skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can buy a co2 sensor right now, go outside and measure very similar readings. Is that cherry picking too?
This still won't fix the fundamental problem facing the environment, which is over population, it also won't fix the problem that the environment is already locked into a number of positive feedback loops driving climate change.
Even the most ordinary technically intelligent person would have a problem with this. And Microsoft have legions of intelligent tech boffins. What happened to their common sense? Surely someone said, "Nah, this is dumb. We're smart. Our job is to make tech better, not worse. Let's not push this."

I just can't imagine a team of smart techs cheering this on with "Great idea!"

What pressures transpire to induce really smart teams to make such extravagantly poor decisions? It's a mystery.
I don’t understand why programmatic access is being equated with fraud. Device identification is never a benefit for end users. Lack of privacy, waste of resources, hostile ux… we’re basically talking about DRM.
San Francisco residents are fed up with city inaction on open-air drug use
I too take magnesium in an attempt to stop muscle twitches (fasciculations). This was recommended to me by a neurologist after a couple of tests. My fasciculations started during a period of serious stress and anxiety (of the "I think I'm dying"-variety). They've never really fully gone away. Some nights I can't sleep because some muscle is randomly twitching all night. Magnesium helps, but so does staying away from caffeine and making sure to keep hydrated.
I'm intrigued by this notion of an alternate form of paella; what is it that Americans think they're asking for when they order paella?
So your argument is that right now, the value of 1 Bitcoin is volatile, when compared to things like dollars or apples. In the future, the perspective will flip, and 1 Bitcoin will be considered stable, and the value of apples will be what is considered volatile?
Another question is, if its banned to kill an animal for meat, for various animals, how long until they go extinct? Many are co-dependent on humanity for their survival at the species level... Or at the very least how will it affect their evolution?
I installed a 21H1 Pro version just yesterday. On the user creation screen the local account is still hidden behind a "Domain join instead" button where you can actually use a local account. Of course most people at home would actually actively stay away from that button thinking it must lead to some enterprise IT voodoo.
I was saying that "90% water" stat is super misleading because it makes it sound like <10% is anything of value, but that's off by a factor of 3. Baking absolutely makes a bigger than 10% water loss by mass in broccoli, and that would of course double the non-water fraction even if it were only 10%.

But the point is, it doesn't matter how much water there is. No one is wondering whether they'll feel more full on 100g of chicken or 100g of broccoli. Anyone trying to control weight would ask about 100 calories of broccoli versus 100g of chicken. I don't know what the answer there is, but they're probably comparable. A head of broccoli is just 205 calories but still contains 17g protein and 16g of fiber. Equivalent calorie chicken breast would be like 40g protein and no fiber. Both are healthy food choices unless you deep fry them or something. You're making lots of fast-and-loose comparisons here that are simply misleading. (Why is the comparison broccoli + fast food versus just chicken? Why do you suddenly switch to talking about iceberg lettuce? Why pretend that broccoli isn't a healthy food that is substantially more satiating than fast food - as is chicken?)
> Property is hard to buy and sell (takes time), and there were a lot of new printed dollars and euros recently.

Supply is only half the equation. Velocity matters. [1] The new supply was added due to a drop in velocity, and they plan to remove it from circulation once (if) velocity returns to normal. This is SOP - and a huge advantage of centrally managed currencies. There's no doubt in my mind we'd have seen a massive deflationary spiral otherwise.

Let me ask you, why do you think this new supply was added and what was its impact?

[1] https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2014/september/wha...
This is more of a US problem. In the EU much of higher education is very cheap or free. Some students even get paid a small amount of money and have access to loans with low interested and great terms so that it's easier to focus on school and everyone is on a more even playing field.
The sort of folk attracted to Kiwi Farms will find somewhere else to aggregate, but that doesn't mean anyone needs to make it easy for them.

Showers always build up mildew, but we still periodically scrub them.
The 'lower total cost, higher unit cost' problem is one of the reasons I love the way the EU mandates advertising prices.
i.e. anything sold needs to have the price you actually pay on it (including VAT/other charges), and the cost per unit. (€/l or €/kg).

This saves me an absurd amount of planning/thinking as I can compare an equivalent cost number whenever I see a substitutable product somewhere. Also saves you from being fooled by your own assumptions, like when the unit cost of the largest cereal box is higher than a smaller one.
You make a very adulterous point.[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/CcyXRsJFjuc
I think it's "Bad or insufficiently-differentiated products need ad spend".

Make better products.
I feel complexity creep is often inevitable regardless of the paradigm or technology you use. Programmers have varying levels of complexity they can handle and the systems generally naturally grow to match the complexity that the people that work on them can support.

Experienced programmers will manage to keep that complexity creep under control for longer and smarter programmers will manage to keep working on complex systems that lesser peers would have no chance to understand.

But eventually, unless the software has a very clear functional boundary which is often not the case for business software, software will start to become increasingly complex and dev velocity will slow down, quality will drop... I've seen this happening at all skill levels regardless of the languages and paradigms used.
> - No detection of tablet mode.

Well, Microsoft are getting rid of tablet mode in Windows 11, so soon it will be at parity :p
I've never emptied my pool -- in general you only need to empty a pool for certain types of repairs. The water is cleaned by the pool filter.
Both Google Workspace and Google One provide immediate support, as well as any additional premium services.
The world's #2 biggest holder of Bitcoin is the Bulgarian FBI. The #4 biggest holder of Bitcoin is the US FBI.

Never underestimate the cryptanalytic power of whacking someone with a rubber hose until they give you their keys.
> But we didn't use it. And there is just one guilty party for that: the green activists. They opposed Nuclear rabidly while never proposing any practical solution instead.

Say what you will about the values or reasoning of "green activists," the idea that they have wielded enough influence to sway energy policy is risible. Market forces, NIMBYism and fossil fuel lobbying dollars were sufficient to spike nuclear power.

> I am so angry about this.

> It's a war, a culture war.

Greens are a right-wing bogeyman. You're meant to be angry at them.
I love garlic, the more the better.

The problem with the Flying Goose sauce (yeah, that's the one) is that the taste is more like garlic powder, which I think tastes disgusting.

BTW: I think it's a fair question, so I really don't get the downvotes.
Hasn't Lightning been in the works for 4+ years? Is it actually progressing towards usability? I remember hearing about it during the 2017 speculation frenzy and block size controversies, when people raised the exact same concerns about Bitcoin transactions being slow, expensive, and carbon-intensive.
Which is why a prospective attacker would probably seek to build its short position at the ordinary Wall Street level. Nobody will try to seize collateral for "winning" if you've sold Microstrategy shares short, for example, or even the BTCC Bitcoin ETF (trading on the Toronto stock exchange).

My gut feeling is that we aren't yet at the point that you could build an entirely on-exchange short position sufficient to fund a 51% attack, but that may change.

To estimate the cost of a 51% attack, miners currently get 6.25BTC/10 minutes at $35k/bitcoin, so the value of mining is about $32m/day. Rounding that up to even $50m/day to account for transaction fees, that's not very expensive if a hedge fund can build a $1bn short position.

The saving grace might be that you can't rent bitcoin mining hardware in unlimited quantities. A hedge fund might have to own the miners used for the attack, and if executing the attack causes bitcoin's value to drop to near-zero that would also devalue the mining hardware.
Software is eating the world, and React is eating software
PHP version stats: July, 2021
Starting to wonder if the techniques like those outlined in this article are why I'm constantly presented with a captcha asking if I'm a bot. I suppose the future is now.
people are sleeping on China. Sure they copy everything now, but so did US, japan and everybody in the beggining.
Those are fortunately not the only options, there are many nice HLLs around that compile to JS.
One thing I read (and checked, this was in the past) Facebook did was even do simple white stripping on passwords, as well as checking with caps-lock switched on.

While it technically might make passwords very slightly less secure, it makes life much easier for users, so I personally think it's worth the cost.
People will say “but what about the third world???” and feel very comfortable with their position in a socially conscious first-world country. Yeah, well, where do you think those poor people in the third world are getting the money for their evil coal power plants? Countries like Japan and Australia.[1][2]

We have to reform our investment laws and hold first-world multinationals and governments accountable. They’re the ones funding all of this trash.

1: http://www.nocoaljapan.org

2: https://reneweconomy.com.au/palaszczuks-secret-royalties-dea...
Just the other day I read a comment from a single mother with three children who just sent her children back to school after 15 months of home schooling. Her comment indicated that her views on society did not improve much during the pandemic, either, no workaholism required.

Society has very openly displayed its disrespect for certain groups of people during the pandemic, he clearly has a point there.
Yeah the UI is completely custom built using Revery (a custom-built Electron alternative). Similarities to VSCode are just a result of it being the main inspiration. I would say Sublime also has a large influence on our design, i.e. in the minimap
Well this might be true for some cryptos. It is not true at all for Bitcoin which is still by far the biggest and most relevant.
Just eat the bugs...
My name is one of the last in the alphabet. Should I be offended now?

Anyway, if you sort in German, Korean names will not be sorted as when you sort in Korean, but then German names will be somewhere else. Ç'est la vie. How else are you going to sort? By mapping everything to phonemes first? And what's the proper sorting order of phonemes? I'm sure German names will on average come either before or after Korean names in that case, too.
Something like 2/3 or 3/4 of Java users are still on Java 8. So, yeah, no.
Microsoft have become the best advertisement for Linux on the desktop.

This kind of advertising actually worked on me.
There are visuals gone viral of some of the minings farms being shut down and packaged up for shipping:

https://imgur.com/a/ditki4Z

https://twitter.com/DocumentingBTC/status/140626608363237376...

The next Bitcoin difficulty adjustment will be happening soon and estimates indicate a change in 22-27% change.
https://btc.com/stats/diff
You're definitely right about the overconsumption lifestyle. This is a quote from a Bill Bryson book I was just reading called Notes from a Big country:

What is saddest about all this is that a good part of these goals to cut greenhouse emissions could be met without any cost at all if we merely modified our extravagance. It has been estimated that the nation as a whole wastes about $300 billion of energy a year. We are not talking here about energy that could be saved by investing in new technologies. We are talking about energy that could be saved just by switching things off or turning things down.

Take hot water. Nearly every household in Europe has a timer device on its hot water system. Since people clearly don't need hot water when they are at work or fast asleep, there isn't any need to keep the tank heated, so the system shuts down. Here in America I don't know how to switch off my hot water tank. I don't know that it is possible. There is piping hot water in our house twenty-four hours a day, even when we are far away on vacation. Doesn't seem to make much sense.

According to U. S. News World Report, the United States must maintain the equivalent of five nuclear power plants just to power equipment and appliances that are on but not being used-lights burning in rooms that are unoccupied, computers left on when people go to lunch or home for the night, all those mute, wall-mounted TVs that flicker unwatched in the corners of bars.
Seeing such content on the front page makes me believe that either a) people only read the title or b) simply the bar has been set too low or c) there are too many junior level programmers.
"January is month 1"

This is what we were all waiting for.
"concurrency is still widely regarded as 'too hard'."

Is it? There isn't going to be an official declaration from the Masters of Computer Science that "2019 was the year concurrency ceased being Too Hard." or anything.

My perception is that it is steadily becoming less and less notable for a program to be "concurrent". Tooling is becoming better. Common practices are becoming better. (In fact, you could arguably take common practices back to the 1990s and even with the tools of the day, tame concurrency. While the tooling had its issues too, I would assert the problem was more the practices than the tooling.) Understanding of how to use it reasonably safely is steadily spreading, and runtimes that make it safer yet are starting to get attention.

I'm not sure I've seen a case where there was a problem that ought to be using concurrency, but nobody involved could figure out any way to deal with it or was too afraid to open that door in a long time. There's still plenty of cases where it doesn't matter even now, of course, because one core is a lot of computing power on its own. But it seems to be that for everyone out there who would benefit from concurrency, they're mostly capable of using it nowadays. Not necessarily without issue, but that's an unfair bar; you can still get yourself in concurrency trouble in Haskell or Erlang, but it's a lot easier than it used to be to get it right.
If so many people are directly contradicting you, you may want to put in a bit more research instead of relying on possibly outdated experience.
That’s a great bit :)
No red shirts when doing corner work at the track.
Minimum tire spin when taking off as to not blast pebbles at the car behind you.
this is a great story, about how to get around an obstacle in a creative way.
> I'll assume that's still ~3x as costly as just farm raising chickens.

3x? it's not even double
> I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC

Yes, you will. Eventually. They'll continue to beat you down until you submit. Because, here's the secret. Even though you built the machine from the ground up, hand selecting all the parts, once you install Windows, the machine belongs to Microsoft. No, really, it does. They certainly think so. And they're a rich powerful organization, so it must be so.
Both Microsoft's official communication and the leaked beta indicate that Windows 11 will require this.
Factorials in pure lambda calculus:

https://flownet.com/ron/lambda-calculus.html
"including losses greater than the staked amount" I don't think this is true. Binance will happily liquidate you well in advance of a possible negative balance.
> they're usually far from natural (tons of chemicals)

I really object to marketing use of the word 'natural' and 'chemicals'. I don't mean to single you out - these concepts are widespread in marketing.

Plenty of 'natural' things are bad, like small pox, the Ebola virus and salmonella.

Plenty of 'unnatural' things are good, like antibiotics to treat infection.

All matter is made from chemicals. Whether a chemical like penicillin or salt is synthesised in a lab, or extracted from the ocean, holds no baring on whether that chemical is good for you.

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EDIT - Generalised the penicillin example.
My schools senior projects were group projects done for real people out in the world. A similar thing could be done where the instructor would solicit a dozen OS projects that would be willing to trade labor for responsiveness.
> This website is literally about JavaScript. I mean what did you expect, a .NET application? This website is 99.9% poorly optimized and highly questionable JS. And yet, you have JS turned off.
"Paella" in the US (and much of non-mediterranean Europe) generally implies shellfish. This is only common in some parts of Spain, and is not considered an 'authentic' Valencian paella.

An American would absolutely recognize it for what it is, it might just be a bit different from what they where assuming.

That being said most Spaniards happily chuck whatever they happen to have laying round into their paella when cooking at home.
Assuming everything you said is true you still haven’t answered my question.

If Bitcoin has no intrinsic value, how is that different than fiat? What gives the USD or British pound intrinsic value?
You might be looking for "Entity - Component - System" design, common in video games. Entities are still virtual-world objects like you might expect, but none of them would dare keep track of something like their position or temperature or whatever. Instead, they register a component with the appropriate system, which keeps all the data colocated for efficient physics and the like.
And yet, because climate change isn’t as immediately scary to the average person as Covid19 was/is, we can’t even seem to agree on the easiest to implement solutions. We can’t even agree to the “wear a mask” equivalent, which isn’t surprising since we couldn’t agree to just wear masks!

I am generally an optimistic person, but I think we are completely and utterly screwed on climate change and I feel quite depressed and helpless about it.
What is Python missing in your eyes? Cooperative multitasking is a relatively recent thing to be in vogue again, and python has had good support for multithreading and multiprocessing since forever.
Then they're just selective about the hiding and who they trust. They'se still hiding.

Instead, ask them if they're fine with surveillance cameras in their home that record them jerking off or taking a shit.

Most people wouldn't be happy about that. Most privacy invasions are too subtle and the dangers too abstract to make them care. But almost all agree that cameras in the bathroom is past the line.
> making from plant proteins directly will always be cheaper, faster, require less resources and be healthier

This is not clear at all. If you look into what goes into making something like an Impossible Burger, it is basically none of those things.
> Volatility is not an inherent property of a currency or an asset

Volatility is an an inherent property of an asset/currency/whatever(stddev of (log)returns), as long as you have a fixed and distinct numeraire.

Sure, you can argue that bitcoin may _be_ the numeraire one day, but what's the path towards that when it's so useless as a currency presently?
Simple solution: have a password but allow your users to login via TOTP only.
> Here's the thing, though: most Europeans seem to be suffering some pretty serious misconceptions.

Hi there, I'm a civil engineer from the EU who specialized in building structures and was trained in masonry and timber structures.

None of the concerns you mentioned feature as a design constraint. There is no shortage of building materials in Europe, and is indeed cheaper than the classical building materials. We do use a lot of concrete, masonry, and steel, none of which grows on trees.

The main factor is population density, and the ultimate and serviceability state that buildings need to comply with in order to be assuredly safe to be habitable by people.

It's fine if you wish to build a single-family home with a timber structure from top to bottom, provided that you do all the work to ensure that expected win loads are not able to blow out your home. There are homes being built like that around here. But those are indeed rare, because of cultural differences. The everyday joe around here looks at modern timber homes and, when compared with masonry, concrete, and even steel structures, immediately perceives it as low-quality work. Think McMansion. Prefabricated homes in general suffer from that prejudice, including light steel frame homes. That in turn leads to a market where most offerings target the low-end.

On higher density residential buildings things are quite different. most residential buildings have 4 or 5 stories and thus structural soundness starts to be harder to ensure. You no longer are able to meet safety requirements by having a low-skilled carpenter randomly nailing together two boards. Moreover, the loads are more demanding, both dead loads and live loads such as wind
Here the problem lies in the need to put together building structures that is verifiably safe involving cases where the minimum prescribed values in building standards don't cut it anymore. More importantly, you start to need to design specialized structural elements that can easily need to span over 6 meters. This is engineered timber territory, and one which can involve designing specialized structural elements. To add to the complexity, this technology introduces problems in complying with serviceability limit states that don't pose as big of a challenge with other technologies such as vibration limits and sagging.

Consequently, we do see engineered lumber structures in long span structures and even foot bridges, but in general it's more cost effective, simpler, durable, lower-mainrenance and higher-quality to just build with other building technologies.
Same, Windows 7 was still usable for me but after I found out they reactivated telemetry behind my back in an update I gave up all Microsoft products for good.
PS: Did you know the unicode collation algorithms also includes a way to produce a sequence of bytes for a unicode string, such that sorting the produced sequence of bytes in strict byte order will produce the proper collation order for the original strings?

Which is how you implement high-performance unicode collation sorting in say a db.

Unicode is a very well-designed thing!
Or on the front of football players shirts, in the form of sponsorships.
How old does something have to be in order to be "tradition"?

Easy: as soon as the people who adopted it into the current form are dead and the adoption forgotten.

My grandmother's cherry island cake was almost certainly copied off the back of a package sometime in the 1920s or 30s; maybe it's an adaptation of a German or Hungarian recipe. Now it's a tradition in my family.