skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not even sure what you’re trying to say. How would you, personally and right now, send gold to someone in the DRC? Using Bitcoin, I would just ask them to give me their Bitcoin address via email.
My commet was about the "it's all solved" part of the comment. Would you really consider payments are solved with crypto?
The excessive focus on carbon will eventually need to change.

The problem is average surface temperature, to which atmospheric carbon levels are only one of many drivers.

The most important driver of surface temperature is TSI. [1]. TSI can be economically moderated, as-needed, to cool the Earth. [2]

If we (as in Humans) ever decide we truly need to do such a thing, we can have all the infrastructure in place within a decade and for merely a few trillion dollars.

Perfectly reasonable for all the carbon to be left in the atmosphere when you control TSI directly through refracting a small percentage (e.g. 0.1%) of TSI by launching moon dust at L2.

People don’t want to admit it’s a relatively* easily solved technological problem, because then the social moderation aspect becomes less existential.

[1] - https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/Glory/solar_irradiance/to...

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24933161

* Relative to mediating the CO2 output of every country / every human on the planet
Historically, the issue with z-pinch has been that the electrodes start to evaporate before you can get to a useful energy density. You need to dump many thousands of amperes through a small area to squeeze the deuterium. Anything that involves kiloamps will be hard on your materials.

There is a company that has been working on a similar device for 15 years or so.
https://lppfusion.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole

If your monitor displays it and your speakers play it, it can be recorded.
As someone who regularly defend Telegram against all kinds of nonsense: you got it exactly right : )
You can, but then you won't have any support and any integration stuff the commercial one might
IMO, this is on manufacturers. If they stop messing around with the USB standard and stop the hybrid approach with USB and propriety crap along with it, then we would have this issue minimized as possible. Nintendo did with their USB-C propriety thing and it blew up on their face. Because they changed the internal (which is not in compliance with USB standard) and ended up multiple consumers have their Switch bricked.
It's probably some form of crab bucket mentality. Many follow their paleolithic urges when it comes to watching others succeed.

I'll be the first to admit that it takes a little bit of conscious effort for me to look at another person leaving me in the dust and thinking "wow that's awesome. good for them".

Attempting to reframe my own comparative lack of success in terms of "they must have broken the rules or something" is a thing I reserve for competitive video gaming where the likelihood of an actual cheater is very high and the consequences of being wrong in my accusation are zero. Even if I totally delude myself into thinking everyone is using an aimbot and it has nothing to do with my shitty aim and I wind up the worst gamer on earth, I still have the rest of my life to work with.

In my personal experience, when you make your whole existence about winners breaking the rules and you being a relative loser because you follow all the rules, you turn into a monster.
There's a big difference between merely "now" and "personally" which for most people implies many decades of time horizon left in their lifetimes.

Also many questions were not related to concerns for effects on the personal sphere, eg "Willing to change how they live and work to combat the effects of global warming" which also got high scores.
> Anything loud/penetrating enough to be heard by workers in the immediate area will also be heard by non-workers a great distance away.

Yes except not all noises are created equal. A white noise is very different from a single frequency noise and much less disturbing. After all many people even use white noise to block other type of aggravating noises.

Here in Montréal all snow removal vehicles are equipped with a white noise backup alarm. It's snowing a lot in winter, so you have huge snow plows that might back up at any time in the middle of an intersection with pedestrians with earphones not paying attention, and I can say first hand that you cannot miss that noise when it's nearby. While at the same time when they are removing snow one block away from my place, you can still hear it but it doesn't prevent you from sleeping.

This type of backing alarm has been approved as safe on construction sites by many places. In Canada at least its very commonly used. e.g: https://www.heavyequipmentguide.ca/article/24957/backup-alar...
I repeat, for clarity, there are no ties between Telegram and VK.
Can confirm, this is popular on my team. Additionally, this should also direct actual dollars to OSM - volunteering for an organization is matched in cash by Microsoft, to the tune of 20-something an hour.
Ok, the red flag to me is the reliance on all neighbours responding to a proposal.

Suppose we have a faulty node heart-beating correctly but not responding to proposals, or selectively responding to proposals.

This would seem to imply that dishonest nodes have full control over which decisions are made.
I've realised my mocking of it has closed my mind to the entire thing. I'm going to dig into it further rather than write it all off for quick giggles

Be the change you want to see and that, maybe I'll be able to find something to make that isn't just apes and punks
Both of the compilation errors identified in this article were just fixed in the master branch of MIT/GNU Scheme five hours ago: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/mit-scheme.git/commit/?id=..., https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/mit-scheme.git/commit/?id=.... So, if you grab the current master branch, it should just build for x86 without any fixes needed.
You are right, a bigger house won't necessarily make us happy.

TBH, we can still get our dream home, banks said we can get huge mortgage but I am not comfortable with it. Roughly banks will loan you upto 3x of your annual income. I have prefer limit of 2x.

We feel disappointed that we cannot buy our dream home while staying within our limits but it sort of reminds me that I have fallen behind. I know it is a rat race but makes me wonder what would happen in 20 years from now. Will I be able to send my kids to college? Will I be able to retire if I don't participate in rat race.
It’s so annoying!!!! I work in computer graphics and scientific computation and it’s getting hard to get gpus with adequate double performance.
eSIMs would make it incredibly easy to switch between mobile phone providers. Startups like airalo.com exist already that magically enroll you with the foreign country's local carrier even before your train/flight's taken off. Roaming around would be so seamless, and there's no dicking around acquiring SIMs by handing handover your IDs to different vendors with questionable document security measures all over the world.
WTF Is .xyz?
You make good points but at this point esim is incredibly awesome. it is super easy to use
But by that definition, programming in binary isn't low level either! If by the definition, there is no low level programming possible, then it's not a very useful definition.

(I mean, the point that "it's higher level than you think" might be a reasonable one to make. But arguing about the definition of "low level" may not be the best way to make that point.)
yes, if they want to sold product in this way, how can they argue when people really trust it?
This is probably more of a feature than a problem. Those are the exact countries that we are asking to shoulder a higher burden than the others since they are behind the curve on development. If richer countries provided financial opportunities via this with proper oversight it might overcome some of the pushback from those countries. But again, this is a human problem not a technical one.
A few speculative reasons for HN’s beliefs:

1. Financially privileged people are emotionally and culturally incentivized to believe that their position in life has more to do with their effort than luck. There are a lot of of high earners here.

2. Many members here were active during the golden age of silicon valley startups. This brief period of new opportunity in online services allowed a lot of speculative money to flow to new businesses if you were lucky enough to experience it. This temporary and narrow band of economic opportunity for people in the industry at the time serves as their historical “evidence” that the system “works.”

3. The tech industry has had, so far, slightly fewer gatekeepers than other industries with high paying careers due to the temporary shortage of required labor. A lot of people have been able to come from marginalized positions in life and become financially successful, myself included. Survivorship bias is very high amongst those people, especially when it is encouraged by people and institutions of privilege.

It’s frustrating, but on the bright side younger generations of tech folk seem much less convinced by the mythology. You’ll find a lot more of them on Reddit. HN skews older, and the status quo of popular ideology is comfortable and convenient for people already established in their careers. “I learned to code and got a six figure job” is the next iteration of “I could pay for college by working summers.”
I had the same reaction about the "closed loop" highlight in the title. An open loop system seems very wasteful and hard to maintain.

Your comment on decentralized application caught my attention. I agree with you. While there are clear merits to gaining economies of scale, there are often diseconomies of scale that go overlooked - which would make smaller decentralized applications more attractive.

The trade largely comes down to lowering require capital expenditure ($/resource generated, e.g. $/kW) in order to gain operating flexibility (which can lower overall operating costs - though those savings are normally excluded from the published $/resource value, hence overlooked). Think of the merits of everyone having a car instead of trying to move people to-and-fro using trains. Sure, you pay less $/mile traveled, cumulative carbon emissions/mile are generally lower, and you avoid wear and tear on your car. BUT, you have to pay for taxis or rental car when you arrive at your destination, so you pay an inflated amout to restore flexibility. The cost for 'last mile' transit certainly isn't reflected in your train ticket cost.

As a side study I've been wrestling with this problem in my industry (commercial ship design) for the past decade. One challenge is that it's hard for a corporation investing in the infrastructure to sell these decentralized units to achieve a profit margin competitive with a large-centralized product.

The solution, I believe, is to figure out how to evalutate and factor in the cost of loss of flexibility in the $/resource calculation. That hasn't been an easy nut to crack.
SIM stands for "Subscriber Identity Module". IMEI stands for "International Mobile Equipment Identity". One identifies the account/person connecting (your plan, usage, etc.) while the other identifies the phone (and its capabilities on the network).
I did this recently with Hertz in Los Angeles. They still didn’t have a car, and the only recourse was to talk to someone on a phone instead of fixing it at the counter. Also that trip I learned that Los Angeles has a subway, though it’s not particularly good.
In theory eSIMs should make that easier (when all networks support it). They can store multiple numbers/sim cards which you can switch on the fly.
Please don’t do this here. From the guidelines: Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Even in non-CS STEM fields, there are a ton of industry jobs. Many of the students in my doctoral cohort went for industry jobs, and almost all of them are making good money (over 120k annually) and are generally happy in their careers. The problem from what I hear from them is the tendency to be slotted into super-technician roles where you are in charge of a single piece of specialized equipment. People tend to stagnate in such jobs (even though the compensation is often really generous), and such people often find themselves struggling after a decade.

However, I think it's not the Ph.D. that is not the problem - instead, it's the postdoc. While a Ph.D. is a terminal degree associated with prestige and career advancement, the outcome of postdoctoral training is far more diffuse. It ostensibly prepares you for academia yet often fails to teach essential academic skills like writing grants as the sole PI. The funnel is also really narrow, and many postdocs transition to industry after a few years - often in a very similar role and salary that they would have got straight out of their doctoral training anyway.
Correcting 'mistakes' - children help their peers.
> The R-PACE loan principal is not senior to the senior lienholder's position.

That's not correct. The loan is on the property not the person taking out the loan. And it is a senior claim to any other potential claim since its technically a tax obligation.

>> Potential resistance by lenders/mortgage-holders whose claims to the property may be subordinated to the unpaid assessment amount should the property go into foreclosure. [0]

>> For consumers, PACE type programs have several problems if programs are not properly designed and administrated. Because the financing is designed to stay with the property, eligibility is based primarily on property information rather than income and FICO scores ... A problem with PACE for both residential lenders and consumers is that the tax liens for PACE financing take priority over other lien-holders, and those lien-holders may not be notified or given an opportunity to object [1]

The buyer of a property would have to pay that loan down although, like you said, not immediately. That's because the loan is on the property, rather than the individual who took it out.

[0] https://www.energy.gov/eere/slsc/property-assessed-clean-ene...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACE_financing
IIRC, PoP was revolutionary in the way the character moved. It was fluid and natural. A big step up from a blocky character just moving around with no motion. I remember being mesmerized as a kid in Jr High on the C64 when it came out and it was unlike any game before, at least that I recall. Jumpman[1] was similar in that respect, but less detail since the character was a lot smaller.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut3LFdJS_lk
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29396643
Rob was simply wrong. All his thinking was formed by the explosion of systems research around UNIX from the 70s to the 80s which was extremely productive. But research definitely didn't end then. It just transitioned to another dimension.
I have been watching the 1987 TV version of Dream of the Red Chamber which is set in China around the same time.

Although the story is mostly about a rich family which is dressed in elaborate brocades the background is that clothing is super-expensive and that it would be an important gift to give somebody 11 talkers of silver to buy some winter clothes.
I doubt that it’s related to bandwidth costs; those are likely minimal compared to the price of acquiring content. It’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination - a way to capture more money from those who get more value from the product. It might also be a little bit of https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/glossary/premium-decoy-pr...
Spoiler (obviously) but trying not to give away too much, I'm sure the rule in question is that the hero is meant to live happily ever after.
Gossamer is a 2017 design of an idea that was first published in 2015. However, it was exclusively focused on the PHP community from its inception, so it's unsurprising that nobody's heard of it.
Thinking "meta" this same behavior (adults intervening in how children play games) is analogous to the phenomenon described by the article, that is children correcting their peers.
It does make sense if you consider that there can be more than 1 vulnerability and that some attacker targeting LastPass may use recent password from a fresh vulnerability mixed with older passwords from some previous breach.

I'm not actually following what does not make sense.
I'm looking for discussion around computer vision, AI etc. This comment isn't really adding much.
Guess what. Apple can dent physical sims too though

Why do you think you a physical sim for different providers. Because they only work with that provider. Apple can turn the tap off on a class of Sims as it is
No, they are handled by your server app. The point is these things can be on one side or the other.
Stupid question... with todays memory capacities....At what limit/size do we stop using matrix-ops and simply use lookup tables todo 'matrix-math' ?
If you don't agree with the metric pick another objective metric that could be measured. You would be hard pressed to find a metric in which developing countries have not considerably improved since industrialization.
I also was not aware of that open loop scheme. Seems like a simple and lower cost, albeit inefficient, solution. Thanks for sharing.
I'd go out on a limb and say if you're watching reality TV shows like Housewives, Kardashians, Bachelor/ette, etc, then you are very much eating empty calories. But it's your body, and you can do with it whatever you like. Just be honest about what you are consuming.
Stupid Question: Wouldnt it be better for starlink, to be actually linked- as in fiber-optic tethered together satellite constellations?

Thanks for the answer:
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Take out my phone and turn on my flashlight, so they can see me. Also hug the right wall, cause that's what most people do.
I'm struggling to figure out exactly which directory structure Windows has changed every major release -- are you referring to when "Documents and Settings" was renamed to "Users" with the release of Windows Vista in 2006? Or perhaps you are talking about when they added "Program Files (x86)" with the introduction of 64-bit support in Windows XP, dating back to 2001...

I believe it used to default to installing Windows NT to C:\WINNT... but that was almost certainly longer ago than you're suggesting. To be fair, the Desktop also used to live at C:\WINDOWS\Desktop, but there are some pretty good reasons why it doesn't any longer.
>And what if those menus are in some foreign language I don't understand? And how would that work with cash?

The menus will be in whatever language your phone is set to. You can use contactless payment like Apple Pay or Google Pay and there's no recurring charge unless you want there to be one.
I don't have an iphone but I side with apple this time.

Using credentials(esim) for accessing phone networks looks much easier and practical than physical tokens. No need to wait 2 weeks to switch companies. No need to check if your phone supports dual sims, and which slot is the one with 4G/5G. Security won't be worse, remeber that sim swapping already exist.

It's a win for consumers. Would anyone use a physical token to access a wifi network? Even corporate wifi networks use credentials or digital certificates.
The cringiest things tech executives said in 2021
In my opinion it can be a sign of loyalty, depth, engagement and responsibility among other things. I don’t understand how this can be viewed as a negative. Seems almost pathological to me to suggest that job hopping is preferred.
According to eSIM.net, eSIMs cannot be moved between phones. This is a pretty big step back IMO.

If you want to keep the same phone number, the only way is to buy another eSIM for the new phone, and then use the PUK to transfer the old number to it.
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy specifically calls this out. It's brutally difficult from the jump, and his narration talks about how videogames used to ask a lot of their user. They were unforgiving challenges with no guarantee of obvious success. My brain instantly flashed over to TMNT on the NES and just how hard that and Battletoads were.

If you haven't played Getting Over It, it's a tremendous meditation on failure, and Bennett's narrations as you struggle are brilliant from a philosophical standpoint. He talks about how the challenge and failure and difficult ARE the point for a certain class of gamer and how that's the game he wanted to build.

For another take, Super Hexagon provides that same "this is impossible but I'm getting closer to possible and that feels good."
Most of these skills are not so useful as an individual contributor, but rather for someone in leadership/c-level. But taking those roles as a fresh graduate is very hard. Most established companies would much rather hire someone with actual experience in those roles
I grew up somewhere with 50" of rain/year and I can tell you folks do not change their driving style there either (until it's raining much more torrentially than it ever does in LA), so this phenomenon is not unique to LA.
Perhaps a new concept of a "symlink with backups" could be introduced.

You install ProgA and the lib is symlinked into the index
You install ProgB and the index's symlink to ProgA's lib gets some information added to it along the lines of "if the symlink to ProgA/lib is broken, try ProgB/lib"

Then when you uninstall ProbA the fallback symlink is activated.

At some point you would want to clean up the dangling primary link but maybe the best time to do it is immedately. i.e. the first time the primary fails you make the backup the new primary and now there's no backup, i.e. it looks the way it would look if you had only ever installed ProgB.
“Of our sample” and “have tried it at least once” (18% use it at least once a month), on a self selected sample, with no good way to verify the veracity of responses.

Sample also seems biased towards those who “had taken a programming course for CS-majors 1–3 years before participating”, i.e. younger persons who aren’t necessarily programmers.
Yes and agree, pure speculation / inferring guesses. Based on the assumption the attacker would choose the easiest path. Although I did thought of Keepass leak, but most of the other incidents doesn't use KeePass though.

I just wish HN has a show newest comment first, it is bit hard to follow at the moment.

>LastPass seems a bit like a mess so I would not be surprised if they are to blame though.

Reading that. There is another possibility... no one was hacked..... it was just attacker trying to log in using the wrong password and the email Lasspass generated completely messed up.
> I don't understand the motives of people who share it online for free

From what I have read, it's to share and / or (worse) collaborate. A distant example that I recall was a couple in US that sold their 12 year old child in marriage to an adult (the legal marriageable age, with parental consent, in MA and NH is 12 years old).
see later in the article, Ctrl+F "mushrooms"
I’m looking out my window at snow falling right now. You’re right that snow below 0 degrees in uncommon, but I’ve never noticed much of a difference in wind. That could be because where I live temperatures 20 below or worse aren’t common and are transient, so another front is probably nearby and creating wind.

I still wouldn’t want to bike in it, if only because of ice.

For the record I live in Minnesota, one of the coldest and snowiest states in the US.
Considering endpoints are compromised like swiss cheese in 2021 and third party apps are all compromised, people should be of the belief that they cannot trust anything they didn't write and build themself.
Agreed. Much better than Bash's terrible built in ctrl-R which doesn't even show what you're typing if it doesn't match.
A DAO wants to buy Blockbuster and turn it into a decentralized film streaming
Sorry, but for me it's the other way around.

I always get an astro-turfing vibe when reading such posts.