skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would they open it to a country such as Iran? It will disrupt censorship and access contol efforts of the government. I read the gov have recently assembled a task force to find a "solution" for this upcoming problem. I'd guess it'll be difficult to spot the receivers, since a large number of the will be deployed at any corner of the country, due to low price, high mobility and ease of installation and use. Obviously they can't sell hardware there, however it will be smuggled. They can sell subscription though, if they accept crypto. I wonder whether they will consider it?
Cargo is the least of reasons I prefer Rust. Rust APIs are much more ergonomic than C++'s, its type system is better (built-in ADTs and type classes, no null), it's obviously safer by default, it's expression-based which is just sooo ergonomic, its move semantics are enforced by the compiler, and it just doesn't have all the sharp edges of C++ (returning dangling references, implicit constructors, 57 different kinds of lvalue, rvalue, xvalue, lrxhvalue, whatever), etc.
It feels like the low interest rate is here to stay and will become the norm. What is the incentive to increase it beyond 2%? The window of opportunity to increase the rate is most likely gone. It can only be done during the time of prosperity or when there is a bubble. We used the prosperity window to push political agendas and use the stock market as a campaign tool. Then the pandemic hit and now we are in this weird bubble but there is a lot of suffering. Pullback in the markets is going to somehow impact the people that don’t participate in it and so we need to keep it going. If the bubble pops and markets tank we will automatically keep the rates low.

Anyway I look at it they are going to stay low for years.
Probably because all countries you've mentioned are members of EU and transparency level is high. Meanwhile Belarus already tried to hide accidents in the power plant while building it and haven't allowed inspection from foreign countries. I assume (and hope) such cases won't happen in Belgium PP.
You mean a backend?
Replying to myself as I cannot edit anymore.

As others pointed out, it’s not clear who will do the rewrites. Based on the curl example, it might be the maintainers. It would have been great if they could state that concretely.

I’m also wondering why there’s a middle man instead of funding the projects directly, but that’s another story.
Wow nVidia really needs some serious competition.
Program Comprehension and Code Complexity Metrics: An fMRI Study [pdf]
the vast majority of their customers will happily give up crypto-mining for the chance to buy a card at a reasonable price

(... assuming the miners can't trivially patch to the drivers to re-enable the functionality)
The 13 inch does, but not the M1. You have to use the Intel ones. That's an issue with Apple/M1. No i9 though on them or dedicated graphics.
While some of your points are good, and some of the quibbles with them have been addressed in other comments, I'd like to point out the big advantage to specific mechanical keyboards for me: nostalgia and muscle memory.

I grew up on the Apple Extended II keyboard and just recently bought myself a new keyboard with Alps switches. It feels like what I grew up with, it feels right to me.
Their job is to stop you from achieving your goal. They're a person, but they're not your friend in this interaction. You don't need to be rude, but you also don't owe them anything beyond basic courtesy.
Gamers hate miners, they're driving the price up, make hardware impossible to get ect ... It's a really problematic situation. Almost 6 month after launching new graphic cards from AMD / NVIDIA good luck gettting an RTX 30xx or 6800.

On a side note all those virtual currency are just plain wrong on the environment side, it does not make any sense in 2021 to have a currency that need heavy computation thus increasing power consumption. When people designed those currency they def did not think about that.
You've definitely never tried to cancel a subscription in Germany.
Why Robots That Bend Are Better
I view it as a done deal, there's no escape and we need to plan for the future:

Our current laws are not very detailed, often times they are overly severe to serve as a determent and/or make assumptions based on available evidence (which was less before).

As we know more and more of an individual (due to gadgets, online activity, and cashless transactions)- laws and punishment need to take it all into account and be more tailored to actual crime and make less assumptions because there's plenty of evidence to go by.

Another important issue is that we should not allow those in power shield themselves from surveillance and accountability under a guise of safety or security.
I don't use it, how much less can I care ?
You are 100% right. We have agreements with local governments and help them out to ensure contractor taxes are up do date always and everything is done legally.
Sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll, huh?
Much of that 281t debt is private debt payable which the person or organization that took it out has plenty of time to repay though. Many debtors will expect substantial financial returns on that borrowing, and all of them will have borrowed with the expectation (rightly or wrongly) that the share of GDP they earn in a given year will be greater than the share of debt repayment they owe that year. The details of who owes what under what time frame and whether they are likely to be able to repay matter much more than debt/GDP ratio or the absolute size of the debt burden.

It is possible for the debt-to-GDP ratio to be sub 100% and a financial ecosystem to be on the brink of collapse because the people borrowing the money earn too small a share of GDP to repay, and it is possible for the debt to GDP ratio to be well over 400% whilst consisting entirely of people borrowing money to make sensible, easily repaid long term investments. The reality is somewhere in between.
This is not a particularly hard hitting interview. I wish the interviewer pushed back more against Dr. Hart. E.g. do some digging on who funds his research. Push back against minimizing the opioid crisis.

A lot of these questions are real softballs.
Have you used the firefox performance timeline, it is awful.
Chrome's performance timeline is amazingly smooth and has much more features.
Two things I don't like FUD around: My Linux and my heroin.
As far as I know, that's not oh-my-zsh, since I can do that and I don't have omz installed.
Pretty much this. Its politics, especially after the recent post-election events in Belarus.
Wind turbines do locally screw with the wind, that's why you can't put them too close to each other. But it's temporary and goes away when the turbine get decommissioned, so maybe that's the difference. Or maybe the wind is traditionally meant to be harnessed (boats) but volcanic energy is not?
This is why Ethereum is moving to proof-of-stake. Saying that virtual currency is wrong because the biggest currency is unwilling to innovate is wrong.
Next up from HN hot takes - how cowrie shells led to the Cambodian genocide. You heard it here first.
I use Safari because it's best by a mile on macOS for power consumption, but if you ever use a memory hungry site like Facebook for more than a few minutes it throws up a memory usage warning and everything becomes extremely slow and you get astronomical scroll jank. I'm guessing that's because it throws a hard cap on tab memory usage and if you go over that it thrashes wildly. So it respects your system, but in doing so is harder on the user for some of the most commonly used websites and might be whacking your drive.
> Is it comparable to being extremely hungry or thirsty

Not for me. I used to be a smoker and alcoholic.

For smoking, I just felt uneasy without it, like idk when you're anxiously waiting for something important.

That's the physical dependence and was only the first two weeks and relatively easy to overcome. I got dizzy and other withdrawal symptoms but you can fight through that for a couple of weeks. The other part is the ritual to it. E.g. like most people probably brush their teeth once a day, smoking after eating is just something you do, give in once and you're back to physical dependence.

Alcohol was different for me. Self medication. Once i solved the issues i was medicating (insomnia and stress) i... just stopped drinking and never missed it. The biggest adjustment here was getting used to not being drunk and figuring out what to do with all the time i had now.
>> Why it matters: The increase brings numerous countries, including the U.S., to extreme debt levels, well beyond what economists have called untenable in the past.

That’s not an answer to the question posed.

So why exactly does it matter?

>> Why the debt matters: While worries about significantly pushing up inflation and borrowing costs have not come to pass

Ok, so it doesn’t matter? People with one particular story to tell about macro economics were wrong AGAIN. Shock horror.

>> slow growth and diminishing returns have, and the world's already high debt levels look to be inhibiting economic growth and threaten to hold back a full recovery from the pandemic in the long run.

Correlation/causation?

This is a poor article. All huffed and puffed up language without substance.
Nuclear power is only expensive to build. To run it's basically free, and unlike solar not limited to 6 hours in the middle of the day.
Because it's the social network that's generating hockey-stick growth, not whatever boring technology enables it. The alternate universe Clubhouse whose developers decided to build their own audio stream multiplexing technology first is still working on it while the actual Clubhouse is rapidly grabbing market share and securing their position.

It might make sense for them to acquire their infrastructure providers or clone their technology in-house, but only later when they have the money to actually do that.
If AI truly takes off so much that programmers are getting displaced, which other jobs will even be left to move into?
> …I still mainly use chrome because it’s better at addblocking and synchronises with my non-Mac devices.

(In case you're interested…)

iCloud for Windows now does bookmarks and passwords sync. https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud/icloud-for-windows-ov...

For ad blocking, I really like 1Blocker. NextDNS is great as well.
I don't have stats handy, but this has been published lots of times by many different authors. As others have said, comparing browsers fairly is difficult.

But Chrome is simply not an efficient browser on Macs. Anecdotally, it uses more memory and measurably consumes more energy. The Mac's fan will run more when using Chrome, and you will need to charge more often. If you use a lot of tabs, your entire computer will slow down.

There's market validation for this assertion. There is a YC-backed company currently working on tech to offload Chrome tabs to the cloud so the browser uses fewer resources. This is not something that would be identifiable as a problem in Safari.

If you have access to a Mac, you don't need to take anyone's word for it. Just use Chrome for a few days and then use Safari for a few days. The difference is pronounced. If you use your browser heavily, you will notice.

Since password managers are in the news, Safari also syncs passwords to iOS devices (password sync also works in native apps). It's free.
How old is this "New Model M"?

I bought a Unicomp a couple of years ago, which looked exactly like the keyboard pictured. It was quite unreliable.
> would want to engineer in-house?

It's quite expensive to do so so why not buy a reasonable working solution until you become big enough?

Clubhouse is in the end a life style app which from the get to go uses the snake oil of pseudo elitism and exclusiveness to create a flair of it being a high quality serious product independent of weather or not it actually is one.

So they do a clever slow grow strategy:

- start with invites to grow slowly and with this only have slowly increasing costs of operation

- only start with one platform to keep initial cost down

- buy in/rent all the tech know-how to reduce initial costs and bring initial products out faster even if it has some quality or security issues

- (maybe) hype highly to grow investments fast

- later expand to other platforms

- later replace bad dependencies with custom solutions
The Big Cycle of Money, Credit, Debt, and Economic Activity
Nvidia is in a "tough" spot. If they increased GPU prices to take advantage of miner demand, they could be rich but lose the gaming segment. If they keep the price accessible for gaming, then they end up dealing with scalpers and low availability which, fair or not, impacts their brand. This is really an attempt to get the miners to buy something else so they can have both market segments.
This headline number includes private sector debt, such as small business loans and mortgages.

I can assure you that the comfortably rich are not getting richer by loaning money to the average person to buy houses and cars with 2.5% interest rates, while inflation is arguably significantly higher than that number.

The rich get richer in this scenario because low interest rates increase the buying power for everyone, which means they can buy more expensive houses or pay less for the mortgage on the house they already own, which in turn means they can buy more things from Amazon, which means Amazon does more business, which means the stock price goes up, and so on.

The populist narrative likes to simplify complex economic topics into rich versus poor narratives as if this was a zero-sum game, but it’s not. I’m not sure how your final points about inequality relate to increasing total global debt, but it’s obvious that this isn’t as simple as funneling money from the poor to the rich.
Hopefully only IPv4 Internet will suffer.
Modern Silicon Valley lets you do both. Why not throw the dice and still make around $200k cash?

As a [good] engineer you can have your cake and eat it too. Sure it won’t make you a billionaire but you can live a comfy life, maybe win the lottery, and retire at 50 if the lottery fails.
Judge: Citibank isn't entitled to $500M it sent to various creditors last August
The debt jubilees are coming. The deferment of rent, desire to cancel student debt, swelling govt. debt are all trends in the same vain.
If everyone in the world is in debt, why don’t we just collaborate and pardon the debt? A reset if you will and keep it going. Or do nothing and ignore it, I am not an economist so purely guessing here, but debt doesn’t seem to have negative impact on economies. Other things will but I haven’t seen one instance where the country is in bad shape of not because of debt.

EDIT: I get that debt is not the same for all countries. I was only talking about canceling the percentage of debt that is common across all countries.

Also, when I say ignore it, I am only talking from US centric view I guess. The US will probably never repay its debt and as long as the dollar is strong it keeps borrowing and the debt keeps increasing. So ignoring the debt is not done overtly to not repay but done so as to keep getting more debt and not getting forced to curtail growth plans.
Technosignatures: Looking to Planetary Atmospheres
Sometimes it is analogous, such as creating a new internal product and trying to get internal customers. The best part is if the effort fails I still keep my job and salary. On the other hand if it succeeds I can get a promotion and raise. Much less risk than real world startup, and better expected payoff.
i generally agree that stranger danger is overblown

but your point is definitely in error. if you are the most evil person, and desire to rape, torture, and murder a person, then a child is the best target. they are least able to fight back, and are the most naive so they can be tricked into going somewhere unsafe.
I'm sure someone raised that objection internally, and was pointedly ignored (as they should be if all you care about is the PR angle of "we're doing something"!)
Thank you! How strange. `history -fD` does work, but only for commands in the current zsh session. It seems durations are being stored in memory but written out as 0's. I'll try the mailing list soon :)
Companies like Uber "burning" money is a wealth transfer from Uber investors to Uber customers, employees, and vendors, creating tremendous value where there was once none (labor exploitation notwithstanding).

Is it sustainable? No. But I disagree that it represents waste from anyone's perspective but the shareholders'.
While I do agree with your underlying point that it's likely less common drugs are dangerous, I just want to say that a lot of alcohol addiction and abuse is often completely hidden in plain sight, due to social and cultural acceptance and the way it's portrayed in media.
A thought just occurred to me: is there an upper limit to how much computing power (and energy) cryptocurrency mining can reasonably use? Or could all computer hardware be repurposed to mine crypto and there would still be demand for more hardware?
Or. Uhm. Use older drivers?
I bet these are bios changes though.
> On a side note all those virtual currency are just plain wrong on the environment side, it does not make any sense in 2021 to have a currency that need heavy computation thus increasing power consumption. When people designed those currency they def did not think about that.

And they probably didn't factor in ASIC miners and large mining pools, either. Proof of Work is legacy technology at this point, it's a good thing Ethereum is moving to Proof of Stake along with most of the ecosystem.
> I had always assumed the flag was meant to be set by the letter carrier in some bygone era as a courtesy to let residents know they had mail.

Even as an American I used to think this, but because I grew up in a large city where all mail collection was from a mail box at the corner of the block. It wasn't until I moved to a sprawling suburb did I have my own mailbox at the end of the driveway and I got to use that little flag thing for the first time.
Yeah it’s a total myth. Not sure why you’re being downvoted. My wife and I kept a bottle of oxy in our bathroom for a few years, taking it only occasionally. No one got addicted because neither of us wanted to keep taking it.

A prerequisite for addiction is that one must believe the drug makes them feel “normal” or functional in some way. “I can’t live with this pain - I need it.”

If instead you as a user go into the drug experience with the mindset that you are entering a temporary state, one that is reserved for special occasions, you’re far less likely to become addicted.
I use CUDA for scientific calculations and I wonder how this will affect GPU performance since any detection algorithm may have fault positives. The only problem with such artificial limitation is that usually people who mine crypto are very inventive (if you have doubts about that just check laptop mining farms [1]), since they try to squeeze out as many H/s as possible. It is just a matter of time when the 'right' driver will be available.

1. https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-GeForce-RTX-3060-laptop...
Keyboards are recipes with varying proportions of ergonomics, style, DIY “hacking” ... depending on the person.

It’s an accessible hobby, requiring less time, skills and resources than drone racing or woodworking...

So you don’t “have to” spend money if it does not scratch an itch nor bring any satisfaction.

Fashion aside I love those small grid programmable keyboards. I don’t care too much about style, though my wife loves the plank ez “discokeyboard” as she says.
That's correct. Some might still now it under the old name from when it was a google initiative, pubsubhubbub :)
Gimping their products through software is very on-brand for NVIDIA, gotta admit.
How many of you want to decriminalize drug use? Be honest –– raise your hand.

Now, how do you square that with almost everyone here universally claiming that these words are dangerous?

> The statements that make people mad are the ones they worry might be believed. I suspect the statements that make people maddest are those they worry might be true.
As a teen I made opium from poppies around the neighbourhood. After smoking it once I threw the rest out. The intensity of how perfect it felt was alarming. I remember within minutes thinking I'll become addicted to it if I don't get rid of it. Despite that being a scary prospect, I kept feeling great the entire time. It really beats any bad feeling out of you. Incredibly creepy.

I was a dumb teenager (I'm still not very smart) but I'm grateful I had the intuition to realize how dangerous it was. The only way I can describe it was that I felt the pleasure overwhelming my ability to reason, and that felt very disabling.
> we'll never know if there are UBs

Well... there is also pragmatism. I think it's save to assume that in a library that's 24 years old and is probably linked against by 90%+ of all the applications that touch HTTP we would have encountered the problems one way or another.

It's fine to look at UB as being the big bad wolf if you're starting a new project, but for well established ones I find it unreasonable to project your fears on their developers.
Your definition appeals to tools and technological limitations, smalltalk had this notion that anything is editable, including the IDE itself and the (running!) programs. Your definition + a smalltalk IDE would imply that a running program is text. Furthermore, the abilities of the message reciever factor into this as well : web pages are editable, but somewhat non-trivially. So the combination of tooling and abilities could be used to argue that everything is text: for a graphics artist with even a paint instance running, a picture is the epitome of human readability and editabiliy, while chess sounds like a gibberish unicode file opened with a wrong encoding.

That doesn't mean your definition is useless, its an interesting take to draw the lines between media along editabiliy, but I wouldn't call that a definition of text. It would exclude and include all the wrong things.

One is really starting to believe Wittgenstein that all disagreements boil down to definitions.
The beacon chain - the first step in the transition - has already launched: https://beaconcha.in/
because building 8nm semiconductor fabs is slightly harder than setting up a lemonade stand.
but how will it affect ML applications?
UX is quite good as long as you don’t have to edit the settings. Most buggy sites work on it, which is no longer true for Firefox. It’s also very stable and secure.

But it does get slower and slower with each update.
> His assertion the 70% of all drug users including alcohol and prescription users aren't addicted if anything seems extremely low to me. I'd say the vast majority of my friends drink alcohol and are more than likely on prescription drugs but I don't think any of them are addicts

Actually, I'm not sure. 30% of alcohol drinkers being addicted might be roughly right (though surprising to me as well).

In the US, 50% of Americans hardly drink at all (under 0.15 drinks/week). But 10% of Americans drink a staggering 75 drinks a week, or over ten drinks a day every day (where a drink is a can of beer, glass of wine, or equivalent). [1]

Of course you can't determine from that alone whether those people are clinically addicted, but it sound reasonable to me that most are. Further, probably some proportion of people in the other groups are also addicted, but not drinking nearly as much.

So that's 10%, and only 50% of Americans are drinking at all, so that's 20% of drinkers are drinking 10+ drinks a day, and some unknown proportion have alcohol problems while drinking less.

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/25/think...