skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a second use-case (outside the "digital cash") that actually makes some technical sense.

It's possible to use a blockchain as a distributed identity store, where people prove their ownership of an address by signing with the private key.

This is an interesting application because it's an ownerless identity system that works because of the distributed consensus mechanism.
> try finding a Remote Job that is ACTUALLY Remote

yeah I see this comment a lot. its not that simple for most of us to change jobs, for various reasons. not wanting to deal with 5 step leetcode interviews, not having access to the best job markets, having other commitments..
Personally WA is not for me, the dreary climate would impact my mood way too much.

On the flip side I absolutely love Phoenix with its 360 days of sunshine every year. A 2% state tax rate is also very appealing.
As someone who was shamed for anything too feminine growing up, thank you for doing that for your son.
Seeing his list of restored devices, including an HP2645, recalled to me how we hacked the original HP2640A glass teletypes to turn them into little desktop computers. 2640s came with a set of self-tests that you could run from an HP3000 minicomputer. Didn't take us kids long to figure out that the role of the HP3000 was to download a string of bytes representing 8008 code, that the terminal ran to test itself. They had 1K byte and 4k byte memory cards in the terminal. So we reverse engineered the 8008s interface to the screen and keyboard IO system, and were soon building little screen games. This was 2 years before the Apple II debuted, and when the only "home" computers you could get were big boxes like the Altair 8800. We basically had stumbled across the PC, but weren't smart or ambitious enough to do anything besides play dumb screen games with it.
True! I skimmed the beginning of the interview (bad habit).
Modular Anti-Drone Drone Sacrifices Itself for Self Defense
Cars are difficult to electrify without the cost of the battery being very high. They have to meet all the expectations set by gas cars. The brilliance of Tesla is taking that gamble and making it work for a lot of people who would otherwise buy gas cars, mostly at the high end of the car market.

But that makes a lot less sense in sense Asian cities in warm climates that have a lot of road congestion. A scooter costs a small fraction of a car, gas or electric, and gets you there faster. I suspect that as EVs become pervasive, most of them will be scooters and ebikes.

Plus, gas scooters are very dirty. The Chinese wouldn't allow gas scooters to proliferate in cities.
You're misunderstanding me. I'm not just talking about there not relying on a trusted party.

I'm talking about trust in the system; trust that the system will be stable;
trust that assets will keep their value; trust that I or the system won't be hacked

But even then, the absence of trusted parties still seems like a abstract fantasy in reality.
It seems as if most people who own cryptocurrency still do it through a trusted party — a coin exchange.
> I fail to see how one can genuinely cherish freedom and tolerate capitalism.

Quote of the article, imo.

The framing of these questions is interesting in their bias, but the answers do a great job navigating them.
Russia was country with super politically apathetic citizens for decades. That attitude was inherited from communism and led to now - heavily authoritarian stayed with no meaningful internal opposition.

Indifferent people are not moderating influence. They easily end up enablers of whoever is the most aggressive one.
> Support for multi-device sync is part of the suite of protocol features required by modern XMPP implementations, these requirements are updated every year

The problems is that many of these modern features were unbelievably late.

I still remember "The State of Mobile XMPP in 2016", https://gultsch.de/xmpp_2016.html

At the time, 9 years after iPhone had come on the scene, most modern features were still experimental draft proposals implemented by no one.

5 more years later there's maybe one client that implements the modern features (Conversations for Android IIRC), and that's about it.

And it's an unknown how many servers implement those features.
> Would love to see a page with currently in production software written in Pascal

Here are some lists:

https://www.embarcadero.com/case-study

https://blogs.embarcadero.com/category/showcase/

https://github.com/Fr0sT-Brutal/awesome-pascal
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There is a sense in which being poor is a direct result of an accumulation of choices made over one’s life to date. However these choices are not made in a vacuum and are often influenced by things beyond one’s control.

When I was in Junior kindergarten I didn’t think school was important didn’t pay attention to lessons from the teacher. At one point we were tested on sight words and I knew none of them. I came home and told my mother I was stupid. She thought otherwise, identified that I hadn’t made it a priority and taught me the material in two weeks. I learned to take things seriously going forwards as well. With different parents that life experience could have had very different outcomes with big effects on my life trajectory.

I think many decision points are like my junior kindergarten experience and are as influenced by others as myself. Some people refuse to see this and focus on just the accumulation of choices without the factors that go into them.
I can assure you that this way of seeing the poor/indigenous is present in 99% of 'civilized' people who have had little or no contact with indigenous or very poor people, they just don't say it or have separate fragments of this idea , but just asking them questions is enough to bring these ideas to light.

They just simplify the complexity of poverty so they don't feel guilty about doing nothing about it.
> We just need to fix our methods of generating energy, not criticize everything that uses a lot of it.

The problem isn't that proof-of-work "uses a lot of [energy]"; the problem is that proof-of-work only exists to waste energy.

"Fix[ing] our methods of generating energy" is a red herring, since proof-of-work will automatically scale to consume any difference. It's a Red Queen's Race, which cannot be won.
I can’t even remember my own number.
My understanding is that the specification changes over time, and if your implementation doesn't match the central one, then the rest of the network stops interacting with you. That is: there is a massive network effect of people using github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin as canon, and there is a central group of devs with write-access there. While you can fork it, unless the rest of the network gets in on it, you've just created some altcoin that nobody cares about.
I think that would be true and work, but only if our output wasn't reduced enough to interfere with other nations (supply needs to exceed nutritional need as it does today, and the distribution and supply chain also needs to be unaffected or improved). No idea of it would normally or not. But I'm guessing the high inflation and potential food crisis from the war in Ukraine would make this a unlikely candidate for a time to make that switch.
Issue is that only the west is sanctioning them, not e.g. China. By sanctioning them we are just strengthening the Russia-China, India, etc. relationships. To think the world relies on the west to a point where its existential is a bit excessive, in my opinion
Do you have a source for the electricity usage? 26% of US energy usage is for transportation. For your math to work, 90% of energy usage would have to be non-electrical.

If you read the article I linked about Bitcoin, it explains how Bitcoin mining stops producing coins over time and instead miners have to make their money in transaction fees- this is a very different model for mining incentive. Again, it would be great to see some sources or math contradicting the researched article that I linked to.
“foreign soil” comparison isn’t really applicable here, it’s literally across the border, more like invading Canada. Ukrainians make up the second largest ethnicity inside Russia. And besides the war in Iraqi was off the heals of 9/11 and Afghanistan invasion, and still had saw many anti-war protests.
Not sure what his problem is, a bank account is cheap, has great features etc.

And hedge fonds can play there game anywhere.

The same thing with the argument from people that the normal suppressed people can get money through it. Dictators / evil actors can use the same system and still have the high ground.
Trustless financial instruments are not very useful to begin with, because finance requires trust (as does any economic activity). For example, there is no way to actually do financing (that is, trading future consumption for present consumption) without a trusted authority that has the power to re-allocate assets.
Great to see this here! I’ve spent an obscene amount of time on this and scanning my own SDR over the years.
The standard of excellence for diy is lower than with a professional. Being good enough to keep your car running a couple extra years isn't the same as being good enough to charge.
60% is a lot, but it may not be enough to be existential here
Two Russian gas executives and their families found dead within 24 hours
If I may inquire... could there be a better way to do this that's not blockchain tech? It's a noble cause, for sure. Like, viscerally most people will automatically agree with this cause.

But to prop up the entirety of cryptocurrency's shortcomings for this one thing... seems like.. it would make more sense... to just make a product/ technology that simply addresses this one use case that everyone by and large agrees is a good thing... nah?
Why do we feel the need to be 'productive' (in the economics sense) even in our leisure time?

I'm not sure such an attitude is healthy or sustainable. We fought hard to get a 40 hour work week, why do we feel pressure to go back on that and work in our leisure time?
I had the pleasure to actually learn Pascal (Delphi actually) at school. I think it is a awesome teaching language.

Though it also showed the problem with teaching languages: The students were not that eager on it. They would have preferred a languages with better job prospects.

As motivation is the key for success to learning, yeah sometimes the language that offers the quickest benefits is a good choice. The strength of Python is that it has great libraries in very trendy fields that allow to get stuff done with very little knowledge. That is why both Python and JS (easiest to get a job) are good beginner languages. (That really hurts me to write as learning should not be solely focused on external rewards but such is the world currently)

That said, if I were to choose a language to teach programming then Lua would be the perfect candidate. It avoids the syntax pitfalls of Python as well as having much lower complexity while still being very powerful. Plus really great for gamedev so many motivating examples.
War Without Rules: Inside China’s Playbook for Global Domination
MSPs have no power to propose legislation, the Commission does that and it is not elected by the people, so it's a stretch to claim that a parliament that can only rubber stamp things is a representative democracy. Would the Soviet system be a representative democracy? It's a very similar set up.
You appear to be correct. I dug around a bit, and on Intel's ARK there are 2 numbers: Processor Base Power (125W) and Maximum Turbo Power (241W, same as the one used with the benchmarks). It appears the Processor Base Power might be a closer equivalent to TDP than the other one. If that's the case, the 12900K is much more efficient than the 8700K.
It’s a great idea but my understanding is that they have not yet defined the term. And that sounds very hard to define.
You are correct, I forgot to consider they dysfunctional first-past-the-post voting system. Even so, while that gives the EU better chances at real democracy, there are still many ways to interfere with popular will, so one cannot dismiss all criticism with "well they got the votes".
Yet Matrix is gaining traction while XMPP is not. Maybe the key was to have funding, build and run a reference server and quickly iterate with a reference client for all major platforms.
There is a reason that most people who go into relatively low paying prestigious jobs like journalism come from affluent backgrounds.
I am going to stand with Ukraine with an acoustic set
I love it:

Do you need <something you almost certainly don't need>? No -> consider DATABASE
If the government is corrupt, then you've got problems regardless.

The general solution to this issue has been more and better democracy, which despite a lot of effort being spent undermining it, still seems to be the best solution available today.
Reminds me this instalation in Hamburg Kunsthale, where artist constructed conditions for creation of a stalactite. It will be ready in about 500 years: https://www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/sammlung-online/bogomir-...
There's an old saying in ham radio. "If you want to make a small fortune in ham radio, start with a large fortune".
> "If you start at a new job and find something resembling a backlog in many areas, for your own sanity, thrown 90% of this out. It’s most likely a good idea to throw anything out that hasn’t been updated in a couple months. In start-up time, after a couple months it’s old news and no longer relevant."

I would take it all and consolidate to a single system so that there is one single source of truth. Do not throw things out, just prioritize them down where appropriate. But if you throw them out, you land in a CS problem where you get dinged on reviews because "I asked them for this months ago, multiple times. My request was ignored and they say they have no record of even having heard me." Of course, you are not going to do every little one-off request that comes in, but if you don't keep track, you don't know if it is really a one-off request vs. the 8th time some little thing has been asked for in the last 6 months.

Your customers do not care about "start-up time". They want a sustainable, stable product where their feedback has value. Don't throw out that feedback.
eh, perhaps true too often, but i'll still get fighty against it in comments when bored
The difference is the judge that applies the law and looks at the context. Not that it is perfect.
> We'll see how willing the EU is to levy fines for breaches.

It has been very slow with GDPR, I expect it to be even slower here.
> So it's not tenable as a currency.

Did you read the article that I linked to? It's helpful also to read this one about Bitcoin: https://www.lynalden.com/gold-and-bitcoin/

Bitcoin's usage is not as currency, but as money (read this article about what money is: https://www.lynalden.com/what-is-money/. So Bitcoin is useful as a store of value, rather than a currency. The ability to transact like a currency is being built in layers on top of it (Lightning Network, etc), somewhat similar to how currencies used to be backed by gold.
How to Recognise Sustainable Brands and Products
Cancelling and putting on pause for no reason, such as Mindhunter.
Yeah, that may be why it became popular in CAE/EDA tools, one of the the few places it remains used these days. IMO Tcl works well for that use case, but it often catches shit from people who've had to use it. I think it's either because they misunderstand the language (as in the article, but also not that people who use CAE or EDA tools may have very little programming background) or that the vendor APIs provided to interact with the tool are very poorly designed (which I have definitely experienced).
I am in Russia right now. Since 18 April it is possible to buy USD, although current rate is slightly higher 77 (Google) vs 86 (that is from an actual local exchange office, not a bank, you can walk in and buy).

Since the whole world seems to hate Russians right now, I guess no point buying USD and traveling somewhere.

I keep hearing stories how "in just a few months" everything is going to collapse and people will be starving. I doubt it, it's been two months, feels the same so far.
> You seem to be implying that the political situation has deteriorated and become more violent. Is that so?

Perhaps not more violent, but there does seem to be more polarization, which is not a good path to be going down. Ezra Klein's 2020 book is an interesting look of the phenomenon in the US:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We%27re_Polarized
You get a 9.5% at the moment if you buy before April 30 and hold for about a year.
The author lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Think of it as being Sydney, but in the desert, with a government that doesn't provide any of the social services you think are basic human rights.
You may not be indifferent, but the vast majority of HN effectively is.

I say effectively because they are very much in favor of a particular political and economic system, but because that political and economic system is the status quo and, if anything, is getting further entrenched, they can effectively not worry about it.

It's not a coincidence that this same political and economic system has enabled the tech world to accumulate so much wealth and social power. It's not a coincidence that the HN readers are the upper caste within the tech world, not the assembly-line workers, the warehouse workers, the delivery workers upon, the restaurant workers, and the many other kinds of workers who work for a tech company or service tech workers, for minimum or close to minimum wage.
Replacing trust in humanity with trust in an algorithm created by humanity doesn't really get you anywhere. Like it or not, you are human, I am human, and we live a society of humans! Everything in society is created and run by humans! The blockchain cannot change this fundamental fact, it can only obscure it.
> But unlike open source development, it's not done by "good will". You can pay people for their contributions in a trustless way that allows ANYONE to contribute and earn.

You can pay people for open source work now. You can even pay them in crypto.

A DAO doesn't make any of the hard work of developing a system (eg, specifying what you need, arguing if it has or hasn't been developed correctly) any easier.
Yes. I've been kind of wondering about the apparent promotion of Tcl here recently - is someone pushing it for some reason, or is it just a passing fad in a slow (tech) news time?
It took decades because people couldn't afford computers, nor could they manufacture at today's modem scale, that's what took long.

In terms of adaptation, once someone had access to a computer, with few exception people found some utility in their daily lives for it.

IMHO, folks who have access to crypto are not finding any immediate use for it in their daily lives. And further, it doesn't seem to scale very well. Sure, enough coins exist, but they can't be transacted without massive fees. Ergo, doesn't scale currently.

If some breakthrough solves the scaling problem while retaining it's decentralized nature, it may gain some utility.
If they do business in the EU. Otherwise this is without teeth entirely.
When kids read, they read Harry Potter et al. When they see movies in theaters, it's Pixar stuff, or again, Harry Potter. When they watch movies online, I think they have decent access to kid friendly superhero stuff, much of it old. So I think the kids just became much less accessible to the industry.
Many countries already do this.

Some have gone to their tier 1 ip transit and they intercept at the border.

Some have gone to their isps and told them to do it to their end users. Like 'block these piracy websites, and here's a legally forced nda and you're also blocking X, Y, Z.'

When duckduckgo publicly admitted they will be blocking russia... they proved to everyone they had the ability to block.

When duckduckgo decided to start blocking piracy. But when caught they reversed course. Incidentally torrentfreak noted the piracy websites returned at exactly the same time the CEO tweeted blaming someone else.

Duckduckgo basically proved to everyone they are censoring, eliminating their entire value.
I wrote my own library for that: https://github.com/benibela/internettools

On Windows it is a wrapper around wininet and on Linux around another library Synapse.

The HTTP client is in the directory internet, the HTML/XPath parser in the directory data.
For many years I have tried to lift weight and be healthy but I have always failed at establishing it as a core habit/hobby. But I really want to.

What can I do to build the habit of weight lifting? If I go to gym 6 days a week what is the least amount of workout that I can do to build the habit.
> If you would get fancy, add sub title options to the mix.

Not sure if you're aware there are already subtitle options?

I think people are here confused why they get offered films in other languages as if it's a bug? It's not - in the UK for example almost everyone only speaks English but we still have a lot of Asian films and series in our catalogue - people just happily watch them with subtitles.

Some of the most popular shows in the UK Netflix are not in English, such as Squid Game.
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> this will reshape the nation state

In a worse way, especially if it enables tax evasion.
I once compiled a list of architectures’ relative IPC on the SPECINT 2006 benchmark:

Cortex-A73 (ARMv8-A) 64.4
Pentium M 69.0
Bulldozer (AMD FX) 76.2
K10 (Phenom II) 76.7
Goldmont Plus (Atom 2nd gen) 77.5
Core 80.0
Bobcat 81.3
Nehalem 90.0
Jaguar (PS4) 93.5
Sandy Bridge 100.0
Tremont (Atom 3rd gen) 100.7
Ivy Bridge 105.8
Cortex-A76 (ARMv8.2-A) 114.7
Zen 115.9
Haswell 117.6
Zen+ 119.3
Broadwell 121.5
Skylake 124.0
Zen 2 139.8
A10 (ARMv8.1-A) 139.8
Cortex-A77 (ARMv8.2-A) 141.0
Sunny Cove Ice Lake 146.3
Cypress Cove Rocket Lake 147.6
Zen 3 167.4
A11 (ARMv8.2-A) 186.0
A12 (ARMv8.3-A) 213.8
A13 (ARMv8.4-A) 235.0
A14/M1 (ARMv8.5-A) 236.7
I moved the whole fortune out of Russia with that "speculative gambling tokens", while both Putin's regime and outside world tried to cut out russians of the possibility to move their money out of dictatorship control (almost any payment systems are now banned for russians).

Maybe that's not that obvious from some first-world countries perspective, but money with enforced property right over any governments decisions is pretty much important.

Some people gambling in NFTs, sitting in developed countries. Others try to save their life's work from thiefs, wars, inflation and other things. Your view depends on what you crowd in.
> 5 more years later there's maybe one client that implements the modern features (Conversations for Android IIRC), and that's about it.

...and yet I'm using three different modern clients that work well with each other.

> And it's an unknown how many servers implement those features.

Enough to make me not have to care about it.