skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> impossible to mine bitcoin without burning up cpu time which means energy.

i'm sure you would agree that amount of energy required to find signatures at 0 difficulty is negligible

> And every year it gets harder, by design (to control the volume of new btc).

no, it doesn't get harder "by design", it gets harder because bitcoin is an instrument that has created a market where financial security can be purchased in form of energy, so it gets harder because that kind of security has value on the market and users keep purchasing it.

> But of course you know that. I wonder why the trollish comments.

turns out you were wrong in your assumptions, yet you proceeded to call me a troll. how about not doing that in future?
Barbra Streizand? Is that you?
Yes, that rig looks too close to a Darwin award.
No. It was definitely an act of deliberate sabotage. It’s well-documented.
Yes it does. It may not run on it in production but a lot of us use it locally to replicate production as closely as possible. If my local machine is broken because they pushed out yet another breaking change and FORCED me to upgrade from a working version to that broken version.
Mine was the UK english one. I don't know what present perfect is, as I said many UK state schools didn't teach English grammar in the late 80's/90's.
A lot of people use it for fantasy sports because... I'm not sure why but they do. Also its impossible to set up email forwarding with them so I have a very old email address I keep active.
Programmers may care about performance, but project managers certainly don't and they always have the final say

LOL no. Offer a dev choice between a framework that is trending on Twitter, vs one that is 100x faster but "legacy" (meaning more than a year old) and she'll choose the first one every time, and the project manager won't know the difference, or care if he did.
I still have a verizon.net email address (managed by AOL) that I use exclusively for sites that are likely to spam me. The torrent of political email I got at that address before the last election was amazing to behold.
> Yet journalists seem to love it

Companies know this.

Journalists have been trained not to investigate the underlying (often, dysfunctioning organizational) causes of software meltdowns - and happily stop at "glitch!" - which seems to absolve everyone of responsibility.
Thats a really good point.
Doubtful that they lost money. The company has probably returned some profit over all these years. They got a huge tax benefit from the 2018 write-off, $1BN from selling the Yahoo buildings to Google, and now $5BN from selling 90% of it.
Who does Microsoft partner with for ad monetization? Verizon Media
I find it quite amusing that Germany seems to be very anti-nuclear as a culture, yet they are right next door to France which has plenty of Nuclear power plants.
Ethereum EVM Illustrated [pdf]
The post holiday COVID surge affected many entities. It’s a viscous cycle, a quarantine in Nashua breaks a process in San Diego!

I probably had 50% of my on-site people quarantined during that period, and every vendor was impacted. IIRC, 90% of orders were delivered late.
Is Yahoo hiring? How's the pay? I think it'd be kind of fun to work for a zombie Web 1.0 giant in a weird sociological way. My first email address was @yahoo.com -- thank you for losing/forcibly deleting all my embarrassing teenage missives.
> But foo(x : int) is a string!

Can you say so decisively for a language with first-class functions?
How about having a short timeout for making transactions and a longer timeout for viewing balances and transactions?
So what’s the track record for this Ming-Chi Kuo person?

I see a strong incentive to make crazy, interesting, far-into-the-future predictions in order to increase ad click revenue.
Is this the final blow for Yahoo!'s finance API?
Notice from the DB announced that the 100'000 threshold is only for customers with a NemKonto at DB. If you don't have NemKonto at DB, the threshold is 0.
> The lack of arrow in the merge direction page was baffling

For what it's worth, it came from the fact that you were doing `git diff master...feature-branch`

Totally agree with you that the coding time is likely a tiny part of the total time spent. Tiny wins are hard to find.
Interesting, this completely contradicts my own experience. Is it possible there is something broken with the Boston area USPS operations that isn't systemic across the rest of USPS?
hmmm, yes.
>country and equipment.

Norway.
Asko DWC5926 (DWC5926W).
Seko PR-4 and PR-1.

This is the short version. There are some issues and fixes you should be aware of. Like how to fix a design fault at a circulation pump wire. There is also an easier way to rewire the machine from 3 phase to single phase if you’re doing that.
Generally the Asko machine is a unicorn.
You can also look at the Miele professional dishwashers that come with automatic dosing systems and sanitizing rinse.
“AOL sells huge number of paid dialup based email accounts”

Do they really?

I am not being sarcastic. I cannot find a recent reference to this (everything seems to be from 2015), but given my experience getting my aunt away from AOL email: it seems horribly plausible.
What are the Amazon level logistics and delivery service that is available to a smaller retailer? I see some nascent choices but they really aren’t that close.
Very good, likely the best https://appletrack.com/ming-chi-kuo/
But, indirectly it becomes an interesting problem (nlp research). If we didn't have people playing / making video games then we wouldn't have figured out GPU acceleration to use with deep networks (backpropagation is fast when you can do matrix multiplication fast).
I still think Yahoo is not worth 5 billion. Sure, it makes some revenue from mail and ads, yahoo mail is essentially the AOL of our generation. Ppl hanging onto it and the new kids dont even know about yahoo.
Every time a business gets this successful someone will inevitably come out of the woodwork and say "the government now needs to own this, there is no other option" - wat?
Various scientists and organizations have been yelling for years that air pollution is one of the leading causes heart disease and cancer. It's not "hidden", it's being ignored...

https://www.iarc.who.int/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/AirPollu...
While some number north of 90% of working Americans use some form of Direct Deposit to get paid, in the the US, we still use paper checks for things. For me, personally, I pay all bills I can online. There are still three things I need to write checks for, they have no online payment option at all. I pay those online through a service my bank offers, but my bank turns around and sends a paper check. Not all consumers use online bill pay services, a lot of people still get paper bills and send paper checks in response.

On top of this, something like 5-6% of Americans households don't have a bank account at all. The ones that do get paid by a steady income in this category expect to get a paycheck and cash it at a bank or check cashing service (generally with a fee).
You don't think that diesel fumes are a more likely culprit?

I saw this study mentioned which showed negligible risk for passive smoking unless you are actually living with a smoker.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2013/12/12/study-f...
There's no reason the blind forward cannot include the original email's recipient list as well.

The OP's point is that it should be a simple 1 step process instead of a multi step process.

I suspect they are further suggesting that email clients should modify their behavior so that when someone enters recipients in the BCC list, instead of BCC'ing the recipients, it auto forwards the mail to them (if they do that it would also make sense to pick a different title than BCC to avoid further confusion).
There is git-bug [0]. Haven't had the time to evaluate it yet, so no idea how useful it is.

[0] https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug
Another application of this is counting unique IPs in Apache access logs.

zgrep -Po '^[0-9.]+' /var/log/apache2/test.access.log | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
Wow, that is interesting. If a colleague turned to me and described a bug/issue as a glitch I would be very confused.
I'd have to peg that purchase as the inflection point turning away from "don't be evil."
You're right, I mistook your external costs to mean the subsidized price of meat and dairy. My apologies.
An overview of Laravel: from monolithic apps to fully decoupled systems Pt.1
Shameless plug for bashojs (bashojs.org), for the JavaScripters:

A one liner to update all your npm deps to latest. I use this quite a lot.

basho --import './package.json' pack -j pack -j 'Object.keys(x.dependencies)' -m x -e 'npm install ${x}@latest'

Explanation of how this works:

1) Import package.json, call it 'pack'. 2) Put pack in the pipeline. 3) map pack to pack.dependencies. 4) flatMap (-m x) to remove nesting. Because pipeline is an array, and it contains pack.dependencies - another array. 5) Exec command with '-e'
What is import? Does it read text from image?
I do this all the time for validation effort etc. where they need an artifact.
I've definitely noticed Verizon being more willing to deprecate old services in Yahoo/AOL/Oath over the last few years. Do you expect this to speed up (i.e. leadership was being conservative) or slow down (they were chopping too much/all the chopping should, in theory, be done)?
> if you're BCC'ing two different organizations where a dangerous situation would result from one of those organizations knows the other received it

Agreed. But, I think the real problem comes from sending a BCC'd email to hundreds of recipients and accidentally exposing the first person's information to everyone else.
Does Discord let you create multiple accounts with the same email address?
Yes, extremely valuable. Searched and applied for jobs, contacted by (some) serious recruiters, contacted old colleagues about job related and other stuff and following (some) interesting people
The CircleCI hack was (eventually) caught because the hash of the downloaded file no longer matched.

If the checksum is hosted in a different place than the file, it requires an attacker to compromise two separate systems.

In the typical system, though, the hash sitting next to the file isn't particularly useful.
Totally agree with the diagnosis of the problem but not the solution. I don't think switching the color is good UX—if I know the top of the page has a big green button', I'm not going to expect that button to have conditional behavior.
Screens are not at all durable. Surface has to be pliable for obvious reasons which makes it susceptible to scratching. Even a finger nail run down the screen can permanently mark it if the galaxy fold is anything to go by.

I’m not quite sure of the use case for these devices really.
All we need is a peer reviewed study proving it.
Well this is disappointing...
I fully agree, it's really hard to compare things like these across national boundaries. The actual countries don't really matter for the point I tried to make anyway: There are large cross-country differences between countries right now, so it seems prudent to look into those if one wants to decrease traffic deaths.

Waiting for L5, even if it actually is achieved in the current AI cycle, will introduce a whole new class of problems once self driving cars become a meaningful share of traffic, e.g. coordination/cooperation between cars and so on.
Microsoft was try to buy market share in the search engine. This is when they were making a play for Bing to be a market contender in Search. We don’t know what would have happened if Bing had 20% market share out the gate, as well as access to Yahoo expertise/tech. A significant share of Search today would be worth significantly l more than $44B, and this deal would have been a fair gambit for Microsoft to make.

It was a very good offer, but it wasn’t enough for Yahoo to sell. Perhaps a larger offer would have helped, but I think Yahoo had an inflated opinion of their own worth.
It depends on the language. Modern languages feel like that because they evolved on high resolution workstation screens with GUIs that could use smaller fonts. You can do 132x50 on most SVGA cards, but you’ll want a bigger screen for that (and the fonts will be ugly 8x8 or 6x8 ones).

Writing BASIC on 80x25 feels constrained, but 80x35 is much better. Java would be a lot more concise if it was designed with VT-100s in mind.
Also, "notepad FILENAME" will open the file in notepad... etc.
This write-up seems to skip the part of the story where John Glenn popularized the word glitch.
If you do your taxes on paper, you'll have entered your date of birth in that way (upper right corner): https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/cra-arc/formspubs/pbg/5015...
Dang has personally told me to avoid incendiary language and while I personally disagree with the exact definition used at hackernews, it's their playground so I'm trying to be a good citizen. But I agree
> Those years were the loneliest of my life.

What did you change to turn this around?
If you haven't, ask your doctors where it might to spread to, and carefully monitor changes in those areas.

I have experienced three cases in my close relationships where spreading was not picked up for a long time due to being in different body parts.

In one of the cases asthma medication and physiotherapy was prescribed for a year before an unrelated shoulder x-ray caught the attention of the radiologist, and further images showed the cancer had spread to lungs and spine...
This is fascinating. I really don't have much else to say, but I hope this gets some traction because I'm curious as to what the HN discourse thinks of this.

I feel like there are a lot of people (especially around here) who think they could, or wish they could be this person "if they just [X]", and here's an example of a young guy saying "I'm literally just going to do the work, everyday, for 12 hours a day".
Would you mind sharing which fault points you mean? I can't think of any.
Google is well diversified. You even mentioned Youtube and Android. GCP isn't at the top but it's huge. Google docs/business suite is taking over, it's the goto for startups. They have a mobile carrier business. Self driving cars (although its dropping in valuation but they do have a large stake in Uber). Google is now Alphabet which it restructured into because of its diversification.

Small nit: FB wasnt public 10yrs ago but your point is valid either way.
Your result is only about twice my own napkin math, so it checks out. That formula as written has a typo: to get mass per unit time, multiply (not divide) cross-section-speed by mass density.

Other fixes:

- solar radius is 7e8 m, not 1.3e9 m

- c is 3e8 m/s, not 3e9 m/s

I get about 0.5 kg/s https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28pi*%287e8m%29%5E2+*...
My personal theory is that fewer and fewer people spend time on actual general computing devices. When confined to straitjackets like phones and tablets, people resort to the one functionality that is easy to reach for, namely screenshots. I'm guessing the habit spreads?

Just look at the amount of garbage "here's my code as a screenshot, what's wrong?" questions Stack Overflow has to remove each and every single day.
They made $1.9BN just this quarter.
Yeah, having tha actual repellers/propulsors be both lightweight and more or less arbitrary shape could enable quite some nifty designs!

Also as you just need pressurized Gass in the manifold for the thing to fly I wonder if an emergency system with a pressure bottle or even gas generator could be used to give you say 30 seconds of flight time needed for safe emergency landing if your pressure generating engine fails.

Not to mention making it easier to combine two or more independent engines to feed the manifold for redundancy without the crazy complicated and heavy gearing V22 has to achieve that, as mention above.
The only situation I know of where the usps will refuse to deliver is if there is some sort of danger, eg a biting dog. A neighbor had to get a P.O. Box because of this.
How Will Cryptocurrency Impact Casinos?
Yeah, helicopter money is pretty much the easiest way.

However, Japan makes me wonder why it is a problem in the first place. I mean, why does a problem need helicopter money as the solution? Why is no other method capable?

Consider this, if you increase the money supply and inflation doesn't happen, then there must be a deflationary force that is equal to the newly created inflation caused by increasing the money supply. This could be enough explain the ineffectiveness of low interest rates (debt must be paid back and therefore no inflation happens) but it is not enough to explain why QE didn't work because the Fed can sit on financial assets forever, if necessary.
Easily the best layman's explanation out there. Really made it click in my head. I show this to everyone.
Thanks for the links, I'll check them out !
> Commit to do the work necessary to turn it around.

Someone once wrote, years ago, a speculative piece about having the USPS take on a digital role as a kind of nationalized 3rd party identity authentication service. That seemed like a good idea to me. We could certainly use that and it's probably a better and more interesting business model than what currently provides them a huge amount of their revenue-- junk mail.
Disable all notification except a few necessary one.
If possible get an android phone and enable "focus mode".
Try it sometime and see if it works for you
I'm a third party seller and I just left Amazon. When you buy a book, for example, are you aware that 40% of the sale goes to Amazon? Many sellers sell cheap items at a steep loss just to keep their sale metrics up. A couple bad reviews, etc. and your business is kicked off with little explanation and cold or no way to appeal. Third party sellers are not treated well and I'm not surprised Amazon steals seller data metrics
Guessing: Perhaps his residence wasn't an address.
The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act was both put forward by Democrats and a Republicans and passed with broad bipartisan support.
The spike protein alone can cause damage, in other word you don't need a coronavirus infection. The vaccines make your body generate this protein.
It's even shorter in the software industry. I think it was 2-2.5 years or close. Ordinary engineers switch jobs often as the only way to bump up their salaries.
Back when I was working with a bunch of fantasy football fanatics, they considered Yahoo the second-best site for doing so. ESPN's site was considered better, but those running leagues with less tech-inclined folks knew more people had Yahoo accounts already.
I had to create a Slack account to interact with a vendor support team. Run into that mess and can't for the love of god find a "manage all your accounts" interface on Slack. It's insanely counter-intuitive.

I'll avoid Slack as much as possible unless they fix this evil UX.
Optimized games have a well known impact on sales. I'd assume the same with trading software. Putting out a blanket statement that web devs are lazy is just silly. Developers rarely have much say in how much time they can dedicate to features and the app as a whole, that usually boils down to PMs and management. If the org as a whole doesn't value performance or doesn't think it matters, then that will get reflected in the product regardless of what the developers actually want.
Can you describe how the USPS is obsolete whereas FedEx or another private company is not?
Disable all notification excep a few necessary one.
If possible get an android phone temporarily and enable "focus mode". See if it helps
Persuading the Body to Regenerate Its Limbs
A profile of Mike Levin, a biologist using computer science to hack the body's "bioelectric code" and regrow limbs, undo birth defects, shrink tumors, etc.. (Not yet in humans.)
It’s called hedging your bet. Yeah, you’re 95% sure yahoo is useless, but if that 5% happens you’ll look like a complete idiot and be locked out.
I'll buy Yahoo. I got <checks wallet> $48.67. But when I buy it, I want to be CEO. Don't worry, you only need to pay me half of what you paid the previous CEO. I promise I will only devalue the company by half as much as any other selection for CEO you already have. Think of it! That's 4x the value!
At that price I’m surprised some crypto millionaire/billionaire or hell at this point an NFT artist didn’t just buy it as a joke, tokenize it and flip it for profit.

It may sound like a joke or sarcasm but it’s not, and I wouldn’t be entirely surprised if we see this AOL/Yahoo turn into some type of crypto play that can be marketed on the back of the old brands.
I'm with you on almost all of this, but can you explain why you think it's incorrect that Yahoo wouldn't have to spend a lot of money to keep up with Google?

Google's origin story doesn't seem relevant to me, in that Google won because they made radical leaps forward in search quality, compute cost, and and compute scale. As well as company culture around innovation/continuous improvement, I suspect. All at a time when the web was exploding: only 19% of people used the web at Google's launch; by 2008 it was circa 70%. [1]

It seems to me that by 2008, there were fewer easy innovations lying around to make. Or if there were, Google was well prepared to match them. That, plus the way the size of the web had exploded [2] in the decade since Google's launch suggests to me that competing with Google would have been extremely expensive. The way that other people have tried and failed since points that way too, as Google's market share is even larger now than it was in 2008.

[1] See https://www.statista.com/statistics/185700/percentage-of-adu... and https://www.statista.com/statistics/214662/household-adoptio...

[2] From 1997 to 2008, there were more than 100x more websites, and I expect those websites got larger both in number of pages and per-page size. https://www.internetlivestats.com/total-number-of-websites/
> It's not a math equation you run through a computer and get a legal result out the other end.

Not really. This has zero to do with math. At all. We have a buyer and we have a seller, both the buyer and the seller wish to perform a transaction, but then we have a regulator which arbitrarily wants to force them not to execute said transaction because of reasons.

And my question is terribly simple: to those who want to force someone like me from buying what I like from a seller I chose but they arbitrarily reject, how exactly do they wish to force me from buying what I'd like from who I chose to buy from?

No math, no numbers. I'm asking a very simple question: what then?
Pukeko Crazy Game
SlashDB v1.4 now /w SSO and APIs for database views
Give me an instance this kind of salvaging happened in tech. Tech and non tech differ a lot in this case, one cannot use the generic business pattern there. People run of tissues and every time they run out, they seize being a customer and are new customers in the market looking for a brand. That is when discounts, shiny packaging etc help. Tech is not that way. There is an enormous entrenchment with things like email and even news readers. Particularly in online services, People don’t switch, that is the reason why the biggest sites are so loathe to changing the smallest things on their pages. In the same vein, companies that go out of favor don’t ever come back. I am trying to think of examples of any that might have but am unable to. There are tons of brands that are either sold off as acquihires or just left for dead and ignored though.