skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They might mean "put new upholstery and interior plastics in" which, yeah, an off lease vehicle isn't going to be brand new inside.

As someone who runs vehicles for 20+ years, while interior durability has improved, I still do find myself needing to do a midlife reupholstering.
"You criticise bitcoin for using more electricity than Ireland while using disproportionately high levels of coal power usage, and yet you live in a house. Hypocrite!"

This isn't a cogent argument. Yes, overheating or overcooling houses is also bad. If AI training used as much electricity as Ireland I'd be critical of that too.
The economy can be broken for a long time. Between 2013-2016 I worked in a Mobile ad-tech startup, we spoke of valuations as 2x revenue and SaaS based analytics at 5x revenue.

We thought that there was a bubble at that time when firms started getting high valuation multiples without any cash flow/profit. Now 7 years later Uber trades at a 5.8x multiple to revenue, google at ~10x, and salesforce at ~10x. Companies like Hubspot trade at ~24x revenue, and Snowflake trades at ~100x revenue! Revenue multiples are a pretty awful metric, but the crazy thing in the above calculation is effectively inversely correlated with earnings while also being only loosely correlated with revenue growth.

While this doesn't look sustainable, it's quite possible that it lasts for long enough that a contrarian bet won't pan out.
> For folks that are living under Internet censorship regimes

Well, TPB is blocked in plenty of western countries that wouldn't normally be counted as "internet censorship regimes".

Would be much more accurate to say "Living under the extended umbrella of MPAA and US influence". The block exists in many European countries for example.
40% of all existing dollars have been printed in the last 18 months, what do you expect? Nobody wants to be left holding the paper bag, so they buy up any asset, no matter how silly it may look.
> Toyota is famous for extreme durability in functional parts like engine or electronics. But also infamous, how the chassis rots away very fast.

I wouldn't go that far. Toyota pickup chassis built by Dana (the rear end guys) were known to rust some time ago. Other than that, I do not know of any Toyotas that rusted away more than the average car would given any environmental conditions.
Bitcoin, or any Crypto, Block Chain, are too complex, unfortunately, to understand, and therefore is a huge barrier to their adoption.
Whoever comes to an easy way of doing the digital currency first will win big.
One other turn off remains: is to solve the material part, how to turn crypto back into Fiat Money so it really seamlessly works and not entangled into revenue control traps, losses on exchange between networks, daily limits, and so many more.
Bitcoin could go over a million dollars, or below one dollar, multiple times, in any order. It would be a risky short, even if it did ultimately end up valued at 0.
I prefer to use Aeon, Bdellium, Czar, Djinn, Eye, etc.
Data science is primarily about communication, both of your analysis to other people, including laypeople, domain experts, other data scientists, ops folks ... and those same people communicating with you about their needs, important context, expectations of SLAs or constraints ...

The main barriers to good communication of data science is the translation between the real world goals, data, algorithms, assumptions and priors, scientific and statistical methods being applied, testing, the deployed model's performance and ongoijg monitoring and management, etc .. and the actual code and artifacts produced to achieve those ends.

Python wins because there is a wide ecosystem around those translation efforts.

* Visualization and statistical profiling are first class citizens, probably the killer app in terms of communicating difficult mathematical concepts

* Easy to extend, very "framework-friendly", so you can "speak the same language" between data engineering, DS, analysts, MLOps folks

* Needless to say, network effects of a community used to Pythonic idioms
How is financial speculation and scams an environmental cost?
I’m supposed to use this to pay people for providing me with access to someone else’s content?
What puzzles me is the maneuvering fuel. When that fuel runs out, the telescope can no longer orient itself. This ended the life of the Kepler telescope.

But aren't there other ways to orient in space?

1. use pressure from the solar wind

2. have 3 electric motors on 3 axis. Wouldn't spinning those motors rotate the craft? Electric power to do it would come from solar panels, giving it plenty of fuel.
How does it work in a Kubernetes world? I found today that "systemctl stop k3s" actually did not stop all k3s dependent processes. A separate script was supplied to do that. So on a Kubernetes box there are processes running in namespaces that systemd does not manage?
Interestingly, the average Japanese citizen is doing pretty okay for themselves even in a stagnant market. Who cares about the market doing so great in the USA if the average person is doing shitty? I would prefer to be in Japan right now, personally.
So you're saying it's just 18 months away?

https://www.icc3.com/18-months-away-latest-lightning-network...
I found this 30 min summary by Ray Dalio really helpful. He breaks down how an economy works in a clear and concise way. Stupid simple like me. :)

https://youtu.be/PHe0bXAIuk0

I also found this recent interview with him had a number of interesting angles on the state of things in the US/world as a whole.

https://www.theinvestorspodcast.com/episodes/the-changing-wo...

Would definitely love to hear counter points to these to continue improving my thinking.
> I’m averse to anything from non free nations

Which nations are truly free then?
China still hasn't learned how "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" works. If you want to do something evil and get away with it, you first need to focus purely on gaining market share. You need to reach a critical mass where people are completely dependent on your product. If you try to do evil before it reaches critical mass, people can still stop using your product. If China waited 5 more years before pulling crap like this Xiaomi could have been bigger than Apple or Google.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_mixed-effects_model
That could happen. A kind of long-term black swan event.

It is good practice to go shopping for groceries. But what if tomorrow is the day you get hit by a truck in the shop’s parking lot? Kind of negates the benefit, doesn’t it?

Point being, hypotheticals are not predictions. There’s no perfect heuristic here. That’s life.
the 20% drop is highly likely anticipation for the lightning. why buy ice when you can buy a bev?
Single point of failure is a term for non-redundant, critical parts of a system:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_point_of_failure
There's no benefits to mining bitcoin specifically. You're right about that, it buys us nothing. Wouldn't mind even more energy being spent to secure the Monero blockchain though.

Also, scams are only common in the smart contract networks. People create useless shitcoins and spam telegram groups in order to generate some quick hype and exit with as much money as possible. I'd certainly like to believe nobody would be dumb enough to actually invest massive amounts of capital into these scams but that's exactly what they do.
Yeah, I can see how surprise formulations like these can be useful.

The thing is, it almost certainly wasn't ntended by the algorithm in this case. Nor does the it seem to have any understanding of what may be "off" about problem statement like these.
The trick with identifying bubble is not to realize there is one, but to identify what will make it pop. This latter problem is much harder, and the former, as we get deeper into the limits of our current system, becomes so obvious it's not worth talking about.

Of course our everyday world is disconnected from reality (this is what a bubble ultimately is after all). Talk to anyone in any field and they'll all tell you the same thing: everything is a house of cards! it's insane that things are still running!

Crypto is insane, ad tech is insane, the stock market is insane, our ability to reason about the pandemic has entirely gone off the rails, democracy (or the illusion of it) is on the verge of collapse around the globe, nothing about our very way of life is remotely sustainable yet we continue to push for faster and faster development. We are in a bubble of the grandest scale imaginable. Some people deny this, but there are plenty of people who realize that this is true.

But pointing out that bubble is not interesting, at least not to me. Depending on how much attention you pay things have been insane for a long time, they don't make sense and the keep on going. Even some post-marxists theorists at one point started to accept that maybe there is no reality in our neoliberal capitalist world.

Reality does exist, our big, big bubble will pop, eventually. If that happens in 1000 years it's not really interesting, if it happens in 1000 days it will be mind blowing. The real interesting question isn't to point out that things don't make sense (they don't) but to start looking at when does the shit hit the fan.

If you watch the Big Short you see that the crucial part of that narrative isn't realizing there is a bubble, but realizing precisely when and how it will pop. Right now I don't think anyone has a good answer to these questions for our current bubble or any subset of it. Take crypto, most of us here believe it to be to some degree a scam, but when and how does that scam come to an end? Pointing out a bubble is irrational doesn't make it pop.
I started using someone else's Linux in 1993, remotely, to help him port a user space threading library written in C to it. The machine was at the guy's house, online via SLIP.

Several people in the computer lab were standing behind my back, watching me live code the x86 context switching routines in GNU syntax (which I knew from coding some graphics demos using the DJGPP environment supporting writing extended DOS (DPMI) programs with GCC).
No one gets their shoes shined anymore, but [1], [2].

In 15 years, everyone touting crypto now is going to be either:

1) bragging about how they got out before the wipeout

2) changing the subject

[1] https://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archiv...

[2] https://work4btc.com/the-shoeshine-boy-in-1929-and-my-co-wor...
The idea behind The Pirate Bay is that information should be free for everyone. So unlikely they will put up a pay-wall to access any content. But, maybe they'll implement tipping for uploaders/moderators or something like that, which fits better their goal.
This isn't true. The VW service manuals for at least the last 15 years have had a 10k mile service interval for changing the oil and not 3-4X a year.
Next you’re going to tell me a US company is going to run stuff on your local phone without your consent all for the “greater good”
Curious if others are able to see the WebGL2 examples working on iOS. They do not render for me, but WebGL2 definitely works in general, at least on 15.1+ (as per other sites and my own dev work)
I'd say so. There are some smaller issues here and there of course - but it's getting better all the time. Bought a game on Joltfun the other day, took me all of 2 seconds to scan a QR code and pay.
> The button to skip that step in Apple's setup wizard is even labeled "Set this up later" to make it clear that the user isn't giving up the ability to use a cloud account later by skipping the step during the setup wizard.

No, but on the other hand there are plenty of services where "later" means "nag me" and "stop functioning after a certain amount of time"

It would be better and clearer if Apple simply and clearly stated "iCloud account is optional and not required to use your Mac"
I do realize that anyone can create an ERC20 token and publish it to BSC or any EVM chain. Hopefully folks are deriving their solidity contracts from the OpenZepplin Contracts library.

A message with that address is published on the website, and the page is delivered over HTTPS.
That domain is the canonical one for the site and you can see stories on HN going back to 2007. I am reasonably confident that someone in control of that domain, and can publish documents to the root of that site is speaking for the TPB organisation. We don't know who that group is, and the original folks behind it are doing other things.

The message didn't even say the chain, and I had to check multiple sites to determine where the contract was published.
Taiwan is not the home of the People's Republic of China.
> Bitcoin, or any Crypto, Block Chain, are too complex, unfortunately, to understand

That's a feature to make them look less like a Ponzi scheme.
The origin of the word „dollar“ is actually „Taler“.
It's interesting that you raise totalitarians like Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot in this discussion. What are you trying to imply? Implication isn't a sound argument.
It isn't.

We have used Mongo for good reasons, it's been appropriate for our workload, and we have used Mongoid since the inception of the product long before I joined the company. Replacing Mongoid at this stage would be a massive piece of work.

I find Mongoid's documentation is vague and lacks important detail, and the API itself violates the principal of least surprise frequently enough to be a problem.

It really is the ugly stepchild of ActiveRecord, in whose image it was created, and which by comparison has been a pleasure to both use and to manage.
Which is true, but also not what's being discussed, which is "single point of failures", not "weakest link".
Your post was on December 10, the MSCI World Index closed at 3188 points that day. Yesterday it closed at 3177. Not even 1% difference.

This is not even a dip, let alone a "crash".
I think that perhaps a helpful way to think about it is that we've shifted from an economy of reals to the sort of gold-based economy of MMORPGs where the value of the currency, the number of units of currency, and the policies for how the units can be exchanged are actively and continuously modified by policymakers exempt from democratic oversight. For the broader end-user population, myths and stories about how things work trade widely and actual information, though perhaps public, is "too technical" and not shared as widely.

In such a planned economy, is there a reason to think that the bubble is able to burst? The myth of a bursting bubble may be helpful to mitigate moral hazard, of course.
Why is there a graphical installer for the Minecraft client and not for the Minecraft server? Because of some fancy Law with Capital Letters, or because more work went in to the former than the latter?
I hadn't realized it but I already do this for some things. I build things with Ruby on Rails infrequently enough that I need to reference docs a lot. I've been trained to not bother searching "the web", and instead go straight to the official guides[1]. I'm also Firefox user, so I've set up a dozen or so "keyword" searches[2]. "wiki " brings me to Wikipedia results for , similar for yf- yahoo finance, az- amazon, etc.. For me, this has been the killer feature for Firefox that would prevent me from using Chrome even if there weren't privacy/consolidation of power issues.

[1]: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/
[2]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address...
Heating and cooling uses way more electricity than Ireland. This message is for the hypocrites who complain about bitcoin while keeping their house above 60 when it's cold, or those running A/C below 80 when its hot. Y'all are wasting way more energy than bitcoin, while many of you simultaneously complain about bitcoin.

>This isn't a cogent argument. Yes, overheating or overcooling houses is also bad. If AI training used as much electricity as Ireland I'd be critical of that too.

It's a cogent argument to point out the hypocrisy. If you want to argue we should create a watt-police or ensure externalities of power consumption are better accounted for, that's a different argument.
You wouldn't catch all of them but I believe you could get a pretty good sample by running a single node. And you won't be able to get historical data unless someone else has been tracking this and shares their data with you.

There's some discussion about reorg frequency/depth on BitcoinTalk[0][1]. Also there is this academic paper[2].

[0] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1403436.0 (2016)

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5351869.0 (2021)

[2] https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/127476/119301...
This question reminded me of Project Wonderful[1], which I used on several tiny projects in an attempt to cover hosting costs: $5 per month. I never had enough traffic to make anything close to that, but it was pretty fun trying.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Wonderful
Is this sarcasm? If you generate an incrementing-UUID then its predictability is going to make it not-universally unique too
Is elisp the simplest? (entered on *scratch*)

(setq r 6367.45
h (/ 42.0 1000))

(sqrt (* 2 r h))

23.12716584452146
> They can't tell other governments to censor anything

They don't need to tell governments anything. Just turn on a built-in filter in a small OS update. Or install a fresh one for now or later in a larger update.

Maybe there are no other filters. There are none we know about. But we didn't know about this one until we did... And is anyone forensically checking what is in OS updates for their phones. You can check the release notes, but all you'll likely find there is the unhelpfully generic “security and performance changes”.

I have a Xiaomi phone. Great battery life, even compared to other devices with the same sort of spec and battery size. But they achieve that by cheating: it does non-standard things WRT killing processes to save power that means things you might want to allow to keep active¹, that you can allow to remain active on other Android devices, don't work as expected.

[1] Garmin Connect and integration services for other devices, background audio players, and so on.
Any good ones you recommend?
Of course we could live at 60 degrees in the winter, but most people would agree that their lives are meaningfully improved by increasing the temperature to closer to 70-72.

On the other hand, Bitcoin provides no meaningful benefit to society compared to other currency. The only real benefits of Bitcoin are that it makes ransomware easier to accomplish (which is bad for most people) and that it has made some people a lot of money due to its pyramid scheme qualities (again, bad for most people).
Strava has an API like that but combines it with an insanely low daily rate-limit which makes retrieving the changed data difficult for anything other than personal apps. But that's totally an issue with their brain-dead policy rather than the idea.
Couple crazy points about Langley as I have lived here since the 80s

- my parents bought one of those homes back in 1980 for just under 25k!!

- in the 80s the busiest intersection (200 st and bypass) where the chapters, milestones, etc is now, was a giant field full of cows haha :)
I don’t know if we’re in a bubble, that really is the trillion dollar question. I’ve personally thought we were in a bubble since ~2018. I think high asset valuations are just a reflection of the amount of capital out there looking for investments. I look at it as the market behaving as if it was going through it’s own inflation
Since 90% of the cost is probably in R+D of the telescope, one could build and deploy another for another 10%. Why isn't this done? Why is every space telescope completely unique?
That is…not what universally unique means.
JFYI: Even if you use 3rd party DNS so that ISP doesn't spoof DNS records for some domains, domains are still present in plaintext in TLS encrypted traffic due to Server Name Identification (SNI). It seems that most of internet censorship regimes know about it.
I have a lot of experience selling and hosting my own contextual advertising.

Before including advertising it is important to consider what value your site (and your readers) provide to advertisers and whether they can get the same or more value than you offer more easily elsewhere.

One strategy you can use is to see which advertisers spend money on sites which are similar to yours. Figure out the traffic and demographics for those websites and see how yours matches up.

It will be much easier to convince those companies to use part of their existing ad budgets on you than it will be to convince a company with no ad budget to create one.
IIRC the thrusters are also used for station-keeping since practical Lagrange orbits are unstable.
Because that cost is, at least theoretically, offset by additional benefits. I'm not arguing in favor of reduced authority. People seem to conflate decentralization with anarchy.

I'd like to be able to not even have to think about this happening: https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/pywwnp/how...

I'd like to know that when I sell something on Craigslist, the currency I'm receiving for my good isn't counterfeit.

I'd like to know that when I receive $50 on Venmo/Paypal out of the blue:(https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/q60vnv/ven...) I don't have to wonder whether that $50 is legitimate, or about to vanish when Venmo realizes they got scammed. Better hope you didn't send the $50 back to the scammer, because somehow your transaction is more "authentic" than the scammer's, and Venmo's still going to disappear $50 from your account.

Oh and if someone writes me a fraudulent check and I cash it out, I'd better have some lawyers ready.
At this point I think non free nations are significantly different from “more free” nations.
Reaction wheels let you orient but they don’t allow you to maintain an orbit.
based on two recent market corrections:

in the 2008 financial crisis, unless you were heavily into real estate related funds, if you panic sold a mixed portfolio of blue-chip stocks / mutual funds / varied ETFs at the low point in the market, you would have lost a significant amount of money. People who held their assets saw recovery to initial value and continued climb by 2012/2013 or so

in the spring 2020 big market drop at the start of covid19, same thing. I saw a bunch of mutual fund stuff in my 401k drop significantly in value. If I had sold it in a panic at that time, I'd now be screwed, because not only did it all recover to its pre-covid19 levels by late summer of 2020, but has significantly increased since then.
And also pop at the most unexpected time.
"- Member logins based on BSC address"
driving up the price of bitcoin increases the motivation to run even more bitcoin miners which use more and more electricity. Depending on where it's generated that can come at the cost of the environment.
That's pretty high. OTOH I bet Hawaiians don't need as much heating during the winter. Most homes in Norway are electricity heating only, due to the building policies of the last 50 or so years, which makes the individual bills pretty insane at the moment.
Fundamental Forth (2016)