skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custom_PC_(magazine)

In February 2019 the magazine, along with Digital SLR Photography Magazine, was sold to Raspberry Pi Trading, a subsidiary of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
Indignationldn Official Winner of “Best Baseball Jackets”
Yeah the comparison is kinda incomplete without showing the ligature support of both fonts.
The notional value of all derivatives ($600T+, maybe, we think) is MUCH MUCH higher than the dollar amount actually transacted in the derivatives market. So kind of comparing apples to oranges there.
Because crypto isn't usable and never will be. It isn't built to handle processing charges of $0.30 plus 3% on a $10 transaction and that it what it is competing with. Instead it is simply speculation and gambling and pump & dump. BTC already uses more power than several countries. Visa uses a fraction of that for a better and more functional system.

And please don't say PoS. PoS is centralized by default. If you are going to be centralized, why do crypto at all?
They hired a jr and now need a senior to oversee QA since they now know they don’t understand what they are doing.
i’m talking about being an actual sociopath. please take my words with my meaning, and you can feel free to express yours as tou have done.
The big question in my mind, is what are we going to build roads out of? Most of them are still using petroleum products. Concrete is a CO2 emitter too. What's left? Is there a point to creating electric cars if we find out that we need to do away with the infrastructure they require, or did we not think that far ahead yet? I'm genuinely curious what options exist to deal with this.
That area of Maine has absolutely no infrastructure to be able to do anything with such a deposit, and there's no way that the sclerotic government and regulatory agencies would allow you to build such infrastructure to process it, or even transport it elsewhere to where it could be processed.
Isn’t this an option change. this Gil still exists in theory iirc.
the fact that it is even legal to ask about one’s race on the application is fucking crazy.
If you’re concerned with high energy requirements for a low number of transactions, just wait until you learn about FedWire!
> some might say due to bad writing

My favorite part of "A Clockwork Orange" (book) was that very thing: the narrator just talking naturally and leaving the reader to figure out the slang (Nadsat).

There too was a glossary in the back of the book but I soon dispensed with it and found I could get the gist of the slang well enough to just roll with it.
Facebook might have a short term problem with PR or public trust but eventually these things will settle down. Unless and until major stock holders push for change in business model not much is going to happen.
That will not change if you were dating someone who is not a software developer. They will just be talking about how their day organic farming was shitty instead of how their day writing code was shitty.
A single aluminium smelter consumes more power than the entirety of the Netherlands. It's not a very useful comparison.
Bad comparison. Better to compare us dollar and suggest someone would own 15% of all usd in circulatiln
Your experience with SOAP is vastly different than mine to the point where I almost laughed out loud at your anecdote about adding a new web service dependency in a few seconds. SOAP is inherently complex, and needlessly so in my opinion. I've got personal battle-scars from trying to make Apache Axis and .NET play nice with all the various WS-* extensions needed for our use case.

There are always going to be people who, for lack of time, effort, education, whatever, use simple tools wrong. That's not an argument against simplicity. It is a recurring and false hubris to think we can fully specify any system and be "done." In the real world the are always confounding factors that violate the assumptions and constraints of any system we design. When that happens, I vastly prefer the more adaptable, less codified, simple system.

The fact that even those people above can still get stuff done even when using the tools "incorrectly" is an argument for the simple approach, in my view.
Dirty data science: Machine learning on non-curated data
Not every real world concept is fuzzy. Some things are measurable and thus objective within a defined margin of error. For instance: annual income, height, weight, age, chemicals in the blood etc. I'm not saying we should use X or Y for admissions, simply that using non-objective criteria invariably leads to problems like what is described in the article.
> It seems like the news is trying to prescribe a reality, instead of describing it.

Thanks for putting that into words. It perfectly describes the uncanny feeling that I often feel while reading both left-leaning and right-leaning American news media, and why I've made a large conscious effort to scale back my consumption as much as possible.
The difficulty with using M+/MR is that the value does not remain visible or at hand. It's like the calculator loses its state. So people write the state down instead. This suggests they know it is stateful, they're just not familiar with managing it.
Apple is ready to admit it was wrong about the future of laptops
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There is a specialist UK Government IaaS provider: https://ukcloud.com/

But AWS and MS have both deployed dedicated DCs for sensitive UK Government cloud requirements:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/data-classifi...
https://news.microsoft.com/en-gb/2017/09/21/police-uk-reache...

Those DCs can be audited in a way that the CSPs don't generally allow for "normal" customers.
We care about both. All the major cloud platforms are putting a lot of work into powering their data centers with as much renewable energy as possible, and surfacing carbon information to engineers using the platforms. See the feature Google just released, for example: https://cloud.google.com/carbon-footprint. It's even a somewhat mainstream topic - I'm pretty sure I've seen NYT articles about the carbon footprint of Zoom calls and Netflix streaming.

It's something I personally think about a lot, and I know many others do. Here's a community of people that discuss this topic a lot if you're interested: https://climateaction.tech/
Ah, I see. I misunderstood the comment then. Thanks for clarifying!
Have you tried looking for an extension for this?
Thank you for your candor. I look at this from the hiring perspective. When a candidate tells us they love what We're doing and they're amazed by our projects, that's strike 1. I'm like Really ? We've been pretty discreet by design, sometimes by contract, and sometimes by an unwritten rule, on what we do or who we do it for. We've had a crappy generic website that doesn't say much for a long, long, time and the fact they say this is not good.

I'm much, much, more receptive to candidates who ask questions and say they have no clue about what we're doing and they want to know more.
In the process described above its evaporated. Other processes that are in development pump it back into the underground brine (just a little less salty).

What is relevant here is that this is salty brine water, not drinking water.

And the water usage is very different for what we are talking about here. This is not a brine mine, but a spodumene rock mine. That uses far less water.
I honestly don't like too much these kinds of takes. People still read long, boring books, still concentrate and pay attention to certain media... Responding to criticism that something is boring, slow-paced or whatever with the equivalent of "the youngs these days" is not too productive.
This is how I keep feedback loops short:

- IntelliJ tells me any type issues instantly (I find this makes up some of the time for not having a REPL).

- Small tests kind of work like a REPL.

- watch.sh running in a terminal, re-compiles and runs the code I am working on. In your web server example, I would be testing the units rather than the whole composite program. I can click file references to jump to the error.

- Fast machine (M1)
> What guarantees do you have it won't happen again?

Apple was pretty clear about their intent not to ship WebGL2, and they did the opposite for WebGPU so it's not gonna be the same story. Of course, I can't be 100% sure that Apple won't change their mind (like they eventually did for WebGL2) or anything, but there is no reason to believe they'll do so.

> Even if Apple had done it on time, it was a 2012 hardware API for 2017 hardware

Most games released in 2017 had to support hardware from 2012 anyway. Even AAA games released this year support GPU released in 2012[0]! For non AAA games, targeting a 5-years old API is probably the newest you can afford. We're not talking about bringing the bleeding edge GPU tech to the web (it won't, it's never standardised anyway, like Mesh shaders you talked about). The goal is to provide modern standardized tech to developers, and it does it in a portable way, which makes it even more affordable.

> Intel had two failed attempts to bring compute into the browser.

So what ?

> Yes it is a very bad thing, when Vulkan can keep using GLSL and HLSL, while DX12 happily will use any HLSL from the API history, and Metal can use proper C++14 shaders.

Vulkan uses SPIR-V, not HSL or GLSL. Translation tooling exist, but it also exists for WGSL -> SPIR-V[1]

Each platform has its own shading language, will this one be better than the other, I don't know but I don't think it's gonna be worse either.

> WGSL is web politics as usual.

Not really. See this summary[2] from a Mozilla gfx engineer:

[0]: https://support.activision.com/black-ops-cold-war/articles/m...

[1]: https://github.com/gfx-rs/naga

[2]: https://kvark.github.io/webgpu-debate/SPIR-V.component.html
You're not jaded, the scale seems small in comparison to things like the Ring of Fire in northern Ontario or even just Sudbury on its own, where the value of mineral deposits are pitched in the 100s of billions.
The biological differences are tiny and insignificant for human populations if compared to clusters based on environmental differences. An urban born white student has more in common in behavior with an urban born black student than it has with a rural born white student. If we go past borders or land masses, you can have just a few miles difference and have two individuals with complete different culture, values and language.

Beyond that, if you know nothing of an individual and wanted to determine their culture, values and health, the highest predictor would be neither where they live or race. It would be social economic status. Nothing beats clusters of high social economic status in determining behavior and outcomes. It is for example why crime research generally ignore race now days in favor of social economic status, with race seen as less scientific. Universities does the opposite which is a bit ironic.
I wish Australia had spent a fraction of that money building quarantine facilities instead. :)
Do you? We know some of the people. Do you actually know who controls the majority of the globes wealth or are you just happy knowing you could probably look it up while with Bitcoin you couldnt? Functionally I don't really see a difference.
I think you are reading something between the lines

I quoted from the article regarding the idea of using REST or similar ideas for 'everything'.

But my own text talked about statelessness used to worst effect, not REST.

The point was that there is a whole generation of developers who never wrote a desktop app.

A lot of them come from web. They treat the cloud as an extension of the device with no regard for the case where it can't be connected to at all (for some time) or the latency induced by the connection wrecks UX.

And I see one reason for that in the statement I quoted. But again, what I wrote myself was not saying anything about REST.
Why Nations Fail, and the long-termist view of global poverty – benkuhn.net
AWS is part of UK Gov G-Cloud.
Your reasoning contains the same assumptions, just in the other direction. You seem to be saying that if masses of people enjoy something it must be “bad” on some level.
It seems this author has no interest in using any other blogging frameworks so why does it matter?
Have you considered a Mattermost integration?
Because power spent on mining is effectively 100% wasted for no useful computation.
The Billionaire Tax
Has the IQ of hacker news fallen over time? Half the people in this thread think we can have 8 billion humans and make zero demands on the environment.
This is where the subreddit part comes along. You just ban all users disagreeing with your intended change and voila - you have 100% popular support for your change.
I think you're right, but I also think the cause-and-effect is pretty bilateral. Designing implementing and maintaining that kind of decentralized HATEOS/"semantic web" (there's a simlarity, right?) infrastructure, in a way that actually works well... is very expensive. More expensive than it's (non-"political"[1]) benefits. People do things where the immediate benefit is worth the immediate cost.

That is, there is something intrinsic about the architecture that is both suitable to decentralization, and more complicated/expensive for not enough obvious benefit to those who pay the expense. And these are related.

[1] "political" in the sense of "where the power lies". And they are real benefits there to decentralized infrastructure (at least for those who aren't going to be in the center). But the way our economy and society works, they don't produce funding to create.
Train Invaders: Jupyter Notebook + Space Invaders!?
In other words, they are random for all practical purposes, to a vast majority of readers.
Yes a complete accounting of the net externalities of each would be very complicated, and I apologize that I am not prepared to present a 200 page research report here in the forum. A bit of napkin math can go a long way.

How much dirt you have to dig up to get a thing isn't really much of a measure of impact though. If I dig up 50,000lbs of dirt to get 138lbs of lithium, but the dirt just goes back to being dirt, no problem. If on the other hand sulfuric acid leeching makes it an uninhabitable wasteland for years, problem.

But yes in the end, recycling batteries is going to be the real big win, where all the components can be reused rather than mined.
Sure, that could work, or something like

mapM_ :: (ByteString -> m a) -> ByteStream m b -> m b

And then you just have

writeStreamToStdout = mapM_ writeBytesToStdout
Except, ya know, it powers the decentralized currency with a market cap of $1T.
The legends are back. I guess it makes sense for them to set up their concert residency in London where they have history. Like that time in 1977 when the demand for tickets to their concert in Royal Albert Hall was so high, that if they sold them all they could have filled the hall 580 times. They don't make them like they used to.
It's basically on US2. That's not very rural as far as mines, logging and other resource extraction goes. You don't really need "infrastructure" to build a resource processing facility since everything is global these days anyway. You need a road that can handle truck traffic. The days of a paper mill having parts made by the toolmaker across town are long gone. Your specialty stuff will all show up in trucks that say Fedex or XPO on the side and the special people who help you get it running will all show up in cars with the little Enterprise sticker on them.
The movie could have certainly done with a video game-esque five minute opening monologue explaining everything. I had to brief family members on the overall setting and basic plot because the movie assumes a lot of knowledge, I felt (particularly around who the Bene Gesserit are).

FWIW, I have never read the book, but had seen the Lynch movie and was obsessed with the video game which doesn't really cover a lot of the plot either, but I think does a good job of setting.
I couldn't agree with you more - I'm not an American either.

Perhaps you could take 5 minutes to ponder the assumptions you make about the nationality op anonymous posters.
Android Smartphones Constantly Monitor Users
I'm not totally convinced that hidden units are enough to model every neuronal system. For instance what the post above is alluding to with highly specific temporal information of encoding is not so easily represented in current ANN's as far as I'm aware.

And there's also a ton of metabolic processes in the neuron which affect information processing in different ways at different time scales. I would not be so confident a neuron can be effectively modeled by just scaling up node count. And even if it can, that would mean you probably need an ANN of orders-of-magnitude greater size than neuron count to simulate a human brain with any accuracy. I.e. we might be talking about multiple nodes per synapse.
It's got a good grasp on the difference between Norwegian and Swedish, I see; it defines Norwegian as "very light, quiet, or peaceful; tranquil", as in "we live our lives Norwegian in a quiet quiet city", and Swedish as "wicked or excessively wicked", as in "his swedish exploits". Haha...
I wonder if you could have some kind of (cypto?)currency that has its price backed by 1 ton of carbon captured. You can get one by paying the market price for it, or by capturing 1 ton of carbon. So if you want to offset your carbon footprint you can just go to a CarbonCoin marketplace and buy the appropriate amount of CarbonCoins. Could the crypto craze be exploited to save the environment?
In theory, Bitcoin was decentralized. Then again, in theory, theory always trumps practice.
NASA wants to buy SLS rockets at half price, fly them into the 2050s
> I've seen a few people point out that the MSM is actually mad because FB really has the same business model

Facebook themselves have been pushing this angle so they’re probably very grateful any time someone repeats it!

It’s very convenient because it allows them to dismiss pretty much any reporting about them as biased. In reality though, the source of this story, NY Times, is more profitable than it’s been in a long time and the majority of that profit is coming from subscriptions, not ads. ProPublica, a non profit with zero ads has also done some excellent work covering Facebook. They don’t have the same business model as FB and never have.

This isn’t true for every media outlet out there but to write off any critical coverage of FB because “it’s the media” feels wildly shortsighted to me. The advice is “consider the source” not “dismiss based on the source”.
Not me, specifically, although it does, occasionally, get personal.

It’s basic human nature. We always reinforce that the way we do things (in this case, FP), is The One, True Way, and all who do otherwise are to be pitied/scorned.

I’m a real slob. I mix my peanut butter and chocolate all the time. I may use 35-year-old techniques, and mix them with just-published-brand-spanking-new stuff.

I get stuff done. It may be a sausage-and-laws thing, but the end results seem to make people fairly happy.

A great deal of the time, I’m constrained by the context of my work. For example, I write software for Apple devices, and am still one of the poor, unenlightened that writes using UIKit. I haven’t written my first shipping product with SwiftUI.

If we write in UIKit, we can use different patterns, but UIKit was designed to be implemented, using classic MVC, and lots of OO. Attempting to circumvent these design considerations is a “kludge,” at best. If we want to write good, performant, maintainable software for Apple devices, we need to hold our noses, and use the tool the way it was designed.

Apple is refining SwiftUI, which I’m really looking forward to learning and shipping, but I am not there, yet, personally.

I assume that SwiftUI will also end up using a pattern that will become “obsolete,” even while SwiftUI is still the dominant development tool, much as is the case with UIKit.

Also, SV (or it could just be this community, specifically) seems to be focused on “going big.” I think there was a post, a day or two ago, entitled something like “I don't know how to count that low,” or whatnot.

The work I do is “small.” It may actually be fairly intense, “under the hood,” but I write stuff for small demographics, and spend a great deal of time, “polishing the fenders.” This is doing things like ensuring a smooth and intuitive UI workflow, presenting data in as simple and attractive a manner as possible, affording localization and accessibility, etc.

These are all about the individual end-user. They are not “big picture” things, and I have limited tools and venues at my disposal. I need to be practical, and make compromises and concessions to achieve my goals.

I have nothing but awe for some of the technology and technologists out there. It’s a great time to be alive. Cool stuff is happening.

It’s just that a lot of it doesn’t really reach me, down in the trenches, and it’s discouraging to see the mindset that what folks like me do, “doesn’t matter.”
private equity should get a boost if public companies are going to be forced mark to market for billionaires.
TIL this phenomenon has a name. Thanks.
I would like to upgrade it from a 32 bit Windows 7 install, as the Celeron CPU it has it supports a 64 bit Linux distro perfectly.
Great movie. This bit sums up my feelings:

> Basically any quibbles or hesitations are erased by images like the above, of the Bene Gesserit departing that spaceship, and about which I can only say: That’s fucking sick as hell. This shit rules.
Yes, I hate litterers too, but most people don't litter, almost all smokers litter (probably the plastic too), so I'm inclined to be biased against them.
Nobody cares who the EU president is, but everyone in the word knows who Adolf Hitler was, so it's an edgy and effective way to grab headlines.
That’s wildly incorrect, why would you think it’s true?

Netherlands uses 108,800 GWh per yer. Global aluminum smelting is 8x that, but no single smelter comes close to producing 1/8th the worlds aluminimum.
Yes and that is useful work. Unlike bitcoin.
An SPAC is nothing but a fraud vehicle. Look at the new SPAC driving the new Trump "social network". They didn't have to do any work. No due diligence, no financial disclosures, no business plan, no numbers - nothing.

After a few iterations of this and billions sucked up by these conmen, the government will have to step in and clamp down, while the conmen (and probably HN) bleat about "big government", "regulations", and "socialism".
TL;DR venture capital is becoming regular capital because tech companies keep growing fast well after the IPO; “the next big thing” is not coming on the short term, just more techy companies surfing VC money and more growth for tech companies; the current cycle is not yet ripe for disruption.
The browser is an abstraction layer. It will always be slower.
But all this does not matter because your user will not write 20 chat messages / second.
There is an obvious misconception in the title; two in fact:

1. If you are saying that investors separate from miners have "control" over Bitcoin, then you are strictly talking about the price and not the protocol. Investors (who are not miners, so no point in mentioning them) have zero influence over the Bitcoin protocol on a technical level. Perhaps you could make a separate argument about manipulating the community.

2. Barring the previous misnomer, miners alone do not control the Bitcoin protocol. Miners in combination with full nodes (running a full node requires a relatively tiny investment compared to mining) control the future of the Bitcoin protocol. Miners may choose to go down a certain protocol or ledger altering fork, but if even a small amount of full nodes go a different direction and users/holders follow the full nodes, then the path the full nodes chose will "win out," or at least survive.

If you want to talk about investors controlling crypto currencies at any scale, then look towards proof of stake. Otherwise you are conflating price control and protocol control.