skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait. You just wrote that if America implemented a supply control system that milk prices would increase to $4/g with the implication being that increase in price would be unacceptable. Now you wrote that "US foodstuffs are awful quality because the general public buys it for some unknown reason." You can't have your cake and eat it too. Most likely the public has gotten used to low prices for low quality products. I have had amazing cheese in Vermont and it was expensive - probably because the producer had to use more milk fat which is more costly.
NY assembly speaker OKs impeachment probe as calls grow for Cuomo to resign
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Data, did I comment on the wrong thread?
If bitcoin is so bad why not let the free market tank it eventually?
There used to be a notice on the site explaining that it was hosted by Storj.io, but it appears to be gone now.

I should have also mentioned that it's an OSS project, so you can self-host if you want:
https://github.com/dutchcoders/transfer.sh/

Oh, and there is also https://keep.sh, which is free for files less than 500MB - they have a commercial offering too.
> Bitcoin without PoW has no value

Exactly. It’s broken by design. Let’s get rid of it ASAP and instead focus on blockchains that may have value without the horrible incentives of PoW.

We shouldn’t keep Bitcoin alive just because it was the first successful attempt. That has been tried, it’s now clear it’s not sustainable over the long-term. We should learn the lesson and move on to a better approach.
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"Take away the goalie’s eyes. If he can see it, he’ll stop it."

One heckuva instigator, NY Ranger Sean Avery, figured this out in the 2008 playoffs against NJ Devils Martin Brodeur.

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec_2oKWe2Gw

The day after, the NHL made a rule that makes it illegal for a player to stand in front of a goalie and wave his or her stick in the goalie's face. Dubbed "The Sean Avery Rule," it results in a 2 min unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.

And yes, this play still has me riled up! :)
Yeah, even policemen rarely have guns in the UK, allowing everyone to have one would be lunacy.
I can accept that there were confounding factors which may have affected the result and how enduring a picture of UK attitudes it might be. I wonder if any referendum could be 100% free of those factors?

I just object to the use of the phrase - there is no margin for error here, it forms the full picture of how the population voted, not an estimate.

People use this phraseology, and I've even seen the term "not statistically significant" bandied around as well, to try to say that no conclusions could be drawn, as if it's a scientific paper with a sample in it.
the original comment seemed to be concerned with kids harming themselves, but at any rate we prevent kids gambling as well which is much closer to the dynamics of social media than alcohol or firearms.
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This problem is specific to proof of work systems. Alternative solutions are already being designed and implemented. Whether existing coins like bitcoin, ethereum and monero will implement these new systems is unknown.

> The energy consumed to power cryptocurrencies contributes nothing to society.

This is simply false. The energy spent guarantees the integrity of the decentralized ledgers that power cryptocurrencies. Perhaps there are better solutions out there but it's wrong to say that the energy consumption produces no value.
Or just individually leave the UK. I find the thing kind of depressing. It's not even as if the leave voters seem happy. It seems more of a my life's crap - lets destroy this EU membership thing - oh my life's still crap. Apart from Boris - at least he got to be PM and seems fairly cheerful. Perhaps the lies on a bus were worth it.
Just an anecdotal observation from a part-time farmer: I couldn't keep my daughter away from farmwork even if I wanted to; it's not all about exploitation.
I went from a seated desk to a standing desk to a sit/stand situation that I switch back and forth between throughout the day. Been with it for about five years now.

I came to realize that it’s not sitting or standing that is necessarily bad (especially if you have a good ergo chair and make at least some attempt at maintaining a healthy posture), it’s staying in the same position for very long periods that wreaks havoc on your body.
>>> In addition, human trafficking has become common practice in many cheap labor industries, to the point where the police has stopped investigating because otherwise they would have no resources to spend on areas which are more politically valuable.

I'm sorry what.
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> I get 19 here,

Here is the key stroke count I get expressed in a step-by-step manner:

;; Type M-< (Alt+<) to invoke beginning-of-buffer:
1. Alt
2. Shift
3. ,

;; Type C-M-% (Ctrl+Alt+%) to invoke query-replace-regexp:
4. Ctrl
5. Alt
6. Shift
7. 5

;; Enter the regexp pattern "f.." at the prompt:
8. f
9. .
10. .
11. Enter

;; Enter the to-string "bar" at the prompt:
12. b
13. a
14. r
15. Enter

;; Type ! to replace all matches in the buffer:
16. Shift
17. 1

> and a lot more keys off the home row. Four keys at once is quite a bit slower for many people than two or even three.

Yes, indeed. The Emacs default key bindings are not the most ergonomic ones. To be fair though, the more common operation is M-% (Alt+%) which is a three finger chord.

Also, if one dislikes a four finger chord, there are other alternatives. For example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26435874 . Or one can customize Emacs and map regex-based replacement to a more convenient key sequence.:

(defun query-replace-regexp-from-top ()
(interactive)
(goto-char (point-min))
(call-interactively 'query-replace-regexp))

(global-set-key (kbd "C-c C-r") 'query-replace-regexp-from-top)

With that, the key sequence is now C-c C-r f.. <enter> bar <enter> ! which is 13 key strokes. I know I am violating my own assumption of "no customization" in this thread so far. If we allow customization, both Vim and Emacs can do very amazing things.

Having said that, I just use C-M-% when I do need regex-based search and replace. Otherwise, for most situations M-% suffices.

By the way, I am not claiming in my comments that the default Emacs key-bindings are superior to Vim. If we go back to where this thread started (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26431864), I was only trying to show that a simple string replacement in Emacs is not as ridiculously complicated as the humorous image post in that comment made it out to be.

In my experience, the vanilla Vim key strokes are more convenient in some areas (e.g., o, O, gg, G, etc.) and the vanilla Emacs ones at other areas (e.g., C-x C-o for delete-blank-lines, M-\ for delete-horizontal space, M-q for fill-paragraph that I like quite more than Vim's gqq or gqap). If we talk about key sequences only, I don't think there is a clear winner. But if we start talking about functionality, extensibility, and customizability, that would be a whole different discussion where Emacs has a lot to offer.
So do this just mean that the legacy CPU architectures we've been working with for decades are just really outdated?

Is this less about M1 being amazing and more about Intel being inefficient, in terms of utilization of power/speed/features?

Because I have to assume the M1 chip can ignore a host of legacy compatibility/performance tradeoffs that must exist in x86 architecture.

If this is the result, hopefully it means a more generalized leap forward (not just for Apple hardware) at some point in the coming decade..
As a self-hosted alternative if one already has Vault (or is OK with a provided single-node installation), this[0] is great. I use it when sharing private stuff over unsecured channels regularly.

[0] https://github.com/algolia/sup3rS3cretMes5age
This already applies to corporations.

AI is just the fruiting body of something that has already happened.
Only with the computer's help, that's my point.
Yeah, I grew up on a farm. Happy memories of feeding calves, bringing in hay bales on summer days, feeding pigs.

Also had to bring them in for winter and mending fences.

It's actually far more pleasant than vacuuming floors and washing up.
I understand that you're probably estimating bare minimum costs, but getting started for half a million dollars is actually way more affordable than I imagined you would describe. That's comparable to what some people pay for a middle class suburban home near a lot of the mid-sized metropolitan areas around the United States.
We should define something like a "Nakamoto scale".

A Nakamoto Type I civilization would be one that converts all available power of a planet into waste heat and funny numbers, a Nakamoto Type II civilization does that with all the power output of a star and so on... basically the Kardashev scale [0] but with the restriction that useful output SHOULD NOT be produced [1].

Edit: lowered requirement level from MUST NOT to SHOULD NOT to allow for situations in which a limited amount of energy could be expended to either increase the hashrate further or to get closer to the limits of computation [2].

Edit 2: the more I think about it, the more it reminds me of the Universal Paperclips game.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2119

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limits_of_computation
The museum in DC hits all the famous stuff, Wright Flyer, Bell X1, etc.

The museum at Dulles features a lot of much larger aircraft and a lot of the more niche technical displays that they can't justify the space for in DC.
Idk what your first 2 paragraphs are saying. Poor children are malnourished, they don't get good medical care, violent household, violent environment, living in streets, many are in orphanages where they are exploited. It's clear that many children are poor even before they are born, as the mother needs nutrients and medical care etc to have a healthy child. All of these problems are outright eliminated for lots of kids of wealthy parents.
Especially when Tim pushed for adoption of said DRM. A true hero.
I work in infosec consulting and reversing for 15 years. My identity has been compromised numerous times via OPM, Equifax, and Home Depot, just to name a few. I just don’t care about emailing sensitive docs anymore. I find an alternative if possible, which usually it works. I put in some effort. But realize emailed financial docs aren’t likely how you get owned. It doesn’t feel great, but it is what it is.

E: also, almost everyone I’ve asked will delete the documents after you try and fail to set up an expedient file share. Also, password protected zip files in Dropbox are usually good enough for most everyone and are a very simple system. Just make sure you use modern zip protection and not old crappy Zip crypto :)
I can tell you've probably worked with building your own Stripe forms back before the PCI rules made that difficult. It was so fun adding Luhn validator for the first time and seeing how quickly it rejects a card number if you're a digit off.
What do you feel are the differences in how data is represented between the two?
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I think that's probably not true either - Trump was claiming fraud at every turn, in the republican primaries as far back as Feb '16 - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/03/donald-trump...

He also made repeated claims of "large scale voter fraud" in the lead up to the presidential election of that year.

I also feel there's a real difference between "we have evidence Russia's been up to something, and think Trump may be involved" and "Everything that goes against me is stolen! You can't trust anything!"

> I'm not American so I've not been following it that closely.

Neither am I, but from what I can tell the Mueller report came back saying it didn't have enough to pursue, or really link Trump, but something was definitely up. Various Trump supporters went to jail over that report IIRC as well, having lied. Very murky dealings.
Not really. I would expect a lot of number-crunching stuff, that's not easily portable.

For example, SciPy/NumPy/R is not ported to M1 for similar reason.

Well, just similar, they depend on FORTRAN of all things, and that does not have M1 compiler. Maybe Photoshop stuff does too?
Because the free market isn't great at finding solutions that incorporate externalities, especially not quickly.
Wait until you learn about modern homotopy theory. It turns out that basically every cohomology theory can be described as homotopy classes of maps into some space.

The standard cohomology groups with integer coefficients H^n(X; Z), those are just homotopy classes of maps from X into the Eilenberg-MacLane K(Z,n). Want K-theory instead? No problem. That cohomology group K(X) is homotopy classes of maps [X, Z x BU], where Z is the integers and BU is the classifying space for the unitary group.

It turns out essentially all cohomology theories are represented this way. h(X) = [X,S_h], where [] is homotopy classes of maps and S_h is a topological space called the spectrum of the cohomology theory.

Even wackier, the various algebra operations you can do on cohomology classes are mirrored by / derived from algebraic operations on the spectra. Which means that much of the machinery of algebraic geometry can be used to study cohomology theories.
> The fact that we can see back in time ..... to the early universe no less

It seems to me that this one is a freebie.
That seems a very simplified and conspiratorial view of finance to me, but whatever makes you happy.
Create a religious non–profit, the Order of Librarians.
The Order of Librarians will assess the merit of the donated information for perpetual salvation.

Digital donations must be accompanied by some monetary amount. All copyrights and intellectual properties (patents, whatever new nonsense is created in the future) tied to the donated information are assigned to the Order of Librarians in perpetuity. The Order of Librarians is authorized to use the donated information in any way they see fit that helps perpetuate the information (so selling access to it, placing ads on it, whatever).

And it must be a legitimate religious organization, with whatever rituals and hymns and methods and beliefs will be used by governments to decide what is or is not a religious organization. The central belief is something like the value of the documents is sacred and must be maintained.

And yet there is nothing you can do to guarantee any of this would last a century, let alone 500 years.

Look to the history of the Catholic Church, solely because it's one of the few (European) institutions that have outlasted various regimes over millennia. And even the Catholic Church has had "winners" and "losers" over the millennia, with various documents and books being retained while others have been intentionally purged.
The article doesn't mention pricing, but for anyone wondering, there was a recent AnandTech article that included pricing (as well as benchmarks):

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16315/the-ampere-altra-review...

The cheapest version, the 32-core, 1.7GHz, 45W-TDP Q32-17 is $800, and the top-end 80-core, 3.3GHz, 250W-TDP Q80-33 is $4050.
Double-comment but check out https://github.com/algolia/sup3rS3cretMes5age

I live in a country where sharing my entire life in paperwork is sadly normalized. Having a self-hosted one-time-secret service for file uploads is so nice.
Isn't it interesting that an industry like banking, built on those beautiful, precise algorithms, blows up so regularly?
These “experiments” have real life consequences on ”subjects” who never agreed to be part of it.

We should maybe create a crypto-country where crypto-currencies fanatics are free to experiment all of this on themselves instead of all of us… (it’s a joke, please don’t create a crypto country!)
MongoDB or MySQL.

Seriously a lot of the NFTs are centralised enough that you might as well just store em in a $50 cloud hosting solution.
>Preventing people’s access to something because of the potential downsides to it?

We're not talking about adults, we're talking about children. Yes, at some point they need to be exposed to the internet because the internet is a fact of life. I'm just not sold that any child (say, under the age of 14) who doesn't have access to the internet would somehow be crippled socially, culturally or academically. I have yet to see any study that suggests limiting access to the internet for children, or even no access internet is greatly detrimental. Contrast this with the FACT that there is a mental health crisis happening right now due social media use, and that there is no effective way to segrate internet from social media. So what is the argument here? What if there is no safe-level of social media use for children? By the way it is not uncommon to see children of tech-savvy parents, who may work in the industry, outright banning or tightly controlling internet access to their children.
I'm assuming you've already familiarized yourself with the Long Now foundation (https://longnow.org/) and the Internet Archives long term efforts…
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> it turns out that computers are pretty fast at allocating memory

Isn't this not the case? My understanding was that 90% of HPC is normally about making sure to avoid as many individual allocations/deallocations possible, because these are massively expensive compared to almost all user-space operations, and lead to cache-inefficient memory layouts, which can slow your code down by like a factor of 200
Yeah their downloads are quite a bit faster on those M1's. Now benchmarks and regular use, well that's a lot slower.
Wenn ich auch nur in die Nähe von Berlin kommen sollte, werd' ich verhaftet.
Those chips will probably not be out until later this year and will take another couple months to show up in laptops. By then we will see the midrange versions of the M1. In Macbook pros.
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We were using a consultant for a while whose (temporary, I believe) office was in a friend's architecture office/studio. I remember seeing these very artsy steel-tubing-and-leather-sheets-at-weird-angles chairs, and scoffing. My boss (who had been there before) said, No, go sit in them. On that dare, I did, and WOW, were they comfortable!

So, yeah, some architects can design comfortable seating. But not all.
Also why not use Twitter and or Pastebin?
Batteries burn up, especially NMC Li ion.

Battery rooms were traditionally separate, used lead acid batteries, were surrounded by thicker walls, and equipped with FM200, just like main datacenter floors. They were typically placed near the transfer and PDU switchgear. I wouldn't put anything more flammable than LiFePO4 in a battery room, much less anywhere near a server.

It's people who decide to throw away conventions, common sense, and building codes because "they know better" who get into trouble.

I suspect this datacenter company could be sued into oblivion.
Yes, without adaptations over time we would probably die as species. I guess that as long as universe is evolving we need to as well to survive.

Simple historic example: change of oxygen level, change of temparature is another likely event
To me that sounds as ridiculous as saying: "Given the high rates of obesity due to overconsumption of food, is the scarcity of food in developing countries such a bad thing?"
Interesting. I only first used these ISO labels around 2011, so the two letter versions for Australia never hit me. However, having grown up in NSW, i can attest that it’s never been a two letter abbreviation in common language. Likely the standard was mass produced and “corrected” for ambiguity later, that’s my guess anyway.
Being able to look out into the universe and understand what it is we live in is truly a magical thing. It is all there but seems to be so far from most people’s comprehension
So they still suicide, just at lower rates.
>In aggregate, not individually. Great for those of us in the middle classes, but I have a lot of sympathy for those who see their low wages effectively pegged to minimum wage, and who have to compete for those minimum wage jobs with a huge pool of people.

The solution is to create more jobs, not shrink the population. The idea that you get free labor and don't take advantage of it so backwards. It's only working because it's a psychological trick. In aggregate you are worse off.

Literally every country suffering from an underutilized workforce should just utilize it, even if artificially. Restricting immigration is basically equivalent to a waiting strategy where you just hope that the competition (e.g. China) runs into labor shortages and thus your own labor surplus no longer becomes a liability. It works but it's so slow that if you were the politician of a waiting nation you should rightfully be criticized for doing nothing.

>We have stories of fruit and veg going unpicked because labour can't be imported as easily, and the few brits who enquired about the work wouldn't do it, they wouldn't live on the farm and work long days for the lowest possible pay. This speaks to me of industries in dire need of reform, propped up by the importation of those willing to accept standards nobody should have to accept, because of a disparity in wealth between countries.

This is where things get absurd. You are complaining that all those immigrants are stealing all the farm jobs with impossibly low pay but at the same time you never cared a single bit about those jobs and would never do them yourself?
I don't know what community "lit" signals. But fascism is bad. It isn't a problem to treat fascist communities differently than other communities.
Nextcloud--if you're already using--it is awesome.
> There are not and the more tests a codebase has the worse its quality and maintainability.

I'm fully sold that types are important, personally I would object to starting any mid- to large-scale project in a dynamically typed language, but this doesn't ring true at all.

When you're writing and refactoring code that uses complex logic, you aren't necessarily able to encode that logic in the type system. Carefully written tests allow you to confidently edit the code without worrying that you might have broken something in the process.

If anything, strong type systems allow you to change the way you write and structure tests (more towards property-based testing as opposed to dumb test cases), but I wouldn't advocate completely doing away with them.
I heard Jim Keller say on a podcast recently that many computation problems are N^2, so if unoptimized and run on silicon with 2x the transistors, it runs 4x slower.
If blockchain is worthy of it's proponents claims, it should be possible to establish a cryptocurrency which incorporates a blockchain for trading renewable energy where mining consumes the renewable energy coins at a consensus rate.
Thanks for the correction.

I had an acquaintance who carried a non-citizen US passport... TIL apparently there is an edge case for certain Pacific Islanders.
Some of the cheese they sell in France would be classified as a biological weapon in Germany. They are awesome.