skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have nothing against carbon taxes actually would love to see them implemented, but I am not sure how they would help prevent excessive energy use due to crypto. OP was suggesting a carbon tax instead of direct regulation, but I don’t quite get how it would dissuade crypto use without increasing electricity costs.
>If they want gamers to get more graphics cards then make so many graphics cards that everyone will be able to afford them. Don't try to artificially limit what the hardware can do.

If there are poor people why don't they print more money? But seriously, I addressed this in my reply: there is an ongoing chip shortage in the industry (besides the fact that it may not make sense to scale a production line for a demand surge).
Clarity is about seeing how things are, not how you've chosen to divide things up.

(I added this as an edit to my other reply, but it seems the edit is lost.)
Noice. If I were still working in an office, I would 100% get one!
SpaceX Falcon 9 second stage dropped debris on Canada and Washington state in march 2021 so it isn't unlikely this might happen but the risk is tiny.
> Aren't you curious instead why people eat shit when they know it's shit and even call it junk food themselves, like you say? Because thats what I am curious about.

No, because to me it's obvious. They eat it for obvious reasons, four that immediately come to mind include 1) to them it's not shit 2) it tastes good 3) it's part of addictive behavior, which may or may not have a component based in chemical dependence 4) it's fast and accessible (and often inexpensive, though I frequently shake my head when I'm reminded how much markup a gas station store has over a grocery store for the same items yet nonetheless sell a good volume).

I'm even more mystified about your sudden reminder that we're on "Hacker News". How long have you been on HN? (I assume this isn't your first account.) Old HN died a long time ago.
> Crypto is opting out of real money is the same way buying an unstable stock is

Cryptocurrencies are indeed traded like meme stocks — their value is 100% based on narrative. The difference is meme stocks can’t be electronically transacted sans trusted third parties, which if you recall from the 2009 Satoshi paper, is the entire point of Bitcoin.

(There are other benefits to having a global currency of fixed supply controlled by computer algorithms, e.g. transparent supply metrics.)

> hoping they’ll sell it off before the price crashes and it’s completely worthless

What are the holders of Bitcoin supposed to sell it for, exactly? USD is being inflated. The stock market is insane. Housing is insane and comes with tax and maintenance liabilities virtually everywhere. Artwork is physical and illiquid. Government debt is increasingly dubious.

It would take governments becoming fiscally responsible and a return to a gold standard for Bitcoin to become less societally relevant. And even then, gold and gold-backed government monies would suffer from transparency issues and not being able to be electronically transacted sans trusted third parties.

I’m afraid there’s really just no good news here for people who refuse to invest in Bitcoin on general principle.
Proof of Stake is the worst form of Socialism. It is Socialism governed by the wealthiest elite

Proof of Work is brute Capitalism. It Capitalism without regard for life or health.

STX is Proof of Transfer (secured by bitcoin's hash-power and the Stacks network).

Proof of Transfer is the best of both worlds. It is community and global capitalism with community and global responsibility.

When a technology is simultaneously a store of value, & a utility, the demand for it is exponential, people will seek it in both states, but for different and individual purposes. STX earns BTC for the directed purposes of any individual and as that individual desires with minimal network effect. STX drives community demand only as demanded by the community. STX drives Network benefits only as desired by the Network.

Lets imagine a series of networked micro-communities built with sun energy using solar panels that photochemically convert the atmospheric water into liquid hydrogen. This is being done today.

That hydrogen is then stored as energy in fuel cell batteries. That energy is then used in part to mine community bitcoin.

That community bitcoin is used in part to build and maintain community infrastructure and finance community healthcare.

The community will also use a small portion of the wholesale mined bitcoin to leverage the Stacks Proof of Transfer PoX miners. The STX block reward will support the maintenance and expense of bitcoin mining. The winning PoX miner's committed bitcoin is allocated randomly to the locked Stacks token holders that are all also bitcoin miners.

The locked pools secure the stacks chain and bitcoin node operators secure the bitcoin chain.

The community through Non-fungible tokenized (NFTized) hashed identity quadratically vote on finance mechanisms using the creation of decidable language smart-contracts.

Those smart-contracts execute for community tokenized provenances or (NFT's) of decentralized communication, decentralized wealth & decentralized egalitarian and merit based commerce. And the by-product is pure H2O and clean air.
Show HN: Podcast of me trying to become an entrepreneur
The checkout shouldn't rely on GA.

Tracking should rely on the tracking service, not the checkout process
In Vernor Vinge’s scifi novel “A Fire Upon the Deep” applied theology is the study and appeasement of superhuman sentient AIs. :) Its a field where the study subjects either completely ignore the practicioners, or squashes them like bugs. Also by the sound of it it involves a lot of software archelogy. Who knows, if they studied, and survived, that kind of applied theology they might be good for technical leads.
>>> 60 years ago we were assuming radio communications because that seemed to be where our future was and, by extension, what we might expect other civilizations to do.

Indeed, and today, the bulk of our communications are via enclosed waveguides -- fiber optics. And our remaining wireless communications are quickly evolving towards both decreasing power use and signal formats that are nearly indistinguishable from noise. Our period of "hot" radio emissions may only span roughly a century.
Wow, will be great to make recordings of people that you can sit and watch long after they're deceased. Maybe with some deep fakery even create AI versions that can respond to conversation.
Nope, because you don't make hydrogen tanks out of materials that are susceptible to hydrogen embrittlement.

In particular, pressurized automotive-size hydrogen tanks aren't made from metal at all, they are typically epoxy/kevlar/carbon fiber composites.
It is upsetting to people because it is a blatant abuse of crying racism. Nothing you wrote has anything to do with race, and you even mentioned it spans across races:

> Ultimately what they're attempting to address is that the way math is being taught is not reaching many students of color and white students as well!

So why does this curriculum use that notion? Only to evoke unnecessary emotion and outrage? Now the people who disagree with it have to waste time and energy deflecting against baseless accusations of racism.
If you design a set of views to act as a part of a particular domain, then this will lead to API's for that domain and that functionality.

The data you view and the data you store is just communications and absolutely should be last.
Some of the metrics they judge are things that AMP basically implements for you, and are a pain to implement otherwise.

Cumulative Layout Shift is one of those things. Content blocks on the page need to have a fixed height, not one that is dynamic (which might happen with lazy-loaded content).

For some use cases, conditionally loading content (one of those being ads) becomes difficult/impossible if you're using a third party system and can't render server side.
Unless you are some anomaly with super memory abilities, speeding through 10 different podcasts won't make the day any shorter (or longer).
PoS doesn't fork the chain, you just lose your stake if you stake malicious blocks: https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/consensus-mechanisms...
I have wondered in the past if a similar result could be achieved using a 3d headset with some tracking/cameras and removing the headset from the view through a real-time deep fake that could be achieved through a short scan before the call. Would this even be feasible?
Russian hacker did this
Aren't scalpers only there because the product is clearly underpriced? Why not increase prices till the scalpers are gone or simply auction the GPUs off? That's clearly what the market is pointing at.
I wonder how that will affect his taxes?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostereoscopy

Which type of autostereoscopy is it?
> Does it have to defend itself a lot?

I think it's a common weakness of chatbots that you can get them to contradict themselves through presenting new evidence or assertions, or even just through how you frame a question. I found LaMDA to be much more resistant to this than I anticipated, when I tried it out (I'm a Googler).

It wasn't completely immune -- I was eventually able to get it to say that, indeed, Protoss is OP -- but it took a long time.
From [1]:

> When writing SPIR-V, you can’t have two integer types of the same width. Or two texture types that match. All non-composite types have to be unique for some reason. We don’t have this restriction in Naga IR, it just doesn’t seem to make any sense. For example, what if I’m writing a shader, and I basically want to use the same “int32” type for both indices and lengths. I may want to name these types differently

This doesn't really make sense for IR. IR is not meant to be human writeable. It's meant to be generated by a compiler. So, having a one to one mapping between concept and name in the IR is a feature, not a bug.

Honestly, WGSL just repeats the JavaScript mistake: where we should have started with something like WASM instead of JavaScript. And JS could have been just one of the many languages that targeted WASM.

We were this close to not repeating this mistake by adopting an IR language (SPIR-V) for WebGPU, but then that got abandoned mostly for political reasons. Too bad. Now we get to write transpilers and hacks for decades to come, just like web people have been trying to paper over JS problems for decades.
Geometric growth would put it at far less than 10M years? On the order of hundreds of thousands I would think.
Thanks for posting it. Very interesting to read.
I’m sorry, spit my coffee over the keyboard. What value does cryptocurrency provide other than sucking the world’s electric energy for meaningless calculations?
Yeah this part was especially disappointing given pg's influence, and I think this is one of his weaker essays because the advice is not well thought out. If you have a chip on your shoulder, are insufferable, can't shut off aggressiveness, etc, the best thing you can do is learn when and how to channel it. That's the missing piece.

I know a lot of people that fit this mold, and for this type of personality there's nothing that will meaningfully dull the edge [1]. But, if they learn how to control it, they can avoid cutting their friends and themselves, and live a much happier life.

The last thing this world needs is more emotionally stunted leaders alone in their suffering.

[1] This point in particular seemed like pg engaging in pure speculation, not something based on specific examples
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> That's also why it's so light, since in H2O, 90% of the weight is the oxygen.

which also makes it unsuitable for moon cars.
Ya... And the internet is used for pirating media, porn, wasting time browsing, gaming and the other millions of "useless" things that it's associated with. The amount of sheer time wasted on the internet is incredible, let alone all the filthy illegal things that are happening on it.

Guess we can throw the internet into the trash bin too.
Tried to change upload speed to no limit, doesn't make much difference.

Ping result:

Pinging nsf-env-1.dropbox-dns.com [162.125.3.12] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 162.125.3.12: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=55
Reply from 162.125.3.12: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=55
Reply from 162.125.3.12: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=55
Reply from 162.125.3.12: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=55

Ping statistics for 162.125.3.12:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 27ms, Maximum = 27ms, Average = 27ms

App Ver. 122.4.4867

Is the OS being Win7 a factor? (Work computer, can't update [yet]).

Download speed is normal (100Mbps).
Make an entire wall out of this, now you are virtually colocated.
Sorry but I've been following the last decade of the crypto world. In a decade I have not seen a single "defi" product sticking around because there just doesn't seem to be real demand for these products.

Considering how many spaces in new startups developed massive traction in that span of time (social networks, other forms of digital payments and banking, online marketplaces) the fact that there are no star products in such a span of time gives me little consideration.
I think you might be underestimating the value of viewing a 3D model on a no-glasses 3D display. This is one of the basic aspects of in-person communication we take for granted that current 2D technology can't replicate. You can move your head and actually see a different angle of the person in front of you. This can even be subtle, our brain will still pick up the effect, and it makes the experience beyond what we usually consider as "immersive".

Yes, having low latencies and high definition video is an important aspect of this, but the 3D part is no gimmick. Once the technology improves and gets affordable this is a game changer for how we communicate online. The step after that are holographic displays, and since we'd be used to 3D models and smart displays, it probably won't feel like such a big jump.

I'm _super_ excited about this project. Hopefully Google doesn't axe it. (:
Fun concept and congrats on the product!

I’ve shipped out the first few units of my solo project a couple of weeks ago (a super niche tool for DJ's):

https://cardinia.net/mini/

Feels good to follow through from a hobby project to an actual shipping product. Its been fun re-igniting all the things learnt during electronic engineering classes back in university.

What is an interesting contrast is that by day i'm a web/ios software engineer where memory and disk is largely plentiful, but by night i work on cramming TCP/IP + USB stacks and real-time audio decoding threads into less than 80KiB of RAM on a Cortex-M4 MCU.

Currently busy ramping up production of a small batch of units and adding checkout to the website.
For trucks and other heavy duty applications, liquid hydrogen starts to win out over pressurized. In LH2 tanks, the scaling becomes advantageous as you are optimizing against heat ingress, which goes down as 1/R when you increase the radius R.
As a woman I appreciate it. I get so tired of things we order around being named after women.
Amen. Plus the high of getting a new sale or getting good direct feedback from your customers

Also love how customers don’t give a ** about who you are, just how good your product is. Very different from typical employment where there’s a constant undercurrent of posturing and your person/personality is always front and center to your performance, as much as people don’t wanna admit it
An old antidepressant helps the immune system fight tumors in mice
Google employees call company to support Palestinians; allow anti-Zionist speech
Cryptomining angers me on a deep level far more than the nascent attempts of Nvidia to segment it. I think they're doing an incompetent job of diminishing the value of it, but at least they're making an effort to do so.

Cryptominers are a far greater threat to general purpose computing than Nvidia. They ought to be compelled by law to purchase carbon credits for their mining, to offset the environmental destruction their petty "get rich quick" efforts have inflicted on the planet, enforced through Coinbase et al. and with noncompliant (offshore) exchange/wash platforms blocked and their users prosecuted through national laws and international agreements. Cryptominers and the malware they've created makes a very strong argument for walled gardens with enforcement and review of applications, simply because the vast majority of PC users are worse than useless at preventing misuse of general purpose Windows.

I also think this proves Apple right on integrating the GPU on-die with the CPU, and not selling the CPU standalone at all, because Apple — unlike Nvidia and AMD — is having no such trouble with miners on their general computing platform. This issue is for whatever reason restricted to DIY PCs, and cryptomining will be the end of DIY PCs if this keeps up.

(Perhaps you meant "DIY computing" rather than "general purpose computing"? I definitely see Nvidia's steps as interfering in the build-your-own computing market, but if it keeps the DIY computing market from dying off in favor of Apple, isn't that a desirable outcome?)
The sun is a large fusion reactor. Eventually you will run out of mass in the solar system to put in your fusion reactor, and then you'll resort to extracting energy from the natural fusion reactor. A Dyson sphere is a fusion reactor of sorts.
He was talking about paying w/bitcoin. You don't need KYC for that.
You sound new to the paypal ban me for no reason game. We all play we just never know when we lose.
I've only once had an employer I would describe as kind. Even then, it was but for the generosity of an aberrant manager, and not a commercial institution.

In most low-skill positions (especially the ones which favor physical labor over soft-skills), you are a body to be instrumentalized until you either leave leave or are disposed of. That's the reality of most work. Retention is as high as it needs to be to ensure continuous operations, and employee happiness is either incidental or primarily a slogan. The human element is made to be as irrelevant as the market will allow.

The Amazon Warehouse workers I've known have described it as warehouse work. Little better or worse in their experience than working at any other distribution center, though some centers are naturally likely to be ran more poorly than others.
Why not use a different music player and maybe also write about problems that actually matter? This is quite honestly a very silly post to write, let alone to actively advertise.
Yes. Everyone disagreeing with you is just making excuses for manufacturers to turn customers into serfs.
This is fairly easy to google its pretty basic sleep info...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120711131030.h...

sleepwalking isn't related to rem stage, most movement doesn't occur during rem stages

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/sleepwalking/....

https://www.uofmhealth.org/health-library/hw48331

I don't think its farfetched to guess this applies to other mammals
Human tissue preserved since World War I yields new clues about 1918 pandemic
That must be a fun gig, especially if you’re young!
Yeah, I know what you're going for. Kinda like there's a "spirit" character that thematically represents the fish.
As opposed to? Postgres is “just” a Postgres front end on top of a kv store.
Can any lawyers around comment on recourse the guy might have against the company?
Is there evidence of this? This is not what I would guess the greatest barrier is to virtual healthcare
Wohoo! Thanks to Spaces, I feel comfortable using Cactus comments for blog posts (e.g: https://viccuad.me/blog/enabling-cactus-comments), as I could create a private space containing all the rooms for each blog post comment chain.

To me it shows the snowballing effect of features.

Also, Matrix's Spaces (even in Beta) seem more flexible and thought out than the second best implementation I know, in Slack.
Exactly this. Hiding a UI behind a UI behind a UI is nothing but painful and slow.

I downloaded the app and was met with two subscription options and a purchase option. You cannot try the app free without choosing one of two subscription options or a rather silly purchase price of $40 USD.

Requiring a subscription signup before using software is Scuzzware...they are betting you forget you downloaded it and signed up for the sub. I have an extremely dim view of this practice. Strike 1.

They have UI hidden under UI. Strike 2.

UI buttons unmarked with no clear indication as to function. Strike 3 and uninstalled.
> 100 times

Practice is how we cement things into our minds and get good at them. Of course it is repetitive and boring.

Someone could teach you how to throw a basketball into a hoop. Want to get good at it? Repeat it 30,000 times, not 100.

When it became time for me to implement division for the 8086 processor, I implemented the exact same long division algorithm I was taught in 3rd grade, except using binary rather than base 10. Shift-subtact-add.

https://github.com/DigitalMars/dmc/blob/master/src/CORE16/LM...

Did it again to create the floating point emulator.

https://github.com/DigitalMars/dmc/blob/master/src/CORE16/FL...

It turns out there are faster algorithms (see Hacker's Delight), but those aren't very amenable for pencil and paper.
So it's a format that contains as many audio streams as you want, and each stream has an associated 3d position vector?
Nice shout out for Albertus there. This is a typeface I recommend reserving for use as an occasional decorative font, especially for map titles, or for signage. The utility is social, being a signal to others, in particular a secret order of iconoclasts possessing great taste in mid-century British avant-garde allegorical television; they will respond in kind, and these are people you can trust.
Especially because most of Google's productivity apps don't even have ads. I think it's just Gmail on mobile at the moment.
I ignored crypto for several years because I put too much weight on opinions from HN. I'd probably be retired by now if I'd actually paid more attention.
I think the big difference here is there is no money behind hacking the Switch, it's an interesting problem to a small(ish) subset of people. There's tons of folks that would make actual hard cash off those hacks which will make them much more invested in finding out how to work around the solution.
Who is giving out 10 second loans and why would they do that?
For my particular example, I can at least say that the Burmester tweeters seem significantly better over the Bose, being solid (and heavy) ribbon tweeters, and not light cone tweeters.

https://www.suncoastparts.com/product/SKUBERTWEET.html
https://www.suncoastparts.com/product/SKU680TWEET.html
There are a ton of currencies so no. There will be pow ones left for at least a couple years I think
If you want to set the line, I’ll take the over on “Notion succeeds”
well theoretical efficiency can never be achived, also it might be more efficient than gasoline cars it can never be more efficient than BEV, because you need to convert power into hydrogen and back, converting anything always has losses
I think if you are going to go with a highly energy inefficient storage medium then methane makes more sense. It's a lot more practical to transport and store. It can be carbon neutral as well if you use sabatier generators or bio reactors instead of fossil fuels. You can convert existing ICE engines to use it too.

It's definitely not ideal, but it's still a fair bit better than the hydrogen options which generally just kind of suck. (3000PSI vs 5000PSI for CNG vs H2) If you can source something to dissolve it in you can also store it as LNG. Busses have been using it for ages now. Although I've seen what happens when an CNG tank goes on those busses and it is scary as heck. I can't imagine a similar issue with hydrogen. That stuff is scary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHf2o9oVY24
A bookstore simulator collaboratively translated into English after 24 years