skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ahh, makes sense. This article is about the history of wrecking off the coast of the Florida Keys -- it's fascinating really. The economy of Key West was driven by wreckers who could take 20-40% of the value of the salvaged goods, and there was a whole system set up for quickly sending out salvage boats and then removing the goods as fast as possible, often in the middle of a storm and at great risk to life and limb of the wreckers. Sort of an old time of adventure.
I keep reading comments that hint at the weird statefullness of hacker news
> The consequences would be a very confused bomber trying really hard to find the underground parking area beneath those casks.

In the Oklahoma City bombing McVeigh simply parked the van on the sidewalk in front of the building.
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I doubt there will be high quality small frames in the near future. But for 32" plus, Samsung's got you (dunno about the connectivity, though):
https://www.samsung.com/us/televisions-home-theater/tvs/the-...

https://www.samsung.com/us/televisions-home-theater/tvs/the-...
>The WHO is a UN agency that's probably even more politicized, but I don't know much about it.

Tedros was hand picked by China. He was a communist during his time in Ethiopia. This was a big controversy years before covid. I was wondering why China would possibly care so much, I thought it was just them trying to increase their international clout however possible...
Given my current experiences with an HR department, I shudder to think of the nightmare. Also, what about one-offs and negotiating specific terms? Does that get reported?

I mean, if you're looking fpr a way to make sure compensation only happens one way, it's this.
>If they have a firewall, they could block the majority of exchanges, wallet apps, and even ips of some of the largest mining groups.

Unless they have something as complex and comprehensive as China's firewall, they couldn't, because the protocol could just route around it.
My curiosity would not let me pass this up. I had to find out what requirements specifically made it nuclear grade, and apparently it is certified to lack chlorides so it won't chloride-corrode (no word on galvanic corrosion) whatever it is slapped onto [1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/shutupandtakemymoney/comments/15jwv...
I got ketamine for a wisdom tooth removal. I definitely had a psychedelic experience, with the nurses around me seemingly moving back and forth in time, but to be honest I'm not sure how something like that is supposed to effect my longterm mental health. It's just not that big a deal. I'm personally skeptical of this.
Many years ago, there used to be Sysco stores open to the general public.

I was very fond of the commercial potholders from there, but didn't know where to get some of my own since they closed all the stores.

Then one day through the magic of the Internet, I found a supplier of almost the same thing, albeit with their own logo on it.

(I'm pretty sure I bought them from Wasserstrom, but I just checked and I can't find them)
I have almost never even seen a business' window or door propped open where it was normally closed before. I have never seen an air purifier in a public area of a business. If HVAC systems were modified or upgraded, I wouldn't have any way of knowing that, but I bet not many were. A lot of businesses won't do things for their patrons' safety unless they're forced to. Could you imagine what fire safety would be like if there were no laws or regulations about it?
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Maybe in some cases, and maybe sometimes the settlement method changes behind the scenes without the customers being aware of it, but keep in mind that opening US accounts is pretty difficult for Venezuelans in either Venezuela or Argentina. And Bitcoin transaction fees have never been so high as to make them unusable or even uncompetitive for weekly or monthly B2B settlement, and, as I pointed out above, today Bitcoin transaction fees were around US$0.25, which is low enough to be viable even for a pack of cigarettes, though I think US$10 is more normal.
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...

I think it might be further along than your comment suggests. "site:nih.gov esketamine" if you want to peruse what's been done
> The pedanticism was pointing out that your second sentence was a non-sequitur. Starving and smartphones are about poverty, not necessarily inequality.

I don't know how inequality came into the discussion?

The original point I commented didn't mention anything about equality, did it? "But many people also live in a far more precarious economy [...]" sounds like a complaint about poverty, not at all about inequality?

> Would you argue that economic inequality has decreased in US over the past few decades?

I don't live in the US, and don't care too much about that country. Even its poorest inhabitants are already rich and well off by global standards and are offered opportunities many can only dream off.

From what I absorbed over the Internet, it seems the answer to the US specific question depends a lot on exactly how you operationalize it:

The Gini coefficient is one common way to measure income inequality. It seems to have gone up slightly. See eg https://www.statista.com/statistics/219643/gini-coefficient-...

I (and many economists) prefer measures of consumption (in)equality, because people don't eat money. Presumably income is only a means to the the end of consumption.

See eg https://economics21.org/html/when-it-comes-inequality-consum... for that perspective. (It's just one of the first Google results for 'consumption inequality'.)

Though to be honest, I suggest we should care much more about the absolute welfare of poor people than about whether rich people have slightly more than they did yesterday (ie inequality).
It seems like there's a partial mitigation available to the OS here. When scheduling a task, write a random value to the two user-writable bits. When the task is unscheduled, if the bits do not match, terminate the task. This effectively makes writing to the register an OS-enforced illegal operation with a 75% chance of being caught within 10 ms if the channel is being used at full bandwidth. (The writer can reduce the chance of it being caught proportional to reduced use of channel bandwidth by resetting it to the OS-chosen value after a bit is transmitted.) The reader can't be detected this way, but since the channel requires cooperation between the writer and reader, catching either is fine. Not a perfect fix, but would help, and would also give visibility into whether this is used in the wild -- e.g., report to Apple via crash reporting mechanism if a process is terminated this way, which would allow prompt discovery of app store apps that abuse the channel.
The UN hasn’t prevented war, nuclear weapons have. If your opponent has second-strike capability, starting a war is not a great idea.

https://youtu.be/xSVqLHghLpw
A merkle tree is distinguished from a blockchain (as the distributed part is effectively removed).

Amusingly enough the darknet use of crypto may only be possible because of the Ponzi-beginnings. Criminals are unlikely to accept Pokémons as currency until after they see others doing it.
They're already being used effectively by taliban etc as just a cheap IED. Just strap a bomb on an off the shelf drone and ram it into something.
Ah yes, Iota, which uses ternary internally because it's the "superior technological solution" and "the future of computing".

https://iota.stackexchange.com/questions/8/why-does-iota-use...
Yeah, but the ramifications of the unending automation is indeed exactly the impossible-to-deal-with bugs. The fact of the matter is that Uber (the company, not any specific PMs/Engineers inside it) decided that this was unnaceptable loss of money and they instead shift that to the customers. That decision, to not "invest" in support, is completely conscious by the founders/investors to make the business more viable, because at their scale, support can be quite expensive.

In other words, technology is bringing scale and leaving the cost of the rounding errors to the most vulnerable.
>The issue of crypto currency, besides the resource impact, is the evil that comes from trying to destroy democratic government.

The evil of democratic government (as opposed to a strong republic) is that that 51% can vote to rob the 49% of everything they own. Crypto prevents this.
> But why there is nothing happens when US spying other countries? Because US does it with good manner and good intention?

The best way to understand the relationship between the US and Europe is that it is an American Empire in all but name. The provinces of the Empire have a lot of autonomy, but in matters of defense and security they are tied to the Empire.

If you realize that, a lot of things make sense.
May I humbly suggest replacing

> because it's full of cleverness

with

> because it's shiny
This is an anecdote from someone who is not depressed (as far as you've stated). It means nothing about ketamine's effectiveness.
in any area with buildings, there are enough cameras to achieve decent tracking of an individual with a bit of legwork, and that legwork is quickly being automated by amazon et al with ring and similar efforts. newer cars also collect a lot of data that could be looped into such a system so you'd better avoid roads too. and wait til you hear about extreme definition wide angle cameras on aerial platforms
>I'm not sure where the cynicism comes from, but HN seems very hostile to this space.

Most of HN just follows MSM talking points, and the MSM hates crypto now because it's a threat to the powers that be.
Your experience is completely different. You were not depressed, were you? What did you expect it’d for you then?
The demand for these post game interviews comes from the same gross, exploitive, emotionally cheap place that demands hour-long biopics of every player with a dead sibling and full-screen closeups of losing athletes on the verge of tears. Sports coverage would be better without any them. We can tell stories of adversity without reducing people to their most painful moment.
Why does someone need to take responsibility when you can have a culture of blameless postmortems where everyone focuses on making sure what ever happened never happens again instead? In blameless postmortem culture, everyone is responsible by default
> Technically your git repo is a blockchain. Those are pretty useful.

Only if you have a wildly incorrect view of what a blockchain is.

Merkle trees are part of a blockchain, but they are not blockchains on their own. What you’re missing here is that blockchains also include something to determine which branch is the correct one, to protect against double spend attacks. This is why “blockchain” gets a different name rather than just being called Merkle trees.
After years of conflict and instability, Iraq is opening up to tourism
When will people realize Uber is a bad and evil company. From the get go, with waht they did to others in the sector, how they treat drivers and clients... I really can't believe anybody is still using them...
> No technological form exists in a vacuum, likewise Technology is neither a monolith nor a ball pit of functionally independent atoms

I agree the analogy isn't perfect, but one can say that despite technologies not having a discreet origin, we can reason about them in retrospect. So maybe modern artificial neural networks were initially made possible by improvements in microscopy and experiments in cell culture to deduce the mechanisms of biological neurons, but we can reason about ANNs as a technology that is changing what is possible by a machine.

I imagine Nick would also be inclined to be fatalistic about technological progress, in that these "black balls" will inevitably be found. His main stance is that we should be enacting the global ethical frameworks around these technologies much quicker.
You didn't get dinged, you got the item you ordered. You should contact Amazon about shipping issues since they're responsible for it. Also they don't guarantee delivery dates, and it's reasonable that shipments will be delayed occasionally.

Returning for the wrong reason just creates more work while you end up with nothing, and creates waste as the returns usually end up in the trash while the seller loses money and reputation for something they can't control.
My experience is that a lot of engineers do this regardless of where they work in the stack..

It can actually be important too for learning, moral, and innovation. Keeping it from negatively impacting the project is the trick.
It's a pretty high price to pay for donuts though. Especially since it's kind of hard to reverse a donut transaction after you've eaten them.
In addition, does anyone want a job where they cannot take a single mental health day? All the time and you get fired, but many places allow for the occasional exception. A $20K fine might have been precisely calibrated for the appropriate incentives at that level. Every tournament location can't not be the exception.
I really don't understand the mindless bashing of cryptocurrency by Hacker News. Normally discussion here is quite rational and level headed, but there is something regarding crypto that makes people get very polarized.

First of all, I am not a Bitcoin maximalist, nor I am "brainwashed by a multi-level marketing sale pitch".

Bitcoin is just a prototype for a P2P consensus algorithm that has stood the test of time. It has MANY flaws, and it failed its original goal of becoming electronic cash, and instead it became kind of a digital store of value. Is it worth more than it should? Sure, but you could argue the same of a lot of tech companies.

The problem is most people think they understand blockchain, but they don't. They just think its for creating a meme currency that is a speculative bubble.

What blockchain enables us to do, is to create a trustless P2P state machine, on top of which you can build any Turing complete project you can dream of.

Instead of focusing on Bitcoin and Dogecoin go and check out Ethereum and projects like Aave and Compound. Blockchain will completely change the way we do finance, from how stock are traded, to how we transfer money. I am sure that it will happen in our lifetimes.
It is simply not true that if governments removed all fossil-fuel subsidies today then electricity production would become 100% carbon-free overnight. There are massive issues around supplying base load (requiring cheap energy storage tech that doesn't exist yet), construction lead time, limited materials, workforce, and so on and so on. Then the non-fossil-fuel energy sources have their own environmental costs, e.g. we aren't able to recycle grid-scale batteries or turbine blades yet and those produced today may never be recycled.

For the forseeable future energy production cannot be carbon-free. All uses of energy, including Bitcoin mining, will continue to impose an environmental cost. For those of us who believe Bitcoin achieves nothing useful that can't be done better some other way, that cost translates into a pure negative.
I think the idea of digital collectibles is a novelty. Just like real world collectibles. People talk about it like it's a world changing thing, and it's a lot of bullshit. There's not a whole lot about it that truly requires decentralization.

Like, sure, NFTs hypothetically make it so that ownership of Top Shots can persist regardless of whether the company that operates it survives. But would the actual Flow blockchain survive the demise of Dapper Labs? I kind of doubt it. And where would the Top Shots I supposedly own continue to be hosted? It's effectively just a centralized marketplace.

I've tried to think about what would truly be unique and interesting about decentralized NFTs, and to me, they make sense if they hold credibility independent of any producer. So, something like a tradable auth role that is respected in many spaces. Kind of like an identity, except that I think the concept of a role makes a bit more sense as something that people can trade. Consider it to be like an event ticket that is respected in an entire ecosystem of different companies.

To me, that's where it starts to enable something that's unlike what's existed before, but it's still hard for me to imagine a real use case. And that's core of the problem of the crypto world: the technology solves problems that don't map on to existing B2B or B2C services. It's literally a solution in search of a problem.
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> Unlike East Germany there's no HUMINT apparatus in the west or in China

Nobody telegraphs their intentions like the Stasi did, but to believe that no state has developed coordinated efforts to get people to snitch on each other (the most effective Stasi tactic) is...let's say seeing things through an extremely rosy lens.
Which is why consumers enthusiastically abandoned them for credit the moment they could. Purposefully going backwards is both silly, and something you’ll never convince the average consumer to do.
IME most people will generally appear to be making things up as they go – even if they have significant relevant experience. Every situation is unique, and experience tends to look more like having a list of techniques with varying degrees of expertise, rather than having a playbook for every situation. You have to look for the expertise rather than raw confidence.

In sports terms it would be something like a baseball pitcher being able to throw a great curveball, a great fastball, and an all right slider, and knowing roughly what situations to use them in. There will still be a high degree of randomness and mistakes will be made.
Careful with that... Wirecutter is known for recommending whoever gives them the biggest commission.
I agree with your second statement, I disagree with your first. Every day things get harder and harder not to be a schizoid with a tinfoil hat. I mean cash has got a long way before not being accepted but I wouldnt be shocked if it goes all digital in the next 50 years (meaning credit, debit, ach, PayPal, Venmo, crypto, etc). Mobile phones and cellular data plans are what dominate our lives. It's impossible to get by without them...unless you are willing to be a secluded schizoid (and I'm not saying that in a deragotory sense). I mean that's all fine and dandy and you still be a nice person and whatnot. However, only techie people honestly are aware of it. "Normies" know about it, but they give in because everyone else did and those affluent oligarchs did too. Many of which those "normies" want to be like them. So the times are changing. And sadly not for the better freedom wise.
If you're interested in the intersection of startups/tech x psychedelics would love to chat: marik@tabularasa.ventures
I didn't think of looking at commercial microwaves so I ended up getting the Breville Smooth Wave [1] with its power and time dials. It's ridiculous that the only consumer microwave I could find locally with dials instead of touch controls was also the most expensive one with the exception of the ultra-sleek high end cabinet mounted units.

It's 1.2 cu ft which is on the bigger end and much quieter than the microwaves I'm used to with some sort of ventilation system that keeps going until you've retrieved the food. It's definitely more precise than the cheaper commercial microwaves I've seen without losing any of the "smart sensing" features, if you care for those.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Breville-BMO850BSS1BUC1-countertop-mi...
Taking about a four year cycle on something that has existed for twelve seems the epitome of using too few data points.
Eh, that's a nice thing to say, but it only makes sense at certain scales, and no matter what, there's always a person that can break it.

If any random person can break it, it's already broken.

If any employee can break it, it's probably broken (there are very small scales where even this doesn't apply. Ever worked for a company with less than ten people? There's probably something any employee can break).

If any employee that's an engineer, sysadmin or developer can break it, well now you're at least reducing the problem to a more specific set of people.

If only the people on a specific team responsible for a system can affect the system, now you've reached fairly good point, where there's separation of concerns and you're mitigating the potential problems.

If only a single person can break the system, you've gone to far. That effectively means only a single person can fix or work on the system too, and congratulations, you've engineered yourself into a bus-factor of one. Turn right around and go back to making sure a team can work on this.

Finally, realize that sometimes the thing only one team can break is an underlying dependency for many other things, and they may inadvertently affect those. You can't really engineer yourself out of that problem without making every team and service a silo that going from top to bottom. Got a shared VM infrastuture, whether in house or in the cloud? The people that administer that can cause you problems. Don't ever believe they can't. Your office IT personnel? Yep, they can cause you problems too.

Some problems you fix by making it so they can't happen. Other problems you fix by making it hard to happen and putting provisions in place that mitigate the problems if they do.
> The environmental harms of cryptocurrencies hurt everyone. It's a classic externality.

A rational solution would be a carbon tax, so pollution is no longer an externality. Focusing only on Bitcoin only makes sense if one's agenda is just to hurt Bitcoin.
I develop Regent, a programming language for distributed computing based on Terra [1]. We're one of the larger (largest?) Terra codebases and indirect source of users.

(I also help maintain Terra, but this answer is more focused on my capacity as a user.)

Terra is a workhorse and it gets the job done. Overall, compared to a previous iteration of Regent (that was built entirely from the ground up in Python), it's been a good experience. Having first-class code generation capabilities has been really nice, especially with built-in support for things like parsing C header files, vectorization, and CUDA code generation. The language is stable and generally doesn't have many surprises. Unlike, say, C++ or Rust, there aren't as any corners to hide odd behaviors. (Obviously, there still is some room for such things, as you can see in the sibling comments. But I still think it's better than most languages.)

The main issue is, as siblings have noted, the size of the community. While most stuff works, if you find something broken you're likely going to have to fix it yourself. This is an area where we're always looking to grow.

[1]: http://regent-lang.org/
Oracle problem; the ETH blockchain can only speak authoritatively to things on its own chain, for anything else you need to trust a central authority to feed in information about the outside world, ruining the point. This is why a lot of what happens on that chain is just creating ICO tokens and placing bets on various on-chain things, rather than any meaningful off chain financial transactions.
I would say the main part of the audio file is the seeming regularity of the prime numbers. I just added the Fibonacci numbers to have a "leading" base line.
Tell me, who are these Californians?

Are they the tech workers who flooded California from every corner of the world?

Are they the migrant workers who flooded California to work in the largest agricultural state in the nation?

Are they the aspiring entertainers who flooded California to work in Hollywood?

Are they the idle rich who flooded California to own beach front property and price out the locals?

Are they the Oakies and dusty bowl farmers who flooded Calfornia after "ruining" their own states with poor land management?

Pray tell, who are these Calfornians who are looking to ruin other states? Because to me it looks like California was first on the list for everyone else to ruin.