skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Red herring.

I'm not arguing for any system that has the power to rug their constituents, crypto systems included.

Crypto at least enables systems to be built. It's up to you to either trust it without any due diligence or read the source code yourself.

This is a step in the right direction for people who like to assume their own risk and don't like to pay for the bad decision-making of others.
There are other cryptocurrencies. For example Algorand could handle the traffic and the fees are less than a penny per transaction.
what's wrong with having a circuit-breaker? My house has many and they come in handy. Same with the stock market, it helps slow down emotional trading and limit certain attacks.
Yes, but we don’t do it and ignore monetary value. We can and do discuss both.
Hmmm. Implementation details are the stuff that are not visible to you as a “user” of the language and the toolset.

I don’t know why people confuse this so much
We were able to lift entire neighbourhoods in the 19th century but now we can't even build houses...
I think it's extremely important to not assume good faith/lack of bias, with anything of importance. I would prefer the option to see all responses, with "accepted" responses, from the editor, being the default view.
My website has remained unsullied plain html since I wrote it. This would be more impressive if I ever actually updated it :D

(behold http://nerget.com and weep when you see the "new" features it refers to :D )
Take a screenshot of the Tweet? Download the page with the tweet on it? Seems easy enough if you want a record of it existing. Odd argument for sure. This thread itself is now historical record that it exists.....
Moral wrongs are typically built from subjective moral frameworks and those frameworks IMO are more interesting than the conclusive wrong/right outcome they may yield.

Example: Getting a populace, which already thinks in extreme terms about the future, to view more extreme content about the future, is probably risky and downright unhealthy for a lot of those who will view & then feel increased stress or anxiety

Counterexample: Allowing the populace to exorcise its fear through an affecting viewing experience could be a really good outcome in terms of creating more careful discourse; see for example _Threads_ or _The Day After_

Personally I have to say I lean toward the counterexample, especially if a variety of filmmakers are making different films about the consequences of given timelines. In this case you get a dilution or diversion of energy through varying psychological perspectives, which is helpful in creating systems of nuanced thought.

You can also do this within a single film and this has become a more common way of handling narrative perspectives in modern cinema.

And more generally I lean toward "here's a good way to go about this process of thinking about X" rather than "should we do this X thing" because you can fill the judgment-vacuum with ideas that people can use, rather than simply creating a massive and risky judgment vacuum by casting perceptions of what may happen.

Interesting Q though, you got me thinking.
Avoiding taking sides in religious wars and understanding there are no solutions, only tradeoffs.
They obviously did sign up for the transaction to 'fail'. In this case, it just means others paid more for their place in the line than they did.

They absolutely picked the price they were willing to pay and lose, in the hopes it was more than the others trying to get a place in line.

So yes, they absolutely knew their transaction could fail if others paid more than them.
The abuse of monopoly powers is a very GMO-specific issue: roundup-resistant strains are patented, so where farmers used to retain enough seed to re-plant the next season, they're now hooked on a subscription model and their "non-GMO" neighbors are in risk of crippling lawsuits because an illiterate bee thought it would be cool to pollinate two fields on the same day.
Fine! Don't try, then. "Someone is going to do this shameful thing, therefore there is no reason why I should not do this shameful thing" isn't quite the logic of a sociopath, but only because a sociopath sees no need in the first place to excuse to himself his own immoral behavior.
Wouldn't a light coating of oil or wax be enough to keep the straw intact for an hour while sipping a beverage?
Yes they did. They knew that transaction failure is a risk and they accounted for it.

I don't feel bad if they did not do their due diligence before attempting to transfer thousands of dollars of ETH.
> The broader point is that meat, while wasteful, still provides clear value

What clear value compared to a less emitting alternative?
I'm even more convinced now than before that you're in bad faith.
Exactly!

My GF's grandmother was very confused when we didn't know what database (sic!) she has on her computer, she said every computer has it... and then she has shown us her perfect categorization of documents into folders... We (both programmers) felt very dumb that day :-)
Okay, I've gotten a bit carried away with HTML spec minutia elsewhere in these comments, mainly because this stuff really isn't common knowledge among web developers and it's hard to resist talking about it.

However, I also want to add to the other point here; namely, "why do this in the first place?"

Google mentions "file size optimization" in the style guide linked above, and it led to criticism on HN and elsewhere along the lines of "sure, maybe shaving off a few bytes adds up for Google, but you're not Google." However, this really isn't why I do it, and I think maybe it's poisoned the discussion a bit.

For me, it's mostly about reducing visual noise. It's not necessarily less typing if you're using an editor that auto-inserts closing tags, but I think it's harder to read with the end tags, particularly when it comes to tables. For instance, consider this table (which, if you're curious, is about Super Nintendo audio samples):

<table>
<tr><th>sample rate</th> <th>data rate</th> <th>max length</th></tr>
<tr><td>32000 Hz</td> <td>18000 byte/s</td> <td> ~3.641 s</td></tr>
<tr><td>16000 Hz</td> <td> 9000 byte/s</td> <td> ~7.282 s</td></tr>
<tr><td> 8000 Hz</td> <td> 4500 byte/s</td> <td>~14.564 s</td></tr>
</table>

And now, take a look at it without the optional end tags:

<table>
<tr><th>sample rate <th>data rate <th>max length
<tr><td>32000 Hz <td>18000 byte/s <td> ~3.641 s
<tr><td>16000 Hz <td> 9000 byte/s <td> ~7.282 s
<tr><td> 8000 Hz <td> 4500 byte/s <td>~14.564 s
</table>

Personally, this is much easier for me to read and maintain. There's also much less chance of me accidentally mismatching opening and closing tags, since I've eliminated almost all of the closing tags besides </table>.

On top of that, let's be honest, <html><head></head><body></body></html> is just useless boilerplate. We all know what goes in the head and what goes in the body, and I think we can all figure out where the HTML starts and ends. The browser knows all of this too, which is why all of those tags are completely optional. Not only does getting rid of that make the code less noisy, it solves the age-old problem of "should I indent the head and body or not?" (Though, in practice, I still keep <html lang=en> so that I can specify the language for people who use screen readers. </html> is just silly, though.)
and every year for the last 5
> It feels like ETH has been “about to be PoS within a year” for like five years now.

Except that it is.

Imagine promising your clients and telling them to wait 'for a year' for the team to fix these fundamental issues in your product and have them lose millions on your missed estimates whilst you keep postponing and delaying the fixes for 5 years.

At some point, these clients will give up waiting and move elsewhere. Happened to the first NFT project on Ethereum (CryptoKitties) and now BAYC is considering doing the same.

So given that situation, the longer they delay and postpone it the worse it gets.
Just in time for the tenth anniversary of the year of luigi
I have to agree. It starts with irresponsible journalism that is misrepresenting what actually happened. Nothing broke.
Some acceleration for sure is necessary, though things like video acceleration (that belong in the set "polished GPU drivers") are quite secondary. Linux is a good example of that, accelerated video decode is still quite rare and finicky.
That’s about when fusion is going to be commercially viable I think?
This was a weird article for me - I agree with much of what he says but I also use Roam (and have tried many of the others) and it is very useful for me. I’ve also tried it with my business partner and it was a complete failure for a couple of reasons:

* We have different knowledge consumption habits. I consume a lot of snippets on the internet during the day and then consume books via an eReader, which allows me to dump the highlights straight to Roam. He prefers purely physical books and takes his own notes instead of capturing direct quotes.

* He is visio-spatial and I am verbal. He needs to draw, move, and position things (whiteboards everywhere!). Roam is useless for this.

* I tend to do more convergent thinking - I take in a lot of info from a lot of sources which, when thinking about the problem, tends to snap into view for me as something new. This works well in Roam because I can reference/quote things from across many areas rapidly.

> The concept of the Knowledge Graph deserves the classification of bullshit because its allure derives primarily from the false impression that it can mechanistically deliver—or substitute for—the brute, linear willfulness that defines all non-trivial writing.

This particular critique stood out as a bit strange to me, and maybe it is simply a difference and how my brain and the author’s brain works, but writing is linear (on a page) but the content gathering and referencing is not, which is where I find it most helpful. I brute force the narrative/story, but fill in with the details more slowly and with more references.
The ones that aren't on auction have a "Buy Now" button. It's like eBay.
Circus Ponies Notebook (On OpenStep, then OS X), made my jaw literally hit the floor when I first saw it. I didn't just think all software had something to learn here, I thought this was the only software anyone would ever need.

To be fair, my job lend itself toward this at the time, the WWW was nowhere near what it was a few years later, and everything-tied-to-everything was miles away. But this blew my mind.
This comment is a good example of trolling. How did this get to the top of the thread?

> All of this, over gifs, jpgs and fake land in a theoretically infinite digital universe

No good faith here. Can we flag this?
Your implied plan (doing less of what made the problem in the first place) seems like more of a stretch to me. It would be nice, but I can’t see many countries giving up plastic. It’s too useful. I think focusing international collaboration efforts on better waste/pollution management (eg getting more waste plastic into properly managed landfills) seems a lot more plausible.
Why daycare is so expensive in the US (Twitter thread)
The heaviest part of executors are the task queues and the threads themselves. If you're using 2 or 3 executors over a single one, you're presumably using the same amount of space in the queue and number of threads, so the "weight" doesn't change except that the queues are concurrent data structures so can be sources of contention ... in really odd hyperactive scenarios.

Executors tend to be units of management (await()/shutdown()) etc. and monitoring, so that'll be your main reason to use more than just one for everything.
Usurious and predatory loans also work as intended. The person signing the document knows what they are getting into it, and presumably have done the cost/benefit analysis.
This isn't really true. You submit a transaction with a maximum gas price. All wallets that I know of will show a maximum transaction fee based on this before you submit the transaction, and you can manually lock in any arbitrary gas limit you would like. If gas prices suddenly go up right as you submit your transaction (read: other network users outbid you for use of the network), your transaction will stay pending and either eventually process at the gas price specified, or fail and you will pay either nothing or a partial fee based on your maximum gas price * computation steps used.

Gas is basically a means to ensure all computation on ethereum halts.
Second this. I even have a bookmarklet in the browser that adds text selection or a page automatically to Obsidian. And yet, when it comes to saving something I feel is important, the maximum I can do is just create another note and put the text/link and forget. I feel like I need to find proper place for this note in the folder hierarchy or think how to categorize it ("should it go to the Economics->Behavioral or Sociology?"), and quickly becomes a burden. In the end I feel like heavily underusing it, but perhaps I just don't get the right workflow..
Untitled Static Site Generator: Mulitsite Using Just Markdown via Pandoc
Seems like a great idea. When you look at many ML frameworks half the code and learning overhead is data schlepping code and table like structures that "reinvent" the schema that already exists inside a database. Not to mention, there can be security concerns from dumping large amounts of data out of the primary store (how are you going to GDPR delete that stuff later on?). So why not use it natively where the data already is?

For anything substantive it seems like a bad idea to run this on your primary store since the last thing you want to do is eat up precious CPU and RAM needed by your OLTP database. But in a data warehouse or similar replicated setup, it seems like a really neat idea.
The exact same amount that got burnt on a slow cheap day. Miners don't suddenly spin up hundreds more GPUs when the network gets congested.

Creating a block costs the exact same energy whether it's full of high fees, low fees, or completely empty.

And orders of magnitude less energy than bitcoin uses.
Rival to Roblox but with better IP?
> The problem with the Knowledge Graph ideology is that everything in your mind is already situated in a graph structure. That is precisely the problem. It’s big and complicated, with way too many connections everywhere. There’s no good in replicating that web in digital form.

I completely agree with this, I'm not an organised person, I rarely write TODO lists, yet in Emacs with Org-Roam I thought I would be highly productive because I would start writing notes and linking them together or whatever magic Org-Mode has inside Emacs (if I can even be bothered to write a TODO list in the first place);

But I don't think Org-Roam is for me, I rarely wrote TODO lists even before using Org-Roam, and I'd have never heard of Zettelkasten or whatever until trying out Org-Roam, you could say that I'm not an organised person, and that is true, but I don't care.

Using a Zettelkasten system for people like me isn't going to work, it will never feel right to be honest, in the first place before trying it out I didn't want any of this stuff anyway, I don't need a graph linking notes together, I'm a simple man, just write a few notes sometimes.
That’s like saying drunk drivers are actually lobbyists for funding more police sobriety checkpoints.
This is GoDaddy's response to the issue
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We really appreciate your patience and time. To have the better product and user experience a patching update has been rolled out and it is currently under progress. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. Unfortunately, the complexity of the work is taking longer than expected and we are unable to provide any estimated time frame. Our engineer team is already working diligently to get the issue resolved at the earliest. We appreciate your patience and understanding in this matter.

At present Google chrome version is not compatible with SSL TLS version for all registrars not only GoDaddy so most of sites are effected. So our developers are working with them to resolve the issue on high priority.
or how I wish markets actually worked.
> So why don't all my web browser keep a complete copy of everything I have viewed (ok maybe not those sites) - so I an do a text search for "that thing about female doctor who was first ever".

This existed for a bit, it was a Chrome extension called Memex. They pivoted to social bookmarks and it absolutely crushed me losing it. I had become very used to only needing to remember a few keywords from something I’d read in the past and then being able to rapidly finhd it.
Ah, I think there's an important distinction here my original comment didn't properly touch on: it doesn't mean the bosses weren't punishing.

Consider fighting a normal high level draugr with an under leveled/geared Kratos. Assume we are on the highest difficulty.

You'll basically have to dodge a lot (or spam ranged attacks), your attacks won't reliably stagger them, you'll tickle their health bar and getting hit once or twice will kill you. That is punishing and hard if there's more than one of them.

However, if your levels are similar you'll be able to count on staggers, there will be certain attacks that cannot be blocked, certain attacks that will stagger you if the block wasn't perfect, you can freeze one of the enemies.

The hard case is far simpler and less involved than the normal combat.

I consider the normal valkyries hard, but individually they don't really have lots of tricks that require hyper focusing both on reading them and executing the appropriate counter. They are fairly simple to understand for the most part.

You need to have cached a butt load of movements and their appropriate counters to fight the queen valkyrie. You might even find some non obvious openings for poking.

Most valkyries are straightforward when you get their 1-3 special attacks. That's not much more than regular enemies.
This is my experience with OMSCS as well, although I'm only four classes in. My background is in electrical engineering and it hasn't been too challenging (yet) for me to catch up on the CS stuff (although I did take several CS courses at community colleges to help fill in some gaps before enrolling and I've been programming for over years now).
It’s good story but I have to wonder why the author refers to the president as almost a close friend. If you replace Zelensky with Biden in the context it would sound strange but they are of similar levels of government.
The incentives don't match. No matter how efficient we make our power generation, PoW will simply scale up and consume more, making those gains moot. It will use up cheaper renewable energy and force everyone else to keep relying on fossil fuels. Of course I should not forget to mention the e waste which is a concern regardless of how much greenwashing is done
Ask HN: Can you help me understand modern web development?
I'm asking here because I think I'll get replies from individuals who love simplicity & effectiveness.

I'm lost when it comes to frontend frameworks like react and some nodejs libraries. I understand the need to run some things on the server & send them to the client but can't understand how/why you'd need a nodejs library that will provide some frontend functionalities. I sometimes work with "web3" libraries (don't hate me) and it seems like I can't do anything in vanilla js. How does it work ? How do frontend frameworks work ?

Example:
In the quickstart of web3-onboard [1], the first lines are used to import node modules (which can't be done in the browser) and then awaits some user action (that presumably take place in the browser) ... in the same file ?!

[1] : https://github.com/blocknative/web3-onboard#quickstart

Thanks a lot
It seems nearly impossible to avoid these harmful chemicals nowadays, they are everywhere. It's very depressing...
Is this taxed?
Browsing through Linking Your Thinking's YouTube channel[1] might be a good first-start. Despite appearances here, I am not a notes fetishist, so I find his videos rather approachable especially his "Start Here" video[2].

Jamie Rubin's blog series[4] is pretty good, too.

I personally just create atomic (single-topic) notes, with tags in the YAML front-matter, and store them in a folder structure along the lines of the Johnny Decimal System[3]. I store checklists, procedures, howtos, concept summaries, cheatsheets, and a daily log stored in a YYYY-MM.markdown file.

I don't have any comment on the blog post in the article, because this system works really well for me. Obsidian is extensible at hell, but I'm not spending all day looking for new tweaks, I'm just writing notes. Also, since notes are just files stored in directories, I have all sorts of shell/Python-scripted automations and shell aliases to quickly do stuff.

1. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC85D7ERwhke7wVqskV_DZUA/vid...

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgbLb6QCK88

3. https://johnnydecimal.com/

4. https://jamierubin.net/blog-series/practically-paperless-wit...
Who would be harmed? If there isn't anyone, it's not wrong.
Google has one of the most severe knowledge management issues I've experienced in my career and search is not very helpful in taming it. I'm not convinced that's a good example.
Unless his account here is also now compromised :-D
The US has almost 1000 billionaires. Any one of them could decide to mobilize researchers for this purpose, but instead they have decided it's not worth doing that. In fact they have decided it's not worth mobilizing anybody to do anything with that extra money. Why?
People easily forget that crypto is still in beta/early version, we are in javascript 1.0 mode.
Same! Although I interviewed in person in their NYC office. I was very junior at the time and the team I interviewed with was awesome. I (luckily) didn't get the job. I did a few more interviews and accepted an offer from another company where I met my wife!
Why do we insist on composting or burying so much trash? Let's just burn plastic in the same high-temperature facilities common across Scandinavia. Plastic and packaging use is still only 5% of the oil going up in smoke in engines.
It's up to you to either trust it without any due diligence or read the source code yourself.

I suppose so, but given that your entire conceit started off with a defense of people in under-developed nations, and their access to capital and money, is this really about serving those people? If so, how are people in a country with heavily-devalued currencies under authoritarian regimes served by reading source code for cryptocurrencies? How many people in these countries are you expecting to pop open a laptop and start reading the ETH source before they can buy these digital coins and buy their next meal with it?

I'm sorry but the response here of "just read the source code", given you yourself are holding up impoverished nations, where people are not even "allowed a bank account" as beneficiaries of cryptocurrencies is some LOUD hubris.

This is a step in the right direction for people who like to assume their own risk

Isn't this something someone can already do on established markets in the physical world?

don't like to pay for the bad decision-making of others

Isn't this exactly what just happened in the article we're discussing right now in this thread?