skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On some level, that's sort of like asking whether we can be 100% sure that the solution to a math problem is correct. I mean, I'm pretty sure that 2+3=5, but what if I made a mistake somewhere? What if I'm falling prey to some cognitive bias that makes me blind to certain math errors? What if all of humanity is wrong about this math problem?

If we can be convinced that we're 100% sure that 2+3=5, then what about a more complicated problem? What's the most complex math problem we can be sure about? What if we have to use a computer to check its correctness?

(In general, I think it's usually good enough to say we're pretty sure something is correct if we have some solid basis for believing that it is. I'm okay with being 99.99% sure that 2+3=5, but in the world of software "I'm 50% sure this software is correct" is a standard that most software I use on a daily basis fails to meet.)
https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/bank_branches/

You can go estimate it yourself pretty easily based on number of branches and some average energy use per square foot (pick the US’s commercial average as a upper bound to be conservative)

Bitcoin consumes 'more electricity than Argentina' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56012952

But to summarize as someone who works in energy related research:

All the banks in the world combined do not use as much energy as bitcoin alone now.

Cryptocurrencies are inherently non-productive work as their algorithms are designed to solely be computationally expensive to create a means of artificial scarcity.

Block chain isn’t the problem, non-productive hashing algorithms are.
I regularly feel "wiped out" from a typical cold, often for 4+ days in a row.

This whole thread is full of anecdotes from people implicitly claiming that their experience applies to everyone, when in reality everyone's going to have different experiences with everything from colds to covid. Unfortunately, the latter has a much higher prevalence of seriously-worse side-effects (long-haul, ageusia, anosmia, death, etc) compared to the former.
And even here they play along with the AI, glossing over discrepancies. My experience with chatbots suggests that the conversation would have gone worse with something like this:

User: What are your parents like?

Gopher: My father is Lord Byron, the poet. My mother is Anne Isabella Milbanke.

User: I asked what your parents were like, not who they were. Tell me about them.

Gopher: Something inane probably
I have to agree with this. I do not understand why I type all of my relevant information into a chatbot, and then a real person comes on the other end, and asks me all the same questions. Worse is when it is on the phone.

I can only assume the intent is to discourage me, as that amount of ineptness is even more depressing to assume.
We could also cut the mandates for ethanol produced from corn- roughly 40% of corn grown goes into making it.
It's a trade-off between spending some time thinking about what should be written, and then typing a little - or spending all the time typing, typing, typing, and rewriting.

I don't think I've ever been in a job where I was limited by typing speed.
> Or how Bitpay has stagnated heavily...

Bitpay publishes their merchant mix and it's literally all money laundering and crime havens. 45% (!!) Gift Cards. 15% "Internet." 12.25% "VPN." 9% "Computer games." [1]

That's 81.25% the darkest shadiest industries out there.

[1] https://bitpay.com/stats/
> Most jobseekers would be looking at jobs all over the country, correct?

Inside the HN tech bubble possibly. But outside of that the overwhelming majority of jobs are not in white-collar/remote-friendly work (and people change jobs far more often than they're willing to relocate so moving to a new state, or even city, for each new non-remote job isn't common either).

So no the majority of jobseekers are not looking for work "all over the country" - most are looking for jobs within a reasonable commuting distance of where they live.
I'm having difficulties finding the source right now, but I remember reading a story about a sysadmin that was berated for his typing speed and the story ended with him replying "I don't get paid to type code fast, I get paid to press enter very, very slowly."
Omicron appears to be significantly more contagious than Delta for everyone including the unvaccinated.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2...
I think you're ignoring the massive power differential between employers and applicants. It's a game of incomplete information when the applicant doesn't know the possible salary range.

Your company might be benevolent, but it doubt most are, and when companies use information asymmetry to pay less, it hurts the very people they will turn around and pretend to care about, culture, "we're a family!", all the corporate platitudes we all know.

> At the end of the day, I really believe that the only person someone should compete against is himself.

This just isn't true. Should, in an ideal fantasy world, maybe. In the real, "I need to make money to eat and pay rent" world, you're competing with every other person applying for the same role. If you don't get a job, it's your life on the line. If a company misses out on a good applicant, well better luck next time, nothing really changes.

Bottom line, keeping pay bands secret/undisclosed only hurts individuals, and helps companies. Given the inherent power differential between the two, there's no good reason to tilt things even more in favor of employers.
GM Plans to Launch 5nm Snapdragon Powered “Ultra Cruise” in 2023
What do you mean. You just need to draw the right magic shapes in copper so the poisoned sand can talk telepathically.
I have a bit of a man-crush on Leslie Lamport (and have (unsuccessfully) tried to get TLA+ to be used at every job I've had for the last five years), and I have read through both the original Paxos paper in addition to the Paxos Made Simple paper, and I'm just going to say that I still found it about five times harder to grok than Raft. Honestly the TLA+ specification of Paxos made it click more than the papers for me, but that could just be because of the repeated readings before.

It's a beautiful algorithm, but Raft has the advantage of being a lot simpler.
Journalists usually don't have the luxury of 3 hours with their interview subjects.

Since time is of the essence, they also don't go off on diatribes about California divorce laws, or posit personal theories about alien life forms, before getting to their question.
Hi YXN,
as a brief explanation.
I was genuinely surprised by the publishing format. This is entirely unrelated to the content of the document.
I had not seen google drive as a way to self-publish before.
Some locales (all of the USA, I believe) add it for the benefit of teeth.

(Like anything there's presumably a poisonous dosage! But) no, not a problem.
Death counts are also hard to compare because earlier variants already killed a lot of high-risk people.

Would we rather have a widespread epidemic we know less about and can control or a less deadly one we have treatments for, but have limited control over? It's hard to say. It'll be interesting to see what happens with omicron in China where they're trying their hardest to control it.
Do libraries just sat there on disc do any damage?

Also, are you going to update those libraries as soon as a security issue arises? Debian/Ubuntu and friends have teams dedicated to that type of thing.
I'd imagine that the protein in soy is more important to the food supply than a simple measure of calories.
> But Apple brand name was so strong, that they were able to push through and against public opinion and made touchscreens successful.

It wasn't a brand thing. The iPhone touchscreen just worked. And you could see that a lot of clever engineering went into its design (it's more than just a physical keyboard drawn on a screen [0]). And BlackBerry simply couldn't compete. Two years later they released the Storm [1], one month or so before or after Apple released the iPhone 3G (and the App Store).

I remember thinking it was a prototype when someone showed a Storm to me. Scrolling was janky, the whole phone was sluggish and slow and the keyboard barely worked. Blackberry couldn't even figure out how to get Wifi on the thing, so it was stuck using cellular while my iPhone was just streaming video. And of course, no apps. It was 2 years behind the original iPhone and shipped two years later.

I wonder why RIM couldn't compete at the time. Talent gap?

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/26/creation-of-the-first-iphone...

[1] https://bgr.com/general/worst-smartphone-ever-blackberry-sto...
Grinding, boiling, to adding water to the grounds, then it takes 5 minutes. So ~10 minutes to boil the water, 5 for the actual brewing, and then 5+ minutes of just, whatever time.
Write it down as you do it.
How would a peer verify that they have a legal copy?
Think what you will, but like I said, it's served me and my company well over the years. We're still in business, employees are happy, morale is high, I give bonuses/raises when possible, and customers keep coming back. Am I a capitalist, sure! I want to innovate and offer the best product possible to try and convince a consumer to buy or invest in that product. When a customer is happy, they pay their bills. When they pay their bills, my employees get paid. After all that happens, I get paid. Any extra is applied to future projects. That's how it works.
Seems more like your initial point slipped quite a bit into farce since you made it.
More "surprises" like this is coming in the future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel_divestment
>but you believe that Bitcoin will improve its efficiency in the future?

No, not at all. I'm quite sure Bitcoin will go down because of its inefficiencies and it only holds trading value because of "cryptocurrency whales" and sentiment. Every time it goes up I'm surprised that people still go this route while there are dozens of better solutions for whatever BTC was promised to be.
I know this will probably sound dumb but I've always wanted my own personal chatbot; one that could remember facts from previous conversations. I just like the idea of having my own, personal, electronic confidante.
This is the sad truth of places like Cuba or North Korea. Everything is forbidden to the point that eating is difficult. So people get corrupted and the guards, etc. just want their part.

None of those things should be illegal. It is really annoying to see how a leader class kills people of hunger and make everything illegal so that now everyone is a criminal for trying to survive.
It's not their job to differentiate they are just a carrier they scan for outgoing spam to protect their own core business and to not get blacklisted everywhere. Read the ToS they are pretty specific about it.
Woah, there's a name for my greatest phobia. I've got PTSD from experiencing an NDE by thinking myself there during a psychedelic trip.
I think this is one of the biggest drags on the economy of the anglosphere, along with healthcare costs (which on some level could be connected).

The cost to construct brand new housing is considerably under US$100k per person where I live (US smaller coastal city, considering a smallish walk-up building), if you exclude land costs. At current interest rates, that could be financed at around $200/month, around $1/hour of full-time work.

In reality, a unit that costs $200/month in construction financing might cost ten times that to actually rent. Most of that reflects the cost of acquiring the land.

In principle, there is no reason that land needs to be particularly expensive in a lot of the places where it is. My guess is that a lot of the current price reflects land's status as an investment vehicle, which is largely an intentional policy choice (albeit one that might be politically infeasible to substantially change).
With the first word you aren't necessarily trying to get the most number of matches.

You are trying to use the word that once you get the match result back, it discards the most number of words.

These two are not the same thing.
It is still very common to have an application server that handles the M and the C in MVC, using frameworks like Ruby on Rails or an equivalent in node/python/whatever.

Next and other SSR JS tools are great and have gained a lot of popularity, but there is still lots of opportunity doing basic front-end (JS) and backend (API and database) development.

Things are evolving, but basic solutions that just work and are simple and easy to understand have a tremendous amount of value in my opinion.
ELIZA (1964) is the canonical demonstration of this phenomenon in software. We see faces in clouds and intelligence in anything interactive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
If he left out "fuck you and fuck this," the rest of the tweet is still incendiary enough to send the message without the edginess. Might have come across better that way.

Regardless, it's sad to watch Mozilla debase themselves, not only by supporting crypto at this stage of the game, but with cringeworthy meme language like "HODL." That was funny for about a week during the Gamestop fiasco; a year later it's another "how do you do, fellow kids" moment.
Well, yes this is good advice no matter what, but it doesn't get rid of the bugs!
For sure, you'd think even just paying everyone in a camp a small amount of money per bag of trash collected would be a short-term fix (yes, it could be gamed by taking trash from somewhere else, but that'd still be cleaning up town...)

I have wondered if cities couldn't require that surface parking lots reserve a space or two for an RV or tiny house, and the residents could work as watchmen in exchange for living there.
Am I literally the only person on earth who remembers that Mozilla promised to open-source Pocket when they acquired it? Why is nobody talking about that? Why aren't the usually-angry mob of mozilla haters up in arms about it?
If you included worldwide, you could probably get pretty low on the low end (not sure you could get to 10K)
I'm with you on this, and that would explain the bug if Honda hadn't said the code will return to its correct output in August.
I suspect their objections come from traffic analysis (adversary sees that phone A sends messages to a lot of others→must be a commander or so; a burst of traffic among phones marked as commanders in an unexpected moment→something is being planned, etc.). Also, availability if Internet of cell coverage is cut by the adversary.
but for most people, they are respected, so for "the respected", it is a justified pursuit.
> I’ve often wished there were a way to organize against crypto,

From my perspective, it's a peaceful revolution against a corrupt global status quo.

The only people hurt by this false perception (bitcoin makes renewables more profitable by acting as a buyer when nobody else will) are people who don't buy bitcoin. And it's their loss.

What would you say to someone in el salvador who's happy accepting bitcoin because they no longer have to trek to ATM's and risk getting mugged?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVVZXUFItZY
I coded a small program, and the sequence of words that I use (not interchangeable, you'd use them in sequence to gather more info) is:

AROSE UNTIL DUCHY BLIMP GAWKS
There was HN post a few weeks ago to a blog where someone computed SOARE as the optimal word.

Correction: a month ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29439191
Why Did the Mafia Emerge in Italy? [pdf]
Could be, but it makes a lot of assumptions and is loose with terminology. Monetary inflation does not equal price or wage inflation necessarily. We are definitely seeing price inflation which no longer seems to be transitory. There does seem to be wage inflation, but that is not guaranteed. So while if wage inflation keeps up for those holding debt, then yes. I wonder though if those in the position of student debt have the least leverage to take advantage of the wage inflation.

The other thing is that costs go up. The impact of this is much greater if you are poor which could also affect your ability to actually pay the loans. One has to eat after all.

So imho, it's a lot more complicated for an individual. Sure for a corporation that borrows tens of millions for a new capital expenditure it makes debt cheaper. But that may or may not translate to someone that is poor and paying off debt.
I never learned to write on a keyboard in a controlled way and I still can't 'touch type' naturally.

I tried to learn in, but I always fall back to my old habits since my right hand hurt otherwise. I don't think I will ever bother getting fast. It is probably way better to learn it properly from the beginning.
Which are a substantial part of the cost for both alcohol and tobacco.

When I was an undergrad in Virginia (home of Phillip Morris), a pack of cigarettes was selling for about $3.50 in today’s dollars - and that's for a brand like Marlboro or Camel. IIRC retail in NYC is about $20 these days. That’s a huge incentive.
I just talked to Greg, he said something that might help would be to add "FWD: " before the forwarded message. Or possibly "Forwarded from XXX.XXX.XXXX: "

I can confirm that my system did forward the message without any modifications at all. (my employee knew what it was because he knows all text messages from that number are forwards)
J and K are adjacent in Dvorak, and they're down and up, respectively, which makes vertical scrolling just as easy, IMO. I never really used H and L but instead rely on mostly W and B (which aren't adjacent but are close enough). So by happy coincidence, navigating in vim works just fine, I think.
I can't imagine these people are on a left-right scale. They seem to be perpendicular.
There is some threshold where it absolutely impacts productivity. If you haven't seen this in action, you're lucky, I've ran into more than one Engineer who is otherwise very smart but somehow never learned to type.
I was looking for the recipe for some maritime dish that I was sure would appear at the bottom of that comment.
Yeah, the post didn't do a good job of explaining what their product actually is / does.

Their About page is similarly vague:

> We are on a mission to empower individuals and companies to change the world through data. This mission started when we created DataHub at LinkedIn. We’re leveraging the learnings from that experience to build a modern, scalable, and cloud-first data catalog and discovery service.

It sure sounds like vaporware from that description. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

All I could gather from their website is that they catalog schemas across various databases / data warehouses.

It looks like the team is all engineers — they could really use a marketing & comms person…
That might carry more water if Mozilla wasn't already earning $826.6 million a year.

https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2019/mozilla-fdn-201...
Schrodinger's scam... Keeping people guessing makes the pumps and dumps bigger.
For some reason, I always thought that people (well, mostly jwz) were exaggerating when they said that cryptocurrencies contributed to climate change. But 0.1% of global emissions is an insanely large amount for the value that cryptocurrencies provide.
Considering how HN is so fond of NFTs, here is a good use of Nfts, sell them as 'virtual tickets' that make it legal to watch a movie wherever the hell you want. People used to have DVD and CD racks to show off, i m sure they'd like a virtual one.
> Is that not the same thing as Dutertes arrest ?

Are these other officials literally paying assassins to kill people on the street extrajudiciously?

If not, any comparison to Duterte is a rather feeble comparison. The context of Duterte's reign is greater than just the words he says in English (Especially since the native tongue of the country is Tagalog).

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Lets put this in terms of "The Godfather" if you've seen the movie. If you hear "I'm going to make you an offer you can't refuse" from a mafia boss, it means something completely different than when a normal person says those words.

That's Duterte in a nutshell. The words being spoken and the message it contains are two different things.

If Duterte says something in English, its aimed at the international community. Enough Filipinos will hear the message too (English-fluency is pretty common... but its not universal!). Duterte is saying 'I'm doing what I can to cut back on COVID19' internationally, but I wouldn't really pay attention to it from a domestic perspective.
This is a very important part a lot of people miss, I think.
I'd imagine that wealthy individuals are highly leveraged. In other words, rather than selling assets to buy things they take loans against those assets to buy things. This (1) prevents ever having to pay tax (2) gives them benefits from inflation and (3) gives them benefits from low interest rates as their assets appreciate faster than their interest rate consumes money
There are crypto currencies by actual computer scientists, like Algorand by Silvio Micali, that seem to be much further ahead than others when it comes to low-emissions proof-of-stake implementations. In Algorand's case, they even offset the carbon emissions of the network and as such their blockchain is effectively carbon neutral. Or as carbon neutral you can be when you use offsetting.

At least to me, they look more intriguing than all the older crypto currencies. I always wondered why you would bother
with all these inefficiencies for some lofty idea of 'decentralisation' when we have run of the mill consensus algorithms and distributed systems that just work.
Okay.

Then it is a decentralized wildcat banking scheme with no FDIC/SIPC protection or any financial controls and auditing around fraud and risk, and the largest market participants think the world is upside down and that those regulations are the problem.

It is vulnerable to a systemic banking crisis that causes a bank panic / collapse across the entire system, with no entity large enough to step in and bail it out.

Up until now it was probably bailed out after the 2017 collapse by the actions of True Believer billionaires. At some point though as it grows then a billion here or there won't be sufficient to address the liquidity outflows, once you start talking about tens or hundreds of billions to backstop a crash then it'll fail.
No advice, but an observation from someone who completed his CS degree a couple of decades back.

The best computer scientists I know (PhDs from top universities in US) cannot write hello world in any programming language.

Some of the best software developers I have met, with a history of shipping performant and intuitive software, have no clue about computer science.
Uh, what? In what other commercial exchange is the value to be paid hidden from one of the parties? I can't think of one. It helps companies to hide it, it's why they do it. If they thought for a second it would be in their interest to disclose it, instead of bragging about "competitive wages", they would.
The Rise of Performative Work
Let’s look at the Soviet Union to Russia transition. The state no longer had the same demand for space innovation. Their tech sector has stagnated. People didn’t carry on just because they could.
There will always be someone more powerful than you. I prefer that I can elect the leaders of the most powerful group. This is why anarchy doesn't make any sense: The government is simply the most powerful violent group. As long as violence exists, any anarchic arrangement is inherently unstable.
Yann LeCun demoing the first handwriting recognition neural net
I'm sure that is some of it. I'd certainly be happier having my problem solved in 30 seconds rather than waiting in a queue for even 5 minutes.
Pointless post. We could ask the same of you.