skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like you have some additional constraints that you didn't make clear in your original question.

You said, "Tell me how to do something worth doing with ETH and I'll be impressed."

Also, you need things that you can do without capital, and that fit a specific risk profile that you haven't elaborated on. It sounds like you're assuming that making these yields are too risky for you, so are you looking for zero risk, or can you accept some risk?

Can you specify up front your constraints?

Here are two things you could do with ETH right now:

1. You could use it as the coordination layer for a decentralised git repository, that is fully distributed and censorship resistant. Hopefully you can see how this could easily be adapted to many similar use cases: https://github.com/cardstack/githereum

2. You could purchase flight delay insurance that pays out automatically if your flight is delayed: https://etherisc.com/

> Cue the intellectualization from "investors."

Cue the moving of the goalposts
Huh? That's not what "programmatic money" means. You're confusing it with digital currency.

Programmatic money means you can define code/program with the money itself. In a trivial case I could easily program the money (called a smart contract) to pay you $1 every day. I could put $1000 in that contract and you could have near-total confidence of that payout schedule. The code itself is a property of that money, and its execution is enforced by the same system that secures the overall ledger.
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I spend too much time on r/politics.. It's mostly people getting outraged together about contextless headlines, quotes, soundbites, articles, and etc. Mostly.

It happens here too. cough basecamp cough.
Here's what the head of the CPSC has to say about that. "But CPSC faces a nearly insurmountable hurdle each and every time the agency wants to warn the public about a hazardous product.Under the gag order of Section6(b)of our statute,the agency must negotiate with companies—often for weeks—before issuing any kind of safety warning."[1]

The CPSC can issue a mandatory recall, but that's subject to challenge in court. They rarely do that. But if they do, it looks really bad for the seller. For one thing, it means the recall notice comes from the U.S. Government, not the seller, which looks really bad.

[1] https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/Statement%20of%20Acting%20C...
I dunno - you don’t need much more control than killing the engine, which can be done remotely on many vehicles today.

Yeah, if you have visions of the Joker hacking control of the Batmobile turning into a large RC car then we are safe from that. But that’s far from saying that remote control isn’t an issue.
Of course it might not really be lying but just being selective about what to say. Many people were collaborators early in the war when it looked like Germany was winning, but gradually shifted over to the resistance when it began to look like they would eventually lose.
Yeah that and huge amount of other mishandling details and chain of mismanagement after the incident.
I wouldn’t want a friend who is tripping on acid to watch my dog, let alone helm a company where billions of dollars are at stake.

I understand that he made a dosing mistake, but to pile on this whole thread, what he did was a forehead-smackingly bad decision.
> we'd find out if running a company in Zhu's manner works or doesn't.

But we already know it does. He brought the company from 0 to $2b valuation, steadily growing for 8 years.

I do agree though that it would be great for startup to not depend on VCs that much.
Oh yeah, and he *really* dressed like shit normally - you could easily think he was homeless.
Show HN: Gopkg, vanity package hosting for Go
One thing you can do is make the extension source-available.
This is an article, not a paper.
That's across the whole globe, in the US it was only $4.3B, and it's a record year because of the 1MDB settlement. This is the government clawing back dimes on the dollar from banks that profited massively by aiding illegal enterprises.

For the size and scope of regulatory agencies to increase, their budgets would have to increase faster than inflation of wages in their relevant markets. We don't see that in finance (SEC) nor in technology (FCC). The regulators are paid comparative peanuts.
Life emerges from a simple particle motion law
I haven't gotten my hands dirty with it myself yet, but Poke looks super interesting!

https://www.jemarch.net/poke

https://media.ccc.de/v/ASG2019-127-gnu-poke-an-extensible-ed...

Actually, it sounds like a fun weekend task to redo this GeoTIFF writeup in Poke :-)
100% agreed. Thank you for sharing.
I think low quality is only a result of desire to sell cheap, but Chinese producers are capable of meeting high quality standards and out-innovating other countries
The bad habits from communism era will disappear eventually
Honest question, how much did they make in profits from illegal activities that led to the fine of $10 billion? I have no idea if it was millions or trillions. My hunch is they paid much less than they made, although I hope to be wrong on this.
Sounds reasonable enough.

> Given the choice between our land covered in solar panels, wind mills and battery farms, and a few very large but very safe and cost effective nuclear power plants....that choice gets pretty easy in my opinion. But I'll take the former as well, if needed.

From my perspective, there are a lot of things that become significantly easier to do if we can produce as much energy as possible, ranging from synthesizing liquid fuels from air and water (chemically possible but energy-intensive) to extracting CO2 from the atmosphere and sequestering it in some sterile chemical sludge that we can pump into empty oil wells to large-scale water desalination (combined with removing the salt). And that’s just in the realm of climate change and sustainability—we are also going to need energy to do new things, not just to do the same things we’re doing now with less ecological impact, or even reversing the ecological impacts we’ve already caused.

We’re going to find productive uses of energy faster than we’re going to be able to develop the energy production needed to sustain them. So I’m not sure we’ll be given the choice—we’ll need to do both. The main difference being that a high amount of nuclear baseload would obviate the need for batteries.
Read the comment again, it’s not a tax cut.

It’s a revenue neutral tax increase on carbon, returned to the people who are now paying more for just about everything.

Poor people who don't use much carbon will net benefit. The rich who are now paying a bit more to re-fuel their private jets will pay a bit more.
Harper Reed on giving everyone a voice in team meetings
> My claim is "electron charge could possibly vary, or not, but all existing evidence suggests it does not, and no existing evidence suggests it does".

But your claim is a falsehood. I asked you to provide evidence that it doesn't vary and you said you can't but you assume the variance comes solely from the measurement equipment. That's not what "evidence" means.

We have variance. Either there's proof that it's the measurement, or there isn't. Assuming is just that.

I'll tell you another assumption we often take for granted: speed of light. Actually we don't know if the speed of light is as measured, C. Do you know why? We can only measure reflected light. So we measure it going to some place, and then get reflected back.

Maybe it goes there at C/2, and then comes back instantly. OR maybe it goes there instantly, and comes back at C/2. Or even more likely, it goes there at some ratio of C, and comes back at the inverse ratio of C. We can't know that. In fact Einstein explicitly mentions this in his work, and calls C, the "average speed" just that - a convention.

Either you can prove it, or you can't. But how many people you hear, including scientists, talk about the speed of light this way? Not many. We take the model for granted to preserve our sanity. But from time to time we also need to remember: it's just a model.

> I'm referring to elementary particles, of which protons and neutrons are not (but quarks are).

Protons and neutrons are not. But until relatively recently, they were. What are we going to find out tomorrow?

I actually Googled this to see how elementary particles are defined, and very first thing you see is this sentence (emphasis mine): "Particles CURRENTLY THOUGHT to be elementary..."

See, when they need to be specific, they're quite aware this is just the current assumption. Nothing else.

You know, the only place it pays to be so sure about current models being objectively right and the law is school. In school you can propagate this myth as if you have the gospel in your hands. In the lab, this same PoV is frowned upon. "What if" is king. As long as it doesn't contradict existing evidence.
> Question is how to deal with this sort of management behavior without ending your career?

Don't be afraid too much. At most you'll be fired from a not good place, big deal. Software engineers are in demand.

I'd make a good faith efforts to help with the problem. And perhaps complain about the management behavior to their superiors. Let them square the circle.
The government needs to be in control of the money supply. Monetary and fiscal policy are important levers for maintaining the health of our economy. The government uses money to bolster trade, issue debt, maintain a high standard of living, etc.

Crypto is a bunch of investors and engineers that think that they should be in charge rather than our elected governments. It's not even a geniocracy since it rewards only early investors. It's an oligarchy of the lucky few that think they should have more leverage than governments and the populace. It disenfranchises the government's ability to help the poor, underserved, and disadvantaged.

Crypto not from the government is dangerous.

I predict that as this plays out more governments will move to shut it down.
This is a good hex editor overview, but also the part about Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs is quite good. In the past couple of years COGs have really revolutionized the satellite imagery industry. Even USGS has seen this is the future and publishes the official Landsat data in Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF format [0].

I've been leveraging COGs recently to quickly bring satellite imagery into the browser for analysis [1].

[0]: https://www.usgs.gov/core-science-systems/nli/landsat/landsa...

[1]: https://www.unfolded.ai/blog/2021-04-28-raster-layer/
The problem is capital doesn't care about the big picture. Nuclear power is an upfront costly measure, you don't see a return for perhaps decades. That's fine if you are a public agency since in time, this will pay for itself, and the concern is about bettering the public in the best way possible, not making a quick return on investment.

It's not fine if you are a private energy company with shareholders who are looking to take on a gain and who are only looking at life one quarter at a time. Executives would rather invest in something cheaper where their investors will see a quicker return, because that's how executives keep their jobs. Executives and shareholders care about themselves and their profit, while the government is designed to care about the collective, although its great power is frequently commandeered by individuals seeking personal profit.
Yeah, the sense of smell is a basal one. The nasal cavity has bazillions of nerve endings that are almost directly wired to the brain.

That's why so many drugs are snorted. It works faster than just about anything else other than direct intravenous injection.
If link stripping becomes common, links will start becoming unique. This performance information is just too important to running a business.
> Nuclear makes little sense for climate targets.

I do not care only about the climate - I care about the environment. The entire planet should not be covered with solar panels and wind turbines. Whether or not it is more expensive, I support nuclear because it is the right thing to do.
I'm getting PTSD flashbacks imagining how little of your time is going to be able to be used productively over the next couple days, rather than co-opted into a series of status meetings with various layers of management where you say the same thing over and over.
> We want some kind of decisive, basically tech bro, alpha to come in and boss people around without any context

Who exactly wants this? Neither Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai nor Zuckerberg fit this description. The vast majority of tech leaders seem like consensus builders, as opposed to this "alpha leader" trope.
As others have said I think you need to talk with the manager and get more insight into how they came up with that number. I think it would also behoove you to white board some about the bug and be able to try to fully understand
1) what is happening
2) why is it happening
3) be able to fully understand the code that contains the bug if possible.

I dont know what the bug is that you are dealing with. It could be a low level driver or enterprise web app. I cant emphasize enough that its important to be able to understand that problem, and that usually means you can make a map of the problems inputs and outputs work flow etc
yes. those stayed at home are the ones to compare to.
Are you saying Elon himself used apartheid to his favor?
We at NetToolKit offer map tiles (both vector and raster), geocoding, and for the US, we offer autocompletion: https://www.nettoolkit.com/geo/about

$10 for 100,000 transactions (e.g. geocoding requests, tile sessions)

We have a tool to compare geocoding results across different providers: https://www.nettoolkit.com/geo/demo

We also have a JavaScript library (MapWrapper) that makes working with maps easier (including allowing you to easily switch among a few of the different tile providers).

We welcome feedback!
Code in Rust in 2021
Doesn't the equivalent Technogym treadmill also have the same risk of pulling a child under it though? The design looks very similar to the Peloton treadmill: https://www.technogym.com/us/skillrun-performance-treadmill....
Is there a good replacement for hackernews? The crypto-skepticism that derails every single thread even tangentially related to crypto currency has totally undermined my desire to participate in this community. It appears the "hackers" have moved on.
Neuropathy No More Review, Legit or a Scam?
I think that you meant to link to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27016630 instead which was the recently posted SQLite/SQL.js/HTTP range library

And there was a specific sub-thread in the conversation that mentioned using this for maps too!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27020372
Oh right! I forgot they moved to that.
> The government needs to be in control of the money supply.

Not interested in bureaucrats determining my purchasing power, sorry
Probably 0 from the US. You can search for ODARs on FCC.gov if you want a more definitive answer.
All of those are extremely contentious. Disenfranchisement upon conviction combined with selective enforcement allows government to, at scale, affect voter demographics in a specific way. It also directly impedes criminal justice reform because the people who experience the consequences of a broken system are all systematically prohibited from voting to reform it.

Firearms are so contentious that I'm not even going to describe the argument to avoid this being derailed into a flame war.

Schools are in substantially every residential neighborhood, because that's where they keep the students. So people prohibited from living "near a school" are prohibited from living pretty much everywhere.

But the most important distinction between this and those things is that they only come after a criminal conviction proved beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law by a government subject to the constitutional constraints in the Bill of Rights.
Dogecoin's surge prompts Robinhood to support trading
There are many, many successful bootstrapped software businesses out there. It's not as though founders in this industry don't already have a choice about whether or not to seek outside investment, and to consider all the relevant tradeoffs.

In what ways could capital be made less necessary?
Hey, founder/dev here! We will be fully open-source very soon. Our blockchain is forked from another which is open-source. The blockchain is a model in which there are nodes that are elected/voted in by the community. They are responsible for the validation/consensus of blocks getting produced. Whenever you post a question, an answer, or an upvote, the request goes straight from the browser to the blockchain, and your content gets stored there. That data now belongs to you, and you can earn tokens on it indefinitely.

Write performance should stay about the same even at scale because our network is capable of much higher transactions per second due to having elected nodes. Read performance will continue to be good because we have a caching layer where we store posts from the blockchain in a database and just serve from there. This technically adds a bit of centralization, but ultimately, everyone's content still belongs to themselves and not a centralized org.
Fitness instructors at the Peleton level are influencers who draw their own audiences. It’s actually kinda nuts; one of their top instructors used to be one of my regular instructors at the local spin gym I used to go to. I didn’t think she was anything special but apparently she has like a million followers on Instagram. This is just one hustle for someone making a career as a fitness guru.
Butter and guns my friend
“Laptops and buildings are a necessity, while cars with wireless modems and always on internet connections are not.”

Hear hear and well worth repeating.

I’m waiting for the (probably not too distant) day when insurance companies demand access to car telemetry in order to obtain reasonable insurance rates.

Tick Tock…
how come they could use the name Peloton?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peloton
> German people turned a blind eye to what was going on.

Yes, that is what I said was the cause.

That is different from what you said which is that people protesting in their personal live but being unwilling to discuss as part of their professional lives (i.e. compartamentalizing) was the cause.

Those germans should have been protesting and fighting back wherever possible, but it absolutely wasn't a limiting of protests to non-professional contexts that caused the Holocaust.

> Also let me just note that your casual attempt to accuse me of antisemitism in a thread LITERALLY ABOUT people being casually and unjustly accused of white supremacy is just "chef's kiss" level hypocrisy. Well done.

I stand by the assement of the stance that I put forward; it borders on anti-semitism. It sounds like that stance might not be one you intended to take. If so, I suggest re-reading what you wrote to see how it appears you are taking that stance.

If you disagree with my assessment of that stance, please explain whitewashing the german response to the rise of the Nazis doesn't border on anti-semitism because what that stance equates to for me is saying: "The germans didn't believe reprehensible things or disregard the humanity of those headed to concentration camps, they just let their professionalism stand in the way of speaking out against the Nazis."
Let me clarify: my salary didn't go up because the company fired all the admin assistants. My salary is higher now because I'm a senior engineer. What they pay me and all the other engineers for is our programming ability, but they also pay us to do admin self-service.

If there truly was an overall cost savings attributable to reduced headcount (and I'm skeptical), I don't know where it went. I do know that for accounting Reasons, public companies love to show reduced personnel costs on their annual report.
Missed this so late reply, but there are a bunch of papers concluding both personal and social harms are higher for alcohol and I think also nicotine

Results:
Alcohol, heroin and crack emerged as the most harmful drugs (overall weighted harm score 72, 55 and 50, respectively). The remaining drugs had an overall weighted harm score of 38 or less, making them much less harmful than alcohol. The overall weighted harm scores of the EU experts correlated well with those previously given by the UK panel.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0269881115581980
Incorrect. You're confusing "enough trust to make the world go around" with "so trustworthy we're neglecting that it's bad for the world."

And I mean the latter more in terms of the brain drain than ecologically, which ironically may not get solved because of that brain drain.
A major problem is that for so many of the searches so many of the early results are shopping results.
Unrolled: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1389946268764475394.html

#hownottousetwitter

Summary: Salesforce acquires heroku and alarming billing errors ensue.
You could, you'd just have to be wary of how large the header metadata would be. If you had a single Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF of the world with internal tiles up to zoom 14, the header metadata could be a few MB, which wouldn't be ideal to load in every client.
Ignore them and fix it at your own sweet time not working longer than 9-5.

Why you ask? Well look at the big picture.

A manager's ambitious is moving up the corporate ladder. To do this he takes up projects to prove herself. To complete the projects she uses the resources(people) assigned to her. Part of the resources are her core team, that she trusts and will carry with her when she gets promoted. The rest, which is the majority, will stay where they are for the next manager that will come along.

A manager would never give hard time-limit on fixing a bug to his core-team people. The people she trusts. The relationship there is completely different. So we know that you are part of the core team. Hence you have nothing to win career-wise for stressing and working extra hard.

Pushing back, asking questions, and in general being a pain in the ass is also not good career wise, as you may get negative visibility further above.

So the best thing you can do stay invisible, ignore and don't stress about it, and work as fast as you can, while not working more than what you get paid for.

If the bug is really critical and urgent then more resources will be allocated to help you with it.

In most cases however, that deadline is set to multiple people to help with manager's ambition.

So my advise is, relax, don't overwork, but don't rock the boat either.
A direct causal relationship is unlikely, however, the link between increased cyanobacteria in our waters and glyphosate spraying is possible and being studied elsewhere.

New Brunswick also carried on with heavy spraying of DDT into the 1980s stopping much later than most places.

There have been more diseased moose sightings in recent years too.

What about the possibility of contaminated seafood?

So many possibilities. Quite scary with no concrete answers.
One of our active community members took over the effort to merge PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB support into telegraf here, so hopefully that can make progress:

https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/8651