skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What numbers are you basing that on? Bitcoin is 1.5KB/s.

You know you can't verify an incomplete block, right? If you think you can just plow ahead after getting the first packet... you are going to have a really bad day once the other miners notice that you can be fooled into wasting hash power on bogus headers. You know that blocks get announced by the miners after they solve the hash, in chunks that can be up to the max blocksize, right? For Bitcoin that is 1MB, for bcash it is 32MB. Imagine if NASDAQ offered two levels of service: one that put the FIX protocol behind a 1MB buffer, and the other behind a 32MB buffer - which one would be disadvantaged? Anyone sitting at the 32MB buffer would be getting their lunch eaten. This is about as fundamental as it gets, so you might want to do some reading - because you've clearly got a big blindspot.

> No they don't. The examples you are talking about are rare and have very little impact.

If you are talking about bitcoin, you are very wrong - it is a thoroughly documented occurrence, it even has a name: the selfish miner strategy. If you are talking about bcash, I dunno one way or the other - I don't pay much attention to the joke coins. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBC48266.2020.9169436

> How long do you think it takes to send around 900KB ?

Again, you need to actually do some reading on how mining works and what the network propagation characteristics are. I really don't want to have this come off as meanspirited, but it needs to be said: you obviously thought you knew how things worked, and you obviously don't - I wonder how many people you've misinformed.
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I've spent a fair amount of time learning C++ throughout the years (beginning in 2001) and Haskell. I mention these as examples of languages that seem to have no end to them.

Using and learning Zig after about 1.5-2 years is many times more productive because I've already found the edges of the language and I'm able to focus more on my actual task instead of debugging my language knowledge. I say this not only in the context of a work task but for things of every scope.

I personally have never felt like I "knew" Haskell, despite working with it and being able to create solutions in it. I know parts of it and there are big parts of it looming somewhere in the distance. There are language extension names that actually give me anxiety when I see them at the top of source files. I think the same feeling is common in C++ users, though admittedly I don't have my finger on that pulse anymore.

Is it possible to create finished solutions that are shorter and where your solution seems to fit the problem more directly in these languages? Yeah, I guess, but at the same time I'm not sure it's ever finished and the anxiety this kind of thing can cause when using these languages I think is underestimated.

There's a tension that this creates where you have to intentionally limit yourself (and suggest others to limit themselves, see "Simple Haskell") because you feel the weight of all of this complexity on you constantly.

"Maybe if we read this 'Thinking in Types' book we can cut down on the amount of lines in our code base, guys?". Meanwhile people using intentionally small languages are provably super productive and you see a lot of coping mechanisms in the communities with these ever-growing colossi languages.

(With all of this said I'm not entirely sure I'd be sold on Zig if it didn't at least have tagged unions and matching/unpacking of them via `switch`. There are language features that I've grown so accustomed to that I feel like I can barely program without them.)
I found this but didn't really associate it with my sleep patterns. I found it was the general routine which affected my energy levels. I used to time little 20 minute coffee breaks / walks to coincide with the lows and allow me to reinvigorate with new surroundings and sometimes you run into people you know.

If I missed my walks I was always scattered and it didn't matter if I tried to go again later because everything was out of rhythm because I didn't get the new boost at the right time. I think that lunch time is most people's separator (hell the article says afternoon peak and morning peak suggesting they cradle the noon) but they take it for granted because they try to slave to the clock. rather than slaving to the clock they should strive to be most productive and useful which includes their mental state as well
Every now and then I read "has left-wing inclusion/diversity has gone too far?"

And then I see comments that basically amount to: "haha, dumb foreigners can't speak english LOL"
I'm curious what forum software Maza, Verified, and Exploit use. If they all use the same one, that might explain the quick succession.
Patreon amazes me. I see channels that aren't huge (1-2m subs) that make a good living simply because some of their fans decide to make monthly donations. It's a phenomenon that I haven't been able to wrap my head around yet. People willing to pay for someone to be able to keep doing their job if they could just consume their content for free.
1982 Atari 800 here (was 8 years old at the time). I remember thinking the same thing at the time. When we first bought the thing, there just wasn't much I/O beyond the tape drive (and later the disk drive), and therefore the things we could do seemed very limited. It wasn't until we got a printer (a Star Micronics SG-10 dot matrix tractor feed) and a 300-bps modem that the world really opened up!
I think you haven't understood - it's a requirement of ShowHN that the service is readily useable for free try-outs.

Sign up pages are not eligible.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Regardless, best wishes with the project, sincerely.
You can take a look at https://motif.land too
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I think the rational way to look at it is this: your whole purpose is to set conditions for your future self's success. For example, if you agree to be put under anaesthesia or an induced coma, you are agreeing to die so that your future self will live.

When you step into the teleporter, there will actually be two future selves created: one will stay in the teleporter chamber, the other will go to the destination. So to decide if you should do it your not, you need to weigh the benefits to 3 people: (1) your future self if you don't go into the teleporter; (2) your future self who arrives at the destination; (3) your future self who stays back anyway, so who is very similar to (1). If (2) is much happier than (1) and (3) is not significantly less happy than (1), you should rationally do it. If (3) would be significantly less happy, there is also the option of considering having them (painlessly) killed in the process.

Either way, the person making the decision will not get to experience either (1), (2), or (3)'s experiences.
> I think it's hard to convincingly bullshit yourself

That is entirely dependent upon the personality and goal of a given person.

For some people the brain knows what it wants to know, such as selective data necessary for group conformance. For some other people the brain knows only what it sees and hears. For some different people will doubt what they see and hear until after several iterations as to meld conflicting reports.

There is a common expression for people who commonly and easily lie to themselves: Talking a big game. In that case everybody knows its bullshit except for the person talking.
Why do I want this as a consumer?
Have to what?
I’d love to proves wrong, but the “only breathe through your nose” crowd always seemed a little woo-woo.
Ah, I was going on what the OP said ("ensuring that a given pin cannot be used in multiple places").

That seems sensible, but also not particularly valuable. A lot of the time it makes sense both to 'read' and 'write' from a pin (e.g. if it's open-drain with a pullup).
For general purpose programming, I want to write expressions in algebraic format but for interacting with a calculator RPN is easier. It removes a whole layer of abstraction wondering what the machine is doing.

I would imagine if I were young today and started with a modern multi line calculator with textbook display then that is what I would be comfortable with but for folks born before 1980 or so the algebraic calculators of our time were error prone.

I have an HP 27S that is algebraic and breaks the mold of being error prone because it shows the whole expression up until the point where a part can be evaluated. Then it evaluates the inner part while still showing the rest of the expression.
Vertebrates, typically.
You as the user don't ever give the site a token. The site gives you a token. You then (via the browser) authorize your micropayment platform to pay that token. They pay them. They can track what you're paying (but because they had to pay anyway, that information was already present). The site can't [via this information channel] track you.
>It's entirely possible that we end up in a world where corporations use all of the unlicensed spectrum to operate their corporate networks (on "user-owned hardware" that is centrally coordinated and controlled), leaving very little of it to alternative uses.

Why does there need to be a distinction? What's the difference between amazon's sidewalk network compared to an at&t wifi router?
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At the expense of others. That is.
We’re regulated by GDPR (Europe's data privacy law), which is super strict about data.
That would assume that the above technique is silver bullet that is meant to solve all possible relationship problems.

Such a thing just can't exist. If that is the standard, then you would give up on giving to fix anything in relationship. Since there is a couple that whose issue won't be solved by that, why bother.

Especially with new relationships, you two are basically figuring out whether the couple have compatible value systems, expectations, whether one of them has destructive tendencies it is safer and better to nope out of. It is ok to break up if with the "I realized this is not for me, I think I will be better off with someone else".
> A camera is cheaper than a car mirror at this point. It'll make the car slightly more aerodynamic.

It also requires electronics, a screen, wires and electricity to operate. A rube goldberg contraption that can fail in any number of ways. While my existing boring low tech mirrors just reflects existing photons without any aforementioned nonsense. Just why?
Therac-25? There are so many other examples, this comment is just wildly wrong.

Trying things has some inherent risk of failure, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth working on hard problems. It just means you do the best you can to account for that risk (and learning from it to not make the same mistakes again).

Edit: You added the quote which I don’t disagree with in sentiment (I don’t know specifics of the policy in question).
Show HN: Cohort-based quitting, stop drinking in a small group
Hey HN - I built Stopping (https://stopping.app/) to help people quit drinking with the support of a small group (your "cohort"). It's free[5] to participate and there's no app to download. All communication is anonymous and done through SMS[1]. I finally stopped drinking after many failed attempts and having the support of a group that was going thru it with me was critical.

Problem:

Giving up alcohol is really f*ing hard.

In the US, 15M people have Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD). Only 7% get any form of treatment and most programs are ineffective (AA's success rate is < 10%[6]).

Abusing alcohol has wide ranging effects from financial costs to reduced confidence, to health risks. Many people don't think of alcohol in these blunt terms because of how common and accepted drinking is, but alcohol can ruin your life and kill you.

Solution:

1. Quit with a cohort - Stopping places you in a group of people quitting with you at the same time. You can safely share struggles and triumphs. It might not sound like a lot, but just telling someone else you have an urge to drink can make all the difference.

2. Guidance - Concrete actions to improve your odds of quitting and make it easier on you.

For example, many people find drinking seltzer and fasting reduce urges.

Another step is prescribing medication. Less than 4 percent of people with AUD are prescribed a medication[7] but there's solid evidence[8] these drugs can help.

3. SMS based - No new app to check. It's easy to access and anonymous.

This app might seem like too little to make a difference, but this is a first step.

I want to destroy AUD and I'm obsessed with the problem, not the solution. If you have feedback on how to make Stopping more effective, I'd love to hear from you.

Feel free to to drop me a note at mike@stopping.app.
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Lessons for Reintegrating Islamic State Detainees
Not spending. Disinvestment, or the refusal to reinvest, either way meaning that the capital flows elsewhere.
> Could there have been different notations used for things like factoring out a quadratic equation?

well, you're talking about high school algebra, but just adjacent to that is the lisp programming language which uses polish notation. It also uses parentheses because parsing the parentheses-less polish notation requires that the operators have a fixed number of operands

Sussman, co author of SICP and co creator of lisp-like Scheme, has a current idea/book/project he's advocating which is to teach physics using scheme instead of algebraic-calculus because the notation is more precise: rather than differential equations which you need to be skilled at reading, you use polish notation computer programs that can be executed and studied.
Sure, but nothing in GDPR forbids you to sell data, as long as you're up front about it and ask for permission. Not answering "Do you sell transactional data? Anonymised or not?" with a clear yes or no is a bit worrying.
What are the features that are still missing from static site generators ?
If memories and by extension consciousness can be transplanted, will mushy bodies matter? We already have capabilities to manufacture robots.
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Unbelievable.

Rather than diminishing the efforts of others, you could start helping by describing your own efforts to improve education (in order to qualify your ability to assess the mentioned and other efforts to improve education and learning)

In context to seed and series funding for a seat on a board of a for-profit venture, an NGO non-profit organization can choose whether to accept restricted donations and government organizations have elected public servant leaders who lead and find funding.

Works based on Faust:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_based_on_Faust
> How so? The assets that are "sold" as NFT are still hosted somewhere.

This is what I don't understand. It's like a baseball used in a World Series game and then signed by members of the team and the Certificate of Authenticity that accompanies it. The value of the CoA is when it ACCOMPANIES the baseball and authenticates it. I don't see how the CoA in and of itself has any value when the baseball is in someone else's possession.
Are you looking at a single worker process out of about 10? This is such a frequent mistake it's not even funny. Do something resembling a proper measurement: run `free -m` (or the alternative on your OS) before starting VSCode, and then right after it finishes loading, ideally on a completely bare system to reduce noise.

Here are my numbers for a freshly installed 1.53.2 with zero plugins and no configuration:

used
2882

used
3404

OK, it's "only" 522 MBs for a bare-bones text editor which requires "two dozen plugins" to make somewhat usable.
I don't ride my bicycle in -15 °C, but I've found it much harder to exert myself in temperatures from -5 to 5 °C versus 20 to 30 °C. That is, hills that are nomally easy for me in higher temperatures become very difficult in lower temps.
I've been faced with a similar situation and my objections were proven right when we went to production. The most galling aspect of the experience was that it meant absolutely nothing. Nothing was fixed and the people who mattered just continued to drink the kool aid. The individual responsible received accolades while the team lost sleep fire fighting the dumpster fire he started. These people are running rampant in the industry and trying to counter their bullshit does absolutely nothing, more often than not it can inflict real damage on one's own career.
Here is something to think about. If you get ddos'd in middle of trial run by an enterprise customer and its the end of your startup. AZ , AWS , OVH almost all hosting providers will all start dropping your connections.
And DDOS protection services are expensive. Pay as you go models are awful for this as when you do get ddos'd , you bill could be quite high.
It is all about creating Veblin Goods [1] - where the price paid, and the obviousness of the price paid, is a key part of the asset, and have very different supply-demand-price curves.

Also, not far from Greater Fool theory of investing, which always ends well, ...ha...

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/veblen-good.asp
It seems to me like Boeing management doesn’t care, they just want their stock bonuses as soon as possible to finance their
lifestyle.
Great. Thank you. One more question while I have your attention:

Can I still use utm_* codes? Or something similar appended to a link (in the query string) in order to add attributes to a visit? And then analyze / filter by those attributes?
I would say that's mainly a software/vendor issue(standardization, because we're not necessarily gonna wait years for ISO here).Not to mention routers/similar hardware are not robust enough for becoming part of a mesh infrastructure: usually low-quality and very rare updates, shitty software, most often than not locked-down access to them,etc.(Obviously exceptions like ~Asus for ex. exist, but the vast majority of people have something way worse that is not "hackable")

If anything a dynamic and robust mesh network through mobile devices seem more potent.
Of course this would only work in massively dense areas.And with Wifi-6 we're reaching a point where the accumulated bandwidth could be enough.
Market rates for electricity do not exist in a country where the power grid is controlled by communists. Given that most countries subsidize electricity consumption the same basic issue applies.
Looking beyond naive libertarianism, there is the bigger question of waste and whether people are entitled to consume a resource regardless of the application. Historically efficiency was seen as a virtue, but modern attitudes are more open to waste. It’s a fair question to ask whether this is an aberration.
This was a rough Nordic skiing winter for us. -20F really does require something extra to help the lungs. A buff/balaclava helped a lot, but soaked/frozen fabric has its own downsides.

I’ve heard the pros routinely develop cold induced asthma.
I'm not sure I get it. How do you know this created uncertainty and second guessing?
And autocomplete doesn’t work without accents: Ke... doesn’t suggest Kévin in @mention systems.
Im surprised there was no mention of Jokers Stash, it seems reasonable to me that after it shut down it left a power vacuum of sorts with several actors looking for new places to ply their trade. Not to mention the real possibility that some "peepls" have an axe to grind because they got burned when J$ closed up shop.
I suppose there are good and bad ways to do retrospective. I have seen good ones. I admit I haven't seen many bad ones, mostly because most companies I worked at simply do not have retrospectives at all.

The good ones kinda resemble what the developers would tell each other if they had a beer together after work. They probably wouldn't press each other to "improve". Well, maybe they would, if there was one exceptional slacker. But even then, it probably wouldn't be like "work faster! faster! even faster!" but rather something like "run the unit tests on your machine before you commit the code, dummy, and stop using one-character names for variables, who is supposed to read that?". Which would optimally result in introducing policies to prevent that, such as running the tests automatically in continuous integration, adopting code standards and doing code reviews, etc.
Without more clarification this appears to be nonsense. Do any search for gasoline floats on water and every explanation says gasoline floats on water, not the other way around.

If there is any hope in this disaster it is that interstate pipelines transport raw gasoline (more or less a natural fraction of petroleum) without the additives. It is the additives like MTBE (now I believe outlawed) that create the most lasting ground pollution. Light petroleum fractions naturally migrate towards the surface, where they are either consumed by microbes that eat the light fractions (and leave the heaviest fractions) or they evaporate.
How does e.g. Telegram does it? Isn't it QT?
“wasted memory”... this stuff exists on the stack, right? And we’re talking on the order of like 64 bytes or less in common, practical scenarios?

I believe the solution has been clearly presented to those who are listening, and the downsides are so much smaller than the status quo.

If people on the language team are unwilling to provide developers with the tools to make more robust software because of something like 64 bytes of stack memory... I find that pretty shocking. And yes, I mean that it is extremely difficult to diagnose and fix issues in production software when you only get back a static error value that lacks the dynamic error context that a payload would provide. I’ve been there, done that. Do not want that again.

Such a strong viewpoint (avoiding such error payloads) could at least focus more on the technical aspects of how best to implement the elision of unused error payloads instead of just broadly opposing the concept, since it should be obvious how beneficial those payloads are, and the only question is how to remove them for developers who literally cannot spare dozens of bytes of stack memory. (Which I find hard to believe outside of AVR or PIC microcontrollers, which is probably not the best use case to be optimizing for in a new language.)

Elision is an optimization that can be added later. It’s not obvious that it can’t be done, and there’s no clear reason that it has to be solved first... I just don’t think anyone would actually care enough to implement it once they see how nonexistent the negative impacts are, but it would be a cool optimization.

But, maybe everyone who upvoted the apparently most upvoted GitHub issue on the Zig repo (including myself) is just completely wrong and this obvious solution is actually secretly terrible. It’s entirely possible.

Your comment has not really done anything to help me believe that I’m wrong, though, unfortunately.

But, as I’m basically “no one” in this context, my opinion probably doesn’t really matter.
The whole concept is that you can transfer your stack (a digital version of your consciousness) between bodies. The show does touch on the issues of bodies, rich people can just buy them. Anyone else essentially has to wait for whatever body becomes available.