skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Many cultures chastise sleepers as lazy, but every time you sleep, it's like a big reconstruction process in your body.

The morning alarm is society telling you "stop reconstructing yourself, start working on our problems."
The Bitcoin hash rate graph didn't go up like that in 2021.[1] The Etherium hash rate did.[2] Where are they getting their data?

[1] https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-hashrate.html#3...

[2] https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/ethereum-hashrate.html
Learning Technical Writing Using the Engineering Method (2016) [pdf]
Makes sense. In the US, being queer was associated with communism by their persecutors.
While 192KHz is overkill, there are plenty of instruments that produce non-trivial amounts of energy above 22KHz. While we're unable to hear them some can be generally felt (depending on volume and proximity). A pair of headphones won't reproduce those ultrasonic energies but good speakers can. Even so, this is only germane in a handful of types of music with high fidelity recording and mastering.

The same for higher resolution samples, an audio pipeline using that available dynamic range can do cool stuff.

Both are pointless for 99% of music sold though.
Thank you very much for that demonstration.
A Mac Pro is likely to be dedicated to those workloads which ARE easy to thread - video editing and processing - or simply have multiple applications running simultaneously.

Someone who doesn't need more performance cores is unlikely to invest in a Mac Pro.
> Should every line of code get wrapped in try/catch?

Everything Google Analytics does is expendable, so the block of code that deals with it should be wrapped in try/catch.

> There's a big difference between "resilient against a missing dependency" and "being resilient in the face of getting literally any object instead of the dependency you expected to get."

If Google pushes a breaking change to the Google Analytics API tomorrow, that shouldn't break checkout either.
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Seriously? This has to be a joke.
There is no place for a PoS protocol layer on the internet, I'm willing to die on this hill.
We gotta optimize the bottleneck (and future bottlenecks).
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Can anyone appreciate lossless audio quality on earbuds? It's not like the frequency response is flat across the range of human hearing.
A full charge for 15$ versus how much for fuel? And do you pollute?
I think the trade-off was more cost than “we don’t know what we would do with these cycles” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_Interface_Adaptor#B...)

If you look at https://www.jcmit.net/memoryprice.htm, 1kB RAM cost about $25-$50 at the time. The Atari 2600 sold for $199. The 6502 CPU, at $25 was too expensive for that (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600#MOS_Technology_6502...)
This shit always gets me. I don't care how much you spend on electrostatic speakers, granite slabs, acoustic treatments, and magic speaker wire — your room will never, ever sound as good as a decent pair of headphones.

That said there absolutely is a case for high-bitrate, losslessly-compressed, DRM-free, watermark-free audio as the standard, and that is sampling and remixing. Slowing down a 320 kbps mp3 by just 50% sounds like shit.
I find this interesting:

> We did prototype a machine learning-based Concert Mode that detects when you are taking shots at a show and disables the camera automatically, but we decided that was perhaps a bit too much.

As much as I hate that person at a concert holding their iPad up to take photos, I respect the decision to let their users make the choice for themselves and to not become a gatekeeper (and, almost certainly, block use of the app in legitimate situations due to false positives).
For years I've labeled this nonsense the Midas Delusion: people get dramatically unusual success with their startup, and then conclude that they somehow have superior insight into every banal topic they choose to opine on. They fail to properly understand the path dependency and sheer luck that played a roll in their success, nor that the biggest lesson their success should teach them is humility in the socratic ignorance sense.

This is a very large number of words to essentially say "when I was a jerk in the past it was actually virtue." If you don't see that plainly and transparently I'm not sure what to say to you.

PG deserves credit for creating YC, but from the narrative in this essay it's clear he does not even understand how that happened or his own role in it (assuming he's not being straight up dishonest in his writing). He's a deal making power player, nearly a king maker, not a technocratic nerd. No amount of essay writing will erase that reality.

I am so very weary of this nonsense being taken seriously as sage advice.

We already have too many reductive stereotypes in tech. Let's not lionize them.
> This may be a radical take, but I think nations should introduce some unprecedented legislation: ban trade of proof-of-work cryptocurrencies.

Unless you want to also ban servers or services that are using deep learning training, decoding massive videos and livestreams on storage systems that are also burning up the planet.

It's not fine to allow PoW cryptocurrencies to continue to burn the planet but collecting mass amounts of user data and using wasteful deep learning training continuously is fine to burn up the planet on GCP, AWS and Azure?
There's a few configurations mentioned:

> Codenamed Jade 2C-Die and Jade 4C-Die, a redesigned Mac Pro is planned to come in 20 or 40 computing core variations, made up of 16 high-performance or 32 high-performance cores and four or eight high-efficiency cores. The chips would also include either 64 core or 128 core options for graphics.

> For the new MacBook Pros, Apple is planning two different chips, codenamed Jade C-Chop and Jade C-Die: both include eight high-performance cores and two energy-efficient cores for a total of 10, but will be offered in either 16 or 32 graphics core variations.
Buying media for propaganda doesn't seem to be working very well. Washington state just passed a 7% income tax on all capital gains over $250,000. That's hardly limited to the super rich.
I don't think I'm in disagreement, but maybe you can tell me. The popular portrayal that a face to face meeting with the IRS is the worst needs to be debunked. Anyone who thinks a face to face meeting with a TCO needs to keep in mind who is getting face to face examinations and what that implies. It's much more cordial than the adversarial mailers that the prole gets.
I'm looking at the complex specs of the shading language which accomplish almost the same thing as other modern high level shading languages, and thinking is there any possibility we'll reach a state of consensus on a single unified GPU graphics interface? Right now things seem to go more fragmented instead of unified, we moved away from "cross-platform" OpenGL to extremely vendor specific Vulkan, Metal, D3d and WebGPU, looks like cross platform graphics programming is becoming more and more far away, have to rely on abstraction layer which are often huge dependencies and tedious to develop / maintain.
If you can distill what you need to a set of questions, /r/smallbusiness can be of great help in terms of offering focused and actionable suggestions (if you get them on a good day :-). Possibly also some of the other subreddits in their sidebar like /r/marketing.
The praise that I heard was about the quality of the transparency mode and the integration with Apple's ecosystem. On the reviews that I saw the reviewers were very careful not to claim unmatched audio quality.
My personal worries were always more about Keybase's business model. I respected the feature creep hustle. It's why the comparisons in the article here and the article it is a critique of use OpenPGP versus Signal as the comparatives. "Barebones toolkit" doesn't work, as we've never seen high, general user adoption of OpenPGP (or GPG or whatever), but Signal as a "messaging app first" has refined the PKI on-boarding enough that even some of my least technical friends can and do have Signal accounts. The "messaging app" is the front door that made sense to them. A regular user isn't going to think "I need to encrypt some stuff, so I'll pick up a toolkit like OpenPGP and then figure out how to use it, and then eventually figure out how to integrate it into my email or SMS client", a user is going to first want to "send a message to someone I know" and if it's secure that a beautiful bonus, but if it's convenient is general the bottom line. (Most users are not looking for Ikea/Lego solutions, they just want to go to the big box store and grab it off the shelf.)

From that perspective, all of Keybase's features made a certain amount of sense. Maybe they had a few too many "front doors" (file sharing, [group] chat, git repo sharing, etc), but that's potentially more ways to get new users, more ways to explain to users why they might want good PKI in their lives without first explaining what PKI is or how it works.

(Even the cryptocurrency BS has kind of sense to it from that perspective. Cryptocurrency wallets have been a lot of users' first introduction to PKI and how easy it is get wrong [all the variations on "I lost X Bitcoin because I didn't know the silly numbers mattered"]. With so many untrained users [badly] experiencing PKI for the first time with cryptocurrency, it does make a kind of sense for a PKI tool to try to show how to do it right/safely/user-friendly and integrate it with other PKI functions. [Regardless of whether or not you think encouraging general use of cryptocurrencies is a good idea in the first place.])

I just wish Keybase had gone into it with a business model that was tightly user-focused, strongly revenue generating, and less likely to get them acquihired into an entirely unrelated parent company.
Organized crime wouldn’t going to risk trading PoW cryptocurrency. There’s no benefit to them, since the value of a bitcoin would immediately plummet.
Is this going to be inside an affordable box ie do I have to spend close to 5 figures for it? This is about as exciting as new cellular data speed announcements in a world where most data plans are extremely limited and quickly throttled one way or another. I still use Macs, but my resentment is building up from Apple's past choices e.g. thinness overrides every other feature, every component being solder on, ...
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That's true. But in a way it just emphasizes how much energy Bitcoin wastes, so it's fine-ish.
That's only true so long as the price continually rises. As soon as the price settles, everyone is operating on the margin and can only become more profitable by reducing costs.

Unsubsidized renewables are already the cheapest new source of energy generation. [0] Even if miners wouldn't be doing direct renewable research themselves, their capital investments into renewables in the name of competition and cost-savings would incentivize more efficient technologies.

In this case the immediate marginal profits from mining are centralized, and the larger benefits of more advanced renewable energy are socialized.

Plus - do you believe that the price of Bitcoin will rise forever? If it did, wouldn't that mean to you that it might be doing something important, to constantly have growth and demand for 100 years? Cuz if I thought so then I'd want to preserve it, not throw it away. Sounds important.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesellsmoor/2019/06/15/renewa...
Come on... PoW provides no value? So the almost $1 trillion in Bitcoin is just, nothing? Not worth anything? I think the people invested would beg to differ.
You may have heard of this company Tesla based in Silicon Valley, one of the largest companies by market cap in the world, just led an electric car revolution that's inspired automakers worldwide to shift off IC engines
it shouldn't break lots of stuff but it does, e.g. access to bank & other financial sites.
> In the hotwire world, the encouraged approach would be to already have the html in the dom, and use a stimulus controller to show or hide it

You could also use a turbo-frame here: the modal might contain data that could be expensive to pre-render in the first pass. For example, you have a list of things and you want a modal to show additional details for each thing rather than require navigation to a detail view. Those additional details might need more SQL queries that you don't necessarily want to include in your initial list render, so it makes sense to have that pulled from a separate request.

Closing the modal though should not require another round-trip to the server, that can be done with Javascript.
One thing that I don't like about unsecure sites is that, depending on the ISP or Wifi access point, they might inject things into the stream.
No

https://crt.sh/?q=paulgraham.com
But if most will just take it to an Apple store to fix it (because they can’t identify a software botch from a hardware botch), they could move the port internally so only Apple authorized access to the port would be provided without voiding the warranty. Now where does the adapter go?

Admittedly this is all FUD.
I disagree. The initial investments in these big currencies were from people thinking that they could become a practical currency with real-world use due to its lack of regulation and name-attached government tracking. The bulk of fiat driving up the price since then has been somewhat blind speculation. None of these change with PoS; instead, holders are now rewarded for verifying transactions.
In 1968:

- The population was much less densely gathered

- The world population was roughly half what it is today

- There was much less air travel

- Testing was much worse

- Statistics about mortality were much less evenly gathered

There are worse things than lockdown.
In that era riots were often named for locations or the thing/person/event that instigated them. So, rather than it being a statement of who was rioting, it was an assertion for the reason for the riot. That's why we have the Sacheverell (sp?) and Gordon Riots: the first was sparked by the prosecution of an important prelate, the second was instigated by an English nobleman who opposed the restoration of rights to Catholic Englishmen.
It wouldn't by default without effort (or at all). Which is valuable if you don't want to mess things up without knowing.
The problem isn't even bitcoin mining, it's pollution. The energy usage wouldn't matter at all if it was generated via renewable sources such as solar.

People who want to see real change need to deal with fossil fuels. Taxing mining operations will do absolutely nothing to solve the actual problems of this world.
Yeah, because any of us have the same power as Disney.
> The ethereum Miners will rebel

I don't think miners can do anything about this. In the worst case, they coordinate to stop mining on N-1 block. But this requires an amazing level of coordination, plus network can directly bribe/reward next block producer by paying to `coinbase` address (real `coinbase`, not Armstrong's coinbase).

> "The Merge" will introduce catastrophic bugs, 0-days will appear.

This is why you have testnets.

> we're in for a long and exciting ride.

Definitely!
Tesla is stuck with over 10k cars on factory hold; logistical nightmare
Alright. It's clear you just plan on doubling and tripling down here, so I'll just be along. Take care.
Same with artists; the ones who became famous or at least successful in their lifetime were good at making deals. And self-promotion. The ones who could not fit in socially, not so much.
Yes, because not having it will still leave your browsing on that site succeptible to MITM attacks.
Sorry, but that's all I managed to write — and even that took a while, I kept putting it off. It's always more fun to actually do the projects than write them up later... Also, finding the time to do it properly is more and more difficult.
> Disney is rounding their carriages.

Completely off-topic - is there a term for such 'approximate' idioms? I sometimes can't quite remember the exact words in a turn of phrase - my mind goes blank and I substitute words with similar meaning. The more familiar phrase to parent is "Disney is circling their wagons"
Yeah, maybe when we’ve exhausted the sun’s net output.
This whole comment was a great read, and parallels how I personally feel about self-hosting. I have a homelab with my own servers where I love to play with this kind of stuff. Do I want the responsibility of setting up and maintaining the 1Password service all by myself as a production environment? Absolutely not.

I have more infrastructure in my basement than some small companies have in their entire organization. :D But in terms of relying on that infrastructure, run by me alone, for something as mission critical as 1Password? I'll pass.

- Ben, 1Password
Came across a video by the author of this article

"ASPLOS'20 - Session 2B - Noise-Aware Dynamical System Compilation for Analog Devices with Legno"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PU-6cWQQkE
But you don't even need to check, you just don't blow up and still check out if it doesn't work?

Put it this way, forget adblock, if the GA call fails, it should still check out. (Assuming the problem doesn't affect other stuff too, like internet down or whatever.)
> The desire for energy is near limitless - PoW simply bends the curve upward. As the price of BTC increases, the drive for less costly energy slackens off.

Shameless hijacking here: at what point will the heat consumption/release rate be so great that the Earth becomes unable to support life? I've seen some back of the napkin calculations that estimate a couple hundred years, at our current acceleration.
The GPU is already accessible to JavaScript through WebGL. WebGPU should hopefully be somewhat faster in many cases, and simpler to use with a simpler/less buggy implementation. But it's not really exposing a ton of attack surface that's not already available in WebGL. Things like coin mining are already possible with WebGL, and a small-to-medium sized speed boost isn't going to change much.

Neither WebGL nor WebGPU will today give you 100% of native (e.g. CUDA) performance for applications like coin mining or machine learning. And even WebGPU may never get all the way there, at least in a form that can be exposed in browsers, because top performance requires deep knowledge of the user's specific hardware configuration and specialized hardware-specific code paths. Exposing that to the web raises legitimate fingerprinting and portability concerns.

That said, I think there is a lot of promise for WebGPU as a portable graphics API for native applications outside of browsers, where said fingerprinting and portability concerns are much less of an issue. In a native context, hardware-specific extensions could easily be exposed and there's no reason in theory why you couldn't have the best performance possible on any given hardware.
Macs are primarily well designed consumer devices, status symbols and objects of brand loyalty. These factors will push sales beyond a basic functional need.
> Arbitrage works worst when transactions are lossy, costly, delayed, and unique, as is the case in the petroleum market.

If you compare the petroleum market to the markets where those things are actually major factors, like the market for artwork, petroleum is an idealized commodity market. The fact that the price of transportation isn't literally zero and there are different well-defined grades of the commodity doesn't meaningfully change that. Transaction costs are never literally zero.

And what matters is the relative transaction costs. You have to ship the oil from the well to the refinery, but if the transportation to go 1500 miles from Texas to a refinery in New Jersey and the cost to go the same distance in the other direction to a refinery in Mexico are the same, there is no relative difference in transportation costs.
Tidal, Amazon Music HD, and Spotify hifi are all services aimed at selling higher fidelity Music at higher prices. Apple gives this away and they should just make it a bullet point?
https://avn.com/business/articles/legal/breaking-ebay-to-ban... has much more info / fewer popups.

Doesn't apply to all markets though (e.g. Australia - https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2021/05/ebay-adult-only-goods-ban... ).
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Fed Reserve Board Issues Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households
it looks like it is vhosted with store.yahoo.com

his site is probably only meant to serve HTTP but gets HTTPS with the wrong cert because of the vhosting of the other site.
You can just disable your ad blocker for the website.
If a heroin dealer is imprisoned, his customers could have severe withdrawal. Some might even die from it.
Going to confirm this: BitWarden is dead simple to set up without any hosting requirement. There's an option to host it, which I haven't tried, because the base setup is so dead simple.
It's not intentional. It's just that how we described riots changed from the 18th C to today. Now we often describe who is rioting in the name of the riot. Back then they would often describe what sparked the riot in the name as opposed to who was rioting.
Then why would the police need to search you, as opposed to you offering up evidence for them to write a crime scene report? And in this article's context of drug search dogs?

If police already are intent on searching you... then you are a subject of investigation.
No, it's addressing the low hanging fruit first. An efficient approach to solving a problem.
When those same people are contributing to heat waves, drought, and sea level rise, do you not consider that violence as well?
That's probably about the right dollar figure for most people depending upon how you count Amazon Prime and how much a la carte movie purchasing/renting they do. Though I'd add that, if they also have to pay for live TV (for example, if they can't get it over the air) for sports, etc., that brings the total to probably more than $100.
Debatable. The Bobby Darrin song is a cover of the Kurt Weill / Bertolt Brecht song, the Capcom character is a reference to the Bobby Darrin song, and this article is likely punning on all of the above.