skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it is as you say, how come Trump became president?
Yeah, they should at least allow using symbols for name.
Those are very different things.

My dishwasher is rated based on specific cycles, but I'm legally allowed to use it as frivolously as I want. I can run an A+++ rated dryer with a single sock in and send the photo to the police.

We don't limit energy use but inefficiencies. The equivalent in crypto would be to rate hardware by hashes per joule.

Crypto things are different because the incentives are different. I'm incentivised to use my appliances efficiently as the energy cost is just a cost.

On the other hand with PoW, I'm incentivised to mine efficiently but as much as possible because I can buy a thing that turns electricity into cash.
>Unless they're really squeezed on power or rack space budget

I think this is the case for their open connect appliances (or whatever they call them). They want to try to maximize throughput on a single device so they don't have to colocate so much equipment
As I understand it, with self-publishing your income per book might be higher but you have to do your own marketing, publicity, etc. Publishers tend to generate higher volumes but also rake more cash their way. Afterall, that is their business model.
I'm surprised winds and currents weren't mentioned. To a sea traveler, I imagine distance is more about time than miles, which varies considerably based on what direction you point.
I'd like to recommend Aegis Authenticator, which is FOSS. It also encrypts tokens at rest, has password protection and the ability to export tokens.

Lastpass Authenticator does not do that, so I spent an hour yesterday manually resetting all my 2FA.
On android you can do this with Signal, not sure about IOS.
Maybe it’s because I bought a “gaming” motherboard, but the manual was pretty (for my understanding at least) as to what configuration of m.2 drives and PCIe lanes would run at what version, what went to cpu and what went to chipset.
It's possible that they crash constantly on that person's computer, especially if they have a bad power supply or other hardware. The problem might just be their own.
It’s more about the what the color of the bubble symbolizes. When you see a green bubble, you know you are losing features when communicating with this person - the nice link previews, the reactions to individual messages, threading, mentions, and various other iMessage tie-ins that people have.

In a one-on-one conversation, it’s not the biggest deal…but in a group text it is a massive loss of functionality, enough to make people set up separate group texts with only iPhone users to restore the lost functionality when they don’t need to message the non-iPhone users.
As the article mentioned, managers are dumping management tasks on subordinates (because they themselves are overworked).

I just got a big dose of this at a client I just left (because they were working us way too hard). They have a career track that includes not being a manager but instead a principle engineer or whatever. The managers were punting management work to these principle engineers. People who had already decided they were not managers and were not going to focus on those skills. They were basically forced into it, micromanaged people like crazy, burning everyone out.

This, after rebooting the project a few times because they couldn't get traction. As soon as the project got traction and was getting accolades this happened. Their senior lead developer (at the cusp of being forced into management) left the same time I did. I would be surprised if the project is not in crisis mode soon.
The military made the call that South Korea was not in danger. Same for USA. Whoever in FAA started the call for ground stop should face discipline.

The Karens waving their arms about safety seem addicted to their fear-based adrenaline rush.
Many years ago I had to get formally trained on the whole counter-terrorism thing. It was depressing, because of how obviously broken and compromised it was. You could clearly see that the military had done 99% of the leg-work in developing the SOP, and the bureaucrats poisoned the whole thing with their 1% contribution. Anybody who has done any reading about the activities of the USMC in its first 100ish years knows that this was a solved problem. Anyway, here is the most glaring problem that comes to mind for me (maybe it changed and is a non-issue now, dunno): the process for designating a terrorist group.

1) The group must demonstrate that it holds a disposition to terrorism.

2) The group must possess the means to wage a campaign to that end.

3) Be nominated by the Department of State

Gee... I wonder where this whole thing will not only be totally broken - but eventually twisted in ways that only "conspiracy theorists" could imagine?
A modern dryer uses less than 2 kWh for an 8kg run [0]. That means for those 38 kWh you need to run it daily for almost 3 weeks. Normal usage (let's say twice per week) would lead to ~3 kWh energy consumption.

[0] Siemens WT47R400: 176 kWh / year for 160 cycles by energy label, 1.4 kWh for a full run.
In data science and machine learning you can see this paradox in the fact that no amount of data is enough: once you get enough data to run a simple model, you will want to make the model as complicated as the available data allows and beyond. And you're short on data again.
We can all agree we want clean power, which is entirely in the hands of the suppliers. Rather than pushing one’s preferences around on users and forcing them to do your will, why not go after the Coal and Gas producers — the supply.

People get upset when you want to ban things because it’s a bully move. The bully thinks their opinion is true and correct and others must succumb to their will.
They have their own messaging service, and their client supports two protocols - iMessage and SMS as a fallback in the event the recipient doesn't use iMessage.

iMessage isn't hijacking anything, as it's _not involved with SMS_. It's an entirely separate system from SMS. If you can't use iMessage, then the client uses plain old, non hijacked, non augmented SMS.

The word "hijacking" is being used because it's an aggressive sounding term that makes Apple sound like a bad guy. It's propaganda.
Okay, that is just stupidly wide bandwidth :-). As a systems guy I really don't see the terabytes of bandwidth in main memory coming in the next 5 years. GDDR6, the new "leading edge" is nominally 768GBs, which sounds great but how many transactions per second can you push through a CPU/GPU memory controller? Are we going to see 1152 bit wide memory busses? (1024 bits w/ECC) That is over 1/3 of all the pins on a high end Xeon and you're going to need probably another 512 pins worth of ground return. HBM soldered to the top of the die? Perhaps, that is where GPUs seem to be headed, but my oh my.

I'm sure on the plus side there will be a huge resale market for "combination computer and room heater" :-)
You're talking about extending a database design created 50 years ago to work with models and methods that involve significantly different operations and concepts. Let the RDBMS die so we can make something that is much more powerful and requires less fidgeting and squinting to work the way we want.

RDBMS were a niche research project for a decade before they started to catch on in business apps. They've stayed around forever because they're just functional enough to be dangerous. But we've already hit the upper limits of both reliability and performance years ago (remember NoSQL?) and we just keep bolting on features because nobody wants to leave them. The old designs and implementations are holding us back.
They explained the difference for you in the second paragraph: unless any other system, proof-of-waste systems are uniquely bad because the amount of power used isn't linked to any sort of useful activity — it's just a function of how much competing hash capacity there is in the network. Even something like heating your house to 78℉ is a lower category of waste because you won't increase that to 120℉ or start heating the neighborhood park just because your neighbors matched you at 78℉.

This is also in keeping with tons of existing regulations: you can't buy a monitor which uses 2,000W because various governments have caps for how inefficient you're allowed to be. That's far from perfect — or sufficient to deal with the climate change crisis — but it's not like it's some sort of unprecedented imposition on personal freedoms to cap inefficiency.
Ah I see. But wouldn't that mean that hardware-wise, consumer grade AMD stuff is better than for GPGPU, than consumer grade NVIDIA stuff? With the exception of AI and software support, of course.
Not to mention all these RPG systems add a whole additional layer to mess up -- character stats might not be 'buggy' exactly, but they might be very poorly 'balanced.'

I'm not talking about balance issues. I'm specifically talking about issues where the game is clearly and obviously not working as designed. Clipping errors. Objects flying off into the sky because of problems with collision detection. Textures not loading. NPCs walking facefirst into walls because of buggy pathing code.

I think what's happened is that game development studios' reach has exceeded their grasp. They want to make these huge open worlds with numerous storylines, quests, etc, all with rich graphics and physics, but they just don't have the time or budget to get it right. So they rush out what they have, knowing full well that it has massive numbers of untested corner cases and hope that the PR blowback from the bugs isn't so bad that it ruins their reputation.
Prioritizing profits (capital) over well-being is probably a very strong reason in favor of the labor movement. I am glad that Starbucks is unionizing: more unions for the service industry is desperately required.
They held my number hostage for a while after I switched off iPhone. I think it took months for iPhone users to be able to message my number before it actually started reaching me again.

I think there's a lot of truth to the word "hijacking" here.
Well, I'm up $4 on my PLTR. Glad I hedged against "dystopian surveillance state"
> When you put it all together, that’s a projection of 135.12 TWh in the year, or about as much power as is used annually by the country of Sweden

I don't doubt that bitcoin miners use a lot of energy, but I hesitate to trust a source that doesn't know the difference between power and energy. Also, they're lying about the energy consumption of Sweden, which actually uses 645.7 TW/yr as of 2012 [0]. They number they quote is actually the electricity consumption of Sweden [1], which is like 5x lower.

[0]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=energy+consumption+of+...

[1]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=energy+consumption+of+...
I think this one is going to be entirely subjective. It depends on what you want and what your priorities are.
+1 for encryption. I currently spend money on Standard Notes, but would probably move to this if there was end-to-end encryption.
It's almost as if showy acts of violence/shock don't engender constructive attention.
Finally! This is super useful! I wanted to do stuff like this ten years ago for small code samples but didn't get very far with TikZ. Doing it for equations is even more complicated to get into a pleasent shape, I guess.
The Quebec population is 79.7% fully vaccinated. 50% of the hospitalized population being unvaccinated means the unvaxed are hospitalized at a greater rate, thus, “stressing the hospital system”.
> You can't expect every website on the internet to test on every old version of every browser that any old device might be stuck on.

No, you don't have to. All you have to do is not use modern features without transpilation and expect them to work for everyone. babel + browserlist with sane defaults would have prevented the issue described in the post.
PCIe packets have always had error detection at the DLLP layer.
They have paved all they wanted to, so far. When they want to pave more, they will. Then it will be "only 10%", "only 15%", "only 20%", and on up.
Yes, saw the same when my employers new campus in Santa Clara was built around the same timeframe. Parking was impossible, so people would drive around for a long time wasting fuel to find someone leaving. I settled on working from home the mornings and timing my arrival at lunchtime when spots were available. This of course left people coming back from lunch driving around for a long time. A huge waste.
With SQLite, you can have a simple database set up in a minute.
You’re not suggesting a non-monopolist solution, you’re just suggesting we give a monopoly to someone else (facebook) and abandon the idea a non-proprietary standard that could allow me to have the non-shitty experience with everyone (not just users of my platform) and degrade to sms if needed.
Then you can use a drying rack indoors, as Europeans do... They look like this: https://alittlelifeineurope.com/2017/09/10/in-praise-of-the-...

Electrical resistive heating clothes dryers are an enormous energy hog.
You can't even access your wallet without an API provider. This includes MetaMask.
RDF is a labeled multigraph data model with URI-based predicates as edge labels, where each triple represents an edge. You are right that relational data can be exposed in RDF, just like CSV can be loaded into a graph DB.
It's no mystery, the Reason Foundation is a libertarian think tank. This is the same purposeful omission made previously by The Tax Foundation's "California Considers Doubling Its Taxes" article on the same topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29843784
Thank you! FWIW it has 50 upvotes, so I guess several people liked it. There's a lot of stuff somewhat like this in Dercuano, Derctuo, and Dernocua (http://canonical.org/~kragen/dernocua) and in particular the story of Lao Yuxi in Dernocua is especially similar to it in nature.

I have to say I usually regret commenting here on Character Assassination News, more or less for the reason you say. I think it's an unhealthy, self-destructive habit of mine.

Other recent comments of mine you might enjoy, though some of it is certainly "complaining":

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29327736 (calculating the energy cost of the lowest-tech-possible way to do atmospheric carbon capture, upvoted to 7)

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29880287 (offering a particularly clean formulation of binary search, downvoted to -1)

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28926494 (trying and failing to estimate the relative externalized environmental costs of using a plastic bottle and washing a glass one, upvoted to 20)

4. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29505838 (on the historical development of the "willful infringement" doctrine in patent law, including citations to caselaw and law review articles, and in particular how reading patents can expose you or your employer to treble damages; upvoted to 2 points and flagged)

5. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29697411 (on why metallurgical research is still more or less driven by experiment rather than computation, upvoted to 74)

6. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28660097 (my dismaying epiphany, based on empirical data, that I'm only about three times as fast writing things in Python as I would be in C, despite extensive experience in Python, and that it's often probably not worth the drawbacks. Probably a modern C alternative like Rust would be better; upvoted to 3)

7. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29815027 (on beating SciPy mathematical optimization algorithms on a circuit design problem in under 250 milliseconds with just a list comprehension, unvoted at 1)

8. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29144119 (a list of the biggest unanswered questions in physics today, upvoted to 10)
And the Exim email-server and "bind" DNS server is "decentralized", except everybody uses gmail.com, or even centralized upon AWS.

There's your theory, and there's the practice of the internet and business. In theory, they should be the same. In practice, they're different.
I wonder if combining this idea with some kind of microtransactional currency such as the bitcoin Lightning Network or even a simple Chaumian e-cash system (1) would help to get around the issue of requiring clickbait, advertising and SEO with every single piece of data.

Would be great if providers could offer data in raw form without the overhead of all the gunk that gets them paid.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecash
Get my vaccination card at the entrance to a stadium. Messaging, email, access my NAS at home through my VPN. Download a podcast or audiobook. I mean, the answer to that question is literally "anything except watch videos".

My car has an "unlimited" plan with AT&T, and holy crap, it's worthless. If I actually need to do something, like, now, usually I have to turn off my phone's wifi if the car's on.

And this isn't me modifying my behavior. If I had a habit of watching YouTube or Netflix from all over the place, I'd get a different phone plan. I'm not like penny pinching here. It's just that my current phone plan works, I like how easy it is to administer, and switching providers in a huge PITA for a family of 4, so something else better be damn good.
"A larger toll on empty cars would disincentivize it more."

A larger toll on all cars would disincentivize it just as much.

My point is: why not set the toll at an optimum level, and then let each car owner decide whether it's worth the car driving at a particular time and place?

If we want to charge people based on the contents of the car, why not charge lower tolls for cars with 5 occupants instead of 4. Or lower tolls for cars carrying older or fatter people (who are less able to take public transport)?

It seems to me that road usage prices should be high enough to limit/eliminate congestion and that, if they were that high, there would be no need to discriminate based on what is being carried.
Pretty sure OP meant that they're a minority in terms of market share. The number of Android phones being used is probably 5x that of iPhones.
People forget that Google had a perfectly good messaging service called Google Talk that lived inside Gmail (the biggest product besides the iPhone at that point), interoperated with XMPP and AIM back in 2007, and threw it all away in 2011 as part of their mad dash to make a Facebook competitor in Google+. With Google+, we got Hangouts, which later became a standalone product in 2013 so that they could sunset Google Talk.

If they had just kept iterating on Google Talk and made it similar in functionality to iMessage, they would be in such better shape today. Instead, they’ve thrown away the last ten years on messaging.
> killing people

Only only person died in the 1/6 protest, and it was one of the protesters (shot and killed by a police officer).
Congress doesn’t need to be in that building to certify. How would trump have stayed president? You just glide over that part
Sorry, but D is a good idea and much closer to golang in my book, plus a lot earlier. They just didn't have the funding.
I don't particularly like Chromebooks, but this doesn't seem like a fair characterization. You can put Chromebooks in Developer Mode without needing anyone's permission. You can install Linux on them. You can run Linux programs on them. (Though I don't know for sure that you can run gdb on them.)
Remember, YC and YC startups are actually a VERY small part of the world. It's easy to fall into YC-myopia when posting/reading on here all the time (especially if you live/work on the West Coast, particularly in the Bay area) but there's a much, much, much bigger world out there.

Of course, you might have to ask yourself if you'd ever be OK working for an auto-parts manufacturer in St. Louis, Missouri, instead of a super-sexy "web3" SV-wannabe-unicorn "hot startup"... But seriously though, there's more to the world than that little bubble.
> The Semantic Web never caught on because it's really fucking hard to get right. No companies are investing in making it easier.

I really appreciate this point. I had the opportunity to work on an exploratory project with an experienced ontologist (yes, you really need one of those, I think). The tools were fascinating (reasoners quickly became necessary) but I had the feeling that many of these tools were at a comparatively early stage of maturity.

Trying to explain to people how the system would work was a challenge as it required a primer on theory and application -- we glazed many eyes. The CTO wanted to know if we could use blockchain somehow. Another group addressed a slice of the problem with technologies already in use and that decided the matter.
They are very squeezed on rack space budget in at least some locations.
Thanks, I'd not thought of a minecraft server, most of his friends play it so it could be an option for txt chatting. I'll try spinning one up at the weekend to see how it works.
Yes, Google's most popular service Google Search has no open API if you are willing to pay for it. Why they don't open it up so others can integrate?
And if we had a single payer system the government would never control who got care and who did not receive care....
Did you deregister your number?

https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/
>I can boot into Linux, and swap into Windows in 2 seconds with this setup. I have a dirty 20 line Bash script that deals with detaching the console, and passing the right things to the right place, but it all works.

That's a matter of opinion I suppose, but I don't personally find that passable.

>Using DirectML with Windows Subsystem for Linux gives you better ML GPGPU support then AMDs native tooling.

DirectML sucks even more than ROCm, IMO. Also, WSL sucks more than a normal VM.
The whole “newness” idea seems odd anyway considering electron must be coming on ten years old now.

> The argument for Electron and React Native isn't "it's modern", it's "it's much cheaper".

This is spot on. I’ve worked on a big electron project before for a massive firm and a lot of work was done before picking that direction. Proof of concept was done for a couple of alternatives but electron ended up better on balance.
s/senior management/parenting/

It's striking just how much this comment also describes how I feel as a parent sometimes.
Those do something useful and there's a cap on how much people use: if I put up lights and then my neighbors put up lights, I don't put up twice as many lights so I can out-compete them for carolers and I certainly don't buy another house to put up even more lights. Proof-of-waste effectively requires that of all participants.
For now yeah. Eventually I'd like to support pre transforms or something within dsq itself.
This fantastic article proposes new colorspaces (okhsl, oklab) for color pickers and is worth the read for anyone interested in color: https://bottosson.github.io/posts/colorpicker/

Many similar problems to solve as in the gradient generator, but approached from a different point of view, and with some novel ideas.
>I feel, as I write this on my late 2013 MacBook Pro, that it's powerful enough for most normal activities, read, browse, video calls, work on not too large data sets, etc.

Same with my 2012 MacBook Pro, the last unibody non-Retina version. Would I like a higher-resolution screen? Yes. But otherwise, with a SSD, it's really hard to justify spending thousands for a new Apple Silicon computer (as nice as that would be).
Could you elaborate whether you had a book deal in place before you began writing the (majority of) the book? And, what are your current thoughts on book deals?

I feel this is relevant to OP's situation given that I am assuming he has no such deal in place currently.