skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing about Bitcoin that incentives mining with green energy sources more than dirty one. If coal electricity is cheaper, then bitcoin incentives burning coal. The only somewhat valid rebutals to the energy consumption arguments I know of are:

- a lot of it is spare power that would be wasted otherwise (only partially true).

- it uses less energy overall than governments spend protecting their fiat money's value (not that comparable since fiat can also be used as currency).

- the gold industry uses a lot of energy too (but I doubt Bitcoin will reduce the energy spent on gold, it will probably just add up).

EDIT: completed gold mining point following comment
Pointing out a difference is not what you assert.
Yeah this is a framework that's completely for local development.

We have a separate service that's a CI/CD pipeline for serverless apps. We use a SaaS model there — https://seed.run. It supports SST out of the box. But it also supports Serverless Framework, the other popular option out there.
Check out Cardano's papers. Its PoS protocol has been live on mainnet for a while. Native token support just rolled out to mainnet yesterday and smart contracts are coming in Q2 this year.

It was founded by ETH co-founder Charles, who formed an academia network of CS PhD researchers to deal with 3rd gen blockchain problems and solutions.

It is 3rd gen blockchain built to handle the problems of ethereum and other blockchains that came prior.

https://docs.cardano.org/en/latest/explore-cardano/relevant-...
Maybe they don't have to understand the detailed inner workings of an algorithm and such. But they should be able to deal with that piece of code in abstract. A good comment on what a piece of code is intended to do is perfectly fine to know it's place in a greater whole. Not every developer knows how crypto functions work, but they can make good decisions on how these functions should fit in certain logical scenarios or if an implementation is badly written/documented.
From my experience: learning C will help you learn assembly, which will help you actually learn C.
You misunderstand me. I don't think every single code contributor needs to divulge their identity. Only the package owner (one person) needs to vouch for the code in the package by putting their name on it. That person may have written none of the code, but they should be accountable for it. This is similar to how websites have domain owners.
Shares of Rocket Companies, large short target of hedge funds,jump more than 20%
Some kind of projection, shows that making others jealous or at least trying to avoid being jealous is what drives some to invest
> Heliocentric is a refinement of geocentric.

This is very much stretching it in my opinion. The cycles and epicycles didn't need to be adjusted--the epicycles were the adjustment--they needed to be completely thrown out.

There aren't any teachers who are like: "Well, we used to think that the Sun was this smallish thing orbiting the Earth, but actually it's only slightly different. The Sun is 3*10^5 times the mass of the Earth, and actually the Earth revolves around it. No big deal! Please turn to Chapter 2 of your astro book, where we will be exploring slight deviations from how the cosmos orbits the Earth."
The question is: why the effort to make assembly even more verbose?

People who write assembly (they still exist, I guess) will prefer "imulq" after a short time because it's much faster to type. Remember that a line like "a=2+b*f(x+1)" corresponds to 5 to 10 machine instructions.

People who have to read assembly don't really care because after a few minutes you know the mnemonics of the 20 most frequently used instructions (which constitute probably 99% of the code) anyway.

Computers that have to write or read a lot of assembly (some compilers do not directly generate binary machine code) are more efficient with a compact representation.

Okay, if we ignore the above cases, there are maybe five or six people in the world who might prefer "integer_signed_multiply_32bit" or "jump_relative_if_unsigned_less_or_equal".
> Not sure how we could fix it without slowing way down and doing a lot more work.

Unfortunately, this is pretty much the only way, besides the "walled garden" approach.

I am often derided as being a "grumpy old control freak." They def have a point, but I am very, very leery of bringing code into my projects that I don't understand, and stepping through source takes almost as long as writing from scratch.

Most dependencies cover a wider range of functionality than the narrow application that we seek in our individual projects, so, to truly understand the dependency, we need to examine all of its faces.

I recently had to yank a dependency out of a project that I'm developing, because it had a regex bug that caused memory leaks and random crashes in worker threads. It would have been way too difficult for me to figure out what was happening, so I removed it, and wrote my own functionality that is not as good, but doesn't crash my application. This is the kind of behavior that gets me scorn. I'm supposed to keep the crash, and shrug.

So, yeah. I guess I am a grumpy old control freak...
I wanted to switch it off automatically at night. Doesn't seem to be necessary though so haven't connected it
> One of the questions should be: Why should we build a model for the world?

The decision not to build a model, is a model.

> Is that really possible/doable?

Models are just data-driven predictions based on understanding. The better the data, the better the understanding, the better the model.

If a model for the world is impossible, then either the data is impossible to gather or process, or the understanding is impossible to achieve.

Data is just facts based on observed events, so I refuse to believe that a model for the world is impossible based on ability to track data.

Understanding is the wildcard - humans are complex beings. But each tiny step forward increases global understanding. Years ago, autism was considered "cold mother syndrome". Now through decades of careful and detailed analysis it's understood as a neurological disorder. Depression and anxiety were thought to be issues of the soul, demonic possession, laziness, etc. Now there is an ever expanding array of diagnostic tools to help sufferers.

So I refuse to believe that understanding is impossible.

tl;dr: Yes, a model for the world is possible.

> And if the real answer is "no",

That's a big if.

> why should we apply that failed model to the real world

"failed model" what failed model?

Also recall doing nothing is also a model. Bring on the dark ages!

> affecting (potentially in a negative way) the lives of millions of people?

In my world view, doing nothing and praying to higher powers, or allowing chaotic despots to rampage the lands has already caused immeasurable premature death and suffering.

Why would anyone vouch for a return to the dark ages, just because progress feels like effort?
What is the context for this quote?

Swartz never created a social media platform nor had to make decisions on how to moderate user generated content across millions of users. He made JSTOR articles freely available.
We know that is "the theory"

We also know that this theory is really, really stupid: The kind of self-justifying idiocy that people don't come up with unless they're already deeply committed to a point of view come what may, logic and fact need not apply.
Apple Hearing Study shares new insights on hearing health
I'm not saying there are none. I'm raising the point that there's been quite a lot more right wing dictatorships than left wing through history.
Your project looks fairly similar to Chalice but using TS. Am I correct? How do you compare yourselves to Chalice?
Powershell is an entirely different matter to me.

Powershell is so much powerfull, I’ve written a ton of code in that and also used Pester for unit testing.

Entirely different world compared to shell scripting.
I have to say hard disagree, even though I am one of the ones having the problems with Apple Card.

The M1's and Airpods lineup are absolutely magical. The Apple Watch still sux IMO, but the way they quickly pivoted toward health surprised me and makes me think they get it.

I think Apple's products are better than ever, on the whole.

I don't think we should "break up" Big Tech just because they are successful. That being said, I do think we need to #AbolishImaginaryProperty laws (#EndCopyrights and #EndPatents), and that will make things much better for everyone (minus some lazy shareholders). Those laws are atrocious in every domain, from bigtech to big pharma, and need to go.
Rainbow Lattice Sunstone
More background from the point of view of Frogware:

The Sinking City is Being Delisted. Here’s Why

https://frogwares.com/the-sinking-city-is-being-delisted-her...

Without wishing to take sides, here's what seems to be at the root of the dispute, from Frogware's POV:

On June 27, 2019, The Sinking City was released on Xbox One, PS4, and Epic Games Store. That was a great day for us. And once the game was released, we received a letter from Bigben/Nacon that the milestones that were previously approved are being canceled, meaning that we would not receive any profit from the sales of the game. A retroactive cancellation on not delivering a product on time that is already out in the market is not acceptable. That was when our legal battle began.

We filed a lawsuit against Bigben/Nacon on August 2019 and, incidentally, only then we started to receive income reports, though incomplete and undocumented. So it was not possible for us to see if the revenue was correctly calculated or even how many units we sold. At some point we received a statement claiming that one of the console manufacturers hasn’t paid royalties for more than 5 months, while actually the same console manufacturer paid our royalties from other games without any delay in the same period of time.
Mandatory Handmade shill

https://handmade.network/
> The total energy usage would be reduced 600-fold!

It wouldn't. If X$ worth of bitcoin is handed out every block, then miners competing for that prize are willing to collectively spend up to X$ per block on average.

If they could only mine for part of the time, then they'd simply acquire more hardware and mine at a higher hashrate during the shorter time.
The rest the Democrats are far to the right of Bernie, AOC et al.

The left will tell you the mainstream Democratic party is working to minimize the impact of the left wing, and succeeding (see recent failures to enact progressive policy on minimum wage and immigration.)
The list itself definitely lives in the OS base-image, so there’s a bit of a catch-22 there. (Imagine if it didn’t! That’d be a bit of an easy loophole for malware authors to exploit!)

I haven’t looked into it specifically, but I’m guessing that like many other basically-static system policy property-lists in macOS, the whitelist lives embedded in a Kernel Extension (kext)—probably the kext responsible for update validation. So you’d have to write your own kext to either replace that extension wholesale, or—hopefully—“inject” over just that element of it.

Of course, to run your own Kernel Extensions these days, you have to run your Mac in bputil --enable-kexts mode, which is “reduced security” from Apple’s perspective (reduced compared to the security model of iOS, they mean.)

On the other hand, the Hackintosh crowd have long agreed that it’s better to just “inject” data into the kernel/OS by either memory-patching the kernel during early boot (Clover), or patching the kernel as it’s being composed into a loadable image (OpenCore), rather than actually modifying anything in /System. (This was before modifying /System was even hard; they just didn’t like making a mess!)

I have a strong feeling that that same community that loves their little quality-of-life kext tweaks so very much, is pretty likely to come out with a way to use OpenCore as the boot-loader on real Apple-Silicon Macs, and thus to overlay arbitrary kexts into macOS without actually reducing macOS’s (OS-stage) security policy at all. (Provided you’re okay with the reduction in security of using a third-party bootloader, that is!)
I read a lot of hacker news, and I've noticed something: HN is a better judge of Substack quality than the Substack's subscriber count (even paid subscribers). To test this, I built MetaStack. It works as follows:

1. Collect HN submissions that link to substack domains.
2. Calculate the HN affinity of each Substack, i.e. "how much does HN like this compared to Substack users?"
3. Using this HN affinity, create an implied HN score for all posts in the Substack (even those never posted to HN).
4. From here, I manually trim down to substacks with a high signal-to-noise ratio, and send them to you as a weekly roundup.

This gives you a slice of the best independent writers, weighted towards what hackers find interesting.
I read Carl Sagan's, "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" and it really nailed home how many issues are caused by a fundamental lack of understanding and belief in science. It's a great short read.
So more demand for energy means more green energy? I don't quite get the logic.
If you liked this article, you will probably also enjoy "Mysteries of Modern Physics: Time" by Sean Carroll (I listened to it as an audiobook, I don't know what other formats it is available in).
But only with ML please!
I looked at the repository, and quake mode is priority 3, and the settings UI is priority 0.

Quake mode is more upvoted than settings UI.

And don't get me started on WinUI 3. Everytime I look at the WinUI roadmap, it gets pushed further, with the wanted features removed, and irrelevant things prioritized.

And that's by the same team that shipped UWP 1.0
Every currency’s goal is to be stable in terms of value. The mechanics of achieving so are complicated though since you will need to exactly calibrate the supply of new money to match your economic activity. We are at the point where we don’t even agree what economic activity is lol.
RCT of coconut oil, olive oil or butter on blood lipids and other risk factors
I read this but I didn't get it at all. I can't see the forest for all the excited talk about particular trees. In simple words, what problem are they trying to solve?
Data Manipulation: Pandas vs. Rust
> Measuring one-way speed of light requires perfectly synchronized clocks.

But disproving the oversimplification provided above, For all we know, light travels infinitely quickly in one direction and at c/2 in the return direction, only requires clocks.
Qt still feels not quite right on macOS — because it draws the controls itself instead of using the native ones. wxWidgets is the best of the bunch, because it apparently does wrap AppKit into itself, but then again, the layouts apps use give away that it's a cross-platform thing.
I wonder the same thing about people that still talk about cars. Electric cars solve all the problems with cars. Why do we even bother to talk about cars?
Are you really going to claim that there isn't a demand for green energy already?
The business case for accepting the risk of downloading untrusted software has proven time and time again to be worth it. Without NPM modules, time to deliver would be much, much longer. If it was that bad of a problem, we would've collectively moved away. Many companies privately invest in their own registries that proxy to NPM, with an intermediary security layer. The maintainers of NPM have shown they'll cleanup the left-pad's and major security issues when they occur.
I love that this is going to get more people into the FPV hobby but it feels a little prohibitively expensive. The drone itself (without goggles/controller) looks like it'll be available as a standalone purchase for ~$740 at some point. For reference, a DIY drone using DJI's digital system can be had for $350-500. A decent DIY drone with an analog video feed can be had for ~$250.

When you're learning to fly FPV you will crash and damage your drone, it's part of the hobby. Replacing a $5 frame arm and a $12 motor is a hell of a lot cheaper than this thing will cost. In the verge review the reviewer had a moderate crash into a tree branch and the drone was basically totaled, they had to send him a 2nd review unit, which he also admittedly destroyed.

All that said, I'm impressed with the flight time! Early fpv reviewers are claiming about a 9 minute flight time while flying FPV freestyle. Usually FPV drones get about 3-4 minutes.
Netflix reveals migration to new mix of microservices, serverless functions
Add to that when the other party is hearing you over speakers, and the echo cancellation kicks in whenever you start to speak so that you can't hear what they're saying when they try to interject. You just see lips moving, stop speaking and you start to hear them mid sentence.
It's not actual logic, it's more of a rationalisation of the indefensible.
They're called guidelines not rules or commandments. People violate them all the time and get away with it and I'm pretty sure that's why they're called guidelines. There's one person moderating here and that's dang. I've had plenty of pushback for both the left and the right I've got no shortage of karma.
https://github.com/novt-vtable-less-compiler/novt-llvm

But instead of switch tables I would use the standard smalltalk jit approach of linear search of methods, a static PIC method cache. Just add all the cases with the most likely methods at the front.
Are UTM tracking parameters blocked by Hacker News?
Sorry for the stupid link, i just wanted to test if HN is actually filtering out those utm parameters because they almost completely disappeared in May 2018.
Funny, I pinned Bitcoin more as the type to honeymoon at the Maldives.

Bitcoin is a Venice, time, a Ponzi scheme, a climate disaster, digital gold, dead (x400), criminal, a bubble...

The half-baked hot takes that reach the frontpage of HN are getting better and better.
This is literally why Fowler and Evans wrote their books, some of this "tangling" was viewed as a feature because it let a single dev own an issue and avoided the bottleneck of architecture by committee.
Pandemic Mistakes We Keep Repeating
I learned a new word SOL (S*t outta luck)
It's a stepped linear emission that mimics an inverse exponential emission. You can even see it in that chart if you expand it. Between the halving periods the emission is constant.
I think you’re right on, but good luck with provable timestamps. You’re trying to coordinate and validate a measurement which in itself denies the reality of space time physics at least subtly. Time precision across space is hard enough, but adding bad actors and gravitational time dilation into the equation means... well I wouldn’t want that to keep track of my assets.
> PoS solves the problem of mining and wasted energy.

For a value of "solves" that doesn't actually include anyone solving anything YET. Maybe in 18 months!
> For example, for every game sold in European country, you need to collect VAT and transfer it to that country's tax authority

What if you simply do not do this? Are they going to arrest you? (Presuming you are VAT registered outside of the EU or whatever)
It seems there is some kind of Force Majeure clause in French law or the contract between Nacon and Frogware that prevents termination of the contract during Covid-19:

In our email exchange, BBI/Nacon essentially wrote that the contract cannot be terminated because of the emergency laws in France, aimed to protect businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, and at the same time BBI/Nacon refused to fulfill their obligations toward us (payment, documented reports, etc…).

That should cover the original decision of the court. The following seems to hint on the reasoning for the appeal:

– The “Emergency Laws explanation” actually triggers the Force Majeure article of our own contract, entitling us to terminate the agreement in case the parties could not minimize the effects of an Event of Force Majeure on this agreement for a period of 60 days.

Source:

https://frogwares.com/the-sinking-city-is-being-delisted-her...
Fun with 12 OOMs of Compute
With totalitarian governments, you never know.

Look what happened to Alexei Navalny.

Look what happened to Sergei and Yulia Skripal in UK?

Again, I am not saying the other governments are saints, but I feel you have much more options in democratic countries.
Full text of the decision given on October 29, 2020 by the Court of Appeals, in French:
https://archive.is/Ezj08
I get that it's Bloomberg's duty to root for the landlords, but to me the data in the article shows a very clear win for renters.

If I'm reading the graphs right, price controls in Berlin have slashed rent price growth by nearly 60% for almost all of the city's apartment stock.

Meanwhile, rent for the remainder, those apartments built since 2014, is only growing 10% faster than the baseline.

So if we're gonna do the math: [lots of apartments * -60% inflation], against [fewer apartments * +10% inflation], equals a presumed windfall for renters, versus the alternative history where this rent control policy doesn't get enacted.
I once thought that by leaving my old religion I was leaving dogma behind. But it appears that in the absence of one dogma/doctrine, people will create another.
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Incorrect - central banks target inflation, such as 2%. The official goal is to lose 2% of value every year.
http://archive.is/gzWl8
The Unusual of JavaScript Arrays and Their Length Property
Linux programmers realize that's what they're doing.

Outlook users probably didn't, most of the time.
There is nothing baseless in saying that using 0.1% of the entire world's energy in order to do 3 transactions per second is beyond ludicrous, and an environmental disaster of massive proportions.
How about:

Packages are namespaced and "tier 2" by default.

Official packages, packages from trusted vendors, might-as-well-be-in-the-stdlib packages, otherwise vetted packages, are upgraded to "tier 1", might drop the namespace.

Project manifests can specify: stdlib only, "tier 1" packages only. The latter sounds like a sane default.
I expect you'll have a tougher time there because NES games were written directly in assembler, so there won't be the characteristic patterns that a decompiler can use to recognize particular control flows— I believe C wasn't really standard until the N64 era, which was part of what made high-level emulation (see: UltraHLE) possible.

On the other hand, hand-authored assembly is easier to read directly, because, of course, it was written and read in that form originally anyway!
so is HAL going mad because he/it is so advanced?
So actually, yes they got removed!
I tried those typical:

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For everyone who's saying "if you need unit tests then you should rewrite it in a different language", you're not wrong but you're not right either.

Bash is a lowest-common-denominator language, available on almost all platforms, with a very stable (old?) API, which makes it ideal for broad distribution & bootstrapping of systems.

When you use another other languages, like Python, suddenly you're not only worrying about whether Python is installed, but also which version is available, and you still can't use anything that's not part of the standard library (because then you enter package management/dependency hell).

I agree that even Python with stdlib-only is still better than Bash, but I guarantee that you'll find Bash >=3.0 on every host.
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Is there a whatsapp bridge?
lol I had a similar problem, but I just wasnt an a-hole and they blocked New York Times from charging my account with no waiting and no questions.

The difference is, I told them I had signed up for it, but was unable to cancel due to NYT's policies on canceling accounts.

Maybe next time be truthful. You don't accidentally buy subscriptions because it's full of ad's. You signed up for the sub. or a trial with a delayed payment and forgot.