skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin itself is not bad for the Planet. The current implementation differs somewhat from the Satoshi vision and has not scaled well in terms of fossil-fuel based electricity consumption. Solar or wind powered Bitcoin would have little impact, and in the right areas be cheaper for the miners. This is a trend I expect to see take off.

Also, I suspect Bitcoin at some point will migrate to Proof of Stake once aspects of that set of algorithms are addressed:

* Problems with bonding and checkpoints

* Problems with being fuzzily forgiving about slashing

* More rigor needed by doing rigorous proofs somewhere, in some way

* Some systems introduce a central party that rubberstamps the latest block (e.g. Peercoin)

* Existence of such a coordinating party costs the system its censorship resistance

* Since stakers have to hold funds in the system to author blocks, it's difficulty to have a fair launch of a PoS system. Many PoS systems get either started as airdrops, ICOs, or a proof of burn auction

* Staking requires some representation of the private key to be online at all times, which may mean that it is easier to redirect some of the staking power (in early PoS systems it had to be the actual private key, so not only staking power but actual funds could get stolen)

* Some systems require coins to have a certain amount of confirmations before being allowed to be used for staking, so spending funds interrupts your staking revenue

* Some people expect that staking revenue will be taxed differently than mining revenue

* Some PoS systems can be gamed for profit by trying a vast number of block candidates to cause the staker to get blocks more often than their stake should qualify them for. Such an incentive may turn such PoS systems just into PoW schemes under the hood

* Some researchers argue that "by depending only on resources within the system, proof of stake cannot be used to form a distributed consensus, since it depends on the very history it is trying to form to enforce loss of value".

These are not problems I came up with, they are from various sources, such as Bram Cohen.

For full disclosure: I have Bitcoin, Cardano, and Ethereum, in that order of holdings.
Okay, that makes sense, thanks. I was wondering why those "Territorial waters" looked much the same as the EEZ claims.
The question is not what a sufficiently motivated competent person can do with the tools.

It's what a sufficiently motivated incompetent person can do to your data with the tools.

Infinite flexibility in the tooling means infinite ways to mess the database up in subtle and/or irredeemable ways, and a formula in a cell or even a regular expression are not great ways to tidy up real-world data, you often want autocorrect, autosuggest, defaults and friendly error messages for bad data rather than just ERROR IN CELL G91. When you reach that level of complexity it becomes much harder to build something useful with a spreadsheet-like tool alone.

It is a really interesting idea though and for certain classes of data could really work well.
S.F. vs. Seattle: For people mulling a Cal exodus, what does $1.2M buy?
I mistyped WW1 as WW2 - thank you! It is now fixed.
> I sometimes want to rip my hair out when I use Google Sheets compared to Excel

Earnest, non-"gotcha" question - what is it about Google Sheets that you dislike or find irritating? I'm only an entry-level user for both, but I've found them of similar quality and functionality.
Edit: looks like the parent didn't even bother much research - Arabs aren't forced to do military service but they're welcome to do so:

> National service is compulsory in Israel, with some exemptions — three years for men and two years for women. This rule also applies to the country's non-Jewish Druze and Circassian communities.

> Muslim Bedouins, who tend to identify more as Israeli than other Arabs, and Christian Arabs can voluntarily sign up and each minority is represented by a couple of hundred members of the armed forces.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/arab-israelis-are-joining...
This is a great question! We are actively looking into circadian oscillations of the oral microbiome, but don't currently have any recommendations around specific times for sample collection. The same goes for intermittent fasting! We only recommend that users don't eat or drink for at least 30 minutes prior to sample collection.
Dendron (YC W21) YC Application
So capitalism then.
Talent costs money. Money most can't afford to pay. Back when papers actually had money, those at the top weren't paid well to begin with.

The major paper in the state I used to live in went completely out of business and had their building repossessed. It was resurrected some time later and is now 8 pages long. Most of that is AP news and cartoons and crossword. Last I looked, there was barely 2 pages of news including the AP articles.

Their pay is so low, one would make more money working at the supermarket as a cashier.
Eh, not sure that follows. Here's the thing, costs aren't linear. If you do what AWS does and create some artificial "compute units" as a sort of fungible measure of processing power, what you'll find is that the sweet spot for price per compute unit is a medium power system. The current mid-range processors tend to be slightly more expensive than the low-end processors, but significantly cheaper than the high-end processors.

So, hypothetically, lets say you can get one of 4 processors, a low end one that gives you 75 units for $80, a mid-range processor that gives you 100 units for $100, a high-end processor that gives you 125 units for $150, and the top of the line processor that gives you 150 units for $300. If you normalize those costs, your 4 processors get price-per-compute values of $1.01, $1, $1.20, and $2. The best value is at the $1 per compute unit price point of the $100 processor. Logically if you need 150 units of compute power you have 2 choices, you can use 2 $100 processors, or 1 $300 processor. Clearly the better option is the 2 $100 processor. This would be scaling out. In the case of what SO did though, they took that off the table, because their formula isn't just the cost of the processor (ignoring related things like RAM and storage), but also includes a per-instance license cost. Their math ends up looking more like $100 CPU + $150 windows license times 2 totaling to $500, vs, $300 CPU + $150 windows license times 1, totaling to $450, which ends up making the more expensive processor the cheaper option in terms of total costs.
Immutable updates in JS have always required making copies of each level of nesting that has to be updated [0].

However, that process is very tedious and error-prone due to writing lots of nested spread operations.

Immer effectively does those same steps, but automatically. This is all completely different than how Mobx works.

Immer has a slight performance overhead [1], but in practice reducer logic is almost never a meaningful perf bottleneck in a React+Redux app - the cost of updating the UI is might higher.

It's also worth noting that Immer was actually created by Michel Weststrate, the author of Mobx :)

[0] https://redux-toolkit.js.org/usage/immer-reducers#basics-of-...

[1] https://immerjs.github.io/immer/docs/performance
Seriously? I bought in-car navigation for my car instead of opting for CarPlay/AndroidAuto for this exact reason. When I start a trip, my phone (always used Google Maps) can never figure out which way I am facing and will keep rotating around and recalculating directions until I gather some speed on the road. With my in-car navigation, the compass works flawlessly even in parking garages and basements. I though the holy grail would be a UX where Google Maps would use its maps, traffic and navigation data while using the car's GPS.
Thanks for catching that! We'll get it fixed right away!
Ethereum has had a few other interesting, non-black-market uses over the years. DeFi, game assets, NFTs, etc. And the technology has actually evolved. Bitcoin is just...still bitcoin.
More about our project here that we wrote up for MozFest:

https://community.webmonetization.org/udit/an-artist-centric...
Hemingway is designed for genre fiction - in fact a certain terse style of genre fiction - not for journalism.

Although I somewhat agree with the premise, especially with science and tech journalism.

Most is fine, but every so often there's an article which looks like it was written by someone for whom English is a fifth language.

Blog posts can be hit and miss too, but that's not such a surprise.
I'm wondering if spreadsheets could be used as a tool to introduce programming to kids, since all the intermediate values are visible, and most programming is just data transformation. The fact that spreadsheets are effectively functional languages might mean that looping could be implemented as recursion with tail-call optimization... instead of only having cell references you could have references to keyboard or mouse input values, or URLs pulled from outside sources, or files read off the local storage... Instead of just having charting and graphing tools, you could have, say, a Turtlegraphics output box that would follow the instructions from some designated series of cells (which perhaps were themselves generated by formulas)
> at near-infrared wavelength

Does it imply the target use case is to track heat-sources? Including running equipment and humans?
I'm not familiar with Lapham, but I'd consider many current New Yorker writers to be writing consistently interesting articles. Same with someone like Patricia Lockwood for the London Review of Books.
They noted in the post that they had a fixed number of servers and those servers had fixed performance characteristics. A lot of what they say applies specifically to that situation.

The problem is that they make broader claims about the validity of best practices (design, OOP, unit testing). Those best practices apply just fine to the status quo, where you can scale out easily and maintainability is more important than performance.
You haven't noticed that bill has become something of a movie villain over the last year in some circles?
I'm pretty sure destroying perfectly fine hardware is not the way to go.
I am sure not everyone agrees with me, but I believe Google single-handedly killed RSS by first creating Google Reader and using their power to make it ubiquitous and then killing it when there was no competition left.
And now the PoS chain has already launched and been working great. Next step is just to move the PoW chain to it. But they are definitely going slowly and safely. And it is definitely a slow process. :(
I'm pretty sure Bill Gates has a way way bigger net positive impact on the environment than you, or almost any of us here. Just because he is rich doesn't mean he has a net negative impact. Rich people like him have the money and power to make a significant change and do more good than a 1000 of us combined possibly could.
> Is the person a writer for New Yorker? Is The Drunken Canal somehow related to the New Yorker? What is The Drunken Canal? How was she “regretting” something at that point in time? Vocally or otherwise? What publication was being stored in those unmarked white newspaper boxes? Wait, is The Drunken Canal a publication?

I generally agree with his thesis, but:

Scoring articles with the Hemingway app is a red herring that distracts from the point he was making. Hemingway just measures sentence complexity as a stand-in for clarity of writing. But, the issue with excerpts like the one above was not that they were too complex, but that they left out the context and explanations which a reporter should usually prioritize over style. Dropping text into Hemingway is easy, but it's clearly meaningless in this case, and gives people an opportunity to dismiss his thesis by quibbling with the application.
Virtue signaling is when it’s unnecessary.

Working for a nonprofit or being a vegetarian isn’t virtue signaling. Dropping either in a conversation where it wasn’t related to the topic is. Constantly broadcasting as well. Putting “Crunchy mom” in your email signature is as well although that’s been around a while so not likely to be noticed.
Sure. Here's some benefits:

* It helps with memory a lot. Writing something down will help you recall it later.

* It reduces stress - you'll know you have the information you need written down.

* It helps keep you organised.

* It makes you prepared. When I go to meetings, I often find other people are not prepared.

* It improves your writing

* It helps you think
Agree. Also, as a consequence in the long run writing unit tests / automated tests is the only way for maintaining productivity in a complex project, as every required code change to an existent component poses a great risk, and without automation it will be necessary countless hours of manual testing.

Shameless plug: I while ago I wrote on the topic of how projects should be structured with the goal of automated testing in mind [1]

[1] https://thomasvilhena.com/2020/04/on-the-architecture-for-un...
Spreadsheets and Programming Languages are about to procreate. The future is nigh.

https://youtu.be/vn2aJA5ANUc?t=145
Ha ha, Lissajous curves.

I first discovered them in a math book, early on, in a phase when I had a craze for computer graphics programming. Plotted conics, sine and cosine, Lissajous, derived curves of all kinds, independently discovered an algorithm to draw Spirograph-like curves, etc. Some Lissajous figures I drew looked like yellow flickering flames. Good fun.

Edit:

Re: flickering flames:

Just looked it up:

"Rational ratios produce closed (connected) or "still" figures, while irrational ratios produce figures that appear to rotate."

From:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lissajous_curve

Years later I blogged this:

Lissajous hippo, retrocomputing and the IBM PC Jr.:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2012/09/lissajous-hippo.html?m=0
Show HN: Zircon Standalone
Same here. I switched from k9 to bluemail to fairmail. Bluemail was good but proprietary solution. Fairmail is almost as good as bluemail. Though I still looking for 'share' email with an todo list app. Fairmail and Joplin works but Joplin is not my preferred to do app.
Study bibles — and a great deal of writing about the Bible — have a religious and evangelical perspective. They’re written by believers for believers.

If you want to read the Bible to better understand your religion, find a study bible that approaches the subject from the perspective of your religion.

If you want to read the Bible as literature, it’s not too hard to filter out the proselytizing.

And yeah, we know that the Bible was written by scientifically illiterate people and modern organized religion isn’t much better. The question isn’t should I read the Bible but how.

Sorry you had a hard time in Christian day school.
Love the idea. An app that evolves from a spreadsheet is pretty brilliant, mate.
1. Try to build a business on top of a trans-national, for-profit conglomerate.

2. Do so without understanding the TOS, disclosed and, most dangerously, undisclosed.

3. ...

4. Profit? No, collapse.

The internet services as represented by FAANG (throw in Oracle, Microsoft as well as Paypal and Ebay) are conceptually based on silo-and-moat building. Even youtube stars are starting to realize this.

There's a reason why two trends are seeing a resurgence at the moment - the truly open internet and full-service-owned websites and platforms.

One should not, and cannot afford to, use transnational conglomerate controlled platforms for building a small business.
No it does not. Especially not with bitcoin. Nobody is paying anything with bitcoin. Are you going to pay for your groceries in your store that doesn't take bitcoin, by adding 30 dollars of fees and having it clear in three days ?
That's because journalism schools and editors used to teach a style of writing that maximized conveyance of fact. That economy of writing is less needed with the internet, especially when many stories often have the singular fact that someone tweeted something.

I feel a "get off my lawn" rumbling deep down in my subconscious when I think about things like this.
Twitter suspends your account if you remove your phone number
I found out two weeks ago after removing it because I thought it was no longer needed after I switched away from SMS-based 2FA. No warning or anything at all in the UI that indicated the removal would result in a suspension, and they don't even let you go back to your settings to re-add it!
Are you refusing to consider the negative externalities of Bitcoin because Microsoft executives bad-mouthed Linux twenty years ago?
lol. One of my observations from my experience at startups : if you want to create a B2B SaaS company, convert a company’s spreadsheets into a webapp and voila!
It's important to note that there _are_ differences in how `useContext+useReducer` behave vs how (React-)Redux works, especially around when and how components will re-render:

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2021/01/context-redux-diff...

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2020/05/blogged-answers-a-...
This is the key insight. If you want not insta-news but deep, correct, insightful information, you should read publications that still employ multiple copy editors.

I for one work with a bunch of newspapers where these roles are still highly respected today; their presence alone explains why the output quality is much much better than their competition's, all other things being equal.

Typically, these people are authorized to edit any content needed without necessarily getting the writer's approval (it's baked into the writer's contract). They catch typos and fix grammatical errors, of course, but they will also check every single sentence multiple times for inaccuracies. They phone third parties, check that every word used is the correct one, make sure dates and events are exact, check arguments for syllogisms, fight with the author at times for the use of a particular word or expression in lieu of another, and so on so forth.

No matter how senior and respected, the journalists always approach these people with fear and awe when they get quizzed about their articles. Any approximation results in either the whole sentence getting axed or the author being forced to rewrite and resubmit (on their dime).
Worth noting that Caspian Report is made by an azerbaijani guy who is, not very objective, with regards to matters that have to do with turkey

The video you talk about is probably talking about a proposal that Turkey made to Israel which runs counter to every international maritime law (it was promptly rejected by israel) . AFAIK they made similar proposals to egypt
Exactly this. Bitcoin is the result of the gross power imbalances present in society. It's ironic that those on the heavier end of the scale, like Gates, are attacking Bitcoin with the cudgel of environmental policy. Rather than fix the power imbalances that are the root cause of his supposed gripe, Gates is advocating for the status quo enjoyed by him and his contemporaries.
'Demonizing journalism' and having to adapt content in the wake of Facebook and Twitter are two separate things.

Mainstream journalism has been maligned for centuries (muckraking, yellow journalism, etc) and it seems to me that the main driver changing journalism today is the social media landscape. I just don't see the connection between demonizing newspapers and the change in how they write.
This ignores the fact that journalism is a professional discipline with established ethical practices that is practiced by groups of journalists and editors together.

Now there's definitely an argument to be made that it routinely fails to live up to those standards and that it has certain structural weaknesses and biases that need to be addressed.

But it is, overall, a system of professionals who consider their work to be constrained in certain ways that are ethically important to them and the world. Individual podcasters might adhere to some of these standards but as a field it has no aspirations to that. Same with journalists leaving established papers to publish on substack with no editorial oversight. They are not practicing journalism as journalists see the field.

These things might replace journalism but they aren't it.
> it's the fact that they picked a language that at the time really only ran on Windows, and as a consequence they were forced into running their web servers on Windows.

If the founders and early employees were from Microsoft it might have been easier for them to use Windows Server since they were already pretty well versed in Windows development.

It's a pattern I constantly see: "Why did your startup use X instead of Y?"

"Ohh well X has this feature that Y lacks and so and so... ohh and the founder and his friend were pretty good at X and used it before."
Defense contractors, surely, not the US military?
Calling Bill Gates uninformed about anything is breathtakingly uninformed.
Chances are Apple charges them for using their E SIM
I think you’re misunderstanding this tool. You’re shoving a Monet into a tool for graphic designers and complaining that it flags it as blurry.

Writing for news should be boring, dry, precise, clear and near painfully explicit with as little subtext as can possibly be achieved. Hemingway’s writing style just happens to be a good example of it.

I think you and people in this thread are confusing news with storytelling/newstainment like John Oliver, lots of Gimlet, Vice, etc. who take the news and up the production value by infusing their personalities and commentary. Despite the crass name this is a valuable service. Good storytellers are the bridge between the dry academic work of historians, journalists, scientists, philosophers, etc. and people outside their respective fields.

tl;dr news isn’t art and can’t be judged by the same measures.
Google sheets is useful for basic tasks. But as a power tool for complex models etc. it pales in comparison to excel. Not to mention that keyboard shortcuts are not the same which makes everything take significantly longer.
To extend that metaphor, I'd say google needs to start stuffing more rabbits into hats, because if nobody stuffs those hats, we're all going to run out of rabbits. To do that, it means spinning off companies to go public that create wealth across a broader base of investors and innovators, instead of presuming the hive-mind monoculture of their organization can keep producing things people want.

There is an inflection point the OP makes about resource cursed economies, which is that when you have money coming out of the ground, you don't need to provide anything to your citizens in exchange for their tax base, and you get tyranny, because you don't need to pay anyone except the army to keep you in power.

By extension, Google could just flip the EVIL switch that they so strenuously tried to protect, and it would have zero negative effect on their bottom line. They don't have to produce anything else to maintain their dominant position, and this is the danger the OP I think has illustrated.
How many times has this been used in practice?

Like really - did your friend owe you $200 and you wanted to make sure he couldn't pay you something over square and then call his credit company and say his card was lost?

Like are you a shop online and you wanted to make sure ALL of your customers are paying in Bitcoin so they can't claim someone stole their card?

Are you a party to a lawsuit and the judge decided to oversee the other party pay you (the fictitious plaintiff in this scenario) $50000 with a check and you're worried he's calling his bank afterward and cancel the check?

None of these scenarios would be made better with Bitcoin:

Transaction costs

Some online stores ARE scams and it's better to have a real money trail - especially the ones involving bitcoin

The last scenario is easily solved because the judge would be able to provide much harsher realities for the check canceller.

From a practicality standpoint every time someone talks about irreversible transactions I just eyeroll at the actual logistics of that working in our world of 7B people.