skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Over the years my opinion of non-profits has become less, shall we say, “charitable”; society has a tendency to glorify non-profits because they “don’t have shareholders” but, in reality, a lot of non-profits give peanuts to those at the bottom (with some even working for free) while executives get far more than a living salary. And whether you’re an educational institution, an insurance provider, or an NGO, being an executive comes with lots of perks like travel, entertainment, lavish offices, etc. So while “no shareholders” is often a selling point for supporting a non-profit, there are still people getting an oversized benefit out of non-profits, who in some disturbing cases are the founders and their family members.

If I wanted to donate a large amount of money to a non-profit, I would structure it as a zero-interest loan, and would just keep deferring the repayment of the loan as long as the org stays true to its mission, compensates executives in reasonable proportion to regular employees, etc. Brian Acton (who co-founded WhatsApp, and later left Facebook) is supporting the Signal Foundation with tens of millions in deferrable, interest-free loans. I think it’s absolutely genius, and wish more people would follow his example.
> it certifies ... that there will never be another certificate for the same thing, from the same brand of certificates (e.g. "Valuables BY CENT").

How many "brand of certificates" are there now, and what is the barrier to entry?

I suspect 1) several and 2) low.

Also, how is "there will never be another certificate for the same thing, from the same brand of certificates" technically enforced?
Generative Testing, Graphical Debugger and Collaborative Editor in ClojureScript
I don't see why my health in particular matters when there are olympian athletes who are entirely vegan and additionally many who are vegetarians. You seem to be implying that a plant based diet would not support a an active and healthy lifestyle, but the fact that all those people exists refutes that.

As for me, I could probably stand to gain a few kg of weight and exercise more but yes I am generally healthy. My health hasn't changed significantly since I started eating less meat for what it's worth.
"Buyers of NFTs may be blind to the fact that there's no limit on the supply". Sure anyone can make an NFT, but not all of them will be viewed as realistic stores of value. Like baseball cards, you will not print an unlimited copy of rare cards cause they would lose their value, and no creator would sabotage their brand like that.
Besides, it costs money to mint a token, so there is a limit related to the artist's economic situation.
Throw a block of chlorine into the pond?
Hey, here’s my new bitcoin address for payments:

Hey, here’s the new bank account info to send stolen money to:

Hey bro, can you borrow me 100k for a few days?
I said "generate exactly the same portfolio (...) when you make the same assumptions that are implicit in the asymptotic growth maximization".

You said it was not so. That you coded and ran the simulations.

Did you compare the asymptotic growth maximization of a multiplicative process with the logarithmic utility solution? Yes or no?

Either you simulated something else or you did something wrong trying to simulate two problems that everyone agrees that are identical.
> "Nobody who opposes Bitcoin on environmental grounds has anything to say about the sheer waste and pollution that most of us take part in."

[citation needed]

> "If Bitcoin is so bad for using as much energy as Argentina, then we should stop using energy to stream entertainment, which we are doing now more than ever."

Until we get off fossil-fuel based electricity, all environmental arguments are going to be based off marginal utility. There's a trade-off.

I personally think that Bitcoin at best is an unregulated financial market and at worst fake internet money. The fact mining contributes to more energy consumption than entire countries is worrying to me. It's a problem that's only going to get worse.

On the other hand, let's look at your argument about streaming entertainment. Currently plugged into my house, I have 2 TVs and 4 computer monitors. I use these to stream entertainment (among other things). Is it wasteful? Yeah, but entertainment is necessary for a balanced life and mental well-being.

Are my 6 screens wasteful? To some extent, although most of that waste is a byproduct of manufacturing where the 'off' button doesn't turn my screens off; it just puts then in a sleep mode which consumes power. So all 6 screens consume some amount of electricity 24 hours a day. This is a problem which should be fixed.

This is a problem with most modern appliances. It contributes to enough excess energy consumption that it even has its own name--vampire electricity.

You see? People can have critiques of both at the same time. But even if you take all the vampire electricity my appliances consume, it's still a drop in the bucket compared with what it takes to mine fake internet money.
According to the link to ""ZX81 ROM Assembly Listing"", it used a "FORTH-like, stack-based language.". Amazing all the same how they managed to squeeze so much out of so little.
Yes, we know a lot, but we don't understand consciousness or even why the universe exists at all. You are probably right, there is unlikely to be a necessity for a "time-stable identity". But who knows, as Lord Kelvin said 1901 “there is nothing new to be discovered in physics now"!
Agreed. The statement also caught my eye and the only thing I could find that seems even remotely relevant is http://www.earthdrx.org/specificgravitylesser.html. This is very specific to lighter fluids injected into a subsurface ground layer below a water layer, and theorizes as to why the lighter fluid may not percolate through the heavier fluid above.
Riot control maybe? A water cannon injecting this stuff into the stream would be intimidating.
The mass of communication (everybody talking to everybody. Media, social and otherwise) has become very self-referential. We have conversations about conversations and arguments about arguments. And the stronger argument does not refer to mere "observation" or "anecdote". No, it refers to a more authoritative argument. Be it a revered pundit or that-which-is-popular.

Thus the communicating, arguing culture becomes even more self-referential as time goes on. And all that does not concern talking, thinking and arguing gets forgotten.

And that forgotten part is 99.999% of reality.

The act of focusing attention, which is also, implicitly, an act of vast ignoring, is a fascinating phenomenon.
I think you can have a huge impact by institutionalizing knowledge in your organization.

Basically, what makes the difference between a junior developer and yourself ? The gap is huge, and you can help reduce it and compress the time it takes someone joining your organization to become really effective.

This will have a huge impact on hiring and retention. You will be able to hire junior developers and turn them into highly productive members. They'll get good faster and will be more likely to be appreciated by the team and feel better because they truly are contributing, etc.

A sort of handbook and knowledge base that leveraged what you know.

If you were to start a greenfield project, what are the things you'll set up right away based on what you know (monitoring, CI/CD, analytics, etc). A sort of stack for success, but not necessarily tied to technology stack. It can contain rationale: Here's how to test ideas, how to prioritize work, etc.

What would I learn working with you for a year? What would you consider to be important lessons and insights ? What are the scars.

If you were to disappear, what would you like the person who takes over to know.
"The case for shortening the food chain is based on bad science.... It’s bad for environment? Check out this response by James Rebanks to Cambridge University banning meat:" which then basically says "how about addressing the primary causes of climate change, divesting your investment portfolio of fossil fuel burning activities"

that's something called whataboutism. the planet absolutely cannot raise enough cows to feed 5B people, in some theoretical world where not just affluent westerners eat a lot of red meat. It takes about 1800 gallons of water to produce one pound of meat, that alone is an enormous stress on ecosystems, not to mention the vast amounts of land to raise not just the animals but all the plants that they eat. it's kind of common sense, you can have humans eating the plants, or you can have humans eating the cows that consume the plants. In the latter case you have a lot more "beings" on the planet consuming things.

im a huge meat eater myself but I'm not going to complain if the world continues to move away from factory-farmed meat as a primary dietary element because it's going to have to happen anyway.
You are overlooking the disadvantage of not verifying the prior hash, which you can't do until you can verify hashMerkleRoot, which you can't do until you have collected the entire block. If you skip verification, you open yourself up to bad actors feeding you a bogus header - and you only figure that out after being drip fed a bunch of transactions that don't match the merkle root. Erasure coding doesn't fix that. In any case, proponents of the 'cram everything in the public ledger' method have already advocated 128MB and even completely uncapped block sizes... so the outcome is predictable.

Take a hint from every successful network that has ever networked since ever: hierarchy, extensibility, etc. Demanding that it all be crammed into a homogenous block is so obviously doomed to fail that you should be suspicious of the proponents' motives.
The maths of Ergodicty Economics has been checked by a Nobel prize winning physicist. No one has been able to contest it.

You can look all through the comment section, you won't find anyone claiming the maths is wrong.

Ergodicty economics disproves EUT. EUT is rejected on solid mathematical grounds.

Saying Expected Utility is correct is no different than claiming that 2 + 2 = 5. Though the maths involved is a bit more complicated.
of course it can. there have always been well known contact addresses: hostmaster, postmaster, webmaster, security, abuse, etc. addition now there is the .well-known URL which has an RFC.
You are so right and it’s sad to see.
Europe also has a long history of limiting economic opportunities of black people - arguably much longer than the US, and yet the situation isn't that dire over here.

Do you truly believe it's just skin tone?
This argument is bent over backwards. A cafeteria serving red meat allows people not eating red meat to not order it. The other way around, not so much. And thats the problem with all the neo-luddite, super-feminist or anarcho-ecological movements. They all want to curtail choice, which does not sit well with most humans. We as humanity respond well to nudges and a gradual process, but bans, cancelling and aggresive prohibition will always have the same effect.
Yes, you can very this using passivedns. The DNS was briefly switched over to cloudflare right before the hack happened.
Given that I'm European, it should be fairly easy.

Why does this change anything? Every major European carrier flies Boeing aircraft. Some exclusively.
Thank you! This looks very much like it would fit my needs, and I love that the output is an XML file I can integrate with other tools.
What happens when the network supporting an NFT goes away?
> Just as you compare car manufacturers, so the best gets most revenue,

What a odd utility function. I'd compare car manufacturers to get a good value for my money.

On Youtube, what do I care that a creator of a fun video I enjoyed gets the ad buyer's money, rather than some "technically superior" creator? Unless they're using the revenue to fund terrorism or oil lobbying or something.
>yet has funded a billion-dollar propaganda campaign to convince people he's generous

And let's not forget the scummy secondary benefit of Gates donating tons of money into soneth education. It undoubtedly is going to have some influence on what computers they use and teach, further entrenching Microsoft as place.
> If you are using ffmpeg with hardware-accelerated codecs like H.264, remember to take the free 10x speed boost!

The speed boost isn't free, hardware accelerated encoders often can't compress as well as software encoders.

A video codec isn't a fixed rule book that all the encoders follow to get the same result, it's more akin to CSS: there are a bunch of tools you can use but there's no one way to combine them to get a particular result. If you want to make a chess board with HTML and CSS, just think of how many ways there are to do it, it's similar when it comes to video encoding.

So different encoders have different results but why would a hardware encoder compress worse than a software encoder? The answer is simple: a hardware encoder needs to be implemented in hardware. That comes with a ton of constraints that CPU encoders don't have to deal with, such as physical space on silicon, power, heat, limited memory and so on and so forth. This means that the encoder has to make compromises that a software encoder doesn't.

So how big is the difference? It depends a bit how you measure it but Moscow State University has a ton [0] of data about different encoders and just last year, they evaluated a bunch of hardware encoders [1] and compared them to software. You can see in their results [2] that relative to x264 (software, which happens to be ffmpeg's default), NVENC (NVIDIA's encoder, present on their GPUs) took 21.3% more bytes to produce the same subjective result.

[0]: https://www.compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/index_en.h...

[1]: https://www.compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/hevc_2020/...

[2]: https://i.imgur.com/Smh4v3P.png
The public plaintext emails are not a good idea. Scrapers will gobble these up and spam those emails into oblivion. At least put them behind a captcha.
Cloudflare does any tcp now, maybe udp?

https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-spectrum/
Well, poor people definitely are more likely to be black, and black people are more likely to be poor. (In the US, which is the country OP is talking about, and in the UK, where I am, and in many other places, though maybe not everywhere.)

Being black tends, for obvious reasons, to run in families. So race-associated poverty will do so too. Some other factors that tend to go along with poverty run in families, some not. There is some tendency for people to associate with others of the same race, and some tendency for people to associate with others of similar social class. It's not obvious to me whether being black is a better or a worse predictor of having poor friends and families than being poor is.
pretty dumb IMHO - just interview people normally. no use in discriminating against entire schools.
The article, methodology and data are dubious.
See, they evaded a recurring cost!
It's surprising to me that you think char arrays might be unfamiliar to C developers!
Apple deployed it in iOS and macos. You can access it as a developer of either.

There is a load balancing issue, but I don't think it's any worse than http/3 which also allows for peers to change IP (http/3 has a much limited scope of changes).
We're more geared towards programmers as you define what each node does in their code but you can choose to expose selected node parameters when exporting, for a designer/animator to potentially tweak.

Sorry about the advanced examples, some use WebGL and might have issues on iPad Safari that we'll need to check.
I think there's a lot of utility in trying to achieve some conceptual consistency across a large codebase worked on by many people. Most organizations of even 12+ developers wind up with an internal informal "pattern language" that you learn while onboarding, and it can be wildly helpful if that's explicitly acknowledged as an area of knowledge to help new teammates acquire.

To me a lot of the tension comes from the "endless september" nature of software, that over the last 20 years we just keep absorbing more and more new-ish folks who come in with vastly varying levels of formal and informal education.

I'm tempted to describe one mindset as "catalogers" in contrast to other mindsets that might be called "explorers", "consensus builders", "hackers", "do-ers", etc. (not a complete list nor entirely disjoint categories -- i'm a lousy cataloger!)

I think part of this endless Design Patterns discussion is that some, myself included, would like to push back when "design patterns" starts to become "a standard and nearly exhaustive catalog that the whole field uses with uniform meanings."
This is a nice little firestarter.

I've had this idea many years ago and my solution to that problem was to use two or more lasers of lower power that all shoot at the same point in 3 dimensional space. If you guess wrong then at least you won't set your house on fire (or blind someone).
Hugo is very popular. I used it at work for internal sites, it's incredibly easy to work with. Latex can be enabled by JS libraries.
It's a pity, but entirely self inflicted. Every time someone want's to give money to Mozilla I try to steer them away to give it to EFF instead.
I didn't mean literally in the muscles, although I should have been clearer. I meant probably in the gut or another area with large nerve clusters. That said, it's unlikely - and for sure, the cerebellum is the likely candidate. But it's not simple and we don't understand it will enough to make any definite claims yet. We'll need to actually do the transplants to find out.
Should be interesting as soon as Tikectmaster or something offers NFTs to boost sales but with the explicit written agreement that NFTs are non-transferable and any transfer history voids the ticket.
What is wrong with LXD? It provides a nice REST API and better user experience for those of us who like LXC.
See: How to Get Better at Recursion
No!

I'm still hoping that those companies that I despise and that fill the internet with mass-produced garbage (which they call news or content) will finally go bankrupt and stop.

Plus, the way to optimize for higher conversion rates with paywalls and subscriptions is to have even more outrageous public claims, meaning even more click-bait-y headlines and even more addictive (they call it "engaging") time sinks.

I predict that once Web Monetization works friction-less, we'll see insane amounts of GPT-generated nonsense articles behind paywalls. Because even if people approve the paywall only by mistake (e.g. 0.1% of visitors), it'll still be a solid revenue stream, if you mass-produce enough random "content" :(

And if you believe that companies will stop shoving ads in your face, just because you paid them, read this: https://www.samsung.com/us/business/samsungads/resources/suc...

It's a Samsung whitepaper on how using the "smart ads" in their $5000+ premium 8K TVs you can finally reach those people who avoid regular TV because they hate ads.
One major distinction between cards and other physical collectibles is that they come bundled with the implicit protection of the legal system on others making more physical copies (i.e., counterfeiting). So if one owns a rare card, others can see pictures of it, but they cannot make their own physical copy (backed by the legal system and threat of being arrested). This is unlike the NRT / digital side where making identical copies (sans blockchain) is perfectly legal.
Can we change this to "dumber than average" Sue? I guarantee when I'm 60 I'll still be able to safely operate a computer and understand what an "app" is, FFS. Ageism is really out of control these days.
I might believe it more if I was given access to their surveys and data.
> 0 is actually what I'd expect as an answer. Even on very modern Python you get

Given a four byte mantissa, it should be 1 for anything under and equal to 2^32 and 0 for anything over 2^32. Instead it outputted some random number. A bug in checking the flags or some-such. Or maybe a bug in the float to string routine.
Oops, sorry. I meant that macros are referentially opaque, and therefore strictly more expressive than comptime: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26375027

> my criticisms of Zig's comptime could be levied at Rust's macros.

Except that comptime is nothing at all like macros, even though, as it turns out, it can replace enough of their use to make them unnecessary in low-level languages.

> I worry, perhaps unreasonably, that it's going to lead to fragmentation in the way generics are handled in various libraries, leading to headaches and incompatibilities.

But generics in Zig are just functions, and so the problem should be no better but no worse than any API. comptime is drastically less "crazy" or "weird" or hard to make compatible than macros, which Zig doesn't have at all.
I’m sure they will continue to sell alerting systems for many years. I hope I don’t have to use them. I quite enjoy autopilot on long trips.
Build orbital rings and put solar panels in space. Can be done with todays technology.
There are no duty cycle limitations for 900MHz in the US. Its regulated largely like 2.4GHz (see 47 CFR § 15.247). There are rules for frequency hopping systems that limit the amount of time you can dwell on any given channel, but there are less restrictions on non-hopping systems. High-ish bandwidth 900MHz radios are pretty common and can do multiple megabits per second (at least with enough signal-to-noise ratio, which isnt always practical over non-trivial distances).
It’s like someone just discovered life is hard and twisted it with a race factor. I honestly don’t intend for this to sound mean, but it’s probably unavoidable in modern society.
That makes it unpleasant which does not necessarily mean insecure. In fact, having an unpleasant codebase can be an advantage from a security standpoint. If the code is so ugly and complicated that no one wants to add new features, then that means less churn, and less churn means fewer weaknesses. Imagine if the Sudo codebase, which has had over 9,000 changes, had been written that way. I think Donald Knuth got it right with his marvelous tex.web monstrosity that some software should arch towards immutability. https://mirrors.concertpass.com/tex-archive/systems/knuth/di...
I've been reading a lot of pro-NFT opinions recently. This is a nice counter.
You can't trade them? Then how would you capture gains? I thought they were an investment
Thanks! Your comment + the headline + basic understanding of tax law supplies the whole story, without needing to engage with their formulaic clickbait.
you are right of course. Do you remember around 10 years ago when there was a big push into integrating phones to the touchless infotainment. You are left with dreadful looking things like the Fords with millions and millions of tiny buttons corresponding to nearly every letter of the alphabet. They look hideous, of course. I would pay money just to avoid those awful things. Actually i'm starting to understand the tesla logic a bit...
I took a look and I was not impressed. Assuming that the home page was built with Motif, the font was far too small. Even after increasing the size 3 times the font was still too small for my preference. There is no information on the home page about cost, and "requesting access" requires that you provide 10 pieces of information. I may be wrong, but my thought when I saw that was that this is an information harvesting site.
The team notes.'The team found. The team wondered.' The team explains.How wonderful the team is.
Especially when China constitutes about 70% of the hashrate for bitcoin.

(I'm also dubious of how they know what is powering the mining operations inside China, most of the power in China still comes from coal.)
What's the difference between a Director and a Manager?
I've written a simple move the ball to a hole game, with simple physics, using this features. One thing I had to take in account is when you flip your phone, the values are inverted.
Math.

Or he might be a human being with feelings and perceptions, however subjective they may be.