skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok. On second read I’d like to apologize for my snark - you made a thing, and that’s not easy, so kudos.

That said, have you thought about trying to leverage this pool of rich people for positive purpose? Maybe a modern version of the Elks Lodge, Rotary, Masons? I frequently lament the death of those types of networking, community building, service “clubs”. People join for access and interesting interactions, but the organizations themselves do amazing work (scholarships, battling polio, etc.). Just a thought.
Isn't Ethereum using proof-of-stake since a recent update? (I'm not an expert in this though)
Most of the time the roads are built with grants from the state or federal government.
You don't pay because you watch it. You pay so other people have some access to actual information so that we can have a functioning democracy and society. If you don't want those things, move to a failed state somewhere. If you do, pay up and get over yourself.
No, but they make many availability issues Someone Else's Problem.

When EC2 goes down, I need to maybe wake up and log in to see what happened. I see that all of us-east-1 is down (again), notify everyone involved: "It's down can't do anything, it'll come back up when AWS engineers get to it" and go back to bed.

I can check up on it again during office hours.

If this was a colocated server, I'd need to drag my ass out of bed and drive to the site to see what's up.
To be fair, the "SUVs" that are being sold are effectively the same as station wagons of the past (but smaller and with better gas mileage).

Hopefully self-driving cars will get us out of this pit of car-centric infrastructure, but that's a solution that's been a few years out for the past decade.
>> It's more of a relaxing pastime for me than a chore.

This is how a lot of software should be developed. Time to reflect and think about how to make things better. Not some weird money and authority driven scheme.
Look at the link. They are co-locating at OVH (or running dedicated servers). Which is as close to self-hosting as I can imagine.
I feel the complete opposite, interestingly enough. Apple process viewer and htop are what I want.
So ration is accordingly. Just telling everyone they can have enough energy to run a Bitcoin mining op, and then being surprised when they run a Bitcoin mining op seems silly...
102 comments when it was last posted in 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23304536
Windows, when it’s good, is actually great, and task manager is an example of good UI and functional backend.

Linux just hasn’t built the same easy interface but of course it can do the same things, but no one has built the UI
Basically, carbon saying sounds like it is counting tree rings:

"Since the 1960s, researchers have mainly done this recalibration with trees, counting annual rings to get calendar dates and matching those with measured radiocarbon dates. The oldest single tree for which this has been done, a bristlecone pine from California, was about 5,000 years old. By matching up the relative widths of rings from one tree to another, including from bogs and historic buildings, the tree record has now been pushed back to 13,910 years ago."

One question, how are they able to push trees ring counting back 13,910 years, if the oldest tree they have counted was 5000 years old. The limit is 5000, right?

And another question, why was this tree only "about 5,000 years old"? They have the very tree, it is either possible to count the rings or not... So why are they rounding (up or down)?
Maybe it is caused by rising standards and rising human labor costs?

There are many stories where rebuilding or just renovation of a bridge was vastly more expensive than constructing it 50 or 100 years ago (yes, obviously after adjusting for inflation).
It's very simple, just attach the money to the child and then let the parents determine what school they go to.
A good reminder that holding down shift+ctrl+alt isn't always a harmless no-op.
They haven't done much to convince an impartial outside observer, but they have muddied the water enough that people invested in it can sleep at night. As the Upton Sinclair quote goes, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
The fact that Sci-hub is still illegal is an indictment of the legislative process.
FTA: “Consistent with the ACM’s order, dating apps that are granted an entitlement to link out or use a third-party in-app payment provider will pay Apple a commission on transactions. More information on all aspects of the entitlements will be available shortly.”
How can you be so triggered about people talking about the things that trigger them that have nothing to do with you?

This morning I was watching a 60s comedy about a bunch of ambassadors at an international UN-like meeting. There was one black ambassador from Africa, and every time he said anything, the other ambassadors made jokes about him eating the other people in the room. It's just a joke, but it's just a joke about how the one black person in a room full of white people must be trying to eat them.

I can either be sad about that, amused by that, nonplussed or indifferent. The weird thing is how mad you get based on how I feel.
You know why browsers sprouted tabs? Because the DEs never handled multiple instances nicely. Great to see MS is regressing in this area.
There are such areas in every country. USA might have more of them but not so much more that it cancels out the low population density entirely. You still have to have a road going through these areas.
> We can't go around claiming BTC is green

It is designed to be energy inefficient so we can't go around claiming it anyway.
It's really great, (especially as someone else said, a companion to creative writing) but your body has finite defences against it, and much of the real damage is silent, so it's particularly dangerous in the stealth damage it causes to mind and body.

Shame as I'd be still drinking today if my body could cope with it. For sure. But my liver has had more than a lifetime filter through it.
I think you replied to the wrong comment. Mind was about a poor country wasting govt money on populist subsidies

It's possible to use coal for power without subsidies (coal is cheap) and bonus it's even more economically efficient
Which streaming service are you referring to? AFAIK you do actually need a license to watch BBC iPlayer
For many years this type of chronic pain has been referred to as Tension Myositis Syndrome[1] (TMS) by some. Though the condition has been met by skepticism by both the medical community as well as many chronic pain sufferers, you'll find thousands of anecdotes online of it curing people from pain.

A study on Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), which more or less treats "TMS", was released last year and has shown very promising results, and the idea that many chronic pain sufferers could be affected by it is starting to gain more recognition in the scientific community.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tension_myositis_syndrome
Just because you are using AWS/GCP/Azure doesn't mean that you don't need sysadmins. They are called DevOps engineers then.
My $JOB (>10,000 employees) mandates use of MS Office. I can't just vote with my wallet ... I never gave them money in the first place.
I find it amusing that WhatsApp and its e2ee is used as a common target for regulation by the government when their own ministers are using it to organise all sorts of shenanigans; illegal parties during lockdown, “anonymous” briefing of journalists, leaking compromising information about their peers. Not to mention that it always seems like the government is run via WhatsApp (probably need the e2ee for that!).

Ultimately this is about perceived control, the paraphrased saying goes “if you outlaw encryption only outlaws will have encryption”. Legislation won’t reduce the use of encryption by criminals and terrorists, it will however allow the government and law enforcement to say “you have encrypted chat software, that’s illegal, therefore you must be doing something illegal”. However, that wont necessarily translate to prosecution, it’s only the perception that matters.

Pandora’s box may have been opened but governments will always find a way to “control” their citizens, usually through fear.
I spent 30 years in San Diego before moving to Denver in 2020… and Denver is far worse. There seems to be some masa shooting making national headlines every few months.
Taiwan CECC lists 3 possible ways Covid lab infection occurred
It's a perfect example of a "dead cat on the table."[1]

Also,
> Are you saying they created the entire plan in a few weeks?

They frequently toss out new "plans" in response to news events, anger in the base, scandals, etc. which have -clearly- been thought up in a hurry as a distraction and will be silently forgotten / dumped when no longer needed as a news-based base-fury-whip.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy
In the United States there is a gas tax but it hasn’t been adjusted for a long time and pays less than half of the cost of the roads. EVs are also becoming a factor so what I’d like would be an annual tax based on the combination of vehicle weight & pollution, especially since the comically large vehicles a lot of solo office commuters use take up enough space to prevent many roads from handling two lanes of traffic without someone pulling over to the side.

The other big factor we have is that there’s a lot of soft subsidy built in with things like minimum parking requirements, and a lot of both road and parking infrastructure is paid for by developers when first constructed but falls back to the city or private owners for maintenance. That will only make the current imbalance worse over time.
Bill Burr talks about drinking alone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6Ks_KFmwbM
> then isn’t it the case that Bitcoin is actually using energy as the scarce commodity on which its value is based?

Bitcoin’s value isn’t coupled to energy. However, it does have a perverse incentive to miners to consume as much energy as possible.

Each additional miner that comes online doesn’t really add anything of value to the network at this point. It just consumes more energy. Each miner plays a game of maximizing their own energy usage to maximize their take of the fixed rewards structure.

It has to be the single most inefficient large-scale engineering project I can think of, and certainly the only one that literally pays people globally to make it less and less efficient.
> why it is not enough for the author to trust they intuition when it comes to well-being?

Good question. I found the section where the author experiences the mind-meld with an Osprey to be the only charming part of the piece. It's an unguarded moment in a guarded essay. It's also downright bizarre but endearing and an experience anyone could have to an encounter in the woods. It's very human. Shame that it's encased in all that objectivity, indeed.
Pretty my family alone murders a dozen+ chickens a month.
Successful people often need less sleep than what’s considered the norm. 5 hours for them is 8 hours for most people. Same with stress, stress tolerance is above the norm.

They’ve won the genetic lottery.
Not every successful person has these traits of course. But enough to see a pattern.
Annoying, but can apparently be fixed with a registry setting: https://www.elevenforum.com/t/disable-show-more-options-cont...
The mining equipment value hasn’t gone to $0. The miners who dismantle their rigs are just going to sell it off to someone in another country.
It seems to me that this might encourage the rank and file at the BBC to wish for a change of government. I wonder if they have considered that?
Next step: one dude in a basement with an Excel sheet. Can also process 4 transactions per second (if typing fast), a bit less secure, but much more energy efficient. (Note: at BTC's cost of US$ 1.5 million per hour, we can also hire a few trustworthy people to stand behind the dude and make sure that there's no cheating, and still be more efficient.)
Any Twitter thread related to crypto or "web3" is an astonishing cesspool. I have never seen a healthy "comment section" about those topics.
For those not getting the reference: https://youtu.be/mrk95jFVKqY
I have, in the entire time (20+ years) I’ve produced music, been against randomness.

I could write an article or maybe a short book on the topic, but basically I think it is super lame.

I am much more fascinated by complexity than randomness. Concepts like least common multiple for example, can lead to wide variation without resorting to randomness.
I'd assume they are EU citizen so they don't need a visa, but tax residency is the bigger problem.
Minor correction: it's not a draft, if you read your own link...
"Without government protection, the poor/weak have no rights"

Without government protection the poor start cutting off heads, see the French revolution. Every time there is civil unrest, from peasant uprising in medieval Russia, to Occupy Wallstreet to Anonymous DDOSing websites, the government is out in force to out it down.

Having a few limits on power, like "you cant discriminate by race, but discriminating by class is cool" does not mean thay the state is suddenly protecting the poor.
The latest talking point is to claim that it incentivizes clean energy production and that’s a good thing.

The argument is bananas, but that’s the line that Bitcoin celebrities like @jack have been pushing.
> Candles $3,600

That being said, it's probably a lot cheaper than rewriting it to run on less.
Jonestown is pretty much world history by now. I was born in a South American, non-english speaking country, AFTER the fact, and by 10 years old probably have seen about two news segments or documentaries about it on TV.
BumpTop 3D Desktop Prototype (Video, 2006)
That argument runs afoul of: https://xkcd.com/538/

In the real world refusal to pay a fine or surrender an item is itself a crime and punishable with state power. You're right that the government can't extract crypto assets without the consent of those controlling the relevant keys. You're forgetting the depth of ability of a government to compel consent.
> Task Manager will load in reduced mode if resources are short, like only loading the Processes page if that's what's needed to get going. It's one of the very few apps that won't just "fail and bail" when things go wrong.

This has saved me a few times, but every time I've seen it I always figured task manager was just failing to completely load. Glad to know that this was a deliberate state.
Energy use is being decoupled from global warming at an ever increasing pace. It may be too late, but to say it cannot be done is nonsense. There's a constellation of social reasons that it may not be done, but it can.
That helps a lot but there are some challenges: e.g. you have therapists at a big school with lots of students and they’re all reasonably fully booked but a small charter needs 15% of a person in three different specialties.
XFCE has taskmanager.

goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-taskmanager
To your last point: isn't it sort-of dangerous to rely on a TV news channel in case of serious events? Power to households may be off; people may not realize that they need to turn on their TV set.

Something like a network of alarm sirens that can also speak would be more resilient. We have such a system in Prague. Every 1st Wednesday of each month at noon, it is shortly tested. If Prague can afford it, most of the UK could surely as well.
Ask HN: Should I accept the free Windows 11 upgrade?
I have two machines at home on Windows 10: a gaming desktop on Windows 10 Pro and a laptop on Windows 10 home. Should I accept the offered windows 11 upgrade?

It sounds like there is no going back after a 10 day grace period.

What are the pros and cons? Are there any use cases where either the pros or cons are big?
> This answer was:

> ‘Assigning mathematical meaning.’

No, you misread. The answer was

> The lambda cube is a way to systematically organize the space of type theories.

All of this was already meaningful before the lambda cube. The cube just organizes what we knew in a systematic way. It shows the relationships between the various systems that exist when they are differentiated on the features that describe their expressive power.
I've seen arguments on HN that the whole energy consumed for crypto (speculation by a few thousand persons) is equivalent to the consumption of classic payment infrastructure (used for billions of transactions every day). And that's by including bank buildings, airplane travels by anyone related to fiat transactions, etc.
Why is it nonsense? The fact that borders between binary concepts are fuzzy doesn't make the whole concept nonsense.
Yes, it's an old SEO hack. It's called "keyword stuffing".
I think your browser has the page cached; I just tried both Firefox and Chromium and the bug is not there. When I load the page, it shows Q:28 (at the moment of writing this), and after I switch the timezone, it still displays that, i.e., the letter does not change. Please try fetching a fresh page and let me know if you continue to see the issue.
'Linear TV' (broadcast TV) is dead and the BBC probably have known this for some time. The idea of a TV schedule feels antiquated today amid unprecedented on-demand content. On commercial streaming services, only prestige series (seasons) are released weekly, everything else gets a whole series released in one go. (The BBC already does this on iPlayer for some series.)

It's worth remembering that the BBC is a Public Service Broadcaster (PSB) and does vastly more than YouTube or Netflix.

- News: the world's largest news organisation

- TV: everything from drama to documentaries to kids programmes

- Radio: national radio stations (covering every music genre + speech), 40+ local radio stations, and the World Service.

- Kids TV: ad-free TV kids programmes with strict guidelines on commercial influences and product placement.

- Education: massive educational content for schools (Bitesize) that has no commercial equivalent. (Who else other than BBC would launch the micro:bit project in schools with all the related educational resources to support it?)

- Music: promotes new music artists, funds 5 orchestras, runs the world's largest classical music festival (the Proms). Provides live music festival coverage (Glastonbury, Leeds, Reading etc)

- Accessibility: 100% of recorded programmes subtitled, + a proportion of audio-signed and signed programmes

The list goes on. Even simply browsing the BBC news website is one of the few news websites in the UK that is ad-free (if you are outside the UK browsing the BBC website, you're probably seeing ads).

Not all the above will disappear with a different funding model, but it's likely that the BBC will be slimmed down. (And that is something BBC critics will want to see happen.)

Aside: Nadine Dorries is minister for 'Digital, Culture, Media and Sport' - the BBC falls under the remit of this department. Dorries didn't even know that Channel 4 (another PSB in the UK) does not receive any public funds (it is funded by advertising). When this was pointed out to her when facing other politicians, she babbled incoherently unable to admit her error. Make up you own mind about the calibre of this politician: https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/nadine-dorries-channe...
https://endthefud.org/PoW
Or by developers
Bitcoin is not possible without blockchain or 'cryptocurrency'. Thanks to these properties, it can't be truly regulated, which is a good thing in my book.

Of course, this breaktrhough opens a way to zillions of shitcoins, but they should simply be ignored.
I think it's a matter of getting used to. The task manager drives me mad. I never feel like I'm full control or know what's going on. Whereas with kill, ps, top and friends I feel like I can diagnose things a lot better. The task manager doesn't even seem to have a search bar, whereas I can just use "grep" in linux. Just right now I was trying to see if indeed it didn't have a search bar and task manager crashed when I tried to exit it. I'm more used to have several small tools I can compose and do what I need instead of having a single app where I have to hope the developers thought about the specific thing I need it to do.
ProtonMail launched with labels only. They later added folders for those of us who like to file messages under "organized now, don't want to think about this again".
No, it's there (see other comments in this thread), but it wasn't the default in the OP's distro.
That approach is problematic for some people. The depressive pile has already been mentioned, but we also have to consider that some people are less competitive than others. Some people are teachers or nurses until the day they retire. It isn't because they don't have what it takes to be principals or hospital administrators. A good many do so because that's where they see themselves doing the most good. In other cases, it is because they enjoy what they are doing. How many times have we seen developers mention that they feel pressured to go into management or being forced out of the industry as they get older? In other cases it is because people seek a better work-life balance. I left professional life largely due to the constant encroachment of work life on my personal life, and I suspect I am not unique.

There are other things to consider. Everyone who is employed serves a purpose, else they wouldn't be employed. It doesn't matter whether they're that paper pusher who exists solely to ensure everything is documented in the remote case of legal issues or the person who spawns a company that goes on to employ thousands of people. Sure, the latter feels more meaningful than the former, but that says more about our society than anything else (e.g. the failure of people to do their job, people wilfully breaking the law, frivolous or malicious litigation). Why should one group have more success when everyone is making a contribution?

Another thing to consider: in a world of large corporations that employ hundreds or thousands of people, a disproportionate number of people are at the bottom of the hierarchy. In a world of small businesses, there is hope of rising up the ranks, inheriting or buying out the business, or of setting out on your own. In a world of large corporations, there is only so much movement you can do and the form of competition to move up may not reflect the personality of those who are qualified.
"they could instead not moderate or rely on third-party forums and messaging services they don't need to moderate" at that point, you might as well not run the service. moderation isn't optional if you want a healthy community.
I find the act of writing out my day on a piece of paper a useful practice to get my mind in work mode and reduces mindless internet scrolling.

I imagine the concept of todo lists in general are similar, it is a ritual that puts the person in the proper frame of mind to spend their time.
That's a little reductive. Companies get shut down all the time when their quality management is not up to snuff (for a high profile example of this, look at CMS' shutdown of the Theranos labs in 2015). The system generates the paperwork, and the data enclosed is generated by the processes you have to put in place to get approval in the first place.

Like I said, the world of predicate devices is a different ball game, but you're not going to get by with hand waving on a device that can kill people.
That’s not entirely true. For example, ML is used in radiology to find problems that are too subtle for the human eye to detect.