skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The change from it being regulated as a security to a commodity will be most interesting. They're also supposed to be dropping tax reporting on transactions lower than $600, IIRC. This could open up the door for crypto to be practically used as an everyday currency.

I think the problem still lies in what was hit on in the article: nobody wants to wait 20 minutes for their transaction to confirm fully. Additionally, nobody wants to pay a $20 ETH gas fee for a $2 "microtransaction".

I do see exciting developments happening with crypto though, especially with technologies like zkRollup, which would bundle transactions, to bypass the high ETH gas fees.

Right now I think XLM and Nano are among the few examples of crypto currencies that are both fast enough, and have low enough transaction fees, to actually be practical for utilization as a currency for day to day purchases. Though perhaps someone can correct me if I'm failing to mention better options.
Ok, I get your point, but the whole point about comparing mature tech to carrying water on your head before running water is ridiculous.
I completely fail to understand how we are having this discussion on hacker news of all places.

If you have ever written a line of code you should understand that things have order. If search engines didn't try to organize results the result you are looking for could be on the first page or the 100th.

While I think it's fair to say that most people don't understand that google changes results based on the person. I have to imagine most people at least understand a basic concept that search results are organized in some way. Either by humans or machines (or likely both). That organization is complicated and has a number of factors in play and if done correctly should bubble up what is true.
Work as a DB admin in an accounting firm or something, and avoid job boards - just apply online through the company website. You might have an aunt who knows of some job openings in her office.
Never understood how this makes sense.

Just make they hydrogen into methanol or whatever and use mostly existing tech instead.
Admitting there are two sides is hardly admitting both points of view are equal. This attitude on both sides of if you believe “reasonable thing” that means you believe “unreasonable and unreasonable to infer from what was said” thing creates a lot of animosity.

In all honesty your attitude creates a lot of the problems you describe.

It’s a free country if people don’t want to be vaxxed they can take their chances with the 99.9% survival rate for those under 50. Or the lower survival rate if they are over 50.
I remember a sushi restaurant near my had purchased stacks of tablets, hoping them + digital menu would replace their paper menus. This was long before the pandemic.

I’m not sure of the specific reason, but they ditched those tablets a few months later.
We’ve seen quite a few of these “I tried a Mac” articles on here, and this is the usual for these posts: The UI conventions of macOS are quite different from Windows (and thus also from the mainstream Linux desktop environments, which mostly ape Windows).

The author thinks the macOS way is weird/annoying/wrong, without realising that this is just an emotional judgment caused by his own (in)experience rather than a problem with macOS.

The differences do chafe until your mental model adapts itself. The inverse is also true. When I happen to use Windows, I hate how I can’t drag a window anywhere near the edges without the snapping behaviour kicking in. I hate having to use Ctrl-C for copying, since that means something quite different in Unix, etc.
Are film critics losing sync with audiences?
different compositions. what we call "oil" actually ranges through so many configurations you might as well think of it the same way we think of juice. sulfur and other impurities can change the game dramatically.

it's also the reason Alberta's tar sands have few importers, because not everyone is capable of refining it (which leads to Canada having to export it, and import foreign oil).

there are refineries in the US that only work effectively on Russian oil -- and I'm sure there's similar issues elsewhere in the world. they can probably adapt but it's not as uniform as we'd think.
> More likely is that in 2008, the balance sheet was loans to banks (paid back), whereas in 2019+, the increase was from money being handed to people?

Unsurprisingly, the lion's share of that money handed out for covid relief wasn't given to people. It was corporations that, once again, walked away with most of it. Going back even further, the 2016 tax bill also provisioned way more money to corporations compared to the time-limited-bone they threw at people.

While its fair to say handing out money can cause inflation, lets not kid ourselves about who is really getting that money.

https://theintercept.com/2020/12/04/covid-irs-corporation-ta...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/business/corona...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/christianweller/2019/05/30/the-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/us/politics/banks-are-big...
> As long as you listen to your body and hydrate when thirsty,

Are you aware that some people don't ever feel the need to drink or feel thirsty? I myself used to barely drink water throughout the day and I have relatives who don't even drink a glass of water a day. I also have family who have specifically been told by their doctors to drink more water.

I never said water drinking is a panacea, I said most people would benefit from drinking a lot more.
Not to forget, memories are not only unreliable per se, but also change with each act of their remembrance.

For example, by character peculiarities, new experiences, current circumstances, etc.
Often they are made up on a whim, without the remembering person being aware of it.

So in a sense, memories have a past and a history.
It's getting worse, not better. They can't even get font rendering right.
(I created an account just to upvote and comment on this)

Absolutely, nevermind managing OS upgrades and needing to use configuration management to mitigate against drift. It took a lot of effort to make sure that each server was not a special snowflake that could not be reliably reproduced.

Also, dealing with vendor warranties, and being on hold with HP (or whoever), then assuring them you're running the latest firmware.. please for the love of god just replace the failed memory/disk/cpu.

I found the sheer physicality of computing infrastructure to be a source of exhaustion and burnout. It's a big part of the reason why I'm a software developer now :)
Hey, I'm the author of the article. Thank you so much for the feedback!

Yeah, look like I get the relation between Emitter and Type Checker in the reversed way [1] :D The type checker should provide an EmitResolver. I'll update the post and the diagram!

[1]: https://basarat.gitbook.io/typescript/overview/checker#assoc...
Perhaps it would make more sense if we identified in the conversation the difference between Joe Rogan the private individual and Joe Rogan the public persona.

I can see the point you make when it comes to a persons personal life, but when it comes to a publicly aired entertainment show the choice of guests and opinions aired _are_ the political leanings of that public persona. He’s cannot just a sounding board as he is making the decisions of who gets air time.
I would love to hear a bit more about how you built your consultancy firm. I've done some consultancy work for local companies, and I'm looking to focus on similar work (helping local companies with ERP system integrations). If you have some time, I would love to connect and ask you some questions! If you can, please reach out to alon@greyber.org. Thanks!
Leniax – A Lenia simulation library powered by Jax
This project looks cool and its video is really well-made. The segment with Frank works perfectly to explain how to play the game, while still managing to be entertaining.

Honestly, from the title screen shown at the start of the video, I was expecting the project to be a quick Minecraft hack and the video to be the standard geek talking in monotone over screen capture footage. I was pleasantly surprised when a fully animated turtle dropped on to the screen and then it soon cut away to the split-screen shot that shows you the 2D plane in the 3D world.

I don't really have any feedback about the game itself because I haven't had a chance to play the demo yet, but I just wanted to say that it's evident that a lot of effort was put into this game and the presentation video.
..and by extension those who gained their senses back experienced a ...repair to the nerves and blood vessels in their nose? Is that any different that nerve repair in the brain?
Vector Podcast – Journey of Vespa from Sparse into Neural Search
Hi, we do fairly unsexy or unzesty work. I love it as I've gotten used to work life balance and predictability.
Maybe more important than social justice is putting "just" on social ice?
Lighting up cancer cells with pH-activated nanoparticles
NASA spots record breaking, comet headed towards Earth
> unless you have a solid plan to fully utilize it for the full length of the purchase

Hum... I'd say it's much more reasonable to look at the ROI. Making investments to supply peak demand or to hedge against rare risks is perfectly ok.
Author here. My idea here is that you can extract a lot of knowledge from watching people do real-world coding and twitch is an excellent venue for this.

Do you buy it? It's more time-consuming than just reading a tutorial, but so much missed when you don't see someone at work.

The one thing I'm not sure of is the best way to extract this knowledge. I try to catch myself saying, 'wait how did they do that!' or being surprised by something. Then I try to figure it out myself.

What streamers did I miss?
>but production is still a few million barrels (per day) short

That fits perfectly with what OP said. If the production wasn't limited, there would be more production.
>America has been at war with itself for 2 years.

more like 8 years aka. the ramping up of identity politics and other cultural marxist shenanigans
My favorite anecdote about Lewis and Clark:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/lewis-c....
Machines do not have narrative-interpretation bugs associated with Superiority Complex, humans do, Arthur.
True, keeping the LH2 below its boiling point is, energetically, strictly cheaper than producing as much new hydrogen as would have boiled off, and then chilling that... But, it incurs the added complexity cost of building refrigeration plumbing into the tank, and maintaining that. That could mean the tank has to be above ground, for easy access (which might be needed anyway).

My expectation was that native electrical energy will be cheap enough that wasting some is better than complicating your system. Each tradeoff will be an engineering analysis. In this case it will all depend on how good your insulation is, which is of course better in an underground tank. Many old conventions will be overturned as the marginal cost of electrical power at peak times gets cheaper.

Both will be tried, so we will see.
> As an example, are there two sides to the flat earth debate? If you say yes, then you're admitting that people who think the earth is flat have an equal standing with someone who knows that the earth is round.

No, that's not true. One can acknowledge the existence of two sides while still maintaining that one of those two sides is entirely without merit.

And in fact it is essential to do this because history shows that simply denying the existence of people with crazy points of view does not make them go away, and in fact often increases their power and influence, ironically, because the denial of their existence is actually evidence that their conspiracy theories are correct, that they are in fact the victims of prejudice.

Flat earth is an interesting case in point. It is actually quite challenging to show that the earth is round in a way that does not require you to take anyone's word for anything.
I mean maybe if you're using vim all the time, but most of my apps require mouse interface, so my hand is usually near the trackpad. Even when I'm using external monitors I still use the laptop keyboard and trackpad.
> Shouldn't core inflation include everythign that "regular people" need to keep food on the table and a roof over their head and a basic existence

That’s headline inflation. It’s politically relevant. If you're running for Congress or the President of the United States, this is the one that gets you in and out of office.

Core inflation is monetarily and thus more financially relevant. It singles out what central banks can strategically respond to. (You don’t want to raise rates because an energy exporter invaded a food exporter; rates aren’t the problem.)
I work as a Parent and Homemaker. My mom taught me all sorts of useful skills as I was growing up, and I enjoyed Home Economics in Middle School, so I'm not surprised that raising a child and taking care of a home (inside and out, including felling timber, digging plumbing, and repairing the frame of the house) is my favorite employment so far. Previously my most engaging work was as a High School Teacher (math and science) at a small school (fewer than 100 students), helping students practice lifelong learning. Thankfully my spouse earns enough money to support us. I gladly moved with her when she landed this job.

What do I want to do? My child has some disabilities, so I'll likely be in the Parent role full-time for awhile. It continues to be a second childhood, and I'm parenting myself along the way with the help of a professional counselor, The Blindboy Podcast, and authors through their books. After shedding several hobbies these past few years I'm slowly spinning up practice in software development, specifically to help people learn (the software I'm familiar with in public schools had a lot of problems). I'm also interested in making games, again to help people learn (while also escaping into game-land). Ideas are cheap, so if you'd like to make a game to help us better understand the hyperobject of Earth's ecosystem (see also: ecology and complexity science), please do! Number Munchers was fine and all, but we can do better.
That said, I'm also ready to go without using this technology and focus on rewilding whatever land I'm on, along with changing my diet to eat mostly whatever is grown here and by nearby farmers. Computers are fun and useful tools, but we're still animals in meatspace.

I haven't included any contact information in my profile yet because I'm not ready to collaborate or be otherwise employed. That will likely change. The HN community has many people who know far more than I do, and some seem to share the general values of helping the land, water, air, and life on Earth be healthier and more resilient as the average of annual weather changes.

Edit: formatting
This is a powerful idea! If I understand Monocle's use case, JS has similar AST parsing and code generation tools that are used broadly. There may be some ideas to learn from that community.

JS AST specs: estree [0] and babel's AST [1]

Parsers: babel [2], acorn [3], or espree [4]

Transformers: babel, recast [5], or jscodeshift [6]

Codegen: babel or escodegen [7]

[0] https://github.com/estree/estree

[1] https://babeljs.io/docs/en/babel-parser#output

[2] https://github.com/babel/babel

[3] https://github.com/acornjs/acorn

[4] https://github.com/eslint/espree

[5] https://github.com/benjamn/recast

[6] https://github.com/facebook/jscodeshift

[7] https://github.com/estools/escodegen
The main thing Covid has shown, imo, is that there exists a segment of the population that will do everything in their power to sabotage good-faith efforts of beating the virus in an effort to prove they’re right.
https://archive.ph/Ys1Cs
Wow, I did about the same thing. Took me about 23 years to go from using Frontpage to put rotating, flaming skulls any page I made to my job at Apple.
The Napoleon invasion in 1812 started with deep Russian humiliation. But then the Russians won.

The Winter War of 1939 started with deep Russian humiliation. But then the Russians won.

The WW2 started with deep Russian humiliation and mind-bogglingly terrible losses. But then the Russians won.

On the other hand, the Russo-Japanese war and the WW1 were lost because of the political decisions rising from unrest at home.

This war started by Russian humiliation. How it's going to end remains yet to be seen.
I might be wrong but it sounds like what excited you was seeing the progress of the tools, not necessarily what YOU can do with the tools. If that's the case then yeah, it's probably getting harder to put your hands on tools that are orders of magnitude greater than what you just had.
I'm learning guitar, all the tools I can get are all very exciting because I haven't seen them before, and I could acquire them a lot faster than I can improve my abilities. But if I don't put in the time to advance myself along with the tools they will quickly become "boring", but only because I'm not able to use them effectively.
> It's like complaining that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was funded from profits from Microsoft, and therefore Windows should be FOSS software.

Except that no one confuses Microsoft with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. I'm sure that a lot of people are either unaware of the existence of Raspberry Pi Limited, or don't know the distinction between it and the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

I'm not saying Raspberry Pi Limited should not exist, or should not sell hardware. I'm just saying that it is understandable that some would be unaware of and perhaps surprised its existence and the distinction between it and the Foundation.
Inflation outpacing traditional stock market returns.
Even if you do everything right; if you earn an average salary you are doomed.
I imagine once you figure out which craters correspond to ones that came in at an angle which would have hit earth and compare that to all the impacts you have had on earth one could figure it out.

The thing is that on the moon the craters remain visible for a much longer period of time while on earth they get covered up by plate shifts, erosion, ocean impacts, etc. So instead it might be a way to calculate how many asteroids likely have hit earth in general throughout history whether we have found the craters on earth or not. Then you could calculate based on the size of the craters on the moon which ones would have been earth catastrophic events (taking into account any diminishing impact energy due to our atmosphere). Which would tell us how many the moon saved the earth from. In terms of how many since human ancestors were evolving we would have to then date earth catastrophic craters on the moon. I'm not sure if this can be done through photographs or if we would have to get surface samples.

Then comparing that number to the fraction of earth covered/protected by the moon to the total area on earth we would have a decent idea of how many of these events happened one earth even if we haven't discovered the evidence for them on earth.
Anyway, about "distribution centers" - just have an optional turn when approaching some town, choosing between the central train station and the "distribution center" location. That in itself does not sound like much of an issue.

However, other comments suggest that freight needs _slow_ speed and must avoid tunnels. Maybe that's the reason?
Check https://haveibeenpwned.com/ and put in your e-mail address, it may provide more details about where the leak was originated. A coworker got a "Your credentials found in the Dark Web" and HIBP showed more details.
It would be nice, to see what exactly the people are sending who are trying to impersonate you. Though my hunch is that it's deemed a potential security risk. Instead I rely on bounce messages from invalid addresses spammers are trying to send to, to show me what they were trying to send. It's rarely ever anything too exciting.
The sources of this database are largely outlets of self-promotion. I’d consider my own site part of the IndieWeb—I literally developed it at an IndieWebCamp—but you won’t find it listed here due to that sampling bias.
Some of it is simply a regional transport issue. The major Russian oil importers appear to be the Pacific Northwest states, by far:

https://www.sightline.org/2022/03/04/pacific-northwest-state...

> "The refineries do not rely on Russian oil equally. Nearly 60 percent of Russian crude imported to Washington went to the Tesoro/Marathon Anacortes refinery, and another 29 percent went to the BP Ferndale refinery. Russian crude made up almost 7 percent of all crude refined at the Tesoro/Marathon Anacortes refinery from 2009 through 2021."

Getting oil from Bakken or Pennsylvania would likely be expensive, and also refineries are optimized to process specific grades/types of crude oil. The best solution would be for the US government to prioritize the transition to renewables in Oregon and Washington.
It's nice to see others who feel the same. I use a 1L bottle but same deal; whenever I feel a bit off, chugging some water is usually enough to feel normal again. And if I'm consistent with my water, I usually don't feel off to begin with.

Same about caffeine! I think a lot of people are addicted to caffeine and think withdrawal is what normal energy level is like, and caffeine boosts you. For me it's been the complete opposite. Now that I don't drink coffee I always feel energy, without the psychological effect of thinking that I'm tired if I'm not drinking coffee.
Talk about your mud-flaps, Lewis and Clark got 'em.
If the thread had been 5 years I think you would be right to pick Apple for lowest TCO including updates. The time period is 3 years however and there are Android smartphones that receive updates for that long so will likely be able to find an Android phone with a lower TCO. It gets a little more complicated if resale value is included in the TCO but I think certain Android phones will come out slightly ahead anyway.
>We're talking about social science, not biology here, so the individual is the atomic unit.

Not every observable property is available on the "atomic unit". Some only appear (emergent properties) after the association and observation of many such units, that is, in a group.

In particle-terms, a single atom can't be a crystal.

Or a living organism.

But there are absolutely things that happen at the level of crystal forms or living organisms, etc, that don't happen at the single atom level.

>You can talk about tendencies across a group, but cognition is inherently done on an individual level, even accounting for network effects.

Only in a crude understanding of cognition.
In retrospect, they should have left all these special input types out and let application developers handle it with Javascript. There are too many real world cases they cannot handle, and real world knowledge probably shouldn't be hard coded into web browsers in the first place. The date entry is an example of something that is particularly useless - it is not flexible enough.

I don't want the browser to know or dictate what date format to use, that is the application's job, and the date input doesn't even let web applications specify the format. So you have a substantial engineering effort half implemented across a handful of browsers that approximately no one can use.
> When did this start, and when is the drought going to be over?

It started when we as a society let the tech cos get too big.

...Why does that matter? All the talent decided its better to get paid by the big tech cos and work a job instead of starting their own tech co. In fairness trying to compete with the big tech cos is a fools errand. Right now we're in a weird period of history where it just doesn't make financial sense to go start a novel company when you could live the cushy Big Tech Co life for roughly the same amount of money, yet substantially less risk.

When is it going to end? When a butterfly in Africa flaps its wings.