skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But those aholes are sooo useful.

A company has a interior and a endoplasmatic reticulum, and while the interior can be a nice place, the parts closer to the skin get continuously more ahole. Which makes it a intersting question if Dick was a ahole to everyone equally.

Some people in there have to be the mean guys, stopping cash from hemorrhaging outwards, be the grave digger for eternal projects, who everybody wants to "save" since the founding of the company.
Being a Machiavellian brute when it comes to negotiation, with other Machiavellian brutes.

A company is like a spaceship in a hostile environment, and you need ass-tronauts to climb out and weld the holes shut, that the universe punches into it. And if you life dangerously, you will want to "measure" up with all other guys, who of course claim "to life dangerously too", but might run on first sign of trouble. Dick might actually regard her much higher for hitting him, than a lot of his colleagues. Very neanderthal, but that is how it is.

And then there are sexist aholes, who should be beaten to death with a baseball bat. Like that Thuna guy. Makes me ashamed to be part of the species. Seriously, should be fired, with a public declaration of why, so he never will ever be hired by anyone again.
Speaking of true amiga experience, one thing I can’t seem to find are 8520 CIA chips for my A500 and A2000. I’m surprised no one ever made an fpga replacement for those chips or those amiga patent holders never cared to do another fab run. Fabs are much cheaper now and considering how many active amiga project there are right now, I’m sure there would be a good market for that, instead of wasting good boards just for prying out chips. If anyone has any insight about that, I’m sure a lot of amgians here would like to know!
Thanks for the TLDR. Based on this I'll not read it.
Bitcoin doesn’t waste energy—https://unchained-capital.com/blog/bitcoin-does-not-waste-en...
Yes please. I grew up in and came back to Northern California but San Diego has better Mexican food and we don’t talk about it enough. I uncharitably claim that San Francisco seems to have a reputation for awesome Mexican food more from visitors from New York and other places outside the state who don’t know better. I miss midnight burritos from Cotixan’s something fierce. I haven’t found anything comparable up here since moving back, after years of trying. I have resigned myself to an admittedly still solid mission style burrito or just sneaking over to the taco side of the menu to bypass the burrito feelings.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s some good places up here for other aspects of Mexican and Mexican adjacent food, but I dearly miss San Diego style burritos and haven’t found a replacement.
An iPhone is a physical thing. All kinds of different metals were mined/recycled and manufactured and shipped around the world.

A bitcoin transaction is virtual. Some bits have to be flipped. That it is such an energy intensive and environmentally bad clusterfuck is a tragedy.
If you do this, maybe make something like the guy who ate every slice of pizza in manhattan?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/kbx3vv/this-man-ate-every-sl...

http://www.sliceharvester.com/

other good domain names available:

burrito.is

burrito.inc

burrito.

burrito.engineering

burrito.guru

burrito.center

burrito.services

burrito.technology

burrito.reviews

burrito.catering

burrito.services

burrito.supply

burrito.builders

burrito.zone
Browsers are fast, but the content they render is very slow.
I find the choice to use ownership language strange. The url/uri based systems are fundamentally inadequate for many if not most of their current use cases (they are not and never were intended to be persistent), and as the authors point out, there the urn system requires a central authority. Thus there is a need for some other system.

The ability to claim and prove authorship and determine the provenance (or tampering) of an identified document is crucial. For the most part people bindly trust that the nytimes.com that they are seeing is the real one, but there are so many ways that the can be compromised it is hard to comprehend.

More importantly, the current ways of protecting oneself against such issues are no longer accessible to the common man except via an interaction with some giant corporate edifice that they also have to trust. If you want to publish a document and distribute it in a way that its integrity and authorship can be determined there aren't good options.

Even more more to the point, there is currently no way general way to give a link to such a document that can be dereferenced to an untrusted host in such a way that the integrity of the document can be verified.

I supposed we could all share magnet links and check that they were signed with the nytimes pgp key, but then we are back to the issue of how to determine and distribute the nytimes pgp key. The WOT doesn't work, and pgp fails for anonymous publishing. Maybe the infrastructure behind DIDs will be able to solve the problems with WOT.

It will be interesting to see what comes of this, but I'm wary of its adjacency to the blockchain buzzwords.
Sending an Airtag using postal mail
In the US I'd just get a money order from the post office and put it in there. No currency, no expiration, backed by fedgov.
Discord is relatively new and rose up out of nothing very quickly. IMO, facebook/twitter style social networks just suck. They simply aren't a good idea. Instant messaging and VOIP is the greatest format for socializing. I'd much rather spend an hour in a voice call with a group of friends than scroll instagram.
> Are you sure that tube amps don't sound better than solid state amps? This is such a common knowledge in the "guitar world" that I can't believe that it's not true.

Poets around the world throughout history have tried to quantify beauty and failed. I always find it humorous that guitar players think they can succeed when they are far less well-equipped to the task.

However, a couple of points:

1) Old solid-state amps were mostly built to be cheap, so they sucked. Modern ones are constructed significantly better.

2) Vintage tube amps often have more variation (and may or may not have been repaired faithfully which increases the variation) so you occasionally get one that has "magic".

The downside is that most of the amps don't have that magic--you will probably never encounter the "stage queen" personally. Another downside is that you can lose the "magic" pretty easily.

This is something that the vintage amp guys all gloss over. If you got the "stage queen"--congratulations! Of course the other 300 in the production batch don't sound anywhere near as nice.

3) Dimebag Darrell, for example, liked his solid-state Randall sound very much. Who are you to argue?

4) Modern modeling amps are getting REALLY good at mimicking the tube amps. This means that you CAN have that "stage queen" that you will never encounter personally. And you can create sounds that the stage queen can't. Whether they're "pleasing" is a different story.

5) Each individual amp has a "sound"--whether solid-state or tube. The question at the end of the day is: "Do you, personally, like how that amp sounds?" And, if the answer is "Yes", plug your guitar into the amp, play what you want, and tell the poseurs to go pound sand.
It means the same as any other valuable thing in our society caused by artificial scarcity - limited printings, trading cards, dollar bills, stamps, Bitcoin, software, music, books, etc.
Would be so much better for them to simply tell you "we do not allow using our site via TOR" which is totally understandable instead of such nonsense.
The desktop OSes that use Linux do not have the device drivers decoupled from the kernel. Apple also builds these drivers into Darwin (hence Nvidia GPUs breaking on MacOS), Windows (on x86-64 only) is the only platform that has a semi-stable ABI for device drivers.

Microsoft has dedicated many developer years to supporting said API, and all the kernel panics caused by said drivers.
Let everyone mark sites as high or low quality, and then count other peoples ranking in proportion to how well the correlate with your ranking.

(A vague idea I've wanted to implement for awhile now for both search engines, and for HN/reddit like sites... but the amount of effort to do it well would be really high)
> The days of 80% drops are over.

I suppose the NASDAQ only lost 75% from Feb 2000 to Sept 2002. Granted, it got back to its 2000 peak 15 years later. My point is that even normal companies traded publicly, held by institutional investors, with government oversight, see large drops after an asset bubble. I see no reason why bitcoin ETFs establish a floor price.
They care, just not enough to uproot their lives and drop their communication with other people on the platform. That's where Apple and governments come in and simply make tracking unviable.
You can’t get all the way there but it’s a North Star, I think.
>the quickest route between two points is along a straight line through the Earth’s interior.

Not true, it's a hypocycloid curve.

https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/SphereWithTunnelBrachisto...
Is it that, or are they trying to impose fungibility on an inherently infungible asset?
Another example:

> “Use const and the compiler will optimize that away!” Nobody knows what the compiler will do, if nobody checked what the compiler did.

Rust (in the Rustonomicon if nowhere else) specifically promises that const gives you the same results you'd get by calculating and manually inlining the constant itself everywhere. It even spells out all the things you thus can, and can't do in a constant so that your compiler can definitely correctly evaluate the constant from the point of view of the target architecture despite potentially different hardware.

e.g. if you tell Rust

const BAR :isize = isize::from_be(0x1234);

You've conjured a constant BAR whose size and data layout depends on the target architecture, but the language promises that figuring this out incurs no runtime cost, the work will be done at compile time.

Indeed Rust will refuse to compile your program if it can't figure out how to do this, explaining what went wrong, e.g. that same above snippet would not have worked years ago, because isize::from_be() was not yet marked as suitable for such endeavours and so the compiler wouldn't attempt it.

If you mark a function the compiler can't evaluate as being suitable, the compiler will reject that too, even if you don't use the function, somebody else might and it won't disappoint them.
Why Aren't We Wearing Better Masks?
>That's the point where you loose your in-house grip on things, and run into trouble if your contractors are not up to it.

What definitive conclusion are we supposed to get from that Bloomberg article you cited? That cheap outsourced $9/hr programmers from India caused the MCAS flaws which led to plane crashes? Therefore, if Boeing had used in-house American programmers, it wouldn't have been a problem? But if the specifications for the software were designed by Boeing management, it wouldn't have mattered where the programmers were located that actually coded it. From the investigative reports I read, it wasn't the programmers that decided 1 Angle-of-Attack sensor instead of checking 2 redundant ones -- it was the aerospace engineers and managers above the programmers.

The Bloomberg article uses a narrative technique to bias the reader a certain way (reader nods in agreement "outsourcing caused the problem") -- rather than present unbiased Root Cause Analysis.

As counterpoint, Tesla has programmers inhouse in California to code the self-driving software and yet it had serious flaws which contributed to fatalities. So is the correct conclusion to say that inhouse programming is "bad"? Of course not.

Your cite of that type of Bloomberg article gives me an idea of what you found compelling about this thread's blog post. In my case, I was more focused on the "more outsourcing means less innovation" aspect which wasn't convincing.
One of the nasty things about a death march is that it drains you of the time and energy you need to search for a job that isn't a death march.
We can napkin math the best case comparison for Bitcoin. According to the BLS [1], the entire financial industry employs approximately 2.6% of the US population. Bitcoin's energy consumption is about 129TWh, or ~3% of total US energy consumption. In reality, the population proportional slice of national energy consumption probably vastly overweights the finance industry's direct energy usage and the US is particularly inefficient compared to most countries in per-capita energy consumption. Not to mention, that's the entire financial system. Bitcoin only uses that to run the network, which is a miniscule portion of what the other side is handling.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag50.htm
Some exacerbated by every recent trend, it seems. Every “I’m starting a Substack!” story seems to be for someone that’s going to post endless reams of their opinions and not do an ounce of actual original reporting. I know Glenn Greenwald won a Pulitzer but it wasn’t for the kind of writing he posts now.
What information are you talking about? For a simple list of facts? Sure. But there is so much more you are getting. An hour spent on a discord call with friends transfers a whole lot more information than an hour spent typing messages to each other.
The idea is that compost is used as fertilizer. That fertilizer is used to grow plants, and plants reduce greenhouse gases.
You could design an API that is very confusing to use, changes randomly, and all the documentation is only written in a language no one speaks.
The Selection Accumulator; a Jukebox's Brain
I have seen the opposite with doctors in my experience, going with what is the cheapest working option for the patient be it handing out several free sample packs to try a drug to checking for best covered option as a default. Like "XR is more expensive but we can subsitute three times a day for as cheap with your minimal plan vs okay you have good insurance, I can switch you to XR". I guess it is just good medical practice to help ensure dosage compliance if they aren't trying to ration the expense.
> I've yet to meet someone who is even cognizant that Numpy is really calling out to some low level C

then you've never met anybody who builds the tools that you use. Which is alright. But if you disparage their point of view then you sound a bit funny.
Introduction to Sequent Calculus
Should we expect localized endothelial inflammation in that case?
With most of these things, its all about using the item as a status symbol. Having a rare painting on your wall shows status. NFTs don't and likely never will have the same impact.
Good to see Dos Toros on the list, I know one of the founders. Used to play shows with his band in the Bay Area in the early 2000s!
I think it will depend some, but our import-export balance is so far toward export right now that I really don't see it fully reversing?
Ok, it is an anecdote but makes us think about how expensive backward compatibility may get.
DeFi Boom Helps Push Ether to Record High
I’ve always like this example from the Matlab documentation:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/stats/biplot.html

The use of car data and how it correlates is a good way of showing how PCA treats each variable. For example acceleration and weight are negatively correlated while displacement and horsepower are highly correlated.
Dos Toros burritos are not great (though to be fair you said tacos), I wish people would stop recommending it.

I spent years looking for a good Mission burrito in New York City, and never found it. Lots of good food, but every burrito was Tex-Mex or San Diego style or some such. Also, I never found a place with real al pastor; it was always grilled.
>Allowing…will end up with users having less choice, not more really

Yeah, also war is peace and ignorance is strength.

People should be allowed to make “bad” decisions, if they can’t it’s not really freedom.
I’m going through this with LA Fitness. They closed their location in downtown Bellevue, WA. The next closest location to me is many miles away, and I’m not going to take an Uber there $10 each way. I’ve been in person and was told to send them a form via mail. I did that 2 months ago. They charged me for March and they just slapped a charge end of April. I’ve called them, was told to come in person again, and told to send another form in the mail. I have no recourse, and I honestly pray these predatory, dishonest criminals have their entire company shut down.

It should be illegal for any gym to force you to come in their physical location or too require mailing in forms to cancel.
Dotfiles from Dotgit to Bombadil
Is anything real? How do you know we're not living in a simulation of burrito tunnels and orbital launch railguns?
Apple Macintosh (128K)
I don't think it's necessarily tooling economies of scale, but probably custom-order costs-- rather than cranking out 5000 standard US QWERTY sets, you have to swap between five different toolings and run 50 sets of each. Even if tooling's free, there's a cost in the short runs and switching.

From what I've seen, a typical new keycap set is 90% existing tooling in a new colour-wave, and 1-10 completely new legends, usually that define the theme (there are seemingly 300 sets with Hiragana sublegends, but this one will have a Windows-logo key replaced with the Strawhat Pirate flag!)

I suspect there are efficencies to be found by pooling overlapping orders and reducing nonstandard kitting. Saying "everyone gets the 3/£ keycap" adds 20 cents per order, rather than making a few UK users buy a low-economies-of-scale kit at $25.

I've been fond of Maxkey's caps-- they seem to have achieved that accidentally. They seem to sell one basic cover-all set in different colours, and as a result they have pretty good supply and modest prices (their sets sell for about USD100, I suspect anything similar from Signature Plastics would cost 150 or 200, and have a 12 month turnaround)
Oil, coal and gas are actually produced from biological sources, plants that lived millions of years ago.

It's even a bit ironic - there was a time when nature hadn't yet learnt how to break down trees, so a lot of trees accumulated (simplified, I think it is more a then new trick of plant cells that had no "natural enemies"). That organic material is what oil, coal and gas are made from. The irony is that from oil we now make plastic, and nature has not yet found a way to break down plastic. Since microbes can now digest trees, no new oil will be created. But maybe if large enough plastic deposits are accumulated, it could happen again?

(Details may be wrong, as I was too lazy to google, but the gist is, fossil fuels are actually made from organic sources).
This one is kind of on the os platform though. I can’t think of a legit use case where an app should get access to every single contact in my address book. This is incredibly personal information, and should be guarded better, perhaps by asking consent for each access and for each contact. The app should have to explain in detail why it wants access to a particular contact.
That isn’t true. Most animal feed is grown with irrigated water.
Less liquidity, maybe? XMR only a $7B market cap coin, while BTC is $1T.
Huh? I guess that depends on your definition of western I guess, since Japan certainly had no issues genociding, testing chemical and biological weapons, and all that other stuff on a wide swath of Eastern Asia? Russia isn’t generally considered by anyone I’ve run across as a ‘Western’ country either, and they had (still may have) a massive program.

Near as I can tell, every industrialized power has gone through the phase.

The comment about nukes is weird, since I believe the US is the only power to ever nuke someone in anger - and near as I can tell, plausibly used it as little as possible and in self defense (though we could talk ourselves blue in the face on that point).

Nothing would have stopped the US from carpet nuking Japan for instance at the time, except some minor logistical hiccups.

My comment about Iran and NK is specifically because they’re consistently isolated by (and start fights/ideologically align themselves opposite) the bulk of countries.

They’ve been, and continue to encourage being ‘others’. I pointed out, they still have no incentive to wipe any groups out/start targeted plagues, wouldn’t start something like this, so why would anyone else?
A bit has to be flipped in a system where no one trusts (or has to trust) each other, that's why it uses energy.
I would guess that, apart from the immense effort of building it, delivering personalised search results like this would be enormously expensive in storage for the search engine. Much more than sorting people into a few cohorts/buckets.

But FFS, it's 2021, we deserve some decent search engine results.

I doubt Google would do it unless they absolutely had to, so I hope you or someone else forces their hand and shows them that it's time.
Bitcoin Core: Bitcoin Core 0.21.1 released with Taproot activation code
Maybe, but I suspect those are mostly renters moving out. SF single family housing supply was also fairly tight - didn’t seem like that was who was leaving. We were renters so it wasn’t too hard to bail.
FSD in certain parking lots.

That's what I was originally thinking of as the minimum viable product in my DARPA Grand Challenge days. Mostly for rental cars at airports. If you'd booked a rental car, one would arrive at the terminal ready for use, and you'd get in and drive away manually. For airport departure, you'd leave the vehicle at the terminal, and it would slowly drive itself back to the rental lot.

No need to go faster than 20 MPH, and you could put markers and sensors in the roads if necessary.

There's been too little done with slow-speed automatic driving. Google made their little bubble car, but dropped that product. There are some fully automated shuttle buses, but that's a tiny business. About 25 companies are in that business, but other than Baidu, few have any deployments beyond test scale.
The Book of Quackery [pdf]
So, given the current trend in progress, when will we have truly usable linux on M1?
I don't know of a single resource, but I would search for "X [reading group OR journal club]".

Also, many academic associations, like ACM, have Special Interest Groups (SIG). Some SIGs have journal clubs but you might need to become a member or ask someone to add you to their Slack, Discord, etc.

Are there any specific topics that interest you?
I wish more appliances would would have some sort of refillable cartridges or containers (not DRM'd obviously). I saw some Japanese laundry washers have large containers for detergent.
Use radar for targeting. WiFi has been used to see peoples bodies through walls, 10GHz has been used in radars, the same beam that destroys can be used to image the target. You may not even need to do imaging, just look for resonance or increased energy absorption to indicate the beam is on target.
One problem I see... This movement will die out before there is a measurable effect on the planet.
It’s kind of terrifying how few people in this industry take this seriously and dismiss unionizing and organization efforts. Every publicly owned company is incentivized to squeeze every possible penny out of their income statement and we know from history that corporations will fight hard to eliminate high wage labor whenever possible.

Our salaries and power won’t last forever, and if we don’t turn around our culture of worshipping techno-aristocrats quickly then we’re all going to have a rough time in the next few decades.