skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Dish 'Fix' for the T-Mobile Merger Is Looking More and More Like a Mess
If the reaction is shut off then heat will decrease, not grow. So like TMI is an example where they thought the reaction was quenched but wasn't actually, due to bad sensors and other sensors not being near one another/easy to compare (this is fixed and obviously sensors have become more reliable since then). The reaction won't start up again without some source. If reactions were easy to maintain we would have had nuclear reactors long before the 50's.
If the transactions are off the chain and to centralized and networked banks I wonder if the 21M coins will hold true for very long... And what happens when bank-run is attempted... As I don't see people staying away from all the fun things they can do with fiat currencies... As at that point the currency on exchanges and between them is fiat.
Replacing Jekyll with Pandoc and a Makefile
The most reasonable explanation is that Tesla/Elon don't actually care about the environment and if it's going to suffer in their pursuit of whatever financial scheming and/or vanity, so be it.
In my real world benchmarks I’ve observed the same: the jump from avx2 to Avx512 is usually underwhelming. Is this widely recognized and understood or just anecdotal?
> I grew up with cars I could (and did) service. I still remember how to break down a drum brake, and adjust it so it worked again when re-assembled. I've used grease zerks on the auto I drove. I've helped troubleshoot a carburetor.

Maybe not the same thing, but about two years ago, my car's check engine light came on. Dealer quoted me $2400 to fix the issue (ABS pump failed because of low voltage on system power). About a month ago, some friends and I spent a Saturday replacing the ABS pump. $300 ebay part, $20 worth of tools, $10 worth of brake fluid, $50 worth of OBD-2 readers to confirm what the problem was, and $50 for lunch for my friends.

I think it's not impossible to fix cars today. Maybe you won't be tuning an engine to get more power out of it, but it's 100% possible to tear down your brakes, brake systems, and lots of other stuff if you know where to look. I'm not super technical with cars, but if you forced me to it, I could change out my car's brake pads given two days.

This stuff isn't easy, and the tools are more computerized now, but if you want to understand modern cars, the info is out there. Buy your car's maintenance manual. It'll probably cost $30, but you'll have more information about your car than you could ever possibly learn. Every circuit, every resistor, every bus line, every hydraulic line.

But I think you're right that there is a class of people who work at a level above the tech. And I think that's what "digital native" usually refers to. Something less like a software engineer, something more like a societal engineer (I don't want to use the term "social engineer" because that's a loaded term in the security world). For them, tech is a platform to be used for alternate ends - followers, and likes, and clout and such.

I think it's a good thing that not everyone needs to be able to troubleshoot DHCP issues in order to get online - though I know that my friends and I got really good at that in high school. The fact that we enable people to operate at the level of societal engineering (as opposed to forcing everyone to operate at the level of software engineering) speaks to the maturity of tech. And that, at least, should be comforting to those who use tech to create tech.
Should have seen this coming... More like executive order to spy on Americans
mstr down 10% ah

hmmm back of envelope math shows potential default if btc falls below 10k. https://greyenlightenment.com/2021/03/16/microstrategys-bad-...

I hope Mr Saylor saved some $ for the inevitable lawsuits. Very reckless on their part.
"contaminated" shouldn't be binary.
He is comparing to Eastern European women.
Alcohol and cocaine don't incapacitate you? Millions of drunks who completely pass out regularly might disagree.

I have heard of people claiming that psychedelics enhance their senses and there are professional surfers who have talked about taking LSD to improve their performance. Never heard of anyone doping with alcohol, though. Your comment made me curious and I did look it up: There are four sports that used to or still do test for alcohol as a banned substance in competitions. They are archery, air sports, motor racing and powerboating. It's easy to guess why.
Musk is a showman who has vision, but no lasting power.
These here might want to check out Gridcoin https://gridcoin.us:

... while Bitcoin secures its network through an energy intensive[2] proof-of-work scheme, Gridcoin uses a more energy efficient proof-of-stake system. ... nearly all of the energy goes to science - https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/GridCoin
... Gridcoin compensates researchers for contributing computational power towards BOINC research using an energy-efficient Proof-of-Stake process, instead of generating heat and using computational power for a Proof-of-Work algorithm ... nearly all of the energy goes to science - https://gridcoin.us/wiki/
... do not require huge amounts of energy consumption to be mined. This makes PoS coins such as Gridcoin a more eco-friendly alternative .. - https://coincentral.com/what-is-gridcoin/
Altcoins like SolarCoin and GridCoin are better for the environment - https://medium.com/@johnniec/altcoins-like-solarcoin-and-gri...
What if we could mine cryptocurrency using meaningful calculations with additional real-world benefits?- https://medium.com/adventures-in-volunteer-computing/cryptoc...
Sustainable, efficient technology - With its unique PoR/PoS hybrid technology, the GRC blockchain uses PoS to secure its blockchain, while the entire computational capacity is devoted to performing computations for scientific research via PoR. This leads to a very efficient, and lean network, whose computational power is used for a noble purpose. - https://coinswitch.co/info/gridcoin/what-is-gridcoin
One of the main advantages of Gridcoin is that crunching (“mining”) does useful scientific research - https://gridcoin.us/wiki/advantages-and-features
Gridcoin attempts to address and ease the environmental energy impact of cryptocurrency mining through its proof-of-research and proof-of-stake protocols, as compared to the proof of work system used by Bitcoin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridcoin

The project can be found at https://gridcoin.us

p.s. the wallet can run on all major OS, the database will sync before you can finish you lunch and research crunching can be done on almost all devices including raspberrypi, android and old pcs
Welp, now any company that does business with the government has to share data with them... Guess the only privacy-focused companies left will be the ones who refuse to work with the government.
Ah, of course, Texas is starting the war on cultured meat. The next decade is going to be fascinating: endless legal blocks attempting to slow down the animal product revolution.
"jobs" and "money" don't do anything for society. Junk mail is a drain on resources that doesn't produce anything useful. If the problem is that too many people are unemployed and there aren't enough jobs to go around, that shouldn't be an excuse to not put an end to an incredibly wasteful and annoying practice.
You are deliberately misquoting.
Sharding is fraught with issues. One fundamental issue is that by the very nature of sharding, you have fewer nodes on each shard, which makes it easier to perform sybil attacks on a particular shard. Shards aren't a pancia. Also, if you have, say, 10 shards - that isn't giving you 10x throughput. Its gonna give you maybe 2x throughput because what shards are doing is allowing lower-power machines help run the network, and those lower-power machines are not as effective as the rest, so they aren't contributing as much. I mean, its not cut and dry because there may be a lot of extra machines depending on the state of the network and resource requirements, but its generally not a linear relationship there.
Sad really.. they'll use almost any event to find ways to ensure that they can find more ways to spy on citizens.
not meat
Everyone is going to forget this hump in gas supply and the anxiety it causes among ICE vehicle owners as soon as the next EV article comes up. How much more proof do you need that the gas supply is easily disrupted (no matter how much you want to attribute this to the snowballing effects of panic buying, the root cause is still a single disruption/point of failure) and not just some logistics that you can take for granted as if they always work without a hitch?

I really do think it's going to take a lot of people by surprise when we hit that coming cross-over point where "gas range anxiety" is (again) way higher than "EV range anxiety".
There are articles like https://instagram-engineering.com/dismissing-python-garbage-... which seem to confirm some problems. One of the people involved with this Cinder project was an original author of https://github.com/microsoft/Pyjion (it's now being revamped by a new dev.) Dino had deep .NET/CLR implementation experience and had been the lead for IronPython which I think spawned the interest in perf improvements through Cinder. I hope this effort is more successful for him.
Isn‘t ETH in the vicinity of an order of magnitude to Bitcoin's market cap etc?

Which is „pretty much the same“ in crypto terms.
XRP isn't decentralized at all... Bitcoin is absolutely far far far more decentralized than a currency that is wholely controlled by a single company.
> [...] better lives for the Palestinians in the refuges camps [...]

Refugees should return to their homeland, in case you don't know how to let them get the normal life of a citizen.
I'm sure the banks will love when they their lowly paid employee/contractor accidentally moves the money to wrong address or some bit flip happens... Or targeted attack...

With current system money is still somewhere and you can drag them to court as final step. With crypto, no luck it is just lost.
WHO List of Essential Medicines
Democratize data analytics and enable self-service in your organization
If you are 100% on any side you are 100% in the wrong.
breaking911 shows up on all the lists of untrustworthy/propaganda/disinformation/fake news sources.
Sure, I may just be a confused person but I also have used iOS devices for many years and I'm the go-to tech support for my friends/family as I'm sure most people on HN are. I use myself simply as a benchmark because I know that if something confuses me, it'll almost certainly confuse most of the non-CS people that I know.

Furthermore, when you disable the find my network it disables it for you as well. You can't just do it one way so it's not selfish.
> There is no technical reason bitcoin could not increase their max block size

You should read the paper this thread is about. It tells you tons of technical reasons that it would be a bad idea to increase the max block size very much if at all.
Which is all fine and good until "get rich quick" are forced into your index funds.
It's ambiguous and not clear to reader!
If you look at the source code, "public" functions are capitalized, and "private" ones aren't, by convention.
What percentage of Bay Area women comprise all women in the world? And what is your definition of most?

He is comparing Bay Area women to Eastern European women.
I don't visualize my emotions, although I respond emotionally to color
> Surely, you realize that docs needs to be connected to a server in order to perform it's basic use case of collaborative editing... Right?

Isn't this conversation about programs in general, not just collaborative editing programs?

> You must also realize that an arbitrary native blob can and will happily connect out to whatever server it's authors want it to.

can

But if it doesn't, then most such programs don't need constant security updates.
Not exactly lynching, not exactly calling, not exactly women, not exactly worthless. Likely to be abusive or hostile towards women because he did what? Any cases from the past? Or is the book title 'Mein Kampf'?
Tesla suspends Bitcoin purchases over fossil fuel concerns
The nice thing about C is that it's so small that you can hold every corner, nook and cranny of the language in your head. There must be less than a dozen people in the world that can say that about C++.
It's open source, so that limitation isn't a permanent state of affairs. I dare say the active maintainers might be interested in any features which are currently supported by Terminal.app.
Russia Wants to Clone Ancient Army: Is It Legal? Is It Possible?
Maybe the conclusion here is that Vercel should increase the threshold of its free tier for the new image optimization service, if people with the same websites (and presumably usage profiles) are now exceeding that threshold.

But the accusatory tone in the linked tweet (“disingenuous”) sounds, ironically, disingenuous. You’re ascribing a hostile motive to Vercel, but all the evidence suggests they are acting in good faith. If they were so desperate to funnel you into their paid tier of image optimization, why would they explicitly document how to use their software with competing services?
Hi, I found a couple of positions that I'm interested in at Indeed. Cool if I send you an email?
I agree, but I'd say story points are themselves a mistake. In the end, what matters is time. Story points don't matter if the schedule slips. So you either get story points and no way to keep a schedule, or story points + time estimates (with useless story points), or just go with time estimates.

The schedule may still slip, since estimating time is very difficult, but at least some of the time it will be correct (or estimates will get padded until things happen on time). Either way, it's more useful than giving up on the problem.
Yes let's keep posts on twitter that say "Death to the Jews".
Your body count number isn't objective without context. Saying they killed 20 and the other side killed 2 so the one that killed 20 is bad.
And what if of that 20 some were killed by their own misfire or that part of that body count are also militants or that the only reason that only 2 killed was because defensive measures that if weren't in place would drastically increase casualties.
There are many standards on Ethereum. There are also many people building their own things to try and extract value for themselves.

Bitcoin has some obscure things besides lightning due to the permissionless nature as well, but the limitations come from the block space and the smaller set of operations allowed

The comparison about what the market chose comes from TVL and volume metrics. see www.defipulse.com which also includes lightning
Thank god, a bit of sanity. I was seriously second guessing my cybertruck reservation, not even that much because of the environmental concerns, I think these might be solvable as the technology matures, more because of the potential for deflationary tokens to cause financial system collapse with a non-zero chance of causing the downfall of human civilization ( https://benoitessiambre.com/specter.html ).

I'm hoping the lines about not selling and looking at other cryptocurrency options are empty statements to save face.
Are you talking to me or the author?

These sentences direct copy paste from Author post, but I agree that Rust leans more towards to FP. The creator labeled Rust as Linear FP language.
Maybe revenue laundering using borrowed credit? I wouldn't be surprised if some day we discover that many corporations the tech space have been engaged in some kind of global credit laundering scheme using shell companies as a filter to systematically separate credit from debt in order to generate artificial revenue for big tech corporations... Money extracted straight from the big banks.

They should refer to this scheme as a 'Clam farming' because they just load up the shell companies with bank loans then extract the meat and toss away the shell.
I have wondered about this. If there is "beyond meat" could there also be "beyond vegan" which is vegan produced enhanced and made better with meat products. Other lines also work, "improved vegan", "vegan like".
"Beep as anti-stalking measure" is somewhere between marketing spin and gaslighting. A lost AirTag chirps to serve its primary function of being recovered.

The timer is 3 days[1], which observers (Forbes, WaPo) agree is surprisingly unreasonable for this use case. We can infer it was never a serious design consideration.

On Android, decent Bluetooth is a gamble, but scanning will theoretically find one[2].

[1] https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/04/20/moren-fine-prin...
[2]
https://lifehacker.com/try-using-a-bluetooth-scanner-app-to-...
Are "soy milk" and "almond milk" and "oat milk" off-limits, too? Since none of them are actually female mammal secretions, what should we call them instead ?
Nothing I read in this article has anything to do with somone being a "digital native". I read digital native as digital-first. In this case "digital native" rings true. Hell, reading this rant, I caught myself thinking along the lines of pshh-- 286? What, you didn't breadboard your first PC and clear your eeproms with a UV light? The feeling that the youth knows less than the olds is something I have heard as long as I have been able to understand the concept. If this was really the case, we would all know nothing by now.
Kissing up to the cattle industry. Only an true idiot would think plant based is the same as beef or meat. This is strictly cozying up to beef industry and their lobbyists. This type of thing is an everyday occurrence in Texas.
Algorand seems the most promising in my opinion.
It's even in one of the screenshots of the Readme.

https://github.com/TomHarte/CP-M-for-OS-X/blob/master/Images...
It was absolutely his intention. Everyone who owns bitcoin wants it to go up. This is exactly a pump and dump strategy. He went on SNL to make a broader market aware of it, then in the interest it created, he offloads his shares?

Smartest guy on the planet, claiming to be saving it from climate change didn't know Bitcoin damages the environment?

If he didn't already know that, then can he be trusted? If he did know that, can he be trusted?
Which makes sense, right? Otherwise I'll declare my stock and property to be currency and directly exchange it at the dealership for a new car, avoiding the capital gain tax.
Proof of stake still boils down to availability of resources. With proof of work, it was energy. With proof of stake, it's now energy and materials. If whatever crypto unit is based on proof of stake becomes sufficiently popular, it will eventually approach the incremental price of whatever object is used to build your "stake." Economic theory says that (assuming a competitive market) the selling price of the object should converge upon the incremental cost to produce the object.

Or, to quote Homer Simpson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Yt4p_gJmY
Cause they're not people. Oh wait...
Remember when he tweeted that the TSLA price was too high just so he could buy back stock at a lower price? Then after getting fined a measly $20 million he said it was "worth it". And to be fair, at least he's honest and open about his market manipulation, unlike other players. Shows us that he's able to get away with it. If this doesn't wake people up about the blatant manipulation that goes on in financial markets, I don't know what will.
It's not dumb, all mayor central banks of the planet have printed 50% of GDP on their currencies including the dollar to deal with the pandemic. That means that you risk losing 50% of the value of your cash, so you invest it and you diversify to protect yourself, but because everybody with money is doing exactly that, you have massive asset bubbles that also risk your money, so its hard to find something to invest in.

Elon took a relative small bet by been the first mayor company to buy massive amounts of crypto and so far he has made bank. Only the future will tell if it was a good move in the long run.
Algorand from what I can tell... but the tooling to run nodes will hopefully improve
I was under the impression that Alegria was the name of this latest iteration on flat design:
https://buck.co/work/facebook-alegria

Sure Zune and Material were there before, but I only remember feeling alienated by so-bland-it's-unrelatable designs since I started seeing all those Alegria iterated synth-cartoons everywhere.

Alegria or Corp Memphis, seem to have overflowed into children's cartoons, probably for the same reasons, easy to pump out designs, hard to be offended at, generic enough to fit most needs. I find this one particularly flat and bland:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PBE-W1TMeXI
I wonder what the lost efficiency is on each tree --> junk mail when it gets burned. I know pulp/papermaking has combustable byproducts, but I don't know how much is "lost":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraft_process#Byproducts_and_e...

I save most of mine up for the cabin, but it may or may not lead to a lot of extra chimney sweeping.
100% agree with this sentiment. My co-author and I are wrapping up a book with No Starch and the experience has been very positive. The editing, in particular, has been stellar.
Suuuuuure it is. Surely, there is some disclaimer that it is not, just like "standard" is not a standard.
We should also cancel coconut milk even though it's been an expression for hundreds of years. It's only right.
Because individuals don’t have the ability to author the tax code like corporations do.
What makes Google Docs a better product than MS Office? Ignorance and Dillusions.
> same amount of energy, regardless if there are 1 or 1000 transactions in the block.

Last I heard, there was a physical limit to the number of transactions in a block (and no intent of increasing that number).

> this metric can go down by actually increasing the number of transactions, ie. continuing to accept Bitcoin as payments.

Are you implying that there are too few transactions to fill blocks right now, so Tesla accepting bitcoin will make blocks fuller?

You also seem to be fully ignoring that the main energy spend is in the mining, not the validation. More transactions (with fixed # of tx/10 min) = higher fees = more mining competition = more energy expenditure.
Decision to go into bitcoin was smart and also decision to back off was smart. Musk is the only person who can do or say two contradictory things and both are smart. He really is a genius
This is some of the original thinking around StackOverflow, if I remember correctly from the podcasts. Jeff was a C# dev and using what was familiar, but he also commented on how you could get good performance out of some crappy code and easily refactor later.

Their whole culture elevated performance and they handled a lot of traffic with relatively small amounts of hardware that they documented. I've got some familiarity with a Rails app where the devs seemed astonished at some of the details in their blogs about running SO.
People also forget that the postal system was created explicitly by the constitution. In that sense it's a more authentic government institution than even the federal reserve which came later. The spirit in which it was created and the discussions surrounding it at the time also make it clear that the framers would be appaled by attacks on both the postal system and net neutrality that have become commonplace.

Forcing a public institution to be self-supporting is a classic strategy to destroy that institution. To funnel tax money away from public transit, just cripple the system by raising fares in the name of profitability while giving tax breaks to automakers. To kill the postal system, set it up to fail with malicious metrics, and make sure companies like Amazon don't have to pay for the externalities they create.

Just as a road is more valuable than the tolls it generates, uniformly accessible secure communication is a general force multiplier for any country. If some people have to pay more than others for the same service, much of that advantage is lost.