skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If users don’t care enough to see the options available to them, it’s on them.
According to the intuition of law of thermodynamics, I wonder there is really green when demands keep growing with growing population and growing countries from developing to developed.
Am I correct in saying after one usage, the parachute system generally needs replaced? I think I read this about Cirrus planes anyway
Debian and NumWorks obviously have different perspectives. The points raised in your comment are more ideological than practical.

Personally I am happy that a company that cares about source accessibility is making decent calculators, and slightly amused that Debian and the OSI seem to find that worse than copyleft.
Cryptoplayground
I use crypto (and mainly Bitcoin) to pay for three years every month now. Average fee over those years is more like $1. In comparison with $20 transaction fees my bank asks when I transact for example from EU to SouthAm, zero hassle and no paperwork when sending to countries with trade embargo, I must say, Bitcoin is golden.
This is bad.

I often wonder how to square such observations with the fact that life expectancy and quality of life are, in general, increasing.

It’s a noisy metric, but all in all it feels like the totality of human development is (for now anyway) increasing human welfare.

Caveat global warming etc.
Anything that makes money (for me) is good. Capitalism at its finest. Cheers.
PEP 659: Specializing Adaptive Interpreter
I worked for a Big Corp which included this statement in the contract. At the time I was too young to care, but my older colleagues were very aware of this. Some of them who worked on their gig in the evenings left a few years later to start their own company, where they simply took that evenings work to the product.
>The theory is that it will be used to settle inter-bank transactions once it is widely adopted by institutions.

Banks have absolutely not need of a proof of work scheme like Bitcoin, them switching to a system with the power requirements of BTC seems highly unlikely.
> I do not want to encourage market-whale-individuals to attempt one-person pump-and-dumps on small(ish) global markets and further market opportunism & manipulation.

Eh, no innocent by-standers get hurt when someone 'dumps-and-pumps' bitcoin.

And if you want to teach people a lesson, the higher the profile of the 'pumper-and-dumper', the better.
The difference there is Apple's customer is the actual end customer, the user, while Microsoft's customer is the OEM. It's the OEM Microsoft sell the software to (generally speaking), and who actually decides what devices get made and what their features are, not Microsoft.

As a result Microsoft has to worry about what the OEMs want and how they will use the product. In contrast Apple only cares what the end user wants, what their experience is, what features they get and how they work.

An OEM cares about whether they're making ARM laptops or Intel laptops. They care about and want input into the implementation details. An end user doesn't care if Photoshop is running on an ARM chip or an Intel chip, they care about how well it runs and what the battery life is. They (generally speaking) don't care about the implementation details.
not only that but international law also recognizes Palestine's right to armed struggle, as an oppressed nation
Can't he short some Bitcoin futures when they make a sale, to eliminate volatility as a concern?
People, it's good point actually.

In a recent article on a new lobbying group trying to onshore chip production https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27121586 a lot of people pointed out it's this weakness incentivising lobbying.

In other words US establishment invites regulatory capture through expectation of lobbying action creating even bigger opportunities to draw a dire picture, and demand more state intervention favourable to the industry.

More lobbying & pushback > industry situation worsens > opportunity to draw a dire situation > favourable intervention & more handouts > repeat

The poorer they do, they bigger are the handouts.
And once we stop burning coal... and once we stop coating all our food packaging, clothes and furniture in PFAS... and once we ban all single-use plastics...

These kind of tweaks to our society would not require a lot of technical effort - we already have all the alternatives - we just the popular rage against their use and the political will to ban them.
McCLIM back end to render graphics in Emacs via SLIME
I believe the whole airplane needs to be replaced after BRS use.
As a hard-of-smelling person, I enjoy cleaning gross things and collecting garbage.

I'd hate to be one of these moderators.
Wait what? Only Google Maps is allowed? That is absurd.
Note that Backus's complaint is in relation to EWD638, where Dijkstra tears apart every claim made in a paper and accuses the authors of having a "pre-scientific attitude" and giving "the impression of anti-intellectualistic reactionaries". But none of this explains why the "provenance" of Alan Kay's statement about Dijkstra's arrogance is supplied in a retelling of Backus's statement about Dijkstra's arrogance. The provenance of Alan Kay's statement is that Alan Kay said it, in his OOPSLA keynote.
Walled gardens are just security theater. The App Store revenue was $72bn in 2020, yet the review time for an app is a few hours. App reviewers barely have any qualifications, they're just "call center operators" running off a script.
Whos quality of life is increasing?
Cryogenic chip solves the wiring bottleneck to realize scalable quantum computer
I'm surprised you say just 70. Typical antisemites say The Jew has been deceiving for millennia.
Can an AI Algorithm Mitigate Racial Economic Inequality? Airbnb
The way antitrust is working in recent years is kind of ridiculous. Google in Europe is becoming a rich case study in antitrust meh.

You find that adwords engages in a blatant "monopolistic abuse" in some specific sense. In the Adwords EU case for example, Google was both monopsonising (google search) and monopolising search advertising. But, the actual violations are specific, like exclusivity requirements and other technical infractions buried in their take-it-or-leave-it contracts with "partners.^"

Google get a fine. They deny culpability. They pay a fine and move on. Whether it's 100m or 2bn doesn't really matter. Google are demonstrably willing to pay far more (eg acquisition, browser kickbacks, etc.) to maintain a monopolistic position. Besides minor tweaks, there's no reason for them to change.

What's the point? Antitrust can't be useful as a violation-fine paradigm. These cases/fines don't affect the monopoly or free the market in any useful sense.

IMO, we need some way to declare a company "Big" and apply special rules to them. If those rules are onerous, that might create some organic pressure to split and/or help smaller incumbents compete.

There is no point to antitrust if its totally reactive, handing out fines for moving violations. The point of antitrust is trust-busting, to affect market structure. The point if to have a competitive market.

All the 1990s stuff is playing out. Just like the MSFT case, we see that operating systems, browsers (now app stores) are monopoly prone and that it's a big deal. On the other side, the 90s "portal" concept is fully realized now. In the digital economy, controlling the windows of consumption is everything. None of the costs, all of the profit... literally all in a lot of cases.

^Newspapers didn't have the advantage search partners had in their monopoly claim, because Google doesn't have agreements with them. No contract, no abusive clauses. The take it or leave it offer is "give us your content for free, or go away." Formally, Google isn't even doing business with them.
Bloody hell: the state of that Metroliner. Surprised it held together with that amount of damage, and huge kudos to the pilots for getting it on the ground safely.

For such a serious accident this seems about the best possible outcome for the crew of both aircraft. I'm not an expert so I'm not going to comment on root cause or blame here, but simply glad to read that at least everybody survived.
That doesn't make it any better, fraud for charity is still fraud.
>I mean, isn’t this exactly the behaviour we want to encourage?

Kind of. If I announce I'm going to start beating my wife and then say "After feedback, I've decided not to do this" then I don't expect to be voted man of the year. And yes, this is an extreme example but for the sort of people who get angry on Twitter the issue they're getting mad at is an extreme one (whatever it is).

I think reversing a bad decision is admirable when it wasn't already obvious at the time of making it that it was bad. If new information comes to light that they couldn't have reasonably known originally then of course, that's fine. But mostly the new information seems to be "We knew this would piss some people off but we thought we could get away with it."
Increase your website sales and subscriptions with Popup Maker
Popup Maker is the perfect popup marketing tool that will bring a guaranteed income to your eCommerce business. Implement different popup elements of Popup Maker to have the best targeting tools for a better conversion on your site.
None of that was an answer to any of my questions. Specifically, how did talking down Bitcoin benefit Tesla? I don't understand how that move plays into Tesla's hands.
I mean, if you accept that the laws of physics are deterministic, don't you sort of have to accept materialism?

I would think the onus would be on you to show a mechanism for the interaction between the physical and the "spiritual" (or whatever you want to call it). In other words, how does this pure consciousness affect things in a purely deterministic physical universe?
TBH, of course I do know that moderators exist, but I've never consciously thought that it can be really awful what they see (children stuff, suicide, etc)
BPA plastics are linked with a decrease in testosterone which lasts multiple generations.

BPA plastics are found nearly everywhere.

https://rbej.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12958-018-0...

But the GPs comment is still correct. I wonder what will change with the removal of ICE vehicles from public roads.
The TI 68k devices are great. Or more actually, they were great for their time 20 years ago, and it is a damned shame that no really better device has emerged since. The document centric approach of the Nspire makes them a pain to use and the CAS does not seem to be any better.

That said, you can debate rechargeable batteries vs AAAs (both have pros and cons), but a backlit screen is a really good thing.
With the recent stripe billing changes and now invoicing, it is starting to feel like involuntary “upgrades” on core features is how stripe gets to be a trillion dollar company. Sometimes I hate VC.
Somebody short bitcoin? ;-)
Security researcher found Wi-Fi vulnerabilities that existed since the beginning
Here's a discussion of the subject from October:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/protecting-agains...

I suggest, without intending to be dismissive, punching "covid aerosols primary" or the like into your search engine of choice and going to town. It's been a long debate, and by late last year every prestigious organization except CDC and WHO were in the aerosols camp. Even they have kind of low-key admitted it, while insisting that the measures to control it they promoted on an erroneous theory are still the correct ones. Which is, of course, nonsense.

A droplet is just a large blob of the same saliva that makes up the aerosols. If it gets in your lungs, it will make you sick. This is pretty easy to avoid behaviorally, and with face shields for workers who have to have contact with the public. Wearing a mask will also mitigate this, but it isn't necessary (just don't point your face at other people) and it isn't sufficient, because of aerosols, which are therefore the primary source of transmission.

When a droplet lands on a surface, it becomes a fomite. Picking these up with ones hands, and transmitting them to eyes, nose, and lips, is a major route of infection for influenza. It does not appear to be a significant route of infection for COVID.

Diseases which spread primarily through droplets do so by forming fomites. Unlike someone spitting on your face, it's very easy to touch a surface someone else spit upon, and people touch their faces a lot.
To take an alternative stance:

People are living longer and better than at any point in history. Nature has its own dangers, we’ve just traded some issues for others.
Many programmers do care about the "shallow" syntax.

Regardless, if, as you said, the operational semantics of the language is inconsistent among implementations and depends on internal caching, it only makes it worse.
Survival of the fittest at its finest.

What's so amazing about those tax dodging stories, is how there are no protest about it. It's so complex that you get into arguments with market fundamentalist who will answer with economic theories, and the debate gets lost because of the low attention span of the audience.

The problem is not capitalism, the problem is that it's rotten from the inside. Honestly, it seems the same thing happened to the Soviet Union. In my view it's quite concerning to hear people say communism is evil just by quoting the history of the soviet union, while dismissing both the political AND economic problems of capitalism.
Keep in mind that some commenters might be talking about the situation in the US, which might not be the same as in the UK.

If you’re unsure it might be a good idea to consult a lawyer. And/or maybe a professional body such as The Chartered Institute for IT…?
Plaintext Productivity
It depends on the quality of the conversation
> IMO, we need some way to declare a company "Big" and apply special rules to them. If those rules are onerous, that might create some organic pressure to split and/or help smaller incumbents compete.

Past a point, they should be regulated like an utility.
I’ll give you a positive counterpoint, my immediate thoughts from the headline alone were “great, finally a decent way to ensure I never suffer from locked in syndrome”, “wonder how invasive it is”, “I’m not in the right mood to even open this link”, and finally a small shudder as I try to avoid thinking about locked in syndrome by starting to focus on other tasks.
Is the content she viewed every day worse than an average page on 4chan? I am just wondering if because of filters she is exposed to a higher level of bad material, or if its the same kind of environment.
So we have a regulation since October of 2020 [!] in the EU that says that water distributors ("Wasserversorger") have to check how much PFAS is in the water and cope with it if it's too much. This reminds me that I had a notice from my landlord at the start of corona that I shouldn't use the shower because they noticed that the threshold of legionella in the water was a little too high (which was especially annoying because falling ill with Legionnaires' disease would mean similar symptoms to covid-19).
Weekly Google fine

Is it even possible to split them?
I don’t know why they wouldn’t mention parabens and pthalates which are used in all sorts of cosmetics and self care products and don’t have to be listed as ingredients, often just showing up as “fragrance”. They are ‘forever’ and hormone disrupters. Pretty scary stuff.
How to Speak Binary in TypeScript
I also do, but recognize that more than half of the stuff I did to get graduation credits where very boring.

Of course, we don’t know in advance what will resonate and what will fall into a mental pit, so it’s all after the fact evaluation and I don’t see my “boring” courses as universally boring to everyone.

But I definitely was phoning in these courses, and I hope my teachers had double good feedback from the other students, otherwise it could be a depressing situation.

There is a teacher I kept contact with way after entering working life, and it sure felt like there was a small core of us really really thankful, and a gigantic mass of students just sliding by to get a number on their yearly report.
> It's small and easy to grasp the entire thing though,

Whatever
A 12% drop isnt ‘tanking Bitcoin’, it’s barely more than normal daily fluctuations in the crazy casino of crypto.
Guide to LabelCloud: A Python Tool for Annotating 3D Point Clouds
Please don't think "for profit" is evil. It's just normal. You can find enormous negative things about all financial structures.
Does 4chan have absolutely 0 filters? Including for illegal content.
This is not true. Dogecoin is way lower KW per hash than bitcoin. Dogecoin is .12 and bitcoin is 707
https://www.trgdatacenters.com/most-environment-friendly-cry...
Two schools of thought?

- Those that really try hard to make sure the computer cannot crash.

- Those that see the computer crashing as an inevitability, and want to ensure the appropriate behaviours are in place when it does happen.
how about ability to post anything on almost any website?

forums, social medias, meme sites, youtube, comment sections everywhere, hn or its brother reddit, etc...
Elon is clearly driving up the price of proof of work cryptocurrencies. The environmental impact of these is directly related to their price.
Milvus had very limited filter support, which has now been removed from its release. And with Qdrant you can do, for example, a geo-filter on top of semantic search
We do not allow traffic controllers to work full 40h work weeks because the job is taxing and they're directly responsible for the lives of thousands of people.

I'm not sure the analogy really holds even though I agree that it is not reasonable to expect these people to perform this role full time.
To what end? I don't quite see any benefits to that except the public losing rights to the roads.
What convinced me of what is happening is, and of the pointlessness of Bell theorem is :

Marian Kupczynski : Closing the Door on Quantum Nonlocality :
https://philpapers.org/archive/KUPCTD.pdf
Mass transit isn’t available to everyone. They don’t even have buses where I live.
It’s a typical pump-and-dump+market manipulation decision in an unregulated market so it is legal, and highly profitable. It’s not a bad investment, only a moral failing.
I have Oculus Quest 2 and currently the resolution is a tiny bit lacking. in the near future, for sure. I think AR would be better for this task because it's really annoying when you try to type and end up spilling your coffee
It may sound pointless unless you consider that the pilot will not need to be replaced.
I would just like to hear what those who were saying that Bitcoin is Tesla's long term position 3 months ago have to say now?
US Target stores to stop selling Pokémon cards after rising threats to staff
I think cryptocurrency is actually failing, not because of technical nor political reasons, but all because of the sheer stupidity of populus. You see, cryptocurrencies are absolutely vulnerable to social engineering likes this, and I believe this is not something technology can solve, never ever even in the far future.

The future of cryptocurrency now lies in the hands of governments, whose regulations are the only true solution. Good bye the days of truly decentralized and purely market-controlled digital - ahem - currency.
He also suggested on another tweet that bitcoin incentivizes using renewable energy.

https://mobile.twitter.com/christianmaioli/status/1392627196...
This depends a lot on what sorts of things you do enjoy, I think.

There are many ways of enjoying and appreciating writing, fiction, art, etc. You can approach from so many angles.

For example, I love science fiction and fantasy, but I love it in a different way to some of my friends. For me, the real enjoyment is about strong characters, story arcs that wouldn't be possible in another genre, and to some extent about getting to the core of how humans relate to each other and what about them is "human" when you put them in a totally different context.

For some of my friends it is more about fantastical worlds that are self consistent but have different rules to our own. For others it is about prediction of the future through careful analysis of how a particular technological advance might play out. The narrative is simply a useful vehicle for that analysis.

Are there _any_ pieces of fiction that you have enjoyed? Or perhaps biographies or documentaries where the subjects were compelling characters? I would try to find the edges where these things blur a little into interests you already have. But I will admit I find it hard to relate to some extent - I've always loved stories.
Free full game on a demo disc in the 90s/00s, you could sell magazines giving away an old gane

Free release of old game to promote new game (lots of these)

Free on steam / epic / origin (to get new users)

Free in a cereal box (chex quest anyone)

Free because the author doesn't want to sell it anymore but wants people to play it

Free because it's open source now AND the assets are included (like ur quan masters)

Free because its a hobby (like https://thedarkmod.com/ or 0 A.D. or other 'real' games that are hobbies)

Lots of games have been free as in beer some time or other
Sure, I can see plenty of good it can do.

Unfortunately, I think the wrong it has the potential to do to the human as a specie outbalances it by an order of magnitude.

It's useless to worry though, we are a careless race, we will use it no matter what, and we will hurt yourself in the process. I just hope it will not be too much.
The number you're citing is basically entirely bandwidth, which has two main problems.

One is that amazon has an enormous markup on bandwidth, compared to their other products.

The other is that GitHub does not actually let you download each file 20x in a month and "not think about" it. 50GB of space for a month only gets you 50GB of bandwidth.

If Amazon didn't explicitly ban people from using Lightsail bandwidth with other services, you could put together an all-AWS package that has 150GB of high quality S3 storage and enough bandwidth to download it 2-3x per $5 (minimum order quantity 2). For a service like B2 you could store 250GB twice (each copy having its own cross-server RAID) and download it once for $5. At digitalocean $5 will get you 250GB of probably-redundant data with 1TB of bandwidth, though it eventually tapers off toward 167GB/$5.
How much are the fees for converting to Bitcoin, the recipient converting from Bitcoin, and the transaction costs? TransferWise is quoting me an effective all-in price[0] of £1.98 to send someone in Brazil £100 of my hard-earned Sterling. I’m struggling to believe you’re getting Bitcoin in or out of fiat for less than 2-5% a go, and transaction cost is ~$15, so ballpark this is costing $25?

0: £100 -> 729.83, where Google says it “should” be 744.61;
Thanks for pointing this out!
Until now I had been under the impression that sapient and sentient mean very similar things with a very fuzzy boundary. This does clarify a few things regarding their usage.
Build Meaningful Connections with Your Colleagues
Does the Netherlands get any benefits by offering these "services"? Is the gratitude of those using them beneficial? To whom exactly?

And if not, then why is it not stopped? It is not exactly a poor county, that has no choice but to let things like this happen for some dirty dollars on the side. It should not be too difficult to at least catch the biggest fish playing this game.
Show HN: A Voxel Editor in the Browser
Choosing who gets to govern you is not the same as choosing whether to be governed at all. The people in the white house change constantly but the white house itself endures and there's no way to refuse it. If 49% of citizens vote for politician X but politician Y wins by 51% majority, the 49% cannot simply refuse to be governed by someone they did not want in power.
Browsing 1999 websites
The browser compibatility mess. I did not mean to say Babel is bad engineering, but a solution to the problem of bad engineering.