skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty sure the parent was being sarcastic (and provocative).

In real terms it’s worth whatever the next buyer is willing to pay. It annoys me that people cite the run-up over the last decade as evidence of it’s brilliance when it’s nothing of the sort, but I’d just sound like a loon screaming into the wind.

Personally I think it’s worthless. Honestly I suspect Satoshi Nakamoto (if they’re still alive) probably thinks the same; One of the later posts Satoshi made before disappearing was making the point that if it accrued any value at all then it would be useable to transact and therefore viable.

The problem is that if that’s true of Bitcoin, it’s also true of all tokens, meaning the scarcity argument is entirely imaginary - if one token is perceived as too expensive then the perception of value will shift to another that’s viewed as ”cheaper” (and thus more likely to “mooon!”), meaning the supply of tokens taken as a whole is actually infinite and arbitrary, rather than scarce, and the value of the cryptocurrency market as a whole is therefore infinitely and arbitrarily small per unit (i.e. worthless).

But what do I know? I’m just some loon screaming into the wind.
The lead developer responding like this to bug reports is a good indicator.

https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/1561
It is a sign of social intelligence.

Most people understand, mostly unconsciously, that being "fake" (i.e., complimenting others for insignificant achievements, sharing fake stories and relaying content produced by other people) has become the most rewarding strategy to be successful in the westernized culture.

LinkedIn actively contributes to this by hiding most of the negative cues that could let someone assess her/his own performance objectively.

For example: when you see 50 likes to a comment, the author is very likely to feel rewarded and accomplished. However, LinkedIn will hide the fact that probably 500 people thought that content utterly uninteresting, wrong or despicable, but were smart enough to let it go.

Being "true" on LinkedIn, and any other social network, is committing social suicide in my opinion.
We don't need to. It's heavily regulated.
Ask HN: How would you teach science differently at school?
Most of you would have been taught science at middle-school (and beyond, given the community here). What according to you is broken when it comes to teaching science at school and how do you think tech could fix it?

I recently asked one version of this question to a group of teachers (what's the hardest thing about teaching science?) and was surprised by (a) the amount of effort it takes and (b) the degree of corners cut to get through the curriculum and/or ensure the whole class could achieve minimum attainment.
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On the one hand, try to live forever with this.

On the other hand, accelerate the burning of the planet by giving more people access to an energy-wasting ponzi scheme.

Your 2 goals are incompatible with each other, Brian and Blake.
The "Networks behind them" are also worthless, if you mean blockchain.

Consider the oracle problem, the fact that running Hello World requires mining a block, that software contains errors and cannot be patched on the blockchain, the curious absence of real world applications of blockchain after all those years, and the inevitable precedence of the Law in the real world that makes any "the code is the law" ideas moot...

A complicated, hard to understand scheme like blockchain is just the right thing to keep the crypto hype going and to attract more of that money that is looking for investment opportunities in this world of overvalued assets and low-interest rates.
Longevity is a worthwhile goal for striving for. It is horrific that beings with hopes, dreams, and loves are forced to die and lose everything they have ever had, doomed to an eternity of the black void of nonexistence. That should be a choice.

I for one am thrilled that society is starting to view death as something we might be able to one day defeat, rather than the resigned acceptance that has reigned throughout the history of our species.
What I find find interesting is how overwhelmingly negative the responses here are now, when a month ago being a skeptic was a minority position.

Does that shift seem recognisable to others? If correct, what's the drastic change driven from?

Edit: spelling
I know there’s no other way, but I wish JS could just die!
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I can’t speak for everyone in India etc. but for me, personally, I didn’t reproduce because I felt the world already had enough people for finite resources, and I didn’t think my descendants would get to experience as rich of a natural environment as the one I grew up in.

I don’t regret this decision.

Whilst I might have enjoyed being a parent, had things gone that way, there’s infinitely much to enjoy about being alive solo and free, and nothing to worry about in the aftermath.
This is just deathist brainrot. If we lived for 10k years "naturally", would you support killing people off after 70-80 years? Of course living longer would make things better.
There's very little funding of longevity research apparently. Probably because of people sharing your opinion that stopping aging is selfish/immoral. But this is not right, we've severely underestimated the biological dangers of our overpopulated-overconnected world. We find ourselves needing to fight a pandemic with similar methods as in 1917, because we ve not prepared for that. Biotech should be an imperative for humanity if we want to live in an open connected world or if we want to go to space.

> I'm not against research to better understand aging and diseases that are a consequence of aging

That's like researching the symptoms instead of the cause, it's the wrong way to do medicine
There was a thread about this roughly two weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29349240
Seems that people don’t like it when you point out the con!
> they will become outdated fairly quickly - or are not necessary even now for arbitrary "websites". The tooling for web development has become overly complex and we are now starting the trend back down to the basics instigated by projects such as esbuild.

To add to my other comment in this thread, as this relates to your particular comment, we try to keep Molecule.dev as up to date as possible. We cannot of course cover every piece of tech out there, but we attempt to cover what we think are the best tools available and will continue to exist and improve for many years to come.

It is definitely a very difficult problem to solve and will need constant maintenance, but I think it's worth it if it helps people get started building awesome, high quality things faster.
hah, would like to hear what's not worthless and by which metric.
what is the "big" version of those peltier 12v modules called? if i had to find a say 50Watt model, am i stuck with chaiming those tiny toy hobby grade stuff?

lets say i live in a place where people have lots of wood burning going during winters and this can be a nice experiment if it gives something substantial
When you don't actually realise it is 1 GB before you cat it.
That just seems really presumptuous to me: I don't see anything in the article to support that outlook -- it even contradicts your position by emphasizing healthspan over lifespan.

Rather than your judgemental take-- Why not adopt the simpler theory that these are simply parties that can afford fund very expensive efforts which are extremely likely to fail?
Sporks aren't investment vehicles.
Then would you say French and Italian are dialects of Latin - clearly derived bastardized version for a Latin person at the time, same writing ?

Or would you say French and Italian are dialect of "Westernese", the same imaginary concept as "Chinese" would be as a language ?

I don't really know what's the right boundary between dialect and language. I know I use it in a French context when I want to speak of the peasant's language in my region which has no literature, doesn't expand beyond the villages in Normandy, cannot be written and has a grammar that can fluctuate between villages. Then I call that a dialect because I would discourage someone from using it too much lol

What's your definition ? Should we say French is a dialect of Latin if Canto is a dialect of "Chinese" ? And what value would it have, since the Latin world is as divided as the "Chinese" one, politically or linguistically ?

Interestingly, I think French people are a bit more "proud" or happy about the Latin link than Hong Kong people are about the Chinese link. At least, each time we discuss the subject, they get mad fast about how their language (and broader "culture" whatever they think that means) is being a little bit dismissed by the mainland to the profit of a more efficient lingua franca they feel loses some features they like (the butchered simplified writing is to them an anathema). I think they overestimate the value of keeping a culture/language and underestimate the benefit of unity but... touchy subject to say the least :D
I used Perforce 10-15 years ago, it had a pretty solid GUI application. I never used the CLI.
Crypto has “crashed” 50% and more multiple times and has survived so far.

If the value goes down the network decreases difficulty of mining so it is cheaper to mine (remember these things started being worth nothing). This also decreases economic security though, we should find some combination of what security is adequate and that will be represented in the tokens.

Let’s not end up in that sad authoritarian cbdc future, instead we can build and adopt global foss systems like the ones we’ve been building the past decade. Or we could ignore it all, call it a scam, and let it be captured by VCs and governments.
I worked at The Computer Museum in Boston (RIP) in the '90s. We had an old computer whose boot program was a 2D array of toggle switches. In other words, it was a small physical-write, electrical-read memory. I'm guessing it was about 16 switches wide by 30 switches high.
Transaction processors provide a service consisting in processing transactions, and transaction fees are a good estimate of how much utility such services provide. But this does not not tell us anything about the 'value' of cryptocurrencies.
Note that consoles back in the day (e.g. classic 80x25) were essentially hardware accelerated.
There’s no straightforward way to convert div-inserts-per-hour to value-added-per-hour.

The value a plumber creates by installing a toilet depends on the context of the installation.
If Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Warren Buffett all download and start using my open source project tomorrow, that’s fine and I won’t ask them for a penny until when and if they start sending me emails or bug reports asking for support.

Indeed, big companies using my open source looks really great on my resume.

Both the GPL and AGPL are restrictive enough that it’s a reasonable business model to say “GPL if you won’t pay, non-GPL if you pay” and make money. The Juce toolkit, for example, is GPL if you don’t pay, but non-GPL if you do pay.
This is not really about data breaches. The first widely spread automated attacks seem to drop cryptominers, however, we should expect that (if it's not already happened) within a week or so this will get used as the entry point for ransomware attacks, since it gives attackers a solid way of getting of code execution into company servers for anyone who has not solved this issue.
Well this seems to be causing a lot of unnecessary worry. A fertility rate of 2.0 is fantastic news! It’s just below replacement rate, meaning a gradual decline in population size without a dramatic collapse. Gives economies time to adapt while avoiding the severe threat of exponential growth.

“But this trend means we will eventually go extinct!” you say? Only if you believe we can’t correct the trend when the population starts to dip low. But we are centuries away from that and the remediation plan is trivial - just have more babies.
Everything that doesn't serve a human basic need, of which there are many. Food is not worthless in itself, nor is shelter, security, human contact, etc.

Extreme subjectivism never fed nobody nor kept them worm. It only made them think they are smart.
the whole constellation of western cultures that dominated the world came from small populations.

Important for , let's say, technology, since technology gave them military advantage
Arguably worse since old people have stubborn thought processes, especially politically. Usually the only way societies get change is once all the "boomers" die off.

I think it sad but death is evolved for a real reason and we should not forget Chesterton's fence, even if it was not designed but rather converged on by almost all species except for trees.
> A weak counterclaim does not imply the claim to be truth.

Yes. So? The options are not just that we accept whatever fact is presented, or accept whatever is the oposite of it. We can just say: “looks like we don’t know” and that is perfectly fine.

A claim or a counterclaim (is there even a distinction?) warrants the same amount of proof.
Well that was my point exactly, but unfortunately, it's impossible to argue in European politics about the negative consequences of uncontrolled immigration without being branded right wing, or racist or a Nazi, so such debates aren't even discussed publicly in the first place.
You can pass frozen=True to the @dataclass decoratot.
That's right. But they end up asking for five or ten times what the Wikipedia platform would actually cost to maintain, and at that point you can ask whether it's crossing the line to dishonesty. People think they are making sure Wikipedia stays online, but are in fact funding something completely different.

They should say what they want the money for. Not least so there is scrutiny of these plans for Wikimedia to become "the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge".
For a basic example of why you would want GPU acceleration, have a look at refterm: https://github.com/cmuratori/refterm

Even processes that you wouldn't think would be impacted by a terminal can be hurt relaly bad by your terminal's performance: your compiler's logs, etc. The GPU rendering part merely guarantees that your terminal sticks at 60FPS (or, whatever your refresh rate is) if the processing behind is efficient.
How does adding more immigration help with the housing crisis?

Well, more people to build the houses, for a start. The housing crisis has nothing to do with population. It's an entirely self-inflicted problem because it's impossible for a natural market to be both too expensive to purchase and not profitable enough to supply at the same time. Find the brakes and take them off. Rent control for new construction, pointless urban parking requirements, and NIMBYs are the culprits, not fresh immigrants.
Is it not arrogant and selfish to tell people that they should die at 80-90 years old, if there could be a way to live longer?
Ask HN: What are the topics a beginner web developer should know?
Hi all, I'm a web developer with around 6-7 years of experience but lost touch with it since past 4 years. I know the basics HTML, CSS, JS , and Django. And based on that I want to create a basic course for people who want to break into web development. What topics should I cover ?
Are the basics enough or the new age frameworks like Angular, ReactJS , Vue JS etc are mandatory for beginners?
I am just afraid my course shouldn't become outdated.
Maybe what we need is more people that are educated and think as you do, not less. Did you ever consider that your decision is actually applying evolutionary pressure the wrong way around (wrong according to your beliefs)?
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It's important to balance this analysis with the fact that the human population of the Earth, in absolute terms, grew more during the last 60 years than at any other time in history.

Or consider, there were about 4 billion humans on the planet when I was born, there is almost 8 billion now.

There are situations where it is good to talk in percentages. There are other situations when it is good to talk about absolute numbers. Assuming the planet has some absolute environmental limits, then it is the absolute number of humans, rather than some percentage growth rate, that matters.

Why are people having less children? Surely part of it is because of the strain of having to absorb the historic population surge that we have just lived through. We can see this most clearly in the nations that have seen the biggest surges. Iran had 6 million people in 1915. It then suffered a famine that weakened everyone's immune system, so it was vulnerable when the 1918 "Spanish Flu" arrived. It had 5 million survivors by 1921. It now has 83 million people, an astounding increase of 1,660%. Before it can go any further, it will need to rethink all of its institutions, government, education, culture, and worklife. In the same way that a corporation needs to fundamentally re-think everything after a 10x shift, so too do nations.

I've studied Iran, but I have not studied Africa, but I believe in Africa you can find similar stories, such as what has happened in Nigeria.

I don't mean to suggest that population pressures are the only reasons why people might be wary to have children, I only mean this is something to keep in mind when we discuss this issue. The human population of the Earth has exploded over the last century and especially the last 60 years, in absolute terms.

Having to absorb a big population surge can leave any country a bit disorganized. Consider the USA. The biggest generation ever, the Baby Boom, came of age between 1965 and 1987. Given the big surge of the working population, you might think these would have been years of exceptional economic growth. Instead, the opposite happened, these were the years of "The Great Stagnation" with falling wages and falling productivity. No doubt the Great Stagnation was a complex, multi-factor event, but it is interesting that it happened when a naive model might have predicted a big surge.
> In real terms it’s worth whatever the next buyer is willing to pay.

Yes, that's how scams and con games are played too. I personally can't tell the difference between a cryptocurrency and the classic gold brick scam.
I don't want to speak uncharitably of Alacritty, which was my daily driver for a couple years. It's FOSS, the developers don't owe me/us anything, etc. And I never contributed (though I tried once or twice and was summarily rejected).

It's better to focus on the positives of other projects. I will say, on a more specific note, that if you use macOS and have been frustrated with certain longstanding issues in Alacritty, you're in for a pleasant surprise with WezTerm.
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> Also, wages have not kept up with an individual's increase in productivity as all the gains have been skimmed by the top shareholders, not the workers.

Much of the gains have also been skimmed by land, many of whom happen to be workers.

I think that's part of the reason there hasn't been a strong push to for systemic change. You really have three main classes: capital, labour who happens to own some land (through homeownership), and labour without land. The second group is majority [0], and they've done mostly okay (at the expense of the third).

[0] - Or, if they're not the majority, they're still more active and involved in politics, which makes sense, as they've made a very large investment, and would like to see it grow (or at the very least, not lose its value).
You could never ever patch log4j.
What about when you don't know that it ends up being megabytes ? Say you're running Gradle on a large project that does a full recompilation. You don't really particularly care, you know that module X has warnings, etc. But it still prints it all out by default. With carriage returns to update the current percentage, ANSI codes and more. Any millisecond that you spend blocking on outputting your terminal is time that your build can't take. This is compounded by other factors, but ultimately, writing to the terminal is not an asynchronous thing, so your process _will_ be impacted by it being slow.
Investing is about increasing production capacity or production efficiency, with the expectation of getting a positive return on investment in the future. Everything else is not investing, but speculation.
I'm not sure if you will see my other comments in this thread, but please check them out. Molecule.dev covers all of this.
I got a Bangle 1 and have the same problem about WebBluetooth and refusing to use Chrome. It's put a real damper in all my exciting hacking plans. I would love an alternative.
I wish there were more good courses on AR and VR development, especially for non-gaming applications. I'm not an engineer but managed to learn web dev thanks to amazing courses and YouTube channels, but find it difficult to kick start my AR projects
UK 2G and 3G networks will be switched off by 2033
They are also lording it more and more over the volunteers who are writing the actual articles. The huge influx of money over the past decade or so attracts a corporate mindset that has very little to do with the volunteer culture that actually built Wikipedia.

People don't realize that Wikipedia actually existed BEFORE the Wikimedia Foundation which does the fundraising and collects the money today.
Recursive replacement is somewhat of a WTF yes but not really in a causitive relationship ro this vulnerability, right? The main cause is the order in which ${} variables are evaluated. They are evaluated after substitution of `{}` in the format string, instead of before. That's the key behavior problem.

A simple rule such as "If you evaluate a placeholder of type `{}` you should stop evaluating further recursively" would maintain most of existing behavior while only removing vulnerable behavior.
Did you even read the article? Or even its title? Did anyone in this thread?

This is about ancient Greeks [not] abandoning deformed babies. Spartans aside.
We have internationally coordinated programmes of work to get people to move away from burnt fuel stoves to just about anything else, because so many people's lives are cut short by indoor air pollution.

https://www.who.int/airpollution/guidelines/household-fuel-c...

In the US there is a lot of talk of "rocket stoves". In theory these should be better because the design causes higher temperatures to burn the wood gases too. Unfortunately, looking around on sites like Youtube (which is where many people get their information from) we see a bunch of things that are called rocket stoves which probably aren't. These are just small pipe stoves that are fed from the base of the fire.

Any CO2 calculation is complicated because the materials used to build stoves, and the way wood is grown and harvested and transported, all make significant differences.
> Net CO2 is one measure of badness, but damage to human health is likely a more relevant one personally.

This thread is about deploying thermoelectric generators on stoves which are already in use. Smoke is already been emitted since ever. The value proposition is to seep a bit of the thermal energy already being produced to generate electricity. Thus the options on the table are a) keep a stove burning and use that to generate electricity, b) keep the same stove burning and run a fossil fuel generator on the side.

How can option b) be assumed to be cleaner?

> Natural gas is almost clean by comparison

Does this assumption take into account the environmental impact of bottling and shipping natural gas to these small villages?
> I can see a (sad) future where we will be left with central bank digital currencies only (CBDC).

And you can take a guess of which cryptocurrencies are going to be the ones powering these CBDCs?

Stellar [0], and XRP [1].

The other useless cryptocurrencies with no other use cases such as the memecoins, meme tokens, etc will wither away.

[0] https://resources.stellar.org/stellar-for-cbdcs

[1] https://ripple.com/insights/ripple-joins-the-digital-pound-f...