skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lightning network usage is alive and growing. Numerous merchants and exchanges all accept it.
Soviet Union's Secretive Space Cannon, the Only Gun Ever Fired in Space
Huh. When did you start buying your first ones? I just started recently but I don't know how much should I spend more just to be long on Bitcoin.
> That said, Tesla's Bitcoin purchase does make a lot of sense. Elon Musk went on Twitter and called Bitcoin "BS" to drive the price down so they could buy at a discount. They then announced their Bitcoin purchase with fanfare that drove the price up, marking a quick return on their investment. They used Elon's influence to make a quick profit on the frenzy.

Is that even legal? It sounds like pumping and dumping.
Instead of SO style moderation, with closed questions being treated as canonical, corrected information buried in comments, and power-mods overriding outside consensus?
Maybe I don’t follow you but if more than half of gold use is jewelry then it seems the use has a lot to do with it’s value. People trade gold on top of that but it’s linked to use. If jewelry demand dropped 98% it would surely affect the price of gold.
Here is one of many forks: https://github.com/agnivesh/endgame/
The Fed building isn't all that well protected, and "stores" essentially an arbitrarily large amount of USD. It helps that it's impossible to steal, since if you somehow "robbed" the Fed all it would take is a court order to retroactively clarify that your robbery never happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eccles_Building

I'm happy to call Bitcoin wasteful because we already know what's going to replace it. Proof of work is a dead end and with it all coins that are anchored on PoW and aren't working on migrating to proof of stake. The writing is on the wall that proof of stake is the future.
You're missing the point I believe the OP was trying to make: ten+ years ago, jQuery was often by far the easiest way to implement most things. One line of jQuery could replace a dozen lines of plain JavaScript, even ignoring all the nonsense you'd have to learn about cross-browser support.

Today, so many things are possible and easier with plain JavaScript and/or CSS.

I'd even go further and say there's lots of new sites using jQuery unnecessarily because the accepted, highly-upvoted, but 10-year-old SO answer said that was the way.
hopefully GVT-d soon[1] too!

[1]: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26209
I had a deep liking for stack overflow some 12 years ago and went really crazy, spending hours every week answering questions much the same way Gregg describes. It was almost like a fun game - I loved finding something hard to answer then trying to get a good answer in there to a) teach myself in the process and b) help someone out.

I was well rewarded with internet points which was somewhat appealing at the time. But that got old pretty quickly. What got old even faster was how cold and unkind other users could be.

Over time I noticed I would always be second or later in answering questions; people would hurriedly toss up something hoping for that green check mark, and their answers would be pretty mediocre in most cases. However, speed was key and my answers would end up passed over.

I continued doing it for a while because I enjoyed the exercise of it, but watching the overall quality of the site decline so rapidly absolutely killed it for me.

I lasted around 2 years in total, maybe 6 months of that spent as a very active user.

These days I actually filter it from my search results, like medium, many git repository mirrors, and content-farmy sites which hit on all major popular topics with the thinnest and least professional content possible.
I just wanted to say thanks for https://webglfundamentals.org/.

I referred to it a lot when I first starting out with webgl.

Even simple questions like how to resize the canvas with correct pixel ratio is so disgustingly complicated, I don't understand why anyone would want to be restricted to the space of a single stackoverflow answer:
https://webglfundamentals.org/webgl/lessons/webgl-resizing-t...
If you want to read something quickly, just start at the end and scan backwards, looking for paragraphs that pop out at you. That way, you don't get sucked into the flow.

A couple of centuries ago, it was common to put a summary at the beginning of each chapter in a book. But it would be very strange to do that for each paragraph in an essay, which itself is about as long as a book chapter.

This essay was one of the most absorbing things I've read in quite a while. What a life!

And yes, I'm quite sure the people you mention read every word.

It took me 65 minutes. I'm a slow reader (too many physics texts), and I tend to pause to reflect on what I'm reading.
Here's some related data that may help expand our understanding:

Household debt service payments as a percent of disposable personal income are as low as they have ever been: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TDSP

Personal savings rate has never been better: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT

Household debt to GDP saw a spike at the beginning of the pandemic, but still is much lower than we were coming out of the last recession: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HDTGPDUSQ163N

Disposable income has never been higher: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DSPI
I think it’s more they changes are generally done with some form of consensus. Trying to make a change by flexing your muscle as the biggest holder of mining power could have unpredictable and counterproductive results. I think mostly it would just cause more miners to be brought online though. I basically don’t think you can change Bitcoin this way, and if you could it would more or less change it a lot. I think invested institutions would not let that happen.
Global Law Firm Jones Day Suffering Ransomware and Extortion Event
I stand corrected.

I had trouble finding articles detailing how the nuclear plant was brought down, but then I found this:

> On Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, at 0537, an automatic reactor trip occurred at South Texas Project in Unit 1. The trip resulted from a loss of feedwater attributed to a cold weather-related failure of a pressure sensing lines to the feedwater pumps, causing a false signal, which in turn, caused the feedwater pump to trip. This event occurred in the secondary side of the plant (non-nuclear part of the unit). The reactor trip was a result of the feedwater pump trips. The primary side of the plant (nuclear side) is safe and secured. […] We evaluated Unit 2 and have confirmed that we do not have the same issues that caused the feedwater pump trips in Unit 1.

and subsequently, an answer to my question of 'how':

> Some people have wondered how “pressure sensing lines” for a feed water pump could have been affected by cold outside air temperatures. There are no turbine halls at STP, both of steam turbines are out in the open air. I’m sure there is a design reason for this choice, but it isn’t apparent.

(from https://atomicinsights.com/south-texas-project-unit-1-trippe...)
It’s stable in the technology sense. The price... who knows :)
If you can overcome the shame of having so few slocs to show for your
handiwork (as opposed to the hundreds of lines required in an
overwrought language like C++), then you can get on with life outside
programming.
Cars are regulated beyond just the point of sale. I believe it would be rather difficult to get said car registered (presuming there's a Chinese equivalent to vehicle registration), if you could even arrange receipt in the first place ;)
There is no "fix", IMHO - just as in physical societies, maintaining infrastructure takes a lot of boring work that never ends as long as people still use it.

That said... There were and are a lot of things that could make it less frustrating. Once again, we can look at physical societies: if 99% of people litter and .001% of people sweep up after them, the latter are gonna have a rough time. If we can increase the size of the latter group that'll help somewhat - but so will reducing the size of the former, and if there's less of a crushing workload then increasing the number of workers may get easier too.

Stack Overflow is entirely moderated by volunteers, and their numbers haven't exactly scaled with the volume of casual users. I find it interesting to look at how moderation changes around major holidays - especially Christmas and New Years Day: suddenly there is much less work to do, and more of it gets done - but not only done, done well! Folks are happier, more relaxed, more... Friendly and helpful.

For years, Stack Overflow's management has looked at discussions like this one and said to themselves, "those damned volunteers are making us look bad, we've gotta make their work harder so they stop screwing this up". And... It has had precisely the opposite effect: more litter, fewer sweepers == increasingly hostile interactions with those who remain to push the brooms.

I strongly suspect a campaign to encourage a bit more... Civic pride... "This site belongs to all of us, pick up after yourself", etc. Might've done more good.
We’d go to a barter system and BTC would be useless. Are you able to envision a scenario where all governments at banklkrupt but internet is still there to process BTC txns?
What a beautiful library and api! I don't 3D print, but I'll be studying your code as a master-class in how python should be done.
Objective-C/Swift is a bit of a special case; but asking "how to do X in Objective C" is probably fine, even if there is already a Swift question. And a lot of questions tend to be about libraries/frameworks anyway, and the Swift answer should be usable in Objective C too.
How do you imagine that pans out for the Chinese buyer?
Lacks the PCI. If you get the compute boards, you can get it, and then use a carrier board to do things e.g. quad-Sata disk stuff.

I'm using the Pi4 with the 4 port SATA card through USB, and its just-about ok. I'm happy, but I'd love to try direct PCI access
Remove most of the batteries to reduce the weight? Trading flight time obviously. Of course since Martian gravity is only ~.4G, you'd have to remove a lot of weight, so a lot of batteries. On a device that's already been designed to be as light as possible.
Samsung's Texas chip plant shuts down due to heavy snowfall
A gas boiler furnace with steam radiators typically only requires power for the thermostat and solenoid valve, which can indeed be powered by a small battery. This is assuming you have a pilot light, which many older furnaces do.
Like those dot commands better than the backslash of psql.
there is a lot of fuss about bitcoin energy needs, but plenty of proof that it's not well founded.

You compare it to Visa, but actually visa does only part of what bitcoin does (transactions), and does it using _other_ systems themselves also using energy (security, banking, etc).

Nowadays bitcoin is mostly seen as a store of value, to which it should then be compared to gold. Gold has a much higher carbon footprint than bitcoin, both for mining, storing, transactions, etc.

there are a lot of writings about this, some answering a recent article posted on HN here https://www.coindesk.com/what-bloomberg-gets-wrong-about-bit...
Not necessarily; and Stack Overflow doesn't control Google's sorting. It would also mean people would have to keep answering the same questions over and over again, which would be a waste of everyone's time.
>I'm sure you can see that a rolling outage affecting 200k people for 4 hours is quite different than an outage affecting four million customers for 3 days.

((3 * 24) / 4) *
(4 000 000 / 200 000)

Holy crap, that's literally 360 times worse.
Likewise, I haven’t contributed much in the last decade but my old answers continue to buff my account with points and privileges. It’s perhaps a broken system in that regard.
Have we read the same essay? Like half of the time he’s running on zero or negative dollars in the story. Some people just value different things in life.
> Thankfully, between doing the indie thing for a few years and starting a new studio last year, it became clear it was the medium and not the craft that was the problem.

Do you mean to say it's specifically a mobile issue?
It makes sense in a solidly virtualized casino economy
Agreed that it's all very directional, but I think you're discounting some of it a little too readily. Even if you're just using jQuery because it's a transitive dependency or bundled by default, you might still have issues that lead you to search Stack Overflow for help.

The broader point is, we should be cognizant of our selection bias here. SPA frameworks are overrepresented on HN because we tend to be programmers building applications in the tech industry. But there are a ton of people who don't consider themselves "in tech" that still need to make a portfolio for their photos/figure out a WordPress plugin for their e-commerce site/etc.
I didn't want to admit it in my original comment, but I basically thought something along these lines haha
Yes, you could easily do this for 10s of millions of dollar right now on a number of exchanges. As you go up, you might need to find OTC desks, etc, but it's still very doable.
I am sorry but...Front-of-the-side-of-the-up-of-the-what?

This is division of labor gone out of control.

Complexity doesn't get simplified by merely renaming things. Bloated javascript frameworks and associated "infrastructure" keeps requiring more and more people to manage them.
How does it blow heat around the house?
Stack Overflow's developer survey found that in 2020 43% of web developers were using jQuery and 36% were using React [0]. Still biased in favor of jQuery but not nearly as much as you say.

[0] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#most-popular-...
> ...because doing so would be far more painful than anything that happened in Python 3.0

Is this really true? I don't think lack of block scope is ever used for anything but causing bugs.
Saint Laurent x Google: https://www.ysl.com/en-us/backpacks/cit-e-backpack-in-canvas...
Isn't this a terrible language for a computer language? Let alone I have to search "Ruby programming" or "Python programming", "Kernel" is not even the top result for "Kernel language".

Naming things, indeed the hardest thing in CS.
Agree. I still see a lot of value in SO and I participate from time to time. When I post there, I approach it like an interaction with an alcoholic prone to violent outbursts. I'm not expecting rational behavior. I'm not bothered any more by an occasional swift deletion of my question deemed "duplicate" or "off-topic" by a bunch of power hungry fundamentalists, who often didn't bother to read it carefully. Crazy uncle had a bad day. Let's try another time.
> Objective-C/Swift is a bit of a special case; but asking "how to do X in Objective C" is probably fine, even if there is already a Swift question.

To be clear, it's the other way around—someone asked a question about Objective C, and people answered how to do it in Swift.

From the perspective of "it's good to post updated answers to older questions" this makes sense, because there's a decent chance the asker would have requested Swift if the question was asked today. But as it stands, the question lists Objective C.

Which is to say, a lot of questions are "products of their time", and posting modern answers to older questions sometimes requires assumptions about what the asker would have wanted. I'm not sure what the best solution is.
You can try to use https://github.com/githubnemo/CompileDaemon, it is pretty stable and just works at least on Linux/OSX.
but the universe can exist without chairs
Some of my coworkers have been dealing with major Ceph issues for the past month. As part of the work, there've been a number of Ceph information dumps, RBD image information, PG information, and lists of incomplete PDs, all in text or CSV files. To help out my coworkers, I wrote up Python code to parse all of those files into a SQLite database. Why? Well, because I can ship the database to anywhere, as one file, and it can be accessed through the SQLite CLI.

In another case, a client was building a list of files to consider for deletion. The list included path, size, type (file or directory), and owning user. Before doing anything else, I imported the entire thing into SQLite using the `.import` command. Which was good, because it was able to identify cases of files that included a tab in their paths!
They still used a tether.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhsZUZmJvaM
I’m curious to know, what do you use a pen plotter for?
(2019)

https://www.blog.google/products/atap/smarter-wardrobe-jacqu...

But not cancelled yet!
Productive capital. Financial speculation is fun and all but it has to remain a sideshow to the real economy, since we fundamentally rely on individuals and companies investing in the creation of more productive capital. If it ever came to pass that hodling Bitcoin was actually the best use of money because it somehow became a universal deflationary currency, then the government would have to step in and deploy its monopoly on violence to abolish Bitcoin to protect the broader economy. Speculative hoarding of deflationary gold caused the great depression and the governments of the world at the time couldn't escape the trap due to gold-backed currencies. These days we have a better understanding of the relationship between inflation/deflation, currencies, investments, and productive capital, and something like the great depression is not going to be allowed to happen again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_(economics)
For sequential write workloads it shouldn't be much slower than CMR drives. They only get bad performance when overwriting existing data, especially if they're randomly spread out.
reddit and their mods have completely destroyed their website. The admins of reddit do not care because the cash keeps flowing, so why stick to founding principles at all?

Aaron Swartz is spinning in his grave I'm sure.
Astronauts are routinely quarantined:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_quarantine_facility
I still use jquery actively. Without substantial work and complexity, a typical react site's initial page load still requires an enormous javascript chunk for anything to show on the screen. When I notice a site I'm using is slow, unresponsive (interactivity wise), or buggy, more often than not the react dev extension is lit up. React (and ecosystem) may represent the future but they still have a lot of growing pains to overcome before totally replacing jquery.
I would argue that Apple has fewer cloud products, but most of their cloud products are very good. Amazon and Google have many cloud products of varying degrees of quality.
Yeah, there's more to both comments. GP mentions being mistreated as a moderator while the other top comment mentions the moderation culture and focus of moderation being on the wrong things, e.g. trying to close "duplicates". They're not really incompatible perspectives.
hmmm it looks more than decent! Just signed up.
Bitcoin consumes more electricity than entire countries - more than the Czech Republic for example. It consumes a third (or was it a fifth?) of all the electricity of all data centers in the world. It is by no means insignificant.
Interesting. Did you tested any performance by non-NTFS?

I remembered this post. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...
A rolling outage would be relatively short in duration, and "roll" from one area to another. No roll happened here, just a bunch of areas off for long periods of time, and others not off at all.
I just up voted a few of his answers. Quality work.
> you couldn’t bring in your gear to a customer datacenter as an escorted visitor

Okay, but if they won't let you bring in a computer, they're not going to like this, since per the article -

> it runs a full Linux system with an ARM SOC
z is amazing. z and fish shell are the two biggest shell productivity boosters I've ever used.
Jeff Daniels monologue in "The Newsroom"

"It's not the greatest country in the world professor, that's my answer.

Sharon, the NEA is a loser, yeah, it accounts for a penny out of our paycheck but he gets to hit you with it any time he wants. It doesn't cost money, it costs votes, it costs air time, it costs column inches. You know why people don't like liberals? Because they lose. If liberals are so damn smart, how come they lose so bad always?

Turns to conservative pundit

And with a straight face you're going to tell students that America is so star spangled awesome that we're the only ones in the world that have freedom? Canada has freedom. Japan has freedom. The UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, BELGIUM has freedom.

So, 207 sovereign states in the world, like 180 of them have freedom.

And you, sorority girl, just in case you accidentally wander into a voting booth one day there's somethings you should know. One of them is there's absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we're the greatest country in the world. We're 7th in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, 3rd in median household income, Number 4 in labor force and Number 4 in exports, we lead the world in only three categories: Number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending where spend more than the next 26 countries combined, 25 of whom are allies.

Now none of this is the fault of a 20 year old college student, but you none the less are without a doubt a member of the worst period generation period ever period, so when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don't know what the hell you're talking about.
Is there no CO2 danger from sleeping with gas stove on? Don’t people die from carbon monoxide poisoning from sleeping with open flames?
Google Home supports this nicely. On my Lenovo Smart Display, I just tried "Hey Google, set a ten second timer and a fifteen second timer" and she did just that.

They also support custom "routines" that you can program. We have a Clever Dripper [1] and use Tom's (of Sweet Maria's) recipe: stir after 90 seconds, drip after 4 minutes (2:30 after the stir). So I created a routine called "coffee timer" that triggers those two timers, and when we pour the hot water into the Clever Dripper we can just say "Hey Google, coffee timer" and it sets both of them.

Actually I put in four variations so we don't have to get the language perfect:

"coffee timer"

"coffee timers"

"set coffee timer"

"set coffee timers"

[1] https://www.sweetmarias.com/clever-coffee-dripper-large.html
See I’ve heard the opposite. Just yesterday[1], Ben Thompson posted about how clubhouse is reaching those normie users. I disagree, but often these things have a way of being self fulfilling prophecies. I don’t think Clubhouse is for sure a pump and dump just yet. If they get bought by Facebook or Twitter for billions then that’ll confirm it for me. However, it is very strange how infatuated a16z seems to be with Clubhouse. I see rooms posted on the app all the time with a16z VCs and sometimes the founders of Clubhouse. I’ve joined a few. It’s just naval gazing about what the “vision” for clubhouse is. This isn’t necessarily bad. It’s just radically boring content. Subjective of course, but there’s no substance to these conversations.

Anyway, I honestly don’t hate clubhouse the app. I hate a lot of the bullshit content it shows me, but hey, maybe they’ll figure it out.

I will say, there is something artificial about the user base of CH. it doesn’t feel organic. I think this gets to your point about getting the right people with the right network on the app. There aren’t any actually _new_ interesting people. It’s people you already know about. People you’ve been reading about (if you’re in startup culture) for years.

1. https://stratechery.com/2021/clubhouses-inevitability/