skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do see it as a TeeSpring problem. This particular bug got in my way 2 weeks ago when I was attempting to buy some merch to support a youtube channel I frequent. I almost abandoned the purchase.

A shopping site breaking checkout when there's a google analytics problem is madness, IMO. uBlock Origin is hugely popular. With 10M (claimed) active users, you should probably be testing against uBlock Origin for your e-commerce site.

As an aside, buying from TeeSpring was a little... interesting. You add the items to your cart and pay like at any other site. Instead of being charged for the total, I got invoiced separately for each (including separate confirmation emails), along with 5 or 6 duplicate shipping notices for one of the items. My credit card was also charged separately for each item. I get that there are probably reasons for this purchase flow, but it's not implemented well.

I got my stuff and all is good, but the whole buying experience was janky.
They answered it. The person they were responding to was trying to broaden the scope too much. Many laws purposely have narrow scopes in order to handle problems that arise without setting too much precedent.
I wish you didn't get voted down so much. From a Eurocentric perspective, your words make perfect sense.
The art and science of a great video thumbnail
They didn't do that either. It reads more like avoidance. The semblance of an answer by posting anything, rather than a plain, direct response. Which gives the original questions more weight: why were they not able to be responded to directly? Are the questions potent? Your reply here is just shifty on shifty.
"Lossless" just means there is no (lossy perceptual) compression involved. You could absolutely have a 48khz lossless signal, or even 44.1khz if you were dealing with a CD rip, and it would likely still measure better than the lossy equivalent audio sent over AAC or aptX via Bluetooth.

I'll skip the whole debate about how good perceptual lossy encodings actually are these days and whether any person could reasonably expect to hear that measured difference, but just wanted to clarify that the sample rate of the headphones' built-in ADC shouldn't be conflated with the lossless codec.
If this is accurate then Bluetooth continues to disappoint.

Bluetooth reminds me a lot of the F-35: Designed to do everything, does none of it particularly well, hard to build/maintain, and frankly would have been better off as three or four competing standards that did their "thing" well and nothing else.

Might be time to retire it, do a clean sheet audio-only standard, that is easy enough to implement/re-implement with actual tests for all the functionality.
I’m just going to say it… it was a stupid feature to “announce” the way they did.

It should have been a bullet point mentioned in passing at WWDC… assuming they had anything at all about the Apple Music APIs to mention. This isn’t something enough people care enough about to generate hype or growth, releasing it out on its own just allowed them to draw attention in isolation which has cast it in a less than ideal light due to its shortcomings.

If they new (and they obviously did) that it was supported in such a statistically limited (percentage wise) subset when compared to their overall customer base’s listening habits… then making any fuss at all was kind of stupid. They now have the unforced error of having high value customers buying their most expensive products asking uncomfortable questions like “why did you sell me $1000 headphones that don’t support your best stuff?”
How about we just make people pay for their negative externalities, and let them do whatever they want. Tonnes of things people do are wasteful, no one needs a sports car either, but for some people it is worth paying extra for it. Why should it matter what I'm using my electricity for as long as I pay for the negative effects.

If you want to encourage other uses of electricity, subsidize them, don't just ban arbitrary forms of consumption.
Exactly, that's how laws work: they express value judgements. Installing solar on the roof? Good, the people will help you pay for it. Earning a fortune? Bad, the people want a piece of that.

The laws set up the playing field, and the market responds to the incentives. There has never been any such thing as a "free" market, and it's a good thing too.
But is lowering effective tax rates a success if it is a race to the bottom?
lol, Ethereum's Beacon Chain already been running since Dec 1. See https://beaconcha.in/ Please point me towards the flaws.
Fast: Examples of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things together
Yes: don't. It's very hard.

More seriously. There is very good reason to be encouraged about wgpu as a cross-platform low-level GPU drawing interface for UI work. There are already successful UI toolkits using it, of which probably the most impressive is iced.

For 2D graphics in general, a good starting point is Diego Nehab's 2D graphics course. It has links to a bunch of resources including papers on GPU rendering.

Of course, I'm working on my own stuff, which in time I hope will become a very strong foundation for building things such as UI toolkits, but it's not ready yet, and of course you're already aware of it.

[1]: http://w3.impa.br/~diego/teaching/vg/
We're supposed to just ban uses of energy we don't like? Why not a complete and total ban on electricity consumption by the adtech industry? Surveillance capitalism does more damage to society than these little coins ever will.
> don't let perfect be the enemy of good

I don't think this applies to laws. In fact, I'd claim the opposite. Laws are something you REALLY want to get right
That would not help, as the externs for that type don't match the faked runtime object.
That’s me. I’m turning 40 later this year and vested equity currently worth somewhat less than $10m, working for a fintech you’ve heard of. I quit my job in late April, a few weeks ago.

I’ll soon be driving across the country to spend some time with family. I plan to live a quiet life, gardening and volunteering and exploring my interests. Like you I don’t have an interest in being super frugal. But I also am single and don’t have kids.

I had similar conversations with my financial advisor. Her Monte Carlo runs were coming out at about 80%. There are several factors IMO that lead to that, which all point in my favor. For example, the model had me owning a pretty expensive home outright and still spending many thousands a month — on what, if my residence is paid for? Things like that. They have to be extremely vigilant against the prospect of you ending up old and penniless. That certainly would be terrible, but you’d imagine you’d see it coming with some time to course-correct. So after those conversations and reflecting a bit, I decided I’m happy with my financial situation and I have reasons to think the future is brighter than my advisor says.

The next couple years will decide for sure (in particular the former employer’s stock growth), but right now the plan is never work again. Kiss my butt world.
> but some use of energy is preferable

and that's where the price signals what is preferable. The correct allocation of energy should be based on the price people are willing to pay for the energy. Like any other commodity.
Lithium self discharges at 1-2% per month, not an issue in most circumstances, not sure where it would be an issue, if it was just have a maintaining solar panel nearby.
123-reg, can't use any of their support without disabling ad blockers, and built in blocking in vivaldi. Totally useless.
HN embodies this weird upper class environmentalist fascism where they proudly pick and choose what the plebes should be allowed to do with their lives based on totally logically inconsistent environmental reasons. The Musk thing was so funny for this. "No you plebes should have no recourse or experimentation against a fiat system it's bad for the environment, now don't mind me driving my Tesla around to do things like shop at expensive stores in my gated community or just kick it on the weekend doing a road trip in my TOTALLY ENVIRONMENTALLY NECESSARY electric vehicle that uses electricity from my wall socket not derived from fossil fuels at all which was not mined from not dubious sources whose environmental impact is totally not cool". I can't imagine where this ideology will land but I imagine the scope will expand greatly outside of PoW cryptocurrencies. Pretty soon commenters here will be scolding your for turning up your graphics settings in AAA games but only if you're poor and your house is in a dump that doesn't have a renewable grid.
I too have been skeptical of PoS, but IMO the thinking behind it has gotten better and better and there are pretty large chains that have been running without compromise.

Thankfully with ETH 2.0 the cost of publishing data on the chain will drop dramatically (there will be ~63x increase in throughput of publishing data, not transactions) so contract creation should be cheaper.

But really if you are interested in the space it might make sense to just publish on an L2 like polygon.
Microstrategy buys another $10M Bitcoin
Because others of us have good memories associated with the term.

Given the choice between having more language available to use or less, I don't see a reason to want less.
"carcerial policing complex"
This article comes from the Ethereum blog, can anyone verify the numbers or provide an unbiased view?
Is the answer to question 8 simply due to the pattern of the other answers?
I uploaded a short video to show the difference between "Crystal Chalk" and "Chalk Cream" a.k.a. traditional white "Liquid Chalk".

https://chalkrebels.com/blogs/news/hello-hn
Sure, but take it a bit less literally and you have wireless vs. wired heaphones. Same thing: wired headphones will just play anything you throw at them. Meanwhile wireless ones cost more, have a more limited bandwidth, sometimes require an app for settings, and are built to fail after a few years thanks to proprietary batteries.

We have the tech to solve all these issues. But that wouldn't be as profitable.
> You're advocating for violence

Oh give over, this is ridiculous too.

When other people are causing harm that affects everyone it's perfectly reasonable to look at legislation to kerb the behaviours.

And no, that's not violence. No.
It's nothing new. China has been extremely powerful for a long time.

It's just one relatively short period from the mid-19th to mid-20th century where they weren't.
I don't think Amazon has done stock buy backs in almost 10 years.
It might be worth it to me to see things that I might want to buy.
Hi, author here. It's funny you mention this, I was just revisiting this lib and thinking that SubtleCrypto would be a better option. Also interesting idea to use the md5-wasm, thanks for the link.

It's been years since I made this, probably due for a little love.
It would be interesting to see this alongside the amount of tax avoided through regulatory capture in various industries. I assume that illegal tax avoidance is dwarfed by perfectly legal tax avoidance.
I agree that this is good - the world probably only needs one blockchain that is secured by PoW for the most fundamental use cases.

Ethereum will drive and that is good - but it solves different problems compared to Bitcoin.

In regards to banning PoW, sounds like the net neutrality discussions honestly... so to me that does not make sense for the same reasons.

And here is the kicker, because its permissionless, it can't be stopped.
Halide for iPad
David Cope: 'You pushed the button and out came hundreds of sonatas' (2010)
But separating the background work doesn't actually require efficiency cores. With 40 performance cores, you could still dedicate 4 or 8 of them to "background" processes only. As that article you linked shows, the background processes would simply complete more quickly without affecting interactive work on the machine.
Yes, it does matter. In America, I can freely criticize my government, publish ideas they find horrific and suffer no consequences from them. I somehow doubt Winnie the Pooh would afford me such liberties, especially considering how his CCP thugs have clamped down on Hong Kong.

The American government would certainly "spin" and use propaganda, but at least in America people are free to discuss hypotheses without fear of being officially censored or sent to a penal camp and/or firing squad. There has been a worrying wave of private censorship in America over the past decade or so, but it is not (directly) enforced by the government.

Also, let's not act like there's moral equivalence between the CCP and the US government, as deeply flawed as the latter is (and I am a major critic of my government). Recently, the CCP regime launched its "Long March" rocket, and subsequently lost control of the booster. By dumb luck, the booster landed in the ocean and didn't harm anyone, but no one in the CCP regime bothered to make safety contingency plans. Few in the West realize this, but the CCP regime also launches rockets over populated areas, and its rockets or boosters have even destroyed Chinese villages before.

In America, these things would be unthinkable.
Agree.

”There has never been a better time to be a nerd. In the past century we've seen a continuous transfer of power from dealmakers to technicians — from the charismatic to the competent — and I don't see anything on the horizon that will end it.”

I think the continuous transfer is in nerds learning how to be dealmakers, not in some magic power shift to nerds.

George Westinghouse was an inventor. So was Thomas Edison. You can think of both as “fierce nerds” in my book.
> ban trade of PoW cryptocurrencies

That might cause a financial crash of the cryptocurrency market, with the trust issues, etc. It wouldn't be wise.
It has plenty of bandwidth. MB/s
>It doesn't seem like current fuels cell have much of a energy density / range advantage even though hydrogen itself is much more energy dense, the fuel cell weight and efficiency and high pressure liquid hydrogen tanks must be accounted for.

Hydrogen has a better gravimetric scaling than batteries - as stored energy increases, the fixed weight of the fuel cell is amortised over more energy and the weight of high pressure tanks goes up with their surface area while the energy stores goes up with volume.

So for applications where you want to store a lot of energy and are weight but not volume limited, hydrogen might make enough sense to pay the efficiency penalty required to turn electricity into hydrogen and back again.

That's why it makes more sense for big trucks than it does for passenger cars where volume limitations matter a lot more and where total energy is less.
then what are companies supposed to do then. in hindsight it is easy to find what went wrong, but hackers are always coming up with new tricks.
> once again, you have merely just assumed the role of arbitor. What makes this opinion better than the opposition?

This is literally the role of legislators. What makes "my" opinion better, is in the event that this sort of legislation passed, the majority of the elective representatives in both houses agree we should ban proof of work crytpo currencies, nothing less, nothing more.

> [alternative proposal]

I mean, I happen to like this proposal too, but you haven't given any reason not to do both...
Yeah, and the way they are issuing rewards means there's an incentive to split your validation across multiple nodes to increase your changes at getting rewards. Each one of these costs electricity to run both in terms of bandwidth and electricity.

And other methods introduce the possibility of stake grinding.

BOTH converge to the same energy usage as mining.

OTOH, the legacy financial system is significantly more energy intensive for a given financial network value. You don't think banks and wars in the middle east to maintain the value of the network have an environmental impact?
> What makes this opinion better than the opposition?

Nothing about the opinion is better than any other. But the only thing we have to achieve is that it is a majority opinion, which frankly doesn’t seem all that hard to me.
Frankly, right now anyone who isn't already in the game isn't able to acquire Ether without paying for it.

Mining at a rate necessary to get any reasonable amount of Ether is a huge investment, and is already out of reach for the average person. Setting your desktop computer to mine definitely won't pay for your small smart contract.
Yes. That's on our radar. Gyms are closed at the moment because of COVID so that's on the back-burner. We want to niche down on climbers first.
You usually don't need to understand the entirety of OTP to work on an elixir code base. For some Phoenix projects you don't even need to know what OTP is to get things done.
One of my companies has been running an Eth2 node for 6 months

It fits the risk profile to let that team attempt to deploy and merge a proof of stake network with sharding
Subsidize certain usages of electricity then. Or pay for the first x units of electricity for each household.
I don’t get this, blue tooth has plenty of bandwidth... why for example, can’t it play duel channel audio along with a mic?
Don't forget about Disney Stasi agents standing behind you just now, tasked with protecting the good name of the House of Mouse.
You can upgrade RAM, storage, GPUs (e.g. 6900 XT), 100G NICs, and even SAS/FC.
> Hi, is this pizza abc?

> Yes, can I take your other?

> No, you don't get it, I'd like to file a bug report, but your website clearly has no feature to create issues so, when the field city has the value...

> Sir, I cannot fix the website. If you do not wish to make an order please hang up.

> Uhoh ok, sure, I'd like an anchovies pizza but instead of anchovies I'd like you to make sure that when the field city is set to Boston...

> Sir, I really cannot fix the website

> Couldn't you just make a note and leave it in the front door? So that if other customers have the same problem they can upvote the most common issues and then you can prioritize fixes and get a reasonable budget for each one?

> I obviously can't do that, do you want your anch...

> Of course you can't! That would be reinventing the wheel! Let me point you to the github...
While I can understand that bluetooth limits the data transmission rate, now it becomes even more puzzling that the AirPods Max don't support data transmission via lightning cable. With that they could fully support lossless and high res audio in full quality. How can Apple release such expensive, some people even used the word "overpriced" headphones without that features, especially with the new tiers of Apple Music coming?
A question, I was wondering if you happen to know whether there is a long term commitment from these orgs/companies to support WebGPU, say for at least 10 years?
It's not even 1% of global energy consumption. Surely there are far more dangerous things to worry about out there.
Reading the discussion here, I think most people don't have a problem with PoS, but the transition from PoW to PoS. If you compare PoS with the dominant client-server model, it's significantly better! In the worst case, PoS can become a "client-server". PoS is transparent and you know that your smart contract will run exactly how it suppose to be executed. No FAANG types of problems.
One possible implementation:

* For each bundle, webpack produces the compiled bundle and a seperate diff file between the latest release and every previously published release. Filenames could be [oldhash]-[newhash].js

* The webpack loader can check if the browser has that specific module cached (I believe service workers are able to inspect the http cache like this), and then based on the version that is cached, request the correct filename for a diff to the latest version.

* Then apply the diff and load the javascript as normal.

I just did a quick test with a webapp of mine, and a small diff file made with the rsync algorithm (via rdiff-backup) of a webpack bundle was just 150 bytes.
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMX62AM/A/lightning-to-35...
Isn't proof-of-work intrinsically wasteful though, as a proxy for costing money (e.g. instead of paying money directly for the right to mine BTC, you buy electricity and burn it)? In any context other than cryptocurrencies it seems like microtransactions would be a better choice.
Using Cache-Control and CDNs to Improve Performance and Reduce Latency
This site compares M0 for Bitcoin with M2 or M3 for other currencies. This is not a fair comparison.
I think the real problem is that there is no cost associated with emitting CO2 for the emitter even though it creates tremendous costs for the society in the long term. If there was a tax associated with the act of emitting CO2 itself (purpose of which could be to invest in green technologies) then the market could be the arbiter.
That's assuming you have product market fit. If you understand a problem but don't have a product, you are a consultant.
> After her third and final treatment, Sophie’s PTSD score had gone from severe to nonexistent. “That event in the cabin does not bring me to tears anymore,” she recently told me. “I am now brought to tears by the loving things that have happened to me over the years.”

This seems to be a common outcome in MDMA-assisted therapy. We need more of this kind of therapy - perhaps it should be the default option in cases of PTSD, marriage counseling, and serious depression.

Although I think drugs in general should be legalized, MDMA and psilocybin (shrooms) in particular should be given the red carpet. Legalize them and use them for their benefits. They can help us move forward as individuals and as a society.
I think that depends on whether you think "at least" modifies the "99%" or "99% less energy"
RBAC vs. ABAC or Maybe EBAC?
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.

However, in Facebook's defense it's per-user per-transaction energy costs are going to be much lower than Bitcoin.
(Not) Yet another application layer cache for Elasticsearch
No, it's because competition between miners necessarily drives the hash rate and thus energy usage to scale up with the value of mining rewards and transaction fees.
Because the M1 is used in laptops and desktops and this chip likely would only be used in the Mac Pro
The "behind the scenes" blog post linked in a sibling notes that they've architected the Linux release with a headless backend component that they'll be moving every client to use. So while there will be HTML-based clients with Linux and browser extensions, I think there's a decent chance of greater feature parity across platforms with native clients in the future too.
Umm... just so ya know, practically everything in "wokeness" is about somebody saying "Please don't paint me with the broad brush you're using."

I think most of what you identify as "wokeness" is other people who aren't directly affected trying to help out, since the affected people are usually a minority who won't be heard if it's just them. That can lead to its own forms of tone-deafness and "you're not helping" behavior, but that just leads to more cases of people who are sincerely and effectively helping being dismissed as "SJWs" out of hand. That's a cheap way of avoiding genuine problems with one tiny all-purpose acronym.

I just wanted to point that out because what you wrote can be read like "I didn't care about anything except when it happens to me". It might give you a moment's pause the next time you want to deride something as "woke".
Upbound launches UXP – enterprise-grade distribution of Crossplane
The plural of anecdote isn't data and all that, but:

My personal experience of driving electric cars for many years is that home charging from a Level-1 (120V, 8A ~= 1kW) plug is completely sufficient for all of my in-town driving needs.