skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I've seen vendors online offer substantial discounts for using cryptocurrency as payment.

This is actually my 100% use case for crypto. Making legal online purchases at a discount to avoid credit card fees, not retarded speculation or the spectre of crime all the nay-sayers worry about.
A couple small past threads:

Prospecting for Hash Functions (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29117783 - Nov 2021 (1 comment)

Prospecting for Hash Functions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17659672 - Aug 2018 (14 comments)
"For a given heat, a well insulated room is as comfortable as a badly insulated one"

I actually disagree with this. There are factors beyond air temperature, such as air movement and radiation.

Air movement is pretty obvious, if your house is draughty, 20c may still feel chilly.

But radiation is commonly ignored and in my experience contributes more to comfort than air temperature beyond a certain level. If your room is at 20c and your walls are 12c, there's a good chance you will still feel uncomfortable compared to a building with well insulated walls. I've been in old buildings where even at 25c it still felt a little chilly. Worse, if only the exterior walls are cold, you might find one side of you is too hot and the other is too cold!

This is commonly experienced as "why is my house still cold in winter even though the thermostat is at 22c, when in the summer it's too hot even at 18c?".
> I'd venture it is probably better to own production assets (and parts thereof) rather than crypto.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something about your response, but I think your response is too focused on my use of the word "wealth". Obviously, genuinely wealthy people have a large part of their assets tied up in physical assets that might serve as a hedge like land, resources, real-estate, businesses, and likely aren't anywhere close to entirely liquid.

I'm more focused on the impact of inflation on normal people. An average person of average or below average means likely holds most of their life savings in cash-like things or even literal cash. Being able to afford land, an investment property, a factory, a McDonalds franchise, or physical assets isn't even on their radar screen. The average person of average means is screwed by inflation far more than the wealthy because they have far less of an ability to buy real assets that might always have some value.

The reason inflation makes me angry is that it's a stealth tax, primarily on the poor. Whatever else you want to say about Bitcoin, the fact that there can only ever be 21 million units is extraordinarily positive in this respect.
Yes. You just need a mapping of airplane designations to prospective users, because the information about plane position flying in certain "modes", let's call them, is public so long as you can receive it (it's necessity for making flying safe)
Canada. The numerous problems in the US seem to be getting worse and given the option I’d avoid living there.
Ads synthesize desire and cause people to be unhappy when the ads work. They encourage expending money that could have been saved, or taking on debt. They also create a funding situation where media producers are beholden to corporations.

The implementation of ads is also wildly invasive, creepy, and propagandistic. However, focusing on implementation allows ad salesmen to lessen the sharpness of the criticism by supposing there is some "nice" way this could be done.
There's a bunch, e.g., mount, umount, fusermount, crontab, passwd, and chsh.
Whether something is cost effective is directly proportional to energy prices - hence rising prices suddenly reduce payback periods for energy saving.

Sealing houses up without accounting for moisture can cause issues, but it's not insurmountable. Rather than ventilating through accidental means, you seal the house until ventilation needs to be intentional - and then you can do it using mechanical ventilation with heat recovery - which effectively keeps 80% of the heat in the air and transfers it to incoming fresh air. Equally insulating without moisture management can cause issues - but as long as the insulation is designed with vapour barriers and ventilation in the right place, it's perfectly doable. The problem is that it's very easy to do it wrong, and not realise until years later all the timbers are rotting because of condensation.

I'd argue that (at least in the UK) we have far too many old houses not to deal with them. Space heating accounts for 27% of our national energy consumption. So much energy, which could be useful, is just wasted.

I can't speak for your situation, but the costs you suggest for external wall insulation seem very high - eg https://www.checkatrade.com/blog/cost-guides/external-wall-i... suggests it's more like £6-£20k depending on house size.

Speaking as someone working in the energy industry, we are a very, very long way from zero carbon energy. Renewables only work intermittently - we don't have a solution to fill the gaps in dark winters or calm days. Batteries are at least a couple orders of magnitude too small, pumped hydro needs very specific geography, and all other energy storage methods are unproven or highly inefficient.
I'd add that the decades after WW2 were boom times for the Unites States. So many other industrialized nations were reduced to rubble. The effects of having to rebuild lasted decades. Post-WW2 the U.S. made up about half the world's GDP - equal to all other countries and the planet combined.

Things are quite different now. The Unites States makes up less than a quarter of the world's GDP. Those great factory jobs with pensions and benefits are long gone. That dovetails with your #3, globalization.
Ok good clarification as the title of the post seems to imply much more than just fixing interference. As always, the article subject is the hook that gets you in and then you realize it's not as might have been expected.
First of all, “attempting to shift blame” is exactly the kind of propaganda I’m talking about, so kudos.

Second, virtually nothing consumers require is inherently ghg-emitting, it’s just the cheapest way to satisfy the need, which is why trying to satisfy in a less ghg-intensive way is economically unviable until you start punishing ghg-intensive processes.

There is zero blame on consumers as I see it - they want something inherently ghg-intensive, they’ll have to pay higher price.

Incentives work on all levels but you need to start with the source - producers. They must pay for externalities.
You might not be very far off- apparently many people do not have an inner voice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_monologue#Absence_of_...

I now worry about some form of future cyborg racism where those without the gift are considered untouched by god or subhuman
Connectivity to your social circles is something Facebook provides that nobody else provides. There are other ways of connecting social circles, but due to network effects, they're all worse.

There's no site on the planet other than Facebook that lets me interact with my entire family all at once in a way that I know will reach them.
In sectors where products can have infinite variety (like fashion), monopolies don't seem to happen because the small creative producers can create new market niches faster than the monopolies can enter them.
I think this article is basically making the argument that the energy cap failed because it didn't do something that no one reasonably expected it to do in the first place. The energy cap was put in place very simply to stop energy companies from slowly raising rates on customers who don't switch, because generally people are very unlikely to switch providers and so could be exploited by the companies. That's what it was there for. Recently, it's actually done a fantastic job of protecting UK consumers from facing quick shock increases in their energy prices, delaying the impact in a way that allowed the government to take action to mitigate the real problem.

Now, that's nothing to do with the fact that fundamentally energy prices are the result of long term government policy in terms of how they fund our national grid and invest in building power plants. It's got nothing to do with the price cap that the UK government failed to build (enough) Nuclear power plants and it certainly has nothing to do with the fact that the whole of Germany went insane and shut down all their Nuclear plants just in case Germany suddenly became geologically unstable as forewarned in the factual documentary Geostorm.

The real problem is a combination of the fact that the UK government has failed to really tackle its long term energy strategy, and the fact that given this crisis it has chosen some really weird levers to pull to help people, choosing to give out loans and lower council taxes temporarily rather than use the actual benefit systems that they just spent the best part of a decade re-designing.
2.9 billion users

https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...
Related project posted a few days ago [1][2][3]

[1] https://leaningtech.com/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30167403

[3] https://leaningtech.com/webvm-server-less-x86-virtual-machin...
Agreed with most of your post until the end - was being American not given?

Surely your ancestors worked for it, but most jobs you are not even qualified for if you are not American (what you get for granted)

I think you are falling into the fallacy of hard work (which is a responsibility and a must), failing to recognize that these opportunities were given to you in the 1st place, which you rightfully justified with a good work ethic after the fact.

The point is a lot of people will not get a chance, even if they busted their asses. With this said, laziness is not an excuse either so I agree that the anti-work youth sentiment is a virus for economy and the entire country.
How much of that is child care switching from not counted to being counted? Women were working before that, just in an uncounted way
>In most companies the board would have required the resignation of the CEO after the historically bad results yesterday

That's a strong claim. The stock only dropped 25%, other tech company stocks have dropped as much as 50% in the last few quarters (Snap, DocuSign, etc.) and haven't changed leadership.
Neither MySpace nor Digg were anywhere near the scale of Meta. At it’s peak MySpace was one or two orders of magnitude smaller than Meta is today. Facebook may wither and die but they also have Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus.

And for what it’s worth there is almost nothing more I’d like to see than Meta vanishing. I hope you’re right.
That depends. I wasn't there but I would assume the shipbuilder made this known to the buyer who may well have relied on his money to believe that this obstacle would not be an obstacle. Plenty of evidence for such behavior in the past.

What I can't imagine is that it is a surprise for any of the parties involved.
I would repeat the same thing as I said here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30209760

And to your point and from my perspective, I would disagree as there are many cryptocurrency experiences where "understanding it" is reduced to similar UX as using zelle or paypal. More than likely, you've (or whomever you're describing) already made your (their) opinion and aren't interested in understanding.
Joe Biden literally said he wants immigration to replace whites and it is a good thing that the percentage of whites is shrinking.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4872045/user-clip-joe-biden-a...
Not only that, but the person sending you the serialized object might be looking for trouble. Sending you an enum value that is outside the legal range might help an attacker get into your system.
Frankly, I think the whole Meta rebranding seems like a bit of a manic impulsive decision. Of course I know there is more to it than that but there's a not insignificant chance that it was the turning point in the company's decline, if the whole Oculus/metaverse thing doesn't in fact play out in the next couple years.
Actually there are lots of factors impacting horizontal and vertical integration in the capitalist economy.

In general you are right that "external" restraints are needed to prevent a firm from competing so aggressively or moving to integrate horizontally. However, the external restraints are far and away most often free market forces.

Economies of scale are nothing to laugh at, especially in ventures with very high fixed costs. However, integration is also high risk because it comes with significant downsides.

I don't care to analyze the US cellular market, but I would be curious to what extent the way the government has regulated this market has pushed it toward mergers. And perhaps that is a good thing to have a small number of national cell carriers. People who grew up in the early telephone era would probably agree its better than having to navigate the byzantine maze of regional networks and long distance charges.

There are other mostly unregulated wireless markets that might serve as interesting case studies though. Wireless ISPs have been a booming business for decades and is still extremely dispersed in ownership. They're facing some disruption now from Starlink but that is likely years away from posing a serious industry challenge.
> If Meta dies the economy will follow

Can you expand on this? I see a company that produces net-negative societal value going through a process of price discovery. Facebook/Meta offer nothing beyond a shrinking user base to advertisers.
I lived in Beijing in 2007-2016, and as soon as the 2008 Olympics were over, you are exactly right! China was putting on a show for the world, and it turned out to only be until the Olympics over. Shortly after the Olympics, the real blocking started (Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc...). They started hardline cracking down on minorities again, riots were harshy suppressed in Tibet and Xinjiang.

You can't really trust the Chinese government. They put on a good show for the world, but it is just that.

> ~2010 China dismantles US CIA network and found out full extent of infiltration of US in PRC politics.

AKA, the air quality equipment in the American embassy that was used to tweet "crazy bad" pollution levels about Beijing AQI? That was why they blocked Twitter, because the CIA was undermining China's air quality, which was perfectly harmonious otherwise. China takes a crap in their backyard, and immediately blames the CIA for it, the world doesn't buy it anymore.

Xi is the last vestige of Mao: someone who came of age during the cultural revolution and, for some weird crazy reason, embraces it completely. After Xi, the next Chinese leader will not have remembered Mao at all, it will be interesting to see what happens.
That 40% gives you a lot more discretionary spending ability …
You could be on to something there, "he" has just "rebranded" and asked us to refer to himself under a "cool" new name and new look. Plus he is trying to start the cult of the Metaverse where we will all transcend to a new plane of existence... this does sound a lot like a mid life crisis to me.
if the US wants to keep that pipe flowing they need to do a much better job of educating the general populace and steering talent into STEM. we're doing a really crappy job with most of the babies we already have. we don't need lots more babies.
You are right, but it's not the full picture.

The government also has agencies dedicated to maintaining monopoly. It is done through patents, copyright, trade secret laws.

It's important to maintain a balance between completion and monopoly. Monopoly allows collecting huge margins that could be invested into further research that would not be otherwise be feasible financially.
Eh, the picture in the article seems to actually be a better picture of him than a lot of articles use. That being said, I think the biggest issue is his eye brows are very thin and fair, which combined with his pale skin, lips, and no facial hair gives his face very few defining features.
In too deep: the epic, doomed journey of Europe’s first narco-submarine
Doesn't that prove their point? MySpace has been in a slow death that has taken decades, but even now it still isn't completely dead. Considering Meta is so much bigger than MySpace was at its peak, I don't see why we would expect the death of Meta to be sudden.
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It's kind of a political decision that varies from country as to what extent to bail people out. The UK for example has a "Support for Mortgage Interest" scheme with various terms and conditions. I'm not sure how the politics play out in the US.
First, just to offer that it's pretty lucky to have even this much family connection going on, that's really great.

Second I think that multiple-model is pretty awesome. Groups can organically figure out what works best in different contexts. WhatsApp here, a conference call there, some long planning emails over here.

Finally I'd mention that 25 might be a very flexible call limit depending on the framework. You can do pretty huge calls if you plan out and communicate the needed structure in advance. For example, moderated participation, planning to do sharing in rounds, taking time to monitor chats, etc. It can really help people to plan their participation in a way that's comfortable and sustainable.

Just some thoughts coming from a pretty big couple of extended families, good luck.
For us it's as simple as docker build right from the repo -> push to registry for test deployment then tag with prod for rollout from there.

Probably not ideal for 20+ dev teams or high complexity deployments but this is the simplest CI and its much quicker build than node, so dev's can do it locally in all cases.
I got one set of lawyers to stop using word once. Large game platform holder would send us EULAs in word format with all sorts of nice legal placeholders. Then they had us plug those into the eula tool they developed for the the platform, which only accepted like 5 total html tags and no unicode or smart characters. We had an engineer spend about 2 weeks writing software to convert them and hand checking the eulas. Finally I had a chance to talk with legal on another matter and asked "could you just send this to us in plain text?" they responded, "oh hell we have one of our paralegals spend like 1-2 weeks each game making them really nicely formatted so they look good, does none of that work" me: "no", them "what formatting works", me: about 15 minutes explaining basic html in word parlance. Them "got it, we'll make it look good in Notepad.exe and send those from now on as .txt attachments to emails.

And they did. Saved several weeks of work on both sides per game.
Honestly, in some orgs in my company "I was asleep" would be the only acceptable answer. All the others would put you on a path of getting fired. If the whole org operates like this, no one cares about your witty remarks.

If you really don't want to work like this (and I don't), have a 1:1 with the manager, discuss boundaries, and if you can't come to an agreement, change teams or jobs.

And better yet, ask these during the interview! One question I often asked:

"In my current job, I typically leave my laptop at work when I leave at 5-6pm (unless there's a genuine ongoing emergency). Would that work in this role?"
Does HIV spread through the air?
To be honest, politicians are emperors without clothes.

Many Americans expected dems would fix the climate issue. Alas, it was all just talk. Joe Biden has allowed more oil drills than trump.

Seems like corporatism overshadows politics in countries like the USA which can make an impact in terms of Climate.
I think the author is looking for Angular + Firebase...
It's hard to describe; there were so many of them and I can't find much if anything left on the English internet that describes them. They were very diverse; some would have large screens that unfold or rotate after flipping open to create a widescreen-on-a-keyboard-stick, for example. They were high enough resolution to support two simultaneous side-by-side channels of streaming video, which people would watch on the train. Sounds normal today but it was bizarre to see back then.

The manufacturers thought the domestic market was big enough for them. In a way that protected foreign markets and allowed less mature smartphones to develop internationally until they were good enough and "cool" enough to take over Japan too. Oops.

I see this happen again and again, too, not only with phones.
I don’t know where Statista gets their numbers but Meta reported their active users this week at 1.92B. It was a drop from 1.93B which is partially why their stock tanked.
I agree ember had issues in the past, but it's come a long way and the latest version Octane/4.0 is pretty solid.

For anyone curious linkedin.com is a massive ember.js app and they're big contributors to the project.
In the UK the ongoing meme is the price of a Freddo - a small frog shaped piece of milk chocolate by Cadbury's. When I was a kid they were 10p (0.14$), now they're around the 26p (0.35$) mark.

https://www.vouchercloud.com/resources/the-freddo-index
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Zuckerberg holds around 60% of control*, see https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680118... at page 38
Wilson Sonsini (the consiglieri to the Valley CEOs) has entered the chat..