skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure.

Price fixing of the yuan to keep Chinese manufacturing significantly cheaper than everywhere else.
https://www.investopedia.com/trading/chinese-devaluation-yua...

Taiwan's independence. The emergence of TSMC is pretty critical at this point in time and the US and other European countries have paid them a lot of money to open plants in their territories.

Chinas aircraft carrier program
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_aircraft_carrier_progr...

Chinas claims that the j20 can "beat" the f22.
https://guardingindia.com/china/china-claims-that-j-20-can-b...

And the most recent and my latest favorite:
China has started up 250 ICBM silos for nuclear weapons
https://apnews.com/article/technology-europe-business-scienc....

This is most likely in direct response to the latest US anti missile capabilities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_High_Altitude_Area_De...

China now has to either pretend is has way more nuclear missiles or actually make them (and maintain them).

The US and China are in this constant state of "our biggest trade partner is also our current biggest rival". I'm not really sure what the end game of that entails but I'm really hoping it just maintains at dick waving status.

It's going to be very interesting if/how China steps into Afghanistan. That was basically Russia's vietnam. The current US situation with it should be pretty obvious to everyone at this point.

We specifically did pacific theatre exercises with the japanese self defense force and the south korean military with shit like launching land based JSDF missles from USN ships target guidance and plenty of other joint operations to show China(maybe Russia?) the capabilities of the US armed forces and it's allies.

inb4 "the usa started it". Yeah probably. China has been playing the military dick measuring game for the last 10 years pretty hard tho. I didn't think any country was as stupid as the USA to put as much money into defense spending but here we are (I am a US citizen).

tl;dr China is openly hostile to US military and economic influence in SE Asia.
It would be a good start, if australia would not burn so much coal anymore. Apart from that ... build energy intensive industry, anything with metal. And then if you still have a surpluss (very possible) export hydrogen or biofuel. Or build high voltage direct current power lines to asia.
Well, only two are directly against the government’s interests.
PC processors have bitwise instructions processing floats.

When I need absolute value, I usually do it like that in C++:

return _mm_andnot_pd( _mm_set1_pd( -0.0 ), vec );
Look up Internal Family Systems. Here’s a talk on it by the founder https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tezLxoSU-Ow. It’s premise is that we are all “multiple” ie we have multiple parts. But we don’t all suffer from dissociative identity disorder. It’s an important but subtle distinction. IFS was founded in the 80s.
The Murder of Omie Wise
Do most money managers want to buy casino chips? Is the market in chips large enough to cause the government to copy the chip market and tax the exchange of chips? Get you buy chips on all major exchanges? Visa should be worried.
The fact that the video wasn't from Technology Connections was both surprising and disappointing. Great share though! I wish ACs and heat pumps were more common in the UK, though I understand why they aren't (yet! I expect an AC installing craze in the next couple of years).
Where was this revealed? genuinely curious, I never heard about this.
Deno on MDN
Quick question, isn't the scanning only happening on iCloud?

If yes, then honest question:

Does anyone actually believe that content uploaded into the cloud doesn't get scanned by big tech companies for whatever latest flavour of "innovation" someone comes up with?

For example, GitHub was scanning repos for Co-Pilot. We all know Google already scans everything, including Gmail and Microsoft is the king of "telemetry".

What is the difference that scares people about Apple's CSAM scanning? I admit I haven't followed all the news very thoroughly because I usually wait a few weeks to see which outrage sticks and which not. Too much outrage nowadays to keep up with everything so this is an honest question.
Book Exploring Async Basics
> That’s for a network with 100+ million estimated users.

User is such a wishy-washy term. I believe that number includes those who have a Bitcoin wallet and haven't touched it in years, perhaps because investing or saving is a form of use.

Facebook has nearly 3 billion active monthly users. https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly... and uses 5 TWh https://www.statista.com/statistics/580087/energy-use-of-fac... .

So, at least 30x the number of users, supported with 3-4% of the power.

Or, American Christmas lights account for 6 TWh - https://www.brainerddispatch.com/business/technology/4533463... - also with 100+ million estimated users.

Thus, it seems cherry-picking to say "From that list, Bitcoin’s energy usage is the closest to that of the cruise industry’s energy usage, but bitcoins are used by more people, and the network scales far better", when that list includes Facebook and Christmas lights, both used by more people and with better scaling.

Especially since cruise ships are notorious for how much pollution they generate. Eg, https://www.geekyexplorer.com/cruise-ship-pollution/ and https://en.nabu.de/topics/traffic/cruiseships.html .

So, the point seems to be that Bitcoin isn't quite as bad as one of the most polluting forms of travel? Great.

> If Bitcoin did indeed have serious energy scaling problems, it would eventually fail against competitors in the private marketplace by not offering enough utility for its energy consumption.

The "private marketplace" does not include externalized costs, like pollution.

How long is "eventually"? If the network effect is large then it may take a very long time. Therefore, the lack of failure to date is not the same as evidence that Bitcoin doesn't have serious energy scaling problems.

> we should also consider the details for how it uses energy and the types of energy it uses.

The key question is the amount of pollution generated, including CO2. Not "energy". If it were fossil-free, this wouldn't be an issue, IMO.

So, how long until BitCoin is fossil-free?

The author only says the amount of fossil-free sources is increasing.

> As a result, bitcoin miners seek out inefficiencies around the world where electricity is being underutilized and wasted.

Did you note the slight-of-hand? Earlier the author compared Bitcoin power use to world-wide power use. Now it switched to "where electricity is being underutilized and wasted", as if the electricity already existed, and would have been generated anyway.

I point this out because of stories like https://grist.org/technology/bitcoin-greenidge-seneca-lake-c... , where a fossil-fuel power plant switched to Bitcoin mining because there wasn't enough local power needs to be profitable.

If the plant were instead shut down, would it be "underutilized and wasted"?

Only to profit-seekers who want to extract every last cent, and let someone else pay for the damage once the approach eventually fails.
"However, the geladas don’t seem to get anything from the relationship, since the wolves are unlikely to deter other predators such as leopards or feral dogs, he says."
If the government would get out of the way, yes.

Unfortunately we have a government that has so clearly been bought and paid for by the existing money.

Our Prime Minister brought coal into Parliament and extolled it's virtues, going on and on about how it's the future. Right now they're building a $600M gas power plant[1], and Victoria is the only jurisdiction in the world where you are actively fined for driving an EV. [2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/aug/23/solar...

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-22/victoria-electric-veh...
> How is what Waymo offering anything like a souped up cruise control?

It is actually less than that, since there is no Waymo car you can go out and buy. Driverless Uber rides are absolutely useless. When I order an Uber, how does it matter to me if it is driven by a human or a computer?
I wonder if this loophole for institutional investors to buy crypto on the stock market will be enough to turn around Coinbase’s slipping share price.
S-expressions aren't inherently more difficult to read than JSON, it's just a matter of getting used to it.
Yeah, at least someone not used to using a normal bike is very obvious on an e-bike, as their cadence is often waaaay too slow. That speed with that cadence would basically translate to doing non-stop 100kg squats. Bikes have gears for a reason.

I do think the regulations in EU are fine as they are. 25 km/h max speed before it cuts the power etc. It happens that I see someone that should've "earned" their speed by getting used to lower speeds first and then naturally progressing, but I don't think adding a new license for that is worth it.
Lack of confidence in national governance. Also, in this case, TINA (there is no alternative) and "talking your book" (to build interest).
This is very interesting, however, I wonder how those numbers reconcile with wildly different prices based on insurer.

At a naive look, if insurance cost would be less than 10% of the final cost of a service (assuming that a generic service can represent health cost in general), one would expect the difference to be in that range - but the article shows a much higher variance.
Bitcoin has some arguably valid use cases like empowering online markets for drugs, porn, and illicit stuff. It is also an interesting way out for countries with a failed economic system, like Nigeria or Venezuela as explained in the article.

Outside of that, no. We have more efficient means of payment. And that means of payment is tied to a government that is democratically elected (for most of the biggest currencies, at least). If you are not happy with the government's economic policy, fix the government.
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Trustless, Screenless, Checkoutless
True. In the same way that car-crashes and other pointless disasters come to mind.
Tested at https://www.jdoodle.com/execute-pascal-online/

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If someone calls for a ban for using electricity, they go into a weird place in my list. You pay for using electricity, simple use whatever you want. Market dynamics control supply and demand, not anybody's wishes or self-righteousness
If somebody's overworked, then their boss is not doing their job well and should be complained to.
Australian man pleads guilty to downloading Christchurch video
Node.js binding for libobs – OBS studio's internal library
Understanding the React useState hook and then building a mini-app with it
Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH): Practical and Illustrated Guide
This advice is warm spirited and practical and I endorse taking actions to make oneself safer. But, also, it's disgusting that anyone should be harassed by police and feel unsafe walking where they live. That is a terrible status quo and the GP deserves better, full stop.
Two instances I recall in movies/TV where the wrong gesture lead to problems:

1. In Inglorious Basterds, when British undercover agent Lt. Hicox's cover is blown after he orders three scotch with the British three (index, middle, and ring fingers), rather than the German (thumb, index, and middle fingers) [1].

2. In the TV series Tehran, when an Israeli undercover agent posing as a Persian at a Iranian checkpoint gives the thumbs-up gesture, which, as covered in the article, is not a good thing in Iran. (Frankly, that stretched credulity. I don't think the Mossad would overlook something so basic.)

[1] https://screenrant.com/inglourious-basterds-tarantino-3-fing...
It gives Bitcoin a strange sense of legitimacy when mainstream news sites use it for filler articles.

It's been higher before, it's grown faster before[1]. It's probably going to keep trending upward, with spikes and crashes, due to fiat's built-in inflation and Bitcoin's built-in deflation.

Stocks go up and down every day, and news sites like to pick an up-today stock if they want to make it seem like the economy is good and a down-today stock if they want to make it seem like the economy is bad. Anyone who plans to buy or sell stocks or Bitcoin monitors the price independently and wouldn't find daily figures helpful anyway. It's not useful news, it just pads the site and gives editors a little influence over readers' moods.

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/price/bitcoin
I am curious if HN has input on this:

The court heard the father-of-one downloaded the video two weeks after the massacre in March 2019, but had last viewed the video in April this year, prompting police to search his property.

How would they know if/when the video was watched?
"Bitches"
The article is about how the Java standard library implements its equivalent of fabs() and why it changed from a careful and clever comparison to bit twiddling
Also: Tesla can make a nice car, but doesn't like doing so very often. Please look up the pre-delivery checklists.

Tesla is not like a regular manufacturer where you can walk around a vehicle and determine if you want to accept it. You have to actually test things - even the things that we've been doing right since the Model T. These things are built in tents by staff that is treated quite poorly, and you should be skeptical in proportion to that information.

Here is a good example: https://github.com/polymorphic/tesla-model-y-checklist

Although I noticed it's missing "check that the roof and trunk are in fact water proof".

Getting any of these things fixed after you take delivery is a huge PITA.
Maybe, but MicroStrategy is probably a more pure play of that.
The price can go up forever!
We must learn from our defeat
> A cheap bicycle is extremely dangerous

this is not really true, especially considering the second-hand market.
Turning Networks into Economies
Sad to read, tbh
But not all 1.5mil of people were dumb enough to pay for non-existing FSD
Bootstrappability is the reason why GNU Guix is one of the most ever important software projects. Moreover, I see Guix as the unifying force for the entire GNU project. It is the perfect playground to test and develop emerging tech (Shepherd, Hurd, &tc.).
I don't think it's racism. I reject the premise that because we play ourselves up and them as under us that it's racism. We do that with everyone. Canadians and Australians are beneath Americans. We "know" this in our heart of hearts.

Somehow when it's people with a different skin shade these accusations of racism come up. Racism is a red herring. 99% of the time it turns out to be the case that racism is a lazy explanation for something more complicated or uncomfortable to explain.
Check out the Awesome Livecoding list for similar things: https://github.com/toplap/awesome-livecoding/blob/master/REA...

Also, Algorave for live performances: https://algorave.com/
I wonder if they have too much crypto laying around and they fear that converting it to fiat would affect the markets... In which case this might make more sense...
Not grandparent but that orgchart sounds like.. a (possibly government related) tech org somewhere in the Commonwealth.
> But aren't patents supposed to protect implementations of ideas, not the ideas themselves?

This is the problem with software patents. The border between ideas and implementation is not as clear.

Strictly the answer to your question is no. Copyright protects the implementation, and patents protect the ideas. But where's the difference between an idea, and a design?

For software, what's the difference between a design and the implementation? Sure, you may actually have a separate design (and not "the implementation is the design"), but in software the step from "design" to "implementation" isn't "manufacturing".

Sure, even for physical goods, and their patents, the patent is often not sufficient to create a working system.

For those holding software patents, they have to also list all ideas they have around that. Because there are patent trolls who check for new patents, and then file patents around that, creating a mine field so tight that you cannot even use your own invention.

Analogy: you patent a laser pointer, and immediately someone patents all possible use cases for a laser pointer they can think of (point at things during presentation, aim weapons, exercise cats[1], project things onto a wall, stick the laser pointer in a handheld device, have a button on the laser pointer, non-chargable batteries in the laser pointer, chargable batteries, mains powered, capacitor powered, etc… etc…

Anyway, a comment field is not sufficient to explore just why software don't fit well under the model of patents.

[1] this is a real patent, by the way.
Shocking to see how out of touch hacker news is with crypto. I guess not much has changed since coinbase was launched on HN and faced a bunch of naysayers then also.
Making the system handle any unpredictable scenario without ever relying on precomputed maps is likely far safer.

Sounds rather counterintuitive to me. I feel far safer driving on my regular commute because I know where the potholes are, where the blind junctions are despite the missing signs. I know exactly how fast I can go around the roundabout built with a ridiculous camber in wet weather that sends many people in to the ditch every year. etc.

Knowing all this, I can bias my attention to the cars/people around me rather than the environment.
My grandmother (80s) and her circle of friends all use landlines to communicate. Technically her's is a VoIP line since about six months ago, but it's designed as a drop in replacement (uses the same phones/numbers) so I wonder if there's a possibility the attack is still open.

I also use a landline fairly often (mostly out of habit), and most companies only have my landline number as I don't want them contacting me while I'm out/busy.

You're right that it's a dwindling number, but it's certainly not at zero yet.
How to hire WebRTC developers for your job
> Also, the article title is clickbaity weird, why should people wonder if a common slur against a nationality from 3 centuries ago was true today?

The publication is a (very nicely written) right-wing rag for Little Englanders who want to believe they're a cut above Daily Mail readers.
HN can suck you in, especially if you're bored at work.
What if we were going to hit post-scarcity in computing - but now instead are going to go to artificial scarcity by oligopoly?
that is a totally different gesture (and with the same meaning in italy)
yeah, the slowly boiling frog one
Recycle your old Raspberry Pi boards with OKdo
> At that time, so many extraordinary things were found in the world, that to not believe might be more foolish.

The time to believe something is after sufficient evidence of it. Before that point, it is definitely not more foolish to withhold belief.

> If all these fantastical things were true, what other strange thing might also be?

This reasoning is only as true as its opposite. Surely you'll accept that many other fantastical things were not true, so what other strange things might also not be?
Given that Coinbase has a market cap of about 70B, it is not that much.
The Jewish Community in Germany uses the state assisted church tax collection. It seems that convenience beats history in that case.
> where you are actively fined for driving an EV.

Hyperbolic statements like this are unhelpful; The government has implemented a distance based tax on EVs (road pricing) to offset losses from the existing fuel excise taxes. It's certainly not progressive but it is not and never has been a "fine"
> Take something as "simple" as operator overloading. If a beginner does a "5"+5, the compiler is forced to respond with "no operator + for the types given, types are: int, std::string" instead of the infinitely more friendly "can't add string to int".

You are not allowed to overload operators involving only built-in types so operator overloading changes nothing about the expression "5"+5. Even if you could overload operator+ here, there is nothing preventing a compiler from giving you the friendly explanation if that operator does not exist (perhaps with an additional hint that it could be defined).

(Also, the expression "5"+5 is valid C++ but Clang has -Wstring-plus-int to warn you that it might not do what you expect.)
Could that also be a side effect of the reduced economic activity due to covid measures ?
So TSMC & that European company holding the entire world by their semiconductor balls isn't a concern?
>The person labelling something as a "lie" is usually doing so in order to outright dismiss some uncomfortably partial truth without actually having to prove it's wrong in its entirety

I don't think the usually is well placed on that one. If I call something a lie, it rarely is about denial of the nuggets of truth in the big sentence - it's about the damn thing being a lie.

You don't have to prove things are wrong in their entirety. Arguments/statements are like house of cards or long Mathematical transformations - if any subset of the thing is wrong, the whole thing is wrong.

If you care about truth and correctness, you should stick to short sentences and properly using abstractions.
What's the name of the city?
I mean, I'm pretty sure Australia has lost now.
Also plusses of cities:

- possibly shorter commute (walk/cycle to work)

- anonymity - you probably won't even know who your neighbours are

Minuses:

- you won't have a house, decent living space or any land. So a lot of hobbies and recreational activities won't be available to you (gardening, barbecue, woodwork, proper cooking, home gym in the garage - even having a cat could be problematic)

- anonymity - you probably won't even know who your neighbours are
So this one time the entire economy of Albania imploded requiring a bail-out from the IMF because everyone got into a massive Ponzi scheme. [1]

Interestingly enough, it happened at a period of serious political instability - switching over from communism to capitalism. This lack of confidence in social institutions caused people to seek refuge in snake oil salesmen.

There's an awful lot of parallels in this story.

Cryptocurrencies are really, super stupid currencies. They fly in the face of everything we know about modern economics. They're slow, they're expensive, they're deflationary. People don't spend deflationary things, and an economy is built on the idea of money changing hands. They're stupid assets because they're backed by nothing. They're not productive, and the biggest are negative-sum investment vehicles with value constantly skimmed off by miners.

Crypto advocates are basically the anti-vaxxers of finance. If I've learned one thing from history and "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" it's not to underestimate this kind of insanity.

So, with that in mind, let me address your question head on:

> Do most money managers want to buy casino chips?

I mean, most money managers in 2008 wanted people to buy mortgage-backed securities did they not?

> Is the market in chips large enough to cause the government to copy the chip market and tax the exchange of chips?

85% of all trading volume is ersatz counterfeit dollars. [2] It really is an open question just how big this market actually is. If it wasn't there would be a Bitcoin ETF. This is in fact the reason there isn't one.

Instead you've got Michael Saylor's next hell-ride, brought to you by the gentleman who lost more money in one day than anyone to date in 2000 when it came to light he was cooking the company books. The MicroStrategy company books. He settled for $11M. [3]

[1] https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2000/03/jarvis.ht...

[2] https://coinlib.io/coin/BTC/Bitcoin

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/15/business/microstrategy-ch...
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