skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is precisely what enables the positional system at the conceptual level: not only you can have "gaps" in the middle, but it enables you to distinguish between 1 and 10 and 100.

Babylonians, for example, didn't conceptualize 0 as a numeric quantity just like 1 or 5. So, when they invented a sign for gaps in the numbers, they didn't use it at the ending positions, so their "I" could mean 1, or 60, or 3600, or..., depending on the context. Neither was it used to signify the quantity of zero: empty space was used instead.
Gasoline will not explode in normal conditions. Even in an accident it is pretty safe, although the risk of fire must always be considered.

A 10k PSI H2 tank is a straight up bomb. A gasoline tank can start a nasty fire but nobody is going to be torn apart by shrapnel or killed by the overpressure wave in an accident. Gasoline cars don't explode like they do in the movies. It must also be noted that the large batteries in EVs are also a fire hazard and in some ways worse than gasoline. For gasoline to act like a bomb it has to be aerosolized first and then ignited. In an accident there's not much that could achieve that. With a high pressure H2 tank something that cracked it open and allowed all of the H2 to be released at once would instantly create the conditions for a massive explosion. All it would need is a single spark.
PoW is different because it's energy use for its own sake.

If carbon taxes go up, some things will no longer be worth spending energy on, but crypto mining is just competitive, so the value of mining will go up with the cost of energy and keep using as much energy as ever. The only thing that can stop it is reducing demand for the coins, which the government is not even trying to do yet.
Hang on: The Tee Spring code checks if GA is there and works without it, the website breaks because Ad block replaces GA with a fake object that doesn't have the same API.

Perhaps some companies have the resources to check if their websites run with different ad blockers, but expecting websites to work when plugins are replacing and breaking running code is a big ask.
there aren't enough billionaires to vote in anything. if they have that kind of power, it's a power that trumps the democratic institutions of this country.
The NASA Manager’s Handbook for Software Development from 1990 is a great resource. We have better techniques for some areas now but most of it still holds up.

https://sw-eng.larc.nasa.gov/supporting-products/archive-of-...
That is just so unbelievably overkill. Especially the sample rate.
Scarcity tactics can anger customers
Multiplayer Doom Workers
I think it's the greatest thing ever. I wrote like 300 words over two blog posts here: https://amattn.com/p/the_sublime_developer_efficiency_of_eli...

tldr:

- It’s quirky
- There’s a learning curve
- Taking the time to climb that curve can result in elegant solutions
- The endgame is high developer efficiency

Not only that, but I find it fun and enjoyable. The ecosystem isn't the largest, but the other positives more than make up for the deficits for me.

I only started learning elixir around November or so last year and I've launched two SaaS products in the past 6 months.
Lol, please. The crowd on HN is just as impotent as the crowd on Twitter, Reddit or Facebook. But with more "first principles" thrown in.
It can take several weeks to go through the process (depending on the size of the bureaucracy and number of applicants - and number of "fake" applicants), but a weekly check-in should be acceptable, especially if they haven't set any expectations as to the time frame.
> FACTA forces all signatories to report US tax payer info to the IRS no matter the country in which they have a bank account.

I think you are referring to FATCA, not FACTA. FATCA is Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. FACTA is Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act.
> but having to go out of your way for a special station is annoying

I went back from a Tesla to a diesel car. I hate going out of my way to special stations to fill up my car with diesel. I much preferred unplugging in the morning and plugging back in in the evening.
Why Containers Will Rule Data Science
If the hackers are brave... "Our IT security firm can solve infections of this particular ransomware, but only this one. We charge 20% of what the 'hackers' demand."

And the solution would be for this security firm to have Russian (allegedly ;-)) friends that deploy the ransomware and give them the decryption key. See, hacked company, you're not paying the hackers, you're paying IT security experts that are able to recover your data!
I think that's fair. At a previous job from years ago, we took a meeting with one of these ransom payment-facilitator companies. I got the impression they were probably legit and just trying to help companies who knew nothing about cryptocurrency quickly recover from attacks.

However, some percentage of these firms definitely are basically part of the ransom racket and essentially act as intermediaries for ransomers. And of course, who knows if my gut feeling of legitimacy in that one particular case was correct or not.
My 2c. I was learning Elixir / Phoenix for a startup but found it was missing way too many libraries & lacked the breadth & depth of the Stack Overflow knowledge base as compared to the Ruby on Rails ecosystem.

It was a cool experiment. Most devs would have learnt other Object Oriented Programming languages but learning Elixir would mean switching to a different paradigm.
Microsoft might, I suppose, have a policy against microsoft.com accounts on other firms infrastructure, and therefore if it needs a Google account uses gmail or other non-microsoft.com domains.
There is not. People get so offended when accused of being conspiracists, but then they rattle off this kind of fever swamp nonsense. That there was a genuine debate within the research community on GoF work is true enough, but this bit is just a ridiculous smear by the right against someone who (amazingly, when you think about it) has become a "political enemy".
A more apt comparison might be burning fuel to mine copper, nickel and zinc out of the ground for coinage.
I'm actually hopeful that crypto will bring about a carbon tax. I figure the people getting rich in crypto are a different set of people than those getting rich in traditional CO2 emitting industries. So there's a slightly better chance that politicians will enact the necessary legislation.
I think you might have a misunderstanding of how our browser extension works. Just like our desktop app, your password is only in memory if you copy it to the clipboard, fill it in the browser, or reveal it within the app. Your passwords are always stored encrypted on both the desktop app and browser extension, and we make an active effort to keep secrets out of memory. I hope this clarifies things.

- Jackson Lewis, 1Password Developer
What else can we expect when Modi is ashamed of being born in India #ModiInsultsIndia
Why does the Chalk Cream have sodium hydroxide in the ingredients?
it did happen (https://beaconcha.in/) and the merge will happen either Q4 or Q1 next year.
Something tells me that a user named "BTCOG" is not here to provide rigorous objective analysis but okay lets attack the strawman.

The number of bitcoin addresses with a balance is 30 million. The number of bank accounts is in the billions.

As you said, BTC is two orders of magnitude less efficient than banks assuming mining provides the same value to people as ALL of the services banks provide including loans, savings, and money transfer which IT DOES NOT.
Agreed.

It seems to me, without knowing anything about their union, that it would be in their best interest to let umps to get fired for performance reasons, as opposed to getting replaced by robo umps.

Maybe this is a bargaining chip ploy by MLB? Personally, I'd be kind of sad for umps to get replaced, although I see the argument for it.
Weel I don't think any bluetooth headphone would work with that.
I don't know how it works with headpones, but Douby Atmos you need at least 7 good speakers to make it work well in a movie:
* Front left
* Front right
* center
* surround pair.
* back pair.

Also you need a Subwoofer and if you gonna implement a perfect set, you still need 4 ceiling speakers to have the full effect.

This cost of entry is the reason I still didn't put it in my house.
Not even 1%. The USA alone pollutes a ton more and is always utterly unapologetic about it. Historically I don't think they ever adhered to any global effort or treaty to reduce pollution. You have big entrenched organizations such as the oil industry doing far more damage and nobody messes with them. Not to mention the entire developed world's dependency on China for their borderline useless cheap consumer products.

This concern over the environmental impact of cryptocurrencies is utterly laughable when you figure out the real source of these problems. I guess they're just too powerful to be messed with.
This is false. At least false for Ethereum's hybrid PoS.

It uses Verifiable Delay Function as an element of random number generation process. One can look into number of rounds of VDF and treat them just the way they treat proof of work today. It can be compared to determine which chain is the longer one.
You can also plug the Sonys into a headphone socket via the supplied cable if you choose.
they should ban cryptos full stop. They have no use case except for criminals
Memorize all starting ticked positions (there's only 4). Then simply tap those (and only those) positions one by one, you'll have everything unticked after you tap the last one.

Caveat:

Works if the number of starting ticks is even.

Proof:

Tapping does not change the state of the tapped checkbox, but flips all others.

There are only two states (ticked / unticked) =>
If a checkbox is flipped an even number of times, its final state is the same as its initial state.
And if a checkbox is flipped an odd number of times, it's final state is the opposite of its initial state.

There are an even number of starting ticks (n = 4). So by tapping all starting ticked positions, we are flipping the rest an even number of times (n), and the starting ticked positions an odd number of times (n - 1).
I agree with you initially, but I tried to read it from the lens of someone who is reflecting on his past experiences and applying them to a certain archetype of people he meets throughout life working in tech.

With computer science being one of the most popular degrees being held by Gen Z, the "nerd" casting will slowly fade as computer work becomes more and more the norm vs. traditional trades and fields that require higher education.

Average Joe caught wind you could make Lawyer and Doctor money with a Bachelor's or less, makes sense to me.
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/freakonomics-what-...

We will see, the trouble with Freakanomics, is that it had quite a few avoidable errors in it, so maybe it's not the best example.
> Then Dropbox decided (rightfully) that you shouldn't use your public folder to host websites

I did not know about it. Can you still do it with other provides such as Microsoft(OneDrive) and Google(Drive)?
> In the equivalent trials with a second dose of AstraZeneca, this response was multiplied by three.

That sounds like AZ+AZ to me?
That's a whole debate in itself. We did a LOT of research around this & the answer to the question "Do I need chalk?" is: "It depends". The two major factors impacting friction are: Do I sweat a lot? Do I have greasy skin? Then the four categories of climbers are:

1) high sweat, oily skin (use liquid chalk as a base layer & top up with chalk powder)
2) high sweat, dry skin (magnesium carbonate / silica will help you)
3) low sweat, oily skin (the alcohol in liquid chalk will help you)
4) low sweat, dry skin (you lucky SOB!)

My impression is that most climbers can switch to liquid chalk except for category 1.
Why? Because that's what I bet most people come to HN for. I'd rather find out that my idea is impractical or plain stupid on a HN thread than in some other and expensive way.
Mostly true, though this may be of interest: https://github.com/1Password/1password-teams-open-source :) - Ben, 1Password
The negative consequences were mentioned in another comment:

You should first get "well versed into PoS systems", The stakers (and their adjoints) can collude and decide to reorg the chain for a different outcome. This can be done indefinitely at no additional cost.

In a PoW system, you not only have to expend capex for mining equipment, you hare further discouraged by the huge CONTINUED opex (energy) cost. The energy required to change the state of the chain is similar (or greater) than the energy it took to make the first version.
So you are looking for native development, but are looking to accomplish this through all-inclusive frameworks? Why not just write native code?
Based on this line of reasoning, literally any acquisition is bad. What's the limiting principle?
It's time to make UI a separate job to "front end".
We’re talking about HN. Most people here are moral relativists that think their feelings based worldview is absolute. They already are ships without a sail. How many have actual researched and applied a philosophy? I bet most here can’t even find utility in Kant.
What do you mean? In 20 years they changed the laptop power adapter twice and the iPod/phone adapter once. iPad is the worst (2 in ~8 years) since it arrived late in the ipod connector life and adopted usb-c early. In iPad's case it aligned with similarly positioned products and was generally a good upgrade.

Compare to other laptops which never had a standard adapter, phones which were also not standard until they moved 3 times in ~8-10 years from barrel jacks to mini-usb to micro-usb and now usb-c.
> Basically anything made from early 00s onwards will be able to connect to a modern pair of Bluetooth headphones. Interop is the selling feature.

Yeah, it can probably connect, but will it stay connected and will it reconnect without repairing later? Often not.
You do realize that while sunlight and wind are renewable, lithium-ion batteries are not, right? Nor are solar panels. Cadmium and lithium are highly toxic materials we must mine, just like coal. They have the benefit of not directly adding CO2 to the atmosphere as you use them -- but they come with their own set of issues. There is no free lunch. POW is Proof of Waste, and we shouldn't be blithely wasting any of these non-renewables.
Aren't they really heavy? This is also why swappable batteries in EVs never got off of the ground. You need a crane to do it and that's too much effort for a top-up.
One of the largest pharmacy chains in my area has a covid-vaccine-booking page that's impossible to complete if ad-blockers are enabled. (Even Safari content blockers on iOS break it.)

Developers failing to test sites with adblockers could literally result in people dying.
As price of Ether rises, it becomes even more difficult to acquire the 32 ETH required to become a validator.
Trying to create scalable UIs in QML is hell.
Hard drives crash eventually. Other corruption events happen also, along with user error. Do these business go under when they get other non-ransomware data loss events? What is it about ransomware that is different than any other type of data loss event -- is it the fact that ransomware affects a wider footprint?
Diversifying used to be the norm (eg Thorn EMI, Virgin, etc). It’s more of a modern trend to specialise in one field.
Yes, even the 5.0 LE PHY is 2Mbits/sec and I believe that's shared between upstream and downstream. We're talking a total of 175kB/sec, split up and down [1]. I doubt that's sufficient for what you're suggesting.

[1] https://www.bluetooth.com/blog/exploring-bluetooth-5-how-fas...
Government should arbitrate inappropriate use of any utility resource, including energy and water. In many cases such restrictions already exist for water.
> practically everything in "wokeness" is about saying.... Please don't paint me with the broad brush you're using.

Err.. really? I mean, that's the definition of individualism against which many "woke" people would object. Even you say, "since the affected people are usually a minority". This is just false, if we take minority to refer to the usual "protected subgroups".

The relevant sense of Woke here, seems to me, to be concerned not with people's individual needs -- but their needs qua some alleged group. Esp., as you offer, "minority" groups.

It's a sort of perverse individualism. It's just substituting a different type of broad brush. Rather than starting with a maximally individual analysis (and hence construe treatment in terms of procedural fairness), rather, start by a group analysis and place individuals within those groups (and hence talk about aggregate distributional outcomes).

The derision here is the conflict in having to raise an issue because you are autistic, without inviting the Woke-style "and autistic people are a minority who need protected". The latter substitutes the underlying lack of procedural concern for individual needs with exactly the same problem: again ignoring individual difference expect now substituting alleged "group needs".

Woke analysis of this kind prescribes, a typically condescending, set of redresses for alleged group grievances. Individualism prescribes nothing of this sort, rather, adjusting the rules so as to maximise each person's ability to get what they each, as individuals, need.

"Don't paint me with a broad brush" means let me speak for myself alone. This attitude is antithetical to analysis which begins with "minorities", which by construction, are not people who are each individually empowered to speak for themselves.
> 2.5 times that of diesel buses

These are not compelling numbers. Ideally you'd want something safer, not a few times more dangerous.
> But it's not just about 'consumers' is it?

Who else is it about? If any sort of investigation is to be brought into it, the main investigation would be on behalf of consumers right?

> "single-handedly makes up 4% of the US economy"

Correction: 4% of the US stock market, not the US economy.

Regardless, is your argument that any company that is at a certain threshold % of the US economy/stock market should not do acquisitions or expand their business?
Bitcoin? Yes, it's a useless coin. I wouldn't mind even higher amounts of energy being spent on Monero though.

It's good that Ethereum is moving to proof of stake. Not because of some environmental impact though. Mining is just really expensive, it results in huge fees making the coin almost unusable for normal people.
While we're at it, potential customers shouldn't need to identify pictures of traffic lights and buses to shop your store. If you're a web store, then you're in the business of selling things and advertising that you're selling them far and wide. The only place you might need a CAPTCHA is the account login page, and only then after there are multiple failed attempts from the same IP address. Other than that, get the fuck out of your customers' way.
The point of products and services is to help others and along the way, establish mutually beneficial transactions. So think of the representative person you are helping (maybe one model for each major type of person) then consider how you can best help them with your product.

If your product really helps, you can consider approaching it from a mindset of "it would be a disservice to that person NOT helping them with your product" - That tends to help with the motivation (obligation, almost?) to carry out the sales initiatives...

FWIW
https://twitter.com/nordvpn/status/1394653697989300234?s=21

NordVPN> Hi, this was not intentional, we are not aiming to remove your post. Red Points are relying on an automated system which reports content that infringes the copyright, it helps us a lot, but it’s not flawless. We will contact them and Twitter in order to get your post back.

I hate hate hate these automated systems :/.
You might have poor friends who have cash flow problems. When I was a kid my parents wouldn’t fill up the tank, they’d put L20 000 in it ($15). About half way up. They couldn’t afford more.

For people like this, how much the car costs per stop is important. Especially if a re-fueling typically occurs after the next pay period.
To me the big gripe is not the concern for edge cases but the immediate dismissal of a very productive first step in addressing an issue by resolving the entire conversation before it even happens.

It is very possible to bring up edge cases in a productive manner. Expand the conversation to include them. there's no need to assume the first solution idea posted is meant to be the final form
who cares, cryptos have no use case except for cranks and criminals and noone has ever improved a solution by adding a blockchain to it.
I'm glad that works for you.

For me, being able to walk around my house while doing a conference on my computer, or go to the fridge/oven while I'm on Discord, is a big sell.

Sure I have some higher quality wired equipment, but wireless is incredibly convenient.

The only time that Bluetooth gives me issue is with my 2014 vehicle.
> Why would we not want to ensure the population has affordable energy for home use, but others seeking to make a profit from it rather than use it for basic needs pay more?

Because we already have the former and we don't need the latter.

A carbon tax with a dividend doesn't make life harder for lower income people, because they already have below-average energy consumption (wealthier people have bigger houses that need more heat etc.) and as a result the dividend would be larger than what they pay in tax.

But you still want them to have good incentives. If they can use the dividend to switch to solar or buy an electric car, you want them to do this, because that's the whole point.

Meanwhile there is no reason to charge profit-seeking enterprises more than the true cost of their usage, because all that's doing is inhibiting economically productive activity. Aluminum smelting uses a tremendous amount of electricity, but what you want is to cause them to switch to non-carbon electrical generation, not to shut down operations.
I really like my Pixel 3XL. Most prominently I like the fact that it's running stock Android and gets updates quickly. On my prior phones, updates had to go through both the manufacturer AND Verizon before they'd update, which could be months or even years, especially as the device aged.

I'm sure I could get that by maintaining it myself, but I don't want to. I don't want my phone to be a job; I do enough debugging at work.

That probably means I should switch over to the iPhone, since the price and features are comparable. But I'm OK with being a slave to the Google ecosystem rather than the Apple ecosystem -- whichever one lets me most easily forget that there's an ecosystem at all and just use the device.
So if ready alternatives didn’t exist, sure PoW is wasteful but has no alternative... but we have an alternative. If there were alternatives to running a social media platform that didn’t spend energy we should also back that option.
it's not 1% of energy consumption... yet

there's every incentive for it to keep growing forever, which is what makes it dangerous

vs. there's only so much ice cream people can eat
>GDPR is pure annoyance

Is it? I'm the marketing manager of a European app publishers with around 5 millions active monthly users (and many times more if we account for the SDK that we license to other developers). We operates cloud services as part of our offering too. We find it very easy to comply with GDPR.

As for me, I'm very glad as the end users to be protected by GDPR. I've had my data deleted or unpublished about a dozen times since the law has been enacted. And all the people around me are far more careful with how they share their data (and mine! e.g switching to Signal vs Facebook Messenger, or ProtonMail vs Gmail...).