skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "their retirement portfolio" The ergodicity economic formulas generate slightly more money on average than their regular economics counter parts.

False.

The ergodicity economic formulas generate exactly the same portfolio as the "regular economics" approach when you make the same assumptions that are implicit in the asymptotic growth maximization (no spending, infinite horizon, logarithmic utility).

Don't you think that when people choose investments their objective may be to spend at least some of their money before the end of time?
Edit: I just reported the bug to ffmpeg tracker: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/9141
> What are the thresholds? Do I have to approve payment? If not, what happens when I land on a low-quality site that gamed SEO/titles/etc to capture my click and waste my time? Can I revoke payments?

It's automatic, and kicks in ~10s after loading the page. The sums involved are small though ( i don't have a way to test, but it's $0.46 USD/hour, so i doubt <1 minute would be even a cent).

The extension is active only on the currently active open tab, and doesn't work with background ones, even if they try to game the isActive() algorithm.
> I suspect this has more to do with Chinese internal politics ... than anything to do with the environment.

It's both. From the article:

In terms of helping China meet its goals of reducing carbon emissions, Inner Mongolia has not had a good track record. It failed to meet China’s energy-saving target in 2019. The central government criticized Inner Mongolia for its “serious problems with energy conservation,” according to People’s Daily, a mouthpiece of China’s Communist Party.

Chinese internal politics also include environmental regulations. If the government of Inner Mongolia doesn't want to exceed the energy consumption limit again, they need to make cuts somewhere.

Now the specific choice of banning cryptominers is a matter of Inner Mongolian internal politics. But it's unsurprising that they'd prefer local businesses over some bitcoin miners who could easily move their operation to a different province (as many of the examples in the article did.)
Yes, if they said they were going to.

> whats wrong with our politics

Lobbyists, the need for fundraising by officials putting them in the pockets and interests of corporations and entities... do we really want to go there? Corporations and entities have incredible influence in politics; to not acknowledge this would be disingenuous. Politics is driven by money, idealism be damned, and Alphabet has a lot of this. Why shouldn't one expect them (well, their subsidiary, Google) to back up what they said?

To be fair, I also understand where you're coming from. I'm from a privileged socioeconomic class, from a tech industry perspective. So it's easy for me to say "I don't want to get into the politics because it doesn't affect me; all I want is reasonable search results and for them to leave me alone". We have (or were able to earn because we had the resources) the baseline privileges and advantages in life that enable us to have this attitude. But some groups still don't, and it's my belief (and hopefully, society's someday) that we should effectively (not just rhetorically or trivially) give them the pathways to level the playing field.
Good old Hydrogen… Mozzerella?
Check out Helium it’s a proof of coverage crypto currency. The “mining” is proof of coverage. Believe it operates in the 900Mhz ISM band. Something like this could probably solve the hole problem because it incentivizes people to run access points were there isn’t coverage

https://www.helium.com/
I expect a segue into CBDC.
OpenTTD 1.11-0 Beta implement widespread OpenGL support
I worked on it for about 2 months full-time two years ago, but this was after a burn-out where I really needed to rediscover my joy in programming, which I did through this project so I got a lot of value out of it already in a way :-) Since then I've worked on it on the odd Sunday every once in a while, not all that much really.

While it's an interesting prototype right now, actually finishing it will be quite a lot more work as there are some technical challenges remaining in the way I want to do things. Half a year at least, but let's round that up to 10 months because I'm probably underestimating things. If we consider a monthly salary of €3,000 (pretty low for a senior dev) then I'll spend €36k on building the thing, a further €36k building up revenue, so it'll me 6 years to recoup this investment with €1,000/month. In short, I don't think €1,000/month is very high at all.

And this doesn't account for any marketing or other costs. Actually building a platform is one thing, but getting useful content (in this case, recipes) is another. Simply copying existing content would be pointless, so this requires further investment.

Of course, the "start-up way" to do this is to find some investor who will give you money, but that investor will expect a return on their investment (which is reasonable enough) and it means I will need to maximize profit and it'll be like all the other sites that I mentioned before. What I really want is a site built by someone who likes cooking for other people who like cooking. I think the world would be better if it's easier to build something like this while still earning a reasonable amount of money (and €1,000 is very much on the low end of that IMO).

As for "being a commodity", sure. But in my opinion a lot of them aren't very good for various reasons, and I think it can be a lot better.
> that anyone at anytime can know exactly how many, say, Bitcoin or Ethereum do actually exists.

Isn’t there a distinction between issued/minted currency and the amount in circulation? With Bitcoin and physical cash you know how many coins are minted and notes issued etc.

But how much of that is in circulation? Does lost physical currency still qualify as in circulation? What about Bitcoin wallets long lost by their owners (such as the British man who keeps wanting a rubbish dump to search for a HDD he threw out years ago, or the person who forgot his password and has 2 attempts left until the wallet self destructs). I don’t think either currency can accurately track the amount in circulation.
Agreed, it's all a matter of preference, and likely depends on tea as well.

But have you really been able to brew green tea with boiling water without having it become bitter? I've tried with a few teas and never succeeded.
Well, you could also attack the implementation.
I asked one cab driver when I got in the cab if I could pay with card and informed them I didn't have cash on me. They said "ok".

When we got near the destination, the machine was broken. I said, no problem, stop the meter drive me to my bank's nearest atm so I don't have to pay fees (10 minutes out of the way), or stop the car and let me out here.

The machine started working again, all of a sudden.
Would React Native not be a better choice and more open? It's based on existing widely used JS technologies, it is fast, and doesn't have the drawbacks of electron, and you can easily develop for mobile as well.

There are a couple actively maintained projects for RN on desktop such as:

https://proton-native.js.org/#/

https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/ (though this lacks Linux support at the moment).

There's also React NodeGUI, however I don't think people care about having native buttons etc as much (as evidenced by VSCode, Slack, etc, and the plethora of other successful Electron apps) any more.

https://react.nodegui.org/
I prefer to group the interventions based on their methodological intent. Meds and talk sound like they would have radically different outcomes, but if the core intention is just to paper over the worker's reluctance to work, they will tend to have similar effects and consequences over time.
Someone from Chrome has proposed something similar in the form of a "privacy budget". Each fingerprintable surface gets a score and each origin has a budget. Once you go over, something(?) happens.

https://github.com/bslassey/privacy-budget
They're banning coal-powered bitcoin mining. This is good for Bitcoin.
I love the idea, but this has Tragedy of the Commons written all over it IMHO. It won't take very many bad actors before it's ruined for everyone.

That said, it's not stopping me from participating.
Agreed. I found Paul Roche's 2005 translation of Aristophanes' plays marvellously fun to read. Anne Carson's translations are excellent too. Some that come to mind are "Bakkhai" (2015), "Electra" (2001), "Grief Lessons" (Euripides, 2006).
Is Flatter runtime native or some kind of vm?
I stopped donating (with a few exceptions) because of the general lack of transparency in where your money really goes, and the stories of fraud, absurd salaries of CEOs/management and cold-calling which turns out to be so expensive that the first 1 or 2 years you are effectively paying for the call center. Etc. etc.
Panicking on OOM is not probably overengineering.
The running costs of the site are 2.5 million/year per their own financial reports:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/3/31/Wikim...

Staff expenses are harder to break down, as they don't break out who's working on e.g. wikipedia development and funding and who's working on, e.g. the social movement strategy, which is allocated approximately the same budget as running wikipedia.org: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/...?

But from just the information they provided us, can you give a reason why Wikipedia in 2019 would need 33% more staff expenditure than 2018 for running the site? And similar increases in the years leading up to that?
Show HN: Link Photographs to maps, find any corresponding location
Thanks for pointing out a film, but this was 30 years ago!
We need a mesh networking standard which is trustless. Ie. anyone can join the mesh, but not easily disrupt it and be evil.

Today 802.11s is a great mesh standard, but it isn't trustless - all mesh nodes need to know the network password, and if you shared that password with the world, then someone could join and make the entire mesh stop working (and steal all your data).
> I’m glad I still have it, and the Spectrum and Amiga’s that followed.

I wonder how many of us still have them all... I probably sound like a broken record at this time but I still have my Atari 600 XL, Commodore 128 (which I was only using in C64 mode) and Commodore Amiga.

The 600 XL and 128 are still working and the Amiga is probably easy to fix.
I cross country ski a lot during the winter, and this January a lot of times in below -20C. What I have is a "lungplus"[0]. Basically a tube with a mesh of metal I hold in my mouth and breathe through. After buying it I feel better the day after a hard workout outside compared to earlier. The air I breathe feel warmer, but almost more important not as dry.

There are also special designed masks for this. I like the lung plus better, as the inside of a mask gets snotty and wet and glasses don't fog with the lungplus. But others I know use the mask variants and are happy. They aren't as dorky looking I guess, at least not after everyone started wearing masks heh.
Note that having a buff ("neck gaiter") above your mouth isn't really comparable to a mask. It will just get wet and cold when breathing hard through it during exercise and is not really airthight so cold air still slips in other ways. Try a proper mask/lungplus designed for this, I can recommend it.

[0]: http://lungplususa.com/ not the prettiest webpage I've seen, but the product works
The content is not even consistent - Attack on Titan was on uk netflix for months, but when I decided to watch it I discovered it's gone!
This is an underrated comment. The blindingly American framework in these discussions is in itself bigoted — it completely ignores countervailing evidence that comes from adopting a global perspective.
Lots of "serious" microcontroller projects are written in MicroPython, Lua (such as eLua), and Espruino (JavaScript).

I think it's simply an outdated oversimplification in 2021 to say that microcontroller projects "normally" don't want heap allocations at all.

TinyGo also makes it relatively easy to avoid heap allocations because you can change a compiler flag to make heap allocations a compiler error^1, if that's required for a particular project.

^1: https://tinygo.org/usage/important-options/ (look at -gc=none)

Another interesting link: https://tinygo.org/compiler-internals/heap-allocation/
Traditionally the message on the hacked homepage should be: All your base are belong to us.
I've been trying to get some of my friends to make hagfish jelly.
Because more often than not it misses the mark - heavily at that.

The article mentions skin tone, but doesn't go too deep into why that might influence things - just assumes that this is the case.

Meanwhile, as an eastern European, I see typical examples of how social class influences one's options.

To clarify my point: we're predominantly white over here and yet experience the same kind of problems, which leads me to think that it's probably not skin tone, over which Americans left and right seem to be so fixated, but other things.

Yes, there's racism - that's abundantly clear. But there's also poverty, inequality and an associated lack of access to education. Maybe we would have made more progress as a species if we stopped focusing on easily identifiable features?
None of the examples in the article were related to accounting!

That aside, the cost savings on eliminating "white collar jobs" seems hard to quantify in an economic structure where such tools tend to require their own overhead. I'm thinking about payroll software or job application tracking systems that require either in-house developers to maintain or outside agencies to manage.

If you have an in-house accounting department, chances are that their role involves more than just taking the outputs from their ERP dashboard and pulling them into Excel. They likely have leadership roles or institutional knowledge that can't just be replaced with software.
As a corollary if you feel like you want to make a restricted donation to a particular organization, don’t donate to that organization. Find one that’s better aligned with your values.
It's following smartphone culture. They're not made to phone and it takes efforts and time to call someone. Market dynamics for you. The thing is I'm sure if you try to sell buttons to customer your sales will be lower.
Good for a bit of mosquito schadenfreude...an experiment to create exploding mosquitos:

https://entomologytoday.org/2020/03/19/when-a-mosquito-cant-...
Relationships certainly change but it’s depressing to assume they will all end. Actually most of my relationships have not ended, except mainly when the other party has died.
Thank you. I didn’t know about QMK. Interesting.

But actually it was the OS kernel keyboard driver I meant.
Cypress, Selenium, Puppeteer and Playwright performance comparison
Absolutely. I don't know Zig and was confused why inlining a loop would help. `comptime for` is 10 times clearer.
She really is an inspiration. Here's her announcement of the gifts and a list of the organizations. https://mackenzie-scott.medium.com/384-ways-to-help-45d0b9ac...
That's the recommendation further down in the article:

> Both Giesbrecht and Kennedy say a simple face covering, such as a fabric mask, neck warmer or scarf, can go a long way to protecting the lungs from being irritated.

> "If you cover your mouth, you're essentially warming the air and humidifying the air in a very productive manner," said Kennedy. "So essentially, your lung has to deal with less cold, dry air."
Ether Is About to See Supply Reduced
There was literally nothing wrong with Canonical technology. They just kept cancelling projects to satisfy a vocal minority of Ubuntu users.
Rapid deployment of large structures in zero gravity?
Still checking replies and waiting. :-)
This work (I think) worked with the mosquitos 30cm away with a servo scanning Pi Camera (1080p) and a 1W laser.

To work in the real world - cover a whole room or terrace - presumably a much higher resolution camera (or much faster scanning system) would be required. Even a 1W laser is dangerous to eyesight, if it was being fired at targets mingling with people.

The system could be mounted on small drones that would patrol larger areas - but the idea of robotic drones armed with lasers roaming around is beginning to sound worse than the mosquitos.
This is so sad. Reminds me of the Challenger where the concerns from engineering were ignored due to pressure from management.
> Some schools such as Stanford University and MIT were predictably in the “elite” category, while state schools or institutions that churn out thousands of engineering grads annually, such as Georgia Tech, were assigned to “tier 1” or “tier 2.”

...

> In lieu of a tier, Google’s University Programs recruiting division, responsible for forging partnerships with universities, labeled [HBCUs] “long tail” schools, in reference to the fact that it could take a long time before they would produce a large number of graduates qualified to work at Google, according to the Google employees.

...

> At the time, the 16-year-old company had not hired a single HBCU computer science graduate into an entry-level software engineer role, according to a 2013 document.

I think "basically wouldn't hire from" is a fair characterization of hiring zero for 16 years, and only a handful since then. (And no, interns are not hires).
Do people donate for the tax write-off or do they donate and happen to enjoy an additional tax write-off benefit?
Building a secure network in AWS (PART 1)
What happens when you create an EC2 instance?

Check the first of a 2 posts series around building a secure network in AWS.

The first post does not offer any solutions or recommendations but just goes over what happens when creating an EC2 instance in the default VPC.

Watch this space for the second part. Would be keen to hear your thoughts until then.
> Sure, but consider the size of the blockchain of Ethereum. Right now, it is around 6.5 terabytes.

No it isn't. It is 628 GB. This comes out to about $11.50 USD of hard drive space, which is about the cost of a single ethereum transaction.

https://bitinfocharts.com/

> It is a 'scalability problem' if you take the premise that everyone should be able to verify the blockchain with a normal residential computer. If you don't think that that is important, then there is indeed no issue.

There is no point in making sure everyone can run a full node. Even so, it is trivial. A few of the biggest steam games are the size of the entire chain.

> I used the Lightning Network as an example. You can use for instant payments

They aren't instant, your transaction doesn't make it to the main chain. You might as well use a different cryptocurrency instead of a hacky second layer.

> then consider again that doing it quicker would increase the total blockchain size and possibly jeopardize the decentralization.

What numbers are you basing this on? I see people repeat this but they can never back it up with numbers. Bitcoin right now is 1.5KB/s. Watching a single low resolution youtube video ends up being 100x the bandwidth of bitcoin. The average transaction value of bitcoin is over $50,000 USD right now. That's not a network that everyone is participating in. People are buying claims on exchanges because the transactions are $12-$32 USD. That's centralization. Sending more than 1.5KB/s is not centralization.

> The idea that Bitcoin (as a network) will be composed of building blocks on top of the blockchain.

I asked what framework and features a second layer would give and your answer is 'a second layer'.
> "Teach your kids more at home. Be more involved with them. Teach them to take responsibility. Don’t do silly degrees that cost huge student loans. Do more STEM. Start a small business. Eat better food. Exercise."

Wow, I'm glad you have the program down for all the low income people. Why don't they pick themselves up by their bootstraps (which, incidentally, is physically impossible).

> Teach kids at home

Assumes your parents are educated and have time. Neither of my parents passed the 10th grade. What were they supposed to teach me precisely?

> Be more involved with them

Hard to do when my parents worked jobs and had to rely on public transportation and/or bicycles to get to work. Hard to be really involved with your kid when you continually face 12+ days just to make slightly-above minimum wage

> Teach them to take responsibility

What does this even mean? "Sure little Johnny. That company says you weren't a 'culture add.' Now take responsibility, internalize that and... do whatever it is that would make you a culture add. Who knows?"

> "Don’t do silly degrees that cost huge student loans."

Hi there. I get paid 6 figures at a FAANG and I triple majored in liberal arts. It's not that degrees are 'silly.' It's that business has a narrow view of what's important.

My team is full of people with Master's degrees. Other than the military vets, I'm the only person without a master's degree. They all ask me how I quickly diagnose problems.

Pro tip: It's because my silly bachelor's taught me how to critically think and synthesize disparate pieces of information into a coherent whole. Their 'prestigious' degrees taught them how to write C++ and Java. Neither of those skills are useful on my team.

> "Do more STEM"

Not everyone does well in STEM, nor does tech require a heavy STEM background. Also, it's a little difficult to get help on trigonometry when your parents are under educated.

> "Start a small business."

Creating small businesses take time and money. So does your 'Teach your kids more' and 'be more involved with them'. Where are you going to find all this extra time?

Not to mention you have to have some cushion failures in business. If you don't have generational wealth (which people who go to HBCU's typically don't), creating a small business is a perilous enterprise that can ruin you easier than it can pull you out of poverty.

> "Eat better food"

Takes more money (non-processed food is by in large more expensive) and time (non-processed food has to be cooked). So that's 4 things that take more time.

> "Exercise"

The fifth thing that takes more time.

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Where are low income families supposed to get all this extra time when they're spending most of their time simply trying to make it to the next paycheck?

This advise may make a good self-help book. You might even make a bit of money (see how successful Dale Carnegie got with his tripe!). But simple fix ignores the realities of growing up in a generationaly poor family with under-educated parents.
US public schools.
But monetization itself is what degrades content. Just compare app stores to linux package repositories.
In a laboratory environment with contrasting background—something they admit isn’t ideal, I assume for real world conditions.

Let’s say the laboratory conditions are real world. To your point, killing ~10% of mosquitos is hardly ideal, but using lasers and computers to do it is cool.

6/10. Want to try.
For video ads, Patreon has absolutely made it work for a lot of creators. Quite some high quality content that previously had sponsors on every video is now able to work primarily off of community contributions.
TLS cert authorities shouldn't end, but more importantly, HTTP shouldn't end. HTTP+HTTPS together are great. HTTPS only, as being pushed in modern times is quite bad.

LetsEncrypt is great and I am really glad someone stepped up to create a mostly not evil non-profit cert authority. But everyone using LE is very bad for the health of the internet. It provides nearly a single point of failure for government/political interefence, technical failure, and failure due to corruption from money and scale internally.
>NFTs are nonsense and just as much a pyramid scheme as everything else crypto. People will get left holding the bag at the top just like with CryptoKitties.

You can say this about literally every non-productive asset, including NFT's real-life counterparts eg. painting or trading cards.