skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldnt even make that classification. SWIFT and ACH are not akin to L1 Bitcoin. Theres no way tech illiterate masses are going to physically move their btc on chain. For instance 95% of retail doesnt even move their btc off exchange. Their higher level "settlement" will be different from an institutional provider or exchange settlement where L1 is really used. SWIFT and ACH is used liberally (hence the high tx) because its used in many applications (like paychecks and high value purchases). That type of usage will never come to L1 btc. And that same system of SWIFT and ACH (or similar) will support BTC. Can think 3 layers if thats helpful.
The decade also makes a difference. When Fb and Twitter was launched, "blogging" was still a side passion thing, and the notion of an "influencer" hasn't really been invented yet, Reality TV was just beginning and people actually believed the reality tv show were not scripted. The major voices and grifters on CH are people who cynically play the social media game in the past decade, many of whom won in different domains such as IG and Youtube. They bring with them all the growth-hacking tools that made other platforms less interesting over time, except on CH it's happening from day one (or month 7).

What made early CH felt like the early internet is that none of the early users did that, they had IRL jobs and other platforms to voice their value.
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Yes. That's their point. So have solar farms. And gas plants. And a nuclear reactor.
> Totally disagree. Engineers are rational. If these were appropriately paid, engineers would go there and take the job

A lot of people don't know anything about FAANG, think it's unreachable or hold untrue beliefs about working for a FAANG company.

People are not rational, and engineers are still people.
Lightweight Is the Right Weight
You’re missing the point. Even if the ties had more capacity, the supply of power on the other side of the ties is not there. It’s a two-pronged issue, and you won’t solve the problem by only focusing on one of the prongs.
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If writing Bel did not make pg better at Lisp and programming generally I will be very much surprised. Producing something that anyone cares about for any length of time is more than almost any school project achieves.
That is wrong, given that the social justice movement in the US has been a thing since before 4chan existed.
> > And, the rights and freedoms that let the proletariat have a non-horrible life is therefore something to destroy, so that the proletariat will then have a reason to revolt?

> No, this was never Marcuse's argument. Instead he argued that not only are the majority of workers better off materially, within capitalism this comes at the cost of the loss of revolutionary potential.

I fail to see the difference between "they don't have a reason to revolt" and "loss of revolutionary potential". Given who you are, I suspect that you're using the second term in a technical way. Could you define it, or expand a bit on what you mean here?

> In other words, Marcuse thought there were problems with capitalism which are not captured purely in terms of the material wealth in Western countries.

I agree, actually. We have fed the body, and left the soul starving. (Is this what Marx meant by alienation?) It's better than people physically starving, but it's still not good enough. I doubt that revolution is the answer, though, nor changing the means of production. It seems to me that the problem is that people are expecting material prosperity to satisfy them, and it doesn't. Merely changing the means of production isn't going to fix that.
Most (all?) of Rail's iterators are available as lazy iterators, and I think ditto for core Ruby (it's literally `foo.lazy.each`). Not sure what you mean by "composable" that isn't also the case in Ruby; community standard definitely seems to be that an iterator dot chain doesn't change type (or when it does it's real obvious) making it easy to `.map`, `.select`, etc.
"Relatively constant over a year" seems very loose don't you think? In the past year we've seen an unprecedented injection of money into the system. Presuming you're living in the U.S. have a look south of the border to find out how every national currency is always a few economic policies from throwing inflation targets out of the window.
Nano is fast and free because it is not used much. How many transactions per seconds did they achieve? I think it was in the ballpark of a 100, much too low for a global currency. Let's say 10% of the earth population want to use nano once a week. Then you need 0.1×8e9/(7×24×60×60)~1000tps. Then it might replace paypal, but not cash or card, and the microtransaction usecase is even farther away.
Indeed it seems better than bitcoin, but that's a low bar by now. I do like nano's idea of voting weight delegation, it seems like an elegant solution to keep the power over the system in the hand of the user/owners.

At the moment I feel a centralized privacy coin would work best for me. Centralization brings performance and the private part avoids excluding participants.
The progress from "we can hit a region and maybe last a year" circa the Spirit/Opportunity era to the current state of "if we don't hit it we're close enough to drive to it" has been amazing.

Better computing resources, better simulations, better materials, better and cheaper process control have enabled engineers throughout the entire supply chain to do more with less and when you take snapshots of progress at multi year intervals like NASA does with its Mars missions the progress really shows.
> If your house is 25f, put on a couple sweaters and a coat and have a beer. It’s not the end of the world.

Houses were designed very differently 150 years ago.

Lower roofs, fewer windows, huge thick drapes or tapestries on the walls, animal skins or carpets on the floors.

9 ft windows (double pane or not) on all walls is going to leak out a lot of heat.

Most importantly, fireplaces. Houses had fireplaces, and rooms were designed around a central fireplace to keep everyone warm.
> Well, one thing you know is that poster knows no one reliant on powered medical devices.

No, this is simply a baseless assumption made by you, with an effect similar to poisoning the well. I know people on medical devices, and one day of power loss per 30 years is absolutely acceptable to them, give that they arranged to have backup power.
> My understanding was always that for relational data (e.g., social networks) you should use a relational database.

I thought you were supposed to use a graph database for that, like dgraph. Do I remember incorrectly?

> Dgraph is a horizontally scalable and distributed GraphQL database with a graph backend.

---

Edit: found the source... According to https://www.infoworld.com/article/3251829/why-you-should-use...:

"However, as with any popular technology, there can be a tendency to apply graph databases to every problem. It’s important to make sure that you have a use case that is a good fit. For example, graphs are often applied to problem domains like:

- Social networks

- Recommendation and personalization

- Customer 360, including entity resolution (correlating user data from multiple sources)

- Fraud detection

- Asset management"
>I don't think any lost heat (most have gas) but at least one person found their gas fireplace they were hoping would heat them up when out of power didn't really work that well.

I'm curious how they didn't lose heat. Any furnace built in the last 30 years, even gas, has an electronic control board in order to ensure it doesn't accidentally turn on the gas without a functioning pilot light and/or heating element (which would blow up your house).

No electricity = no heat, regardless of natural gas supply.

I've got about a dozen coworkers in Texas, they've all been without power (which means no heat) for two days now. The power comes on long enough to at least warm their houses up to 50ish degrees before dropping back out so they're not completely screwed but I know they're scared.
>They're going to refuse to pay the bill.

...and subsequently get their electricity cut off in a few months for non-payment? Besides, it isn't too hard to impose a cap on the rate you pay and requiring a credit card to be on file if you want to lift the limit. In other words, by default the maximum rate you'll pay is $2/kWH, but if you have a credit card on file you can put in whatever rate you want. If the wholesale price goes above the maxmimum rate you can pay your electricity gets cut off. If the utility thinks the rate is too high and you aren't going to pay, they'll pre-authorize your card for the amount. At that point they can let the credit card company/banks worry about chasing after the customers.
You didn't answer the question. In a situation where both have equal demand, how does unconstrained supply make it a better store of value?
Python has type annotations but no type checking. The type checker you use for Python may have different soundness/decidability versus other type checkers.

There's only one (official) TypeScript type checker, which works in only one way, and introduces both type annotations as well as syntax which compiles to JavaScript that's executed at runtime (enums, decorators).
Yes. It depends on whether individual house holds pay their own way or if the costs are shared.

I guess it would depend a lot of the local political culture.
Bitcoin has been around for a while now and it has been down talked quite a bit on HN whenever it comes up. It now has a larger market cap as Facebook - so the market sees more value in Bitcoin than Facebook.

The sentiment on HN seem still be mostly against it whenever it comes up. I wonder why that is? I'd imagine 10 years from now Bitcoin will still be around and likely much larger than today - I'm less positive about Facebook outlook and posture in 10 years actually.

I wonder what will change the opinion of the skeptics?
I agree, and I don't see how it contradicts what I said at all.
You only have to shut off if you don't have the ability to disconnect yourself from the grid. Automatic switches are fairly expensive ($500-2k), so unless you also have battery storage, you generally opt out to save money.
> and React for a responsive component-based UI.

Heh. I clearly got too excited to read it properly back when they announced it.

I stand corrected.
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It is false: https://www.lesswrong.com/community
Sure, but it has the classic problems of the memory/storage required for the sort (minimum double all your keys), and a classic math issue relating to it's speed being O(k*N) and since k = number of bits/digits, N can only be as large as the number of bits/digits allow for.

This means quicksort and the like end up faster in practice for any "sort this list" operations. Radix/bucket sorting can be SUPER awesome when what you need is a single level of bucketing at all rather than exact order.
I think it's at least as often used to decide that I am not A Bad Person...
You could be a Canadian living in TX. You could be an American who prefers the metric system. And OMG I had no idea it had gotten that cold down there, please accept my condolences.
> Think about it - if you had invested at any point in Bitcoin before today, you would have made money. But keep on resisting.

That's irrelevant to me. It's not all about "getting rich". It's not like everyone can become rich off of bitcoin. The only way you make money is taking it from someone else. At the end of the day, real work needs to be done in the world.
Stop giving cover to politicians that think government always sucks and private business is always better?

I think that's true most of the time, but not when it comes to things like this. Preparing for a once in decades event is something private business has a hard time doing without getting eaten by more aggressive competitors. The only way to get this kind of preparedness is to have it be part of the level playing field (i.e. regulation/government).
Ask HN: Critical Thinking Books for Kids
I'd like to get my 8 y.o. nephew an introduction to critical thinking.

My coworker just pointed out this (which, despite its appearance, might actually be geared towards adults).

https://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Book-Bad-Arguments/dp/1615192255

Would love to hear any other suggestions folks have. Books geared towards kids are best, but I'd also be interested in those aimed at preteens or young teens.
it's essentially the same as Reactive Streams (http://reactivex.io/) - the best known instance being RxJS.
California has rolling blackouts every summer (and winter) with power that cost about 3x more than Texas. Rolling blackouts also affect hospitals. I think OPs sentiment is that overall Texas is a better system. Compared to CA I agree.

Now that doesn’t mean that it can’t or shouldn’t be improved, but spending 3x more and looking more like California is a huge net loss.
> Theoretically, the best way to get rid of hardware is to move as much as possible to "the cloud"[1]

An alternative view is that Apple’s biggest product puts enough compute in your pocket to make “cloud” unnecessary in a lot of cases. My phone is somewhere between a t3.medium and a t3.2xlarge (based on ram and cpu cores respectively). That can provide a lot of local compute for my wearables. And those wearables are gonna need network anyway, so either that all end up with 5G cellular radios (and 4/3G fallback) and enough battery to run that, or one device provides the network hub and the tiny things in your ears and the glasses sitting on your nose can have lower power radios and smaller batteries.

I reckon watches/glasses/earbuds(/cars/tvs/etc) all relying on a phone is a reasonably sensible model, rather than each of those devices having completely stand alone capabilities.

(And, the idea of Google tapping into my nervous system??? No thanks... I’ll proudly be a data center smashing neo-Luddite before that happens to me...)
Hey thanks. I'll definitely check them out!
Citing "latent demand" or "induced demand" as counter-evidence to my original statement shows your (mis)understanding of basic economics. In fact, basic economics predicts "latent demand" for ordinary goods!

> But currency is different - opposite even. If supply goes through the roof - then demand will respond inversely.

This is terrible reasoning. It depends on why that supply is going through the roof. Maybe the supply is increasing because of higher demand? (Hint: increased demand for the USD is why the Fed is increasing the supply -- to keep the price stable.)

The phenomenon you're referring to is that, with all else equal, people will shift away from the USD if supply increases make the USD's value drop. But all else is not equal; demand for USD last year effected all-time high issuings of stocks and bonds.

Or, another way I could interpret this sentence is that you are claiming that the USD is not an ordinary good. Do you have some evidence to back that up?

> What is actually happening empirically is that people are coming to see Bitcoin as a reliable store of value over medium to long timeframes.

"Happening empirically." Have some numbers to back that up?
I agree with you in theory. However, over the course of 100yrs you also need to worry about entire countries disappearing. If your index fund is denominated in the wrong currency, held by the wrong custodian, or has too many companies based in falling countries, you might be in trouble. Meanwhile, Gold has survived a thousand generations.

In a hundred years, there can be wars, reparations, and lots of damage to equity.

I think some distinction should be made on store of value (win for gold) vs asset appreciation (win for stocks), especially once you start talking about 100years.
> Right, but that is basically saying we should all go back to something similar to before npm/bower/etc.

That position isn't without good reason. Refer, for example, to the linked post, explaining the engineering decisions behind esbuild. ("It's Golang, not JS" is only part of the answer to "Why is esbuild fast?" The implications seem to be lost on many of esbuild's users, given the nature of esbuild itself and the job it's supposed to do.)
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Other memes i remember from /. are:

In soviet russia SUSTANTIVE VERBs YOU!

In north korea email is for old people
I actually made this, a factory "compiler" that takes in a target output (eg. 1000 science / minute), and lays out a blueprint working from raw inputs to the desired output. It's hacky and buggy (and by this point probably out of date) but you can see it here:

https://github.com/ekimekim/factoriocalc/tree/generator

The factory it generates is a main bus design, with discrete "steps" on the bus that take certain inputs, process them in a standardized area, then put the output onto the bus. It also stops every so often for "compaction" where it reduces several low-throughput belts into fewer high-throughput belts. The whole area is covered by roboports to enable automated construction (no logistic robots are used, production is entirely done by belt) along with power lines etc.

The full layout looks like this:

||bus||
||||||| ...beacons...
vvvvvv\-> input to process
||||||
||||||/-- output from process
||||||| ...beacons...

in a repeating pattern, each process step sandwiched between two lines of beacons.

It is very much not optimised, the idea was to make something as simple as possible that would work.

There's also a blueprint-to-ascii-art renderer which I added to help debug layout issues.

I haven't played factorio in a while but I do plan to keep working on this. Due to some poor choices early on implementing the last few fiddly (and less interesting) bits ended up being the bottleneck.
In its current state it can go from raw inputs to a full suite of science packs, though some of the recipes are probably out of date, and I think there's some bugs in a few of the layouts that manifest in the finished blueprint as belts the wrong way around, etc.
The inflation may be constant each year but over the years it accumulates. Check yourself the inflation impact on your savings:

https://www.rl360.com/row/tools/inflation-calculator.htm

With inflation rate 2% after 25 years you lose about 40% of your savings value.
Wow, I had no idea it had gotten _that_ cold down there. I've never seen it that cold here in the PNW - west of the Cascades, anyway.
This does not seem particularly related to the subject of the article.
You’re conflating two things. The 99th percentile design temp for winter heating systems only implies a steady load would be imposed on the grid. Optimizing HVAC systems for the 99th percentile load is proper engineering. A higher powered electric resistance heating plant would make the grid problem worse right now (as houses could draw enough energy in a day to maintain temp rather than only drawing enough energy in a day to not quite maintain temp).

It doesn’t mean you design the grid to only sustain the loads 99 percent of the time. This is going to turn out to be a grid implementation problem, not an insulation or a renewables problem.
Gas furnaces need power for the circuitry & blower.

My experience with fireplaces is that the house winds up net-colder, but you can warm yourself with radiant heat while it burns. Freestanding wood stoves on the other hand are very capable of warming a large space.
Thanks for explaining it to me this way, I think it helps. My understanding from your post is that inbreeding is typically viewed as a more extreme reduction in available alleles and there is a blurry distinction. A founding or bottlenecked population have only A alleles present, but this would generally not be described as inbreeding. The implication seems to be that to be termed inbreeding, there has to be access to more diverse pairings which for whatever reasons are not occurring.
Couldn't agree more. It's like "where can I vote for a political party that just wants government to work." I know that's kind of an amorphous statement, but I do feel like both sides are more interested in tribal warfare and ideological battles than functioning government. Republicans have long derided "government is the problem", until they find out citizens really want government to work when it comes to things like ensuring reliable power delivery or distributing vaccines during a pandemic. On the flip side, I feel like Democrats are so keen on social justice issues that they ignore policies most people actually want to keep in their cities, like a functioning police force and streets not covered in homeless encampments.

It's just so depressing that the extremes control more and more of the political discourse.
besides getting a government job and not participating in partisanship?
Can someone explain how the ninth largest economy in the world where it is dominated by the largest energy companies in the world failed so miserably? This is all self-inflicted.
Which of course is how the essay ends. He reveals that it was a note to himself.
How's the line go? If a coin comes up heads twice in a row, that's normal. If it comes up heads ten times in a row, it's abnormal. If it comes up heads a hundred times in a row, it's probably not a fair coin.
I'm so cold
Those are pretty good arguments. I wonder why ever did AT&T syntax come to life? It looks easy for a parser while being hard for humans.

What's AT&T syntax better at?
Thank you for sharing this. It's absolutely hilarious.
>> Relative timestamps (“3 hours ago” instead of “6:56 PM”). This creates IMMEDIACY.

TIL... I've always thought this was SO annoying on Twitter, because I want to see the exact time (I'd even be ok if I could hover and see the actual timestamp), and thought they were just 'dumbing it down'.

But it makes a lot more sense with that clue.

Ugh
There is a newer SoC revision on the newer rpi's. For example the rpi400 comes at 1.8Ghz base.

Even so, it seems the 1.5Ghz is more about running the system without a heatsink. Give one a heatsink and they run at over 2Ghz. The perf bump from 1.5 to 2.2Ghz is not insignificant.

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/raspberry-pi-400-can-...

https://hothardware.com/reviews/hot-clocked-pi-raspberry-pi-...

Also: Arm itself says the A55 is ~18% faster than the a53. So, its still quite slow.
"The Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency was distressed to discover this morning, January 25th, that one of our agents has been using the social media platforms Gab and Parler."
Uneducated hot take: Bitcoin is facebook.

For anything you want to do with btc|fb, there is something else that does it better. But not enough people use those other things, they aren't trustworthy, they're more difficult to use, too fragmented, I already use x why would I use y, nobody knows about them, etc.
I don't see much disconnect between politics and the policies/governance.
There are often arguments (with merit) over Bitcoins wasteful use of energy, but I expect a lot of it is from hindight of 'why the hell did I not buy some'.
Mark Zuckerberg Takes A Stance in Violation of Platform's New Policy
Texas electricity retailer Griddy: Customers leave now before you get a big bill
Probably. The ratios are well known and easy to compute but it gets interesting with upgrade modules and effect transmitters. So you can for example trade power consumption for higher throughput. But belts only support so much throughput so you can only feed an area with so much resources, so you chain assemblers with direct insertion.

This would be a great application for ML or genetic programming.
Nice! Which country?
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