skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a zillion wasteful activities. I think what gets me, and where the arguments sometimes seem disingenuous, is that in cat videos, the energy waste is "accidental". Both the provider and consumer would readily see it reduced, and in fact optimization happens constantly and mercilessly. Providers typically expend effort to reduce energy expenditure, especially in mature fields, as it represents real cost to bottom line.

In proof of work crypto though, energy expenditure is by design / intentional, and not only that, but designed to consistently increase.

That feels any comparison between POW crypto to anything else not even apples and oranges, more like car accidents and nuclear weapons - one is an accident, the other is designed to nuke you.
This is a bit different though.

It's one thing to allow independent applications to use the protocol and service, like Pidgin and others. And also many services did not like this and repeatedly changed their proprietary custom protocol to make this difficult.

It's another thing to be interoperable between services. Then you could continue to use only one service but still be able to talk to people on other services.
I've done this for 5 years. I already find HN a tad too much, but it beats my RSS reader of way too many subscriptions years ago :)
Obvious analogies are obvious.
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I think it would be a better idea to focus on the total number of speakers, or even second language speakers [1]. For example, English has 372 millions first language speakers and 1 billion second language speakers. Mandarin Chinese has 929 millions first language speakers and 198 millions second language speakers. This means that way more people have learned English as a second language. This, I would assume, would mean that it's generally easier to learn, there are more infrastructures/people in place to do it, people are more used to second language speakers, and it's in general a better language to communicate across cultures.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num...
Web 3.0 is more than trading (arguably speculative) coins.

Nader Dabit has done an excellent job describing the use cases: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-web3/
Do users actually want native look and feel all that much? Most apps these days seem to have a lot of their own styling as a mark of distinction, and having an app look the same on all platforms is also nice.

React Native seems like a really unnecessary extra layer compared to just running real HTML. It seems like it's about time to just have first-class web tech applications on all the major OSes. The performance might even improve compared to native, because a single browser tab is lighter than many native apps, and there's no reason every app needs to stuff it's own browser in there.

Getting rid of RN seems like a pretty good way to go.
There is a pretty significant distinction between "retarded" and "autistic", in that the former (as commonly used) is pretty much purely derogative, but the latter here clearly means something like "technically correct but not suitably communicated" - a much more nuanced attribute.

Yes, we could probably get by without using medical conditions to illustrate points we make. But that doesn't mean every such use is damaging.
They can't invest your money. The bank has to ensure a liquid balance for each person. Apple has zero control over that.

Consumers also enjoy CFPB protection/regulation with this product.

Apple calls Green Dot APIs for servicing and the backing account(s) is at Green Dot Bank.
I'm not sure we can have it both ways. In other words, I'm growing in my conviction that freedom and privacy on the web require increased balkanization.

Neil Postman (of whom I'm a big fan, to put my cards on the table) wrote very helpfully about the concept of "filters" (that may not be his word) in Technopoly, and I've been thinking about the concept a lot ever since. Certain things are inadmissable in court, and that is true because otherwise you'll just have bedlam. The analogy doesn't hold perfectly, but the same thing is true of other situations where people gather together to communicate, whether in person or online.

The other thing that's required to avoid total chaos is authority, and I think it's a common trait to be dismissive of the value and purpose of authority in this context. People have been dismissive about authority since, uh, forever, but I think there's something about the promise of the internet that makes people think we have finally arrived at the point where it is unnecessary. (Think blockchains and crypto, for instance.) But it's not.

The sooner we see that authority isn't a bug but a feature and begin to build for it in our tech tools, the better.
I'd say that no matter where, but you have to add generic parameters to algorithms to make them reusable across domains.

Doing so at type / function level allows to introduce them gradually and with low ceremony, compared to parametrized modules (likely you mean OCaml here?). Gradual approaches seem to work best in real world, hence the prevalence of generic functions and parametrized types.
Cat videos provide tangible relaxation and a way to rest in between other tasks, whereas any Web3 endeavours in the "crypto mainstream" I have seen so far have been purely speculation vehicles disguised as something useful.
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The proof of the pudding, is the excellence in financial risk management demonstrated so far by his organization \s...: https://www.corp-research.org/HSBC
Not limited to games, either; “pre-animation” makes regular software feel sluggish too. Having actions taken immediately is critical.
It doesn't matter which razor you want to apply. These guidelines work well for natural/random phenomena but if you are talking about a potentially malicious group of sentient actors you have to assume that they will abuse your willingness to brush off ambigious acts as benign. For an organization that controls as large as a percentage of web traffic as Cloudflare I don't think we should be giving them the benefit of the doubt. Even if this is a customer rule, Cloudflare are still the ones making it easy and cheap to implement such rules.
could you recommend some?
Yeah it’s the first type listed in the article. Prince of Persia has your location tracked discretely by fairly large tiles. The animation may suggest otherwise but your location isn’t actually smoothly tracked at all.
Well all "major" constructed languages were made in the end of the 19th century or the beginning of the 20th
I don't get it. What is a "digital euro"? Aren't most euros already digital?
You still have to "sign up" for Apple Cash though, which is a process that involves uploading your government identification.
I completely agree, and I'd like to add that reading good books feels contemplative and enriching as well. In other words: it feels healthy.
I’m not logged in and was able to scroll down and read the whole thread. I wonder what the difference is? I am using mobile so it could be that.
> Are there any notable exceptions to my above observation? Am I wrong in some more fundamental way?

Do you see web3isgoinggreat reporting about [0][1] or perhaps [2] or even [3] and maybe this [4]?

As soon as the speculation calms down and the regulators limit these random DeFi projects there will be these projects like the ones I listed that will be still around that won't be 'wasting electricity' and have a valid use case rather than being a random DeFi token project clobbered up as a exit scam which is what you see that is widely reported and filtered out by web3isgoinggreat.

Sorry, but as long as these companies have re-entered into the same cryptocurrency industry, it is really not going to completely 100% guaranteed go away, unless you ban it all; which that is not going to happen.

The reality is, only a few projects will survive.

[0] https://skiff.org

[1] https://skiff.org/blog/skiff-x-ethereum-naming

[2] https://stripe.com/blog/expanding-global-payouts-with-crypto

[3] https://ir.moneygram.com/news-releases/news-release-details/...

[4] https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/octo-034-27apr22...
Nope.

The nore revolutionary potential that something has, the more hate and oppression it will face, especially from less open-mindeds and conservatives.

More people hating it is the validation of what it is capable of: a free and a truly semantic and transparent Internet that incentivizes actions correctly.

And the more hatred it gets (edit: proportional to downvotes), the more powerful it will become in the end. And we all know who wins at the end.
You’re comparing germany the country with Berkeley, a small place in california.

Maybe it’s more appropriate to compare Munich, London, Paris, Amsterdam with Berkeley and see how lecturer salaries there compare with each other. hint: Berkeley adjunct has higher salary even compared to some tenured professors in comparable cities in Europe.
"We're seeing higher than usual traffic, please try again shortly."

Sigh, this seems to be a simple blog post. What are people doing to not even be able to deliver such a trivial thing?
> You're misjudging the differences between uranium and gas.

So do you.

> Transporting and building a uranium reserve would be relatively easy; maintaining a 10 year stockpile and importing from Canada, Australia or Kazakhstan via a circuitous route are all feasible.

See, that's the problem. One of the differences between natural gas and uranium is that (outside of CANDU reactors) you can't use the uranium "as is". To use uranium for pretty much anything useful, you need certain high-tech facilities. By production capacity, almost half of those facilities (according to [1], it's 46 percent) is in Russia.

The way things are, you can't build a stockpile if the expected value of uranium fuel production outside of Russia is lower than the expected value of uranium fuel consumption outside of Russia, which I believe is currently the case. As long as this remains to be a case, any stockpile will dwindle, not grow.

[1] https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/research/commentary/re...
https://web.archive.org/web/20220523113959/https://mycroft.a...
> Ethereum will transition to PoS by this year, ideally in August.

I feel like every year is the year when Ethereum will finally transition to PoS, but it never happens.
Are you also making the illustrations?
I don't think you understand. Php would be processing the file. Try it with the php cli.

echo "Hello World" > file.php && php file.php
I want to work in Poland now
Well, that home computer isn't exactly free... But pedantic point aside I think the core point is that as long as you can connect to the web, it can absolutely be free.
Lighted buoys and sector lights are still common and useful aids for navigation, both in dark and light. And you really don't some times go outside those specially with deeper drafts.
That's a pretty vague spec. If you are starting a ne job I'd ask the people who have hired you to supply info about what they think you need to know. Ask if there will be training and/or mentoring. C++ is a beast and if have no experience then it's a long way to the top.

Short of that Google "modern C++ tutorial" and go from there.

Also project Euler. Try to solve the problems in C++ and see how you go.
Conlangs have tiny communities so it's hard to make definite statements about popularity.

Other than Esperanto, Interlingua, and some fictional languages, there's pretty much just Lojban and Toki Pona, neither of which are at all based on Indo-European languages.
How does a constant stream of news about things we can't change keep us real and grounded? In my experience, it makes me almost entirely unable to function, which feels like the opposite of being grounded.
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I don't think I understand what the long term goal of Web3 is supposed to be. What structures are we going to see? In the end, we're all humans. There is this new structure in this internet, but no matter how decentralized this will be, power structures will emerge, and lots of politics is going to happen - not from the outside, but from the inside of Web3. Then what? There will be communities, we need to communicate, find agreements, follow individual interests and protect the weak. How is this going to look like, and why should this work? We're already trying to organize ourselves in Democracies, where - in theory - everyone has a voice. What's the "macro vision" of Web3? Is this somehow a layer on top of our society? Is it a parallel world? Some kind of Dark Net? 4chan on Crypto-Steroids? Would anything like that be ... good?
Show HN: Zen Mode for macOS
What is it?
- Have you ever been in an awkward situation where you wanted to hide all of your desktop icons or windows during a meeting but couldn't do it fast?
- Have you ever been encountered in a situation where you believed you were on mute in the meeting but were not?
Do you want to avoid those problems in the future? If so, then you are in the right place.

With a one click away, you can "clutter free your Mac" by focusing on the task at hand.
here is a quick video you can checkout what it is https://youtu.be/V7cYgfAGe78
"Text is small" so a website should be extremely light in resources is a really simplistic way to go about things.

Most web pages are not hand crafted page by page, they're part of a CMS with a million other capabilities. Or, the team creating the website was under cost pressure and went for some performance-compromised "good enough" solution. Or, the website is old (true for almost all of them) and no longer under serious active maintenance.

It's not just incompetence leading to technical bloat.

The same is true for some of the "dark patterns" like auto-playing videos and pop-ups. We should stop with the narrative that this is due to publication truly hating users or being completely tone-deaf. It's purposefully done because it works. It serves marketing and monetary goals.

Yes, this comes at the expense of usability. You should see it as an act of desperation that is existential. It keeps the lights on. The terrible state of web usability is due to it not having any reliable business model other than the current status quo.
That is what "foundational" means.
The blog post is stored in a blockchain and has to go through 6 layers of micro-services.
What a proof...
> by saying that Miami will cope with it? That's simply a deliberate misrepresentation of the facts

Are you suggesting that Miami can not cope with the pending climate crisis that will see it cease to exist and be underwater by 2025 [1]

I am willing to wager that Miami will continue to exist on 1st January 2026.

[1] https://miami.cbslocal.com/2015/10/14/predictions-put-south-...
Interesting that it can be quantified somewhat… but the suggested interventions (extra tutoring, summer school, longer days) are just not going to happen. That education is gone. If they happen anywhere, it’ll only be rich kids.
End of the day all journalism is trying to control how you feel to get you to do something. Just realize that the concept and worry about "staying informed" is something they're using so they can force you to listen to them.

Just stop looking at it for a week or two, learn how suddenly you only really hear about things that actually affect you and how much better your mental health is for it.
You need to compare against electric cars, not gas ones. The Toyota mirai is not extremely expensive but you can get much better cars for the money.
Usually running Wordpress
Do you enjoy your code base using 5 languages? 10? Have you done some ops support recently? Code review? Hired developers?

There are very real advantages in the use of the fewest languages that cover your spectrum of problems. If you can limit the spectrum of languages you use to, for instance, Typescript (with react native on mobile), SQL, and Kubernetes config YAML, it's a big win for productivity and growth.
> The "meals ($15/day)" think was a bit of a red flag for me.

You’re underestimating the cost of food in the area. Per [0] and [1], even if you “select lower cost foods and all meals (including snacks) are prepared in the home”, a single adult will still spend about $11/day on food.

[0]: https://livingwage.mit.edu/metros/41860
[1]: https://livingwage.mit.edu/resources/Living-Wage-Users-Guide...
There is a meaning issue here: school in Democracies, in substantial ones, are the tool to spread a certain level of culture needed to be Citizens, those who intellectually can get opportunities to going further, those less smart can still acquire a minimum culture to be Citizens peers between peers. In formal BUT not substantial democracies witch means in wannabe dictatorships school means just indoctrination so they are the same "entity" formally, but with different substantial targets.

Oh, I forget to say that actually we humans live or in dictatorships of in only-formal democracies.......................
People close and dear to me are committed to crypto, personally I dont think it adds any value and overinflates the value of money in circulation.
(Developer of the Github repository in the post here)

Is it possible for me to easily integrate with sioyek to provide PDF converting ability directly within the Chrome Extension? This would be useful for the following reasons:
- For the times when you click on a link and it opens the PDF in Chrome
- Many people I know use Chrome as their main "PDF Viewer" app.

I believe this will be a great way for both our OSS projects to collaborate.

Perhaps in the future we can work on the language model as well. Very cool reasearch btw!
We spent $980k on a failed SaaS project
Clearview AI fined £7.5m over image collection
It's WordPress too, so typically a deeply misconfigured cache... WordPress can be fairly durable if set up correctly.
Those visitors pay entrance fee to another museum, a Greek one rather than a British one as it happens.
Yep, they're not penny-pinching each other. As you said, sometimes someone ends up paying for long family dinners thrice in a row but they're cool about it and somebody else just wires the person $400 a week or so later.

Multiply such occurrences several times a month and you get the idea.

Thanks for the link, it's helpful.
A friend of mine said it would probably be even better of it wasn't automated, but someone manually made parts or the text bold according to reading flow.
Ah right, with some particularly large tiles.
My oldest son started in secondary school last year, so his first two years were largely in lockdown. He's quite introverted (and by now extremely so), so he enjoyed not having to meet people, but his school discipline suffered enormously. I already caught him gaming instead of following classes during the lockdown, and he apparently never learned to finish his homework. He's got more failing than passing grades.

Still, he's smart, seems to understand all the material, and he still has a couple of years to work on his problems before his exams, so with enough work from him, school, us, and the extra tutoring we fortunately can afford for him, he'll probably be okay. But there are probably tons of kids far worse off than he is.
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There are legitimate ways in which the web would benefit from being more decentralized. Democratizing domain distribution away from money-printing machines like ICANN, freeing user's data from the walled gardens like the fediverse tries to do or Tim Berners Lee is trying to do with Solid.

But these legitimate grievances have been co-opted by the blockchain crowd in order to legitimize their grift/solution in search of a problem, bundling it all into the term web3, so they don't need to justify their part of the whole thing, and can lure in new suckers to sell crypto to by draping it all in this air of revolution and societal progress, conveniently allowing them to dismiss anyone calling out their bullshit and get-rich-fast incentives as "anti-progress".

Blockchains are just another kind of centralization, a single central source of truth that nobody can update without convincing/paying a whole bunch of others to do it for them. Conceptually bundling that together with actual decentralized technologies like DHT, IPFS and other P2P systems is doing a disservice to those that are actually working to make the web a freer place, and not just get rich quick.
1971, I remember it well. It was plain to see Nixon had always been unsuitably too dishonest for any position of leadership or trust.

Modern civilization was built on the transition from barbarism during which the gold standard had been established for centuries.

Remember modern man adopted the precious metals standard in pre-historic times. i.e. Prehistoric Man. So it's been around a long time.

Investors just as shrewd as today recognized that all wealth arises from natural resources to begin with, and their scientists and geologists had millennia to identify and procure the most universally rare long-lasting element that could be accumulated and passed down the most reliably that people would actually pay for. But of course they would need to pay in some other way.

Different regimes over the millennia, both the few that are historically recorded and the remaining majority of advanced civilizations that will never be known, have had greater or lesser degrees of barbaric greed that were still endemic because of their cultural traditions, and this has always had a disparate effect on their relationship with precious metals, especially gold in particular.

It was not unique in different parts of the world for the doctrine to become all gold belongs to the king, whether gradually over time or by occasional edict.

In 1913 circulating legal tender US dollar bank notes were centralized & privatized, separated in a way from the government mint which remained the sole source of gold dollars.

The complementary silver standard had been removed politically in earlier decades. Silver dollars were therefore theoretically backed by gold. Just act like silver is not the other precious metal that civilization was built on, nobody will notice.

In 1933 began the recall of all gold & gold dollars to the king. No more circulation under penalty of law.

In exchange, the substitute bank notes were given a curated strength & stability for the remaining lifetime of the victims. Still tied to gold.

After 1960, silver moved up in price relative to stable gold, so the mint had a reason to remove silver from US coins by 1964, with even copper soon to follow.

This seemed to be a precautionary effort in case a cold war might need to be waged using currency salvos.

But once oil skyrocketed even more threatingly there was pressure to devalue the currency to pay for it, so the dollar was going to need to be debased beforehand. The misfortunates of 1933 were no longer a strong force and inflation was run up the flagpole without as much skepticism as there should have been. So inflation it was.

In exchange Americans would be once again allowed to own gold, but only if they could afford to purchase it after it had skyrocketed which almost no average American could even consider with the pricing pressures everywhere else.

Going forward from 1971 we're just going to act like gold had not been the standard of wealth and commerce since civilization began, if not since the dawn of modern man.

I would estimate that's a serious break with tradition.

As we can see, the other shoe dropped and the recall was completed.

We're still paying for it in some other way.
One thing that is lost with online v. physical print papers is the story breaks (…continue on A5…) and the folds. I get the physical paper and skim the headlines above the fold - I promise myself I will only finish a story (continue on …) if the story impacts me personally in some tangible way.

Another tip - I read geographically close to far. So start with hyper locally news, then metro news, then state/province news, then national/international. As in most democracies and communities, my vote and efforts matter a lot more locally, so being up on the local politics and happenings better informs real life actions I can take to help.