skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Australia too: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...
1.13 seconds to load https://www.google.co.uk/ (even after preloading it and agreeing to their popup)

3.44 seconds to do a search for "donkey"
Visa alone processes more transactions per second than all PoW coins combined, for a fraction of a fraction of the energy consumption of BTC.
Without doubts - "Animal Farm" and "1984" from Orwell.
Cut a 1mm nib with a sharp knife?
I've been traveling internationally over the past couple of day. Every person seems to have the sniffles, or to be coughing. I haven't noticed this since covid began, presumably because the masks, sanitizer use, and social distancing have kept the cold and flu down.
> with everybody working themselves into a lather over the promise of WAP

If this was an intentional pun over the recently-acquired other meaning of "WAP", my compliments, it was perfectly executed.
Command economies are not necessarily socialist. In particular, businesses really don't fit the definition of socialism.
Yes, but that port needs to remain "open" for the legitimate sshd traffic. Can you see a difference in ownership as the firewall sees it between sshd and some user daemon? Sshd drops root partially when login succeeds.
Those 20 people are fine, right?
Any experience with other providers of dedicated servers, e.g. Digitalocean?
That individual instance might host hundreds of LAMP vhosts, each could have its own IP now
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Depends on location

Technologies: Elixir/Phoenix/Ecto, Vanilla JS, THREE.js, CSS/SCSS, Git, more in résumé. (Willing to learn anything that is the best tool for the job at hand, but really loving Elixir)

Résumé/CV: Available on request (It's a blue-collar-career-changer type. Please don't get your hopes up)

Email: hi @ blankstate.xyz

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Self-taught with about a year and a half of development experience. At this point my motivation is to build something cool. My code is boring and pretty spaghetti, but that can be fixed with mentors and daily improvements to make it even more boring and less spaghetti. I find refactoring enjoyable. Currently reading up on ML, Rust, and more Elixir to build a smart control system for fun.
In Europe, disk swapping via snail mail was very popular in late 1980s and early 1990s, back when available bbs/dialup connections were effectively slower than mailing a few floppies. I still remember that for every floppy packed with some coding attempts or demoscene stuff there would be at least 2 packed with low-res erotica. Good times!
well, at least with the different coronavirus strains, they are similar enough that getting one is effectively like an immunisation against all the other strains. Now you could probably get two strains simultaneously if you were independently infected separately by both at the same time. Delta, however, isn't quite common enough for that to be likely I think.
It would quickly turn to hell if depression or burnout set in and you didn't have the energy to keep the place perfectly free of clutter. I suppose if you could afford a place with that kind of furniture, you could afford housekeeping, but you'd still have to deal with the time in between cleans.
I would love if I could use this to run Photoshop. It is the only thing keeping me from switching to linux-only.
Never read Hacker News.

https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview
How would you define actually capable? I can find servers with recent Xeon processors, good amounts of RAM and NVMe SSD with a gig uplink for around the 100 dollar mark.
For me, the archive seems by far the most valuable part of longform.org. I'd guess no-one has even approximately read most of the best articles they recommended in the past.

This is now the chance to get to them and re-read the best ones, without being distracted by new things.
This is a humongous waste of resources.
I think WP failed because there weren't enough of the right apps on it.
Tobacco smuggling is big business in Australia. Mostly because a regular pack of cigarettes costs $40 these days, compared to $15 for a pack of bootlegged Indonesian Marlboros.

For the 2020 financial year, Australia imported 11,064 tonnes of legally cleared (taxed) tobacco. The government estimates there was 770 tonnes of untaxed tobacco successfully grown/imported, or 6.2% of all tobacco smoked in Australia. [1]

Recently a guy was handed almost 2 years of house arrest for importing 10 million cigarettes [2], which is roughly 10 tonnes, give or take. There's plenty more cases where entire containers full of cigarettes have been seized.

[1] https://www.ato.gov.au/About-ATO/Research-and-statistics/In-...

[2] https://www.acic.gov.au/media-centre/media-releases-and-stat...
Where? I'm talking about 10gbps transit.
I also live in Germany, and similar experience. I rarely know people who have been infected with Covid, and none with Omicron. Omicron is also a bit delayed in Germany (which is good).
Yeah I always opened the website when using RSS, even in 2008, so I don't mind.
Ballpoint pens use an oil-based ink. So I’d think that warm soapy water would do the trick. Or a solvent like acetone.
This guy is a uk health professional who go through the numbers in a easy to understand way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfZ62aWf6pk

It very much looks like Omnicron is an upper respiratory infection vs previous variants that are lower respiratory infections.
The full interview transcript was entered into congressional record. [1]

[1] https://d12t4t5x3vyizu.cloudfront.net/nehls.house.gov/upload...
A quick check-in on the neoinsurance unicorn public meltdown
Around the time it was released I tried to interest people in Kuhn's https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/otpw.html for those travelling and wanting SSH access to the site from potentially-dodgy systems. Still, without your own device you may not be able even to use hardware keys. If the client is untrustworthy, you do still might worry about the channel being open from it to the other end.
So they turn on their VPN app... Or ask their local nerd and they'll tell them how to change DNS server IPs.
I Agree that the situation in Europe is not too bad. Still I can see a situation where some cryptocurrency pushes transaction prices down for regular payments (maybe without handling fraud, because it is a smaller problem with smaller transactions?).

But none of the cryptocurrencies are there yet, and maybe it will never happen.
One of those you're legally obligated to use. All the others are 100% optional and frankly a lot of people do intentional avoid them for ideological reasons such a the whole "blood diamond" issue. Ethically sourcing mined resources has been a very big deal for Apple and Intel recently too.
Care to expand what more you learned after classes ? I recognize schools are incomplete, but I'm curious why.
This behavior is typical for news sites, but in fact the majority of blogs don't truncate their feed items.
i had speculated months ago that perhaps cultures that wear veils and mouth coverings originally did it for health purposes
I have to say my own impression is similar.

I'm a fan of high-quality, significant, long-form, content.

I'm ... not really seeing that here. A few good pieces, but that's from their own self-admitted "best of".

If not necessarily an outright failure, then a mismatch of goals and attainment.

And as has been frequently noted on HN (occasionally by myself), length itself is not a marke of quality in writing. Requisite complexity is, that is, the structure of the piece itself should be suited and fitted to what it is it addresses. Longform wouldn't be the only place the false equivalence that "long" == "good" seems asserted. The New Yorker, which likewise has both a long legacy and recent history of producing good high-quality long pieces, also seems to fall far too frequently into the trap of mistaking length for quality.

I appreciate the effort and intent. I'm sorry to see the attempt failed. But execution was in fact lacking.
BX is great! I used to participate in the San Francisco one, which used to have monthly meetups. The demographics skew heavily female, however.
This is self-defeating. It is very legitimate to ask for what data a company has on you, especially for something that can affect ones livelihood.

The current lack of transparency is not fair to the candidates and is an artifact of people taking legal action (fairly or not) against companies when they didn’t get hired.
As long as you treat servers as cattle, you can use Hetzner's own load balancer service and then you don't have a SPOF that you manage yourself. Their LBs are advertised as redundant / fault tolerant.
This is not what 10gbps transit means.
Yeah, the hosting company is usually the weakest link. I use 2FA on any web admin UI that supports it, but who knows how well it will hold up against a determined social engineering attack on the CS department?
I'm guessing they meant to write SPAs.
This could possibly be the right comment thread: when I was a kid I went to school in the UK for 6 months while my mum worked there, and I found a reasonably thin fountain pen. They didn't seem super uncommon then/there, but I haven't ever found anything similar in stores in NZ or the US.

Does anyone have any suggestions of what brands/models I should look at nowadays?
I have never had the luck (I guess) to run across a company that is both great to work at and pays well.
I think some of the value of long articles is simply that they are long -- if you can get into them, they get you away from news feeds long enough so that the effect feels calming. Regardless of actual content.
All wrong. 1) I don't consume any "services". 2) Sure you can deduct your home country taxes, what are you talking about.
Visa isn't a currency, you could compare it to a payment provider on the BTC chain not to BTC itself. The $ is a better equivalent, it requires a military, thousands of banks, people flying private jets to organize etc.
Ah, gotcha. The Wayland situation in Firefox has been changing for every major release BTW. Been running it in native Wayland since recently and so far it’s mostly been good and stable. Still the occasional crash or popup glitch but since ~v94 it already feels worth it.
Why is this HN material?

There's a tonne of OT stuff herethat is interesting, at least to some HNers, but this feels like someone's private life. Even if true, and this guy built a cool/uncool/popular/terrifying tool, he's still a private person being, so far, only accused of something.

Does it have any bearing on CoPilot? On wider issues in tech? I'm not sure it does.
It's a shame there aren't more big fines for shitty sites, like stackoverflow.com, that punish people who don't accept all cookies by prompting on every visit.

If that's not bad enough, having an "Accept all" button but requiring another click to have the option of refusing, then making us manually select each category to turn off, then confirming, is certainly not symmetric.

These large sites know exactly what they're doing. They're hoping people will become fed up enough to just accept, or they're hoping there'll be enough accidents where people click "Accept all". It's rather shitty.
Sure, I see you saying there’s no “real value” here. I get where you’re coming from, there’s no clear output of value the way we think about it sometimes. For years, even owning tokens, I was torn by this dichotomy. There’s no real value being produced…yet they’re transacting millions of dollars, and now billions, and now trillions. It was hard for me to reconcile that. What gives? I would ask you to consider your definition of real value. If you also advocate for the shuttering of high frequency trading firms, investment banks, and quant desks the world over, then fine, I respect your take. But people want to speculate and play zero sum games. Is what Wall Street does “real” to you? I don’t mean giving out loans. I mean the rampant trillions of dollars worth of speculation that is the real bedrock of what they do. Why does something have to provide “real value” to exist? Close all the poker tables, lotteries, casinos, stock exchanges. What this whole saga has actually made me think is, what is “real value”? Why does this feel different to you? It took me some time to recognize, this is real for many people. That’s all the value that’s needed. Again, the article points that out pretty well I think. And finally, the usage of the phrase “widows and orphans” feels a bit extreme.
Does he talks about the fact that vintage stuff that was before my birth are also better ? and how antique people were better ? These feelings are regularly in my head. Mostly because I feel so much waste from all the new things.. I'm not sure if it's a special attribute of the last decades (smartphones etc) or not.
Sounds like bitcoin and its countless variants.

boom boom
> why would you ever use an integer formatted as a date to display the clock?

Maybe the master date is sent over CAN and the bug is in the sender?
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Same is happening in blue states like Rhode Island…..we have to move on and live with the virus, and red states knew that way before blue states.
Don’t look at the case counts media is using to scare you, but rather hospitalizations and deaths
Nobody is getting paid millions to run software. It doesn’t work that way. Some folks took a risk early by buying it and were very compromised for it. (All the mt gox trade and KYC data leaked, passports etc). Nobody is making millions mining without spending a compatible sum on hardware to do it. That sounds entrepreneurial to me. Solo CPU mining was such a small thing to a small niche, maybe those super super early folks deserve something for their efforts.

Some folks are getting paid to stake, which may be more of a scam, and we can agree on that, they sacrifice nothing to produce more wealth.

You haven’t said why it is a scam, except that people were entrepreneurs or investors in risky assets who were rewarded for their risk?

Lottin you have been passionate against this for a long time, are you sure you are rationally evaluating this?
The whole post is worth reading, it's quite good
Three features which I wish were copied from WP:

- In the alphabetical lists, you could tap on each letter which would bring up a navigation grid of the letters. This made it really easy to jump to e.g. 't' with two coarse taps (compared to e.g. the fine tap which iOS requires to jump to a letter in the list).

- A physical camera button.

- The icon toolbars at the bottom of apps could be expanded; this let you see what each button would do without having to click on it or decipher the icon.
Super insightful!

The blog post itself also touches on this, slightly, by asking what the connection between compute and money is. Is compute just a proxy for money? Or, will in the future money become increasingly a proxy for how much compute you have at your disposal. The latter surely seems unlikely, but with what you said here, it is not out of the question, especially if people increasingly associate pleasures with things that require compute.
> BWWWWBWWWW can be saved as 1B3W1B4W

I've never understood, in explanations of run length encoding, why they always default to putting counts before literals. Isn't it sensible to know what a thing is before knowing how much of it there is?

Count-first also tends to waste encoding space, since it's not clear what a code ending on a count should mean. Literal-first makes it more intuitive to make the code bijective (all codes corresponding to exactly one decoding), and why wouldn't you want to?
I don’t know. This hype-crypto-machine is not catching up with my “feelings” about the future of the Web. Maybe I am getting old, but aside from some communication protocol usage and some form of authenticity (which is questionable), I don’t see web3.

I would go out on a limb and say that if this is web3, I don’t want to have anything to do with it. This is an outrageous waste of resources and energy with awful environmental impact, driven primarily by pure greed and wishful thinking.

Looking at mindset of the VC’s, which are giving this “things” validation, scares the living sh*t out of me.

More and more, implementation of modern ‘tech’ is pushing me towards abandoning the ship and moving into the woods somewhere.

Don’t let me start with NFT’s. It is horrible. The impact of this thing over a lot of my friends is getting ridiculous. I somehow understand “the money” aspect (ponzi scheme, money laundering), but recently I got “the cult” vibes from some of them and closed the door permanently.

So hard “no” from me. I already have a “Metaverse” in which I feel comfortable, it is called reality.

And Web 2.0 is enough for my needs.:)
started to read and he claims sportsmanship is the most neglected thing in athletics.

I say, sportsmanship is the most neglected concept in ANY field.

I really despise the us american culture of FPS games: "take that you cunt teabaging an enemies corpse"

how about just playing the game? do you guys (specifically those who act like that) HAVE to be assholes or can you play like decent people too?
1) After having worked in tech for 30years, value of your stocks/real estate will far exceed the sum of all your salaries received.

2) Nothing wrong, just stating the facts.
I live here and know many ;) But in the north, we generally made it through it better (recent club openings with mass infections notwithstanding, I do not know people who go to mega-clubs during a pandemic).
> Now we have another iteration of the same discussion, but with car media touchscreen dashboards.

there ought to be a safety argument against touchscreens in automotive infotainment systems.
I guess I'm not smart enough to understand this.
I really enjoyed reading the cancer sign on the LinkedIn building in SF, I think they should put this warning on the website too.
This is a very disingenious take, don't you think?

I am also German with an average social circle as I would say. Until the end of last year, I just knew of one case of Covid among all of them. Since then, a few families got it - most of them via kindergarten.

Say what you want about our Covid response but from my point of view we made it fairly well through the pandemic so far.
I think it's nice to be chatty and relaxed in an interview, but a lot of people would think that laughing at a question crosses a line, unless they let you in on the joke. Like, "Do you use Kotlin?" => "Hahahaha! No. Funny thing is, earlier today we decided to rewrite the next major version in Kotlin!"

I don't take offence easily but honestly if there wasn't an explanation for laughter I would straight up ask "What's so funny?".

Imagine how a Russian candidate would feel, when it's culturally "odd" to smile for no apparent reason?
Sorry, I was referring to the European countries that were on the other end of that deal. We couldn't afford creating a credit-based system at the time, and the issue was that the inflation was so high that you literally had bills with "1.000.000" printed on it because the paper was running out on a daily basis.

The issue that I see behind BTC and other crypto currencies is that they kind of want to introduce a new good that balances the value of the currency: computation power (and maybe bandwidth/storage).

But these goods are heavily dependent on the physical world, the progress of other economies (e.g. chip shortage is gonna hit BTC real hard soon, I "would predict") and the advancements of tech (e.g. ASICs or FPGA-based hash generation methods that are more efficient than what's available to everyone). Those dependencies is what I think are messed up, because they favor the ones that already have money in the physical space.

As long as the goods required by the crypto currency are in the physical space, this inflation and behaviours of created sub-economies iteratively failing at some point won't change. I don't have an idea how to solve it, it's just what I've come to realize after years investing in the crypto currency space; and observing the shitshow that's NFTs right now.

The current state is certainly not what BTC or any crypto currency was intended for as an idea, and getting a database entry somewhere because you were the first is not a reasonable approach to how an economy should work, algorithmically speaking. We need a better approach for throttling and redistribution of wealth, because the gas price in ETH obviously isn't enough.

If an economy favors the ones that were in it first, it's also not an economy that can scale. Because it will result in an oligarchic bank-like structure, where money is hoarded that cannot flow and push the rest of the economy where it would be needed to get out of unfavorable situations like poverty (that is in regards to goods aka only having an old computer).
I got back into fountain pens recently, and one of the slightly humbling things about it is having to re-learn to write. It had been so long since I wrote much beyond "Happy Christmas, lots of love" and my name, that my writing, which wasn't great to start with, had become an almost unreadable scrawl.

The first pen I bought was a Kaweco Sport and I really enjoy writing with it. For nostalgia's sake I then bought a Lamy Safari (they were all the rage at school), but found that, unlike the Kaweco Sport, it dried out pretty quickly because I still don't write that much. After reading through this I've just bought the clear TWSBI Eco-T Fountain Pen - one downside of the Sport is that its small size means that you don't get much ink in one fill (I prefer to use piston fillers to reduce the plastic waste of disposable cartridges).
> The thing is that in the US and increasingly in the UK, if you're sick it's considered your own fault, responsibility, and expense. Employers do not care about you, if you do not work they do not want you.

Totally, I used to work for a UK stock market listed company, would always get ill due to their physically toxic working environment, and because it was such a toxic criminal environment to work in I had to leave!

The organised crime operating within the company and outside of it follows you around for the rest of your life because smart criminals are relentless, its like a parallel universe with more money than you can imagine.

The accounts on www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/ are so typical of what goes on, but people are in fear of their jobs so they dont speak out, only now I think we have reached a tipping point in history.
Sure, but I think the risk is overrated. Almost all online shops outsource payment processing to a third party payment gateway, which you can validate pretty easily. They never get access to your details in order to abuse them.

Third party payment processor breaches where CC data is lost are quite rare I don't think I've read about one in a very long time.

Sure, I guess you can't get phished out of secrets with crypto like you could with a credit card, but that's never happened to me, and probably won't happen to you unless you aren't very good at detecting dodgy websites. Also, if you fall for those kinds of scams, I have some monkey jpgs I want to sell you.

The real benefit to crypto here is that you can send money, to anyone, anywhere in the world.
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NFT technology doesn't add anything for games that isn't already available using guess what, a database! Using a MySQL or whatever database allows single use only items, one-off items that only player can have, multi-use items, any possible combination of items is possible using simple SQL. It's not rocket science, the only difference (which doesn't really add any utility to games) is the idea of this database being public.

Think about it, you could implement items in a game using NFT tech OR a database: would the players notice anything functionally different in the game? If not: why the big deal about NFTs in gaming?