward, which is fixed, plus transaction fees, which are small, times the price. The block reward is large now but halves every 4 years and eventually rounds down to zero, so the electricity consumption of bitcoin will eventually fall with certainty.

Also, that guy is not Satoshi. Satoshi is almost certainly dead, and was probably Hal Finney.
How much resources does it take to bring 1 kilo of gold out of the earth? You are saying it is wasteful without any comparison to something similar to bitcoin.
This is specifically design to improve legibility for people with vision problems. It's designed by the Braille Institute who I assume know what they are doing.

The relative legibility between fonts for people with good vision is probably marginal, but can be measured with reading comprehension tests and eye tracking systems. However I suspect the difference is pretty small for most well designed fonts for most people with good vision.
Think of it as gold whose storage cost scales linearly with its market price. Instead of with whatever a warehouse and a few kalashnikovs costs. Block reward welfare reduction scales linearly with market price.
Do you know about visa/mastercard transaction fees? Someone has to do the work of performing the transaction and bitcoin achieves this with a functioning market - high fees -> high mining rewards -> more miners -> lower fees -> less miners -> loop back
I find this real funny - what use is "end to end" encryption on ANDROID, when Google will just use its Android OS to access all your decrypted Messages, and profile you? (The same applies to ios too - Apple already stores your encrytion keys, along with your messages, on iCloud to allow you to access iMessages on multiple devices).
Yep. My comment was 90% tongue-in-cheek but ‘small’ in the way you used it also accurately describes my lived experience with being small: unimportant, you probably won’t even notice, easy to ignore, etc. However, it’s not a big deal. If you want to strip all the analogies, flavor, and richness out of the English that you use until you you’re left with some hyper-literal newspeak go ahead. I, and judging by this thread many others, am not interested in devoting half of my brainpower to self-censoring in real-time as I try to mutter my way through giving a presentation or speak to a group.

Being conscious of your partners emotions and not minimizing their feelings is one thing. Being offended by phrases like “a little problem” or “a big deal” in public is ridiculous and laughable.
Here's an interesting graph comparing the price of Bitcoin (red), the market cap of Tether (blue) and Google Search interest in Bitcoin (green):

https://imgur.com/zxFmFUs

During the 2018 spike, there was a massive surge in interest in Bitcoin, which has been notably absent this year. However, since COVID hit the issuance of stablecoin Tether has been through the roof, going from $4B to $18B and counting printed.

Each Tether is supposed to represent $1 added to the crypto ecosystem. So here's the big question: if there's not much retail interest this time, where did that $14B come from? Or is it more likely that it didn't, and the Tether being used to buy BTC at ever-higher valuations isn't backed by anything?
It's mix, and the parts written in French are atrocious. Is that an automatically generated translation?

I mean "changement de pile" for "stack changes", really? I had to pause to understand the sentence.

I'd prefer websites to stop pushing half assed translation and just serve English if they don't have the resources to translate properly.
The point changes if you express the costs as a ratio of costs of equivalent offerings, versus absolute costs. A lot of things that would be super wasteful today look like a cakewalk compared to how things were done in 1900.
Maybe use an alternative that is native?
And I suppose Facebook is therefore also developed by incompetent PHP programmers despite being one of the largest technology companies in the world?
Isn't windows for arm restricted to OEM on Microsoft's side?
It depends on the song, but for the genres I'm into it's mostly one of these three: Junodownload, Beatport, or Bandcamp.

Torrent/soulseek if the song is region-locked, sold in lower quality, or if it takes me more than 5 min to find a legit link.
That's pretty much why I went with LVM + ext4 for my home server. Every once in a while, when I need more space, I toss another SSD in and expand the volume. Easy peasy. Though my storage needs aren't huge; I'm only up to 4TB of total SSD space.
Is there such a thing?

Of course. Who do you think runs the beta program, seeds developers with prerelease hardware so they can port their apps and all the rest?

https://developer.apple.com/support/
Those are very small numbers. Square’s $50m makes it third on the list.
Although in fairness Windows described some of its functionality. Whereas Apple on the other hand...
To Microsoft, ARM64 is a hobby.

Windows 10 ARM64 laptops went on sale in February 2018, but Microsoft didn't release an official toolchain with ARM64 support (VS 15.9) until November 2018! Even an "early preview" didn't come out until May 2018.

Combine that with the lack of 64-bit Intel emulation support (which is coming out...any day now), and it's clear this is just a hobby for Microsoft. And Qualcomm too, since they have nothing to offer besides phone SoCs that are barely competitive even in phones.

Oh, you want a desktop machine to develop on, or use for CI or tests? Sorry, only laptops.
Open Source macromedia flash 8 and community will make it even better.
I agree that it's useful. My understanding is that the project's unique nomenclature (but more importantly the way it presented itself) was specifically adopted in order to select for a community of early adopters whose minds were open to novel concepts, and who's initial investment to even begin engaging with it ensured a certain degree of loyalty, and created a somewhat closed community.

Urbit seems to be loosening up on a lot of that obscurity. Its elevstor pitch has really been refined, and its introductory posts do a solid job of easing you into the concepts and architecture of the project.

If you checked out Archive.org's earliest records for Urbit's website, it did a decent job of communicating the project's goal. However, by early 2014 its website had been rewritten such that it you could be forgiven for thinking it was some spiritual successor to templeOS, so far as it went to justify or describe itself as anything other than a jumble of conceptually interesting software components.

Moldbug did something similar with his writing in UR, or at least that's how he rationalized some of his rhetorical choices. He's brilliant, but I honestly find his writing a little obnoxious because of it.
Now imagine how wasteful physical currency is, the infrastructure to store it and transport it, the useless Chase/BOA/WellsFargo branches and ATMs that exist everywhere. They could almost all be replaced with digital wallets and apps.
Visual Studio Code is fast on startup and that's it. It chokes on million LOC project while Eclipse and Intellij work fine.
I have similar feelings in a way. It's crazy to me how ethically dubious bitcoin still seems.
You can use ffmpeg to convert your video to HLS/Dash format and host it behind your run-of-the-mill nginx webserver as static contents. Then on your webpages, just use hls.js [0] to embed those uploaded videos in a webpages. hls.js will handle adaptive bitrate automatically, so the videos should load pretty fast for your visitor, though probably not as fast as youtube since they have edge servers everywhere, but still a lot faster than just hosting an .mp4 file and load it via <video> tag.

You don't need fancy plugins or webservers just to serve adaptive bitrate anymore these days as HLS/Dash provides many benefits of RTMP without the complexity cost. You only need to worry about bandwidth / cdn cost, and the cheapest bandwidth can be bought via hosting providers like hetzner and ovh.

[0] https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/
Parts are written in C/++ no?
> The people who build Electron apps are, for the most part, people who wouldn't build an app otherwise.

Would that be so terrible? I’m completely fine with having less software, if that means having better software.

> If you don't want Electron apps, don't use them. It's not like they would exist without Electron.

I don’t have a choice. I’m forced to use Teams for work. I need to restart my MacBook after every videocall.
https://en.help.roblox.com/hc/en-us/articles/205345050-How-d...
From my perspective as I weigh up whether to stop buying my staff x86 Macs and get them these new M1s, it's this rosetta layer that really appeals to me. From what I can tell so far not only are they going to be able to run any software that isn't updated for apple silicon, which a lot seems to be, they're going to be able to run it just as fast as before.

The idea before that we'd immediately switch over seemed mad, but based on what I'm seeing there is a good chance that's what's going to happen.
But you can use the iOS Slack app, which is native!
It does the same for me, but for Polish. I think those posts somehow use per-sentence i18n strings, so if a generic sentence sentence was already translated they will use it. I agree it looks a bit weird, though :).
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Except they don't accurately describe their position. In every press-conference (just as in this) they allege voter-fraud and that they have tons of evidence. However when it comes to the actual court cases and when the lawyers risk being disbarred for lying to the court, suddenly these claims disappear.

So no their own words do not accurately describe their position, which is make unfounded allegations without any evidence to back it up. Also interestingly several of the voter-fraud cases that they bring up (where single people have been prosecuted) are Trump voters committing the fraud, but obviously they don't mention it because it does not fit the story.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-cries-election-fraud-in-c...
We know tether has neither the bank account nor the backing money, as the NYAG lawsuit tells us. Tether doesn’t even have a banking relationship let alone a mattress big enough to hide eighteen billion dollars under lol

This is the classic emperor has no clothes situation. Nobody in crypto wants to expose them because the value of their own holdings will plummet to zero. And at $18B they’re basically too big to fail. As much as people pretend otherwise Tether and Bitfinex is defining the price of crypto, everything else is a rounding error.

I believe this is the latest update on the suit. [1]

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/nyag-bfx-letter-hearing
Know what you are selling
Its your choice to use others "crapware". The price it comes with is all the abuse "noobs" have to take for offering their solutions for free. You don't like HTML frontends, thats sweet, then make your own alternative with Qt or winforms.

There is NO "mandatory" electron apps... But there is some great software made with electron that has become very popular.

I am confident if something has been made with electron, there is native alternatives out there. Don't like slack? Then use IRC.

Don't like my joystick to keyboard/mouse remapper with an electron frontend? Then don't, use one of the many alternatives (Too bad if they don't provide what you are looking for and no one of them seems to be able to modulate output in order to emulate analog controls. But at least it was written by a pro!)
On one hand, it doesn't add up, since the bitcoin network is not seeing any increased usage in the number of transactions and network congestion. The "mempool" size has been relatively low.

However, right now, Ethereum is responsible for a lot of the demand for BTC, and it moves a lot of it through its money protocols. There's currently almost $3 billion worth of BTC deposited to Ethereum in various forms. The most dominant one is "Wrapped BTC" which has been growing at a staggering rate. In one year, it added more than $2b worth of value. See the graph here https://defipulse.com/wbtc
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this article makes it sound like WSL might be taking notes from WINE. It's Not an Emulator, because that would be slow and error-prone. Instead, it finds a way to abstract the appropriate functionality within the existing system.

Talk about irony. But I share the author's desire to see WSL share resources transparently between the W and the L. USB serial devices are a good example: it took forever for WSL1 to sort of support them, and it's still spotty with WSL2.

This is an area where WSL could be very appealing: many embedded workflows rely on one or two legacy Windows applications, but most of the core tooling works fine in Linux. But if you can't easily pass your USB debugger between OSes, you can't easily split your workflow across OSes.
More than half the time in my experience it’s usually a failing sata cable or power-supply if the hard drive continues to functions on boot but eventually goes to degraded due to checksum/read errors. Sometimes the data is just fine but a read error occurs between the drive and controller which ZFS interprets as a failng disk
That's not a fair comparison either. VSCode does way more than Sublime Text. I actually found VSCode closer to Intellij than to Sublime Text.
14 billion is very small numbers. sure
Bitcoin is still called a currency because that's more or less what its creator called it in the seminal paper [1].

However, 10 years later, Bitcoin has proved to be a new kind of financial instrument, with extremely useful properties unmatched by any other kind of asset.

At this point, of all the things Bitcoin can do that other financial assets can't (pseudo-anonymous, extremely hard to confiscate, can be moved quasi instantaneously across borders, demonstrably finite supply, can be use as a settlement layer for large players, etc ...) the one aspect that I believe attracts people is "store of value".

Many people contest that last property citing high volatility, and they're correct if your window is less than 4 years. But for folks who play the long game, supply and demand tells a verycompelling story for Bitcoin.

Calling Bitcoin a "currency" at this point is essentially incorrect and just creates confusion.

[1] https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
Maybe iOS Slack is available on M1? It is native.