skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am really interested in knowing what "exploiting foreign nations" means for you.

Exploiting is what Cuba does with its doctors when they send them abroad and take 70% and kidnap their passports as if they were animals, or when you are assigned an arbitrary government salary for the sake of it without any possibility of alternatives.

Please explain to me what exploiting is: paying less than what you think they deserve? Note that those exploited foreign countries get investment from outside to improve lives of people there, not to worsen them, otherwise those people would not take a foreigner company job in the first play.They usually pay more than local companies except a few exceptions FYI. At least in Vietnam. In Vietnam working for an american, korean, japanese company means you are mostly blessed.

I know the factories topic well from Vietnam. If you want we can talk about why that is not exploiting but what Cuba does to its citizens is indeed. There is a big difference.
I'm just wondering why this wasn't open-source to start with
The Capital of the Mongol Empire Is Mapped for the First Time
You are sending $100m in monopoly money thou.
Huh, but stablecoins are basically banks with a funny system for tracking account balances. Who's investing in a stablecoin they expect to go to the moon?
The edge cases (literal and figurative) are interesting. I'd be fascinated how they handle framing issues in large data sets.
A lot of us are guessing that our responses are used for self-driving work ...

But isn't labeling of those basic concepts in static images pretty much "solved"? I am not an expert in self-driving anything, but I don't see captchas of video from driving, I don't see stills that are half-obscured by snow, I don't see nighttime pics, I don't see weird corner cases like a van with a decal of a cyclist etc.

Why don't we see captchas that seem more likely to be useful to creating datasets relevant to the more challenging problems?
The moment I saw on the front page that Adele's "Easy On Me" was listed at 142 BPM, I was flabbergasted.

You only have to play the song while looking at a timer for about 15 seconds to see the BPM is far less than half that number.
> So, I ordered a new 14-inch MacBook Pro — Space Gray
Apple M1 Max with 10-core CPU, 24-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine; 32GB unified memory; 1TB SSD storage

> So that I can more swiftly and comfortably type documents and spreadsheets, format blog posts, and maybe do a tiny bit of Photoshoppin’ here and there when I need to.

This is complete overkill for their usage... I got a new MBA M1 with 16GB RAM that can do all of that and much more. Currently using it as my photo (Capture One/Photoshop) and video editor (Premiere/Final Cut), programming workstation for my personal projects, my music producing machine, etc.

I simply cannot trust the writer, they complain about simple issues and their solution is to go completely overkill on a purchase, feels like just consumerism.
$7,892, just a wild ass guess. Probably the most random contrarian view possible. Not 0 and not "to the moon"
Could be, yeah. I know that his kb had some tiny switches on the underside to configure some things, so you're probably right.
> Having never had a manager with any clue about maths,

This is exactly my point: at least in Germany, the compulsory "mathematics for economists" courses are there to weed out student and are thus feared among the respective students.
Same here. If I try other ways to validate it seems to offer email addresses for people at the company (I'm guessing HR).
I have a hard time trusting the research that the author did with misspellings like this :).
Whatever they're doing it's american-centric.

Identify "Crosswalks". What the hell is a crosswalk

"School bus" - what's the difference between a bus currently serving a school and another one?

"Show taxis", there are no black vehicles listed at all
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Sure, and it is easy to find a way to support a policy if it also serves your profit motive.
...I'm more curious why firmware is even closed source. Seems to me, just releasing the assembler, documentation and a datasheet should be basic courtesy.

Then again everything I think that way about is apparently a mortal sin in the business world.
> Yeah does Reddit create value?

Yes. Entertainment value aside, it's a place for some remarkably useful discussions on niche topics.

> Move to renewable nuclear and who cares.

Renewable Nuclear? I haven't heard of that. If you mean renewables and nuclear, aside from the fact that it requires real money and a lot of time to do - there's still an absurd amount of energy being wasted for a single transaction. Recording transactions is a well explored space, and requiring energy on the same magnitude as homes or countries to do so is absurd.
"Some people seem to legitimately think that its possible to eliminate all sources of errors in such an immensely complex system."

That mostly describes amateurs. Designers of modern reactors generally think along the "let us minimize possible negative effects of a failure" lines.

So, no positive void coefficient (a horrible feature of RBMK in Chernobyl), addition of core catchers [0] etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_catcher
There's a haunting version of this in Blade Runner 2049 that they call a "baseline test." Replicants have to prove they're sufficiently robotic by reciting extremely alienating things about themselves in rapid succession:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h-seEowtDw
But it could be argued that that's there to provoke a pro-American reaction!

/conspiracy
Show HN: LeftWrite, a site to slow down and write about what you read
You make some fair points about money and mistrust but the parent's argument is not unfair. You mention that you "became a Swede" by adopting Sweden's values. America doesn't have one unified set of values due to being so big. Sweden is smaller than Ohio by population. Ohioans generally share some values, but they are quite different than people in Massachusetts or Mississippi. America is closer to the EU's scale, and the EU has plenty of idealogical differences between member states. Do the Greeks trust that the Germans are looking out for their best interests?
I am naively asking this with real interest because I have no idea: Can it continue to function at any price? Is there a price so low that new transactions would not processed?
It looks like reporting is only required for commercial transactions. Reporting for personal transactions hasn't changed.
There is no email confirmation so creating a user is all you need to do!

Backstory :) - I am horrible at reading the article first and most of the time on reddit and hn, I go directly to the comments to figure out what my opinion should be. This started bothering me as I was passively consuming content and it wasn't even the content, I was consuming other people's thoughts and pretending they were my own. I originally thought maybe aggregators should gate their comments by having quiz. I wasn't about to make my own aggregator though and I gave up this thought. I instead thought that there should be a notepad feature in the browser that opens on each page that I can write down into. I didn't want to learn a new tech for this so I went the route of creating a site.

The site is pretty simple, it basically gathers up the links on an aggregator site or anywhere really and shows you the article and a notepad. Only once you enter something in the notepad do you get to read the comments. This has worked extremely well for me and I'm pretty happy with how it has turned out. I read far more and I think about things a lot more as well.

HN and specifically the comments is what drives me to get better, there is so much gold here both in the articles submitted and the comments made. By forcing myself to write down my thoughts, there are all sorts of things that I have tried and tested that I would normally skip. I think by adding that writing step, I'm actually processing things instead of pretending to process things.

I'm using the most boring of tech for this site, I use nodejs, express and ejs to do everything as it's what I know. I use nginx as a reverse proxy and postgres for the database. I really optimized for maintainability as I want this to run without me having to do anything. Ideally besides updating packages, I want to do no active work eventually on this.

This site proxies for other sites meaning that the server makes requests for pages on the behalf of the user.
Is it worth re-writing the proxy code into rust or is there no real difference between using axios and rust for network requests. How do proxy sites manage this?
Who gets to decide who publishes the news
Equifax is the Dow Jones Chemical of the data world. They have a tendency to mess up catastrophically yet they keep surviving by some miracle!
The original site still load for me. Maybe it was down for a minute? Thanks for the link!
This has nothing to do with advertisement. You should not be able to retroactively make products that you've already sold to people be less useful, whether or not the feature you're clawing back was advertised.
>An alternate interpretation of this article is: "if you find yourself nodding with this article, know that you too have the personality of a follower of the system and will probably never impact the system yourself."

Why can an individual not make an impact unless they change the system or demonstrate that they are not "a follower"?
Because they were busy with their paid job.
The only other real, scalable option is to verify identities (which is part of what recaptcha does) so this is the best we've got right now.
The elephant in the room is the classic CPU architecture mistake where you use two different instruction sets on your performance and efficiency cores. There is no way to prevent code with AVX-512 instructions from being executed on an unsupported core. This exact same problem that plagued early ARM big.LITTLE designs that used ARMv8.2 on the performance core but ARM8.0 on the efficiency core, forcing all code to use the more restrictive instruction set and cripple the performance benefits of the “big” cores.
Yep, same. I'm in the same boat as others where my comfort with piracy is high enough that I continue to maintain my libraries that way despite paying for various streaming services.

Find a few friends who think the same and have spread out tastes, and you can setup a nice Plex server that hits all the big names so you're not out of the loop. Whenever one of us wants something more specific, we attempt to find it ourselves. If we can't I'll ping the group and usually one of the others can find it through other sites. It's fun and communal!
Many people live in houses; few think they want to build one. Most of us use roads; but can we say what differentiates a good road design from a bad one? Can we sensibly critique (or recognize) the construction choices we see in a concrete example thats right in front of us?

There's the "well rounded person" argument that says you should at least have some idea what programming is and how the shape of that affects your life. But that's bound to cause misconceptions, because there's not an easy soundbite answer: "I'm in construction" could be wildly different depending on whether you're building roads or houses, and "I'm a programmer" is as different between "web front end" and the depths of embedded systems.
When the second item on your startup's FAQ is how to pronounce the company name...
Yes, exactly. When reading essays like this, a critical thinker should remember “consider the source” and “cui bono?”
I find those stereotypes unamusing.

The vast majority of representation on my "kind" is the same shit, over and over again.

No, I do not sympathise with the Latino nor Brazilian stereotype and it is grating seeing it played straight so often. It feels like they are trying to pander to me.

That is annoying and the sort of stuff I'd rather avoid if I am consuming fiction.
What specifically is sci-fi about it? If there were no regulations, I would be able to do the same with my bank account or credit card in a much more efficient way.
1) Nuclear is not renewable.

2) Reddit arguably produces value by facilitating information exchange and dialog. (The quality of that value varies highly by community and it's fair to argue about whether Reddit as a whole is a net negative or net positive.)

3) Bitcoin produces nothing. It's a place for rich people to gamble, and for poorer people to get screwed trying to gamble. If people want to gamble, they can play poker and it costs zero energy.

We need to stop pretending energy is limitless. It's not. And we need to start factoring that in to our decisions about what technologies/businesses/activities are affordable/worthwhile and what aren't.
Planning the Wildland-Urban Interface Report
I find it interesting that no employer of mine since 2011 has been reporting data to this.

Also the pages in the report are literally sideways, which made trying to read it on my phone nearly impossible.
Reddit profits don't rely on cheap subsidized electricity in a 3rd world country
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Cookie tracker dialog on entry... Eject.
Improving JWT Authentication in Apache NiFi
Its not exactly that, but Mr. Robot is excellent if you haven't seen it.
No. Transaction will always be processed as long as there is one person with a Raspberry Pie. The price of Bitcoin is essentially a reflection of it's security budget though. The higher the price, the more people are mining, the harder it is to gain control of 50% of the network hashrate.
Basically my prediction for the long-term. I should bookmark this comment so I can revisit in 2032 to see how right/wrong I was.
Why did i not know of this sooner?
Great software no problems here.
China had a much higher percentage when they banned mining, and things turned out okay for Bitcoin..
I misread that there, so disregard the first reply.

Point still stands: no one forces you to upgrade your BIOS (unless there's problems) and even then, patching the BIOS upgrade itself is still an option.

So it remains under user control.
Computers as I used to love them

A work of poetry.

> A major initial motivation for both the ARPANET and the Internet was resource sharing.
you want to delete a file called '-rf' ?

rm ./-rf

If you have some weird characters in the filename, you can also let your shell escape whatever character is problematic by using autocomplete, starting with './'
> It's amazing that you can send $100m to anyone in the world with a phone, anytime day or night and it costs $2.

That's really a problem I'm facing about once or twice a week, and BTC has solved that for me, you're right.

> I don't get all of the negativity HN has towards Bitcoin. This simple ability is so amazing and scifi to me.

Well, maybe there's the HUGE impact of BTC on global energy usage, mostly generated from fossil fuels (of one kind or another) and that there's actually little benefit for anyone not doing shady business or scamming people.
> Here on HN, we might have the unique opportunity to discuss the future among technical people who actually understand the concepts behind cryptography and blockchains.

The technology isn't relevant to the price. Your first point about psychology and the overall perception of Bitcoin is what really makes a difference to the price in 10 years. If someone is telling you that Bitcoin will be at price $x because of cryptography or the algorithms behind it, they're either clueless or they're selling you something (possibly both).

I've always thought than the price will be lower in the future and I've ended up being wrong over and over again. So this time I'll say that it will be higher (and still not buy any).
There sure are: https://www.marksetbot.com/
Most people don't see the benefit of being able to send $100,000,000 for $2 because most people will never need, or be able, to send $100,000,000 to anyone. Or $1,000,000, or even $10,000.
see, now that's more like it -- croissant supply pranks I can get behind; meddling (however slight) with tools, not so much.
> Vaccines are essentially mandated for many parts of life

Not ones requiring multiple jabs per year, seemingly forever (unless something like Omicron comes along).

Also not experimental ones rushed out with an EUA. Would you accept a mandate of the Chinese or Cuban vaccine, twice per year, for your whole family, for the whole foreseeable future?

> Nobody in 2011 would have thought it was weird that vaccines would be mandated.

You'd be very wrong. I remember very well that people were highly vocal against the H1N1 vaccine a decade ago and would've (rightfully so) lost their minds with mandates. Turned out the vaccine caused narcolepsy in kids[0], among other things. I never had that vaccine. My pregnant partner did (which turned out to be a lucky gamble).

> resisting wearing masks

Barring N95/FPP2+ masks it's mainly theater. It will be interesting to read all about this in a year or three once the heated political agendas have subsided.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_pandemic_vaccin...
> no banks or payment processors.

Until you want to get local currency, at which point you have to get involved with a processor. And taxes. And everything else associated with currency movement.
The difficulty of mining is adjusted based on how many people are mining. I think it could have trouble if there was a very quick loss of mining power, but if it was a slower process and some miners gave up because it wasn't profitable it would start going back down in difficulty until someone somewhere could get some profit out of it.
> These are SQL expressions which specify how to convert between the old and new schema

Right, I get how that would work with a read-only view, I just didn't know you could do updates against such a view. Nifty!
Not only movies. It always bothers me when I see the marine corps sponsoring a NASCAR car. Somehow it doesn’t feel right to use taxpayer money to put stickers on a car.
Can't AI be leveraged to get around these automatically?
ha, definitely got into it for similar reasons!

And then came modding etc. Sadly, it seems like modding is dying, at least for the few modern games I'm interested in. (So really kudos to minecraft for teaching a new generation about mods and programming along the way, my nephew is going through that phase).
Initial thread when fire happened https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29790063
The Dumbest Pixel on the Internet
The difficulty of mining the next block is a function of the hash rate. Miners quit, hash rate goes down, it becomes easier to mine the next block.

That said, the "price" (in USD) is a function of supply and demand and is completely disconnected from this. The price of a BTC could drop to $1, and mining would still work fine.
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People have tried many distribution models under proof of work, so far they have all broken the economics of why the networks work:

if miners aren't desperately competing to pay off their capital expenditure, then they abuse their market position much more quickly, finding another way to assume control over the production on the network, which discourages anyone else from competing

so of all the major working consensus models it has either boiled down to either capital for miners or capital for coins that limit this abuse/control, spurring enough confidence in the network to bring on other participants (whether you or any one person personally agrees with it)

keep searching for improvements and alternatives though
And now the receiving computer has an unintentional $100M bug bounty on all its software and hardware. For digital money to be actually usable, you need some kind of authority that can revert transactions in case of mistakes or fraud.
Yep, all my salary from Stanford University and Apple were sent in, including RSUs.

Apple, the poster-child for user privacy. They even listed me as an “Associate,” when I was doing sensor design. Not surprised, given how management treated us.

I wonder if they do it for all reporting levels, like if they’ll send in a manager’s salary as well.
Hey, I love it! Would you like a spanish translation?
this is a very old debate: you are claiming that people should correctly guess where and when pranks are acceptable, the person you are replying to argues that this is impossible and people should err on not pranking by default.

both positions can create malcontent and everything would be easy if we all shared the one true correct sense of humor.
Okay cool. Yeah I didn't mean generate it all for me, just come up with some responses and maybe a few ideas of where it could go. I did end up experimenting with it last night briefly and it did help me write a few more paragraphs to one of my stories.

One thing I did notice is it doesn't seem to know when to move on to something else, and will just keep trying to do what's been working, so I need to be able to tell it "Stop that conversation, let's talk about this now", although admittedly it's from very limited interaction with it. Still pretty neat.
If you're stating the $ amount and not BTC though, it might be worth $70m by the time you purchase the BTC and your receiver sells them...

or $200m, who knows

1 BTC = 1 BTC still true though
> you might be racist

Please stop this. Every instance of someone referencing something that originated from a culture other than their own is not "appropriation" or "racism".
That's the average transaction-fee paid - and in practice, a fair amount overpay a lot. And making sure you use a reasonable wallet and bech32 addresses makes a big difference as well. So even with the same network fees and bitcoin price, a transaction costs a lot less today than in 2016.

Recently fees have been around 1~10 sats/vB. ~40 sats/vB would be $2. Network fees are quite volatile, so we don't have to go back far in time to find that, though.

Source: I look at bitcoin fee graphs way too much. Also mempool.space
When your concern is global warming most things in the world today can’t be justified outside of necessities including Reddit.

If your argument is “it’s a waste because we’re destroying the environment for no gain” all entertainment falls in that bucket as well.
On iOS you just tap the Dropbox icon and browse to the picture you want to send in the messages app. Surprised it's harder on a more open platform.
Oh, hilarious, I see we're also both naturalised Swedes :D

Good luck with the music (and anti-procrastination).
Many a time I receive multiple challenges on a site despite having selected all images perfectly, and can't help but wonder, "Hey, are they getting me to do more work than necessary because they're running behind on their labelling backlog?". There's definitely a conflict of incentives in this case. If you're a website owner, you're better off choosing a different service which doesn't have adverse incentives, otherwise it can affect your site experience. And please don't put captcha on GET requests. Use a CDN if you're unable to handle bot load. And don't even get me started on CDNs that throw captcha.
Is Clubhouse dead? Not if you are in South Asia
Not really, but sort of. As the price drops, miners start leaving the network, causing the difficulty to drop, which keeps the block generation at the same rate.

Now please correct me if I'm wrong, but IIRC the difficulty adjustment requires some blocks to get mined, so if the hash rate would drop extremely quickly, the duration needed to adjust to the lower hash rate could take a long time. However that would mean the potential block fees would be steadily increasing so maybe it would quickly fix itself (make mining those blocks more profitable).
Not really, because there would still be intermediaries that could halt your transfer or steal your money..especially if they weren't regulated!

Not to mention, $2 wouldn't be nearly enough to cover credit card fees. Not sure how a 1-3% fee could possibly be efficient.
The store of value argument is such baloney. Value is derived from supply and demand. Demand can always go to zero.