skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh fine I'll bite.

>Does anyone seriously believe that etrade or robinhood advertising options trading to me is somehow different? There are constant commercials for precious metals and ETFs and all kinds of things.

Well they're equally bad in terms of being a scam, unless you are a hedge fund that has enough liquidity to even need options trading in the first place. Not sure what other conclusion you could come up with there.

>What really bothers me is the incredible amount of ignorance I see in the comments section about crypto, blockchain technologies, poor understandings of economics, etc.

Being bothered by the flaws of crypto does not equate to being uninformed. That kind of logic is what I expect from a car salesman, not HN.

Yes, that wasn't nice of me, but being told I'm old and resistant to change because I disagree with someone doesn't engender friendly interpretations.

No asset is a pure force for good nor evil, but there are material issues with crypto and pretending they're ONLY a technicality is convincing no-one.
It is so cool that we have functioning instrumentation almost a light-day away from Earth.
How to turn down the volume of my iPhone alarm clock
That strongly depends on your definition of "better".
As a teacher and a parent (and friend, neighbor, acquaintance, etc--person who interacts with other people), one of the ways I can live on is to help others learn and grow. I've mostly accepted that I will die, and that gets easier as I observe all the living and dying of plants, fungi, and animals every day. I am not so important as the stories I value, and those can live on for thousands of years.
It was used as a generic term. Even now, people commonly say “gruyère” when they mean “emmental”.
You can find lists of agency actions, FCC, SEC, etc. etc. There aren’t often all that many, and they wouldn’t all fall under the category affected here.
Crypto opinions aside, I think this is a gifted author. He captures the experience of 'missing out' quite well.
My biggest gripe with zstd is that it is difficult to find a Windows program to operate on them. I had to manually download zstd and a bunch of dependencies manually from msys2 in order to decompress.
And police. If I want to live in my own, outside of current society, I still need land. Yet the system for allocating land allows individuals to own and control far more than they need personally, which means that there's little chance for me to get a chunk unless I enter fully into exchange with society and garner enough social power (money) to buy my own land.
This is intended functionality. How do you think malware can spread if the browser does not install it automatically ?
In the course of a normal day, an average person might interact with a dozen different ML-powered apps just using their iPhone.

- Uber/Google Maps/Waze: ETA prediction

- Gmail: Smart Compose & spam filtering

- Instagram/Snapchat/Any camera app: Computer vision

- Siri/Google Assistant: Speech-to-text

- FaceID: Facial recognition

- Facebook/Netflix/All content aggregators: Recommendation engines

- Any banking app: Fraud detection

ML's use is extremely widespread at this point. The above list is just a tiny snapshot. "AI" is term thrown around by marketers and hypemen all the time, no arguments there, but ML's usage is anything but niche these days.
> The Oort Cloud is the most distant region of our solar system [1]

> the spacecraft [Voyager 1] will take about 300 years to reach the inner boundary of the Oort Cloud and probably another 30,000 years to exit the far side [1]

> The inner edge of the Oort Cloud (...) is thought to be between 2,000 and 5,000 AU [astronomical units] from the Sun. The outer edge might be 10,000 or even 100,000 AU from the Sun [1]

> Voyager 1 (...) Distance from Sun: 156.42163354 AU [2]

[1] https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/oort-cloud/overvie...

[2] https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/
That's not a useful thought experiment because it doesn't reflect reality, and on the other side, this isn't about the "odd neurosurgeon or astronaut". I'm either an accidental unicorn that rarely ever tried to find fulfillment or it's quite possible with very little friction to get a job that you'll find fulfilling. I completely agree that many (maybe even most) companies suck, but it feels like you're projecting that on others by using blanket statements rather than recognizing that it just depends on the company, and it's very possible to find opportunities at companies that don't suck and do feel fulfilling. I just want others on this thread to understand that it's very possible to work for other companies and feel very fulfilled and proud of the work they do, and it's not a unicorn, there are a lot of opportunities if you're willing to put forth the effort.
Assembly language is also Turing-complete. But you will not see an assembly-language borrow checker.

There are bugs in libraries, and bugs in compilers. The more each is used, the sooner they are cleared out. The more useful each is, the more it is used. You can write more-useful libraries using features found only in C++ than you can write in other languages.

It has been many years since I coded a malloc or free, and I don't expect ever to code one again.
There are multiple, independent entities both maintaining and submitting to the logs. The short answer: CAs submit precertificates to the logs; the logs respond with signed certificate timestamps that are embedded within the ultimate certificate rendered to the user. User agents (i.e., browsers) cross-check against the logs using the SCTs. Third parties ("monitors") additionally watch the logs for suspicious events (unexpected issuances, unusual certificates being signed for, etc.)

There's a nice visualization here[1].

[1]: https://certificate.transparency.dev/howctworks/#stepby
Speaking as someone that had to go through IVF, that's a bit like celebrating cancer for reducing the population. Infertility is devastating for you and your relationship when you want to have children.
Protonmail has a bridge for IMAP and SMTP for paying customers as well as an import/export tool.

I'm still moving my stuff to mailbox.org now though, I'm getting increasingly annoyed at having to use proton's mail app in addition to my main mail app.
The main uses of crypto are illegal activity.

The thing to keep in mind for crypto is that the inherent inefficiency leads to high transaction costs that tend to make it a less viable option for legal activities.
> I'm sorry this is just nonsense, as has been pointed out many times, exchanges are not constrained by the blockchain of any particular cryptocurrency, most of their transactions don't take place on a blockchain and their customer balances are not stored on the various blockchains.

Sure, within the exchange that's true. The instance the BTC leaves the exchange as a loan or withdrawl it is no longer possible for that BTC.

> Quadriga CX worked this way, until it didn't and everyone discovered their cryptocurrency was fictional.

I don't think this was the case, unless you can show me otherwise.

In particular, they had "BTC ATMs" where people could withdraw cash. Note that this is not loaning BTC.

And when the CEO died, the BTC could not be retrieved. There was no magic second exchange-issued BTC around - it was gone because there is only one copy.

Notably there is a precise accounting of the BTC that was lost because there is a public ledger of it. Quadriga CX didn't produce any more BTC - they just lost their customer's BTC.
Protonmail has a bridge for paying customers.
Factory systems almost always use the vehicle sensors in addition to GNSS, some early systems only had this ability since GPS wasn’t used.

Most cars have speed sensors, compass and steering angle sensors, but having that work with a smartphone is another problem.

Also there were these things:
https://www.thedrive.com/news/34489/car-navigation-systems-b...
I wonder if we will ever get a chance to retrieve our probe.

Or maybe some kind soul will return it.
Small enough is nice but I desperately need an iPhone like battery Android. Battery issue on Android is ridiculous.
NFT Idea Generator Tool (Free)
not at all, just providing interesting info
This is all true, but not actionable. OP was speaking to consumers about things they can do within their control, and for that purpose it’s a great post.
If my town did that, and did that for everyone, I would be trying to change the system rather than raising my middle finger to others who live there and who don't have my resources to avoid the consequences.

Sure, it's solving a 'problem' for them, the 'problem' is that they have to follow the same rules as the little people. I can see why they might pursue such a thing, and as I say - it's incumbent upon the rest of us to stop that behaviour, and force them to contribute as others do.
Was disappointed to see so many of their systems offline, thinking they broke, but clicking on their status reveals that most of the systems are actually turned off to save power, including;

> "Wide-angle and narrow-angle cameras off to save power (Feb. 14, 1990)"

One of the last photos Voyager 1 took back then was looking back at Earth as a Pale Blue Dot [0]

Makes me wonder if those cameras could be turned back on, in case one of the Voyagers comes across something interesting?

[0] https://www.space.com/pale-blue-dot-voyager-1-photo-30th-ann...
KeenWrite 2.7.1
And while Volvo states a clear commitment to reaching zero deaths
and shows very obvious actions to achieving that laudable goal,
Tesla seems only to come up with lies and excuses for why it has
keeps failing — killing more and more people.

The post convincingly makes that case. Now I have an urge to buy a Volvo.
"When I post this chart I often hear Tesla believers complain it doesn’t conform to their bias because it obscures sales volumes. Does it? In fact, it is the opposite. First, volume shouldn’t cause more deaths to start with (remember more cars means more data, which means more safety). Second, Tesla doesn’t have higher volume."

I don't agree with the first part. Volume does matter doesn't it? However the first part is mute if Volvo sold more cars.
projects disappear.

and "splash" may well be an overstatement
> "frankly, the dollar ain’t so bad."

It might be not bad. For you.

Perhaps you are an American. Whenever your government prints more dollars, because the rest of the world holds dollar reserves, the value of those reserves go down. So everyone else in the world basically finances the US money printing.

So, if you are an American, the dollar is not bad. Its actually very, very good.

But for the rest of the world (96% of the world population), its pretty bad. It is used as means to transfer their wealth to US.
Something is wrong in the state of QED - history of physics
It's not that what he says is bad. It's that it reads like it was censored by Google's PR department, or self-censored to avoid trouble. There's nothing on "what to do when your project is cancelled", or "what to do when what you're doing is becoming incompatible with what someone else on the project is doing", or "when is there too much technical debt to continue". Those are things one might learn in a decade at Google, but can't talk about in public.
Road companies seem like a natural monopoly so that doesn’t really apply.
Dependence on foreign nations for your energy needs is currently not very in vogue.
What do you mean by "good" and for whom is it good and why?
yep, very annoying where we live
> People who take time off to travel or otherwise enjoy their life don't do it based on the charity of working people as you seem to assume. They already worked, created value, saved some of that value, then spend their stored value as they please. Why does that make you so angry?

Exactly. Odd that the parent commenter is bitter about the idea of people enjoying their money. You earned the money, and if you wish to spend it traveling/any other old thing... well why not?
Taking two decades to pay for itself depends entirely on the rate structure of the utility and the prices of the installer.

Prices in the US are heavily inflated because rate regulations change dramatízale year to year, which means that the only installers that survive tend to be the ones that can dynamically expand into a market before the utility closes the market again. Which means that a huge fraction of US solar costs are actually customer acquisition costs, marketing and advertising and boots on the ground doing the hard sell to consumers.

Where I live, even with super expensive installation, solar pays for itself in five years.

When you say "pays for itself" does that include the cost of interest and the time value of money? If so, then you can finance the installation and still come out ahead.

Even with the high price of residential solar, it's still pretty cheap compared to the cost of new transmission and distribution infrastructure, which is what utility-scale solar also requires. And utility scale solar is the cheapest energy out there.

So we should find ways to make the US solar industry more efficient and cost effective for consumers, because pairing residential solar with batteries (for example in an EV) is a very cost effective future.
Thank you for sharing the upper link. It is serially inspiring.

Watching the distances crawl up by many miles/second is kinda bonkers, and the 3D view allows the mind's eye to imagine a new pale-blue dot photo that encompasses every planet we've ever known.
Do you regularly chew grains of sand? I reckon your enamel is more in danger from this than anything else.
Maybe its my teenage nostalgia but Morrowind has one of the best settings I've seen. You got Ashlands yurts, Vivec city with its canals and ziggurats, a city inside a crab mushroom towers, and other architectures. Medieval Europe is still there, but it looks intentionally out of place as required by the story.

I feel only Dune and Star Wars have been so visually distinctive for me.
I have a theory about your dad's observation: i bet it's because a physically implemented system can't afford being realized through pulling in deeply nested dependencies, and their bugs and weird corner cases.
The Loop Current, fuel for monster storms, is looking a lot like it did in 2005
> (c) 2022 Templar Software Systems Ltd., a Seychelles Limited Liability Company.

And an address in Iceland.

Interesting. I wonder what was going on here and who leaned on them to force them to pull a Lavabit.
Yes, indeed it would be rather easy for them to figure out (and more likely than not, it probably has been resolved, but who knows).

NASA also has the burden of generating public support and interest in their projects. NASA will cease to exist if it does not receive financing; the only way to get that funding is for people to vote in representatives who care about this.

Stories like this can be crafted in such a way to help drum up public support in addition to coming off "mysterious" or "puzzling" to have a better chance of more coverage.

This story serves more than one purpose.
I used to hold the same opinion that reducing carbon without going nuclear wasn't possible. But, with increasing cost of nuclear power US, EU not categorising nuclear as green and not funding it, India seeing huge delay in their construction of nuclear plants in fleet mode, I came to conclusion that nuclear is not going to be built at scale needed at least in this decade. China is having success in their build out, but China's approach without huge bureaucracy/political overhead is not possible elsewhere. The time for nuclear was 2 decades ago, missing that a decade ago, if there was huge govt investments into it in US or EU. I am hopeful energy storage prices would come down similar to solar in coming years with multiple pilot projects of sodium, flow, thermal batteries expected to come up in few years. Energy storage with offshore wind, solar and solar CSP might be the only option at least for a decade.
Wow, I was expecting some mild, perhaps temporary hearing loss. It was so loud, it ruptured his eardrum, caused tinitus and he now wears a hearing aid.
It is a bound. If they show a use of a term in 2002, you know it is at least that old, but it might be a good deal older. Shakespeare is often credited with inventing huge numbers of words, but it is more likely that he was just the first to get them into print, in a form that survived.
Indeed, Google owned sites run worse on Firefox. But not too worse. I watch YouTube channels everyday on Firefox without issues.
https://chromium.woolyss.com
looks more like 10% [0]. but it depends on where in the ocean you're talking about - they float more easily than a lot of plastic, and so are caught the pacific gyre.

[0] https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/publication/ghost-gear-t...
If its any consolation, i pretty much do the same, on a T490s in the desert, its actually pretty neat.
paving the road to hell with your good intentions. half your arguments could be applied to the other crypto.
> I don't know how much more explicit I can be with a phrase like "regulate into the dirt."

"regulate it into the dirt" is commonly understood to mean the very real practice of placing so many restrictions/conditions on something that it becomes impractical to operate within the industry of whatever "it" is while explicitly not actually banning it outright.

I tend to agree that there's no reason it should exist, but I'm open to the idea that maybe there's a worthy purpose out there that I'm missing.
>Part of what makes a good person is their ability to discard (or at least decide to not act on) bad thoughts.

I think this part is really key, and that the quality and characteristics of your "internal idea killer" ends up defining what kind of person you are, in almost all aspects of your life. For example, think of someone you may know that regularly just sticks with their first idea on any topic, or someone you have seen latch on to a mediocre idea for far too long. Now compare them to the person you know most likely to quickly discard ideas and come up with new ones, either instinctively all the time or at the first sign their previous ideas were not holding up to snuff.
KeenWrite is my free, open-source, cross-platform desktop editor for R Markdown and Markdown documents. The latest release provides users with functionality to embed R plots into documents. I started developing the editor because no other text editors make it trivial to define and use variables within a document. In KeenWrite, inserting a variable is accomplished by typing in a partial value followed by pressing Control+Space.

Typesetting is accomplished using ConTeXt, which must be installed separately.
Plagiarism Detection in Competitive Programming
What are the best states for an LLC?
Frankly, I was turned off after the first couple paragraphs because it looked like some sort of government presentation for boomer generals. Will check out further.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_to_gas for example. Iron-air batteries or redox-flow batteries also look very promising.
Just like Unreal does, many seem unaware that Blueprints and the C++ dialect used by it also make use of a GC.

How does Unity coupe with pauses?

In two ways, by using a somewhat modern GC, mark and sweep is like "introduction to tracing GC" 101 CS. So pauses are somewhat minimal.

.NET also supports value types and explicit memory management, if one wants to go down that route.

Which they do, with their C# subset for high performance code named Burst.

Maybe you know Mike Acton of Data Oriented fame, he is one of the lead architects at this infrastructure.
I think that a Sovereign Individual movie made today would likely be a documentary… we are so close to the reality portrayed in that book
This is like the 5th or 6th cycle, at a certain point you realize high volatility is the nature of crypto, and it’s not crazy to presume there will continue to be cycles.

The latest crash is overhyped anyway, BTC is 30k and BAYC NFTs still have a ~200k floor. This isn’t some kind of capitulation to a new fundamental thesis, at least not yet. It feels far less wintery than some prior crashes that felt like BTC or ETH was on death’s door.
It's a power problem. The radiothermal generator's power output decays exponentially. The PBD photo was taken at approximately the last time that the cameras could be used.
Verify* (F'ing typo!)
>Do you find your job fulfilling?

Well, yes.

I'm a science dude and I work days in a laboratory with the 24/7 people and instruments to keep them operating most reliably and profitably while continuously improving the fulfillment of clients' needs.

Even though it's somewhat toxic with the chemicals and I often work a 12 hour day.

I'm on my feet almost all days anyway, wearing the lab coat like everyone else.

It's a lot of responsibility, been doing it for decades as an employee, entrepreneur, and now employee again before I retire from the employer and be a trainer and consultant.

Will still be wearing the lab coat a lot while visiting other companies' labs too.

That's what it takes, that's what I do.

Could go full remote and just interpret readings as a service, but nah.
The chart is obviously misleading. More volume would mean fewer deaths PER miles driven, but this is showing absolute numbers of deaths for ONLY electric models. Volvo has many more models besides EVs. The chart would be fair if all models were included, and if it was relative to road usage, eg. deaths per 100k miles driven.
Someone/something has to be buying the MBSs today, wouldn't selling them on the market just increase potential buyers? Sorry that I'm not following.
“some external aim of coordination that discourages people from just speculating”, i think the word you’re looking for might be “trust”
I used to think burying plastic in landfills for carbon sequestration was a good idea. Then I found out that making plastic releases an enormous amount of CO2.

Thus, successful recycling of plastic would mean less new plastic being made, and less emission. Before renewables, petroleum not made into plastic would instead be burned as fuel. But now, or soon, maybe it will be left in the ground, instead, as not worth pumping out. It is better to leave carbon sequestered where it is than to extract and then sequester it.
Clean coal? Never worked. Nuclear is a failure as an entire industry, just nowhere near enough competence to even build anymore. Gas still emits carbon, even if you ignore the leaked methane.

These approaches have all proven themselves to be dead tech. There is no smart money in them, only saps.
A more accurate claim: 46% of the mass of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is fishing nets.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22939-w
I haven't read the specs or anything, but a packing format where anyone can upload their application, and we cannot verify the installation script isn't a good idea IMO.
Don’t forget about the risk of your brain naturally forgetting a password that isn’t in active use. Especially considering your cold storage solution probably doesn’t share a password you use anywhere else.
Mmmmmmmmmmmm

This is a good polemic line I’m stealing
It’s not moot because had Tesla had greater volume, one might be able to more easily justify the higher number of deaths. However the volume is still relatively smaller and therefore the higher number of deaths is still significant.
This person is clearly deluded. The correct metric is fatal accident per 100k miles driven and OF COURSE volume matters.
I wish they could do wire transfers easily, instead they don't say anywhere but their standard "pay by bank" is with ACH. You can quickly run into ACH limits with your bank and then end up paying your taxes late. This happened to a friend of mine.

To pay them with wire is extremely complicated and requires setting up an EFTPS account.