skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is anyone on HN reconsidering having children because of climate change? Recently I've had a big shift myself on this topic, probably influenced by not many women my age (younger than 30) having any interest in bringing a child into a world where they could potentially suffer real physical danger due to climate change.
Facebook complies with most foreign government law enforcement requests.
I realize that, it just put the entire software industry into perspective for me. We are building products for users that can afford to interface with them, and even then, it's not a guarantee that you're gonna get a great experience.

Here's to hoping that neither you or I ever become that irrelevant, because that doesn't look like a pretty existence to me.
Have you ever used an old flashlight in the 80s or 90s?

As AA charge fell, the light got dimmer and dimmer. Today, we have devices that do the exact _OPPOSITE_, pulling the last bits of electricity out of the cells through boost-converters or whatnot (boost converters existed back then, but weren't as efficient or cheap as today).

Consumers demanded consistent and reliable performance no matter if at full-battery charge or nearly empty. People preferred their devices to suddenly "shut off".
Indeed, and one major change that's taken place in the last few years is that Energizers are now as leak-prone as Duracells. Likely true of other brands as well. The only way to win the alkaline battery game is not to play.
Very cool! Thanks for the details. I love Kicad. I presume your designs are not open source? But I am curious which cameras/sensors you are using, and any other chip specifics you can share.
Isn't that what the vents holes are for?
Harsh comments for a pretty impressive page, in my opinion.
That article is not convincing. The X- and Y-axes change in those plots, producing a misleading animation. Also, all plots clearly show warming trends that are accelerating.
Bet.
Is this something that can run in browser Workers via wasm or other means?

Most of CSS OM is already implemented in Javascript which can come in handy for this project:

https://github.com/NV/CSSOM

https://github.com/jsdom/cssstyle

(both of which jsdom use internally. cssstyle is a kind of updated version for some parts of CSSOM)
Very nice! Always great to see these new tools, especially if they can speed up build times.
I believe the intent is to not be a perfectionist (like me) and, instead, publish things that might below one's level of perfection. It's likely that's more than good enough, and is ultimately better than not publishing them at all.

I don't think he's saying anything about self-promotion? I believe many folks have the opposite problem: not promoting themselves, often because they think their stuff isn't very good.
This. The entire global economy ran into a solid brick wall all at once and we came out of it with single-digit inflation and a shockingly mild recession. Thus far, modern economic policy seems to have had a big win here.
LINE, despite being a Korean company (AFAIK) doesn't seem to have gotten traction in its home country as it has in Japan and elsewhere in Asia.

Kakao utterly dominates the market for messaging there (as it does amongst the international Korean diaspora). Even government services use it.
CPI is a survey-based methodology and captures how people actually spend their money. If something becomes rare and expensive and people curtail their consumption of it, that is itself a useful signal. If something becomes common and inexpensive and people buy a lot more of it as a result, also a useful signal.

Home purchase price was taken out of CPI-U in 1983 (and CPI-W in 1985) and replaced with an owner-equivalent rent measure that gets at the cost of consumption of shelter (the service that housing provides).

Tl;dr: Housing expenses were not removed; house purchases were (and replaced with a rent-equivalent measure).
This is very true. My rent is pretty much the same as it was in 2010 because I’ve done this.
Yes, like it or not that's practically how the internet works.

You don't believe Facebook actually deletes your messages, do you?
that was awesome! Mind sharing the program encoded in the song?
> great word BTW

Thanks, but not mine. At one time I used to read Indymedia, an open-posting forum. There were a lot of pretty conspiraloonatic posts, often about 9/11 and "chemtrails". This was the early noughties. The word's been around a long time.
i think old opera's session restore left everybody in the dust. i think opera was the fastest and best browser for a long long time.
Well, obviously, this is almost a metaphor, as it's a stretch to literally apply the term Rule of Law to something as sketchy as the dark web. Also, note that I did not use something like "Law and Order", as that can have a pretty unpleasant meaning.
> The question for me would be whether this is truly a drop-in replacement for either disk or RAM

a single device would not be a drop-in replacement of both RAM and SSD for today's computers. fundamental assumptions are made at the architecture level of today's computers which preclude RAM and bulk storage being anything but separate.

a replacement for one or another could be possible for today's machines, though. or both, if you have two devices with the correct connectors. but not both if they share address space.

what does it mean for an operating system, or even an application, to "start up" when all that really means is moving data to RAM so it can be accessed quickly enough?

when storage and RAM do finally converge, there will be no "boot" process in the conventional sense. you will power the device up and it will be ready instantly; everything is already "in RAM" the instant power is applied.
That's not a particularly compelling analysis. Order of magnitude, release candidate are common terms, especially in a technical or software context.

writing monolithic code is something most Devs are guilty of.

No mention of PayPal in Satoshi's writing, now that's just clutching at straws
From my experience, RLM is one option that is widely used for this. FlexLM is another one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reprise_License_Manager

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlexNet_Publisher
A couple questions:

- if a “defi” currency swap is happening between two parties, how is it performed without a centralized application making the trade?

- if there is in fact a centralized application making the trade, who owns it and how are they making money?
+1 for PostHog!
I used that and got my money back when a shipping didn't arrive.

Also the quality and honesty of the sellers on the quantity they're selling you is great.
It's beautiful to see how the market and a reputation system can work wonders, even among strangers with anonymised identities.

The street experience equivalent is terrible. A friend of mine (who self medicated in one of the western totalitarian regimes who prohibit weed) got a bag of tea, tissues smelling like weed, he got a knife pulled on him, he got scammed in an elaborate plot which involved him keeping a bag of flour (supposedly coke) while the dealer supposedly went to get his weed for a 50, he had homeless dragging him to a gang of criminals under the pretence of buying weed. Eventually he found someone reliable, a middle aged father with a stable but low paying job and a family - but it's a miracle he's still alive.
Oh dear. Another allegedly censorship resistant platform, and where do they put their code? On the most censored and censorable place possible, github. It's just one DMCA complaint away from being taken down, or Microsoft may decide to just lock out some or all of the developers.
Well "accidental release or natural event? I am 70:30 or 60:40." sounds like Mike Farzan thought it quite likely. And

>Before I left the office for the ball, I aligned nCoV with the 96% bat
CoV sequenced at WIV. Except for the RBD the S proteins are
essentially identical at the amino acid level – well all but the perfect
insertion of 12 nucleotides that adds the furin site. S2 is over its
whole length essentially identical. I really can’t think of a plausible
natural scenario where you get from the bat virus or one very similar
to it to nCoV where you insert exactly 4 amino acids 12 nucleotide
that all have to be added at the exact same time to gain this function
– that and you don’t change any other amino acid in S2? I just can’t
figure out how this gets accomplished in nature. Do the alignment
of the spikes at the amino acid level – its stunning. Of course, in the
lab it would be easy to generate the perfect 12 base insert that you
wanted. Another scenario is that the progenitor of nCoV was a bat
virus with the perfect furin cleavage site generated over
evolutionary times. In this scenario RaTG13 the WIV virus was
generated by a perfect deletion of 12 nucleotides while essentially
not changing any other S2 amino acid. Even more implausible IMO.

from Bob Garry sounds like he also thought it quite likely. Source https://republicans-oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2...
> The underlying mistake is thinking about this like a game where you can make up rules for the government to follow.

Thanks for describing that error so clearly and succinctly. It's one of those fundamental misconceptions that's depressingly common.

Don't assume you've defeated the them because they haven't cared enough to come after you.
oh god. Could you imagine someone actually using this to write a real program?? Get it into production? oh, my eyes are bleeding....
Okay, so now you’ve downloaded the entire chain. Does that seem safe to have in your possession in this scenario? Even if I have the storage, I would not want to find out that someone else had uploaded something illegal when the police search my computer/phone and I have to prove to their satisfaction that I didn’t know.

If you don’t download the entire chain, your traffic connecting to certain nodes and downloading certain sizes can be enough to track you - there are academic papers about using this to figure out what movies you’re watching over HTTPS – and that’s assuming that you don’t learn the hard way that the fast server with all of the underground content is the secret police’s honeypot.

This is all probably moot in any case because it’s tricky to build something like this which never does DNS resolution, connects to a suspicious server, etc. The average user is going to have a very hard time avoiding mistakes like that, and that’s assuming you don’t have police informants encouraging unsafe opsec or use of treacherous apps — real things which happen to dissidents and activists all over the world. Remember Citizen Lab’s report on the use of NSO’s malware to go after supporters of a soda tax?

What bothers me most about cryptocurrency proponents are that most of the claims are being made by people who will not personally suffer the consequences of being wrong if someone follows their advice. If you care about people in dangerous legal environments, that really needs to focus on changing the system rather than advocating use of electronic systems which even experts cannot use safely in those environments.
MIT is one step ahead of you, they already ding faculty with NSF GRF students extra overhead because ostensibly the NSF fellow is there for MIT's brand and not the professor's research.
Well, the birds aren't going to fix climate change.

I can't speak for the women you know, but the women I know in their 20s-30s tell me they aren't thinking about children at all probably thanks to the empowerment of women of the last 100 years.

Over my life, I've heard all kinds of excuses for all people to not consider children until they are in their late 30s or 40s, then it's a rush. I did the same.

I'm not sure it's climate change.
The irony of this is that the people who care about the wellbeing of the planet enough to question having children due to climate concerns are the ones who really should be having children. They are more likely to raise them to be conscious of issues like this, to look for solutions, and to minimize their impact.
If languages like this pain you, they're performing as designed.
I love the creativity. Not sure how appreciative an old crusty judge would feel though
Consumer spending has gone down. Too many dollars cannot be the problem if they aren't being spent!

You might say "oh, well the rich are bidding up gas and food prices, poor people can't afford and ummmm drive and eat less". It sounds silly and it should but even if that were happening, and was the sole causal factor, it would mean the food and gas markets were not clearing, and that is clearly also not happening.

And even if that were happening the sellers would be being irrational. For surely they would lower prices after the rich were fed and gassed up so they could sell the remainder of their goods, and make more money. (the profit rate would go down but the total profits would go up.)

No matter how you cut it, the Monetarist story is false and ridiculous given the evidence.
Maybe the futurist should not hold real estate at all - keep wealth in stocks and rent and let the landlords place their bets on chaos theory.
How could the congressman influence the recording permit process? What new car goes for 10k?

I believe you it is bad but that sounds like your friend is spreading a tall tale.
As I predicted around 2018, most or all analytics/events products will eventually move to ClickHouse or related technology (forks).

Plausible: ClickHouse

PostHog: ClickHouse

Panbelbear: Clickhouse

https://pirsch.io/: ClickHouse.

PD: I should have a blog or something where I put this predicts :)
Right. I don't think anyone else in this thread really said that it had something to do with proprietary vs. open source or even very much to do with free-as-in-beer vs. costly.
Let's say instead of 'copyrighted file' it's CSAM material instead. Is it 'illegal'? Maybe you can convince a judge otherwise.... after your home has been raided, you've already done at least some time in jail where all the inmates know you've been arrested for CSAM, your friends & family know you've been arrested for that, that's what comes up under a Google search for your name for all time, thus making you unemployable.....

Yes, after spending $500k-1 million on a defense attorney, it's possible that you could convince a judge that that content isn't 'illegal', sure. (How many judges- average age over 60- can learn what a 'striped raid' is?) But none of those other consequences can be reversed, even if you 'win' at trial
If you look at the linked article you'll find, right under the headline:

> David Colombo says it's the owners' faults, not an infrastructure vulnerability.

So, to answer your question, yes someone did bother to check.
I don't have any problem releasing stuff under permissive licenses like MIT.

What you shouldn't do is have unrealistic expectations about the software you release. If you give stuff away for free, expect that you're giving it away for free. If people ask for free support, and you don't want to give it, be prepared to tell them so. Also, don't expect that there is any unwritten expectation for anything in return.

Your license is your agreement with your users. If it doesn't outline what you want, you picked the wrong one.

I'd use GPL if I wanted to expend the effort trying to force people to contribute to my projects. But that isn't always the case.
Does this mean I should sell more often in the morning than in the afternoon?
Yeah I agree, that's not what I'd consider good variance rules either.

I guess my point was more about the reasons behind these weird rules. AFAIK interop with existing JavaScript was not the primary reason for doing them this way, if that's any consolation.

FWIW your example wouldn't fly in Flow

https://flow.org/try/#0PQKgBAAgZgNg9gdzCYAoVBjGBDAzrsAQQDsBL...
It is hard to break that shield. House payments stay the same with inflation. So if you were paying $1000/month and inflation doubles the price of everything you still pay $1000/month. Your income is likely to double in this situation, and while everything else goes up in price you still have that extra $1000/month in your pocket ($500 after accounting for inflation). Or you can do a cash our refinance to get a lot more cash and bring your payments up to $2000/month.

Note that while this is happening bad things happen. It often is the case that you have to live on less real purchases for a few months until your wages go up. However as a homeowner the mortgage not changing means it only takes one or two rounds to get ahead of this forever (that is before you never revert to worse than when you bought the house - you can go backward in purchasing power but not that much), while as a renter your rent will increase yearly and that is often a big hit against your wages that won't increase at the same time (and often not at the same rate - it will balance out in 5 year but that is a long time to live)

Don't read the above as a rant against renting. There are other pros of renting. You need to make the right decision for your personal situation.
The Bitcoin network is a global energy buyer with properties unlike any other. It will continue to bid for stranded and excess energy that cannot be used for other applications. With last year's Chinese mining ban the network has become more distributed than ever and is likely to be very resilient to US domestic energy-price swings.

PoW is the solution to an important set of interconnected problems, and as long as the network has value, PoW will keep bidding for energy to secure that network.

It's been said, correctly IMHO, there is only Proof-of-Work and obfuscated Proof-of-Work. Rephrased, nothing is cheaper than Proof-of-Work: https://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest/
That they can all represent all of unicode is true, but they're not "just" encodings either. The current code space of unicode is built around UTF-16. That's why there are 17 planes.
It's too bad. Apple hardware tends to last a lot longer than the software.

At least my iPad Air 2 from 2014 is still getting updates.
A friendly reminder, this is unconstitutional if you're a us citizen. However, they can still absolutely ruin your day.

On entry to any country, I sync my devices and wipe them.
Good point, if building on Chromium you still need to get approved by Google for Widevine.
No.

He is saying that some firm own lots of $stock that they buy-and-hold. They then buy smaller amount of $stock early in morning to cause a swing up in price. Over course of day, the ability to influence price declines, so they can sell the amount they just bought without influencing price as much. Sell for profit or loss, doesn't matter.

The root goal (how they make money) is that they should have influenced the price enough that the large buy-and-hold stock they own has increased in value. Specifically, they want the "overnight" price change to be more positive than the decline across the day (again, by pumping up the morning price). They don't have to buy/sell, its more the value of their holdings are higher.
Recent and presumably related:

Show HN: Decentralized, Mutable, Serverless Torrent Swarm Websites - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29513547 - Dec 2021 (186 comments)
Enjoyed reading your bio on your website. Sub 24 hour at Leadville is super impressive! (Coming from someone who has not managed 24 hours at Western States... Yet...)
You don't geta 60% cagr with tax loopholes. all hedge funds try to minimize their taxes by whatever means possible.
Wow, the forecast here in the upper peninsula of michigan is below 0c for the next 10 days, and oslo is way further north.
> Figure 2 shows plots of overnight and intraday returns for twenty-one major stock market indices around the world. Turn the page and compare Figure 1 with Figure 2. See if you can tell a difference.

These images... do not render well on my machine, to put it lightly. So they look remarkably similar to me. Perhaps the author could spell out what this difference is? There is eventually mention of "striking similarity in the overnight and in- traday return patterns in the indices around the globe," but I don't think I'm ready to conclude that strong correlation of phenomena across markets in a global economy must be caused by a collection of manipulators acting on all of those markets.

I'm curious to see what others have to say, since I lack the hardware and background to properly read this document.
I cannot recall.
Good point, yeah, I hadn't thought this through.
That's alarmingly fast.
How long should I expect to be able to use a new 5nm CPU (at reasonable temperatures) before these issues are likely to make it fail?

All of the desktop/laptop CPUs that I currently use are 14nm, and I think the oldest is around 7 years old and still working fine. In the past I've tended to use personal machines for around a decade, and I don't really have any desire to move to a shorter cycle. Better battery life is great, but most things are already plenty thin and fast.
A real problem for smaller nodes, 7nm and under starts really cutting into expected lifetime.
I haven't even clicked the link yet, but that the Scylla devs are doing something with Rust already is interesting. Seastar is very cool though constrained by the limitations of C++. It will be great to find out what effect Rust has.
Yes. What happens is that the FBI uses the system to download the illicit content and every IP they connect to gets a letter to their ISP demanding that they identify the customer.

When they show up at your door, you get to hope they believe you saying that you had no idea your system was hosting that content and/or that you never had the decryption key. If you say anything which a judge/jury believes untrue, that’s a federal crime in its own right.

Better hope that you don’t need any of the hardware they seized as evidence (possibly for years - see Steve Jackson Games), and that your employer doesn’t hear the news and sack you.
Should I buy a wireless access point with WPA3 or is WPA2 enough?
We live in an apartment complex and the router (with access point built-in) provided by our ISP is getting pretty slow and unreliable. Now that working and studying from home are here to stay, I'm planning to buy a new access point for our apartment. With that, how important is having WPA3 especially in my case? The ground floor of our complex are mostly business establishments and we live on the second floor.
Before clicking the link, I thought this was going to be like Brainfuck but instead of having crazy syntax that fucked with your brain, it would have crazy tooling and yak-shaving that quickly made you lose heart before ever being able to actually get a program to run and deploy.
> Zooko was named after Zooko Wilcox O'Hearn, one of the few remaining, original, Cypherpunks.

It's super weird to name a project after someone who's not dead, and in this case not even that old (Wikipedia says he's 47).
I don't understand: if this is a persistent effect why can't you short in the morning and cover in the afternoon?
you don't need this to have free access to info tho.
I think I would be more concerned about latency vs throughput. PCIe has great latency compared to almost anything but I suspect RAM access by the CPU must be quite a bit faster

edit: I did some quick searches and it does look like RAM is orders of magnitude lower latency
It's not just these companies. There should be some serious discussion about the Oculus purchase. The result of that is a company focus which is to the detriment of any number of up and coming metaverse/VR companies.
Yes. Interesting counterpoint from Scott Alexander: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/please-dont-give-up-on...
I think the parent comment was tongue in cheek ;)
One good reason is that the employee retirement fund is the Medallion fund, so employees profit from the firms continued success.
Honestly, no. They released their software for free, so that's what I will pay.