skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are arguing against a point I didn't make, but I do want to clarify the problem a little bit more since it is pretty interesting. I agree that storing images or even articles on a blockchain does not scale; that level of data redundancy is a humongous waste for something like a tweet.

There's two issues at play here, immutability and availability. Immutability is not too hard to solve with a blockchain. You can hash pretty much any piece of digital content, store the hash on-chain, and prove that the content (hosted elsewhere) is identical to the original content (assuming the chain is not susceptible to massive block re orgs).

Availability is trickier. There are blockchain-related projects that claim to solve it in a decentralized manner by incentivizing a group of nodes to store it, and then periodically submit proofs that they have it stored, but I'm pretty fuzzy on the details there.

edit: Want to make it clear that I don't think blockchains are the only potential solution to these immutability and availability problems. That being said I'm pretty optimistic that crypto can solve these problems in a decentralized way, sounds like you feel the opposite, but let's try to not let it devolve into the stereotypical HN crypto flame war..
I don't think that these papers will earn the author a PhD, and I also don't think that this is a goal. Looking at the references, the author seems to like to publish such analyses on the arXiv, which is arguably not really what it is meant for; but still, it's a pre-print server so who cares.
Some number of them are fighting the echo chamber
Heart rate monitor using e-ink, Raspberry Pi and balena
Our Local Bubble revealed by Gaia telescope
> My total cost for 2 years was $117,889.

That's to be expected. These programs are "cash cows". And they send a pretty bad signal [0] [1].

> BU did not have scholarships or aid for international students, because saying you need aid is admitting that you lied on the visa application.

That's also a red flag. Serious programs (that are research focused) are typically need blind when applying; if the lab wants a certain student, it will secure funding for him.

> Similar experience coming from no CS undergrad. There were about 3 good classes that were very valuable, like Algorithms, Cloud Computing, and Embedded Systems.

Interestingly, with these masters, the admission bar is often much lower than the undergrad at the same school, so these are watered down classes.

[0] https://blog.alinelerner.com/how-different-is-a-b-s-in-compu...

[1] https://ozwrites.com/masters/
Perhaps a circular process. Not a circular argument. It's just reality that users reward optimization they can't really notice less than features. In places where it does matter to the bottom line, like how fast a shopping page loads, the optimization is prioritized.
Yeah, that's exactly where I read to, which registered as more anti-masker nonsense. Thanks for the explanation(s), and sorry for the noise.
Wow, this non-linear note-taking space is blowing up. Just recently I started using https://museapp.com/. That being said, they're hierarchical if not linear but same concept with "inking"! Any others that people are trying?
I question whether allowing unethical behavior is, in itself, unethical, when you have the option of not allowing it at all. I didn't mention software licenses anywhere in the question.

To use a situation common these days, knowing people wearing masks are less likely to pass COVID to others wearing masks, is it ethical to have a restaurant that allows clients not to wear masks? Is it ethical to operate a whore house that doesn't mandate regular AIDS tests?
When & where have "they" been wrong about the supply chain issues? Everyone's talking about corrections this year and next. We're only 12 days into this year.
They don't stop working after 2_3 years. They just don't work as fast. The electronics industry wants to promote change of products. so they do this. Or they don't work on long term durability.

My take: for as long as recycling performance is terrible, this should be a no no. Social movements should start demanding better products.
Ask HN: How does one “engage”(?) with a block chain?
OK. 1. Let's pretend I'm a 5 yo, but I've been around for 45 years. I have only ever used so-call "web2" platforms, and have never in my life coded (accept in a class in hs in the early 90s, would have no idea what to do with a server if I had one, and have never used a platform that didn't just "run" once you downloaded it. In other words, let's assume I'm everyone who's never heard of HN. How would you explain to me how to access (is that even the right word?) a blockchain?

2. This seems like the right time to ask this, as I have a feeling it deals with the same thing. If I wanted to play around with something like this Zooko thing (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29912396) which I don't necessarily, I just think it's a good example, being the person I mentioned above, how would I do that???

3. Are there books I can read so as not to bother the HN community?
Faster Python with static types and type inference.
It's a good way to get recruited, but no you can definitely get away with resumes and referrals into jobs without a linkedin profile.

LinkedIn is also better for big tech, hard to do research on smaller startups. For that, I prefer using crunchbase and topstartups.io
* You have disabled UPnP on your router because it's a horrible security mess.
No software I can think of has been ruined for me because of getting too advanced.

To particular pieces of software has lost a lot of their utility for me thanks to dumbification:

- Google I have now given up. It was equally dumb as DDG when I last used it and the only reason I sometimes fell back to it was to see if it randomly provided a useful result.

- Firefox is still the best for me but is a shadow of its former self. I'm eagerly waiting for a fork and on Mac I have already switched to Orion which has built in vertical tabs, can fix ctrl-tab and support both FF and Chrome extensions. (My main criteria is: 1. works great 2. not Chrome- or Chromium-based)
A youtuber I watch recently made the case that NiMH batteries should be used for _all_ uses because alkaline batteries will eventually burst and spew acid over your electronics. Sounds like it could take a very long time to do that, but it makes sense just for the preservation of the device to use NiMH.
I'm actually currently building a LinkedIn alternative to fix a lot of the pain points in this thread: https://leapful.dev/

- Minimalist social network for engineers: no feed, no messages from anyone not in your network.

- Input ideal job criteria and get matching and vetted job requests with standardized fields instead of paragraphs of texts from random recruiters.

- Private, no Google Analytics, and open-source.
I write frontend code and backend code and do compiler stuff for fun and I don't find it confusing. "Compiler" means completely separate things in so many contexts that I get the general picture and always need to look deeper to truly understand. Just because it's a generic term doesn't mean anyone should not be allowed to use it IMO.
Why only the other day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29897713
we was pondering what would need all that data bandwidth for the new PCIe-6 specs.

Having too much bandwidth or capacity is a problem in IT that often solves itself more often than not.
https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/what-convinced-you-containm...

The whole substack is great, but people from all over the globe talk about the hygiene theatre and pushing of optics during the past 2 years.

"It’s been nearly two years now and my confidence in publicly funded science is completely destroyed. I don’t believe anyone reasonably intelligent can read the COVID literature and come out the other side without concluding that universities and governments cannot tell the difference between science and scientism. Our society is completely in the grip of people who have effectively evolved under selection pressure to strongly resemble scientists without actually being scientists. Their work looks roughly right from a distance - there are data tables, charts, equations - but when you sit down and read it the scientific method has gone AWOL. I am now explicitly open to counter-narrative claims I’d never have previously considered."
I use these types of things for testing.

I recently brought a used SE (1st gen), as a low-end test (running iOS 14).

I also purchased a used iPhone 8Plus.
When it’s a take it or leave it agreement and every company has added it to their offers, there’s not really a whole lot of choice
Not surprising at all. Most criminal organisations, especially larger ones have these mechanisms in place both for internal and external situations. For instance if there are two gangs with overlapping territories,disputes start and can get escalated very quickly into situations where each side is focusing on fighting instead of bringing on money. Sometimes the gang leaders would try to resolve it but often external help is required. Usually it's a well respected person by both sides who is impartial and has the necessary negotiation or political skills to make both sides happy. This is almost universal across the criminal world.
Poor man's VPN (pay for only what you need)
Right. But that's what I mean by this thing not giving you "control over your data."

If I post something on Facebook and regret it, I have some control over it- sure, I can't delete it off Facebook's internal tape archives, but that's really going to be one of a handful of places it will stick around after I delete it.

If I embed something in plaintext on a blockchain it will be public, to everyone, forever. This seems like having less control, or at least no more control.
They also introduce (sometimes quite large) memory overhead.
There will likely be other ways of resetting the state of memory.
Because ever recorded is a code word for only recently - sea surface average is about around the medieval climate optimum and under the roman age warming period.

Not to say climate is not warming up, but news reels always go for the most sensationalistic take they have available because that sell, while more nuanced takes tend to be buried under pressure from the ministry of truth to control the message, as they believe us to be simpletons.
> Owning your own home doesn't shield you from rent increases, because you're still paying rent,

Yes it does shield you fron rent increases. Specifically because by owning a home you have also purchased an income producing asset that perfectly hedges your rent increase. For every dollar that rent goes up and you have to pay more, you also get an additional dollar in income from that increased rent. Ie shielding you from the affect of any increase.

It's the same thing as buying a stock, and then shorting that same stock (or buying a put). Yes the stock may go down, but for every bit it does, your other investment up down meaning you are now shielded from (or hedged against) any changes in stock price.
https://www.goatcounter.com/ simple effective visitor counting with a fast golang / postgress solution. easy javascript solution to count actions on a page. GDPR compliant! Just looks a bit spartan.
The prompt that I use in my head is finishing the sentence "Applying the diff in this commit will...". Examples:

Change the submit button color to green
Bump library XYZ to 1.2.3
Refactor and simplify the cart repository
The key here is that it is RAM-like WRITE speed. We've had RAM-like read speed for over 20 years.
We should start by working to keep the ocean clean, then worry about the temperature of the polluted water.

Why is there more interest in controlling the temperature vs the pollution itself?

consumerism needs to change for temperature to change
One interesting solution I saw was batteries which stick a lithium battery + charge controller / voltage adapter inside the AA package so they can be used on any device.
> Google shouldn't have done its part to kill XMPP if they really cared about lock-in

Exactly this, Google was happy to be against open communication platforms when it felt it was in their interest but as soon as it goes the other way "Oh we should all be using RCS"

Reap what you sow
Thanks! That's the "art." The shasum is of the original program so you can know you've transcribed it correctly. :)
I'm not sure there is "more information" about the value of a stock. There is only newer information.

The new information during the night can tell us "Hey the price should be higher" but then more information coming in later can cancel the previous good news.
I don't think that example would compile in TS either (not 100% confident though). The "issue" with TS is that everything type related completely disappears after the build step and that needs to be kept in mind in development. Some developers struggle with that, especially at the boundaries to external APIs/libs/whatever.
>It's widely known there's child porn on the bitcoin blockchain,

Are there actual bytes of child porn embedded in Bitcoin blockchain or only encrypted-or-obfuscated urls of possible websites that lead to child porn?

Example story from 2018 saying child porn bytes are not in the blockchain and non-tech journalists are misreporting it:
https://news.bitcoin.com/no-isnt-child-porn-bitcoin-blockcha...

Any credible embedding of child porn bytes in the blockchain since that story?
> The pro here is that some blog about corruption can't be knocked offline by some government authority lest they block the entire network...

Let's not kid ourselves with the idea that's even likely to happen. The main use case of stuff like this is for people to say stuff that would get them banned on Twitter, and most of that consists of being an asshole or spreading lies.

The blog about corruption will be put up on real Twitter, where the eyeballs are, and preserved by getting scraped by some organization like the Archive Team and uploaded to the Internet Archive.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/01/11/2021-28...
Go. Rules are much simpler than chess, but it took computers much longer to beat humans.
> Any other scraping, especially when ignoring robots.txt, is unsolicited. And if said website takes additional advanced anti-scraping measures, and you persist in bypassing that too, then to me you're clearly unethical, even if it's technically legal.

I suppose it just comes to down to your own morals, but I see nothing at all unethical about scraping a site for personal use provided that it's done gently enough to avoid DoS or disruption. The idea that saving webpages to read later is parasitic or unethical if a website uses robot.txt to discourage commercial scrapers and data-mining goes way too far.
This is a big problem for automotive. The average age of cars in the US is over 12 years now. Which is a technical achievement. It was around 6 in the 1970s. Longer for trucks.

Automotive electronics design lives used to be much longer. I happen to know that the design life for the Ford EEC IV engine control unit from the 1980s was 30 years. That's been exceeded in the field; many 1980s Ford trucks with that unit are still running.

There are now cars running electronics that's way overkill in performance, probably at the cost of lifetime. Unreal Engine in the dashboard is a thing.

Realistically, you need 20 years of life in automotive electronics.
If you work in times relative to Korea’s solar day, yes. You could conceivably work from 9-5 in GMT still (from 6PM-2AM local time).

I’m not saying it’s ideal, but you’re trying to pick the least bad of some dreadful options (for which I’m sorry and wish your fiancée [and you] well as you navigate this). Keeping your current job, working it as a “second shift” job from Korea might give you stability that’s valuable here.
Because they're making money off of the property, not the service. Accepting lower rents impacts valuations.
CSET Is Hiring Data Research Analysts
> There's only one HomePod anymore

Which is a shame, the original one has such good sound quality for its size
GeoIPGuesser
I didn't know that, thanks for sharing! It seems to be a lot more civilised version of what I was doing for years - test by licking it... Can do it almost in one gesture: hold the battery between thumb and middle finger, lick index finger and touch it on one end of the battery, then lick the other. With some practice can get pretty good accuracy in 0.5-1.5V range. Bit barbaric though :)
I think exceedingly is the right word here. We know from lots of research that mass diet interventions don't work. The body's autonomic processes for weight equilibrium are powerful. Stephan Guyenet is a good follow but doctors on Hacker News are only too happy to tell you the same thing.
Of thier parents...

This kid's parents think that somehow it is unfair they need to be vaccinated to stay at a place for untra sick kids?
Unfortunately your code didn't survive HN, those characters all show as U+2665 BLACK HEART SUIT
Drug-laced beer may have forged ancient Peruvian empire
is that true though? CP on Etherium blockchain is a well known problem, and no prosecution jurisdiction is doing anything about it. Who would even have jurisdiction on something so decentralised? Sure you could shut down some nodes, but not all of them. And even then new nodes would pop up vastly more quickly than you can kill them. So prosecutors really are powerless. I think. Am I wrong?
Lojban: Constructed language to eliminate ambiguity from communication
IQ can be reduced through maltreatment, but in general we don't know how to increase IQ. Higher IQ people are more likely to play chess, but playing chess does not raise IQ. So just play the games you enjoy.

"Most people think playing chess makes you 'smarter', but the evidence isn't clear on that" https://phys.org/news/2019-07-people-chess-smarter-evidence-... .
AMD: We’re Using an Optimized TSMC 5nm Process
Obligatory link to /r/lojban [1].

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/lojban/
Medieval Music for a Medieval World?
Pandoc with a paste image plugin for markdown, in vscode with vim plugin or just vim.

Notion if you want to quickly share things. But I would recommend using something else because they don't have offline support and they don't allow downloading pdf format of nested articles without a paid tier. Also no vim bindings. But I still use it as super fast to share, easily formattable and looks nice.
I don't want to sound fatalistic but it's difficult to see how we can reset the 4 big feedback loops in any reasonable amount of time:

Ice-albedo feedback - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%E2%80%93albedo_feedback

Permafrost thaw feedback - https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/global-carbon-budget-perm...

Forestfire\Drought feedback - https://weatherology.com/trending/articles/Drought-Feedback-...

Jetstream Disruption feedback - https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...

It'll be like stopping an avalanche with a shovel.

Any control theory guys out there with suggestions?
>I think the biggest problem with HomeKit is that for most people the primary UI for their smart home is a connected speaker

The iPhone, Watch, iPad, or laptop can all do the same thing as HomePod speakers.
Early Homo Sapiens Found in Ethiopia Is Older Than Had Been Thought
> On the other hand, if it’s high enough that people start moving out and the new vacancies are hard to fill, those rents will come down very quickly.

Unfortunately, this is unlikely. We’re in an era where building owners would rather let their properties sit empty for years than consider even a modest reduction in price.
Puzzling Parkinson’s protein plays essential role in immunity – Science – AAAS
Clickbait, the non vaccinated persons evicted are his parents who don't want to be vaccinated. One can argue that the parents don't care about other people living in the RMH that could get infected by them.
> some people believe information should be free, period.

There is nothing wrong believing some ideology.

However, enforcing your beliefs without caring about consequences is called extremism.

You can believe information must be free but acknowledge that it don’t include revenge porn. Or you can act like it doesn’t matter but then, you are a danger for the society.
Privacy Has Come to the Forefront of Laptop Design at CES 2022
Nobody got from China to Mesopotamia by canoe. Lots of goods were transported by caravan overland, and that certainly included seeds that could be planted to grow useful crops.
I assume you mean that while homeowners are protected from rising rents, they're soon going to be paying out the nose for other goods, as the prices of goods & services produced by renters rise to match the new cost of living?

That's already happening. IMHO you have the causality backwards - prices started rising in 2020, and then some workers have captured some of that surplus by switching jobs, and now landlords are trying to capture the workers' surplus by raising rents. Rents follow wages, which follow profits, which follow prices, and then prices follow rents & wages again in the wage/price spiral. Homeowners have an advantage because their biggest cost of living is fixed, while rents generally rise to capture all available wage surplus.

The folks who really get screwed are the ones with fixed incomes but variable expenses, either a renting retiree or someone who plans to stay at the same employer for a lifetime. You should be aggressively changing jobs and going where the money is to capture some of the large amounts of money that are floating around. People who do that usually do better than average.
I have some similar Li-ion AA batteries for my Blink cameras. They work very well since the Blinks hate ni-mh batteries. Interestingly, these behave oddly in my camera speedlite. They can't seem to charge the flash, and the LCD flickers while on. My best guess is the charging the flash capacitor pulls more juice than the lithium batteries can handle. Thankfully, ni-mh work great.

For your Ni-mh that stop working, if they won't charge you can sort of jump start them using a good battery and they'll charge again. Use some aluminum foil strips and touch the contacts between the batteries together for a few seconds. Positive to positive, negative to negative if I remember correctly.
Yeah, agreed. Ideally this wouldn't happen like that. Temporary solutions like a half-migration have a tendency to stick around for a lot longer than anybody anticipates. But I think it is still better than not having any types at all, if only for having type information in development.
Thank you!

I'm the maintainer of the project and it's so heartwarming to see it being recommended on this forum.

All the projects mentioned here are great. What I think sets Plausible apart is that we've managed to create a profitable business around a 100% AGPL-licensed codebase (i.e. no dual-license for enterprise version). This means we can keep investing into the product and adding new features without being in the 'thankless OSS maintainer' role that so often ends in burnout.

We're currently working on importing historical data from Google Analytics into Plausible[1] which should make switching even easier for many folks. Stay tuned.

1. https://github.com/plausible/analytics/pull/1466
Turing machines are like brainfuck with goto instead of loops.
This is the equivalent of me telling someone who's overwhelmed with beautiful codebases to go to a repo they admire so much and do a `git log --reverse` and read the first commits and see for themselves the tribulations, doubts, changes, and improvements.

>Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. - Friedrich Nietzsche
I have been interested in web scraping lately but never really dived too deep. Did anyone have more indepth resources (github projects, blogs, forums, etc) than the tutorials that are basically install beautiful soup and get data from a tag?
Canon instructs customers on how to bypass their DRM
Factorio if you're into engineering planning, or maybe community test chambers of Portal 2 for puzzles that can be picked up readily.