skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not "nearly everything". Most people don't spend their salaries on lumber or copper. If anything, it shows how little the prices of raw commodities affect consumer prices.

It's also hardly evidence for impending hyperinflation. For instance, aluminum is massively cheaper than in 2008, and copper is still quite a bit below the 2011 level. Commodity prices always fluctuate massively.
You can't wipe actual physical volume on M1 without some command line magic and even then I not sure it's gonna work. Recovery disk utility say it's will wipe it, but it do nothing and Erase Mac option is the same: all it do is erase user data.

I got stuck with almost the same issue even though I'm system administrator and programmer with decade of experience. I can't imagine how all this mess should feel for average Mac or Windows user.
I tend to go with a few "No, thank you"s at first and then, if the heat picks up, the ol' firm & fatherly "Look, I appreciate it, but I'm going to cancel today no matter what," informing them that there's nothing they could do or say to try to make me change my mind and stay, ♫ we never did too much talkin' anyway, so don't think twice, it's all right.
Same, I have a Filco Majestouch bought in 2011, still clicking like new.

Of course, I did open it up at some point and that's not pretty. The steel plate where the keys are mounted on was actually a bit rusty; I think it was just painted and I may have scraped it while cleaning at some point, or something?
I have steam and I absolutely do not need a single provider/distributor (in fact I also have GOG and uPlay, and in no shape steam would be held in any higher esteem). I don't quite see any reason to dislike/resent any other company's way of releasing their products.

Back, years ago the distribution way were tons of 3.5" diskettes, or better yet - transportable hard disk with a jumper switch to slave mode. A lot has changed since, however subscribing to the model that one company has to govern my entertainment model is beyond silly.
Not exactly. People can be asked to provide their sources or reasoning, which an informed user can easily check and verify.

This is not the case with black-box models. They only point to an answer/give a reply without any justification or reasoning behind it. This is actually a very severe problem with black-box models: ultimately they cannot be trusted, because it's very hard to verify whether the learned objective function matches the intended objective function (this is called the alignment problem [1].)

Optimisers tend to produce Clever Hans instances whenever they can, because it's the cheapest and therefore most optimal solution. Even if this becomes obvious from failure cases (e.g. common misclassification in image recognition systems), it's still not obvious which clues the system used that lead to the misclassification.

This is in contrast to a person, who an be queried as to why and how they arrived at their conclusion.

[1] https://bdtechtalks.com/2021/01/18/ai-alignment-problem-bria...
One idea might be to speak to a home security/burglar alarm company. I've had alarms retro-fitted to a couple of houses in the UK and both times the installers were very creative in routing the cables almost invisibly. (There were inevitably one or two stretches that could not be hidden).

If you have to run cables over the surface of the walls, can you box them in and redecorate the boxwork? Can you run the horizontal cables through coving around the edges of the ceilings?
> If you've typed or pasted a long command and decide you need to edit it before running, ctrl-x-e opens it in an editor

Jeez, this is great!
I see a lot of these articles, but realise bitcoin is 'only' consuming half of the electricity of dormant (always on but inactive) devices in the US. This isn't taking into account the amount of green energy used in mining bitcoin, or the fact it could easily be powered entirely by green energy in the future. I do think it is a slightly overblown argument.

Aside from that, there's the normal point that crypto is moving towards proof of stake which means you no longer use 'mining' to maintain the network which will stop this argument entirely, albeit bitcoin may not go this way itself.

https://cbeci.org/cbeci/comparisons
I keep seeing statements both like "most electricity used to mine Bitcoin comes from fossil fuels" and like "Bitcoin is using 75% renewables". It seems like people just choose those that fits their agenda. I assume there really isn't a way to know what sources of energy Bitcoin mining is using, and how those sources were used if it wasn't for Bitcoin, right?
From what I know the time does matter. In the first part of the night the body release some hormones that make sleep more effective. It's not only about the number of hours.

Also, look up sleep debt. It's exactly what the words suggest. Until you "pay" that debt, you tend to sleep later, because the body wants to catch up on that debt.
I have met a few people that alleged being from Bielefeld, but they were clearly untrustworthy because they strongly supported the dubious claim that it existed.
No, the actual amount of fat is a factor
Re-Ask HN: Starting and running a boutique software development company
(trying a different timing) Please share your experience. Finding clients, pricing, etc... Success stories as well as failures.
I find this a very bad stance. Why not put efforts and research into theoretial solutions that square the triangle without the need for the costly PoW?

Be the change you want in the world and all that.
I actually don't see a problem with this in the context of an ad-pushing platform. Facebook gets all its engagement from 1) users' feeds and 2) imported 3rd party content. Why should they receive all the profits from pushing ads against content others have created? I think it's a grossly unfair "business model" and am happy to see it challenged.
The future of personalization – how to get ready for it
NASA Mars rover: Perseverance robot heads for daunting landing
Previous one with a one comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26172139
We know how to get better.

We have a model. (several!)

Airline crash investigation, medical training. These all show we can extract best practise and identify improvements.

Have open reviews on everything. How did that year long project go? Was it properly thought out in first place? we're expectations matched with funding?

We can improve.

Edit: (Good) Journalism is a rough proxy for this mechanism - and one could make a case for countries that have better free press have better results (and that's not just limited to dictatorships - compare say US press to say Norway). Anyway - why do we leave such an important jobs to haphazard civilian publishers ?
I saw a few of the videos and the main points I noticed are

- It looks really good

- It can be updated quickly

- Black is produced with particles attaching to tiny lenses

- The faster you want to update ("video mode"), the slightly higher power consumption will be

- It's cheap and easy to make with mostly LCD processes

- It was supposed to launch in 2020

Unfortunately I haven't seen any update since then. Does anyone know what's holding them back?
Microsoft’s next major Windows 10 update focuses on improving remote work
I know nothing about who benefits from Bitcoin or where is it being mined, but isn't it plausible that group A is benefiting from asset X, while group B is mining it?

If I'm not mistaken, that was the case with mining since pretty much forever...
I was in a similar spot, but after a bit of thinking I bought an overpriced (about $200 more than MSRP) RTX3090 instead, now the price extra I paid to the scalper are already paid by mining eth, and current RTX3090 price (from scalpers) is about $300 more (than what I've paid), I should have bought like 50 of them back then...
Three brands that prove authenticity in marketing is paramount
NYT is quite right of center on many issues. They're not as conservative as WSJ, but they're definitely not a leftist publication.
Currently in the UK, I had a really bad experience with 3, where I tried to cancel, I was informed that I had my account cancelled and then they kept billing me (for months).

I consulted with some lawyers and they told me since I had only done business on the phone (the only way the company does this business by the way) that was essentially my word against the companies. There was no way to email them and even when I did they refused to confirm or deny any account status unless I called them.

That's not to say consumer rights aren't important, I think America could do better, but I certainly do not feel protected in the UK. It's worth noting that the bulk of my exposure to UK based utility companies or government departments has suffered from similar problems, no easy way to paper trail requests made making these kinds of consumer rights ombudsmans worthless.
That was a political decision made intentionally to prevent federal oversight of their power grid. I have read they have a few connections though.
Ah, that's good to know for the future - I closed it manually.
I wasn't told about this and didn't know about it - mind you it was a few years ago so not sure if this is a newer service.
May I ask why I was downvoted?
Many nuclear power plants work by generating steam that moves a turbine.

You can also achieve something similar using geothermal energy. Like this geothermal plant in California that generates 700 MW:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5kYyGmoaFo
Extremely basic and uninformative article. There has to be tens of thousands of articles with much deeper thought into this subject by now. However, it seems to have stirred up a lot of commenting here which I'm sure will be a lot more interesting, so that's good!
+1 for a 10+ year old razor blackwidow, only considering replacing it because I want rgb lol
Companies must stop requiring people to link their phone numbers
With the growing number of people working remotely from anywhere this presents a major challenge for people who travel frequently. Each country is a new sim card and a new phone number. The only way to get past this is to have one universal phone number. Something like Google Voice. However, some places are now blocking "prepaid" phone numbers. Like, okay. I guess I'm just not allowed to use your app. Stick to emails. People barely ever change their emails.
Fully agree. Interesting enough, global CO2 certificates would not affect Bitcoin at all (unlike air travel and cement). In the case of Bitcoin they would simply mean that the price per hash rate goes up for everyone, and therefore the difficulty is reduced.

So... if Bitcoin can push politics to make better, more air(!)-tight rules for CO2 certificates faster, then it would be clearly have a net benefit for the world.
I can't think of a single individual who held bitcoin and lost money in the long run
Where can I find them and what are their margins?
> If every synapse was equivalent to just one parameter in ANN, then we could be just magic memoization machines.

It's a poor comparison, though, since neurons and synapses aren't the same as parameters in a computational network. It's the same trap that news outlets routinely fall into when citing "storage capacity of the brain" in TBs and other such nonsense.
Can anyone comment on how much motion the current terminal will tolerate? I’m wondering about a boat at anchor.
Peppermint ( Ticket Management) Alpha
Software rendering in the datacenter is a pig. I was excited to read about Waypipe but it can’t really do better than VNC. If neither Wayland nor GTK+/KDE get around to solving the remote GPU problem, I think the industry will continue to abandon native GUIs and move everything to JavaScript apps because at least the browser has hardware acceleration.

Do I even need a compositor if my browser is the only client? I guess ChromeOS does overlap windows sometimes.
IDK but I always just wipe (as in delete all partitions) and do a fresh install on any new MB; and had no issues with the latest Air.
Any site that uses a "close and accept" model for cookies, is an instant tab close for me.
There is an anti bitcoin propaganda in this site and it's users...probably resentful in several ways.
There was an awesome project a while back to recreate a new buckling spring keyboard:

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=79141.0

https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/
These "Bitcoin is using too much energy" articles are posted almost weekly here.

With all the great minds in the world, instead of fighting and complaining, why hasn't anybody come up with something better than Proof-of-Work to keep Bitcoin alive? Bitcoin is open source, if there is something that can keep the network secure without using all the energy, feel free to submit a bitcoin improvement proposal (BIP).

After all, if the world would agree and shutdown the Bitcoin network today, all the energy after all these years would "really" be wasted.
I deleted the entire volume if I remember correctly. But even I made a mistake, there should be a warning. I used to HFS FS were there aren’t the volumes so it could have been my error but Apple should put a warning!
Reminds me of that angry guy trying to delete his Blizzard account after the Blitzchung controversy.

https://i.imgur.com/dPLVwn6.png
If you are comfortable with command line, DevOp and system admin would be a good place to look. Since you are comforable with mac(freebsd)/linux There is always need for cloud engineer, SRE. Did you also look at the startup company from Ycombinator.
> 4. Borrow USDT (Tether)

> 5. Sell the borrowed USDT to USDC

How is this not shorting? Except DIY instead of a broker hiding the borrowing for you.
For source just ask what Russians say. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/russia-may-fine-citi...

Keep in mind, that searching for sources for military stuff,
doesn't make a lot of sense. They are mostly classified.

But yes while the project was initiated for military purposes, they also want consumers to reduce the amount they have to pay.
You mean hate. The average person on the street doesn't want wars and the inevitable retaliation. Some terrorists are just informal soldiers that felt like they didn't get a fair chance at fighting back. There have also been rumors about terrorists targeting drone pilots.
> People that read HN are absolutely the type that would consider paying for NYT (or at least the two cohorts have great overlap).

?? I automatically assume that articles that are written by NYT, NewYorker, and The Guardian are complete BS and should be ignored.

0 journalism found there.

Wanna spend money somewhere? Spend it on The Atlantic or Bloomberg.
Here's my two cents. I'd strongly suggest as a junior hacker NOT to go job hunting without a decent portfolio(can be GitHub or similar) and at least one decent language or tech specialization. I've been recently through a lot of interviews as a senior and I can tell you the bar is very high. Making one or two mistakes on whiteboard coding is the end of that interview. Solving hackerrank challenges live while explaining how to do it is also quite hard and a very different skill from day-to-day software development. Also recruiters are trigger-happy in online interviews which are currently still the norm due to the pandemic.

I'd suggest to rummage through your existing network for opportunities. Also QA and IT Support roles with a bit of operations work might suit you since they involve a bit of software development but should be lighter on development skill-set requirements.
I used a Unicomp several years back. It's an okay keyboard, but the USB current draw was very high. Without an externally powered USB hub, it wouldn't even work on my laptop. Perhaps this has improved since then?

Been using an alibaba special with kailh switches and LED backlights for years now. No complaints.
Show me a recent study about them with the same level of propaganda, than recent bitcoin studies that are coming out in every news outlet...

I will be awaiting.
Buying drugs. Figured that was what most Bitcoin transactions were for
I didn't check but I did read somewhere that one nuclear plant also shutdown in texas because a sensor froze.

The issue isn't about the type of fuel, it's planning for cold weather events.
There is no place for stress or anxiety in this industry. You either need to find a workplace where stress and anxiety are not tolerated or you need a way in which your work doesn't get to you. Otherwise your career will be very short, if you are on the neurotic side of things.
> Is the walled garden a key differentiator?

Yes! And you’re being wilfully dishonest by not acknowledging this point, despite me repeating it to you a dozen times.

> I didn’t buy an iphone because [...]

Well, I did.
Reposting this because when I saw it yesterday on New it had been flagged dead within 7 minutes, despite being a well-written summary and opinion on Urbit. Not sure why it was flagged, and apparently when I vouch it does nothing so, whatever.
Bear in mind that crossing water by boat is a lot easier to get from A->B than across land in general. Back in the day the land was quite heavily forested and the M1 wasn't built.

Even in "modern" times, it can take quite a while to get from say Plymouth to Inverness. I remember my mum (Devonian) recalling how long that trip took back in the '60s. Then she got posted to the islands on the north left and getting back home really took some time - the ferries can be a bit sporadic when the weather gets grotty 8)

Try not to look at the map of Europe as a driver of a vehicle capable of >100mph. Imagine there are very few roads, except what the Romans left behind. There are not many people and a lot of trees. Police is a concept that is yet to be invented although the Shire Reeves (Sheriff) is an early model. Most people's horizons probably don't stretch much more than 10 miles for their entire life. Witches are real and doctors were scarce and scary - they hadn't even invented the leech at this time.

That said, some folk did travel quite a long way. Bede famously recalls a story of a pope who remarks on some slaves in a market in Rome: "... they are surely Angels ...". He was talking about some Angles who were taken from these isles who he found rather good looking.

If you really want to get a flavour of just how complicated things are genetically here, let alone in the rest of Europe, try Stephen Oppenheimer's "The origins of the British" (1-84119 894 3)
Elon Musk plans to launch his own “Martian” cryptocurrency
Start putting your money into low cost index funds with dividends reinvested; let time in the market do its job.
That happens at any company that's sufficiently devoted to SJW principles. Though it's usually about women rather than gays as obviously the question of orientation can't usually be brought up at interview time.

I thought everyone working in tech knew this happened. If you doubt it, a simple check of the Tumblr jobs page should make their policy clear:

https://www.tumblr.com/jobs

"Now, billions of posts later, we continue to build out Tumblr as a platform for diverse communities to express their points of view. And we’re committed to hiring a workforce that represents the same diversity."

A company committed to hiring a workforce that represents "diversity" will have a lot of "diversity hires", as it's literally their stated policy.
When getting a mortgage, at least on my side of the pond, you get the option to fix the interest. I've set mine to 30 years fixed (the duration of the mortgage), because a few years ago it already seemed like the rates were bottoming out. I was wrong, but I don't regret fixing my mortgage interest rate.

A more pressing matter is that people are no longer able to afford a house, especially if they're young / early in their career.
I wonder if subscribers in other states could change their address and then cancel.
This is a poor example of this genre of the article, but that doesn't make its conclusions wrong. For a better article covering similar ground: https://www.ft.com/content/a9bd5b42-272e-465c-9284-9fe2a7906... [1]

Everyone in this thread parroting the usual lines about bitcoin[0] needs to explain why legacy environmentally destructive proof-of-work coins should not be superseded by vastly more efficient proof-of-stake cryptocurrencies.

[0] "banks also have lights and computers", "it's mined with renewable energy", "something something secure the network"

[1] bypass paywall https://crosat.com/the-environmental-idiocy-of-teslas-bitcoi...
Really interesting article. The intro and conclusion suggest that there is some sort of debate going on about usage of "Anglo-Saxon", but I cannot work out what it actually is and what side the author is on.
Does the fact that the mining is happening in China somehow conflict with Elon Musk and western investors reaping the benefits? That’s what I understood the stated fact as.

This is a genuine question, I’d like to understand the argument you’re making, vis-a-vis what the balance of who is benefiting and how much is.
Reddit day trader urges Wall Street probe ahead of GameStop hearing
It has been shut down and replaced by a floating nuclear power barge that is docked near the coast - one advantage is that the sea will never freeze bar some Hollywood climate apocalypse.
Music, art, literature are obvious examples.
There's lots of examples of mechanisms that lock out the backwards direction on purpose.

AKa ratchets etc.
Why would you make such an absurd presumption? Life is life and there are lots of circumstances pushing you to make tough choices. Always being able to stick to your dream job or career path is not an option for most people.
Oh, yes, but in this case, probably for the first time in history, group B (miners) consists of computers, not people.

Owners of said computers are part of group A, and they are unlikely to sell freshly mined Bitcoin under market value.

It is probably impossible to map ethno-religious structure of Bitcoin trade exactly, given that it often serves to circumvent regulations and thus necessarily partly lives in the shadows. But a lot of Bitcoin-related activity happens in East Asia, so the participants aren't probably majority white.
Bookfeed.io: Create a list of authors, get an alert when they publish a new book
Entity Framework Core 6.0 Preview 1
Zsh is the default shell on MacOS. It has been since Catalina.
Oh-my-zsh supercharges your zsh setup its great https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh.
GPT along with most filesystems store a bunch of stuff at random places around the disk, for many filesystems it's even configurable.

The most usual problem with your approach is recreating a set of partition tables exactly matching the old tables, while failing to wipe out a filesystem signature buried halfway into the disk. One reboot later, and magic header bytes start to be recognized as valid filesystems by whatever OS installer or BIOS utility you happen to be using. Even worse if you're been taking some hacky shotgun approach to blowing holes in the drive by zeroing out random sectors that belong to one of those recognized filesystems.

So once again,

> The only portable, reliable, robust way to accomplish this is wiping the drive
Ah that's a "sin of ommision" then
The entire point is that it does. Opening up the walled garden isn’t “a feature”, it’s something that will completely, and irreversibly change the incentives on the platform.

Why the hell should Facebook comply with Apple’s every whim and wish, if they could just publish on a different store with less stringent privacy rules, and force you to download it that way? “You want Facebook? Go to Settings -> Privacy, then uncheck the bla bla bla box, and install Fb Store. Then...”. Yeah, no, that’s my worst nightmare.

Seriously, how do you people not get this?
Thank you! I skimmed over the abstract and will read the paper later, it seems interesting.

But you gave me another point to support my view: PRESS uses stochastic gradient, not second-order method like IRLS.