skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "smarter" scaling solutions still aren't here after years of waiting, fees are hitting all-time highs, and other chains can do >4,000 TPS on layer 1. So no, small blocks weren't and aren't a good idea.
> No but it does mean, when estimations or estimators are consistently wrong, that they should lose credibility.

There could be different points of view regarding Mars expeditions - as well as self-driving cars - and while some groups announce 10 years achievements, others could be more cautious.

I remember how just some 15 years ago groups interested in Mars were collecting criteria for what would constitute readiness to fly to Mars - not when we'll fly, but what we'll need to know to estimate when we'll fly. List of items wasn't short. Given that SpaceX was in its infancy, no tools of Starship caliber were given much weight.

Now we're in seriously different situation - and that's regarding self-driving cars too, we came a long way from 2005 DARPA challenge. We can estimate better - both Mars advancements and cars autonomy perspectives.
I've traveled extensively through the Balkans and when people ask what it's like, one of the things I say is that everything is old, brand new, and under construction all at the same time.
Let's not kid ourselves. The segwit/2MB nonsense basically drove all developers away that aren't blockstream. There's no one left in bitcoin core that cares enough to go against blockstream unless it affects their bottom-line i.e. miners.

This upgrade will boil down to "will mining pools bother to upgrade their nodes"?
Beautiful looking website.
Fascinating. Although I've never read Asimov, I've often posed the following thought experiment:

Suppose humanity were set back to the stone age. In the sense that all working technology is 100% destroyed into ash. We don't even have a proper hammer or knife. What we do have is written documentation about how the modern world works, and an army of the brightest engineers.

How long would it take to re-create modern tech? And with the documentation/academic papers we currently have, could we even do it? What I mean is, what are all the steps we need to take from building a forge out of mud and flint and steel, to producing an i9 intel chip, 5g networks and space ships?

Think of this as an ansible script that bootstraps cavemen to modernity.
There's also the fact that Walter will never, ever again in his life make this mistake since the massive fuckup is now burned into his brain (in theory, if that isn't the case, then of course he needs to be fired) -- of course, there are a lot of people who would never have made the mistake to begin with. It's not completely trivial to answer, but again should be impossible by process.
To a certain extent I can't blame apps for doing this. It would be much better for Android and iOS to have a better experience for leaving feedback or giving reviews.
protonmail has pgp integrated, which is very nice.
This is becoming more and more common with major sites, and it’s really bloody annoying. Some are putting “Sign In” behind some tiny dropdown in the nav, not just grayed out or small but invisible unless you hunt for it.

They know exactly why they’re doing though, and I think OP is preaching to the converted. Those doing this don’t need a tutorial explaining how not to do it, they need to lose money (users) until they stop doing these dark patterns.
You don’t know, it may provide a service which is so intense that it’s worth it. The only way to know is to sell it. (If flipping bits weren’t so important, no-one would pay for datacenters).
what about the relative velocity of the interstellar medium? does diffuse hydrogen pelting your planet at 50%C have any negative side effects?
Our process does 3 things:

1. Fools enough people to think the government has their shit together and is protecting people.

2. Surveillance.

3. Make work jobs program.

The whole shoe thing is because of Richard Reid, the shoe bomber. There was a later foiled "underwear bomber," I'm glad the government didn't have the same reaction to him as they did Richard Reid. Actually now that I think about it, they have full body scanners. I haven't been on a plane since probably 2006.
Already a few billionaires with algos that autobuy on 10-15% drops, this number will increase.

We aren't dealing with cs hobbyists, retail investors, and small nest eggs anymore, billionaire adoption is a game changer as Michael Saylor constantly points out...

Welcome to BTC cantillonaires with access to ~unlimited leverage courtesy of central banks.
Making the case for a homegrown Canadian semiconductor industry
I'm late to the party but his table is missing an entry

Event Latency Scaled Latency
Network Access 50-200ms 5-20 years.
Of course they do. Google pays some of the highest salaries in tech because they managed to become so profitable. I'm saying long term, profitable companies who want to reinvest in themselves will pass profits on to employees because they need talent to make their products. There are certainly companies who decide not to reinvest, and simply extract profit. They become the dinosaurs.
This reminds me of an article from years ago about SOAP:

The S stands for Simple
http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/soap/simple
They are here, the publicly known nodes alone on lightning have 1.2+k BTC locked in [1], that's ignoring all the private channels which form the majority of the channels (private channels are the end-user channels which don't route transactions themselves and are not broadcast publicly).

We have easy to use wallets [2], easy ways to run lightning nodes [3].

And if you look at the average transaction value, you can see that the blockchain itself is acting more of a settlement layer rather than "coffee transactions" as it should [4].

1: https://1ml.com/

2: https://phoenix.acinq.co/

3: https://getumbrel.com/

4: https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactionvalue-btc-xr...
This doesn't work in the US. The IRS guidance states that the moment you received the tokens, you've incurred a tax burden. Refusing to sell the tokens protects you from capital gains taxes, but capital gains taxes only applies to tokens you purchased in the first place. Tokens you were gifted counts as income.
I have had some colleagues who were so-so developers yet were the social and institutional glue that made the team productive.

I didn't play team sports as a kid so it took me a decade or so as a working adult to appreciate the difference between a high-function team and a collection of super smart individuals.
Leaf, eGolf, and Volt leases. And Model S and X purchases. I think you make a great point though that the time period didn't include many Model 3s. I think a follow up survey might see even less going back to ICE
Ruby Schedulers: Whenever vs. Sidekiq Cron vs. Sidekiq Scheduler
What was controversial about segwit outside of a large commercial interest (Bitmain) losing the ability to leverage a patented algorithm that effectively increased their ASIC productivity? I always thought that was what drove most of the drama and Bitcoin Cash, a place where they could continue to arbitrage that mining boost, to come about.
No, this is a high noice vs low signal kind of thing
On a related note, Google Maps has on occasion deleted reviews from businesses that used software that employed this tactic for requesting reviews. I’ve seen several businesses lose hundreds of five star reviews because of it.
You got down voted a bit for this, but it's pretty much the exact rant I wanted to make in response to the earlier comment.

I'm in Launceston, Tasmania, and half the people I work with are in your situation or similar. An electric vehicle sold new today, bought second have in 10 to 15 years is not going to work for your situation and plenty of others like you.
It’s awesome to see this—the post makes it look quite straightforward to build your own guitar!
But: As a guitar player myself I have learnt that GAS is ever-tempting, especially pickups.

Personally I think that if all the time I spent reading “sound descriptions” on pickup manufacturers’ websites I would instead have spent playing, not only would I play much better, I would also sound much better.

Sound comes out of your fingers more than out of anything else. Billy Gibbons would sound like Billy Gibbons no matter what pickups one puts in his guitar. He would surely notice the difference, the vast majority of his audience wouldn’t.
Most discussions of inheritance tax (perhaps particularly discussions where US Americans are involved?) seem to start from this perspective, "the deceased person is being taxed". I find that a little weird. All these weird objections go away like a puff of smoke if you see inheritance tax the other way around: It's a tax on the recipient of the inheritance. Why shouldn't inheritance (or gift!) income be taxed, when any other income can be?
the blockchain itself is acting more of a settlement layer

That is a sign of failure.
Doesn't matter in the larger scheme of things, unless Hotmail and Gmail implement it too. Also: easy migration paths that includes secure key transfers.

Average Joe simply isn't technical or motivated enough to do it on their own.
Fair enough but nothing on the machine or labels inside it or the manual mention that.
However later I found out that the parts are Saeco branded which did not help my search for them
Especially when you consider inheriting money is the ultimate in unearned income.
Thanks for this tip. I used to carry a space pen regularly but its small size and shape would slip out of my pockets and I would routinely find myself having to replace them.
For people who are curious, the GP is correct when it comes to fitting the training data. Recall, with enough parameters, we can get 100% on training. The parent’s comment is about testing/validation where we want to avoid overfitting so removing the least important parameters can be helpful.
> My opinion is this will get much worse.

I'd argue that it will get much worse specifically because of the false sense of security Apple provides to users through the AppStore.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/02/11/app-store-scam-apps-how-to-sp...
The places I usually shop have usually have a price / volume calculation printed, if you find yourself spending too long deciding what to buy like I do.
Nodes that neither mine nor have economic weight (e.g. exchanges) just slow down the network; they don't contribute anything.
Semi-related:

The trend of the not having a log in button and only a sign up button, requiring multiple clicks just to login. I get that less friction for a new user is better being the thinking but I truly hate having to go through multiple pages just to sign in.

What happened to having sign in/sign up being on the same page? Seems the simple and easy, as well as lowest friction way of splitting the difference between new and existing users.
Yeah but in a lot of cases it's because money (especially AI fundraising money) is hella cheap and it's far more profitable (like, 10-100x) to co-found their own AI startup than to play senior scientist for someone else.
You would still have to explain to someone what it is that should be documented.

A better approach is to learn just enough to do it yourself, but it's not easy to document things well.

I like to think about documentation like this: Without it your work will be almost wasted as nobody can make use of it. That helps a bit :)
SiFive and Samsung Foundry Extend Partnership to Accelerate AI SoC Development
Which is why when we happen to dig out some form of document from 5000 years ago, and eventually translate, we end up discovering that besides technology and religion of the day, the society was somehow pretty much the same.
Tell HN: Stripe lost our corporate card
We've recently decided to try the stripe corporate card, used continental US shipping

4 weeks later suddenly recalled it was supposed to arrive 3 weeks ago

Asked stripe support for tracking number, stripe: "Ohh we don't have tracking"

Did they offer to resend it? NO
Did they offer to refund card issuing / shipping fees? NO
Did they say there's no tracking _before_ ordering card? NO

All they said is: https://imgur.com/a/GkYC9Vm

Why would they potentially not offer to re-send or refund the fees?

1) Apparently there are a lot of these cases, but they are hiding it instead of dealing with it
2) The stripe customer orientation is deteriorating

They are pushing hard their new business loans product with loan sharks rates, in this epidemic. Is stripe gone bad?

We've recently also discovered they do not refund stripe fees even if the refund was for a full amount (as opposed to paypal for example). This is also hidden and not clearly documented on their website

Given other threads about stripe here, we are considering switching to avoid any other surprises which can actually impact business continuity

What are the recommended stripe alternative, HN?
Digital Ocean has this problem.
I meant you can run skytransfer without it, not Skynet itself. (It's basically Megaupload)
coupled with protonmail's "enterprise" offering, it makes complete sense (they can host entire domains obviously).
Canada uses the same inch-based US sizes but denoted in mm (called P sizes, I think - I’m also not Canadian).
Principle of relativity applies to both accelerating and non accelerating frame of reference, unlike Newtonian physics.

So yes, it is correct to say that the sun revolves around the earth or the other stars are stationary while the sun is moving.
Oh, neat. I looked it up and EV's don't need oil changes as such. At least not as often as conventional vehicles. That does help. Still not something I think we could pull off in the next 5 years. The Honda you can piss in and it will be fine, but the diesel needs 15 quarts of oil a couple times a year.
Good to know, I may have to give Neuralink another try. My previous experience with the original 8 a few years ago during the hiring process was overwhelmingly negative. I'm hoping their culture has changed to be more in line with Musk's public persona since then.
What's the deal with companies like Verizon and WarnerMedia buying dying companies and just sitting on them while they depreciate even further then selling them once they've dropped to less than 50% of the purchase value?

Seems like they have no competent leaders.
I was confused about this too, until a physicist friend pointed out that you can always tell which of the bodies actually did the acceleration to get up near light speed.
Einstein's theory of relativity is exactly what you are referring to as "everyday definition of relativity ".
You might enjoy this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39026990
Everyone's got a hot take on why CPI is wrong, but the official rate of inflation for food is 3.5%. Personally, I spend a lot more on groceries than pre-covid, but thats because I now eat out once or twice a month instead of several times a week.
https://1nt3r.net/j-cia/ ?
In India, due to lack of space, many urban homes are more than one level and leaving the rebar open or partly covered helps to extend the home to another level when financially possible is the explanation I have often seen and heard.
Thirty-Five Years Later, a First Responder at the Chernobyl Disaster Looks Back
Did you also notice how the need for interface and type abstractions goes away? If you have a function that sum()'s a list of numbers, you can use that to sum() any of the Ant's members by passing a ref to the list. Otherwise you have to write AntSummer classes that take Ant (and all the children of Ant's class).

It does occur to me that there's a certain type of programmer for whom this is obvious. And that type of programmer was not using classes anyway for the reasons above. For that programmer, objects are a massively overused hammer in software design. I know those types, and they're very good. It might be there's too much brainpower wasted in designing object hierarchies that could go to exploring functionality or producing value. Or it might be coincidence.

I'm not really that guy necessarily, but for simply reasons of communicating and comprehending designs I always thought objects more than a few members were just plain wasteful. There just never seemed to be a reason to have all those mutable hidden member variables unless it was to abstract something like a data structure.
Linearised PDF files are defined in order and can be read from the start.

https://blog.idrsolutions.com/2010/02/linearized-pdf-files/
I decided to look this up. "If a permanent fork, similar to Ethereum, were to occur to bitcoin, the Trust would hold equal amounts of the original and the new bitcoin as a result. In consultation with the Index Provider, the Sponsor would select a Bitcoin Network (and therefore a single version of bitcoin). The Sponsor would simultaneously isolate the bitcoin on the Bitcoin Network that it did not select to segregate it from the Trust’s Bitcoin Holdings. The Sponsor’s intention would be to distribute to its Shareholders the bitcoin on the Bitcoin Network that it did not select. Therefore, the Trust would only hold one version of bitcoin. It is uncertain whether the value of the distribution of the bitcoin on the Bitcoin Network that the Sponsor did not select would equal the change in the value of the Shares. Consequently, a permanent fork could materially and adversely affect the value of the Shares." Pretty loose policy. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1588489/000119312517...
You're right. But when I hit Ctrl-P from any page, it defaults to printing in A4. I guess the desktop locale settings are in charge of that.
FinancialForce is an entirely different company pretending to be part of Salesforce.
For a personal blog this is really quite tame. I'm guessing her CoC text is closer to how she talks at work.
Even at a comparatively low density surely it's many orders of magnitude higher than how often we encounter such cosmic rays on earth. I mean if we scale down the energy output by 10^-6, 270 mW/m^2 would still be way more than any known biological system could sustain, right?
> The key is that it doesn't use inheritance

Cocoa is literally based on inheriting from NSView (which itself inherits from NSResponder)

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsview
Sorry folks, I thought it was OK to resubmit links that didn't make the front page.

I never got a "Show HN" link on the prestigious Show page because someone else posted it and made the front page. So I tried some other URLs.

I don't think there's an issue with posting relevant comments with a link, but I agree I should disclose authorship.

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And because cybercrime, which is now doing staggering damage, much of it initiated via SMTP.

SMTP was designed when the Internet's topology and population were vastly different, and we desperately need to replace it, e.g. with TMTP from the "mnm" open source project: [link]
> why do you think there’s opposition to it?

There's still lots of small property owners that are still poor that would prefer not paying taxes on their small holdings.
I dunno, self-driving is an interesting computer-vision / machine-learning problem and it is far more interesting than 90% of the stuff a lot of your FAANG companies are spending R&D dollars on. For anyone working in the field, the end goal is extremely rewarding in terms of the long-term beneficial impact on society it would have and the numerous lives it would save.

I don't think Tesla is going to drop FSD R&D anytime soon. They've also built out amazing software infrastructure under Karpathy's leadership to make use of their fleet of hundreds of thousands of cars to run shadow experiments with newer models in the background and continuously collect more difficult and interesting training data so they can improve their models and their internal test-sets for tracking metrics. They are also a relatively lean team from what I've heard, so it's not like they are bankrolling hundreds of very expensive ML PhDs at the moment. It is debatable if they (or anyone else) will "solve" FSD with current approaches, but I think the technology is already pretty fascinating and useful.
Sorry, I'm not getting it -- could you please explain further?

> You cannot compose types in Rust. You compose behaviors not types.

But I thought in OOP behaviour is type? (Or, IOW, type includes behaviour.) To me, judging only from this, it feels like Rust isn't quite OO... Is it perhaps just not quite finished yet?

Another aspect: That whole "Rust has something called 'monomorphization', which leads to lots of copy-pasting" reinforces that impression. Is this the same problem that C++ tries to overcome by the "select which inherited implementation to use" operator, and other languages by allowing inly single inheritance?
How do you rate the quality of things on Facebook?

My app only allows me to "like" things and I like some stuff that is low quality because I like to see it in my feed.
Capitalism truly is the most efficient way to allocate resources. ;)

Less snarky response, perhaps if we saw more worker coops we'd care less about being a founder and more about delivering a result.
There's a bit to unpack here:

- The suggestion that meditation can reduce your fear of death

- The suggestion that if it can do so, that's a good thing

- The implication that things which are natural are not to be feared
Unless there is a product designed for the specific needs of their industry, then the 80% of their needs covered by a generic system still means 20% of their needs are in fact oh-so-special
Interview with Richard Stallman about the Harms of DRM and DMCA
On https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_alphabet you can see:

"It was not until the Middle Ages that the letter ⟨W⟩ (originally a ligature of two ⟨V⟩s) was added to the Latin alphabet, to represent sounds from the Germanic languages which did not exist in medieval Latin, and only after the Renaissance did the convention of treating ⟨I⟩ and ⟨U⟩ as vowels, and ⟨J⟩ and ⟨V⟩ as consonants, become established. Prior to that, the former had been merely allographs of the latter."

So at Julius Caesar's time, I and J were the same letter that you could write either way.
This reminds me of the Eloi and the Morlocks of "The Time Machine". The hapless Eloi are the general public, whose data are treated as tasty flesh to snack on by data scrapers like FB and Google.
In that case, almond farmers should still pay closer to the true cost of the water. This would likely slightly raise world almond prices but it would encourage farmers to find ways to reduce water use, without fundamentally compromising the industry.
Canadian here, we use the US sizes and describe them in inches (or by name, so we say "letter" or "8.5 by 11"). Microsoft Office uses both inches and millimetres but I always thought they did that for outside of Canada too.
Those reasons don't make sense though. In Canada the official spellings are a weird mixture of British and US English, and mostly British spelling is used. Additionally, the US standard sizes of paper are used in Canada, so that wouldn't be correct either.
Around here taxes are automatically deducted from my income by the employeer.

Skatteetaten (≈IRS) then sends us a letter in early spring telling us what we owe or what we will get back, we get a chance to add extra expenses etc and then a final calculation is done and you either get an invoice or a payment, most likely a small payment as taxes payments are typically slightly larger than they need to be.

Except if you run a business, then it is slightly more complicated depending on the size of your business, if you have employees etc. I have a small company so I need to report income from the company as well.
ECS can definitely be built in an OO fashion.
https://github.com/AmpereComputing/edk2-platforms ? Not sure how usable it is.
NASA Use Open API
Not sure if that is one of them. But Costco does carry a few loss leaders where they don't raise the price, even though they are no longer profitable. The hotdog and soda deal for $1.50 and the roast chicken for $4.99 are two of them.