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look, I have read it. I know what the plot is, I know the "justification". I just linked the danluu review because it's a thorough dissection.

other than quirrel, the hpmor characters do not have their own lives, they are pure foils for the self-insert protagonist. they behave in stupid ways to make the plot happen and to make the protagonist look smart. harry and quirrel are like a pair of orbiting black holes; they distort the fabric of the narrative around them so that every direction points towards how "smart" and "awesome" they are.

dumbledore is written as a senile idiot. this is indisputable: "this is your father's rock". yes, there's a payoff to it, no, it doesn't make him less of a senile idiot.

worm is superior in every way despite being rushed, because a) most characters have rich enough internal lives that they could be main characters of their own stories (because they were in discarded drafts), b) the protagonist does both awesome and unhinged things without being an annoying author self-insert, c) it doesn't purport to teach the reader science and then get it wrong.

and worm is just a YA novel, it's not highbrow literature. the last novel I read was Master and Margarita ... go read that I guess. even an uncultured dipshit like me can tell you it's on a whole other plane of quality entirely.

this will be my last reply since I'm in the rate-limit sin bin.
The automation isn't there yet. The LCS class, among others, was designed with heavy automation for reduced crew size (as crew costs are the largest component of a ship's costs over its lifetime), but it turns out that they simple carry too few people to do all the maintenance required. In addition, there's also been concerns with damage control capabilities with smaller crew sizes.

As to your second question, larger ships simply have better economies of scale. Larger generators, more missiles, bigger radars, etc. If you could quantify capability, larger ships have more capability points per dollar. (On the other hand, you sometimes don't need all that capability, and there's always more missions to be done, so a cheaper ship can be more cost effective even if it's less efficient.)
One of my favorite rappers, Nas, is selling royalty rights to his songs as NFTs[0]. I think selling NFTs as if they were trading cards is silly, but what Nas is doing? I think that's actually pretty cool. Thoughts?

0: https://www.nme.com/news/music/nas-to-sell-royalty-rights-to...
Exactly. 1M fewer people will be in poverty from student loan debt
As much as it sounds like an overreacting CYA tactic, it does at least have the side effect of creating safe spaces.

I might find the intentions dubious, but I can't argue with the results.
Remember, 99% of the time someone doesn't like copyleft, it's because they want to use someone else's free work in their own non-free thing.

> However, this hasn’t really worked: most vendors of cloud software simply refuse to use AGPL-licensed software, and either use a different implementation with a more permissive license, or re-implement the necessary functionality themselves, or buy a commercial license that comes without the copyleft clauses.

If that's what happens, then I don't see how any other license could do any better.
Sweden has, and it's stupid.
This is confusing the law with the system.

The peons exist within the system. The system allows them to ignore mask mandates. It doesn't allow them to issue fewer than the implicit quota number of citations that generate government revenue. The system punishes them for enforcing the law against politically connected people, which keeps bullshit laws on the books because they only get used against poors and dissidents. The system cares more that cases are closed than that suspects are guilty, because "percent prisoners who are actually guilty" is hard to measure and isn't one of the system's target metrics.

The peons can't change these things. The ones who try get punished and lose promotions.

We have to fix the laws. And the social factors that cause the incentive for violent behavior to exceed the deterrent effect of law enforcement.
i flagged this article. there is no new or intersting information. it is an opinion piece on a well-known subject both sides have thoroughly voiced their opinions on. regardless, the article itself is barely coherent and i dont even detect a running theme.

im a crypto hater and id rather this not be here.
Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab but feared discussions
I never knew about CHAOS records. I'll have to look more into them. Thanks for the info!
What percentage of total cumulative cryptocurrency volume is exchanged using PoW rather than PoS?

The PoW market share is and historically has been pretty massive so I don't think it's hugely disingenuous or through a complete lack of understanding that the two are conflated.
I have a bridge to sell you. It's an unbelievable deal for anyone, but I don't think you're ready for it.
>I suspect we'll see a tipping point soon (if we haven't already) where more minutes of time are spent watching content produced on an iPhone vs an expensive film camera.

Counting Youtube/TikTok/whatever, this must have tipped years ago.
OK, that's fair. I am actually curious though about your take on the sanctions. Do you have any resources to recommend for reading up on this SWIFT system and the SPFS alternative? And does this imply that Europe and China will side with Russia against the US?
Not significantly vs say Canada, especially when you factor in costs being much lower in Canada too. For instance, OBGYNs have to pay up to $200K per year in medical malpractice insurance in the US, vs a maximum of $40K CAD in Canada.

However, I have nothing against lowering physician salaries from Lambo to BMW if it means everyone is covered. This is not a position I shy away from.

Further, if 10% of houses burned down each year because firefighters were being paid $10M in salary, would we shrug and say that salaries are just higher here? How about if 10% of the US landmass was undefended because everyone in the army made $500K. I would hope not.
Don't be sad. You realizing that your emotions get in your way is already half of the solution.
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To me, NFTs reek of crypto FOMO. It's like a manifestation of all of those who missed out on the Bitcoin wave, and all of those who want a second version of the Bitcoin wave. The concentrated desire of those two groups create a reality distortion field around NFTs being cool and valuable.
> The much bigger question, though, has less to do with these emergent upstarts in our informational world and more to do with humanity’s overall trajectory. Any species that endlessly grows, and continually invents energy-hungry processes, may not be destined for a happy ending.

Unless energy consumptive processes lead you off-world for more resources. I'm surprised that the author, an astrobiologist, doesn't see a more open ended future.
>And whose fault is that?

The universities were happy to take the money, from the elite-but-useless private schools to the underfunded but more practical public engineering colleges. Only changing the incentives will change the results.
Traditional cameras--and the more traditional you get the truer this probably gets--have been fairly, well, terrible is probably not too overstated in software. One could probably make nationalistic--or at least industry related--comments related to that but I won't. (BTW I have significant Canon and Fuji systems.) It's also probably the case that the buyers of those cameras were traditionally fine with software that was pretty hands-off.

But, yes, if you combined APS-C Fuji, say, with the software available in an iPhone you'd have a really impressive instrument and presumably we'll get there some day.
Generally the deciding factor has been birth control. The more birth control is available and accepted as a choice, the more women choose to postpone their first child, which automatically leads to having fewer children.
Show HN: Apply for a job through SSH, $ ssh jobs.hackclub.com - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27189288 - May 2021 (109 comments)
It's not really feasible to put some advanced heat shield on every surface of a missile, plane, or ship.
> But I'm always skeptical when underlying language choice is featured prominently as a selling point for any new project.

> It tells me, this is a technology-first, users-second enthusiast project.

> And thus, I'll be surprised if it tackles the deepest issues users need solved.

Some of the deepest issues that users need solved are ones that Rust was designed to solve at the language and compiler level.

1. System stability and memory efficiency, zero or fewer crashes due to memory-safety or thread-safety problems.

2. Security and assurance via the elimination of entire classes of attack vectors like buffer overflows.

3. Highly performant, responsive applications that are a joy to use.

Solving problems at the compiler level eliminates the reliance on fallible programmers to do so. People also tend to discount maintaining those solutions over years of dev team turnover, startup failures, etc. Building those solutions, capabilities, and constraints into the language itself makes maintenance over the entire product lifecycle more consistent.

It's like buying a Toyota, you know from the brand alone that you're getting a certain baseline level of reliability, maintainability, durability, and longevity. Rust is like the Toyota of programming languages - it can produce many different types of cars/programs, but they're all guaranteed to come with a baseline level of assurance, and to eliminate common classes of problems that degrade the end-user experience.

It may not make sense for other languages to be prominently featured as a selling point, but Rust is an exception.
Yes, these are items that are in limited supply that people would like to keep as memorable items. It makes a lot of sense, even if the market has been a bit inflated at times.

These collectibles have a high price tag for highly graded classic games that are in high-demand.

The biggest questions are the grading criteria, but that exists for most collectibles.
It's all built on historically low (or even effectively negative) interest rates. We've been in a crazy low rate environment since 2008 and COVID pushed the money printing into overdrive. When inflation eventually forces interest rates to be raised a lot of these crazy bubbles are going to pop almost instantly.

The alternative, a deflationary depression, would probably have been a lot more painful and destructive. Instead of mass defaults and cascades of bankruptcies we get million dollar ape doodles.
Traveling through Paris in 1989 I met a guy who had a terminal at his place, and explained to me what a boon it was for gay guys to meet up with each other, socialize, and make friends. I have no doubt that gay men partly drove Minitel adoption (along with other technologies like group phone chat lines, dating apps, and so on).
Bitcoin Miner Laptop Should Earn $1 in 584M Years
> All I can say about stopping crypto-currency, is good luck. The Crypto Stasi or whatever oppressive mechanism that would be needed to actually snuff it out will have to shoot me in the head to make me stop. I'd happily keep trading and mining crypto from cellphone smuggled up someone's ass into the prison or whatever else is needed to keep the system going.

What an utterly bizarre attitude.

Also, you do realize if what you describe is what it takes to keep cryptocurrency going; it would be actually, really dead-dead, despite you and a few hold outs trading it from prison ass-phones forever and keeping the technical infrastructure barely alive? To put it in crypto-terms: at that point Bitcoin will be a Shitcoin.
I remember one of my friends wanted to do an NFT of some sort and i jokingly remarked "I'll paypal you 10€ and I'll pretend I own something"
You misunderstood my argument. I'm not comparing NFTs to video games for ownership purposes, but it's "contribution to society."

The statement that NFTs "have no societal or cultural value" has been historically attributed to video games and other forms of leisurely/fun activity. It's a bad argument.
There are different problems with 3D printing than with classical subtractive manufacturing. E.g. you need to get the supporting powder out of long thin passages in the cooling chamber - you don't have such problem with milling machine approach.
Treating every project as if it's in emergency mode is a great way to burnout the team and get shoddy work results.

Another idiotic practice is multitasking since context switching introduces tons of overhead.

And tying it all together, the importance of a project determines its resources. A truly critical task needs 100% focus. If a manager isn't willing to assign a full-time employee to a task, then that project isn't critical.
This typo/oversight/error/whatever shows the depth of misunderstanding the author has about the subject he or she writes. People of hacker news will still love the content, but nobody outside of this bubble will view this as an honest criticism.

If you want a truly great critique from a person who REALLY understands, read Moxie Marlinspike: https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html
And most NFT's are just links that aren't embedded on the blockchain that could go away tomorrow or be switched to something else without any warning.
>following this terrible plan

Same reason PLAN is building aircraft carriers which may very well be obsolete against peer adversaries but still useful to overmatch less capable powers aka basically everyone except US and PRC. Of course also a side of big dick energy prestige. Realistically current PLA strategy for US surface combatants and capital assets is a fuck of load missiles from land and plane, of which hypersonics is just one type. That said recent developments posted on SCMP, i.e. info PLA wants world to know suggest sufficient development in IR sensors that optical/terminal guidance without complex kill chain is possible. Combined with claim:

>“With effective hypersonic precision strike weapons, the critical value of ‘strategic depth’ in traditional warfare will no longer exist. All the critical political, economic and military assets of a country will be at risk.”

And another recent PRC reveal of AI assistance calibration to produce magnitude improvement in accuracy and I think PRC (as well as US) are pushing hard on prompt global strike capabilities which IMO is much more significant capability than anything proposed for force on force combat in future air and naval platforms. A fleet of conventional hypersonic ICBMs with accuracy/CEP measured in meters is basically conventional MAD. It guarantees PRC (or US) can sink each others expensive Navy's or other assets as long as they spend more than 30 minutes stationary, which is everything that needs maintenance. Stockpile of PGS hypersonics is potentially an end military hegemony capability. One that could also proliferate to smaller powers with time.
Commercial aviation makes up 918 million metric tons of carbon.

Bitcoin mining makes up 22 million metric tons.

I'm less worried about NFTs than I am air travel.
No reflective material is perfectly reflective, and any scratches or soot or whatever will increase the amount of heat transferred from the laser to the missile. Heat shields are more effective, but it's unlikely that missiles can carry enough to resist lasers while still remaining effective, similarly to how missiles could carry armor against CIWS, but then they'd be too heavy.
Ask HN: What's most annoying about using AI assisted completions?
I've been reading about extensions such as Tabnine and Copilot, which claim to give you ai assisted completions.

Those of you who use these extensions, what do you find most annoying about using them?
NTF's aren't on Bitcoin. They're on Ethereum which is switching over to PoS.
I only have one thing to say here: “Smarten up Nas” Jay-Z, Takeover, The Blueprint (2001)
Reminds me of when a plumber was installing an RO system in my house, was swearing for half an hour about the PEX, then forgot to shut-off the lines while a PEX fitting fell off and poured 200 gallons of water on my crappy fake wood shaw floor causing it to ripple. He then claimed it was my condos fault for using PEX in the first place. Holy crap you can't be more right.
The specifics of this pushback don't seem that strong to me. FTA:

1. "standard method of inferring miners’ collective electricity use from the “hash rate” of networks relies on guessing what kind of mining equipment did the hashing."

2. "The energy-consumption profile of cryptocurrencies leans toward stranded energy and renewables"

#2, in particular, is completely irrelevant to how much energy is used - it's just hand waving and saying that some of the energy is renewable. Pushback #1 is just saying there are assumptions about miner efficiency in the energy use estimates - valid point, but it's not really a pushback, just the explicit statement of an assumption the analysis makes.

These do not strike me as particularly powerful arguments, especially since one of them (#2) is irrelevant to the question at hand: how much energy does crypto use?
NFTs aren't the content and you should not conflate them.
Roman Empire was a direct continuation of the Roman Republic (indeed, for most people living at the time, they didn't even perceive it as a breaking point). It's certainly not a valid date for the "founding of Rome".
Cancelling student debt by itself is a stupid and fundamentally unsustainable idea. I’d be open to the idea if it was a one-time thing, coupled with an immediate abolition of subsidized student loans, making private student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy, or allowing lenders to make loans conditional on what you majored in. Just cancelling student debt by itself without fixing the root cause of the problem is just a one-time generational wealth transfer; millennials acting like boomers.
I mean his only goal is to stay in power. If you "match to Kyiv" - you are guaranteed casualties and it's not going to help him with his ratings - now you have poor people with dead relatives. Russian army/people can fight well - but so can Ukrainians and Chechens - but there is zero motivation for the ordinary Russians to fight at the moment. He will always send private military groups but there is only that much you can do. There is no ideology to fight for, no grand ideas, no grand leader - a bunch of crooks living in palaces with their offspring living in London/Paris/Florida mansions.

Syria was easy - fighting against people with no modern weapons. But when Turkey shot down Russian jet - what was the reaction? It was a joke. How about helping Armenia recently with all "Collective Security Treaty" agreements? Nothing, again!

So Russia backs down against Turkey's aggression on a fair "casus belli" but is going against NATO on Ukraine? Please.

A strong leader has a strong country behind him - Putin's Russia is not, it is mostly frustrated population with weak economy and not much hope for the bright future. And whatever Putin is doing is not good for Russia, not improving its economy and not improving lives of ordinary people but doing exactly the opposite.

Putin is all about propaganda, illusions, dreams and nightmares - he knows propaganda works and he pumps billions into it. The reality will hit hard if he believes (or will believe) in his own picture of the world.

Putin, Lukashenko, Nazarbaev - their only agenda is to stay in power. There is no crime they will not do for this. If it means gas chambers - we are going to get gas chambers. Unfortunately this is the new reality of this era. But the good news is - they are old and don't understand or appeal to the younger generations. There is still a chance.
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This is reason for suspicion but not for blanket dismissal. If you dismiss every self-interested argument you miss a lot.
Unless their inaction is directly affecting your ability to adequately handle your responsibilities, I would mind my own business.
I recently went through two interview loops at big tech companies and the DSA questions are not very hard. The typical question starts super easy and then layers on more complexity as time and skill allows. If you are nervous about interviewing because of that, just try a few "easy" leetcode questions or the first ~5 days of advent of code, it really is about that level. Don't be intimidated, you do NOT have to be perfect to get an offer. If you know what a priority queue/heap is you will be fine. Yes practice, but don't slack on preparing for the 1-2 system design interviews and 1-2 behavioral interviews (for senior candidates). System design especially I personally think is way harder because it's (typically) candidate driven and there's no fixed finish line, just tradeoffs and more tradeoffs.
There is a lot we don’t know about the deep ocean that could potentially be useful for our current problems. I’m sure there are billions of species of bacteria down there that survive in a much different environment than the surface that could potentially be used to fix things up here. My girlfriend is studying bacteria that live off of sulfur instead of oxygen. Imagine one that can be replicated super fast to eat plastic and put out O2. Who knows. We’ll never know if we kill them.
Possession is nine-tenths of the law. If nobody can take it from you, you "own" it, and everything else follows from that. "It" being: your crypto identity bound to some metadata.
They are all posted on https://github.com/hackclub/v3/tree/main/components/jobs
Among the most popular blockchain networks right now, only Bitcoin and Ethereum and their forks (including code forks like Dogecoin and Litecoin) are still using proof-of-work. And Ethereum is moving away from it.

After Ethereum migrates to proof-of-stake, of the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market cap, only Bitcoin, Dogecoin and Tether (which is a multi-chain stablecoin) will operate on proof-of-work networks.

https://coinmarketcap.com/

Alternatives to proof-of-work are no longer "future" tech.
Life at 800 MHz
Say nothing. It shouldn't matter to you what they are or are not doing. You do work, you get paid. That's all that's relevant to you.

I do understand why you find this frustrating, of course – most people would. But I can't see anything good coming out of you bringing this up – how would you even go about doing that?
> 3. A signal of good taste.

Or, given the current crop of popular NFTs, the lack thereof.
So don't merge their forks?
> A leap second is over in a second.

The problem isn't one where you hold your breath and squeeze your eyes shut for a second while the unpleasantness passes. The problem is when you have tons of code running and you don't know exactly how it'll deal with this very rare event.

If you're faced with an upcoming leap second there are various ways of dealing with it. One way is to do an audit of the code and hope that you can verify the most important parts. Another way is to smear and hope that most programs won't be negatively affected by reported seconds being 0.00001s off.

There are other options, but I don't think there's an "obviously correct way".
It's just a matter of time before someone wins an Oscar for best cinematography and does it using a couple thousand dollars worth of equipment.

Recently Finneas won the Grammy for best engineered album (for his sister Billie Eilish's album), and he did everything except the very final mastering on equipment that cost less than a typical car. Including recording vocals and some acoustic instruments in their parents' house.

The recording industry isn't that different from the film industry, where most things are done on ridiculously expensive equipment. But it is increasingly unnecessary.
What benefit does he have selling it via NFT vs something like ebay?