skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the application called deptrust I submitted to the Mozilla Builders program (didn't get in :P) to address this problem space before I had to focus more on my current job. Please let me know if there are any collaborators who would like to work on this together someday!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EW6uSZB0_D0qZuDSGuxujuVE...
Apparently they already do this or have plans to do this with solar power:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1258308230725292032
I've always had pretty bad experiences with web scrapping, it's such a pain in the ass and frequently breaks. I'm not sure if I'm doing it wrong or if that's how it's supposed to be.
I agree - native development is bad. I had an iPhone app that I built using native Apple stuff and it was miserable. And the whole time you're struggling with their buggy UI framework you can't even take solace in that you're learning useful skills because it's all specific to Apple development. From the programming language to the frameworks/APIs you use.

It's so domain specific that IMO it's not worth trying to do that kind of work unless it's your main career. I ended up taking the app I had built down because I kept getting support requests for bugs I didn't know how to fix and the idea of going into the code to add more features filled me with a sense of dread. The app was doing somewhat well too, it had about 1000 DAU.

I built another app for the CDC in React Native, which has its own foibles but is overall much easier. I'm not sure how successful Flutter will be overall because you can't leverage outside skills and you have to learn a different language.
I love collisions...

https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/?ra=167.4707&dec=24.2626&lay...
Isn't it funny how the attacks on bitcoin have come after the Tesla announcement?

Who is paying for these attacks I wonder?
> As bitcoin becomes more popular and stable, it's "appreciation" relative the fiat currencies will reveal how much value governments are secretly stealing through inflation.

Exactly what goldbugs have always claimed about gold, since fiat currencies displaced commodity representational currencies (particularly gold-denominated) currencies.

The thing is, insofar as inflation can be said to “steal” from anything, it's idle holders of dollar-denominated assets. But it's pretty easy to mitigate by moving holdings other than for short-term liquidity into productive assets (which itself promotes real, not merely nominal, economic growth) rather than (or by borrowing against) dollar denominated assets.

Meanwhile, it benefits those with dollar denominated liabilities. Mild, slowly changing inflation (volatility in either price or inflation rate is a problem) isn't much of a problem for anyone in practice, and there's a pretty small audience that is receptive to the scare tactic (and Bitcoin fever has already fully reached that audience.)
> I hope that we can stop trying to sync noon to the local sun at some point.

Humans have circadian rhythms that have health effects:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronobiology

See my comment linking to various position papers of the scientists who study in this field:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26088541

They generally want to get rid of DST completely and stick with Standard ("winter") Time all year round. (I don't know enough to gainsay them.)
Moiré effect is due to aliasing. If images are properly filtered (blurred) before sampling there is no moiré.
I've heard driving Teslas is fun
> I was surprised they didnt advocate multiple runs; eventually all knowledge could be represented in one unquantifiable byte.

I've seen many proofs that this is impossible. Usually they use a counting argument such as the pigeonhole principle, and show that you cannot have a compression function C and matching decompression function U with all the following properties:

1. U(C(f)) == f for any file f of at least one byte. I.e., compression is always reversible.

2. C(f) is never larger than f.

3. C(f) is sometimes smaller than f.

4. For any file f larger that one byte, iterating C a sufficient number of times will result in a file of exactly one byte. Iterating U a sufficient number of times on that one byte will produce f.

Many of the proofs are a little sloppy in how they define or specify things, making it easy to give a counterexample. Here is such a counterexample:

1. Order all possible files of at least one byte as follows:

1a. All n-byte files come before any m-byte file for all m > n.

1b. Order all n-byte files by treating them as 8n-bit unsigned binary numbers and ordering them by ascending numerical value.

2. Let I(f) be the index of file f in that ordered list of all >= 1 byte files. Let F(i) be the file whose index is i. Let Z = the one-byte file whose bits are all 0s. Let E be an empty file.

3. The compression function C(f) is as follows:

C(Z) = E
C(f) = F(I(f)-1) if f != Z

4. The uncompression function U(f) is as follows:

U(E) = Z
U(f) = F(I(f)+1) if f != E

So what's the catch?

Here is the catch. Suppose f1, f2, f3, ... are a bunch of n-byte files. It is true that iterating U enough times on any of them will result in a one-byte file. In fact you can iterate to get each down to a file consisting of a single null byte.

So now you have a bunch of files f1', f2', f3', ... each consisting of a single byte. Imagine you need to get f1 back. OK, you iterate U on f1'.

But how many times do you have to iterate? It will be around 2^(8n) iterations. Get the number of iterations wrong and you'll end up with a different n-byte file.

To make sure that uncompressed f1' gives you f1, not f2, f3, ... or some other n-byte file, you have to remember exactly how many times you iterated C when you compressed f1.

That essentially requires storing an n-byte random integer somewhere. So yeah, you compressed your n-byte f1 down to a 1-byte f1', but a byproduct of that was n bytes of metadata you have to store somewhere. Oops.
Policies don't have the same power of law, they do however include incentives for compliance.

My cable company doesn't have to go through Congress to pass legislation to have me comply in paying my bill. They can choose to give me late fees and ultimately cut my service, incentivizing me to comply. Does that mean that corporate middle managers, who were not democratically appointed, are regulating my behavior on par with the governing body of the US? This may seem like a dissimilar comparison, but corporate entities establish policies that effect consumer behavior all the time. Most decisions in general aren't made democratically, given the need for specialized knowledge and effective/time-sensitive execution for many decisions. Congress still makes the laws, agencies, and pretty much every private/public organizations, make policy. The assumption Congress would be better because they'd "balance all other concerns" has no bearing on reality.
You may be interested in Ada coin. It uses a "proof of stake" algorithm instead which does not rely on processing power. Virtually infinitely more eco-friendly.
OP here: Yes. Not to mention how OCR-unfriendly it is... I don't know what to tell you. Screenfluff didn't have the same ring to it.
> You could say the same thing about assembly programming or some language that uses GOTOs instead of structured control constructs ... or Brainfuck.

I think this a reduction of the argument to the point of absurdity. C++ and Rust are certainly much more similar in terms of form and capability than C++ and brainfuck.

> Claims about this or that language being unsuitable for a problem aren't really about stuff like Turing completeness, it's more about practical software engineering problems (e.g. does the language provide the right kind of support to the developers allow them to implement the required functionality in a reasonable amount of time with a reasonably small amount of bugs with the budget available).

I agree. C++ may very well have been unsuitable for Mozilla at the time they adopted Rust. What I take issue with is the general claim that C++ is not suitable for a parallel CSS engine at all. This is a very strong claim, and I do not believe one team coming to this conclusion for them is enough evidence to conclude this in general.
Unfortunately no, that's an effect of lens distortion.
Until you can get the IRS to accept Bitcoin, your plan is dead in the water.

I also would like to know what specifically makes Bitcoin the answer, and not some other cryptocurrency.
I prefer the sun out when I'm awake.
please click on all the traffic lights you see below.
I'm somewhat familiar with certificate handling in general, I had just forgotten how Let's Encrypt performs domain validation; it's been a few years since I used it and it's worked so well that I haven't had to think about it since, which is probably a testament to its stability!

To be sure, PKI and certificates in particular have a lot of room for improvement in the UX department. Especially on Windows, where one frequently has to deal with not just .pem files but .cer, .pfx (with or without private keys), and more.
2021 Revision of the Mathematics Framework for California Public Schools
Indeed. They make it far to tempting to just pull in a dependency, even if it is not really needed. The worst case of this are one-function packages in npm. And of course whenever you pull in a dependency, that might in a cascade pull in more dependencies. Somteimes the same package is pulled in several times, even in different versions.

What looks elegant as a concept "we just have a graph of dependencies and automatically pull that in" quickly becomes an unmaintainable nightmare and consequently into a huge attack vector.
Another big difference: I can fuel my EV at home with my solar panels. Can't do that with an ICE vehicle.

I bicycle commute to and from work (before the quarantines, and now I'm moving to 100% WFH), as well to get groceries and other errands around town. The big vehicle is for weekend adventures.
It's just because the image has to get so enlarged as it gets that big. You'd have to use massive images otherwise (I've made a few infinite zooms before)
The value of everything is negative when you measure by these standards. We should stop laughing to emit less CO2.
Am I wrong that resources spent mining Bitcoin aren't that much different from money spent on else? Is the impact of buying $1000 worth of concrete, airline flights, tomatoes, iPhones, etc. etc. significantly different?
What language is the CSS engine used by Chrome or Safari written in?
You're right, my confusion even makes your point stronger.
OP here: Thanks, and great question! I really like the idea of it being a one-click thing. Adding features is a slippery slope...
FWIW, my buddy and I built and launched a simple iOS app (Export Health!) in the App Store in two weeks using SwiftUI. The whole app is basically one file and under 1MB including all the iOS extras. Both of us are professional engineers but only had minor exposure to iOS before building this app.

A few years back I built internal apps at work using React Native. Warts aside, it was a great dev experience and was able to re-use code 100%. However, having to ensure all was well with both iOS and Android (and indeed sometimes there were edge cases) slowed me down.

SwiftUI and the Combine framework provides a similar dev experience I felt using React Native. Moreover, app previews in XCode make it straightforward to paint different application states and iOS settings. Building for one platform also reduces the quality check surface, allowing you to spend more time focusing on product.

If cross platform is a necessity from the onset (e.g. internal app for work where all employees need access but may have different phones) then starting with non-native makes sense. However I personally recommend anyone looking to build a product as an app to focus on iOS first and use SwiftUI. I reckon you will move faster, have a smaller code base, and a better app. All of which are conducive to finding PMF if you intend to make a business out of your product
Congrats on your launch! I do believe that there exists some space between Blue Apron and Tock for this, however for me personally, the ease of the restaurant experience is a huge part of it's appeal. I can access high quality food via Tock & competitors but the added friction of being the sous-chef, garnisher, dishwasher, front of house, etc. makes this not really appeal to me once going to a restaurant becomes possible again.
My university has been offering seminars on how to use Matlab for years. They also offer a course on getting you proficient in SolidWorks. I get your point that it should be offered by a company that specializes in training, but it's nice when universities go beyond pure theoretical concepts and teach things that can be used for side-projects.
Let's not forget druglords, illegal arms dealers, hitmen...
Finally! The one person who understands why I still enter bytes manually via switches on my Altair! /s
I know nothing. I went to several sites and the display looks functional, but all I am hearing is white noise. Is there a tutorial somewhere? It has sounded cool for years, but I need to bootstrap somehow.

I am so old school that 95% of my listening is college radio stations (WREK, KFJC, WKCR...) and noncommercial stations KSDS, WFMU, WWOZ, ...). I would love to branch out.
Going to need to see numbers to back these claims; what I've seen says otherwise, granted the breakeven point is different depending on where you live:

https://youtu.be/6RhtiPefVzM
The website linked is actually measuring the amount of energy that BC is using right now to operate.

It's not the total amount of energy used to create the BC network, the software, the HW and everything else.

https://cbeci.org/

> The Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index (CBECI) provides a real-time estimate of the total electricity load and consumption of the Bitcoin network. The model is based on a bottom-up approach initially developed by Marc Bevand in 2017 that takes different types of available mining hardware as the starting point.

> The first number refers to the total electrical power consumed by the Bitcoin network and is expressed in gigawatts (GW). This figure is updated every 30 seconds and corresponds to the rate at which Bitcoin uses electricity.
The second number refers to the total yearly electricity consumption of the Bitcoin network and is expressed in terawatt-hours (TWh). We annualise Bitcoin’s electricity consumption assuming continuous power usage at the aforementioned rate over the period of one year. We apply a 7-day moving average to the resulting data point in order to make the output value less dependent of short-term hashrate movements, and thus more suitable for comparisons with alternative uses of electricity.
> You could even send cash in the mail. It would still use less energy than Bitcoin...

Are you sure? What's the energy use of sending $1000 cash in the mail from the US to France?
The most infuriating is that the search barely works. It will happily ignore keywords so you get hundreds or thousands results only 10 of which have all of the keywords that you mentioned (and they aren't the first 10). There is also no support for negative matches.
You can get intellisense easily with python because by the time you've written a package name, IDE will start suggesting symbols to you

from sys import <suggestions>

compared to node, where I have to write

import {} from 'path'

then move the cursor in the braces and hit [Ctrl] + [Space] to trigger intellisense

import {<suggestions>} from 'path'

which feels backwards to me.
> We should not take them away and break thousands of projects

How about the middle ground of marking them as deprecated and not to be used in new code?
> give everyone with a less effective vaccine an additional dose of whatever works - which will probably be a new vaccine that doesn't exist yet!

I would be careful about assuming that's an option. The vaccines have been tested individually, but have not been tested together. It's not out of the realm of possibility that getting some combination triggers some kind of immune reaction or something else.

> Don't forget that mutations are continuous. We might be looking at another mutation in 3 months as supply catches up that evades vaccines in a completely new way.

This is, sadly, a reason for poorer countries to delay vaccination. If there's going to be a mutation that evades this vaccine, and you can only afford one round of vaccines for everyone, you'd be better off waiting for the vaccine that prevents both.

Based on the last article about this, SA doesn't have the money to do 2 rounds of vaccines. A lot of the money was spent suspiciously, but now funding is limited. It seems that anyone who gets a subpar vaccine is just going to be stuck with subpar coverage.
> Using competing teams for this purpose seems like a waste of money to me.

That's not how it was done.
This reminds my childhood computer stories and how I got into using Linux in 10th grade. My parents installed the K9 Website blocker on Windows which was (is?) a pretty strong domain blocking tool. Let alone anything NSFW, Youtube and Facebook were blocked too! I learned a bit about dual booting online and with a freshly burned CD of Ubuntu 12.04, I was determined not to screw things up. I was pretty happy I installed Ubuntu safely and it was a relief to find that the parental website blockers of Windows had no equivalents on Ubuntu. I often think that I probably wouldn't have had a headstart on using Linux and programming had it not been for wanting to circumvent website blocking tools.
No need to memorise anything. All the shortcuts appear on the menu right at the bottom (and if you want more detail, there's the help page, also linked to on the menu at the bottom)
But in long run it is cheaper to buy used Mac Mini for XCode builds.
I did not claim that C++ is a superior language.
Elon Musk buys some Dogecoin for his son X Æ A-Xii
How to price yourself as a freelance developer – 3 strategies
Something about this seems dismissive. I definitely get the sense of "Why are you worrying about this? You shouldn't be worried because it won't affect you. Just let us do this because you shouldn't be worried about it."
Right because we can’t introduce more floura within development. this isnt binary.
To pay for the 15 minutes it would take a person to look at this issue and fix it they’d need a lot of impressions. Far more than they lose by just blocking the site.
thanks for the feedback. as replied earlier, Base64.ai neither stores the images you sent, nor the extracted data. We provide the power and extensibility of the cloud without the risks of a data breach. Base64.ai complies with GDPR requirements too. Our SOC-2 compliance report details the extend of security measures we take for your data. Happy to share the report for your review under MNDA.
Bitcoin is the most eco-friendly currency because it can be mined by otherwise-wasted energy sources like gas flares.

https://www.whatisbitcoin.com/news/bitcoin-is-an-energy-solu...
You both use your lightning app connected to a LN payment processor which already has the necessary channels open with other nodes and/or payment processors.
If you compare the money (resources) spent bitcoin mining and the money (resources) spent operating the world’s central banks, then the costs are similar.
Here is something completely different: https://github.com/gcb/mk6

you can "write" (or even read) the screen shot in very simple HTML5 (soon markdown) and a CSS file will magically make it kinda-look like windows/gnome/kde/osx/ios/android.

goal is both to have fully accessible "screenshots" in documentation and to ease the authoring for developers. Mostly because i was tired of having a VM with default vm themes just to create screen shots :)
In many cases this is incorrect. Bitcoin's mining network is the first global energy market that unlocks stranded energy (energy produced too remotely to be profitably inserted into any grid) and brings its value to society.

Natural gas producers are TODAY starting up miners to burn excess gas that would otherwise be flared. The concept has been productized - https://www.upstreamdata.ca/ - and is live.
It's short for "Hoptoad" (which was also its uucp address), from Kenneth Grahame's book "Wind in the Willows". His house in the San Francisco Haight is known as "Toad Hall", of course!

However his nickname is not "Toad" but "Gnu" (his ITS account was GNU@AI), before project Gnu adopted the same three letters as a recursive acronym.

John Gilmore also used to have "Jesus.com", but he let Jesus.com expire. But after it died and came back from the dead many times, the Metropolitan Community Churches finally ended up with it. They're pretty cool as far as Jesus freaks go, so you can rest assured that Jesus.com is in good hands.

I wonder what the whole story is behind Jesus.com's journey? It's probably more twisted than sex.com.
Oh, I see. The new news is that the course materials other than the videos have now been posted.
Robinhood, Melvin, Citadel executives expected to testify in Congress on GME
Aside from the Beautiful Soup library, is there something about Python that makes it a better choice for web scraping than languages such as Java, JavaScript, Go, Perl or even C#?
This made me realize I had no SPF record set on my personal domain name, which I don't use for sending emails.

https://serverfault.com/a/293123
What is the limiting factor though? Do they not eat out more because they don't have time to travel to the restaurant, or because they can't/don't want to pay for it? Seems to me like the bigger chunk of that 40% would fall into the second category, especially when talking about higher end experiences.
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Let's Encrypt isn't the only provider supporting ACME either. Sectigo (under the ZeroSSL name) is a notable alternative.
In the grand scheme, the "tons" (or rather, gigajoules) of energy wasted by the Proof-of-Work are nothing. The Sun radiation that hits Earth every second dwarfs this consumption.

Also, one of the definitions of life is "a local decrease in entropy, at the cost of a global, larger, increase in entropy". By this criteria, every living being is a bad thing for the universe, because it accelerates the global heat death ever so slightly.

I guess my point is, some uses of energy are acceptable, even desirable. And every use of energy accelerates the heat death of the universe, but we humans are insignificant on this scale; there is really nothing that we can do to even accelerate our Sun's death. We're not even Kardashev-1 :)
Presumably they use affiliate links.
This is good evidence of the strict separation of algorithmic and advertising systems.
A Clubhouse room fooled audience of thousands with an old Kanye West interview
Wouldn't the mining hardware become obsolete in like a year or two max?
Value of Humanity is negative given environmental impact
Money. Money is what's necessary to win an election in America.
That sounds really interesting! I'll definitely keep an eye on this.
> Bitcoin is looking more and more entrenched

Is it? I get that from the perspective of people holding BTC it must be the network effect that gives it value. Otherwise what differentiates it from any of the multitudes of other cryptocurrencies that have been created?

It still looks an awful lot like a big casino to me. A popular one, sure, but still a casino. Not a currency.
:D

(A few months ago, I actually gave the game a try. I had a good time and it was very funny to post about.)
typo while trying to uninstall a different package, and I guess they never noticed the package.json change
OP here: That's <$1 per image :) I'd venture to say that's a good deal, any way you slice it.
I really like this idea. Seems almost crazy that it hasn't been done before