skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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?

So shall we stop inventing technology that draws power because it’s bad for the environment? I mean Bitcoin isn’t consuming electricity just for fun. People use Bitcoin and that’s why it consumes power. Like people using air conditioning, fridges, washing machines and cars. Furthermore, the raw KWh figure the Bitcoin network is consuming (which AFAIK currently is unknown because miners moved all around the globe in the last couple of years) is not a useful measure of its green house gas emissions as we don’t know how it’s energy is created. It could well be on renewables by large percentage as they are cheaper in some countries (e.g. hydroelectricity in Norway) and mining is expensive.

> Power companies are literally putting their prices up because of a shortage of sources of power.

Price surges among some goods are not inflation but simply an indication of scarcity. Power scarcity affects Bitcoin as much as other sectors of the economy. Price surges across all economic sectors are inflation. BTW: It’s the inflationary policies of the FED and its equivalents creating cheap money and driving the investment bubbles … including the crypto bubble. If you‘re angry about the crypto craze put the blame also on the current monetary regime.

> 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?

I was referring to parent‘s blame of the Ukrainian war on cryptos. It’s not the fault of crypto heads that Putin invaded its neighboring country and caused gasoline and electricity prices to rise. BTW: It’s probably not even Putin‘s fault alone. Government regulations to support the transition to renewable energy sources have been pushing prices up for electricity and gasoline already for years, at least in Europe.
There's one place where I think this may become useful: international trade.

Inside a country with an functioning economy people are willing to trust the government and companies to handle their transactions. When you move to the scale of countries trading, sometimes there's no one "above" that can be trusted.

Currently this is "solved" by just using the USD and trusting the US to not go crazy with it. The US and their allies are of course very happy with that and won't move away from it willingly, but some other countries are not.

Between countries that can't trust each other's economic policies it's harder to find a way to trade other than barter, and that's not very convenient. Look at Iran or Venezuela, for example, or countries that wish to trade with Russia currently but don't want to keep large reserves of Rubles. I could see some of these eventually trying out using Bitcoin to trade. And if it works well for that case, it may start to spread. Maybe countries that aren't too close to the US will start to think that maybe Bitcoin is a better option than being "subject" to another nation's economic policy.
When faced with uncertainty, car drivers tend to slow down. That's the general advantage here.

It's not better than a properly separated bike path, but it is better than a painted bicycle gutter that motorists are comfortable driving 50mph inches from.
You often don't get to be a c-executive without having a major appetite for risk-taking.

Short of shooting both the c-suite, and their families, I don't think this will align their interests with those of the public as well as you hope.
How did you get this view, if you don't mind me asking? Is there something happening that is local to you?

I'm not trying to accuse you of anything, but I'm surprised for someone to directly state something that is so straightforward to falsify.
The heat wave was crazy though [1]. I am wondering whether any plant can survive at 50+°C (except desert adapted ones)

[1] https://twitter.com/PlatformAdam/status/1519980107217129472?...
Enum supports an exhaustive Switch as well, here's an example based on the blog post:
https://go.dev/play/p/Ef78vLyw33g
> Now obviously this varies, so some people are much more valuable, and some are less valuable.

I think people also underrate how much this varies. Our company has paid $50-$100 per click in the past for certain search terms.

Letting a CTO at a tech company opt out of ads for like $50 is a sucker deal for Google.
There s no use to fret about it. I think nature is telling us that IQ (or intelligence) is not needed. sorry folks you ve been optimizing the wrong thing

Is there a method to dumb yourself down? asking for my smart friends
Assembling a Commodore 64 Program's Machine Code, One Byte at a Time
But they'd never block the entire user base, right? So it's only about a few one offs. M&M money, no?
I turn off referers in my browser. There is no reason to have it on, especially cross-origin. It's only good for tracking and not much else.
Nights and weekends. Often I used my vacation time to do all the onsites.

Sometimes I had to just quit my job and commit to job searching full time. I’ll be doing that again this year. The problem with some jobs is that they’re too intense to really give you ant energy or time to interview elsewhere. Quitting becomes the only option at that point.
I'm not Norwegian but my guess is the system is much like in Denmark, where officially there is also conscription.

The thing is though, it's not taken terribly seriously anymore, and this has probably been a trend since the cold war ended. If you want to avoid getting called up, just about any excuse will do just fine, there's no shame in it at all.

My guess is the people who want to avoid it are the kinds of kids who would rather go and study than run around a field at night. Those kids will also tend to have the higher IQs, which will thus vanish from the test set.
https://coinmarketcap.com/all/views/all/

Not sure this is the right metric, but you can see that the top of the list seem to represent the bulk of all crypto currencies. And if you want to include Tether, it’s apparently based on Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains.

Bitcoin is proof of work, and is showing no sign of switching to something else. Ethereum is proof of work, and hasn’t switched to proof of stake yet. I mean the tech is ostensibly there, but last I checked the merge still didn’t happen. Even if it was just those two, I would not dare call them "some crypto currencies" like they were marginal. Bitcoin and Ethereum, aren’t marginal, they’re basically the majority all by themselves.

Also, I’m not sure how trustworthy proof of stake actually is. I’ll believe it when Ethereum actually implements it at scale.
Fair enough, thanks for sharing. It's not really serious proposal but interesting to learn it wouldn't work. I guess the ongoing cost of rails and rolling stock are killer.
The “normal” .NET runs on Linux as much as Java or python.

The framework/core divide no longer exists. That’s why I’m asking.
What’s the demonym for someone who is from the continent of America?
Luckily, we have competition, and https://printables.com/ is there.
kanboard + outline (https://kanboard.org/ + https://www.getoutline.com/)
Hey sithlord! It's been a while, but fun to see your page. I'm here: https://tilde.town/~canadaduane

I love having a simple page somewhere, hosted within a community that might take a peek every once in a while. Feels like a lot less lonely of a vast Internet.
Penguin was in the UK and they didn’t publish for the US market and weren’t distributed in bookstores until much later.

The article talks about the other publishers in the US doing the same thing at the time. Anchor wasn’t the first to publish ‘quality’ paperbacks, they just had the largest impact on the US publishing industry due to combination of distribution in bookstores, cover design, and catalog curation.
> Nights and weekends.

What companies are offering interviews at night? That’s when I’m at my sharpest.
Quit social media..... learn to do just one thing at a time, it doesn't have to be like this.
I just read this passage from the short story "Flowers For Algernon":

"I'm not sure what an I.Q. is. Dr. Nemur said it was something that measured how intelligent you were--like a scale in the drugstore weighs pounds. But Dr. Strauss had a big argument with him and said an I.Q. didn't weigh intelligence at all. He said an I.Q. showed how much intelligence you could get, like the numbers on the outside of a measuring cup. You still had to fill the cup up with stuff."

Maybe that stuff is education.
A zero register already existed in some computers with vacuum tubes, almost 70 years ago, this is not a new idea that can be attributed to MIPS or RISC.

It is a good feature, which can reduce substantially the number of instructions that must be implemented, because many single-operand operations are just special cases of double-operand operations with one null operand.

This is why it was used in many early computers, which had to be simple due to the limitations of their technology, and then it was used again in most RISC CPUs, which have been simplified intentionally (and not only in MIPS; among the more successful RISC ISAs also IBM POWER has it; only 32-bit ARM does not have it, due to its unusually low number of general-purpose registers, in comparison with the other RISC ISAs).
I see! How does that differ from, for example, owning stocks? Or real estate? I literally don't see a functional difference. Sorry I realise this seems antagonistic but I really want to understand the vitriol.
i arrived at this setup with three learnings over the past 2 decades:

written notes are simple but not readable too often especially when written on the go

all tools eventually let you down, sudden duplicates, missing entries (an accidentally unlocked phone in the pocket and your tasks can randomly disappear) proprietary companies closing down or changing, forgetting to maintain some self hosted solution etc.

the things i want to do and never finish or start are growing so much quicker than anything done that there is not even a point in sorting or tagging or anything where finishing the task is an important part of the workflow. in the end you only can do one single thing, and most people know intuitively what that is.
It's true, but I'm seeing a significant change in the number of roles I'm being reached out to for, or that my friends have gotten, where the location based pay is just the currency difference +-10%.

Assuming similar high expense cities like Vancouver vs San Francisco. Other Canadian cities tend to drop off on the cost of labor scale very quickly which affects the location based pay a lot. But that's true in the US as well.

Granted that currency conversion hit is a lot. For me, it's less than the amount of time I spent commuting to work in the US, so I feel I came out in top for pay relative to my hours involved.
It's just regulatory arbitrage. I am not a lawyer, but until there are clear laws about it, why can't you just claim that this is just funny money with no real world value, and it has no more seriousness than an in game gold/xp?
> The fed raising interest rates so far has done nothing to level home prices.

They've barely raised rates! 0-1% federal funds rate is not a normal range, especially when inflation is ~10%
I actually think that Cuties was widely mischaracterised as a movie by people who didn't watch it and just reacted to what they thought the content of the movie was.

It's actually a good thoughtful coming of age movie that talks about important topics and actually criticises the culture of hypersexualisation of young girls.
Working in Canadian journalism, I’d often hear other editors reference the mythical former colleagues who had moved to New York—America, in this context, is always New York.

Lots of Americans dream of either LA or New York, depending on their industry. I imagine in Europe, it's probably Paris and London that draws both French/British and foreigners.

Frank Sinatra had a song called New York, New York and one of the lines is "If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere."

It's sort of inevitable that the largest city in the region draws talent and ambition and this gravity pool does not respect international borders. Though I wish we did a better job of fostering diversity of views from other places even within the US.

It's something I've lamented before: Even Americans get kind of brainwashed that their local culture is inferior and everything is better in New York (and California) because that's where so much of our popular media originates and is set.
> adding a requirement like this wouldn't change anything here

It does change something. It makes it much harder for that law to be changed in future.
Scientists finally have proof of mysterious immune cell in humans
It certainly does. Even text ads.
You can replace the default web view, although I believe it requires root access. I've been using https://www.bromite.org/system_web_view for a while and it works pretty well.
Do you feel bad when you don't read every marketing junk mail you receive?
> the only country in the world that is close to the US in wealth is Switzerland and Australia

What?! I have no idea where you got that idea from, but looking at https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-per-capita/ you can see the USA is 13th in the world when its wealth is divided by its population.

If you were trying to say that the USA is the wealthiest nation in absolute terms, I would understand, but when you place Australia and Switzerland as the only nations that "come close" you're clearly implying per capita wealth, meaning that's nonsense.
someone says that after every scandal, and I’m open to it morally, but from an “actually improving compliance” standpoint: Is there any evidence it’s true?
> Unfortunately due to the internet the US is a major exporter of insane politics.

We tried blaming our internal problems on external forces for a while too, didn't work out too well.
charging tech will advance quickly over the coming years and whatever is put in the road today will need to be replaced.
What cafeterias?
Also American.

Also North America and South America are generally considered two continents, and collectively referred to as The Americas. They have their own, unambiguous demonyms, North American and South American.
Saving the money for a rainy day is what strangles the economy. The economy's health is, to an approximation, the rate at which people spend money.

Slow the rate at which money flows through the economy, and bam, welcome to a recession/depression.

It's not a question of morality, as much as it's a question of mathematics. You may consider saving to be virtuous, and debt to be sinful, and sure, fine, that is your value system, but the only reason any of us have work is because we all spend, as opposed to save.

You can envision a society where people mostly work for themselves, where this wouldn't be an issue. Unfortunately, modern society relies on specialization, and I can't make most of the things I need by myself.
Is the creative profession being talked about here meaningfully bound by borders? If you created a TV show, for example, all 372 million people that you mention should be potential customers. Many American productions do well in Canada, but scant few Canadian shows have succeeded in the USA.
Here's a working version of the program gavinhoward was trying to write: https://gist.github.com/sharpobject/49bd88416e68606d7812d609...
"nothing better out there" is quite a bias.

OK, let's start with reason #1 why Todoist is incredibly limited: you can't do 'blocking' tasks, thus you are presented with non-actionable tasks.
It's mostly just in Latin American varieties of Spanish and Portuguese. In conversational European Spanish/Portuguese (and pretty much every other language on Earth) American is the standard demonym for people of the United States.
But most importantly, this is a discussion in English about Canada, and Canadians (both English and French speaking) would object to being called Americans.
Someone I know pretended to be a drug addicted idiot to get out of the mandatory service. It worked, he was classified not fit for service. I've heard of another case where they pretended to be gay, back in the day when they wouldn't draft gay people. It's absolutely plausible and highly likely if you ask me that people would purposefully perform badly given the right incentives.
Wait, that’s the antithesis of what we currently call "cryptocurrencies", right? All centralised, all government controlled…
And California is the province south of BC.
Give me a third option. Both Android and iPhone are inferior products compared to even Windows 10 in terms of what control I have on my device
It will be effective for the pirates who would give up and make a purchase before spending a solid 20 minutes searching for a piracy site. Counter-piracy measures only make sense when they are less expensive than the lost revenue, so their goal is not necessarily to eliminate all piracy.

I'd guess there are Pareto-like distributions where 4/5 of the infringers are low effort and not part of any invite-only communities.

Beside that, the language used is "online location," a pairing of words so vague and incompatible that it's hard to argue it should be limited to web servers and not discord channels.
I tried doing a refi with better last year and ended up going with someone else because they weren't as competitive on price, and interacting with them didn't feel like the well-oiled machine they were when I originally got my mortgage with them.
The whole "proof of work" concept regarding crypto is a sham. Normally, the expenditure of energy produces tangible products or services. In the case of crypto currency, massive amounts of heat is wasted to produce a number with questionable "value". I just can't wrap my head around this.
wars were traded for "fragility". Antifragile empires make great wars, and i m not sure humanity wants to go back to that era.
You are pretty close. It's the curvature of the surface area. Smaller black holes have a less ... homogenous orbital space near the event horizon. More tidal forces, etc, so a particle-antiparticle production would be more likely to be torn apart.
> wouldn't harnessing some more useful proveable activity tied to a lottery system be better ?

Can you devise such a provable activity that has a difficulty that can be adjusted to the levels Bitcoin requires and is dependent on the last block's hash?
I was just looking around the other day, and can't reccomend enougj to do so yourself-- several user's pages are gems of character, one in particular has great nostalgia links like textfiles.com, and the site really captures small-web vibes.
it doesnt make the art intrinsicly bad, but is a yellow brick road to it.
almost every body likes fame or fortune, but this leads to demands, to generate product according to the employers specifications, AKA "commercialization"
> sometimes carried a paperback book stuck in their back pocket

> and one reason why we read more was that television was just not as good as it is today...

I feel like there's a little disconnect between these two statements. It's not that television is taking priority, it's that the times when people used to break out a book -- that they carried in their back pocket or purse! -- now break out their phones and engage with social media, or they check their work email, or respond to slack messages, or they get involved in texting, or they play some video game just to make the time go faster. I suppose some of them put in headphones and watch Netflix, but I don't see that often, to be honest.

The world has gotten so busy and defaulting to 'on' that no one feels they can default to reading a book, but you can. You just have to decide to carry a book and, instead of breaking out a phone at those times to stay connected, you just let yourself be disconnected, and you read a book. Or meditate.

That's how I go about my life, and frankly I don't understand why more people don't. I never use my phone unless it's an emergency. I get a lot more out of life meditating and reading books than checking my email, playing candy crush, and engaging with twitter.
What kind of financial asset is Bitcoin?
All productivity tools require some “farming” or “gardening”, that is tending to regularly to maintain them.

Every morning I burn through my emails. then run through my calendar, then my todo lists, then make a plan for the day. You have to keep revisiting and updating.
Wow that's interesting, and as they mention it's the opposite of what's commonly assumed. Thanks.
I haven’t heard of a Russia’s “top general” being killed. What is your source? Rather, several lower ranked generals were killed, which is still objectively bad. There are only two US generals killed in the entire Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and one of them was by an insider in the same room.
What was the ratio of clicks to impressions for those super expensive terms?
Surprised no one has mentioned the Kugelblitz yet, so I’ll drop this fun hit of exotic theoretical engineering here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelblitz_(astrophysics)
Here’s the thing: There’s talking about cycling, and there’s cycling. They each have a role: Talking about cycling is how we share knowledge and build a culture and an industry to serve it, and grow knowledge over the generations.

But it’s still not cycling. For that you have to throw a leg over the top tube and go out and suffer, and fall, and get up, and bend a bent hanger back to fix it after the fall.

And ride, and ride, and ride. And wear a shit-eating grin so hard that your face hurts, but you can’t stop grinning in the wind, because riding feels so damn good.

If you ride, that’s all I need to know. See you on a trail someday, maybe.
North Americans?
Ah of course! In fact I even have one personal project with collaborators, and indeed I've set it to deploy on push using GitHub actions, and indeed there's no feedback.

Pushing straight to the prod server is nicer UX, but I guess that only works reasonably well with one person, or a very tiny team.
Curious about changes since https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30179355
More like they don’t want to waste their time on managing lot of prima-donnas.
Disney offends some people (seriously, as an ex-employee, I was astounded the degree to which some supposedly adult people insisted on being offended by cartoons made for children.)

Facebook actually has a business model based on encouraging people to offend each other and make money off everyone standing around to watch, where Netflix does nothing even remotely close.

Fox News literally manufactures offenses on a daily basis and encourages people to be offended.

Netflix is so completely bland and generally inoffensive compared to so many other things out there, it seems funny to me to call it out and point fingers at Netflix as some kind of example.
For software engineers in Europe is Dublin, Berlin and London.
I'm one of the few that made it all the way to California.
I've been always the guy trying to push fellow software engineers to go to the USA. Even though I lasted in the Silicon Valley only a year before quitting my full-time job and becoming a digital nomad and boostrapping my own SaaS company https://www.waiterio.com
Is a black hole electron consistent with hawking radiation theory? or is that the naked singularity part; since there is no event horizon, they dont radiate. it seems strange to even call it a black hole at that point.
No worries. Thank you!
'Was', heh. Bart makes delinquency look cool and in the 90s I personally saw a fair few young boys my own age emulating Bart and getting into trouble for it. I think the Simpsons is appropriate for teenagers, but not much younger.