skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a very complex dynamic system: the strings pull the neck, the neck pulls the body, the body is also pulled by strings. The pickups make noise because they vibrate with the body while the strings vibrate in their magnetic fields. And this means pickups influence the way strings vibrate closing the loop. Add the details of the way PUs are wound, the way their cores warp over time, the way wood dries (or doesn’t) depending on how and what lacquer was used, different woods laminated together etc. and the result is a very complex dynamic system. With all such systems, predicting behavior dependence on a minuscule parameter change is a fools errand without modeling. I certainly can’t make any claims about wood affecting things or not. All I know is, that otherwise identical instruments feel and sound different to me and that’s all that matters. Maybe psychology, maybe physics, maybe math plays a role. Let others work on that while I play the blues on my favorite LP.
I would guess that Grayscale and others have thought of that, and have written it into their contracts with customers. I'd also bet they're the ones who pocket the proceeds from any forks.
The issue is that inflation as a function of supply alone is an incomplete model, not particularly meaningful and has been long-since debunked. Trying to resurrect an incomplete model isn't a great idea IMO.
siasky.net is a portal. skytransfer.hns.siasky.net is one way to access this service. skytransfer.hns.skyportal.xyz is another way to access this service. Or you could run your own portal (it takes about a weekend to set up and about $50 of siacoin), and access the service from there.

The magic is that any file you upload to one portal is instantly (within about 5 seconds) available on any other portal. The portals themselves aren't running any sort of DHT or federated network - if you upload a file to a portal, then all portals go offline simultaneously, then you spin up a brand new portal, that brand new portal will still be able to see the file you uploaded.
AWS and recently Cloudflare too
> linked lists are a bad data structure

Why is that? They're perfectly fine for most purposes, and have the advantage that when you pass one across a function boundary the callee can play with it or modify it or do whatever the hell they want and when the callee returns, the caller's linked list is untouched. That's an incredibly valuable feature for correctness and safety.
I might consider paying for Facebook if I knew it was tracking & advertising free.

But more importantly, I do not agree with their "community standards" and the lack of any useful appeal process. Already ended up in Facebook jail a time or two and it's been a frustrating experience. Why? I shared a meme. that was on Facebook. and I get my account suspended for it.

As a paying customer, I wouldn't tolerate that at all.
I'd love something like this.

I've managed to get partway there by using ArchiveBox and feeding it my bookmarks, and then using the sonic to search through them.

Would be great to have this more streamlined into a normal Google/DuckDuckGo/whatever search workflow, with an option to also search your friends' bookmarks.
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This article, coupled with the ideas in Lombard Street, makes it sound like the lack of deposit banking is another big problem.

Unfortunately, if it's cultural (you owe your relatives any spare liquid capital you have) then I don't know how to fix it.
So basically, you are saying that the value of Clubhouse is the marketing they have done to make people use it in a certain way and attract some profiles?

All that could be done on discord, but discord is far gaming, so it won't happen.

But clubhouse seems to be perceived has "the place to hear quality conversation from important people". I can see value in that if the team manage to live it up to it. Not as a user though, but I'm not the target.
> I wonder what general purpose languages

I'm looking forward to zig. The author is taking a lot of care and effort to make sure the content works on legacy systems as well as modern systems, so I think the level of flexibility that entails will also mean the flexibility to adapt to the future.

Also, IIRC zig has an AOS to SOA transformation in its stdlib? In any case, they have been refactoring the language parser to use SOA to great effect:

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/7920
> In the future, portals will charge users directly for extra features

They already do! https://account.siasky.net/ - paid plans starting at $5/mo giving you access to higher speeds and long term pinning.
You can keep mining forever. The only change after 21th million is that nobody gets the extra BTC reward. They'll still get all the mining fees for the block though.
Am I misreading this or does it say that Taproot will not be activated? It needed 90% of the blocks and already 11% have not signaled.
CuriousMarc youtube channel, to extent, contradicts your statement.
I hope not. Today’s reasonable ( 100k a year? 150k? ) is tomorrow’s poverty.
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For liquidity and or ignorance only.
I think one thing that would help would be to broaden the number of cases where legal fees can be awarded. Another thing that is not currently the case would be to work on simplifying the legal system to the point where a well educated person can take some time studying the law, at least well enough to defend themselves against baseless accusations. The ABA has made it a point to lobby states in order to increase the number of situations where professional lawyers are required (kind of like what TurboTax has done with the tax code).

Even with a simplified laws and legal proceedings, obviously not everyone would be in a position to defend themselves. However, many of those people could probably find a legally astute relative or friend to help them. There will always be a need for public defenders or something similar, though, since not everyone has a good support network.

To be honest though, I think the only really long term solution is for radical reform to the economy in general is the abolishment of private property. Private property, including intellectual property in particular, is always going to give disproportionate power to the wealthy. We should reward people for actual labor (not necessarily the same amount for the same hours), not because they already have giant stacks of cash.
Some past threads:

Thinking for Programmers (2014) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9353908 - April 2015 (11 comments)

Leslie Lamport: Thinking for Programmers [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7533938 - April 2014 (32 comments)
Sony, Intel Capital, and Daimler, among others. I doubt any founders out there would decline funding from VCs on account of them having funded W3W though.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/what3words/company_f...
Basically the same dilemma industries with actual union representation encounter when individuals are picking what union to join today. Some unions have lower membership prices, some have more negotiation strength, is the organization competent etc.
I didn’t downvote, but I think the comment has a factually inaccurate premise: this isn’t a hard fork.
Alterning odd and even numbers is fine.

There is no adversary. The use case is not about security.
>When we select “Ask App Not to Track,” two things happen. The first is that Apple disables the app from using an Apple device identifier, a random string of letters and numbers that is assigned to our iPhones and is used to track our activities across apps and websites. The second is that we communicate to the app developer that, broadly speaking, we don’t want our information to be tracked and shared with anyone in any way.

>That seems easy enough. But No. 2 is where things also get slightly complicated.

>Ad-tech companies already have many ways to follow us beyond Apple’s device identifier. For example, advertisers can use a method called fingerprinting. This involves looking at seemingly innocuous characteristics of your device — like the screen resolution, operating system version and model — and combining them to determine your identity and track you across different apps.

How effective this all is will completely rely on how Apple reacts to the first app it catches breaking the rules.
I don't think you can run a service like Skynet without a crypto backend. It does a _lot_ more than something like IPFS. It can keep files online without needing the original uploader or any user to actively seed them (uses a storage marketplace instead), among other significant features.
> The Tesla is a far superior experience for road trips than a gasoline car is.

This is hyperbole. If all your stops have very fast electric then you’re going to have a comparable experience (assuming you like long stops). But to say that a Tesla is better than all gasoline cars for road tripping? Hyperbole...

We’re nowhere near the level of infrastructure for any electric car to be comparable to gasoline. I can and have filled up in less than five minutes many times. And only made 3 stops over 16+ hour drives (each being under 10 minutes). I would not and could not have made the same amount of time with an electric car. Therefore, not a superior experience as far as I’m concerned...
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BB King used his whole big body: his guitar resting on his belly with only one finger holding the note and doing a vibrato let the entire entity vibrate in unison.
There's already a lot of services / wallets taking about mBTC which is a more reasonable number to show.
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This is an entirely sensible position, as long as we don't simultaneously decry winner-takes-all market dynamics.

On second thought, we can in fact do both simultaneously by shifting the responsibility for supporting good journalism onto our favorite other, such as "the government", "the rich", "regulators", "we as a society", etc.

I am personally completely satisfied paying for publications as long as I read at least one article per issue. In fact, due to time constraints, one article per issue has become something of an objective.
This happened after the fall of Rome (West). It took Europe well over 1000 years to have indoor plumbing and sewer systems again.
Nice video from fermilab

I still don't get it though
After activation of Taproot, coins can be spend in ways they could not before. How is that not a hard fork?
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No. The speed of light is measured as the same constant by all observers. If that sounds counterintuitive, it is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light
How many other high-profile startups have survived a cofounder split like this?

It doesn't seem disastrous, necessarily – Drodopbox probably would have happened with Drew, but not without Drew – but it's ... not exactly a happy thing.

It's hard to imagine Stripe without one of the Collisons, or OpenAI without gdb.
I think it was technically possible, and proven, but turns out nobody really wanted it.

It would also have been expensive and a logistical nightmare.

What if you had a brand-new car. Would you want to take a trip and end up with a 3-year old battery?

What if you had a 5-year old car. Would tesla want to give you a new battery?

how would the cost difference be resolved?

I think people didn't want to swap their pristine batteries for old ones. And people with old batteries didn't want to pay for new ones.

and the swap cost would be pretty large.
Exactly how I read the headline on the front page too. In fact, I clicked through to this page mainly out of curiosity as to which meaning was the intended.
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This is an uninformed and inaccurate take.

While the fixed costs of any aircraft are significant, flight time is a definite extra cost. Apart from the obvious cost of the kerosene the aircraft will accrue flight time and fatigue. Every component has a flight time clock, which dictates when it must be serviced and replaced. F-15C are very expensive to operate, $40k per hour would be quite possible.

Let me forestall arguments about incidental training. For training to count towards maintaining readiness it must be carefully designed and supervised. No training benefit would have eventuated.

If the money 'would have been spent anyway' then it would have been spent for a correctly determined purpose, such as training. Diversion to other purposes is not free.
The SHA-256 hashes are gpg signed with the key at https://bitcoin.org/laanwj-releases.asc

Nobody actually checks the executable signatures, they're buried in the file properties.
This cycle. This was just released, so it’ll take a while to get deliberate/representative numbers.
That makes only 2 of the original 8 founding scientists left. https://www.statnews.com/2020/08/25/elon-musk-neuralink-upda...

Elon Musk has been pretty successful at getting top talent to push the limits of engineering, but with neuroscience, it seems the research isn't there yet. What I'm really interested to see is how long Karpathy will stay at Tesla as other self driving projects drop like flies (ATG, Zoox, and most recently L5)
My phone doesn't have the emoji character for the second element around Dartford, London, UK so I just see an invalid grey box.

Not a resilient solution.
I personally definitely agree with "Don't make customers hunt for the Sign In button on your website", since I find that so annoying. I've come to expect this annoying behavior especially from Y Combinator companies, ever since I read Paul Graham opining that companies should actually emphasize the trial/test-drive button, and deemphasize the sign-in button. He said that's what Viaweb did, and they thought it made better business sense. I just now tried a bit finding the essay where he states this, but I gave up. Maybe someone here will offer it.
RE for interoperability is protected, that suit is dead in the water.
The ETC/ETH split was an actual fork resulting in two chains, but Segwit and Taproot don't cause chain splits so it's not a similar situation.

If somebody like Grayscale decided to outright scam their own investors (why?) there are a hundred excuses they could invent to justify it; they don't need to blame a protocol upgrade.

Segwit was activated years ago. There were some conspiracy theories about Segwit UTXOs being worth less than legacy UTXOs but AFAIK they were totally unfounded. So far Bitcoin is Bitcoin and I don't see any reason why that would change.
Parody is a defense you can raise, but it's tricky to win. [1] And even if you do win, you've got to pay your lawyers who made the arguments for you.

If I were arguing for W3W, I would point out that in some dialects of British English (where W3W is based), "what three words" and "what free words" would be pronounced identically. This means that in verbal communication, it would be very difficult to tell the two apart. That would make it harder to win a parody case, since in spoken language people wouldn't even be able to tell that you were saying something different.

1: https://www.lottfischer.com/blog/trademark-parody/
Unfortunately at least some animal feed is human edible soybeans grown where just a short while ago a rainforest stood.
Apple don't block access to their NVMe controllers at all. They do appear to have a, well, interesting approach to spec compliance, but Linux is now entirely capable of handling the SSD on all x86 Apple hardware. In the M1 case the NVMe controller isn't exposed via PCI so the existing driver won't work, but there's already in-kernel abstraction between the actual NVMe code and the PCI interface, so adding an alternative shouldn't be a problem.

The M1 systems depend on some number of blobs, but the amount of non-free code required to boot one looks like it'll end up being less than a typical x86 system requires.
> Sure developer time costs, but this cannot actually be the reason.

It totally is because we've abstracted the cost of software engineering unto the hardware.

Back in the 90s, people had to basically beg for memory when writing software while modern development is built on the theory of getting the fastest delivery speed at the cost of performance. We outsource the cost of software unto millions of customer's hardware and it's never coming back because going to market quick makes you money.
As far as I can figure with a little too much liquor in me, I drive about 20,000 miles a year for work. Which more or less jives with the fact that I bought this truck at around 170k miles and rolled over 240k miles a month or so ago. So 76k km is a little high for 2 years, but not completely off base. Please understand though, that a new electric vehicle was supposed to cost 20k by now, but I'm not sure there's reliable vehicles on the market for that price. And even if they are available, I've been piling away the stupid amount of overtime that I'm working trying to buy a house for which the market is not in my favor and even 15k is not an expenditure I can pull off right now.

Financing is a thing, I know, but the idea of paying an extra couple thousand in interest to have something right now that I can put money up to afford later is hard to handle for me,

5k? 10k? I could make it work if I had a way of charging it when I'm working 10 hour days plus the nearly 2 hour commute. Over 20k for a car, plus I have no way of charging it. Plus even if I parked it in my parents' garage, it might not have enough juice for the commute plus errands? I can't do it. My husband could get away with one, but then you're really pushing the edge of how much environmental impact an EV has vs maintaining an old vehicle. Maybe he gets an EV and I take the Honda that hates me? We still have to pay maintenance and taxes on the truck which I can't replace because there's nothing on the market for it and we couldn't afford it anyway. I do steal the car from him when he doesn't need it, which with my schedule is pretty often. You can say that I'm an edge case, but a large portion of the interior I'd the US is in the same predicament .

Maybe I should move closer to work? I'd love to, but my husband works in the city. And the town that I work in is literally a valley that was underwater last year and most likely will flood more and more often because of the global warming we're trying to escape. I'd love property near there, uphill.a bit, but as of this spring and summer, we can't afford it. I guess we're between an island and a long commute. Maybe I'm just putting these posts up so that people whose living situations can afford a new vehicle or public transport realize that there's a lot of us out here in cow country that just can't afford the tens of thousands that it would take to be environmentally friendly as they see it.
Seems like just a buggy implementation to me. You can make buggy implementations of any concept; if that invalidated the concept itself, there would be no valid concepts at all.
Have you tried making your own google search? You can pick what sites it will search. I'm not sure if you can say "Prioritize these sites, but still give me results from other sites too".

I do wish there was something next to each search result though that was like "I like this site, include it more often." or "This site is garbage, ignore it forever"

I think it was this thing:

https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/about/
Am I imagining it, or have scientists across the board left lots of AI startups recently? OpenAI just had a big split too where a bunch left.
I hate how the article plays loose with the wording: “nearly” the speed of light is not half the speed of light as comments have suggested about hypervelocity stars.
The rest of the universe might age very quickly, relatively speaking.

Stars might pass through their lifecycle in a matter of weeks. Constellations might deform over days.
Other than small bumps to bonus multipliers, big companies don’t share higher profits with employees.
The lumber thing is complicated - theres no shortage of timber, but there is a shortage in sawmill capacity. Why? Mills got hit hard in the aftermath of 2008 housing crisis / recession, and havent ramped up to any significant extent because they dont want to get hit with another crash after spending the money to increase capacity.
> I, and millions of users like me, like the closed garden.

Citation needed.
Not within this activation window.

But maybe the next one.
Because this release is a soft fork basically to vote on whether or not to upgrade “the” BTC network. If 90% agree, I think it’s disingenuous to call it a fork rather than an upgrade.
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You’re right, it could be done that way, but for the orgs that do use leads, it would mean a lot of repetitive filtering on pretty much every business process. The difference in functional concept between a lead and a contact are great enough that processes (both software and human) between the two rarely overlap. A foreign key does all of this for free. For this reason, I think they made the right choice, especially since the orgs that do not like the concept of leads can just simply not use them.
You mean you've actually used them before?
Another issue is that you’re limited to what they stock for rentals. While I drive nice cars at home, I pretty much have to exclusively drive crappy econoboxes for long distance rentals. And I’ve found that paying for a nicer car is worth it for road trips but hard to get a nice car - they just don’t stock them!
Bitcoin is many things, but it is not a savings account.
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This is incredible ! Don't have a use case for this right now but am certainly saving this for later.
Emotion. I have been able to tell a difference between a digitally modeled amp and a tube one but I have failed to do so for my own amp modeled by a Kemper. I suspect good players will be able to tell even that difference. Playing a tube amp is a different experience, you feel the sound as well as hear it, your instrument works with it as well altering the sound further. Also, the pedals as well as the guitar form a singular circuit (when they are unbuffered) that acts in unison. I don’t think there’s an off the shelf model of my ac15, my sunface fuzz and my LP working together. Too many combinations. Once again, music is a very emotional thing. If the knowledge of playing a good roaring tube amp makes you feel better, you’ll play better. If the knowledge of having a reliable tone stack on a usb stick works for you, awesome.
First, the releases are signed-- just not with the windows code signing infrastructure.

For windows the CA improperly revoked the certificate in response to a renewal request and back dated the revocation and are refusing to issue a new certificate (my understanding and that the CA now believes open source collaborations aren't eligible for code signing certs, or some such nonsense... it's being worked out)

The releases are still PGP signed by an official project key which has been in use for many years and is cross signed by many parties-- just as they have the last decade--, as well as by another 16 parties that independent reproduced the binaries through the deterministic build process: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gitian.sigs/tree/master/0.21... which has also been used for the last ten years. Anyone who already has an older faithful copy has the scripts to automatically download and verify the other signatures.

By comparison, the windows code signing provides relatively little security assurance. Not too dissimilar from the HTTPS used on the download site. It, like the https, does have the advantage that it is widely checked while many users don't bother checking the actual release signatures. It's useful to have for sure, but it's not the only protection and, unfortunately, it exist only at the whim of a third party that isn't accountable to the users of Bitcoin. But if someone can spoof the download site the executable signing won't do much to stop them from causing problems.