skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Difficulty Bomb has been delayed at least once, so delaying it once again or defusing it, it not unimaginable.
Ethereum is typically mined on GPUs so I would argue there really is a giant pool of hardware waiting to take over. On Bitcoin where ASIC mining is common that is indeed a concern, but consider even then, each hardware owner has stronger incentives to just lie about participating in such a strike while keeping the increased profits for themselves.
MongoDB is not in the same market as postgres.

I don’t disagree with you, but the people that choose Mongo do not see postgres as a valid alternative.
I used square root because it is commonly known that negative numbers are a problem for them. What about tangent(x) which periodically blows up? A type system can't fix that.

In my opinion it is far better to throw an exception that can be explicitly handled, rather than cause some math error at some random point later because NaN or some infinity snuck by as a number.
Don't Google and disregard all advice here - find a good graphics designer at your local artist directory, college or club. Here in USA, it is AIGA and a number of colleges. Find competitions or contests for graphcis design where they can display their work. Find people this way and you will have a better time than buying some stupid crap for $5.
A 50% hashrate dump right after a difficulty adjustment would result in the next epoch running at half-speed for 4 weeks.

Network would keep going, but if would not be "just fine".
I do agree with most of your points, porting may not be possible.
However, I was just wondering if the future of C/C++ can be much safer than it is right now. for example, GCC's GUARDED_BY macro is a big help in thread safety for c/c++. not sure how much further we can go but just a thought.
>If a new grad wants a starter property in the city then perhaps start with the purchase of a studio/1-bed.

This lacks the history on what people used to be able to purchase, not just in Toronto but in all of Southern Ontario, and now even as far away as the Maritimes.

The purchasing power for the average Canadian to afford things that actually mater (like housing), is dropping like crazy.

Allow me to give you my own anecdote. 12 years ago, I purchased a "starter home" in Waterloo for $249,000 in the neighborhood I grew up in. Detached with a single car garage, on my "new community college grad" salary of 47k/year with 25k of savings that I had.

Today, with say a 60k/year salary, a new grad in my city could afford to live in a small "starter condo", a huge downgrade to ones expectations who wants to raise a family. The standard of living and affordability has objectively dropped for young people today.

Last week a house on my street that is actually smaller than mine just sold for $780,000. I wonder what their mortgage is like?

But according to some people, hey you can still get into the market! Just buy a condo!

Now lets get to the meat of the issue. Why is this happening (and in many Western countries)?. Economic crashes are literally a built in guaranteed feature of our money system, but our government has found a way to kick the can down the road through mass immigration. As long as they can bring in half a million people in every year willing to take on debt, they think they can avoid a market correction, and they aren't wrong, they have avoided a correction for 12 years now thanks to the people they bring in on a daily basis in Canada. But this was not without a great cost, even if they can continue this nonsense for another 10 years, they have destroyed the purchasing power of your average Canadian to afford things that actually matter, like housing.

I would argue that they found a way to avoid a crash by substituting that with a gradual decline of our standard of living. They stole from the young to pay for their pensions and nest eggs to avoid facing the music.

Unfortunately, in many forums you can't bring up the elephant in the room if you are against mass immigration for its many downsides (including wage stagnation), you get denounced as a racist, or you get attacked by people who want this ponzy scheme to continue because after all, the economy now depends on it! They would rather you blamed the city for not building more condos (that noone wants to live in), and NIMBY's. But don't you dare bring up mass immigration.
in business, the customer gets to decide

I found most of my business communications naturally moved to email. The few hangouts seem to mostly be time wasters, people that reach for the phone before they start thinking.
Indeed. Honestly bitcoin is already outdated technology. It enjoys its current position by virtue of being the first and most well-known cryptocurrency. Ethereum and Monero are much more important technologies, I hope they'll one day be able to switch to cheaper proofs so that we can spend less energy as well as less money in fees.
Woman created deepfake videos to force rivals off daughter’s cheerleading squad
Yes. The spatial database startups I've had experience with, e.g. CartoDB (now Carto) and GeoSpock, transitioned from selling database tech to selling turnkey GIS (Geographical Information Systems) solutions, often with industry specific specialisations.
Bitcoin's supply will be logarithmic where as gold will increase linearly. In the long run that makes a big difference. I'd take linear or logarithm supply over the exponential USD supply that we are currently seeing https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL
Concurrency bugs can absolutely cause dangerous danger of the deadly variety:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
Experts recreate a mechanical Cosmos for the world’s first computer
They have Google Maps. And normal paper maps. The Rohingya aren't some primitive natives who walk around a forest naked.

Here's a (commercial grade) satellite of a before and after of one of the settlements being burned https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-insight-...

The rate of photos of the MMSATS-1 is low (if it has a HPT, I've seen no confirmation of this), and you can see from the photos you can't see a car. You can see the boats.

If you want to look at the example of Diwata 1 leading to the detection of a disease in bananas, it's seems PR. Landsat-8 seems to play the greater role - https://confit.atlas.jp/guide/event-img/jpguagu2017/HTT21-05...
If you have hard water, you'd know just how silly that question is. Everyone descales their kettles at some point, but we don't want to do it every other day. That's too much effort for making coffee or tea. The filter is there to extend the amount of time you can go between descaling to reasonable timescales.

I went on a similar kettle-quest a while ago and wound up accepting the disco-ball LED enhanced model because it was cheap and did the job (and mine doesn't beep - that would have immediately sent it back). I still think about going with the fancier one with a temp control for that perfect cup, but just waiting a minute for the water to come off the boil is fine enough for me.
Well, I mean, you can eat your cake and have it too (i.e. have a language without the non-determinism of preemptively-scheduled green threads, while still having “blocking” call semantics.)

.NET Orleans, for example: technically cooperative-scheduled tasks/fibers, but where yield points (i.e. generated state-machine transition points) are decided at compile-time; and where the inability to place such a yield-point within a soft-real-time-bounded distance from the previous one is a compile-time error. You don’t have to place the yield points yourself (like explicit async code), but they’re right there to see when you debug or disassemble the program, and you can use pragmas to adjust where or if they’re placed.

Technically the Erlang runtime is this way as well (cooperatively-scheduled, with “explicit” yield points) but since one of those explicit yield-points is use of the CALL or RET ops—and since there are no looping ops, only tail-CALLs—it’s kind of hard to write an explicit atomic-CPU-blocking hard-realtime task-segment in Erlang. (You can, but you have to unroll all your loops. Which Erlang has no tooling support for. Much easier to just push the problem to C through a NIF. At least the Erlang scheduler has explicit design support for these long-running blocking NIF operations through “dirty schedulers”, so it’s not like you’re breaking the runtime’s operational tolerances by trying to do hard-realtime things in it.)
All websites are the result of a human pushing power through a cpu and sending low voltage signals to it via a keyboard, so in a way all are handmade. That's why so many are wondering what qualifies as handmaid to this site's author - site builders like Wix-created sites probably don't count but do SSGs count? What about using _any_ css framework?
Any new idea has to start somewhere. We'll eternally stay at local maxima without experimentation.
Was this in their earliest days? Reminds me of what I read recently about IBM getting a significant contract from government, but even more importantly benefits of research, in early days of computing when they were actually behind. After that they got so far ahead they stayed the leader until the industry changed.
Which was acknowledged, but it's not clear why that upper limit would be relevant to economic decisions today. Nobody's investing today based on predictions of exactly what the world will look like in 2140; they're making predictions over at most a couple decades, and over that period the Bitcoin supply will see a significant continual increase.
I've had one of these for nearly a decade now, and I love it. I even use it in place of the regular oven when I've got something that needs baking that's small enough to fit, just because it takes about 1/4 the time to come up to temperature.

Since the bread is flat in there, it also makes it much easier to melt cheese on top of it without either getting the bread hot enough to melt it all by itself (which would surely leave it much browner than I like), or microwaving, which makes the bread soft and moist.
Yeah, let me just spin up a few hundred more servers. That’ll take care of the problem right quick!
I suppose the issue in this scenario isn't necessarily energy, but that it's miners are at odds with Ethereum devs to the point where they're willing to attack the network itself. Either way, I'm all for PoS because of the reduced energy consumption, and if it puts a middle finger in the face of the miners, who are partially to blame for shortages of consoles and GPUs, then I'm even more for it.
Newton Data Storage (2004)
This is not just about realtime meetings. It is about interpretation/translation.
Very good write-up. It seems too soon to think of genuine commercialization at this time.
So? I've sustained a bubble for 20 years - that an old, now ripped shirt I used to wear is worth $1000, because I would always be willing to pay $1000 for it if I did not own it. My ripped shirt - 20 years old going strong. I think that this could settle the ripped shirt argument for good.

In 2013 (less than 8 years ago), the market cap of all Bitcoins was under one billion. The float was much smaller. Sergey Brin alone could have bought the entire market with less than 2% of his wealth. With the float small, the price could be propped up with a much smaller percentage than that.

Now the market cap of Bitcoins is over one trillion. Which means the bubble is more than one thousand times harder to prop up.

Quantitative easing - 12 years old going strong.
As far as I can tell, the affordable housing movement has been broadly co-opted by developers who leverage grants and incentives to expand their portfolios of rent generating assets.

Regulations which include language like "X% of units must be for renters making <80% AMI" appear positive, but often favor larger-scale, high-capital projects which exacerbate bifurcation in the housing market and drive even more stock towards the rental/high-HOA model, bundled with big-box retail and other commercial real estate nearby.

There is a genuine affordable (and equitable) housing movement, largely built on urban equity-cooperatives and community land trusts, but those promising efforts have been very effectively redirected into boosting opportunities for "master planned" real estate corporations.
The Psychology of Human Misjudgment [pdf]
There are several excellent links to further information near the bottom of the page

A paper was published in Nature: "A Model of the Cosmos in the ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism in Scientific Reports"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-84310-w
I've been moderately interested in crypto, but, I've held off on touching them in any form until a real ecofriendly alternative is in play - and I emphasize real (not a few obviously paid shills/imbecilles talking about how crypto is actually good for environment because it allocates capitol efficiently/thorium reactors etc etc).

If eth switches to proof of stake in a meaningful way, I'll definitely take a serious look and possibly start investing in that ecosystem.
As is noted under the graph, this big spike comes from a redefinition of the underlying metric, not an organic increase.
Coin value is not based on electricity usage in PoW. Due to difficulty adjustment, electricity usage is an effect of coin value, not a cause. If coin value goes up, mining becomes more profitable, more miners jump in, and electricity usage goes up. If coin value drops, the opposite happens.
The developing world often has a rather free market, and the prices are just that, cheap.

In the US, it’s the most regulated service we offer.

1. the supply and instruction of doctors are regulated

2. the supply of hospitals are regulated (often by other hospitals!)

3. service for insurance is regulated

4. pharmaceuticals are regulated

5. physical medical tools are regulated

6. hospital facilities are regulated
I think emacs (used to?) do something awful like this. https://lwn.net/Articles/707615/
I played Monkey Island directly on VGA, so the EGA version just looks too old fashioned for me :-/
Beyond naked self interest - it's also completely unclear to me how it's possible to defend mining. It's literally useless work that ruins our beautiful planet to accumulate wealth. How is that in any way defensible? It's far less ethical than investing in weapons manufacturing.
Ebike. Doesn’t feel like hard work but it’s so easy to do every day.
Logomark and Logotype are two aspects of Logos. Some companies decide to do both, some only one.

Regardless, the purpose of a logo is to discern and identify amongst thousands of other similar looking logos. I lean towards Logomarks (Nike, Apple, Starbucks) and less towards (Stripe, CocaCola, Kellogs).

I recommend getting a logomark + logotype designed by a professional graphics designer.
This is a city with real people in it, not a new gadget Google can throw out of the window like half of its projects two years later.

When it comes to the physical environment of people 'untested' in particular of the tech sector variety is a very legitimate criticism in an of itself.
Stanford Future of Law 2021 will be free and remote, Keynote by Alan Key
Best Practices for BI Dashboards
I played Chinatown Wars on iPhone, and it was the only ever GTA series game which I didn't get bored of after half an hour. I finished the whole thing, and went back for more. Great game.
Sounds like a great product. But I hope you have a good security POC - won't be long before bad guys are hosting malware on those sharable links. I'm going to sign up, but just wanted to warn you.
I would try to focus on really meeting them, have your 1:1s, ask them what the issues are with the product in their opinion, where they would focus efforts in the product, how they feel at the job, what are their aspirations and etc.

After a month or two in the job you will likely identify a couple of things that do not feel right, ask them about it and how they feel about it. Use a mix of your gut feeling and data.

> The core goals being features on time, less bugs and a lot less downtime in production.

This seems like a great way to start the conversation with the team members, make it clear that this is your expectation and what is getting in the way from each person PoV.
In my experience, markdown doesn't offer much advantage over HTML, as writing a few short tags isn't much of a burden. (Even more so, if you use the old-style `b` and `i` phrase elements, which are apparently considered ok again. Personally, I still use `strong`, etc, which may be the most annoying feature for hand-written HTML. But this can be fixed by an editor shortcut.) Otherwise, a bit of server-side scripting for adding headers and footers and providing navigation is fine, but probably already outside the specs of "entirely handmade".
With a bit of experience you get the same in Rust.

Rust does not abstract away memory management. For example, it never heap allocates anything implicitly. It inserts destructors, but does so predictably at end of scopes, in a specified order.

Rust heavily uses iterators with closures, but these get aggressively inlined, and you can rely on them optimizing down to a basic loop. For code generation they're not too different from a fancy C macro.

And if in doubt, there's https://rust.godbolt.org/ (don't forget to add -O to flags)
My team built our product on top of a very capable NoSQL database called MarkLogic. It had issues, but also had a lot of things it did well.

But then the original licensing agreement we had negotiated was coming to an end, and the new deal was going to be massively more expensive.

So we used this as an opportunity to rearchitect our monolith into services built on other open source data stores, that also fixed a lot of the architectural issues and technical debt we had acquired.

So to answer your question, yes it’s possible to move off of a database, if the financial incentives are great enough.
Is this Wayland-only or does it also work with X and a window manager like i3?
The article suggesting that flow rotation is accidental based on irregularities in the drain is complete and utter bullshit. The journal should be embarrassed to have published such nonsense.

I have personally been on the equator and seen water drain rotation change from one way to the other with in 5 meters of the equator.
You've got that the wrong away about. People buy stocks and assets because interest rates are low: the leverage of borrowing easily overcomes what people holding cash are doing.

Since the stimulus has passed the dollar has strengthened, and will probably continue to. People are assuming that interest rates will be going up due to increased spending and employment.

As interest rates start to bite the value of stocks and real estate will slow down or reverse since they become more expensive to buy (with leverage), so it's not a great bet going forward.
This is not a FANG thing. Not being able to deliver a product or service is a business thing. This happens in small mom&pop shops as well as FANGs. This is a free market economy thing. If your business is not open them you get expenses but zero income. How is this hard to understand?

The software world involves way more than your small side project that you managed to cobble together during a weekend. Things do need to work reliably and predictably. Otherwise not only do you not get your lunch but also your competitors eat it from under your nose. Why is this even being discussed, in HN of all places?
I've been using this with X for years, great tool!
In other words, they have been notified 2+ years ago that, their business -which has been very profitable so far- would go away because there is a better technology which can be used so that the network can still run with less environmental impact on earth.
I wish every business was that lucky to be notified that early against the next technological breakthrough which deemed them obsolete.
GPT-NeoX is an example project that is using deepspeed and Zero-3 offloading. The wider project intend to train a GPT-3 sized model and release it freely to the world.

https://github.com/EleutherAI/gpt-neox
Kong works pretty well in their OSS version! You can start paying and get more features once you're used to it.
Right. And this actually is rocket surgery.

There's also the problem of retaining propellants over long periods without experiencing some negative consequence (detonation, unintended firing, volatilisation, etc).

But in general, minimising the special-handling cases would be an improvement.
Online countercultural elements are open source software

Open source is mainstream now, even Microsoft are doing it.
The Dirty Truth About Utility Climate Pledges
That's a weird corner case... I wouldn't expect the compiler to keep me from shooting myself in the foot like that. I'm surprised that some people do expect it.
I think you are saying that mainstream culture has adopted rude behavior, while I am saying that any behavior adopted by mainstream culture is, by definition, not rude.
This is still missing the point. The sentence is about Toronto's current priorities. While the world surely benefits from guinea pigs, any individual guinea pig may not want to be one.
And if they paid the guinea pigs industry standard rates of about $100/day for joining the experiment, maybe it's a good idea.
1 Work with a local party during development. We worked with a local party that co-owns a factory in CN. Will not do it again. Even they had trouble communicating the right information and requirements. It took at least 6 to 8 weeks before we had a next iteration in our hands. We had to do about 8 iterations before the product was OK and 12 before it was exactly right...
We will develop our next product locally and only when the mould tooling is finished will we possibly look for remote manufacturing.
2 Have non-manufacturer eyes on the floor in the factory do checks during production.
3 Request certification of the materials and coloring.
Maybe off-topic, but Prof. Chomsky always mention how important Newton was in the history of science and how significant his giving up on the mechanical philosophy when he failed to explain gravity in a mechanical way, how "lowering the bar" was important to set a realistic direction for science.

He has many lectures about it, I like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5in5EdjhD0, one of the best lectures ever.
I am sorry to see your post as greyed out, it is an objective viewpoint neutral summary of the issue.
That doesn't seem like such a big problem. There are many systems/games/software that have emulators for them on newer systems.

The biggest issue is forming an organization/government that will persist for 5 years and not change it's stance on data preservation.
People have set oil fields on fire and killed millions of people to protect fiat currencies.

Bitcoin is a mere blip in my opinion. Prof of stake is coming and eventually bitcoin will not be able to keep up with others that have switched. So it will be fork or die.
> 27 minutes to boil water? Again, what?

They're exaggerating. But your typical North American electric kettle is—ballpark—twice as slow as a European kettle.

Your standard North American sockets provide half the voltage but not double the amperage, so they're half as powerful.