skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always see everything from national laws of various stripes to human apathy blamed for the slow decline of general purpose computing but I think the answer no one wants to admit is that the dream simply hinged on figuring out how to overcome certain practical hurdles that we have failed to cleae.

There's all sorts of fingers that could be pointed in different directions across different industries of course (some being the same industry now due to consolidation of the stack) but the most fundamental failure of judgement in my opinion was that there was a romantic notion once upon a time that computers would be this great equalizer that could even allow clever enough eggheads to take on the world (literally, not with some fancy high value business idea) while simultaneously bringing real opportunity and equality to the common man ('anyone who can use a computer will be more valuable than a CEO').

The former idea never quite managed to explain why these eggeads wouldn't be beholden to the limitations of the hardware at their disposal (Turns out computing hardware multiplies the effectiveness of the boogey men just as readily as it does the eggheads and the boogeymen do a lot more hiring). The latter notion was abandoned by the same people who dreamed it up in the first place not that they'll admit it (of course they wanted computing to empower the common man, it's surely a coincidence that every step of the way they focused on expanding only an egghead's ability to command computers with wider accessibility being an afterthought motivated primarily by profit incentives)

I think the ugly truth is that general purpose computing was more of a philisophical goal than a realistic one. It seems a lot more likely that from a technological perspective it's just a lot more efficient to have an expansive commons of innovative collaboration available for dueling giants to draw from on an as-needed basis.
Google, Facebook, Twitter have positioned themselves to be the de-facto public square by buying up their competition and making themselves effectively the only game in town for what they do.
I thought that the instrument used to measure the curvature of the mirror was mis-calibrated.
What we really all need is the right degree of epistemological humility. I think I’m better than average at discerning misinformation yes, but know that I have been wrong in the past so never weight my conclusions 100%. Its mostly people who live only in the political/social and never have to bang their heads against the hard truth of physics/nature who have complete certainty in the corectness of their positions.
the reserve are suspected, nothing had been actually found, so they're sacrificing nothing.
Would that dimension be called _pianomax_?
I just don't smoke when I need to be productive. The idea that marijuana makes you unmotivated is not news to anyone. It's certainly no reason to stop entirely.
Wow TIL Brøderbund still exists and sells a more recent Print Shop?

https://www.broderbund.com/
The Benchmark Lottery [Paper]
"unsafe" doesn't always mean unsafe.

For example, you wish to implement a Vector in Rust.

You generally don't want to allocate that Vector over and over, so you request more memory than you need.

That "extra" memory is uninitialized which is a big no-no in Rust. You might be able to initialize that memory, but that will have performance implications that C/C++ programmers would just laugh at.

However, your "invariant" is that you never access that memory until you have a real element that you put there. That's perfectly fine.

Nevertheless, accessing that uninitialized area will always be "unsafe" from the Rust compiler point of view.
I meant what if USDC and USDT pick two different chains to bless as their “official” chain? Is that not possible?

EDIT: I just realized the last letter in your examples are “A” and “B” to signify two versions of the same thing. My eyes aren’t what they used to be!
Not that I use Amazon much, but I now know Fakespot is a thing that exists, and will aim to use it whenever I do shop there.

Thank you Amazon, for bringing this awesome service to my attention!
Frax, USDT, and TrueUSD allow people to deposit into bank accounts and mint on eth mainnet or avalanche c-chain now (note: not mint on both places at the same time), neither make the claim that they are 1:1 backed (except for TrueUSD), but they make the claim that if you wanted to at any time (if you meet the criteria) you can withdraw from eth mainnet or avalanche c-chain to your bank account.
Does anyone notice a pattern?
>As bad as the winter surge was, Springfield’s health-care workers shared a common purpose of serving their community, Steve Edwards, the president and CEO of CoxHealth, told me. But now they’re “putting themselves in harm’s way for people who’ve chosen not to protect themselves,” he said.

Unfortunately it also hits the rest of the community hard.
> It assumes that pre-industrial agricultural output is the maximum that our planet can sustain. Which is completely off for a multitude of reasons

I agree it's off because we've done significant damage to the biosphere since industrialization. As I've pointed out we have disrupted the natural nitrogen cycle.

If we where to immediately rewind our population back to 1850 and try to life that lifestyle we would have a much harder time since we have depleted natural resources. We cannot go back because we the earth would not support us the way it once did.

> There is no reason to assume that we're anywhere close to peak sustainable agricultural output, neither in pre-industrial times NOR now.

Our entire current agricultural system relies on fossil fuels, so I agree, where nowhere near close... we're way past.

> Viable pathways are

- batteries: not for commercial transport, the energy density is still way too low. Your battery becomes your cargo. Modern global trade is impossible in a battery based economy. Nobody that is serious on renewables will disagree with this, they will claim that new battery technology is going to solve this.

- Biofuel: require more energy to make they they provide [0]. So again, not only do you need to double the grid to handle intermittent power, you now need to expand it by the total biofuel energy required times 1/efficiency, so we're looking at at least tripling our current power output and trying to do it with only renewables. Please tell me how much silicon and lithium it would take to build a grid that large in that sort of a time span and you'll find it dwarf's annual production.

- Fuel cells: same problem again, currently fuel cells are made with coal or natural gas today 95% of fuel cells are made with natural gas [1]. If you want to switch to electrolysis you come up with the same problem of having to double our current grid power.

- Hydrogen in combustion engines: I'm not sure how this is different from hydrogen fuel cells, but the hydrogen production problem is the same.

Please if you want sources, provide some of your own. Come up with some back of the envelope estimates on the total grid capacity needed to cover 100% of our energy needs. Then do some research on the energy costs to produce solar cells at that scale (or wind farms, hydro is already near full capacity at least in the US).

I know you yourself don't really believe what you are saying. It's based on no research, you have provided no meaningful sources, and even the most die-hard solar/renewable proponents realize that grid scale storage is still an unsolved problems. What you have given are "hand wavy" explanations without sources, exactly as I expected.

0. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7320919/

1. https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-fuel-basics
But the NCC would be for the baker to not work for another bakery within a 40 miles radius and that is terrible, they would not be able to exercise their profession.
I agree, /tg/ is really not so bad, but on the whole most boards got infested.
I worked at WhatsApp for almost eight years. It's actually pretty simple behind the covers.

Yes, there's a lot of attention to detail and a lot of edge cases that WA covers better than most others, but there's not a lot of truly complex things. It's mostly doing a lot of simple things well (and some amount of picking the right structures to keep things as simple as possible). Often doing things simply means skipping current computing trends. And of course, sometimes doing things simply doesn't actually meet the needs, and may make changes harder later.

Of course, Signal has much harder to meet privacy goals and a smaller staff and they didn't build on Erlang, so they're playing on hard mode.
This is why inflation hurts those on fixed or low incomes.

Which is why rising energy prices and increased taxation are bad for the same classes of people. Both contribute to raised prices, which puts people without equity investments at a disadvantage.

We need sensible economic policies. Without them, the wage / class gaps will continue to widen.
They are a business, how can you mandate that a private business has to host "everything".
>>> A suitable durable digital archival format is badly needed.

>But I'm coming up thin on solid suggestions or research.

Tape/optical discs don't fit the bill? You mentioned that discs only last long in mild conditions, but is this a dealbreaker? Who's storing their archives on a "dashboard in Phoenix"? As for tapes only lasting a few decades, who cares? That nice part about digital media is that they can be duplicated with no loss of quality. Making copies as you go seems like the best way to go here, rather than trying to engineer a medium that can last centuries.
Amazon has the same advantage that Microsoft had in the 90s: everybody else is even less competent.
I looked at job boards last month and didn’t come across a single posting for c++ developers outside of gaming. What sorts of companies hire c++ developers and what do you build? Are the pay and career respects as strong as web focused options?

I really enjoy c++, or at least the subset I used for my game last year
For me, just writing things down is amazingly helpful. I don't even have a workflow set up very well on it yet, just got mine a few weeks ago. Its really pretty damn good. Is it worth the money? probably not. That said, I don't regret getting one at all.

Like, how often do I ever reference my school notes... rarely. But the act of synthesizing and writing something down physically just feels sort of like a memory hack.
Now how would you do this with a wife that works and two young children in tow?
Yeah I stopped being interested as soon as they started talking about some dumb-ass coin.
Long Live Commodity Capital
As you can see here, the purpose of climate change denialism isn't to convince anyone. It's just to delay serious action for as long as possible using handwaving and appeals to authority. Here, the fact that the author is a Professor [sic] is used to add weight to his arguments, even though a vast majority of "Professors" acknowledge that climate change is real.
World Record: 319 Tb/s Transmission over 3,001 km with 4-core optical fiber
The fact that Branson pretended to ride his bicycle to the launch pad, commented on his fictitious ride, and then subsequently admitted he made it all up, suggests a huge amount of this is for show. There is definitely a one-upmanship going on, and perhaps some really oddball humour that only the billionaire trio would understand.

All three of them are doing related but distinctly different things, so I think the competitiveness is mainly a gag. If the end result proves to be beneficial in the general sense, I'm happy to let them at it.
I don't agree with this. Eventually consistent was majorly hyped a while ago, but these days I don't think that there's widespread consensus on this issue. The complexity of getting an eventually consistent system working correctly is often much higher than in a system with a leader.
> Edit: eesh, this was a bit of a rant, wasn't it?

Not at all. I'm slightly surprised at the quality of the comments here as a whole, as many show a sentiment that employers would like.
Maybe that's your opinion, but you don't speak for everyone.
Yup. The penalty is not kept by anyone though, it’s burned. Once your balance drops to 16 ETH, you’re removed from the validator pool. This happens slowly and depends on many factors of the current network.

https://launchpad.ethereum.org/en/faq

“””

How badly will I be penalized for being offline?

It depends. In addition to the impact of effective balance there are two important scenarios to be aware of:

Being offline while a supermajority (2/3) of validators is still online leads to relatively small penalties as there are still enough validators online for the chain to finalize. This is the expected scenario.

Being offline at the same time as more than 1/3 of the total number of validators leads to harsher penalties, since blocks do not finalize anymore. This scenario is very extreme and unlikely to happen.

Note that in the second (unlikely) scenario, you stand to progressively lose up to 50% (16 ETH) of your stake over 21 days. After 21 days you are ejected out of the validator pool. This ensures that blocks start finalizing again at some point.

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You should probably look at some prepper forums.

Best guess is someplace remote, decent soil, good supply of water, somewhat mountainous (CO2 is heavier than O2 although probably negligible, lower temperatures higher up, better chance of rainfall if weather patterns shift and you are located between 2 bodies of water), and not too far south but also not too far north (not sure how fast ocean currents would slow and what affect that would have in each location). Probably best to find a small group of trustworthy and like minded individuals/neighbors to plan with.
Wouldn't a custodian have a potential conflict of interest here, picking a chain whose rules, say, give the custodian a recurring "management fee" to support their important role?
Why do I care if some service uses them? I severely restrict service usage anyway.
A Paralyzed Man's Brain Waves Converted to Speech in a World-First Breakthrough
Long overdue.

Freedom Speeches[tm] has killed how many? Millions?

If anyone needs their QAnon fix, there's always 4chan, OAN, Fox News, etc.
The article addresses an alternate theory at the end— after the lengthy exposition— that the packets were just very delayed shipments from earlier in the pandemic. Does that sound like it’s a plausible answer for what happened to you?
sure, but virus folloe a quicker evolutinary path and allowing it to have ample hosts gives it ample time to evolve and potentially mutate to a lineage thats more deadly, not vulnerable to the vaccine and we all start the process oer again.

evolution doesnt care about the morality of letting people die.
Ostensibly it would mean WW3, with the potential of China and India moving north.
I have lots of plate hard drives that are 10+ years old. And I have a few that are in boxes that are 20 years old that I still end up using every once in a while.

Yes they are mechanical and will eventually fail but three years for an HDD is not a good trend.
This is only trying to throw out counts 1-14 which from the description in this motion are all about the accusation they were operating an unlicensed money transmitting business not anything about the 'drug money.' If there was no illegal money transmission business it seems hard for there to be laundering of money that didn't come from an illegal source.

15,16,17 - are the counts that deal with selling the BTC to the undercover cop who said they sold cocaine.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59692375/1/united-state...
What do you think? There's no love lost from either company toward Brave. (Which makes me love Brave more!)
Aren't they saying though, that there could be a bug in the string unsafe code that causes UBs. You can't guarantee that (although this example is unlikely).
FL and TX have been open. We had great times visiting both.

Oh, and we cancelled HI three times in the past year. If States are going to harass me, I will keep visiting places that want my tourist spend.
Algorithms don't work like this though: content that feeds outrage disproportionately outranks content which doesn't.

Algorithms don't discriminate "content" by it's actual content: they keyword match and look for clicks, and build a pretty perfect radicalization pathway more easily then they build a discourse [1].

You have probably experienced this: almost everyone has the experience of wanting to see some particular YouTube video, but opened it in an Incognito tab (or just avoided it) explicitly because they know the topic will prime the YouTube homepage to fill with nothing but things you don't want to see.

[1] https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/youtube-fa...
Agreed - I should have validated it before I developed it. There's a good chance it's not useful - although I believe it may be.

I can make an argument as to why it would be useful (it will save a lot of time) - but that's unproven.
It’s not a prison because you’re welcome to leave whenever you want.
If a company doesn't know exactly why and where their competitors are better then them, they are not long for this world.
They're not losing anything by doing this, so honestly I'm more reading this as hedging their bets and they'd just resume prospecting if they need the money
If your validator isn't online and/or not able to "do its job" in the allowed for time-period, then it will be penalized.

The penalty for missing one validation is small; the penalty for missing a block proposal is also not huge, but bigger than the penalty for missing a validation. Penalties would pile up over time if a validator is offline for an extended period.

Long story short: if you intend to run an ETH2 validator, you should be reasonably sure it will be able to run well-connected to the Internet for extended periods of time. Intermittent and brief periods of downtime would not have a substantial economic impact on your validator, but extended periods of downtime would be bad.
Colombia’s female FARC fighters wage a new war, for gender parity
As is the App Store.
To be fair most religions are pretty cookie cutter as well. The Abrahamic ones even share text and repurpose holidays from other local cultures. Buddhism is the only popular one that is pretty uniquely cool, Sidhartha was pretty original.
> Unlikely. Smoking was still incredibly common in 1988, as in, still allowed in high schools levels of common. The big push to quit smoking didn't really take hold until around 00.

That's off in terms of timeline.

California smoking ban came online in 1996. Anti-smoking efforts were in swing quite a bit before that.

And, things like the 3 Martini lunch were on their way out by 1990 which also reflects that smoking was no longer considered "professional" and was something done by the lower classes instead.

I do suspect that the whole thing is a combination of factors: leaded gas started going away in 1992, smoking was going down by 1996, air pollution was finally getting better by 1990 (collapse of the steel industry in the 1980s, gas fired power plants, and better fuel efficiency in cars finally hitting the general public), etc.
Estrella: Lightweight and versatile build tool based on the esbuild compiler
The big step that dweb has taken in the past year is that it's now possible to build all the same protocols without requiring users or community managers to run servers themselves. Everything can be done in the web browser, and nothing requires user to have uptime anymore.
Good point. More likely, he did what was good for himself personally, to stay in power etc. Whilst saying to others that he did what was good for the USSR. And then, seems many people still today believe him
A response/critique to my comment is one thing.

A personal attack is not appropriate for this forum. I wouldn't have a made personal attack on you even if you had put what is you do in your profile.

FWIW I am proud of what I build, our products for half a decade have helped people to be able to take assesments from their home, whether it's disabilities or those cannot lose time on their jobs or would have to travel hundreds of miles just to an exam center to be certified. I am proud to have helped all of them.

There are plenty of discussions to be had on universities or certification bodies insisting on stringent requirements to do remote assesments to protect their integrity but a personal attack is not really the way to engage on this topic
They claim they have their own tools to combat fake reviews, etc. I'm not seeing it in action though.
So how do I output the PDF to my Epson dot-matrix? I was expecting TXT or PRN output....

I've been running the real Print Shop (PC version) in Dosbox with mixed success; LPT-USB passthrough is flaky and I should just throw real DOS on a real PC with a real parallel port.

This would of course be far superior if I could figure out what to do with the output.
"Plenty of fresh water"

I think this is highly dependent on specific location and the source. Things tend to get more arid around the western half of KY and OH. The Aquifer running under much of the plains-y areas is expected to run dry in the next 30 years. Who knows how weather patterns might affect it further.
But could email be invented and be massively adopted in today's world?
That was fantastic. Both informative and enjoyable, and the comments were an unexpected trove of giggles.

"Shouldn't it have a blinking red light on the end? You know, for airplanes."
Perceived brightness is very tricky as our vision naturally adjusts to normalize perceived colors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress

Personally I don’t see each image as equally blurred, but YMMV.
What's the profit motive you're suggesting? Fleecing the government for a telescope? Who else is going to pay for a telescope?
The Largest Comet Ever Found Is Making Its Move into a Sky Near You
I don’t agree. The advantage both had/have is a level of scale and brand inertia which makes it financially near-impossible for alternatives to grow large enough to compete.
I’m Worried Nobody Will Care About Rollups
Activity discovered on largest comet ever found
You may be on to something there. Nukes aren't something that you can cook up in your back yard yet but it seems inevitable that at a certain level of technology they will be. The same is even more true for biological warfare.

Society probably only functions below a certain level of technological advancement before everybody dies to an onslaught of engineered diseases.
With the dweb, you don't need to install 20 social media apps. There can be 20 different social media apps that all interoperate. I can be using one app, and you can be using another app, and we can still message each other and see each other's posts because the data is openly available across applications.

That's why it's going to win. You don't need every platform to implement every interesting feature, the open nature of the data allows the innovation to happen much more effortlessly.
You could go the decentralized way and host a document on IPFS.

Once the document is out there and pinned by nodes (and cached by gateways in periods of high demand), it's gonna be difficult to take it down.
You seem to be assuming that people are rational.
Looks like it's been sold at least once and the brand is being licensed out. I'm more impressed that Epic Megagames is still around.
Except that our perception of brightness, like loudness, is logarithmic, not linear.

So even if blue is 1/10th or 1/3rd as strong as another color, it's not really a big deal in terms of sensitivity.
Why the hell should I trust the miners more than the leadership? You say this like the leadership is this big, scary, shadowy group. The Ethereum leadership is one of the main reasons I invested in the coin. I love the leadership, and I trust them to make good decisions for the ecosystem.
It would seem that the closer one gets to recreating the look or sound of someone else, the less acceptable it is.