skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It disincentivizes people from saving

There is no virtue in saving. Money that is hoarded reduces "consumption" but also reduces "meaningful" investments, no matter your definition of "meaningful" and "wasteful".

> Bitcoin is impossible to inflate, like gold.

Or Litecoin. Or Bitcoin Cash, or BSV. Individually, they are all "fixed supply", but as whole, any crypto currency that enters the market and gets traded should be counted as part of the asset reserves.

Unless, of course, we get some central entity to force everyone else to adopt the Highlander approach and claim "there can be only one"...

Oopsies.
I wonder what "For now, we continue to work in the background on potential pathways off of POWER9 that retain full compatibility with the existing POWER9 software ecosystem, so stay tuned!" means. POWER9 produced with latest technologies?
Ever since Microsoft bought GitHub, I have been telling people to switch to something else (codeberg, gitlab... there are lots of alternatives).

I'm glad ARM thinks the same.
Food Consumer Habits Poll
Might be more, but it's still a minority of their grid. Wikipedia has a graph for 2016: 18.1% nuclear, 47.9% natural gas, and 15.7% coal.[0]

"Energy Matters" says that EU energy production was 26% nuclear in 2015, but only 12% for consumption[1], so I'm not sure how to look at that comparison. Either way, that's probably mostly France (~80%[2]). US around 8-9%[1].

TL;DR: Yes, most western countries probably have less nuclear, but it's a low bar.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Russia#M...

[1] http://euanmearns.com/primary-energy-in-the-european-union-a...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_France#M...
Some religious people seem to like making things about religion just to be able to talk about it from my experience. Although this is also true for other subjects as well if the person is invested in the topic enough
Yeah, those attributes describe just one point in the design space of tokens running on distributed ledgers. It's perfectly possible to create tokens that require trust, that have centralised elements or that can have their transactions easily censored.
Wasn't the field of economics mostly a pseudoscientific cover for actions/creation of the Fed?
I think if I had a phone that (apart from calls and texts) did Email, Whatsapp, an e-reader and a music/podcast player I think I would be interested. Maybe a browser because some emails have links you need to action, but I realise using a browser opens you up to all the time-sinks you are trying to avoid.
Yea, but to me it sounds like the same problem as a bank run. If everyone tried to retrieve their money from the bank at the same time they wouldn't have enough money.
+1 for feeling that way at 40. It never ends!
I feel like that would be better as

t = timer()
with t:
...

(I've done this exact thing for this exact use-case)
>Did you notice the "read only sites" part? MITM is hardly relevant for those.

I'm sorry but you're not thinking this through very carefully. People still care about authentication of read-only stuff, in the same way much (and it should be all) open source software, particularly from repositories, is signed these days. A great deal of mischief can be done by modifying info in flight, even ignoring privacy concerns entirely. Plenty of not just governmental but corporate bodies could benefit by being able to trivially rewrite whatever populations (or targeted segments of populations) read. Even ignoring what a vector it could be for other attacks. In principle, we could have some universal standard for signing and authenticating as unaltered websites without bothering to encrypt them. But frankly that seems pointless vs just having encryption as well.

Further, like all practical public crypto use in the face of adversaries, there is a lot of benefit from using it universally and thus "hiding in the herd". Otherwise, the mere usage of crypto itself is a signal, and also easier to target and block (not just technically but via laws). Whereas when it's just baked into literally everything that's much harder to outright infeasible, and also destroys that extra bit of signal.

This was all debated and considered extensively while the moves to universal HTTPS were happening. People moved read-only sites as well for a reason.
Steven Johnson had an interesting take on this in his book Everything Bad Is Good For You: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_Bad_Is_Good_for_Y...

TL;DR - the complexity of media has been increasing over the past decades, which means that children spending time with digital media are benefiting from it relative to past generations.

As an example, playing a modern AAA video game is much more mentally stimulating than playing Pong. But also, watching an hour of a modern TV show, or even a modern reality show, is more challenging mentally than watching classic TV from the 60s and 70s—there are many, many more plots and relationship dynamics to track and speculate about.
> bad but they prefer to feel bad rather than not feel anything at all

this is possible.

But also FOMO makes them feel worse than feeling bad about what they read online.

For many people social networks are a conversation topics, for some it's the only thing they talk about, if they know nothing about what's happening, they're out of the social game, even IRL.
What do you want them to do? AI detect people shooting guns on their platform? That's 80% of the content
Yeah I’m sure this is garbled by a VP. Sounds like they want more control over the CI process and keep more of that process private.
> Binance are more likely to let you trade as you wish but temporarily disable withdraws while they move funds around

I was under the impression that providers being able to "temporarily disable withdrawals" [due to lack of liquidity, political pressure, or indeed any other reason] is one of the key things that crypto didn't suffer from?
My entry was scripting in Counter-Strike (Quake CFG Scripts). This cannot happen with consoles and Apps on Pads/Smartphones entirely prevent this.

Some people try to bring this modification friendly things back, with BBC Microbit, RasPi and so on. But in the end you need to be motivated - and playing better was huge motivation for me!
Imagine silica dust landed on your lenses. Pressured air on that dust. Scratches.
Show HN: Kubernetes driver for mounting Google Cloud Storage buckets
Mike Lynch was involved in a "multibillion dollar accounting cover-up". Musk can walk away if Twitter’s securities filings are wrong but only if that would lead to a “Material Adverse Effect” on the company:

> Delaware courts have almost never found an MAE. An MAE has to be something that would “substantially threaten the overall earnings potential of the target in a durationally-significant manner,” the courts have said; there is a rule of thumb that an MAE requires a 40% decrease in long-term profitability. If it turned out that 6% or 20% or 50% of Twitter accounts are bots, that will be embarrassing and might even reduce Twitter’s future advertising revenue, but will it be an MAE? No.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-13/elon-m...
Sometimes they will sell a perfectly functioning chip as a cut down version because they need to cater for that market segment. This market segmentation is nothing new and can be done in many ways, like permanently shaping the product before sale (HW) or using flexible licensing (SW). The problem with the "permanent" route is that when you sell such a cut down chip it usually stays cut down forever. So the only way to use the cut down features is to buy a chip that is fully unlocked. This is not only a waste of resources but also a waste of money to upgrade the entire chip.

A solid mechanism to enable/disable these features on demand would make the situation a lot better. You could pay just for the upgrade instead of the whole chip, either permanently or only when you need it and pay per use.

But the reality is that in practice this mechanism will probably not work to the advantage of the end user. It will focus entirely on the company's bottom line and open up new avenues for abuse. If your hardware is linked to a license and to the manufacturer forever, you'll never own it. Unless the legal framework enforces the rights of the consumer under threat of drastic fines for the manufacturer, we're just forgoing real ownership.
Here is a decent video comparing both: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2XfFvW4yII
Is there a reasonable use for gopher nowadays, or is it just 'retro cool'?
The biggest issue is core deconditioning. You engage abdominal and back muscles when you sit upright, but not so much when you recline.

In nursing homes, there’s usually a discussion around whether or not to get someone into a sit-stand recliner that helps support and lift someone into a standing position.

On one hand, the action of going from sitting to standing is part of the daily tasks that maintain fitness. On the other, if this is something that helps the quality of life of the resident, so be it.

I realize this is an extreme example, but I do wonder what the long-term effects are of staying recumbent for 16 hours a day (assuming 8 hours sleep + 8 hours work).

Not poo-pooing your setup, I would love to have one like that too, but it’s something that crosses my mind when I do consider one.
You think wrong, if they commit, it's to push their agenda even further, they knew what they were doing, maybe they did in preparation for such charges
Hang in there. Your kids will require less supervision as they grow older. But also the stakes are higher as the potential for emotional turmoil and property damage increase.
- Burner communities (centered around burning man and wordlwide around local burns)
- Men's circles
It's always kind of amazing that so many engineers (and engineers turned manager) have encountered enough queuing theory to understand that if they keep a CPU at 99% utilization, it will have a detrimental effect on task latency, but can't understand how to apply that same reasoning to engineer utilization.
The problem is that economics as a field spans from sociology and mass-psychology (almost impossible reason about, fully quantify or prove anything in a scientific manner) to mathematics (easy to reason about, model and publish results - but at the risk of not actually modeling the real world). The incentives of the academic world nudges researchers toward the math side of the field, but the risk in that is that the field becomes disconnected from reality.
Coronavirus ‘ghosts’ found lingering in the gut
Russian nuclear is ~17% (compare US at 19%). Overall it is slightly less CO2-intensive than the US, as it uses less coal. They have almost as much hydroelectric power as the entire US renewable sector.
Malware in PIV card reader drivers
With BTC they can get their money out of Venezuela by memorizing several words. With USD, they can't.
From the article: “In 2013, it was reported that the NSA had paid $10 million to the security company RSA, in exchange for which, RSA allegedly implanted a compromised encryption algorithm into its products’ software called Dual_EC_DRBG. This algorithm is widely believed to have acted as a backdoor for the NSA.
In 2014, it was reported that the NSA had been intercepting U.S.-made hardware that was being sent abroad. NSA operatives would allegedly implant the products with backdoors, repackage them, then send them on their way.
In 2015, networking products manufacturer Juniper Networks announced that a suspected backdoor had been discovered inside the operating system that runs its firewalls. The NSA is long suspected of having been involved or having been inadvertently responsible for security weaknesses that allowed hackers to get inside the devices.
In 2020, Congress tried to get a straight answer out of the NSA as to whether it was still planting backdoors in U.S.-made hardware and software. Then NSA staffer Anne Neuberger said: “We don’t share specific processes and procedures.”
In February, it was reported that a backdoor affecting most Linux distributions had been discovered. The backdoor, dubbed “Bvp47,” was reportedly “linked” to the Equation Group, a well-known hacking group inside the NSA.”

There has been a constant barrage in congress against cryptography and hard encryption. They have lowered the standard algorithms used for things like Wi-Fi in the past.
So Microsoft taking over GitHub (2018)
That is the upside, but there are many other high reputation peer-reviewed open journals with close to zero payment. Is the domain really worth the cost?

It is kinda messed up, when you adjust the price based on the available money of institutional affiliations or donors. It is just more profits for journal and nothing for authors, while forcing authors to pay.
If you deleted the movies after you watched like you do in streaming services them then you wouldn't need all that storage.
That is a reasonable position, but I don't think things are likely to work out this way.

Companies have various more-or-less self-serving reasons to keep their decision-making process hidden. They will persuade policy-makers that unless they are allowed to keep this information 'proprietary', then 'society' (read: themselves) will not be able to reap the benefits of this technology.

The next step is that the cost of having humans resolve problems becomes 'prohibitive', so any meaningful process of redress is removed through the use of one-sided 'agreements.'

Just look to the big social media companies and telcos to see what can happen when decision-making is automated.
Playing with toys does make kids smarter. It's not such a stretch to assume that video games have a benefit too.
What if you only have one child?
When you procrastinate what do you spend your time doing?
The 1999 OP announced being long on Dec-1-1999.

AOL (which had acquired Netscape) stock topped on Dec-13-1999 at 94/share. He bought the exact top of an epic speculative bubble.

He was maybe in the green for 1 or 2 sessions.
Issues in real estate and land markets stand behind the biggest societal problems that the human population is experiencing in early 21th century. There is no economical school or theory which covers real estate and land markets.

All contemporary economic issues, including the ones mentioned in the article, are problems which are easy to describe, not those which are important to society (McNamara fallacy).

Economics as a discipline describes an idealized fictional human-like colony on Mars, locked in a greenhouse. It doesn't even attempt to describe humans living on Earth, so be careful how you interpret it.
I have a Varjo Aero, which is visually excellent but very expensive and probably not portable enough for your use case. The problem is that it depends on Valve’s lighthouse trackers, so unless you’re willing to pack one and a tripod in your luggage it’s a pretty stationary rig. It also needs a 30-series nvidia gpu, which would limit your laptop choices.

All of that said, I mention it anyway since it’s the only headset I’ve tried that feels comfortable for reading text on a giant virtual screen. A 4K virtual screen doesn’t look quite as sharp as a 4K display in real life, but you can tell the difference between a virtual 1080p screen, whereas on a quest 2 there’s no point rendering higher than 1080p.

The Simula is available in a “tethered only” model for $2k, which is the same price as the Varjo. It uses inside-out tracking though, and it has a pass through camera if you want to see your keyboard occasionally, so it might be a better option. It’s still pre-order only though, so it might be worth waiting for project cambria or whatever Meta’s new thing is.
They may not be as refined, or they may not have been mistaken at what qualities were addictive, but they were designed to be addictive.

Of course, the incentives were also a little different. Old arcade, for example, games wanted you to drop in more quarters. So they had to find ways to make you lose. But not just lose, lose when you're just close enough to the next level.
> It's useful for the millions of people who participate every day in the trillion+ dollar cryptocurrency economy, but sure, continue to claim that anything that doesn't directly benefit you personally must be "useless".

The calculation itself, once removed from bitcoin ecosystem, is quite useless.

> Literally hundreds of alternatives to Proof of Work, especially PoW with some enhanced utility (calculating large twin primes, folding proteins, file storage, GIS, etc) have been tested in the real world, but it turns out that a straight up "find the nonce" PoW is the best form of democracy we can build that doesn't require some global registry of every human on earth.

How is "find the nonce" PoW better for democracy than "fold proteins" or "find a chain of primes" PoW? In what way does calculating primes or folding proteins require global registry of every human on earth?

> Anyone with access to electricity can participate in ensuring the global security of the network, and be fairly compensated for it.

What about internet and expensive hardware, don't you need those also? What would you need besides those to do "fold protein" or "find chain of primes" PoW.
The same is true for military standards, and potentially some police forces (SWAT).

Of course this should have nothing to do with a board position. Perhaps women would actually excel in board positions as those mostly have to do with building/having social networks, something women certainly seem to be better at than men on average.

Most of it is going to be speculation until we see larger numbers and can compare boards with women to boards without (and even boards with only women). It's tough to say, as the 'old boys club' seems to be dying out regardless.
Sure, but what % of heating is just natural gas furnaces?

We should evaluate things against what the actual, real world alternative would be, not just against the best possible world.

(That said, I should acknowledge that a large part of that electricity comes from burning natural gas at an efficiency loss, so resistive heating is still worse than the natural gas furnace.)
> Nobody claimed nobody in a regulated system ever loses money.

Only if you read the above questions literally and miss his meaning:

> Into a mess for who? Depositors?

> Could you summarize how much money depositors across the entire United States lost to bank busts over the past, say 40 years?
Old games were designed similarly to arcade games, where the "true" goal was to get you to keep inserting coins. Then there was kind of a slow transition away from that, but they still relied heavily on the player spending a lot of time replaying prior levels to get to the harder (final) ones due to the limited amount of content.

IMO it was addictive, but only to certain personality types. Mine is definitely one of them. Others would see a difficulty spike and/or the amount of re-treading they need to do to make progress as a deterrent.

Recent games are more addictive in a way that appeals more widely.
Are all the users programmers, are they fluent with the language and frameworks? Could they even read the code if they wanted to?

Even if they could read the code and understand that there is a mechanism in place that allows designated humans to pause redemption, the code says nothing about when and how this mechanism should be used.

The user might reasonably expect such a mechanism would only be used in an emergency, like the network has been hacked, or there is a bug. They might expect that it would never be used for the financial advantage of the network operators simply because the coin has depegged and redemption is acting as expected.
Yes, butt importantly not one Google or any search engine can do anything about
I’d think it’s issues like CI runners and the like?

I don’t think you can handroll github dedicated runners (e.g. I read recently that there’s still no support for M1 dedicated runners).

If ARM wants to run CI directly on the ISAs they’re developing, or with complicated custom toolchains such that they can run tests on ISA under development from a host machine, they probably need pretty extensive customisations on the runner site, which would require contracting github to do that for them, or having to work directly on github code, for ARM-exclusive needs.

Either way a lot of collaboration work for something which isn’t really collaborative, or of any concern or value to github as a company. And with possible risks of information leak one way or another.
That doesn't make sense as a typo? Node.js runs on V8 too. And whether two platforms run on V8 doesn't say much about their compatibility outside of "they both run javascript".
Did you have a look at [y-js](https://github.com/yjs/yjs)? They claim to be suitable for p2p collaborative editing and they have bindings for other languages as well.
I hate lane assist, fails miserably where I live (country lanes). I believe its a requirement now, which is tedious. Its the first assistance feature I've actively disliked.
Invasive chameleons released from predation display more conspicuous colors
Users are given a choice. There are mountains of alternatives to adobe products. But they keep paying for the adobe one because it’s the best. And it’s the best because people keep paying their monthly subscriptions to fund it.

They might complain but at the end of the day they are very happy to pay adobe for the best in class tools.
If free implies "if it breaks don't ask us anything, hope it works" they should state so when you signup. Pretty sure it's not the case.
I really want to see more electric conversion kits for existing cars, I must admit. It seems like such a waste to throw away what is in many cases a perfectly good chassis/geartrain/body/etc just because you want to change the ICE engine and fuel tank for an electric motor and a battery pack.
On-chain sure. I am not sure why you'd expect guarantees off-chain. If you let me handle an asset for you instead of handling it yourself you are bound by how I operate, not just how the asset itself operates. Though I am also not sure why you'd think liquidity doesn't matter, that's neither here nor there.
Usually I make the final document in scribus, once text blocks with more than one line are involved. Similar to how AI users reach out for ID when it gets text-heavy, I guess.
Maybe I'm an outlier here but I thought that video was incredibly well produced and properly aimed at those who they want to listen. It's marketing 101 stuff.

They aren't lying to anyone about what they do and if you find that a bit off-colour then there's a fair chance you aren't the target audience.

There's absolutely nothing unsettling about this at all for anyone other than a few young naive journalists suddenly learning about how the world works.
Jup, MathJax is supported with minimal setup:
https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/reference/mathja...
Also how big is the risk of theft?

Its not like a normal IT security problem where attackers can be anywhere on earth.

I dont know the numbers for the US, but in my country it seems 0,9% of cars gets reported stolen a year, which includes stupid stuff like leaving the car idling outside your view. Thats a risk I can live with and don't want to have bothersome security to avoid.
I think that as people get older there's an increasing desire for things to be simple again. This will never happen of course, but it can be useful to have a small island of simplicity to go back to every so often.
I think the point the prior commenter was making was that this research validates people who think gaming is good. They pointed out the issues and said “if you still want to believe this, I can’t stop you”

The commenter may have a bias, but most prior research shows us the opposite of the study.

I also saw the poor experimental design and had a similar thoughts. Basically, this research looks poorly done and like an effort to prop up the gaming industry (and / or validate the authors pre-suppositions).
That's the point. It's making an implicit assumption by graphing the maxima rather than demonstrating the range, making the paradox seem more likely than it is.