skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Lastly, bitcoin mining to could sustained solely by using stranded energy, which would otherwise be unused.

You can make that argument about any sort of waste of electricity, like blasting your A/C with the windows open. The problem is you can't guarantee that people are only using wasted energy. People don't mine Bitcoin to generously find a use for surplus energy. They do so for a profit. Also, people will require mining for Bitcoin transactions regardless of whether there happens to be surplus energy.
I suspect you didn't look at the article - I was caught off guard, they're not technical. It's not a list I would go near.
All the learned studying the numbers, trying to figure out what number constitutes a genocide, while doing nothing about the genocide that is happening.
This poison is just that. Poison.
The immense numbers of injury and death being caused by the jab, and not by a fucking flu, is sad to watch.
You don't need to see numbers, or debate on correlation of ticker tallies, when one is seeing it.
Good luck to those who think this is not happening, you will be brutally awaken very soon, because its worse than you think.
The Greek letter “n” in Greek is actually called more something like “nee” and not how I understand English speakers pronounce it “nu” (“new”). Same with “m” that is pronounced as “mee”.

I assume this is because ancient Greeks spell the phonetic version of the letter as “νῦ”. The second of those letters is “υ” (upsilon) which in Greek sounds like “e” when put after a consonant.

WHO should have used Chinese characters, would have been more fun.
One sort-of exception is Erlang (and anything else that runs on the BEAM vm, like Elixir). It doesn't match Alan Kay's vision exactly, because the message passing is done a bit differently (for example it's asynchronous), but creator Joe Armstrong called it something like "the best of functional programming and OOP".

If you come from C++, Java, or other "OOP" languages, and look at Erlang, it's completely different than what you expect. In Erlang, the "objects" are less like mutable structs and more like functional mini-programs that can create new programs, pass messages, and fail as you would expect.

To get some perspective on both of their perspectives, here's "Joe Armstrong interviews Alan Kay":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhOHn9TClXY
I can bike as fast as Usain Bolt runs.

Also biking is a bit easier on your back and legs. It may harm shoulders and testicles though.
Show HN: Indiedevs.net – A place for indie game developers
If you are a creative individual of any type but especially if you are an indie game developer, you are more than welcome to our forums.

It's supposed to be a comfortable and clutter free environment for developers to hang out and exchange ideas. The site just launched recently so there is not much content on it. If you are interested in generating some, we will see you there! :-)
"I have this magical ability. I can generate the feeling of warmth whenever I want."

"Oh neat, you can mentally generate warmth and we can measure with a thermometer!"

"No, no. It's mental warmth only."

"Okay, so you never get cold?"

"Well, no, true cold overwhelms my mental warmth, I get cold as easily as anyone else."

"But, you could make yourself sweat on demand, right?"

"No, sweating is a response to actual warmth..."

That's what it's like in this thread. People claim to have an ability that produces no actual difference. Elsewhere in this thread we see that mental imagery folks aren't better at shape rotation (they're worse), they can't draw from their images the way the could from real images, their mental imagery is vague, low resolution, and imprecise.

A blind person easily discovers the sighted can do things they cannot. Read text, spot distant objects, etc. A person with aphantasia discovers there is nothing the visualizer can do that they cannot. How could this be so?

I think you're just confused about which of us the blind one is.
I am not arguing over a definition, I'm just saying that the definition sucks and that GGGGGP was actually expecting the "expected value" which I wouldn't do in this case.
I've got you bro, try again in a week
A sibling comment (from an engineer at GH) has given some insight: https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/8149#discussi...

They have error monitoring, but download URLs are one thing that's tricky to monitor for "errors" correctly because if two URLs 404, how do you know from your Grafana dashboard or whatever which are valid and which aren't? Having run a server whose only purpose is to serve static files myself -- you get a lot of 404s, all the time, it's no indication anything is wrong at all. This case would only be picked up by a dashboard if it fatalistically caused an error somewhere (like a 500) but by definition this wasn't ever a 500, it's a 404.

As you note, it's just a bug. Sometimes things you don't understand might actually surprise you, it turns out.
Speed limit 20.
There are so many ways to say this in German and we mix it all the time, though some ways are more prevalent in certain areas. I'm leaving out the 'regular' version of just saying the numbers and such and there's also the fact that depending on situation (or how you feel that very second) you'll just say 4:20 or 16:20.

4:05: 5 past 4
4:10: ten past 4
4:15: quarter past 4
4:15: quarter 5
4:20: ten to half 5
4:20: 20 past 4
4:30: half 5
4:35: 5 past half 5
4:40: 10 past half 5
4:40: 20 to 5
4:45: quarter to 5
4:45: 3 quarters 5
4:50: ten to 5
5:00: "full"

I'm sure I missed some from parts of Germany I've never lived in/been to.

Sometimes the actual hour is implied in a question/conversation and you just want to say that it's the full hour you're talking about and just say "Voll" or "Um". Same works with "Halb" and "ten to half" if the hour is not important or implied by context, which you can't do if you just say the numbers.

EDIT: speaking of forgetting some. While it's customary to say "10 past 4" usually nobody says "15 past 4" and instead uses "four fifteen" (actually "vier Uhr fuenfzehn") or "quarter past 4" and then at 4:20 it's "20 past 4 again".
PDF copy of The Screwtape Letters for those who need it: http://www.preachershelp.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/lewi...
Might want to re-read the article. I think this one flew way over your head. Unless your comment is satire, in which case your comment flew over my head.
The thing is, in my observations, depression pushes people into endless sets of no win conditions by punishing them for not obeying ever more restrictive and absurd rules. I don't want to claim what is/isn't a disease, but it's pretty obvious that some thought patterns hurt people a lot once you understand a little about how they work and get people to contort their lives around them. Getting out of that looks more like getting rid of the insecurities more than learning to walk a narrow path through endless fields of eggshells.
Rash decisions, insecurity and burnout: The dark side of India’s startup boom
Thanks for this link. TIL. Also, the videos linked from the site were useful
While I think it's fair to properly account for the carbon footprint of traditional banking and state military infrastructure, it is an utter fantasy that crypto is in direct competition with them. Crypto has been steadily integrating with existing banking institutions and regulations over the last five years; and barring some kind of new free-market, secrets-based "killer drones as a service", no distributed hash table can supplant raw military hegemony (aka, the $5 wrench attack [0]).

I think crypto has a lot of socially useful potential, beyond mere speculative gambling and Austrian-school value storage, but that's in addition to the centuries of momentum in our real-world political economy; crypto-currencies are unlikely to replace that entirely, anymore than the internet replaced the New York Times.

[0] https://xkcd.com/538/
I don't know the actual answer, but that would be a lot of useless typing.
If you can afford it, a trainer at a good gym will make a big difference. That’s how I got started and I really got results. They can make a program that’s setup for your goals and tweak it to keep it interesting. Plus the social pressure of having the appointment was what I needed to get out of bed early and get to the gym on time, especially when I didn’t feel like doing it.
It’s not that human nature will get better with a frontier. It’s that it gets worse without one.

The best scenario I can think of for a closed Earth is Singapore but with more surveillance and a much more stagnant culture. Oh, and a very high rate of suicide and mental illness.
How long have you been doing this ?

I managed to implement this since july this year. Very good benefits (muscle mass, cardiovascular health) but winter early night makes it a lot less joyful and I'm feeling less motivated. Also I see my thighs are getting thick and stiff .. but maybe I can fix that (jogging session and stretch ?)
> Lastly though, I really think space as a frontier is qualitatively different and people know it. Compared to the scale of current or even foreseeable future human civilization, it's infinite and near inexhaustible even without positing any kind of FTL or near-light-speed travel. The solar system alone is just monstrous. It's called space for a reason.

This is really key. Once the cat is out of the bag with spacefaring being democratized and relatively cheap, the frontier is truly endless. It won’t peter out like all of Earth’s frontiers have — space will always have more wilderness than we have people.
The number of pages is only part of the story. Even if you never get paged a single time, oncall still sucks because you have some response requirement. If I could get paged and I need to respond within 30m then it is no hikes for me this weekend.
Yeah, technically correct statement in headline, but yet again we have to wait for this variant to demonstrate what its impact will be throughout the world.

It never fails to impress me how effective the brute force strategy viruses employ to master molecular biology is in comparison to humans having to spend decades educating themselves and creating massive institutions to achieve similar results in selected areas of research.
Your source says 0.2% on page 18, not 0.1%.

The raw figure it uses for gross power consumption (62 Twh) is also unsourced.

Meanwhile, the Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance puts the figure at around twice that - 110 Twh.

Not that we had any reason to grant credence to what a bitcoin "investment" company says about the matter, anyway.
Given the gravity of the situation, maybe they should have also skipped the one that is an anagram of "moronic".
Personal attacks not appreciated.

No statistics class I took said that a coin with sides A and C can give you a B, or that you could "expect" 0.5 from a bimodal distribution with a delta function at 0 and a delta function at 1. The mean value may be 0.5 but it's not something you would expect to actually happen; if you wanted to maximize the probability that your prediction is correct you'd be better off picking 0 or 1.
Another confusing scenario to me is that Arabs who invented the numbering system write the digits left-to-right in a right-to-left writing system:

رقم هاتف والدتي هو 8765309

It won't let me paste vertical Japanese text or I would demonstrate that monstrosity too.
We all know that child is way too old to still be in school.
This is good advice and has much / most of the info you really need.
That sounds like stretching the law a bit too much. :) But, regarding piracy of copyright material, indian courts have said that downloading or streaming a movie from the internet is not a criminal act. It is only the distribution of copyright material that is illegal and a criminal act.

Ofcourse, in this case (SciHub), I am guessing the argument would be that copyrighting research material (science / knowledge) is itself absurd and detrimental to society, and that should trump the interests of the copyright holder.
it's up to you how to live and die, but it's not up to you to decide it for other people by spreading deadly virus around.
Or: it’s a deepfake where the attacker made a video and attached the victims face in post-processing.
If you wait for a few more minutes, it's highly likely that a predator will emerge. Maybe you were just unlucky though.
Clearly you don't think very highly of yourself. Sad.
Monetization models are interesting. In most amateur's case it seems to start out as "for fun" and then flip to "for money". Instead it's simply a gradient of incentives, whether acknowledged or not.

As cryptocurrencies and other models increasingly securitize everything, I wonder what will happen to the "amateur" market. As viewers we get so much free benefit from the hard work of amateurs.
This is not unique to German. In Urdu, numbers higher than 20 are pronounced: 1-2 for 21 (aik-ees), 5-4 for 45 etc.
People are going to die no matter what, how is trying to forecast the stock market macabre? I’m saying I think it will be less serious than the panic in the media would have us believe.

It’s not even close to ambulance chasing, c’mon now. I’m not trying to profit off individual deaths, I’m attempting to forecast how the market will respond to new information. You act like I’m betting on COVID death pools.
Please don't call names or post shallow dismissals to HN. It degrades discussion and we're trying for the opposite here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Understanding Docker in a visual way – 02 – Layers
They didn't skip Eta, which is a common enough name if Xi is, especially given that Xi is pronounced ksʌɪ and, if we're focusing on Chinese (does it exist as a name elsewhere?) it's not going to be romanised and a child in grade school won't be aware anyway.
Yes, and had their vacations cut short and other such things than rank and file employees would tolerate far less.
Julia is missing 32 bit and 16 bit hex floats unfortunately.
"Omicron" does sound fairly ominous. I wonder if that was part of the calculation? To make it sound like something scary that you should take seriously.
Starting Strength by Mark R
For an optimist, optimism.
For a pessimist, neither.
Thank you. I had no idea of this history.
Show HN: Digital Business Card
CARTLY® is a cloud based WebApp that allows you to easily create, manage and share your digital business card(s) with your smartphone, tablet, or PC.

Why CARTLY®?

Standard business cards are frozen in time. They are a "consumable" product offering little flexibility and above all, not sustainable. Cartly allows you to transform your business card into an interactive profile, accessible via smartphone, tablet and PC.

Share it anytime, anywhere, on any device.
The 12th paragraph of the article:

"'Nu’ is too easily confounded with `new,’ and `Xi’ was not used because it is a common last name”, the WHO said, adding that the agency’s “best practices for naming disease suggest avoiding `causing offence to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional or ethnic groups’".
Ask HN: Product Owner lacking Numbers, problem?
Throughout my career I had too little exposure to metrics.

How do I change that?

My current job: B2B2C with few but big customers, currently a merge happening with lots of integration work, no focus on metrics. I tried to push for them since a year now, but there is also slight feature creep and a general lack of focus causing various other priorities.

How problematic is it for my career?

With my last job search I already felt inadequately experienced in that topic, even though I'm generally good at numbers and would love to track some stats.

What kept me away from metrics in my old jobs:

- B2B2C Startup 1: feature creep (made me quit), boss did not want to implement tracking. Did at least do qualitative testing observing users.

- B2B2C Startup 2 (freshly acquired): with low customer numbers, ever moving targets (ultimately made me quit again).
https://archive.md/QRXOC just in case

last month I focused a bit on oxygen levels and mitochondrial health. Good breathing (and overall cardiovascular system) seems a simple trick to help your body overall. But I lack solid resources on the matter.
It is well known that money only truly gets created in the economy via new debt - when I take out a loan, the bank hands me cash that is backed by some small percentage of the holdings, determined by the govt and ruled by the interest rate of bonds.

This is why bond prices remain low, because banks are simply not lending enough/people aren't borrowing enough to allow rates to rise.
> A lottery ticket?

Yes, more or less. Or call it an insecurity, I don't care, whatever is needed so the SEC can stay out of this.
Some past related threads:

Floating Point Visually Explained (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23081924 - May 2020 (96 comments)

Floating Point Visually Explained (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19084773 - Feb 2019 (17 comments)

Floating Point Visually Explained - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15359574 - Sept 2017 (106 comments)
I second this, their content is no bullcrap and easy to read. There is lot of fads in fitness for beginners to get caught on.
Even if Omicron is less serious than delta, we can't strictly consider it harmless. Nor can we rule out the possibility of a new deadlier variant created if Omicron keep spreading.
No, because in that case you are responsible for other people's systems you have no idea about and there is no incentive to fix them.

I am always on call to secure my own house, so I have a good alarm system, cameras, locks etc which means I hopefully don't have to do much. It doesn't keep me up at night when I'm on holiday because, well, it's overwhelmingly likely that nothing will happen.

If I were on call for the neighbourhood or general area once a week, I'd probably have to physically be there patrolling it because otherwise I have liability for things which are outside of my control.
Nah, I’ve already seen the joke used a dozen times. People who want to complain will always find something.

It’s better that people learn some Greek letters.
Sounds like the IOC and Apple's stance too. ;)

:tw_flag:
>1. The resource usage overshoots and PoW collapses because it gets banned everywhere.

Bitcoin difficulty adjusts dynamically with available hashpower, in other words if miners started to shut down the network would lower it's difficulty to keep blocktimes stable.

The chain will not collapse because someone somewhere will always keep it going.
Better one is the number of pool drowning vs. Nicolas Cage movie releases - https://i.imgur.com/q54sO25.png
There is no shortage of those
Dacia Spring
Dacia Sandero Stepway
Renault Clio
Renault Captur
Renault Megane
VW T-Cross
...

I'm tired to list more.
> wouldn't it be a shame if there was no one around to listen to Beethoven or Mozart, to look at Monet or Van Gogh Painting

I notice the specific examples you list here are part of the western canon, which I assume is part of your culture and therefore important to you. But you didn’t list any artists from other cultures. Why do you think people living in another planet some time in the distant future would miss the artists from your culture? Wouldn’t they have their own art and music unique to them that they would care about more than the things you care about?

I get that it’s sad to think about these artists dying for good (as in their art being wiped from collective memory) but it’s something that happens all the time to artists throughout history, and I really don’t think it’s a great shame on a cosmic scale that the artists you mention might be forgotten in the future. I think as much as you would want to share Mozart with the Martians, they will care about him just as much as you care about artists from South America in the year 900. That is to say, not at all.
But he did make that mistake? Can you explain what you mean?
Why the "(sic)"? That's the normal spelling for British English.
Very nice. I now use one as my wallpaper. It's pretty satisfying to know I have a uniquely generated wallpaper ;)
The German word for that is Bandwurmsatz (“tapeworm sentence”, because it goes on and on and on). Native speakers likely have a higher threshold for calling a sentence that than foreigners.
Read again what I wrote >majority of people behave according to game theory because if they do not then they lose or in extreme cases die.

Majority of people are not addicts but those who are lose or in extreme cases die like for example alcohol addicts, drug addicts even casino gambling addicts who tend to suicide when losses amass and loans come due.
>Two years ago, paranoia might have helped.

That's an easy statement to make two years later. Now that we have the benefit of hindsight, we know a lot of things that would have helped.

When you make evidence-based decisions, you are going to get some things wrong. The only way around that is to gather more evidence, and that takes time (and loads of money.)
> vast majority of "senior engineers" stuck at random company are not really senior engineers skill-wise.

Thats besides the point. Ins't it?

Going into management is a better option for these 'vast majority' of people.
Whirlwind I
> Finally, when you can complain about the difference between StrongLifts vs StartingStrength it will be time for you to leave.

Leave what, and do what instead?
Conclusion: we are not in hell
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In Greek it means "little O" (o-mikron), compared to Omega ("big O", o-mega).
> You can move from one float to the next, which is a meaningfull operation on discreet numbers like integers, but not continuous numbers like rational and irrational numbers.

What do you mean by continuous? Obviously if you take a number line and remove either the rational or irrational numbers, you will end up with infinitely many holes.

The thing that makes floating point numbers unique is that, for any given representation, there are actually only finitely many. There’s a largest possible value and a smallest possible value and each number will have gaps on either side of it. I think you meant that the rationals and irrationals are dense (for any two distinct numbers, you can find another number between them), which is also false for floating-point numbers.
Carbon tax would solve this waste.
100 times worse than living on Mt. Everest. Maybe build a nuclear shelter on earth?
I didn't realize they were going in order. Where the others after delta not a big deal?
Most of its value comes from the hype of 400k electric charging stations promised by the US, i.e. promise of growth, that attract money, and money attracts money, and free money paid as PPP creates even more money.

One quarter it was going negative on profits, so he pump and dumped crypto to keep it positive and the hype going.

It either produce most of the world's cars or it is going to fall out and I hope we wouldn't be the one facing the consequences, but we will :))
For more on Simpson’s Paradox, see https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/my_favorite_paradox/, which I happened to reread this week, and which essentially serves as a spoiler for this article.
Nobel-winning stock market theory used to help save coral reefs
The popularity of the name Katrina was relatively stable in the 200-300 most popular range until Hurricane Katrina hit, at which point it declined into the 900s.
If this was, say, somewhere betweeen 1997 and 2005, I might have said JVM bytecode. But Java bytecode is no longer generally assumed to be the byte code of the future. Therefore, I chose WebAssembly instead, and added a caveat about how this might change.