skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People always point out big cities, but forget how abysmal taxis were in small towns.

Not just that, but people forget how bad they were in cities prior to the pressure Uber created. The article asks "Why Is a Company That Lost $20 Billion Claimed to Be Successful?" but the answer is obvious. It transformed the industry. It made a big impact on my life. I no longer had to stress about getting a cab home from pretty much anywhere. When traveling, I know I won't get my face ripped off or have an issue with mistranslation. If it were around earlier, I would have likely driven and made some extra cash when I was home from college. No one would hire me for a few weeks or extremely variable schedule so this would have been a great option.

Today's cabs are better behaved but only because people have alternatives.
Read a few articles and even novels from the 80s and poeple constantly refer very good programmers as "wizards". Also the sub culture of DND sticks hard. I guess most likely the reason was computer programming back in 80s was mostly low level considering one had to use assembly/C/Pascal for serious PC programming.
There's no potential scenario where that happens (only scenarios with no potential to occur in reality).

Governments are not going to give up the critical aspects of economic control and self-determination that come from national currencies, generally. They could already do that with gold, and they overwhelmingly have had absolutely no desire to do it (for obvious reasons). If Bitcoin gets a lot larger and a lot more stable you may see an occasional small nation, in the midst of economic crisis, peg itself to Bitcoin; whenever the confidence crisis wanes, they'll promptly unpeg to regain flexibility and control.

The extreme majority of nations will strongly prefer to control their own destiny in terms of currency and retain the vast flexibility and power that comes with that control.

One might as well expect nations to give up militaries in the name of peace. That's a similar fantasy outcome that no doubt many millions of people believe could possibly happen (it can't).
yes.

it is also possible to change the contents of what the URL points to without changing what the NFT is.

Almost all NFT's are an index. No one seems to understand that they are not owning a digital item, they are owning a reference address. Nothing about the NFT substantiates the contents of the address. that is OpenSea in a nutshell

However, some NFT's like the bored apes use a multi-variable reference and then those variables act as parameters on an open-source protocol for generating the NFT. In other words, the NFT is not a URL, but a key-value dictionary like {eyes:blue, hair:brown, hat:cap, hatcolor:blue} (i dont know off hand the actual attributes used for bored apes).

This second method is closer to what people think NFT's are in the first place, and is leagues better than the URL to a centralized server but it is still ultimately an index of some kind that relies on being substantiated by something not on the block chain.
If it was actually illegal to sell computers that refused to allow self-compiled code, like the RMS comment proposes, what I stated in my original comment would be Apple's legal defense. Said hypothetical law would just mandate that Apple continue handing out provisioning profiles for self-compiled code. It would not mandate that Apple not have a code signing or provisioning regime at all; you would need a different law to do that.
The influence bots used the wrong GPT3 model.
Google One comes with phone, chat, or email support in 23 languages. Hit the support button and they call you within minutes, which is a support system on par with Bloomberg terminals. $1.99/month.
VASIMR is a specific type of magnetic nozzle thruster built by Ad Astra and which has never flown. Hall thrusters have been flown since the 70s and 80s and have been rapidly developed since the mid 2000s to fill a variety of niches. Magnetic nozzles are cool and will likely be very important for low power thrusters and future high power thrusters, but at this point VASIMR doesn't have many concrete advantages over Hall thrusters except perhaps in flexibility of propellant choice.
I answered the GP based on my understanding of "closure" meaning different things for moment models vs turbulence. I think they're referring to energy partition scaling in saturated turbulence.
Would be better to incentivize 24 hour grocery stores to provide low cost leases to fast DC charge networks. 20-30 minutes grocery shopping or dining is the new charge experience, versus five minute fill ups at your traditional petrol dispenser. Those who can will charge at home or work most of the time.
I believe NFT's primary utility is that of tax avoidance and/or money laundering. It is very similar to how multi-millionaires and billionaires buy art pieces for tens of millions of dollars.
When I used Ubuntu about 10 years ago, it was clear that they were pushing to make Linux more accessible. When I dropped by their website last week, it was clear that they were more interested in commercial clients. That's fine if that is where success lies for them. There are plenty of other options for Linux users.

I do hope that a clear replacement pops up soon. One of the big advantages of Ubuntu's dominance was the ability to suggest a Linux distribution to someone without them receiving a conflicting recommendation from someone else. (That, and I'm not going to suggest my distro of choice simply because it is not suitable for people who are new to Linux.)
The thing about a flash attack is that you don't need to be rich to buy that many tokens. You can borrow funds, buy the tokens with borrowed funds, execute your vote, sell the tokens, and then return the funds all in the same transaction.

The only money you would need is the cost of gas.
Structured like that, it honestly sounds like the only thing that "went wrong" is that an unplanned third party end ran their "technically this is completely by the book" rug pull.
Where are these urban gas stations going to provide EV parking?
Penmanship
The sources for those charts are very questionable. It's indeed difficult to measure desktop usage and most metrics are heavily biased due to vocal minorities.
The rise of brand-new, second-hand electric vehicles
>I've lived in France.

Where do you think the north east-corner of France is? Hauts-de-France or Grand Est?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_France
> They just didn't foresee

You're assuming that it wasn't intentionally designed that way.

The regularity of these events should makes it impossible to believe that they're all accidents... it's also not possible to figure out exactly which ones are and which aren't, which is itself no accident. (Or in which cases a third party exploited the vulnerability prematurely...)

Particularly so in that the advertised functionality of the system was obviously a non-sustatinable ponzi scheme... It was always going to explode, the only uncertainty would be how.
Huh. Interesting.

I've never done yoga in my dreams, but I do relax/meditate once in a while and have techniques for crafting and going to relaxation bubbles in the midst of whatever dream/dream timeline I'm in. It's funny to consider that as a spiritual practice people train for.
Anecdata, but with their push for snaps I moved away to NixOS on my personal computers and to debian on my servers...
> Question 2. Why do we refer to them still in mainstream discourse as systems that even qualify as cryptocurrencies?

Because a sizeable part of the population that doesn't care about cryptocurrency but cares about climate change has been sold on the idea of it. They were told that PoS can get by without the energy waste of PoW.

Marketing for PoS was pretty good.
Reminds me about the theory about how the Persian Gulf was the origin of the first civilisations and the origin of the myth of paradise. As the water rose people was displaced and eventually ended up forming ur.
Empathy and kindness is the top, fundamental value I hold professionally, but I am struggling to understand why you would re-assess after a single incident. If a large fraction of candidates showed signs of extreme stress, sure. One candidate, though, isn't enough to determine anything meaningful, in my opinion. As Mack "Bumpy" Freeholder famously said "one thrown laptop is on them, but two thrown laptops is on me!"
"he need for reading glasses varies quite a bit and is probably a good yardstick. Some people get their first reading glasses at 40 other’s 60, that’s a huge range." I'd like to meet someone at 60 who hasn't aged. They might not need reading glasses but pretty sure they will otherwise be old, with gray or balding hair, bad knees, etc.
Ya, on one hand I understand people trying to monetize their work, and trying to be on the forefront of how that’s done. On the other, it feels a bit dishonest if the seller doesn’t believe in the tech enough that they too would buy in. Kind of reminds me of MLMs.
It can be very difficult for some people to unwire themselves from IOS. It depends on how important this is to someone. I switched to graphene and FOSS apps a couple years ago. The new level of security and privacy are invaluable to me.
yes. WASI has the potential to replace containerized services (ie. docker, k8s).
And, in particular, not the ones you relied on.
Why should EV chargers be at gas stations?
This[0] appears to be the main project working on Python. As with all language ports, YMMV.

I personally would wait until after Godot 4 and the new GDExtension system are out and, if it's possible, people start making language support as plugins rather than needing to recompile Godot from source.

[0]https://github.com/touilleMan/godot-python
The mix of having access to Pegasus, PNR database, records from delivery services and more makes it clear that it's not a solo/individual hacker/group doing all of this, it would require extensive compromise of multiple organizations to get access to those kind of things.
The speed at which computers run is beyond human intuition and beyond the speed for humans to respond. A killer robot will kill everybody in range practically instantly. It would be nothing like what movies show.
$182M of theoretical value that is. Until the "attacker" actually trades it for real money the value of this (yet another) random currency is zero.

The pricing of widely known crypto is pretty dubious as it is. Pricing for off-brand cryptos is more marketing than fact.
I've been burned out before. If I were you, I'd take the vacation first, and relax as much as possible. Also, don't do side projects, that's more of the same thing that's burning you out. See how you feel after vacation, and then go from there. That's just my humble advice. Overwork / burnout is real, you have my sympathy.
I’d pay $0.10 for stamps vs the 5c now (is it 5 now? I have no idea)
> That's the whole point of this submission. M1 macs don't support USB 3.1, only USB 3.0. Why? because they patently don't support the transfer speeds made possible by the new data transfer mode introduced in USB 3.1.

M1 macs support USB4.

USB specs define multiple transmission modes and speeds from port to port over a cable that one can support. They define alt modes you can support.

Separately there are conformances and marks. E.g. if your cable supports transfer according to USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 in our lab, you can _market it_ as Superspeed 20Gbps, put the logo on the connectors, etc.

So the argument would be that Apple M1 doesn’t support Superspeed 10Gbps.

Which, as an aside, I’ll need a lot more than one person testing with a single (likely non-conformant) cable before I will believe.
70-80 years is not any reasonable definition of "recently," particularly when discussing politics.
I'll bite on this one, I'm not sure Shang-Chi is deceptive. I've seen a lot of the Avengers movies but I am not an Avengers fan, I've just been around fans.

Maybe I can't see the deception because I'm not privy to what makes an Avenger and Avenger, but it seems like from the movies I've seen an Avenger is typically a superhero in the Marvel comic universe.

They are technically showing other superheros in the Marvel comic universe. I hadn't heard of Shang-chi, but apparently they show up for the first time in a Marvel comic in '73.

So... I get that Disney as a whole is a company that uses dark patterns and therefore has lost the good faith 'we don't use dark patterns' moral heirarchy, but I'm not sure I think that this deceptive marketing has a huge difference.

I could very well be wrong, I wonder what the populations of Avengers fans but not Marvel fans is compared to Avengers and Marvel fans is.
I did not say that Spain has a right to rule. I am saying that arguing around "net contributions" is moot (even contradictory) in the case of Catalonia and similar regions.
They could help with improving magnetic confinement on high power density thrusters.

Yes, it is. There's a lot of small thruster startups out there. See Orbion, Thrustme, and Applied Ion Systems for examples.
Ask HN: Why has DMCA Circumvention Prohibition not been repealed?
I understand the high level reasoning is “government corruption”, but I’m trying to understand what efforts have been made to allow people to rip their own lawfully purchased media. Are any congresspeople fighting to repeal this section of the DMCA? Has any legislation been proposed? Which senators are most firmly advocating for this overt MPAA rent seeking? Why is this not as popular as “right to repair” considering how many more people this impacts? This is a pretty wide-open question, so anything people can add to help me understand this history of this conflict is welcome.

For those who don’t know, Section 1201 makes it illegal to break any DRM or to make or distribute software useful for this purpose. The effect is that people who have a valid license to the content must pay over and over to consume that content (once for blu-ray, once for Apple TV, once for Amazon, etc).
Any other highway locations would be better. Best thing about an EV is you fill up next to a restaurant or cafe. Never have to go to a gas station again
> The innovation we are all waiting on is an SSD which has the speed and performance of RAM

I've often wondered why no one offers a product that consists of DRAM with an integrated battery. Every portable device, when it goes into sleep mode, constitutes an existence proof that this could work. You could even integrate this with a regular SSD to provide persistence when the battery dies.
Are you sure your account is accurate? According to the Forbes article below, bidding at the end of the auction closed with a high bid of approx. $270. Since the auction closed people have made additional offers, the highest so far is $29k (which is a 99% drop in value).

I think I found the Open Seas page (lots of scam looking clones of the page, so I'm not sure this is the real one), but unfortunately the interface doesn't give much information on what activities around the NFT have occurred. At least to a lay person like myself.

https://opensea.io/assets/matic/0x28009881f0ffe85c90725b8b02...

The difference is a 99% drop in value, or a 99.99% drop in value. I don't follow the NFT scene closely, so apologies if I'm wrong here.

Forbes article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronshevlin/2022/04/14/jack-dors...
> the pronunciation of 'sudo'

SOO-dough (like pseudo)

> and 'sysctl'.

see-ISSSSS-cuttle (obviously!!)
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https://web3isgoinggreat.com
He's not saying people are bad, he's saying that using non-free software (his version of the term) is bad and bad for people. I don't think believe the individual is a bad person. Now I'm sure that he views people like Bill Gates as a bad person or Elon Musk (for locking down Tesla software intentionally) as they use their pulpits to lower people's personal freedom with software.
Pop!OS is becoming the beginner-friendly distro to recommend.
Code is law as law of nature. Not government laws.

Code I Laws just means that if code was executed in the way it was intended to work and you don't like it you don't revert your blockchain. You keep blockchain as is, because it's nature of blockchain. But you're free to go to the law enforcement guys, courts, whatever, to enforce government laws if you think they were broken.
> Just like baseball cards.

You can certainly see baseball cards (or stamps, Magics cards, whatever) as worthless. The difference being that when you buy a baseball card, (yes a reproducible good, so its value is anybody's guess), you're not buying a link to a baseball card powered by Ethereum, you're buying a tangible product at the very least.

To me the NFT is so intangible as a product that clearly its market is already set to die, the question is who will be holding the bag and who will make millions.
One Step Closer to Creating New Hair Follicles – Yale School of Medicine
Honda is cheaper than Toyota though, at least in the US.
Given it's Vancouver couldn't they crank up the property taxes instead? Might relieve some of the real estate pressure coming from second-home owners as well - win-win!
I think for most people on HN the answer is "contact a friend who works at Google"; I don't know the general solution.
I expect space based solar to be the next big thing the military will get into. It's way too expensive for everybody else, but cheap compared to what the military spend to fly generator fuel into war zones.

Once they have secure electricity, they can think about relying on it more.
Can you afford to take a big break?

One thing that might work. Spend a year outside of programming with low stress.

But rather than listen to me maybe make a plan with your therapist?
Lone wolves are the hardest to defend against.
But is there also a regulated annual report? Filled with regulated numbers and audited by independent companies?
> While code is not “law” literally, in this case it is the lawful contract definition.

No, it's not.

At best, there is some kind of implied-in-fact legal contract related to to the code in the “smart contract”.

“Code is law” is an aspirational slogan repeated by people who fetishize the former and oppose the latter, usually without understanding it (or either.)
I’m not going to argue with someone that’s just looking to win rather than actually be curious about stuff.

If you’re right you can look back smugly. If you’re wrong you’ll eventually figure it out (or not), won’t matter to me. I think you’re probably wrong.
I'm somewhat sympathetic to this view but I don't think it's consistent. If your bank gets hacked due to a flaw in the code and millions get stolen, why would you not apply the same code is law principle?
I'm both surprised and not surprised to see Fedora climbing. I'm not surprised, because it is IMHO one of the best (if not the best) distros, but I am surprised because I expected it to happen years ago (before I realized that "build it and they will come" is not true at all).

On the data center, many people I know who get to make the choice of which distro to run in prod make that choice based on what they know. i.e. if you run Fedora locally, really good chance you run RHEL or centos in data center. If you run Ubuntu locally, really good chance you run Ubuntu in the data center. I don't know how Arch will translate, but it will be interesting to see. I expect to start seeing the impact of the desktop numbers in the data center within a couple of years.
Which is totally misleading. "Holoportation" still uses two way communication and is going to have just as long of delays as any other form of communication.

Holoportation to Voyager 1 won't suddenly let you communicate with it in real time, it's still going to be a 40+ hour round trip time.
Thanks for sharing this link. As soon as you start needing to read POSIX.* docs, you suddenly realize you need answers to a lot of basic questions.

Sufficiently advanced shell scripts should be moved to a programming language, but until you hit that threshold, whatever one defines as appropriate, you still need some of these answered.
I think Google allows 3-4 accounts since it's common for families to all use Gmail, so they're lenient in that regard. Obviously, creating 10 accounts with 10 Twilio numbers would arouse suspicion and those accounts would be swiftly banned.
I've not really had issues with the Pixel. This is anecdata, but I've had the 2 and currently have the 4a. My wife has the 5. We've had zero issues with them (except for stuff we did ourselves, like cracking the screens) over the past 4-ish years.
Expert here says they were never blurred to begin with. Seems like fake news.

https://twitter.com/konrad_muzyka/status/1516089845990494213
[Another poster's opinion]

> it did seem to oversimplify and intentionally misinterpret the comment for the purpose of a shallow gag or unimportant edge case

I'm surprised that bringing up an "edge case" against an over-generalized statement is considered "intentionally misinterpreting" the original comment.

I think charitable reading of comments goes both ways - if we are supposed to read "Let kids discover their limits instead of purposefully (or accidentally) imposing your own." in a charitable manner, why should we assume that a short comment that brings up an edge case is (only) intended as a sarcastic dig at the original comment? It definitely forces the reader to think of beyond the "ideal" case, going into the realm of practicality. It is short, admittedly sarcastic (probably bad, but you complained about more than sarcasm), but I think it gets the main point across.

Alternatively, if we're not feeling charitable, I think it can be fair to say that the original comment paints a way too simplistic over-generalization of the difficult decisions in parenting, maybe even trivializing the hardships of parenting and blaming parents for not being more encouraging to their kids despite the parents having tried their best to manage practical difficulties -- in which case the reply still makes sense.

BTH I just think you (and others) were simply biased towards "positive" comments that you agree to. The long exposition by cortesoft was nice, but unnecessary once the edge case was brought up (I for one, understood what he/she meant). Do we really want to impose a minimum limit on post length just to make people feel less offended?
I kind of hope she reached that conclusion but just didn't include that in the post. In particular having your primary phone and email tied to Google is just a bad idea, period. They do not care. They do not have the capacity to care, by design.
As mentioned in the article, the proposal would require only a single fast charging spot to avoid the fee.
In Oslo the stations usually put chargers on what used to be normal parking spots. They also replace some gas pumps by a charger or two.
> I wonder if US lawmakers would step in to try to shut down these systems.

It's unecessary to shut down because fiat off-ramps are the Achilles heal. Already there are wallet address banlist [1]; and woe to any instituion who processes transactions which originate from those addresses.

[1] https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/...
Fortunately for us, you can't kill someone with a CPU cycle. You need to use a servo for that. Which, while quick, are far from instant, and will always be limited by basic physics like thermal management.
The article does imply FTL, mentioning that the hologram will stay onboard and have real-time communication. Which is totally false. Where do people get these ideas?!
> 20-30 minutes grocery shopping or dining is the new charge experience

I would say charging at work (during the day, using solar energy exported into the grid). Or at night, capturing off-peak power generation is the new charge experience.

Currently, DC Fast Charging is very expensive to build out and using them frequently reduces battery capacity over time.