skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough. I used a dyson sphere as a shorthand for "a power generation technology giving us orders of magnitude more power than we are generating now"
Even with Climate Change, the World Isn’t Doomed
Raspberry Pi 4 model Bs arriving with newer 'C0' stepping
I can already see some newspapers releasing clickbait "Giving up Alcohol can give you dementia"
Someone submitted a transaction with incorrect parameters allowing this to happen and the miner got a $23m tip as a result
https://archive.md/Ot6dE
Harmful speech and misinformation should not have a platform.

Performative Hate Speech Acts. Perlocutionary and Illocutionary Understandings in International Human Rights Law: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334199177_PERFORMAT...

Oppressive Speech: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/000484008023703...

Why We Should Ban Oppressive Speech Acts: https://publicseminar.org/essays/why-we-should-outlaw-oppres...
I live in Sweden. There were some restrictions on closing times of bars, and seating in shopping centres.

This is nothing compared to the "stay in your flat for a month" lockdowns in Italy and Spain. Or shutting almost everything in the UK, France, Australia, NZ, etc.
>>(I thought all bankruptcy laws were federal

There are some protections for primary residence in Chapter 7, but it is not complete protection. I believe it is around $25,000 in equity, Meaning if your home is worth $225,000 and you owe $200,000 then your home is safe

If however you have a $225,000 home, and only owe $80,000 on it under the Federal Exemption system you could be forced to sell to satisfy debtors

Many states, as you have discovered, have additional exemptions, one generally has to choose if they want to use State or Federal Exemptions at the time of filing.
> "What was the first concert you attended?"

That's literally a security question for a bank password reset.
Thanks for explaining. Today was my day to not get a joke on the internet :)
> seems like pretty innocuous

That's how they get you. It's a trap!
1 ppm of C02 ~ 2.13 gigatons of carbon, which is ~ 7.8 gigatons of CO2. (1) We add about 43 gigatons of CO2 to the atmosphere per year 55% of which is absorbed by natural sinks.
We're definitely not adding 26 ppm of C02 to the atmosphere each year.

1.https://skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=45
Very interesting distinction. I remain deeply skeptical that this is a good or useful technology, but you’ve effectively summed up why it’s compelling to users in comparison to other social media. Thanks!
Yea, it’s so overblown
Think of ETH fees as more or less an auction. When you submit a transaction to the Ethereum network, you're hoping it will be mined as soon as possible. Miners select which transactions to include based on the miner fee.

The minimum miner fee that is required for a transaction to be processed promptly is therefore constantly an open question / constantly changing, which gives rise to services like https://ethgasstation.info/ which attempt to tell you how much you should reasonably expect to pay.

In terms of how today's outcome is possible: when you are submitting a transaction, any amount of ETH that you have on your account could validly be spent as the fee.

So in this case, either by human error or a software bug, someone with a large amount of ETH in their balance essentially spent all of it on the transaction fee.

The miner _gets_ all of those ETH. So some lucky miner just got a huge spike in profit.
Sharepoint sucks where I am because IT can't leave our URLs alone. thus there is old information out that that would be useful if I could find it. And other old information that I tried to update but I couldn't find it anymore.

I long ago made a personal rule that when someone asked a question I would answer by pointing them to the documentation. If the documentation doesn't exist or isn't up to date I'd fix it first. So long the the URLs (and thus the index pages) don't change I had a large store of useful information. This is the only way I have found to ensure document stores don't gather cruft.
As sordid as the Iraq war was, it seems strictly better to to topple an oppressive dictator

I think that 600,000 Iraqis killed in that war (lower bound) would have different opinion.

Besides, does population of Iraq live better now? I seriously doubt that.
Russia has no supply issues. Gazprom is providing infrastructure, and other suppliers pump it empty like mad. Another one called Uniper, the largest AFAIK was at 77% full about 2 weeks ago. Hoarded. If you were Gazprom, and so far delivered according to contract, and even more, would you still deliver more to the conditions of those contracts, just so that other leeches can suck it out, and get rich quick on a crazy market? Why?
There's a broader question of "why would I want to consume any sensory input? Why would I want to read a book, watch a movie, look at a sunset, have a conversation?" I can't help you there, consult your local philosopher.

But if you do want to consume sensory input, what I find TikTok excels at is:
* Dances / skits
* Musical collaborations (esp. The Wellerman)
* Funny little videos like with a kitten or puppy
* Recipes / cooking techniques
I'm in the target market for this app, but I don't download or use apps that transmit my usage data off the device without my consent.
shrug everything is relative.
that is the difference between theory and practice. Von Neuman is a genius of theory, and the idea of atomic bombing of USSR into oblivion has significant theoretical appeal even with hindsight of today. Eisenhower was battle experienced military general, not far from [if not the] pinnacle of practice. Eisenhower saw USSR soldiers, and the history of the guerilla war on Nazi occupied territory was well known. As long as few Soviet soldiers or even just some general population survive the atomic bombing ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Dead_Men:

"Over twelve battalions of the 11th Landwehr Division, making up more than 7000 men, advanced after the bombardment expecting little resistance. They were met at the first defense line by a counter-charge made up of the surviving soldiers of the 13th Company of the 226th Infantry Regiment. The Germans became panicked by the appearance of the Russians, who were coughing up blood and bits of their own lungs, as the hydrochloric acid formed by the mix of the chlorine gas and the moisture in their lungs had begun to dissolve their flesh. The Germans retreated, running so fast they were caught up in their own c-wire traps.[1]"
You privately send it to the colluding miner; you don't publicly broadcast it.
Not sure if AsianHustleNetwork (AHN) really falls into what's being described in this article, but it's one of the more insidious FB communities I've run across, in terms of members being milked for affiliate revenue.

The content is overall wholesome and useful, but I'm assuming most members (both contributers and passive viewers/clickers) don't realize that they're lining the owners' pockets with their clickthroughs, along with whatever personal data is being collected through Facebook.
This could be more benign than the article makes it out to be. Growing a content business in 2021 requires you to understand Facebook's algorithms and what will get your post amplified. Instagram famously only shows your posts to 10% of your followers by default [1]. The trigger points for your post to reach wider require certain engagement quotas, and if you're designing your post to get more comments then it'll hit them faster. Often accounts do these kinds of posts because their profile is about selling a single thing (like a book they wrote) or are dropshipping and focused on the marketing side. The real thing they want to get in front of users is the link in their bio.

I think the real issue here is that it's impossible to tell the benign from the malignant. Is that cute mom blog going to start hawking ivermectin? What is my comment revealing about me that I don't authorize? There's no Better Business Bureau for Facebook pages. Maybe there should be.

1. https://www.thelovelyescapist.com/2018-instagram-algorithm/
Investment Platrorm – Zetbull.com
Well, he did get himself a crater (on the far side of the Moon, mind you) named after him.
Investment project ZETBULL.COM with the possibility of earning from 1.5% daily for 20 working days. How to open a deposit and make money?
everyone sells out eventually. nothing wrong with it. either that or they run it into the ground or die.

people move on that's just life. congrats to the imgur team and good luck for their next adventures.
> High quality stereo recording is only available in our premium subscription (20$/year).

Is this the world you want to live in?
For 2011 it was quite something.

But I wonder how it looked e.g. in Romania at that time, they had pretty nice fiber infrastructure because they didn't a lot of the old cables, and in 2015 I read that they had 500 Mbps links (not sure if symmetric) affordable.

And in Poland I'm currently paying ~20 USD/month for 1Gbps up / 300 Mbps down (I got it 2 years ago).
4 years ago I had 300 Mbps / 30 Mbps for similar amount.

This is in suburbs of a bigger city (not capital).
Yeah I think we've both changed a ton from who we were when we met but we've both become better people, so either we're lucky or we just have a healthy relationship
You don't have to propagate the transaction to other miners.
Looks really nice - simple design, clear focus, looks like a great music memos replacement!
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28672247
> It just renders the epub to pdf and then throw the pdf into the note-taking app.

I found it weird at first... But then you realise you're supposed to be able to write on the pages any time. The moment you support general epub rendering your pages are no longer fixed and your notes should move around as well. The moment you change your font size, all your notes, drawings and highlights no longer match the underlying text. I actually think "render to pdf", or more specifically to some fixed page format, is the ideal experience on this device. Realigning your notes is an impossible problem to solve and if I were a dev I would also discourage any features that reflow text on demand.

Missing features (search in document, bookmarks, whatever) should be implemented for both pdfs and epubs.
IMHO, attempting to defraud an investor demonstrates a complete lack of ethics.

It does not necessarily follow that your company is inherently fraudulent or worthless. Lots of terrible people run financially solid companies.

Would I invest a dime? Hell no. But it doesn't mean that it's not a valuable company.
I will comment that I kind of love this process of fact finding. We could have an endless political debate a about teaching methods, tech in the classroom, distance learning, teacher quality, school funding and so on. We could have an unquestionable doctrine that smaller class sizes lead to the best education or other maxims. We could have heartfelt beliefs in teacher compensation. But at the end of the day, you try something and it either works or doesn't work, and you really and truly have an opportunity to learn what works best. The best possible way to honor the tough years that students had during the pandemic is to supercharge our learning about learning, take the distance education lessons to heart and let previous dogma be overturned with new best practices.
Seems more like fraud/money laundering, from what I can tell
The Guardian with the story https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/13/us-senators-co...
Engagement is a really dirty word to me nowadays - the attention economy comes with all sorts of really bad side effects. We’ve turned almost all conversations into an ad in order to sell more ads. It’s you vs 100 people with a doctorate in psychology at any given time.
This began as a story about the importance of well-worded commit messages. It ended as yet another testimony against pop-ups.
Literally every single political institution in the world, from sports clubs to town councils to national governments, have back channels and organizations that promote agendas. It is the means by which those agendas get put through governments that make something legitimate or not.

But we're going down a rabbit hole. The point is that Russia now has more economic leverage over eastern Europe, and for what?
China’s 80M Podcast Listeners and the Competitors Vying for Their Attention
> The only thing we religiously followed was daily, quick 15 min stand-ups.

One of the worst parts of scrum in my opinion. Even if it's a "quick" 15 minutes (which in my experience it rarely ever is), the forced context switch ends up wasting more than 15 minutes of productive time every day.
I don't know, but it's an unlikely mistake to make, and they have a lot of know how in the business. I expect them to know something we don't about the protocol, and setup things in a way that they get the money with plausible deniability.
I keep seeing people blaming money laundering but I’ve yet to come across anyone even attempting to explain how the money laundering would theoretically work? Is there a way to manipulate or influence which miners get with transactions?
There is a fee that's burned, but I think sending a fee to the miner as well is still there.
Kids will, teens won't. Starting from about eleven or twelve-teen.
And higher rates of obesity and diabetes.

Just looking at the data, it's clear mask mandates and lockdowns don't work at scale. Compared to the vaccines, the effect size is minuscule, and the fact it's even debatable (unlike the vaccines) means that it definitely isn't worth the costs.

If anything they should mandate vaccines, and end all restrictions and mask mandates.
I cant imagine a huge use case on IRC, but ive definitely seen nt used in old usenet posts
The Twenty-First Chromosome
Youtube also started in a very different world in regard to ubiquitous online access, not to mention mobile online access.
Crazy. Was this just the result of a typo? Perhaps not, considering:

- The transaction sender set both the max total fee and the max priority fee to above 10 million. Most UIs require at least two manual setting changes to do this.

- The sender is Bitfinex -- they're pros and not just a mon and pop.

Maybe it could just be a transfer from the sender to whoever the miner is...
Engagement is just second order advertising, because it makes people spend more time on the ad platform.
Centrifuges are delicate but they're not especially difficult for an industrial society to produce. They are comparable to jet engine shafts in terms of both loading and components. The manhattan project didn't utilize them because a single individual overlooked a simple method of making them more stable - you add a flexible section so any vibrations damp themselves out. German scientists claimed to have figured out this trick during the war, and the soviets implemented it shortly thereafter in their nuclear program, allowing them to enrich enough material for their weapons with only a fraction of industrial effort of the American project. Gas centrifuges for enrichment of chlorine isotopes had already been in use since 1934.

Much smaller nation states have since been able to effectively generate enough uranium for nuclear weapons programs in short periods of time using centrifuges. The main challenge for them has not been production itself, but hiding the activity from international scrutiny. Tracking shipments of materials and parts necessary for centrifuge construction has been one of the leading methods of avoiding nuclear proliferation, but still centrifuges are so effective that even a small number is enough. North Korea, for example, is believed to have two buildings worth of centrifuges, but we only know where one of them is, and only because they have given international inspectors a tour of that location. For context, North Korea's current GDP is about 1/64th of the US's GDP in 1939.
Maybe do not publish the tx and be the only one including it in potential blocks until successful.
What govt takedown? Why would a for free speech person defend the takedown?
As long as they aren't calling for violence I would defend an antiamerican website to say something.
I may not like what you have to say, but I will defend your right to say it.
it use to be my fav time waster app rather than the selfies on IG or silly politics on FB. but yea rarely use it now so I guess engagement is dropping
According to the article, anything related to your age or where you live is a pretty good indicator of what your voting preferences are. The article cites "90% accuracy" if your answers can be used to reasonably guess those facts.

Additionally, if your profile is public (the default still, I believe) is made available when you comment, I'd guess there'd be follow-up scraping going on to collect more details that are then used in conjunction with whatever your response was.
How to make a load testing plan
The Future of Skype
Why is everyone saying this isn't a shady trade when the person who got the $23m is a weird person with a pseudonym in thailand and fueled Brexit? Is it because that guy seems on the level?
I believe what drives the Herman Cain Award goes back long before COVID.

COVID denialism has a lot of overlaps with other anti-intellectualism, such as climate denial and evolution denial. But you can deny climate change and evolution without it ever really affecting you. It doesn't matter if the arguments are absurd and easily refuted: the conflicts are too distant to really come back and bite you. At least, not in any way you can directly connect.

I believe that this is about more than just the difficulties that come from a disease we should have been able to beat. It's about a longstanding series of overlapping arguments where no amount of argumentation -- no matter how kind, reasonable, or thorough -- can ever make the slightest bit of progress.

These are in areas not of value judgments or different interpretations, but where the science is absolutely overwhelming. And there have been social arguments, such as same-sex marriage, where the continued to make utterly baffling arguments and would not be persuaded by any amount of reason.

At last, here is an argument they can't Gish Gallop away from.

Many people (including me) would agree that the schadenfreude is unworthy and unhelpful. But it's been a very, very long time coming, and that's going to make it hard to resist.
Ask HN: How can I get better at original thinking and being creative?
I've never felt like I'm good at being creative, coming up with original ideas, my own unique independent thoughts. Even though I have spent years practicing "creative" skills - traditional and digital art, writing, gamedev, programming. I've made a lot of things, I'm pretty proud of some of my projects.

But "creativity" still feels like a mystery to me. I've had a few good ideas over the years, but they happened by accident, and I can't make them happen deliberately. Sometimes I can go months without an original thought. If I want to intentionally invent a new idea for an app, or a game, or a story, or a business - I feel like I can't, no matter how hard I try.

And generally speaking, in life, I feel like I'm pretty bad at having my own unique take/opinion on things, even though I'm trying. Most of my "controversial" thoughts and opinions came from the controversial/unpopular books/essays/posts I have read.

How do people like Scott Alexander, Paul Graham, Eliezer Yudkowsky, etc, just think of all these unique and original things? It seems like they just have a boundless source of insightful ideas. How can I get better at this?
How’s that? Reducing friction for many sites means that users will spend more time browsing on the site. E.g. video auto-play on YouTube.

In this case, though, Google doesn’t mind frustrating users because there is no competitive alternative search engine.
> when there is a bright, shiny, button that says “upload to YouTube” then why not use that?

This was already answered by klyrs further up the thread: because the videos are subject to YouTube's policies which commonly involve altering or destroying parts of the media without warning.
Their view botting is insanely obvious. I found these videos in 30 seconds, all over 1m views and less than 20 comments.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdazNWPT-aM

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waZlYPzMJ28

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWg6kF-y6d4
The author implies, but doesn't make explicit that they think things like "age when you got your first job" are more about inferring socioeconomic indicators about the individual than fishing for password clues.

And honestly I bet age of first job probably is a decent indicator of certain economic factors.
The 90's called and wants their chainmail back
Lit-HTML is awesome, but it came afterwards (2018)
The only reason I can figure you would make those points in this context is malice. You don't seem inclined to clarify or correct me, either, so...
It's also possible that if it wasn't for the Manhattan project, there would have been nuclear armageddon in the 50s or 60s.

The bomb arrived at a time when the US and Russia were allies. They were focused on winning the war. By the time they started snarling at each other in earnest, the Russians had the bomb (1949) and detente had been established. WWII gave us a smooth glide path to both superpowers having the bomb and MAD doctrine was established.

If instead the bomb had arrived say in the 60s, there would have been an entirely different political landscape. Perhaps even more bitter than the cold war. If one side had then got the bomb, just when they were at each other's throats, they could well have used it.
I have no relation to the project. It's a very popular site.
I appreciate that you have a sense of humor and positive attitude about this, but I do not. It pisses me off, and people in positions of high responsibility should reap the downside of high accountability.
Hm, you can't get the wifi MAC by connecting via USB, and ssh in over USB, then using iwconfig or looking at dmesg?
However impressive, this would only work in the case of occupation following the bombing. (I am not sure if there were such plans.)
I've long wished for an opportunity to filter my feed, so that I only see what people post themselves. But I guess fb force these things down my throat because no one actually posts anything anymore, except big life events like weddings or announcing a child. So people would realize fb is dead when it comes to keeping in touch with friends and family.
About 50% of SF has above ground wiring and Sonic offers 1gig symmetrical in those neighborhoods at a reasonable cost.
That would be visible to those that save the full protocol state / interactions but probably invisible to almost anyone else.

And you could even broadcast it after you know the miner already solved a valid block with it but before they publish it.
Turing's Cathedral has a lot about Neumann
"Selling" and "selling out" are not (always) the same thing.
> but how is the individual in question still employed at the company?

The company is worthless unless the founders realize their vision, and investors who were already suckered into funding it don't want to rock the boat, because it will make their entire investment evaporate.
I recently noticed addons.mozilla.org also tracks links using this method. If you scroll down to "Add-on Links" the links to "Homepage" and "Support site" go to

https://outgoing.prod.mozaws.net/v1/8a4c4de845953bc85d10c6465c5c0f11210b5ca1c195b70d7ddfcf8b74592477/https%3A//clearurls.xyz/

and

https://outgoing.prod.mozaws.net/v1/8a4c4de845953bc85d10c6465c5c0f11210b5ca1c195b70d7ddfcf8b74592477/https%3A//wiki.clearurls.xyz/

respectively, instead of going to the page directly.

Why Mozilla? Why are you tracking us ? Of all the pages...
CSV is still a major part of the development ecosystem, amazing that it has such staying power after all these years.