skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you honestly blaming cryptocurrencies for climate change, inflation and Russia‘s war against Ukraine? That’s crazy.

No, I don't think you understood what I wrote.

> Climate change is a long running issue that started waaay before Bitcoin even was invented.

What's your point here? Climate change has been around for ages so it's OK to blow a load of electricity on something that's not particularly useful?

> Still projects other than Bitcoin are working hard to implement staking to use much less energy.

Bitcoin isn't though, and Ethereum has been 6 months away for what, more than two years? They may never change. In the mean time it's blasting through a shit-ton of power for little to no actual value. Happy for people to stop burning through that power and pick up their hobby again when the power usage has been sorted out.

> Inflation is an issue brought on us by Western governments drowning in debt for decades: For wars in Afghanistan and the middle east, unsustainable social security systems, stimulus packages.

Power companies are literally putting their prices up because of a shortage of sources of power. "It's OK if we use all this power because governments are also bad" is kinda ridiculous.

> And Russia … Putin and his supporters have finally come to terms with the fact it lost its super power Status and in a peaceful manner make the most of their vast and empty territory.

I don't understand what you're trying to say here, that Putin invading Ukraine is making the most if it's vast and empty territory?
and people wonder where conspiracy theories come from...

please stop being horrible people and own up to mistakes, we all make them.
They’re putting them in lampposts, presumably right next to the street/cars.
You say this like they didn’t already have this issue with jailbait half a decade before td. If they had at all come up with a reasonable policy after experiencing many issues before the Donald. Even if you say ok that was only for nsfw reddits they also had to deal with fatpeoplehate.

It is absurd to say that the problem started with robot or mechanically generated content. They haven’t ever been effective or smart in developing content policies that work.
It takes a similar amount of time to prove that he is correct.

If you copy the link into a new window instead of coming from HN, you get a different result.
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/152/1/75/2604549?logi...

Theoretically, black holes can have a mass of the tiniest fraction of a gram which would be unimaginabley small. It's my own speculation that you wouldn't be able to detect that with a naked eye.
Success in Canada means moving to America
This article is full of one sided speculations, anybody has an article with a different view?
‎Cracking the Code: Sneakers at 30
There’s a bit of misconception here. IQ tests don’t require higher education, nor book reading.

> Higher education has never been a worse investment.

While I realize you’re talking about social investment here, the idea that TV and media are better investments of your time than earning a degree seems problematic at best. TV & media will, generally speaking, not help you get a better career, right?

The Fed has published very recent stats in the US that people with a 4 year degree on average earn 2x the income of people without a degree. I previously suspected it was slightly higher, like maybe 10 or 20 percent, and I felt like that would be a big number, but the fact that it’s double across everyone in America is massive, and a bit mind blowing to me. The income gap is 3x if you get an advanced degree. That seems like a pretty good investment, doesn’t it?
Also check out piku, especially if you are hosting Python or Node apps:

https://github.com/piku/webapp-tutorial/blob/master/README.m...

It is a way to get the same sort of developer experience benefit as dokku, but without dockers and containers, using plain UNIXy tools on a single Linux node. The above link explains how it works.
this is where our ideology conflicts with our needs. I'm a libertarian in many ways, but I'm not religious in adherence to the ideology, and see the need for the FDA and EPA. I'm also in favor of keeping their roles confined and reasonable. The voices of the extremes are too loud these days.
So is dietary cholesterol linked to in-blood cholesterol or not? In either case you'd be better off lowering the intake.
This article sounds strange. We don’t know the reason why they were held for a short time. But without that, it’s really hard to say if it was justified. Even if they are diplomats.
> No one is "anti-free speech", but some companies have decided that overt racism, sexism, anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry violate what they've decided are reasonable terms of service. If users don't like it, there's always 8chan, Stormfront, Gab, Gettr, Truth Social, Parler.

There is just the racism reddit moderation agrees with and the racism reddit moderation doesn't agree with, the misogyny reddit moderation agrees with and the misogyny reddit moderation doesn't agree with.

So when you're claiming that reddit moderations are reasonable, you're just claiming they agree with who you allow and who you doesn't allow being the target of bigotry.

I consider porn a form of misogyny for instance, reddit allows porn, and some very depraved form of porn, so don't claim reddit has reasonable terms of services and fights "bigotry", you just don't care about the former.
Well the bond will be meaningless if it was only put there yesterday. If it's been there for a while that's a real cost. But true, it's not the full amount unless they do something that makes them owe Google money.
I'm not sure what the issue you see here is: a very small Schwarzchild radius would be smaller then the size of the particle, and as a result the particle cannot collapse itself into a black hole.
> with the added mass you must get even less range than you'd have with the partial capacity setup, not to mention worse handling.

This is incorrect. Range increases due to added capacity faster than it decreases due to added weight here. It's approximately the same range, even with all the extra weight.

> Since the battery is larger, yes. But per unit, no.

Not sure I see the problem here? As a (non-Tesla) EV owner, I have never once cared about what my per-unit charging speed is over the charging speed of the battery pack as a whole.
> Why All Of Silicon Valley Should Die in a Fire

If they provide arguments, even (especially?) if those arguments are refutable, it might be worth reading. There's a lot to criticize about ad-supported Silicon Valley, and even VC-supported Silicon Valley. What's not worth reading is blithe dismissals - like yours - that don't make any argument at all but consist purely of tone-policing.
The person who won the evolution game only has a more adept ability and grasping, retaining, and applying concepts, especially at high levels. I remember people at University who so easily managed to apprehend abstract concepts while I would struggle for hours. They weren't necessarily more or less intelligent, but they were wired differently and could clearly operate at a higher level.
Thanks, fixed now. I could have sworn it showed up before I clicked submit.
Yes. Even if the reedits if the world don't talk about the paradox of intolerance they act according to it and they dampen hate speech to enable free speech.
What should be done is change laws around class action lawsuits so lawyers representing the public are incentivized to get higher payouts instead of settling early and taking a huge cut. That would solve a lot more problems without requiring an expanded role for a regulatory agency that is subject to regulatory capture.
Agreed!

I want to underline that the avoidance of a nutrient should be based in fact, and I also want to suggest that people examine what facts lay under a given piece of advice.

I do not see a clear scientific structure that would serve as a foundation for avoiding cholesterol as a general and default thing to almost always do.

I do not see references to any such basis of evidence in the article.

And have seen evidence that supports making several rather different conclusions than the article does.

There’s also the question of outdated science.

Saturated fat was believed to harm pancreatic islet cells. As far as I understand more recent studies, it is the opposite.

We can ask ourselves: Is the full picture being re-examined when it ought to?

How do we know? How do we know if the author of this article has cared to do that?

In short: Is it science?
No, both parties are “pro-America”, but they each have vastly different ideas of what their America should look like. Theses parties are actively engaged in a civil war in the courts, which is increasingly spilling out into acts of violence.

Meanwhile, many moderate Americans stand on the sidelines in total disbelief, as they both work destroy the principles on which the country was founded.
I'd say the debate goes further; into "what is ownership" and what you're being sold when you buy something using any form of encoded instruction sequence.

Cars and tractors and TVs that perform negotiable functions for negotiable prices seems unfair to me: the manufacturers should retain maintenance responsibilities if they're retaining the prerogatives of ownership. When we're renting let that relationship be clear and the divisions of responsibility spelled out and equitable.
On my back burner for a whole has been a federated thing-sharing server. A sort of “Mastodon for 3D objects”. I haven’t taken the time to build anything because I’ve been otherwise busy, but the idea that I could host my own stuff if I was wary of someone else’s EULA is nice.
Strange to me that you put Dropbox on here since they've really struggled to succeed on their own. I think Steve Jobs was right when he said it was a "feature, not a product." Selling to Google or Apple I think would've been the better move in hindsight.

Snapchat is probably a good example of a company that made the right move by not being acquired.
The Rise and Fall of Netflix (Investors Are Suing)
Sum types:
https://go.dev/play/p/R7Bhy2LDmde

Enums:
https://go.dev/play/p/MnbmE0B3sSE

Here you go.
Also, bitfinex'ed on Twitter (and previously Medium)
Would be neat to suck up all the garbage
Not the GP, but if the GP described a scenario that is useful to you, redis can #1 act as the memory cache if the processes themselves don't last long enough for the optimization to be useful, and #2 can act as a cheap message queue to funnel similar requests into a single (or small number of) processes for aggregation before writing to disk.
Of course, if you don't see the value in cryptocurrency, it will feel as though any electricity it uses is wasteful.
Yeah, I was specifically commenting on the "specifically the energy intensive kind", which is the kind that I suspect draws the ire of the majority of people.

Blockchains are interesting, they're useful sometimes.
This is the kind if questions which justifies the need for humanity to colonize multiple planets if it doesn't want to go extinct.
> /R/the_donald was consistently getting bullshit content to the front page using bots.

Just curious, how do you know for a fact that bots were involved in boosting the content? I mean, I'm sure that's possible, it's just that the level of energy/enthusiasm there among the users was extremely high to the point that I think it's reasonable to think that the subreddit's success was mostly just people being enthusiastic and wanting to upvote everything.

As far as bot based content-generation goes, that seems a little far-fetched to me given the level of humor and quality of the memes. Human humor to that level seems beyond reach of whatever technology was state of the art in 2015-2016 or even now.
Why though?

The only value of a black hole you can build would be as a doomsday weapon: do what we want or we end the world. Except...that's been the case since the Cold War with regular nuclear weapons.

As for fusion: you need to do more research. We've had fusion bombs since 1952. Practical fusion power for electrical generation is what we don't have since the constraints are very different.
Slack is a great product/company, but as Parker Conrad of Rippling explains in this podcast [1] (about 13 minutes in), Microsoft has been able to fend off Slack with an arguably inferior product, just by having an ecosystem that so many companies/orgs are already fully bought into.

[1] https://podcasts.apple.com/tt/podcast/20vc-ripplings-parker-...
I used intercooler.js (the predecessor of htmlx) a lot to sprinkle interactivity on top of static pages. Back then I remember the attidute was positive for it too. Not for building proper web apps though...
Extremely relevant Veritasium video (skip the first two minutes):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI_X2cMHNe0
This is what autoscaling groups are for, right? If set the autoscaler to keep one instance running it will spin another one when they retire the one you’re using.
The attraction of YC is/was the cachet that membership carries and the network you get access to. Not so much the money itself.
How does it differ from portainer?
Java does provide a form of sum types via sealed classes, but they’re definitely not like TypeScript’s:

type A = string | number;
You (or the tweet’s author) seem to be very well versed in the fine art of distinguishing different sorts of poop.
When it says free heroku alternative that runs on a single host/vps, then I assume the file system stays durable (as opposed to ephemeral). Is that correct?
Java has a new API for FFI called the foreign memory interface
On the other hand, the FDA continues to block the import of European manufactured formula.
Am I burning those 200 views if I see the same confession multiple times? The random selector can show you ones you’ve just seen. That or Sarah Pearson’s been extra busy.
In Europe do they give the users needles and drugs or do they actually fix the problem?
I literally feel bad. Is there a name for that disorder? Excess corporate empathy? Idk
The Ender-3 S1 [1] is the latest revision, featuring direct drive extrusion and other enhancements.

[1]: https://www.creality.com/products/creality-ender-3-s1-3d-pri...
Counter example: Underwriters Lab.
> So, if you hold the mass fixed and compress an object into a smaller and smaller radius, then the gravitational pull gets stronger.

I find this bit interesting because I'm pretty sure I've read the exact opposite before. My previous understanding was that the gravitational pull is only determined mass - but a black hole can put an almost arbitrary amount of matter into the same space, therefore the gravitational pull is factually much stronger than for any "ordinary" object of the same radius.

However she is saying the compression itself is already increasing the pull.

So as an example, suppose our sun got replaced by a black hole of identical mass (but much smaller radius). Would this cause orbits of the planets to shrink (increased gravitational pull) or stay the same (identical gravitational pull)?
♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
Black hole sun, won't you come
And wash away the rain?
Black hole sun, won't you come?
Won't you come? Won't you come?
♩ ♪ ♫ ♬

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efc7njKAfgo
I agree. Honestly, since we're talking about Trump's personal account (not even the official @POTUS account) I think he should have been banned much earlier.

I'm just pointing out that the slippery slope argument of "who gets to decide what is an isn't disinformation" on a specific platform which always gets brought up in this case has an obvious answer.
But what about all the people banned for “misinformation” regarding Covid lab leak, etc? That was not misinformation it turns out.

The platform is pressured to arbitrate a certain way and is a political tool. Musk opening up speech will be a breath of fresh air.
Someone has to do the blocking - reliable domestic food supply is a matter of national security.
> the vast security forces and militaries there to secure it (military being the largest polluter)

I've seen several comments in this thread comparing BTC's energy consumption to that of the world's militaries; is this a new crypto meme?

I hate to be the one to break this to you, but we would still need police and the military even if the world only used cryptocurrency. The irreversibility of crypto transactions increases the ROI of crime, so I think we would need more police and larger militaries in that world. Also, non-financial crime and interstate conflict exists.
Hard to say if you're actually in favor of this or not, but this is exactly the endgame strategy for any protocols that provide an alternative to the Empire's approved ones.

Nobody should be in favor of these things imo.
The same here, and that I can host multiple projects on the same server without any additional cost. If I get enough traffic I can always move it to a new server and redirect the DNS (cloudflair)
I get the environmental argument about proof of work, but aren't other consensus mechanisms addressing this?
Is "pale blue dot" still the furthest out?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot
Yes that is correct. You can mount directories like normal Docker.
I share your point on help across all the spectrum of abilities, and I don't think there aren't differences in intelligence. I just question this way of measuring it and that measurement is useful. The IQ test models results with a gaussian distribution, so this should mean you don't have to think about distributing people across classrooms by hand. It's pretty rare to only have a class of intellectually disabled or geniuses all banded together.

And to measure height only takes a meter. Pretty straightforward and without biases. The creator of IQ tests seemed to have doubts about the validity of the test, so... (validity, not its reliability)
Sorry if my comment upset you. I hope you got what you needed from this reply.
This desperately needs moderation
What about all the people using the platform to organize and normalize the BLM riots and looting?
This essay claims to explain what's going on right now with the US baby formula shortages: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/big-bottle-the-baby-formu...

Some things are obviously overstated or cited for propaganda value. For example with our ability to detect elements in parts per billion or less, it matters very much how much arsenic etc. is in them, I doubt it makes any sense to reduce those to 1 part per trillion or less.

TL:DR:

Demonstrably the existing big three, Abbott Labs and Mead Johnson produce(d) 80% of the US market share, Nestle another 18% are very weakly regulated by the FDA.

The hurdles for starting up in the US market are astronomical, and there's only one contract manufacturer Perrigo Nutritionals which not surprisingly has a large minimum order size. ByHeart became the 4th brand to have its own factory, first in 15 years.

Half of all formula is bought by the Federal WIC program, and states negotiate a monopoly with one firm.

All of the above results in prices double that in Europe, although I'd add we and the FDA are generally much more paranoid than they are, be it thalidomide long ago or COVID vaccines in the last couple of years.
ShadyURL: Make your URL suspicious and frightening
Some giant did enter the market. Stratasys bought MakerBot in a bid to own the hobby space. MBs reputation rapidly diminished before and after thanks to a few boneheaded moves.

What’s amazing to me is how Prusa, the undisputed leader in the space, is fully open source and continues to fully fund itself and research new technologies. They’re the antithesis of what Makerbot and Stratasys are, and are a successful company.
You've given me a lot to think about, thank you
An interesting alternative would be to not have any FFI and to use transparent polyglot interop between javascript and c++ via GraalJs /sulong
heroku getting bought by salesforce
Dokku is nice and I used it for a while but recently I've been using CapRover [0] and been pretty happy with it. I only use it on 1 host but it supports multiple. It also has 1-click installs for the usual suspects (drupal/wordpress/etc) and things like spinning up a DB is easy. You can also define a docker file in your repo that you instruct it to build and use. HTTPS is a button click and it automatically sets up virtual hosts for you `<your app name>.<base url you configured>`. It's great for quick prototyping and to get a personal project online.

[0] https://caprover.com/
It is amazing how despite regularly checking news.google.com, reading the NY Times periodically, listening to two daily morning news podcasts, and listening to NPR in the car, that a)I only just heard about a formula shortage yesterday and b)only now heard that there was a food pathogen at the Abbott plant, and that recall is the principal cause.

The NPR story yesterday made it sound like this was just supply chain issues. Not a single fucking word about a recall or contamination incident causing a plant shutdown.

I'm guessing this is the result of the finest public relations money can buy?
Eh, once you stop caring about a functional 1996 Toyota Corolla the difference becomes extremely small. You can basically reduce the automobile to its VIN - that's how it's referred to legally. Whoever owns the number owns the "car".

Only 2.1 million 1996 Toyota Corolla VINs were ever minted; there will never be another. If 10% of the world assets were held as Toyota Corolla VINs, that would give us a value target for a VIN of about 14 million dollars per VIN; I think with those assumptions it's quite reasonable to value a Toyota Corolla at 1 million USD, regardless of condition.
Not to forget that but to show that.

On a linear scale it is hard to see.
Wow, that’s toxic. Just read a screed on n*ggers. Hope the person felt better. Wow. Intense.
This is bad. This is very, very, bad. No thanks.
IE8 is my favorite browser...
One of the more ironic xposers, was a guy named "waronrugs" Who then went on to make a coin and rug everyone. https://twitter.com/Rekt_Tekashi/status/1394871896148172803?...
No quality control on the site and seeing very spammy racist messages on the site. Had to close this dumpster fire.
Looks like someone is flooding it with copies of an N-word-ridden rant, making it hard to find any other content.

EDIT: and now it's anti-Semitic conspiracy. And now it's down.
Portainer is more of a UI for docker and docker containers. But dokku is and actual platform similar to heroku that helps you deploy your apps.
A lot of them got banned? You should always report when you see people planning violence if that is what you are saying you saw.
In civil suits US courts really, really want you to settle early.
Absolutely not. She earned the nickname “chairman pao” for a reason.
There were no human errors or bugs at play here.
Love Coffeezilla. Found his channel after someone posted his Tether exposé on HN a while back - subscribed and have been watching ever since. He's genuinely entertaining, smart and fair. Very much recommended if you haven't seen any of his videos.
I'd like to see someone like this really try to explain the global non-crypto currency system as it exists today in similar detail. This after all was one of the touted reasons for crypto - it would allow people around the world to hold wealth in a stable currency that wouldn't be subject to market crashes and currency devaluations.

There are so many interesting questions that remain undiscussed - such as, to what extent does petrodollar recycling matter any more in terms of the value of the $USD relative to the euro and other currencies, such as Chinese and Japanese? If investing in crypto is a scam, why isn't investing in these other currencies also a scam? It would be nice to see some real in-depth compare and contrast writeups accessible to people who aren't professional currency traders etc.