skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These studies aren't nearly as dire as the grandparent comment that claimed the United States wouldn't be part of the developed world in 20 years.

Much of that report focuses on things like traffic congestion and delayed flights from busy airports:

> According to Petroski, the delays caused by traffic congestion alone cost the economy over $120 billion per year.

Ironically, the abrupt shift to remote work and work-from-home due to COVID has significantly reduced traffic burdens in many cities.

I'm all for improving infrastructure where necessary, such as the ~10% of bridges that are structurally deficient or improving access to cheap broadband. I'm not enthusiastic about rallying cries to encourage more car traffic, though.
Well, vi already allows considerably more than 4×4 different references to text objects relative to the cursor, and vim adds some others on top of those.

I guess if you include chords of modifier keys, you could have 2⁴×4 possibilities, which would be extremely competitive with vim in this regard, although I haven't encountered an editing environment that did that. (That's not to say that it couldn't exist.)

I consider myself a proficient but unsophisticated vi user, and I seem to have at least 19 cursor movements that can be combined with selection or deletion in my muscle memory, in the sense that I would regularly use them without being consciously aware of how I chose one movement command rather than another. And that's not counting the ability to prefix them with repetition counts, which is usually a more conscious activity for me. I know that vim provides another dozen or more that I've never learned well, but it seems like other people have.

It does take time to internalize these, which is one reason we see so many people making "learn vim" games and tutorials. And I could imagine that they might not be the exact selection of movements that someone would find optimal, let alone easy to remember or articulate.
I mean that it just adds to the pile of silly problems people experience with it, that don't need to be there. They add up.
Samsung still has some ODM devices assembled in China.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-samsung-elec-china-focus/...
Being a figure of speech has little to do with the statement being factually incorrect.
> Telling the candidate to waste their time

You seem to be arguing as if the company wasting the author's time was a hypothetical. No, they veritably, absolutely, wasted his time.

The respectful thing to do, IMO, is not to ask people to perform this type of free work, specially if the likelihood of the preparation going to waste is this high.

Thankfully, no company so far has asked me to do something like this, because I would just refuse.
I suspect a lot of FB customers are using a browser in a business setting where IT manages the Chrome updates. FB could have used a polyfill though, or used Safari, or shipped a desktop wapper around an older Chrome temporarily. Electron was brand new at the time so it probably wasn't a great option, but FB certainly had a lot of emergency options.
> First, you have a bunch of ideas that you're trying compose into an argument, you were not successful.

This is where I stopped reading your reply.
Same here. Seems to be a paywall. Try http://outline.com/https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56010...
No need to talk about me like I'm not here ;)

The energy spent on block production is something that, in theory, _could_ be regulated so as to reduce or cap the pollution it may create. We already do this with other industries, like banning CFCs from refrigerants. Why not do the same with mining?

But before we can have a serious conversation about this, the folks on this site need to understand that the problem is _using fossil fuels to mine blocks_. It makes no sense to talk about how much electricity a Bitcoin transaction consumes, as if that meant anything. Loading and rendering HN takes more electricity, and no one complains about that.
have you tried something like ublock origin? that blocks a bunch of extraneous stuff... for the other stuff i use a small javascript bookmarklets that removes all the fixed things like headers and the like.

javascript: function()%7B%20let%20i%2C%20elements%20%3D%20document.querySelectorAll
('body%20\*')%3B%20for%20(i%20%3D%200%3B%20i%20%3C%20elements.length%3B%20i%2B%2B)
%20%7B%20if(getComputedStyle(elements%5Bi%5D).position%20%3D%3D%3D%20'fixed'%20%7C%7C
%20getComputedStyle(elements%5Bi%5D).position%20%3D%3D%3D%20'sticky')%7B%20elements%5Bi
%5D.parentNode.removeChild(elements%5Bi%5D)%3B%20%7D%20%7D%20%7D)()

seriously a really cool bookmarklet that makes everyday browsing less claustrophobic on some pages.
I am sure most cryptocurrency fanatics understand that volatility is not a good thing for a currency and do not expect bitcoin to be the world standard for payments. Just because you won't end up paying your bills with bitcoin doesn't mean that bitcoin will be worthless.
There's more to hardware architecture than just "x86". The PS4 memory bus is completely shared between CPU and GPU, meaning that addresses on one are valid on the other. Emulating that on a general-purpose system with PCIe would be astonishingly ridiculous.
D is amazing. High level AND low level when you need it. The ecosystem is just lacking and doesn't have a big player backing it like go, java, c# etc.
FWIW my wife and I often look to the information on https://www.commonsensemedia.org/ to help us decide what's age-appropiate for our kids to watch.
Yes, but different feature sets
How We Accidentally Gave Our Bots Their Personalities
IW10 Considered Harmful
The complexity is the same or less with Poetry. It's just about whether you're delegating the complexity to Poetry or managing it yourself.
Other cryptocurrencies? Maybe, I am not an expert on them. But definitely not bitcoin. Its transaction speed is simply way too slow. And it is not even close.
I have to admit with shame I know sparingly little about the accessibility when building web apps, but with Wasp we think it could be a really valuable feature to offer - guaranteed best accessibility practices - it should be integral part of Wasp.

Why doesn't screen reader detect it -> because URL does not change? What if SPA updates URL via history API, does that help? off-screen ARIA region sounds like something we could generate with Wasp automatically.

Once we reach some level of stability, we plan to put more effort into accessibility -> if you wish, write a comment on our GH issue and we will be happy to include you in the effort when we work on it, help from somebody experienced with accessibility would be great.
Personally I have not needed Beautifulsoup a single time, when web scraping. People say it is better for unclean HTML, which I cannot confirm, because I never needed it and always were able to get my result using LXML + etree with XPath and CSS selectors. Once I also used Scrapy, but still not Beautifulsoup. I am glad there is a guide, that starts with LXML, instead of immediately jumping to Beautifulsoup.
There ought to be a second principle here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs's_principle

In addition to assuming the adversary knows how everything is designed (as opposed to security-by-obscurity) there should also be an assumption that security is obtained through real implementations, not theatre.
For some reason the Euro does not need all that "grossly oversized military" to be a proper, stable and usable currency. That alone kind of contradicts the entire grossly overstretched argument of this Nic Carter guy.
I've written code to sign and validate Bitcoin transactions (see my profile). Believe me, they're cheap -- loading this site and rendering it in your browser probably takes an order of magnitude more watts. It's really not that different -- both in principle and execution -- than signing and verifying a SSL certificate.
While rarely seen that way my employer was using XMPP in 2006. It was great for compliance when one couldn't be leaking client data into AOL instant messenger.
Not my project, but if I had to do it I'd try something like the following:

* Set an autoscaling group with your instance template, max instances 1, min instances 0, desired instances 0 (nothing is running).

* Set up a Lambda function that sets the autoscaling group desired instances to 1.

* Link that function to an API Gateway call, give it an auth key, etc.

* From any machine you have, set up your cron with a random sleep and a curl call to the API.

And that should do the trick, I think.
Ah see this is where you're wrong. The tokens are proof that huge quantities of energy were wasted. It's a proof of waste algorithm.
Thats a great idea - but in a centralized system like npm or cargo you don't need certificates to implement that. (Certs might be a nice implementation though.)

So yeah, there might be a "trusted security reviews with payments" shaped technical solution. I'd love to see someone flesh that out - that sounds like a potential solution to this problem (unlike developer-signed packages).
The packages are not signed, but there is a hash chain from the signed Release files through to the packages themselves.
I always thought the question of Zionist legitimacy came more out out the fact that what became Israel was administered by the British after WWI and over the next 20 years, was so embroiled in tension between the Zionists and the ex-ottoman's as to what the final fate of the area should be? The Arab's had a civil war there around '39 but the Jewish population hit highest tensions about a decade later following WWII and a wave of sympathy for the survivors of the Holocaust. Palestine was thought to be the inevitable outcome by the Arabs of the region, but the atrocities levied upon the Jewish people galvanized the Jewish population of the state sufficiently they were able to hold the territory against those that challenged them. An outcome of that was the Palestinian exodus in light of Israel's successful defense of it's claimed Soverignty on the Day following the end of the British Mandate. Sovereignty, and the status quo has been... Eh... Tumultuous as usual ever since. Most of that tension arising out of the dissonant expectation that Israel should lawfully have been co-part of the overall State of Palestine by it's previous residents.

Just talking in terms of following the paper trail. I know both sides have their own feelings on the matter, but in terms of what the International community agreed on, Zionist legitimacy officially is defined within the terms of the U.N. Partition plan. De facto state notwithstanding.

Not passing any judgement either way. I just follow the paper trail.
In my mind I’m picturing a couple dozen people in increasingly obvious and ridiculous disguises walking past nine CBP agents calmly discussing their overtime and benefits packages.

(While in the background an ancient Dell computer and a technician from Deloitte watch the facial recognition program scroll Samuel L Jackson, Samuel L Jackson, Jackie Chan, Samual L Jackson, unidentified caucasian male, Samuel L Jackson, Jackie Chan, ...)
I would bet Palintir/NSO/Cellebrite (and many other equally capable but way less publicly known defence contractors) pay their top software engineering talent FAANG comparable rates.

They almost certainly also have just as many shittily paid employees that FAANG like to pretend they do not employ, offloading admin/janitorial/support staff to 3rd party “low caste” status employment.

I’d also guess BD and Sales roles at those companies pay at least as well as FAANG too. Commissions on defence contracts are worth a lot more than selling another bunch of SaaS seats to some promising VC backed startup...
Previous discussion from another URL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26044640 (144 points, 4 days ago, 81 comments)
The energy usage is for mining new bitcoin and collecting fees, not "7 transactions per second". Newly mined bitcoin will be used for infinite future transactions.

If you want more settlement with same store-of-value properties, use Bitcoin Cash.
> As a former San Franciscan that has lived in Austin for 10 years what do you think are these issues?

The biggest as always is public transportation. SF is a "small" city geographically but it's a nightmare to get around and I see Austin going down the same route. You have busses and MetroRail but frankly both of them operate at street level and that will just not cut it. The subway plans are good and a step in the right direction but by the time they actually finish they won't be anywhere near enough which will be viewed as a failure and then the next subway expansion will be too small and so on an so forth.

I just don't see the city getting out ahead of it's growth. Too little too late kind of thing. Obviously I don't live there so my knowledge is filtered though a set of peers with there own bias but that's my current view.
I find this magic quite unpleasant. It causes a massive amount of confusion (eg if you write TZ=UTC+8, you actually get UTC-8, except it’s called UTC. You’d actually need to type eg TZ=XYZ-8 because you subtract 8 hours to get UTC. The theory at the time was that it made it easier to enter US timezones like UTC-5.) Furthermore, some applications won’t parse a timezone that isn’t in the local tzdb so you’d actually need to enter eg TZ=Etc/GMT-8 for UTC+8. And heaven forfend an application might parse TZ=UTC+8 in the “normal” way instead of the posix way. What a recipe for disaster. Encoding daylight savings in the env var just makes the whole mess worse.
I used to love OSX for the same reason, but it's insane how much we've lost in this regard.

Take Photos for instance; I simply can't drag a picture into a browser anymore; it forces me to drag a picture into the desktop, so then I can do something with the file.

Take PDFs in the Notes app; you double click them, they don't open in Preview, but in a weird modal window. Can't drag them to attach in an e-mail for instance; must first drag it to the Downloads folder or somewhere else, to then use the file (and delete it afterwards, so I don't end up with a useless copy).
100 digits by next week? Probably easiest to just memorize it?
Bitcoin is not controlled by any nation state. In fact, it’s decentralized nature makes it useless to them.

The reason why the US government is willing to take drastic measures to protect the dollar is not because they own lots of dollars, but because they can exert geopolitical influence and control the international redistribution of wealth through the dollar and its associated payment networks.

In fact, the USG does own a nice stack of Bitcoin from the Silk Road seizure, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the intelligence agencies have a secret stash, too. But just owning the asset doesn’t mean they can use it to boss people around. Bitcoin’s payment network is open and free, and its inflation schedule is fixed. The only way the USG could stop it is by making it illegal, and no one knows what the opportunity cost of such a move would be.

Transactions per second isn’t a great measuring stick for Bitcoin. I would look at it in terms of savings protected from reckless inflation. If I just throw a number out and say that 50% of Bitcoins have been lost or destroyed, that leaves about $300 billion in value that has been rescued. Is that worth the electricity of a medium sized nation? I don’t know. What if that grows to $3 trillion? Or $300 trillion? How much wealth preserved for future generations is enough to justify the cost?
Nit: factories are not fabs, "fabs" refers to semiconductor manufacturing factories.
Wow, this is a really cool idea, and I love the platform behind it! Reminds me of the old Anchor.fm. I can definitely see it riding the upswell of proximity and private chat room apps. Only question from me: how do you do moderation in these audio rooms? I know on Clubhouse it works so that there's a couple of speakers that control the room and talk while everyone else listens.

A post on HN earlier today highlighted some of the problems with this approach - such as these speakers spreading misinformation and not much moderation from Clubhouse staff. Just something to keep in mind as you grow your service. For reference, you can find that discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26093004

Good luck!
This (and tech like it) will be used for real time streaming and chatting, and we'll see a sharp increase in the number of virtual streamers/youtubers/etc. as well. Some may be run by teams, some a single person, these virtual personas are getting easier and easier to make now, and more realistic as we see with this new service.
Let's Encrypt publishes Certificate Transparency logs:
https://letsencrypt.org/docs/ct-logs/

You can both block certs that do not appear in the logs, and decide which certs not to trust ("everything after Friday the 13th at midnight is not trusted"), once you know the date/time of the intrusion.
Something I'm noticing more and more is that programming is for the most part is not fun

Fun things are visual, immediate full of feedback and introspection, a sensible curve of difficulty and reward for effort

A raspberry pi doesn't spark joy, in fact most computers don't

I'm not exactly sure how we could do better but Bret Victor's talk inventing on principle and his other talks are always an inspiration
I could be mistaken, but don't Rust and Ruby target completely different types of problems?

Last I had heard, Rust was targeted at being a "Systems" language, ie. an alternative to ASM/C/C++, where Ruby is basically a webserver/backend language.

What makes you think Rust will be used as a "Ruby on Rails" replacement anytime soon?
Well, as a Wisconsinite I'd be remiss in not pointing out that this is the Chicago Tribune. Chicago and Illinois are always gleeful about the various piles of excrement we land ourselves in here in Wisconsin.

That said, yeah, I also have to be honest. We're down about 1 billion dollars on that Foxconn thing. That's what we're out of pocket. The new governor, wisely, took what remained of our chips and left that table. You get mad, but you just have to chalk it up to a learning experience.

The Illinois people are right on this one by the way. Not even in Illinois would their leaders get away with a 5.5 billion dollar con. The people in Illinois are so used to dealing with corruption that they would have started asking questions and raising a fuss long before it got to that point. Our problem is that we're so accustomed to our corruption that we never raised a fuss until it was way too late.

All that said, in Wisconsin our leaders didn't get away with 5.5 billion dollar con either technically speaking. Scott Walker and his boys got us for about a billion, but they didn't get as much as they wanted. So fibs shouldn't gloat too much, because while I can't see anyone in Illinois getting away with a 5.5 billion dollar pure con, I could see someone getting away with maybe a billion. (It's just that they're far more wealthy than we are, so that billion doesn't hurt as much.)
Mine does as well. I attribute it to the fact that my arms aren't skinny, and I can impede blood flow by, e.g., "crooking" my elbow and compressing blood vessels there. I also sleep on my arm, which I suspect likewise impedes blood flow to the wrist area.

If I stand up, take a few deep breaths, and then rest my arm on a level surface I get high 90's right away. So i don't worry about the outliers (much).
I think you're confusing cause and effect. People value stability, so more money goes into those things. E.g., SPY is an synthetic asset engineered to be lower vol.

I don't think it's at all clear that Bitcoin adoption will go up. It's never been useful as a currency for most people, and Tesla aside, merchant adoption has been in retreat for years. KYC/AML laws are reducing its utility for financial crime. Its only real advantage is in speculation and market manipulation. But both of those depend on volatility.
The strange thing is that no one will be surprised. If that would have happened with Macs the dissing about Apple would be endless, but Dell will get a pass because expectations are low.
I still do it. I've no use for Dell's live support app and whatever else they ship.

The difference now is that you also have to:

1. Uninstall Candy Crush and similar.

2. Disable Cortana.

3. Disable ads and internet search for your Start button.

4. Click through several small greyed out buttons to have a local account instead of cloud account.

5. Do some of these things again whenever an update nukes part of your settings.

As a bonus, they still haven't fixed the decades old thing in file manager where all your directories default to displaying in stupid mode.

In short: pay for the professional version of Windows or prepare to be annoyed.
Fiat only needs to hold its value for as long as it takes you to purchase assets and investments with. At 2% inflation it does. End of story.

Anywhere you drag your thesis out beyond that needs to take into account that you are fighting a straw-man. That's not what currency is for. Currency is a temporary, intentionally lossy (to encourage investment and velocity of money), store of value and medium of exchange. It is not an investment. It is not a long-term store of value.

> What this really means is that Bitcoin is out of reach of a nation state attack.

Right except 70% of the hash power is concentrated in a few mining pools in the PRC. A strongly worded memo from Xi that unless you permit their compromise of the network you'll find a new hobby mining minerals in Xinjiang, and party's over.
These are all valid feelings / hypotheses about what happened, but even with the benefit of hindsight we can’t confirm them.

For example, you think the real name policy tanked the effort. But did it really? Twitter verified status is considered to be coveted, people are lining up to get their real named acknowledged. Is that not enough to introduce plausible doubt?

Similarly, we always complain about “network effects” of social media these days - that’s why Facebook can maintain a “monopoly”. Well when G+ was rolling out, it was by limited invitation only; clearly in hindsight an extremely rookie mistake for a social network. Perhaps nothing else matters - perhaps not allowing ppl into your social network dwarfed all other causes.

We may never know as we can’t A/B test history.

It’s really easy to look at failed features in hindsight and say “ah I knew all along”. Statistically, most things fail. And it appeals to our innate desire to seek confirmation.

But I invite you to seek alternative explanations than “corporate messed it up”. And hey, if you really do know how to make successful social products, join ycomb, raise money and go be a billionaire
Articles such as these are low quality: https://examine.com/nutrition/lemon-water/
>If the circular economy and recycling of expired electronic devices back into raw materials cannot be solved in a satisfactory way, the next wars will be fought over the control of the deposits of various strategic minerals like PGMs and rare earths.

I don't think we're at risk of actually running out of the materials. At least, not overnight. If resources become scarcer then prices go up, which 1) makes recycling more viable as it makes more expensive operations more viable, and 2) encourages companies to more aggressively research alternatives or designs which simply do without the material.

The real problem with expired electronic devices is externalities.
I see a lot of people in this thread who don't really know much about Samsung's semiconductor presence in the USA. This expansion has been in the works for years. Samsung has a 100k wafer per month fab in austin texas. They are negotiating for tax abatements for expansion and using alternative sites as leverage.

They are not building a new fab they are expanding their S2 fab in austin texas. There was a permit application that was released a few years back that shows the true scale of their expansion plans.

https://www.swf.usace.army.mil/Portals/47/docs/regulatory/pu...

If this goes through it could made Samsung's S2 fab larger than even TSMC's monster gigafabs.