skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I tried to submit a package to Hackage, I was asked if I was aware of the packaging guidelines. The person who I emailed to register also inspected my package and told me that my dependencies were wrong and not compliant.

I really don't think this is a scalable approach and was really surprised that someone took the time to check my dependencies personally. My experience may just be rare.

I meant more on the human side than automated. Haskell doesn't have that much to do with formal verification in usual use. I'm not sure what the best policy for a good yet vibrant package ecosystem is.
Thanks very intersting. Actually makes sense what they did. So far it is really a nice alternative, to bing and google.
I've noticed whenever I use Google image search it seems like 90% of the results are Pinterest which I have 0 desire to visit whereas I hardly ever see Pinterest on ddg.
Bitcoin is not decentralized. You need specialized hardware to mine bitcoin and the entry costs are enormous. One CPU one vote is history. As a result there are relatively few miners. Just look at how much bitcoin suffered when countries started banning mining activities. A truly decentralized coin would simply shrug off attempts at regulation because there are so many independent nodes no single country could possibly ban them all. What happened instead is one country banning BTC put a stop to a huge chunk of the network.
It’s probably similar to how planes have red and at links.
“Pay it back”? To whom? QE and national debt aren’t the same thing.
It's not the speculation and scams that are an environmental cost, it's the fact that the Bitcoin network uses more energy than a medium-sized country.
Yes the live upgrade argument was mentioned when I searched for it. So it makes sense in some ways but it surprised me, and I think probably this is an area that can be improved.
I agree with the sentiment, but I think some people might take issue with the suggestion that this was entirely NASA's achievement.
I use DDG regularly and it's pretty well-known on HN, but does anyone know much about these 'private' engines? I can't seem to learn much about them (beyond what they promise on their websites)

* Qwant: https://qwant.com

* Startpage: https://startpage.com

* Ecosia (is it intended to be private in the same way as the others?): https://www.ecosia.org
Bitcoin mining can be easily checked for energy usage and that's the problem.

But do you know how much energy is used for printing money?

Or for agriculture (take into account production of equipment and fertilizer), car production, getting oil from ground into cars?

Or by all ACs in the world (which are just a nice-to-have, just like bitcoin)?
So that more researchers have access. Afaik access is shared and researchers have to make a proposal and get it approved before use, which to me suggests some kind of queue
I regularly practice Aikido since 1989: when I have the chance I always like to practice or check out videos from HEMA(1) because even if most of the weapons are taught differently, I find fascinating both the very common ideas around dagger or unarmed combat, and anyway understanding what the differences are and why these exist is always very interesting.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_European_martial_ar...
Favorites these days?
Do you have any evidence (or even reason to believe) that the retractions were inappropriate?
> On the other hand, Bitcoin provides no meaningful benefit to society compared to other currency.

Decentralization and censorship resistance does not exist in the fiat world. Ask some greek people if Bitcoin was useful to buy food.

Because it's easy for you to open a bank account and have you money secured, it doesn't mean that other people have this luxury.
The True Costs of Polkadot Crowdloans
That’s a fair point. We should be including the cost of pollution and climate change with the price of energy, and if we were, then I’d care a lot less about the energy use for what I consider nonessential.

That is unfortunately not the world we live in though, and probably never will be due to political reasons.
"In AMM, when a new pool is created, the first user who provides liquidity for a particular token pair sets the price of the token in the pool."

https://medium.com/cardwallet/providing-liquidity-what-does-...
Supply, like the number of tokens and the number of tokens available on an AMM, which I mentioned? Also its a made up word.

I accept that this is not a deep dive, but more of some crumbs that people might be interested in following. You are welcome to publish a more comprehensive look at the 'tokenomics'.
So instead of burning the gas they will release it into the atmosphere? Or is there a way to cap it and prevent release?

Methane is apparently 33x worse for warming (over a century) than CO2:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2014/02/methane-burned-vs-me...
I get, on Android mobile in chrome :
First Contentful Paint (FCP) 2.1 seconds, it's ok scores 99 points.

For the medium url I get

First Contentful Paint
3.1 s
Time to Interactive
18.5 s
Speed Index
9.7 s
Total Blocking Time
6,160 ms

Horrible.

Reduce unused JavaScript and defer loading scripts until they are required to decrease bytes consumed by network activity.

Even main.js is guilty.

1.9s there.

Serve images in next-gen formats
1.8 s

And very interesting, why does the following happen.

Avoid multiple page redirects
1.56 s

Reduce the impact of third-party code Third-party code blocked the main thread for 5,660 ms
Minimize main-thread work 15.7 s
Reduce JavaScript execution time 12.3 s

Wow
I went the piracy-way as I used to do during pre-netflix times unfortunately. I understand that disney and hbo probably have various licensing issues in different countries because they already have agreements with local providers for some of their content but this is a problem they have to fix if they want people to pay instead of pirating.
Do you have a measure against the banking system? If you do, then I'd love to see how Bitcoin is worse.
Kind of yes, kind of no.

We've had historically low interest rates for a while, which allows for asset inflation proportional to the reduction in the historical cost to borrow money to purchase those assets, which is not really a bubble, but people associate with bubbles.

Some of these assets are likely valued more than they would be even with higher interest rates, and those are somewhat bubbly.

There are also intermediate examples between these two where things are a little bubbly, but that bubbliness is in part because of a combination of easy access to capital and particular financial instruments/behaviors.
> converted from a set of ambivalent retail traders into an intolerant minority whose focus has shifted from profit to "If we haven't achieved systemic change, we have failed."

> They're the individuals putting their skin in a the game and exposing themselves to harm for what they believe is right. Pay attention.

I'm not familiar with this part of the story. Can you point me to more info? What are the actual goals of the systemic change being pursued, and how is it being pursued?
Where is Igloo for iOS?
“Tackpad”? Certainly the title meant “trackpad”?
The tech will slow down eventually for sure - but just like with phones, the difference between a 2016 and a 2021 phone feels somewhat marginal (I’m typing this on an iPhone 7 running the latest iOS and it's quite snappy and responsive) vs doing the same on a 2011 to 2016 phone the difference would be enormous. Electric cars still feel like they are in the “2011 to 2016” stage.
I don't think that's necessarily the case. For advanced R&D projects like this, it's super difficult to capture all the processes and knowledge the first time around required to build it a second time. I think it would probably be cheaper and faster, but not by such a large amount. Also, given the timeframe of this project, I would estimate that many of the parts may be difficult to obtain again.

There's also the fact that for projects like this, so much is learned along the way that you probably wouldn't even want to build it the same way again, having found better, more efficient, cheaper, etc. ways of doing things.
I was wondering that myself. How much would a second Webb cost? Or three? Or a fleet of smaller ones.

I’m assuming all of this was looked at, just curious what the answers to these questions.

Kudos to the team! Huge accomplishment.
>After all fractional reserve banking has existed since before currency did.

We don't even have fractional reserve banking. There is no reserve ratio, it's 0. Bernanke's own published book states it is only fractional reserve banking when it is required to keep a fractional reserve.
If the home is powered by nuclear power and heated by gas then the extra heat generated from the computer could decrease the usage of gas. It would be a small net positive.
> without any meaningful service costs

Wow, that's bold. Do you mean service cost to the anonymous individual? Or overall service cost? Because if it's the latter, I think you might be very sorely mistaken.
Thinking this through is exactly what I want the conversation to be about. I'll help you out:

[2006] "Counterfeiting of the currency of the United States is widely attempted. According to the United States Department of Treasury, an estimated $70 million in counterfeit bills are in circulation, or approximately 1 note in counterfeits for every 10,000 in genuine currency, with an upper bound of $200 million counterfeit, or 1 counterfeit per 4,000 genuine notes.[1][2] However, these numbers are based on annual seizure rates on counterfeiting, and the actual stock of counterfeit money is uncertain because some counterfeit notes successfully circulate for a few transactions."
(source: https://www.treasury.gov/about/organizational-structure/offi...)

I think Bitcoin representing the totality of USD is infeasible, but there may be some adjustments or optimizations to the transaction costs associated with it that make a new currency seem more reasonable (no less scary, certainly, but fright is an emotion and economics is mathematical).

(edited quote to be more relevant to cryptocurrency specifically)
My guesses:

- due to the time between the start of the project and the end, enough time has passed where there are sufficiently new advances in science/tech/robotics/etc to open up new possibilities

- a second one will probably still cost >10% of the original

- a second one wont yield enough benefit to be worth it

like...the JWST isn't anything like hubble, and can do things that hubble cannot. So it's not like a fleet of hubbles would equal one JWST or something.
I mainly just want to ensure the earth doesn't burn. Yes people should ideally not be overheating their home (could easily be done using smart meters if electric companies weren't incentivised to ignore it) and many other things like reducing fossil fuel usage. Bitcoin consumes massive amounts of energy for basically no benefit except pure money wonkery, which is no benefit at all. It's a net negative in every possible way.
Doesn’t seem too big to cap with a concrete dome rolled in place on rails (similar to the Chernobyl sarcophagus install), with the methane captured and burned off (perhaps even used for electrical generation).
Yes, we're in a bubble, we've been in a bubble for at least the last 10 years.
But the reason why the bubble still hasn't popped is because reserve banks have been propping up the stock market by creating massive amounts of new currency. Stock prices are denominated in fiat currencies so when you talk about a 'crash' you mean relative to fiat currencies... If the value of fiat drops faster than the value of stocks, you won't notice that a crash is happening; it might look like it's all going up.

It's basically similar to what happens in countries which experience hyperinflation; the stocks all seem to be going up relative to the national fiat currency when in reality they are dropping relative to foreign fiat...

But the difference is that because the USD is the world's reserve currency, there is no other fiat against which to measure the loss of value of the USD... So the loss of value is hidden; it will only be revealed when people start selling their stocks and buying real assets with the money; this will drive up consumer prices. The crash will only be experienced as increases consumer prices and possibly also increases in the price of cryptocurrencies. It may also explain why inflation is strongest in the US.
I don't think that's true, people bitch about those services all the time. Everyone that uses FB has a gripe about it. Windows users have been complaining about Windows non-stop for thirty years.

I'm not arguing that people will switch off of those to crappy self-hosted replacements out of sheer spite against megacorps, I'm arguing that they will switch when self-hosted replacements are better and easier to use. Building a self-hosted platform that does what Facebook does more easily and conveniently than Facebook is hard, but IMHO it's easier than building AWS or Salesforce, and it gets easier every year, due to bandwidth and cloud hardware getting cheaper and big tech getting more user-hostile.
Yes, just to emphasize this: in this case "wild carrots" actually means just that. Carrots from the grocery store and Queen Anne's lace are two subvarieties of the same species.
> I suppose that's a reflection of the state of the IRC ecosystem, which is stagnant and slowly dying.

I see it as mature rather than stagnant. I like my client to remain mostly the same over years so it doesn't disrupt me every time a developer changes something.

> Users expect seamless multi device sync, for one. You can achieve a poor facsimile of this with a bnc and a shell account but it's not a great experience.

Ergo (an IRC server) has it built-in: https://github.com/ergochat/ergo/blob/master/docs/USERGUIDE....
Oh ok. That does make sense. Hopefully you read my comment as feedback and not super negative.

Just some verbiage on each test would be wonderful.

You have clearly worked on it. It is a really good resource.
Show me a mid-market up to top end Android phone that isn't made in China...

Yes I know there's a series of specific Samsung models that are approved for US govt use and are likely made in a facility in south Korea.

I think we have two categories of things

A) phones made in China with software/OS load for CCP compliant censorship and data collection

B) phones made in China with software and OS load for the global market (example would be oxygenOS on an English language OnePlus phone. If it turns out there's hidden data collection or censorship frameworks in oxygenOS I would be very disappointed.)
-I guess the brakes need power to be disengaged against a spring force; this is quite common on electric motors in industrial use.

So, power fails? It stops. Quickly.
As long as you have an Apple ID (developer account), you can download Xcode from developer.apple.com (no store), though it is a few clicks to find where they bury release-quality app downloads.
My statement was that the currency (in this example, USD) until 1971 has always been at least partially backed up by something beyond control of any single government (gold). That was the whole reason of Nixon's speech and abolishing gold convertibility on August 15, 1971 [1]. This regime existed since at least Ancient Greece, but probably longer. I have no empirical reason to believe that the currency system of last 50 years is more stable than the one that existed for 2000+ years ( I think substantially longer).

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRzr1QU6K1o
First of all...the supreme court is about to rule on this next week so we'll see if they believe your view reflects the truth or if they believe your view to be off base.

Second of all, If you're born without an immune system...that sucks...but no one's problem but yours. Get a bubble suit, be creative. That's what America's all about.

Concerts and arena sports are still going on daily dispute highest caseloads ever.

People as a whole, have moved past your way of thinking with the manipulative: "what about immunocompromised children and granny" heartstring stuff.

People want to see Coachella or the Lakers and live their lives... despite an immunocompromised child or granny dying.

They aren't going to stand for questionable vaccines and questionable Covid restrictions any longer.

Society wide, for all intents and purposes, Covid is over being the center of people life anymore.
https://old.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/4lzxs3/why_did_a...
Redundancy would be good reason.
If I'm a dev looking at engines to use, would now be the time to jump to Bevy, or is there expected to be significant changes to API and data structures moving forward still?
Catering to how companies want to run their sites is not the answer. The problem about privacy is that, left in the hands of those providing websites (and advertising networks via data brokers and surveillance), nothing would improve. They have to be forced to improve the state of end user privacy.
Suspension is a few hundred plus labor. Prius battery replacement is $1500 plus labor. Paint can be done efficiently at scale in a factory.

Ship the car overseas for the work and labor costs could be quite low.
Or, like, a tarp, but either way you have to worry about the gas going around if you're not capturing it just right.
Try chicken of the woods. It's even more so in my opinion.
Here's where we agree! I'd love better discoverability built in to these products. It'd be a huge boon, personally, at my workplace (that uses Confluence :-().
Show HN: Nvim.sh – Neovim plugin search from the terminal
In Jaboticaba look for a plant with several trunks branching near the root. The trunk is the part holding the fruits so: more trunks, more fruit.

Price in fruit trees is relative. They pay for itself. If you really want one just buy it when is big. Is an expensive investment in terms of time, the sooner you start and the bigger plant, the better.
Family guy has got to me, i keep thinking of James Woods high.
Factors Affecting Software Quality
Also 40% of the Uranium delivered to Europe come from Kasachstan. That's not a reliable source.
Sure, all adults fall under life expectancy from their current age. It’s always a Bayesian statistic. The comment you replied to might be off by ~10 or even ~20 years -- depending heavily on what year and location we’re talking about -- but it’s still a valid point and it has always been true that surviving childhood to be 20 years old gave you a dramatically higher probability of leading a long life. The plot @kqr posted demonstrates this over the last 300 years.
Thank you and noted! I'll be tweaking the search- you're right that it's currently too liberal in what is matched.
Get into a good private tracker. All of the public ones kinda suck
You can have someone else’s interests in mind while still holding your own higher.
Can a tarp withstand the heat currently generated? I suppose any material with high heat resistance, low weight, and not too gas permeable would do. Snuff the fire (once capped, it should naturally burn out from a lack of available oxygen), pump and productively burn the gas.
So I guess the answer would be 5 then. 7 & 13 = 0b0111 & 0b1101 = 0b0101 = 5
Everyone wants a taste of that sweet sweet snake oil.
I'm confused, is the problem counterfeit currency, or counterfeit goods? Because if latter, I don't see how crypto is relevant, and if former it does not seem like such a huge problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfeit_United_States_curr...
how about a blacklist browser extension, and like pi-hole, simply share lists of bad domains to omit from search returns.
Hey, Thanks for reading!

I'm not sure. I got a return offer to intern again for summer 2022. But I ended up taking an internship at Amazon instead. Mostly because I want to try new things and see what it's like to develop at a big company without all the red tape and just in a new environment.

But I can't say that it's completely out of the realm of possibility for me to come back. I think it would largely depend on the team. If I did come back, it'd be cool to work with one of the Cloud teams.
UUIDs are integers, they just happen to be 128 bits long instead of the more common 32 or 64, and they are usually printed in a specific way that differs from how integers are usually printed. But that's just smoke and mirrors.

UUIDs are generally not guaranteed to be universally unique. The name is misleading marketing.

If you generate them randomly, then the probability of collision is small enough not to matter, but the more you introduce deterministic elements, like generating them sequentially, the more your probability of collision increases.
Uhhh, if the lobbyists run the government then in a way it’s the same thing.

Also, nobody is talking about twitter.

Finally their intent is the same. To control what I say and do. It is only anti US because I don’t want the US to slide down the slippery slope it’s going down, and I’m allowed to be critical of it in hopes it doesn’t end up similar to China.
In terms of GDPR/privacy, is there any issue when posting private data to a 3rd-party server (i.e. webhooks) vs having that 3rd-party query your server? Or can you just say that once a secure webhook subscription is established you are off the hook (pun not intentional)?
Looks like several other HN readers have had the same lack of drama with Brother lasers that I have.
Surely, it can take pics during this time with suboptimal cooling.

Probably hard to resist the temptation:)

There might be good engineering reasons to experiment early, like testing comms systems etc
A snapshot is a the entire state of a program at a single moment in time. Continuations are basically exposed snapshots, i.e. taking a snapshot, storing it in a variable, doing some work, and then 'calling' the snapshot to return to an earlier point. Continuations allow you to implement a naive version of single-shot delimited continuations - coroutines! This can be very useful for modeling concurrency.

Aside from coroutines and continuations, snapshots are neat for distributed computing: spin up a vm, take a snapshot, and replicate it over the network. You could also send snapshots of different tasks to other computers to execute. In the context of edge computing, you could snapshot the program once it's 'warm' to cut back on VM startup time.

Snapshots allow you to peek into your program. Imagine a debugger that takes snapshots on breakpoints, lets you to inspect the stack and heap, and replay the program forward from a given point in a deterministic manner. You could also send a snapshot to a friend so they can run an application from a given point on their machine. If you do snapshots + live reloading there are tons of other things you can do (e.g. live patching and replaying of functions while debugging).
Do you have issues with Google/Gmail's policies etc or are you moving to a different host for other reasons?

I run my business emails on Google Workspace because the price is right, but I've spent a fair amount of time considering a move due to their invasive scanning etc.
If you live in Texas that level of range is a pretty hard requirement. Going outside of Houston or the 35 arterial of DFW/Austin/San Antonio still requires that level of range. The rural fast charging infra is coming along, but still not where it needs to be to comfortably drive an EV to a lot of Texas without some careful planning.
Bitcoin hasn't replaced the banking system though, nor could it (or should it). A crypto backed finance industry would be a libertarian hellscape of consumer abuse.
> certain defined conditions like interstates in good weather.

That’s where it is for me. I’ve been around the world and driven in all conditions. I don’t buy blinding whiteout snow, other drivers (Michigan esp)… without vehicle to infrastructure and to vehicle, I don’t buy it.

I think the solution to both our topics is it’ll be “mostly self driving”, maybe that only helps a little for liability.