skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you really seriously consider any of those a measure for quality of life?

In 1990, a worker who wanted a TV had to save up two weeks' pay. Today, someone doing the same job could get a better TV for a day's pay. That gives them nine days of free time to spend with their family - or the chance to buy nine more TVs, if they prefer.

Where in 1990 I would have had to go to a library to look something up in an encyclopedia, today I can access a much more detailed encyclopedia, completely free, from a device in my pocket.

In 1990, if you wanted to talk to a loved one on the other side of the world, it was a very expensive phone call. Today it's a video call, in high definition, and it doesn't cost a cent.

In 1990 if you wanted to learn from professors at top universities, you had to get accepted, move house and pay a bunch of money. Today I can get more lectures than I could ever watch, and more than enough education to land a six-figure programming job, all for free.

In 1990, web browsers don't exist.

Obviously no single number can fully represent the incredible richness of human existence. But I think ignoring 30 years of technological process because you can't eat it is a bit short sighted.
Oh there is plenty more in pure energy costs not represented here, but banks do more than just store and move money. Just like crypto currencies being powered by renewable energy, nothing preventing banker cars and data centers from being powered by renewable energy either.
Yes -- "the knight then grabS his longsword and bowS.". That 's' at the end there indicates present tense of the verb "to grab" and "to bow", just like in "roars and swipes". (I guess for knights it's just good manners to thank by bowing when they're gifted a sword.) It's not a plural marker of a noun, because there was only one bow on the ground.
Wouldn't you just end up negotiating the title or band instead? That's what ends up happening at banks where they have that kind of thing.
> What would you say to someone in el salvador who's happy accepting bitcoin

They aren't:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/some-salvadorans-claim-funds-...
ahh yeah. forgot all about the wapiverse. afaik there was really only one application, and that was the wap browser which was really simple except for ssl support.

i think most people didn't even realize their phones had something browserlike back then and even if they did it was tough to use.

i never used it. google's sms gateway was more useful for my purposes.
This is why people use scrapers that turn this information into an RSS feed. So no, even without GDPR, this information would still be available.

You say that the industry has incentive to kill RSS, and yet Google has just added a Follow button to Chrome for RSS feeds. Go figure.
Governments haven't been able to stop the flow of tangible drugs and you think they can successfully ban crypto?
Illicit activities like cybercrime, money laundering and terrorist financing made up only 0.15% of all crypto transactions conducted in 2021

https://www.axios.com/cryptocurrency-scam-crime-popularity-r...
‘All My Apes Gone’: NFT Theft Victims Beg for Centralized Saviors
Every time I get a new laptop I have to adjust my muscle memory since their layouts vary so much :( still can't type the upper right letters consistently on my current laptop.
I'd be ok with it being "as good" as my current coding setup, at least if it improves my other typing speed. A vast majority of my correspondence these days involves me typing (as I've made , so being able to speed that up would still be cool, though I doubt it's going to be a categorical difference in my day-to-day life.
Oh boy..., I guess there are people who find this useful. I respect "To each their own" and "You do you".

I also like using Sublime Text with vim keymap. I prefer the low latency of editors over features of big IDEs. Sometimes, I do use PyCharm or CLion for debugging since that experience in vim sucks. GDB is terrible in CLI.
What they're getting at is that Twilio clearly already has the capability of automatically detecting spam.

Why not open that capability to an API so that somebody who is operating some sort of forwarding service to run spam detection before forwarding?
It's worth noting that this also only works if your 1099-B from the RSU broker are correct. In the past decade, that's about a 50-50 shot for me.
I just went on 10fastfingers and got 124WPM with 100% accuracy on the 60 second test. Can't say I'm impressed either - 2x as fast in exchange for far worse accuracy and use of a predictive layer is pretty bad overall.
Great question. It costs nothing up to 50K map loads [1], but I did burn some money learning along the way:

I went with Mapbox and Maptiler for tiles early on. Initially I used Leaflet with raster map tiles and raster elevation tiles. Mapbox free-tier for raster tiles was 750,000 tiles per month and I exceeded that a few months in.

Next I used Leaflet with [maplibre/mapbox]-gl-leaflet plugin which allowed me to use unlimited vector map tiles from Mapbox up to 50K map loads. However, I continued to use raster elevation tiles and these soon started exceeding 750,000 tiles per month.

Finally I switched to Mapbox GL JS. This allows you 50K map loads a month and unlimited loading of elevation and vector map tiles per map load. I used Maplibre GL JS for a bit, but it's missing the 3D terrain functionality so I went with Mapbox instead.

In general, it would cost about $100 for every 3000 visitors before switching to Mapbox GL JS.

[1] https://www.mapbox.com/pricing#maploads
That “study” is comparing an entire industry including pension plans, atm and card networks, payroll systems, mutual funds, iras/401ks, sarbanes-oxley data retention, etc. etc. to just bitcoin’s network.

These systems aren’t replaceable by bitcoin.

Bitcoin is a debit banking transaction system equivalent only. It uses several times the energy of the equivalent portions of the banking industry.
Ah, yeah, you're right. It was probably just the cold that myself, my son, and my wife got after being exposed to someone that had symptomatic, PCR tested Covid. I'm sure it was just a coincidence that we then all three tested positive for covid.
Holmes is not particularly attractive. Martha Stewart was (accounting for age) attractive and somewhat beloved in the US and served time. I don't think Holmes really has anyone in her corner when it comes to a 'beauty pass'.
I've always tried to state the problems with crypto here every time it comes up, but there is such a huge incentive for the people invested in crypto to pump it, that every year the number of crypto pumpers grows more numerous than people like me.

There really is a place for a decentralized currency to replace paypal, but none of the cryptos live up to it. In fact I just tried using crypto again a few days ago and it was a terrible experience just like it was 10 years ago. My bitcoin transaction took over 30 minutes to verify so I tried changing to ethereum, and the transaction fee there is $8...
My mind goes to the original Arduino IDE, or Weka Studio. I know these are pretty indie projects in the scheme of things, but still.
Not sure how out-of-date this one might be: https://roguesharp.wordpress.com/
My understanding was that property tests and fuzzing are orthogonal in roughly the same way unit and integration tests are: you do property test to ensure well-delimited pieces of your code satisfy well-defined constraints, and you fuzz to ensure the whole thing just doesn’t go completely nuts when faced with something unusual. But I could be wrong because I never could figure out how to set up fuzzing for some sort of moderately-involved realistic thing (a CSV parser? something like that).
If one must judge performance in this game, then they shouldn't put much weight into the final score. That's why the share game button shows your progression. It tells a story that other players can understand. I learned to guess without using known correct letters by seeing games shared by friends. I know counting theory, I know Bayes, but it still wasn't a strategy I came up with on my own. The game is just something fun to do at a time where that is in short supply.

Put another way:

https://imgur.com/a/AkPPuYH
I do not. According to the original article, Wordle uses[1] 2,500 common words out of the 12,000 5-letter words in the english language[2]. I use the 5 letter words in the collins scrabble dictionary (which is about 12,000 words).

The assumption you need to make for my analysis to be correct is that the letter patterns in the 2,500 possible answers is statistically similar to the distribution of letter patterns in the original 12,000. There are probably some differences between the distributions, and I'd love to rerun my code with the actual word list Wordle uses, but in the absence of that list, I think that my code does about as good as possible.

[1] uses for the answers; I assume it allows all 12,000 for guesses.
[2] NYTimes does not specify which source they used
"Additionally, the "unvacccinated" population includes people naturally vaccinated by virtue of having a previous case."

Only if it's recent. How recent isn't clear yet. Somewhere in the > 90 days, < 1 year range, it seems.[1] As of last summer, about 1% of COVID cases were known re-infections.[1] Most repeat cases seem to involve two different variants.[2] Whether people who had previous variants are showing up infected with the omicron variant doesn't appear to be published yet.

[1] https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2021/why-covid-19-vaccines-offe...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC8604456/
Sorry to hear about your peripheral neuropathy. Check out some of the treatments for dysautonomia. There are some cutting edge treatments that have been developed over the past few years, they just haven't become mainstream knowledge or trickled down to the medical schools yet.

The two most effective approaches are using neuroplasticity exercises to retrain the limbic system (cheap, but time consuming - an hour a day for 6 months): https://ansrewire.com/ https://retrainingthebrain.com/

Or doing microcurrent neurofeedback (costs ~$150 a session, do one session a week for a couple months): https://microcurrentneurofeedback.com/

Essentially you have got to get the brain producing the proper amount and type of brain waves again, and then once you have that, slowly work back into exercising while trying to avoid triggers and push / crash cycles.
http://web.archive.org/web/20220106042510/https://www.nytime...
You can choose to do this or to not provide a (false) salary history in the first place, but just understand that typically what you're actually doing is choosing to not accept a particular position.

I'm in a position now where I could afford to do this. I've also been in positions in the past where I needed a job and did (and would advise others in similar positions) to just play the game and provide the damn pay stubs.

I've also had to pee in cups before that. These sorts of degrading requirements should be banned collectively. It's very hard for an individual who needs a paycheck right quick to personally move the needle on this stuff.
Monkeytype also has a 'zen' mode where it measures the speed of you typing whatever you want.
It's currently being propped up by big, legitimate corporations: everything from sports organizations like the NBA, UFC, and WWE to food brands like Taco Bell and McDonalds are pumping out NFTs. The Lakers are now playing in the Crypto.com arena, even.

On HN it certainly gets a lot of hate, but there's not so much in the mainstream right now. I don't think the Lakers would have agreed to a sponsorship where they play in the BP Oil Fracking Arena, for instance.
Their mission is entirely to be picky about the impact of their decisions. You can’t sell Bitcoin without encouraging its use, which is exactly why people donate it trying to improve the reputation of their goods for sale. Remember when a few companies accepted it and the Bitcoin salespeople were crowing about how that proved it was the future of finance and you had to buy in now to avoid being left behind? Using Mozilla’s reputation for their marketing is an ethical choice and has consequences.
Ahh decoding atari strip poker images was fun for me as a teenager. Turned out to be xor with a number increasing by one for each pixel.
In Argentina taxes total taxes on employee income if you pay all taxes can be above 100%. This is not hyperbole, I spoke with an accountant at a construction company there. They basically had to put 70% of their labor off the books.

Skirting the law is required in Argentina. I can see the appeal for Argentinians.
Looks great, congrats! I have worked on the same sort of project on (and mostly off) over a while, but didn't get as far as having a nice UI on the front etc. I'd started in WebGL but then moved to a back-end server using CUDA and separate front end (mostly as I wanted to learn a bit about CUDA at the time). What did you use for your source of height data? I'd used some free LiDAR data but didn't find high resolution free LiDAR data for Scotland.

EDIT: I found your blog, so can see you used e.g. https://osmbuildings.org/documentation/data/ for buildings. I'd looked at that also but found the data a little sparse and also not so accurate, but its possibly improved since, and does look good on the rendering.
> I have literally told a HR person "I'm not answering this question" and when told to do or cancel, I cancelled that application with zero regrets.

Was this in a location where asking is prohibited? They shouldn't be able to demand and answer "or cancel".
This app is great for discovering waste

https://github.com/wagoodman/dive

I've found 100MB fonts and other waste.

All the tips are good, but until you actually inspect your images, you won't know why they are so bloated.
This is a governance problem, not a technology problem. Your government could just add easily forbid you from buying or using crypto. What then?
You can easily and quickly add a Dvorak keyboard to someone else's computer, deleting it once done. I did that all the time when I worked as an editor, having to occasionally edit on clients' computers. The benefit of speed gained from using Dvorak outweighs the inconvenience of having to occasionally add and delete a keyboard on other computers.
Their student debt might go down but so does their chance of ever owning a home.

They hoodwinked an entire generation of children into going six-figures in debt, made the high school diploma worthless etc.

Before:
-HS degree
-no debt
-immediately start a factory job that makes enough for an average home, 2 cars, and a spouse that doesn’t work

Now:
-4 year degree, delaying income in prime years
-graduate with a small house-worth of debt, with no house
-your new job’s earnings in real terms is barely enough to rent
-your spouse has to work too
-have to make one car work

The American people have been robbed of their prosperity and sold a bucket of lies.
Look at railway electrification: this has been happening since the late 1800s; in 2012 electric railways only accounted for 1/3 of the world's tracks. Point being: decarbonisation typically does not happen overnight, and this shouldn't stop us from decrying an entire technology.

The scale of ETH's decarbonisation feels slow by our typical software standards (although it is not a single piece of versioned software nor owned by a single company) - but shorter relative to some other global-scale decarbonisation efforts; it is slated to merge this year.

No matter... there is no need to engage with PoW if this is your primary concern. If desired, Mozilla could have led a stronger force toward PoS chains by only accepting crypto donations in (say) Tezos, rather than just closing the possibility of donations entirely.
At the last job I had, there were a dozen or so microservices named after Greek/Roman mythology. The names were all quite clever if you knew the stories behind them... Eurybates handled inter-service communication, Stentor yelled at Hermes to send out emails, Hephaestus handled our cloud infrastructure, Janus handles some frontend pieces. The problem was that not everybody knew the stories behind them so it got really confusing.

At some point we got tired of it and made a very firm "all services going forward must have normal, descriptive names" rule and ended up with such shocking names as "Metrics" and "Authentication".

Switching jobs to other startups, it seems like "cute" microservice names are going out of style. Thankfully.
How is North Korea left? It's an absolute monarchy, pretty much exactly the other side of the political compass.
I use fountain pens for my daily notes, and a mechanical pencil where a fountain pen isn't practical.

Fountain pens in "rotation" at the moment:

* TWSBI Vac Mini, EF
* Pilot Stargazer, F
* Sheaffer Snorkel, F
* Pilot Resin Falcon, SEF
* Pilot Vanishing Point, 0.7mm stub
* Noodler's Boston Safety Pen, with a vintage Parker flexible gold nib
* Sheaffer Legacy Heritage II, custom 0.4mm "smoothed" stub

I have around 200 more fountain pens in a china hutch next to my desk, so there is no lacking in options if I want a chance of pace. The ones I listed above get >80% of my use, remain inked, and are in descending order of how often I use them. The rest are either parts of my long-term collection or I've purchased to repair and resell online.

I have two mechanical pencils that I use religiously - a Rotring 800 that I carry with me, and a Uni-ball Kuru Toga that I keep on my desk.
I stopped getting tons of cavities when I started drinking fluoridated water as a kid. I didn't have an electric toothbrush until well into my 20s. So I guess that's 2 data points? What now?
Thanks for this - it looks it'll be ideal for feeding the craving after my partner and mine's daily Wordle!
This. The article talks about

> Each layer in your image might have a leaner version that is sufficient for your needs.

when reusing a huge layer is cheaper than choosing a small layer that is not reused.
Never lie, just don't answer it.

If you lie and they verify it later after an offer (which they probably will during background check), you'll be fired for the lie.
Myth: 4 people in the United States died from rabies last year.

Fact: 5 people in the United States died from rabies last year.
That's the problem I have though. The people who were really hurt, will they get any restitution from this? Somehow I doubt it, but the investors will walk away feeling vindicated.
I wonder if the Bitcoin energy includes all the countless people shilling online and traveling by plane to conventions to talk about it and otherwise wasting energy.
I wonder if it would make sense to latch into the syntax highlighter for something like Vim. Most syntax highlighters have a reasonable understanding of what context you are currently in, so conceivably the device could, for example, see that I'm inside a comment and revert to vanilla English, and then see that I'm back in code and change to F#.
> For the mom working 3 jobs at Macdonalds, as long as Macdonalds continues to pay an inflation linked salary

Huge assumption. Wages have not kept up with inflation since the 1970’s. Know what has? Asset prices. Guess who owns stocks/gold/real estate?
Then you should definitely consider switching keyboard layouts to reduce RSI. I did, last week. Going from 80wpm to 30 wpm is definitely a job impediment (in the short term). So many things are keyboard driven:

- communicating with peers over slack

- writing code / git commands

- writing email, comments in HN, documentation, etc.

- taking notes in meetings

- all the browser shortcuts

- all the CLI readline shortcuts
Last time I checked, blocking ports, domains, IP ranges, et al was trivial in China.

A ban doesn't mean that something stops, a ban means that it becomes extremely difficult, a punishable crime, and the risk-to-reward ratio becomes significantly diminished.

Likewise, the inverse is also true. CB radio was illegal in the UK, but it was hugely popular, then, overnight, upon it being made legal, it died. Most people lost interest because it was no longer exciting. You see the same thing with legalizing cannabis. Sure, you'll get hardcore consumers and enthusiasts, and people using it for medical reasons, but it's no longer cool/edgy/interesting, and when it is so accessible.

Could really go either way, but when it comes to money, people don't tend to fuck around.
Female patients of male surgeons experience worse health outcomes
It's comically complicated once you get into the details of moving an existing chain over from PoW; the Ethereum developers have really been working on it for years and only now have it in a shape that works for multiple Ethereum clients on a shared test network.

If PoW weren't a climate disaster it would have very obvious appeal due to its orders of magnitude simpler implementation.

Edit: You can learn more here -- https://consensys.net/blog/news/the-state-of-the-merge-an-up...
I like typing :)

Here's 163 wpm on a macbook keyboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ulK2VJdQpw

Here's 175 wpm on a custom mechanical keyboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO-A8rVJDOM
Corrections: My above post was written in response to the unedited version of the GP post, which stated the 5:1 ratio was vaccinated:unvaccinated (and implied it was based on total numbers). Apparently, since I posted it was edited (and corrected) to say it was 5:1 ratio of unvaccinated to vaccinated (and based on per capita.) This makes far more sense and also makes my reply look insane.

I take GP at their word that there were just errors in writing their post. But it does leave a weird artifact out there that I cannot fix.
> What do you hope to gain and accomplish, sitting around and consuming years after your prime has come and gone and your children have grown?

1. If immortality is a reality, the health issues that come with the disease of aging are likely going to make it so your 'prime' lasts forever.

2. I neither have nor want children

(Edit: Removed bits on my personal beliefs. I don't want to get into them right now. I do have views on the soul that aren't based in materialism and they result in different conclusions than yours.)
Wow! Mozilla just jumped the shark.
I confirm i also saw the Egg.
If this ends the Eternal September we have in crypto it would be awesome. Crypto has too much marketing and eyes on it nowadays. It wouldn't hurt to turn in down a notch and keep working on it.
The government could ban drugs. What then? Guess you won't find them anymore. Definitely no illegal drugs in Argentina.

Breaking the law is a requirement for survival there. Basically all the big employers have to do it, no one seriously pays all their taxes as they can be non-hyperbolically over 100%.
Good point. I edited my comment to mention QuviQ and their QuickCheck product.
I've used Colemak primarily for the past 5 or so years. However, the benefit is primarily in typing comfort and hand strain, not quite as much in speed, although it is probably marginally faster at its limits. I'm still fluent in QWERTY (I'm typing this message with qwerty to make sure it still works :)), so I can switch if needed, or if I'm using an unfamiliar computer (or a phone, etc). Moving to Colemak completely solved the frequent wrist and hand pain I got while typing using QWERTY. Others have had the same experience.
Phosphate fertilizer is mostly mined. Ammonia-based (NH3) fertilizers are made from atmospheric N2 via hydrogenation, and the source of the hydrogen can be water. The whole process (Haber-Bosch) can be renewably powered with no fossil fuels in other words.
All of these improvements, numerically speaking, and yet my wife regularly has classes of 40 where none of the students have parents that went to college, a quarter of them need glasses that they can't afford, and an eighth is homeless.

The size of the group that benefits from modernization is indeed growing, as your numbers point out, but if you're not in that group you're just as stuck as you've ever been.