skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, let replace Hiroshima bombing with Fukushima disaster. Imagine that instead of 62 dams broken bi Nina typhoon, about 10 nuclear reactors were flooded instead. (We don't need a flood control when we use nuclear energy. Right?) How many deaths you will expect in addition to drown and ill in this imaginary case?
> But seriously, a test I don't have easy access to is not an alternative.

Do you have access to the custom Apple Watch app they used here? I don't either.

Health authorities could make either of these available to the general public -- the parent poster is making a comment about which is more valuable under the assumption of access.

You're not wrong, a test you don't have access to obviously has no predictive value for you, but right now we (the public) have access to neither, so this isn't a distinguishing factor.

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."
Which is where most energy is derived from, so it's ruining the planet.
Or, even better, https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask-fonts

1. No GUI needed

2. Discoverable and searchable directly through Brew
Go is much easier to learn and get up and running compared to Rust in my experience. It's great for writing servers and multi-threaded applications. Rust can be used to optimize but you'll probably get a lot of mileage out of golang before having to switch.
Yeah right now you get a sporadic one here and there and we're trying to make it a consistent experience all in one place. Reminds me of early days when I started using airbnb - I was also randomly doing this on craigslist...
right now Wasp DSL is pretty much the config file, it isn't much more expressive. Short term benefit is that this way we can provide nicer & more intuitive syntax (config files like json/yaml can quickly become very nested and hard to read).

Longer term, we plan to add support for inline-JS, so you could e.g. mix JS and Wasp code (instead of just referencing js imports as it works now). We will also add some basic language constructs (expressions, conditionals, multiple wasp files) so we might get more similar to e.g. Starlark or Terraform's DSL.
Sounds like every announcement of "nothing will change" of any recently acquired company, before the product is shut down and tranformed to something completely different...
Anti crypto sentiment by the mainstream media. So expected...
Proof of space, too. See e.g. https://www.chia.net
Bitcoin helps to solve a massive problem (centralization) so I wouldn't say it's not worth it. That said, there are many PoS and DPoS cryptocurrencies to choose from which use almost no electricity and would actually help to decentralize the economy much better than Bitcoin could on its own.

...We can't achieve decentralization by pooling all of the world's money on a single asset. That makes no sense.
I've seen this comment before, and honestly I think it's cheap. This article is about a clear, real problem with the current implementation of Bitcoin, namely that it requires enormous amounts of energy. I am not "anti-Bitcoin", I am anti a payment and financial storage protocol that requires gargantuan amounts of energy.

So if you have a problem or comment on the article in question, please make it, we're all ears. But responding to valid criticisms of Bitcoin with hand-wavy "oh HN is so anti-Bitcoin" is not discussion, it's tribalism.
It's coming with Ethereum 2.0. The transition process to Eth2 is on the way, it is estimated that they will finish by 2022.
Investments are made to fund value creation.

What value did they create?

If the underpinnings of an economy accrue value purely to speculators while devaluing (in BTC-relative terms) actual assets and value creation, it has a major incentive problem.

What’s the one and only thing Bitcoiners want you to do with Bitcoin? Buy. That’s it. Any other use, including spending, is actively discouraged.
Bitcoin currently consumes roughly the energy used to power one quarter of CANADA.

I'm optimistic that there is a better way to store a ledger as you describe. Perhaps a database?
>What DuPont knowingly did, sacrificing our health for their profit, would be unbelievable except that it happened.

Why would that seem unbelievable to you? Aren't there countless examples of corporations harming humanity for profit?
This. Removing the commute has a much higher impact on emissions than changing your car.
Apple defines tracking to mean something specific:

> Tracking refers to the act of linking user or device data collected from your app with user or device data collected from other companies’ apps, websites, or offline properties for targeted advertising or advertising measurement purposes.

How will Apple enforce this? You can, for example, turn off data sharing in Google Analytics to disallow Google to use the data you collect for their own advertising purposes.
They are known as "proof of stake".

The way it works is that "validator" nodes confirm the blocks. The validators are randomly chosen based on the percentage they have staked.

You stake by owning the coin and locking it up using a staking mechanism tied into the protocol. This locks up your coins for a set period of time.

If a validator does not validate correctly or fakes the transactions then they run the risk of being "slashed". Slashing means they forfeit what they have invested.

Usually you need to stake $10K+ USD but there are also pools where people can combine their money.

Both pools and proof of work mining farms suffer from large groups consolidating the validation power.

One of the newer blockchains (Caradano) introduces the concept of a penalty for large pools in favor of having lots of smaller validators to make the network more resilient to a single group having too much validation power. This encourages decentralization.
That's not just ads or finance, that's all of capitalism. (If I'm good at programming I have to convince a farmer its in his interest to give me food, even if he doesn't need my software.) And communism has its own problems.
A lesson in recognizing, supporting, and defending public goods.
obviously, but you still don't know how much greater the bitcoin amount is the porn amount.

Also how much bitcoin is mined in Argentina, obviously less than 50% of the world's bitcoin - but how much less!?!
> The cash is devalued not on a whim, but to prevent collapse.

Tell that to Venezuela.
Doesn’t matter. Most of the coins have already been mined. New entrants must buy from old entrants.
It's shocking how many people don't even both to consider this when attacking Bitcoin. They will eventually capitulate but the FOMO regret of not having bought in really has people campaigning against Bitcoin.
The data I've seen is spotty at best; maybe 40% of mining in China occurs in Inner Mongolia and is based on coal?

That said, lets take a first principles approach.

- Miners want low cost energy.

- Renewables are the lowest cost energy.

- Miners are not restricted geographically (can mine anywhere cheap energy is, beam bits through satellite internet).

- Cost curves of renewable energy look very promising.

- Social trends and political trends look very promising.

If you believe in efficient markets, then it should be obvious as to what the next 10 years of energy production (and Bitcoin mining) look like.
Very impressive shaders, though I wonder what the performance will be. I guess these might be fine for single player games where there are 10 to 15 characters on screen at a time but I doubt they are ready for use cases in MMORPGs or similar games.
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PoW lacks fairness, most of the rewards go to folks who can allocate capital to very expensive mining operations. I would actually argue that PoS might be more fair/accessible than PoW is now.
I love the ability to record a macro, I use it all the time. But unfortunately only one macro can live in memory at any one time.

I was hoping for the ability to record a macro, and then 'save' it somewhere for future reuse (possibly by binding a shortcut to it).

The link you point to seems very interesting to me for this reason. If that means what I think it means, then that is a good workaround for me, so I wanted to make sure: can you bind a shortcut to a string which uses ansi sequences to simulate keystrokes, and something like, e.g. "^R" to simulate pressing control+R?

If that's the case, while I cannot "record and save" per se, I could still use this technique to bind a key to a series of keystrokes, like I would with a macro inside the editor.
Don’t agree with what he says let’s attack his intellect...

“originates from the fact that it escapes his alleged ‘expertise’”

“he’s basically clueless on the topic”
1940s Transhumanism is a merger of Science and Religion
I finally got to read WD Lighthall's 1940 essay for myself. In it, Lighthall describes "Paul's transhumanism", and connects it to a cosmic vision of substrate-independent minds, radically different intelligences, and unlimited human transformation.

Lighthall also seems to anticipate the connection between ultimate life and our future prospects, that is key to the Simulation Argument, and concerns about the Fermi Paradox.

As the first recorded use of "transhumanism", it is both profoundly transhumanist, and profoundly religious.
My last contract job was to build a 100% perfect website mirroring program for a group of lawyers who were interested in building class action lawsuits against some of the more henious scammers out there.

I ended up building like 8 versions of it, literally using every PHP and Python library and resource I could find.

I tried httrack, php-ultimate-web-scraper (from github), headless chromium. headless selenium, and a few others

By far the biggest problem was dealing with JS links...you wouldn't think from the start it would be such a big deal but yet..it was.

Selenium with python turned out to be the winning combination, and of course, it was the last one I tried. Also, this is an ideal project to implement recursion altho you have to be careful about exit conditions.

One thing that was VERY important for performance was not visiting any page more then once because, obviously, certain links in headers and footers are duped sometimes 100s of times.

JS links often made it very difficult to discover the linked page, are certain library calls that were supposed to get this info for you often didn't work.

It was a super fun project, and in the end considering I only worked for 2 months, I shipped some decent code that was getting like 98.6% of the pages perfectly.

The final presentation was interesting...for some reason my client I think got in his head that I wasn't very good programmer or something, and as we ran thru his list of sample sites expecting my program to error out or incorrectly mirror the site, but it handled all 10 of the sites about perfectly and he was rather flabbergasted because he told me it would have taken him a week hand clicking the site for the mirror but instead the program did them all in under an hour.
The real question is: why the cop should shoot the suspect in the first place, even if it was actually them in the backyard, and not some innocent man?

Unless they're drawing their guns at you, why the fuck would the police in a western country "shoot" a suspect just like that? Even a suspect for armed robbery or murder or whatever?
I discussed this ~7 months ago in comments to another article. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23627864

Part of it seemed to be that I was querying an anycast server, the Google DNS server 8.8.8.8, which is probably many servers. So I wasn't hitting a cached entry because I was hitting a new server.

There are cache invalidation processes, the BIND name server has had one for ~20 years between authoritative servers. Google and Cloud Flare provide mechanisms for you to submit your own invalidation requests on a zone, and one could imagine a big provider like AWS doing that.

See the discussions in the above thread for more links to how to test and invalidate.
I also think it's weird too but decided it's my problem/snobbery even.

Universities have a bunch of roles and one of them is to teach skills you'll need in a given job. While some of those skills are truly general (problem solving, certain mathematics, thermo) you still learn the ones most common in your discipline. When you start a job as a new graduate you should have some familiarity in the tools and language of your discipline -- what units are used, how people talk (different disciplines can use different terms for the same thing), and yes, the most important tools. When I was an undergraduate we used Bridgeport mills (yes, it was pre CNC -- they were installed the very next year) because those were the common tools.

Many of the things I learned back then are obsolete, but I realize that most of the time was spent on the stuff that has lasted: diff eq, thermo, "deep skills". However I could not have been of any use to any employer if I didn't know (in my case) how to program a Lisp machine.
This is really cool. I sent it several paragraphs to translate and the results were quite understandable. On a quick check I don't think the quality is as good as Google Translate (currently), but it's pretty darn decent already & I expect it to keep getting better. No machine translator is going to be perfect... but for many uses that's fine, it just needs to be "good enough".

It comes up with some amusing translations. E.g., "Fruit flies like bananas" translates in French to "Les fruits volent comme des bananes" which is something like "The fruits fly like bananas." This is a standard example of translation problems (In "Fruit flies" is "flies" a verb or are we talking about the animals called fruit flies?).

I encourage people to contribute to the OPUS parallel corpus database (data or help): https://opus.nlpl.eu/
That's the training data set used by LibreTranslate. In general, the better the corpus used for training, the better the translation results will be.
Is Musk Manipulating Bitcoin Price Using Twitter
I don't think you appreciate the use of gold. For one, every chip is using it. Would we better off without semiconductors in exchange for a few less mercury ponds?
> I’m not a fan of the current inflationary economic policy, but in no way would a Bitcoin economy be a win for the average person.

Don't confuse the cause and effect. If there's massive inflation and bitcoin becomes highly relevant, you're losing if you hold USD, no matter what! The arrogant central bankers are the cause. Nobody is cheering for that. Bitcoin is just a hedge.

If you're afraid of stagflation and you want to park your money in something that holds value, what should you buy? Precious metals, which have been manipulated for decades? Property, in the context of yet another housing bubble?
It's already being done. There is a ton of financial transactions in the DeFi space happening on Ethereum right now and other protocols on other chains are rapidly being developed and rolled out.
It gets worse: DST in Indiana has to be handled on a per-county basis for anything prior to 2006.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana
Equivalency of status (power) and equity (wealth).

That is not a stable state in our reality though, which is why it falls apart at some point.
I guess the significant part now is that it's the latest Spring 2020 version of the course that's now available for free? Pretty cool!
Url changed from https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/bitcoin-..., which is based on this but doesn't (?) link to it.
> I get that from the perspective of people holding BTC it must be the network effect that gives it value.

Same as the Euro, USD, etc. then.

> It still looks an awful lot like a big casino to me.

Wall St. laughing in the background.
Could you give a ballpark figure for what you mean by large scale scraping? I've only worked on a couple projects, one was a broad (100K to 500K domains) and shallow (root + 1 level of page depth, also with a low cap on the number of children pages). The other just a single domain but scraping around 50K pages from it.
I used to deliver food to a burn unit in a hospital. I'm not going to deign this question with a response.
Why are watches an infection risk?
Is web scraping going to continue to be a viable thing, now that the web is mainly an app delivery platform rather than a content delivery platform?

Can you scrape a webasm site?
The value they created is a currency that's not controlled by a select few people.
DST mostly matters between about 35-50 degrees latitude. Less than that and the days are similar enough in length throughout the year that it doesn't really make sense to change clocks. And, as you say, much further north (or south) you have more light than you know what to do with in the summer and you're probably largely in darkness outside of work hours in the winter whatever fiddling you do.
> I'm at least somewhat sympathetic to people who don't want kids to be waiting for school buses or otherwise heading to school in pitch darkness in the winter.

That's another problem that needs to be fixed on its own, by moving the school schedules back an hour or two and making older grades start later instead of earlier. There has been enough research showing that the current schedule is horrible for learning.
Cost of wind and solar was going down already.

Bitcoin alone isn’t the driver.

Bitcoin is, however, consuming some of that new energy generation with a new consumption: Doing useless calculations to mine Bitcoin.

Bitcoin increases energy demand which also drives an increase in supply. We can’t take old power plants offline if the new hydro power is taken up by new mining operations.

It’s silly that we’re going to such lengths to try to respin Bitcoin’s absurd energy inefficiency.
Thank goodness for air strafing
>It aims to shift the usable daylight hours to correspond with human activity.

But it fails miserably at it.. Here in NYS all winter long it gets dark at 5PM. Summer, 9PM.

It's useless and just causes inevitable confusion every year.
I'm sure there is a market for this. I've had trouble sleeping off and on for years. Night shift early in my career has me suffering still.
It also doesn't help that most distros tend to package nano 2.9 or older, whereas the latest version is now at 5.5 with considerable improvements.
I worked on the tube for a while, in tunnels when trains were stopped etc. After work, I'd be filthy. I'd blow my nose and black gunk came out. God know what it does to your lungs.
You keep missing the point.
Sounds cool, although it still seems very early. Will keyboard shortcuts be primarily using Control or Super? As strange as it sounds, Control-driven keyboard shortcuts are one of the main things I think about every time I consider switching (and this is almost entirely because of the conflict of Control-C in the terminal).
The SEC has proven useless, especially with the latest GME fiasco.
https://github.com/eric-s-raymond

Scroll down to contribution activity. Forked a repo, created a pull request, etc, on Feb 1st 2021.
This feels like one of the "we have X at home" memes. The UI is all over the place.
I see the Rust Foundation being more important than the Mozilla Foundation in 5-10 years.
the calculations make sure the btc network works.
so it can't be useless. or do you dismiss ALL of btc as useless?
Let's discuss the total energy requirements of the entire financial system, which could arguably be replaced by cryptocurrencies and apps. I suspect crypto is a huge net win if we fully embrace it.
There is no alternative for the monetization of an asset. Gold was the same. Some people believed in it, many didn't, and as it monetized over time those that believed in it early benefited most.

The same is the case with anything valuable that might become money, including the USD, if you consider that it was originally distributed in a manner that was pegged to gold and that gold was monetized in the same way as described above. The idea that you could materialize a money in any other way is unsupported by history.
They both require large financial investments don't they? And both PoW and PoS have pooling options if you want to invest less.

I'm not seeing much difference in terms of accessibility. In theory PoS is easier because PoW requires actual hardware and/or more technical knowledge.
https://archive.is/LmseS
As a very low but presumably stable level of income of course. Almost certainly would be abject poverty if they still had a small population after thousands of years along with presumambly genetic issues from isolation and a population size small enough to not be detected. That classification would be vwey correct despite having first world romanticized "sustainable farming" and "traditional means of sustance". They would still certainly lack things like modern medicine let alone other tools like "iron farm implements" that they would have very poor ability to purchase.
So I guess this explains why search doesn't work as expected.
I agree it needs fixing but allegedly it's pretty hard to solve. The ideal regulator knows the industry inside & out. Best place to find these people? From the industry. But the appointment is only a few years long, and these people still need a job after their appointment ends.
That's not what a subsidy is.
Thus far...
No, you really can't do that easily and sometimes at all with "fiat". Which is why "money laundering" is a thing. Or drug cartels having the problem to stash or move hundreds of thousands of small dollar bills over North and South American borders.

A somewhat trustworthy state having control over or transparency into money transfers generally is a very good thing. If your government isn't trustworthy enough, you have bigger problems than the currency.
You don't need to necessarily be an engineer (I'm actually a physiologist) but some of them (not all) might require some sort of engineer somewhere in the process, whether that's a formally trained engineer or not.
Have a look at Big Sur, then check out Deepin, then have a look again at Big Sur.
Not to mention subpixel rendering and antialiasing, which can make a perceivable difference, e.g. text vs. video games.
Does anyone know of a good course to get started on AppleTV development?

I've tried getting started with a small hobby project multiple times, and I get something working, but the documentation I can find doesn't really help you get into more advanced stuff.
I think it's hugely inconvenient, I have to shift my waking and sleeping time by an hour twice a year and it takes at least a week to settle into the new schedule, and I have at least a half dozen clocks to shift time on, including one that needs a ladder.

Without DST why would I need to ask my boss to start an hour earlier? I've lived in places without DST and it was just fine, I didn't notice or miss any "extra" hour of daylight.
Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26082303