skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cory is the most "foam-at-the-mouth" person I have ever even heard of.

Cory reads about something, stops at the very first hint of something that would inhibit his freedom, and writes extremely long and completely misguided manifestos that go directly away from the conclusion he would reach if he had even partial understanding of the situations he writes about.

the very worst thing about him is that he sounds hinged, people read his stuff, when he is in fact very much unhinged almost all of the time.

i dislike DRM too, a lot, but it exists for very good reasons. the public has repeatedly and strenuously shown every single company that produces anything that can be copied that large armies of people will do the copying and take the content without paying even a single penny.

25% of all PC video game players have pirated more than 50 games. approximately 1/3 of all PC gamers pirate games (as of 2016)[0]. Reminder that the video game market is larger than the movie and music industries combined, and that market does not include the games that are pirated.

[0] https://www.pcgamer.com/pc-piracy-survey-results-35-percent-...
I recently bought a cheap, delightfully printed, otherwise hard-to-find Kaufmann translation of Goethe’s Faust.

Probably my best value-for-money purchase ever.

https://www.amazon.com/Goethes-Faust-Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe/...
Why, the single gear of course :D
Good point with the subjectivity of PoS. But regarding the linear emissions proposal, do you have any source that addresses the economic consequences of this model?
Thanks!! We’re trying to get to as many people around the world as fast as we can :)
The issue is that they don't know what caused the ship to sink, because the data recorder is at the bottom of the ocean. If they'd streamed the data continuously, we'd have useful information to prevent future sinkings.
I don’t think it would scatter the community — I almost never read some topics here because I am uninterested in them, or because the community on average is not too well versed in the specific topic so it is mostly just guesses/opinions.

The most valuable thing about HN is the thoroughly educated comments, where under a related post the very creator of that program/language, etc might chime in to the discussion.
Wouldn’t you leave it at camp (or a prominence next to your camp) and have it constantly trickle charging a battery?

It would be charging itself all day and all night at a couple of Watts. Then when you come back to camp you speed charge your phone at a full 50W.
We do have the three important tags already. look at the header.

more than ask, show, jobs would split the community
I don’t really envy her because her personal life doesn’t seem as amazing as her cs skills. She wrote about it at some point, I’m pretty sure.
I hate that technique, maybe it's a motorcycle instinct to use the foot brake for finer control. But more importantly, the Mercedes I had to two-foot up onto the ramps didn't have a handbrake. My current car has hill assist but I still have to use two feet for backing up sharp hills.
I wonder if Softbank demanded this because of what happened at WeWork?
Cortes had a lot of military help from other nations such as the Tlaxcalans, true. Pizarro, not so much. The Incas weren't as universally hated as the Aztecs and in fact their state lingered on for decades (a rump one around Vilcabamba) after the initial conquest of Cuzco.

What certainly helped him was something unintended - the bloody civil war of succession between Atahualpa and Huascar that sapped a lot of strength and cohesion from the empire. Contemporaries described the main battlefield of that civil war as "full of bones as far as an eye can see".
The main feature of any decentralized technology is complete control and influence of a few increasingly concentrated wealthy and powerful groups, after all.
Thanks for the kind words @dgb23!
> speculation by an insurance company

Speculation about risk is literally what insurance companies do; how they determine the terms of insurance.

I learned a lot from this. One, shipping is pretty fly-by-night. Operators are winging it and trusting to luck in a lot of cases; failing to secure cargo for expediency for example. That's more corroboration than new knowledge. Two, fires are common on cargo ships: 14 times a year some cargo ship starts burning for some reason, car carriers being among the more frequent. Small fires that are quickly contained aren't included in that figure because they don't get reported. Three, car carrying ships aren't prepared to deal with cascading lithium battery fires. They can handle ICE fires but haven't yet adapted to the electric vehicles they're actually starting to carry in quantity. Four, the people that have to analyze the risks involved because they're liable for the costs are more candid about electric car fires; they say straight up that "lithium-ion batteries—they can ignite a lot more vigorously as compared to any other cars" and "a high impact on these cars and a lithium-ion battery can ignite them." A refreshing change from the obligatory handwaving and cognitive dissonance one gets at all other times.

In electronics there is the concept of a bathtub curve. The frequency of component failure is high when the components are new. The frequency decreases afterwards and later increases again with old age.

Applied to cargo ships full of electric cars with millions of brand new battery cells, obviously the risk that some battery will ignite and sink the ship has to be considered. And it will be considered -- if only by insurance companies -- whether electric car proponents like it or not.
Thats not true. Dokku supports amd64, arm, and arm64. While you can install it via Debian package, here is the Docker image you can run on OSX: https://hub.docker.com/r/dokku/dokku/tags

Note: I am the Dokku maintainer.
Matt Damon, is that you?

In seriousness, that was probably one of the most disappointing movies in recent times. But the initial idea was good/interesting. And now the main character tells us to burn energy at all cost for a ponzi scheme. No thanks.
Came to post exactly this. It's like the Stavos (?) thing from few years back where everyone saw the secret running track on secret bases. Only this is not an amusing running track, but dying.

It does emphasise something I have been saying for a while - privacy is the politeness of your neighbours, and secrecy is dead.
Or a Bluetooth one for greater versatility, ideally in a nice case for portability.
Bonus points if it nicely packages a screen, few buttons, and some of the most comon radio chips I often want to interface too.
What CEO Paul Cormier Didn’t Say in His Red Hat Summit Keynote
Has Heroku failed? I. checked its website and they seem to be operating nominally.
Thanks @dougbarrett! Let me know when you give it a shot! I'd be curious if there's anything your implementation that you'd like to see in Bud. Hit me up at hi@livebud.com or on twitter @mattmueller.
I do the same thing and it is definitely better than checking the order-changing front-page multiple times a day not to miss something interesting, but I could do away with less posts to scroll through.

Though I would be very interested in your RSS setup if you could share a bit about it. I use Reeder and add interesting sounding posts to read later where I might actually get to reading it, but over time I no longer manage to clear it.. I have plenty of old posts I’ve taken a look at and wanted to check it out later as well more in-depth or something, and they just stay there indefinitely..
Well, the proof is in the pudding, as they say.

Incorrectly, I know.
Do you specialize in non-sequiturs?
Psst... I'm using https://www.untitledui.com. Please don't use it though, I don't want the whole web to look like UntitledUI ;)
> Economic models, Keynesian or otherwise, are attacked and misapplied because individual players are better off with a larger slice of a smaller pie.

As if going off the gold standard reduced wealth inequality. https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
I'm all for serviceable batteries, but I don't see how it solves the shipping safety issue.

So you ship the EVs without batteries, and then... you ship the batteries?
Above the fold explanation sounds pretty much BS. I doubt that BS is a good filter for any audience.
And heat. And you know what is around ships? Near infinite amount of easily handled high heat capacity coolant. Okay, usually the stuff is pretty contaminated, but some cleaning and resurfacing is better than everything staying burning.
I seem to recall off the shelf turbines are available that you erect and guy, on long whip fishing pole like devices, to get them a few feet higher up.
I can finally properly flex my osu! skills
so can neutrophils
IQ is regularly being dismissed as a poor measure of intelligence, mainly because it measures intelligence on a linear scale.

It does not take into account perceptive intelligence, emotional intelligence, and others.
The usual view of meritocracy is this sports-like idea of wanting to see each person's inherent capability shine though.

Instead, we could give everyone the absolute best tech and social support, and only then evaluate performance, not of individuals, but of individuals+tech, the same way we evaluate a pilot's vision with their glasses on.
Playstation: Hole in NetBSD driver could allow code smuggling
Yes. Then when they put the batteries back in they can claim they were made in the USA.
Thanks for your comment @dimgl!

As @drewry mentioned, we're aiming to be frontend-agnostic. Changing the renderer should be as simple as creating files with different extensions:

- index.svelte for Svelte

- index.jsx for React

- index.html for HTML

- index.gohtml for go/template

There's more information in this discussion: https://github.com/livebud/bud/discussions/8
Then, as a good friend, take the time to provide a comment with more insights. We will all benefit from them. I looked at the comments because the website has not a lot of information and I was expecting to learn more from the comments.

Note: This is the first time I looked at the origins of comments in a submission because they really looked like fake comments and this annoyed me terribly as I want HN to stay free of them.
Diesel doesn't burn.
As jl6 said, O&G jobs are quite well paid.

Those "poor, filthy men" do not have O&G jobs, or if they do will not have them for long.
"Obviously if your work is less dangerous you are less likely to die"

That is not completely obvious, some kinds of highly qualified work will wear you down with stress. In my country, female doctors and even veterinarians have significantly higher rates of suicide. Some other professionals "compensate" for their stress with booze and drugs. Being a singer or an actor isn't dangerous per se, but the levels of substance abuse among them are concerning. One of the most talented pop voices here died choking in his sleep when he was both drunk and high on cocaine. He was 40 something.

Notably, this is impossible to prevent with just better and safer work equipment. Work in mines etc. is still pretty dangerous, but thanks to better equipment and methods, the death rate is going downwards.
You care when you lose something usually.
> i mean Bitcoin because the supply is limited

Capped vs uncapped supply is not as big of a difference as you make it out to be [1].

[1] https://john-tromp.medium.com/a-case-for-using-soft-total-su...
One of the problems is that lithium ion batteries can't be discharged fully without destroying them. Effectively, the batteries are a very large energy source that can never be fully turned off. Another problem is that (if I understand correctly) lithium ion battery fires tend to produce their own oxygen. Another problem is that a manufacturing defect in one cell could cause the whole pack to catch on fire. According to the article, a fourth problem is that roll-on/roll-off car carriers just store a bunch of cars in one big space, and there aren't barriers to prevent one car from starting all its neighbors on fire.

Putting out an EV battery fire basically entails dumping enormous amounts of water on it to keep the temperature under control until it's cool enough that it doesn't auto-ignite as soon as you stop. That can take hours.

I tend to agree that the risk of EV fires is overblown. ICE cars catch on fire all the time and we don't usually hear about it because it's not all that rare or unusual. It just doesn't make the news. EV fires are a novelty so we hear about them. (Not that any amount of vehicle fires is okay.)

I do think though that if you're moving thousands of cars together on a ship, then that's maybe creating a different kind of risk profile.

I look forward to wider adoption of LFP batteries. They aren't immune to fire; I think the electrolyte is still flammable. They just aren't nearly as energetic when they burn, and they're harder to ignite in the first place.
Why are you comparing two trusted parties' communication against random amount of counterparty transactions?

When it comes to cryptocurrency, suddenly comment quality goes down the floor in HN.
> set the bar

No, for many reasons.

It is not a matter of a "bar": intelligence is what it is. You cannot call the uncooked a biscuit.

But that is not the issue: there is a core function of intelligence, and if that is implemented, the engine is "intelligent" even when the entities (including relations) it manages are limited. To build "moving", a wheel is sufficient. The first goal can be to build a simple intelligence.

But to fulfill its promises, it has to be able to grow through its own constitutional features. The difficulty is to make that engine plastic, accommodating, "all-purpose", fertile enough so that it could achieve a Doctorate (through severe, intelligent and discriminating evaluators - let us always remember that tricks will never count) when enough resources will be invested in its expansion. The real difficulty is understanding what is the blueprint for such an engine, that makes modules emerge without installing them in - those complexities that are expected to be developed inside the engine cannot be implants. The real difficulty is to draw the lean engine for an intelligence - to define its essential, productive components.

Some humans are, very, very, very unfortunately, simply heavily lacking in displayed intelligence: but again, that does not change definitions. An underdeveloped and damaged function cannot count as a model. And when we build a machine, the goal is to implement a function optimally.
Swiss City Ties Its Crypto Metropolis Dreams to Tether
Plenty of people still use Dreamweaver. What WYSIWYG editor did all those users move to? They certainly didn't start writing React code.
You wish will be my command https://github.com/livebud/bud/discussions/8 :D
Not sure if there is sarcasm there, but it is pretty much a definition of fraud if someone claims that an extremely risky asset is risk-free.
Where's the YouTube recording?
Among many other differences, I imagine cars are packed more densely in a cargo ship than in an airport parking.
One of the reasons we live so long is that the evolutionary pressure is not negative after reproduction; To begin with it takes 15+ years to raise human offspring to a stage where they might be able to fend for themselves. 20+ years to give them advantage in the environment. Grandparents relieving this burden for each generation greatly increases their reproductive success, far beyond procreation. This is of course similar to other animals, but the benefits are amplified by at least two major factors in humans. First the usefulness of inherited complex knowledge. And second, because of fetal underdevelopment due to birthing hip limitations in evolved bipedal locomotion.
I don't know about Zeeland, but Italy and Japan (along with Greece) have been demonstrated to have the most balanced dietary habits (read: best) to remain healthy.

Maybe it's the sea, maybe it's the food. Why not both?
What these smart contracts and whatnot aren't taking into account is that people are dumb.

Not sure how many more examples are needed before people realize the rules need to be a bit more flexible to accommodate human mistakes.

Those products are meant to cause financial losses on first bug which obviously doesn't work.
hashing has nothing to do with scarcity. mining is only hard to ensure that the canonical transaction order is set by the majority of the computing power in the network. otherwise you get double spends. hashing is an ugly, wasteful way of doing this; Proof of Stake would be another if anyone ever figures out how to make it work.

scarcity is an implementation detail.
I really loved "Life in Code". The book's combination of intimate autobiography and job description, and a somewhat outsider's view on programming, which she sort of stumbled into, just felt right.

I also liked the interview posted by OP, it summarizes her opinions in a slightly different format. I somehow managed to miss it when I searched for interviews with her after reading the book. Thanks OP!

Things from the book that reverberated with me:

- Her relationship with her father, how she wrote some code to help him with his business. This mirrors a very similar experience I've had, writing simple applications for my dad during junior high and high school to help him with various things for his job. That was a sort of bonding between us.

- Her work in IBM, and how soul-crushingly it was, also reminding me of my first few months in a "real" job.

- Her work in a sort of artists' collective as a young woman, and how they slept in a remote farm and helped the farmer there. Which is wholly different from my own experience and therefore like a peek into a distant world, and yet very real.

- Her fluid sexuality - she had a girlfriend but is now married to a man, which the book mentions in passing but doesn't make a great deal of, which I found refreshing.

Edited to add:
- Her descriptions of how San Francisco has changed over the years by the technology boom and bust cycles.

- How she almost became one of the first employees in Google because Larry Page was interested in her opinions.

And that quote from this book already referenced in a sibling comment, “We build our computer systems like we build our cities - over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.”...

That quote also affected me deeply since it has a deep connection to my day to day work. For the last decade I've been part of a changing team, maintaining a big sort of internal legacy system, that is sort of mission critical, which started as a messy semi-personal project years ago, and then grew and grew to the point where no one knows it all.

I've printed out this quote and hang it above my desk. I don't explain it to people, but the ones who bother to read it nod their head in understanding.
> it was designed to provide security against the owner

no. no, no, no, no, no. holy crap, no.

no.

it was designed to prevent unauthorized access to hardware.

corporations own computers, too. and you know what is on a lot of the computers they own? trade secrets. who wants those trade secrets? competitors, copycats, and so on. what is something that such motivated actors have a large amount of? money. money to hire thieves. money to buy expensive equipment. people to attempt to circumvent security measures.

Pluton is designed to address situations like this.

no one cares about John and Jane computer owner. Pluton will not be used against John or Jane unless John or Jane allow it, in some unforeseen situation I can't imagine.

Pluton is a very good weapon for corporate IT admins trying to secure their devices.

"BUT TPMs ALREADY DO THAT"

not unless you require a PIN on boot, and PINs on boot are a pain in the ass. no one likes them, no one wants them. they often have huge complexity requirements and can be easily forgotten. PINs suck. they suck so much that some unfortunate companies decide against the PIN requirement and implement things like BitLocker using the TPM alone, and that is extremely insecure to anyone with physical access to a device because TPM traffic can be captured.

"that seems like something that is very difficult and will never happen."

it's very easy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29258879

Pluton was designed for the same thing that the Intel Management Engine and other related technologies were designed for: corporate IT administrators.
Like the other person said, these are basically unblockable by DNS and if you block them by other means it causes a lot of “collateral damage”.

So my statement was not entirely correct :-)
> they also take a lot of time and effort to produce

This is a case of bad tooling, not an intrinsic fact.

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/understanding-layout-algorit... is an article that could have easily been written without any interactive components. All the author did was replace traditional code blocks with an embed to a web playground (e.g. by s/Code/Playground/g in a MDX file). Ta-da, the demonstrations are immediately interactive.

> and thus will remain a minority.

Not if we put in effort to encourage them. On the other hand, if we put in effort to _discourage_ them (say, by splitting the web into documents without interaction and apps with interaction), they will disappear completely. It is not worth sacrificing these creations simply so that we can remove a few bad actors. (Mind you, there are many ways to act badly in non-interactive ways too. Image watermarks, embedded advertisements in videos, embedded advertisements in ASCII text...)
Salvadorans Struggle to Adapt to Bitcoin
Strava.

Fitness app Strava lights up staff at military bases - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42853072.amp (Jan 2018).
Not a "massive" success. At the time of the acquisition, its revenues were a few MM$. The acquisition price was high compared to what was happening at the time.

And then, Salesforce didn't really know what to do with it, and growth slowed down and good leadership left.
Probably to some extent, but there are limits. If the charge is too low it damages the battery, and self-discharge is a thing. So, if you're moving cars with a low charge you're under a self-imposed time limit to get them where they need to go and recharged before their cell voltages drop below their normal operating range.
Energy storage is the deus ex machina solution that's always thrown around when real engineering concerns about the problem of electricity sources whose output you cannot control are presented. I might as well flip your argument on its head: if it was as easy to store energy as you propose, then electricity prices would never become negative.

Government is an abstraction that might make us blind to the fact that political decisions are made and enforced by actual people. The more economic power that crypto currencies amass, the bigger a threat they become to big government's taxing abilities, yes. Granted. But at the same time it also affords its supporters more lobbying power. I think governments face a prisoners dilemma in this regard: most governments might be better off if they all banned crypto currencies. But even better off if only their neighbors banned them and they allowed them, so they would get an influx of people and businesses making money in this sector, and they could tax these individuals. Think e.g. Crypto Valley in Switzerland, or Bitcoin enthusiasts visiting (or moving to?) El Salvador. And we all know how the Prisoner's Dilemma plays out in the long run: to the detriment of its actors.

And to you last points: ask modern day Venezuelans or North Koreans whether it's a waste to have sound money that can't be inflated by the whim of self-serving autocrats. Or ask a German citizen that was alive 100 years ago if sound money is a waste of resources.