skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting access to that is tricky, even for a lot of people towards the bottom of the income brackets in the developed world. There are regulatory or financial or other hurdles.

Just trying to send ordinary sums (say $1000) to someone in Venezuela, or Nigeria, or even India or China can be very tricky. Not everyone has PayPal. Even if they do, it may be subject to all sorts of capital controls or taxes that we do not see in most Western countries. It can often be either impractical or extortionate through the traditional financial system.

I have many reservations about Bitcoin, but if I just needed to send some money to someone in a developing country, it's pretty high up there on practical and simple ways to do so, if they can deal with the BTC on their end. Canada is quite free financially. I can send cash pretty much wherever, with no legal concerns if it's not funding crime and any investment returns are taxed. The legality on their end is another question, as this article shows.
Powerlines Arcing in Lousiana
>>> Art galleries didn't want to be online, and still don't, not the fancy ones. That's not how they sell.

By 2000, selling art online was no less enterprising than selling books or pet food online. PG was just half a decade or so early to the party.

By that time, artnet.com was a well-funded and subscribed sales price database. Christie's auction house would feature it's first online only bidding. Art Review magazine was digitizing its entire archive. Major museums were beginning to discuss in earnest how to preserve software based works in their permanent collections. And the Whitney would feature an online exhibit of curated Net Art in its Artport website.

It's rather interesting to imagine a parallel universe, where PG's AI insights could have culminated in him becoming a major conceptual digital artist.

Flash forward to 2020, and online viewing rooms have replaced in-person art fairs. Distributed ledgers are employed for fraud protection. Rare digital is "important". And questions around authorship in AI-generated works are entering the mainstream.

Beeple: A Visionary Digital Artist at the Forefront of NFTs

https://www.christies.com/features/Monumental-collage-by-Bee...
"Working on the intersection of the internet and vaporware" ouch
We were at 0 F today morning north of Dallas.
It's Electron.[1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/i3njt3/1password_anno...
Thank you very much for your reply.

Finding a mentor is very difficult for me unfortunately (from a third world country, and not particularly rich). I will check out the books and research if there are any obsoleted / old parts. Thanks for the heads-up on SystemVerilog.

Thanks again :)
I think Texas as a whole has seen a huge growth in population in the last 10 years.
The Tres Amigas Super Station is, ironically, being built in TX. If it was done, it could help the situation a lot. 30 GW of capacity!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tres_Amigas_SuperStation
To your first point, it's not about supply, it's about borrowing during periods of scarcity. There are plenty of wholesale markets that are "in the middle". Texas simply chose to not be apart of it.

https://www.epa.gov/greenpower/us-electricity-grid-markets
Why don’t you statically allocate local IPs for each esp32 you have and have each one of them run their own simple web server. Then just print out a qr code that points your phone to the IP address of that device and have the device serve up information on your phone rather than an eink display. That way there is no need for the qr code to change and therefore no need for an eink display.
True, it is a simple concept as it seems to me.

1. define some reliability target (better expressed by some SLOs) in advance and what steps to do if that is not reached
2. if the service fails to reach it, do the steps to increase reliability arranged in step 1.
3. repeat at some regular intervals

The point I think is that the things are arranged in advance. Not after some shit happens because people get very subjective about "their own" service. The target is there, so lets try to reach it. We have error budget as well, lets use that one. If you don't have anything (as I've seen in a lot of places, or wishful 100% reliability), you'll have major reliability problems I'm absolutely sure.

So the SRE book tries to give you a solution to a lot of headaches some medium to large companies might be facing.
Is there a name for these old memes? Vintage memes? Antique memes?
The 21st Amendment provides a clear and succinct model of what it looks like to abrogate a prior part of the Constitution.

If the 1st Amendment were intended to do so to copyright, someone would have noticed by now.
What about Lightning network? AFAIK it works right now, it's instant and scalable.
Is this sarcasm? Honestly can't tell.
I wonder how many of those engineers have woken up, wild eyed in the middle of the night, as their brain excavates some random issue or loose end that surfaced and silently trailed off years ago, never to be properly resolved before launch.
Turns out you can actually design around that. Heck, my solar panels cleared themselves of the foot of snow we received (Idaho) without any intervention on my part. If necessary I could’ve gotten up there with a broom and ladder.
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/11940

Newgrounds seems to have converted their popular Flash animations to MP4... time to re-watch Xiao Xiao :)
How to make an adversary resistant neural network
Driving a car devalues it, because you're using up the utility and extracting value from it.

If you buy a car and treat it like an investment (don't drive it, store it properly, keep it maintained) it behaves like an investment. Depending on the car and the market, the value goes up substantially.

Here's an example of a 2000 Honda Civic selling for $50,000 USD : https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2000-honda-civic-27/

Bitcoiners like to emphasize Bitcoin's limited supply, but Bitcoin is hardly the only thing in life with a limited supply. There will never be any more 2000 Honda Civics, for example.
You can buy and sell subreddits. Just as you can buy and sell mod powers in popular subreddits.
Bitcoins of mass destruction. Going to war over BTC control sounds absurd. But so does $50k a pop. So who knows.
> I asked my mom to switch to unscented fabric softener and it took MONTHS for her clothes to stop smelling like being punched in the face with a bouquet.

Yes! It's amazing how the smell persists subsequent washes.
Factorio killed just about all ability for me to actually do normal work for two weeks. It took over my brain: all thoughts were about logistics, supply chains, the structures that would deliver them...

It was highly addictive, and fun and fun at first, but then got stressful. I've never been so relieved to finish a game, or had such an anti-climax watching the simple rocket animation.

I can't say I hate I hate the game, but saying I like it doesn't quite feel right either.
Why would it be celcius? I made it very clear that I'm in Dallas, and we don't use Celcius.

That's not a knock against Celcius, frankly it's just a knock on you for the dumb comment.
Ah that might be why there are Rank2 and RankN types as seperate extensions in Haskell.
This is exactly why there are so many skeptics. Too many people trying to sell it as a "get rich quick" investment without downsides while there are so few concrete use-cases so far.
Also: I live in Texas and have 100% renewable energy, so I feel sidelined by such comments.
classic memes
> Substantive debate is difficult in 140 characters, so substantive debate does not often happen on Twitter.

When it comes to politics, Twitter is the absolute worst. When you have only 140 characters, there's no room for nuance or actual discussion, so arguments get boiled down to short 1-sentence zingers that are often nothing more than really bad straw men.
I have used all three and none of them "breaks 10% of the time". Why would it?

Of course, these tools are more lightweight and lack the advanced scheduling, monitoring and robot distribution features ("Orchestrator") that UIPath offers. But if one needs only straightforward task and test automation they are a good and reliable alternative.
Front-of-the-Front-End and Back-of-the-Front-End Web Development
> but no real valid reason to do so yet (that I’ve heard).

I hold because i expect us to continue approaching the game-theoretic attractor. I've held for years and will keep holding. Every year, i see more and more people coming around to my perspective.

How many years can you watch the price keep going up before you'll eventually consider that you might be missing something?

> We know transactions are slow and expensive,

lightning network obviates this problem

> it’s often regulated such that it needs to be fully declared (removing the whole anti-gov part)

The government still can't print more bitcoin, which is the main appeal for me.

They also cant technically block anyone from recieving coins. They can make doing so a crime, but don't have the technical ability to, say, freeze funds.

> typically markets eventually correct when there’s no underlying true value proposition

Given that bitcoin is over 10 years old, shouldn't its longevity be taken as evidence that there is, indeed, a true value proposition?

> which can be executed “well”

Why is 'well' in quotes here?

Are you open to the hypothesis that money printing exacerbates might cause long term issues in society?
As an (technically) EE who studied mostly CS courses (and worked in software engineering since), that's something that's really (occasionally) bugged me with software, especially when deliberately choosing asynchronous (in the broadest concurrency-inclusive sense) patterns and syntax. It just seems so... much harder?

Electronics is just inherently 'parallelised', and software generally isn't, I get that. But some how we built up from parallel hardware to procedural synchronous (I know it isn't all but let's be honest it ~~all is) software, then built up further to sometimes wanting parallel again, and it's just sort of hard (er than it seems it should need to be) to use?

I challenge anyone who's used exclusively procedural languages to try an HDL (like Verilog or VHDL) or at least a high level declarative language (like Prolog or HCL/Terraform, as long as you view it as a language rather than config files) and not feel refreshed.

> Programs like Quartus

Egh, if I have nightmares tonight I'll know why!
Same. Reading mode in Firefox was a quick fix
I immediately thought of the movie, when reading the article :)
All this bill would have done is ensure that people in North Dakota no longer have access to various app stores.
> We can clearly observe circumstances in which the goal of political violence is to achieve liberal democracy in a situation where it is perceived to be failing. A functioning democracy is one in which political violence is rendered unnecessary by providing peaceful and effective channels for resolving political conflict. The existence of political violence effectively demonstrates the lack of a more effective channel for resolving conflict, and its existence does not say anything useful about the support (or otherwise) of those ideals by those involved.

I'm having a hard time making sense of this. A precondition for democracy is that we submit to the democratic process. If one or more groups refuses to submit to that process (presumably because their vision is unpersuasive), it doesn't seem like an indictment of any particular democratic process. A perfectly good channel may exist for peacefully resolving conflict, but if one party to a conflict is utterly unwilling to peaceably resolve it then I'm not sympathetic to the idea that it's a deficiency in the channel. Moreover, that party may actively be sabotaging the democratic process (indeed, what is political violence in a liberal democracy but an extreme form of sabotaging the democratic process)?

> This is why complex issues cannot be boiled down to pithy one-liners. It would very obviously be contradictory to demand the right to free speech, while claiming it was incompatible for others to exercise that same right to object to you.

I wasn't debating whether or not objection or criticism are out of bounds of free speech--they are decidedly in-bounds. I think we're agreed on that much. I'm positing that threatening someone's livelihood and access to healthcare falls well out of bounds of free speech--that a society in which this is common is not a society that possesses "free speech".

So if you have a faction that advocates for speech codes and practices/condones cancellation and political violence, how can we credibly argue that that group is "fighting to restore democracy"? Aren't those behaviors among the ills associated with fascism, and if so, shouldn't we be similarly concerned about them? Or do those properties only become "evil" when arranged in the specific form that we call fascism?
Gold is not in price discovery because its been around for so long and already had its ETF moment (which is why its stagnated since that massive run). But gold has always performed cyclically. Long term (very long term) its done quite well. Not my cup of tea but it had its place. Going forward I expect btc will disrupt it and flip its value (JPM making the same call).
Or maybe it hasn't been deregulated enough? From the article

>Wholesale electricity sold are near the $9,000-per-megawatt hour maximum in power markets across the state Monday as the system struggled to meet demand, according to ERCOT.

Why bother spending millions on preparing for a once in a century event when your upside is capped? This is further compounded by the wholesale rates not being passed to consumers, which removes a lot of backpressure from the system. If turning on the heater costs $100/hr to run you're going to find alternatives (eg. co-habiting with your inlaws).
Providing some sort of customer service that reacts at least when the press comes knocking? Use their considerable financial and legal firepower to sue whoever pushed the malwarized version of Great Suspender into the ground? Enforce that Chrome extensions be built on Google infrastructure from public source code repositories to prevent silent takeovers, at least for extensions with 10k+ subscriptions?

Alert people that they should rotate their passwords?

The last one is so crucial. Had I not read that LWN post, I would never have noticed that the extension didn't just run adware fraud but also snooped passwords. Seriously, fuck Google and their disgusting zero communication attitude.
Looks to me like some developer somewhere made a RaspberryPI camera prototype and some dumb money ran with it creating a marketing campaign and getting the prototype in the market as if it were a complete solution.
I think it's more a spectrum than a line. In any case, I don't understand why someone would draw such a line above "upper middle class mathematician/researcher/manager job at fortune 500 company", because they would be proven wrong trivially by looking at statistics of entrepreneurs historically. I would also distinguish "entrepreneurship" from what PG did, which was basically switch from interest to interest without an eye on how to monetize his education.

I think what you are calling intellectual background is a part of what is normally called class. Usually these sorts of things are correlated together, although as you point out, it's a trend, not a rule. PG also comments on this himself [1]:

> Closely related to poverty is lack of social mobility. I've seen this myself: you don't have to grow up rich or even upper middle class to get rich as a startup founder, but few successful founders grew up desperately poor.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/ineq.html
This can be easily managed without microttansaction. Simply award in game point that allows a player to buy cosmetics. Do not create any way for players to trade money for in game points.
I've been meaning to buy something from pine64. This might finally be it; especially with that e-ink screen.

I just joined the mailing list. Hopefully I can snag one of those.
>In 2017, an average U.S. consumer spent 238 minutes (3h 58min) daily watching TV.

...more or less a humanitarian catastrophe
Stanford did some analysis of Clubhouse network traffic and services.

https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/clubhouse-china
That's only a "just so" story.
This is a fair point. I usually only "jump" from directories that have at most 500k files, and the median is way closer to ~500 files.

Even in the worst cases, at least with my i7 NUC and using fd instead of find, it's less than 500ms to load the entire list into fzf.
Here is the unmanned rockets quote that you refer to.

Those were useful things that could have been done by unmanned rockets, but in those days, the state of the art in computers and robotics was not what it is now.

The whole "the state of the art" bit I understand as saying that with modern computers and robotics, unmanned vehicles could have done the job. But they didn't have advanced enough computers and robotics at the time.
Writing in a purely functional style isn't suited for any real world problems, functional programming remains a tool to be used like any other. However functional style programming comes with some seriously valuable effects that make it quite strong in the right situations. Front-end code tends to do a whole lot of mapping and filtering and being able to define stateless functions to execute these jobs can seriously reduce the amount of bugs you're likely going to accumulate over time.

I love programming in a variety of paradigms and settings and I'd suggest you take a bit of a closer look at what you can get out of statelessness and higher order functions in particular. Assuming you're working in a pure JS variant and not a strongly typed FE language (like Elm or TypeScript) my absolute favorite quality (strict typing) isn't available, but there are a lot of tools that can be quite helpful.
https://reason.com/video/2021/02/05/bitcoin-is-protecting-hu...

Bitcoin is used by people under authoritarian regimes around the world. IF nothing else, i'm happy to support people protesting in belarus.
Afaik, the way abnormal situations like these are handled in northern Europe is that the grid suppliers have agreements with the very large industrial consumers (think aluminium smelters) who agree to shut down immediately when the grid frequency goes below a certain trigger level.

The way I understand it, this is useful both in time-critical emergencies (like keeping the grid at 50 Hz when a nuclear plant suddenly goes offline for some random safety reason) and when things are moving a lot slower, like during periods of extreme colds and extreme electicity demand from heating houses.

So, this approach is useful in removing the need for rolling blackouts, at least until demand reaches some very extreme level, but it does require ahead of time investments in shutdown agreements.

Perhaps Texas hasn't been in this extreme situation before, and they simply don't have enough industrial shutdown agreements in place?
>renewables are like 4% of the total energy generation.

Wind power is close to 25% of ercot grid.
If developer numbers go down the need for QA reduces. QA jobs are a proxy for developer roles.
It's either sarcasm or they have money in bitcoin and need people to buy into it so the price goes up. I can't tell either.
This regulation utterly defies economic common sense. It’s like saying that, if we allow too many people to sell groceries, the cost of groceries will go up. That’s not how a functioning market works.

Of course, medicine in the US is not a functioning market.
I'm sure you're correct, but I don't think media is being crossed here, since music = lyrics + melody. I'd presume that the musical piece as a whole is under copyright, but the lyrics are also under copyright, and the melody is also under copyright.
I didn't know that part - that incredible.

I would love to know how many machines got hit by SOlarwinds - however, its not about the machines - its about the value of the data it slurped... So even if it was one exchange server, with 10,000 treasury/nsa/whatever accounts, that one machines intel value is quite high.
Transaction fees are high regardless of using Segwit or not and the Lightning Network is not widely adopted or user friendly at all.
On a day-to-day basis the only times that Windows feels slow are:
1) Git operations. These run faster on Linux and I waste some measurable number of seconds/minutes each due to this slowdown, presumably due to slower file operations.
2) Start bar menus. I frequently right-click an icon on the task bar and even after they fixed the problem I reported in 2019 there is still a noticeable delay. If I then have to right-click on the application name to bring up the sub-menu then there is a secondary delay which is even longer. These delays happen even if I repeatedly right-click on the same icon. I find it bizarre that "waiting for a menu" is a thing in 2021. Blog post is here:

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2019/09/08/taskbar-latency...
I don't know if this is a good point. It's not that people like me are just discovering that this is how London operates; I knew how London operates, and I don't want to be in that environment. London is incredibly surveilled, constantly.

I'm not going to go and complain about it because I'm not living in Europe, and it's not really my place to tell you that you're being over-surveilled. But if you're pointing at London and saying, "don't worry, we already have this" -- bad example, that doesn't make me feel better. I don't want the US to have the surveillance omnipresence that London has, that would be a negative outcome for me. I don't think London's situation should be treated like it's normal. To be blunt, I think your city has a over-surveillance problem, albeit not one that it's my responsibility to solve or draw attention to.

GP's analogy is gross and hyperbolic, it's not the one I would use. But there are some concerns I have here. A better analogy would be something like Baltimore's (thankfully ending) drone program, which creeps me the heck out even as I acknowledge that it's not obviously an invasion of a private space. The point of a protest is often to be seen, but not necessarily to be surveilled in that level of detail, and there are concerns that people should have about police departments paying special attention and putting special effort into monitoring those protests.
Agree on the point about Texas extreme stance on having their own power grid. I don’t known if there’s enough micro grids in Texas to determine how well, or not, they worked in these conditions.