skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just imagine all the bank tellers (transaction validators) driving to work each day.

Don't forget the Proof of Violence that secures the fiat monetary system. The US military is the largest institutional consumer of oil on the planet.

> It is always interesting to me how other PoW chains are completely ignored in the general hatred.

And simultaneously, bitcoin still gets blamed for GPU prices, even though that's Ethereum and other alts.

> The end solution might eventually be to tokenize all btc, on top of eth.

Highly unlikely. There are good arguments for why PoS will never fully replace PoW. I think it's more likely that all the altcoin use cases get rebased as second layers anchored into bitcoin's PoW.
My current job title is "Head of T<important techy stuff>". I have to get lots of stuff done. But unless my to-do items are, "play guitar", "play nethack", "go for a walk" or "eat as much spaghetti as you want", chances are I don't _want_ to do those things. I _have_ to do them. I promise, you that a list comprised totally of things that I _want_ to get done - will get done. The things I _have_ to get done? Eh - sometimes they get done, sometimes the can gets kicked down the road, sometimes they get delegated, and sometimes (my favourite) they get cancelled. I have tried countless tools over my decades working, and none have helped me with the motivation issue.
Agreed. CBS is on their list. I can't even name anything on CBS.
SAP.

Enough said.
There are a lot of factors to consider in reusable versus single use. For example, this video says you need to use a cotton reusable bag 7100 times to offset its environmental impact versus single use plastic bags. It goes into many other considerations too, including disposal problems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvzvM9tf5s0
> Congress would be dumb to

You must be new here.
> Mars is a 8 month journey. Alpha Centauri, the nearest star, is a 296,000 year journey using the current propulsion technology. We'll have colonized every single colonizable planets in the Solar System before then.

Sure, but there is nothing on Mars. We have no reason to colonize places that lack even the basic resources necessary for life, or some precious resources that are scarce on Earth. At least with a different star system, you can imagine that in some far flung future we may need to escape the expansion of the Sun (though assuming humanity survives for some billions of years is indeed unlikely).

> Future of humanity depends on advance in science. Space exploration has always been a major force that drives science forward, asteroid mining included. So many examples to list, but just to pick one:

I'm not sure what the article was supposed to show, is spectroscopy a technology invented as part of the space program?

It's true that a product of the spave program are advanced materials and other factors that can be re-used on the Earth. But this is more a question of the vast resources which were invested in the space race, which could as well have been invested in Earth programs and would have likely yielded similar results.

Teh most valuable results of the space programs have been communications satellites and things like the hubble space telescope - which has done far more for scientific space exploration than the entire Apollo program, as have the Voyager probes, Mars rover etc.

Manned space exploration may still serve an inspirational purpose, though. I absolutely admit that the social and inspirational impact of seeing a human on the Moon/Mars/in outer space is hard to beat.
I actually toured the USS Independence when it was docked at Pier 80 in SF during Fleet Week a few years ago - really cool propulsion system the crew described to us as a jet ski with similar speed and maneuverability implications.
but only as long as google leaves api "blocks" open for it. They are slowly removing those
Well there's the Premium option. You don't see any ads and though the recommendations are sometimes low qualty, most of them don't stike me as overt clickbait.
There are better things to spend it on: infrastructure, education, health, space, and more
That's actually more companies than I would have guessed.
Ha, AMC has a liquor license around here, but since re-opening I've still had:

1. A movie start 30 minutes late as they had forgotten about the showing

2. 30 minutes worth of ads after the supposed start time of the film

3. God awful food whose quality rivals Circle K at quadruple the prices

4. Alcoholic beverages that are several times more expensive than the plastic bottle their liquors come from

Not to say all theaters are this way, but certainly the only theaters I have access to around me are. Decided to give up after the third horrible repeat. I do miss the old independent theater from down in Tucson, they suffered from none of these issues; unfortunately nothing like that where I am now. Can't speak to Alamo.
10 days, IIRC
Yes! I used to be obsessive about TODOs but never found a solution that worked for more than a year. After the novelty wore off, my lists would grow longer and the satisfaction of clearing them would wane. Then I just stopped.

And my productivity grew anyway! If I value the task, it gets done because it stays on my mind. Reminders help because there’s no giant list to maintain or to make me feel guilty or defeated. Without the TODOs, I have been more spontaneous and naturally more selective about where I focus my attention.
It’s relatively simple, settled science that masks are effective against airborne pathogens, but I agree that all the rhetoric ignores the fact that masks are only as good as people are at wearing them. Visit any airport in America and you’ll see at least a third of the people technically wearing a mask, but not effectively wearing a mask. Vaccines are our way out of this, full stop.
This drove me crazy for the longest time, but I discovered there's a payments page[1] that lists each individual charge with a link to the order it's associated with. This has made reconciliation in YNAB much faster and reliable.

1. https://www.amazon.com/cpe/yourpayments/transactions
I would love to know about what that thing is in the prow. Is it an anchor?

I love the hull shape. It looks like it would deal with some nasty seas. If it hit a 50' wall of water, those upwards pointing planes should point it upwards and along with the inherent buoyancy, get the ship back to the surface.

The piccy:

https://news.usni.org/2021/07/31/navy-quietly-decommissions-...

... shows that there is a chain going down and some rope warps and springs.
I don't think anyone can blame someone for having security vulnerabilities on a platform that they explicitly do not support.
The 90's Lotus 108¹ mentioned in the article is such a radically different approach to the one in TFA. I wonder if any of the new ideas were considered back in the 90s, but dropped because of materials, less CFD access, $something_totally_different.

The new one looks like incredibly good value for money too, given they were knocking the old bike out for £15,000 in the early nineties.

JNRowe wanders off to shake penny jar

¹ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_108
The 3 billion that goes to Israel is used to maintain its military edge over all of its neighbors. The 3 billion which goes to Egypt goes to the military-class to maintain its hold over the country.
but it 's very optional, which changes the dynamic
It could go to a Basic Income for all low income Americans.
My favorite job and most efficient I have ever been was when all we used was a set of trello boards with a list of dev, admin, and auxiliary tasks. Dead simple to manage, everyone can see what's going on, and we would just have a meeting every week or 2 to discuss where we are and coordinate on the next steps to repopulate the boards.
Yes, the uncertainty is by far the worst part. I personally won't seek medical help unless I am completely sure I have a problem I can't handle myself (which will likely get me killed eventually, but at least my family will be able to pay for the funeral). A large part of that is not having any way to pre-budget the cost. If I don't know for sure I have a problem I can't deal with, I could go through thousands of dollars worth of testing only to find that it's acid reflux. And at that point the reflux would become worse because I'll develop ulcers just thinking of the debt.
The acceptance of fiat in a transaction is not enforced. People selling an item can refuse dollars and require the use of pesos or Monopoly money if they wish.

Currencies in some countries are required to be accepted by creditors, but transactions are pretty much unregulated.
Pearson bets on direct-to-student subscription shift
If you're in a situation where a state is after you, cash or bitcoin isn't going to help. If they decide you owe them hundreds of millions, they'll claw it from you when you try to spend that cash on oil and find out your tanker was intercepted in the Indian ocean and its contents sold off to pay the state.

The article's description of global momentary systems being colliding whirlpools is very apt. The international arena is a game played by giants, where individuals travel and do business with their permission, and we very quickly find ourselves unpersoned if we piss off our home whirlpool and can't find another to jump into. Most of us that stay comfortably in the center of a whirlpool don't even notice it. But criminal groups, political dissidents, international corporations, and even someone dealing with cross border taxes and payments will know how bad the waves on the edges can get.
Even if you call the node built-in libraries 'the standard library' (for node), from context I think it was clear that GGP was referring to the ECMAScript standard library
Must take in mind that the stuff also decomposes spontaneously. If stored for many months in bad conditions of conservation some amount just would go silently to the air in form of water vapor and laughing gas.
First of all is money spent on equipment to kill people. Second, it's money that is not spent on things that really matter, like education, health care, green energy, etc.
Combinator Golf
Same. I use it hours a day. I don't get it. There is something broken or misconfigured on these users machines, at least from FF's position. I use it on Linux, windows, mac, and mobile with no issues except when I've enabled so much adblock stuff that I have to start backing it off for that website :) (only if I really, really, really need the site)
Examples for what happens when media ownership is concentrated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksb3KD6DfSI

And this one I'm not sure if it's just good PR by Amazon or laziness by media outlets or both: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6U2Un5kEdI
Project idea:

Correlate this data with AMZN stock price and determine how much money you would have if you had bought the stock instead of the item.
It's taking money away from the people who sacrificed a part of their life for it and giving it to people who place zero importance on it....

It's literally parasitic.

Are you serious?
Maybe bitcoin is just the opposite of a carbon credit. Turns out co2 consumption vouchers are more profitable than co2 credits.
Life-affirming, but a little discouraging to those of us who are seeking to rebuild our hypertext-attenuated attention spans in favor of the printed word. Acceptance helps, but how does one truly master the ability to read books again?

I think one thing is to consider what alternate activity one is engaging in as procrastination away from reading. And hypertext whether long-form essay, news article, social media post, comment thread, let alone video media, is such an effective consumer of attention.
They could do both. Government money isn't finite, that's my point. They certainly would never have a meeting where they said, ok we cut a trillion from the military, what should we move it to? It doesn't work like that.
What are you proposing? Why can’t we put that energy into educating the public to break the deadlock of Congress as this is the device that is exploited by the corrupt to rob the people, instead you want civil war and murder in the country with the most destructive power in the world?
They usually still combine it. If I have ordered something and then remember to order something else shortly later they still will often ship together anyway.
Space exploration and expansion shouldn’t be in the hands of the government in the first place. Let the private sector figure out how to do it, pay for it, and profit on it.
Look up the economist Basquiat: you can raise the GDP by tossing bricks through windows — money will be spent replacing /repairing them which contributes to the GDP.

But that same money could have been spent differently on things people like, or invested.

These ships, and the structure of military spending, is more like Basquiat’s example.
Great to see people sharing stuff that we all might never see again otherwise... the digital black hole is real and individuals are those doing the archiving! Respect :)
> I'm not exactly sure what ML (if any) is in the guts of a commercial or military airplane.

I never get tired of the fact that first jet airliners with fully automated landing systems had been developed and were going through certification for regular use by the time first microcontrollers popped up. Intel 4004 came in 1971, here's Hawker Siddeley Trident landing in a 1968 promo movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flVcxfOnWi0&t=9s
Government money isn't finite and doesn't get shuffled from budget to budget in some sort of rational discussion. It's all just numbers and politics.
the only thing that really broke for me was my favorite downloader. Everthing else had an add on for the new non-XUL api fairly quickly. I think some people just hold a grudge. I think programmers are well known for that.
This seems like a city-centric view of things. You get Verizon near highways just about everywhere around here, but 1 mile from the highway at my house I get spotty Verizon on one side of my house (enough to use voice on phone, not enough to reliably use a hotspot device), and pretty much nothing on the other side. Verizon coverage map claims to cover everything within hundred miles perfectly with LTE, reality is moving 100 feet can change whether you can get a signal or not.
They said it has been used for over 50 million miles so far, and that there are over 100k minutes of driving being done with it per day.
Taxes don't equal government expenditure. It's not a inflow-outflow system.
So can China do this as well but instead just kill it off.
Gotcha. I know that the first trailer substituted the word “jihad” with “crusade”. That rubbed me the wrong way as well. But as someone who has pored over every bit of available information about this movie, I’ve come across an interview with someone who saw a test screening AND was already familiar with the book. They were directly asked if the word jihad was used in the film and they said that it was.

It seems that the ommission of jihad in the film’s marketing may have been a strategy to side-step any potential negative press in the lead-up to the film’s release. That seems wise given the way that American media likes to sensationalize every last detail that can be mined for potential outrage/eyeballs.

I guess we’ll see it and find out for sure.
In a lot of math disciplines, the papers follow the Hardy-Littlewood rule, so the author names are ordered alphabetically [1]. Maybe, that's what you've been noticing. In my area (programming languages, which may be sometimes theoretical but it's mostly a mixed bag), I noticed only one group follow that convention. Others follow the "first author is the main contributor, last author is the advisor" convention you described.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_authorship#Authorship...
In communist countries the party controls the media. In dictatorships the secret police control the media. In liberal democracies the rich control the media.
A History of Getting Hammered, and Why Some of Us Should Keep Doing It
And for more context: Cython/mypyc differences - https://mypyc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html#dif...

Also mypyc is still very alpha, while cython is production-usable for years now.
Exactly so is it useful to constantly speculate about it ?
What do people need to be educated about?

That Congress is gerrymandering their districts and stealing their votes to stay in office until they're a hundred years old?

The the only way to win elections is by big dollars and we have a two party system to represent 300 million people with candidates picked by the elite?

That national inequality is at levels never seen before, and big money interests control more and more of the country?

That black rock is trying to buy up all the real estate?

That the federal reserve just printed 40% of all dollars in circulation last year and inflation is increasing?

Everyone is aware of this stuff and more.

This is not fresh news.

Maybe we need to just tell the presidents that started and continued the Iraq wars resulting in the killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in the middle east....tell the presidents who sent 60K American kids to die in Vietnam plus countless Vietnamese....tell the FBI,CIA,TSA,NSA,DEA,DoD,ATF,National guard, state police, city police, county police (police who are militarizing with military vehicles and military weapons) all groups whose are mandated to deliver violence to you or your families if you disobey.

Maybe we need to just tell all of these authority groups to just chill out man!

Peace doesn't work with human beings because humans are primates.

Our closest evolutionary ancestors are Chimps...who rip the hands and feet and genitals off of their enemies and leave them to die in the jungle(google it).

Only fear of retribution demands respect in the primate world.

And the metaphorical neutering of the American population by advocates for peace and love and putting down our arms...does not demand respect.

As evidenced throughout a quarter million years of human history, which has been filled almost entirely(until recently)... with bloodshed, crushing misery, and violent deposition of dictators...because the rich and powerful love to crush their foot on the neck of the peasantry and lord their power over them...there will be bloodshed.

It's just a matter of time and when the people get sick of the abuses by the rich and powerful.

This country is no longer a Democracy. Your vote no longer matters. Voting is propaganda, we're just waiting for enough people to suffer, to begin to question it..

Millions of people are estimated to be evicted in the coming months.

Winter is coming in the upcoming years.
That boat sailed a long time ago.
Yep. I’m not talking making it a maze. Just a couple jumps so you clearly are interested in talking. Not just spamming or resume dumping or something.
And used to be under 10 MB.

https://groups.google.com/g/v8-users/c/OaC4TQQjxFg
> [O]ne wouldn't have thought jobs like ambassador routinely get offered to stupid people.

One would be wrong, then. Ambassadorial appointments to countries of little geopolitical significance are often used as favors for political supporters, particularly the "more money than sense" sort.

In other cases, where the country only presents diplomatic downsides (IOW, the best-case scenario is "nothing newsworthy going on"), it can be difficult to get anyone to accept what amounts to a hot-potato appointment, especially if they are smart.
If you want to read then plan a time to read. 10 PM, 6 AM, whatever works for you and read for 5 minutes, 10 minutes, however long you think your attention can hold. Eventually that time will get longer and longer.
This article nicely articulates why counting might be problematic if counts are not representative of what they’re proposing to measure.

Another way in which it’s very hard to get counting right is when the phenomenon being observed cannot be broken into discrete & fungible pieces — the essence of counting is that there is a meaningful fungible “unit” worth talking about.

One of my favorite illustrations of this is a beautiful excerpt [1] in an RK Narayan novel (Swami and friends) through the eyes of a child who can’t fathom the weird problems in his math homework — because he has a much richer sense of reality than his textbook can ever hope to convey.

Another example context (slightly more “high-brow”) in which fungibility clearly breaks down is fat-tailed distributions. In a thin-tailed distribution (like a bell curve) the fluctuations from “typical” can often be assumed small enough that any measurement/sample could be fungibly replaced by the typical (Eg: designing furniture for the typical person). Counting, averages, etc are only guaranteed to make sense in this situation. In a fat-tailed distribution, OTOH, it’s cumulative properties might be dominated by outliers — so trying to characterize the system based on counts might often be quite meaningless! (Eg: designing buildings for the typical earthquake or the typical tsunami)

(There’s a lot of nuance, but I’ll leave it at that)

[1] https://potterfiend.blogspot.com/2006/03/swami-and-friends-m...
No, the real secret is that the US government controls dollar creation. At the sign of any problem in the economy, they create more cash and give it to bankers, who on their turn put it in the hands of investors, who use it to buy assets around the world, increasing the assets and profits of American businesses. That's why the US will use any dirt trick to maintain the dollar supremacy.
The problem isn't NASA. It's congresscritters.
> for regular browsing I'm stuck with Firefox version<57

What? Why? That’s not covered by ESR support anymore; are you just running without security patches?
even the crappiest laptop CPU can do 10000 x 4096-bit RSA signature verifications per second

my 2014 laptop (on battery, no hardware acceleration):

sign verify sign/s verify/s
rsa 4096 bits 0.006200s 0.000096s 161.3 10468.9

(not to mention everyone's using ec these days, which is quite a bit faster)
Well it isn't, there's just many different types of cells that cause cancer.
What baffles me is the number of humans who think they are in the personal possession of some super special sacred form of magical and unexplainable intelligence. "AI is just stats" yes, indeed, but so is human intelligence. In many ways, AI from 2010 was already better than human intelligence.

Three remarks:

- The task many people seem to be benchmarking against is not just a measure of general intelligence, but a measure of how well AI is able to emulate human intelligence. That's not wrong, but I do find it amusing. Emulating any system within another generally requires an order of magnitude higher performance.

- The degree to which human intelligence fails catastrophically in each of our lives, on a continuous basis, is way too quickly forgotten. We have a very selective memory indeed. We have absolutely terrible judgment, are super irrational, and pretty reliably make decisions that are against our own interests, whether it's with regard to tobacco use, avoidance of physical exercise, or refusal of life-saving medications or prophylactics. We avoid spending time learning maths and science because it's not cool, and we openly display pride in our anti-intellectual behaviours and attitudes. We're all incredibly stupid by default.

- AI researchers need to work more closely with neuroanatomists. The main thing preventing AI from behaving like a human is the different macro structure of human NNs vs artificial NNs. Our brains aren't random assortments of randomly connected neurons: there's structure in there that explains our patterns of behaviour, and that is lacking in even the most modern AI. We can't expect AI to be human if we don't give it human structures.
Forth seems easier to do over a weekend, though.