skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every government should be in the business of industrial policy.
And it'll make a currency easier to control by the authorities. With Ethereum if the feds seize someone's coins they can stake them easily, and with a few seizures could easily have a plurality of the power without spending money.

On BTC to control the network they'd actually have to consume more than half as much electricity as Sweden to do so which would be much easier to detect and interfere with.
Getting involved can take other forms than just giving money. And even whatever little money you can give, if multiplied by others who care, can help.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_the_Un...
https://archive.is/rwxPo
There isn't much in it.

In the end, is the cost of "blit" outweighed by things which can't be reduced away with the difference between the two approaches? client-server RPC? procedure call wrap/unwrap across shared libs?
A race that can conceive of no other good than itself is locked into a certain kind of death spiral, as it will destroy everything around itself to make more "good". With our global reach and our local incentives spurring ever more consumption, we are headed for a very stark reckoning with the finite resources of our planet.
Honestly I think a "last reviewed date" or log of dates would be better because it aligns with the actual action that the hostmaster takes, and thus provides the reader with the most relevant facts instead of an arbitrary promise of future validity.
Is this approach novel? For instance is Apple's approach to native UI rendering doing UI rendering on the CPU, or using a 3D renderer?
Nuclear power plants in the US have been charged massive fees to establish funds for decommissioning. The cost is baked into the energy, even if the political will to spend the funds and store the waste isn't.

https://www.nrc.gov/waste/decommissioning/finan-assur.html
The oceans have been dying for decades, no one cares enough to take a loss this quarter.

Our children will never forgive us for destroying their inheritance.
Charles Babbage called his Analytical Engine's ALU its "mill". I prefer his term.

In the case of wind turbines, it is clear that the generation unit is its mill, so I have no quarrel with calling them windmills.

They may be considered only half-satanic, having only three blades.
Alternatively, experts in a field that's changing the world are more likely to start companies in that field.
> it also releases their spawn and can cause a even worse environmental disaster

Wouldn't the spawn be released anyway? I can see how this strategy would be ineffective, but how is it worse?
On a tiny blog, sure. On a news aggregation site, engagement will collapse.

comp.lang.c++.moderated is not a good example, that's a niche topic with relatively high barriers to entry. On mainstream news websites a big story can attract hundreds of comments a minute.
> 1684: "Literate shopkeep'rs hath been found to bee mor' affluent"
I was at a retreat once and we had a dream session. There was little talk about what dreams are, how they function, etc.., but we shared our dreams in the group because the thing we would convey would be something that only we could convey. No one else could share our dreams, or the nuances, or the meanings, or whatever. I think of this every time someone in my family shares/describes their dreams.
Thanks, that looks great. Curious, what tools does she use to create the illustrations for Children's books, if you don't mind sharing?
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>xz

It may not be ancient, but it's certainly not the greatest compression format out there. I found this article to be very informative:

https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html

(The author worked on lzip so it's probably somewhat biased, but facts are facts.)
I care especially about a wine that has some form and doesn’t leave me with a headache the next day.
fwiw, mining would bring foreign currency where keeping the lights on at night does not. That would then allow spending on - keeping the lights on at night.

> With this in mind, banning mining is not a bad idea at all.

Well, laws you can't enforce are always a bad idea. And laws with a stupidly disproportional effect. Mining is trivial and requires no on-ramp, so you'll never catch the miners - they can decentralize easily, with one mining rig in each house. What you'll do is cripple the little guy who wants to spend $50 of BTC he earned online.
i think it's pretty widely accepted that dreaming serves as a mechanism for memory consolidation (different time scales while attempting to "compress" the information to something useful) and also allows us to run simulations of things that would be either too dangerous or socially unacceptable in the real world.

also, i don't think it's noise. It's injecting full scenarios to see how the brain works with it (ie there is structure to the input)
At best, like leaded gas, it will take about 30 years, which in this case is far, FAR too late.

At worst, there is no way that anything approaching that sort of regulation will ever fly in today's political system. Period.
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Comparitive advantage isn't "short termism"
And yes, I am Russian, so for me Memphis is a former capital of Egypt)
You're joking but having drivers separate from the rest of the Linux kernel and with a stable ABI would certainly help other OSes as well (e.g. ReactOS, Haiku).
The so-called problem is only a problem because humans deem it such.

Does the earth differentiate between malaria and kelp forests? No. Humans differentiate between them, actively trying to eliminate one and wringing our hands and trying to prevent the destruction of the other.

To call it “a problem” is to implicitly assert dominion over the land, sky and sea while pretending that you are not.
How Instagram got their first 25 thousand customers?
Wow, talk about assuming correlation implies causation.

I think the obvious lesson here is when society becomes reoriented around a new field (in this case software), people with experience in that field are going to do well.
Global civilization has a long history of emptying pristine environments of sentient beings and not realizing what it has done...we have no monopoly on sentience or beauty. We are just a small part of nature.
If you don't like racism, sexism, and so on, you can always just let your eyes slide past those comments and focus on other ones instead.

This is absurd, how are you supposed to slide past them without at least speed-reading the very content you're offended by? I fail to see why priority has to be given to the people who go out of their way to make others miserable.
PHI means protected health information. Protected means protected by HIPAA. By definition, there is no PHI not protected by HIPAA. HIPAA is concerned with what health information must be protected and defining that defines PHI.
Why aren’t companies going public sooner now? So much of the medium term upside is gone by the time they IPO and the stock then gets hammered in the markets.
My point is that we are actually under-counting our CO2 emissions (if we simply go by emissions per capita) because we consume more imported goods from other countries that have expended CO2 to produce them than we export.
Not a YC company, but Square was also founded on Ruby. There was a pretty large monolithic Rails app that AFIK, may still exist.

Though we hired a bunch of people from Google, who brought Java, and we went hard towards SOA. Around 2013 there was a Java vs Ruby war in engineering, with many upset people. It ended in peaceful coexistence. But most things in the main payment flow ended up Java.
Does anyone find this methodology lazy, if not disingenuous?

- Google/Alphabet's current CEO is a materials engineer [0]

- Apple's current CEO is an MBA with a degree in industrial engineering [1]. Jobs, the founding CEO, was also not a software engineer.

- Amazon's CEO, Bezos, was a software engineer [2], but it's widely known that he didn't do programming work for Amazon. I don't think he would consider himself a "software engineer" today. There is a HN regular who was an early Amazon employee and has talked about this (his name now escapes me).

That makes 7/10 of the "top 10" companies in this chart headed by non-software-engineer CEOs!!!

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

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Cook

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos
I think Calvin and Hobbes has a more positive outlook on life than Dilbert. To me Calvin and Hobbes mocks things with the attitude of "let's make this better" or "let's explore and find better things" while Dilbert mocks things with the attitude "it'll never get better".

Dilbert has been criticized as not just portraying useless bosses, but also mostly useless employees who never try to improve anything:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert#Criticism_and_parody
One reason Mars rovers travel so slowly is because they can. Being able to take all the time you need is an advantage, since it reduces power consumption and risk. It's a dead planet (as far as we know) so everything they're studying will still be there.

If there were an important reason to move faster, they would have built something different.
It's possible, but your scale is severely limited as you have to actively moderate your site. You also have to build a culture where users value their position in the community and fear losing access to it for doing the wrong thing.

Websites/forums exist in countries without an s230 equivalent.
Agreed on needing better tech and the futility of trying to forcefully lower living standard.

However I feel there are also choices that align with all the goals. Such as spending less on cheap disposable shit (which is so hard to do in our current environmenr) and using the materials in higher quality durable things that also offer a better experience. Not to mention shifting some consumption to services like amazing food and culture.
It’s funny that a lot of the comments here about the top results are the SEO crap. Remember when it was difficult to game Google and you had to learn the right methods? Well, it seems like Google has officially failed miserably as a search engine. Google only displays all the crap results an inexperienced search engine would return.

Back in the 90s and 2000s everyone would have just moved over to another search engine that provided better results. Google would already have been long forgotten if we had more options. It just means Google is primed to fail and another alternative can take its place. I’m surprised a new search engine hasn’t taken over. Google has been in a weak position for a few years now.
The only truly reliable and inexhaustible output of the nuke industry is falsehood.

They were lying before the first commercial plant was built ("too cheap to meter") and have continued well past the industry's deserved end ("incredibly cheap", above). The article demonstrates that even operating them, neglecting all of construction and decommissioning, costs more than alternatives.

"Incredibly" is a perhaps unintentionally revealing admission.
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This is wonderful and I will steal it. Thank you :)
No. My local swimming pool disagrees. Saskatchewan disagrees.
Getting an MBA does not make you not-an-engineer. From the article [1] you linked, "He earned a Bachelor of Science in industrial engineering".

Also, the article is referring to founding CEOs, and hence referring to Page/Brin and Jobs/Wozniak, not Pichai and Cook.
Yeah, also drawing conclusions from just the top ten companies is silly. But how do software engineers do managing non-software companies? Elon Musk is doing well. I guess you could count Amazon as retail instead of software. What other examples are there?
Small nitpick: the Titanic tried to steer away from the iceberg too late, and thus the iceberg cut along the side, exposing many more airtight compartments than if they hit head-on.

This in no way detracts from your point - unlike the Titanic, steering away from ecological disaster too late will never make things worse, it just won't be enough - but the metaphor isn't quite apt.
Kelp _is_ algae
I don't know the American system well, but what about via interstate commerce stuff - banning selling ICE cars across state lines for example.
I disagree.

You need to have a definition of health information that falls under HIPAA. That definition is PHI because it’s literally Protected by HIPAA.

Calling any health information “PHI” bakes in bad assumptions by both parties.

The data my phone gathers on me is the same data my doctor might. It’s PHI when my doctor generates and stores that data. It’s not when I do it. This is a good distinction.
Memory consolidation is indeed a possible explanation, but there’s no single widely accepted theory on why we dream, only many competing theories at the moment with various levels of data to support them.

It’s also possible that dreams serve multiple roles in brain health, both physiological and psychological.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream#Function

> also, i don't think it's noise. It's injecting full scenarios to see how the brain works with it

I don’t know... my dreams don’t usually seem constructed as a scenario. They seem totally random, moving from random encounter, scene etc, completely unrealistic in many instances. Cars with no front seat, buildings that don’t have physically possible layouts, words that are unreadable, etc. It sure feels like a lot of noise or random crap that somehow my brain is trying to make sense of. To me the “scenario” feels like fitting something plausible to the random data of the dream.
Anyone can run a blog or so for free. I lose very little sleep over awful people promoting their awful views on blogs, but I get quite annoyed when I read a news article and want to hear opinions on it (even ones I may disagree strongly with), but the legitimate opinions are downed out by abusive assholes spamming hate speech or endlessly trolling. A lot of those people are just bullies trying to drive others away so they can 'own' the comment section.
They are likely profitable and because raising cash is comically easy and cheap right now -- would you turn down $600MM in exchange for <1% of your company?

And when they inevitably do go public, they'll likely have a very pretty balance sheet, with a massive cash war-chest.

Keep in mind that they are a cash-heavy enterprise -- their risk exposure is any company that uses them goes bankrupt and they're on the hook for all the chargebacks.

Their blog post[0] describes some business that aren't allowed, but provides some insight into their exposure:

> We recognized that the private jet market is different and analyzed financial statements, payment flows, customer profiles, and more to fully understand the underlying mechanics of the business. We modeled OpenJet’s business and determined that the credit exposure was within an acceptable range. We engaged our banking partners with concrete financial analysis, put in controls to monitor risk as the company grows, and OpenJet successfully launched on Stripe.

Let's say OpenJet as an example has ~$10MM of annual revenue. Let's liberally assume people don't book flights out further out than 6 months -- so ~$5MM of annual revenue is up in the air, so to speak. If OpenJet goes bust tomorrow, OpenJet's creditors -- including Stripe -- are on the hook for anywhere from $0 to $5MM of outstanding fares that could get charged back.

That's just one business. From TFA:

> Stripe has ridden the wave of ecommerce growth, with more than 200,000 new companies in Europe signing up to the platform since the start of the pandemic. John Collison said it handled almost 5,000 transaction requests a second in 2020.

How many of these companies will go bust? Even if we assume Stripe is profitable, their losses are surely huge and unpredictable, so having a huge pile of cash helps insulate them against market swings and lets them take bigger risks on bigger, possibly riskier customers, which in turn helps them make even more money.

0: https://stripe.com/blog/why-some-businesses-arent-allowed
After decades of using an alarm clock and sleeping in a dark room, a few years ago I began going to bed consistently around 10pm and allowing natural light to wake me up. It has really improved the quality of my sleep and my feeling of restedness in the morning.

Of course, this means the time I wake up does vary throughout the year, but the time change helps keep it more consistent and even in the middle of winter, waking up at 7:30 or so give me plenty of time to get to work.

I do know people that use lighted alarm clocks and report similar results, but that's clearly just an imitation of the real thing.
> Never buy another car. Fix what you have when you need to.

In my country most cars are bought used, imported from another country (usually Germany, sometimes the US) after they've deemed them not worth fixing (i.e. salvage). Whatever is broken is fixed up, tested for safety and emissions (we are an EU country), and sold to someone here. Labour costs are quite low (compared to Western EU & US), there's a great availability and parts, and people are quite skilled here, so pretty much anything can be done.

It used to be common to import cars from the UK (for some reason, much cheaper 2nd hand than the rest of Europe), and convert them from right to left hand drive - but a few years ago the government said they wouldn't allow those cars to be re-registered, which put an end to that.

Recently a friend had to fix the Webasto unit (diesel pre-heater) on his car and found someone who admitted his 'hobby' was fixing them. €100 later and what he thought he needed to replace was as good as new.

When the cars come here they often already have multiple hundreds of thousands of kilometers on the clock, but they are usually 'fixed' so who knows how much they've really done. Said friend's odometer says it has done 350k, but we assume it's closer to 500k.

Once cars are deemed salvage here (usually at the point where the floor is rusting out, or the frame has been damaged in an accident), parts are stripped and resold on the 2nd+ hand market, or the cars are shipped to Central Asian countries where the same all happens again.

Anyway, I'm not really sure what my point is, but it seems relevant to this. If you really want to you can keep an old car running, whether it's economical is a different story (I imagine in the US with higher labour costs and lower availability of spare parts, maybe not). But you also need to consider how things are used after your life, cars for sure do not just get melted down when you declare them worthless (one man's trash, is another man's treasure definitely applies here). I'd imagine consumer electronics and appliances are much worse for the environment in this regard than cars.
Yeah, but that doesn't make him a software engineer. And he never practiced as an engineer either [0]. I know plenty of people with physics degrees who ended up in accounting and people with arts degrees who ended up in software. Your degree doesn't determine your career or what you actually end up doing.

[0]: From Cook's Wikipedia article: After graduating from Auburn University, Cook spent 12 years in IBM's personal computer business, ultimately serving as the director of North American fulfillment.

Also, needless to say, Jobs was not a software engineer either.
It's a fantastic write-up and amazing how it's still so out of date so soon.

Just Stripe and Coinbase have added more market cap than the entire top 50 including Stripe and Coinbase from when the report was published half a year ago. Of course private valuations fluctuate wildly but Coinbase in particular has been extreme.

Two more relevant links:

Stripe (currently on the HN front page)
https://www.ft.com/content/b9949a88-6c09-4de5-92e7-73994bb2b...

Coinbase
https://www.axios.com/coinbase-valued-100-billion-direct-lis...
> I suspect it's in reaction to this that younger people tend to avoid voice communication even when it would probably be a better choice.

The other problem is that "voice" is social interaction--text isn't.

So many people are stunned when I can call up someone professionally and ask for a favor and they're happy to oblige. To which my response is generally: "When was the last time you spent friendly time talking to your people?"

People are normally starved for interaction with people who give them friendliness and even a modicum of respect (Generation Text in particular is really bad about snark--newsflash: once you become 25 years old, only your buds think snark is funny--a lot of professionals just find it annoying. Funnily enough, if you're really good at returning snark, Generation Text finds it equally annoying.). Covid has made that hellaciously worse--people desperately want to bend my ear for an hour or more when I have a 5 minute request. And I'm normally happy to let them.

I don't regard this as a "waste of time" as so many in Generation Text do.
https://azeria-labs.com/arm-on-x86-qemu-user/ is one example.

You can run some of it (asm64 work but not the objdump or gdb, only 32 bit?) by using the docker under macOS

```
docker run -it --entrypoint "/bin/bash" ubuntu:latest
```
The worship of individualism has a blind spot to collective action.
Sorry to have to ask this, but did you read the article? It explicitly addresses this.

> *Wozniak obtained a master’s in computer science in 1987 and does code. Though Jobs was brilliant and technically savvy, Jobs clearly didn’t professionally code; he did contribute to creative and technical designs
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Interesting idea! I'm not an expert, but if I'm reading you right and the decompressor is Turing complete; you're searching for the smallest Turing machine capable of generating the input sequence?

That would indeed be an optimal compressor and start to enable things like Solomonof induction and AIXI.

Seems the challenge is to get feedback to guide the search for the right Turing machine. With infinite compute can just run an ever expanding set of Turing machines until you get one that generates the input, but without some breakthrough that would enable something like stochastic gradient descent to efficiently work on non-differentiable programs I don't see how it can be made practical.

Perhaps there is some sweet spot thats more general than current compressors that looks at a restrict class of Turing machines that could be feasible.
My head hurts just trying to imagine how that would be possible.
In the end, it doesn't matter if he believes or not; if he acts like a denier, no matter how milquetoast, he is de facto a denier, and perpetuating denial.
Here it is on Hulu: https://www.hulu.com/movie/spaceship-earth-e3636bb2-0aab-43b...
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Well, here’s a list of Senators for you: https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2021/3/rubio-c...
Much less than 100 years. But continuing to operate nukes--instead of building out renewables with that money, and investing the savings in even more renewables--brings it closer.
If anyone could instantly make perfect clones of the Mona Lisa anywhere, at any time, then yes in fact the original would lose its value. By definition, it would be impossible to tell which is the original, and anyone could replace it the moment nobody is looking. You'll have to assume it's already happened countless times.

In real life you cannot make perfect molecule-for-molecule clones of physical objects, so what's your point?
Intelligent people make the best CEOs. Software engineers are probably more intelligent, on average, than others. I think it might be better to look at IQ+EQ and see if there's a correlation there instead (although that data is probably not feasible to obtain).
Do what you want others to do as well. Yes you can't change everything yourself, but as a community you can. This is a problem of individualism. You can't fix that with more individualism.