skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I do agree, this stuff is vastly more complex then just what the OP said.

But funnels are nothing more then how many people did Y after X.

If you record everything (say every single web request) you could easily do a query to find out that type of data and shove it in a table.
Eddie Izzard: "I'm simply asking people, cake or death? It's disingenuous to suggest that this is a loaded question. After all, people could choose death. I'm only presenting the options."
You still need to use oil, but you don't have to use dollars. The support for dollars relies on a lot of things including the government and thus the military, which are big costs and oil consumes. If the dollar didn't rely on the military power of the US, why is the Bretton Woods meeting and the post war monetary policy so important to it's dominance (something practically no one disputes)? Why is it that the US seems to care so much about pricing oil in dollars? You don't need a tinfoil hat (as other comments suggest) to notice the US government has a strong interest in everyone using our currency and that where the gov has a strong interest, it also uses it's guns.
Exactly, if this doesn't meet the threshold for their bug bounty program, why would anyone submit the bugs? At this point, the bug bounty programs are to encourage fair disclosure to the vendor with an economic reward to deter the other options. I Imagine the researcher could have sold that off to someone for a nice chunk of change.
Has anyone dipped their toe into this course at all? I wrote a very, very simple Android app several years back and have been intrigued by iOS development since the introduction of SwiftUI, but I'm not sure if there is material I should be familiar with before attempting this
That's a fair point, but I don't think the house of lords really represents a second chamber? Usually that second chamber consists of representatives of federate states, such as the senate or the Bundesrat.

How do the lords get elected?
The problem is, even if people buy guns to feel safer, it doesn't help. (It simply makes crime more violent. Guns don't deter crime.)

Politics is broken if the DA is not effectively enforcing laws. Guns can't fix it. (Just as every surveillance thread on HN has comments about "technology can't really fix this, it's a politics problem", guns are very much just technology when it comes to socioeconomics/politics of crime.)

Switzerland has very high regulation. Not just for guns, for everything. And a very effective (almost direct) democracy. And an almost universal very-very-very high standard of living. (Yet their suicide rate is pretty high! Used to be higher than the US' - https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/suicide-death-rates?tab=c... ) Gun ownership there is more of a cultural heritage, and very much not a safety device.
>trusted but malicious actors

I...think you might have bigger problems going on there. You're tryingto throw a tech solution at a problem that is fundamentally human in nature.

That tends to leave nobody satisfied.
It's a piece of fiction, of course, but explains a very similar attack vector in colorful details.

Using DNS for exfiltration is a nice trick but does not change much in the general approach.
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Release the free energy patents or btc dies
While I largely agree, the existence of volatile instruments (in the abstract) is a Good Thing in that it offers the possibility of rapid gains for people who are willing to accept risk but only have a small pile of capital, sort of like a poker game with no minimum stake (unless you want to treat the transaction fees as such).

Where else can you take those sort of risks? Stock fads like $GME are notable for their rarity because large capital holders benefit more from stability than volatility. You could gamble in a casino but people don't like betting against the house, which fills the role of a market maker. Volatile instruments like bitcoin are more like a casino where the dealer is paid a fee per hand but is not a participant in the game.
So you're saying we shouldn't worry about it - the planners will take care of it all while we wait for large scale investments in renewable power and soon to be invented load smoothing and battery technologies?

I hope you're right, but I'm not as sanguine as all that.
I think your analysis shows how valuable (literally) Bitcoin actually is.
Video games and porn sites serve some purpose. Bitcoin is virtual Monopoly money for libertarians.
Quality-minded as we are we faithfully transcribe coin flips until the tests are passing!
The ratio of energy spent running to energy spent producing is orders of magnitude higher for bitcoin rigs than for PS4s.

I disagree the comparison is useful.
Cheap is definitely arguable.
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Does the world need ANOTHER fitness app?
Indeed, the comment shows how valuable Bitcoin actually really is - it's pretty impressive.
I don't know if the 17th Amendment is also reaching too deeply for you, but it does say:

"The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote."

You could make the case that the constitution originally didn't create a country that perfectly implemented the ideals of a representative democracy, but that's trivially true due to slaves and women not having the right to vote.

It may also be fair to say that the Electoral College is still a compromise between representative democracy and representation of the individual states, but it does nevertheless approximate a representative democracy, especially when the winner of the popular vote happens to become president.
This is a good change. Compatibility for the sake of compatibility holds back software. Its one of the reasons why software is such garbage.

C is not a safe language. It can and should be replaced entirely by Rust, or similar new languages.

Please, just make software better.
Unless there's some weird A/B testing going on, the original article title is "6 Shopify Scams To Be Wary Of" which is far less provocative of a title.
Ethereum's social contract has evolved to become much more "fluid" and open to change than Bitcoin's. Mainline Ethereum today is is very different in many ways to what it was two years ago. There is even a proposal with a lot of support to have transaction fees mostly burned rather than mostly given to miners. Aside from minority forks, something like that would never happen in Bitcoin in a million years.

So, while Bitcoin techinically could switch to proof of stake, it probably won't.
Thanks—I've changed the title now. Submitted title was "Stanford Makes iPhone Development Course Free".

Submitters: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Gaming and computer hardware is ruthlessly optimized to be as energy-efficient as possible while Bitcoin mining is specifically designed to waste energy even though more efficient ways (PoS) exist.

Cable boxes used to waste massive amounts of energy (because GI/SA don't pay your power bill) and eventually the government stepped in to force efficiency. So no, Bitcoin isn't being unfairly singled out for criticism.
They don't have the same security, for example, the immutability property is seriously weakened, you cannot verify it anymore, we could argue it becomes federated among the stakers

But sure, most other things still seems to work (I'm not expert BTW)
The other reason is that the average person does not obviously derive value from its existence.
For this critique to be meaningful, it should compare vs. alternative approaches of storing and transferring value - including cash, which can’t possibly be environmentally friendly. Not just in production, but storage, transfer (I wonder what the MPG is on those Brinks trucks), and so forth.

I suspect Bitcoin still comes out behind, but at least it would be a meaningful comparison.
So what do you do about thoughts of others suffering while you live the good life? Do these kind of thoughts ever keep you up or torment you? Or how do you view a life of luxury while others die at a young age?
The median telecom technician in India[1] make $3,406 USD a year, while a US[2] one makes $55,878 USD a year.

It's certainly not a factor of 40, but at 16x it's still quite significant. I'm pretty sure the population density which is 10x higher can factor for the 2.5x remaining.

[1] https://www.payscale.com/research/IN/Job=Telecommunications_...
[2] https://www.salary.com/research/salary/benchmark/telecommuni...
tl;dr: Yes.

(Also that is one hell of a clickbait title.)
The SEC's aim is to prevent people from being defrauded, not from voluntarily throwing away money. Wonderful quote here:

> One of the core principles of market regulation in the U.S. is transparency—give investors information and let them decide. The GameStop drama was nothing if not transparent.

> “You can sell garbage to the public as long as you say to the public, ‘This is garbage and you’d be an idiot to buy it, but would you like to buy it?’” said Harvey Pitt, a former SEC chairman.

> What appears to have happened in recent weeks is that a massive wave of retail investors answered, “Yes,” to that question, current and former policy makers say.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/gamestop-frenzy-is-tough-call-f...

EDIT: remove needless snark
Seems like I lost my bet if those numbers are correct, kudos on doing the math!
You didn't include the production cost (energy input) to make the paper bills. I can only assume it's negligible but perhaps that should be stated.

The maintenance cost of the Tesla, however, is not neglibible. 660 miles will have measurable/accountable tire wear.

Most importantly, you didn't account for the utility value of the power. Teslas are charged with power that would otherwise be saved, and would not produce CO2, etc. Whereas my understanding is that BTC are mostly mined with excess power that would just go to waste if not used, eg "surplus" hydro generation. Of course that's not completely the case, but any analysis must be "full lifecycle" to hold any water.
Eradication of the income tax is highly regressive and creates outsized power and control for those who accumulate excessive amounts of capital.
If you actually want to have some interesting filters, I've found Snap Camera[0] is the easiest. It just presents itself as a virtual webcam and sends over the processed video so you can use it with pretty much any application.

[0] https://snapcamera.snapchat.com/
This is just ridiculous! I’m hoping for ETH with proof-of-stake to save the face of crypto soon.
Yes!
As this is a rarely discussed topic, I thought it was worth sharing :)
Really valuable insights; really shows how different independent SaaS is. For instance, 56% of founders are solo in indie SaaS, whereas a lot of traditional VC accelerators prefer (or require) at least two founders on a team.
This is very annoying. I sometimes want to see how BBC is covering events from a UK perspective, but it always redirects to bbc.com.

I could switch my VPN to UK, but it never seems worth the effort.
For some industries, it's not just correct, but very correct :-).

I have a bit of experience in working with a financial industry group that coordinated with regulators in different nations (US, EU, UK, Japan, Brazil, Singapore, etc.) in finalizing the details of rules for a fairly esoteric area of finance. None of this stuff is taught in schools except in the most general/theoretical terms. It's very complex and tough to understand without being well versed in: financial markets, stochastic calculus, derivatives, risk models, monte-carlo simulations, trade execution, inter-institution asset liabilities, etc, etc, etc. It's literally impossible to even know half this stuff the regulations covered exists without having worked in the industry for an extended period of time. Much less understand the implications of rules changes.

From the various calls I sat in on, a few things that became clear to me was that:

1) while industry did have a significant say in how the rules were eventually setup, the overriding goal was a) clarity and b) uniformity across jurisdictions. the exact details were (usually) not quite as important.

2) while regulators (i.e. government) left much of the details to the industry group, they a) set the broad goals and guidelines and b) did sometimes make decisions that nearly everyone on the industry side did not like. But those decisions were always accepted in the end (often with lots of offline complaining) -- industry didn't really have a choice.

3) regulators clearly had authority over industry even though the people there were ex-industry. They knew it and everyone in industry clearly knew it.

Essentially, it was regulators off-loading a bunch of work on industry. If they had to pay for it themselves, it would have cost a silly amount of money to set the rules for an sub-industry 99% of people have never even heard of.

Where corruption comes into play is what those "broad goals and guidelines" are. And that's decided at the legislative level, not at the bureaucratic level. Perhaps things are different for the EPA and manufacturing. I can't say as I don't have any experience interacting with the EPA.
Retrieval Augmented Generation with Huggingface Transformers and Ray
Usually the approach is to use a headless browser. The headless browser instance runs purely in memory without a GUI then renders the website you're interested in. Then, it comes down to regular DOM parsing. A common library that I enjoy is Selenium with Python.
Bitcoin mining does not waste energy in the same way cable boxes did. The more energy is "wasted" the more secure the network is.

This isn't an argument that it's worth the energy expenditure, or that there aren't alternate ways to get the same level of security, but it's an apples and oranges comparison.
I'm pretty sure the software was free.
> Do you have access to the custom Apple Watch app they used here? I don't either.

That's pretty immaterial when discussing theoretical effectiveness. Obviously, getting wide use depends upon it getting packaged up into an app listed on the app store, and some sort of awareness push.

That needs to be done once, by the app's authors. For lateral flow tests, to have similar effectiveness, that means that literally every Apple watch wearer (just to assume a similar population size) needs to get themselves a supply of tests (and keep getting new tests when they run out), and remember to perform the test every day. That is a much higher hurdle to jump than getting this app onto people's watches (assuming their study is correct and can be independently verified!). I also expect the supply of test kits is not robust enough to handle that kind of demand.

> Now, if you're making the argument that the Apple Watch app would be easier to distribute, then you can read the parent's criticism as "sure, but only knowing after you've potentially spread it is not very useful."

Reducing spread potential by 24 hours when you've perhaps been spreading it for a week already isn't exactly a game changer, but it's still useful, especially if the only thing people have to do is install an app on their watch. Expecting everyone to obtain rapid test kits and test themselves daily is in general a non-starter.
Exactly, the only people who think oil/gas/coal are fine are industry shills and the people who believe them.
Cable Bacteria
You can gain use computing to gain specificity from complexity though, and recognize that new specificity - i.e. brute force protein folding calculations.
Did the judge get consent from the parties involved?
It is a ublock list, or at least ublock compatible. You can import e.g. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jmdugan/blocklists/master/... as a custom ublock list and it will work fine. I've had these lists enabled in uBlock for years.
This is the default in Israel for many years now - all packages from the post office are routed to a local business near your address
How does this compare to other badge services like Shields.io?
it is not backed by any solid assets. This is dissimilar to any other form of currency which is backed by entire countries. In theory btc is no different to gold or anything, really, but in practice it is not universal enough to actually have any apparent value
Interesting take. Does the amount of money spent on Herbalife show how valuable it actually really is? What about essential oils or healing crystals?

In a tautological way, sure, everything's worth what somebody's willing to pay for it. But the above examples must call into question whether there is a distinction between what something is worth in dollars, and what its merit is.
Hi all,

I built this app because every time I want to find something to watch on my TV, I spend hours trying to select a great option. I hate watching mediocre movies, so it takes me time to find a high-rated option.

The problem is that streaming services are dumping on me their entire collection. I don't need to see 1000 bad options, I just need 1 amazing movie or show. In addition, I need to search every streaming service separately.

So I built Watch Something! All you need to do is answer three simple questions (i) your streaming services (ii) Whether you would like to see a movie or a TV show (iii) Genres you are interested in, and THAT'S IT! Watch Something, will provide 3 great options!
Bitcoin has undergone pretty massive updates in the last few years. Proof of stake doesn't seem that far fetched honestly.
Been scraping for a long time. If handling JS isn't a requirement, XPath is the 100% the way to go. It's a standard query language, very powerful, and there are great browser extensions for helping you write queries.
And the outcome has been exactly what in terms of TPS?
> Will keyboard shortcuts be primarily using Control or Super?

On linux, Super as the shortcut for window operation is gaining ground, leaving Control and Alt for the other shortcuts.

Control is idea for the text shortcuts (emacs: Ctrl-A for beginning, E for end etc), and Alt for the menus (ex: Alt-F for files) even if there are a lot of crossovers (ex: Ctrl-F for find)

> this is almost entirely because of the conflict of Control-C in the terminal

I would suggest you remap intr to ^X : stty intr ^X : the X and C keys are very close, so it becomes natural very quickly

I've seen quite a few people doing it, it inspired me to do the same: it very quickly becomes natural, far more that Shift-Ctrl-C

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1207183/how-to-map-keys-on-l...
Building a Secure CI/CD Pipeline for Terraform Infrastructure as Code
"Cash" is usually just 1s and 0s these days, at least in the US, isn't it? It doesn't require mining, unlike bitcoin.
A complete disassembly of The Legend of Zelda
If I got you right, you are talking about embedded DSL inside Javascript -> kind of like a library? Or about JS-like DSL, that is a superset of JS?

Our main drivers for creating a bespoke language were:
1. potential to create a completely tailored developer experience - as simple and nice as possible.
2. detaching from specific language - we want to be able to potentially support multiple languages in the future, especially on the backend.

How do you see it as a DSL that is still Javascript - I would love to hear more!
High-Fidelity Digital Humans in Minutes
Sure. In the US a warranty on any consumer product does not allow voiding or canceling a warranty due to third party parts or service, unless that same service was available at no ocst from the manufacturer.

This applies to not just normal periodic maintance/replaceable parts, but repairs after accidents, cosmetic upgrades, whatever.

So no, Apple cannot refuse to provide warranty replacement on your defective battery if you previously had the screen replaced with a third party after dropping it, since Apple does not provide free screens for negligance. Of course, if Apple can show that this replacement screen or its installation process is likely the cause of the battery not working, they can refuse to cover fixing the battery under warranty.

The problem here is that John Deere will claim that your bypassing their softwareware protections means you were running the tractor outside its design parameters, and that is why your transmission broke, not because it was defective or originally installed incorrectly by them.

To force them to reimburse you for failing to cover this under warranty you would need to convince the jury that it is more likely that the damage was from a defect or John Deere's incorrect installation than it was from side effect of you bypassing john Deere's software. Yeah, it could be rather tricky to convince them of that. Especially since you would already have had to pay for repairs, which likely means you don't have enough to pay for the lawsuit. (John Deere would need to reimburse your legal costs if you win the suit, but most of your time, aggravation and hassle is not reimbursable, and you need to be able to front the needed money in the first place).
>In the US, we have neither carbon taxes nor intraday prices.

Like, no intraday electricity market?
Gold did not emit half of all supply in the first 4 years.
Bitcoin's emission is nothing like Gold's.
> Also, even the general approach for game development--presumably there's some white boarding phase followed by a wireframe phase etc like you have with app dev? What does that look like in game dev land, what are some reasonable tools for hobbyists for each stage, etc?

If you're interested in learning more about this, I can't recommend enough The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses. The gist is that it's hard to make an actually fun game by working "from first principles", you need to iterate tens if not hundreds of times just to get a solid game idea down (more subtle aspects like balance may require thousands of iterations). So a lot of the work of a game designer is coming up with ways to iterate extremely fast, e.g. by making a prototype of the game using paper figurines and writing the rules in a google doc.
Interestingly, somebody pointed out in a previous discussion that a potentially significant interoperability hurdle (which is the case for the Qt libraries) is that, if a library makes use of multiple inheritance levels, it translates poorly into any language not supporting inheritance.
Ah, yes, the good old indoctrination that all authoritarian governments loved this last century.

When you get politics and ideologies to be taught in school, you're doomed. It's sad to see the US turning into this.
Most bitcoin mining is done with hydro or solar electricity, because it's either very cheap or free.

Both are renewable.

And even if it wasn't, who are we too tell people how to spend their energy? What we really need is a proper carbon tax.
My take on his presentation. I can't read any of the text on the first slide because it is way too small.

And I shall say that I am on a 1920x1200 screen. If the interviewer was watching on a corporate laptop this might be 2 pixels per letter.
Literally no one buying an EV is junking their car if its drivable. They trade it in where it offsets manufacturing another car.
It gets more complicated when you need to leverage real browser engines (eg Chrome). I've got jobs spread across ~ 20 machines/ 140 concurrent browser instances, it's non-trivial.
That's falsely equating fixed and variable costs. A mined bitcoin is useless if the network isn't burning electricity, whereas mined gold is continually useful after mining.
It works for me
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No, new bitcoins run out around 2140. From then on there will be no new bitcoin
Why is mining the only factor here? All currency has a quantifiable velocity of economic value, and that economy has environmental impact.
I strongly doubt there are any GANs involved, they are rarely used in production entertainment, and a solution doesn't really exist for vector geometry afaik. Likely very few scans as well. Just lots and lots of artist hours.