skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Re: your second paragraph, I should have said "at scale".

I don't think I'm ill-informed, I've spent at least 5 years in each of front-end, back-end, and SRE/devops...I won't deny that there are some things that are really difficult on front-end (and in fact I don't like doing it because I don't find the challenges it offers very rewarding, though they take a lot of time), but in my experience, back-end is much, much harder at scale.

But the big distinction is that whereas frontend design/architecture/concerns are roughly the same no matter how many users you have, difficulty of back-end scales (about logarithmically) with traffic - 1k DAU is trivial, 100k is easy, 1M is "interesting", 10M is starting to get hard, 100M+ and you need to be top of your damn game (with a team to match) or you fail hard. Most projects don't have to ever reach the difficult regions, but to be perfectly honest my (non-side-project) backend work has all been in the large scale regime, so maybe for the average project across the industry the relative difficulty is about the same.

If you're in "git push heroku main" territory, then sure, frontend is probably a lot harder than backend.

To the first point, that's all fine and good, I think you're actually correct, I'm just tired of the fanboy-ism around CSS, and maybe I'm bitter because of how obnoxious the fanboys we're back when it was truly unusable. 10+ years ago there were people arguing vehemently that things like flexbox were completely pointless and in fact DANGEROUS because CSS was already perfect and could do anything as long as you weren't a noob, which was just ridiculous and wrong. I'll accept that things have gotten a lot better now and the stakes really are much higher w.r.t. changes.
Not only empty rooms, but also without sound.
UX depends heavily on the quality of the packages in your init.el; if a maintainer has gigabit fiber at home and writes their elisp to hit the network during `(interactive)` elisp, it's going to feel slow for people on worse connections.

emacs/elisp aren't all that opinionated, there's lots of rope to shoot yourself in the foot with
Economic viability depends on price. Where mining drives up prices, outcompeting other uses, it's driving out otherwise viable uses.
I think https://gvisor.dev/ might be the closest thing I can think of to container level sandboxing that tries to add meaningful security guarantees.
I didn't know. I thought it was based on Arc90's original code from 2010, but I imagined that was js.

I initially was using the python port by ReadabiliPy, but it wasn't working as well as the js code in most of my tests, so I just switched.

But yeah, open to exploring different options to make it less complex.
I was discussing the situation as it is now, in "peacetime" earlier today

I described our current gentle, peaceful, mode of life as

"cybersecurity as it is now is... intense, it's a war zone, where your fortifications are made out of crates of nitroglycerine
any computer can be hacked, that then becomes a gateway to all the other computers
it really frosts my cookie that this was SOLVED back in the 1970s, but everyone forgot the solution"

Every three letter agency in the world has been buying up and stacking zero days for decades. If they get used, and ZERO bullets fly, it could still kill millions of people.

Think I'm being hyperbolic with that estimate? Consider the supply chain chaos when everyone was working together, trying to get you toilet paper. That could ramp up x100 for everything, money, fuel, food, medicine, power, pipelines, etc.

If people actually start taking things out, a lot of people are going to have to figure out how to re-image their systems and restore from last month's backup, then delta forward.
I think he’s saying that of all the things you could power in whatever electricity consumption regime you care to mention , bitcoin competes for supply with more socially useful things.
/r/peloton for discussions of professional cycling.

Generally high quality and informed discussions, well moderated, every year there is a Tour de France related influx of new users but the older users are kind and keen to educate.
Replicants were bio-engineered, not bred. They weren't human, they were superior to humans in many ways with the notable exception of life expectancy. So it was more the classic question of what does it mean to be alive and what rights would/should a non-human lifeform have.
Haha. “CTO in small startup” can easily mean 3 friends got together and tried to make an app in moms basement, while giving each other fancy roles.

Never look at titles alone. Their scope vary wildly across companies. Even in big corporations they can be used by friends patting each other on the back or to make employees feel important as an alternative to giving an actual raise.
The “work” does not need to be done. Doing the work cannot have a societal benefit
As a chronic sufferer of CHS, I'd be happy to tell you all about it if you're genuinely curious. But there really hasn't been a question of the connection between cannabis and cyclical vomiting since the 2004 study[1] led to a fury of other research[2].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1774264/

[2] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=cannabinoid+hyperemesis...
When you don’t give your child access to western medicine but instead to crystals, the risk is pretty fuxking high.
1. not a single mention of any scaling solutions whatsoever.

2. "zomg carbon footprint" - apparently renewables can't properly supply enough to power a tiny country size of Portugal or Netherlands? I thought we are going to power the Earth with renewables? Something seems rather inconsistent here. Of course this Malthusian cannot bring himself to utter the word "nuclear".

3. Mining pools are made up of many individual miners andm depending on the protocol, the lucky hashing units and not the pool, constructs the block, and as such would not be a trusted third party. Something he seems to be blissfully unaware of.

Even if the pool constructs the block - hashing units can be pivoted away from a malicious pool in seconds.

4. Banks get hacked and lose money on the regular, it's not unique to DeFi. Insurance for DeFi exists, just it banks purchase fidelity bonds.

5. Not a single mention of censorship resistance at all. This alone should disqualify this immediately, tbh.

Reads like something written by a privileged, out of touch person who has never had to face a day of actual hardship in his life, such as: confiscation of wealth, destruction of savings by inflation, personal bankruptcy due to sovereign default, or even outright denial of access to banking for the politically suppressed minorities.
Hey, if Apple released repair videos, device schematics, commit their translation tech and kernel development to upstream, maintained CI/CD pipelines for all major operating systems, built platform-agnostic hardware APIs for third-party vendors and built safe inroads for the modding/enthusiast community, I think their 30% wouldn't be so hard to swallow. All we got were some lame whitepapers instead.
Karma is a lottery.
You can also vote for a republican or independent. You complain about people re-electing dems but you suffer from the same issue it seems.
You remind me _exactly_ of what it like being a Linux advocate in the early 2000s when, sure, you could have WiFi, automounting media, and play videogames... if you were willing to into week-long yak shaving expeditions recompiling your kernel with various flags, checking out experimental kernel branches, playing around with WPASupplicant, etc, just to be the only one, just for your stack to break next week with the next round of updates to the userland software.

Yes, it's fascinating to know that there's proof-of-stake. It's interesting to know there's a dozen improvements technologies in the pipeline to fix these issues. It's also curious that these technologies have been in said pipeline for a good half of a decade by now, with many barriers being political within miner group rather than technological, and with the number of BTC advocates showing actual concerns for these issues to be essentially nonexistent, drowned out by the voices of scammers and grifters.
No, you don't need to enter an email.
+1 for eglot. it just works. vibes well with core emacs (and therefore minimizes bloat, among other advantages)
Isn't that why they're so loud? At least I assume they still are.
Shit, they found out?
i have stopped using lsp with javascript as js lsp servers are memory/cpu hogs. I wish there was tag based system for js/ts
Yeah, I feel this pain. I don't have any really great ideas on this front. I've started to have different review sessions using the filter function in Lurnby, but it doesn't really solve the fact that the amount to review just continues to grow.

On that end, having been using this tool and process for about a year now, I've come to the feeling that I shouldn't worry about that and just think of it as a part of my daily process.

Rather than being goal oriented about remembering something, I've just started to trust that the information is in the system and the system works. Things naturally and serendipitously appear in my review feed and my memory and retention of them improve, but in a less planned way than it might be with a more focused process.
Well picking an invalid example (C encourages the use of linked lists in situations where they aren't a good idea) and a very questionable example (automatic conversions between different SAO/AOS representations are not mostly at an experimental stage but are an important feature for performance programming in 2022) is not a good way to support a claim that isn't empirically evident.
Forbes (ME) fires journalist 2 days after her paper on hate crime is published
650K individuals' SSNs and other info stolen from WA licensing database
I'd do that too, but I keep my point that it's not for everyone in the same way that a flight is. Babies, old people, pets. They can fly to space (untested for babies AFAIK) but is it advisable? I think that there will be a market for 27 hours long flights to Australia even after starships. We'll wait and see.
Thanks for the kind words!

I didn't realize kindle kept track of your dictionary lookups. That's a cool thing and makes a lot of sense to review those.
> n Texas where ERCOT has signed demand response agreements with many bitcoin mining companies to cut power when demand is high

So the "cryptobros" think this is new and exclusive for crypto? No and no. Their hype to damage ratio is starting to match those of tobacco companies.
I feel like “does it reduce to Newton’s Laws under non-extreme conditions” is basically “is it compatible with everyday observations?” Or to invert it: “is it trivially disprovable?”

This is probably a meaningless distinction but I find it cutely fascinating.
You really twist that story, and make a lot of assumptions.
This actually sounds like a fairly good use-case. Enforced attribution (credits?) in the blockchain. But again, what’s stopping a malicious entity from making slight modifications to the source material and publishing it as their own?
TV ads? What are those? Joking aside, I literally don't remember how many years it's been since I last saw a TV ad (and it's not for not watching TV).
Well, would you tell me here if you did? This friend of mine is a very reliable guy, I trust him as much as I trust myself.
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...to avoid tracking I should click on a sketchy download pop-up?
There isn't a single mention of "nuclear" in the article, written by a Malthusian.

His estimation of how much energy is "per transaction" is flawed, due to complete disregard of available scaling solutions today.

He essentially equates a central bank transaction to a penny left in a tipping jar, that's the general standard of rigour in this article.
There goes my office windows.
Next up: how thermal control systems can be exploited to enhance band-gap transition probability to covertly cause bit-flips in air-gapped facilities. Vacuum it is.
Until they opened it up to 45 year olds I was always a year or two too old (or just male when it was approved only for females). I’m to get my third dose in a few weeks. I’m married but it just makes sense to guard against preventable illness. I’ve only been with a few partners total so it’s likely that I’m gaining some level of protection from getting a head and neck cancer.

There are some reports of gaining some immune response to HPV strains not targeted directly by Gardasil 9. This makes sense since there are hundreds of strains and while it may not have a practical affect on me, it’s a nice feeling to know that I’m gaining some protection.
Under a system of fiat currency, new currency is created when a bank makes a loan, typically under restrictions set by a central bank and within a price band that is loosely set by that central bank. There are 212 countries and hundreds of thousands of banks, each making individual decisions about when to make a loan. There are more such banks than there are miners of Bitcoin, so the fiat system is more decentralized than Bitcoin.
I am not aware of any other large consumer of power that can cut power with seconds of notice without economic harm.

Eg: google/facebook datacenters, aluminum smelters, factories, etc.
Once mars settlement gets going, the moons of mars Phobos and Deimos also make for attractive targets.

It might be that once starship works, we do all kinds of things, and it turns out that asteroids work better than planetary surfaces. So the belt becomes the focus of economic activity, and the mars colony is just a novelty kept alive by the Musk Foundation.
You’re making two points there. The response to the first is that the vast majority of cancer causing strains of HPV produce no noticeable warts.
The second is yep, it’s common as hell - at least in older generations, post widespread availability of gardisil
> Outdated, inaccurate, sloppy.

Just read the article. It’s very well sourced and addresses e.g. renewables. I encourage people to look at it instead of relying on this comment to make a judgment call.
It is also just the advertising, even without any tracking.
Ads invade far more than privacy.

Every ad is influencing you in a way, and exposure to thousands of ads will influence you thousand times.
An unrelated note:

In this article there are these red text excerpts. Sometimes immediately before the location of the text. I get that these probably make more sense in desktop or magazine format, compared to phone. But I find them amusing nonetheless: it’s an ad break where the article advertises itself.
Excellent article, really helped me learn.

I'd like to add a correction. The binary/ascii/utf-8 value of 'a' (hex 0x61) is not 01010111, but instead 01100001.

This is used incorrectly in both the Giant reference card, and in the "ascii encoding" diagram above it.
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/i...

Under the “Preventing HPV” section.

You can also be vaccinated as an adult. I’m half way through my series.
Well, if I want to let him explore on his own somewhere outside, it might be an option. It isn’t something that we would sneak on him, he is already into gopro. It might work for some early trial runs? Like, walk around the block by yourself with this on (for a five year old, definitely not for a 10 year old).
> C isn't the Lingua Franca of fast software anymore.

What is it, then?

> The reason why C programs can sometimes be faster, today, however is not an intrinsic property of the language but rather its inability to allow incompetent programmers to hide their bad data structures.

I'm not sure I manage to parse that properly.
What's wrong about not being able to hide bad data structures? And how is this making C faster?
It quotes sources who have admitted to lie to advance their agenda. Carefully writing out reference to known bad faith actors isn't well sourced, it's misinformation.
Like others said, the start of these things was team fortress 2, also a valve game.
Prediction markets : The Delphi method :: Classical liberalism : Liberalism
> The “work” does not need to be done.

That point is up for debate, but that's not the point I'm addressing.

> Doing the work cannot have a societal benefit

I'm just pointing out that this use of electricity makes new renewable electricity deployments viable when they otherwise would not be. In that sense, if you think that replacing fossil fuel generation with renewables is valuable then bitcoin mining is valuable in that sense.

Renewables are cheaper already than fossil fuels. Their electricity generation is just not stable enough to replace all of fossil fuels. We can use bitcoin mining to smooth out supply/demand of electricity which allows us to use a higher proportion of renewables in our supply than would otherwise be possible.
Making idle threats of nuclear holocaust is inexcusable independent of context. I don't come into your house and idly drop threats of murdering your family, your family's extended family, and anyone who ever associated with your family but only if they join a club I don't like.
So I almost disagreed with your post in the sense that no consumer would check a block chain to determine ownership.

However your last paragraph is actually meaningful. Yes, it provides a way for digital assets to be time stamped. And that has value, not for consumers but for creative.

Narrow your use case to the creator rather than the consumer and you have a worthwhile point.

Of course right now it means little, I could basically NFT my neighbors digital art, before he does, and thus "prove" I had it first.

However, assuming this catches on, having a common way of time stamping copyright materials has significant value.
What a gripping read. Probably the most curious part is that this is the EE380 course but the topics that need to be probed are largely the domain of economics, philosophy and law. And since crypto is new, these are arguably at the cutting edge of those fields. Nobody has ever had to deal with actual immutability of a trade good before. There is work here to synthesise cryptocoins into the existing frameworks.

It may not be the most exciting area to work in, but these are new.
With Bitcoin, anyone can create new coins via mining - but it takes a lot of work and is difficult. With fiat, only central banks can print new money but it is cheap and easy for them to do so. Claiming traditional fiat is decentralized is like saying Central Banks are decentralized. It is simply not true.
I don't suppose "leaving mission control" in contravention of an order to stay during a crisis is, in and of itself, a felony.

What you're likely to find is an issue is that the security guards at NASA can arrest, if the links above are correct, and you're likely to fund yourself in a predicament if you try to leave and they don't want you to.

I'd imagine working at NASA, and at least some other space launch companies, especially those that provided services to government and defence agencies, come with additional conditions beyond what one might expect stacking shelves at a supermarket.
I know it is a meme. However, if Steam ever make Half-life 3 a reality. It will be one of the most hyped games ever. Mostly organic hype and a great game if their history tracks.
..and it's absolutely not possible to build more nuclear powerplants..?

We are going to settle Mars by relying on windmills. That's the plan?
Or that making humans "multiplanetary" is some sort of noble, drop-everything-and-pursue-at-all-costs goal as if living on Mars won't completely suck.
E.g. energy storage systems
I get way too excited looking at this. I can't wait for full resolution.
A risky move. If successful Mozilla will be double-dipping into ad money - getting paid both by Google and Facebook.

But it can also be the last straw that breaks its reputation and accelerates its demise.

Short term I predict the former to happen, to be followed by the latter.
For some context surrounding the mathematical difficulties of general relativity at the time, I recommend the book Einstein's Italian Mathematicians: Ricci, Levi-Civita, and the Birth of General Relativity.

https://www.amazon.com/Einsteins-Italian-Mathematicians-Levi...
They have been selling "NFT"s for 10 years.
"It is pretty obvious you have fallen for a lot of the propaganda "

Sure thing, thats what I've heard from right or left winged "anarchists" and other self declared woke or enlightened people countless times.

" I used to trust the news, media and government as well"

Reality is, I stopped doing this long ago, when I was 15 or something.

So I think I now can evaluate quite neutral, the validity of nazi sources, government sources, anti vaxx sources, chemtrail etc. and I do not have to bend reality around my ideology. I can take a truth, no matter where it comes from. But there is not much truth coming from the nazis for example. Truth was never a concern for them. Power is. (I read Mein Kampf, too). And lies feed their twisted power. From the beginning - they even made a propaganda ministery.

In either case, my personal observation, from many direct encounters with them, is:

There are still lots of nazis around today. Only the very simple ones do not hide themself. Most of them wear suits today.

But no, they are not strong enough, to take power. If they could, they would. They do it everywhere local they can. Terrorizing anyone not white.

But I never said, I support special government restrictions to those poor oppressed racial freedom fighter. (normal criminal code is sufficient). The fact that you assume I do, because I explained why those special restrictions have popular support, shows how much you think in fixed patterns.
> Its cool to see…

Finally! :-)
15 of 23 Monkeys with Elon Musk’s Neuralink Brain Chips Reportedly Died
Email is not delivered reliably either. There are many blockers. Either you are not allowed to enter a perfectly working address. They might use some list of domains they think they are bad (happens to me increasingly). The programmer might have hand-crafted their own regexp for "valid" email addresses. The email provider might not accept certain incoming mails. I am on several lists that say, sorry our emails are not deliverd on hotmail, yahoo, whatever. Harmless hobby stuff, nothing spammy or illegal.
Nothing, except the timestamp would indicate which was first. (I don't know, but I'm guessing, an NFT has a timestamp?)
In Praise of ‘Line Goes Up’
I honestly cannot imagine how sophisticated cloud software will be in ten years. So much will be hashed out, that it will be truly like building software with legos. The idea of using libraries or abstractions over infrastructure will grow and eventually mature. I think software wont be automated, but the interfaces we implement for custom logic will get smaller and smaller
I'm surprised that streaming boxes don't pause the stream when no one is looking, so the consumer has to watch the ads to continue play. This could be marketed as a feature.
The most astonishing thing for me is what Google Images still doesn't have a slightest idea what to do if you give URL as a parameter, even when there is no results.

I need to click the camera icon and paste URL there.
Having someone as a producer is like saying "X approves this movie".
Thank you for your article! Anecdotally, this is a phenomenon I see in high pressure service companies, like McKinsey’s of this world: there’s a very restricted, idiosyncratic vocabulary used by people working there driven by the idea that it will promote sales.
Agreed, but you can make it manageable if you do it a lot. First give your CF runner full permissions. Then once you have your CF done and working, take away all permissions from your CF runner. Then add them back one by one as it fails.

You can even build a script to run it, check the errors, update IAM, and then run it again.

Eventually you'll have a set of IAM least privilege rules. It's a pain but it's secure.