skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heck, I did once 180km on a mountain/cross bike. It was around Lake Geneva, normally racers do it in sub 4ish hours time, it took me 9.5h. Wind was the biggest enemy, when doing circle eventually you face it. I did little to no biking beforehand, being generally fit from hiking I managed somehow, but last 50kms was sufferfest. And last 1km very steep uphill in Lausanne I had to go down the bike 4x, but refused to take public transport.

The biggest issue, aside from general tiredness at the end was neck/shoulder pain. It just isn't healthy position to be in, and that's for mountain bike, for road bike it must be much worse. Impotence / fertility issues are also frequent for devotees from what I heard, even with appropriate saddles.

My boss had serious neck pain issues that doctors were baffled with and unable to cure. Told him to stop road biking, refused to do so. But eventually he stopped and problems disappeared for good.

Once in a lifetime experience, glad I did it but sure as hell not going to repeat it. Plus I've found more interesting sports for me.
>requiring a sum of money to "unlock the features".

Tesla already did this
Huh, you're right, it seems to be just some applications which behave oddly and break those shortcuts, I guess I'll have to take it up with them.
The funny thing is the founder of Wiz is formerly the head of Microsoft Israel, and many many ex-Microsoft are in Wiz. I wonder if the knowledge about Microsoft internals helped them finding this vulnerability.
There’s only so much to be said for retaining my curiosity after years and years of getting shouted about it by people who have no understanding of what they are peddling.

I’m actively involved in the space, I explored my curiosity through designing a few DApps, building some coins, the usual. The tech is interesting, the approach is worthwhile, the whole FOMO pyramid on top of it is just noise and I wish it would stop. I’ve never seen so much nonsense discussions about GSM, GPS or other widely used and useful systems.

When I talk to a crypto peddler, I never have to reach out for my know how as it’s never the case that the discussion progresses past THIS IS THE FUTURE NOW YOU GOTTA JUMP ON BOARD OR ELSE YOU MISS THE MOON TRAIN.
Employer run schemes are/were supported by the business. The theory went that yes, they invested the pension funds in the market, but the business itself would always be there to contribute to cover the shortfall.

What fucked these schemes is falling bond yields
… a tiny chunk (by value).

Commissioned software Is a fraction of product/services protected by IP law.

Open source doesn’t really have an effective business model (and it doesn’t need one!)
Because after ~13 years, mind boggling amount of money and development time, it is still just as useless in the real world as it ever was.
> There absolutely are good uses for crypto, and even for things like NFTs

What do you think are the good uses for crypto and NFTs?

(This is a genuine question; I've never been sure what to think about crypto.)
it had bcrypt.
As long as the battery lasts long enough to last an hour or two in a meeting room, its good enough. But now I work from home permanently so that doesn't even matter. I'm glad MacOS recognizes this and only charges up to 80% to preserve the battery health if I ever did need it

The only time I ever cared about battery life on a laptop was in highschool where it had to last all day without being charged.
When are enums not a code smell?
Which command do you use, and could you link an example?
> Is there any particular reason cryptocurrencies are so divisive while other subjects are not?

At this day, end 2021, for what concerns the daily life of billion people worldwide, they are still a very small niche for first-world, trading-like unauthorised gambling? From a technical point of view, sufficient progress has been made… it is politics now, geopolitics and environment, if you like, preventing wider, global deployment, maybe?
The community doing things around the ethereum / smart contracts world are certainly on the building things side of things yet they are met with the same cynical skepticism around these parts.
At least here (Italy) the attibute "svizzero" (swiss), used in sentences like "it works like a swiss clock" or "like a swiss railway" or even only as "swiss precision" or "swiss timetable" is a synonim of punctuality, exactness, reliability (and also means, but this is digressing, somewhat boring).
That s like arguing that because things like scrum masters are a thing in the software world then the whole software industry is valuless bullshit
Interesting comments! Do you mind sharing your thoughts on why proof of stake won’t happen?
Really cool design and content.
There are HP laptops with user-replaceable RAM, such as the Pro and Elite Books. The 13" ones are comparable to the XPS line in terms of size / weight / performance. I don't have experience with the other sizes.

The top panel being metal is also nicer in my opinion than the weird sticky thing on the XPS.

The company I work for uses those, and they don't seem to have any issues with them.
Why will proof-of-stake never happen?
Air resistance grows in cube of velocity. While cycling is more efficient that gain is quickly cut down when velocity goes up.

Now I actually wonder what is the efficiency for skateboard.
I very much doubt this is the reason. Soldered on ram lowers the cost of the device, makes it thinner, and improves the reliability. At the cost of upgradability. Since the average user never upgraded the ram when they had the ability to, its purely a win for most users.
Gah. I do apologise. I should have mentioned I am on Linux, where updating to Zulu 15 works like a charm. (Zooming font size in the editor with scroll wheel is ... well, try it before/after :-)) The JBR has some fixes specifically for font rendering among others, on Mac OS X.

Sorry for getting your hopes up. OTOH, Linux on the desktop is pretty good in 2021 :-) In this case, it certainly beats the Mac! :-P

Funny, I used to think myself knowledgeable for knowing what JVM knobs to twiddle out of the box. Now I see that the fact they need adjusting out of the box is a weakness of the platform itself.
The environmental argument is a straw man, and not really related to crypto, but actually related to our energy mix.

If crypto was mined only on renewables there is no environmental argument. Ergo, not related to crypto technology itself.
Nice to see there are so many of us! I, too, used jEdit for ages - the decade+ between when NEdit's lack of utf-8 support became a critical problem, and Vscode took over the world.

I remember I had a hook that saved ALL my manual text editing in a HG repository, with the help of various jEdit features. Commit on every save. I figured if it was worth doing by hand, it was worth saving.
"Numerous entries in the Godzilla film series feature machines so large that they can crush portions of the Tokyo skyline with a single step (Honda, 1975)"
Cryptocurrencies are a divisive issue, perhaps stemming from our overly-strong preferences, biases, and prejudices.
> My 2014 Mercedes has a clicky wheel/joystick combo with a menu system that doesn't wrap around, and it's excellent. I can always go to any item without looking because I know that 5up and 5left will go to the start of the menu (even if I don't remember which menu item I left it on, though it's almost always the music tab) and then I can navigate with the clicky wheel.

Sure for a menu system control it makes complete sense. But the control I was talking about is completely specialised with a discrete number of steps, in that case having a wheel with proper stops is much more convenient.

Also I misremembered, the headlamp mode was a wheel but one with proper stops, it was the selector for the ventilation throughput which didn't have stops and would just spin forever. And the modern peugeot I've driven have that for the drive mode selector (e.g. eco / normal / sport / whatever).
Thanks for posting that. In some ways, it is actually more interesting than the original post.
Honestly it's quite his fault by choosing the XPS 13, an ultra portable. Take the XPS 15, it's the best compromise between portability and repairability. I have a 9750 or something and chose it because it was just the most repairable laptop at the time. You could replace ram and disk for sure, but also buy new fans directly from Dell, or new hinges, a new battery, a motherboard, you name it. Remove a few screws and you have access to everything, easy to mount and dismount.

So no, the company didn't force him, he just went for portability.
I think the point parent is making is that it is possible to cherrypick a reference period.

You can say that the melting of glaciers is an anomaly but when an ancient forest appears below the melted glacier how can we agree on what an anomaly is?

I don't want to deny global warming but I agree with the parent that it's difficult to state what an anomaly is.
I think some of your premises are wrong. I don't think cryptocurrencies are especially divisive on HN. It's like a lot of other topics - a lot of different people with a lot of different feelings, some of them more strongly than others. It's not surprising that when something is new, there is a lot of curiosity around it that is different 12 years later, when it's just part of our world, and many of the "questions" have been "answered".

In addition, cryptocurrencies just happen to also have an incredible amount of real-world impact in way other technologies don't. E.g. debates on AI - not even AGI, just plain old AI, and have there been any real new breakthroughs lately, etc, also have a lot of disagreements. But while that impacts grant money and investment in some technologies, it doesn't also directly translate into billion-dollar markets and potential fraud, etc.

You also have to separate "cryptocurrencies" to a few underlying actual topics that people disagree about:

1. Whether actual cryptocurrencies, e.g. bitcoin, are a good investment.

2. Whether actual cryptocurrencies are good for the world, or whether they enable fraud/scams/etc.

3. Whether actual cryptocurrencies can achieve, are achieving, or should achieve their original goals or any newer goals (e.g. replace fiat completely).

4. Whether the blockchain technology itself is interesting at all, or is it only interesting for cryptocurrencies. (This point is especially relevant in a forum of founders, given the massive amounts of creating and investment in blockchain-related startups.)
To add to your post, where and how did they determine that 30 years was the appropriate time scale to use?

>The value we show is a 30 year rolling average of temperature change. We have chosen that long term trend because it fits the time scale of the climate and its changes.
Your link says they are comparable, with another study claiming better quality for open source software. While I really don’t think that grouping together vastly different softwares based on this one quality is meaningful (is a proprietary CRUD app made in 5 months with an ad-hoc architecture comparable to an open source database with proper planning and domain-expert programmers working on it?), I also didn’t claim that they were worse off, just that more eyes won’t find more/all bugs, because in fact, they don’t actually look for them in the first place.

The fact remains, every type of software is ripe for bugs and security measures must be taken so those bugs won’t become exploitable.
IMHO because it depends on uncloneability of digital assets.. Which I believe is not possible.

The whole thing that makes cryptocurrencies work now is the un-cloneability of the amount of work done (which is why the 51% problem exists in the first place).

The only good way of doing it would be through a cartel with strict enforcement of hashrates etc.. And welcome to the financial banking system...
I basically agree; but this oversimplifies the diversity of opinion in both camps. For example, it might well be worth the environmental damage to shift control of international monetary flows from the US government to a true free market.

Although the US has been as good a steward as can be hoped for no entity should have that much control over international finance.
I think we are all a little subconsciously angry we didn't put together that rig years ago.

I was so close. I had the cards in a shopping car. I thought about it too many nights. I didn't want to blow $800 with nothing to show though. I didn't have a lot of disposable funds then, or now.

I never thougt it would get this big. I thought the government would shut it down--for reasons of hiding money.

I thought the same about Uber too.
Your and mine definition of very few sites must be different than.

Can you buy anything at all on the internet?
I think it's because this community doesn't need/enjoy the speculation side of it. Most cryptocurrencies reflect on buy today, worth more tomorrow. Especially when you hop onto reddit or 4chan /biz/ communities. They don't necessarily want to understand, how or why - just that it's new and treat buying today as getting early on an IPO (like an ICO, before those were mostly barred.)

The above could be mostly because the community on here, doesn't necessarily need/want to survive on pure speculation. Sure you can do forecasting and projections, but when compared to traditional investment methods, e.g. compounding, load averaging and buying "blue" chip stocks - it seems high risk, low reward.

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Now if the conversation was more on blockchain, and what problem it solves, I can see it gain traction on here, especially when Visa wanted to hire "blockchain engineers" and when they even purchased other companies in that similar space. Also, startups, well, when they were "startups" like coinbase adding a new coin, and such, etc.
It's because we're all a bunch of salty nocoiners that spend our days wishing we had got in on the ground floor.

As the famous saying goes: "It's hard to make a man understand something when he could have been a millionaire if he'd only understood it sooner."

/s
Actually no it is not useless in the real world! Using crypto makes it very easy to send and receive money very quickly, without the need to rely to the "system" of banks, governments etc. I can't think of a more useful application, for me it's more of a revolution!
I have a hard time processing this comment. Is it because I'm ESL or is it legitimately incomprehensible?
Crypto solves a problem around distributed trust. If you have a bunch of people who need to trust something is correct, but don't trust each other, putting that data on a verifiable blockchain that you pay people to cryptographically sign is a good solution. The thing is though, that's a really unusual problem that few people actually have. If you're buying diamonds or bananas or cobalt, and you need a provable supply chain though.. yeah.. it fits.

NFTs could enable people to transfer digital assets between platforms without needing the platforms to talk to one another. I could buy an NFT of a 3D model of some Yeezy sneakers, and then bring that NFT to Fortnite for my avatar to wear there, and to the Metaverse to show off there, and to a sneakers forum to verify my ownership in the community there as well. That could be quite useful. 3D cosmetic assets for games and stuff is a massive market, and using NFTs would enable people to transfer goods between those markets. It'd only really work if the asset itself is stored in some sort of distributed architecture though (IPFS for example.)
I actually managed to get it to work both ways: I can boot each OS in a VM from the other. A handful of scripts inside each detect the VM and make some changes appropriately (like disabling certain startup apps and services that I already have in the host OS, disabling some fancy graphics that like to glitch out in VMs, etc.). And because I like to over-complicate things, I set up static IPv4s, so I can for example connect to Linux with the same IP, not matter if it's in a VM or running on bare metal.

Also, regarding hating GRUB: take a look at rEFInd. The themes are way better [0] and it can autodetect operating systems so not only is it harder to break your system with a bad config, it'll detect USB boot devices as well so you don't have to mash F11 or whatever if you need to boot from one. It also has mouse support and (in theory) also touchscreen.

[0] https://github.com/bobafetthotmail/refind-theme-regular
In fairness to the present, the first post on HN about bitcoin[1] had 3 comments:

1) this is amazing and will save humanity

2) this is dumb no one will ever use it

3) this is confusing

That ratio doesn’t seem that much different than recent posts.

I think you’re right that most people at least on HN have decided what they believe when it comes to bitcoin.

Ultimately money is a belief and not just any belief but one so central to our identities that we often organize our lives around how we can get enough money.

Strong beliefs get tied into our identities so that threats to those beliefs will be viewed as many as attacks on their identities.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852
It's not a straw man. Yes, if the energy mix was only reliant of renewables, energy usage wouldn't be as much as a problem. But it is not, and won't be in years, decades, so we can't just brush off the energy usage of crypto as "well it's the energy mix fault". You cannot evaluate a technology in isolation of its real world, practical context.

Not to mention that even with renewables, energy usage would be still a concern. Renewables will still have issues around distribution, power peaks, energy storage, price, and crypto wouldn't be helping any of them. A discussion of how would crypto affect the rest of the people compared to the benefit it brings would still be relevant.
I think it goes a little deeper.

The whole discussion basically mirrors real life politics. One camp want's more collective action to help the unfortunate, the other wants absolute freedom for the individual.
If crypto was only mined on renewables and there was sufficient (and sufficiently distributed) renewable energy that the presence of crypto did not otherwise detract from our desperately overdue de-carbonization efforts, then sure, whatever, knock yourselves out melting your processors to do funny math.

But that isn't the reality we live in.

The environmental aspect is manifestly a part of how crypto phenomenon, and attempts to separate the underlying technology from the manner in which it is (and for the foreseeable future, will continue to be) used, are disingenuous at best.
If the state of current (10/11) Windows UI and UX is any indicator it must have gotten much worse since 2008. I would never have done anything that shows a GUI on Windows hadn't I had access to Qt to absolve me from that hell.
There is a 3rd camp I count myself in that sits somewhere in the middle and stays out of most HN CC discussions because there seem to be almost only extremists discussing.
Those would be functional tests
I think the renewable energy is the real straw-man.

What about the non-recycable waste after "renewable" energy. Windmills have steel coated by epoxy wings, those cannot be recycled.

Solar panels is also ready for the trash-heap after 20 years, due to being a complex composite..

The only real energy source that would help would be nuclear, but even if we get that where have more efficient room-heaters and better use of the computing.. (protein folding could be one for example)
There's a lot more than tens, see gemini://medusae.space/ (though ~20% of the links are down, I wish Gemini had free "static site" hosting like GitHub Pages, that didn't depend on the site owner continually babysitting or paying for hosting).
Renewables have environmental impact too.
The PDP-11 wasn't crammed into a LSI design on five chips until 1975 with the F-11 that implemented it fast on two chips coming in 1979. Performance-wise the 1801 is comparable to the F-11. It seems to have been produced c. 84 onward.

About five years behind. Which is typical throughout the Soviet era. TTL became common c. 1970 about five years after the West. The first 8080 clones came out around 1980 to 81 some five to six years after Intel. Robotron in the DDR had working copies in '89 of the Microvax chipset from '85 as they rushed to copy 32 bit designs - only four years. The cutting edge for the semiconductor industry in the East was typically two generations and five years behind, pretty consistently, from what I can tell.
I would say it's because people on Hacker News are pretty intelligent.

Either they are intelligent and manipulative and are looking to maximize their investments whatever the cost to others, the externalities, whatever… or they are intelligent and accurately perceiving the first type of intelligent person.

By now, if you're a techie nerd, to be naive about this topic would mean there's something seriously wrong with you. You should have picked a side by now as this is not complicated or ambiguous. There is only furthering crypto by any means necessary, or opposing it (increasingly, by any means necessary). It's not going to get any blurrier. If you feign naivete and curiosity at this stage you are probably being manipulative and actually in the 'furthering by any means necessary' camp…
Accessibility of that blog is absolutely abysmal. I read the post thinking "cool, too bad you have no contributor list easily available" but the problem is that links are no-underline white, just like the text itself.
proof-of-stake already exists - we call it "traditional bank"
I think that's a good clarification, I agree with your point-of-view. The question is for how long this JPEG-NFT-bubble will go on, as long as Second Life or longer/shorter. The word "bubble" can be a bit loose definition, it might inflate/deflate slow/fast; and depending on that be relevant or irrelevant. Usually people seem to mean fast and blow off top, which might not necessarily be the case.
The format (swf) is an open standard, since... around 2008ish? ActionScript goes further, the VM itself is open source (as Mozilla Tamarin).
It looks like it wasn’t worth it for the EMA and insurance companies.
The best thing about Advent of Code is how you can adjust it to anyone's skills and interests - you can do it for time, you can take ages, you can use any language you want or multiple languages, you can get help from other people online, you can go down various CS rabbit holes, you can make more elaborate solutions and/or extensions (some people were doing really cool visualisation of the game of life variations last year) etc.

It's very easy to recommend to it anyone who does any amount of programming at any level, from complete beginners to very experienced.

Other people in this thread are talking about learning new languages and I found that a bit distracting. I think I'd rather focus on the puzzles themselves and there's also something very satisfying about writing a clean and concise solution in a few lines which you can't always do when you're picking up a new language. I like using Python for it because I can just translate what I'm thinking to a solution without worrying about the language itself. Also, even if I didn't mind doing it in a new language, I don't think that AoC gives you large enough problems that can really explore a new language and all of its features. And you can always mix the languages if there's a language that's really suitable for a given problem. You don't have to stick to the same language for all problems.

I really enjoyed last year's, I'm looking forward to this one.