skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, thank you for finding that & pointing it out. One of the things I didn't get & wanted from the original post was the full CO₂ cost of the manufacture, and I figured it was probably going to be much higher. (I didn't include it since the article was focused on moving manufacturing, so the manufacturing CO₂ cost would remain the same either way.)

(But, presumably the ICE car also has its own manufacturing cost, which should offset that of the Tesla? Though, I'm not sure what the equivalent here is; the manufacturing CO₂ of the gas? The CO₂ of the ICE's battery?)

I know not everyone does keep their vehicles as long as I do, but I better get at least 75k mi out of it! (My current — and first — car is at ~130k mi, and still going fairly strong, though it is definitely showing some wear. Alas, it burns gas.)
Rick Roderick on John Stuart Mill's on Liberty (1990)
Then you aren't paying attention. It's heavily used for money laundering and dark purchases. Yes the ledger is public, but there is almost no verification of the principals. It's nearly completely anonymous if you aren't a complete fool in how you setup the shells. Anonymity is the core of high volume laundering. You should do just a tiny bit of research of you think most of the major cryptocurrencies aren't massive laundering vehicles.
> We are quite hard on us.

There is no "us" in Spain. There's castillian imperialists and people living in occupied territories. The only possible "us" right now for many Spanish passport-holders is Europe.
The Edtech Company Formerly Known as AltSchool Sold Its Tech. So What’s Left?
> How is consensus secured for the Stacks blockchain? Is it proof-of-work?

This is all described in SIP-001 (https://github.com/stacksgov/sips/blob/main/sips/sip-001/sip...).

> How many nodes are there?

Here's a sample: http://seed-0.mainnet.stacks.co:20443/v2/neighbors

> What is the root of trust of Stacks? Does it have auto-update? If I take over your domain, can I take all Stacks?

Root of trust is the history of cryptographic sortitions in the Bitcoin chain (again, see SIP-001). The chain can soft-fork to upgrade -- a direct and desirable consequence of Clarity being a decidable programming language. If you want to attack the chain, you'll need to mine a longer Stacks chain (or attack Bitcoin).

> How can I independently verify how many mainnet coins have been locked as Stacks? How do I run a testnet node?

See docs.blockstack.org
I can't say I'm surprised.... anyone on Signal (who gave the app access to their contacts) has seen a MASSIVE influx of new uers, and it's not like Signal is running in AWS and can just scale up more EC2 instances. This may be an issue for the next month or more as hundreds -- if not thousands -- of new servers can be added to the back end.
but If on gmail and you are elsewhere, you still cant email me or vice versa.
You’re not doing people with the disease any favors by equating it with spousal abuse.
this is true, but kinda misleading. a very large portion of that 6 figure debt is going to be a mortgage on a home. as long as you're not upside-down and you can afford the monthly payments, it's not bad to have a mortgage. you have to go down to the tenth percentile of american households to find negative net worths. of course, net worth doesn't tell the whole story either, but it's a lot better than presenting debt loads without balancing it against assets held.
Sounds like she should have left him sooner
"But unfortunately, they’re also kinda the best we can do. Huge companies might be able to afford real human-powered security audits and convince vendors to allow them, but small startups like ours don’t have a better option than relying on DSQs."

Not what I expected based on this title. I liked this.

I'm not sure how many people know about the Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit, but if you're into Dumb Security Questionnaires, this is worth checking out. "The HECVAT is a questionnaire framework specifically designed for higher education to measure vendor risk." I know it says Higher Ed, but it works just about anywhere.

https://library.educause.edu/resources/2020/4/higher-educati...
IME Society rarely notices people with schizoid personality disorder- most people with schizoid don't even go to a doctor and never get formally diagnosed. This is especially true compared to schizoid's siblings in the personality disorder categories (Category A), paranoid and schizotypal.

(Minor edit: Also, committing spousal abuse is distinctly not a trait of schizoid personality disorder.)
Does anyone remember a Wired (?) story from the earliest days about a teenager who got mixed up in a geek subculture and disappeared into sewers under the city? A quick search on their site didn't really yield what I think I remember.
Yes, but velocity of money is plummeting.
From 10m to 50m downloads in 2 days on the play store.

Edit: I am wrong. See the answer below.
Imagine a USB-C compliant version of MagSafe. That would be awesome. not sure if the physics work out (can you efficiently push that many bits through a magnet like that?)
About better linux support:
VDPAU does not have browser hardware accelerated video decoding yet. It seems both AMD and Intel based on VA have this feature already.

However, I had to choose NVIDIA only because of CUDA.
At 20, Wikipedia is characterized by all sorts of things. But the half dozen or so stories about this anniversary on HN all mention this same meme. It's as though all of the news providers have been hypnotized! Come up with an original take, why don't you?
The whole notes feature probably has less code than one of the more common CSS features...

Opera used to have notes and I doubt they ever had a CVE due to it.
Jony Ive always needed someone as a critic to keep his designs in check. That person used to be Steve Jobs. It's pretty well known that Tim Cook is hands off when it comes to product design. And Jony Ive used to have heated arguments with Scott Forestall - until he was fired because of the whole Apple Maps thing.

So for a good chunk of time Jony Ive had no one to rein him in and the result was minimalism run amok. Not that minimalism is bad but I think you all know what I'm getting at.
Why free-speech platforms all end up moderating content
It's only unsettling if you don't believe in redemption.
SPD is fine when you're just a loner, but it's naturally less appealing for society when you're incapable of forming connections and reciprocating basic social contracts (some people even use the latter as the sole criterion of "personhood").
Just going to drop this here then, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTNx_SsApu4
> My favorite part of my touchbar MBP is that it uses USB-C charging. MagSafe is neat, but I don't miss the $80 proprietary charger with a cable that's fixed to the brick and will probably fail if you do anything other than leave it sitting at a desk.

Magsafe is more than neat, it pretty much solved the major annoyance with laptop power cables (e.g. someone trips on cable, and laptop gets jerked around, eventually damaging something).

Apple likes to toot its own horn way to much, but they deserve tons of credit for Magsafe.
If this happens I might replace my macbook air mid 2012. Magsafe, no touchbar, hopefully 14'' with 32GB of RAM and M1X.

Also, I hope a decent webcam, and ability to support at least 2 external displays..
Considering that Apple recently patented a design that does exactly that (https://liliputing.com/2020/12/apple-patents-a-configurable-...) you could be in luck!
Could you please give a reference for such a model, and the proof that it's Turing complete? I don't see it described on the Wikipedia page, which explicitly states that registers are unbounded.
> Why can't I write [NodeJS] code inside my browser?

Short answer: you can write NodeJS code inside your browser[0]. Being able to do so will not solve ANY of the problems listed in your blogpost.

The author's problem is that they don't have an attention span for learning a domain which contains necessary complexity; they crave quickfixes but don't have enough basic knowledge to understand why those quickfixes won't help them.

> An incomplete list of things I’ve tried and failed to do:

> [lists 3 things that most/many web programmers fail to do regularly as part of their day-to-day]

I've failed to install node or pip at least 100 times. This is a normal part of learning anything in life. How many times did you fall off your bicycle as a child?

[0] Whether it's repl.it, Codespaces or some other method there a million ways to do this depending on your needs. All do require a basic understanding of code which the author seems to lack (their bullet list of coding projects are all based on pre-existing templates & copypaste, especially their "fairly complex Jekyll blog")
The idea that someone who has been wronged by the criminal justice system should then be required to understand the consequences and make a special application just to have the record set straight is invidious, to say the least.

No normal organisation processing personal data gets to keep whatever they feel like, however unjustified, and only remove it under sufferance and on specific request. That wasn't even appropriate before the GDPR came into effect, and it's clearly prohibited by law now if there was any doubt before.

So why should governments get special privileges in this respect? There could hardly be a more serious case of processing personal data than a database used by police and security services that have exceptional legal powers with the potential to destroy someone's life. The argument that it's necessary for any sort of legitimate policing or security purpose when we're talking specifically about individuals who were not charged or who were acquitted at trial is tenuous at best.

Our governments and courts are on the wrong side of this issue. They're so blinded by some combination of fear, paranoia and the power of modern technologies that they seem to have forgotten the moral imperatives that everyone should be treated fairly and equally before the law and that we are supposed to be living in a free country.
You clearly don't work in a large enterprise. Or if you do, you're doing it wrongly.

This is barely any "boilerplate" which he's had to write. As he's extracted this in to a template.

The advantages of having standardised oob validation and options parser for cli is huge.

If you don't recognize that. Meh. I guess just get more experience.
The article talks about his ability to be friendly to strangers but abusive to his long term acquaintances. I have observed this pattern and curious if anyone knows what drives this?

My personal theory is that you have some sort of obligations to long term acquaintances but you owe nothing to strangers on the trail. It's this feeling of obligation that leads you to resent people over time.
Basically, there are three types of people

1. Who don't use the service($0)

2. Who send $5

2. Who send $1000
Audio jack is another one. I have some nice open-back headphones and they don't have USB. I think it's actually fairly unreasonable to expect the entire audiophile headphone market to convert to digital; it makes more sense to do the DA conversion on the phone/computer, especially since some audio sources are analog anyway.
yeah, would be really nice.

In the past I've taken a metal file to these, rounded and smoothen them out.

Lately I found this

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073W1RYGJ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

to be quite an effective work around.
About a year ago I stopped buying anything USBable that didn't use Type C. Even an electric toothbrush charged via PD. It hasn't been that hard.

You might have some old legacy devices but that's not what I meant.

This reminds me of the USB transition with the first iMac. There was some angst but it settled down.
A bit sensationalist, author is careful not to say "Bitcoin" is dead, but its "currency dream" is.

If you understand how blockchains work, you know that main chain transactional capacity would always be limited, and scale compared to centralized solutions would never match. That's the tradeoff for a decentralized, permissionless system. A second layer, built on top of that foundation, would have to facilitate those transactions, with some tradeoff of security for convenience.

Gold was once worthless rocks in the ground, then became currency exchanged by traveling merchants, then became stores of value monopolized and centralized by governments. We traded coupons representing gold in a bank because it was more convenient than trading physical gold itself.

Somewhere in between that, governments decided to conduct a radical experiment: refusing to honor the redemption of coupons for the gold that it represented. Fiat currency is born.

Governments created a powerful tool; the power create value by drawing away from existing money (essentially an invisible tax on anyone who owns it). Unfortunately, the experiment goes as expected. Human beings seem to be naturally short sighted, and have poor decision making in groups. Debt increases when government try to stimulate their way out of trouble. The interest rate goes down. And eventually something gives.
Yes certainly OT. I hesitated before writing that line, but regardless, the internet is one the most transformational technologies humanity has ever created.
I would characterize the last century as the last hundred years, i.e. 1920-2020.
This still has nothing to do with the debate at hand.
Sorry, Vivaldi is not meaningfully open-source[0], so this makes it very difficult for me to care about any purported benefits it has to offer. Which is a shame because is seems like it has some nice features, but without checking this very important prerequisite box, I unfortunately will not even consider it.

[0] https://vivaldi.com/source/ exists but only releasing tarballs is pretty lame, there's no source repository where I can browse/fork, no public bug tracker where I can contribute to issue reports. A conventional, permissive, free-software license is not in use, as far as I can tell.

Vivaldi wouldn't behave like any of the other software that runs on my computer. That's not good.

I understand and appreciate that Vivaldi is different from Chrom(e|ium). That just doesn't make a difference to me.
Don’t forget everyone in the 70s who smoked...
Does this not discourage lending? Who would issue a loan the year before a debt jubilee?
I've always been impressed by how much you focus on developer experience for your projects Alex. Bravo!

Could you say more about why you decided to make this and your experience using Gumroad?
There is no Covid vaccine reserve. Trump admin already shipped it
IMO extensibility generally means the authors dont know how real people will use software.

Programmers do things by writing code, compiling, deploying, etc... so the notion of customizing an app through anything that looks like their workflow seems fine to them.

OTOH I write code for a living and I often hate the tools we use...
Depends on model size, but if the model is small enough that I actually do training on a PCIe board, I do. I partition an A100 in 8, and train 8 models at a time, or just use MPS on a V100 board. The bigger A100 boards can fit multiple of the same models that do fit in a single V100..

Also I tend to do this initially, when I am exploring the hyperparameter space, for which I tend to use smaller but more models.

I find that using big models initially is just a waste of time. You want to try many things as quickly as possible.
Okay but also bring back the glowing led in the front that tells you when the mac is sleeping! It was so charming.
IDK about DS, but a classic PSP (1000/2000/3000) with a modded firmware handles the others just fine, along with PSP/PS1 games. Think I might have played n64 on mine?

Has a replaceable battery, too.
The centralized-infrastructure-Tower-of-Babel is about to collapse.

As much as I love Signal, we've got to move to things that are decentralized. I setup a prosody[1] server a while back, but have nobody to talk with. If anyone wants to try their system out, I'm bjt@2n3904.net on XMPP.

1 - https://prosody.im/
> Do you mean that Stacks writes out its own block hashes to the Bitcoin blockchain, or something?

Yes; the entire history of attempts of mining Stacks blocks, as well as the entire history cryptographic sortitions that select Stacks blocks (including forks), is written to the Bitcoin chain. See SIP-001 for details: https://github.com/stacksgov/sips/blob/main/sips/sip-001/sip...
I like the touchbar! Especially now that the esc key is physical. I never use f keys, and I like knowing what the “key” is going to do before I touch/press it. And 100x so for family members that were afraid of those keys.
Whatever that music is, it sure ain't dubstep.

I wonder how well it'd work with something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEAf_ZztCP0
Worth noting that unlike the cells of the human body, cancer cells are unable to utilize ketones as an energy source[0][1], hence the benefits of a ketogenic diet.

A ketogenic diet can also be ideally coupled with intermittent fasting[2] in order to engage/enhance autophagy within the body.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5842847/

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6375425/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6257056/
Because if you made a better return by hoarding cash then by investing -- holding bonds, buying apartment buildings-- investment would stop and people would stuff cash into mattresses.
> It will not be the magsafe of old. I could see them making a magsafe adapter similar to the iphone’s, that snaps onto the back of the screen on either side.

What would even be the point of something like that? It makes no sense, and would introduce a lot of unneeded complexity and inefficiency.

Wireless charging only really makes sense on the bottom of devices. The value proposition is to give you a place to easily set the thing down and get power. Wireless charging for a laptop would mean the "antenna" is on the bottom of the machine, which you place on a desk-sized charging pad.
This is the first big outage I've felt affects me personally in any meaningful way as someone who has tried to stay away from overly depending on cloud services and SaaS like Gmail or slack. I first noticed that a couple of hours ago my messages seemed to be hanging and going through without the typical confirmation. The status page has no more information than the title at this point.
For that list of systems, the Nintendo New 2/3DS models are probably the best choice. They require some softmodding [1], but after that can natively play DS [2] and GBA [3] [4]. The New 3DS also has great emulators available for NES, SNES and Game Boy [5], and has native ports of a few Nintendo 64 games. Being mass market devices, their build quality and QA are much superior to cheap Chinese devices or DIY Korean ones, and they're also widely and cheaply available on the second hand market in most western countries.

[1]: https://3ds.hacks.guide

[2]: Directly from the cartridge slot or using Twilight Menu https://github.com/DS-Homebrew/TWiLightMenu

[3]: Using "Virtual Console injects", see: https://3ds.eiphax.tech/nsui . Virtual Console injects for the other systems on your list will also work, they will then run in Nintendo's own emulators for those systems.

[4]: Just be sure to hold start/select when launching DS or GBA games to avoid bad quality upscaling and run them at pixel accurate native resolution.

[5]: bubble2k16's emulators can play pretty much anything on >New< 3DS models, use mGBA for Game Boy: https://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/List_of_3DS_homebrew_emulators
> They serve a real artistic purpose, as a gentle transition from the dream world back to the real one. No one likes to be shaken awake and bombarded with a new dream — especially when they haven’t yet made sense of the last one.

This really hits it for me. It's not even the credits that I need, per se, as long as the movie stop playing when it's done, whether with a credits sequence or a simple fade to black.

I waited for Stranger Things to come out on BluRay (currently waiting for the third season), and I'm 100% convinced I had a better experience than someone watching on Netflix, because the episodes actually ended after the credits. For a show few people will get to see this way, the writers really knew how to conclude each episode in just the right spot, so you had a nice place to take a breather and contemplate.
Sides are flat, but there's a curve into the screen and the bottom. There's already a sharp edge in that transition, though, which.. is sharp. I'm not sure it would be wise to turn the device into a total brick with 90 degree edges all around.
I was pretty interested in the McCandless story as well. Krakauer uncovering the possibility of him eating the Eskimo potato plant which may have ultimately killed him was really eye opening.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/05/01/403535274/in...
What's absurd about it?
The 3DS is an excellent choice due to it’s hackability and pretty decent processor(s). However, OP also asked for a replaceable battery. I’m assuming that means something like AA like the OG Gameboy had. Does anything come that way anymore?
Yes, it's unlikely to cause problems in any real-world setup, but it's theoretically possible :P
I've edited my original comment to clarify that it won't always be the case.
For Python, I've standardize on click.

It provides simple decorator to turn functions into commands, sub-commands, etc, with easy options and built-in help.
As well as the Parler and Twitter purges.
The use of the phrase "a lot" by me in this context isn't really helping. I should have at least said "for a powerpoint."

Unfortunately as far as I can tell, we don't have a circuit of public intellectuals, who happen to be historians, giving well thought through talks to lay people. We have ted talks on a good day, and those are often filled with dumb things said by smart people who should know better.

You and I haven't even touched with a ten foot pole the other side of the coin of that "Western History" implies. I won't attempt to in this thread either.
The Impending AMD Milan versus Intel Ice Lake Server Showdown
It's a slippery slope (and mildly sociopathic) to start judging people's worthiness of being murdered (or sought justice for) based on whether they were a good or bad person.

Allocating resources based on how charming someone's photo is is also wrong, and worthy of discussion, though presumably people at least aren't doing that consciously.

Edit: I'm fairly disturbed that this appears to be controversial.
That's dumb. What a waste of time.
Could be politeness as a response to social uncertainty followed by aggression once things are more clear. Like how some people fight with loved ones because they can’t just walk.
Yes, I have a magnetic adapter which works very well. Apple could integrate the magnetic ports on both sides and still have 4 usb c ports (which you could still charge the MacBook with).
well, I took a class back in college with an Old School professor. He's the one who drove the class that way. I just enjoyed the process. But there are a lot of tutorials on the internet about writing your own NN. I think the first algorithm that I ever wrote regarding ML was k-means [1]. Start there and see where it takes you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-means_clustering

Look at this project I have used it:

https://github.com/victorqribeiro/groupImg
> Does this not discourage lending

Yes. The goal is to reduce debt.
They could have had 40m before, it's just that the next step from 10+m is 50+m on Google Play.