skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>it's a one-time deal — hard drives can keep farming forever after they're manufactured with minimal electricity consumption

Let's say your mining operation brings in $1000/day in revenue. If it's mining bitcoin you might be paying $500/day in electricity bills, leaving you with $500 as profit to reinvest in the business (ie. buy more hardware). If it's mining chia you might be paying $50/day in electricity. That's $450 in less resources wasted, sounds good right? Well no, because any savvy businesman is going to reinvest that $450 into buying more mining hardware, so you can make even more money. In the end any resource you save from lower electricity consumption just gets poured into manufacturing more hardware.

>And they can be used for other purposes besides just farming Chia

This is a mixed bag, because while it's true that the mining hardware can be repurposed, it also means that during boom times, regular consumers have to pay more for their hardware. See for instance, the GPU shortage.
There are several examples. This is one: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/26/kaspersky...
The right way would be to raise an issue with this dependencies to support ES modules.

I believe vite does support cj's dependencies, you would need to file an issue on vite repo on why you are getting the error
Some orgs have an "office of the CTO" where they put technical experts and advisors that guide larger technology orgs. I have seen this work really well, and really poorly, it just depends on the company and how the CTO function is viewed.

Most of the time you will have strategy work, feasibility, prototyping and larger organizational type of things come out of this role.
Half of that TC goes to taxes, then there is childcare, rent, etc while saving. The home is doable but you’re not going to have a competitive offer unless you’ve been saving for a few years assuming you have no debt.

The point is.. going into work is a waste of time most of the time. That’s why a lot of companies are doing flex schedules now.
Just discovered Plant UML recently, and I've quickly come to love it. Just today I pasted a JSON payload & watched as it generated a diagram from the example.
I do find the default theme not terribly attactive, but that can be can be mitigated with a single import, this site has a great collection:
https://bschwarz.github.io/puml-themes/
> It is up to management to decide what kind of structure are they going to build.

It'd be nice if management was held more accountable when they choose duct tape/rust steel wire/bent nails construction techniques to build multi story apartment blocks instead of chicken coops. But we haven't even solved that problem for actual apartment blocks yet, so I won't be holding my breath for that accountability for software projects any time soon...
> there would be weekly demands to build more rail capacity

As an American living in Japan, part of the reason I moved here is that I think I'd die waiting for any sizable fraction of Americans to demand more rail capacity! I'll happily choose a train full of sweaty salarymen over, say, rush hour traffic in Atlanta any day!
No, we all ditched a perfectly good way of doing something and switch frameworks every 6 months to keep up with the latest JavaScript fad.
Counterpoint: these buildings are gorgeous and only enhance the city. Whenever I’m on 57th St I crane my neck to stare at them as I walk. Often, I’ll just stop for a while to look up in awe.

They haven’t ruined anything.

Moreover, even if you disagree about their beauty, so what? People should be free to build things — even things you don’t personally like!
This reminds me of how Nintendo developers discovered their western customers love drawing phalluses[1]. I don’t find the NSFW percentage to be at all surprising. It was common with Eliza too.

[1] https://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/11/nintendo-created-a-penis-d...
Golongpoll v2.0.0 Released
Golang HTTP long polling server and client library makes web pub-sub super-easy.
I considered this when looking for a new data modeling tool but the software, and the charts it produced, were so ugly I couldn’t do it.

I notice most programmer/engineer types don’t have this hangup. I’ve always felt the same about IDEs with the (what I call) “millions of tiny buttons” design.

For my data modeling I ended up going with a tool called Lucidchart.
UML is an obsolete way to design things. But fortunately PlantUML manages much more than just that.
To be precise, the process of "plotting" (using disk space for Chia) causes a lot of writes to disks, but those writes are a one-time process. Once a plot is written it can be moved anywhere and farmed forever. The actual proof of space algorithm for farming only takes an initial 5 seeks and then 64 seeks for the full proof so farming is not a big stress on disks long-term.
Thanks for your response. I thought the one line offensive response would be easily picked by the bot. But of course I don't know how the bot works.
It's also avoidable by just setting your email client to not load images by default. Not sure if gmail offers this, but I think it does.
Certainly, you can make a case for cities providing broadband just as they provide trash, sewer, parks, libraries, etc.

What you can't do is pretend that private broadband companies would be competing with municipal broadband on equal footing.
I think it's more that there's this curve in your experience level where as you start out, you have no idea how to contextualize error messages outside of your code, so you just pick the thing that seems most related to your particular problem and try to Google it. And newbies are very bad at picking the relevant bits, so searching for the errors they are seeing often doesn't help them address the problem they are actually trying to solve. As you gain experience, you are able to pick out the signal from the noise and so going through the errors you seem becomes a valuable exercise.
Yeah, 1PB is only 56x 18TB external hard drives.
Off topic, but perhaps of interest to anyone in Thailand who would like to experience similar views firsthand:

https://www.booking.com/hotel/th/thirty-nine-boulevard-execu...

The room my wife and I booked in 2019 offered a panoramic, bird's eye view of Bangkok's skyline from one of the higher floors in the building. Not bad at ~$90 / night at the time.
From your link (https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/homemade-gun...), it appears there is at least this federal limitation on homemade firearms:

"Because the Undetectable Firearms Act makes illegal any firearm that cannot be detected by a metal detector, every firearm must contain some amount of metal. This means that a plastic 3D printed firearm must have a metal plate inserted into the printed body"
Well you are free to do things but not at the cost of pollutions.
Household disposable income (USD/capita)
Unlikely, because the part of the adenovirus they delete that allows it to replicate is what they replace with the portion that generates the spike protein antigen. So if some of the adenovirus is replicating it's inherently not doing what you want it to do to produce an immune response.
One interesting thing about chia is that before you can “farm” you have to “plot”. Plotting (generating the files that fill up the hard drive to provide the proof of stake) takes fast SSDs and lots of CPU, if you want to build your farm in any reasonable timeframe.

The challenge is that it requires you to buy different sets of hardware to earn chia, and the high performance plotting hardware is only needed temporarily (while you’re filling up hard drives). It seems a cottage industry of plotting services is already developing so that those that want to farm don’t have to invest in the hardware to plot.

Farming requires very little CPU and slow disks are not a problem.
Actually, the pandemic has pushed many Japanese businesses (and the government) to finally deprecate the use of hanko/faxes for everything.

Also, it's not just Japan. Fax machines are still integral to the American medical system [1], for instance.

[1] https://www.vox.com/health-care/2017/10/30/16228054/american...
I guess it will go up a little, but I am willing to bet that a bunch of the cases you mentioned where they had to send people around are now done online. I will be really shocked if the google IO is not an online conference going forward.
do you need to use ssds with chia?
Singing trash-trolleys are common in Taiwan as well.
Google Reader made RSS feel just like Gmail (which isn't the same as email in general I will agree, but close enough for many people). It was fast, dense, and easy to scan days and weeks of content in a single sitting. I'm _still_ mad they gave it the axe so Vic Gundotra could juice the numbers on failing Google+.
I never had a Blackberry but everyone I know who did says it was the best phone they ever had.
Since you don’t work there anymore you can name them or at least the company
Agreed. I’m a liberal and a democrat but the Dems and the media are not brave whistleblowers for suppressing the truth until the very last politically tenable moment.
non-consenting means not actively choosing the activity. Words or their absence are evidence from which someone might infer consent, but do not define it.
Wealthy people minus a few eccentrics are most certainly not parking their money in NFTs. The crazy $69MM Beeple headline was actually a purchase by an NFT related company from what I understand.

Not withstanding unoccupied real estate investments are a problem in every major city. It's usually wealthy foreign investors living far away in particular...e.g. Russia -> London, China -> Singapore/Vancouver, etc. really seems like non-occupied real estate purchases by foreign capital ought to be restricted a bit legally
I really enjoyed reading this article. But ... as the owner of a sprinter van, this sentence leaped out at me:

>Frances McDormand plays the fictional nomad Fern, whom the story follows over the course of about a year of wandering around the American West in a sprinter van sometime after the death of her husband.

Fern does not drive a Sprinter.

Call me picky. Call me a pedantic asshole. It's OK.
>You can "Save" chats for yourself for later.

Can you, though? With Telegram, perhaps. But "chat" in general does not have this. Depends heavily on the service, in my experience.
The cognitive load would come from unfamiliarity more than anything. It dissipates once you learn and use the system enough regardless of how you interact with it(assuming the UI is consistent and reliable, which far too many aren't)
I don't understand what you mean by "go the way", most places I've worked it is the way and always has been. Keeping politics and religion out of the workplace is just called "being professional". Seems like we're just rediscovering why things are that way.
You choose your political views about as much as you choose your sexual orientation. There are genetic factors, childhood influences, etc. It's even likely to correlate somewhat with your particular combination of race and location - for example, an ethnic Swede might see a strong border and tight immigration controls as essential for the survival and prosperity of his culture and people; an Ethiopian might see an open Swedish border with very lax immigration controls as an incredible opportunity to improve the lot of his own kind. Criminally, we call the first a "racist".
By your definition, I could say about Newton's Principa Mathematica "He put some words on paper, groundbreaking" Or Linus "He put some bits on disk, groundbreaking"

If you don't think her book is interesting, that's fine. But treating the methodology of how she got access to take the pictures as her sole output is lazy.
As a Canadian, I fully agree but will also say that it didn’t used to be like that.

Canadians held doors, helped each other, and apologized for being in the way because we had a deeply ingrained belief that everyone is equal. When every human being is equal to you, of course you would help, or point out TP on a shoe, or applaud their culture.

However, at some point in the last 20 years “Excuse me” has gone from “We both have an equal right to this space, and I had not noticed I took more than my fair share” to “I’m dirt, and not worthy of taking space at all”.

People who believe they are equal is perceived as “high and mighty”/ostracized, while people who believe they are dirt are welcomed as fellow commiserators to complain with.

Fair warning: I’ve lived in Canada my whole life, and have watched a lot of shifts that either break my heart or frustrate me.
The simplest answer is land value tax
and taxes. Buy lunch yourself, its on after-tax wages. Employer buys you lunch, it is a tax write off for the employer.

Income tax at the marginal tax rate can reach nearly 40% for some of these workers. So that $10 lunch would require a pay-raise of nearly $17 to break-even.
> ... it feels like a get rich quick scheme for its founders

Well, Bitcoin itself is a get rich quick scheme for its founders. So are most of its spinoffs.
Aren't Slack's threaded conversations basically a new take on usenet? It's not distributed, and silo'ed of course.. but it's the same idea if you squint.
My only mildly successful mobile app was on Blackberry. It offered encrypted notes and was predominantly purchased by wall st traders and... users from Indonesia. The market for it was always a curiosity to me.
Having done a lot of driving through the Texas triangle, I can tell you that the biggest detriment to HSR would be the fact that you still need a car after you get off your train.

I've taken the greyhound/megabus between cities, and it's pretty decent, but then I either need someone to drive 30 mins one way to pick me up or shell out $30+ for an Uber to get to where I need to go, and then more Ubers if I need to get around afterwards.

To make the intercity transport really compelling, the cities themselves need good public transport coverage, and the triangle cities are too damn big for that to happen in the foreseeable future. They have some, but it takes forever and the reach isn't that high.

I'd rather have a mostly self driving car that can take me 80% of the way on the interstate highway between the cities.
No, it's just useful to use SSDs for plotting since they're faster. For farming any storage (HDDs, for example) are fine.
Agree.

Also, you could do the following things which Voice doesn't support:

- Have multiple chats open (and be working on several responses) at the same time

- Star chats (nice workflow for remembering to respond later)

Although there were a couple things which, annoyingly, never worked right:

- Receiving contacts (vcards) from iOS.

- Starting a new group text (more than one recipient) from within Gmail. You could respond to an existing group text but to start a new one, I had to do it from the hangouts app on my phone.
Great for you! I feel exactly the opposite, I feel trapped in my house, super-ecstatic that the kids are finally in school now and can't wait for the office to open.
> But despite the breathtaking views, Schmied says the multi-million-dollar condos were dishearteningly dull

How many new apartments aren't dull? If you're spending $90 million on an apartment, the last thing you would want is for it to be in the style of some architect's avant-garde idea of beauty. If you want to add personality, you hire your own interior designers to find your own aesthetic.
> and is named after a jungle.

I thought it was named after a river?
The glib response is that if you're trying to avoid triggering someone, I'd wager more people reading it have been raped than have been murdered.
>perfectly good way of doing something

I don't agree
Gunpoint? This is rich from a bunch of tinkerers and competitors that literally want the people with guns to force Apple to change its platform because competing with them is too hard, and Android sucks so badly as an alternative. Consumers certainly aren’t making these arguments.
What a fascinating read.

The fact that someone died, a mother, is the greatest stain on that guy’s conscience and criminal career.
At least she did not manage to convince herself that she really is a billionaire heiress and start raising funds to build art museums.
The number of buildings in walking distance to a train station is very limited. Your case can't be generalized.

Yes. Roads can also be optimized.
If you think that the buildings are ugly and damage the city, you'd be opposed to them. You like them so are not.

As for "people should be free to build things", we decided over 100 years ago that wasn't the case. Not unrestrained by zoning laws and concern for the community.
People with, shall we say, radically progressive views, are more than comfortable to share them openly in the staff rooms, kitchens, before and after meetings, etc. without anybody contending with them. Anybody with more centrist, or God forbid conservative views, saves them for the pub afterwards or for their private gatherings. The Overton window seems to shift weekly.
-100 + 1500 = 1400

> Also, how would Chinese naval power help Japanese foresters learn

A bit rusty on my Asian history, but cultural exchange between China and Japan has been going on for millennia. Writing, food (rice imported 500 BC), culture, religion. It wasn’t until the mid 1600’s that Japan shut down and did their own thing.
While not good for the local housing market for sure, the country does gain from a ton of foreign illicit income being converted to its own currency and an easily seizable asset conveniently parked within its borders.

Cities and counties can also implement vacancy taxes and such to somewhat lessen this problem.
Most trash in Japan is incinerated anyway...
I do not see why it is flamebait any more than discussion of anti-nonwhite racism, which is common on this site, is flamebait. My intent is neither to flame nor to bait and I did not come in to a non-political topic and make it political. Unless I am misreading something, it seems to me that as far as you are concerned certain opinions on this topic are taboo. Fair enough, I will not bother you again with it, but it does seem to me that you are judging based on my viewpoint, not based on my attitude or tone or intent.
Differential Evolution Global Optimization with Python
This is absolutely not true, the easiest example being the second amendment.
Perhaps previously, but at this point hundreds of millions of people have been injected with mRNA vaccines and the safety profile and efficacy seem much better than any other vaccine technology.
And if someone wrote an article about linus with that headline, i would call the article stupid too.
What was her methodology?

> To pass as a convincing buyer, Schmied enlisted an antiquarian friend in Budapest to serve as her “husband,” and invented a 21-month-old baby, a personal chef, and a personal assistant named "Coco." She also blew the entire allowance from her residency at Dumbo’s Triangle Arts Association on manicures, makeup and clothes.

Oh, but right...literally none of that was necessary:

>...Surprisingly, none of the brokers asked for a credit check or proof of net worth. “I think at that level, they don’t bother with financial information,” she explains.
Without getting into the details, I don't think anyone here has to worry about becoming a victim of these persons, being accidentally hired by these persons, or accidentally doing business with them to the point where it supports their activities. I wouldn't mention it if I thought it was still an issue.
>Excluding racists from the workplace is not [excluding] a section of the workforce

I think you disproved your own point.
There are 58 prior HN comments with plantuml.com, mostly in various discussions of diagramming tools, but not only that: https://ampie.app/url-context?url=plantuml.com
And a bunch of pages on the same domain have also been mentioned in HN comments.

There was also a thread about Plant UML in 2019 with 48 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21426793
I did say if you are willing to bend some ethics.
I forget the exact wording in his autobiography but it was something like "I can't pretend I'm crazy enough to prefer being in my seat to the other two's. But I've got my own part to play."
I would like to hear the story of how Google saved money from promotions due to covid
They're not leaks, they literally had talks and blog posts about it. https://www.slideshare.net/MrChrisJohnson/from-idea-to-execu...
Douglas Adams described automatic doors and elevators that emit small pleasure sounds as they opened decades ago (in the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy)!

The parody future is now!
You forgot to mention the most recent innovation in Japanese work culture:

Excel.

It's used for everything.
> Bitcoin itself is a get rich quick scheme for its founders

Regardless of what you think about Bitcoin, this claim is completely ahistorical.
I think you are romanticizing both who this was available to and how "easy" being a settler was...
Indeed. This varies widely, and the save does too.

Does not compare to email and all the options one has.
Opsera raises $15M for its continuous DevOps orchestration platform
I wouldn't dare put a number on it: I frankly don't know what the ratio would be, or if there even was just one ratio.

I stand by what I said, and my main point was that this is a highly textured aspect of human experience. It's hard to reduce that to a > or a <.

And also I think in the United States, the impact of wealth is quite high compared to other places. I think one's perspective on this would likely depend on where they grew up.
At least in my experience being close to the multifamily industry, Google Fiber offers installing 1gig for free in the apartments but explicitly lays out that there are no provisions against installing another internet provider (besides something along the lines of 'you cant allow another ISP to install if they have an exclusivity agreement themselves'). Spectrum is the big culprit in this; while the one I was involved in didn't have an actual exclusivity agreement, they did have an exclusive advertising agreement where you couldn't mention competing ISPs to prospects or in marketing material.
I’d argue that the vast majority of users don’t upgrade their products. Everybody I know who isn’t already tech savvy just buys a new laptop when their old one feels slow or the battery doesn’t last as long. They don’t care about upgrading it.
> Why would you expect them to understand how Signal works? A lawyer does not and cannot become a subject matter expert for every aspect of a case they undertake.

I really hope the lawyer I’m hiring is at least a subject matter expert on the specific laws around the subject. Then a simple google search would explain how this data isn’t available.
Same sort of flow, sort of. Not distributed and siloed are very big differences.
Not the point I was making.

If a city provides any service: water, sewer, broadband, from property taxes, its going to be really really hard for any company to compete with that.

So you can make the case for municipal broadband, but don't pretend that private ISPs are going to compete with it.
It's not considering the disease it's protecting against and the currently likelihood of getting it, but if we were talking a flu shot or a vaccine for some much less common disease that math would change.
Makes me want to take my few hundred thousands in retirement savings and live like a literal king in the 3rd world.
What’s the implication here? Anyone with a pulse on moderate or conservative media must be a rabid Trump supporter? What do we gain from this kind of dichotomous thinking?
I prefer to have actual access control rather than relying on my adversary not being able to iterate ints.
Posting direct link here for convenience: https://kwarantine.xyz
Minty-Fresh: Using a Menthol-Like Compound to Activate Plant Immune Mechanisms
That QA failure means the vaccine injected is different: they tested without reproduction competent in the trials. What else could they have missed along with this?