skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are over-stating the significance of the SWP. Maybe what you say is true of the 80s, but it isn't today.

They are not the main party to the left of Labour, the greens are. The greens have 50,000 members and received 850,000 votes in the 2019 election, the SWP has a few thousand members and does not even field candidates.

In my experience they have little influence on the Labour grassroots. The SWP's standing among young, idealistic socialists exploded after it emerged that its central committee covered up a series of rape cases in the party. That was in 2013. I have not met anyone who takes them seriously since. After Corbyn was elected many who would have joined the SWP in the past joined Momentum instead.

I am shocked that Facebook have banned the SWP. Their faults are something more like a religion - centralised, deluded, outdated. They have no criminal or terroristic aspirations. What kind of precedent does this set?
Flesh of slaughtered animals is super tasty and nutritious.
Wasteful compared to which other network that manages money and protects property rights? Most popular place to mine bitcoin is the north-west of China where there are unused hydroplants
I think I'm with you on this. Range is largely a solved problem now. Once a car can go 120 miles, that's 2 hours of driving, at which point you need a break anyway. My car is already nearly a 1000kg too heavy because of the battery, and I use only half of it daily for a long commute. Most people would only use a fraction for their commute. Instead of pushing for more miles we now need surplus chargers everywhere. Homes, work, car parks and stations.
Even that is an extremely charitable interpretation. From what I can tell, Bitcoin seems largely to be an engine for fraud: fake value is injected into the system via dollar-pegged tokens like Tether, retail "investors" pile in to chase rising asset prices, and then the bottom drops out, amidst "liquidity issues" at major exchanges which prevent people from pulling out at the top. Or at least that is what happened in 2017.

I don't see any evidence that institutional wall street investors are adopting bitcoin in any real way.
syncthing != reliable
To put it another way: The average person can charge their EV for the same amount of power a top-tier gaming PC draws when playing a game =)
OVH, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, AWS... everyone else is much better performance and stability wise.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumber

And what's is worse is how hard it is to know the true size of everything you find in stores in the USA. The same applies to pipes of all types. But even things like a drawer slide is often not the advertised length. Saw blades thinkness is converted from 2.5mm to whatever the closest inch the salesperson felt that day.

From having spent quite a lot of time in big box stores in France and the USA. I can tell you that in the USA 3/4" (19mm) can be anything from 16mm to 24mm.

In short almost everything is built in metric and the USA likes to pretend it's not and gets confused by rounding up randomly.
I was wondering if these developers have any ethical concerns about the environmental impact they are responsible for by developing a technology which I can categorize with a single world: ABSURDITY!
If someone already has a Tesla with a 100kW battery, I don't think the extra $3k for a solar panel will break the bank =)
OK I have to admit on reading the title and a few comments my first thoughts were 'why would you bother'.

Now I've read the article it makes sense if you're a struggling magazine and need money. Also if you got something to sell and need a cheap worldwide platform to advertise on.
> The problem is probably the pi4.

Jellyfin (NET Core backend with SPA client) runs quite well off my Pi4, even without hardware decoding.

If the device can stream 1080p video, it should be able to serve an online file explorer.
Just to keep you aware, this is a problem you probably need to solve sooner rather than later.

When you're discovered by spammers they will use your service to mask their true domain and share to social media sites which will in due course blacklist your domain. :-(

If volumes are low enough just now I'd consider some kind of manual moderation.

(Maybe you could use the referrer header, detect if the user has come from somewhere else and demand moderation for that case v.s. direct link emailed to a group)
Presumably if it was easy to tell killers by their looks, they'd find it considerably harder to get away with the 'serial' part.
Lawngrange
Pidgin is lagging hard in implementing new XMPP extensions (such as 0280, 0313 or 0363) making it unfortunately quite useless for Jabber.
Open-source is eating the world and, in some sense, the other way around too.
> All this in an application that has no exported functions

This is not strictly true: On macOS/iOS the OS/frameworks/plug-ins may call your methods, likewise with support for services, input managers, distributed objects, etc.

The responder chain is a good example of this dynamism: The input manager (responsible for interpreting key strokes) translate the user’s input into a message, e.g. “copy” or “insert A” and then finds the first object in the chain of objects that responds to this message.

This chain of objects may consist of standard framework objects (like a text view) or it may be your custom objects (like a view controller subclass).

In most other environments, you would have to create special interfaces for stuff you want to make public, this means only that stuff suffers the performance overhead, but you generally pay the cost in code complexity, see e.g. Window’s Component Object Model.
Especially when there are people that run scams like hex coin. Oh wow look it's the creator of that scam right here
I came across this awhile back and thought it was a pretty cool project:
https://youtu.be/_nBK8sAl9nw
There is no such thing as unethical technology.
It's the same old story. Private companies in their all too often myopic view of wealth creation (falsely equating it with "making money", optimizing KPIs) push forward and extract gains from society and society gets to pick up the pieces if shit goes wrong as there must be myriads of examples for by now. It's not always obvious like with oil spills, or water pollution for instance.

Thinking of Amazon for instance, they pretty much destroyed small local vendors who did much more than just sell goods. They were also access points to local community and culture and raised diversity.

Similar story with Google and Facebook and online news outlets.

It's a question of balance of power. The interplay of society and corporations is not a one way street. Corps offer services to society while they also rely on it for resources and infrastructure and to give it legitimacy and protect its assets.

Among Big Tech firms I believe Microsoft was one of the first to understand and incorporate this and so they self-corrected. Facebook is really late to the party in this regard and I hope in a couple of years we will be able to see the situation with more sober eyes.
What do you think is protecting the electricity fuels it depends on?
Choosing geographic boundaries can be done very arbitrarily. I wonder if the best solution to prevent gaming the system is to use natural boundaries, but use ALL of them - every stream, every road, etc. possible, to create tons of tiny district. Then pick the one with the largest population and start attaching the closest (as crow flies, from the current center) neighbors to it until the population matches the target. Repeat. That way it's mostly deterministic...

One problem is that the last district(s) may be split up... Perhaps the largest boundary district can be picked as a seed instead, to avoid that.
IFDaD 2020 Closing Remarks by Jeffrey Sachs
Are there any precedents?
It's interesting that he highlights and bolds "tracking this takes less than a minute a day", when the project takes up such a substantial amount of his mental real estate. It seems fitting that a man so interested in tracking numbers would miss the untrackable, arguably more important, items (e.g. freedom from mental encumbrances).
Disturbing Disruption of Sentence

Disavowal? Disavowel? :)
That seems like a somewhat random point to make. Sure, there are positive characteristics of meat - just like there are of bitcoin. That's part of why the comparison between the two works.
“What if all the gas pumps go offline because of power or network outages” was a pretty scary failure mode they were thinking about before Y2K.
Lucky Michigan lottery player wins Mega Millions’ $1B jackpot
I read it in Kevin Hart's voice followed by his famous "Help me!"[0].

0.https://youtu.be/3bBahi0y970
We already do this in Finland.

Pretty much every single private parking spot in an apartment building will have a 8A plug for block heaters and cabin heaters (1,5-2,5kW load). They all trigger around 6 in the morning so the car is nice and warm for the 7:30 commute. Nothing melts, nothing breaks or starts smoking.

And even then people are panicking about EVs charging from 2100-0600 overnight. NOW they think everything will melt, break and be on fire.
Absolutely. He taps into the same need for narrative coherence that fuels more conventional conspiracy theories.

His work is meticulously researched, fantastically edited, entertaining and I feel, especially since the mid-00s, quite problematic. He wants to be seen as revealing how our conventional narratives are constructs but then replaces them with just another construct and apparently lacks the self awareness or intellectual honesty to realise that his version is just another way to frame a bunch of things which aren’t (and have no reason to be) a neat story.

That said, I expect I’ll give the new series a shot.
You provide a good example of this sort of rationalisation: the benefit to the individual is highlighted, the collective harm is ignored.
The "stepping back", as mentioned in the title, doesn't summarize what's happening here. laanwj decided to delegate some of his lead maintainer tasks to others with aim to further improve the decentralization and reducing the attack surface. He want to continue to work on Bitcoin an Bitcoin Core.

Most recently, this became relevant as the bitcoincore.org website he (co-)maintains received a legal letter from a (fraudulent; as in unproven and repeatedly lying) entity claiming copyright of the 2008 Bitcoin whitepaper. He complied[0] by taking the PDF down from bitcoincore.org and received a lot of slack for it by parts of the community. He then made clear that he'll happily continue to work on Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin in general, but will not be a "martyr"[1] for the project: "it's up to you as bitcoiners to protect it". As a reaction a lot of community members and companies proceeded to host the PDF on their site [2].

[0]: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoincore.org/pull/740

[1]: https://twitter.com/orionwl/status/1352181235766988800

[2]: https://twitter.com/hashtag/BitcoinPDF
Also covered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25835217
> Basic Income is not left-wing policy in any way at all unless your litmus test for that is caring about poor people at all - it's effectively submitting to the free market which isn't exactly sporting for most socialists.

This is pathetic goal post shifting at best. UBI is literally the government giving you enough money to never have to work again. It’s supposed to cover housing, food, and medical expenses. This is far more ambitious than any of the other “socialist” proposals from the likes of Bernie Sanders and co.

> Capitol Attack thread was flagged almost immediately and then dang resurrected it.

Because there is essentially nothing productive to discuss there. Emerging events are almost always flagged. BLM protests, CHAZ, shootings, etc. all end up flagged almost right away because there is little insight in the comments and mostly knee jerk stupidity.

> For example, the Parler thread is not flagged

You mean the one where the top comment is about how it was such a great move? Isn’t that pretty solid evidence of bias in the opposite direction you imply?

> HN is the only place on the internet where I find myself regularly having to prove that Julian Assange isn't necessarily a saint and that Donald Trump is corrupt.

I’m gonna go ahead an call bullshit on this one. You’re either replying to already down-modded comments or bringing up irrelevant info. Could it be that you’re just overreacting to comments still being visible even though they aren’t popular?
Are they rushing something or is there another wall that the world of crypto has to break?
The cable is closer to 300-400€. (7 meter 32A Type 2)

It locks to the pole when it's charging, and the car can be set up to lock its end until the car is unlocked.

Non-issue.
https://whatisnuclear.com
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto the undisputed founder of Bitcoin?
He criticized the system in China. That's a huge no for the CCP.
When you click on a comment's timestamp, you can "vouch" for it, thereby raising it from the dead.
I understand that the likes of Facebook are making a lot of money from political advertising. They're not going to stop it on their own without a severe change of heart. Those in power that have manipulates voters through social media certainly aren't going to push for it.

In your opinion, how is it going to happen?
Wow, this is impressive. Would like to be updated on this.
There does appear to be some evidence of this, but again, you can be an institutional fund manager and still speculating.

It's simultaneously described as a currency for exchange, a store of value and a speculative asset, but logically it cannot be all of these things simultaneously.

As an example, it fell quite sharply the other day while gold and stocks treaded water.

Is it going to $1 or $1 billion? I have no idea. But whatever is, it's certainly not reliably static.
PayPal will be supporting BTC payments soon. BlackRock just announced providing exposure to BTC in some of their funds very soon.
Try njalla, a privacy focused domain provider. It was founded by Peter Sunde, one of the original creators of The Pirate Bay. You can pay with crypto currencies and they even have a .onion domain of their website, so you can reach them over Tor.
Title replaced with inaccurate editorializing, flagged.
Cheaper yes, faster - not many.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/russians-...
Build a custom audio stream (from a video url) for Echo devices
It's normal bread and butter work to plan ahead incrementally increase capacity over time. Wind and solar also need more transmission capacity. The transition is after all happening relatively slowly, there's not going to be a EV flag day.

Of course there may be dysfunctional transmission organisations that have been able to hobble along without anyone noticing for a while that get caught by this, but that's just something that needed to be fixed anyway.
I don’t fully understand your argument. Are you saying that a full crypto inplementation would entirely rid the World of the need for military, police, lawyers etc. or what?
I cannot recommend enough for everyone who has a minimal sensibility towards the climate impact to read this thread: https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1350869944888664064. Since we are inevitable heading over to a climate catastrophe it's really the time to advocate against bitcoin.
I don’t understand Bitcoin.

If I make bread and you grow potatoes, we can barter, but it’s much easier to use some intermediary to track the value that we exchanged. The intermediary facilitates this with tokens (coins, notes, cards.)

Bitcoin seems perverse. It puts all the value in the tokens themselves and at the same time I can’t even use it to buy bread or potatoes.

About the only thing I hear that you can buy with Bitcoin is USD, and even the liquidity of that seems questionable beyond a certain amount — the millions maybe but probably not billions.
Not ideal, but you could give it internet access, install all the apps you want, and then isolate it again (remove it from the docker non-internal network or whatever).

As long as the apps you install don't need to make web requests on their own, they'll work fine.
It would be great if we could have some stats on the responses. Preferably cross referenced by referrer URL.

I'd like to know what percent of the HN crowd thinks Guido looks like a serial killer.
It's a nice post, but it is a shame that the author does not mention certain current controversy [0] where Bitcoin Core has crumpled like a wet paper bag under a thread of lawsuit by one Craig Steven Wright - one that he played a key role in [1].

The PR to revert that change is still open and locked [2] so I can only imagine what kind of direct messages he would be receiving - I doubt many of them would be what one would consider 'nice'. Not to mention any of it when stepping back seems a little incredulous.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25858901

[1] https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoincore.org/pull/740

[2] https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoincore.org/pull/744
Battery tech wasn't that good back then. I think the consumer electronics battery boom (i.e. putting batteries in cellphones, laptops, etc) has advanced the tech considerably. Not my area of expertise though
Yes. In addition, wafer size is another important metric of fab capabilities aside from process node, since it roughly translates into production rate.
> it seems inheritently impossible to please all of the people all of the time.

But it's actually really easy. Every single human has the same basic needs. Cover those and you've already done a great step towards collective happiness.

> In the absence of infinite and exploitable energy it's hard to see how you wont have a society that is going to directly or indirectly impose limits upon the individuals life and well being.

How, besides lying to ourselves, can we then justify the fact that in some countries children starve to death, while in others people's biggest issue is what model of smartphone they're going to buy next?

Aren't we already imposing material limits to billions of people who don't have access to basic resources? Is that kind of limit somehow less important than the limit we might impose on someone else to not own a yacht?
This is an obvious subtle example of thread high jacking, masquerading as a helpful comment, but aimed at getting traffic to your website.

Should be against the rules. I don’t have the ability to report, hence posting here
Yes, there are also related examples of this in some of Ariely's books. If you introduce a fine for showing up late at daycare the number of late people and the average lateness goes up, not down, because then people are "buying" the right to be late for example.
> I can be impatient with people. I dislike and distrust bureaucracies. I don't have enough patience for incompetence.

I hire people with these qualities, most intelligent people I know are like this :)
No rationalization needed. It is all bs. "Greenest" car is Tesla that burns 15 kg of coal per 100km.

Crypto dev since 2014.
I routinely see English errors far more egregious than that in publications written exclusively by native speakers, so I'm not sure it's too noteworthy.
We are talking about the ethical concerns of the people behind the technology. Do not try to misinterpret the words.
The Prius Secret is that the engine is so loosely tuned it doesn't have much friction when starting, the oil also has the viscosity of colored water :)

Best of all it uses the EV motor and battery to crank the ICE engine, there's no separate weak-ass starter motor.

Had mine in -30C weather for a weekend, cranked it on monday night and it just - started. Like it had been vacationing in the French Riviera.

Compare that to my old Diesel VW, which - when cranked at the same situation - made a sound like someone was strangling a moose. I had two attempts to get it to start, then the battery would run out because of the friction caused by the thick-ass oil.
I tried out both Objective C and C++ in 1988, when neither were popular though C++ was more talked about.

What I remember was that with Objective C you needed to track all intermediate values and release them, so you couldn’t write an expression like [[objectA someMessage] anotherMessage] - you had to capture the intermediate in a variable so you could release it at the end.

So this was annoying and I didn’t like Objective C at the time. (25 years later I wrote several iOS apps in it)

C++ let you manage memory and temporary values though constructors and destructors, which was much more appealing, though pre-templates it was quite constrained.
It does flow back.
About half of the federal budget is formed from the taxes on natural resources.

I think last time our military was used against Russian citizens was during Chechen wars. Another time was in 1993 when Eltsin used it to shoot at the Parliament building.
Antifa isn’t exactly a peaceful movement, I am not sure it is the best comparison.
The compiler does some very fancy stuff with objc_msgSend to make it fast, and the selectors are interned.

https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/objc_msgsends-new-prototype.h...
If they're experiencing a breeze they might have bigger problems to worry about than a cracked hull.
YouTube Lite – No more wasting time on watching random, irrelevant videos
This is a Tuesday in Finland.

The EV will just start. You press a button and it turns on. In under 5 minutes it will be so hot inside that you need to take off your jacket.

Yes, range will suffer if you don't pre-heat the battery (by plugging in the car over night), but I still get 200km range off my car even when it's up to -30 outside.
I would argue that claims about the revolutionary potential of blockchain as a technology have been largely exaggerated, but I agree that it's hard to imagine it replacing the financial system in its current state. It just doesn't seem like it could possibly scale to the number of transactions which have to be made globally every second. That's not to say there aren't technical solutions to some of these problems, but currently it seems like even if less than 1% of the population tried to start using bitcoin as their only currency, the system would collapse under its own weight.

I actually think it might be interesting for something like voting. Here having a completely public, verifiable record would add a lot to what is currently a very opaque system in a lot of places.
In Germany there are sites like "Stifung Warentest" (a mostly neutral product testing organization) that charge one-time fees of 5-10 € for accessing test reports for specific product categories, e.g. mattresses. I bought some of these in the past, they also offer regular subscriptions but since most people are only intermittently interested in specific product tests I don't think they sell a lot of those. So it can work I'd say, just maybe not with your average run-of-the-mill 5-minute read news article.
I think this is a fantastic idea and much needed, but it will be difficult to make it work, for reasons mentioned in other comments.

Also, is it limited to GitHub? There are a few bugs in Firefox that I would pay to see fixed but AFAIK FF dev isn't on GitHub for example.
Instant Messaging: It's not about the app
That HVDC link is 2000 MW, consisting of 2 independent 1000MW systems even built by different manufacturers. Sounds very similar to risk that the grid has to manage (with backup power etc) with normal power stations. The UK is much less dependent on cross border electricity than most European countries.
Read Debt by Graeber so you can stop believing in the myth of barter. Then think again.
i think it is an intermediate step before direct data-assisted barter.

now that we have databases, the number values will slowly become less relevant, and direct information references will come into play.
#truth

It’s also a good time to explore the tether bubble: https://link.medium.com/Wsf1ZmBT7cb