skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had btc since 2012 not super early, but early enough that I briefly used mygox.

Bitcoin has become toxic, the block size wars were interesting, but they yielded two communities that were less than what they were before the split.

Bitcoin has stagnated technologically and Bitcoin cash believes that it will win based off of the principals that governed the split.

Bitcoin will be on top for a good while longer, but I'm not interested in it anymore.
It's far easier to build a heating unit than a cooling unit.

Thermodynamics FTW
Well, in general cooling something down is much more complicated than heating it up.

For one you need a sophisticated reverse heat engine, for the other a piece of wire with high enough resistance.
This is somewhat embarrassing.

If GDP is calculated correctly, it should correspond to mean income levels

It doesn't! https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2014/12/why-gdp-is-not-an-acc...

the growth in average personal consumption, which has risen about 950% since 1950, clearly indicating that Americans today have far more disposable income than in the past.

Or it means they have less savings! https://www.statista.com/statistics/246268/personal-savings-... note the spike where covid relief matches the dip in expenditure.

data sources oftentimes only include people's after-tax take-home pay, after deducting worker benefits like health insurance. When you try to include these benefits, the growth in real income has been much larger than these statistics generally show.

Of course, because healthcare costs have gone completely insane, so providing ANY in total comp can make anyone look rich! https://img.datawrapper.de/UxUUj/full.png

Then we're treated to "don't worry, old people will die," "college and healthcare are like jewelry," "everything is fine because old people are buying multiple houses," a truly bizarre assertion that home prices have gone up because new houses are bigger, completely failing to explain why older, smaller house prices have risen at a faster rate, everything is fine because the millenials are in ten percent less debt than GenX, and then we throw out the Gini coefficient because taxes are satisfactory wealth redistribution.

The confidence with which bizarre, stridently incorrect conclusions are drawn from single charts is breathtaking. I predict a rapid growth in subscriber count for this newsletter.
FYI: Radiolab did a podcast about the discovery of Rapamycin.

May 21: “The Dirty Drug and the Ice Cream Tub”
The internet is not an illusion.
The internet exists of electrons and photons, both of which has mass.

The internet in it’s current form is physical and it’s she’ll (the servers, cables … intestines) can be touched.

The internet is not more an illusion then language, math or society itself.
> since Facebook every new social media phenomena like Twitter or Instagram also doesn't show you who looked around at your stuff,

LinkedIn seems to.
Intel adds a bunch of software value to their processors that allow them to compete on a different plane than AMD. Kinda like how Apple turns ordinary laptops into objects of desire with proprietary software: Intel does the same thing to datacenters.
The comment is inflammatory and over-the-top, but I can definitely relate to the sentiment and comparison with fascism. For the software industry, "memory safety" is the new form of authoritarianism in disguise. No more jailbreaking, rooting, or running what you want on hardware you rightfully "bought". All in the name of "safety and security". They want to proclaim everything else to be "unsafe" to further their goals of total control.

As the infamous quote says, "Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."
Are those the same ones being squeezed out of the workforce by companies who are unwilling to pay for their skills? Companies who offer $18 an hour for welders with 10+ years of experience (and gripe about the lack of skilled labor when nobody takes it)?

Reaching the median household income requires around $26 an hour for a single income. It’s getting harder to make that in the trades. Especially when you’re effectively trading your long term health for a paycheck.
They're everywhere. As far north as Hadrian's Wall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraeum
When the ambient temperature is 123°F (e.g. yesterday) where are you supposed to out it? Does the terminal work indoors? Even on cooler days in the low 100s your home's roof is going to be significantly warmer than 120f
Another cool piece of crypto tech is mina, there's really interesting bits of math & engineering being done as well as all the shilling, scams and speculation
I’m confident this won’t be possible during my lifetime, but I imagine a future where we can design artificial species to replace the ones we’ve caused to go extinct.

It’s one thing to revive a species from cloning sample DNA, but I suspect the vast majority of Holocene species we’ve caused to go extinct don’t have any genetic samples for us to work with. One day we may have a bio-engineering IDE and we can make functional replacements.
While you are 100% right, starlink is not marketed for the military.

Starlink, is like Tesla a decade ago. This is their roadster.

Will I get it, yes. Will I complain about early adpotee stuff, yes.

Is my life better just having it along? 1000% yes.
There are lots of consulting gigs, or part-time temp positions.

You can also put yourself on sites like upwork, but you will compete with many other people in a race to the bottom, regardless of the language you choose.
What library and what function? Chances are, the developer will pop up on hacker news and help you out!
> Maybe FB should let me input hints on who I intend it for.

They do, but you have to pay for the privilege.
I mean, the units didn't fail randomly, they shutdown.

They're beta, so it could be that the thermistor was placed poorly in a redesign, that they intended 122°C instead of °F, that they shipped with a dummy value used in an older fw during testing, etc.

All in all, a little embarrassing but not that significant, assuming this is certifiably not a scam.
+1 for alternation. I rotate between an Embody (when I want to lean back a little), a flat wooden chair (when I want to sit up straight and not support my back against anything), and a wobble stool (when I want a bit of forward tilt). The Embody is perfectly comfortable on its own but I tend to start to veg out mentally if I'm leaning back all the time.
A prosecutor's guide to winning in voir dire:

https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/ORANGE_Training_M...
Well you don't leave them out to bake all day, usually.
Black Mirror thought: Given the popularity of cats and that things like buzz pollination exist, it would be interesting to see if these sounds affect human behavior in some meaningful way.
S Curves
Every one of their dev teams likely costs more in a year than that $1M increment in BOM costs.

I’m not saying it’s a good idea, but it’s probably not going to be a kill the company expense.
Game Maker is a full engine. It's just more streamlined than most.
DNA leads to surprising discovery of two Viking family members
I got an Aeron and I don't like it. Mesh chairs aren't as cushioned, Aeron included. You can easily feel the border between mesh and frame and it gets painful after sitting for hours.

I dont buy that ergonomic chairs are any better for your body, there doesn't seem to be any real research showing this is so. They are just less comfortable.

It's extremely durable though so I'll probably be living with this mistake for a long time :)

I miss my padded chairs but the padding always wears out
The sun is hot
The difference seems to be whether you’re in a state with a strong union culture or not.

I’ve seen trade jobs and apprenticeships paying less than what fast food restaurants are offering right now, but everyone swears to me that it’s a 6 figure job. Glassdoor and BLS tell different stories, at least for the regions I’ve lived.

Well I was going to double check and back up my data, but the BLS website is down till Tuesday???
I rolled a very similar solution with django+graphene+hasura
Not arguing with that, but why they still allow 3rd party clients then?
It gets worse. Anyone who tracked COVID at all knows that there is a several week gap between getting COVID and when people die from it. So vaccinations today are expected to have zero impact on the death rate over the next month.

The result is that the decline in the death rate starts at about where you'd expect it to start if the vaccine did what it is supposed to do. And the people dying when the vaccine rollout started are people who caught it before the vaccine was available and only then reached the point where the disease killed them.

In a world filled with garbage analyses, this one is exceptionally bad. I flagged it because this isn't the kind of weird garbage that I come to HN to see.
Are false positives always uncorrelated with each other?

I would think it would depend on the nature of what causes them.
That's one of the reasons I feel that games use a scripting language for their UI and event logic and a fast compiled language for the important bits. There aren't too many games I can think of that are UI heavy that don't use a scripting language for it.
Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day
Snapshots & send-receive are my favorite BTRFS features too! I too love snapshotting Debian installs & send'ing them to new machines for atomic updates, or to build live usb images. I've been using Pottering's "Revisiting How We Put Together Linux Systems" naming system for my subvolumes, and that's worked fairly well[1]. I even did some fiddling around with enhancing Debian-live to load btrfs into ram a while back, so I could atomic update, de-mount the boot drive, &c[2].

Oh you are talking about ZFS, aren't you. ;)

Playing the "who came up with it first" game doesn't particularly interest me. Again, it feels like a spirit of competition when to me, that seems like a bad spirit: we should be cooperative & boosting each other. We're both open source, we're both trying to make civilization possible & to share greatnesses.

[1] http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linu...

[2] https://github.com/rektide/debian-live-boot
Zapatos ftw
I didn't say the median was perfect.

I said comparing the mean and the median was a quick way to avoid posting clickbait.

Because it's clear that the median and mean aren't strongly correlated anymore.
The inventor of the black box was told to drop the idea
On mobile there is a pretty massive white space gutter on the right and left of the text. This makes the article challenging to read.
One side is already collectively bargaining, seems fucked to have a monopoly on that.

Especially when VCs publish books bragging about violating labor laws and colluding.
This story has a major plot hole.

If you were so certain the biopsy was unnecessary and harmful, why didn’t you just refuse it, seek a second opinion (especially as you evidently are portraying the doctor as a villian).

Also your last paragraph doesn’t even read well as preteen fall fiction.
I really just don't care about anecdotal data bits like this, especially when these attempts were tried probably 8+ years ago under who knows what conditions. How long ago did you give up btrfs, how long has it been, since your 6 years of trying it?
> We rolled, and it turned out fine.

Who is “we”?
I'm 41... that won't work
> One big problem with the current internet is that the DNS for the top level domains (like .com) is controlled by centralized entities, such as ICANN.

The TLD here is .eth; who controls it. As far as I have understood, this service is selling kind of NFT. But the ultimate linkage with the real world is controlled by a single entity (company).

I don't get what is the benefit.
- BGP is beautiful yucky. It's a great solution to a problem that shouldn't exist.

- DNS/DNSSEC server is a centralized distributed contradiction

- WiFi/home network gateway is _where_ we fix these problems
the device works fine if you dont put it in an inuslating box open to the sun on top.
If it ends up working and is cheap enough for everyone then society will quickly have massive (more than now) issues with population growth & infrastructure that can't keep pace.

If it works and it's expensive, it will create a class division if "Haves and Have-Nots" more awful enough to create civil unrest on an incredible scale.

I hope it works, but if it does it's hard to see an implementation path that ends well.
This reminds me of some people working on a cat translator[0]

The paper this dataset links to [1] seems to be using statistical techniques to compare spectrograms of meows, something that seems pretty easy with fastaudio[2].

[0]: https://github.com/FrogBoss74/RealCatTranslator
[1]: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/9/8/543
[2]: https://github.com/fastaudio/fastaudio
Hey, remember that time the entire power grid in Texas was crippled due to things going out of temperature range spec? Only in that case, it wasn't a beta product, it was critical infrastructure, that they were warned about and had ample opportunity to fix.

Getting components rated outside of "normal operating conditions" is a PITA on a good day, and impossible otherwise. You straight up don't design for every possible condition for the beta. That's bad engineering and a waste of time and money. Pick the number of 9's you want, estimate the conditions, draw a line in the sand, and build the damn thing, knowing damn well X% of customers will have an issue. Revise, fix it, refine your product and process.
> I don't think any of that is an indictment of the system.

How on earth is having a system that not onlt can be altered to fit police narratives but which actually is not an indictment of the system? Among the other issues...

> If 10% lead to arrests for gun crimes that might have otherwise been missed, then that's pretty good.

Yeah, its a system that’s problems are concrete, but benefits rest on a lot of optimistic “ifs”.

From the first cited source:

---

But a study of the St. Louis Police Department found that while ShotSpotter increased the number of calls for service for gunfire, it did not actually reduce crime or result in many arrests.

Over 19,000 calls for service were activated by ShotSpotter over a decade. Out of these 19,000, only 13 arrests were "uniquely tied" to ShotSpotter — arrests that couldn't have happened without the technology.

---

That's less than 0.1%, not 10%.
They rushed that feature, I guess
Trading firms are not knowledge organizations. They compete in zero-sum games. The realm is completely different from building something of value.
I just used this in the Jupyter notebook (toldya it was very simple, written today :).

It interoperates with python by being passed data to the draw call.

Usage like: c = Canvas(); c.draw(xs); xs is a numpy array of shape (N, 2), the points to draw on the canvas.

It's not fancy. But it drew animations faster than matplotlib (I ran this for thousands of frames, just to watch the simulation).

import IPython.display as ipydisplay
import json
import numpy as np

class Canvas:
def __init__(self, canvas_id=None, width=500, height=500):
self.display_id = None
self._canvas_id = canvas_id or ('canvas_' + str(np.random.randint(0, 10000)))
display(ipydisplay.HTML(f"""

<canvas id="{self._canvas_id}" width="{width}" height="{height}" style="border:1px solid #d3d3d3;">
Your browser does not support the HTML5 canvas tag.</canvas>
"""))

def draw(self, xs, world_size):
xs_string = json.dumps(xs.tolist())
obj = ipydisplay.HTML(f"""
<script>
var c = document.getElementById("{self._canvas_id}");
var ctx = c.getContext("2d");
var xs = {xs_string};
var size = {world_size};
ctx.clearRect(0, 0, c.width, c.height);
var scale = c.width / size;
for (let i = 0; i < xs.length; i++) {{
ctx.fillRect(xs[i][0] * scale, c.height - xs[i][1] * scale, 2, 2)
}}
</script>
""")
if self.display_id:
ipydisplay.update_display(obj, display_id=self.display_id)
return self.display_id
self.display_id = display(obj, display_id=True).display_id
It's not like they had any systems competing, unless we're talking competition between Boeing and FAA, where one fights for profit by destroying evidence and fudging results, and the other tries to fight for safety (nominally).

P.S. It didn't start with McDonnell-Douglas acquisition - 737MAX is not the first 737 with deadly design failure - the first one was the original one. Except there Boeing also destroyed evidence from wreckages to hide the issue.
As someone who's spent many, many hours proving things in Coq, I concur with the original post--pointfree stuff is usually much less easy to read than the same function with named variables. A lot of that comes down to not being able to tell what's going on at all if you don't already know the arity of the functions you're using.
Even that was fairly pro mask:
“When are they useful?

Studies done during the SARS epidemic of 2003 found that for medical professionals, wearing any type of mask compared with none can reduce chances of getting sick by about 80 per cent.
The N95 mask, which gives better facial coverage and guards against smaller droplets, appears to be somewhat more effective than standard surgical masks. But medical professionals follow strict guidelines in taking masks on and off, discard them after each use, and use additional safeguards like eye protection and gowns to shield themselves.
They can help to prevent sick individuals from transmitting the virus by blocking droplets.”

The real story wasn’t masks it was hand washing. Early on it was assumed surface contact would be a major vector, but that turned out not to be the case.

“Don’t think that masks are the miracle solution,” he said. “They are useful for those who are sick to not contaminate others. It’s all about hygiene of the hands.”
IIRC "SMS over GPRS" was an optional extension
They get paid as if they are super experts even when most of them aren't. People wouldn't complain about the skills of doctors if they just earned 100k a year or so. I don't understand why USA doesn't just open up the floodgates and stop the requirement for doctors to get a bachelors before starting their doctors degree and with that get way more doctors and push down wages.
That guy is certifiably insane. He patched Contra III, Gradius III, Super Mario World, Super R-Type and Race Drivin' to use the SA-1 chip. Which means now those games have a higher/consistent framerate. Kudos to that guy.

Hopefully Nintendo learns to appreciate these contributions and doesn't try to seek legal action against him.
However, products are frequently created to not shut down in “average” summer temperatures. It’s a well known operating parameter throughout the US - temperatures break 105°F even up in Canada.

It’s not even the hottest part of the summer yet. I can’t imagine this problem getting better.
The obsession that people in the US have with unions is odd. They were never a big part of the workforce, and the reason they declined in the US is simple: they didn't work. Too militant, links with organized crime, heavily politicized, and usually focused on industries where they could strike and cause damage. If you look at how unions operate in Europe (in the few countries that have kept it going), it is the opposite (bar places like the UK that also had militant unions that declined after most union places went out of business).

But there are real downsides: spiralling cost inflation in vital goods (where unions, and in the case of the US organized crime, takes hold), low levels of competition, low levels of trade...the container ship was so revolutionary because it broke the back of the deliberate slow work of dock worker's unions (not just in the US).

Where the US really stands out is low levels of redistribution, and low levels of tax on middle and lower classes (to fund redistribution)...I suspect that isn't quite as popular as romanticizing a past that never existed.
I often flag and downvote stories like these, because I do not believe they are consistent with HN's mission to feed intellectual curiosity. It is clear we have a very vocal contingent of vaccine deniers, and I do think it is useful to hear their arguments, but I believe that's best done in the context of source stories that actually convey some new understanding.

From my observations, the best lens for understanding vaccine denial (or other related forms of Covid denial) is religious belief. Articles like these are medium-quality grains of opinion supporting that belief. Outside Covid, such things are obviously not in scope for HN, but the virus has captured our attention.

If I were the mod, I'd have an explicit policy that Covid stories need to come from high quality sources. Dissenting or unusual perspectives are fine, but these "just asking questions" pieces with confusing (at best) statistics aren't. And I'd honestly consider most mainstream press pieces not to clear the bar either. There are some excellent science journalists and bloggers out there (Derek Lowe is one of my favorites of the latter). We should be listening to them, I think.
Composting releases CO2 into the atmosphere. Despite the treehugging vibe, it actually makes global warming worse.
This isn't the hottest month though. And the air temperature doesn't have to be 122F, just the dish.
Yes, my iPhone went into thermal shutdown sitting by the pool on a 90 degree day but I don’t see a hacker news discussion on it…
Reader view almost always bypasses The NY Times paywall
It also means it’s not the final product and doesn’t make promises about operating in all environments
I was hoping this was about humanure:

https://sustainablefoodtrust.org/articles/human-manure-closi...
It’s also a private company, they are literally investors in it, with the least liquidity and information. Are you anti stock option / RSU or something?
The Bitcoin community got more focused on the fundamentals, long term thinking and actual value preservation. That is not true that it has stagnated technologically — MAST, taproot, Schnorr sigs. Lightning. Getting adopted as an official currency… Bitcoin is as cutting edge as ever. People got used to the slapdash lose a few hundred million in an eth smart contract world, and expect lambos in weeks. Which we see in the short term with frothy exuberance. The perceived toxicity is skepticism, because we have seen it all before. Same scams different year.

Bcash is not to be taken seriously. There is and always will be Bitcoin.
> How expensive is a ~ 10 Gb/s ADC?

$1000. Much cheaper to use many slower ADCs in parallel. Or put your entropy directly into a Schmidt trigger, etc. since you don't care about any of the specs that make ADCs so complicated.
And it may get even worse than that: in a world with dozens of countries vaccinated, statistically one is expected to show correlations where none exists.
Show HN: Chrome ext to autocomplete your sentences in any text box
I don't know about you but I put more in than I take out. I'm fine with continuing to do that in one way or another for as long as I'm good for it.
It Seems Money Does Buy Happiness After All
Idea sucks, now go do it anyway
Well it is a WordPress.com article...
Well, I’ve heard of preserving food and transporting vaccines, but as an enthusiast have you got any exotic examples for me?