skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was recently on a United flight and the free 1h "text only" option gave me access to the whole internet, and I could reactivate it after an hour. I think maybe they unlocked it because the flight had a delay - or it was a bug. The flight crew didn't inform us about it though. I also didn't notice any other people using it.

The connection was pretty damn good, considering I was somewhere over the Atlantic. It was shocking to me how much more enjoyable the flight was, makes me wonder how hooked I am to being connected. (I also had extra legroom and an empty seat next to me though.)
View your comment from the POV of the majority of the population, who aren't rich IT sector workers.

There's energy poverty in Germany. A lot of it. You don't even have to go to any “3rd world” areas of the world to see it.

Cheap energy is CRITICAL for the elimination of poverty and suffering. I know that single-mindedly obsessing about the single goal of climate change is currently popular, but please, let's not throw the baby out with the bath water.
Base16384: Encode binary files using 16384 Chinese characters
Because obvious bullshit is the investment genre du jour. Why shouldn’t YC, a prominent player, take part in the hot obvious bullshit market?
Regarding Go, I'd say playing fast games on a 9x9 board is a good way to build confidence in understanding.
Thank you for making the concept of tags! Even though it's not perfect, I'm sure you've probably saved anywhere between thousands to perhaps millions of man hours globally (if not more)! That is an achievement very few people can claim.
use case depends on consumer. paying for an abortion in a southern US state or paying a Russian or Iranian contractor for web design services might be a suitable example of crypto. paying for an in-game asset to avoid 30% App Store fees may be another use case in the future. or purchasing digital assets like art, domains. and smart contract functionality like escrow, auctions, loans and lending, global crowdfunds is another use case.

whether it is better or worse for each of those depends who you ask and what their goals are, and also in what year you ask. ten years ago it was inconceivable to do these things with crypto, ten years from now it may be that these systems will continue to improve in terms of fees, privacy, scalability and user experience. consider the current cohort of users to be beta testers who are taking on additional risk and technical burden while the system continues to improve.
My favorite example: as the game is easily extendable.

https://github.com/pavel-krivanek/PharoChipDesigner
Two problems stand out to me:

- I have to put centralized trust in you that you don’t take my money and run.

- Regulation risk. The SEC will happily shut you down any day. Other centralized attempts of e-currency where shut down in the past.
Not sure what a graduate degree has to do with anything... Personally I find lisps to be much more productive to work in, compared to any other type of languages, no matter the "elegance" or "design". For me, having maximum productivity is where the fun comes from, eliminate most of the boilerplate from writing programs leads to just being able to focus on the important parts.
You added a reference without actually adding a reference.

This was enough for me to ignore the rest of your comment.
I read a few of the series, sometimes it was boring, sometimes it was surprisingly beautiful. I don't know what to conclude, but the subject is worth it nonetheless.
From 2016 to 2018 I worked on a complex case management application that was implemented in Smalltalk. It ran on Visual Smalltalk Enterprise (last updated in 1999! But the app was first put into production in 1996...) which is really quite crufty compared to Pharo, but the development experience still blew me away. The Smalltalk way of working takes some getting used to, but once I got into the swing of it, it was the the smoothest development process I've had: you log into the app and do your stuff. Poke some bugs, try to reproduce them, maybe find some completely unrelated error, and whenever you update the code you just save the methods and pick right back up from where you left off.
Drinking with the boys is pretty high up there.
Why was WhatsApp so popular though, wasn't it just another chat app for mobile?
In the UK, it is only a taxable event when the coin is exchanged to a "readily convertible asset", i.e. Bitcoin, Mainnet ETH.
I think they realized a few years back that HBO, Disney and the other major IP holders will be pulling out entirely and setting up their own streaming services, not because Netflix didn't give them a big enough cut of the pie, but simply because they saw how well Netflix did and realized that tech was no longer an issue they'd work hard to resolve in 2020+.
Once Netflix saw that on the horizon, they went into panic mode and bought anything half decent to have something to put on their library. In particular, it seems like the main thing driving one special niche Netflix created - the movie packed with multiple A and B list stars that has great production but a mediocre story at best - it gets views and attention, even though it's boring as hell...
I’m building an “app” using the low-JS approach with HTMX and Alpine (Django back-end) and it seems to give a more hybrid experience.
> instead of flags you could use some convoluted array of pointers to the objects for each flag to separate concerns

Which is absolutely lovely if you have limitless memory and processing cycles. Make a sparse hash table of values to make sure you're only storing valid flags? Genius! How much memory is that going to take up?

I don't even know how much memory this modern desktop PC I have here has, hundreds or possibly even thousands of kilobytes of RAM. One of the microcontrollers I write code for has 128 bytes of RAM (this paragraph wouldn't fit) and a clock speed in the hundreds of kHz, so, if you're implementing hash tables Good Luck With That.

It reminds me of the BCS guys who reckoned that every bit of code should be written in Java, no matter what.
I suspect he means production energy capacity to account for the charging when energy is being produced.
No one cares about EMI violations anymore, which is funny because all that radiated energy could have been turned into useful electricity!

In the US, there is literally a single person at the FCC who handles such complaints. It is the same in every country. Anyway, what would the local RF association do? Send a letter?

There is an IEEE working group to establish residential solar installation “good engineering practices”, but we are years off from seeing anything, and even then it’s just a recommendation.
I read about this last week [1] and am still quite perplexed about Tether and its a backing. If you look at the redemption pattern you can see large movements. I.e. a whale must be withdrawing funds. This really reminds me of 2008.

[1] https://app.finclout.io/t/kVr06N0
Why not tax the loans instead?
Look man I understand your frustration. Check my comment history - I thought this space was revolutionary at first too.

But after 2 years deep in the crypto hole, its very clear to me that there are some serious flaws in the current crypto system that is going to severely limit its growth.

The first is crypto's complete inability to self-regulate itself. You can launch a scam, wait a week, then launch another and people will still ape into it.

The second is the wildly unequal distribution of resources. Latecomers to any party are penalized, but in crypto's case, the penalty is too vast. People who bought Ethereum at $2 or Bitcoin at $10 are going to relentless dump on you when the market unwinds.

No knock on these people who bought early, but if you're going to try and create a newer, fairer system, you can't start with a foundation that's even more unequal than our current one. Anyone who buys into the crypto system in 2022 is already at a massive disadvantage and the system fails to take off. The collapse in prices in bear markets is good indication.

The third is speculators. Again, that's the nature of the market but speculators kill any crypto project. GameFi, for instance, doesn't work because speculators pump up token prices without actually participating in the game, putting actual players at a massive disadvantage. The initial cost for even playing the game become so high that you literally need "scholarships" to play it. And you're forced to play much more than you would just to recoup your initial costs (like with StepN currently - starting capital is like $1k just to buy digital shoes to play).

Crypto works beautifully well if all assets are on-chain. I would love a world where I can fractionalize my home and offer a yield to token holders based on the rental my home generates. But for that to happen, there will have to be some form of "trust on-ramp", and that requires a) regulation, and b) a fairer distribution of starting resources so that new participants aren't penalized that heavily.

Personally, I've also seen very little innovation and actual usage in DeFi. The biggest protocols by TVL are several years old (AAVE, MKR, CRV, COMP). And most of them offer plain vanilla overcollateralized loans. And in bear markets, usage drops drastsically

This is a very promising space but with huge, huge flaws that are killing adoption.
I don't think it's the ISP monitoring for torrent traffic, but copyright holders honeypotting torrents and keeping track of the IP of seeders, maybe leechers too I guess. If the IP holder isn't on the tracker they don't see that you're pirating their stuff.
I had CuriosityStream for a year, and used it for about two weeks. It's also just formulaic drivel accompanied by stock B-roll. My day is much better, and bears more fruit, when I don't waste any of it in front of a TV.
True, but they’re still a negative sum event. (Putting aside libertarian-ish arguments, ironically overrepresented in crypto, that in the long term a crash is a healthy garbage-collection event.)
Trade is not bad?
I can see it is using one big canvas element; what draws on that canvas - is that vue.js, some other framework or a bespoke setup?
If you look at the compiler output from anything, even the "safe" languages like Rust, and I mean really get right down to assembler instructions, you know what you'll see?

Global variables and computed gotos, all over the shop.

Does it work, well, safely, and quickly? Of course.

Would you write code like that? Well, that kind of depends, eh? Is it the correct solution to the problem you have *absolutely right now* and will it remain the correct solution in the face of changing requirements?
> "Actually, Germany did not have a long term increase in coal/gas due to the nuclear shut down but a decrease"

Arguably this is semantics. But that's because the semantics of your claim is unhelpfully ambiguous. In absolute terms coal and gas make up approximately the same share of Germany's capacity as it did in 2010. In relative terms, because the total output has increased, it's share has fallen. But I say it is unhelpful because one has fallen, the other increased.

> "Gas production did grow but mainly to offset declines in coal"

I don't think this is semantics. For the reasons given, it's just wrong.

The statements together make it look like you're trying to misrepresent the facts to support a particular view about nuclear energy.
4K is not the issue. The issue is that they achieved a standard style of filming that is entirely unremarkable, and the only thing they have going for them is the fact that the image is crystal clear. Competently shot 4K has a certain aura of legitimacy.
I was mining BTC when it was 68K. Should have transferred it over to a stable-coin right there and then. Now I still hold the same amount in BTC but its worth a lot less.
Being outside, in nature. Especially mountains or the sea.

Music comes second, especially live.

Both are usually improved if I’m with people I’m close to.
If anyone has a good starting point for a BM newbie (preferably a playlist or album), please suggest.
Germany has a lot of heavy industry.
I don't like it. If you have a concept worth teaching, explain it properly. Then we can discuss it afterwards, where I can ask the questions myself.

I mean, two pages to discuss what an Atom is?
It's kind of depressing, honestly. Smalltalk is amazing future technology from the 1980s, and here we are in 2022 with our fancy IDEs still dropping off our (metaphorical) punch cards for batch processing.
Adversarial Minesweeper
> Nobody seems perplexed by that.

Believe me, as a European living in an American city currently “booming”, not only am I perplexed by it but also wonder how in the hell Americans have put up with it for so long.

The negative effects are quite plain to see as people get pushed out of their homes by the wealthy moving in from other states, and yet people seem to want to apply the same fundamentally flawed logic to other asset classes too.
i pay my taxes. i make money providing liquidity between eth and usdc.

when i'm not lp'ing, i see no reason to switch to usd so long as us-based attestations continue to be solid. the opportunity cost of being in usd on coinbase is missing lucrative nft deals.
Prison means you’re going away for a while. Jail means you’re awaiting trial or have a minor sentence to serve for something like failing to pay a fine, vandalism, etc. Jail is also usually operated locally by a city or county while prison is state or federal.
Immurement
Bridgerton, set in an alternate universe is a show that has had a pretty intense trigger effect. The idea of black people playing Regency era personalities is unacceptable for some despite being obviously far from historically accurate to the point of being classified as “dumb and disgusting”.
Not sure why the downvotes; I basically have that experience too. iPhones work well for people who don't really use there phone that much. I basically run most of my businesses purely from the phone and the iPhone is at 20% when the Android is at 80% with the same usage.
Of course we're not going to bet anything. Everyone here wants to construct a resilient and efficient energy production system. That this is unachievable with a high percentage of wind power in the mix is not obvious.
I accidentally clicked this on my phone. Skimmed it. Read the last paragraph. Ignored it. Thought about it. Can confirm: it worked.
C# 11 Preview Updates – Raw string literals, UTF-8 and more
Well, my personal website is actually a ‘90s HTML (Dreamweaver, even) site (I’ve not been in a hurry to update, but I have been bricking up parts, as they crumble). There’s really only a couple of pages that are still relevant (my parents’ obits).

The other sites are just simple responsive WordPress sites, and aren’t designed to be eye-candy. They are actually quite modern, and work pretty well on phones. It’s just they aren’t ghastly, JavaScript-loaded, everscroll single-page sites, and aren’t trendy, at all. I’m not really trying to impress anyone. I just want to have a decent place to hang my stuff. I design my own sites, and Web design isn’t my forte.

I want to update them, but haven’t found the time. They work fine. I stopped putting my writing on Medium, because … Medium.

I like some of the static site generators, and maybe I’ll go with them, eventually.

I don’t try building high-Quality products, I succeed. I’ve been doing that for quite some time. I’m not particularly worried whether or not anyone uses them. I tend to build stuff that I (or my community) want. It’s a “market” that is quite underserved, as there aren’t vast profits or scale to be reaped. I’m happy to talk about it, but this isn’t really the venue for that.

I’ve found that there’s a great deal of satisfaction to be had, Serving a need, for folks that no one else cares about. The work interests me, more than fame and fortune. I spent my life, making stuff for corporations, only to have them destroy it. That gets rather depressing. These days, I write stuff for people.

It also held me back. Most corporations are fairly retro. HN does not represent the vast majority of developers. I like modern tech, but I also like shipping, so I tend to stay a year or two behind the bleeding edge. I also find “trendiness” to be a bit shallow and silly. I like to wait for the burrs to be worn off (I have taken OpenDoc classes from Apple Developer University. I've seen things, man). I'm a very practical person. I like writing stuff that works, not that wins Buzzword Bingo.
> when I think of a couple moments in songs that always give me chills

There are a couple of songs giving me chills when I'm singing them myself. Not every time, only when I'm in a appropriate mood. So expectation violation doesn't seem a cause.

I don't know exactly what "contrasive valence" is, but it sounds more like it. I think my chills correlate with a qualitative change in an emotions. The short moment when one emotion is transformed into other induce frisson. Some change in a way how I interpret things, or how I feel about them, or both. It must correlate with some properties of a music, because it is one of the ways to change emotional content, but it is not the cause. Sometimes it is one of the causes in a chain of causes.

Thinking about it, not every transformation of emotions gives me chills, sometimes I get tears in my eyes without any chills.
It does not have to be on your house. Unless something more sinister is in play.
Using math does not make something scientific. Math is a language based on logic, physics is a science using that language. Economics is Scholasticism that uses math as a language.

This comment is why the humanities should be a prerequisite for all academical endeavors...
Carbonminers would probably rather produce CO2 so they can "extract" it at much higher rate, instead of using the one in the atmosphere.

Edit: Ups this was already said.
All crypto degens know when SBF is in a farm. The price pumps initially since SBF going into a new farm means a) buy pressure, and b) the farm is "safe" for others to buy into.

And then SBF starts farming and dumping. People who don't understand the mechanics can be left holding the bag.

As an example, this is the classic "SBFed" yield farm coin chart: https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/big-data-protocol
I get this from nearly every song on Pet Sounds. Listening to music that causes frisson can be a quasi-religious experience, and I'm sure the feeling is something experienced by many when practicing religion as well.
Hoping to hear feedback on if this product is useful for data scientists/ML engineers. The website is optimized for web viewing at the moment. Please press the explore button to understand how the tool works. The tool is tightly integrated with VevestaX(open source library) which enables you to push experiments from jupyter notebook/pythons script to the tool, Vevesta. Eager to hear your thoughts. Thanks, Priyanka
You're so right about the sex scenes. Just before pandemic I saw Caligula. Back in the day it was notorious for the gratuitous sex and violence, and now it felt like yet another HBO show. I haven't had Netflix for a long time, sounds like it's the same but worse scripts now.
From what I see, people who favored the original Roe v Wade ruling were, for the most part, strongly in favor of things like contact tracing & mandatory vaccination. Absent any special pleading, this all seems very contradictory to me.

I think USA was the only part of the anglosphere to not go all-out on vax mandates. Certain types will chalk all of that up to "muh guns" or "muh constitution," and perhaps they are right, or maybe there was just a pesky little piece of case law in the way, and the system is removing the obstacle before round-two commences?
It’s just a matter of time before this hits everyone once the principle is established.
Indeed. As the article points out, reactors used to be under $2000/kw. The UK electricity wholesale price is currently at £100/MWh, so at current prices your new plant will make back its construction costs (ignoring operating costs for now) in two years of operation.

Regulation has increased the cost of new nuclear sixfold (see Hinkley Point C).
it's telling that the value change in these things is always denominated in USD. it's almost as if they don't have any intrinsic value.
He wouldn’t care about it because The Verge has nothing to do with politics. What do you think he would say?
Probably the fact that it went through an editorial process that somehow made it worse?
Political Effects of the Internet and Social Media
> Russia is not "opposing" it is expanding and starting major wars. It is actively working to destroy other countries.

Brother. You are all over the place.

I was replying to this part:

> Russia is an authoritarian state lead by one man and his inner circle. This man has very high public support. In particular, Russian population supports imperial ideology.

To which I reply: Yes, it’s rational to “hate” someone if they oppose you. And “someone” here means normal Russians.

I was not talking about the Russian government in this context.

And I don’t know why you brought up America.
I run https://feetr.io. I do stock discovery as opposed to automated trading (at this point). Almost a year into recording stock picks, it is averaging 4.0624% per day across all stocks, and 5.9948% for the best stock of that day.[0]

With the above, you'd think that a trading bot would be a piece of cake. The easiest part of the process, probably. As of right now, I've found that it's hard to model intuition using code. It's easy to watch a graph and say "I think it's about time to sell", but it's hard to give that understanding to a computer. I do believe that it's a problem that can be solved, and certainly you can look at Aladdin[1] as a system that has been very successful in this space.

Don't take negativity as a reason to not do something though. If you're passionate and interested, then go prove everyone wrong.

[0] "per day" references per day that Feetr finds a stock

[1] https://www.blackrock.com/aladdin
FreeCAD has good parametric 2D modelling.

QCAD can't do constraints.
Are the states of the US, Canada, and Australia (to name a few) on stolen land?
Searx is great.
Every time searx results are bad to inexistent I compare with Google, and results are as bad to inexistent. This is in stark contrast to one year doing the same with DDG where !g was often the key to good results.
Ony thing is, because public instances tend to face some rate limiting about once a week, so everytime I type a long query I "CTRL A > CTRL C" it to make sure I don't lose it.
I think it is rather the most practical philosophy there is.
> Netflix is at it's core, a tech company that solves technical issues with streaming.

Netflix used to be a tech company that solves the problem of content discovery, too. Then they chose to not generate recommendations based on data but instead push their in-house content.
In India, everyone has a phone even if they do not have a roof, bank account, proper 3 meals a day, etc. Bank accounts also require minimum balance, address and identity proof which is hard to get for some, local branch is necessary to open an account due to regulation and quality can vary wildly even for urban centres.

> In fact, the requirement that you need good internet speed for crypto to run locally means it's even harder for a place without infrastructure to participate.

Internet costs less than $2 for monthly unlimited data.

You can find 300-500 Mbps broadband in small towns of country where you won't find roads or basic hospitals.
People complain that Netflix kills shows too soon.

People complain that Netflix drags shows on past their prime.

People complain.
2-4% seems like a bad deal compared to sending usdc, which should be around closer to 0.1-1% after the ukraine exchange takes their usdc to local currency exchange fee. minimal volatility, less fees.
Did you have $11k in BTC or in cash?

The way the rehabilitation proceedings are going you will either be able to recover ~20% of the cash, or ~20% of the BTC which would be a considerable gain at this point.