skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s all about the partial fact and building up a (often political) narrative, coupled with so few mega-corporations controlling the US media.

Until some semblance of Fairness Doctrine returns, this crappy journalism shall continue.
It's Spring, plant a garden. Dig up your lawn and plant some potatoes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_garden
I was coming to say the same, and the descriptors being removed actually just points mote to its usefulness for writing 'in a Hemingway style'.

However, having said that I don't think the author of this article used it well, as for many reasons most any journalistic article is going to be very descriptive and use things like puns to get/maintain a reader's attention (something I personally usually hate, but not always).
In your example, you are giving concrete numbers. Concrete numbers are extremely useful. If you make a comparison without concrete numbers, it can often be misleading. It goes without saying that concrete numbers can be misleading on their own. It can be quite difficult to nail down rules for honest communication.
You're getting a lot of flak for this, but I agree with you and stand by this principle. I have certainly missed out on good content – in the case of LTT, I had some friends convince me it was worth it and they were, of course, right.

But on the other hand, I've saved myself many hours of having clicked through a stupid face thumbnail to some bland algorithmic HeyGuysWhatsUpThisIs-type crap.
Escape analysis hates copy elision (2021)
A significant % of Bitcoin hasn't moved in years, people seem to be using it as a store of value. Crime usage is magnitude smaller than traditional currencies (source Citi's Bitcoin on the tipping point report).
Yeah, duh, it's not like it's a small project:

https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/133392262085774540...

It's pretty bad that Bitcoin still hasn't started working on it.
This is repeatedly cited delusional conclusion.

The reality is that consensus only requires people to agree on something. It does not require burning tons of energy or military action.

Prisoner's dilemma is only a thing if you consider finite games, ie. played for your immediate benefit. If you consider an infinite game (for example the good and survival of humanity in perpetuity), it can be clearly shown that there is better solution and it is for people to grow up and just agree on a protocol that does not require burning energy or military action.

Do you think people will cheat each other given chance? That may be true when there is good chance of not getting punished for it. But if you ever lived in a small community where people rely on each other for survival (ie. infinite game), you would notice people will not cheat each other when they know they will have to rely on the community until death.
Proof of stake is a different security model. It may work but it has not been proven in a $1 trillion high stakes environment yet.
> We product 2x the food society consumes - mostly wasted away, just with some supply chain efficiency

At some point if the prices rise enough it should become profitable to streamline the supply chain?
They were/are on bare metal so they have real dedicated cores and no VM overhead. Two bare metal cores is a hell of a lot faster than two virtual cores. I had been away from infrastructure during the rise of vmWare and didn't realize that the core count was potentially fake. I was sparring with an admin over resources one day and mentioned the number of cores on the VM and he just laughed. "Those are virtual, you don't really have four cores." Be careful in your assumptions about these VMs in the cloud.
1. You don't need a $300 GPU to play modern games on a gaming PC.
2. Sony and Microsoft subsidize the cost of the hardware. They lose money on every console that goes out the door and make their cash on online passes, accessories and individual games. After a couple years the cost to produce goes down and they start to make some margin on them.

This is the way they've been doing it for several console generations now.
I don't think you're willing to pay what it would actually cost. Not calling you a liar, just noting that a truly local news source, operating at the level that they did 20 years ago, would cost so much more today.

The revenue for a local paper used to come primarily from advertising that doesn't exist anymore. Movie theater listings, classified ads, auto dealership sections. The Real Estate "section".

Each of those have been picked off by apps and websites. Craigslist, IMDB, Redfin/Zillow, etc.

And it's a spiral. With each reduction in circulation, the attractiveness for advertisers drops. Any attempt to make up the shortfall with higher subscription rates just accelerates the downfall.

So we get conglomerates that try to manage costs by being "local" in name only. They can't afford to employ reporters in every town with 75,000 residents. You instead get local papers that are just a reskin of a common wire feed. A few easy articles that could be GPT'd from the police blotter. Maybe a blogger or two.
Check out White Guilt, by Shelby Steele.
Security perhaps (if you're sufficiently careful how you use it), but I would have thought stability was also pretty important if you're thinking in terms of lifetimes. Bitcoin doesn't show much sign of offering that.
Google seems determined to lose me as a customer altogether.

- 2013: Google kills Google Reader for RSS feeds. Never found a replacement I was as happy with.

- 2014: I loved the first version of AngularJS. Angular 2.0 was a complete rewrite of the first version. Switched to learning React instead (now I'm a huge Svelte fan, for the record.)

- 2017-2018?: Forget what it was called now, but Google's services for domains stops being free. I've got several family members on that and didn't want us to all lose Gmail, so I'm currently paying ~$6 per person and pretending our family is a "business".

- 2019: Google kills off Inbox. My email organization goes to shit. I'm trying hey.com currently, but still waiting/hoping I can use my google "business" on that so emails come from that domain, not hey.com...

- 2019: Google kills off the Works with Nest API, and my new Home Assistant installation can't talk to my smoke alarm. I cancel plans to buy a Nest Thermostat and get an EcoBee instead.

- 2019: I migrated off of Google Play Music and over to Spotify when they started dismantling the former and pushed people to use Youtube Music instead.

- 2019: Google Chrome slowly turning into surveillance software pushed me to switch back to Firefox.

- 2020: Google Fit used to track reps/rest time when weight lifting, but they removed that for some reason. Along with everything else they removed, I used FitnessSyncer to migrate all my health data to Apple Health.

- 2021: Now, the "new" Google Pay doesn't have the membership card feature from the "old" Google Pay, so I've lost all that data now. I'm going back to a wallet full of membership cards unless I can figure out how to add arbitrary cards to Apple Wallet.

I lost most of my faith in Google years ago, and they're still finding innovative ways to disappoint me.
I guess that still leaves the question that since it is so difficult, is the CPI actually useful?
I used to be a big reader of The New Yorker. To me, they've slipped even more than the Times over the last decade, probably because they were on a higher perch.
I think that they are in the situation where it can't be altered significantly which ironically is probably a good thing for stack overflow - they don't have reams of features.
The writing in this article feels like an algorithmic rewrite of content from elsewhere, hosted on an ad farming site. While the topic is interesting, I wouldn't feel bad if this sort of site was not ranked this high on HN.
> 4 uses of passive voice

Use of passive voice is and always has been pretty common in journalism; I'd wonder if this Hemingway thing is actually an appropriate tool for evaluating journalism, just based on that.
It is entirely an non-issue. Nobody has the right to say how others use energy.

One can make an argument about transmission efficiency, and generation materials (and how renewable sources are more efficient), thus profitable for both the planet and the miner.
But the actual use of energy?
Get out of here. Tired arguments that I thought died years ago.
Another thing Excel can't do well is when you need multiple people to be updating a single spreadsheet shared in OneDrive / SharePoint. If too many people have it open, OneDrive can fail to merge the changes, and you might have races and end up with data corruption.
Capturing a Chicken for Unreal Engine
And just to throw a wrench into things, EGA had modes like 640x350.
I guess I don't follow the "Look now". Every large piece of software has security vulnerabilities. If MS were refusing to patch their software I guess you'd have a point - the fact they released a patch and people who didn't apply it are getting exploited isn't really relevant to whether or not bitcoin is bad for the planet.

>their OS filled with malicious stuff and who knows what kind of backdoors is when exploited by hackers

You're going to need some citations if you're going to claim windows server has intentional "malicious stuff and backdoors". That's a bold claim to make without evidence.
All the features mentioned above. For example:

- transaction times

- energy consumption

- scalability (BTC currently does 7tx/s)

- security (BTC is getting more centralized over time, increasing the risk of a majority takeover.)

- fewer fees as possible (ideally 0)

BTC only has first mover advantage, and security...for now.
The revolution will not be hosted on AWS
When they started rewarding young writers with a lot of twitter followers and kicked out all the high salaried veterans.
> As far as homes, there HAS been real estate inflation, but homes are now better insulated, have much more efficient heating and cooling (and now have actual cooling whereas in the past were often uncooled), have more bathrooms, and have much more efficient and cheaper lighting (which doesn’t need to be replaced as often and has lower fire risk).

That all matters less than the location of the house.
It's preemptive. We use a reduction counter, similar to Erlang's implementation.
Airtable (airtable.com) is doing something like that. It’s less Excel and more a souped up relational database, so a slightly different angle where you surface the CRUD of a CRUD app to the user.
Do you think part of the lack of good copywriting is due to the private equity squeeze on local papers?
MySQL optimizations on large scale – tips, tricks and WTFs
Well better content deals than working for arms manufacturers?
And long before computers!
Bitcoin is anything but HN's favorite toy.
People who claim that the world must be saved by them are blinded by the righteousness of their cause. So much that they forget to ask if perhaps instead the world must be saved from them. Then, seeing how they are vilified by those they believe they must save, they either come to see humanity as sinful and unworthy of their help (ironically the better outcome) or as children, incapable of knowing what's best for themselves. Bill Gates is a clear example of the second.
Is bitcoin mining environmentally worse than gold mining?
I think Microsoft dropped the ball big-time by not making it easy to export an Excel workbook or Access project as a mobile-ready turnkey Web application. (It looks like it's possible to do, but not easy to do—from what I can tell, it either requires Office 365 or third-party software.)

If that functionality existed and was easy to use, it could have been a very convenient option for businesses running their operations on Access database and looking to take advantage of mobile.

I know Microsoft has InfoPath and Forms, but those aren't Access, so they're not going to be as popular.
But did neither due to the high transaction costs?
I am happy to see there are Linux native alternatives to VVVV emerging.
Most of what I state does mean a lot. You can't project power without a world-class navy. Both world powers (in fact almost all) have/had the best navies in the world.

The two parts to a world-class navy are the ships and the men. China has already done the first part. I agree with you on the second part: the Chinese have not participated in large-scale armed conflict, so they don't have experience. But it must be borne in mind that the US has also not fought any big naval war in recent times and morale is very low because crews are being worked to the bone. Unless the USN addresses these challenges effectively, they don't hold a huge edge.
Silly question: can you arrange it so that the capacitance and inductance cancels out?
There is a reason for this.

The first time I ever went to Beirut over 10 years ago, I asked a partner of a large Civil Engineering firm

Me : "Why does the power go out all the time?"

The response: "There is no political will to fix this."

I didn't understand the reply. Surely there was immense value in economic development in doing this ?

I drew parallels to being in South America, particularly Ecuador, who had the same issue back in the 90's. That caused so much economic loss. I understood the issue was rainfall swings drove hydro power outages. They finally built extra capacity, and now brownouts are a thing of the past. Everyone benefitted.

But lebanon had no such luck. Why?

I didn't understand the undertones of what was being told to me. But the answer was there. It is a political issue, but not a question of will. Its a question of money.

The neighborhood generators now have cartel power over the generation of electricity. They have a vested interest in the government NOT producing cheap electricity for the masses. Anything that disrupts the status quo means their business is effectively over.

Full 360: The market response to electricity production during civil war, gave lebanon electric resilience (via power generators)...but now with regulatory capture, the incentives are only to sustain the broken model.
i never said that, i just said it doesn't matter what these people say.
think for yourself. If you believe Bitcoin pollutes the environment, fine by me - i have no issue.
"when it’s unnecessary"

That seems awfully wide...

So by your examples, communication?

That's just too wide a net. Humans are social animals, we communicate, a lot.
Unfortunately, there really aren't that many better. Full transaction privacy (addresses not visible to public + amounts not visible to public) does not exist in any of the top 10.

+ offline transactions should be possible (allowing sync with the chain whenever), but also I do not think any have that.

A good crypto-currency is like cash, with a nice physical gauge theory (allowing offline transactions) guaranteeing security + any transaction processing rate.

Every single cryptocurrency now is still a research project first.
related from last year "Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25316912 and "Ask HN: What is your passive income 2020?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24859111
"Analyze" can be as simple as "cross-reference follower names with some other database". So nothing a user with read-only access to their company account couldn't manually do.
The post office doesn't need to know "who you are" except insofar as you have a payment method that works which they can charge postage to.

The payment processor, in turn, just needs to know that you're authorized to draw on that account, which they know because you have the credentials established when it was opened.

Functionally none of this actually uses your name for anything useful. Even giving it to them at all is, at best, a password reset method, and there are a million other ways to do that which don't require a centralized ID.
The human brain grew as a result of the extinction of large animals
Is this really the case? My sense is that newspaper writing went from something of a working-class profession to one that requires extremely high credentials. Certainly the most elite publications like the New York Times are basically only hiring from the Ivy League.
That comment is so completely off the wall I'm just astounded.

Nowhere in that guy's post about how to make this silly gizmo did he make any kind of claim about reducing diseases of any kind spread by mosquitoes.

I don't know if you're blaming him for not preventing your friend's sister's death and you getting sick or mad at me because I didn't blame him.

But your complaint does make me wonder what you're doing to solve the malaria problem?
Can anyone shed light on how it works? There is another one that comes to mind, PTE exam.

The PTE exam is fully computer graded (as far as I know), including written essay. I wonder how they do it. The algorithm has to account for topic relevance, grammatical errors, style, clarity etc etc. Topic relevance alone can be quite hard, isn't it? If the question is "What is your opinion on making voting mandatory? Support with examples", I can talk about voting and elections without actually giving an opinion. How does the algo detect it?

PTE, Hemingway app etc - really intriguing to reduce human language to logic and calculation.
Bitcoin will see considerably less use once we end our insane 'war on drugs'.
Women used to dominate the beer industry – until the witch accusations started
People on these forums just can't fathom the idea that they aren't the "average" consumer. They think because game passes don't make sense for THEM, that it's a bad idea.

Therefore any decision made by game developers are awful, they are all idiots, people who spend time on niche tech/gaming forums are all geniuses who understand their market better etc. etc.
Tezos is interesting, upgrades happen without forks and are voted on-the-chain. It’s developer-friendly and seeing slow adoption with some governments. Allegedly France’s C3N uses it and Reno is testing it with NFTs.

Bonus points for it being overseen by a Swiss non-profit, they fund development efforts and encourage adoption.

Who knows what the end result it, but I think the ideas there make it favorable compared to BTC and ETH. Not to mention lower transaction fees :).
"Linux is a cancer" - opinion

"Bitcoin is bad for the planet" - fact(?)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26376441
>It's almost like we are blackmailed into doing the wrong things all the time (on different levels of "importance").

This right here is one of the main reasons why I've worked so hard to achieve financial independence.

Every time someone in my life has told me that I have to do something I'm uncomfortable with, 'or else', they've simply been trying to cover the fact that I'm being exploited. Every. Time.

I'm quite happy to have reached a place in my life where I can tell someone 'No' with whatever level of politeness they deserve.
70+% of military age population in US is ineligible for service due to weight, education, substance abuse[1].

But we’re not the only ones. Educational shows are better. Very much better, but the entertainment is still escapism, whether they have Shatner or Olivier.

That said, entertainment and thinking don’t mix —which is why we have laugh tracks. Instead the programming is thinking for you. That’s perhaps worse than anodyne programming.

[1] https://time.com/2938158/youth-fail-to-qualify-military-serv...
How do you export or even sync your pictures with iCloud photos? Are they available as ‘normal’ file shares?
If that's true, then it's a real shame. I strongly prefer written text to podcasts.

Maybe that's just my own taste, but to be honest, I believe, that it's just a much, much better medium for conveying ideas. With text I can process the content non-linearly. I can skim to get an overview. I can go back to previous passages and find them again easily even days later. I can take more time to reflect on difficult parts and less time for stuff I know already. I can quote sentences easily to share insights with friends...
Excel Never Dies except when you feed it more than 1 million rows which is very common these days. Completely outdated for many uses.
Indeed just as with wiki-lawyers, and everything else with humans involved, the rules/politeness will be used as a weapon by some and all of us who abide are beaten by them.
California Bill Would Make Kids Sections in Large Stores Gender Neutral
I'm fairly certain the original format is for an email newsletter. Once I figured that out, it all made more sense.
Fidelity’s Retail Investor Accounts Rise 17%
So you're right I don't think Trump did anything to make it so much harder - however - he had absolutely not one iota of interest in helping to solve the Palestinian problem.

Trump's 'big gamble' on N. Korea for example does not apply to Israel in that way.

If anything Trump would 'end' the situation by caving to pressure to declare the occupations 'legal territory of Israel' or something along those lines.

I don't think he remotely understands the history or cares, he'll take what some of his wealthy buddy 'advisers' tell him about it.

I believe he would do it in a heartbeat in exchange for guarantees for financing on construction of a few buildings in NYC and Tel Aviv.

He is as corrupt as he can be within the law, he will offer powerful people 'whatever' on a personal basis, in exchange for some personal gain be it populist or prospect of future deals.

FYI I don't think he had anything to gain on N. Korea but some kind of accolade, it's the only situation that didn't provide for considerably conflict of interest.

And yes, I agree that the Gulf States don't care that much about the Palestinians, but they do at least a little bit.
I probably agree about the tool, each writer adds their own flourishes and richness to their prose to capture vividly in your mind a scene or emotion. Hemingway probably doesn't understand this.

But the reason he arrives at using it is because he rightly calls out a bunch of prose that is terrible writing and is trying to quantify this in some way. And whilst I have no problems reading long form articles, many these days do tend to suffer from confusing and downright tedious language.
Totally agree with this. There are a huge number of good old games with great re-playability. There are lots of great new games too, but sometimes it is worth diving into the old stuff to find an oldie-but-goodie. I played Gothic 2 for the first time a couple years ago and loved it.
On Mac OS iTunes completely disappeared, I wouldn’t say nothing changed.
If I understand correctly, by design PoW gets harder with time, so it becomes ever more expensive to mine BTC. At some point, it should be economically unfeasible. Now, BTC is rewarded for transaction validation. Does this mean, that at some point in the future, it will be impossibly expensive to validate a new block, hence making it imposible to conduct a BTC transaction between two addresses?
Eastern Europe was super hungry in 90s. Sort of like picturesque US startups? Give us a hope and we'll work 24/7 to achieve the impossible.

Meanwhile Western Europe. Feels much more.. complacent? if that's the right word. Looking from the East, West looks like smug underachievers riding on forefathers' fame.
I'd argue that slightly more than half a century ago, journalism was largely a blue-collar job with blue-collar attitudes done by working & middle-class people. They saw the job as their responsibility to hold public figures to public account.

The prestige journalists chased all of these people out and many of the factors that appealed to them are still there (getting a platform to push your views) but it turns out those appeal much more to ideologues than those who want to write well in a paper with others who write well.
Yeah, the lunch beer is gently frowned upon in most places in the US.