skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another armchair cryptographer on HN who has no idea what they're talking about... somehow this is acceptable when it comes to Bitcoin. I feel like I'm being charitable here but what exists are other cryptocurrencies which trade-off security and/or decentralization in favor of some other properties.

Regarding proof-of-stake for example, I'll defer to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25007874
Fair, it wasn't a great example.

>We don't explicitly tag all our premises

True but we should aim to tag more of them in business writing. It's helpful to clearly state them so 1. You as the writer are crystal clear on the assumptions you're making, and 2. if there's any disagreement on premises you can resolve it before you spend any time discussing which course of action to take.
Term 'regional' speaks to the "scope" (the circulation? ) of the paper. It is not at all redundant with 'New York', a paper can be 'regional' anywhere, right?

And 'print paper' is not meaningless, even if the author made it up. In context it clearly means not-an-online paper.

Both terms are indicating limited reach of pieces published in The Drunken Canal.
It’ll improve your writing if you’re a lazy, inattentive, careless writer. If you have any writing ability and pay attention to what you are doing, it’s worthless.
Yes this is a great point, you can wipe out your "gains so far" but you can't really get deeply into the negative.

Thanks for that nuance
> If you live in it, it's a liability and not an asset.

That's not a disqualification of an asset, if devaluation is outstripped by increased valuation over time. eg I live within a parcel, that parcel is not transformed into a liability.
Ah, so you do trust them. You trust that they are too lazy to take the initiative to keep a copy, but merely untrustworthy enough that they might sneak a peek if they can do so without having to put forth even the minor effort of making backups of the spool directories.

Fair enough, but that strikes me as a very odd risk posture to take. Either your email privacy is valuable to you, in which case I would think you would want to protect it against non-lazy people as well, or it isn't, in which case what difference does it make?

But it's obviously your call.
I feel that comments like this are a disservice to HN, for while the comment attempts to sound erudite and logical, it is simply moral relativism in disguise.

"Greed" is neither good nor bad, but instead it is a pathological optimization. Optimizing for profit, by definition, is an "unwillingness to acknowledge externalities", as stated by the GP. Optimizing for profit resulted in many bad situations for Americans (see the Love Canal and the Cuyahoga River) and it was the reason the United States created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), so that negative externalities could be converted into dollars.

To bring into the discussion "Teslas" and "rockets that land" changes the argument from the demonstrable "bitcoin is bad for the planet" to a morally relative argument of "yeah, but it got us rockets and Teslas", which does nothing other than prove GPs point: to say that that Teslas and landing rockets are worth the price of Bitcoin is to ignore or disregard the externalities!

And it's hard to imagine that the GP "drew the line" at Bitcoin; to take that as the position is making a straw-man argument. Instead, an interpretation that would lead to valuable discussion should be adopted, like the position that Bitcoin both demonstrates the flaws of greed and that it does so in a way that is simple to understand and demonstrate, especially when it comes to externalities. Financial instruments are complex and opaque on purpose, designed to confuse and obfuscate greed. Bitcoin, on the other hand, has a much simpler equation: money versus power consumed versus pollutants produced.

Finally, a suggestion to all: avoid acronyms, or at least spell them out on first use. It's highly likely that "SF" meant "Science Fiction" and not "San Fransisco". Knowing the correct definition of an acronym can help avoid embarrassing situations.
Great! If you take any notes on pain points trying to implement that pattern, would love to hear about them! My email is in profile
> Multinationals face pressure to relocate headquarters to Saudi Arabia

The post title appears to be a little misleading. It's based on the article subhead, but later in the article it clarifies that the demand is the multinationals relocate regional headquarters from places like Dubai to Saudi Arabia:

> But now some are worried that their lives, and those of their families, could be upended after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman delivered an ultimatum to multinationals: move your regional headquarters to the kingdom or forget about securing prized government contracts....

> But many executives view it as an attempt to strong-arm global companies to bend to Prince Mohammed’s will and are struggling to work out exactly what it would mean for those that have traditionally preferred to locate their regional headquarters in Dubai, Abu Dhabi or Manama....

> Some executives suggest that companies may simply label an office in Riyadh a “headquarters” but Khalid al-Falih, investment minister, told Arab News, a Saudi paper, that “a superficial nameplate saying ‘this is the regional headquarters’ will not fly”.

> Falih said state contracts would be awarded only to those companies that “have their entire integrated operations here in the kingdom, from the decision making to the strategic development, to manage the execution of those government contracts”.
Fujitsu seems like a leader for SIMD via their A64FX. I wonder if they will ever venture outside of the supercomputing niche.
That is a good point, I guess I'm just used to seeing it in discussions where the context is distinguishing companies with high pay and valuable RSUs versus others.
Word quotas; gotta fill the columns.

Density: I make this mistake often. I end up chaining multiple thoughts rather than splitting them up into discrete sentences that link thoughts together. It maybe easier to write but it's harder to read.

I use commas for things that can be mentally skipped and lists, and semicolons for related sentence fragments. It's probably an anti-pattern to use semicolons except as a greater grouping like: do you want apples, pears, and bananas; chicken, fish, and beef; or lettuce, tomatoes, and onions?
well, duh?
I wonder if Elon settled on Texas due to the local regulatory environment not really caring about the local ecology. The current site is built on a sensitive wetland literally in a state park. No clue how Elon managed that one, but it probably wouldn't have been kosher in a blue state. Local TX officials probably saw how the political capital of bringing 'space jobs' to the middle of nowhere outweighed local flora and fauna who obviously aren't going to be voting in elections.
There's a picture of the Drunken Canal newspaper at the top of the NYT article you're talking about, and the very text you nitpick mentions "the publication's unmarked white newspaper box" so saying it's unclear what Drunken Canal is doesn't hold water.

It's hard to assume good faith here.
I'm hitting this right now with having just inherited maintenance of a complicated CI pipeline with a lot of intermediate containers based on generated Dockerfiles, all of which runs by bind-mounting docker.sock— basically stuff that might have been best practice 3-4 years ago, but for which there are absolutely better solutions now.

Anyway, it's interesting evaluating those potential solutions, because certain things like going to a daemonless, rootless, bind-less build based on podman/buildah is a no-brainer, but the next frontier beyond that has a bunch of tools like ocibuilder, cekit, ansible-bender, etc which want to establish various ways of declaratively expressing an image definition, and although the intent is good there, it's absolutely not worth getting sucked into long-term dependence on pre-1.0 tools with single-digit number of contributors and an uncertain maintenance future.
There's a tradeoff between catching errors at compile time as you describe, and code flexibility. For example, here's a line from a current project using one of the HALs:

static SENSOR: Mutex<
RefCell<
Option<
Mlx9061x<
I2c<
I2C1,
(
PB6<Alternate<AF4, Output<OpenDrain>>>,
PB7<Alternate<AF4, Output<OpenDrain>>>,
),
>,
ic::Mlx90614,
>,
>,
>,
> = Mutex::new(RefCell::new(None));

The pin types here are due to this type of programming. They aren't used by the I2c peripheral; they're just for the check.

If you only use a peripheral struct (eg i2c here) in the main function, the type state system makes sense. If you pass it across function boundaries, or use statically like, this, it may not be. The rust HALs and tutorials that use this pattern tend to leave function boundaries etc (where you need to explicitly declare types) out of examples.
This is a neat project and a great idea.

As a side note if you would like to dispatch all the mosquito in your area, there are "mosquito donuts" that are safe to put in creeks and ponds that will get rid of them at the source. For the existing mosquito infestations, a large blower flan with a window screen on the intake side will catch tens of thousands of them per day. You can mix their carcasses into your plant fertilizer. You can attract more of the mosquito to your blower by opening 2 litter bottles of carbonated water 20 feet in front of the intake side.
Agree. It would not be easy to know which has wasted more GW-hrs, but my bet would be on Windows. Remembering decades of overnight flying toasters.

As recently as 2012 I was going around the office, before leaving, turning off the monitors left on because Windows did not default to doing that itself. On CRTs it was even worse.

But it is not a competition. Bitcoin and Windows together are clearly much worse than either alone.
Yeah, it’s a real concern (at high tide, the area around it is flooded), but SpaceX has traditionally addressed such things with a “we’ll just rebuild or adapt if/when that happens.” They built a huge, thin-gauge horizontal assembly building right on the old crawlerway at LC39A in Florida right by the launch pad. It could well be destroyed if a fully Fueled Falcon Heavy (or Starship) explodes or if a Cat 5 hurricane gives it a direct hit. Unlike the more hardened historic VAB that NASA uses. But SpaceX built it quickly and cheaply and it has stood for most of a decade already, so it seems to have been a fairly good decision so far.
Not a fan of the acronym at all, its been misused a lot. However, if there's a website out there that allows me to apply do multiple job listings in one click that'd be awesome. Imaging having to go through a variety of ATS like workday. Not to mention, often times, the info within the same company isn't reused. I'd be sold if all of that was taken care of with a single click.
I do have an idea. It requires human intervention but there's no reason the humans have to be official moderators. My idea is to build software support for users (probably a subset of trusted users) to downweight generic subthreads the same way moderators currently do. In the meantime, if anyone notices such a thread they can simulate the same effect by emailing hn@ycombinator.com about it.

We already have software support for a subset of trusted users to do things like add years to titles. (If anyone wants to be incorporated into that set, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com.) That was an experiment and it's worked out really well. I want to extend it and this is on the list of possible extensions.
Hey HN, we built a “Glassdoor” for remote
The things that make a bad or great remote company are barely considered on traditional ratings sites, so we built what we wished existed! It's our love letter to remote work.

We'd love to get your thoughts and feedback!
ETF's.
The current monetary system is even worse.
> Nobody has the right to say how others use energy.

Bitcoin will get destroyed eventually by the free markets because of how inferior it is to many alternatives. One being its usage of energy.
> governments have to be careful here as they must ensure that there are no challengers to their primary form of taxation payment

Why do they have to be careful? Are they going to magically going to have to start accepting Bitcoin instead of dollars?

> Bitcoin was very carefully crafted to survive government attack and finally the government accepted it by considering it a taxable commodity.

They still doesn't mean you can pay taxes with it.
Cash’s no. 1 use case in the 21st century is tax evasion. Most people just refuse to acknowledge that because they like evading taxes.

I’m sure there are ways to use cryptocurrency to do the same.
I second this recommendation. Kin-dza-dza! is a brilliant Soviet-era film of surreal social criticism and satire. I believe it must have had quite an influence on western film makers over the years.
On dark stars, Planck cores and the nature of dark matter
Copy foreplay or word quotas?
Facebook tracking users with background sound (2012)
NFTs also suffer from the same attribution issues as traditional certificates for collectibles. You still have to validate that whichever account 'minted' the NFT was actually controlled by the creator of the collectible at that time.
That sounds like a complaint to take to your representatives. It won't be solved with a boycott of using credit cards.

My understanding is that Europe has strict limits on credit card fees, and as such, most cards in Europe don't have rewards.
Dying from starvation (and watching the people you love also suffer and some die from it)? Yes, I'd say it's a problem.
everything is bad for the planet. Doesn't mean you can't call out things that are egregiously wasteful with no practical value gained.
I'd have a couple of development proposals for excel:

1. Remove the ability to save workbooks. This would keep the excel in organisations where it excels (pun intended), namely quick & dirty sketches and visualizations. If you need something twice, it is likely you need that more than twice and you should be using something else.

2. If not that, give me a worksheet type that forces each cell in a column to have same formula or data type. and just a sheet that you can refer to as any other sheet, not a powerwhantnotthingy.

3. Version control. Seriously, Microsoft, what on earth are you paying your excel developers for if not this?
SIMD today is only really helpful with a few usecases. If you want to encode some video, decode some jpegs, or do a physics simulation quicker, it's really going to help. It won't boot Linux any quicker tho.

I suspect for consumer uses, SIMD is already used for nearly all the use cases it can be.
Monitoring a Raspberry Pi with Grafana, InfluxDB and Collectd
> Isn't it interesting that you'll never once ever read the phrase "far left activist group"? Why does it only go one way?

I hear that phrase a lot, but then I'm probably more sensitive to that.
> The point is that the "because the investigators were unable to cite an unpublished work, I submitted it for publication at their request" justification doesn't make much sense. She could have just explained to them that no citation was needed for something so trivial.

I can see how if you were unaware, and several colleagues in your field were unaware, it might be good to include some kind of external information about the thing. I can also see why you might not want to link to Wikipedia.

I do think writing a medical article about it for people to link to is silly. Surely if you wanted a citation, you could just cite a math textbook.
Any time I see someone try and sell their product as "the first" it just reeks of marketing.
Indeed. When it first showed up here, I tried feeding some Hemingway to Hemingway.

It hated it.
Agreed, that is why on a long enough timeline someone will end up holding the bag.
> It's only after we barricaded ourselves in towers protected by walls that we started to find predatory animals cute

I don't think that's entirely accurate. Dogs were domesticated well over 10k years ago, possibly close to 30k years ago. I see no reason to think that people didn't find puppies cute then as well since the reasons why we think of baby animals cute seems to be related to the same pattern recognition that causes us to recognize those attributes in human infants and think they are cute. The version of animals we find "cute" are all represented with infantile portions. There is something to be said for removal of danger as a prerequisite though (I doubt most people would have been receptive to the teddy bear in the 1920's if problems with bears were still frequent).
If Next had survived to modern day, it's have similar modern bloat. Software grows with the hardware to run it on; which in turn encourages faster hardware which leads to more bloat.
I’d love to see what the linked article’s writer thinks of Lewis Lapham’s prose. I suspect he’d be quite confused.
> Bitcoin is an almost perfect exploitation of humanities fatal flaws (greed, unwillingness to acknowledge externalities - i.e. selfishness).

Presuming Satoshi did this out pure altruism, I wouldn't say perfect. However, if Satoshi still has 10% of the Bitcoin supply, then I couldn't agree more. Given the fact that most of us don't know, we're simply projecting whatever believe we have on that particular matter, which definitely votes for "an almost perfect exploitation of humanities fatal flaws"

But that's how I look at it :)
or a husband?
I remember Stroustrup also saying how much he detested Bitcoin in his keynote from a few years ago, where he says it uses as much power as Switzerland and was saddened to know it had been written in C++.
I’m not saying it doesn’t have its place. I just don’t want it in hard news and related journalism.

Sinatra is not a hard news subject. That would belong in Playboy or RollingStone or New Yorker.

Imagine a WWII article about any of the mustachioed protagonists and it meandered about their choice of whisker trimming and lifestyle in mountain retreats and seaside dachas instead of all the horrors they caused.
Using “pepper” to increase password storing security
An "Average Price" has to be calculated from survey data.

That survey data is what is not open as far as I know: https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi/data.htm.
Hi, thanks for the reply, makes sense what you said. I am not looking for strong stances or arguing; I just want to expand my understanding. I get from you that institutions pour real money into it and they rely on bitcoin's scarcity to overcome inflation. Makes sense. However, I want to understand why using banks or FinTech companies for money transfer is so bad? Nowadays there are low fees, way lower than what Bitcoin offers today. And that is just one aspect. It's just an opinion but I feel that money transfer problems caused by banks are exaggerated, especially in developed countries. Can you explain why I might be wrong about it? I also do not own Bitcoin, my employer is not a bank and I do not have any involvement or desire to promote the banking or payments industry.
Gotta remember, some humans will eagerly paint another group with a broad brush due to jealousy, fear or ignorance.
Do you really think you cannot by anything with Bitcoin? Are you uninformed or just dishonest?
The lightning network will naturally grow as a result of this.
Yeah, it's a thing. They're primarily in the 100 miles of the southern border, and generally you only get stopped if you have brown skin if you're worried about being a Canadian in the US.

Check out the term "constitution free zone" if you want to learn more.
The counterpoint is renting and buying DVDs/VHS tapes, not Comcast cable though.
> I thought the plutonium core was one piece...

While other responses have explained it was not, I thought I should point out that any sphere, even if a single piece, will always have at least two hemispheres, iow, a sphere having two hemispheres does not imply it is more than one piece. When you leaned of the Earth's northern and southern hemispheres, did you wonder if it was more than one piece?
I'm not sure anyone is being swayed by Bill Gate's opinion. Who is pushing the idea that he is an expert, or that expertise is even required to have an opinion?
Imagine you are an advanced civ with weapons hardly imaginable to current humans. Anti-Matter bombs, GRB strength energy weapons, etc, who even knows what is possible. With weapons like that even a run of the mill rogue political group, terrorist or whoever could probably trivially destroy an entire planet. It stands to reason that if they are able to continue to exist as some kind of multi-planetary species they have figured out a way to avoid killing themselves.
You misunderstood me a bit, though I was pretty vague. I was just remarking on how we have enough local, renewable power locally, and yet burn coal. We could easily get our power from hydro AND send the majority to LA, but instead we don't. Probably because LA is willing to pay so much more for it.
The link doesn't state whether it's counting only the energy costs incurred by VISA, or if it includes the energy costs of making a transaction on the SWIFT payment network that VISA, Mastercard, banks, and other institutions run on top of. Obviously to do a fair comparison you have to take SWIFT into account, otherwise you're not capturing the true energy cost of making a VISA payment.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/05051...
> Bitcoin is completely autonomous

If we're counting the footprint of Visa's 19,500 employees [1], we'd have to start counting the footprint of every Bitcoin miner and ASIC manufacturer. Which is (a) silly and (b) unlikely to affect a difference of orders of magnitude.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Inc.
It's a nice idea. But does solar work in a densely populated city like Beirut where at least a quarter of the population lives? Or any dense city for that matter?
We would like to recruit your guidance in our search for Satoshi. Thanks in advance.
When one can print infinite money, publicly traded companies will hand over the data whether they like it or not, eventually...
> Are there actually random roadblocks within 100 miles of the border where you get stopped

Yes, there's a combination of established locations and "surprise" locations where Border Patrol stops every car on the interstate.

> you...need to provide proof of residency or citizenship?

I don't think they can legally make you produce this unless they have reasonable suspension of a crime. Every time I've been through they have you roll down your window and ask if everyone in the car is a US citizen. Usually there are dogs on both sides of your vehicle while you're asked. I've never had any trouble or had to produce my license.

In this conversation, I only bring it up because I assume when most people see a large police presence, they're nervous that (a) there's probably a reason to need that many police, and (b) what if the police mistakenly believe I'm a criminal? It's just not a pleasant environment, even though I haven't ever been personally hassled at a checkpoint.
I think that's entirely the problem. I'm worried it's a sign that the FAA is no longer as effective as it once was, and the problems are going to quickly grow as time goes on.

This is a guess, of course. Time will tell.
TCP Implementation in Linux: A Brief Tutorial [1] is a two-page explanation about the 2.6.19 kernel, with diagrams. I don't know how relevant it is now. I haven't seen anything this brief about more recent kernels.

[1] http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/fa09/cse124/presentations/TCP...
It means there's no good theory yet, just some tricks that seem to work.
We (Paperspace, YCW15) also give you the ability to run a high-performance workstation in the cloud (and soon on any remote machine!). Check it out https://www.paperspace.com

Disclaimer: I am the CEO/co-founder