skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Perhaps it's not idle pedantry to observe that many of those who are angry about crypto energy usage couldn't care less about the energy wasted and pollution generated by other endeavors.

It's like an uncle of mine who is outraged that mosques get tax exemptions, but he doesn't care that churches get tax exemptions.

Clearly tax policy isn't a genuine concern for him. He's angry about something else that he won't say out loud.
http://archive.is/kspXu
I can see how many of those items fit - at times I thought they were literally describing me.

Founder that got into products at first using CompSci skills - but finally realized it is the problem solving through business that kept me engaged and pulling me back.

The 30 year vision helps stretch the mind from what is around us (pulling from what is know) to creating an ideal solution and working backwards.
This is not a solution in a world in which we have catastrophic global climate instability on the horizon.

Sorry, sometimes there are great reasons for regulation.
Larger than Prism? Certainly the largest private surveillance network.
It already exists https://beaconcha.in/
> There are no intermediary COVID19 infections in a migration trail of any kind from those bat reservoirs in Yunnan to Hubei.

Can you cite a few other diseases where the evolution was traced back in multiple species across that kind of distance? Where did ebola come from? MERS? At best you get the immediate host, or as with covid a somewhat close relative.

You're demanding proof that simply doesn't exist for any other disease and then citing the absence of that impossible proof as evidence for your conspiracy theory that has even less evidence in support.

I mean, fine, we only have that one bat in Yunaan. OK. Fair point. You have zero samples from that lab.
If you don't need much range (a couple feet, say), you can use ambient backscatter which doesn't need to store up energy for bursts.

Here's a video about it from 2013 [1] showing some test devices. Here's an article about it [2].

A bit later they extended this to make it work with off-the-shelf WiFi devices, so you could have a battery-free device that can communicate to ordinary WiFi devices [3]. Still short range, but now you could make it so the reader is a commodity WiFi device like a smartphone, instead of a specialty device.

Here are some other researchers who demonstrated a backscatter tag that diddled with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) instead of WiFi, and was correctly received by an iPad at over 9 m using the existing iOS Bluetooth stack with no modifications [4].

And here is a battery-fee phone that communicates with a powered base station [5]. It works up to 30 ft away. The phone uses energy from ambient RF and small photodiodes.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX9cbxLSOkE

[2] https://www.washington.edu/news/2013/08/13/wireless-devices-...

[3] https://iotwifi.cs.washington.edu/files/wifiBackscatter.pdf

[4] https://www.washington.edu/news/2017/07/05/first-battery-fre...
> But as the father of a kid with Asperger Syndrome, and as someone with a likely diagnosis myself (according to neuropysch testing),

It's not immediately obvious to me how this relates to the article. Can you elaborate? Is "fierce nerd" a reference to Aspergers?
Motorcycles have forks too, but if they resonate at 440 Hz you have got issues...
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I have a couple of those, and they work fine. The only downside is you can't use wired charging and wired headphones at the same time unless you use a third-party splitter, none of which have great reviews.

The MagSafe charger kind of solves this, since it's at least easy to pick up with the charger attached, but MagSafe chargers are more expensive than Lightning cables, and the official one has a very short cord.

In my dream world, the iPhone would have two Lightning (or USB-C) ports, but I don't expect that to ever happen.
You could've just used Firefox and old Reddit.
I thought of this as working at a tech company on a core tech product for a technical manager in a tech role. But working as a developer for a profit center is more concise.
The idea that Watson "stole" his major work from Franklin is absurd. Franklin was on a completely different track and thought Watson & Crick's approach was a dead end.
> I'm aghast that Facebook burns that much power to run what is basically a giant BBS. I guess mining all of our personal data must take up an outrageous number of computer cycles.

Did Ye Olde BBS support 1:millions broadcasting, and real-time viewing of high-definition video? Uploading and viewing thousands of high-quality photos?

Calling Facebook 'basically a giant BBS' is a lot like saying 'Oh, I could build Twitter in a weekend'.
Don't you have the same problem of having to reboot the VM occasionally?
I assume that "up to 8mbps" probably means that in reality you can't use much more than 1 mbps because in a crowded space with lots of wifi devices and lots of other people using bluetooth headphones there will be lots of interference and data rates will be forced to go down.

Bluetooth and Wifi already don't properly coexist - one device can transmit a bluetooth packet and another a wifi packet at the same time, and the likelihood is both packets will get clobbered and lost. Proper coexistence would involve a device saying "I want to reserve Frequency bands X, Y and Z for the next 1 millisecond", and then no other devices using those frequency bands for that time. That exists for wifi clients, but it doesn't interoperate with Bluetooth, thread or zigbee.
The name of the

Vice Chairman
Supervisor, District 3
Maricopa County Board of Supervisors

might be encouraging to the conspiracy theorists.
My fave example of this - I am using NextDNS for ad-blocking on my stock Pixel 4a, the Wells Fargo app won't allow me to sign in with fingerprint or username/pass while using DNS over TLS.
If that's how you feel, maybe that's the vibe you're bringing with you.
>A small number of mega corporations have always controlled the media marketplace

Always? No.

After the deregulation of the Clinton era? Yes.

Fun fact: At the start of the Clinton administration, banks could not operate in more than one state.
This is a very neat resource! Thanks for sharing!
In this case, though, it's more like protecting the user from streaming higher bitrate than anyone can hear a difference in on that hardware anyway - which will help their battery life. We're talking about things like ear pods here, not a hi-fi stereo system.
performance cores are physically larger than the efficiency ones, by about 3-4x. I'm sure there are other tradeoffs cache size like too. So would you rather have 32 performance cores and 8 efficiency or 34 performance?
It is hard to find learning resources when trying to write NIFs for BEAM. The documentation and bindings are fine if you are using C, but when using some rarer programming language it can be quite difficult to get along.
Bitcoin does not consume fossil fuel as a raw material; it is not an ingredient required for its operation. It uses electricity which can be generated from any source, be it wind, solar, or coal.

Subsidized coal mining and untaxed carbon emissions are dangerous ideas.
Any serious blind listening tests for 256kbps AAC on specialized sites such as Hydrogenaudio puts that codec at the border of perceptibility compared to lossless.

Everything above is more deeply rooted in belief than it is in reality - or as the old adage goes: „Music fans use their equipment to listen good music. Audiophiles use good music to listen to their equipment.“

There are people in the community who claim to hear differences between digital cables using error correction as part of their protocol (HDMI).
Lossless audio isn't the same as Dolby Atmos, which does work with AirPods Max and AirPods Pro.
2 Mbit/s is the physical bit rate using LE 2M. After accounting for protocol overhead, the max data rate is about 1.4 Mbps.

https://www.novelbits.io/bluetooth-5-speed-maximum-throughpu...
>The relationship with the IRS for the wealthy is not adversarial like 100% of the interactions with the IRS are with poorer people.

The working class gets audit mail, while the capitalist class get to talk face to face. It is the privilege of talking it over. If you can take just a moment to view the IRS as a customer support line, the rich get to talk with a real human.
Until they remove the adapter port to sell battery charging mats.
> stop burning coal, oil and gas. USA and EU could do that within a few years.

Is there a concrete plan for how this would work documented somewhere? The ways I can think of doing this in the USA are all politically nonviable.
Unless they do that outside your jurisdiction and/or get tax cuts from the powers to be.
Banning a certain kind of computation is a novel idea. Was this a knee jerk reaction or have you considered all the other types of computation that should not be allowed and why? Do we have an empirical understanding of the negative impacts of these specific kinds of computation, their general threat to humanity, and the negative side effects of regulation?
Making this change would introduce an enormously impactful precedent. Politicians might take it and run with it to places we don't even want to imagine. I'd agree with you in a world without the current style of politics and decision making, but that's not where we live - and sadly alternative to that is unknown to me too.
How does the aphorism go? Expecting a programmer that can't write clear code to be able to write clear documentation about that code is folly.
How do you ban open source software that millions of people already have? It's like banning algebra or something. You can tell people they can't do it but you can only truly ban it to the extent that you can micro monitor and enforce the actions of every person interested in it.

To me this illustrates a lack of understanding of the space.
Is this really your question?
That's amazing work and dedication.

But I feel it fair to consider an organization like NASA as an exemption from the norm. This level of detailed error catching doesn't make sense for, say, a facebook clone startup.

That said, someone should send this comment to a Tesla engineer.
Social media algorithms are impacting mental health
Practically the whole Web doesn't function if client blocks add, disables JavaScript (which became quite annoying lately) or uses Tor.

I'd like to find a solution which would restore the ability to use sites. I'm thinking about website cleanup offering (startup anyone?), I wonder if something similar already exists.
While I agree with the genral thrust of your tirade, this is not slippery slope, this is hypocracy of the highest degree.

OP proposal to ban cryptocurrencies for 'damaging environment' while we have companies who's entire business model is giving their customers cancer and preying on addicts.
As an economist, what do you think of the Amazon Antitrust Paradox?

https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado...

> The current framework in antitrust fails to register certain forms of anticompetitive harm and therefore is unequipped to promote real competition—a shortcoming that is illuminated and amplified in the context of online platforms and data-driven markets. This failure stems both from assumptions embedded in the Chicago School framework and from the way this framework assesses competition.

> Notably, the present approach fails even if one believes that antitrust should promote only consumer interests. Critically, consumer interests include not only cost but also product quality, variety, and innovation. Protecting these long-term interests requires a much thicker conception of “consumer welfare” than what guides the current approach. But more importantly, the undue focus on consumer welfare is misguided. It betrays legislative history, which reveals that Congress passed antitrust laws to promote a host of political economic ends—including our interests as workers, producers, entrepreneurs, and citizens. It also mistakenly supplants a concern about process and structure (i.e., whether power is sufficiently distributed to keep markets competitive) with a calculation regarding outcome (i.e., whether consumers are materially better off).

> Antitrust law and competition policy should promote not welfare but competitive markets. By refocusing attention back on process and structure, this approach would be faithful to the legislative history of major antitrust laws. It would also promote actual competition—unlike the present framework, which is overseeing concentrations of power that risk precluding real competition.
He wrote a gonzo book full of insensitive over-the-top passages, like the one you're referencing, in order to sell books. It worked. He created a literary persona that people loved or loved to hate.

It's a huge leap to go from "you wrote x passage" to "you may be biased against women". If you want to fire someone for bias, you need evidence of bias, not a theory that someone might be biased.
I look at what happened and see a lot of good. I like Picard, Discovery, Lower Decks, and the reboot movies. Discovery found a way to reuse a lot of existing canon and essentially reboot it. I think it worked well. It took some time to get things moving in the right direction as all Star Trek series do, and the showrunner changes didn't help, but I look forward to what's next.
Technically, my py pinky fingernail is competing with our latest nuclear powered aircraft carriers.

Doesn't guarantee that my fingernail will win a shooting war.
> the conversion is inefficient. It takes a lot of power to extract H2 from H2O.

How inefficient? That number matters. If it takes 500 kWh to make a tank that stores 100 kWh, you'd be a fool to use that energy directly, as that tank is going to store hundreds of times that much (at least) over its lifetime.
Consuming 1/10 as much power would also have thermal advantages for the die overall, and segregating them onto a separate L2 cache from the performance cores would help with that cache friendliness situation, different allocations of logic units means you can tailor them toward different kinds of workloads. . . I'm no CPU designer, so I really can't speak with authority here, but I can at least see several possible reasons why it would make sense even when you aren't worried about battery life.
Why is it checking for GA at all? A critical function like accepting payment should be bullet proof. It's critical code and should be treated that way.
it's not clear to me why the optimal number of efficiency cores wouldn't be zero on a desktop. why not just use the die area for additional performance cores? one or two full cores shouldn't have much effect on the thermal/power budget if they're just working on background tasks.
I see the description he puts forward as essentially fitting contrarian types.

Speaking as a contrarian myself, I think the biggest challenge / trap is it's easy to point out things that are wrong or stupid, but tougher to do anything positive about it. I think this equates to the idea about avoiding becoming bitter.

Also, something he missed, and the curse of the contrarian, is "the market can stay irrational long enough for you to lose all your money". This happens all the time with unorthodox ideas, you can be right but if the mainstream doesn't shift in your favor before too long, you get ignored, discredited, or worse. I'd argue this is a bigger problem now, there is more polarization and a shorter feedback cycle so ideas get shot down and people fall out of favor much more quickly. Popular but wrong ideas, once they have "network effects" are much stickier than they once were. All this is tougher on the contrarian, or "fierce nerd".
I think "shooter down of new ideas" is getting unfairly lumped in with those other actually-bad traits. If there's one thing a lot of "idea guys" and optimistic entrepreneurs tend to lack and need, it's a skeptical partner who keeps them grounded in reality. Someone who is experienced, seen it all, constructively critical. Someone who will say "Wait a minute, this was tried in the '80s, and it won't work. Maybe try this instead." If you lump "people who push-back" in with haters and trolls, you're going to end up surrounded by yes-men.

The tech landscape is littered with failed projects that could have been stopped early if the idea person had a sounding board that keep him/her realistic.
> Pretty much every offshore center…

Not a tax expert, just a layman, but my understanding is that all it takes is one offshore center....
The one thing I hate about the Apple store is also its best feature when dealing with crap like this.

As a consumer, business entity verification & savagely-enforced PKI/codesigning does make for a much safer app ecosystem. As a developer and small business owner, Apple is a fucking nightmare to build apps for. I much rather build Android/Windows/Web platform because its so much easier to iterate in our shop.

All of that said, could we at least consider requiring some basic domain verification process around these things so that it is possible in theory to determine who endorsed a specific app or extension? If a gmail account & some "reputation" is all it takes to trickle to the top of the store, I think we are missing several important security controls.
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Yes but I guess what I'm worried about here is a tragedy of the commons-type situation where if a couple states do it (offer better tax incentives) than they can make up for the lost revenue in other ways but if everyone is doing it then you have, well, a tragedy of the commons.
Whats the problem with rich fold acting with impunity, so long as they pay for what they use? If someone burns enough electricity to power 1000 homes, but they pay for the environmental impact, and are charged enough for the electricity to fund building more generation capacity, that's a net win. Giving each household some amount of free or subsidized power makes sense. If they want to burn that power crypto mining that's their decision.
The conspiracy is about a 100 years old.
The linked article allows that Amazon has much more than a 40% share of certain "segments":

> Amazon has well over half of US book sales, and probably three quarters of ebook sales. So if we’re arguing about how Amazon runs its books business, it unquestionably has market dominance. You have to pull out a segment, not the whole company.

To speak more generally, my understanding is that arguments that Amazon is a monopolist are stronger when we focus on Amazon Marketplace than on (say) AWS, partly because there are many "segments" in which almost all products are sold through Amazon. But I wish that I had more data about this particular claim.
Why does the lossless playback need to be streaming though? This is the fundamental mistake in the analysis of why the AirPods max lack the ability to support this service offering.

The headphones should have gigs of buffer and be able to manage lossless with a great UX to support this.

People are already used to buffer waits for streaming video and this is already a niche use case.
It depends on what is counted there. It might be the total operations of the company. Offices, AC for offices and whatnot.

Especially when talking about CO2 emissions absolutely everything is included, including plane trips and whatnot.
> That's not even a lot! Apple, Google & FB have $200bn, $140bn & $65bn respectively. Dividends don't seem to be a thing, and it's basically impossible to invest this much cash internally. These companies don't have factories to build, or any kind of hard capital investments to make.

Apple arguably does have factories to build, given how utterly dependent on China it is.
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Even around the house wireless can be an advantage. I don't mind being tethered when I'm at my desk, but I'm not always at my desk and wires running to a phone can be a real nuisance, getting snagged on drawer handles and tempting pet chewing.
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While the energy consumption of bitcoin is debatable due to the unknown usage of clean, renewable energy (some reports are at 75%) to to secure the network and prevent bad actors, even for arguments sake, we can agree the energy consumption is extremely large. We also do not know how much energy is required to maintain SWIFT, or the global ACH network and other banking services.

However, some of the biggest plagues to society are rooted in central banking policies that over time devalue a nations currency through excessive money printing backed by nothing, or gambling via derivatives that when a bubble pops requires bailouts. Even worse, where we are now is done via quantitative easing which is a fancy word for more money printing to buy government debts to keep the economy afloat. If Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies can provide all the same services banks offer (borrowing/lending/saving) and be backed by a finite number ensuring value over time then we, as a society will be less manipulated by politics and therefore experience deflation which will could close wealth gaps.

Bitcoin may have an energy problem but the problems it aims to solve are extremely important as well. “Necessity is the mother of invention.” If Bitcoin can really solve some areas maybe the conversation should be about how can get 100% of BTC energy consumption to be renewable.
AMP pages are incredibly bloated with all the ad assets that slowly load in. Media sites browsed with aggressive JavaScript blocking are significantly faster.
Bluetooth 5 speed: How to achieve maximum throughput for your BLE application
This is a really baffling decision from Apple - normally they're very good about having tightly integrated ecosystems where everything just 'works' with everything else. That's kinda the entire value proposition in my eyes.
Lab leaks of novel diseases. I mean, duh, if you culture stuff that's already endemic it's going to get out.

I'm saying that if you take any strain of any human disease anywhere, and ask the question "is this a naturally evolved pathogen or was it cultured in a lab?", Darwin wins by a factor of like ten thousand. Yet... somehow no one thinks that's a relevant fact?
Yeah. We worked on making the chalk "thicker" than the cheap brands because smell + texture influences quality perception the most. For the crystal chalk the different formula allows us to get rid of the "alcohol" smell. We even tried adding fragrance but that was a failed experiment, may revisit that later.
Yes, we specifically recommend that most "form state" should _not_ go directly into Redux:

- https://redux.js.org/style-guide/style-guide#avoid-putting-f...

- https://redux.js.org/faq/organizing-state#should-i-put-form-...

In other words: it's fine to take data that's in the Redux store, use that to initialize a React form, do the form updates in local state, and then dispatch an action containing the final results when the form is complete. But, there's almost never a good reason to dispatch a Redux action on every keystroke. You don't need to track that level of granularity in the Redux DevTools, other components in the app are unlikely to need to see those individual updates, and it's a waste of update and subscription handling.
It is tricky to get correct information here, as many of the organization that are related to the conservation of the species are funded by the main producers of LAL based endotoxin tests (and hence bleeders, or procurers of Horseshoe crab blood).

At this point, Horseshoe crabs are critical infrastructure in qualityquality control for Pharma and medtech.

Source: Co-founded biotech startup in the horseshoe crab space that had to fold.
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This is why I always call to order for takeout or delivery. I'd say that 75% of the time I experience some kind of technical issues with online ordering. Just talk to the human at the store.