skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 150Mtx/day means less than 2000 tx/s on average, but you can't dimension the throughput of a system on the average load…

Keep in mind that BCH transactions are "zero-conf" (there is no return-by-fee issue, so double spends aren't viable in the vast majority of transactions [1]). So, in case of a big peak in, most of the transactions would "settled" without the 10-minute confirmation, and after the peak they would be confirmed eventually. It's not the ideal situation, but the final user wouldn't see any difference (unless they are buying something expensive like a car).

> without any retribution whatsoever

If someday Bitcoin Cash gets to that level, the price will rise (and the number of tx per block) and so the coinbase will be much higher. For example with 2000 tx/s, around 200 bytes/tx, and 1 sat/byte, the coinbase of a block would be 2.4 BCH in fees + the reward (currently 6.25 BCH), and then you can expect coinbases of tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars.

[1] https://doublespend.cash/
Some poor families handle it better than others. A lot has to do with the parents and how they manage the situation psychologically.

There is peer pressure on the kids (and even parents), so they upend Maslow’s pyramid to their detriment.

Some of it may be educational —home ec is not taught in many schools. Some of it is cultural (advertising) and some of it is propaganda (we’re Americans, we must have a TV and consume brand names!)

I recall in Japan if you went on the dole you first had to sell your ‘luxury’ items before getting government support. It indicated you had to be in need and not supplementing or aiding poor economic decisions.
This is a pretty bad writing compared to classic writers (Hudak, Hutton, Bird or Thompson).

It begins with nix, which is a cancer (solving of non-existent problem by attention seeking narcissists - stable interfaces and semantic versioning will do).

Then it proceeds with a subpar code, which mixes styles without justification, is cryptic and unreadable. You don't have to zip and then unwords, case is cryptic and redundant, etc.

And it is not some rant, it is an adequate peer-review as it should be.

Simplification (reduction) to perfection (when there is nothing more to remove) both in abstraction and in code, is not optimal with Haskell.

Piling up of esoteric bullshit such as lenses and monad transformers is a non-goal.

Xmonad, cabal and, of course, GHC itself are still the gold standard. No bullshit dependencies.
I don't understand why so many people assume that others should pay for the services they consume.

Why should a relatively poor upstate new york taxpayer be paying 50% of the fare of some young finance bro going to work?

Also removing prices removes information. For instance the ferry costs something like $15 per rider to operate compared to around $5 for subway. With both trips at the same price to the consumer, you make the marginal rider indifferent to the two in terms of price where it would be beneficial to have that information to save money and divert resources to the more effective mode
Small reactors, they remove the main problem with nuclear power: huge reactors that no western country knows how to build any more. The largest projects we can build today are the size of a large office building. Anything bigger will be over budget and time.
I'd love for iPhone and Watch to serve as a second-screen touch id for MacOS. Then I can tuck the laptop (or Mini) away, and not have to type passwords into various systems.
Why not simply make it illegal to exploit fossil fuels? The result is the same, except that making it illegal has a certain result, as opposed to a tax that is less direct. Of course it's very hard to make it illegal, but I don't think it's easier to enforce a carbon tax that actually works.
So apart from the lack of evidence and data proving the point, correlation ≠ causation.

Unless you can demonstrate that no other factors (increase in repos, increase in usage overall, etc.) are involved, your statement is a biased opinion, not a fact.

Edit: since you opted to throw XBOXLive into the mix in an edit, what did Sony change? https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/27/22304492/sony-playstation...
So are the Linux kernel spectre mitigations broken or useless? I thought this was mostly patched away with a combination of microcode updates and kernel workarounds?
I could easily imagine variations of that where this is in maintenance mode with a couple of junior programmers because the senior ones either burnt out or moved on to another project. I’ve definitely gotten the impression that most games studios have roughly the same attitude towards their employees as a strip-miner has towards an Appalachian hilltop.
What are your problems Snyk/Dependabot out of interest?
I’d go further—-why do all narratives around poverty have to revolve around the middle class? Either someone used to be middle class and is now poor, grew up poor and is now middle class or at very least is moving towards that end.

Where are the stories about people born into poverty, still in poverty, and not likely to be anything but poor for the rest of their lives? There are lots of people like this and cutting out their stories distorts our perceptions.
Most importantly it's use case of a helicopter, to prepare to the dragonfly mission at proposed 2036. One only hope for the bandwidth at the level of perseverance, it's 16 times farther after all.
The need for code freezes around high traffic events is usually a sign of very poor engineering culture, where patching extreme tech debt is much higher priority than technical excellence or product improvements that help the customers.

A code semi-freeze for weeks is incredibly alarming. How much unremediated tech debt must be causing that?

That is a massive red flag that Etsy engineering culture must be something like the SRE tail wagging the product engineering dog. I would bet that you only get rewarded at Etsy for being a visible firefighter, stopping failures on nights or weekends, jumping in front of outage bullets, and that if you take the time to design systems robust enough and safe enough that they don’t need code freezes in the first place, you are never going to get recognized or rewarded.

It’s baffling that not only did they have to resort to a long code freeze - but they even approved a public blog post bragging about it.

Boy, that tells you a lot about the culture. Not going to be seeking jobs there any time soon.

To put in context, I work for an ecommerce company that routinely sees 10-15x traffic around Black Friday -> Cyber Monday, and around Christmas to New Year. We don’t do any code freezes for the load, almost all of which is handled through auto-scaling in our on-prem data centers.
SQL is a strange, tries-to-look-like-English language.

But the more I experience the document DBs forced down my gullet by the "tech guys" at the startup, the more I appreciate the sheer power of SQL to make things tidy.

My last pet project was basically entirely modeled in a .sql code file (this: https://github.com/asemic-horizon/hyscan/blob/master/prisone...). Very little remains to be written as procedural code.
The First thing you should read is the research article by 80000hours: https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/climate-change/

They link to this website with a few general options: http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/

For more traditional jobs, I would look at:

- startups developing and marketing greener tech. (Tesla, Sonnen [1])

- publicly funded research organizations (Fraunhofer [2], MPG, universities)

- Established companies that are heavy polluters, but investing in becoming greener: Automotive [3], Energy sector, Concrete

[1] https://jobs.sonnen.de/job/Wildpoldsried-IT-Systemadministra...

[2] https://recruiting.fraunhofer.de/Vacancies/56493/Description...

[3] https://www.bosch.de/karriere/job/REF92958E-softwareentwickl...
I tried turning the typing corrector off on Android and the quality of my typing went down... It does catch more errors than it injects.
I'd like to add, while GTA is running I'm really impressed by its performance, even / especially when it was on the PS3; you could drive or fly at high speed through the whole level, see for miles and never see a loading screen. It is a really optimized game, and that same level is continued in RDR2.

Which makes the persisting loading issue all the weirder.
I've been trying to cancel my account for days and their account subscription management page just redirects to login for me. Does it work for you?
The use of the word "popular" made me wonder this. Either way, happy to clarify the facts in the case that other people didn't get the joke.
Lithium mining has an impact similar to oil extraction. (On average -- oil sands and fracking are worse, conventional oil production is better).

But since batteries can be used a few thousand times and then can be recycled efficiently, the volume required is a tiny fraction of the petroleum requirements.

Other materials are used in even smaller quantities. Cobalt is a disaster, but grid batteries don't use cobalt, they generally use nickel & iron.

It is a large environmental impact. But compared to the alternative, it's very green.
> It doesn't need to happen in every area. It just needs to happen in enough areas that the carbon output is brought below a threshold that the environment can safely absorb.

That is actually a misconception. There is no such threshold, at least not for carbon dioxide (it's a bit more complicated for methane and some other greenhouse gases). It accumulates in the atmosphere.

There is some uptake of co2 by natural processes, but that's roughly relative to the amount you put in. If you put in more co2 the concentration of co2 in the atmosphere will keep growing.
>> Nowhere in the post the author says or even recommends not to build and audience

Title: Build a Business, Not an Audience
Seems like the site is down. Looking forward to checking out out once back online though.
Still 23 years ago if the UK had just said "well we'll be keeping this indefinitely under the current terms," China would have had little recourse. They certainly wouldn't start a hot war with the UK, especially because they were still trying to make it on the world stage and HK was printing money for them at that point.
Non-fungible token: How a 10-second video clip sold for $6.6M
>The USA should get rid of personal income taxes and replace them with retail sales/consumption taxes, to change incentives.

The USA hasn't changed effective taxes in decades. Whenever politicians have 'lowered taxes' it has been completely ineffective. This is a goal, they don't wish to adjust a knob that may impact such large complex systems. They dont want to be the one who destroyed X.

>The USA should enact a wealth (assets) tax, to address wealth inequality.

Very effective in the short term and then becomes an utter disaster for the country. Your goal of retirement is you save up money to live. If you die, you want your family to get the money.

What happens when countries have implemented this; people dont keep the money. Wealth taxes are use it or lose it. So people use it. You then end up with situations where families are on their own. Their is no family wealth anymore. In the short term there's boost to your economy because of the spending. But then you start to build generational debt to insane levels. You have money leaving your country to avoid the taxes and then suddenly you just dont have the original wealth of your country and debt overwhelms.
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In India where the industry has expanded the way that it has, that might be a more reasonable expectation than say the US.
One thing I learned as a parent is that kids always compare up the wealth scale, never down. I'm sure my parents noticed that, too.

I've never heard about the negative effect on levels of empathy. I suspect that it is unusual for people to have friends far poorer or richer, and it is easy to be dismissive of the problems of those one does not know.
In the US you can sue for anything. Smart landlords only confirm that someone lived there, and other easily verifiable information, since if they sometimes give a good reference and sometimes neutral that means neutral references are bad and they can be sued for that. If you get a anything more as reference from a landlord it is because you were bad enough that the landlord sued and won (it is safe to assume this never happens, though there are exceptions)

Don't confuse suing with winning. You can sue someone and lose, but the lawyers will still cost both sides a lot of money.
I think this article was well written but stopped just short of where it needed to be in a few places.

>If you came from a family that did pretty well financially, went to college and then immediately started to do pretty well yourself, it’s hard to get any kind of context for what life is like at lower income levels.

I would have gone further and said most of the advice given about any topic people who haven't lived it is crap and shouldn't be listened do. Some yuppie with an engineering job has zero useful advice when it comes to telling a forklift driver how to get ahead. Someone who manages a $100 restaurant in downtown NYC is going to have little useful advice for a truck-stop diner owner.

> is that it’s usually assumed that the quality of things has a pretty linear association to the price.

They assume it because they have enough money to insulate them from having any good reason to tell the difference. How often have you heard something like "I've only replaced the gears in my Kithenaid mixer 3x and the frame on my Tacoma 4x" and then the people saying it turn around and defend those things as worth the price premium as though doing so isn't lunacy with a side of stockholm syndrome. At a certain point you can afford to get ripped off. It's like a form of conspicuous consumption where instead of being overt you pretend to be hapless.

>That’s the drop-off you experience at the lower price levels - there’s nothing between “This is a tiny but acceptable apartment” and “Slum apartments in stab-ville”.

Author neglects to mention that through personal behavior you can largely avoid being affected by the worst parts of stabville and that when you know you can do so at little cost the extra $300/mo for "peace of mind" is kind of hard to justify and you need to use "but kids" type logic to do so.

>I am always consistently shocked by how little people living at a decent-to-great income level fear their cars... (I'm not gonna bother quoting the full paragraph)

The author should have rounded out this paragraph with "eventually you accrue enough tools and experience you don't need to worry about anything anymore because you understand the mechanical state of your car" and a lecture about how a car's utility lets you save money. Try buying used appliances or furniture CL with a bus pass. It just doesn't work. If it's a legitimately good deal you couldn't get it in the time it takes to arrange a rental.

>I think this is a fairly accurate way to look at pay, but it applies to other aspects of the job. If you got sick more often....(once again, not gonna quote the whole thing).

This is very much a two way street. If you're the guy on your shift who saves the line manager a whole lot of pain in the butt (e.g. transportation arrangements make it trivial for you to show up early as needed) they're gonna wink and nod and let you get away with some off the books allowances because they know that you can get another McJob elsewhere just as easily as they can replace you and that your replacement likely won't have whatever value-add you do.
What about safety and nuclear waste?
Try the new try.haxe.org with ES6 support, macros, Haxe 4.2 support
Housing isn't the problem here but as you said correctly, it's the land ownership that is problematic. If we assume that house owners merely rent the land then it's perfectly fine to build a private housing market since housing needs can differ drastically between citizens. Some need a big house for a large family with lots of children, others only need a studio apartment. Some people want a home workshop or a home office. The market finds a satisfying solution for everyone.

Land ownership is problematic because neighborhood improvements can be extracted via land ownership. The most effective policy against this extraction is to simply tax the land itself and thus turn it into a liability if the value of the land grows. Ideally, property taxes would be replaced with land value taxes.

If land is a liability the only reason why people would purchase it is to improve the value of the land and make it available for productive uses like renting it out to a large number of people.
So then, why learn prolog?
How do you reconcile the fact that the best technical solutions will not be adopted without political buy-in, let alone cultural buy-in? We have seen how COVID19 policies have been embraced by some but utterly rejected by others, and the rejection is not without merit (see: Florida and Gov DeSantis.)
I'd suggest maintaining two accounts. One that allows NSFW and one that doesn't. This is what I do, because you are on a user generated content site.

I don't mind NSFW content at all but if I'm surfing reddit in line at the bank or something I don't want that content to pop-up with people around me.

I don't believe its reddits job to filter the content out though. They already warn you if you click on someone's profile that is an NSFW profile so you have to agree you want to see their posts.
True the minimum wage hasn’t kept up. That’s mainly due to exporting manufacturing offshore.

People want cheap crap but they also want to keep wages high. Bernie understood this which is why he was against trade agreements and cheap labor.

Now people are used to paying $5 for a Tshirt. They want to get paid $15 an hour but also balk at a $20 Tshirt. You can’t have it both ways.
Show HN: Extension for Hacker News
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The browser extension lets you tag/categorize/group authors and highlight their posts at the HN website. In a sense, you will immediately know if the post was submitted by someone you want to track. I hope it will be helpful to you..

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Cheers
Wouldn't this be as simple as restricting CI until the repo owner has looked over the PR?

It's moving the problem but at the end of the day the repo owner has to look over and choose to accept or reject the PR.
No, but if there is no relation between the two then I'm not sure why the second paragraph is relevant here.
Batteries for energy storage is already viable.

Batteries are already cheaper than high voltage power lines.

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2020/12/27/the-future-of-...
Well, yes. I'm showing my age a bit. Don't have my finger on the pulse of what the actual current tinkerer-stage technologies are.
Thank you. I agree.

The numbers I'm seeing on HumanIPO are not encouraging :)
Cardross (St. Peter’s) seminary poised to become UK film industry hub
I wonder how much of that is innate rather than being driven by consumerist propaganda though. Do I really want a new car because the Jones's next door have one, or because advertising makes me feel somehow inadequate because I don't have one?
> John Berryhill provided some forensic work in Twitter that showed the compromise actually happened in September. The domain was transferred to the BizCN registrar in December, but the nameservers were not changed.

Isn't this preventable with "clientTransferProhibited"[1]?

> This status indicates that it is not possible to transfer the domain name registration, which will help prevent unauthorized transfers resulting from hijacking and/or fraud. If you do want to transfer your domain, you must first contact your registrar and request that they remove this status code.

If nothing else, you'd think that some simple monitoring would be warranted if you own an important domain, like checking the exit code of:

# whois -h whois.verisign-grs.com google.com | grep "Registrar: MarkMonitor, Inc."

[1]: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/epp-status-codes-2014-...
It is not currently maintained, but it is not dead yet.
That is another sad story. As far as I know, Sidecar works in both directions, you can use it to make your iMac a monitor for another mac. However, there is a huge catch: those two devices need to run on the same Apple ID. Which of course makes it impossible when trying to connect your work with your private computer. Of all companies, Apple should have an understanding of keeping your work files in a separate environment :p.
What's wrong with .net? musl also gives a lot of errors with other frameworks that aren't supported, yet no one bats an eye in those cases. What's special about .net? Is it just because it's MS or what?
I agree the article did a bad job keeping me interested, but I think it is more of a statement about the rumor mills and fake news about the takeover and to be cautious about falling into it.
And the PRC has a deliberate strategy to basically "fly the wings" off of the Taiwanese F-16s via constant airspace incursions, degrading the ROCAF to the point where eventually they won't be a credible deterrent to invasion.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/09/26/asia-pacific/ta...
> It's actually well understood that privatisation for platform industries is bad, privatisation for businesses running on top of platforms is good

That’s not “well understood” at all. Folks don’t remember how dysfunctional and sclerotic nationalized industries were in the 1950s and 1960s. There is a reason nearly every developed country got rid of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Akron
Not OP, but never turn your back and run - to a growling dog. I was once stuck with an unfriendly pitbull in a high fenced backyard(the dog's backyard). Once it is staring and growling at you, try to slowly back out of its territory. You will definitely find it hard to take your eyes off it.

Stand your ground in full posture, get ready for it to launch at you. Dodge hard left or hard right while throwing your hands infront of you (only if you have thick sleeves), I luckily had a thick winter coat and it nibbed the sleeve as I jumped hard left (Kind of like the matadors). It recovered and got back to the low growl staring contest before launching again.

It also matters where you position yourself, after it launches their inertia takes them some time to recover which gives you time to get closer to your exit. Just a few more of these and you are on your way out of trouble.

The owner luckily came out after it's second launch at me. It launched again at our hands when I tried to shake the owners hand to show I am friendly (not a great idea once they think you aren't). He keeps telling all my friends I am afraid of dogs..

The dog was calm and peaceful when I had entered the yard, I made the mistake of pulling my hoody over my head, it did not recognize me as the same person after that. Don't change your appearance especially when on foreign territory.

Looking back, the thought of fighting it physically never crossed my mind - I got tense and recognized I shouldn't show fear or my back. Once I figured I could survive dodging side to side, it was a relief.

TLDR - Dont turn your back, get ready to dodge and move as many times as it takes, also avoid changing appearance on foreign dog territory.
Fish Shell 3.2
I have used it, but over wifi it is a bit laggy. Works for emergencies, but isn't really a replacement for a proper monitor connection.
It's very much a technical issue. The scale of energy utilization is one of the defining characteristics of how technologically advanced a civilization is. The total power output of the sun is 3.8 x 10^26 watts and our total power consumption is about 1.5 x 10^13 watts, which is about 0.000000000004% of sun's power output. As a civilization, we're still very undeveloped, almost non-existent.