skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To the extent building supplies increase rent (new housing is a small portion of overall housing, so 2x spikes up and down in one component's price doesn't drive rent up 2x in one year), it is reflected. Groceries are included in CPI.
I agree, the word troll isn't that helpful here. But I think it deserves to survive in the phrase 'don't feed the trolls' since that is the wisest thing the internet ever said. It would be interesting to know the origin, actually—I wonder if anyone has traced it.
Energy isn't scarce, its actually abundant. At this particular moment, clean renewable energy capacity is more scarce than fossil fuel, but there is simply far more potential energy in solar, wind, nuclear, etc. Remember, our planet is bombarded by solar rays 24/7 and will continue to receive this energy for billions of years.

Human energy consumption has been exponential over time. We started by harvesting crops with our hands; then we we figured how to attach a plow to an ox, which increased our productivity, but required us to house, feed, and maintain the ox (energy). We figured out engines, electricity, interconnected computers, low earth orbit satellites; all requiring increased energy expenditure, but increasing our collective well-being and productivity.

Rather than scapegoat Bitcoin for our climate crisis, start by addressing: 1) externalities are not captured by fossil fuel prices (you need a carbon tax for that, to fund research and to de-incentivize fossil fuel consumption), and 2) governments actively subsidize fossil fuel industries.

Do those things, and Bitcoin will literally subsidize and accelerate clean energy infrastructure investment.
Is free energy a noteworthy feature of the WoW world?
That's not a battery -- that's a form of economic triage where you burn power to produce tokens that allow you to buy power somewhere else. To use the analogy: nowhere is the battery being "drained".

Edit: to make the analogy more complete: a bitcoin is, in effect, proof that energy has been wasted. Using a bitcoin to purchase renewable power from a windfarm is tantamount purchasing that power with empty batteries or empty oil drums.
Knowledge Production and Intellectual Legitimacy
I am in the process of planning something similar at my house. My county requires a land use permit for any new development, as well as a building permit because power will be run. Both of those permits require plans to be submitted and take multiple weeks to be approved. It’s worthwhile to check at your local planning office if you care about such things.
He mentioned blackout curtains so perhaps he can at least obscure what’s inside when he locks up for the night.

But assuming it’s a fenced in yard in the US, if someone is already in there when they shouldn’t be they’re already quite committed to mischief anyway.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29770159
As much as my brain would like to agree with you and find the black and white more calming of a world to live in, at least for one of these examples I’ve found it untrue in a practical sense.

I’m now 5 years from any sucrose or fructose and I’m getting pretty close to totally zero carbohydrate. I’ve tried dozens of times over decades to “eat less sugar”. Until I learned about how eating fat will help satiate me (not saying it’ll work for everyone but it worked for me), I was unable to successfully eat less or no sugar.
Laughably bad? Ford sold just about as much, if not more, F150s in 2021 and that’s just one of their models. Taken into even the slightest context Tesla could seem massively overvalued- and I say that as someone who likes their product.
Not strictly so. An example of misaligned incentives would be an insurance salesman/CEO overstating the likelihood of death, and thus overstating the likelihood of a payout to the customer. This hypothetical would result in greater margin for the insurer.
This. I find scrolling Reddit to be exhausting
This is from California which is, uh, not known for a light regulatory touch in things like permits or zoning.
Have you been checked for any auto-immune conditions? Have you ever been checked for Celiac or gluten intolerance/other food allergies? These kinds of conditions can bring about chronic fatigue. Unfortunately they can be difficult to narrow down sometimes since they are so unique to the individual.
Your use of she/her seems like the result of stereotyping trans people.

Everybody loses when we play this game. You can’t expect people to hunt down the preferred pronouns of everyone that writes an article before discussing said article. Your comment is no more substantive than comments correcting spelling or grammar, it’s just noise and doesn’t contribute to the discussion.
Because it was first, and the word itself has permeated the psyche of society in ways that the other currencies haven't. People who know nothing at all about crypto buy into BTC because they've heard of it and heard it turns into money.
I deleted the mobile apps and instead use various browser apps for this purpose. I took the browser apps and hid them in folders on various remote screens (on iOS you can now remove them from all pages, forcing you to flip all the way to the end, where all apps are listed). After each session, log out and don’t save your password. The idea is to create a few seconds of time between the urge and the payoff, during which time you can reconsider whether you actually want to access the app.
Imagine the savings of stopping to allow running arbitrary javascript in advertisements.
The letter didn’t blame racism, the letter cited several genomic analyses that actually had already been conducted by that point, and to my knowledge that letter didn’t disrupt any research into the virus’s origins. Open to seeing evidence otherwise though.
COVID. I've also been working 80hr weeks for nearly two years now; first building the NL Contact Tracing (GAEN) app and then building the EU and NL vaccination credential systems. Both of which I'm proud of - our work saved lives - and it's worth having a couple of hectic years.

Honestly it wouldn't have been much different if I had been on a normal project; with the COVID measures the kids were at home (so no day sport) and by the time they're asleep the gym is closed. We moved during COVID - I even built my house gym - but it's covered in boxes which we've not had time to sort out (and they're from my wife's crap, so I can't touch them).

My wife owns a group of pharmacies and has been as busy as I have been - they've been running on emergency mode for almost two years, same thing as in most of the medical industry.
In my eyes, the worst is probably Facebook or Instagram or TikTok (none of which I use) but yes, I also understand the Reddit example as well (which I do use). And yes, even without speaking to the larger politicized subs like T_D, I do completely agree. Quite scary.

And it scares me 'PR firms' exist and are named as such because the term 'propaganda' started to take on a negative connotation. Kinda like how Google became Alphabet, or Facebook became Meta. Advertising, marketing, public relations, propaganda, manipulation.... where does the distinction lie?

Do you care to give a couple cases/examples on the Reddit front? Like proven scandals where people or groups have conspired to deceive? You mention a dude from Idaho, but I'm not in-the-loop enough to get the reference.
Political problems don't have technological solutions.

Telling these people to use Bitcoin is just giving their government another tool to send them to jail.
Sure, if you are serious, the Bitcoin Standard book is a worthy read. But what’s important is that Bitcoin solves the inflation problem, and proof of work is the only system that we have for getting rid of the Cantillon effect of modern banking: the closer people get to the top of the central banks, the richer they get and destroy life for those who don’t have access to the inner layers of central banking. With Bitcoin it’s really hard to make profit with mining, as there’s a perfect (otherwise useless) competition. Some altcoins are reintroducing the Cantillon effect using proof of stake, and of course the market will decide on which is the more efficient system.
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> In a few years Bitcoin mining will kill way more people than the number of political dissidents

How are you counting the number of political dissidents saved?
That’s actually a good question and most bitcoin people don’t know the answer. Bitcoin actually does solve a real technical problem but it’s kind of subtle.

The problem is that an SQL database isn’t distributed and trustless, but bitcoin wanted to be. But how does bitcoin accomplish this?

Bitcoin is backed by a blockchain, which is like a linked list of blocks. (Each block containing a list of transactions.) By looking at the history of the chain, you can learn the current balance of every wallet.

Anyone can add a block to the chain, and because bitcoin is distributed it’s possible for two people to add blocks at the same time. When this happens, the chain forks, and there needs to be a way to decide which fork is the “true” one. That’s because the chains associated with each branch of the fork will have different wallet balances, and it’s no good if there’s uncertainty about what your balance is.

In practice one of the two branches is picked randomly, but there’s an attack where someone spends bitcoin to buy something irl, then forks the chain at a point before they bought that thing. If the attacker’s fork were picked as the “true” one, the seller would find the bitcoin they received has disappeared. All the computational work of bitcoin to mitigate this problem.

Whatever way of deciding which fork is the true one must have one very important property: “the current true chain is always the descendent of a previous true chain”. But anyone can join the bitcoin network at any time, and when they do they need some way of knowing what the previous “true chain” was. You can’t just ask, because the person you ask might lie to you, so you need a way to tell which branch is “true“ just by looking at them.

Bitcoin solves this by introducing “proof of work”. To add a block, you need to do some computational work, and the true chain is the one with the most computational work behind it. That means that as long as more than half of the computing power in the bitcoin network is honest (always adding their computational work to the “true” chain), the chain with the most work behind it will be the true one.

Bitcoin goes further and rewards people who add blocks. This incentivizes people to add blocks (and therefore, computational work) to the longest chain they can find. The goal of doing that is to increase the chances that more than half the chain is trustworthy.
GitHub like Tech Platform are being used in India for Hatemongering
This is second such Incident, You can find more details in the article
Make your password very long and impossible to remember without a password manager. Keep the password in a very difficult to use or annoying password manager, like maybe a local instance of keypass on a single device. Log out of the service on all your devices. Now every time you want to use the service you have to go through an annoying process to log in and have time to question, do I really need to do this right now?
Homicides are up, In Atlanta it's 65% from 2019, other cities are similar. I think car fatalities as well. Then the isolation, COVID fears and economic issues have made worse an already growing drug and suicide problem.

I've known of quite a few deaths of youngish people recently and only one was COVID related. Car crashes, ODs and other medical issues. Like I've known two girls both about 30 that died unexpectedly of non-covid medical issues last year.
> We have “once in 200 years” events happening it seems far more often than once in 200 years.

"Experts" making such a statement usually assume the variable in question to be standard distributed – which is close enough to the truth for non-extreme outcomes. But a lot of variables do not behave like the perfect standard distribution at all: due to non-linear effects and self-enforcing feedback loops, their distribution deviates more and more from the standard distribution the more extreme their values gets (they are "fat-tailed").
Referring to the n-sigma of such extreme events is plain and simple stupid, because there's no such thing as a standard deviation (or variance) for a fat-tailed distribution.
They forgot to add a rainbow.
I went on a big “social media diet” over the past couple years and it’s been amazing.

One trick I used successfully was, remove the apps from your Home Screen so you don’t see them.

Turn off emails, notifications, badge counts, etc so it isn’t constantly reminding you of its existence and is easier to forget.

Don’t leave the tabs open on your computer. There’s probably plug-ins that can shut the tabs after x amount of time.

For mobile, there are app time limit settings (iOS I think has this in the Settings page), intended for parental controls but hey you can use them too.

You don’t have to follow everybody or anybody. When you notice an app, a channel or a certain account is bothering you, consider muting or unfollowing them.

Consider finding other things like games, work, or books that you can absorb your full attention.

Remember, you are the boss. You can use it on your terms. You’ll realize very fast that FOMO does not really exist for these, when you stop using them constantly.

You can do this. You’re gonna feel a lot better on the other side, I guarantee it.
Doomscrolling caused by "engagement" metrics. When engagement is all that matters, the most engagement comes when people are divisive, mad/angry or even pushed to extremes. That tabloid-esque reactionary content does engage people, but not in a good way. Information of all types give a dopamine hit though and it is sometimes hard to pull away.

When you feel yourself getting bothered, angry and you have to prove someone wrong on the internet, step away. Or if you are wasting too much time on it. You are taking valuable time from your own projects and quality of life.

People can have different opinions and that is ok, your ideas and opinions are what make you, see that as your unique tool to success. On top of that many "organic opinions" are actually astroturfing and PR designed to promote or get you to "engage".
>at the end of a five or six year auto loan

Varies by where you are and how much you drive, especially in snowy conditions. But my experience is that most vehicles are better than that these days. You should be able to get to 10 years pretty reliably--and often 5+ years beyond before you start getting into expensive rust-related repairs. My prior SUV (a Ford) I definitely held onto about a year too long with a couple of expensive repairs associated with corroded fluids lines but that was almost a 20 year old vehicle in New England.
Behold, the curse of Reverend Bayes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem#Drug_testing
Not that anything about this shed is built to code, but this takes the cake:

> PRO TIP Use screws for everything; if you mess up, remove the screws and redo it; with nails, it’s a lot harder to do that.

You absolutely should not do this for framing, and most building codes specify the type and size of nails that you must use when fastening load-bearing structural components.

Screws are convenient, sure, but they are necessarily much harder than nails and are prone to embrittlement and cracking, while nails are soft and pliable. You can get structural screws, but they're uncommon, expensive, and I'd wager they weren't used here (they're much beefier than a similarly rated framing nail).
Well, except for the LR reservation holders who were lead on and on that their vehicles were "about to enter production"... only to find it canceled, their place in the system lost, and Tesla barely able to say sorry, let alone offer an alternative.

> More recently, Tesla has hit some reservation holders with modest price increases, but not at over 50% of the base price of the vehicle like we're seeing here.

You mean _three_ price increases in 2021 alone that have bumped some Model 3 prices by about 30%? I'm not sure how "modest" an increase that is.
> and unwilling to sacrifice a modicum for others

I agree with your sentiment but I have to disagree with that phrase. The vast majority* of people of people pay quite a lot of money in taxes, which ostensibly** only exist to help others.

(*) I know the billionaires have their wealth as unrealized gains; I chose my words carefully

(**) I know we all disagree on how that revenue should be spent, but the purpose of taxation is all the same
That doesn’t pass smell test to me. A 5x increase in workload for funeral homes would mean ballpark 5x as many deaths. That would be apocalyptic and impossible to miss. Every ER doc and ambulance driver in the US would be talking about it. For reference, the 2020 death rate is only about 1.15x the 2019 rate due to covid.
Yes, look at Mercedes and Hyundai numbers.
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Have you tried running or biking outdoors? I personally hate excerise where the environment does not change but love walking which made running a perfect fit for me.
It's not necessarily recommended to mix stable and testing but it mostly works fine in my experience. I'd guess Gentoo gets around quite a few problems as everything is compiled from source. So updating a single libary would cause a rebuild of everything that depends on it.

Gentoo also has the concept of "Slots", so you could have multiple versions of the same libary installed and packages will choose their version to build against accordingly.
Does anyone know how zoning restrictions affect this in California? Wondering at what point you need to get approval to set up something in your backyard.
Lockdown/wfh related perhaps? I would definitely say I've become significantly more sedentary, likewise for many of my friends and coworkers, given we're all in tech.
If I find that I'm doing too much A and I don't want to give up on it entirely I look for ways to make A less convenient. That may mean deleting an app (instead using a possibly clunkier website), not having candy in the house (I have to go to the store to get my fix), etc.

It's an extension of some typical advice to create healthy habits: make doing the right thing easier and the wrong thing harder.
The interesting thing here, hidden between the lines, is the implication that these were laboratory mice.
Venice Gets a Grip on a Star Architect’s Slippery Bridge
You can do an offline transaction, but there's no way to prevent double spend until it's online. If you gave some crypto to someone offline, you could double spend it until the recipient is online and publishes the transaction.
I don't understand why regulating big tech is ideal. Isn't it more ideal for the government to run their own social media, or to have Twitter/Facebook deals that provide a white label version of those services exclusively for government use? I feel like either of those approaches would accomplish a similar goal with fewer compromises than regulation would entail.
I too get my trusted news from random YouTube sources
DNS level blocking worked quite well for me. It’s about making it hard enough to start the bad habit again.
A lot of these TLDs just put anything up to justify their reasoning for registering the domain. They don't believe that is how the domain will be (ab)used, but they have to publicly provide some nonsense reason for its existence.

I looked up the application for .one gTLD today. I own a subdomain and I wanted to know the original reasoning behind it. It is (now) owned by one.com and they basically told ICANN "we are going to do ONE stuff with it. Like stuff to do with ONE. And we have customers. And like, er, Beanie Babies?" And ICANN said "That sounds excellent, here's the domain, please continue with your master plan."
Here's a short explanation video to get you started. The general idea is that multiple signers are used, such that an outside observer doesn't know which signer is the "real" one, but only knows that "at least one of them" is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHN_B_H_fCs
The gunpowder in a bullet is useless unless the explosion is focused in a single direction by a gun barrel.
> Is writing and submitting blog posts about web3 a new trend?

... web3 is pretty much a new trend/hype topic of the last few months, yes. (I'm aware the term has been used for longer, but way more niche than now)
Definitely. I hadn't noticed that.

When I read that book I understood as American English.
People aren't getting as much exercise, sitting around more eating cheetos and drinking beer, doing more drugs and getting more depressed. I'm not suggesting that all of those are happening to everyone, but each of them is a risk factor and due to the pandemic they're occurring to different segments of the population at the same time.
It seems I solved the “sizeof”/“offsetof” operator for C bitfields
Does anyone know a previous implementation?

#include <stdio.h>
#define bitoffsetof(t, f) \
({ union { unsigned long long raw; t typ; }; \
raw = 0; ++typ.f; __builtin_ctzll(raw); })

#define bitsizeof(t, f) \
({ union { unsigned long long raw; t typ; }; \
raw = 0; --typ.f; 8*sizeof(raw)-__builtin_clzll(raw)\
-__builtin_ctzll(raw); })

struct RGB565 { unsigned short r:5, g:6, b:5; };
int main()
{
printf("offset(width): r=%d(%d) g=%d(%d) b=%d(%d)\n",
bitoffsetof(RGB565, r), bitsizeof(RGB565, r),
bitoffsetof(RGB565, g), bitsizeof(RGB565, g),
bitoffsetof(RGB565, b), bitsizeof(RGB565, b));
}

//$ gcc bitfieldtest.cpp && ./a.out
//offset(width): r=0(5) g=5(6) b=11(5)
//

[1] https://twitter.com/suarezvictor/status/1477697986243272706
The idiocy of badly interpreted statistics: “20% of electric car owners switch back to gas-powered cars of electric car owners switch back to gas-powered cars”. This kinda means that 80% don’t switch back. Given the current horrible state of EV charging, this sounds pretty reasonable. I don’t find it surprising that a number of people buy an EV, then realize that the charging environment doesn’t work for them.
Will try to explain my reasoning better. Please see my reply to one of the comments where we compare youtube and web3. tldr; youtube/Google can change content of a link that points to them at will, but in web3 you cannot.
It amazes me, how many people seem not to see this point
My interpretation is that the fence behind the shed is the street, so the glass doors on the shed faces other houses. Other houses which can probably already see TV/etc in the presumably glass-doored living room that faces the same direction if they were to look.
Hey, I know this issue! I ran into it in CK3 when it launched. You can also work around it by running chmod go-rx /dev/input/ while playing your game. Whether this is more or less invasive than binary-patching the game is up for debate.
#Web3 Fixes this
My comment about username/password being harvested was talking about how someone's password can get stolen: you can have malware, password reuse across sites, phishing, or other social engineering. For session cookies, you have basically malware as the compromise vector. Hence, passwords should be treated with more suspicion by an authentication system.