skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not about efficiency. This is about trust.

We do not trust these enormous organizations we call governments with unlimited power, because they then become a threat to society itself. The 20th century is evidence of the threat of centralized power, particularly over the control of information and communication.

So when a government claims the power to read all conversations in order to prevent X from happening, X is irrelevant. I don't even care to hear their justification. They cannot be given this power. It's an existential threat to a free society.
Topical CBD might be an option to do some research on.
Sometimes I have aphthous ulcers that absolutely nothing will treat and the only thing that seems to reliably work is if I press on it so hard that it bleeds (with a Q tip - very painful). After that, the ulcer seems to get better within 1-2 days however the other ones remain.

Now that I think about it I wonder if it still works if the area is numbed first.
That's an open question and I think everyone would answer it differently. In an earlier essay I suggested that we live in a complex world with a sophisticated division of labor, and therefore all real power should move to the specialized committees. In that model, the legislatures simply appoint people to the committees. If we had 5 legislatures and they each appointed one person per year to a committee, for a term of 5 years, then all the committees would have 25 people. The committees would set policy and pass the laws. I spoke of specialized committees here:

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/why-have-politics-in-the-us...
I don't think it breaks the top 100, much less the top 1000. Public-key cryptography might, but not this fun-house mirror stuff.
This may sound rude or obvious, and I don’t mean to. Do you sit up straight when working? Makes a big difference for my lower back.
I have all the same concerns regarding pollution, but Bitcoins rise has made me think a lot about the 'value part' in other stocks.

If Bitcoin's price can get this high without the 'intrinsic value' or producing something, then this effect probably also exists for other stocks. And this made me wonder: how big of a factor is this in other tech companies.

The more I think about it, the more I feel that it must be the majority for many of them. Many companies operate at a loss and are just pumped up to push up metrics, just so someone else will pay more for it in the next round.
The musical note that can trigger cold sweats and sightings of the dead
This sounds almost too good to be true -- could be a game changer for a lot of people!
Yeah, never heard of this exchange before.
I came here to say that. This isn't an NVIDIA commitment to open source; it is a slap in the face. Rather than open sourcing the drivers, they are patching the kernel to fit the needs of their proprietary driver. Note that I'm not against proprietary software, however, title of this post was super misleading and NVIDIA needs to grow up and work on an open-source driver. The world will NOT change for them.
Why do these posts not have timestamps :(
This discussion will go nowhere. Clearly the pro-Bitcoin crowd thinks proof of work is the most efficient way to get a permissionless, trustless, decentralised currency. And the anti-Bitcoin crowd either thinks

1. It's not the most efficient way and there's an alternative (e.g. Proof of Stake)

or

2. It may or may not be the most efficient way, but Bitcoin doesn't provide the value to justify the carbon emissions ('just tax carbon commensurate to its negative externalities and let people decide for themselves', he says helplessly)
How is it not a problem if you want to sell closed-source software? I guess you can dynamically link desktop applications (although I'm not sure how this works in Apple's Mac app store), but you can't do that with mobile apps.
Battle.net recovers from DDoS attacks after more than an hour
Hmm... Bitprime have grown since the last time I was paying attention. 20 employees....

For some context, a few years ago, they only did OTC trades (you ask for a quote and have a few hours to confirm the price and send the funds), with quite a large minimum of a few thousand. You only really delt with them if you wanted to on-road or off-road large amounts of New Zealand dollars.
They didn't even run their own crypto wallets or have any infrastructure. They would just run accounts on larger crypto exchanges (binance?) and manually confirm deposits.

Looks like they have updated their process recently to be more automated so they can accept lower minimums, but their process apparently hasn't changed. They still don't hold customer funds and only trade between crypto and NZD.

It's entirely possible they ran into problems because their model isn't compatible with large downward volatility. Or maybe an exchange froze their account?
I don't. I have thought about it a few times.
There have been reports earlier [1] that processing power of some GPUs is suppressed by software rather than the hardware capability itself. It is frequently easier to mass produce similar chips than to have different chips for different priced devices. I had come across comments in other online forums where the users alleged that some software flags restrict the capability. I hope someone else will link those webpages if they come across them

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-gpu-system-processo...
It's not an exchange.
I am curious what exactly is the reason GIL hasn't been removed in one of the most popular languages ever?
Like you said "he spends his men in human wave attacks"

Java seemingly requires countless bodies thrown into the fight to achieve even the simplest of goals.
It's just particularly amazing when someone doesn't even follow a "keep your mouth shut until after any potential legal fallout comes" playbook.

And like, if you're a crypto true-believer, any crash that may or may not happen this year probably doesn't mean too much: the surge in prices wasn't because of any particularly groundbreaking developments in terms of the main long-term pitches (e.g. "new financial infrastructure for the world"), even NFTs seemed to really follow the price run-up, not lead to it. It really looks more just like a lot of people gambling with cash to burn in a situation where a lot of traditional entertainment was less attractive if not outright restrictive. So keep your head down and keep building...

But building a trading platform then talking shit about stuff that as far as I can tell you are making money off of trading (e.g. Luna, https://help.ftx.com/hc/en-us/articles/4491807784852-FTX-wil... )... that just seems begging for trouble.
What will drive computer performance after Moore’s Law? (2020)
Bitcoin market cap is about 580 Billion. SP500 market cap is about 38 Trillion. During unremarkable market swings, the SP500 gains and loses the entire Bitcoin market cap daily (1.5%)

Crypto can go to zero and the world will continue on.
The gsuite is very much a product of a bunch of acquisitions:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Docs

That's not to say Google didn't do a ton to advance the concept, but it wasn't their idea originally, and they acquired a lot of the technology.
I can only talk for myself. I'm an engineer, but economics is a big part of my job. I'm also working on a Master's in Econ. I don't follow the Fed that closely, but after some modern macro classes am starting to understand it all and it's becoming more interesting.
that's exactly what has happened.

edit: not sure why I got flagged, HN. Software engineer hours == funding.
it's not at all. https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2022/05/11/why-is-the-open-so...
Of course, it has nothing to do with the number of hosts or server processes, and I didn't see anyone claim that it does.

It's difficult-to-impossible to truly run Postgres as a proper "herd of cattle", due to the need to failover replication roles between reader and reader-writer, ensure replication is in sync on startup before allowing reads, handle upgrades carefully, etc. If you're using something like RDS or another managed Postgres, this is still the case, it's just being handled for you by someone else.

So it's not that you're just reducing the number of hosts; you're eliminating an entire class of hosts that have complex state and maintenance requirements. Your application processes are hopefully a herd of identical cattle and can be killed off and relaunched at will, and that property remains the same after introducing Lightstream.
>(October 28, 2005)
> Maybe they "weeded me out" early too?

If you plan yourself you can still probably return and finish it up, with your older person discipline you would be able to ace it and make a career out of it

But yeah, never too late
BJJ has another problem -- at least for little kids who are taught to choke. That could lead to death if they try applying the skill they learned in an unsupervised setting.
He would have had the beginnings of dementia at the time of writing the book, please cut him some slack.
Why wouldn't a Constitutional Republic act as if was beholden to its Constitution?

It seems beyond odd to me to think "eh, this paper is dusty; let's just do what we want".
> It wasn’t uncommon for them to move cities three or four times during their life in a time when you couldn’t just rent a uhaul and head down the road.

Except that you only needed one person to find a better job back then. The problem with now is that you need two people two find better jobs simultaneously.

This was blocking people from moving when better opportunities pop up. I suspect this is more responsible for the Great Resignation than anything else. Once one person of a couple loses their job and has to start a job search, there's no longer anything slowing down the other from taking a better offer even if you have to move.
c'mon y'all. read the other threads before commetning. It's not. https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2022/05/11/why-is-the-open-so...
If he’s the person I’m thinking of then his parents are two lawyers who teach at Stanford.
…well, even if you don’t consider naturally occurring phenomena like fire to be a human innovation, I’d argue things like “the written word” or “mathematical notation” or “formal logic” are perhaps a bit more important, and one might even say foundational to Bitcoin.
>"When I first learned about it, I thought it was so cool how it all came together, the combination of cryptographic security, distributed trust, even a Forth-like mini language built in."

Interesting, could you elaborate on the Forth bit? Where does this fit in? This is the first I've heard of it but admittedly I don't know that much about Bitcoin.
Adobe creative cloud sucks as a software product but is great at what it does. There is a plethora of tutorials online to familiarize yourself with enough of Premiere to edit your videos.

If you're just doing video demos it's perfect to combine that with OBS for screen capture and voiceover recording while editing. The three tips I have for doing something good enough are to write a script (and rehearse it for tone/time), use a good microphone, and turn off your AC/fan when recording and listen for interference or noise when you do a take (adjusting or redoing as needed).

If you're doing live videos, hire a videographer. It's an art, really.

The next tier up is to hire an editor, pay someone for any intro credits/title roll graphics, and to let them do their thing. There are tons of services out there these days.

Also ask around. If you're in a major metro area there is probably a filmmaker community or wedding photographer that moonlights doing corporate or YouTube work. They're around!
The difficulty will adapt to the slower block minting times, and those who stick around, will become profitable again. This is all written in the protocol.
How many resources do the employees and resources of Visa and Mastercard consume?

BTC at least has very few humans, and humans consume resources and create waste.

So, what does a more comprehensive measure than core time look like wrt global warming and payments?

I’m not sure the answer, but I’m also sure it is not simple.
> Arcane Research assigned a numeric score between 1 and -1 to capture the pricing correlation between Bitcoin and the Nasdaq. A score of 1 indicated an exact correlation, meaning the prices moved in tandem, and a score of -1 represented an exact divergence.

> Since Jan. 1, the 30-day average of the Bitcoin-Nasdaq score has approached 1, reaching 0.82 this week, the closest it had ever been to an exact, one-to-one correlation. At the same time, Bitcoin’s price movement has diverged from fluctuations in the price of gold, the asset to which it has been most often compared.

Without context, this analysis is meaningless. What's the correlation to various tenors of US treasury over the same periods, for example? What about Nasdaq/Dow correlation? How bout the correlation with gold?

> “There was this undeniable retail belief that Bitcoin at the end of last year was an inflation hedge — it was a safe haven, it was going to replace the dollar,” said Ed Moya, a cryptocurrency analyst at the trading company OANDA. “And what happened was inflation started to become very ugly, and Bitcoin lost half of its value.”

Selective amnesia. Zoom out and you'll see a massive bull market leading up to the first signs of sustained CPI growth. Buy the rumor, sell the news could also explain it as could many other things.
> In my market these are suburban tract housing generally at a sub-$500K price point with low-end construction materials and finishes. Thus, buyers say "there's nothing to buy" because they aren't the kind of houses they want.

There is something to buy, but there is nothing to buy at the price buyers want to pay. Developers can get away with less expensive finishes because they know demand is still so high relative to supply that the houses will still be sold.
What about your phone vendor injecting a CA to your phone so they can decrypt https traffic and inject ads into the webpage?

When they have that capability it’s not a big leap to other things.
When you realize what dollars are, you're really going to freak out.
Our app probably falls into those categories. Millions of downloads between iOS and Android, and has upwards of 50 different pages.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tracker-network-stats/id128769...
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=network.tracke...
I guess my experience is the opposite. We're probably both right, just about different things.
Cool language, I wish it wasn't react though. I guess there's more interactivity possible than shown in the demos; the only thing I've seen are popups for terms. Don't really need react for that.
Nope, but read this: https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2022/05/11/why-is-the-open-so...
Maybe we just need to emulate my ancestors and move on to the next opportunity every 20 years. All I want at this point is to be near my grandkids. I don’t care where that is.
Another approach is to do what Romania is doing. They tried implementing FPTP, but it failed in the referendum, so they implemented it half-way: you still have FPTP, so you get a representative from the local community, but the national votes that are "wasted" get redistributed nationally to each party , such that the popular vote matches the seats closely. The only thing is: your party needs to clear 5% of the popular vote nationally, and it will have guaranteed seats. It's a bit more complex, but that's the crux of it.

This system allows for parties to be created and destroyed very easily, we had 2 new parties in the last 10 years that at some point got 15-20% of the votes
I agree. I’ve been flying MSFT since the Sublogic days, using only the keyboard. It was very rare to get a good landing. I have about eight hours in a Cessna, and that was a piece of cake, by comparison.
Microsoft the business creates those caustic relationships.

I’ve managed 9-figure relationships with different software companies. Microsoft plays dirty, both with their own people, who have unachievable goals that encourage douche behavior, and with the customer.

I feel for the folks on the ground. The engineers crank out amazing work. But part of working for a company that essentially taxes every global
business and government is having a thick skin.
Charles de Gaulle Rescued France (2018)
Honestly, those prices you mentioned are peanuts for a business customer.

We'll pay something like US$30k/year in eBay fees (including paid promotions) for a relatively small home-based operation. We're moving to a warehouse soon, so that might be another $20k/year in rent.

$30/year to solve a real problem our business has is a steal compared to this!
This is a compelling theory for the 30+ crowd, makes a lot of sense.

Something else was going on with the unattached 20-something millenials that crowded to existing cities instead of striking out on their own, though. Maybe when Elon gets to Mars, Gen Z+1 will have somewhere new to go. ;)
Coming from a django/python background, flutter/dart was easier to understand than react/js. It has been fun to work with, esp. with Vscode and extensions, on a side project.

Flutter is a mature option for mobile development, esp. for small teams developing for multiple platforms.
Energy does not come from nothing. A large amount of it comes from polluting sources. In those cases there is a very direct relationship between the creation of energy and pollution.

Clean energy is obviously better, but suffers from a fundamental problem: energy is fungible.

If mining takes up 10 MWh of juice, anyone else who would have used that energy can’t. So they have to use other energy. Often fossil fuel based energy has to make up the difference. For all intents and purposes the mining used that fossil fuel energy.

If mining only used excess electricity produced by clean power plants, there would be no problem. But it’s not incentivized to use extra energy, it’s incentivized to use cheap energy. If energy can be generated by fossil fuels cheaper than what you can earn from mining, miners will use that energy. Producing pollution that wouldn’t have otherwise existed.

Even if mining only used spare energy generated from clean sources, using that energy means it can’t be stored to be used later, like at night. Possibly necessitating polluting generation later. (I know storage isn’t common today.)

If you can explain how mining either does or feasibly could given real incentives use only spare non-polluting energy I would love to know.
This is the key paragraph in the article relevant to your point:

This open-source kernel code is currently split into OS-agnostic and kernel interface layer components. This stems from NVIDIA's proprietary driver on Linux largely being shared code across Windows / Linux / FreeBSD / Solaris. For it to be upstreamed in the Linux kernel it would likely need to be more re-factored to cater to Linux, just as AMD's DAL/DC originally had tough time upstreaming due to its numerous abstractions.
A good memory jogger for the emergency transponder codes is: Hi Jack, I can’t talk right now, I’ve got an emergency.

7500 -> Being Hijacked
7600 -> Radio/Comms Failure
7700 -> Emergency
That seems great, definitely going to check it out!

Do you know if there's a way to use that runner per-file or per-project within jest? Seems like that's the only way it'd be possible to smoothly migrate in a large codebase without rewriting all tests at once.
This article covers a lot of the circumstantial evidence supporting a lab leak: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/the-virus-hunting-no...

There basically is no evidence of a natural origin. No ancestors strains have been found and it's very likely the virus was spreading before the wet market. The evidence for a lab leak is circumstantial, however.
I don't think you misread. This post makes a lot of assumptions based on a small change, in a brief time frame.

IMO, it's not enough to dictate that WP market share is really shrinking in any significant way just because it lost less than 1% in a few months. Let's see if the trend persist in the coming years to make statements like that.
Before Bitcoin no one was wasting energy doing redundant calculations on an astronomical scale.

Energy==pollute, actually. Energy is fungible and most of it comes from fossil fuels.
Tether is (mostly) fine today.

But it’s an absolute, unmitigated scam and will collapse with the slightest pressure. As BTC declines, Tether’s backing declines as well, even as they print more Tether to pump up the price of BTC.
> As fluid is pumped in or out, the focal length of the lens is changed, meaning the lens can be tuned to the specific requirements

If that could be fast enough, then combined with eye tracking we could have full-field glasses for presbyopia.
Yes, you're right, there is a correlation but I've seen bitcoin have big moves outside the stock market's trading hours. Big moves can happen at any time.
They also do this in Chiloe, Chile https://youtu.be/QC_G6_T5YOY?t=2223
Future of discourse isn't looking good, seeing how easy it was for tech/media/government to censor this theory as disinformation, even though it was completely reasonable.
My original paper on the system shows some more interesting examples, such as logical inference rules that can toggle between natural language and mathematical symbols: https://willcrichton.net/nota/

I'll be adding an "Examples" page with more interesting content soon.

The reason for using React is that it provides a nice model for components that encapsulate state and interactivity, so a user can just write "@Component{contents}" and the component author can deal with all the tricky UI issues. A design goal for Nota is to be as declarative as possible, while still integrating nicely with Javascript.
If you used wireless charging like MagSafe, you’d still be able to use the port for audio, right?

A friend of mine swears by the MagSafe experience, but I’ve yet to try it.
If I had to guess: it is a version of asshole you might be able to say in front of your mother.
I think this theory has cause and effect reversed.
Year to date -> The market is down almost 20%, long treasuries are down almost 18%, IAU (gold ETF) is up 2.75%

Seems like it's doing it's job quite nicely.
It's so valuable, the U.S. no longer backs its fiat currency with it.
I host a hobby website and use WordPress for everything. Even as an entry level user, I agree the amount of plugins are ridiculous.

But it's free and I only pay for hosting. Anyone knows what are the alternatives for someone like me?
I was talking about to the reality in tech rather than academia. In tech, the reality is very different.
Euro Is at $1.05–The Lowest It’s Been in Years
I have a somewhat irrational skepticism towards cryptocurrencies, as growing up, my dad always warned me of the scams he grew up with, when people were (seemingly) convinced fiat currency was a conspiracy by “the bankers” to enslave the common folk, and then used that to hawk crap like investments in silver mines.

And Bitcoin sure seems like a new iteration of that scam and/or conspiracy theory. At least with precious metals, you’d end up with something shiny at the end of it, and not a string of numerals on your phone.
How do you know what you’re sending up?

With a website, you can control what you do where. If your terminal client is sending stuff to the sky, you never know what it’s actually doing.