skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many people keep suggesting Chia will cause the next storage shortage crisis the same way current crypto-currencies are with GPUs. This is understandable given that the article describes this is already starting to happen. However, everything right now is all due to _speculation_. When there is liquidity in the market and people actually know the value of the coin, the economics might look very different.

Why? Because by the very nature of storage, it is infinitely more profitable to farm only unused extra storage than it is to buy new storage specifically for farming. I'll follow with a more detailed explanation below.

Since the marginal cost of using extra space on a hard drive you already bought is near zero, this should theoretically drive the farming rewards for Chia so low that it's not economical to buy a hard drive specifically to farm Chia.

In contrast, consider compute. If I try to use extra cpu power on an average computer or server to mine bitcoin, compared to the high end GPUs and ASICs this extra amount of compute I have within my average computer is so small it would barely generate any rewards. Given that using more CPU also causes more power consumption, it also costs more.

So putting this together, due to the existence of specialized/more-performant hardware and the fact that using more CPU/GPU incurs a cost, most of the people buying high end GPUs (or definitely ASICs), are buying it primarily for mining. In contrast, with space, since it's always near free to use storage you already bought, and everyone is on a near-level playing field, the market is only profitable for those with no sunk costs. At least, that's just a theory.

Just a thought, but who knows. We'll see in time.
Why exactly is it obviously dramatically better?
Perhaps that should say "this century" because the 21st century has got nothing on the 20th.
> It is often discouraged to use -ly words.

...whereas passive voice is widely endorsed.
We put one in our yard, and it gets a ton of use. During the spring of 2020 when nobody was able to go anywhere at all because of lockdown (walking around was still permitted in our town), we actually had to put a call out for more books because the neighborhood had burned through the entire stock we had in our garage. I really like having it, and I think our neighbors do too.
SPJ of Haskell fame once discussed perceived STM failure in .Net: https://haskell-cafe.haskell.narkive.com/t6LSdcoE/is-there-a...

Basically, poor STM performance in .Net is too much mutation and mutation-induced logging. This is why clojure's STM is much more widely used.

I have particularly deep experience in various Haskell projects and I must insist that no relatively (1) big Haskell project (2) with a hint of concurrency and (3) developed by several people can go without use of STM.

I can use MVars myself for problem space discovery. When there are at least two of use, I will use TVar and insist others should too.
I don't see how any of those qualifiers have anything to do with my point. Mistakes happen all of the time.
Well that made me read the report, which I had no intention of doing. You’re right, it’s a model of its kind. And it really is refreshing.
FWIW, I looked at a list of ITAR consent decrees from during the cold war. They mostly resulted in fines in the $10,000-$100,000 neighborhood. OTOH those were for sales to relatively friendly countries (West Germany, Canada, France, Ireland)
Op here,

I'd be open to have a Safari one too!
Would you give https://www.blockstud.io a try?

I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.

Thanks!
Wow those are few and far between. Isn't the idea of starlink that you'd have internet all the time?

Edit: Aahhh I see now, it's meant for stargazers (well, starlinkgazers) and it only shows the visible passes. Got it. I'm used to using sat trackers for ham radio purposes and they show all passes, that's why I was confused.
In a lot of ways, my ideal product would be a HyperCard / Excel combo that could output Java (or some other source code).
Or, maybe California was hit earlier

Most of California's deaths occurred in a wave from January to March of 2021, while Florida had their first wave in the summer of 2020. (https://linqbymarsh.com/blueicustominsights/covid-insights is good for historical data like this).

There’s a whole lot of omitted confounding variables in the “compare aggregate totals and jump to policy conclusions” games people are playing.

Very true, but the lack of clear correlation between level of restrictions and Covid outcomes is at least some evidence against lockdowns.
I wonder how inflexible this demand is, what if it's a checkbox that almost every human wants to check? Maybe not for their entire life, but at least until the kids move out.

It is entirely possible that cheap financing results in higher down payments which in the end actually fuels a savings craze that drags inflation down.

I also suspect that over the long term a lot of products are going down in price and housing costs like rents are dragging the CPI up.
I also know someone who traveled to Florida and died from COVID shortly thereafter.
while i have almost no use of this software, it's one of the most powerful open source tool around. i wish there was a similar effort to make Freecad more reliable (my bad not helping btw).

also this has already been discussed and seems technically hard to do, but if the UI toolkit would be standalone that would be gold .. rarely seen sth of such quality
Right, so don't buy Apple products. Again, not a problem.
Ah, the joys of forgetting to put a period at the end of the COUNT-ROWS paragraph.
Facebook could just as easily go the Netflix route and keep the subscription payments away from the app.
> I've had the chance to work with people who were openly aligned with the CCP

How does it surprise people these days?

China had 20 years of relatively good relationships with US, and the world's biggest spy service.

Take a look at Russia, a supposed ally of Beijing. Annually, there are dozens, and dozens of people who are given life for espionage for China. And those are only cases which go public.

Russia is a closed, militarist society, with secret police sticking its nose into everything.

USA is an open country, with open borders, immigration system, freedom to do whatever business you want, and an open society, with a few million people strong entrepreneur class exuberant at the opportunity of doing business even with a place like China.

It is rational to believe that there are way more than just a few random communists who got into your biggest companies, and much likely that there been a many decades long concerted infiltration, and recruitment campaign. This is just what those guys do.

For example, a former "student activist" from Maoist Kharagpur is now running one very big Californian Internet company.
FBI Records: The Vault – Kurt Cobain Part 01 of 01
To our surprise, the nerdiness of some hacker news commenters seems to have no upper bound.
Does India have 20k dead per million?
Because we like to ignore facts that counter our worldviews.
Because they are incompetent.
...knock on wood!!
Kraftful (YC S19) hiring founding engineers to build the standard IoT platform
1000 deaths, 700 deaths. It doesn't matter.
Is the pandemic still on going?
Yes.
The answer is yes.
I really don't care to get into the minutia when the answer is still yes.
> But if it doesn't stick after a couple hours, don't continue - really, it does not change or improve at all

Sound advice for most things.

It's hard to think of a less interesting argument than "is X philosophically interesting/deep?" or "is X fun?", the argument going on in the sister comments, because there is such a huge subjective element. For just about any philosophical claim you can discern, you can find dozens of philosophers and works of art making that claim throughout history, so whether it's "interesting" or "deep" is, well, uninteresting as an argument.

In the case of Nier:Automata, I liked it a lot. I found the combat very fun, to the point that I got a Tetris effect from it: when I closed my eyes it was like I was playing the game in my head. I found the philosophical angle enjoyable, not because it was making novel propositional claims, but because that philosophy was woven cleverly into engaging gameplay, amazingly evocative music, memorable visuals, and emotionally involving events. But there will be some people that don't get that effect---you're not the only one I know---simply because of taste and experience, and that's ok.
They've really gone right up to the line with autoplaying trailers from the browse screen though...
"The previous century" includes the Great Depression, WWII, the Cold War, a bunch of nuclear war close calls, and 9/11. Also if you include the whole 20th century, WWI and the Spanish Flu.

And those are just of the top of my head, I'm sure I've missed some.

Personally, I'm not sure this pandemic qualifies as "one of the most difficult"...
My guess is that they are by-and-large older and not digital natives
Unless you're using a pinephone they already have.

And even then the default OS on the newer pinephones uses KDE as a DE which had telemetry built in at one point.
One could argue that being shut off from in-person interaction is not as big of a challenge, as escaping a genocide or being drafted into an army to fight $ideology on the other side of the globe.

Pandemic is sure bad, but not "half of all men in your country being killed in war" bad.
> Please do not associate your comment with "just getting old"

> If you are familiar with 1990s technology

Is this extremely-subtle trolling?
Neither does TOTP? There are plenty of desktop applications that support it. I personally use Keepass.
I feel no shame in using Sci-Hub and neither should you. Peer reviewers aren't paid with your money, and neither are the writers. You're only paying the middlemen with the subscription or without it. Fuck them.

If it's not on Sci-Hub (happened to me only once), email the author and upload it there afterwards.
I'd wish people presenting their frameworks would not just describe the happiest path, but the outage modes as well.

I'm looking at that "Powering the Internet-of-Things" animation on their main page, and immediately asking myself "what if there's a network outage just as the temperature rises?" "what if the fan controller has a power hiccup and fails to start?" etc etc.

Because those days it takes days (or even weeks) to subscribe to the idea, build a sketch and start testing failure scenarios.
Scala has the full suite of Java collections without any conversion or overhead whatsoever.

But it also has Scala collections. With scala collections you get the full power of the Scala type system, as well as a much richer and full featured collections api. So most scala programmers won't bother with java collections unless they have specific java interop requirements.

The Scala adapters are merely ways of converting java collections to scala collections and vice versa.
What you are 'just saying' is FUD. You don't know how the system works yet you keep coming back to this thread to defend your incorrect assumptions.
Thank you. It was just working a few minutes ago, here's one more: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/7/22424592/tesla-elon-musk-a...
> I am not going to make an international payment to some random company that I have no idea about.

Why not? You do have an idea about them: TeamViewer asked you to pay them.

> I suspect they want me to do this because closing internally with the company will mean admitting to the agency that they sold a bad debt.

Maybe. Maybe that's just how it's easier for them.
I have some ideas I believe that, if done well, will be transformative:

Problem 1: Architecture/Engineering is still very much traditional. Various distributed teams across cities/countries email CAD (mostly autocad) files back and forth or host it in cloud, with changes highlighted in revision clouds. The delivery of final design involved the interplay of specialisted teams, architecture/structure/M&E/QS/Civl/Onsite etc. Lack of proper tools cause problems in synchronising and keeping everyone uptodate with all the changes, error prone and its extremely manual.
This becomes evenmore important when the actual construction is going on and you need to keep track of ammendments etc. A simple architectural change (eg moving a door), need to be reflected in structure/m&e all drawings, possiblly reworking internal wiring etc.

They (I dont mean everyone, but most of the industry) have never seen how distributed teams of programmers use version control software to sync/branch/diff/merge work from multiple teams.

Solution: A tool that can seemlessly do diff/merge/branch of CAD drawings (perhaps integrated into AutoCAD or other CADs itself) will bring a lot of efficiency into architecture/engineering field. Lead Architect could have his team working on various parts of the design/experimental ideas (think feature branches), which he merges to his tree. Engineering team will pull from Lead Architect. M&E team can pull from both these teams etc (this is similar to Linus trusted leutinent model). The idea is NOT to change how they organise their team or automate everything, but provide tools to help the human to make things more efficient.

As far as I know OnShape are the only people working on such a thing and that is 3D. Most arch/eng is still 2D. Autodesk themselves have Revit but I am not sure of to what extent it does all these.
We can use deaths-above-replacement (among other things) to determine how many more people died than normal from all causes, and then whittle down the obviously-not-from-contracting-covid deaths from there. The submission goes into very specific detail about how they did this, and they account for many of the potential confounders related to doing this analysis.

I believe we can be much more precise than you're giving us credit for in determining if contracting COVID was the direct cause of someone's death, even with comorbidities.

To be totally honest, when I see someone say, "we can't ever be totally sure" I nearly wholly discount that opinion, because it's very cheap to proffer, almost always true, and of very little value.
Sorry, but I think I can objectively say that a year in which a global pandemic occurred that took millions of lives and completely upended normal life for the majority of people counts as one of the worst years since 1920. The fact that anyone would question that in this forum is, I think, extremely telling.
"I think this speaks to the power of defaults."

Even more, it speaks to the power of removing choice. When app tracking is enabled by default it effectively removes choice because most users never touch settings (and may not even know they exist). Therefore users are not choosing anything. Someone else is choosing for them. "Tech" company employees will respond to criticism of their employer's behaviour with something like: "But users can choose to turn this off." That is not relevant if 96% are unaware of this "choice". The question is: why is tracking on by default. That was a choice the user did not make.

Only when faced with a screen asking the user if she chooses to be tracked do we get a chance to find out what a user would choose. And even then, developers will use "dark patterns" to manipulate the decision-making process toward a self-serving outcome.

Perhaps we should ask ourselves whether there should even be a setting to enable tracking. If the majority of users would choose to turn it off, if they were presented with the choice, then why even have it. This is essentially "privacy by design".

This is no different than when developers argue to HN that it is not worth catering to the preferences of privacy-conscious or minimalist users since those users comprise such a small percentage of users overall. By the same token, it should not worth catering to the small percentange of users who want to be tracked.
Some friends said they saw it go over my town last night but I missed it. I’m stoked there’s a tool to track it.
And if it wasn't patentable, there is a good chance that it would never have been developed or industrialized. It will eventually go off patent and be widely available
> How do people get money? By working and being paid. So pay people more, then they'll buy more, then producers can produce more, then your GDP goes up.

That sounds more like inflation than productivity actually going up.
I still believe this will provide a fast better insight on the CUV.

https://youtu.be/62TlGLQRsUA

I still believe that hybrids will still conquer the roads to come. Whether they are hydrogen cell or other. Just because the whole memetic on the lack of USA infrastructure to support pure electric cars.
> The same argument could have made without vaccinations as well. Why close bars, if you could just tell people to stay at home? The people who choose to be careless have informed consent.

The argument only holds up when vaccines are available to those who want them. If I can’t get a vaccine, then someone else’s choice of going to the bar is a danger to me, because I might find myself standing next to him at the grocery store next week. With the vaccine being available to me though, he’s mostly only a danger to himself and like minded people.

> So I think we should try to do everything we can to prevent people from getting COVID. We should try to convince even the most careless people to get vaccinated, because it's not just them, but also their dependents who are affected.

I agree that we should do what we can, encourage people to get vaccinated, etc. But perpetual lockdowns have costs of their own, and there is real value in getting back to normal. Now that vaccines are available to everybody, it is time.
Researchers Hacked into Parked Tesla Cars Remotely with a Drone
Ok. It's still a good reason for companies to not support SMS 2FA. Email 2FA or TOTP are miles better.
> And there are so many sellers that solutions need to scale well.

This actually raises a core part of the problem: why does Amazon need literally dozens of sellers for every piece of junk on the site? For any sort of commodity on the site, there can be thousands of results. All the same. All within a few percent of the same price. All completely indistinguishable through any mechanism in the search facility. There have been so many times that I've been looking for something with a specific feature, and it's just page after page after page of stuff I don't want, that I finally give up and just buy the crap they're shoving at me. That brutally-carnal competition for every nickel and dime is a big part of the motivation to flood the platform with fake reviews.

What made Amazon great at the start was the fact that they DID NOT carry every conceivable item under the sun, from every single person who wants to spin up a mercantile account and give it a whirl. I've gone back to buying most things from brick-and-mortar stores because THEY are still doing the curation. They're not going to carry 17,000 different USB cables, and the ones they do are going to be high-enough quality that they don't have a high rate of return. I wish Amazon all the worst. To paraphrase Yogi Berra: No one shops at Amazon any more; it's too crowded.
The future of work is whatever employees will tolerate. CEO’s are less than worthless without competent people to boss around.
Think about that initial paragraph for a moment. You assume it is because it makes them money but you also assume it is a choice on their part - that they could do something about it that works.

That is basically the same thing as all powerful in this context. It is the same pattern of sinisterization in the whole "Big Tech Bad" propaganda push.
Yegge has spend years working in the Asia region, in a business capacity. What makes you so sure that he's so wrong?

(I mean, maybe you're right - but that makes me curious as to who you are that you're more knowledgeable than him about this particular topic)
I wouldn't use either. People tend to overuse adverbs, in my opinion, perhaps thinking that by adding them it strengthens the statement in some way. To me, though, it just sounds weak and forced.
Sure, things have been bolted on top of Java to allow this to happen. People have made use of them.

Java now has built in support for these things, so no longer will developers rely on third-party solutions.

This is great for the Java world, and for any languages that are being built on top of the JVM by extension.

I would politely disagree with your characterisation of it being just academic, as an engineer I find it incredibly exciting. Admittedly, my bar is pretty low for excitement these days.
My intuitive answer is that the foundation is precisely focused on its mission and way less of a drama queen. Zero public politics, apparently far less focus on fundraising and raising of awareness on nonessential issues. Wikipedia, for example, has a huge war chest but continues to fundraise. That raises questions.

Blender is a lean, mean fighting machine and it’s hard to question a single Euro in its budget. That’s pretty impressive, and comforting to those of us who have contributed.
Mongolian script is unusual because of its orientation.

How do UIs handle the script? For example mobile chat applications.
I think that would vary by person and location. Some people have had a terrible time losing friends and family without the option to even say goodbye, which is genuinely awful. Then people who have lost their livelihood and even become homeless.

On the other hand, I got the best job I've ever had and I don't even know a single person who got covid. Restricted travel has only been a minor inconvenience because I live in such an incredibly beautiful and temperate place. In the most selfish perspective, this seems like a great year for me. There are probably many like me, and also in between.

All that is to say I don't think we can truly evaluate how difficult this has really been until we see the full consequence revealed in several years. Some people speculate that we will collectively bounce back in a roaring 20s kind of way, others suspect this has kneecapped our global economy and we haven't seen the worst yet.
In any privilege level?
How does that change things with regard to the status of controlled information?
"However, it is wrongly assumed that Musk was behind the idea of Tesla Motors and electric vehicles. That credit belongs to Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning who originally started the company in 2003 and Musk's recent news prompted one user to tweet, "I still find it darkly amusing that the actual creator of a company named after Nikola Tesla is constantly erased from history, with all credit being given to some rich bully instead."

https://meaww.com/elon-musk-tesla-cofounder-lawsuit-settleme...
From Pixels to Pages
We are not far from cameras performing facial recognition and refusing to take photos of those on a "no photo list".
So for the foreseeable future you intend to just freeze SPARC Tribblix on the last Illumos to support SPARC? I suppose it should stay ABI compatible with other components ~forever, so that shouldn't even hold back other pieces of the system.
I haven't used it in a looong time, but yes[1] it is, apparently.

1: https://supercard.us/
Well one thing -- it's much easier to sexually harass your employees and abuse whatever power you derive purpose-built hierarchy when you are all in the same building.
Yes, I don't understand why the IHME is still taken seriously after their awful models a year ago where they were repeatedly, confidently wrong.

Link predicting deaths drop to 0 by June 21, 2020 (i.e. last year). Spoiler: they did not.
https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/influential-ihme-model-pro...
The original paper https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.27.20043752v...