skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no doubt that, for a lot of people, there is just a better convenience/quality trade-off. I had a good size Onkyo system for watching movies and I configured it meticulously. But it's hard to explain to others why there is so much ceremony and bulk, especially when watching habits degenerate from immersive movies to binge watching netflix serieses.

Part of the experience with hobbies is some kind of sacrifice along with the reward. The drive towards convenience takes away that sacrifice and makes me appreciate something a little less.

It's like takeout and boxed wine, wearing a T-shirt; versus dressing up a bit, making a nice meal, and opening a bottle from a winery you visited. The former is ovjectively good and convenient, and all of the latter ceremony is a hassle that provides little benefit (you probably can't tell the boxed wine apart in a blind test).

But... aren't we happier with the latter experience?

I'm too lazy to "waste" time on that kind of happiness though. That's the sad part.

I think if I'm motivated by others it's different. For instance, stuff like surfing/snowsports requires a significant hassle, and it's a lot easier to find people who will put up with that hassle.
I've been disabled since 17, finally got approved for SSDI in 2017 after almost two decades of struggling to work and make ends meet. I can say definitively that employment in the US does not follow the guidelines as they exist and those guidelines are too weighted in the favor of the employer in the first place.

A simple example of this is that often part-time hours would allow me to continue working and there is nothing in the ADA/EEO or FMLA that guarantees a worker's right to keep their job at part-time indefinitely. The obligation to perform to the level of a typical worker is squarely on the shoulders of the disabled. Good luck finding an employer generous enough to deal with all of your needs.

85% of the people with my diagnosis are unemployed despite the fact most of us want to work. The algorithms will probably help make sure it's more like 90-95% of us. But at least the stakeholder involvement process makes people feel like they have a voice even as they are categorically excluded from ever being fully-functional human beings.
To be fair, I’m at a point where my audio works better on my personal Linux setup than on my high end Windows Dell laptop at work.

Which is the exact opposite as my situation 10-15 years ago. That’s how much Windows transformed itself into a pile of shit during the last decade.
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Surround American made monitors designed by the Pet Sounds engineer Alan Sides.

https://oceanwayaudio.com/as-the-sea-level-rises-for-immersi...

British (also available in consumer version and pretty finishing):
ATC SCM150

https://atc.audio/hi-fi/loudspeakers/classic-series/scm150/

American:
JBL M2
https://jblpro.com/products/m2

(Or just buy JBL commercial theater smaller models like many installers do)

German:
Neumann KH420
https://en-de.neumann.com/kh-420

Yamaha NS-5000
https://europe.yamaha.com/en/products/audio_visual/speaker_s...

All these cost about thirty thousand dollars including appropriate amplification and tax before installation. I make this a loss leader run by all the industry for labor and materials only. Every one is a halo product and worthy of that description.
> currently there is a lot of hype around crypto that will eventually go away.

What is the mechanism that will make this happen?
My spreadsheet doesn't do that.
Don't know as the situation was in place by the 70's. It's possible it was designed into the system in the post-war massive suburbia buildout that welcomed the GI's back (along with the GI bill). IE, where the boomers grew up.

When these were done, through into the 70's, mom was at home (later, probably at home) so running errands didn't require kids walking about. I remember they were a herd of folks running about the neighbourhood being sorta watched by a collection of moms keeping them outside. There might have been a ball field nearby where football/baseball could be played, or they just played amongst the houses with the traffic lights. Parts of the country salted in basketball nets.

It might have been the boomer's desire to have more than their parents had - rather than a little box house, they wanted a bigger one. With a place to bbq and entertain. In older developments the back yards were all connected so there was room to roam.
WebKit’s B3 compiler is easy to extract and not at all specific to any language.

I’ve heard good things about cranelift and I believe it’s sort of meant to fulfill the same role as B3. Might be worth checking out.

Most likely though, you should start by writing a template jit before you try to optimize. WebKit’s “assembler” and “jit” directories will show you how and you can probably extract most of the relevant code as it’s not WebKit specific. In particular the cross platform machine code gen.

Lastly I would advise against trying to reuse a C compiler backend like llvm unless your language is very close to C.
> So you'll read about it on Bloomberg, CNBC, FoxBusiness etc. always in the realm of loss porn or gain porn, not in any other fashion.

I really only see loss porn (except when an Elon Musk tweet is involved), which was my point.

"wow crypto keeps crashing... from higher highs than before??? no, ignore that, it's crashing though, I will finally feel vindicated from sitting on the sidelines for an entire decade!"
On the other hand, that means a mining rig is worth a car's pollutants? That's a lot.
Equal parts "non-zero threat of physical escalation" and "empathy triggered by proximity to another human."

It's hard to stare into someone else's eyes and feel... nothing.

It's pretty easy to look at text on the screen and forget the person on the other end is like you.
I agree with you that a given person typically has a different personality online vs. offline.

However, I disagree with you that people are more "kumbya" in person than online.

My experience has been people are much more aggressive and mean in person. People are constantly shit-talking, passing undue judgment, road raging complete strangers. It's absolutely terrifying.

Online, I still feel there is ugliness, but I tend to find people will put together clear and reasonable arguments. Especially in communities like this one.
„In macroeconomics, hard currency, safe-haven currency, or strong currency is any globally traded currency that serves as a reliable and stable store of value.“
Maybe there is something in here. It's a talk by the creator of this clone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyged8Vk8uk

Edit: I just watched the video. It is really interesting but does not answer the question of how long it took to reverse engineer and rebuild the card.
Scientology: The E-Meter
> AMD/Intel were long at 16 operations and only the latest Intel went up to 32 operations.

Intel has had 256-bit dual-issue FMA since Haswell (2013); that's 32 flops/cycle/core. AVX-512 doubled the vector length for Xeon Phi and was generally available in 2017 Skylake.
1. I use Quiver.app to plan my week/day and to track what i'm working on right now in the moment. Any intermediate output from my work gets tracked (eg. preparing important commands, saving output of important commands) and any little task that pops up gets added to an impromptu to-do list. This keeps me focussed and stops me forgetting my place in what I'm working on in case I get distracted. At the end of the day/week I ruthlessly evaluate what must be carried over and what can spill on.

2. Learn to offload work to juniors. Create tickets and dump them in your backlog. Work with your manager to make sure that "work that is not an efficient use of my time" gets handled my someone else. Anything that drains your energy or seems tedious and can be a learning opportunity for a junior. Use your 'procrastination' as a signal that whatever you're working on should be assigned to someone else.
I agree. Setting them up in your spare time is fun. But they tend to break out with your spare time. Even so with the non-self hosted stuff.
It would be great if you could share some specifics or share the repo.
> Blocks (Block size) and transaction fees will grow exponentially

Currently, the blockchain is 405 GB and grows by about 5 GB per month. In your proposal, that will go up exponentially?
Bitcoin mining is almost entirely ASICs. GPUs aren't much good at the algorithm used.
I did try to put thought into that one, haha.
Not very far from my first PC: 14'' VGA monitor, and a Siemens Nixdorf 386SX 16Mhz, 40Mb HDD but fortunately 2Mb of RAM (which probably made a huge difference on being able to play some games). Something similar to this beast: https://www.ebay.com/itm/172038842293?hash=item280e5067b5:g:...

Similarly, the Pentium was just released and a friend of a friend of mine had one (wealthy parents). Just once, I got to visit the Pentium's guy home tagging along my friend. The guy played a small VIDEO-CLIP with sound output in a Soundblaster-driven pair of speakers.

I had never heard any game sound but PC speakers or NES (Famicom). There was a popular software at the time which I don't recall, which was playing MOD files into the PC speaker and we would listen in awe how that would sound.

Now imagine being hit simultaneously with full-blown digital sound AND VIDEO. Flabbergasted is an understatement. The Pentium guy kept saying something about choppy video and crappy quality but I couldn't notice a damn thing, seemed the most amazing video I ever saw and all I could think (but of course couldn't say it out loud) was "shut the fuck up, I can't hear the soundtrack".
https://apnews.com/article/economy-inflation-jerome-powell-9...

Powell Is already hedging that he can't provide a soft landing
This says nothing because electricity depending on the source can have none or more than your number.
There is so much psychology built into media we consume especially adverts its unbelievable. Thing is, never have authorities had so much control over their populations and scientific knowledge continues to grow.
When you discuss miners, on a network DESIGNED to emit less Bitcoin and change to transaction fees down the line, it’s ultra important to note that this actually working vehicle exists and the same miners protecting the speculative vehicle are also protecting the actually working one. And when calculating for the working one, miners are set to be some of the richest businesses on the planet, even when ALL Bitcoin has been already mined, a 100 years from now, because of transaction fees.

Crypto is still very, very, early. I assure you of that.
I always felt like it was a battle for control of the user interface.

When the system was audio-dominant, the receiver made sense to put in control. The TV audio was one source among many, and most of the functionality was in front-panel buttons.

When it became video-centric instead, we started putting the TV in the centre of the experience-- plugging devices directly into it and using its menus to control switching. The problem there is that anything cool the AVR could do by being aware of different inputs is lost (I'm picturing per-input volume controls, for example). There's not really a great way to get them to communicate-- CEC is limited, I've seen AVRs that do on-screen display and wish I hadn't seen it, and the only way I can imagine it working would be a single brand-based propriatery interface where all the parts could cooperate.

The one I find weird is the soundbar angle. It's not going to be anywhere near as good as all but the worst free-standing speakers, due to size and positioning limits, but it's still introducing cost and complexity. Bluetooth speakers, at least you could put them in a good place for the room. I assume they trade mostly on what they used to call "Wife Acceptance Factor"
They are quite smug and judgmental in their annual meetings towards anything they don’t understand.
Looks like it is.

If you subdivide something, that doesn't make more of it.
God, don't use Homeassistant if you actually value your time. I've ranted and raved here on HN about it before. It's a hobby project where the devs only care about using the latest and greatest methods and tools for the sake of padding their resumes. They will often re-write things for no reason, release things into the UI as placeholders, and don't care how many end user installs break. You will spend massive amounts of time keeping up. Case in point - they removed Python 3.7 support in late 2020. 3.7 is not EoL until mid 2023, and was the default version in Buster, the Raspbian release at the time. We all had "fun" compiling Python from source.

Just get a Hubitat and be done with it.
Exactly. The only people you should really be banning in an online community are repeat offenders who understand the rules and continue to disobey them in a way egregious enough to be harmful to the community.

That's a far smaller set than "people who post bad / stupid / annoying things."
Who’s out there giving away free solar panels? ‘Cause I’d really like some.
When do you get a house with a garden and mount this on a radio controlled car chasing cats, asking for a friend?
This used to be the case in the UK. There were a few companies that would install solar panels on your roof, at no cost to you. You could use the electricity generated by the panels at no cost.

The catch was that the companies took the feed-in tariff (the government subsidy for generating renewable electricity), and that you needed to commit to having the panels on your house for a minimum number of years (making it unviable if you rented, or planned to move in a few years).

In the mid-2010s the UK changed how the subsidies worked, changing from the feed-in scheme where you were paid per unit of electricity generated (regardless of if you consumed that energy or sent it back to the electricity grid) to the Smart Export Guarantee, where you are only paid for the electricity that you sent back to the grid. According to Wikipedia [0] this caused many of the companies operating the "free solar panels" schemes to go out of business.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed-in_tariffs_in_the_United_...
I always cycle out my keyboards. I alternate between using a Planck with Boba U4Ts, a Preonic with Halo Trues, and the Macbook keyboard. I'm adding a Nyquist to that list soon, just need to decide if I want to use Bobagums/NK_Silk/NK_Cream or fully commit and make some Holy Bobas.

It's a really nice way to add variety to the relative monotony of my day-to-day, and my carpal tunnel has seriously improved.
Show HN: Timekit – Helpful functions to extend the Go `time` standard package
The standard deviation of 50 one's and 50 zero's is 0.50

What is your 5% value referencing?

https://www.calculator.net/standard-deviation-calculator.htm...
...because miners choose whether to include a transaction or not. Obviously they have no incentive to include a zero fee transaction

There would be an equilibrium where the fee is worth the marginal cost of mining it
Tell them that Bluetooth is Bluetooth and all implementations should interoperate. Or that's how it should be, and although there's plenty of stories about it not working with specific combinations of devices, "on computers" is such a ridiculously vague excuse.

After updating Macos to Monterey

On the other hand, if I were you, I would suspect that first and go after Apple before blaming Jabra. (Maybe the latter knows that Apple broke something in its BT implementation, and this is their excuse?)

Perhaps someone with this same environment and knowledge of (or is willing to learn) the BT specs/details can try debugging the problem and determine the ultimate cause and possibly come up with a fix. I'd love to read such an article and I suspect many others on HN would too.

(I use BT devices very rarely --- and so far all the ones I did use, seemed to work OK; even the generic Chinese ones with the infamous voice prompts.)
What a strange question. Might as well ask how a fish learned to swim or a bird to fly.

In all seriousness the biggest influence likely comes from friendly and enthusiastic teachers and a then all the things necessary to support having enough time to sit and think. Strong and true autodidacts are few and far between in the general population. And even then it's a very rare one that can not only describe their internal state let alone allow its transmission to others.
Because small chocolate manufacturers don’t have the scale to supply massive distribution companies. An little retail gas stations don’t have any incentive to go make deals with boutique manufacturers. That would be madness for a gas station owner to go to individual manufacturers for specific items. And the manufacturers would hate it. Dealing with hundreds of thousands of small orders would be a logistical pain. That’s the reason their is a distributor layer for those sorts of products. If customers at gas stations started demanding Valrhona chocolate, they’d ask their distributors to start getting it. I’d buy it, but most people at gas stations aren’t going to care about a $10 chocolate bar.
Never walk into a BANK and apply for a loan. Use one, or better, a number of mortgage brokers. Make a spreadsheet. Add in all garbage fees. Estimate the life of the loan. Now calculate real APR. Points and garbage fees dominate if you’re going to sell or refinance in a few years.
> This article has really nothing to do with Bitcoin itself. It is just a story how stupid investors are pouring money to companies that have the Bitcoin in its name, without really going through the business at all.

How do you figure? Much of the (featured) article is centered around hashrate to bitcoin production ratios over time. Literally one the central features of bitcoin.
They're down the street from me (Los Angeles) -- See's candy is literally the best I've ever had. Lots of variety, reasonable prices. Recommended for yourself or a gift for a friend.

Yum <3
Do you use the included usb dongle?
The stupid game along these lines that I like is to describe a made up film with a title that rhymes with some known film by modifying the description of the film, e.g.

Dominic Toretto and his street racer friends go around making some ridiculous claims.

An FBI agent must enlist the help of a killer to catch a dangerous fiend, who's crime is shushing people on public transport.

An archaeologist/adventurer is hired to venture inside a proton to see what particles he can find.
The playful Playdate gets serious as a personal organizer
An object-oriented model may not be what you are going for but the .NET runtime is general-purpose in that sense - you can compile a wide variety of languages to CIL and it's got loads of features (unlike say the JVM which contains no opcodes Java doesn't use). And then you can benefit from the huge standard library as well.
Yes but if `negotiations` fail in the end because the max they can offer is lower than your acceptable minimum, both company and you end up wasting valuable time because now both of you need to do entire loop again.
My proposal? I won’t take credit for Satoshi’s work, it was his proposal:

https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/bitcointalk/485/
It's usually not about the OS but the BT controller (hardware) itself.
I'm guessing, but perhaps people don't want to have anything that is time-sensitive when it comes to TV. Maybe I don't want to be up watching at that time, and anything trying to be topically humorous suffers by being time shifted (smeared?). TV viewing habits, I thought, have changed - from episodic to binging on seasons? if so, what's the sense in watching >1 late-night show in a single sitting?

And what's the point of the guests, then? They're hawking something which almost by definition is really stale compared to what's available on-line.
Miners still have to choose to include your tx. The risk of losing during two blocks being mined goes up as blocksize does (longer to transmit across the network), so you still have to incentivize the miner to include your tx.

Ofc there will be miners who make much larger blocks no matter what, but it comes down to how urgent is your tx?
It doesn't (in this case), and I didn't say it did. And there's nothing "blindingly obvious" about the ubiquity of the Zipf curve.
Because we are not yet invented an ability to punch people in the face over standard TCP/IP.
What's astounding is, how they didn't adapt to new demands or pivot?

Got comfortable or outdate?
Alternatively you can serve a static response over nginx with async logging. Then ingest the logs through some streaming pipeline…
> I think there is a higher chance of me surviving if I don't fight.

This is a valid opinion to hold and I hope that you are right – it is very hard to tell what Russia plans to do next through all this fog of war though.

My point wasn't that pacifism is pointless (it isn't – I'd call myself a pacifist as well). But as someone who grew up learning his whole life about the attrocities my grandparents generation comitted (I grew up in Austria, my grandfather was a Nazi fighting on the eastern front) I have a hard time seeing e.g. how Europe would look today if our neighbouring countries didn't at some point decide to fight back. Not to call Russians Nazis, but they are certainly extremely authotarian fascists – and being a province to authotarian fascist empires has historically never been a good place to be in.

Aside from that, I do believe that Ukraine will have less casualties if it gets a ton of support and pushes strongly till it is in an position to negotiate a lasting peace. Of course one could imagine a scenario where Ukranians stopped fighting and Russia just be like: "Ok, now we are friends again if you just let us install a new president and do all these things on the list", but in practise this would very likely lead to decades of simmering conflict, of the type that can destabilize a region for good. If that would be more or less dead, more or less lifes destroyed is not something I am willing to bet on.

However I don't live there, and I don't have to fight, so it is all too easy to take that stance.
In finance, sales and VP+ posts yes but I think for majority of us ICs and lower Ms bonuses are usually sub 20% of the total comp (even at the FAANGs)
In my experience, BTC has more "brand recognition" amongst uninformed investors who are more concerned with "number go up" technology than digital cash technology
What gave you the idea that it would materialize in your time frame?
> First off, your electricity price will determine how much (if any) profit you'd make.

No it wouldn't. The electricity cost is a factor, but it's not that significant compared to the capital cost of the equipment, the price of which fluctuates depending on the expected profit.

You can also see this with GPUs, but it's far more pronounced with Bitcoin mining hardware which has no other use.
I mean it is a lose-lose situation. We both end up wasting valuable time.
You warped me right back to 11 years old, and I thank you for it.
original Polygon article discussion: previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26236200
So currently every transaction costs around $101, of which $1 visible in transaction fees, and $100 invisible in mining reward (aka seignorage, leading to money supply growth of 1.7% p.a.).

To maintain current mining hash power, as the mining reward halves away to zero, every transaction would have to incur around $100 in fees.

> still allowing miners to generate a huge (and ever growing) revenue, while also enabling most of the planet to transact next to free

If blocks would grow 10x, the blockchain would grow about 50GB per month, every human being could do around 10 transactions in their lifetime, and those would cost around $10 each. I don't see how huge and growing revenue for miners is compatible with "next to free" transactions.
Dang needs to hire some of the old moderators of TeamLiquid's forum heh, that'd be interesting to see
I think that's exactly how most business projections are made...