skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm looking forward to the future we have envisioned for a long time, where you carry your main computer around with you and simply drop it into a standardized i/o dock when you sit at a desk and it runs the big high res displays and accepts keyboard/mouse input, and you use it like a phone the rest of the time. (Basically, a phone that is also a laptop replacement - I know there are dockable phones now that can run a monitor and kb/mouse, but they're not really "laptop replacement" level.)

I could even imagine such a system having two different CPUs (or, more likely, different cpu performance cores in a single package) that power up/down based on wired power availability, basically just automatically getting many times faster when connected to power and not having to conserve juice on battery. Storage and memory are already fairly low power these days, and tiny. Mobile (i.e. handheld) GPUs are now powerful/efficient enough to run high-res handheld displays with all day battery life, which while probably not 4k gaming level, are more than enough to run a multimonitor desktop setup when not gaming, especially if you make the quite safe assumption that they'll have wall power to crank up the GPU whenever asked to run external displays.

I'm really excited about mobile computing over the next ten years. The Nintendo Switch and M1 iPad Pro are little glimpses into this future. I look forward to replacing the dozen computers in my lab with a single handheld device that can simultaneously virtualize many of them and conveniently multiplex several big displays between them, and come with me in my pocket when I leave.
>the browser holds a TCP connection open that has various streams multiplexed on top. One of those streams would be your SSE stream. When the client makes an AJAX call to the server, it would be sent through the already-open HTTP/2 connection

Very interesting ! I honestly didn't know that, or even think about it like that ! #EveryDayYouLearn :)
> they burnt those businesses to the fucking ground.

Sometimes with people inside them:

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/21/us/minneapolis-protest-bo...

PS why did GP get flagged? My views arent fully aligned with his but I don't think he wrote anything unacceptable. @dang can you review?
> I don't think that has any impact whatsoever.

Then you've never bothered to compare the price of a branded drug with a generic in the same pharmacy.
Seconded - this book is a must read for any software engineers that work with the internet (in my opinion)
It seems like they're taking Android in a Qubes-like direction.

https://blog.esper.io/android-dessert-bites-5-virtualization...
A decentralized ledger that does not require government input.

No government can mint more crypto due to awful monetary policy.

Also, no, money laundering is not possible on most chains since all transactions are public.
Riots are the language of the unheard
> The most effective readers and thinkers I know don’t take notes when reading.

I get what the author is saying, but this is some serious "mistaking correlation for causation" here.

I am someone who could hold everything in his mind, never needed a single note, and was constantly baffled why others wrote so many seemingly useless notes.

Then I turned 21 and had a trivial operation under general anaesthetic.

While the change to my brain function was effectively invisible to people around me, I can tell you I suddenly started needing to write. shit. down. Effectively my mental "desktop space " feels like it has shrunk.

I am now a huge fan of Anki; something I would never have needed before my operation.
> Also the number of doctors is still limited by the AMA, so even this is not fully competitive. There's an arbitrary cap on number of providers

This is an old trope but hasn’t even been superficially true for years.
The AMA does not have the authority to limit the number of doctors. In any event their political influence has become less and less relevant for decades now, so even their ability to influence the number of docs is quite limited - I am not even am AMA member - I was only during medical school to get discounts on test prep. I don’t believe most of my peers are AMA members either - they belong to their specialist groups. Meanwhile the number of medical schools and students in the US has increased substantially in part due to AMA and AAMC. Meanwhile internal medicine residencies still have to fill their ranks with imported talent (foreign medical graduates) - only the lucrative subspecialties are the ones that remain limited and competitive. There are also forces at work to limit the number of MD jobs available that have nothing to do with the supply of MDs (replacement of positions with midlevels). The limit on residency positions is a partisan federal funding issue going on for years and only recently has much headway been made.

On eye care, I can of course self prescribe but even so for contact lenses I usually end up purchasing overseas from reputable retailers because of the price fixing of contact lenses - and I’ve never been asked for a prescription. It’s not that hard to get eyewear without a prescription.
No, they weren't. What was legalized was refusing to sell, in the future, to someone who violates such an agreement. But you can't enforce the agreement.

Note that refusing to sell to people was already legal before 2007.
At the time it seemed plausible that the first group to sequence the human genome could patent it. That's since been struck down in US patent case law. But it was a real possibility.

Although this was a race it's fun to note that both sides we're learning from the other and using resources produced by the other. The assembly techniques were worked out by Gene Myers for instance, who worked at Celera.
It's not necessarily more accurate to use 69.3. If you expand the Taylor series to two terms you get an even better formula, 69.3/x+0.34. Write it as (69.3+0.34x)/x and it shows how, as the interest rate grows, using a dividend in the 70–72 range is more precise than 69.3.

[That's another way to write the paragraph "A note on accuracy" from the article]
A wise man told me that ANY change to the tax code to help the "average" guy always results in his paying increased taxes. The adoption of cryptocurrency to help the "average" guy is governed by the same principle.
Representing threaded comments through an API is often implemented terribly. HN's API in that regard is absolutely bonkers. Lobsters probably has the most convenient API, returning the full comment tree in the response. As long as you're willing to do a bit of tree traversal, the Reddit API is fine.

I also don't really think Reddit will be dropping API support any time soon. There's been no indications in that direction except for a change in the unauthenticated rate limit that was made a couple years back.
Canadian truckers are 97% peaceful! And it doesn't matter that they're disrupting Ottowa business because those businesses have insurance.
It's rare that buyers of houses and property are that thorough. On the contrary, my friend recently bought a plot of land for which the sellers did not own the title. The title company, who's only job is to verify this, completely missed it. The fake sellers made out with tens of thousands of dollars and the real owners, who are from Germany, are still haggling with my friend and trying to get her or the title company to pay for their lawyer fees, and she still doesn't have title to the land!

At least with crypto, the chain of ownership is transparent and can't be faked. So validation is cheap and easy to do.
> Early(ish) adopter here(circa 2013): initially it was a way for nerds who didn’t have street connections to buy drugs.

You are making assumptions.

It might have been your motivation back then.

It most certainly wasn't the motivation for many people I know in the space.

I was introduced to bitcoin by someone who was also promoting this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nBPN-MKefA

and the interest I developed for it was both because the tech. was interesting and new and it resonated with my political sensibilities.

Strictly nothing to do with drugs.
You can actually catch it and use it.

And I don't mean BTC I mean normal heating etc.

You could also generate energy and purt it into the grid.

Instead you feed it hash search hardware. You consume that co2 for nothing. The same as before.
He omitted step 0, that he has talked about in interviews: he wasn't just an army conscript, he went back to the army at 24 specifically to do the special forces training (that 10% pass in Sweden), that includes surviving for a week without help in Sweden's winter darkness, etc. Specifically to build character so that he would then be able to do his intended training program.
The mining process for money used to be digging $Symbol out the ground: gold, silver, oil.

Towards the end of the last millennium we ditched that standard and let central banks juggle the pools from which money is derived.

I always liked how Bitcoin went back to the mining principle: a scarce resource that is hard to produce being used as an intermediary for the exchange of goods.

The ultimate reduction of this, for me, is to base mining purely off of time. Every citizen is given a certain number of tokens per day — the same for everyone — because in the end, time is all we have in the mortal world.

I don’t know how to square that off with cryptocurrency in its current form (the rich get richer — those with lots of electricity run the mines.) Maybe there’s a future for my proof of life coin?

It’s abstract, but the usefulness in the current cryptocurrency whirl is in making me even think this might be possible. If Bitcoin is Perl 4, then what instruments will be the equivalent of Go?
Yup. That's how we think about it. Avo is for Rails what Rails is for web development. It should increase your speed a few times (3x-10x).

Also Avo is so much more than just CRUD. You can easily break out of CRUD and create your own pages and dynamic content in it; dashboards is incoming in the next month; authorization; multi-tenancy; multi-resource search; and much more.

We're trying to figure out a way so we distance ourselver from being just "a prettier activeadmin", but a full on rocket of a developer platform.

Thank you for your compliment!
Off the top of my head, I don't know. It MAY be related to the fact that 6*3 is 216, but I don't have deep enough statistics knowledge to say for sure. You coudl try it again with 3 8-sided dice and rolling 24, that should give you ~50% at 344 iterations, and ~90% at 1177 iterations. If my supposition that the mean is related to the possible rolls, then the mean should end up being 512.

Iteration counts gathered with Python and a (manual) binary search (actually faster than writing code).
I was very intrigued by the the comment that led me to the posted article:

> If you have worked with ZeroMQ, OpenAMQ, AMQP or Xitami, you have worked with code by Pieter Hintjens, a Belgian software developer.

> Out of a tragic personal situation, my attention was brought to a blog article of Pieter: A Protocol for Dying. This is quite an article to chew on. Pieter was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer with not much time left. He was very open with his disease and wrote quite a few articles about his situation. In 2016, he underwent voluntary euthanasia. If you are interested in learning from this situation, I recommend browsing through his blog.

> Here, I want to draw your attention to a different article by him: Confessions of a Necromancer. This is some sort of IT-related autobiography which begins in the old times of Microcomputer. Pieter wrote down his journey through many IT projects, companies and customers.

> It's a long article. Printed to a PDF file I read on my e-ink reader, it had 43 pages without the comments.

https://karl-voit.at/2022/01/23/Pieter-Hintjens-Necromancer/
For all practical purposes crypto is just another asset class, that gets taxed on capital gains and is registered with centralised exchanges - so 1. Just doesn’t exist for pretty much all practical purposes
My guess is that airplanes are cool/fascinating for a lot of people. Aerospace is a field where a lot of things are unknown to most of the population, which triggers curiosity even for the smallest details.

I have done IT consulting in the field, and have been genuinely happy to get a tour of some facilities and debugging software while sitting in a life-size simulator. It really tickles your engineering senses.
An empirical investigation of personalization factors on TikTok
meh whatever, I'll keep on procrastinating on getting art drawn by answering questions on the Illustrator subreddit. My desire to put together a book on how I use Illustrator effectively is pretty much nil; my desire to make videos on the subject is even less despite people telling me I should do this and could make money on it.

When Reddit dies I will find some other place to procrastinate by answering people's Illustrator questions. Every now and then a question results in me figuring out how to do a cool thing in Illustrator that I can then apply to my own work.
So someday took the "considered harmful" blog trope and IETF'd it. Now I guess someone's going to write a blog replying to this with why the robustness principle is the best thing since sliced bread. Both of them focusing on a generic phrase found in a 40 year old protocol spec, rather than just impartially laying out a series of design considerations.
Removed from the allowed guesses. If you guess "slave" and hit enter you'll receive an error.
It will be the 3rd time he quits the sport, he also won World championships as a junior already.
that particular example is a matter of UI/UX. the protocol itself is not the problem, but the client interface is.

deltachat shows that it is very well possible to do an excellent chat over smtp.

it also shows that seamless sender authentication is possible, and we can extrapolate that a forum with voting and spam removal can be done over smtp too.
"WIP".
You meet elk in the woods here in Norway occasionally. You don't even need to be far from the centre town.

I was walking in the hills above Drammen one midsummer night and found myself suddenly about two metres from one, not sure which of us was the most surprised; we stared at each other for a few moments and then it lumbered off through the woods.
It seems inconsistent that dick (which can refer to a penis, a jerk, or a Richard) is still allowed, if they're worried about derogatory meanings.

Quick edit: DICKS is allowed, DICK is only 4 letters
> Also, no, money laundering is not possible on most chains since all transactions are public.

Citation needed — as far as I know there are cryptocurrencies where this is not the stated goal. Also public does not equal no money laundering, because the transactions are at least pseudonymized.

Dubious sales on the darknet were literally the real world problem that made cryptocurrencies what they are today.
India bourse head was a 'puppet' of unnamed yogi, regulators say
- The currency of my country is collapsing, I need to buy something which has a value unconnected to my country.

- My country imposes export
controls on foreign currency. I want to move my money out of my country.

- I am unbanked and want to buy a good or service on the internet.

- I do not trust the counterparty that I am dealing with on the internet. Using cryptocurrency means that my maximum loss is the vavlu of the transaction (I don't have to give credit card or banking info)

- My government wants to seize my assets, I want to make it difficult.

- I want to send money back home to my family. Currently the only option is Western Union which is charging 20% commission. Cryptocurrency results in less than 1% commission.

- I've lost my phone and wallet, I can still get cash from a bitoin ATM using the crypto I'm storing in my brain.
Not an accountant either, but from past threads they seem to be quite different: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

See in particular this comment from a user who claims to be a former auditor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27532670
The Go language's first commit (1972)
> they’re used for things like enhancing the security of the kernel (or at least trying to) and running miscellaneous code (such as third-party code for DRM, cryptography, and other closed-source binaries) outside of the Android OS

long shot here, does this make it more possible for production releases to be closer to AOSP and then run the rest on the hypervisor ? Also the future of project tremble, meaning better upgrade paths for all devices (outside of manufacturer will which is still the main issue) ?
So one persons views implies everyones views? Also, so what? Is it against the law to have views. As long as his actions don't break the law, the freedom to think for yourself is paramount. Maybe he has reasons for his views that are compelling. Maybe he has life experiences that informed and shaped his views that are logical. Dismissal is lazy and stupid.
I hope AI can create links and backlinks in my notes for me. I guess it will be hard, because the notes are high context that's only in my head.

Most importantly, as far as I know, our brains not only make connections between concepts, but also grade them and mostly work on the strongest edges. It is not clear if we expect the same from the bidirectional note systems, or do we want to expose all the connections to "fabricate serendipity".
Good point about that guy, I didn't know that, or anything else, about him. Obviously he's nuts and I don't think most people agree with him WRT the dumb replacement theory thing. I really don't believe that most of these nice Canadians playing hockey in the street and honking their horns are advocating at all for anything remotely related to Nazism. I mean they are not in an extremely obvious way, they are only talking about and asking for things related to vaccines and they are protesting in a remarkably peaceful way. No guns, no fires, no looting, no deaths. Yet they are being demonized as if they are literally attempting to overthrow the government.

My comment was not meant to be pedantic, I don't think its ridiculous to use the term Nazi to refer to someone that espouses ideas like that guy. I think its a misrepresentation to classify this entire thing and all the people donating to it as Nazis. Maybe there is some overlap in the types of people who would donate to something like this, but there are also a ton of completely valid other reasons to support these people or take an interest in their cause and dismissing all of them as Nazis is just wrong in my opinion.
Isn’t this the Samsung Dex experience?
I still travel on 3GB/month. I didn't realize it was such a constraint. Hell when I leave the EU I rarely use data at all.

In any case, Google Maps uses half of that data. Spotify uses a lot too. If I use OsmAnd for maps, I'm fine.

Most of my internet usage is casual browsing. When I'm offline I just read books and offline articles.
Well, the obvious responses here are that (1) the law does no such thing, and (2) even if it did, the right target for public concern should be the CIA and the government theoretically controlling its behavior, not the EU.

Even if it came to a point where the EU decided that the only for to keep its citizens safe from US intelligence monitoring were to cut out all access between EU and USA internets, the problem would be the US intelligence framework, not the EU.
In this case, liquidity is pooled across the Aave protocol. There's no difference in the interest rate for someone lending / borrowing $50M or $50. It's easier, but you should probably never have more than 10-20% of your portfolio in a single wallet. And probably should shrink that down even further as your net worth grows.
I usually do it by approximation most of the time. I estimate and then I multiply to see how close I got.

Multiplication is easier. 720 / 13 for this example and 1.3% looks pretty easy this way IMO, you just need a few iterations. I immediately know the result of using 10, so I'm already down to 720/130, or 72/13. Which shows me I did something stupid because I could have started that way and not forgotten what "%" means in the first place... Anyway, using 5 as a very lazy first estimate gives me 5 * 13=65 - certainly manageable in most heads. Trying 6 gives me 78.

Looking at both results, which have about the same distance from the target value, next I'll try 5.5 and that's 5 * 13 + a half of 13, still easy, 71.5. Close enough. Multiply by ten to compensate for the initial simplification, I get 55. That's really close to the result (~53.7, using the rule of 72 it is ~55.4).

I try to segment such calculations into simpler ones, instead of doing one algorithm, and finding shortcuts. For the 5.5 I use the shortcut that it's half of ten which always is easy, and that I can split it into two easy parts. To me it's more fun that way, even if I could also do the algorithm. It's supposed to be fun and being lazy is my goal.

For division you can often find shortcuts as well. Dividing by two, and powers of two subsequently, is simple enough. Any number you can divide by makes the number you have left easier. If you start from two you get prime factorization. You just have to remember a few numbers to put them together again (i.e. multiply) afterwards. Or any number less than ten really. Here too I would try to decompose. To me merely applying the algorithm is just work and maybe counts as mental exercise, but the decomposition and finding of little shortcuts is more fun and an exercise too.
Bitcoin today is mainly seen by its investors as a store of value. The closest real-world asset would be gold, which is arguably even less ecologically friendly.
> Cow and chicken, that do not move much, tend to be tender, and fat-rich

They only don't move much because of intensive farming practices that pack them into small places to prevent movement (partly for cost efficiency, but also because Westerners have become accustomed to this mild flavour profile).

If you let your cows and chickens range free and don't supplement their feed, they tend to be lean, heavily muscled, strongly flavoured, and often pretty damn tough.
Bitcoin eliminates the need for trust during monetary transactions while backstopping central bank monetary policy. Is a big deal.
Thinking Slower
If we were to look through a list of people who organized donations to BLM, and found some radical black separatists, would/should that have changed our opinion of the protests? Seems disingenuous.
I’ve actually outlined both réal-life use cases: 1- initially anonymous online payment (we all know how that went), and 2- fringe -let’s - change - this - corrupt - system types who also would like to get rich doing it (by definition if you want to change a political economy system it’s for you to come out on top on the other end).

What other real world use case has there been for crypto so far that’s actually 1-useful and 2-adoptable ?
I thought tumblers were being actively used for laundering money.
> so 1. Just doesn’t exist for pretty much all practical purposes

Says you.

You can buy crypto person to person. The transaction isn't registered on any exchange.

You can mine it. Nothing gets registered anywhere.

If you choose to buy cryptos on regulated exchanges (why would you ?), bear the consequences of your choices.
Money is "declining".
And for 2 they can just take other assets in lieu and/or stick you in jail for non-compliance.
And every other option is inferior. This is what prevents me from ever getting an iPhone.

The best uBlock feature is the Annoyances blocklist that remove many of the cookie banners.