skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The argument for gold is that it isn't 100% a speculative investment. According to Wikipedia(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold) 50% of gold's use case is in making jewelry and 10% is used for industry. On the other hand, Bitcoin isn't used for anything, except as for a speculative investment, not even as a currency or as a "decentralized PayPal".

Also, Gold has literally thousands of years of cultural precedent as being a "valuable thing." Bitcoin, not so much.
While Chinese can copy it easily the eInk display will kinda guarantee that even half the price would be pushing it.

In any case they don’t need to even preemptively copy it once you order it from a Chinese OEM they’ll use the money you paid them to make a few 1000’s units more for themselves and have them on Aliexpress before you even get the first batch shipped.
This is a wonderful idea. I'll add it to the roadmap!
Measuring Everything: Collecting metrics out of every server call
There is "free" as in "free beer" and "free" as in "free speech".
I recall a story from the late 1980's about a couple of young German men that stowed away in a shipping container for the weeks-long duration of the journey to America surviving on beer alone.
> That’s my town! And it’s actually totally unnoticeable, 98% of people in town have no idea.

Do you mean that the journalist over-exaggerated the story in a very heated topic to get eyeballs. I'm, for one, very surprised. /s
It’s too officy, have a look at this one for inspiration: https://www.instructables.com/E-Ink-Family-Calendar-Using-ES...
Yes, but if I told IBM that I had a proof that a particular algebraic property or relationship related to homomorphic encryption holds true, I'm sure they would much prefer that it was constructive, rather than non-constructive, because they can produce a usable algorithm from the constructive proof.
The point is that by exploring mathematics using only constructive proofs, we are guaranteed to produce (possibly useful) algorithms.
If you already have an algorithm, and can prove it works non-constructively then fine, but a collection of N non-constructive proofs is not nearly so useful for real-life applications as a collection of N constructive ones.
Why could this extension possibly need redis?
FYI, greaterwrong.com is an alternate front-end for lesswrong.com. The content is identical, but with different UI.
Even with cash you had consumer protection laws. So you could get your cash back.

With bitcoin it's medieval ages at best.
Yes but even at 10K you’ll be looking at $50 per unit at best.

eInk displays are expensive as fuck thanks to patents.
nim-lang
That concept you're linking is what inspired me :)

> It would be replacing a paper calendar that shows 3 months ahead. A nice feature would be to be able to move between views of today, this week, 3 months.

I agree.

> Much bigger would be nice too.

Totally.
I’ve heard the compiler is very slow. Is it? Go has a crazy fast compiler.
Tesla’s data advantage. Can Apple, or others, keep up?
At a minimum a reasonable time for a package for it to be a good citizen in the system is what is in Debian LTS.
Hockequality – make hockey more diverse, inclusive,accessible to kids in Canada
Depends on which problem of bitcoin they are currently defending.
Have you taken a look at Nim? https://nim-lang.org
Yeah, but 'pinning' dependencies is useful so that you can choose when you get those changes.
Breaking Down and Fixing Kubernetes
According to this [1], keypairs are generated randomly on a registration request. To sign such keypairs root private key must be somewhere on the device. But I don't see a mention of this in the docs.

[1] https://developers.yubico.com/U2F/Protocol_details/Key_gener...
Something which is really missing is wifi support and the ability to pull a custom image to display from somewhere. You could then easily display status dashboards, calendars, whatever someone likes.

If you have a library for easily building these screens this could be really interesting.

I have seen this idea at the joan board, but they are really expensive (attaching an ipad to the wall is cheaper) and i cant find this feature anymore. I guess it was hidden at some screenshot and small text somewhere.
> I think the initial ramp of karma up to whatever the threshold is to allow downvotes is helpful. I'm not sure it has much actual utility past that.

I have to agree (at least, in my case). I know that when I first started here, I was a lot more reactionary and frequently found myself wishing for a way to downvote people who disagreed with my perspective, but I couldn't act on that immaturity because of the required ramp up. I'm still human, I'm still reactive- but instead of just saying "I disagree; you're canceled," it's forced me to take a moment and actually focus on both perspectives and the merits that other paradigms offer. I'm not anywhere close to perfect, but it's certainly helped me grow :).
We're going to have to build up our Nuclear infrastructure eventually because outside of fossil fuels, geothermal and hydro (both of which need particular geography so they can never be the final answer) there is nothing else.

Unfortunately the cultural push is for wind and solar, so it looks like we're going to have to give wind and solar the 'old college try' and lose precious decades before we realize we need nuclear.

It would have been nice to invest in Nuclear in the 70s to the same level as France, for example, and thereby prevent trillions of tons of CO2 that were emitted between the 70s and today from being emitted, and the trillions more between now and whenever we wake up to the fact that wind and solar just can't scale. I suspect future generations will take a dim view of the anti-nuke environmental movement.

Worse, though wind and solar collectors may reduce CO2 emissions they are incredibly environmentally destructive in other ways. Let's keep mind that global warming is only one aspect of environmental destruction. The other is regular habitat and ecosystem collapse due support of human civilization (cities, agriculture, transportation etc.). Solar and wind collectors have horrendous land-use requirements (land-use around mining for necessary materials, deployment of the collectors, and finally land-fill once out of use). So when it comes to ecosystem destruction, solar and wind make it worse on all counts.

I have no fuckin clue what environmentalists think will happen to the environment when we increase Solar and Wind collectors by several orders of magnitude (which would be necessary to support 7-10 billion people move partially from fossil fuels). Pure Insanity.

Oh well. It is what it is.
Also, the project is very clear that it is for individuals with no collaboration tools built in. While git does have utility for a solo developer, having a separate system for a solo artist (that isn’t working with assets for developers), starts make more sense.
To censor: "to examine in order to suppress (see suppress sense 2) or delete anything considered objectionable" (Merriam Webster).

That's not what this is. Nobody is reading messages or selectively withholding them. They're denying access to certain parts of the service for people that don't want to agree to the service's contract (I said, mostly jokingly, that this is "generous" because most other services just stop working altogether if you don't agree; I obviously don't think Facebook is the benevolent party here, as the rest of my previous comment made clear).

Whether that contract Facebook offers is reasonable and just, or whether perhaps we can consider WhatsApp public infrastructure due to its ubiquity and importance in certain countries, is a separate discussion.

The new contract may not be fair to require because people often don't really have a choice to move away, but for it to be censorship there has to be more than "we can't provide you a service because you didn't agree to our contract under which we provide it". If I don't agree that Deutsche Post sells my metadata to third parties, it's not suddenly censorship if Deutsche Post refuses to then deliver my letters. They're not censoring my letters, they're telling me to go and find another delivery service or deliver my own damn letters.

Which, to get back to the point, you can do on https://matrix.org.
There’s no accounting for taste. I’d prefer a wood frame to some kind of LED emissive plastic or metal
Of course you're going to get an enormous bias in the answers here; how many people wrote out a reply to this question and decided it was best not to submit it?
This whole thread is about Newsom not about wearing masks. If Newsom can just not be bothered to follow his own rules then he shouldn't be governor.

I was not making a statement on whether or not one should wear a mask and instead of asking for clarification you just jumped to conclusion and insulted me. I think "all it really shows us is that you and Newsom are a holes."
Maybe a mixed approach similar to what dvc [0] is doing. Fully integrated with git but tracked and stored elsewhere.

[0] https://dvc.org/
Hi, thanks for your comment. Those are good ideas.
Apple-TV only shows me prime video, I also have Disney+ and Netflix, it seems that Disney+ is supported based on their site but not Netflix.
The core point here is that Siskind's default mode is a Gish-gallop of sloppy reasoning, spread over essays of 10k+ words to avoid criticism.

I'm happy to have an essay that actually does the close reading to take these apart. It means I can say the short version ('SSC is tendentious hot air that calls itself 'rationalist' mainly to lend weight to its insipid viewpoint') and point to the long version.
Who would pass the technical screen must answer me these questions three, ere the onsite he see.
I've played the game in a number of contexts.

One of the things I noticed is that the longer the turn, the most intense the resulting game, to the point you can experience real life problems.

Letting the game take more than a day seems cool but it often results in things getting out of hand.
> So, if you want to hire developers who are at least capable, you have to give them some leeway to make things overcomplicated

This is always a challenge in general - how do people learn the lessons of complexity without creating it and then seeing the effects? I wish there was a better word for it as every person who reads "complexity" says well "duh of course I don't want that" before they then go and manufacture another bucket full of it. Complexity masquerades as simplicity - in the first instance it nearly always solves the immediate problem better than anything else. Recognising the latent complexity of choices is one of the hardest but most important skills to learn.
I saw a video someone took out the window of the flaming engine. It was unsettlingly quiet; no one talking or screaming, just the background plane noise.

I cannot imagine seeing an engine on fire outside your window and being that calm. Just incredible.
By rock the boat, I mean a discovery/publication that bothers a lot of people in the field. I am not referring to major breakthroughs in general.

Wiles' discovery was a tremendous breakthrough, but it didn't upset anyone. Another example of an entirely uncontroversial breakthrough is [0]. This is in contrast to the three examples of controversial discoveries that I gave above.

> If he had told people openly that THIS what he chose to spend his time on, without actually having the proof yet, he would have been ridiculed, because it seemed like such an utterly hopeless enterprise at the time.

I'd hope the field would be supportive of 'long shot' projects like this, but sure, I could believe many mathematicians would be skeptical.

[0] https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-break-tra...
> 3nm will hit in 2024, but until then there will always be advances in chip design.

I'm not an expert on chip design, but I would have assumed that there isn't a lot of room for improvements of ASIC mining chips, given that they are probably a straightforward implementation of the hashing algo used in Bitcoin (and that a few thousand+ times), in contrast to CPU design which is more dependent on other computing/hardware trends.
What price point would work better in your opinion?
I don’t even know where to start.
Thin white frame with a white mounting could feel more aesthetically balanced.
Appealing to popularity fallacy.

For anyone in the US you do need an ID to use Bitcoin in any practical manner. Exchanges require it. Avoiding this requires jumping through multiple hoops, especially if you want to convert to cash.

People don’t think about the environmental consequences because most people don’t think about that anyways. We’re also on HN, where software companies use or rent computational power with zero regard to the environmental impact. And for Bitcoin owners it’s specifically in their financial interest not to think about how Bitcoin miners are using more electricity than actual countries.

All of that said, Bitcoin is a failed experiment. People aren’t using it as an actual currency, they’re hoarding it. Partly because of the model and mostly because trying to actually spend Bitcoin sucks badly.

Bitcoin is going to be replaced by a cryptocurrency that’s actually usable and competitive with existing payment networks. And hopefully one that doesn’t use such an electricity intensive model.
So do you admit that to an anarchist or libertarian that Bitcoin does have value? The US military is the #1 user of energy on the planet. I definitely consider them a net negative to humanity, yet they're what's propping up the same neo-liberal democracy you think should be establishing the rules. Is that an acceptable use of energy to you?

I think Bitcoin is an excellent use of energy because it's at least a potential alternative to our current governmental systems. A small piece of the puzzle but a prerequisite to change none the less.
Oh thanks! I didn't know that he'd responded.
Having written a Ruby (not Rails) app that would benefit from Crystal's speed and typechecking (and made a start on a conversion) I worry that the language won't find a niche that ensures its long term survival. Is there any area where Crystal is likely to provide a compelling solution when compared to other languages?
I have played online a few times over the decades, and in person once. I think we gave up in person.

I have spent many, many hours reading these archives[1]. Recommended if you find the game interesting.

[1] http://www.diplomacy-archive.com/home.htm
> The commitment of two conflicting votes can split the network, thereby ruining it.

Couldn't this be repaired (with probability something like 1-O(compromised stake) per attempt), by exhibiting (in, say, lexicographic order) the two conflicting blocks (thereby invalidating both), and continuing with the chain?

Eg, crude sketch off the top of my head:

A -> B1
A -> B2
A -> B2 -> C2 # built off conflicting chain
A -> b1 -> b2 -> C3 # resolved chain (block b dead)

The resolved chain would have more blocks initially (2 vs 1), and roughly twice the number of nodes supporting it (since the split chains would by construction be valid to only about half the network each.

I'm not sure the logistics of this works out, so non-rhetorically: could this work? I'm cribbing some intuitions from proof-of-work designs, but it seems like it ought to be possible in principle.
Yeah crystal is an awesome language
Update: They don't have trees between 40kya and more recent ones. So this tree just happens to straddle the period of interest, and to provide carbon samples from each year, in labeled sequence; but without exact registration to specific years you can get from trees less than (exactly!) 12,311 years back.

There are other ways to get annual carbon samples, e.g. peat bogs, but they are subject to various kinds of corruption, such as roots, and disturbance, so it's harder to establish the ironclad evidence you get easily from tree rings.

Dating events by tree reings is called dendrochronology. The priciple use for this tree's evidence is dendroclimatology, and maybe dendrogeomagnetology.
>that she never really had any authority to begin with.

Why then the lies about the genocide?
There is little evidence that spicy food in hot countries is an adaptation
I don't really see a problem with this decision, though I am sympathetic to Wehrung. As the editors note, there are a ton of great papers JAMS doesn't publish (due to severe page count constraints at the journal). Their reasoning is not "arbitrary"; it was spelled out quite clearly for the authors in the rejection notice they got. Many other papers in "trendy" subjects face the same fate.
I've played the game with a random acquaintances and hard time limits. That worked better than formally getting all my friends together.

Also, 4-5 people is really all you need for a fun game - or a game that spirals out of hand, with the fun level then being a matter of taste.
The unix culture comes from a shared multi-user perspective, whereas the windows point of view tends to be towards a single user desktop. In a shared environment, it's not acceptable for applications to change shared system components. Although this is maybe less important today, the culture still persists.
Tree Notation Frequently Asked Questions
> Another name for the group/phenoma they're referring to is "coastal elites", who use the derogatory term "flyover states" to refer to where OP is from.

The term "flyover state" is not necessarily a derrogatory term, but a way for citizens of said states to underline an artificial division between rural central regions and urban coastal regions.

In fact, the "flyover" nature of said regions is due to the sparsely populated and low density of those territories, not because of some disdain towards inhabitants of rural regions.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories...
See that's the thing. Apple does NOT prevent developers from taking payment anywhere else, it just prevents developers from advertising it on their Apple app. How is that making the iOS any safer?
1. They are already an investor in Amazon. They have an interest, both in the actual spending and the trend setting of current and future companies to use AWS.

2. It is actually increasingly hard to get an industry wide reputable hosting provider ( Cloud, VPS , Metal or not ) that many investors could agree upon. Just like you said which makes DD harder.

3. Amazon actually offer heavy discount and even lots free credit to startup by accredited VC. Meaning the difference in the first few years is actually tiny. And in your example, if it can be run on $500 budget elsewhere you can bet it will literally be free on AWS from those startup.
You will have to compete with much cheaper ideas like this kindle-based dashboard https://github.com/pascalw/kindle-dash

discussed a while ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25939042
> The simplest solution to a problem in a lot of cases may be 2-3x

This is such an important point. For whatever reason it has become ingrained in people's heads that the simplest solution must by reductionist logic be the easiest one. And therefore the easiest solution is the simplest one and it is good to be lazy and just introduce complexity everywhere.
Bitcoin is by far the best hedge against inflation. All assets tend to zero in Bitcoin terms, long term.

This has been true for the last 12 years and will continue to be true.
Thank you for your feedback, especially regarding the price.
> Also 0ad still has severe performance problems for various reasons. One of them is that nearly all code runs single-threaded. Also the multiplayer code is all but efficient, so in a multiplayer game all players are essentially limited to the FPS of the player with the least capable hardware.

Is there an issue tracker for these problems?

edit: play0ad, I cannot respond to your comment because it's dead. You might want to reach out to dang if you'd like other people to be able to read and respond to your comments.
That 58 gigawatt goal for 2020 was already less ambitious than the goal of 70 GW by 2020 from 2012.

"China may resume approving nuke plants in H1" (January 2012)

https://www.reuters.com/article/china-nuclear/china-may-resu...

The government will resume approving new plants after the announcement of the nuclear safety plan which recently won clearance from the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP), the China Securities Journal said.

The report also said in order to meet the government-set target of having non-fossil fuels to supply 15 percent of China’s primary energy use by 2020, the total installed nuclear capacity should not fall under 70 gigawatts (GW) by then.

That in turn was less ambitious than the 2020 nuclear goals China had before the Fukushima accident.

"Nuclear power to rise 10-fold by 2020" (July 2009)

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-07/02/content_83464...

China is planning for an installed nuclear power capacity of 86 gigawatts by 2020, up nearly 10-fold from the 9 GW capacity it had by the end of last year, two people familiar with the matter said.
I share my media on an Ubuntu server via NFS - all I've done is set the shared media library as read-only for the devices it's shared with, and specify the (local, reserved) IP it should be sent to. The only authentication is the fact that it's LAN-only, and being sent to the right (local) IP

Kerberos would be far too complex to be warranted here - all that's needed is nfs-kernel-server and /etc/exports on the server side.

Granted, my network is reasonably locked-down (MAC address filtering, (reserved) IP addresses available matching the number of devices on the network), but security beyond that has never really crossed my mind.
> Crystal’s build times are reasonable. Compiling my project Azula takes ~16s with the release flag. Compiling our barebones project above takes ~8s.

8s to compile a hello world is "reasonable"? Am I missing something?
I believe you cannot stay hands on and technical on _everything_. You might have some specialties you are good at from before becoming a manager, and have constructive input there. The rest, you delegate to other, usually senior members of the team. They will be better suited to do architectural decisions and code reviews than you.

In the end your senior developers will end up better developers and better in technical stuff than you. And that is fine.
You don't know me. I have no reason to break to break restrictions. But I'm a comfortable tech worker while others aren't so lucky.
> I’m truly shocked by the number of people who totally fail to grok the economic logic behind a lot of the projects being built on blockchain tech.

Literally none of them have any logic behind them other than "let's add blockchain at the end, and ask investors for money".

> Many dismiss such work as totally worthless.

It is absolutely, 100% entirely worthless with no exceptions.

> I suspect such dismissive types lack the combination of deep technical ability and profound economic intuition that made the Collison brothers wealthy.

Stripe actually does provide a useful, and a used service with a well-defined and understood economic model.

> Understanding all the implications — even the inconvenient implications — of what someone tells you is a subset of resourcefulness. It's conversational resourcefulness

Yes, And the implications of bitcoin are simple: it's a useless wasteful technology that still hasn't found any useful application, or an application that cannot be achieved faster and more securely by other means.
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other sites that i have come across either here or elsewhere
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Other links from HAcker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17081900

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17987421

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17569294

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17022563

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