skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It‘s probably <1% that are true believers

Yay, I was the 1%!

Until I left in like 2015 when it became clear what a disaster it is and that it won't be able to fulfill its original purpose anyway. I'm very surprised the price is still soaring, shouldn't the best currency win? You seem to be right about the 99% idea, though the remaining 1% is not a true believer (you can't seriously be interested in the tech and miss this little fact) but rather people blinded by the additional promise of getting rich.
Is this still working for you? cfscrape that it’s based off looks to be failing due to cloudflare updates
The story lacks details, since the journalist asked or included none of the obvious questions a reader might have, so commenters are filling the gaps in creative ways.

They should be seeking out better information, instead, but filling the gaps is what link aggregation sites are about now.
> I think it's because people value victory more than truth.

This is undoubtedly the case for many people. Its also likely that some have not been exposed to a charitable a count of their oppositions’ values.
KeePass for the win! https://keepass.info/
This is a pretty common and old idea, dating back to the original xbox, which was basically "just" a normal pentium processor with an nvidia gpu.

For various reasons, though, this sort of emulation has a lot of pitfalls. Either you directly run a lot of the console's firmware and e.g. try to implement the hardware devices in QEMU, or you try to recreate the console OS/firmware at a higher level, mimicking the underlying APIs. Neither are easy tasks. Take a look at the original xbox -- the emulators available aren't really great, even after nearly 2 decades of hard work.

Of course, any complex emulator is hard -- just pointing out this isn't really as much of a shortcut as it may seem. The biggest upside is just (potentially) performance, as you don't need to interpret or translate CPU instructions.
Oculus vet on the challenge using Unreal's MetaHuman in social VR
China’s First Mars Mission, Tianwen-1, Reaches the Red Planet
In the kids defense, the subject of most things NPR does run don't have impact on your daily life.
Seems like a marketing problem. They did the "Ruby 3 will be 3x3x3" thing years ago when Ruby 3 was first started. Unfortunately(?), 2 development didn't stop for 3 and 3 performance features were backported.

It's a lesson on promises. They shouldn't have made the "3x faster" promise until 3 was at the RC stage. Making it as early as they did pretty much set them up for failure. Maybe they didn't predict that 3's development would take as long as it did, IDK.

Hype the features you have, not the ones you will have.
Show HN: Rust server example: auth with actix on sled
Has been done in fiction: https://www.amazon.com/Princess-Astronaut-Vivienne-Kumar/dp/...

In reality, the number of astronauts is pretty limited as is the number of princesses so it is just probabilistically unlikely that there is some combination.

In fact, I bet the percentage of princess astronauts vs. non-princess astronauts is pretty close.
make your own kind of net! HTML and CSS are cool again
> That attitude might work for arguments like mathematical proofs, but we're talking about social policy here. It's too complex for that kind of certainty, so trust and good faith matter.

That's absolutely ridiculous. You can evaluate the policy and make an educated assessment as to what its effect will be. The person suggesting the policy is not some kind of oracle, they don't have some mystical ability to foresee how the policy will play out in practice. So again, their intent doesn't matter, only the content of the policy does. This smells an awful lot like a way to discard the policies of people you don't like without attacking the policies on their merits.

> That is not in fact what's happening today, which is why the response consists of social policies like affirmative action instead of stuff like garnishing the wages of the descendants of slaveholders to repay the descendants of slaves.

You make it sound as though affirmative action is without cost to the people who don't benefit from it. Even the least-intrusive form of affirmative action, where organizations must actively ensure their employment processes are not discriminatory, have a cost. But I'm not opposed to that piece specifically.

What is more often costly to individuals is affirmative action that is implemented in the form of a hiring quota. If you lose a job versus someone who looks good for "quota" purposes, sure, your wages aren't garnished by the government directly, but you lost out all the same. And then you might say something like "they're white, they'll be fine, they can just get a job somewhere else." As if to imply that all white people come from privileged enough backgrounds that it's not even an issue worth caring about.

> I even alluded to that.

If you're going to have a conversation about something like social policy, perhaps do something better than "allude".

> Another way to look at it is the wrong wasn't solely committed by the individuals involved (e.g. slaveholders), but by the government and other institutions that enacted policies like slavery and Jim Crow. The government and those institutions still exist, and have the responsibility and ability to take corrective action.

Here is the problem. A government is not an entity that exists in the same way as a person, or even a company does. Saying that "the government" must take corrective action really means _all of the American people_. And that gets right back to the issue of fairness, because as soon as you start spending government money to solve this problem, you spend taxpayer money.

> Running with examples is like running with scissors; they're both bad ideas that can turn to serious errors.

Closing with a comment like this -- suggestive of a slam dunk -- seems like the more serious error when a great many parts of my argument went completely unaddressed.
People said the Xbox one was just a Windows PC with a proprietary UI as well, but you really have to understand what went into making it before you determine if that’s true:

https://youtu.be/U7VwtOrwceo

But yes, if you could break the security and implement the (many) private APIs, you wouldn’t necessarily need to emulate (although it might be legally and technologically easier to emulate a ps5 than re-implement everything).
I didn’t get the article either. My take from 20 years ago was that the book is about a moderately successful but self-loathing bootlegger’s extremely elaborate suicide, spending himself to death, the tragedy being that nobody understood or cared; all anybody saw was the party.
Shipping costs from the moon to anywhere on earth is probably pretty minimal, since you could do it with a catapult and a shell+parachute so the goods survive re-entry. I doubt mass would make a big difference there so much as volume.

Shipping costs from earth to the moon is $10 000/KG IIRC though, which, if we assume that a processor weighs 10 grams and costs $100 means the value of the stuff you're selling is $10 000/KG, i.e. you can't make a profit on them.

But, suppose you ship 50% of the processor's materials up (with a convenient 100% efficiency of raw materials usage), and you mine the other 50% locally. Which, does the moon have silicon? Yes, it has plenty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_resources#Resources

I suspect lunar silicon would be more expensive to process than terran silicon, primarily due to the lacking skilled labour market in the area. It would likely need to be extensively automated, and likely re-invented from the ground up around the different atmosphere (which while not breathable, is possibly still not clean enough for a cleanroom), gravity, potential power sources (metallurgical coal is a no-go, mainly because there's no easy oxygen but also because coal is quite expensive there).

While it's possible that some raw materials are cheaper on the moon than elsewhere (e.g. platinum from asteroids), I doubt this is the case due to the previously mentioned potential for cheap moon-to-earth shipping.
Not all oil is the same. There's a reason that while Canada is massively a net exporter of oil (especially to the United States), boats from the Middle East show up on the regular. Common misconception. [1]

[1] https://www.aboutpipelines.com/en/blog/why-does-canada-impor...
Do both Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Switch use an ARM processor?
The joy of collecting timeless engineering posts
Great idea! I'll keep using the main hacker news site, but I'd love an easy way to go from a hacker news story to the related audio discussion. I'd probably use a chrome extension that takes me from a website to its related discourse.fm audio discussion.
"Hmm, I bought this domain V1Y1... What should I do with it?"
> Wrong answer..

That comment doesn't provide any value.

> You want to make it such that facts added by anyone can be easily imported with a simple opt-in.

OpenStreetMap is much larger than just me or one company.

> GDPR data portability could be expanded to include defined formats for export so that import can be done in an automated fashion.

Imports are not an easy problem - how do you deal with conflicts? How to verify which data is more accurate?

Imports are supported, and there is a detailed process for them to make sure OpenStreetMap stays well maintained: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines
> Let's get some laws passed to require miners in your area to use only renewable energy

Even if every major country on earth requires PoW systems to use renewable electricity (which won't happen any time soon in the first place) and can't run on the regular mixed grid, then after switching to countries without such laws (until there are none left), the renewable energy will be bought up at the source and the coal and gas plants will continue to supply everyone else. Nothing changes.

We need to change everything else to renewable before this really starts to be effective. It would make a much bigger impact if some countries, where users want to use cryptocurrency, make it illegal to use proof-of-work-based goods or currencies (whatever it's classified as). Suddenly a coin with PoS or something else becomes much more popular and we might, perhaps, shift over to a digital coin that is not a climate disaster.
Imperial explicitly endorses the use of all the weird fractions and measuring tenths of an inch with a measuring tape is simply not a thing that would ever happen in the US.

I hate converting between 3/8ths and 7/32nds all the time. It's such a stupid system, and I miss metric.
The Crypto-Chernobyl
> The problem with all these Linux/BSD attempts at mimicking the Mac is that due to the nature of the open source components, they are mostly able to mimic the "look" but never the feel.

That's not an open source problem, it's a bazaar vs. cathedral problem. If you built a proprietary system out of 3rd party components, it would have this problem, and an integrated FOSS environment wouldn't (ex. KDE).
If you’ve got a bitmap you’re almost there, you can stream that bad boy over the bus to SDL for rendering.
You may like this somewhat recent story, I enjoyed the link a lot for some background on the petrodollar idea.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25407583
Well, sure, no asset will track inflation in any particular country with a perfect correlation, but the markets are pretty good at minimizing arbitrage. I'm sure Venezuelan holders of gold or cryptocurrencies appreciate its use as a hedge.

https://www.goldbroker.com/charts/gold-price/ves
I think you're vastly overestimating the budget the EPA is given and mistaking the goals that that money is meant to accomplish. Making some vendors that give politicians money look bad isn't a desired outcome.
> Mostly because the primary message of the book explained to us by teachers was that it was basically a story about a man who was so deeply in love with a woman who he didn't get to date, he had built great riches and life for himself. And yet none of that extravagant lifestyle could satisfy his desire for her, and it all ends in a tragedy. Something something greed something something green eyes are a symbol of his undying light for her or something.

Oof. No wonder. When I read it during high school, my English teacher specifically talked about it as a commentary on the society of the time, especially about class. I still remember him pointing out that Nick was a Yale graduate (he mentions "New Haven" early) and that we needed to keep in mind the perspective the narrator brings to the story - a background shared with Daisy and Tom, but detached due to coming back from the war. Even if I was too young to fully appreciate what the narrator brings to the story, reading with that understanding really gave the book depth, and it was quite clear it wasn't celebrating any of the characters.
.. and even if Chrome had removed WebSQL back then, couldn't that have just kept using whatever version of Chrom e they were already using?
If Target had its most profitable year ever with prices similar to Amazon's and no commingling, why should I worry about that happening?
Sometimes it's also helpful to use beautiful soup to isolate the elements you want, feed the text of the elements into StringIO and give that to read_html.
> Is there any reason they couldn’t just start with multipatterning 193nm immersion?

Time, yields, line size.

Quadruple patterning quadrupples the lithography steps counts. And quadrupples thermal cycles. Which adds more than 4x impact on the number of bad wafers.

100% - 2% * 4 != 100% * 0.98⁴

You need 4x the equipment to complete the same volume of wafers in the same time, which means 4x the line length.
That makes no sense. We don't have enough renewable electricity yet to replace existing electricity consumers, and 90% of energy consumption is non-electricity and will still need to be switched over to be electric (insofar as we can), let alone if we invent a new waste of electricity in the form of a get-rich-quick-scheme. We don't need more problems.

Don't use proof of work systems, or admit that you're in it for your personal gain and the planet can turn to semi-literal hell for all you care.
Not sure I agree.

We expect heads of state to be able to have “private” discussions while knowing the other heads of state they may be communicating with. I can have “private” conversations with my partner, even though people know who that is.

You can also choose to anonymously communicate with no privacy, Reddit or 4chan style...

They may not be totally orthogonal, but I don’t think either privacy nor anonymity are encapsulated by each other.
The equipment industry is global. US, European and Japanese companies make up most of the largest equipment suppliers. Regardless of where they’re headquartered, most of those companies also have global R&D footprints.
I don't see any mention of the hundreds of dollars of fees and car and airplane trips to banks and governmental offices to sign dozens of papers that are necessary to transfer between un-allied/distant countries - the exact thing where Bitcoin absolutely shines and is used for that a lot. People say how there's always an alternative without thinking about what that alternative is exactly.
What "cash level privacy"? Banks have to report all significant cash transactions and ensure that customers can't deal large quantities of cash anonymously; and in the exact same manner they would also have to report all significant e-cash transactions and ensure that every customer with whom they deal large quantities of e-cash can't be anonymous.
Woo, go team!

Love that the US is bringing critical technology supply chains back onshore.
The FDA has gotten more serious about pacemaker security due to some incidents that were entirely accidental in nature but implanted medical devices having any sort of wireless networking capacity scares the willies out of me.
Or nobody really cares about these bricks except for puffy PR pieces and questions about material lifespan aren't really interesting to the reporter printing about bricks stronger than concrete.
I think article explains well how much faster Ruby got and compared to what.

I think it is important to talk about this topic and performance. I agree that Ruby is plenty fast enough for many things.
> To do that on Windows or Linux (I use Mint in my PC) I think I'll have to print the Image as a PDF and then use some other software to "stitch" the two files together.

Actually the process on Linux is similar. On the PDF file, Right-click > Open with LibreOffice (which I believe is installed by default on Mint), then just drag the image onto it. You don't even have to open it, you can just drag the file. On KDE you can even drag it directly from the screenshot software window to the PDF.
Maybe earthquake risk (though they are still in earthquake prone areas elsewhere)? https://semiengineering.com/recent-earthquakes-highlight-ris...
I think Joyce was great, and I have a lot of respect for what he's done on his work regarding form, but I tried really hard and it was unbearable to keep on reading Ulysses - I got past half, but had to abandon - and this is coming from someone really used to 'hard' reads.
I used to work on machine learning data to cleanse and productize data sets for hedge funds. I understand the information access really well. It used to be industry only knowledge that the FED QE will pump the market. Now every retail trader knows it. Alot of things that we are taking for granted now, weren't widespread knowledge previously. Hedge funds have less of an information edge than you think. The insider credit card information they trade off of quickly loses alpha. All of the funds own the same data sets and essentially compete away the profits. Alot of their returns come from pure momentum and trend following, which honestly, doesn't take a rocket scientist. We are only at the beginning of the proliferation of information.
China is the greatest external threat to the civilized world. To preempt the standard responses, no, China is not a civilized nation.
The kinds of people who are moving a billion dollars cash and don't want any record it through the traditional financial system have another solution if someone fucks with the deal -- they kill them.

Everyone else will do whatever kind of wire transfer you do for moving a billion dollars.
I've driven cross country a bunch of times. I'd give the roads a lot better than a D. I have to wonder if this institute is biased in some way.
That was really only the case in the last decade and now no longer the case with M1 chips. Before that we had a wonderful plethora of different personal computers.
My understanding is that clients would have to use an outdated version of Chrome, which is probably an untenable ask.
Also they could have called it 2.8 and had an extra 2 years to make it happen
Wow that website is awful. Full screen popup, followed by fixed top and bottom bars.
A lot of matrix clients are designing it how you mention.

As an example, the app would be called Snikket and when a user makes an account, they’re on the Snikket matrix server by default. They don’t even know they’re using matrix protocol.
>I highly doubt that the HR went from 0 to a hire in <1 week. The hired candidate was obviously already in a more advanced stage of the interviewing process when the OP was asked to make a presentation.

That doesn't change anything. The company had no idea if the other candidate would pass the final interview or accept the offer until the very moment when they did, at which point they would have canceled OP's presentation. And that's what they did.

>They asked for a presentation knowing that there's a very high chance it will be meaningless.

So are you saying the better option would be for the company to say "well, there's a small chance we might hire you, but instead of giving you the opportunity we're just going to go ahead and reject you without even giving you the chance"? No, that's disrespectful.

>They didn't have the courtesy to sit through the presentation they asked for

Telling the candidate to waste their time giving the presentation that they already know won't change any outcome is disrespectful. If that had happened, we would all be here commenting about how the company is assholish for wasting OP's time by making them give a pointless presentation.
You need someone like the US Digital Service doing this with DHS. This gives you the force of federal law enforcement but the competence of skilled infosec practitioners on tours of duty short enough to enable high (“market rate”) comp but also results driven engagements. Bring back Chris Krebs, have this executed as part of CISA.
But more interestingly, the article mentions it was widely reported.
That totally makes sense. HN remains the "source of truth" - this is just supposed to be another means of discussing stories. A browser extension is a very sensible way of getting the best of both worlds
Filming Police in France May Get You 1 Year in Jail If This New Bill Passes
I'm not so sure that China's involvement may work out as well as you may think.

Africa was badly damaged by colonialism, and what China is doing smells a lot like that.

Africa is insanely resource-rich, with faltering administrative infrastructure (governments). Great place for rapacious capitalists. They love that kind of situation.
Do people not seriously think about why the Iraq war happened? Everyone accepts that the WMD rational was disingenuous, so then why?

It just so happened to coincide with Saddam starting to sell oil for Euros, and France and Germany just so happened to oppose the war.. but it's probably nothing to do with oil and dollars.

Gaddafi wanted to sell oil for Gold. In that case Europe and the US were on board with removing him. Why then, when he'd been in power since the 70s?
Dolphin (wii / gc emulator) blog is great: https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/
All this talk about waste without mentioning waste electricity one single time. Why nobody puts any thought into these criticisms? Anybody can calculate the total energy consumption and we've seen it a million times already. How about uncovering where that energy actually (not theoretically) comes from?
Most people don't understand what it's like to work on a large C++ or Rust code base. Compilation time is a huge factor in productivity.
Fully agree.

For me Go is the ultimate "scratch the itch" language. Knowing C already, I learned everything I needed to know about Go in an hour or two. I see it as a faster and better version of Python, in that it's fairly readable, but unlike Python you can compile to native binaries and deploy on any platform (including Windows) without any fuss.

Personally I don't see it as competing in the same space as Rust. I've dipped my toe into Rust a few times and the language feels like way more effort than it's worth for the sort of glorified shell scripts I want to do in my personal time.
There are transmission losses, but they're not that great.

Please point out which power plants were built especially for proof of work mining. The others were apparently built with something else in mind and their power is now being wasted on western people's get-rich-quick schemes.
I am not seeing the same site as you at all, I have a fixed navbar(although it has a silly animation) and right side, and I didn't get any popup.
You say "strung along", I say "they were willing to give OP a chance at the job even though OP was not fully qualified for it, and when it was decided that the role was no longer available to OP, they told OP that rather than having OP waste their time giving a pointless presentation that wouldn't have changed anything".
> You have to take into account that we are at the birth of a new asset class [like] the stock market

Or it could be like tulip bulbs, beanie babies, or International Postal Reply Coupons (what Charles Ponzi sold everybody on investing in). Or it might not be a new asset class at all. It's not like there's a finite supply of integers.
>I mean, look at CUPS and KHTML!

CUPS and KHTML existed far before Apple borrowed them.
Sounds just like a bunch of bandaids applied to a deep gash wound.