skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was actually paid in crypto for few days of some programming work once. I wish I held to it all rather than spending most of it.

Personally I think the biggest issue with crypto now is, one that it promotes huge value inflation and Ponzi-like schemes (we are seeing it with BTC and ETH), two horrible energy use inefficiency. From a bitcoin transaction that requires orders of magnitude more energy to process than any other transfer of value known to humanity to Ethereum "virtual machine" for smart contracts that is most inefficient way to execute arbitrary code ever invented...

I used to be a big proponent of crypto overall. I still have some holdings in it, but I can't unsee the idiocy in PoW crypto once I saw and understood it clearly.

I wondered for a while what is so specific to crypto that it became today's tulips? (Rather than gold futures, stocks, real estate etc) and then I understood all those asset classes are already used like this. Every kind of asset that can will eventually be used in some kind of pyramid scheme. Just look at the price of gold compared to few years ago, real estate in many large cities, stocks etc. It was absolutely inevitable that crypto as it became a trusted store of value would become a vehicle for speculative bubbles/pyramid schemes.

So then the question is, can crypto fulfill the role of a currency (requiring some level of value stability) and be a vehicle for speculative pyramids at the same time? I don't think so.

Proof of Work is one problem with crypto that perhaps Proof of Stake will resolve.

The other problem is much more fundamental. How do we create crypto that maintains stability without having to resort to typical "stable coin" strategies like holding other currencies and selling/buying them to artificially adjust the value. Is it possible to create crypto that would maintain its value in the long term in distributed - no central authority manner while discouraging pyramid investment schemes.

And finally, once someone invents such crypto would anyone actually hear about it as most promotion of crypto seems to be done by people who got in early and hope for their holdings to increase in value.
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The trouble with appeals to science is that anyone can make empirical observations. Like if you can still smell VOC's through a mask (e.g. farts), that is empirical data to cast some doubt about their efficacy against airborne droplets, and about how much economic harm or social restriction you're going to tolerate based on that. If you make these policies about science instead of authority, it's just another lie with a short half-life, and you're going to lose when it comes out.

Trusting science on the mask and lockdown policy issue means rejecting the official policy direction. On mRNA therapies it means examining FDA approval and human trial results. Trusting science on curve flattening means rejecting that Ferguson epidemiological model used to justify lockdowns. So-called science should inform policy, but it is not a sound justification for it. To say that your political policies have the authority of "science," as though they were discovered truths is as sound as saying they were divinely revealed, because it comes down to trusting the people who are telling you that.

A scientific policy is also necessarily not a democratic one, or one based in any policymaker accountability, because it is founded in the views of a few unaccountable initiates. When elected representatives forfeit their responsibility to un-elected experts and just do what they are told, they are renouncing their authority and giving it to people who don't get fired (or worse) for being wrong.

The conflict is that policymakers have basically asked "what is the exception we can use to suspend all these legal constraints on us so that we can wield power to do what we think is the right thing for humanity?" and they have settled on a medical crisis. If only pandemic policy were based on science, we would be in much better shape, but it's based on leaders avoiding responsibility and blaming "science" for their unwillingness to produce democratic policy that preserves the foundations of their societies, arguably, because their agenda is to destabilize and un-moor them.
> I believe that’s more Agnostic than Atheist.

I used to identify as agnostic for a while--the definition I quoted is one adapted from The Atheist Experience podcast. I'd personally describe someone who actively believes there is no god, i.e. possesses enough evidence to claim "There cannot be any god" an "anti-theist", in my personal lexicon.

Generally this is why I bother to give the specific definition by claim--too often I've encountered religious folk who take "atheist" to mean "one who hates god", or "one who actively has evidence against a god", or similar--which may be true for other folk who use the label atheist, but doesn't match my personal definition.

As you said, "the whole atheist-agnostic thing is more of a continuum than not," so I like to give the definition to clear up any mis-assumptions people may make about me for using said label :)

I also agree that the difference does matter--I also think it's more intellectually honest of me to allow for the possibility that I am wrong, however unlikely--even then, there is an important distinction between acknowledging the existence of a god, and choosing to worship said god if they even existed (which is usually the follow-on question from religious folk I talk to.
Balancing act: the current limits of AWS network load balancers
Voltswagen
Potentially unpopular opinion: Good.

I am tired of people just putting large images into their websites where the main image is barely relevant to the rest of the page. It was sloppy and lazy, like modern day clip art.

And if someone really wants images, there are paid services like envato that are at least somewhat sustainable. These solutions are really affordable now and they've got very decent licensing terms.
Nature’s first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

-- Robert Frost
Looked it up and apparently:

> Industry statistics indicate that creating an integrated circuit on a 300 mm wafer requires approximately 2200 gallons of water in total, of which 1500 gallons is ultra-pure water.
Don't fool yourself. We don't like to thing about great power war because it's so terrible. We think it can't happen to us because it hasn't happened in a generation or two. People have thought this before. They have always been wrong.

I assure you we have not seen the last of war. Ignoring or minimizing the possibility is self-destructive. You must acknowledge the possibility of disaster before you can engage in the active work of averting it.
If I pay with Visa, the seller is not able to see my account balance. With bitcoin, the balance of every wallet is publicly available.
Facebook was just fine. I'm glad to see that the tool worked for the author at that time, but since then FB (and their competitors) have made plenty of changes that intentionally increase the amount of noise people see in their feeds and removed/broke functionality that would give them better control over their feeds (such as the deprecation of timelines in favour of "algorithmic" feeds, Twitter including tweets from people you don't follow, etc).
How can they not? 60% of their customers are American and fab capacity has become a hot bipartisan topic as well as a NatSec issue. The only way they can guarantee that they don't lose access to their customers is by building American fabs.
See also "lithobraking" and "engine rich" burns :-)
just went there.. Oh dear!
They haven't in over 10 years.
Exactly; if we're going to "rip the bandaid off", just do it all at once. The idea seemed in line with other aspects of golang: for instance, you can't compare an int32 and an int64 directly -- the compiler will throw a warning if you don't cast the int32 to int64 before comparing. This is obviously because, as old-school C programmers, they recognized that automatic promotion is a trap that caused all kinds of issues. I'd argue that the "nil interface is not nil" trap is quite a bit worse.

As it turns out, a lot of the improvements they were thinking about could be done without breaking backwards compatibility; which of course has some huge advantages.
> if you live near a radar station

This is actually incredibly annoying, especially in a residential setting where the 2.4GHz band is incredibly noisy (5GHz doesn't penetrate as well so it ends up being less noisy).
nobody needs to say that anymore; it is a given.

if you sell your company to a Getty or Facebook or Zoom, for example, you really were just selling your customers and eliminating yourself as competition, for probably a nice payoff. if you had a bad VC deal, then you the founders/builders might even get nothing.
Henry Ford had to fight what was essentially a patent troll when he started his motor company.

https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/11/05/the-origin...
> Is anything with future value being build by European companies?

Aren't the EUV lithography machines that all advanced semiconductor manufacturers are dependent on made by a Dutch company?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASML_Holding
This is not a BitPay competitor until PayPal allows users to deposit cryptocurrency. Until then it is a closed loop system, users and merchants cannot yet deposit or withdraw crypto itself, similar to Robinhood.

Highly disappointed that Square (Cash) has not launched a BitPay competitor and still only supports Bitcoin. They’ve allowed BTC deposits and withdrawals for years (with great UX!) yet are lagging far behind in release cadence.

The biggest barrier to spending crypto is still finding merchants that accept it, even through third parties. PayPal’s huge merchant userbase will allow dominance if/when they flip the switch to an open loop, “deposit your crypto” approach.

Only PayPal and Stripe can flip that switch at scale with a hosted checkout experience. Merchants don’t care how a user paid, they want fiat.
Good point. Shows how long it's been since I attended.

For the record, the first few I attended were at the San Jose convention center.
I think I'm the minority that really values in-person events. The best experiences for me didn't happened by watching the talks and sessions, but in casual conversations in the corridors and common areas. This is very hard to replicate with online events.
I've been using this plugin for about 4 days now and its greatly improved my HN experience..
thank you!
one of the most innovative and beautiful things I've seen in a while. my only complaint are the lines between the points already mentioned by others. I don't know much about color though so I can't help you here. otherwise, great job.
https://archive.fo/iZyRK
Recently, Macron said that the AstraZeneca vaccine was almost ineffective for people older then 65[1].

Politicians on both the left and the right sometimes find their political interests at odds with mainstream scientific research. That doesn't mean they're on some kind of crusade against science.

I also find the obsession with anti-vaxxers strange, when the FDA and many european medical authorities refuse to allow the AstraZeneca vaccine. I guess it's easier to blame everything on internet trolls, rather then medical authorities run by people like you, in your social circles, but the latter are objectively responsible for far more death.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56252028
Smoking tobacco would be the simplest example.
That's suprisingly clever of them.
"watchtowers" is a big word now? as for "inbound liquidity", I guess you can argue it's big because it's a compound word, but it's relatively easy to understand ("liquidity" is a standard term in finance, for instance) and I can't think of how you can shorten it further without reducing comprehension.
It's almost ironic to call someone a "millionaire" these days in Toronto, which has been badly affected by the real estate bubble.
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The US's current dependency on China is one-way. China is not co-dependent on the US. The existing dependency structure does not incentivize China to avoid war.

Besides, most of the US wars in the last half century have been started because the US was dependent on another nation. It seems a self-sufficient US may actually be less likely to go to war.
It also rained down toxic debris over a 10 km radius of pristine land. The EPA needs to get involved. It's clear SpaceX doesn't know what they're doing.
It's great to have services like this.

For the benefit of anyone interested: for a "self-hosted" solution, you can do this entirely within Nginx. Here's an example config:

server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;

listen 443 default_server;
listen [::]:443 default_server;

# Use Letsencrypt for SSL. This part will depend on your own setup.
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/<my domain>/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/<my domain>/privkey.pem;

server_name <my domain>;

# Deny all access at all paths; useful if you're hosting other stuff behind
# the same Nginx server (e.g. reverse proxy)
location / {
deny all;
}

# At /ip, return 200 with the client IP address in the body
location = /ip {
default_type text/plain;
return 200 '$remote_addr';
}
}
Whether they can or not is less relevant. Getty has already demonstrated that it is willing to sell free works to people who don't realize they can get it for free (legally). I'm not even talking about where they take other people's works and illegally resell it as their own...

Getty, if judged by their past behaviors, is an evil company.
> "Wealth is accumulated through habits" is a great story to tell people but it seems very often to be complete BS.

Yes. It's capitalist propaganda. If you are a highly paid heart surgeon or CEO you can "accumulate wealth with habits". If you are anywhere between flipping burgers to many other types of jobs there's just not enough money "coming in" for these things to make a huge difference. You can be more sensible with your money and you may end up with a slightly nicer car, a slightly bigger house in a slightly better location than your other careless peers. But that's about it.
That's not how Bitcoin works. You're conflating receiving addresses with wallets.

And in the PayPal use case, you wouldn't even see a single receiving address, as it's entirely opaque to that and it'd all be handled in some internal PayPal ledger. The receiver of the payment would only see a transfer to them denominated in local fiat currency. They might not even know the source of the funds was crypto at all.
Raptor engines are still expensive. Wasting a perfectly good Raptor seems like a bad idea.

Unless the Raptor engines they flew were also old and obsolete.
It's the same thing as a US company wanting to sell to Europe but not wanting Euros, because they pay their costs in USD.

I think the point here is probably that Paypal is noticing that an increasing amount of consumers have crypto and would like to pay with them, so they offer this possibility.

Bitcoin is just another currency, and indeed most businesses don't want to hold them because they need to hold their local fiat. That doesn't mean consumers don't want to use Bitcoin tho.
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So in addition to fleecing me on USD -> AUD with a rip-off exchange rate, they're adding an extra step for users of their fake BTC as well. But really multiple steps because you have to actually buy the fake BTC through PP first. The funny part is that no transaction take place on the blockchain, the BTC is just held at a third-party custodian. This is what VISA is planning too i think.

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I mean, it takes money to make money. It's a lot easier to get a hundred million dollars when you start out with 1 million to put in the stock market.
Interpolate in a perceptual space such as Oklab?

Possibly use a radial basis function for interpolation rather than triangles? I don't have JavaScript code handy but rbf-interp[1] is Rust code that could either be adapted or called from wasm.

[1]: https://crates.io/crates/rbf-interp
Update to a new version 1.1.0 :)
Every address, not every 'wallet' - it's a big difference
You’re basing that off of what? Sounds like you’re just spreading FUD.
I got quite a chortle out of the SLS being "contractor rich".
I wonder if they will allow transfers in the future.
'The heart of darkness': neighbors shun Brazil over Covid response
Fortunately there are a lot of people who travel, and modern phones take remarkably good photos easily. The biggest immediate impact the "photographer" has is on framing the shot; but with high res images and you being willing to crop, you can do half of that job yourself.

So there should be another to replace Unsplash. And if the founders can guess on being acquired in a few years, then this isn't a bad plan.
They may be worth little, but probably not less than _I_ think ;-)
it does for me too... maybe they've changed it or maybe we just don't have a v4 equivalency?
PCB DIY? Tutorial for Making Printed Circuit Board (PCB)
> very expensive

To lay a cat6 cable and have it snake over the ceiling in a cable gutter? The cable I grant you isn't dirt cheap but it's by far the most expensive part of that arrangement.
A very sad beginning of the end, but even more sadly, predictable. Rampant cannibalism from the top down. Will it ever stop?
Seems like this focus of this article is the field moves quickly. That's it.

The AI and software engineering skills required to make something that was painfully tedious X years ago and make it easy today is clearly valuable. It takes such "AI skills" to work on these projects.

The AI/ML component of a company is a smaller part of the entire infrastructure. You still need to be build the infra. Which means that in a fast paced industry, with proper infra, you could replace/substitute your AI/ML component.
I doubt all the defense critical military electronics are fabbed over there on 10 nm
Not with older WiFi cards and older mobile devices. 5.8 GHz is running on everything except cheap smart home devices.

I'm plugged into a Google WiFi mesh AP via an 8 port GbE switch on my desktop, and only getting 106 Mbps down / 123 up. I tried plugging-in directly, and it's the same difference.

229 Mbps down / 243 up on an iPad Pro 10.5 from the couch, 268 / 356 near the wall where the main base AP is at, and 335 / 355 right next to the base AP. On the mesh AP, I'm getting 63 / 71.

I think it's the physics limitations of 5.8 GHz because base-to-mesh is going 12 m / 40 ft through 2 walls.
Related:

Effective Altruism is a movement & community of people focusing on the effectiveness -

> about answering one simple question: how can we use our resources to help others the most?

https://www.effectivealtruism.org/

Giving What We Can is a community of people who have pledged to give at least 10% of their income to cost-effective charities. I'm a proud member of 10 years.

https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/

Zell Kravinsky gave nearly-all of his $45 million he made from real-estate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zell_Kravinsky and a talk he gave https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvUcbcUMtXw
what's wrong with using print()?
Unless by older you mean over 5 years old that is incorrect.
"obviously"

why not talk about the failure's possible causes for 3 hours? would be more interesting than not
Pretty cool that they already have a buildout until SN20. Interesting. So they’re just pumping it out for data and then a revision comes in C units later with improvements. Very cool. They’re expecting to crash quite a few then. Haha.
For paid services: isn't this directly against TOS for most of them? If this takes off, I'd imagine most services will try to add some sort of JAM detection and disable accounts in this case.

For free services: I don't understand why would I want to share my Reddit or Twitter account with my friends. Sharing a work account -- sure, this is useful. But my personal one? less so.
Wasting 3.
It wasn't my intention to discuss any of those beliefs, just to list examples of anti-science beliefs among leftists.

If you believe critical race theory is science, OK - it's not the subject of this thread, I suppose.

The only relevant aspect is that we will see articles of how anti-science conservatives supposedly are, because they reject critical race theory. It's actually useful for that - identifying bullshit articles and organisations.
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s Lost Album, Human Highway
Interview: Trying to Catch Paul “LeoNerd” Evans
+1 that.
Big Oil's Secret World of Trading Fuels Profits as Climate Change Worries Rise
I'm confused as to your assertion that war somehow wouldn't be viable. WW1 was previously thought to be impossible because of the economic interdependence and trade and yet all the same it had happened.

We're talking about a a revisionist, expansionist state that is rising, believes the existing power to be fragile, weak, and on the decline. It isn't a question of "Viability". The CCP sees serious geopolitical benefits to an armed conflict.
yes, that is what I meant. It's been a long time since I've used that info.

The story I remember was that Insulin was the first protein that was sequenced, which is funny because it was before they made the distinction. It's actually too small to be considered a protein now.
The raptors flying are also obsolete, tons of improvements on higher SN's
Completely thought this was an upcoming April fools. Still not convinced it isn't...
Boredom. Because of covid-19 and the fact that no particular nation is required by maritime law to take on shoreleave-seekers, crews have been at sea for between 2 to 3 times a standard rotation. You find your own way to make your fun.

It is pretty funny though. I have to imagine the captain realizing his track had been discovered is every developer who ever put a comment like /* this is stupid but I'm doing it because my boss is also stupid */ somewhere in a million lines of code, thinking it would never come up in an audit.
What was illegal about what they were doing?
You won't have to leave them, as within a year there will be nothing recognizable to leave. It will have been replaced with free content wrapped in a bow and pricetag, or simply the best free content redirecting to similar paid content.
>The issue is that offering halfway decent internet to people in rural areas would cost them lots of money

Telcos like AT&T can't even be bothered to offer decent internet to people in urban areas. Their best DSL offerings don't even meet the definition of broadband any more.
Anything related with astronomy, for example.

Pasteur, Galileo, Einstein, Wegener...
I'm confused about how a "GC compromise" would help with having to pass things around the stack. It sounds like you just want a request-scoped global or something, but I don't know what that has to do with the GC?

FWIW, I think request-scoped globals are terrible and is among the many things I hated about Flask. I think generics will largely solve this problem by allowing us to write generic middleware with a type-safe context and probably even functions to compose the middleware and automatically propagate the context variables.