skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But "Crypto" (specifically the energy intensive kind) has a different problem, and that's that it has /massive/ externalities that it simply ignores, forcing us, the people who want nothing to do with it, to now deal with it

Grossly inefficient personal transportation and industrial farming have massive externalities forcing people who want nothing to do with it to deal with it. That doesn't seem to be a concern that matters to most people. And they're exacerbating the same climate and energy issues.

Public blockchain can be powered by renewable energy, using its own value to pay for it, and can harness power in areas where it is not feasible to harness that power for other purposes.

Here's a podcast[1] episode with Saifedean Ammous, if you're interested in the value proposition. He claims Bitcoin actually saved his life, so obviously incredibly valuable to him. Lex does a pretty good job at pushing back on his evangelism.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp4U5aH_T6A
Or, instead of digging through every line of source code and packaging it myself, I can use an operating system where the vendor designed a content blocking framework that is privacy focused by default and that works with third party apps that use web views.
People who score well on them are usually convinced they are scientific.
If you're at war and under pressure to develop operational missiles, and then to use limited resources to manufacture them, taking pictures may not be on your list of priorities.
It's not from one study. From 2nd paragraph of the article.

> Similar studies in Denmark, Britain, France, the Netherlands, Finland and Estonia have demonstrated a similar downward trend in IQ scores
Pretty cool that you can ask that question but no one else can answer it without his private key, which you don't have.

Not even vaguely true of "exactly how does yashg use their credit cards", which many people can answer in as much detail as they care to purchase.
Battery quality in consumer electronics is horrible and it's a small miracle that there aren't many more fires. The things I've come across while servicing/disassembling/rebuilding e-bike batteries would set your hair on end. More than one wire that simply evaporated inside the casing and fortunately did not set off some kind of chain reaction. Balance wires crossing and recrossing, having their insulation eaten away by vibration. Single cell fires that miraculously did not spread to the cells around them.
Perhaps, fartcannon, you have just been lucky. They pop up in my twitter feed pretty regularly.

However, the main point was that I don't want to deal with them, and under normal circumstances I could just ignore the relatively minimal interactions I have with them.

But because I am effectively fighting back against /their/ externalities affecting me I have to seek them out. To learn about their hobbies, to find out about what it is they are doing.
Virgil has enums where each enum value can have additional fields, so you can write tables and name individual rows. Under the hood the enum value is just an integer and "accessing a field" is just an access of a constant in an array.

It's turned out to be incredibly useful.

https://github.com/titzer/virgil/blob/master/doc/tutorial/En...
> Your original claim is that managers are less competent because they didn't get interviewed as managers when they got promoted.

My original claim was "engineers are frequently promoted to engineering managers despite having no background or training in management". This doesn't have much to do with interviews for engineering managers, though I did note sarcastically that there's no real "FizzBuzz" equivalent for managers.

Engineer to engineering manager is effectively a career change. Programming skills are different from people skills. It's important for an engineering manager to understand programming, but there's much more to the job. How many of them got management degrees in college rather the computer science degrees? How many of them were "managing since I was 13 years old" as opposed to "coding since I was 13 years old"? (You don't actually need to do either since you were 13 years old, but I think you get the rhetorical point.) Even if the "most qualified" of the current engineers get promoted to manager, that doesn't mean any of the current engineers are actually qualified to be a good manager of people rather than machines.
Regression to the moron.
Sodium (Salt) increases the Th17 cells https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_helper_17_cell
and it looks like Th17 also stimulate CD8+ cells.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21660450/

So it looks like junk food & Govt Food regulations mandating sodium preservatives can dumb you down!
Great links!
You might be interested in my answer too
Contributor v1 didn't eliminate google ads, just reduced them. v2 only worked on a random handful of sites and charged per view.

Give me something approaching YouTube premium and I'll go for it. Does Scroll support enough sites ye-- oh no Twitter bought them and gutted it.
It’s literally in the data link I posted.

The top 25% saw their tax burden increase, the bottom 75% decrease.
I think main problem with Reddit are echo chamber subreddits which exist only to get stuff to frontpage stuff like murderbyaoc etc.
I also like sum types, but I have intense whiplash from "this language is AN ABSTRACT MESS that needs a PhD in type theory to use productively" five years ago, to today's "this language is COMPLETELY USELESS because it doesn't have them".
You're right that it's not a simple problem. Individuals face consequences for decisions made by people with no stake. On the whole though, mining done in a well-regulated country with accountability and citizens with a means to environmental justice is better than mining done in countries where you get your lot and die of lead poisoning at 40.
Building a Cayley Diagram at Dynamicland
Oh nice, with a Norton Commander-alike terminal UI.

Screenshots at https://sourceforge.net/projects/deodar/

Last-modified 2018 over at https://github.com/exebook/deodar

I'm not sure where the use of Yacc ends and https://github.com/exebook/elfu begins in the .yy files (which are sprinkled with very algebraic-looking Unicode throughout). The Pascal-like class definitions may be defined in https://github.com/exebook/intervision.

Very interesting project.
There is no "smallest one". The small ones evaporate to smaller and then nothing very quickly. "Evaporate" as in, emit huge amounts of radiation -- like a bomb.
You may enjoy The Aleph.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aleph_(short_story)
A Hare code generator for finding ioctl numbers
Ah yes, stablecoins that are very well known to keep their values stable over a long period. It's not like one of the top five stablecoins is just going to evaporate into thin air over a week, right?
Similar story.

Knew someone at a Startup with a product & storyline that would make for a comedy fiction show.

Their CTO called me, enjoyed a convo, and offered me some untitled job - no interviews, no game plans. But full on salary match, equity, whatever… (I make mid 6 figures)

But I’ve been so entrenched in real business that the whole thing just seemed completely off to me.
And yet, this is why Heroku is around. It is _still_ the easiest way to deploy your application to the cloud. Just do a git push and call it a day.. it has tons of integrations, can easily scale, has great backup and redundancy, integrated pipelines, review apps, great CLI..

People here underestimate the cost of wasting time setting up docker containers and fiddling with configuration files. Heroku is about delegating 90% of your Dev-Ops and actually focusing on your product and it pretty much works flawlessly with many stacks.

I looked at all the alternatives that people mentioned here and none of them hold a candle to Heroku (yes, even in its current degrading state). Perhaps eventually they will, but so far, I am not impressed.

Now if you excuse me, I have a product to build :)
I hope at some point golang drops its "too complicated" defense against doing more sensible things that aren't _that_ complicated but add a lot of safety. I say this as someone who loves go and has written A LOT of it.

More and more people will use Rust and Typescript and realize what a joke go's type system is compared to those. But you don't need to go as far as those languages have -- lacking sum types, exhaustive switches, discriminant unions, proper enums, unchecked nils, etc is just lazy. Most reasonably sized software projects end up having some ad-hock crappy workaround to any one of these issues.

After years of waiting for generics. We got the most stunted and simplistic implementation of generics imaginable. You can't even do something as simple function chaining.
The overengineered solution to my pigeon problem
I would like to stress that "high achiever != intelligent".

And the choice to "walk away from this as best as you can and go about your life on your own terms" is mainly a money issue and not one defined or solved by intelligence.
There's also the question of maintenance.
> Ok so why makes them different from any other company selling loans to consumers?

They are infinitely more convenient and easy to work with from the user side and vertically integrate the entire process. They have loan agents, real estate agents, lawyers, and inspectors. The agent I spoke with last year was very kind. You can also play around with multiple loan options asynchronously and print out different pre-approval letters for the exact amount the house is listed for (this way you don't give away your buying power).

> I took out a loan from hitatchi a while back, I’ve just today had about an exciting new rebranding they’ve had changing they’re name and how ecstatic I, as a customer, will be about it Do I care? No. At start I care about monthly payments and how many months it is. Afterwards I care how long is left. If better come out with better rates than any other provider that’s great, but there’s no value add for this type of product, it’s just how much it costs.

There are multiple ways that Better makes the process "better" than just rates. Rates aren't really competitive if you have good credit. Anyone will give you the market rates for a loan. If you have some really special situation you might see -.5 off your rate through some special thing. My company has a -.25 if you get a home loan from a specific bank and deposit your pay checks there.

Better reduces the overall closing costs by waiving the real estate brokers free if you use their broker. This can easily be >3k. Saving ~1% of a first time home purchase is worth using them imo.
"The frenzy arguably culminated with the notorious 2017 Charlottesville incident, when a woman was killed in a vehicle collision by someone understood to be a Nazi."

Uhh that was a fucking intentional murder, of which the perp was convicted after a trial.
I always thought they should only need to be safer than gas powered products, not a new standard.

Let's directly compare the impact of battery incidents from EVs to the impact of widespread usage of internal combustion engines through the lens of public health policy. The damage that is being done by widespread ICE vehicle usage is very well documented and a problem we need to solve.

You can't simply equate the individual vehicle safety without considering the wider public health impact inherent with ICEs.

A similar argument this reminds me of is drug contraceptives, where male contraceptives are only directly assessed in risk compared to not taking any drug, but female contraceptives are compared to the inherent dangers of a pregnancy as well, so it would be disingenuous to directly compare the risks of male to female contraceptives much the same as EVs to ICEs
Former employee blows whistle on baby formula production plant tied to outbreak
> It does.

No.

> By definition, an enum is simply a set of named values

That is not the definition of "an enum", no. "an enum" does not imply a complete absence of any sort of type safety.

"a C-style enum" might, but that is not the distinguishing characteristic of C-style enums, the lying is, otherwise literally every language which has constants has C-style enums, including every language with sum types.

> and is behaviourally the same as C.

Except for all the ways in which C enums mislead users into assuming any sort of non-existent type-safety guarantees.

There is a critical distinction between "C-style enum", aka a misleading pile of garbage, and "just a bunch of constants". The latter is what Go provides.

> While true, that is a feature of sum types

That is not correct. For instance Java enums are not sum types, but are a type-safe, closed, set of values.
A friendly reminder that while these practices can be useful, take them with a grain of salt. Your company is not Google.
yes, but no :)

so as the blackhole gets smaller the more energy it radiates, eventually basically blowing up. so simply put a small BH in a magnetic trap next to someone.

but if you shoot it it'll go too fast to stay put.

though it might be possible to release a small one next to someone slowly.

small means ~ 1 million kg, which evaporates in 84 seconds, though it will emit so much energy that... well it will turn a city into plasma almost instantly

https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/black-hole-temperatur...

basically the problem is that either general relativity and Hawking are correct, which mean that there is simply no way to have a small (compared to human mass, so like a big bomb, eg a few metric tons) black hole that doesn't violently want to turn back into a non-blackhole, or if it's possible then our theories are incorrect and all bets are off :)
Depends on the interest rates and bond yields. 20PE is like 5% profit, which is better than most bonds in the past ~10 years if the business is stable. When yields rise it will become closer to 10-15.

5 is definitely an undervalued company unless the business is risky or expected to decline in profits.
I'm not convinced on this issue one way or the other but I fail to see how this is relevant? Are you suggesting it was a consideration in India government's wheat ban? Seems unlikely.
It seems to be people from smaller towns and villages doing it. They typically form the core of Putin support. If they are throwing Molotov cocktails, things are not going well for Putin.
One of my favorite science fiction stories, "The Krone Experiment", has this question as a central plot element. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16032842-the-krone-exper...
Been using it a year or so now. As my B server. $40~ on DO, that I ram all my side projects onto.

From a dev perspective, it’s been awesome.

I have zero monitoring on it, so I have no idea if users love it. But analytics look good.

Either way. Impressed. And appreciate all the efforts behind the project.

Edit:
Rails, pg, sidekiq, etc.
It's anything but FUD, it's just that most vehicles have very well designed battery packs, but not all of them do and when you get out of the car domain to scooters and other personal mobility devices the quality drops like a stone.
If that's true, I don't even consider a Simpsons Did It. Polyglot files exploiting common tools are far less interesting ones than those that are actually within spec. Especially if the spec wasn't designed as polyglot spec.
I've seen posts that were calling for violence (usually directed against those directly involved, or leadership, which is natural given the circumstances), but I have not seen anyone (with significant upvotes) calling for genocide. If "any post about Ukraine" has this content, I'm sure it will be easy for you to link a handful of examples?
5 When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, “Come and see!” And behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a balance in his hand. 6 I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenix of barley for a denarius! Don’t damage the oil and the wine!”
Singapore is known for strict social laws, not for strict financial laws.
Double-spend attacks on ETC serve to demonstrate the effectiveness of proof of work.

Forked minority chains aren't expected to be safe, and this is for sure reflected in the market value of the coin. Any time ETH miners want to gang up on ETC, they can.
That's a great starting point / default but can't block complicated things as effectively and shouldn't be the only option on a platform.
It is all a question, of how big you want to scale it.
"At" Issue: Long (Morse) Code for a Small Symbol (2004)
A GIT hub project that has over 200k stars and 20k+ forks seemed to me like something that HN comunity could be interested in. That's why I've shared it.
This Twitter thread goes into some details of why you shouldn't take this claim too seriously: https://twitter.com/ColdOneder/status/1524941362411479043

(Actual picking apart the study starts down on tweet 9: https://twitter.com/ColdOneder/status/1524941380849639428 )
Cocaine is a Dopamine Selective Reuptake Inhibitor (DSRI) much like Anti-Depressants are Serotonin Selective Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI).

Yorkshire Tea increases the catecholamines (dopamine, adrenaline & noradrenaline) which means it increase dopamine in the brain. I stayed awake for 80hrs on calcium (carbonate) rich hard water and Yorkshire tea one time!

I should add that carbonates and bicarbonates aka Carbon have a stimulating effect because CO2 stimulates upto 30% blood saturation and anything over that makes CO2 have a noble gas effect, ie unconciousness and death. Its why a heaped teaspoon of baking soda aka sodium bicarbonate has a performance enhancing effect but I dont think its banned under the world anti-doping agency unlike Glycerine which is a sodium rich carbohydrate version of Glycerol.

Calcium also binds to adrenaline to make it more potent so one way of switching off enough to sleep is to take Vitamin K2-MK4 as this directs calcium to the bones, taking it out of circulation in the body reducing the potent stimulating effect it has with adrenaline. About 20mg of Vitamin K2-mk4 can make you go from totally wired to sleeping in about 30mins. So if you are stressed because of externals event in your life a lower dose of K2-mk4 can help keep you chilled out through the day and help you get off to sleep easily and quickly if having trouble sleeping and dont want to use anti-histamines.
They do have a video on their site showing the Flipper opening the charge port on several Tesla vehicles. That's actually kinda scary.
C# does not have sum types.

It has "enumeration types" but their behaviour is exactly that of C's, with various additional conveniences but critically (and unlike Java for instance) no more type-safety.
as you get older its harder to have kids, but that doesn't make the kids worse off
> but `iota` is also used for other purposes.

According to the Go spec[1] iota exists specifically for enum generation. The closure of the enum is also defined. There is no other intended purpose. If a developer has found a new way to overload it in some new way they can equally do the same in C, so that is moot. Enums are not sum types in either language, with no expectation of behaving like sum types, there is no debate about that. They are simply enums.

[1] https://go.dev/ref/spec#Iota
I would argue that the supply chain is the economy, and the rest is fantasy if and when money can't make the supply keep up with the growing demand.

Innovation used to save our bacon, but now you have to innovate just to stay in the same place. Just pouring money on the problem doesn't work, it increasingly won't with climate change.

So we are between a rock and a hard place, inflation and recession. Choose your adventure. If the future could vote it would vote for curtailing demand across the globe.
Hi HN! I commented about this project of mine a month ago [0]
and decided to write a more in depth blog post about it.

Feel free to ask any questions :)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31024099
While the vast majority of today's anti-crypto articles are generally accurate, always bet against articles like this, in favor of first principles.

"Anonymous-ish cash, but on the internet" is a very attractive proposition. I'd also add to that "Locking up your money to get more money later" is as well. So much so that I'd strongly bet in favor of "people figure out how to make it more efficient, safer, and less destructive" against "It's just going to fail and go away."
Across the entire user base is a few orders of magnitude larger.
I'm pretty sure that the Ender 3 is way more popular than all of Prusa's printers put together. They're definitely both has-beens though.

Also, although fancier methods like SLA and MJF are way cheaper and more accessible than ever they still can't really compete with FDM for large cheap stuff so I think FDM will be around for a while.
What if the Taliban downloads and starts using your browser? Do you want to keep their ledgers and start processing payments for them using your centralized DB?

The use of crypto here has the same reason as use of crypto almost anywhere else, to sidestep regulations and liabilities. Doesn't matter whether those regulations are there for very good reason.
In a similar direction, I was thinking of the zillions of gallons of petroleum products that have accidentally ended up in ecosystems during transport.

[1]: https://gcaptain.com/a-short-list-of-major-oil-spills-from-s...
I occasionally look at a few very niche subreddits, but for news, Reddit is complete garbage. Reddit has been kind of dead to me since 2016. They were the first big victim of the ongoing anti-free-speech wave that started in 2016.
On a street i own a property the local council allocated several charging points after one (incredibly wealthy) resident campaigned for it because he wasn't able to charge his Tesla. So they put 2 outside my property and 1 near his house.

Except the footpath (this is london) with this obelisk monstrosity was less than 2ft wide. I couldn't push a wheelchair past it.

The solutions I've seen are part of a never decreasing blight on the urban landscape. It should be within our grasp to design these more sympathetically.

The resident has now sold his house and moved.
Makes sense. They've a tonne of real estate in terms of petrol stations. Repurposing it with fast charging + maybe a coffee shop seems like a relatively easy way to utilise that space.
Yeah. I left this out for the simplicity of the argument, but something we really didn't have a good idea of at the time (especially because it largely hadn't happened yet, and we might not have been able to measure if it had) was that climate change exists, and cars are a huge part of it.

We know that now, but are stuck in a world with cars, we're trying to dig ourselves out of that hole.

We know that crypto[1] uses massive abouts of power when we're struggling to move off fossil fuels. We know that now, at the genesis of the crypto.

[1] the crypto I care/talk about, the power hungry kind.
No, no, you see he runs those companies but he's also a complete idiot who doesn't understand anything about the underlying technology. This is a sensible conclusion which many people draw because of how plausible it is.
I can move $ in less then a day and for free just using my bank. Now, try to do the same with a stable coin running on ETH … and check the fees . To me it does not feel innovation, but rather going backwards.
At the very least, the perceived threat evaporated.
Yeah i'm in a foreign country now, and despite the laundromat was made by a German company, where I'm originally from, I had to ask locals to explain to me what the buttons meant, because there was no manual on the internet, and it was different to German ones (there's a phpbb forum where one guy DMs u pdfs for your model, but I didn't want to bother signing up). Haven't went to Harvard tho.