skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why compare the US to Europe? The US is roughly 60% Europe, 25% Latin America, 10% Africa and 5% Asia. It has the homicide rate you would expect if you averaged the homicide rates for these continents - roughly 5 per 100,000, which is the global average.

People have this schizophrenic notion that the US should have the demographics of Brazil but the homicide rate of Sweden, and that aint gonna happen no matter what kind of gun control laws you pass. Same thing for measures of corruption, etc.

So you have nations with very low homicide rates, like Bangladesh, versus nations with high homicide rates, like Nigeria or Brazil or Jamaica. And the gun control laws don't seem to make much of a difference in comparison to ethnicity. Looking at Europe, you have wide variations in gun ownership rates but a fairly low homicide rate across the board. Looking at US states, again wide variations of gun ownership rates not well correlated to homicide rates. So stop pretending that the high homicide rates in the US, which are accounted for in urban centers are because of loose gun control laws in DC or Chicago. The US has exactly the homicide rate you'd expect just by using WHO intentional homicide rates per continent and comparing that to US demographics.
The release notes don't make sense without knowing what the project is. If you want to post the release notes URLs in a separate comment, I can pin it to the top of the thread. That way no one is likely to miss them.
It could be a "third shift" manufacturing operation at some legit factories.
Wirth languages were more of a thing in Europe.

Here Pascal was everywhere and C was just yet another language on MS-DOS.

The PC Systems Programming Bible had samples in MASM/TASM, QuickBasic, Quick/Turbo Pascal and Borland/Microsoft C and C++ compilers.
So, I've submitted same news hours earlier (from official 2600 mag twitter account) but my submission was flagged and locked for comments.

-_-
It's hateful and it's child abuse. There's nothing humble about parents who hate their LGBT+ children.
New Super Robot show with a brand new IP this summer, for the first time in more than a decade: Megaton Musashi.

Sadly Mecha is indeed mostly dead. I'm not sure where you can take the Super Robot genre after TTGL, GaoGaiGar and Getter Robo: Armageddon.

The most popular Gundam shows as of late have been the Build shows and honestly I don't mind in the slightest. They're so fun.

The suggestions in the link are really weird though. It's like a real surface understanding targeted at people who only have been watching Anime for a decade or less. There's tons more good stuff worth watching and mostly from the 80s.
German Word of the Day – “Her”
Basically, I’d look at the hard demand as people who _need_ to have a particular asset: if you have a contract saying you’re paying me in Bitcoin that means that you’re going to pay the fees needed to keep the network operating. Very, very few people have those and so in most cases the decision is either based in the belief that you’ll be able to sell for a greater value later or an ideological belief, neither of which is especially stable.
They don't conflict with each other, if you accept a third conjecture, which is that all the other "typical" human-habitable planets are so far away from Earth, and that our resource limits + our intelligence limits + the laws of physics so tightly constrain our space travel abilities, such that we'll never get to any of those planets. Based on that, then for all intents and purposes, the point stands, we've got nowhere else to go.
It's a variation of the second-chance pool described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and the links back from there. Basically, once a post is more than a few days old, we invite the submitter to repost it instead of directly re-upping the original submission. But we can't do that unless we have an email address.
Sure it is not easy, but it is also not impossible. We accepted card payments before stripe came. There are a couple of clones. Most of our customers pay with bank transfer and not online. If we would have all our invoices paid with stripe i'm sure we would try the other solutions.
Don't get me wrong i'm not trashing stripe and they captured huge part of the market that is growing daily. But i'm not sure most people care about stripe, and if somebody else came along people would use the that other provider. In europe a lot of alternative payment methods are popular.
> One could argue that, by making the fire control guaranteed, the border might stop being challenged and deaths thus go down. (Nobody to taunt, either.)

Except it's not a border, it's more like a massive concentration camp. Plus, the kill zone is hundreds of meters inwards.
Even in countries where "pre-installed Linux" is proposed on the website it is impossible to buy it. It is just a scam.
Depends on your definition of a heater, certainly there's no separate heating module but here's[0] a SpaceX team member saying it has 'self heating capabilities' in their reddit ama.

[0]-https://old.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/jybmgn/we_are_the...
I mean, it's pretty realistic at incinerator plants, the concentrations and temperatures are such that you use up some reasonably small percentage of the total plant effect on capture and you can capture 90 % of the generated CO2.

The trick will be to make sure economic incentives don't lead to people simply building so many incinerators that you end up emitting more than before anyway...
What if these two hypothetical people are friends who share cooking tips ?

What if neither uses Twitter , but meet at a bar. I've dated liberals and conservatives. People are nicer in real life. Very rarely do people walk up to me hurling insults. Happened constantly online though.
> You can rewrite difficulty formula and make it easier to mine and therefore decrease energy consumption. Bitcoin's protocol is set in stone but if some dev likes to play with protocol like Vitalik he or she can do it. It would shift market and coin price downwards but if energy consumption is really a problem it is tax you have to pay.

easy to mine == easy to attack. If you make it easier to do the miners (and attackers) will simply do it more (in fact an important attribute of proof of work is that the difficulty is dynamically adjustable to keep the block rate reasonably steady). Changing your proof of work does nothing but change the hardware miners are using. etherium has a function designed to work best (or at least close to best) on GPUs compared to bitcoin's which is most optimally implemented on an ASIC. You can also try to optimise for general purpose CPUs or FPGAs. But it does not change the amount of energy miners are incentivised to put in. Only changing the block reward does that. The whole deal with proof of work is that the work is what secures the network by incentivising miners to do more work than an attacker is willing or able to put in.

> Satoshi introduced blockchain checkpoint which basically enforces consensus.

This is a nice sanity check but it basically does nothing against 51% attacks. No realistic attack scenario involves a complete rewriting of the chain, nor is that necessary to make money or substantially destroy trust in the system. If you are waiting for your transaction to be in a checkpoint in a version rolled out to almost all bitcoin nodes, I submit that you have a cryptocurrency which is even less convenient for transactions than gold bars. It's also got nothing to do with whether bitcoin's block reward is well chosen or not.

> So centralized foundation controls decentralized network? And what is right amount?

Indeed. it can't rule entirely without the consent of the markets, but in practice it has a fair amount of control. And what is the right amount of proof of work is a very difficult question to answer. My main point is there's no particular reason bitcoin's reward structure (either block rewards or transaction fees) should correlate with it. Etherium at least in principle has more potential to react to changes in the situation, even if 'what the community/foundation thinks is the right amount' is also probably a relatively poor estimator of the correct level.

> computed chains of prime numbers (Cunningham and bi-twin chains), the results of which were published on its blockchain's public ledger, available for use by scientists, mathematicians, and anyone else

I would be interested in whether anyone actually used this information. I have similar reservations about other 'useful' proofs of work. I'll believe it when people are actually bidding to have their problems used in the chain (which is inevitable as soon as such a proof of work is useful).
What would a non profit need to communicate externally for people to make bank transfers directly into their accounts? Does bill pay require a routing number to setup or anything like that? What are the prerequisites for setting that up?
They also tend to have a much higher proportion of Europeans than America does.

You would need to isolate the rate of European American firearm homicides for it to be comparable.

And I understand this is a politically charged comment but the statistics bear it out and I won't ignore that in favour of progressivism: if you count only White Americans, USA has a comparable homicide rate to most European countries.
> So I should google everything that hits the front page of HN

Of course NO!

HN users should google only about those thing that hits the front page of HN they don't know.
Oh, the intellectual property rights you'll extend
> just use a piece of wire instead

Pretty much this. If you can solder though-hole resistors on one side of the board, and you can solder though-hole resistors on the other side of the board, you can line the holes up and solder a trimmed-off resistor lead to both sides. Sure it takes time, but so does soldering through-hole components in the first place.
This sounds like someone who has been in their field so long they've forgotten what it's like to be a beginner. They've utterly missed the point of Arduino. It's not for them, it's for beginners, and hobbyists, optimized for fast feedback and making it hard to screw up too much.

I mention fast feedback, because it's so important to new entrants to a field. I tried to build some MCU project way back in the early 2000s, which involved soldering together a parallel port based programmer, and attempting to drive a blinking light as the first project.

It didn't work. I have no idea why. Maybe I had blew some components up or put one in backwards. I don't know what I did wrong, and I didn't know enough to debug it. I didn't know enough to know what questions to ask.

When I came back to MCU programming many years later, I picked up an Arduino kit. A small part of me felt like it was cheating, but it let me get started. It let me iteratively play around with and learn concepts piece by piece. Ironically, I feel like now I'd actually now have a chance of debugging and fixing that parallel port programmer.
> Programmable logic chips seem to lag behind MCU's in the hobbyist-friendly area

Definitely true.

But the slow march of progress continues, and the state of affairs today is actually pretty okay!

There's a variety of hobbyist-friendly ~$50-$100 boards that are programmable via a plain old USB cable [1][2][3].

There's also an open-source toolchain that is small, fast, and works well [4].

[1] https://tinyfpga.com/

[2] https://1bitsquared.com/products/icebreaker

[3] https://groupgets.com/manufacturers/good-stuff-department/pr...

[4] https://symbiflow.github.io/
50T Digits of Pi
Thank you for the article, nice read.

Just a small nitpick, for the craic:

> Moreover, while accessing the registers, we need to compute the sum of pow(2,-register) which involves floating point math.
> [...]
> * The floating point computation was modified in order to allow for multiple operations to be performed in parallel when possible. This was just a matter of adding parens. Floating point math is not commutative, but in this case there was no loss of precision.

Floating point addition is commutative. It is not associative though.
Anything we could ever cobble together is necessarily unspeakably primitive when compared to what the Oort Cloud "elder gods" perfected lo untold eons before primates first chipped rocks.
That sounds like the spooks giving a "nerd harder" response to being told backdoors will compromise security for everyone. Just because they have money and talent doesn't mean they can do the impossible.
Musk never claims credit for the work of his team. The burden of proof is on you.

That said, I recall he has not only explicitly credited lead engineers by name but also discussed their technologies with them and given them stage time to discuss their tech with the audience. [see the automation day videos for example]
Oh, you're wrong. It does! That's because if the price appreciates on the 2nd market, then it gives the artist an ability to sell new works for a higher price, as there is more demand for them. Sales drive more sales.

Btw. I meant, only buy NFTs that were produced directly by the artists themselves, and the artists have rights to their work. Basically, avoid middlemen. That's what crypto is for.
Hot off the press, it's official now:

https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/137123558771858227...
They could have allowed food and medical shipments through while banning any other land trade.
security.txt is a flag that you may have a bug bounty program, and as a result are a potential source of revenue.

It is time arbitrage between big companies taking security seriously (willing to pay large bounties) and that amount being higher than a monthly or yearly wage in some internet-connected regions. If they throw enough nets into the sea all year, eventually one pays off and they end up living quite well.
It's worth thinking about that such "communities" can only exist because of online technology. Once people are out of high school, if they are just moping around the house and aren't working or in college or vocational training or anything, there's no automatic group of people they are around enough to fall into cliques of any sort. People can still be individually mired in depression and nonproductive lives, but there isn't an easily-found community of like-minded people IRL.

This "NEET" phenomenon is something that just could not happen prior to the current century.
Concepts like guilt, innocence, responsibility, promises, forgiveness, etc are all predicated on free will.

If everyone embraced your perspective it isn't clear that we could maintain a civilization at all (I would bet no).
How many tons is sustainable?
Troubleshooting my Commodore 128’s 80-column mode, part one
Yes, it makes no sense. I would happily pay more for a laptop with linux support. Meaning that the vendor guarantees that throttling, hibernation and other tricky stuff work as intended. But nobody offers me this option.
Absolutely agree. Search results are now heavily biased toward popular categories that have advertising opportunities. Double quotes and logic (and) isn’t working to drive more specific results. I am about to move on.
Imagine if the us matched the tariff on Chinese made cars.
Ironically, it'll probably be the Scrum Master that ends up creating a Story to update everything to Main.
They have occasional landing failures (one this year, two last year), and still do launch expendably every once in a blue moon, so they'll likely need to build a new one every once in a while until the end of the program is in sight.

(It looks like they have very few customers anymore that insist on a new-build booster -- the fussiest had been the US government, but at this point, NASA is accepting reused boosters for human spaceflight, and the NRO has also accepted one for a mission last year. As far as I know, no one has publicly said they'd rather their booster has a test flight yet.)
Note that on the military side, I'm a little doubtful that landing a single tank is something any military would try. Tanks are prone to breakdowns and need a lot of logistical support, and so usually operate in platoon size of at least 5 of them. Even landing 5 or 10 of them with a bunch of these things seems a bit dubious, you're still gonna need something to bring in tons of fuel, ammo, spare parts, etc.
Probably not, but this stuff is fascinating:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_trans-oceanic_co...
https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.2193/200...
I have worked from home self employed since 2016.

Prepandemic WFH was amazing. During the pandemic, it is bad and ruined the experience at this point, I doubt I will do it after, but I hope it is just my current impression because the benefits and freedom were so fun.

The difference is hard to pinpoint but it had a lot to do with the assumptions on the other end of the phone.
I really doubt that. Amex and Visa/MC interchange rates have converged substantially over the last decade - Visa in particular is now more expensive than Amex on their Visa Infinite interchange rates IIRC.

https://thepointsguy.com/news/amex-now-accepted-in-as-many-p...

> There is now little cost difference between Amex and other card networks today — Nilson reports only a .04% difference between Amex and Visa and Mastercard (2.3% vs. 2.26% respectively).

> Amex attributes this shift in part to its OptBlue program. This initiative began in 2014 and provides a way for small businesses to accept Amex cards through a third-party processor (so long as that processor is partnered with Amex).

Stripe is one of those OptBlue processors listed on https://www.americanexpress.com/us/merchant/optblue.html.
Google has become a curated search engine. It's no longer finding data based on your enquiry. It's hiding the results from the companies and website that don't buy Google ads, or spend every waking moment on black hat games.
Wow, so now instead of the ‘three weeks strict lockdown to stop the spread’ fantasy we now have this ‘lockdown light’ idea. Where did this theory come from?
sometimes waste is even dumped just into the earth: https://gizmodo.com/the-mob-is-secretly-dumping-nuclear-wast...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/oct/09/italy.nuclearp...
Every illegal gun is either stolen from a legal owner, the police, the military, or imported (where it comes from those same sources).

By increasing the supply their availability for criminals also goes up proportionally.
> what other purpose could it serve?

1. Agreement with the tweet, directed at the author only.

2. A form of "bookmarking" tweets for later. It's no accident that for most of Twitter's life this wasn't called a "like" but a "favorite" (with a star instead of a heart symbol).

As for "some of their followers will see it" and "I don't know [how it works]": That is precisely the problem. Your timeline isn't determined by your choices and the choices of the people you follow. The "algorithmic" timeline also adds a lot of randomness and unwanted choices that you can't control.
Yes and people can also invest in high yield funds to get just as much with probably much lower exposure to risk.
And no, people don't need gold.
Ugh. Harmony Gold. This IP battle has been a major hurdle for Battetech as well and probably stifled the success of the game significantly.
Windmills? Are they making bread?
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
Yes, work just makes supply expensive, it doesn't create demand... unless you're a psycho and just want to own things that caused untold human suffering to produce.
Presumably someone at Twitter just really hated Windows 98 :)
One word: externalities.
It's been fixed: https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/137123558771858227...

> A number of accounts that Tweeted the word “Memphis” were temporarily limited due to a bug. It’s been fixed and the accounts have now been restored. We’re sorry this happened.
Thanks. (In case people wander by later, this was tweeted half an hour after my post above, and the OP has made it clear in a parallel subthread that they were referring to something that was later admitted to be a hoax by the perpetrator.)
Right, bullshit.
Hands down, the best thing that came out of TLM has to be Negativland's Gimme The Mermaid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTZoxVH7OCg

ref: https://rockasoo-thegoodmusic.blogspot.com/2006/09/negativla...
Can someone explain why smuggling cars is a market? You’re driving the cars on the street after you’ve smuggled it in, so wouldn’t the police just take it from you minutes into your first drive ? I also don’t imagine this is to avoid an import tax since it just seems to be 15%-35% [0]. Is there some other markup you avoid by smuggling in the car?

[0] https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/china-is-said-to-cut...
“When the wise man points to the moon, the fools gazes upon his finger.”
That's pretty relevant though: if you're doing large order volume, the "cheaper" option maybe isn't anymore if you need a multiple of the dev effort to build and maintain it, especially if it's all proprietary stuff that you can't really do without specialized consulting firms charging a boatload. I don't think there are any close competitors at the price point and in-house or commodity contractor developer friendliness as Stripe. It's really a fine platform
There are plent of example texts where letters are deliberately left out to show how the brain fills in the missing data without losing meaning. Seems like this --lossy option might not be so bad after all. Might only work well for those that speak the language natively.
It’s a good platform, but it really doesn’t solve the time-sink problem, even if you pay for triage services. Triage can knock down well-known patterns of bogus stuff, but so can you; the real problem is the truly wacky stuff people come up with.
Tiger & Bunny is kind of mecha-adjacent. Kind of along the blurred lines betweeen Mecha and Tokusatsu...
I remember seeing a
Terry Davis livestream where he was programming TempleOS while living in a van.
Yeah I can see why you have a hard time hiding your “political views”, as you call them.
"one small part"

This is an inaccurate (or at best presumptively overconfident) portrayal of extant science.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4038932/

"not the overriding majority"

That's another strawman. My claim is that it's a non-trivial cause, not that it's an exhaustive explanation of all the causes or that it explains an "overriding majority" of the variation.

Even if it explains just 25 percent of the variation, the assertion that people can change their political views despite that biological underpinning is akin to thinking that gay-conversion therapy can work.
Is there any big tech company that doesn't have explicit policies that favour the hiring of non-"male candidates of European and Asian origin"? These are conscious biases that are feverishly pursued and policed. I think you can put that notion to bed.
> The largest battery currently being planned is a 1.2GWh setup in Australia. That's a big buffer.

Apparently "Total electricity generation in Australia was estimated to be 265,117 gigawatt hours (GWh) in calendar year 2019"[1], which works out to about 30 gigawatts continually for a year.

So a 1.2GWh battery could power Australia for about two minutes (...at average use. Longer in the middle of the night).

Maybe a hundred installations like that could buffer the fluctuations in renewables in Australia. Plus thousands or tens of thousands more worldwide, while building enough batteries to replace all the cars with electric.

I guess it's doable in a decade or two, if Musk and other manufacturers can really produce TWh's of capacity each year.

1: https://www.energy.gov.au/publications/australian-energy-sta...
Oh the humanity, and all the passengers!

https://www.airships.net/hindenburg/disaster/oh-the-humanity...
It is difficult for most people to wrap their heads around the fact that asset values are largely based on collective beliefs.

Most people refuse to even accept it as a possibility