skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't seen anyone mention my observations yet: The internet used to be a place we visited. Now we live there. Life was the abundant, fun thing, and like any mild intoxicant, 30-60 minutes of internet enhanced life.

We shuttled ideas between life and the internet, (let's look up how to make fireworks! Let's find girls online at other universities!) but money was much more difficult or impossible to transfer. We used to send a check to an ISP like several other mild media such as telephone and cable. Now we burn through electricity to verify our payments.

And not everyone was on the internet. It wasn't easy or immediately rewarding. No slick salesman put a phone into your hand for $50 and gave any dickwad keys to the universe. You had to put some effort into it and earn your place there. You had to put together a number of pieces of information from other experts, persistently asking questions and taking chances. It was a nifty club with other lucky, brave, dedicated, skilled people. We considered ourselves grateful and (more or less) treated it with respect, vs taking for granted that the space would never offend us and conquering territory for ourselves (social media) and filling it with lies for our own selfish ends (fake news).

Now everyone is there (...Here!) all the time. It's like living in a subway station. Yes you can have fun there, but surely it's better to be outdoors mostly and re-enter as desired.

It was not unlike an intimate relationship's honeymoon, versus living together and suddenly required to have a productive partnership and responsibility. Sure, it's fulfilling for many people, but the carefree, easy days are over. Yes, you can still go to html5zombo.com, but don't stay too long! Your bills are in that other tab. And the camera in your child's pre-school in the other. And you've got to finalize your purchases or the Amazon delivery window closes. And you've got to research everything finance related. And double-check all the news because lies abound. And don't forget to maintain appearances on linkedin. And keep learning, because everyone else is learning and they'll learn more than you. And your school is analyzing your child's every breath and keystroke.

That phone screen and browser window are the new eyes through which you're looking at the world. We have left the world behind and now nature becomes the 30-60 minutes of unknown amusement and delight we dream of rather than our proper home. Try to count how many half hours go by this week in which you a. are awake and b. don't touch the internet. It's not the internet we miss, it's its subordinate relation to the real world we miss.
This isn't quite accurate, SONY was furious about the fate of DAT and how the recording industry sabotaged it, so they bought a major record producer (Columbia), unfortunately it seems at least for a time, the foxes came to rule the hen house at SONY, hence their 20 years of so of self sabotage with format restrictions.
They overcorrected with the changes to the ball. Not only do the balls fly a shorter distance, but they raised the seams as well, leading to more movement and break.

Use of sticky substances absolutely is a big deal and the league is right to crack down, but it also gives them cover for their missteps with changing the ball. By raising the profile of the foreign substance abuses, it gives them ammunition when negotiating with the very powerful MLBPA.
sure that happened lol, you're great at making things up aren't ya
> They're the primary consumers of it

Based on what data?
That author appears to have an axe to grind around HCQ.
He mentions - writing in August 2020 - favorably the argument that an RCT shouldn’t be performed of HCQ because it is already known to be effective. ‘ RCT fundamentalists called their [hydroxychloroquine] study “flawed” and “sloppy,” implying it had a weak methodology.’

Well, now that it’s not august 2020 and we actually have the results of well conducted HCQ RCTs, we know that HCQ turned out to be no better than snake oil. All the claimed observational improvements were just anecdotes and luck. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/hydroxychloroq...

The mistaken conclusion that he came to around HCQ should be factored into evaluating the validity of the arguments he makes - which led him to downplay the need to study and verify whether HCQ was actually working.
It appears that he was speaking for himself.
Apple's architectural/design intent documentation is sort of hit or miss. The biggest issue (IMHO) with overall architecture documentation is too often it doesn't make it into written documentation. The key insights are sometimes the middle ten minutes of a WWDC keynote or presentation.

If you didn't attend that WWDC session or pour over all the recordings you've missed that particular key concept. So you're then sort of feeling your way around some new technology and making it work but it's not as efficient or elegant as if you had the whole picture.

Because there's so little documentation time and Apple does not (as a rule) do engineering blogs or similar there's not a lot of of opacity into inner workings or designs. From the outside there's a lot more reading of tea leaves than you see for other platforms.
Who says you have to stop all feature work?

Like you said, part of your dev resources will (should) be dedicated to maintaining your system.
Step two is a big deal. In fact, its kind of a headscratcher. You have to believe you can earn back the lost capital from taxation in your investment horizon for the tax free benefits of the Roth IRA to make sense. Tough computation to make. Or am I missing another benefit?
Just made a slightly CSGier one in OpenSCAD. https://pasteall.org/SG7k http://openscad.org/
That is IDE's job because images can just be embedded in markdown comments... Version controlling non-text comments seems to be an unsolved problem though.
my analysis or OPs? mine assumed only 1/4 are new butts... maybe that's too high?
I just delved into this. Fascinating stuff. I think in part it's not that I'm naturally assertive but that I'm the opposite. I can't put myself in the mindset of the attacker. So I'm looking for a technical fix, a way around. I also thought clearly, if I pay, they'll just ask for more. Because how can you possibly expect someone doing something like that to keep their word? So to me it's a bit like the boundary described in that video where giving the hostage-taker a car is just not a viable option.

Tangentially related to technical fixes: There was an incident recently where my brother had his phone simjacked, and the attackers changed his google password. He recovered access by email but they kept changing the password as quickly as he did. Both parties were still logged in. I called his phone number, someone picked up and then hung up. So I got on Skype on a couple different machines and basically DOSd the phone with calls from random skype numbers nonstop. After about 15 minutes of this they either turned off the phone or the 4G. It bought enough breathing room to change the 2FA on the account and lock down his bank accounts that used gmail as his verification address. If they'd been smart or fast enough to change both the recovery email and the SMS 2FA it would have been game over.
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Keep in mind that public opinion is turning against these "speculators" that you describe.

Blackrock Investment is doing everything you describe, but for housing. They are being heavily derided by the media for doing so.
Audius is one such example: https://medium.com/audius/audius-selects-solana-to-scale-com...
This is good parable about how corruption becomes systemic. When integrity, and acting in good faith, becomes a weakness, it forces everyone to cheat or get cut. And on a larger scale, it gives integrity a bad name, a foolish position adopted only by suckers and losers who aren't willing to do whatever it takes to win. And so we descend even further into the cynical, amoral corner of the Nash equilibrium which is objectively worse for everyone.

The league should give a mild suspension to everyone doing this now, with harsher suspensions in the future, and the introduction of consistent, rigorous testing. They need to make it easy to do the right thing.

(Interestingly, a similar problem exists in the ping pong world. Players apply grippy, volatile chemicals to their paddles to increase grip on the ball. It got so bad that tournaments started doing gas analysis and sequestering paddles until match start to curb the practice. Imagine if the MLB did this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTCbpWmPzTY&t=0s)
> I’d say 50% is far less then the single-entity in a centralized solution.

So even with concrete evidence, you still cannot even admit this fact that Bitcoin is currently centralised?

Maybe you should read about the 51% attack [0] and then come back to me and say with a straight face about Bitcoin being decentralised.

You mean the 'unbanked' can use digital wallets like M-Pesa and Paytm?

What's wrong with that?

[0] https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/what-is-a-51-percent...
They're as dumb / clever as people are.

Unless we had a crystal ball we were unlikely to do better than the market and we would have likely predicted demand to go down during the pandemic as well and decommissioned some of the sawmills that we need right now.

If you predicted what the article is citing as the causes for the shortage, you would have started a sawmill in 2020.
Interestingly, in another thread a user of HN who is, I presume, vegan, is arguing that because humans are morally superior, we should not eat meat.

I have this sneaking suspicion that human superiority has been used historically by both sides of the debate: one side claims that humans are superior to other animals and so we should treat those other animals in ways that other animals would never treat each other, by refusing to eat them; and the other claims that humans are superior to other animals and so we can treat those other animals in the same way that other animals treat each other, by eating them.

I think both sides are missing the point: we are not superior to other animals. We are better equipped to eat them. As a species, but not as individuals. Other animals are genearlly better equipped to eat us and so, for example, lions, sharks, etc carnivores kill a few individual humans mostly for food (but not always) every year.

And then there's the fact that cows kill a few humans every year (intentionally, after attacking them deliberately, not by accident), as do hippos and elephants: obligate plant-eaters that don't want to eat us, just kill us.

So to me it's clear that we're animals that treat other animals like other animals treat other animals and there isn't a hint of moral or other superiority anywhere to be found.
Nested virtualization is supported, and you can just use KVM directly in developer mode.
~$11,000 a year on GCP according to https://gcpinstances.info/?cost_duration=annually, for just the instance, if you commit up front to a full year. Then add on storage and ingress/egress traffic. And this is without the GPU requirement yet.
Do CS students not ssh into the computer lab these days? A Chromebook is more than enough. I was able to get Android Studio running on mine. I'm pretty sure most of the JetBrains suite would run as well if you need an IDE.
Indeed. SONY tried user-friendly copying and nearly got banned from the US for their trouble.

A common refrain during the Napster lawsuit was that "the law needs to catch up to technology". This is hilariously wrong, looking back on it. The music industry was very adamant back in the 70s and 80s that consumers shouldn't have access to audio recording technology, especially not digital copies. As a result, the law was about 20 steps ahead of technology. Any and all consumer audio recording technology had to prevent second-generation digital copies via SCMS.

The fact that MP3 players were even allowed to exist (see RIAA v. Diamond) is a minor miracle; birthed from a legal battle that I doubt Sony was at all interested in fighting. At that point they had literally bought a record label, which pushed a lot of internal corporate changes within SONY. It's far harder to justify selling devices to copy music when you also happen to sell music.

(Of course, Apple wound up completely monopolizing music sales for a decade by more or less ignoring all of the above, getting involved in both sides of the business, and just using the superior user experience to steamroll over both labels and other device manufacturers.)
Can confirm. I live in a very noisy area, constant honking, car engines, sirens, people blasting music, laughing and shouting.

When the pandemic hit, the silence was... scary.
Why can't the MLB just admit defeat on this issue and amend the rules to allow the use of these substances?

When it comes to performance enhancing drugs (PEDs), I understand the ethical argument against it; PEDs have negative long term health consequences and clean pitchers shouldn't feel compelled to use PEDs to compete. But these sticky pitching substances don't seem to have that problem as far as I can tell.
Give the pitchers standard issue "throwing" gloves, have them surrendered/inspected after each innings
So why take risks and innovate if there is less purchase exit opportunity? Who writes these laws?
HN readers care about lots of things. That doesn't mean they're all on-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Very well said, it's nice to start seeing others that understand this stuff on HN
That is because the same happens every year. Even a bad AI or child (using OPs example) can plan for that. But when it comes to events that happen sporadically markets seem to have issues where most sane adults would be able to handle it.
Only a few more pairs until the world’s best Doctor Octopus cosplay becomes possible.
Why? There's nothing in the Constitution that forbids referendums. I'd imagine it'd be tricky for the current Congress to try and bind the hands of a future congress i.e. The current Congress creates a referendum that compels the next Congress to pass a certain bill and the President to sign it.

There's no reason the current Congress couldn't pass a bill and the President sign it into law that says the current Congress will act in accordance with the result of referendum. The congress could even pass the enabling of the referendum and the enabling of the result of the referendum without the consent of the President - if they have the votes to override the President's veto.

It'd be odd to be sure but I don't see why they can't do it.
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If you are purely concerned about energy consumption and carbon emissions, yes.

If you're concerned with plastics as a rather potent biotoxin (as they seem, depressingly often, to be), the balance shifts.

I actually encourage burning plastics in various incinerators/coal replacement systems/etc. It both eliminates them as a material, and makes it impossible to avoid the "Oh, plastics really aren't that recyclable..." optics.
I'm sorry, but seriously how out of touch do you have to be that 14+ months into the pandemic you still think that people can't have poor WFH experiences for reasons out of their control?
So masks somehow magically concentrate CO2 more than any other gas only outside of operating theaters? Or is this selective gas concentration perfectly normal, and the magic is that it doesn't happen in operating theaters?

The "environment that the masks are designed for" is the same Euclidean 3D space containing the same air as all other environments.
Honest question: How is polygon more centralized than Solana?

My understanding is that Polygon supports roll ups.
Keep mining bitcoin and donate the profits to research reducing the electricity cost of proof of work. /sarc
> Current generations cost too much and you aren't going to be able to keep up with the data rate that they prefer.

Maybe. Keeping up only really matters if your slowest data rate is going to be between 50MB/s and 120MB/s. If it's below that then you have a strong need for a buffer drive no matter what tape generation. And if it's above that then you shouldn't have any real trouble no matter what tape generation.
Why would you even need Airbnb or Uber for Solana? What problem does either solve?

This remains a fundamental problem with crypto: we're 13 years in and the only practical use cases remain speculation and money laundering. Even DeFi seems to consistent mostly of navel gazing (crypto derivatives etc) and leverage.
Yes cryptocoin + tor like thing or something :>
I think players would revolt. Leather gloves require "break in" to be comfortable; without a break-in period they are very uncomfortable and could even cause blisters. And a glove broken in for one person isn't necessarily broken in for somebody else.
Wow, how vain do you have to be to call yourself a quantitative biologist. It’s called a computational biologist.
Gerrit Cole on if he ever used Spider Tack while pitching:

"I don't quite know how to answer that, to be honest...If MLB wants to legislate some more stuff, that's a conversation that we can have"

https://twitter.com/snyyankees/status/1402379195007778821
Your only justification for forcing people to come to your office is to suit your needs. If a role can be done successfully 100%, people like you need to think about others before you start supporting upsetting someone else's lifestyle to make yourself happier.
Terence McKenna would often say all sorts of crazy-sounding things but he never struck me as someone who took himself too seriously. Here's a short clip [0] which I believe perfectly captures his essence; at the end you can hear him laugh at himself and his story.

Edit: I've enjoyed listening to many hours of Terence McKenna speaking, but I wouldn't recommend swallowing all of his pills.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHFC1BB2gOU
How to negotiate a high value domain name purchase?
Having registered some of the world's best one word .Com domains well over two decades and still in possession of the majority of them, and dealing with founders, CEO's, VC's, attorneys, and their brokers every day, I'd like to share some thoughts that may be of help for buyers of premium .Com domains.

1. Understand many have inquired before you and the Owner still has the domain. There's a reason for that.

2. Don't play games, pressure tactics often backfire. Owners of quality assets in all classes can often see these a mile away. Be honest, build rapport and goodwill, and avoid lowball offers at all costs.

4. Money isn't everything. Many who own the very best assets are oftentimes attached and reluctant to sell for one reason or other. The safest way to approach is to start with a conversation in order to understand where the owner is, and if a transaction may or may not be a fit for all parties.

5. Negotiate with kindness. As Jewel said "In the end, only kindness matters". Even if you don't reach a deal, leave the door open to discuss later.

Good luck!

(using a throwaway account)
is this copypasta for every crypto thread?
For any of those companies besides apple, imagine setting the goal of never using one of the company’s services and of “escaping their grasp”. Aws runs most of the cloud and your local bookstores closed years ago so where do you get books? Everyone you email uses google. Facebook tracks everything you do even if you’re not a user. You can’t get away unless your life depended on it
I am aware of at least one blind person on the Gemini mailing list, talking about their experiences with it (mostly about Gemini's native text format).
We all know this is our great sin. Like vampires we devour this stuff.
I believe in this case, IP == Intellectual Property.
> 1) something has different run time needs than something else.

This is supposedly the #1 technical reason to move to microservices: horizontal scaling + distributed system (in the rare cases the app needs low latency across the world)

The other one is being able to reuse services, whether provided by third parties or that you can download from docker hub/GitHub and run yourself.

> 2) Something needs to be developed by a different team and for whatever reasons you don't want those teams to be too dependent.

This is supposedly the single core reason to adopt microservices architecture. This is what says on the tin. If you want to have multiple teams work independently on separate components, they need to be loosely coupled deployed independently.

This is not brain surgery.

> Everything else is just needlessly/prematurely increasing overhead, deployment friction, etc.

What else is there? The rationale for microservices was from the start organizational, with a lesser scope on operations/technical aspects.
IIRC, 3.1 was available on both 3.5" and 5.25". And even that took a few years for 5.25 to vanish. Anything outside those two formats was in noman's land for what seemed like forever.
The problem with getting rid of pork-barrel spending is that it removes the one incentive for reps to cooperate on legislation with people they'd otherwise oppose. The only remaining force in legislation post-pork-barrel is ideological extremism.
"In American sports" ..... already been a scandal elsewhere

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Australian_ball-tampering...
You misparsed the sentence. "illegal" and "consciousness altering" both modify "drugs". "illegal" doesn't modify "consciousness".
I am from one of the countries mentioned, and I am not sure I have any idea of what you're talking about.
Did you read the article? The lumber companies DID plan ahead using their knowledge and experience, it just turned out to be wrong.

I'm curious to see what economic system would be able to foresee a drastic increase in the demand for lumber during the pandemic-induced depression, despite all the evidence suggesting that the opposite would happen.
YouTube is asking me to provide my ID or credit card to view this -- apparently it's an EU thing ;( Even though I'm pretty sure I watched this video multiple times and have it saved.