skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You really seem like you're not open to having your mind changed here. You took many of the current use cases and threw it out for no reason. What would change your mind here?

I'm not making these estimates, so you can call bullshit but I'm just saying the numbers that have been reported.

It doooooes a lot actually. There are a lot of financial transaction tools, which are not reasonable to throw away. Ethereum alone is on pace to settle trillions this year in transactions. NFT's are a substantial market, and are more than just selling a jpeg (which is a massive business in and of itself). They're the more abstract idea of introducing uniqueness through scarcity into a system that is fault tolerant, distributed, and secure (without having to build that system).

Some of the best use cases I've seen are from Vechain (I invested in this project). Vechain does supply chain tracking, which you also threw away for no good reason, and they're currently live in the real world working with real companies. You can go into a Walmart in China and interact with their food supply chain tracking system today. They also just launched a covid vaccine passport for the San Marino government. There are video games being built on their ecosystem, just like there are on many other cryptocurrencies.

Comparing incremental advancements in technology to the fundamental creation of the internet and ecommerce isn't a valid argument for saying crypto isn't useful. Electric vehicles are junk because it's not a personal spaceship.

No one is saying we'll find a use case eventually. People were saying that 5 years ago, there are already use cases and people are building billion dollar companies in those spaces faster than Amazon grew to a billion dollars. You clearly have not been keeping up with this field, and throwing out anything that didn't fit into your narrative. You should try to revisit it with an open mind.
Remember that Tesla is still a small company in terms of sales, business units, number of models, certainly only recently are they making a big numbers splash.

And they have a charging infrastructure.

Big Auto has:

- locations to put chargers (dealerships that are often in busy commercial areas close to highways)

- lobbying power (to get buildout incentives)

- a lot of money, at least right now

- lawyers and negotiating power

Remember, the grid already exists. A "charging infrastructure" is some last mile wiring and plopping down charger ports, ok, and maybe some review/planning/negotiation with the local power companies.

As soon as major companies are all-in (GM, VW currently), then Electrify America won't be able to get away with their crappy service, will build out, and the dealerships will provide a lot of expansion.

I believe GM could make a usable near-worldwide charging network in less than a year with their dealerships. I know the dealerships have been a massive foot dragging barrier for EV adoption outside of Tesla, but GM does have some power with them, and the writing should be on the wall.

You move to EV, or you are a shady used car lot.
Don't understand your response - I didn't say these things were problems. It's more of a matter of what Amazon will decide to do. Even with Bitpay the questions would still stand.
So we should build our entire lives completely around the basis of a once in 100 years level pandemic?

I’m not implying that there are no benefits to private space, there’s trades to both public and private spaces, but the balance is all on one side in North America, and we need to have a conversation about those issues rather than just saying it has to be the way it is because it already is that way.
there used to be an actity timeline journal program i ran on ubuntu that let me see which days i accessed which files. It was very useful as a sudent.
Retail PC sales are only a small portion of the x86 market. The vast majority of corporate PCs will continue to use x86 in the foreseeable future for compatibility reasons. On the datacenter / cloud side providers are trying to make inroads with ARM, such as Amazon's Graviton, but are meeting similar resistance.

Additionally we have yet to see x86 on the TSMC 5nm process. Making that leap once Apple's reservations expire may remove much of the performance gap.
There are so many things to do with Moon exploration besides building moon landers. People like Bezos just need to choose - you don't even need a particular imagination.

For example, if we're to progress forward from results of Apollo, we'll need Moon surface infrastructure. That's landing sites - with radio beacons, optical illumination and transport capabilities for payloads. We'll need Moon houses - places to live on the Moon for some longer time, like e.g. half a year in a row - and for that we'll need pressurized units, radiation protection, spacesuits, storage for aforementioned payloads... Is it possible, for example, to send something - maybe small - from Earth to Moon really fast - preferably faster than 2 days - if we need? Like, a critical device or a small amount of particular material? Starship isn't going to to that, not alone at least. How about really bulky units - do we need to assemble them on LEO or Moon surface? Caterpillar once wondered which equipment would be needed on the Moon - do we need raise those questions again? Space Studies Institute, by late O'Neill, who inspired Bezos, did some research into mass drivers ( http://ssi.org/category/mass-drivers/ ) - can BO help deploy something like that on the surface of the Moon?

We don't need landers alone. We'll soon need a whole range of equipment for Moon exploration, there will be more and other needs, BO needs to participate.
There's an Economist summary from 2016 at https://www.economist.com/schools-brief/2016/07/30/minskys-m....

The depressing part of his theory is that in his view, stability causes instability. If something is growing predictably, people start increasing their use of leverage until even a decline in the rate of growth will cause a crash.
Does it feel like gardening? Moderating HN that is. It'd have to be one of those "wild gardens" that's mostly the plants doing what they want with a bit of nudging. Pull out a weed here, tie up some branches there, clear the path, give a little extra water to something that didn't get a good chance yet, etc. Sorry for the OT, I was just curious if that analogy resonated.
A boeing 737 carries ~190 people and luggage. I don't see how that's going to be electrified. And I'm not talking in the sense of "technology isn't there yet", but more like "the laws of physics wouldn't appreciate that".

In my mind, the carbon neutra solution seems to lie in adopting renewable biofuels and engineering those jet engines to be ever more efficient, both of which seem attainable.
you know you can do much more with blockchain tech than just payments?

My hunch is that they could be building an NFT marketplace. It makes sense.
It won't be added to OpenSSL until it's standardized (see [1]). However there's an external provider available of somewhat dubious quality that adds support for it ([2]).

[1] https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/11613#issuecomment...

[2] https://github.com/J-Montgomery/blake3-prov
It sounds like the NIH has a definition of 'gain of function' that it uses when deciding whether to fund research or not and the research that was done didn't meet that definition.

I think Fauci's testimony is misleading because when Fauci say's no gain of function research was done then his questioners think that means no one was messing with viruses in a way that could have accidentally created a more dangerous virus. But apparently that is still possible under the NIH definition. This happens very frequently when people testify in Congress. They use words in a way that is interpreted in one way by the listener and then when that interpretation is found false they claim the words were meant to mean something different. It is very difficult to work out whether they were being honest and accidentally misled their listeners or whether it was deliberate.
I’d assume the extra complexity would be a huge downside. If the control logic of the synthetic inertia can be disabled, it won’t work.

A heavy rotating mass will continue spinning no matter what until mechanical losses (or external forces) stop it.
That's a ridiculous comparison.

Time pressure is directly tied to performance.

Sometimes, stuff breaks and wouldn't it be great if it got fixed in half an hour instead of four hours?

Projects sometimes have deadlines.

You are not talking about an accommodation made for something unrelated to the job, here. This is some gold-level mental gymnastics.
So you're saying that the US founded a lab in china to engineer a deadlier coronavirus?
Project Aims to Create Most Detailed 3-D Map of the Universe
My TM3 SR+ (USA made in 2019) latest supercharge was 10 minutes to add 17 kWh going from just under 20% to 54%.

Charge started a 143 kW (on a 150 kW unshared charger) and I ended it 10 minutes later while it was at 80 kW. This was enough to drive 130km to home (non highway) with about 20% battery left so 130 Wh/km.

When I travel on highway I stop at all superchargers, they're usually 1h to 2h of highway driving apart in my country (France), so similar experience.
I find that "online" docs are good, but "in-repl" docs are usually poor to inexistent (in packages, that is).

Base Julia has improved on this a lot, though there's still room for improvement (especially in terms of useful examples or linking to related functions).
Maybe because it is fully programmable and transparent, executing the same rules for all participants, with no restrictions?
IBM is made at GloFo, which is both an American chip designer with an American fabricator.

But GloFo is falling behind for sure. I don't think POWER10 will be made at GloFo.
I'm not sure how much difference that would make. Intel already has $20B in cash reserves and is still making large profits (in the billions of dollars). Their problems have nothing to do with lack money.
Sorry, I'm not a native speaker. Did I do anything wrong? My interpretation of what their statement means is that they don't plan to allow bitcoin payments but they anyway try to do tests with it internally.
Interests can change in a minute, and without warning.
Thanks.

Privacy&security trustworthiness-wise, Mobian is an unknown quantity (at least, to me).

That should be a big concern for something as sensitive as a smartphone/handheld, which tend to handle people's electronic communication, authentication for even more sensitive resources, etc.

One path to trust would be to become an official Debian project, and to be scrutinized by broader Debian people.
This can be computed in this sense:

"One of the great challenges in this world is knowing enough about a subject to think you're right, but not enough about the subject to know you're wrong." Neil deGrasse Tyson

Change "you're right" -> "you know the subject" & "you're wrong" -> "you don't know the subject".

Saying Facebook introduced "boosting" does not mean a lot...
Europe's Worker-Owned Food Delivery Apps
So Bitcoin shouldn't use renewables because there may be other uses of renewables? I genuinely don't get the energy use argument, this is much more of a government policy problem than a cryptocurrency problem. It feels like this could be extended to any company or product you don't like because you want to save the clean energy for the approved uses.
tinfoil hat.
I think it was a false news plant to cover the pump and dump that happened today to cover other obligation by some big players.
Dealerships suck and they dislike EVs (for political reasons, and for low maintenance cost service reasons) - I'm bearish on their ability to roll out charging via dealerships.

They might try, but I wouldn't be surprised if dealers parked cars in the spots for charging, had them in locked off areas, had them turned off or otherwise inaccessible, etc. I may be misremembering, but I think this was the case with existing infra at Nissan dealers and the leaf? Might have been GM and the volt? I remember seeing complaints online.

I suspect they'll fail to adapt the same way most large companies fail to adapt when a startup disrupts their existing customer base.

In this case, there's the added element that car manufacturers are also harmed by their legacy dealership relationships.
"Please resuscitate if not dead yet"
> I can almost assure you that poor people would love to shop at their local downtown if they could but right now with the lack of accessible public transportation and cheap housing near downtowns, shopping at big box stores is the best they can get.

You don't think people get any value out of a single store, with every product you may want, and much lower prices? This runs contrary to every piece of anecdotal and non-anecdotal evidence I've seen about the way consumers behave en masse. Hell, there's even an upper-income analogue in Amazon's explosive success over the last decade.
PayPal to research transactions that fund hate groups, extremists
I liked to assume destabilising democracies would hurt their bottom line, but reality seems to be the opposite.
I mean, this is nothing new. If you want newer processes, AMD does a pretty good job of keeping their Zen architecture on the cutting edge without under-engineering the end product. Intel's bag has always been about selling very specific things to specific audiences: bare-metal virtualization for people on Windows/MacOS (rip), super-wide SIMD busses, special overclockable models, IMEI, the list goes on. Intel, much like Apple, is selling a product that supposedly offers a better "experience" than their competitors, which moves like gangbusters in the corporate sector.
It's been a few years, but I got a lot out of Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky. It helped me adopt a professional attitude toward how I built software and worked in teams. If you want to save some money, most of the book is taken from posts on his blog.
I've been using lamdera regularly for a over a year. Having a full-stack, one-language solution makes development so much more pleasant and efficient. https://minilatex.lamdera.app
As much as many of us would like it to be, the kind of data science work you see Scala used for is a pretty small part of what Julia is used for.

I think a big part of that is because DS rarely involves writing fast numeric kernels or hot inner loops, i.e. user code that needs to do numeric stuff quickly. This is in large part because very large organizations have poured untold millions into libraries that already handle this (e.g Spark).

In domains where this has not happened or that have more bespoke requirements (e.g. modelling and simulation), something like Julia is far more compelling. That's not to say it's not viable, but unless more practitioners start feeling stuck in a rut [1] I don't see the mindshare changing dramatically.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3317550.3321441
Gives a new meaning to “software is eating the world”
Personally, I really hope we keep all 3 of these companies (and maybe gain a 4th competitor in the form of SMIC) for as long as possible. Having a variety of companies producing chips is important both for competition and supply chain resilience reasons.
Yeah this type of argument always contradicts itself. "Use Linux because it doesn't have viruses". Why doesn't it have viruses? "It's not popular enough". So by suggesting Linux, thus making it more popular, you're increasing the risk of viruses?
I do agree, proof of work at this point is entirely outdated. I actually don't invest in Bitcoin because I think a lot of the technology is antiquated, and there are better solutions for everything but the network affect.
I'm wondering if newer projects like Cardano are trying to address reversibility at all. To me this looks like the real roadblock for crypto. No financial institution wants to go broke because of a bug in the code. Granted, this can also happen in traditional finance, albeit with crypto it looks a lot easier to achieve.
https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/74/Supple...
>> simple tasks which any simple automated system would suffice.

Show me a machine that can go from room to room, from vehicle to vehicle, counting rifles without error. In the dark. In the mud. When all the vehicles are parked in different places every day. Or another regular task at my unit: itemizing first aid kits. Good luck telling a robot to count the number of tourniquets in a locker without making a mess of things.

>>and "good enough" technique.

These aren't good enough things. The human being counting things and signing a piece of paper is better than the automated/online system. A human's positive control cannot be hacked remotely. Go to a hospital and see if the surgeons are ok with their tools being cleaned and counted by machines, without human backup. Will never happen.
thanks, good point
do I need an account to login?
I agree that some of the photo comparisons were weird.

The rest however was indeed very convincing to me. Mismatched eye color, height and appearance untypical of that age, and cognitive tests that estimated a much younger age? That's not something you can just discard imho, and those are the metrics you can hardly fake.

> changing identity like this would have been spotted really quickly.

Unless the people close to her didn't have an interest in spilling the beans.
> The Cybertruck is going to flop, after it initially sells well. Ford and the other traditional truck manufacturers will dominate electric trucks, because they're going to sell their customers the trucks those customers actually want to buy, not impractical gimmicks.

Complete nonsense. Ford or GM do not have supply of batteries to produce all those trucks you believe they will make. Specially not when also attempting to ramp many of their normal cars.

The claim that Tesla vehicles will drop of in sales after early adopters has been wrong every single time. Cyblertruck has more pre-orders then any vehicle ever. Every single analysis on interest in the truck show gigantic interest.

> Musk already knows it's going to ultimately flop, he has begun preparing the market for that outcome.

This statement is literally wrong. Musk actually did the exact opposite. Musk says its the best product they have ever designed. And they are building a gigantic factory specifically for that product, a factory that cost billions.

Solar, EV, Battery, Grid Battery, Semis are all in exponential growth. Saying 'look at the currently biggest battery company' is an dumb measure. That like saying 'look at what the largest airplane company is worth in 1920, therefore no large airplane company in 1940 can that big'.

I haven't look at that specific forecast, it might well be optimistic. But there is no question that all of those markets are gone grow exponentially and its no question that Tesla is incredibly well placed to take advantage of those growth curves.
Of course it is that simple. A quarter is made up of a bunch of hours.

Nobody is asking an interviewee to have a full product prototype ready for demo inside an hour. What they do is present some problem to you and ask you to reason through it.

Being able to work out pitfalls in a design early, rather than several weeks in, saves a lot of time and money.

So in short, yes. It is that simple.
I am convinced that Jeanne Calment was actually two people. She is a fairly strange outlier in the record of the oldest people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_verified_oldest_pe...

The oldest person on record is Jeanne at 122, then one 119, then one 118, then the next seven are at 117, then the next thirteen are at 116. She's just an extreme outlier from the rest of the distribution.

Also, in the 25 years since Calment, the distribution of subsequent extremely old people has seemed unchanged. Nobody has gotten any closer to Calment, although we've had far more people in the 114-117 range. It all points to a faked data point.
> look at the underlying design of SHA-3 - it’s really elegant

Yes, I imlemented a whole pile of hash functions, and I agree wholeheartedly. Whereas md5/sha seem to be have been designed by pouring a hodgepodge of complexity into a algorithm until something indecipherable turned up sha3 is simple. It's just a small number of easily understood operations, each with a clear purpose.

Actually, it looked to me like it's been an evolution. md5 is insanely complex and the sha2 family got simpler, then then we get t sha3.

Symmetric algorithms look to be going the same way. DES is insanely complex, AES less so, and Speck in almost unbelievably simple (look at the source code on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speck_(cipher)). It seems to be an unfashionable viewpoint, but in my mind that simplicity makes Speck seem more worthy of trust that a lot of it's rivals.

Mind you,
If they're getting into NFT it's to sell shovels to the speculators.
we must have different highways. I've never had anything close to full braking. only slowing for disabled vehicles/highway barriers

or maybe you're using it off highway?
Yea, looks like that source came out Dec 2019 which is after I first looked into this.

Very interesting & well written write up! Even though Wikipedia says "Better source needed" for whatever reason.

The author still casts a good amount of doubt on her claim though, and even assuming the existing evidence is correct she still couldve been 116 it says.

But yea as long as you don't have birth certificates or baptism records I guess that would always be true.
If more than 51% of BTC mining eventually takes place on machines rented from AWS, could Bezos flip a switch and take control of the blockchain (e.g. by shutting down the miners running on the AWS hardware, and rebooting it all with miners he controls?)
I think what's being discussed is not that police should be unarmed, but that police should not be the first choice to respond to situations where they currently often are.
It should be called "transpose up 1/2 step". E.g. if the song has an Eb m chord that you'd like to play using an Em fingering on your detuned instrument, the notation needs to be transposed up 1/2 step.
Wouldn’t they be able to do that without integrating Bitcoin as a payment gateway?
Semi-unrelated again:

Apple loves to lock you into their ecosystem (need an iPhone to use Apple Watch, etc), but iMessage is incredibly effective and often overlooked. If you use it heavily and want to move away from Apple, your options are to simply not take part in those conversations, or to convince everyone else to switch to something else. It sucks.
Intel is trying to buy gf
Subnautica 2 is add-on DLC for the first game. It just doesn’t feel like a new game.
Is this an evolutionary mechanism that weeds out buggy DeFi contracts? Not saying the process to get to the end with a few trusted contracts/systems is going to be painless.