skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found a way here on HN to use uBlock to set Dark Mode and undo the downvote colors. I don't remember who suggested the Dark Mode. This is from "My Filters"

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The .c00 is the default text and the .c5a through .cdd are the 9 shades of gray.
Not to take a side in this fight but i find the counter argument about the environmental cost of regular currencies interesting.

How much co2 is emitted in the clearing of dollar transactions vs the clearing of bitcoin for example. That’s a whole lot of data centres.

I’m not persuaded that we can put costs like legal (or even military) protection under just the dollar column - if you steal my $CO2COIN i can leverage the legal system to pursue you.
The predominant sentiment in the comments is that equity is worthless, which very well may be a fair statement. It would also explain why relatively few people decide to start companies, let alone do it back to back several times after getting burned over and over again. But those same people will then argue that founders should not get 10x more equity than employees [0] (which, for the record, may or may not be justified, but you can't argue that founders would be better off keeping their jobs at mega corps, and also at the same time criticize their upside).

My personal take on this is:

- Stay at the mega corp if you're exclusively optimizing for wealth generation. I don't know if I would recommend pursuing the Skunkworks opportunities, since they are by definition not core to the business and your contributions won't produce a lot of profit for the company for a long time. It's unlikely that the company will remunerate you more than someone who's paying all the bills. After all, this career path is all about maximizing your risk-adjusted likelihood of wealth generation.

- Start your own startup if the journey matters to you. Important caveat: you will get better at this over time, so if it made sense to you to start your first company, it will make even more sense to stick to this career path and do it over and over again. Don't invest your own money, and hope for the best but expect each company to fail. Be ok with earning sub-market salary, and treasure the upside of being your own boss. This approach works best if you're able to raise pre-product seed financing, which brings me to the next point...

- Before you start your own company, be an early employee at a startup that's run by a serial (and ideally successful) entrepreneur. You will get the worst of both worlds - not enough salary and not enough equity - but you will dramatically improve the odds of success when you start your own company (and will also improve the chances of raising a pre-product seed round). Don't do it otherwise.

What I wouldn't do: keep a job at the mega corp, and work on new ideas nights and weekends. This may seem like having your cake and eating it too, but it works far less frequently than you would expect (you end up sucking at your job and at your startup, not to mention that your work-life balance is possibly worse than in any other scenario). Again, the alternative would have been to be an early employee and learn first-hand about entrepreneurship.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17288343
I am so glad you brought up the Tic Tac thing-- It is terrifying to see people like Lex Friedman pretend that what David Fravor is saying is real. And the media reported it verbatim.

Do you have an opinion on David Targ? I feel like he's delusional or an operative. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBl0cwyn5GY)
Why not just make a massively parallel ASIC and make the price competitive to the RTX 3060?

This would be better than crippling the product via software drivers.
They did exactly that just 3 years ago when bitcoin was hot, and (when bitcoin crashed) ended up with an oversupply of GTX cards that delayed Turing sales and tanked the stock for a while. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-cryptocurrency-earn...
Well, after all, interviewing a sex worker is dangerous too. People might have a bunch of sex and catch some nasty diseases.

I think that's the logic, anyway. It's ironic that most people here are in the camp of "decriminalize drugs! Oh wait, no, not these drugs, just some drugs."
Asp.net Core updates in .NET 6 Preview 1
For the specific behaviors that GP mentioned, that's true perhaps.

But who is your DNS provider? If it's your ISP then they know who and where you are, when you're home, and what you browse...TLS or not.
I have a shell function `.` that goes up one:

.() { if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then cd ..; else source $\*; fi; }

then

alias ..='cd ../..'
alias ...='cd ../../..'
.
.

So that "however many periods" goes up however many directory levels. Seems a coherent shorthand to me,
though I guess uuuu also works.
Are you sure that's the median? I would think that they are worth 0 >50% of the time.
They are only doing that to promote their new NVIDIA CMP HX
product line
I like the “velocity of money” concept to think about this.

You lend me $10. I then lend $10 to my friend who lends $10 to his mom. We just created $30 of debt.

But it’s gonna take just $10 to repay all $30.
Facebook Restricts News Viewing and Sharing in Australia over New Proposed Law
Thanks very much! Adding:

bindkey '^q' push-line

works perfectly. Day improved!
> For me, this mostly centers around the analysis of soft-power machiavellianism at the upper echelons of government and it's shadow coterie

I take that as a given and yes, I base that not just on my own experience but also studying history among other things but that's for my own self satisfaction and easing of general ennui. It has zero predictive value. I can't tell you who's going to win an election, I can't tell you how many people are going to die of COVID, I can't predict the future. The article we're discussing attempts to do just that, which is why I say it's bunk.
Hot Reload for Asp.net Core
I appreciate your feedback a lot. It's challenging comments like these that make us grow. Will study the topic more and find a better solution. :). Thank you very much.
--> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26180260
> he noticed there was something drastically off about the previous day's figures

I thought I've had bad mornings..
(I'm the author of precisely)

Better error messages was the motivation: PyHamcrest tends to put everything onto one line, which makes it hard to discern structure. In contrast, precisely tries to produce an error message that uses line breaks and indentation to match the structure of the matcher, hopefully making it clear exactly which part of the matcher has failed.
I would normally be appalled by such an action, but the supply issues for RTX 30x0 cards are beyond ridiculous. Mining trashes the environment and, for the majority of crypto assets/volumes, does not provide genuinely valuable economic activity besides speculation (I say that as someone who has put thousands of dollars into crypto in the past). Why should people who want to try some ML/DL at home (maybe they even need it for a class they're taking), and might also want to play the occasional game, have to pay an arm and a leg to get their (remaining) hands on a modern, efficient card?

I really wish Nvidia would do this across the RTX product line.

Edit: the "Syrian refugee crossing into Europe" trope might pop up as a counter-argument for crypto. I am Syrian and still have relatives there. Refugees' assets are a drop in the ocean of speculators' mining and HODLing.
Let’s please remember it’s a trade of space and time... memory vs cpu... I see safari using a lot more cpu then chrome and also being much less responsive when using complex sites... both engines are mature these are trade offs
It doesn't work in Firefox desktop either. I guess they only test with webkit based browsers.
Great, another company that is dictating what software I am running on the computer I own.

I’ve never mined Ethereum, but this really upsets me.
The problem is the premise that government officials can ethically lie to the public to do things such as protecting a supply chain. So what else are they lying about that they haven’t yet revealed? The trust relationship between people and government is broken.
Apple M1-native malware has already begun to appear
The real shame is allowing scalpers to run their stock dry and generating this problem.
Class action lawsuit relative to a product that isn't sold yet?

What next, class action lawsuit against Apple when they announce the next iphone won't have any external ports?
Of course there isn't. The financial risks (all the risks in general) are totally different. Risks, and lack thereof, drive behaviors, decisions.
As far as I know (last time I googled it) if speculation was removed and hoarding, gold would be worth about $100 an ounce for the things we need it for.

So yes we do have alternatives to gold. Things such as Bitcoin and crypto, which keep going up in value, while gold speculation has stagnated and is even going down. Weakening dollar and massive debts due to the pandemic should mean gold skyrockets, but people are buying the alternatives. It looks grim for gold. Tesla didn’t buy gold, they bought Bitcoin.
There is a possibility that drugs being illegal has resulted in many less addicted and dead drug users. Supposedly, prohibition back in the day was quite successful keeping people from becoming alcoholics.
I disagree with this view. I think the metaphor captures some elements of the experience, but it doesn't capture enough.

A craving feeling arises to have fun. The craving exists there because it feels nice. This also implies that you feel less nice than you'd like to feel. This craving doesn't happen that often, but often enough that you're curious about taking drugs.

You try cocaine. Suddenly you feel energized and amazing, this is how you always want to feel! The effect wanes after 20 minutes, you take it again and you feel amazing. You're starting to do this every weekend. Cocaine gets associated with the craving feeling for fun.

After a few months, whenever you feel like your normal self, a craving feeling arises. This feeling is now a mix of wanting to have fun and wanting cocaine.

The thing is, where I think the debt metaphor breaks down is that this increase in craving acts a bit different than actual debt.

Many addicts feel strong cravings for years afterwards, and it only very slowly decreases. Once hooked again to the substance, it's easily back to previous all-time high levels. Psychologists claim that in conditioning processes, it's impossible to delete conditioning (called extinction). So you can never truly repay our debt.

Moreover, once your craving is extinct (for as much as possible) it's really only dormant in reality. Make one wrong move and you're quickly back to rock bottom. With debt, if I pay back my debt of $50K, then splurge for another $1K, I am not back in debt with $50K. This is however how addiction works.

Finally, the debt metaphor doesn't capture the uncontrollableness of cravings that are arising. You have no free will in what spontaneous thought or feeling arises. This is quite easily seen when you're sitting still and try to do nothing: your mind will still chatter away, you'll still feel things based on that chatter. In quite a few cases it's impossible what your mind will show you next. The same is true for the cravings that an addict gets with a drug. Sure, the craving will arise when one starts to talk about it, but it may also arise when somebody twitches their leg, because the muscle tension is super vaguely associated to a memory when one was partying with the drug, but the person is not even aware of that association or that it's part of a memory.

Disclaimer: I'm not a drug addict, but based on my personal life experiences, I think it's fair to say that I have enough experience how it must feel like (I experience a mild pull to alcohol, a strong pull to caffeine and an overwhelming pull to videos and video games).
Someone owns that debt. Most of it is government debt. The problem with government debt is people without any creativity can just buy government debt and earn interest on trillions just betting on the government's ability to tax and get into more debt.
not to mention the humans involved in clearing dollar transactions...
The environmental impact of "Proof of Work" could have been a problem but the inventors did think about that and realized that mining can be done pretty much anywhere, using renewable resources that would otherwise be untapped. As usual the ethical burden should be on the user of the tool, not the tool itself.

In the long run miners who do not use untapped (cheaper) renewables are going to be priced out, it just takes some time. That said other protocols much less computationally intensive, such as "Proof of Stake", are starting to be tested.

Anyhow, good idea NVIDIA!
It seems to have been a hard paywall for me, but this might be the same story: https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/texas-bans-natural-g...
Futex Reacquainted
It's a bit of a stretch, isn't it? :) In addition to the safety concerns, you are absolutely right that it was also a Russian geopolitical project, though, just with more realistic and with more practical objectives.

One of the objectives was an attempt to make the Baltic States dependant on the Russian (well, Belarusian, but due to political realities it doesn't quite matter) energy supplies by flooding them with cheap electricity and discouraging them from diversification. Such dependency would give some means to make political influence to the Baltics. This was in addition to another objective of making Belarus even more economically reliant on Russia (in this case, very cheap but large loans given to build the power plant).

However, I don't think they managed to gain anything in the Baltics, because of a robust strategic response from the Baltic States: 1) they diversified their electricity supply with more links to Scandinavia and Poland (see NordBalt, EstLink and LitPol projects) 2) created an open and well functioning electricity market (see Nord Pool) 3) eventually decided to boycott the electricity from the Belarus Power Plant, undermining its economic basis.

Russia succeeded in tightening the economic grip on Belarus, but in terms of economic dependency, things are already pretty grim there..
> oppressive societal forces is personal space travel and colonization

Why do you think colonies in space will be different and not see “societal forces” emerge?
Ask HN: Organising yourself/your team: options for non-tech old-school firms?
Hi all,

I'm a CxO at a non-tech midsize firm (c. 2000 employees/$400m sales). One of the main duties of a C-roles is a kind of general project management ('project' being used here in a very wide sense: you could think of 'producing the monthly reporting' as a recurring project).

Until now, I've never needed much discipline as a "project manager" (both for self, team): no todo lists, few notes, and overall little formalized tracking of everything. Projects, roadmaps, tasks usually have found their place in my memory, aided by cursory looks at my inbox which I have never bothered to try to organize.

The company being growing at quite a fast pace, my scope, the number of projects, and the team are expanding - and so I'm realizing that I may need a bit more discipline if I don't want anything to slip into a sinkhole and only be heard of again because someone else asks about it...

What has been stopping me lately is the lack of an appropriate tool for the kind of old-school environment I'm in: the main ways of communicating are (async) email and (sync) meetings.

The solution is embarassingly simple: since the company's (and I suspect, many companies') primary communication channel is email, I need to 'augment' email with some form of editable notes, in the same tool so that:
- all emails can be linked to one or more projects => this solves email clutter, short-term task management, reminders, etc
- all projects can have one or more editable notes => this solves keeping track of a project history, meetings, decisions, etc in the same place as the main elements of the project, which are usually exchanged by email
- everything being seemlessly blended into my email client, enabling easy triage/search/etc, both on mobile and on desktop

The first requirement is easily fulfilled by mostly any email client, but I know of no email client that combines that with editable notes directly attached to folders in one unified view.

Ideas anyone?
Totally agree. Having been in a call center-type job before, I can attest that the people on the other end are just trying to survive.
I've been using https://www.migadu.com for a few years. Unlimited domains/inboxes at a very reasonable flat rate. They charge by how many emails you send.
I get that ending the subscription is annoying and I wish they hadn't done it but claiming they have a "fragile" business model is just wrong.

They are WILDLY successful. Their operating profit jumped 28% last year and literally are blowing away the competition in overall subscriber numbers and growth. It's really not even close

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/business/media/new-york-t...
Used to work in banking innovation and have plenty of friends that work/have worked at banks. Bad UIs cause errors and inability to help customers all the time.
> How much co2 is emitted in the clearing of dollar transactions vs the clearing of bitcoin for example. That’s a whole lot of data centres.

About 40000 times less I think? That's the figure I saw for a SEPA transfer or Mastercard transaction vs the bitcoin equivalent
> But is inflation a realistic debt-reducing tool in the modern economy?

Yes, when you consider that we don't need actual CPI inflation in order to reduce the debt. Economic growth works just as well. In hard terms, we can inflate money so the debt is smaller. We could also all get richer so the debt is proportionally smaller.

Pro-growth policies like the strengthened safety net we in the US are experimenting with as pandemic response could have the impact of increasing overall growth to make debts more easily serviceable.
Dead cat bounce - goosing the accelerator was going to catch up to him
Yesterday, discord asked me 'to identify myself using my phone number'. I really wonder how my identity is linked to my phone number. So wrong.
When I canceled my audible subscription I wasn't aware that I also would loose my remaining 7 credits...

I will not subscribe again after this experience.
Fully agree.

Carl is a white collar professor. The worst thing that can happen if his drug indulgence becomes a problem is he knocks over the water cooler or loses his job.

I work a blue collar job servicing heavy diesel engines. Casual hard drug users are aggravatingly cavalier to work alongside. They forget important things constantly. They show up late and lose things often. You'll spend all day repeating things they'll never retain and at the end of the month they will lose a finger or toe or suffer a massive back injury and get fired. The back injury usually turns the casual heroin into constant endless heroin.

Drug tests exist in my field for a really valid reason and it has nothing to do with having a problem but becoming one.
It's a 15% increase overall though.

When you consider that the unemployment spiked at the fastest rate ever seen and the entire world fell into a brief, but severe recession (~30% GDP decline in the US), a 15% increase in debt / GDP seems quite mild.
As I wrote in the other thread here, this won’t change anything. The additional chips which were previously binned probably don’t exceed demand. The demand of miners is inelastic and they will buy anything.
In the Netherlands at least this is actually the law. May even be EU law – not sure.

Of course, the law is only as good as it's enforced. A few years ago I wanted to cancel a mobile phone subscription and the cancellation procedure said I had to send a letter. Like, an actual letter. lol? I just sent an email quoting the law, and since I didn't get a reply I stopped payments. Never heard from it. I sent a notification to the consumer protection agency, but not sure if they actually did something with it.
Ethereum has been designed from the very start to switch from PoW (mining) to PoS (validating) and Phase 0 of that transition has already started.
When I read these sort of accounts, it helps to keep in mind the diversity of human condition, physique and psycology.

There are people immune to some poison, people that don't feel pain at all, a woman which has two vaginas, there were people that never stopped growing, people that don't sleep, etc.

Thats before we get into psycology and personal experiences that shaped them.

I willing to believe that ther are some people who can abuse drugs, and not become adicts. However odds are I am not one of them, and its not worth finding out by experiment.
Then get literally any other Nvidia card?
They've been wildly successful over the last several years and are dominating the competition in online subscriptions so I think the advice they've been acting on recently is working just fine.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/business/media/new-york-t...
While simultaneously another author gets criticized for not including enough Y's.
Coffee, chocolate, and sugar are drugs. If a drug is a substance that affects how your mind functions, then water is a drug too. There is no definition of "drug" that cleanly separates the (currently) illegal substances from those that are legal.

The world is full of chemicals that affect us, some more than others. People self-medicate all the time (alcohol, coffee, chocolate, sugar); I see no problem with (after learning and carefully experimenting) broadening one's set of "self-medication" tools.
The line of thinking behind this comment is exactly why we're experiencing rapid decline - zero ability to consider the root causes behind issues and how to address them at a fundamental level. "Hit back at the banks" is the kind of cable-news-hot-takes-style solution that only address issues caused by prior solutions.

Every single asset class has experienced significant inflation over the last 50 years. Banks created 30 year mortgages because of demand. Demand occurred as a result of actions by the federal reserve. The FHA, not really a bank but rather a government entity, started the trend.
Technology as a literal cost center.
This seems to be a misunderstanding.

You seem to refer to sites served by Cloudfront.

My question was about their asset CDN located at cdnjs.cloudflare.com

A website might be a target of a DOS attack, so it could make sense to have some heuristics in place to prevent those.

An asset CDN is less likely to be attacked since it only hosts static content. And a captcha would not make sense as a signal for this because nobody would see it.