skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like you were paying AVGAS price + taxes, at least given typical petrol prices in EU.

At least in Poland, the situation is that if both are without taxes, then AVGAS is more expensive than car petrol. But taxes add enough on top that taxed car petrol is more expensive than untaxed avgas.

This meant that non-airclub planes had significant amount of car petrol conversions done, but aircraft that could be fueled through Polish Aero Club didn't bother.

At the airfield I learnt to fly gliders, even the utility car (used among other things for dragging winch wire back to start) was fueled with avgas-100ll, except we also modded it with LPG system that was fueled by normal kitchen gas bottle. The hand-pushed grass mower also ran on avgas :D only the winch and old ursus tractor used diesel due to engine type involved.
Wouldn't this system be gamed when it hit sufficiently large enough?

The more I think about it the more I realise that news is mostly a tool for "propaganda". It really doesn't serve much purpose in ones life beyond that
It could even be expressed as `(params message receiver)`, or `message; <params>.{{receiver}}` or whatever other syntax.

But it's going to be more thoughtful to explain what parts of programming or of software design or architecture are emphasised by different ways of arranging things.

`receiver.message(params)` puts an emphasis that it's the receiver which receives and acts upon the message. The receiver will conform to some kind of interface with which we can interact.

`sender.message(...)` seems completely bizarre to me. -- Some module's interaction with other things is where the interactions are defined? Sounds interesting if it works!
I also found this video from SimonDev educative (and entertaining):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo89kOv9pVk
I've been doing one-hour time limit song writing challenges and in those I need to write accompaniment fast. I gotta say, this generation is a really close reduction of what I actually do -- come up with some accompaniment figure over a chord or two, then transpose it and tweak chord tones for the next measure. Maybe add a part or do something different if it's a section change. IMO this post is a great example of how to mix variation and repetition to balance interest and familiarity.

Even if the generation itself has limitations it seems like a great springboard for manual touches like dissonance tweaking, or new sections, or fills / transitions -- arguably the cool creative part after all anyway! There's a lot of repetition in music, and when writing, it's hard to decouple it from points of interest. A workflow that enables such is very exciting.

(Taking this opportunity to share my multiplayer piano roll editor: https://yuxshao.github.io/ptcollab/ )
The name evokes a Neal Stephenson cyberpunk type disease vibe.
> 80 (octante in BE)

Nope. That’s switzerland, belgians completely illogically have kept the 20-based naming here.
Yeah but re mental models you combine that with "...Mr. Market’s quotations will be anything but. For, sad to say, the poor fellow has incurable emotional problems. At times he feels euphoric and can see only the favorable factors affecting the business..."
Reddit.com has deleted AAAA records and is back to being a legacy website
I'm sure this has nothing to do with the name of one particularly popular person.
I'm curious about this, too. I wonder, does a more mild variant mean a reduced risk of long-term complications?
Long ago “forty” in English may have begun as “four ten” which most likely became “fourteen” but four tens could have maybe become forty.
I imagine the idea of a hard fork of Bitcoin may become more popular as the supply limit is approached and transaction fees go up. The current transaction fee is only a few dollars but the cost is over a hundred. Eventually the fee will have to cover the full cost and a hard fork may start to look more interesting.

If this happens I can technically stay on the original protocol, but that would be rather pointless if a sufficient majority abandons it.
These same people are willing to take monoclonal antibodies which are human antibodies harvested from vaccinated genetically modified rodents. It’s the same spike protein antibody just produced in rodents instead of their bodies.
There are a lot of famous no-face YouTubers. AvE, Maru's human, etc.
I think they would survive. If a kid gets picked on for their last name sounding the same as a Covid variant, they were probably going to get picked on for something anyway.

Bending over backwards to avoid offending people isn't good policy, because it just lowers the bar for what makes people offended.
I'm not buying it. I know 3 of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_(surname)
The Danish case (at least for 50) was explained by Tom Scott in a numberphile video, I believe. https://youtu.be/l4bmZ1gRqCc starting around the two minute mark.

The half in the Danish 50 is derived from an abbreviation of an abbreviation, originating from "half away from three, times twenty" ((3-½)20 = 2½20 = 50) using some nice, outdated numbering orders. He doesn't talk about 70 and 90, but your explanation makes sense. That would mean there are two ways the "half" made it into the names for tens!
The two things that should have been obvious when they chose Greek letters is there wouldn't be enough, and there'd be awkwardness around Xi.
SREs are (with a few exceptions) only responsible for production (or more precisely, things serving prod traffic, which may be multiple environments). Dev teams are usually responsible for keeping qa and ci green.
What about the pi variant? That could be offensive to bakers.
And receiving a negative test does not rule out being positive. The false negative rates - even for pcr - are high double digits (and depend on the phase of the infection). Lots of good research proving it, and yet not widely publicized.
99.9% has nothing to do with crypto.
> Acknowledging the fact that everything perishes, including humans, because we are not special, does not imply that there is nothing wrong with suicide

Suicide remark aside, my overall argument was that "human life has no special value" is a pose. People value human life in a special way, including their own, for whatever reason, rational or not, and we know this by observing human behavior, including our own.

> I mean, sure, we can do both, but I do maintain that since, right now, the only success that we can guarantee from exploring space with our current tools is to gather knowledge, anybody who genuinely believes and is committed to the idea that we have a moral obligation to prolong the life of our species should be trying to save Earth right now.

Not only can we do both but we are. I'm not a Musk fanboy but I am glad that battery tech, solar, electric cars, and rockets are all being built.

Also, due to politics, fixing problems on Earth is in some sense a harder problem than colonizing Mars. Whether or not a Mars colony survives, if we have the technology to try it, we can give it the old college try. Meanwhile, something as simple as a carbon tax is politically impossible.
I kind of hate people stating it like this, because when you point out as to why it would be fairly obvious not to use Xi, they'll call you out for pandering towards the CCP.

But Xi is a pretty common surname in China, and the virus has already caused enough hatred towards Asians in general, there's no point in fueling it even more.
When I was student, I didn't feel guilty about pirating. Now that I make money, and know how hard it is, I do feel an occassional guilt (when I pirate something) and often try to either reduce the consumption or pay for it. But I still hate DRM with a passion, and hate this "renting" business instead of owning something - that gives too much control to the distributor and is detrimental to our consumer right.
https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFileZ
saves to local disk everything on web page.
they are less important than certain Xi, obviously
I wouldn't call him "particularly popular"... Maybe "Popular with particular people."
You think that watching one film over another is more likely to cause you to die?
Covid’s Deadliest Phase May Be Here Soon
Ditto. It's been a while with the same gradient. Reloaded a few times to find one with the general color space I wanted. Boom, done. I love it.

(Needs a tip jar or something though.)
Air travel is about 2.5% of total carbon emissions and is incessantly discussed by climate activists.
"That’s unhealthy; why should promoting unhealthy social media adoption be our policy priority?"

The alternative is to destroy the tech industry as it exists. That's a fair chunk of the world economy. How do you plan on implementing that policy?

"[Radicalisation and joining a terrorist group] occurred before the Internet, too. The answer is more speech, education, and enabling people — not censorship."

I don't suppose you could provide an example or three? Of your "answer" working; I have plenty for the problem.

"Then we need to focus on individual resiliency - not building a hug-box."

1. Victim blaming.

2. Personal responsibility for one's actions.
While we are at it, Corona is a common brand name and Kovid is a (given?) name, too.
Leave all the classes and apps and everything that's organised, and do it all yourself; you'll have enough knowledge and motivation by that point.
I mean what if they are looking into it though? Would you prefer a half baked response?
> Bitcoin difficulty adjusts dynamically

As does the energy use by miners. So, energy use reacts to price, and then difficulty reacts to energy use. That's OP's point.

> if miners started to shut down...

Actually, that would be _very_ interesting. Then you'd have millions of dollars of hardware doing nothing. And doing nothing is losing money. Maybe at that point attacking the network is more profitable than watching your hardware depreciate.
So we don't want to offend folks with "Xi" as their last name, so we instead mock Lrrr, ruler of planet Omicron Persei 8!?
You suggest Docusign could compromise their core business and therefore the customer problem is lack of trust in Docusign?

So how big is such a market of potential customers that don’t trust Docusign to not tamper with the attestation? I’d hypothesize the potential customer segment is very small.

Big companies that need Docusign have incentive enough to get it right and typically have rigorous standards to making decisions like this. If lack of trust were an issue with customers, Docusign will have solved that issue already. Trust is not likely an issue for customers.

For choosing a Docusign over a Hellosign, price at scale however is an issue. If blockchain solved the cost at scale issue then you’d be on to something but I don’t think it does. Other tech solutions like S3 or R2 probably have a more material impact on a real customer problem like cost at scale than blockchain could hope to. Though I’d guess the cost Docusign and others charge has little to do with underlying data storage or infrastructure costs.
Dutch is my second language, my kids are Dutch, but they still sometimes struggle with the time.

"Tien voor half vijf" (ten before half five) is indeed 4:20.

"Tien over half vijf" (ten after half five) is 4:40.

Then when it's 4:45, it's "kwart voor vijf" (quarter before five).

I always have to think about it before I say it.
You cannot have PoW running on burning a free or cheap resource, the entire point of PoW is that the resource you are burning is costly, which pushes up the amount burned to close to the break-even point.

The amount of energy consumed now is not at its current level because of some fixed power requirement of the network. It’s there due to competition. If power was cheaper miners would run their ops using more power and the only thing that would change would be more energy would be wasted.
How dare we offend the sponsor...
As a native Mandarin speaker, I don't tend to think of the "ten" as a ten. If anything, for me it conjures up an image of the number of 0s. So, the "hundreds" part in "four hundreds" would just means four followed by two zeros, etc. I may even have been taught this as a child; can't remember. Anyway, no arithmetic involved, at least not explicitly.

I don't know that this generalizes -- other Mandarin speakers may have a different experience. I'm really curious how Chinese-speaking people thought about these things before Arabic numerals, but not sure we can ever have a clear answer to that question.
Because it designates original spelling/usage in case anyone reading the quote is confused. No malice intended, typically.
It absolutely does, since mining rewards are mostly from transaction fees.
Companies are holding BTC instead of treasuries, nations are issuing Bitcoin bonds, millions of people are buying in as governments print themselves into sinkholes..

Where is the use case?

Bitcoin already proved its use case years ago, it already won. The only question now is how far can it go.
So only 6% remained unexplained after investigation, basically
Yes, the classic example being the connection of lung cancer to smoking. Initially it was just a correlation, but the correlation encouraged scientists to see if there was actually a causal relationship (which of course there was). Yes, many (probably most) correlations are spurious, but the existence of a correlation is very useful for scientists looking to find a hypothesis to test.
Can you please not create accounts to post flamewar comments to HN? It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They're doing this now because they need to do this before the cheap, Chinese RISC-V stuff hits the market and wipes them out.
It would be rather jedanaest, dvanaest, trinaest (at least in Croatian) - your version sounds how it is shortened in pronounciation in some regions.
Also šezdeset with "z".
That's great when you already have that ability, and when circumstances permit. There's a bit more to it for people who do not have that ability, might never have that ability due to disability, or live in places/situations where it's not feasible. "That's all" is an expression of privilege, not real advice.
same arguments/sentiments are a huge impediment in investigating pandemic’s true origin
> Craftsmen and artisans take their time and have boundaries.

I've been an engineer on-call for 7 years since graduating. In the meantime I handled a handful of business critical situations, developed my ability to keep cool during crisis and put my skills to the test. When I started doing it, I wasn't even paid for on-call. Now I am. The money has no bearing on me having been exploited or not. I've done it because it's cool, and when I think it's too tiring I won't do it anymore.

Am I less of an engineer, not a true craftsman (wtv that means), because of this? There's other opinions in the world, no need to be so close minded.
It's a data acquisition system which records various data collected out in the field by operators on standard laptops. They're frequently operating in places with no cell coverage so we can't "just" stream to the cloud, we store the data locally and then bulk upload later. Also want to be able to visualize the data on the laptops which may be larger than ram.

It's not a particularly demanding use-case, especially with respect to querying. Could just use some serialization format, parquet maybe, but I know SQLite works reliably and has good libs. It's nice to have standard tools available, and I know no matter what changes I'll be able to read these databases in 20 years. Didn't have a lot of time to work on this project so I didn't spend much time evaluating alternatives.
> when the leader is elected every 10 minutes, do they get a choice of what block they append to the chain? No they don’t.

Yes, they do get to choose the block. Transactions to include in the block are (usually) chosen from the mempool, which is unique per node (it’s similar but never exactly the same between any two nodes). Miners can also choose to include transactions that were never publicly broadcasted, and therefore never appeared in another mempool. Typically the transactions with highest fees are chosen, although fees can also be paid (or bumped) outside the mempool.

The miner of a block doesn’t get to choose the contents of every transaction, but they do choose which transactions to include when they win a block.

It seems like you’re hung up on terms that aren’t commonly used in the context of bitcoin mining, but are valid and are commonly used in the broader context of distributed systems.
Not the GP, but I believe they mean that it keeps outsiders out rather than keeping insiders in.
I can’t see the light in your example either. If I shut my eyes, and try to see it, I just see blackness though I have no problems with the concept of a blue light (or even the entire scene) - I just don’t see it. To answer the photo question, I don’t have a verbal definition of a photo, I have a relational one. I can still describe the photo reasonably well, but I don’t “see” anything.

I’ve thought quite a bit on how my mind works once I discovered that “the mind’s eye” wasn’t just a euphemism for other people. I think my mind works with rules rather than visuals, and it constructs/deconstructs a lot of them as needed to describe something it can work with.

I’m a software engineer, an ICT5, working at Apple. I tell people my primary skill is “solving problems”, and that’s accurate as a 10k-foot view. I’m good at mentally modeling the intricacies of how a system works, what the dependencies are, what the interactions are between sub-parts, how that effects corner-cases. I can “run” this mental simulation in my head forwards and backwards a bit (not too far) and get a grasp of how it fits together. But there’s no visual to any of this, whether I’m thinking about a bicycle or server-side cryptographic mail storage and transport. It’s all just interacting rules. I’m often the one to point out a flaw in a systems model well before we get to implementation, and I’m good at “breaking new ground” when it comes to implementing something, even for a different group - I get “loaned out” a fair bit.

So I think there are upsides to not having a mind’s eye - I chose physics at college, and found it easier than most I think; equally there are upsides to having the ability to visualise things, I expect. It’s probably a species-optimization to have the capacity for both…
How, is there a new test for Omicron variant? And is it available in the US?
Even if it was to avoid the association with Xi Jinping, so what? The entire point is to have neutral names for variants that don’t malign specific countries and regions and let’s us discuss them without political baggage. Same with skipping Nu, it avoids confusion and ambiguity.

There’s no previously hard and fast rule or principle being broken here, nor is the world worse off because the Greek alphabet is merely being used as a source of neutral names rather than being followed exactly linearly.

I feel that anyone saying it’s a bad thing that Xi was skipped is probably doing so because they feel it would be edgy & funny or something China deserves, and not for any actual scientific credibility perspective.
These are buzz words. What are "social freedoms" and why do we care if individual freedoms, which contain a fundamentally different modifier (individual), are really social freedoms? Is one type of freedom more important than another? I would posit that, in America, individual freedoms are to be considered more important historically.

This tweet reeks of pseudo-psocyhology.
> I can bike as fast as Usain Bolt runs.

...which means absolutely nothing in terms of either ability or fitness. Sure, if you're time constrained, biking might be feasible where running is not. Otherwise it's just Easy Mode.
I guess you may be familiar with Judea Pearl’s work already, but he did write a popular treatment of the subject in The Book of Why. I’m not trying to put computer scientists on a pedestal, but there is something about the uncompromising rigor that comes with putting abstractions inside brainless machines.
I'm wondering why they don't fire up the original pump system that drained the pit back in the mining days?
You don't need to speculate. https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/
Xi/席/奚/习 doesn't even fall under the 200 most common surnames in Mainland China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_Chinese_surname...
I locked myself out one night and called a service. The guy showed up and asked if I wanted a show, or the door open. I said open the door please. He did in about ten seconds and I gladly paid full fare for the work.

Spoiler: he leaned on the door to hold the latch in place, then used a plastic shim to trip it open.
What Are You Missing? Focus
How is skipping two names bending over backwards
Soon we won't: https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/07-21-2021-lab-alert...
It may be outlandish because minimizing the number of bits, when taken to the extreme as in Algorithmic Information Theory, leads to very obfuscated code [1].

[1] https://www.ioccc.org/2012/tromp/hint.html
> The fact that [worker cooperatives] make just a small part of economy suggest they are not really effective or interesting.

Actually there are a few reasons why we don't have many worker co-ops. First reason is, private investors want equity. VCs don't give out loans — they buy ownership shares, because that has the potential for a much bigger payout. That's incompatible with the co-op model. Similarly, banks are often tentative to give loans to co-ops, because they're so rare, despite co-ops tending to be slightly more stable than corporations when they do crop up. Thirdly, as a company grows, there's no incentive for the founders to give equal shares of ownership to new employees when it's acceptable for them to keep them for themselves. The less you can pay your employees, the better, obviously.

It's clear that in the absence of regulation, corporations are a more enticing business organization model than cooperatives. This doesn't mean that they're better — the free market sacrifices public well-being for private profit all the time. It just means that government intervention is required to promote them.

> many tyrannical countries forbade [emigration]

Do you think preventing your citizens from leaving is a prerequisite for tyranny? Because if not, then my point still stands, and the fact that an employee can quit doesn't make a corporation's governance just, in and of itself.

> you can just be independent contractor

The economy depends primarily on conventional employees. Some people can be independent contractors, but everyone can't, so even if being a contractor is more desirable, my critique of corporations is still very relevant. Besides, independent contractors often get treated even more poorly because of their unprotected status. Uber drivers are classified as "independent contractors," and this has led to Uber being able to treat them pretty poorly. So I'm not even convinced that contract work is necessarily better than regular employment.
And at that point unions will make sense, like in any other low paid, undifferentiated type of work where the worker has a really hard time "just changing jobs" when things get abusive. That is not the situation in IT now.
They were Variants of Interest, which didn’t see substantial spread, rather then Variants of Concern.

Both VOIs and VOCs get Greek letter names.
Why is nobody talking about XCH (or XFX if you don’t like the size of the pre-mine)? It will have similar issues as PoW in the long long run (at a fraction of the cost), but it’s a clear iteration on the energy consumption issue of PoW chains that doesn’t concede the entire consensus idea is broken and advocate for switching to an oligarchy.
Would be interesting to watch someone try to amass ~0.5% of the world's energy/miners to perform a 51% attack on Bitcoin.
Well for one thing we don't have tens of thousands of years to wait for a natural ice age to counteract industrial warming that has happened within the past century or two.